It seems someone took the name of one Winter Station far too literally. In a disappointing turn of events, beachgoers found pieces of the “Midwinter Fire” Winter Stations art installation simmering in a fire pit in the early hours of March 7. Two days later, following yesterday’s windstorm, the station lay completely flattened against the sand […]
We have just passed the mid-January date known as the “dead of winter”, and that means it is once again time for the Beach to come alive with Winter Stations, the whimsical celebration of winter that transforms the East End lakeshore over Family Day weekend. Now in its third year, the annual design competition has […]
In a tiny room of his old high school, Dr. Rod Tennyson, aerospace engineer, is running an experiment with vinegar and baking soda. Dr. Tennyson has designed protective coatings for spacecraft, and a kind of fiber-optic nerve system for airplane wings. Somewhere at home, he has an award for his part in saving the astronauts […]
Sketchy, dim, junky, ugly, snowy, glum and baffling. The way people describe it, the unmarked walkway connecting the Danforth to Coxwell subway station sounds like Cinderella’s B-list for the Seven Dwarfs. But thanks to DECA, a Danforth community group, the narrow walkway is a strong contender for a makeover plan courtesy of the non-profit Laneway […]
