Doors Open Toronto is back on May 24th and May 25th this year with free admission to all events as always. What is it? Well here is a little more about it:
Toronto Culture is proud to present the 9th annual Doors Open Toronto - one weekend, once a year - when up to 150 buildings of architectural, historic, cultural and social significance open their doors to the public for a city-wide celebration.
The program allows visitors free access to properties that are either not usually open to the public, or would normally charge an entrance fee. Many locations have organized guided tours, displays and activities to enrich the visitor experience.
New the 2008 event is a special focus on music. There will be special performances at a dozen of these venues organized in collaboration with Tafelmusik Orchestra and the Toronto Consort.
For more details and program guides
visit their website. I am looking forward to it as I have been each and every year.
Lately I have been thinking how much I miss Buenos Aires. In a way I have been comparing it to Barcelona, trying to see which of the two cities is a winner. The fact of the matter is that you cannot do that, since each one of them is so very much different its nature. Sure there some similarities between them, but there are both as unique as they could be. From my own perspective I guess miss Buenos Aires a little more, it is a bigger city therefore it has a lot more to offer. Depending in which barrio you are, you are almost visiting another town, yet they are all interconnected and very much co-dependent on each other. And this formula is the essence of it and I miss that specific essence. I have been to many cities all over this planet and Buenos Aires feels right to me. 
Fellow Twitter shared with me an invitation to the beta of the new application called Dropbox yesterday. What is Dropbox? Dropbox is a desktop application (for both Windows and Mac OS X) and storage service that just works. It's the easiest way to share and store files online and 
It is not a secret that I love walking, all my friends know and sometimes hate me for saying: "No worries it is within a walking distance from here". Five years ago I have moved back right downtown - in the heart of the city so I can sell my car and have everything within a walking distance. There is something liberating about the idea of being right in the middle of things, being able to take a short stroll to store, movie theater or a local bar/club. Even the shopping centre, hundreds and hundreds of other shops, parks, cafes is literally around the corner from where I live now. I walk to the post office and to the library, local pharmacy and the bank is a block away! I love it and I would not want to live anywhere else in the city. 
Biographies are brilliant learning tool, I have always been a huge fun of them. Recently I have re-discovered The Biography Channel which I have always had an access to on my cable TV, but did not pay as much attention as I should have. It is amazing how much you can learn about life from other people mistakes, misconceptions, ideas, good and bad choices and often plain stupidity. And we all know that there is nothing better than learning from mistakes of others. This is why biographies and autobiographies serve me as role models now, illustrating how prominent or successful people experience triumphs, failures, and hardships throughout their lives. They are often full of fascinating details you would not normally know about or simply never heard of from media or other books. Each of the one hour shows enables you to get a good understanding of someone's choices they made in life and what impact and outcome it had on their journey through life, their career and their works and how you can apply this knowledge to your own situation, your own life. Biographies are also an amazing resources about the relationship between someone's life and times they lived in, so you get clear picture of history as well. Learn from others by reading or watching biographies, you will be amazed how many of them will have direct relationship to you in one way or the other. Yesterday was a great piece about Andy Warhol and tomorrow at 10pm there is a biography of Salvador Dali! 