Cool Places I Visited This Weekend
A trip to church turned out to be a little more eventful than I had imagined. You see, our chruch (Grace Presbryterian of Toronto) is 'in between' buildings, so we're meeting at Little Trinity Anglican Church on King St.E. It's a beautiful little church in an area of Toronto that was a trendy little town... back in the 1860s. The church was built and maintained by the Gooderham and Worts families, who ran a profitable whiskey distillery on Toronto's lakeshore. I recommend checking out a service there if you're ever in the city. It's at King and Parliament. I also suggest taking the time to walk from Yonge (about 20 minutes). It's a beautiful stroll on a pre-summer's day.
Our next stop was to grab a coffee in the new Distillery District. Appropriately enough, this indoor/outdoor arts market is located in the shell of the nearby Gooderham and Worts Distillery (we came for the church and stayed for the booze). If you've ever taken the GO train east of Toronto, it's the brick building on the north side of the tracks just outside of Union Station. For everyone else, it's the film set for the Auto Parts factory in Tommy Boy. Yes, that's right. We stood right where Rob Lowe was attacked by a guard dog and peed on a transformer.
It's a little pricy, and painfully trendy, but the art is cool and it's a nice walk. Bring your camera too. Apparently a lot of celebreties pop up down there. We saw Scott Thompson (Kids in the Hall fame... the gay one) shooting a TV movie there.