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Porsche may be right that “There is no substitute”, but VW’s new GTI is nearly there – at half the price of a Boxster. Having read Road & Track’s April 2006 comparison test of the 197 HP Civic Si, the 207 HP JCW Mini Cooper S, and the 200 HP … Read More
(The next in our series of advisory pieces on how to do extremely dangerous and barely legal things. (No, this isn’t about street racing.) So you think you can’t afford a Porsche. Or a race car. Actually, you can do both. If you can afford a $20,000 car, you can … Read More
Driven in part by art-heavy Queen West scenesters to the south and some progressive entrepreneurs north on Dundas, three short blocks of Ossington have become the most elitist of all Toronto – if you’re into culture. They are now populated by the A.W.O.L Gallery, design/architecture firms, Babel Books & Music, … Read More
Theme and variations: these are the essential elements of jazz. Simple. The vast majority of jazz is one or more musicians establishing a theme – a song, riff or line – and futzing around with it. America’s gift to the arts, jazz started when the descendants of slaves brought sophisticated … Read More
We’ve got a suggestion for a few tweaks to your Sunday drive. Replace the countryside with a racetrack, and your SUV with a Reynard F2000. All right, so it’s not a typical Sunday, but then again, the Bridgestone Racing Academy’s Wheel-to-Wheel Racing course isn’t exactly a regular weekend. It’s a … Read More
