torontoist

Torontoist – the only Canadian franchise of the Gothamist network of city blogs – is closing down.  This is bad news for all sorts of reasons. While I didn’t think the city or the blog was always as well-served by its editors as it deserved to be, Torontoist had some excellent writers, especially on arts coverage.  They gave me some very nice play, once upon a time, and I believe I even got a free beer out of it, to boot. Torontoist also connected the city to a larger, but still nicely exclusive network of city blogs that gave Toronto — I mean this sincerely — some world class cachet. The istaverse remains a lovely aspirational brand.