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What they're saying in Austin: Keeping Austin weird: Toronto mayor brings music partnership, drug maelstrom to City Hall http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/blog/at-the-watercooler/2013/10/keeping-austin-weird-toronto-mayor.html Welcome to our world, Austin.

Austin Buisiness Journal: Controversial Canadian mayor covets Austin's musical mojo

The Globe and Mail: Toronto’s deputy mayor to ‘gently’ push Ford to attend more events Nice of the deputy Mayor to 'gently' push Ford into doing his job. And why does the "most transparent" mayor not make his schedule public?

Oh, I'm sure he'll take credit for the NBA All Star Game, the Pan Am Games, World Pride... er, maybe not that one. ;)

I wonder what Ford thinks of Ai Weiwei's Forever Bicycles, being set up in front of City Hall for Nuit Blanche? https://twitter.com/papa723/status/384689540633341952/photo/1

Forget Austin City Limits. Rob Ford is hangin' with Drake: https://twitter.com/cbcsteve/status/384694996349095936/photo/1 Toronto to host 2016 NBA All Star Game.

BlogTO has photos of the new Richtree market, which eschews the Movenpick Marche-style food stations for (semi upscale) food court-like options. There is also a bar serving alcoholic beverages. http://www.blogto.com/restaurants/richtree-natural-market-toronto

Will propping up Ford cost the Harper gov't as other municipalities ask for infrastructure dollars? Globe and Mail: Mayors struggling to understand Ottawa’s subway gift to Toronto

Eataly Chicago (located in the River North area) is scheduled to open late Fall 2013. http://www.chicagomag.com/Radar/Dish/September-2013/Eataly/ http://www.eataly.com/locations-and-hours-eataly-around-the-world/

Toronto Sun: Mayor sings praises of coming 'Rob Ford-funded' trip to Austin I wonder what the good people of Austin will have to say about a visit from the mayor of the biggest city in Canada? Is this a big deal to them? And (in all seriousness I ask) what were the "big contracts" that...

The Star prints some good news about Ford: Mayor Rob Ford joins campaign to free Canadians detained in Egypt

And the Ottawa bus crash story continued on page A2. The David Price story continued on A20.

Ai Weiwei's Forever Bicycles is being set up in Nathan Phillips Square for Nuit Blanche. http://torontoist.com/2013/09/scene-ai-weiweis-bikes-arrive-at-nathan-phillips-square/ http://www.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca/project.html?project_id=1311

Did Ford ever show the benefits of the trade mission to Chicago? And what happened to the trade mission to Boston? I believe it was cancelled, but why was it not re-planned? Isn't it likely that there are more similarities between Boston and Toronto than Austin and Toronto? Aren't there more...

Teppan Kenta has opened in the Bay/Wellesley area (at the back of a condo building, behind a Rabba). This replaces the short-lived Nejibee. http://teppankenta.com/ http://www.torontolife.com/daily-dish/restaurants-dish/2013/09/17/teppan-kenta-toronto-restaurants/

Ford heading to Austin on networking trip http://www.cp24.com/news/ford-heading-to-austin-on-networking-trip-1.1462230

Markham Pan Am Centre under construction. Photos taken a few weeks ago. This facility will host water polo, badminton and table tennis. http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7396/9540289532_9a26acbf98.jpg

It's funny how everybody wants to have their picture with the mayor, particularly when he's drunk/stoned. http://nowtoronto.com/news/story.cfm?content=193911

Bixi needs some celebrity endorsers. Seen in NYC, for example, Leonardo DiCaprio riding a Citi Bike: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/02/celebrities-on-citi-bikes_n_3535704.html Beyoncé likes bike riding, too. http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2013/08/beyonce-bike-commuter/6453/

Maybe they're afraid to be branded like the Toronto Star as "out to get" Ford. Any 'fact' that the Star reports must be a de facto lie, therefore everything Ford says must be true. It's like when Sarah Palin called the media out for their "gotcha" questions. In some ways, the media can't...