One of my favourite buildings in the city of Toronto is the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM for short), and my favourite space in the ROM is the 1933 rotunda with the spectacular gold and blue venetian glass domed ceiling. On this page I've collected some history and description of the room, some photos, even an audio tour from the ROM. It is a wonderful space, especially now that it can be enjoyed in relative peace, rather than as the cramped, busy, and loud main entrance to the museum. No visit to the ROM is complete without stopping in to the rotund for a moment or two.

I passed through the south end of the Mount Pleasant Cemetery and noticed that the outside work on the new Mount Pleasant Visitation Centre is pretty much complete. The visitation centre ( don't call it a funeral home ) has a long, protracted history reaching back to initial plans in 2004. It looks like they've done a nice job of the building and landscaping, and the running/walking/biking path is now open. Here are some photos from the end of September, 2009.

Toronto has not one, but two fashion photography exhibits this fall. One at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) and one in the new crystal at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM).

• Edward Steichen: In High Fashion, the Condé Nast Years, 1923–1937
• Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913 - 2008

Both shows are worth checking out if you are a fan of classic fashion, modern fashion, or portrait photography.

Here's a quick 3 minute video from the U2 360 Tour here in Toronto on September 17th, 2009. It was a good concert, with the dome open. I'm not a huge fan of huge concerts, but the sound was great, and there was a fair amount of energy. The famous 'claw' stage, designed by longtime U2 collaborator Mark Fisher was really impressive - great sound and lighting, with a huge 360 degree colour display. Live shots of the band from moving cameras really added to the show, and eventually the screen spread out and down.

Rannie Turingan is a prolific and influential blogger and photographer here in Toronto. For one of his latest projects (which won him a Nissan Cube) he set out taking panoramic photos with his iPhone. Here are three ways you can enjoy those photos. Whether you're just visiting Toronto on vacation, or if you live here, they are well worth a look!

We'll run through three choices:

• Standard web page and online map
• iPhone and Blackberry specific web page
• iPhone application (that also runs on an iPod touch)