Philip Monk writes on the inaugural Toronto Biennial of Art for Canadian Art: https://t.co/J56ix6KkN8. @canartca #TOBiennial19 https://t.co/1Oo2jFXFsv pic.twitter.com/u7RF4ZoMYx — Toronto Biennial of Art (@TorontoBiennial) October 10, 2019 Tweeted by @TorontoBiennial

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Cutting these types of corners is great advice for anyone with an apartment kitchen or without a dishwasher or who just wants to make cooking at home less onerous. I’ve never zested a lemon in my life whooo cares https://t.co/QtBbSKqUrV — Amanda Mull (@amandamull) October 2, 2019 Tweeted by…

AP Photo/Steve Helber/POLITICO Illustration More than two dozen current and former Liberty University officials describe a culture of fear and self-dealing at the largest Christian college in the world. By BRANDON AMBROSINO Brandon Ambrosino is a writer living in Delaware. His articles have appeared…

Consider what Parscale has said about his compensation this campaign season. He has repeatedly emphasized that he is refusing to take the customary cut of the campaign’s digital ad spending. “I felt like, as campaign manager, it would seem not very ethical and very good of myself to pay myself a…

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Mainly a big ranty article https://t.co/IcTZjzKRhH — Kevin Marks (@kevinmarks) September 27, 2019 Tweeted by @kevinmarks

“As #Toronto continues to grow in population and density, it’s critical for us to get creative in how we provide new parks and public spaces,” said @Park_People's @jaketobin of the five-kilometre park project. https://t.co/1sfEILhHKW — TRNTO (@PostCity) September 26, 2019 Tweeted by @PostCity

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Is it better for @TransitApp if their writers craft a fun response to Lyft or if they just add more subtext to their next release notes? https://t.co/nx1kYofbAs https://t.co/nx1kYofbAs — Alexandre Enkerli (@enkerli) September 25, 2019 Tweeted by @enkerli

Agree 💯.👇🏻When I was in J-school, we had copy editing assignments & tests. I remember so well one court reporting assignment I worked hard that I got an automatic F on just because I spelled Shoppers Drug Mart incorrectly. Copy editors are important! https://t.co/FxP2e8XAiF — Ab. Velasco (@ab81)…

Melville House Jenny Odell Ryan Meyer Three days after Barack Obama was voted into office in 2008, The Guardian published an article titled “Obama's win means future elections must be fought online.” It was a largely positive piece , hailing the internet as “a perfect medium for genuine grassroots…

After he slalomed between two defenders and one-timed a bouncing stretch pass to the inside corner of the left post, Peter Stone turned toward a teammate, smiled, and celebrated the dazzling sequence with a shrug. Stone's showing on an indoor soccer pitch in Sydney, Australia, earlier this summer…

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Thank you Cheryl from the @VancouverSun and all of our “borrowers” for reading our Human books at the @VPL this past weekend. #HumanLibrary #yvrarts https://t.co/2pcauCvCMI pic.twitter.com/fJkPcutiPi — Zee Zee Theatre (@zeezeetheatre) September 10, 2019 Tweeted by @zeezeetheatre

In 1964, John Cheever published The Swimmer , a short story about Neddy Merrill, an upper middle-class guy who decided to “swim” across the posh suburbs he

The Evergreen Brick Works is the place where Toronto's prehistoric and modern & natural and physical layers interesect. And yes, the industrial leftovers are pretty cool: https://t.co/elaAWkiUDL — Bob Georgiou (@ScenesFromACity) September 14, 2019 Tweeted by @ScenesFromACity

Since #WhatWomenDontKnowAboutMen is trending, I'll just plug this old piece of mine once more: https://t.co/hjo7fLrBHd — Noah Brand (@NoahBrand1) September 14, 2019 Tweeted by @NoahBrand1

