Depending on whom you listen to, the Village (Church & Wellesley) is either dead, on life support or just going through a renaissance period of rebirth and reinvention. While die-hards stand by the venerable Village steadfastly, many on the Street and in the media are sounding the death knell as bars and businesses shut shop for good or for lower rents in other areas. Is Church Street dead or merely resting? Read the full story

Me @ Pride 2006

I remember so clearly my first Pride.  I was 15 years old.  Staying with my father for the summer and fresh on the discovery of the Carlton Cinema but not yet aware that Church and Wellesley was just around the corner.  I had just told my dad that I was going to see Problem Child 2 at the Eaton Centre but what I actually did was sneak out to a matinee of “Paris is Burning”.  Read the full story