Toure

Like most of the 416 (and the 905, 613, 212 etc) I heard the news about Michael Jackson's passing from Twitter. Sitting in a hair salon, patrons and stylists all grabbed their phones in almost eerie unison. "Michael Jackson is dead?" "Yeah, I just got a text." "It's all over Twitter." "I just got FIVE texts!" The news spread around the tiny salon like wildfire-exactly the way it spread around the world. read more...