Adam Hilborn has great hair. He should - he cuts it himself, and he's pretty good at it.

Adam is one half of kickass design studio Parishil (pronounced Paris Hill - no, not in honour of what's-her-name), located at the back of their Barbershop Gallery in Parkdale, near Roncesvalles. The other half is Alain Parizeau. (Parizeau + Hilborn = Parashil, aha!)

This is our first time checking out The Barbershop. Tim and Derek have written about it on this site before so I've read they have great art, great work, and a barber chair in the gallery that Hilborn is rumoured to put to use from time to time.

Hmmm....picking up other peoples' garbage? Voluntarily?

I mean, do people really do that... for free?

Actually, on my street (and many others), they do. Anybody can register with Mayor Miller's Community Cleanup Day, and participate in a community street cleanup. And the City recognizes the effort and helps out by offering special collection of garbage and debris on the day of the cleanup.

Ahh Parkdale. Our pretty village-in-the-city of crack dealers and baby-makers. An entire street inhabited by SIGNED indie rockers. People just love to balk at the terror of impending gentrification, but to me it's still safely at bay as long as I can buy Tibetan brunch and a pair of stretch pants painted to look like jeans all for $10.

The other morning, walking our dog, our neighbour Patty handed us a raspberry bush through the fence. "Plant it as soon as you can!" She smiled in the sunlight of her perfect front yard. We thanked her and made plans for a drink later on. Moments later we saw a topless woman literally fly right out of a bus. We hardly blinked an eye. Was she tossed? Did she throw herself? We will never know. But this is Parkdale, and it's a crazy-party 24/7.

Actually, it's why a place like 7-24 Movies & More is right at home. Diversity like this calls for a video store that can provide more than just a great selection of films-why not some fantastic underground live comedy every now and then?