In today’s edition of This City: a sneak peek at a Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival exhibit featuring city life in the 1970s and ’80s, the Torontonian fighting to save the city’s backyard chicken program, a Q&A with the Toronto-based stand-in for Succession’s Shiv Roy, and more. Visit torontolife.com for all our coverage on the city. |
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June Clark left Harlem in 1968, crash-landing in Toronto and finding her bearings by photographing her surroundings. Alongside a small group of women artists, she taught herself to shoot, turning one of her closets into a darkroom. Now, her early photos (including the one above, of a woman smoking in a Yonge Street McDonald’s) provide a rare glimpse of Toronto in the 1970s and ’80s. Here, 12 striking images that document city life in a bygone era. |
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| | “My backyard is a chicken playground” Last month, the City of Toronto ruled to indefinitely pause UrbanHensTO, a pilot project launched in 2018 that permitted residents of select wards to keep up to four hens in their backyards. We asked Virginia Rankin, one of the project’s 81 participants, why the city should reverse its bird ban. |
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| | Toronto Life’s House of the Week |
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| | In the fall of 2020, Canadian actor Holly Cinnamon (yes, that’s her real name) landed an unlikely gig on HBO’s Succession: working as a stand-in for the Roy family’s red-headed femme de force, Shiv. She told us what it’s like being a professional lookalike and why she’s #TeamShiv for life. Warning: this content contains spoilers. |
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What to read, watch and listen to in May |
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| | As the youngest member of the Jackson family, Janet Jackson launched her incomparable career with her first recording contract at age 16. Since then, she’s racked up 11 American Music Awards, five Grammys and nine MTV Video Music Awards. Her latest tour, Together Again, proves that even 40 years later, the singer still has more to give. May 23, Budweiser Stage |
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| | Inside the Toronto school that’s turning young women into fearless changemakers |
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| | Toronto’s housing market may seem grim, but there are plenty of reasons for optimism on the horizon. Our May cover story is all about the totally green, actually affordable, Jetsonesque near-future of the city’s real estate. The new Mirvish Village is a master class in community building, with more than a third of its units designated as affordable housing; Waterfront Toronto finally has a plan to fix the city’s saddest stretch of shoreline; and Jennifer Keesmaat’s firm is creating a car-free neighbourhood in North York. If you’re still not receiving Toronto Life at home, what are you waiting for? Subscribe today. |
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