For whatever reason the great long blog post I wrote about my parents’ recent visit has disappeared. So, short form:
- We had dinner at Carisma
- We watched the Raptors beat the Utah Jazz
- We went to the Alex Colville exhibit at the AGO
- My dad and I saw Bob Dylan at the Sony Centre
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Cover photo by Doug Butchy, used under Creative Commons
Skirl | Dan Dickinson 
[…] Shifting from personal consumption to mass enjoyment, we did manage to engage in a few cultural and sporting events around Toronto this year. It was a paltry showing at both Hot Docs and TIFF, though we did get invited to our first-ever TIFF Gala. I hit up a Raptors game with some work partners on Nelson Mandela night, and attended a timely screening of Selma with the director and lead actor at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. We bought ticket packages for the Toronto portion of the World Juniors, much of which is being played in the final days of 2014. We made a trek with some colleagues out to Stratford to watch A Midsummer Night’s Dream. We also packed a number of events — a Raptors game, the Alex Colville exhibit at the AGO, a Bob Dylan concert — into a long weekend with my parents in town. […]