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Donny Petersen sketch
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Writer and former Hells Angels head Donny Petersen reported dead at 74

December 15, 2021December 15, 2021 Rodger Burnside author, Donny Petersen, Hells Angels, motorcycles, obituary

Donny Petersen, author and former president of the Hells Angels motorcycle club in downtown Toronto, has reportedly died at age 74.

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Nov. 6: Join best-selling author Janet Evanovich in conversation

October 23, 2020November 3, 2020 Streeter staff author, Toronto Reference Library

Best-selling author Janet Evanovich discusses the highly anticipated 27th book in the ongoing Stephanie Plum series.

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Aug. 26: Join author Ottessa Moshfegh in conversation at library

August 12, 2020July 30, 2020 Streeter staff author, Toronto Reference Library

Ottessa Moshfegh discusses her latest book Death in Her Hands on Aug. 26 as part of the Toronto Reference Library’s continuing Appel Salon Programming.

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Aug. 17: Join author Michelle Good in conversation at library

August 3, 2020July 30, 2020 Streeter staff author, Toronto Reference Library

Michelle Good discusses her novel Five Little Indians on Aug. 17 as part of the Toronto Reference Library’s continuing Appel Salon Programming.

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July 31: Join author Fernanda Melchor in conversation at library

July 17, 2020July 30, 2020 Streeter staff author, Toronto Reference Library

Fernanda Melchor discusses her debut novel Hurricane Season on July 31 as part of the Toronto Reference Library’s continuing Appel Salon Programming.

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Author ‘thrilled’ at prospect of film

May 22, 2014June 15, 2014 Brian Baker author, Clive, Richard Todd

Having his short story Clive adapted into a full-length feature film is a thrilling prospect for Mt. Pleasant and Eglinton author Richard Todd.

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Off-the-beaten-path’s a fine road for writer

March 6, 2014June 15, 2014 Brian Baker author, Rob Brunet, Stinking Rich, Writer

Once Lawrence Park resident Rob Brunet got on to the old dirt road of his imagination, he was living his dream as a crime novelist.

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Author writes about ‘mutated trauma’

January 16, 2014June 15, 2014 Brian Baker author, Pearl Goodman, Peril: From Jackboots to Jack Benny

The clock is ticking in Pearl Goodman’s Foxbar Road office.

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Love and war in Hoggs Hollow

October 21, 2013June 15, 2014 Brian Baker author, Historical Fiction, M.K. Tod, Unravelled

The lunchtime crowd at the Miller Tavern is abuzz with people in office attire, murmuring about work. It could be a snapshot of a French cafe. But this is Hoggs Hollow.

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Author explores hockey’s dark side

April 20, 2012June 15, 2014 Ann Ruppenstein author, books, Gare Joyce, Journalist, reading, The Code

Local sports journalist turned novelist explores our favourite sport’s subculture in a popular new mystery

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NEWS 

How the Junction got its groove back

December 23, 2010 Town Crier staff author, history, Revitalization

Author Henry Calderon plans a book that will tell the tale of how the neighbourhood got transformed

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NEWS 

Local poet revisits her roots

November 15, 2010June 22, 2014 Shawn Star author, Bathurst, Poems

Karen Shenfeld is a poet who grew up in Bathurst Manor. Now, she just released a book called My Father’s Hands Spoke in Yiddish, which is a collections of poems about the community she was raised in.

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Tragedy gives author strength

November 1, 2010 Town Crier staff author, cancer, PYNK

Death of his partner from breast cancer helped Alan Simons through his own cancer battle

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NEWS 

Greatness in all forms

January 14, 2010 Town Crier staff author, novel

People dedicate their novels to loved ones all the time. Some to wives or husbands, extended family members or close

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You can be anything you want to be: author

November 24, 2009 Town Crier staff author

As a child growing up in the 1960s, Sharon Jennings was told that if she wanted to work, she could become a teacher or a nurse, and if she wanted to have a child, she would have to quit her job.

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That was then.

Empringham Hotel 1903
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From stately hotel to strip club—the Empringham story

November 19, 2020May 5, 2021 Eric McMillan

The Empringham, Danforth or Play Pen — they’re all the same hotel, standing at Danfoirth and Dawes from the late 1800s into the 1980s.

Queen and Waverley 1903
*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN 

Can you believe this century home still stands at Queen and Waverley?

February 27, 2020March 4, 2020 Eric McMillan
Beltline bridge over Yonge Street ion 1915
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When horses passed UNDER the Beltline bridge

December 1, 2019February 6, 2020 Eric McMillan
Yonge-Eglinton southeast
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Now that the Yonge-Eglinton mess has been cleared up (almost)

October 24, 2019October 25, 2019 Eric McMillan

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