22
Feb
2013
Birch Cliff resident Karin Eaton has been awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for “dedicated service to the Scarborough arts community”.
Widely known as “the mural lady”, Eaton is the founder of Mural Routes, the...
17
Dec
2012
By Ian Harvey
Birch Cliff residents are invited to offer their input into locations and themes for future murals at the upcoming Mural Routes meeting on Jan. 7.
The neighbourhood has been sprouting murals since last...
13
Dec
2012
A lot of people enjoy taking photographs of the Scarborough Bluffs but few of us have been able to capture their beauty as well as Larry Herscovitch.
Herscovitch is an engineer by trade who started...
15
Nov
2012
There’s a new mural being painted on the railway underpass at Warden Ave. south of Danforth Ave. that’s so spectacular it’s literally stopping traffic.
It’s a sweeping mural of the Scarborough Bluffs and includes a...
11
Nov
2012
Toronto City Councillors in the newly formed band Clamshell Quintet set aside their political differences last night and raised more than $10,000 for Variety Village in their musical debut.
The general consensus was that the...
05
Nov
2012
Toronto City Councillors will be ditching the rhetoric and picking up instruments at a benefit next weekend to help Variety Village recover from this summer’s devastating floods in Birch Cliff.
Clamshell Quintet debut
The flood fundraiser...
24
Sep
2012
A young filmmaker who grew up in Cliffside has returned to the neighbourhood to shoot a movie.
The director is Steven Hoffner, a 29-year old graduate of Birchmount Collegiate who studied film at the University ...
14
Sep
2012
The east wall of Wimpy's is sure looking a whole lot better now that artist Sarah Collard has finished the third in a series of murals designed to improve the streetscape of Birch Cliff.
"Tudor...