Chicken Fat Perambulation #15

rubbing and tugging at the cityscape Chicken Fat Perambulation.

Sunday, November 8, 2009

4:00pm - 6:00pm

Location: NW corner Yonge Street and Gerrard Street

Yonge Street northward until it hits 6 P.M.

Ye toilet bowl spilleth over. We now enter the ghost of Toronto's Art Deco district—or what'd have been celebrated as such had it not been decimated in the 1970s and 1980s. And as just another two hours on the way to the top.

PWYC ($5 or $10 recommended)

"As the title indicates, imagine Sir Nikolaus Pevsner colliding with Will Elder.

"A touch of architecture, a touch of history, a touch of psychogeography, a touch of urban exploration, a whole lot of psychodrama, in a way that only Adam Sobolak—onetime CIUT late-night fixture, executive member of the Toronto Architectural Conservancy, and all-around urban gadfly (not to mention author of the immortal "Pioneers Of Modern Design: From Britney Spears To Christina Aguilera")—can manage. Don't expect the over-authoritative or over-systematic; it's one continuous interactively animated sensual shimmering urban riff and vamp."