Friday May 16, 2008
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The end is beginning for Lost's tangled web
Online Edition: Thursday, May 15, 2008 03:50 AM
The end is beginning for Lost's tangled web
Published: Thursday, May 15, 2008 12:00 AM Page R3
Night. A makeshift encampment somewhere in the jungle. The sound of an approaching helicopter. The camera pans across expectant faces raised to the noise. Several smile with joyful relief.Wait a second. What show do these people think they are on? The Price Is Right or something? This is Lost, one of the final scenes of last week's episode to be precise. The chances that tonight (ABC, CTV, 10 p.m.) we will witness a straightforward rescue that will happily return the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 to their previous lives are nil.
The photo is dead. Long live the photo
Published: Saturday, May 3, 2008 12:00 AM Page R5
Toronto artist Robert Burley is currently documenting the fate of chemical photography, recording the abandonment and demolition of various Kodak plants. The films, papers and processing chemicals these factories produced will soon be obsolete, although Burley himself is still physically printing images from negatives, albeit ones he edits digitally. The most notable of Burley's large, highly detailed colour photographs shows the implosion of buildings 65 and 69 at Kodak Park in Rochester, N.Y., where a crowd that includes people who worked in the plant busily snap pictures of its demise on their digital cameras. Whatever sacrifices it may demand, technology is irresistible.
Open your eyes, there's art around
Published: Saturday, May 3, 2008 12:00 AM Page R17
Frustrated commuters waiting to make their right hand turn at the bottom of Toronto's Spadina Avenue may be stuck there long enough to notice that a forest of trees seems to have sprouted on the underside of the Gardiner Expressway this month. On the other hand, Queen Street hipsters with their eyes raised to the
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Online Edition: Friday, May 2, 2008 09:33 PM
They're blowing up the Kodak plants, but don't worry, we've still got our cellphones. Kate Taylor explores an art form undergoing a revolution
A photographic forest grows in Toronto
Online Edition: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 03:25 AM
A photographic forest grows in Toronto
CONTACT: A PHOTOGRAPHIC FOREST GROWS IN TORONTO
Published: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 12:00 AM Page R2
Workers were installing Rodney Graham photographs on the pillars supporting Toronto's Gardiner Expressway at Spadina Avenue and Lake Shore Boulevard yesterday and on the weekend as part of the city's month-long Contact photography festival. The photos show magnificent oaks and cedars turned upside down.
There's good news and bad as the CRTC hearings wrap up
Published: Saturday, April 26, 2008 12:00 AM Page R7
There's a mother of a fight shaping up in the TV industry that could add several dollars to your monthly cable bill, but also expand your cable choices.It's a battle that could force you to start paying for the CTV, Global and CBC-TV signals but give you access to top U.S. cable channels such as HBO and ESPN. And yet it might also trim basic cable back to a more affordable package, and help keep local newscasts on the air. It seems unlikely, on the other hand, to do much to bring back that endangered species, Canadian drama. The outcome for viewers will all depend on who wins when the Canadian broadcast regulator renders judgment after a fiery three-week review of the cable industry that wrapped up in Gatineau, Que., on Thursday.
Ottawa approves rezoning to stay in race for gallery
Online Edition: Thursday, April 24, 2008 03:12 AM
City Council approves zoning change for downtown site
Ottawa approves rezoning to stay in race for gallery
Published: Thursday, April 24, 2008 12:00 AM Page R3
Ottawa is still in the fight to keep a proposed national portrait gallery in the city.Ottawa City Council voted yesterday to approve a zoning change to a downtown site where a condo developer wants to build the portrait gallery in exchange for increased density.