Nina Kraviz playing a set on the Great Wall of China in May. “Now a woman on a main stage is normal,” she said. “But when I started it was, like, no one.” Credit Frankie Casillo BERLIN — Not long after 4 a.m. on a recent Sunday, Kerstin Egert (a.k.a. Tama Sumo), a resident D.J. of the revered techno…

It’s humiliating to consider the things we know instead of the things we should know. I can’t tell you exactly how the Michigan Republicans are trying to illegally gerrymander their state, but I know why Lana Del Rey is angry on Twitter . So it goes: We want to be educated, conscientious,…

“There’s many layers of fictionalization within this true story.” Through the dirty lens of history: Caroline Calloway, left, and Natalie Beach. Credit Natalie Beach In its top left corner, Instagram invites you to share “your story.” The platform’s savviest users log on not to share what’s…

The author (right) with Caroline Calloway Photo: Courtesy of Natalie Beach When I was a sophomore in college, I took a creative-nonfiction workshop and met a girl who was everything I wasn’t. The point of the class was to learn to write your own story, but from the moment we met, I focused instead…

Check out this long read. It’s super thoughtful and challenging. Ask yourself this: if you acknowledge whiteness and privilege, do you prefer to hear about it from white people? Who gets paid more, on the whole, to be an expert on marginalization? https://t.co/I1LxatmHkW — Turns out I’m 💯 That…

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Photograph by Henry G. Peabody / Library of Congress / Corbis / VCG / Getty You go down through the Ocean View district of San Francisco to the first freeway exit after Daly City, where you describe, in effect, a hairpin turn to head north past a McDonald’s to a dead end in a local dump. It is…

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“Confusing being mortal with being threatened can occur in any realm. The fact that something could go wrong does not mean that we are in danger. It means we are alive.” — Sarah Schulman, Conflict Is Not Abuse When I first started to work as a therapist for queer and trans young people, rarely a…

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Ruby Aitken When Max Vest shook hands with the host of his Miami Airbnb back in January, the man introduced himself as Ralph—even though “Ray” was the name he’d used in all their prior communication. This was the first and only indication that something was wrong. But his host had a great rating on…

Why do medical devices sound so terrible? A group of clinicians, psychologists, musicians and designers are developing signals that are less startling and more informative. Listen here. After an unsettling hospital stay, Yoko Sen founded a start-up that creates more pleasing sounds for medical…

By the Book Credit Jillian Tamaki Aug. 1, 2019 “A really good middle-grade novel,” says the New Yorker essayist, whose debut collection is “Trick Mirror,” “will supersede a lot of contemporary fiction in terms of economy, lucidity and grace.” What books are on your nightstand? When I like a book, I…

I I received my copy of “A Pattern Language” as a high school graduation gift. I had already declared my intention to be an architect, so my aunt and uncle bought me the design equivalent of the Bible—thick and minimally illustrated, with a specialized system of numerical classification and a…

Part 2: @tcarmody (can you imagine a better respondent? You cannot) glosses Craig's story, then gives us an important but/and: https://t.co/JS1c4XnJtr pic.twitter.com/VI8yIsVxug — Robin Sloan (@robinsloan) January 13, 2019 Tweeted by @robinsloan

The Untold Story of Black Train Porters with Cecil Foster https://t.co/7FB3AJyCwS — AfterWords Literary Festival (@AfterwordsF) February 17, 2019 Tweeted by @AfterwordsF

"It’s almost like the best way to get a new piece of bike infrastructure in a big city right now is to have someone killed, which seems like the wrong way to design your bike infrastructure, just waiting for fatalities.” https://t.co/RUvhYrqNIX — Doug Gordon (@BrooklynSpoke) July 1, 2019 Tweeted…

It’s a shame that the standard way of learning how to cook is by following recipes. To be sure, they are a wonderfully effective way to approximate a dish as it appeared in a test kitchen, at a star chef’s restaurant, or on TV. And they can be an excellent inspiration for even the least ambitious…