Tom Thomson. 'In Algonquin Park', Winter 1914-15. Oil on canvas. 24 7/8 x 31 15/16 in. (63.2 x 81.1 cm). The day started with a stain of blood on the snow, framed by a spray of wing markings. A hawk, or maybe an owl, had found its prey only moments before we arrived. As we unloaded firewood from the…

A ndrew Andrew Yang can’t quite believe he’s running for president. On a chilly Wednesday night at Boston Common, he’s speaking to a crowd of more than 500, the kind of audience most outsider candidates would kill for. His staff has primed the crowd to respond, telling us to cheer “math” when he…

Citizens pack public meeting opposing Sidewalk Labs plan | The Star #blocksidewalk #topoli #Onpoli #cdnpoli https://t.co/Np1AywFS0T — Thorben Wieditz (@twieditz) April 18, 2019 Tweeted by @twieditz

A Journey Through Dance Photography From the New York Times Archives Six months ago, the newly formed Past Tense team began sifting through the treasure chest that is the New York Times archive, where some six million photographs are filed away. Photographs of dance quickly emerged as some of the…

Don Bellamy, Karine Plantadit and Uri Sands of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in Judith Jamison’s “Sweet Release.” 1996. Credit Richard Corman/Weiss Katz Gallery Skip to contentSkip to site index Past Tense The author reflects on a childhood trip to see Alvin Ailey’s iconic dance company.…

Why Do We All Have to Be Beautiful? The message of inclusivity is meant to be helpful, but it can actually do harm. Ms. Nolan is a writer. Credit Manon Debaye

Fan Bingbing has been mostly staying at home these days, sending messages on WeChat (the Chinese WhatsApp), working on her English, receiving guests, doing charity work “to wash away her sins,” and otherwise “trying to stay positive,” according to a producer who knows her well. But before the events…

The hashtag #doingthings has been used about a hundred and twenty-five thousand times on Instagram. That’s a little less than #kalesalad, but more than, say, #labradorpuppies. Most of the posts are connected to the clothing brand Outdoor Voices, which was founded by a graduate of the Parsons School…

Critical Shopper Outdoor Voices, a new pop-up shop in Soho, describes its clothing as “technical apparel for recreation.” Credit Jennifer S. Altman for The New York Times Sweats are a uniquely amplifying item of clothing. Nothing on earth makes an athletic person look more athletic, and nothing on…

Image: "Night Texter (Violet Oliver)," by Sam McKinniss. Courtesy of the artist and Team Gallery. “I’m pajama rich,” Kanye rapped in 2010. But, by then, you

When Vancouver quiets down, Mohammad Ali starts serving customers. He's the assistant manager at the 24-hour corner shop Hasty Market, located on Main and 16th. "It's sometimes quiet and you have time to think about life," he says. More: https://t.co/eO09VoivPV pic.twitter.com/PhOcvDDbce — CBC…

Taking the half-life of knowledge seriously: "how to approach learning when the knowledge landscape is in constant flux". This is why I never worry that someone will copy one of my old blog posts or presentations -- I'm on to the next idea already. https://t.co/xzShcV8c9n…

Every long Instagram caption should end with “......the Aristocrats!” https://t.co/vHroChY5DC — Kevin Nguyen (@knguyen) March 27, 2019 Tweeted by @knguyen

Earlier this month, Josh Ostrovsky , an Instagram celebrity more commonly known as The Fat Jew, mocked the Instagram models affected by the platform’s 10-hour…

One example of how China is infantilizing the country’s culture: The Chinese film industry put a black dress on Sally Hawkins’s nude body when “The Shape of Water” hit theaters there. My column on China’s War on Fun https://t.co/fhk0RK5zSH Photo from Weibo pic.twitter.com/RPV6Z5cw52 — Li Yuan…

Why I make it a point to spend some quality time – going to restaurants, movies and shows – by myself by AddThis Sharing Buttons RSS × There was a time when I didn’t do very much alone. Growing up with siblings and a large group of friends, I always had someone to accompany me to the mall, movies…

× Samuel Engelking CityPlace CityPlace is one of Toronto's most densely populated areas downtown On a recent bright Sunday afternoon, CityPlace is quiet. Colossal glass towers stare down onto empty sidewalks as impatient drivers hurry toward the Rogers Centre. A pseudo-piazza connecting two condos…

In Which Josh Seeks to Explain Brexit https://t.co/eggxEKaHxr via @TPM — Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 3, 2019 Tweeted by @joshtpm

For more than a week, ever since a heavily armed white man charged into the Masjid Al Noor and opened fire on worshippers, I’ve been heavily occupied with

Profile The British-Palestinian writer Isabella Hammad has written a sweeping historical novel that follows a Palestinian from Nablus to France in the early 1900s. Credit Heather Sten for The New York Times Reaching Nablus, in the West Bank, from Jordan, takes planning, and patience. There is the…

