 | 69 Norwood Avenue, Kensington, Ca Marvin Gardens Real Estate presents a stylish, sun filled Craftsman plus a legal, attached garden cottage. The main house features three plus bedrooms, two beautifully remodeled baths and an elegantly remodeled kitchen. The garden cottage has two bedrooms, one bath and efficient kitchen with a private patio and garden. It is located on a coveted tree lined street near transportation, parks and Kensington Village. Questions? Please contact Ron Egherman, Realtor, 510-502-7199 or ron@marvingardens.com |
 | Judy Garland - The Boy Next Door (Meet Me in St. Louis) The moment I saw him smile, I knew he was just my style, My only regret is we've never met, Though I dream of him all the while. But he doesn't know I exist, No matter how I may persist, So it's clear to see there's no hope for me, Though I live at 5135 Kensington Avenue And he lives at 5133. How can I ignore The boy next door? I love him more than I can say. Doesn't try to please me, doesn't even tease me, And he never sees me glance his way. And though I'm heart-sore The boy next door affection for me won't display, I just adore him, so I can't ignore him, The boy next door. I just adore him, so I can't ignore him, The boy next door. |
 | 1st Annual Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby Some of the entries and the muddy finish of the 1st Annual Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby at the Trenton Avenue Arts Festival. Held in Philadelphia, PA on May 19, 2007. |
 | Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby As part of this year's Trenton Avenue Arts Festival, NKCDC hosted Philadelphia's first-ever Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby! The derby, which took place the afternoon of May 19th, was a celebration of art and human-powered transit, pitting sculptures against one another along a three-mile urban course. Sculptures weren't the only thing on parade that day though - the Kinetic Sculpture Derby is an economic development initiative to showcase some of our new local businesses - our businesses on parade! |
 | Kensington Fire Poem - Lee Our friend and neighbor Lee recites his poem about the fire and our neighborhood. ************************ Fire and Rain Douglas Lee Dieter 06.20.07 I slept sweet and rose to singing rain, But yet had a change of heart to gain, For now I know she wanted me to stay, Though fate casts still her slant upon our days. Yes rain or love did not prevent my morning walk, Of coffee customary on the Avenue or love touched inner talk. But the way was blocked which habit did prefer, Thus was missed too dearly a together breakfast with her, She whom I am proud to call my prettiest companion, In walks and talks who grooves me like a canyon, Like a river etching eternity in time, But sad I add some fire to a lover's rhyme. Folks had been up since four standing on the street, From their homes sequestered upon sorry sleepy feet, With utilities down to quell a sordid creeping emergency. But lately awakened I saw the aftermath, no urgency, Recalling a Madonna I had painted in a window on a wall. But thinking thus I saw the other wall and fell to feeling small, For though I thought alone of my pretty painted art, I was but a dreamer who knew not the painful heart. O the Simple Way was painful plenty with damage, As a firefighter in the window so arranged, To see that all so cherished was safe as possible secure, This way I saw brave and cautious giants all are pure! Actually the factory dinosaur deep was the smaller thing, Having been empty almost save for morning birds that sing. But O though The Simple Way stumbled on a demon flame, Brook and Shane founded her to wing upon a humble name. Yet Hope touched not enough with love upon a woman's charms, For I was distracted by the news of a fire of seven alarms, And stumbled instead of talking of a fire, And sent not my love upon the telephone wire. For I thought of Amber, Darnel, Shane, Sarah, and Carla! Carla is a crossing guard and was her husband there, Brave and tall of heart a fireman to care? Carla crosses children before Produce Paradise, Where I shop and talk to a familiar friend so nice. But only her husband would have been around As perhaps his wife slept securely safe and sound. But may the history of this night and day let love alone suffice, For love alone may rise renewed above the charcoal sacrifice. O had I now slept in the hopes of love in my friends home, Then no Fire and Rain could whip in shape this poem! And though I saw the aftermath while still this poem working on, I see renewal comes brave upon this simple way -- on love to fawn! |
