Ryerson University president Sheldon Levy has big plans for the once iconic record store site. Deborah Baic/The Globe and Mail
Development

Making a mark on the Yonge Street strip

New student learning centre will transform former Sam the Record Man site, Ryerson University president says

Theodore Fonville Winans’s Dixie Belles, Central Louisiana, 1938. Featured in the exhibit, the picture captures the emerging confidence of the upwardly mobile African-American youth.
Visual Arts

Beauty and the face of change

A Hamilton photography exhibit explores how African-Americans learned to express self-worth

Carey in Toronto: Her show was a totally competent, 100-minute hit parade.
Concert

For Mariah Carey, the angel is in the details

Singer’s expertly produced ballads and hip-hop pseudo-soul have the gravity of butterflies

A TTC streetcar takes on passengers in Toronto on Nov. 17, 2009.

TTC union head lashes out at riders, management

‘Stop harrasing people who are doing their jobs,' Bob Kinnear tells news conference

Adam Giambrone announced that he will no longer be running for mayor of Toronto at a press conference Feb. 10/2010.

Giambrone unlikely to run for his council seat

E-mail to supporter in wake of sex scandal suggests former Toronto mayoral hopeful might not try for another term as councillor either

Zoologist urges council to end zoo's elephant program

Animal rights group enlists leading expert on elephant behaviour in attempt to remove pachyderms from Toronto Zoo

Seasoned executive takes lead of Pan Am Games

Ian Troop, a long-time food and consumer-goods executive with extensive experience in sports, will lead the $2.4-billion project

G20 to disrupt baseball, gay pride

Choice of Toronto Convention Centre as summit venue forces Blue Jays to adjust schedule and pushes annual parade back a week

Report finds THS cash flowing to lawyers

Findings reveal society spent more than $423,000 on lawyers while failing to pay off hydro bill

Business

Air Canada takes aim at Porter

Airline launches legal proceeding against rival, Toronto Port Authority over space allocation at island airport

Crime

Toronto police arrest man who missed U.S. court date

Nineteen-year-old awaits extradition for armed-robbery charges in Georgia

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Inside City Hall
Is Rob Ford officially in? Not according to Rob Ford

Etobicoke Councillor denies report that he has confirmed he'll run for mayor. He's still "seriously considering" it ... for now

Parties
Annual Winter White Party

A colour-coded fundraiser at Cinq01 for the Windfall Clothing Service

Nolan Bryant and Ainsley Kerr at the Annual Winter White Party for the Windfall Clothing Service, a charity dedicated to helping the homeless.
Toronto Board of Trade dinner

Politicians and business leaders break bread for the 122nd year in a row

George Smitherman, Senator Pamela Wallin and Ontario's Minister of Government Services Harinder Takhar at the Toronto Board of Trade's 122nd Annual Dinner
2nd Annual Walrus Foundation Gala

Writers, musicians, actors and readers gather to support the non-profit mag

Theatre
Setting lessens ghost story's fright factor

2.5 Stars

Moving the action from floor to floor and room to room makes things less spooky, not more

Christine Horne, with Clinton Walker, is enthralling in The Turn of the Screw at Toronto’s Campbell House Museum.
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