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As a self-appointed pundit, I spend a fair amount of time criticizing the photography industry, but I have a little secret … I love photography! And 2013 brought yet another year full of strange, interesting and inspiring moments in photography...

Main image: bells at Whitechapel Bell Foundry by Simon Rigglesworth in the Londonist Flickr pool. The sound of a bell collapses the historic distance between the person who hears it and the intentions of the people who had it cast. A bell ringing is...

The Whitechapel Bell Foundry is a bell foundry in Whitechapel in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, and is the oldest manufacturing company in Great Britain. The foundry’s main business is the bell founding and manufacture of church bells and their...

William Lyon Mackenzie ran for his life. His rebellion had failed. It was a disaster. His rebel army was crushed on Yonge Street. His headquarters at Montgomery's Tavern were burned to the ground north of Eglinton. Some of his men were already dead....

How to Look for a Lost Dog by Ann M Martin 11-year-old Rose is autistic and struggles to understand her classmates. But when her father gives her a stray dog, which she names Rain, the dog becomes her best friend, her anchor in a confusing world. So...