The hood only makes the papers when people are whining about Giambrone.

"The businesses that are here will probably do fine, new businesses probably won't move in, and you can't survive without patios as a restaurant, so everybody's going to go down Dundas and to Bloor and Lansdowne."

With some extra background from Michael, whose family is of Ukrainian origin.

Kiss Cup (now Happy Cup) vs. 3-Speed. They couldn't be more different.

Blansdowne still remains pretty shady at night.

BlogTO just referred to my neighbourhood as Blansdowne. Fuck yeah!

Blansdowne is one of the neighbourhoods they are considering for this project.

This library has been under renovation more or less the entire time i've lived in the area.

It's interesting to compare how much news coverage Jack's protest received compared to the coverage the Sri Lankan war protests received. The Sri Lankan war protests were probably some of the biggest protests in the city, ever, but they didn't make the news till they started disrupting traffic. I don't think they were covered on TV till they stormed the Gardiner.