Let’s say you’re in Chicago for a convention. The sessions you need to attend end at 1:30 pm, but you have a few hours before you need to get to the airport. You’d like to do something interesting, but you’ve already been to the major tourist attractions in town. Should you just sit in Starbucks [...]
If I wrote a post on how to live cheaply in LA – which I may still do – the Getty would feature prominently in the “Entertainment” section. Stuff.co.nz – Travel Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this [...]
If I wrote a post on how to live cheaply in LA – which I may still do – the Getty would feature prominently in the “Entertainment” section. Stuff.co.nz – Travel Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this [...]
Intersection by intersection, Mayor Rob Ford’s Toronto is quietly becoming friendlier to pedestrians. Since January 2010, nearly a year before Ford took office, city transportation workers have been modifying hundreds of traffic signals per year to give people more time to cross the street. Toronto previously required pedestrians to walk at 1.2 metres per second [...]
A former York University football coach who was arrested on charges relating to child pornography faces eight additional charges in the child-luring investigation. Daniel Younis, 24, was the recruiting coordinator and running back coach for the York University Lions football team when he was first arrested on Feb. 21. At that time, he was charged [...]
Forget about turning water into wine, the 21st-century miracle worker must transform whole suburbs into cities. Yet it’s happening right now in Toronto. Even on streets as unrepentantly hostile to human habitation as Wilson Ave., our new-found faith in urbanity is changing the landscape. There’s no better example than a lonely strip mall and bowling [...]
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The average Canadian adult watches a whopping 30 hours of television a week, according to BBM Canada. Nathaniel Willsie figures he’s way under that and swears he’s not among those who watch an average of four hours and 20 minutes of TV a day. But when it comes to how much time he spends online, [...]
Apple is expected to offer more evidence of slowing growth when it unveils its second quarter earnings on Tuesday. Wall Street analysts have been resetting expectations downward for the Cupertino, Calif.-based iPhone and iPad maker, on signs of stalling smartphone sales, lower selling prices and increased global competition. Still, some observers think the report won’t [...]
SAN FRANCISCO—Apple’s quarterly profit is projected to shrink for the first time in a decade, hurt by new products with lower profit margins and slower growth in iPhone sales. Fourteen analysts have reduced their estimates for Apple in the past four weeks, as shares in the world’s most valuable technology company continue their slide from [...]
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