 | KENSINGTON MARKET-I WOULD BE THE ONE This is Kensington Market "Live" at "Hugh's Room" in Toronto, June 17,2008. The occassion was to celebrate the Re-release of their 2 Warner Bros. Albums, "Avenue Road" * "Aardvark" on CD by Pacemaker Records. If you have never heard their music, do yourself a favour and get educated! These guys were light-years ahead of their time! For information go to: http://www.pacemaker.cd |
 | Kensington Market - I Would Be The One (1968) Kensington Market and their 1968 single "I Would Be The One", from the album "Avenue Road". This song reached #18 on the Chum Chart July 22, 1968 |
 | FASHION SOIREE AVENUE MONTAIGNE Every Friday, I organise "Soiree Avenue Montaigne" : it is all about great music, models, photographers and celebrities. The party takes place each Friday night on 65 High Street Kensington in London at club Amika. It is a blast ! For guest lists rwp@raphaelwpathe.com |
 | Toronto walking tour: Spadina Avenue - Fashion District These video clips were taken during my walking tour with famous Toronto historian and tour guide Bruce Bell on July 16, 2007. After meeting at the famous and eclectic OCAD Building (I call it the "gift box on stilts") just south of the University of Toronto, Bruce took us past the Grange, Toronto's oldest building, past the Art Gallery of Toronto to some of the mansions along Beverley and Baldwin Streets. Along the way Bruce explained to us the early history of Toronto, and the family compact -- a group of extremely wealthy and powerful English families that used to rule Toronto in the early days. We then walked westwards to Chinatown and the ethnic mix of the Kensington Market area which started as a Scottish market, then became a popular Jewish residential area in the 1910s and 1920s (evidenced by two local synagogues) and morphed into the diverse, multicultural and hip neighbourhood that it is today. Vendors sell fruits, vegetables, cheeses, dry goods, meat, fish, vintage clothing and all sorts of other unique items in this Bohemian neighbourhood. A great variety of different ethnic restaurants caters to eclectic tastes. We then visited Denison Square and admired a statue of one of Toronto's popular actors, Al Waxman, the "King of Kensington". We then continued on our walk through busy Chinatown to Toronto's Garment district along Spadina and Queen Avenues and then headed east along a variety of restaurants and bars on Queen Street West to end in front of the Italianate palace occupied by City TV. Along the way we got informed and entertained about Toronto's history from a small English enclave that started in 1793, to the exciting, vibrant and multicultural metropolis that it is today. You can read the full story at http://www.travelandtransitions.com/stories_photos/chinatown_kensington.htm. The clips from this walking tour are part of my "Toronto Favourites" series and many more of these discoveries are to come. I am actually a travel writer, and whenever I am not out of town, I write about the city that I live in: Toronto, a city that has many cool places. I love to get out and explore the city and discover some new cool spots, and now you can enjoy them with me. Feel free to check out some of my 700+ articles and interviews on http//www.travelandtransitions.com. My personal travel stories are located at http://www.travelandtransitions.com/stories_photos.htm. Also, my FREE travel ebooks containing stories from my trips to destinations such as Sicily, Havana, Mexico City, New York City, Chicago, Florida, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Vancouver, Halifax and many others are going up right now at http://www.travelandtransitions.com/ebooks.html |
 | Kensington Entertainment yup, this is what we do in boring old kensington |
 | TTC Spadina Streetcar Northbound View from the left side of a Toronto TTC Spadina streetcar, northbound from Queen Street West to Spadina subway station. |
 | Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY - One Time Around Outer Loop I mounted my video camera to my bicycle and rode around the outer loop in Prospect Park. Prospect Park is a 585 acre public park in the New York City borough of Brooklyn located between Park Slope, Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, Kensington, Windsor Terrace and Flatbush Avenue, Grand Army Plaza and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The outer loop is approximately 3.34 - 3.6 Miles around. The song used is "Low" by the Calvary Kids. |
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