TORONTO NOIR

Toronto is histrionic or claustrophobic, gelling
or uncool. It's the 1967 Stanley Cup champion Maple Leafs; it's a fading World Series Blue Jays souvenir cup. It's gaggles of languagestarvedlandfill stalkers who text and Facebook and spit wads of bubble gum onto the world's cleanest tarmac . . .

Toronto Noir lets a bit of moonlight contour the ever-mobile city, allowing a glimpse, a brief catch and release. Sentimentality and deception bring these stories together. Dog-ear this book, use it as foreplay for further encounters on your coffee table.

Sift through the stiff pages written by people who inform and present their city in a way no double-decker gimmick bus whizzing past the Rogers Centre and Casa Loma could ever hope to do. It is in our emergency
rooms and carrying our groceries home that we are Torontonians.
http://www.akashicbooks.com/torontonoir.htm

Brand new stories by: RM Vaughan, Nathan Sellyn, Ibi Kaslik, Peter Robinson, Heather Birrell, Sean Dixon, Raywat Deonandan, Christine Murray, Gail Bowen, Emily Schultz, Andrew Pyper, Kim Moritsugu, Mark
Sinnett, George Elliott Clarke, Pasha Malla, and Michael Redhill.

Video by Geoffrey Pugen
Music by Clara Rockmore

http://www.akashicbooks.com/torontonoir.htm

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[rafcardone]

good, but I would like to see something more about the noir side of Toronto

[JLitBakerstreet]

a cornucopia of gels?! That would insinuate that there's a variety of "gels". Gels are color-tinted films one would place over a stage light. This is just some red hue which has been added to the footage in post. The previous commenter must have been intoxicated by some hallucinogen.

[ELECTRO808COM]

A very dark perspective on a city lighted with an unimaginable cornucopia of gels.