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[frandroid]

New Condo owners are killing College Street.

While I've lived on Clinton, really close to the heart of it, and not really enjoying the scene (or should I say, the "be-seen"), I didn't call the cops trying to shut the bars down. I moved elsewhere.

Last year, I think it was gordonzola that was posting an article about new condo owners moving into the Castro district in SF and complaining about some sex shop... like hello, gay district, if you don't like the gay, don't move in the gay. Same with College.

I also understand that there are a lot of people from outside the area that come there to have fun, but so what? These people knew the deal when they bought their units.

I was going to talk about gentrification, but I'm not even sure this is what this is... Maybe it's regentrification? I mean it's long been gentrified, but this is different. I guess eventually all this will be pushed to Queen West, unless the "Bohemian Embassadors" manage to close down the Drake and the Gladstone, or something.

Anyway, did I mention that even though I've live all but 2 weeks out of my 7 years in Toronto within walking distance of it, that I've loved the Cloak and Dagger when I went to it? It's on College but not in the aforementioned area, it's closer to Kensington market... Nice tiny Irish bar. Tons of good beers on tap, like 24 or something. I'm open to go there with anyone.

I need a Toronto icon. Does anyone have ideas?

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[sabotabby]

Cloak and Dagger is good? Really? I don't know that I've been.

It's gentrification of a sort, in that the club-goers are of a lower class than the condo-owners, even while they're above, say, working class people. But it's mostly NIMBYism. I live off of College, and while the club people are annoying—you live in a hip downtown neighbourhood, you take your chances. It pisses me off less than the yuppie fucks on Queen W. who want to be near the artists so they kick the artists and poor people out of the neighbourhood.

This is my Toronto icon.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

Cloak and Dagger is rather unassuming, which is one of the reasons I like it. It's not really ornate, so it's not like That Place You Go To (which name's I obviously forgot), it's more like a dark corridor with seats and booths, and there's often a "band" upfront (quoted because you can't fit more than 2 people there) singing folk music.

I just realized that I need to find more icons that are not from your set :]