Ed Keenan from The Toronto Star dropped by yesterday for his quarterly appearance on Toronto Mike'd and I dropped the name Ben Kerr because I remember Ben Kerr always ran for Mayor of Toronto. When I lived at Charles Street and Yonge in the mid-90s, I'd see Ben Kerr daily

The McLaughlin Planetarium was such a fixture growing up. Many a school trip was to the McLaughlin Planetarium to see a film about the stars, planets, and cosmology. The planetarium closed way back in 1995 and is now being demolished for a new University of Toronto building. The building – set

This afternoon I got to experience Paul McCartney Photographs 1963–64: Eyes of the Storm at the AGO with Jim Shedden, Curator, Special Projects & Director, Publishing at the Art Gallery of Ontario. The exhibition runs through June 7. Here's a little more: Between December of 1963 and February of

Another piece of Toronto history is dissapearing this weekend as Steve's Music at 415 Queen Street West closes its doors today after nearly 49 years in business. Here's the sad statement: Customers / Friends, For over six decades Steve's Music Store, has been a pillar of the music community. Passionately serving

A 3.7 magnitude earthquake struck Ramara last night, just before 11pm. Ramara, I'm told, is 3 km east of Orillia and about 100 km north of Toronto. FOTM hall of famer VP of Salez felt it in Mimico, but I didn't feel a thing. Nor did my wife who

On the heels of my "This Winter Isn't So Bad" post, I feel like hibernating today. My son's hockey game was cancelled due to inclement weather, and I see nothing on my calendar. Meanwhile, Environment Canada is throwing an Orange Warning regarding today's winter storm. It reads like a telegram

As I mentioned to Rob Bowman today on Toronto Mike'd, it was on this day in 1963 that Palace Pier, one of Toronto's premier dance halls, burned down. I was tipped off to this fact by Jeremy Hopkin, who also colourized the photo above. To commemorate this anniversary, I biked

It's finally happening. Filmores Gentlemans Club at 212 Dundas Street East is closing for good on January 31, 2026. If you're thinking condo development, you're correct. It's 45 years and out as Menkes Developments purchased Filmores strip club and hotel property in 2020, and plans to redevelop the site with

On a chilly December 21 night, I biked to Augusta Avenue and Nassau Street for the 2025 Kensington Market Winter Solstice Festival. Here's some of the parade. Here's the effigy, very welcome on a cold night.

Despite having been legal drinking age for over three decades in this city, I had never been to The Imperial Pub at 54 Dundas St E. I didn't go to the school now known as TMU, I went to U of T, but to be honest, I'm not really a

I'm rather fascinated by the Cloverdale Mall. Sherway Gardens is for the rich, the Dixie Value Mall is for the poors, and there in the middle is the Cloverdale Mall. I visit it often, if not to visit FOTM fact checker Robert Lawson at Sunrise Records, then to see what

FOTM David Kines must have a soft spot for me, because he keeps inviting me to cool stuff, like this morning's Hollywood Suite x GameTV Breakfast in the Imperial Ballroom of the Royal York hotel. I always meet cool and interesting people, some of whom I know, but many of

I'm old enough that I well remember the first Molson Indy Toronto race held at Exhibition Place in 1986. Bobby Rahal won that race, and although it would eventually become the Honda Indy, it was a summer staple in Toronto for almost 40 years. Now the Toronto IndyCar race is

Snow invited me to ABG Day yesterday at Allenbury Gardens. What I witnessed was a community coming out to enjoy free ice cream, BBQ, drinks and several bouncy castles. Oh yes, and great music and plenty of giveaways, including bikes and skateboards. It was wonderful. The man behind this annual

As I wrote that title, I got a little shiver. I had to remind myself that I am not going back to the office. My last days in an office were in 2011, 14 years ago. I was lucky enough to work from home pre-COVID. Then, everyone seemed to be

I recently wrote about my tour of the Toronto Island with Warren Hoselton. It was mainly a walking tour, but there was some water taxi action as well. There's a stretch west of Centre Island by Hanlon's Point where the trees have been overwhelmed by cormorants. We're talking thousands of

Firstly, right off the bat of Babe Ruth when he was with the Providence Grays hitting his first professional home run against the Toronto Maple Leafs on Hanlon's Point in 1914, the photo above was taken by yours truly last night. It's not AI, it's not stolen from Google Images,