As the last four provinces to resist carbon pricing are dragged into a new federal tax scheme, the country's oldest carbon tax might serve as a good example of what to expect.https://t.co/OLp6y006FT — CBC British Columbia (@cbcnewsbc) April 4, 2019 Tweeted by @cbcnewsbc

No need to amalgamate Metro Vancouver: expert https://t.co/6QNSANxg9l Nothing too surprising here, but the Sun photographer did convince me to stand in the middle of a busy street to take my picture — Andrew Sancton (@asancton) April 3, 2019 Tweeted by @asancton

High Park will be car-free during the cherry blossom peak bloom https://t.co/Oc18H1MLYo — Sakura in High Park (@sakuraHighPark) April 1, 2019 Tweeted by @sakuraHighPark

Early story up now: City recommends making King streetcar pilot permanent https://t.co/f1FBoO0aAM — Ben Spurr (@BenSpurr) April 2, 2019 Tweeted by @BenSpurr

Photographer: Brandon Presser Photographer: Brandon Presser Icelanders like to joke that during the course of their adulthood they’ll have no less than seven careers—oftentimes two at once. In fact, being busy is such a part of the national identity, Icelanders’ most common greeting roughly…

In 2018, @Park_People volunteers conducted two street-level counts of foot and bicycle traffic on King St. (along with cataloguing stationary activities) where the transit pilot was in effect. This week they released their findings: https://t.co/nnVOAxSb2j #KingStreetPilot — GDNA Toronto…

The company’s top coders seem like two halves of a single mind. Illustration by David Plunkert One day in March of 2000, six of Google ’s best engineers gathered in a makeshift war room. The company was in the midst of an unprecedented emergency. In October, its core systems, which crawled the Web…

The examination to become a London cabby is possibly the most difficult test in the world — demanding years of study to memorize the labyrinthine city’s 25,000 streets and any business or landmark on them. As GPS and Uber imperil this tradition, is there an argument for learning as an end in itself?…

Let’s talk about ride-sharing. At an abstract level, ride-sharing is the idea that people who have cars and a little extra time can provide a service to people who need rides and are willing to pay for them. At an abstract level, it takes an underused resource and puts it to use. It benefits both…

The last time Atul Gawande started a company, he named it after a Greek myth. Ariadne Labs, based in Boston, Massachusetts—where Gawande also works as a surgeon

@webchick “has helped build one of the most welcoming communities in open source that exists today.” https://t.co/QLItTyNdDQ — Drupal (@drupal) March 23, 2019 Tweeted by @drupal

I don't normally pay much mind to Google Doodles but think its pretty great that today they're celebrating the work of Seiichi Miyake, inventor of the tactile paving stone. It was one of my favourite acquisitions for our @V_and_A Gallery at Design Society. https://t.co/S37g0sxWOs…

Chart doctor: the mysterious music of the yield curve It always pays to be aware of a chart’s limitations, even useful ones. Take the iconic yield curve, a chart that shows the yields of government bonds of varying maturities. Analysts use the shape of the curve to gauge market expectations. It…

I am somehow still finding the time to make notes on the design of what is only known as the City RPG. A project very slowly evolving into something that could work really well, and might even happen. BTW this is what a City RPG usually is: https://t.co/jIvgcKonJb — Konstantinos Dimopoulos…

(This article is adapted from a forthcoming book, “Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World”) > Some things you might know about Beto O’Rourke, the former Texas congressman who just entered the race for president: • The Democratic contender raised a record…

I have a piece over at @newyorker! https://t.co/EdykG349du — Miriam Posner (@miriamkp) March 12, 2019 Tweeted by @miriamkp

If you’re alarmed that the houseplant-industrial complex gets away with repeating pleasant-sounding but poorly substantiated and number-free claims, please sit down before looking into pretty much anything on food packaging, health and beauty products, … https://t.co/pVktzczvUX — Charlie Loyd…

I reviewed last night’s brilliant Body/Head show for @nowtoronto. The photos by @tanjatiziana are fantastic too. https://t.co/w7FXoCVe05 — Jesse Locke (@wipeoutbeat) March 10, 2019 Tweeted by @wipeoutbeat

Earlier this year, Lara Frank*, a copywriter for a large tech company, wrote an email to her boss trying to clarify a miscommunication. Frank edited her email to remove superfluous exclamation marks — something she had struggled with overusing in the past — and pressed send. Soon after, Frank’s boss…

#Montreal as “the Berlin of North America”. Quite different from its past reputation as the “Amsterdam of North America”. https://t.co/1Mi91zAVuW — Alexandre Enkerli (@enkerli) March 7, 2019 Tweeted by @enkerli