City of Infinite Interpretations

Submitted by Lizzie McNeely on Fri, 04/25/2008 - 14:40.

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Hogtown, Big Smoke, the 416 and, my personal fave, T-Dot-O-Dot (bless you Kardinal Offishal). We’ve always been a city of many nicknames and now we’re becoming the city of infinite interpretations. A petri dish of a metropolis drooled over by urban theorists. David MacFarlane’s essay compilation, Toronto: A City Becoming, features literati musing upon the city’s changes. Toronto Noir, an anthology of mystery stories, launches this week. Word is there’s even a website where girls talk about “doing” the city (ooh, naughty). Is it a healthy dose of civic pride, or does our pretentious self-obsession justify the T-Dot hater mobs?