Shawn Micallef

@shawnmicallef

Columnist / Cofounder / Teach / Books: Stroll, Full FrontalTO & The Trouble w Brunch / NEW: Frontier City - TO on Verge of Greatness

Toronto Mean City
Joined July 2008

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    21 Mar 2018

    I wrote Frontier City with 2018 (& beyond) in mind. What happened here can repeat & happen elsewhere, & can be lessons for other cities. Themes/people/issues in the book continue to arise. I’ll highlight pertinent bits in this thread over time.

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  2. 1 hour ago

    Le Chateau jam & the world’s greatest views of the world’s greatest billboards – At Château Marmont

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  3. 2 hours ago

    Midnight Mulholland / North / valley

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  5. 7 hours ago

    Today’s walk / bike ride. 28 human powered KMs thru LA. Mostly bike. Small sample size but so far: motorists way more respectful than in Toronto. LA is like Berlin: something looks close on map but city is so BIG takes longer to get there. Now a rest before night shift.

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  6. 7 hours ago

    Friday night food truck fest in Venice. Most elaborate food trucks. One has a whole woodfired pizza over. One was for pasta. One was for hummus. Etc.

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  7. 7 hours ago

    Back in Venice on Abbot Kinney (main non-seafront retail strip) low rider rickshaw bike was playing Hotel California loud (true). Note: Newfoundland dog in the shadows. Good dog town, this one. Happy dogs, no salt. – At A. Kinney Court

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  8. 7 hours ago

    Santa Monica city hall. Always gotta go by the city hall. Sweet deco deal. – At Santa Monica City Hall

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    I spent time at the over the holiday and was surprised to see my story about the island's return to China in 1997 mounted on its wall. What an honour to have one's work found inside a history museum 😃

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  10. 8 hours ago

    Santa Monica tree tunnel! Such roots. Look at that perfect sidewalk allowance for those Medusa roots. – At Lincoln Middle School

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  11. Retweeted
    8 hours ago

    “The seven original canals of Venice, California, are lost to history -- long ago filled in, paved over, and converted into residential streets.”

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  12. 8 hours ago

    Walking up to the Gehry Residence.

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    14 hours ago

    Here's my 1st story of 2019. This is the story of how Ontario created its Lorax: the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario. Then the Doug Ford gov't came to be & axed the watchdog office, saying it can police itself. What happens now?

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  14. 8 hours ago

    Something of a Frank Gehry day. Here’s his own house. The former Torontonian bought it this 1920 bungalow & in 1978 or so wrapped it in chain link, plywood and corrugated steel. Never appreciated how intact the form of the old house was from pics. What a thing.

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  15. 8 hours ago

    So much great density in Santa Monica. 2 and 3 storey deals. Deep lots, lots of apartments. I don’t know if it’s annoying to locals but I keep looking “which one might be the 3’s Company walk up”. Needs to be close retail strip aka Regal Beagle. Wide roads tho!

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  16. 8 hours ago

    Somebody shut down my internet if I do that again. Can’t ruin vacation

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    This is flatly untrue. The most distinctive buildings on the site - Cinesphere and Pods - are fully or nearly renovated.

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  18. 8 hours ago

    Why did I look at Ontario news? Why?

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    14 hours ago

    This is very significant. government is signalling a complete overhaul of Ontario Place "in any way that Ford wants it to be rebuilt."

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  20. 9 hours ago

    Pre-Twitter naming conventions – At The Gaslite

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  21. Retweeted
    11 hours ago
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    The Spiller House was one of Gehry’s projects that first drew me to his work, even before I studied architecture. My childhood fort was made by my dad out of plywood, studs & galvanized sheet steel—I loved Gehry’s material, tectonic rawness.

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