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Reel Toronto: A Double Shot of Robin Williams

It's hard to deny that Robin Williams can be a funny fellow, and he even earned an Oscar for Good Will Hunting, which, of course, was shot here.

5:40 p.m. Dark, cold evening rush hour. Dundas streetcar, eastbound, approaching University.

to be free...

Once a week, Vandalist features the best street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute.

Once a week, Vandalist features the best street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute.

"Missed Connection posts are at an all-time high.

Well, it sure is classier than the Scotiabank. For one thing, the AMC Yonge & Dundas 24, opening today, isn't called the "Scotiabank." And its interior design scheme (seen above) is premised on the role that movies play in the popular imagination, rather than the role that you play in Taco Bell's quarterly profits. And the music selections playing in the lobby (Soundgarden, Nirvana, and The Who during Tuesday's press preview) don't seem to be the product of deals with record labels. AMC goes out of its way to make known its interest in movies. Too bad it couldn't give a crap about film.

Once a week, Vandalist features the best street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute.

Once a week, Vandalist features the best street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute.

"This advertising space and/or building for lease"

As the popular phrase goes, when one video store door slams shut, another one opens.

Contributor Tony Makepeace is taking us for some spins around our city with his fantastic VR panoramas. You can look up, down, side to side, in and out—pretty much every direction but back at yourself, which would be kind of creepy. Say hello to Panoramaist: the Toronto shoe-gazer's worst enemy.

Contributor Tony Makepeace is taking us for some spins around our city with his fantastic VR panoramas. You can look up, down, side to side, in and out—pretty much every direction but back at yourself, which would be kind of creepy. Say hello to Panoramaist: the Toronto shoe-gazer's worst enemy. Click on the preview image above to launch the QuickTime VR panorama in a new window. Panoramaist is best viewed on a fast computer....

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