Posted in: Toronto, ON by Patrick. The lights go on at Yonge-Dundas Square for Christmas -- Illuminite 2009. The performers shown here did a fire act that involved dancing on the stage, weaving through the crowd holding flaming mitts, and a trampoline act that was just a bit too difficult to capture in the low light. Which is a shame because the trampoline involved a flamethrower. :( More at www.torontocitylife.com/2009/11/ . . . -for-the-next-six-months/.

new documentary opens one-week run at Facets

three documentaries to screen tonight, November 19

can Johnny Rocket's be far behind?

gaze into my eyes and repeat after me: architecture matters, architecture matters, architecture matters, architecture matters . . .

nature, boxed and unboxed

. . . on view daily until auction day

. . . and the migrant workers who built it far too little? Two stunning videos.

plus Biomimicry in the Built Environment, Moholy-Nagy and more - additions to the November calendar

a second childhood that won't end well

Millennium Park's milk bottle gauntlet

the upside of November

this whole architectural preservation thing is more complicated than we thought

.plus another first rate exhibition at the Columbia College Museum of Contemporary Photography - Reversed Images - meditations on contemporary Shanghai

new store beneath the Louvre

. . . across 5,000 years.