They haven’t been able to sell the Metro Theatre, after a decade or so of trying, so why not spruce up the sign? Torontopedia curator HiMY SYeD — who used the boutique area at the front of the 677 Bloor West building as his campaign office during a 2006 run for city council — snapped a TwitPic of restoration efforts atop the bijou once known for its “hot-hot-HOTline” where a sultry-sounding woman could hardly catch her breath whilst listing the titles of the latest XXX triple-bill. These days — well, a charmingly naive female-written review of the premises on BlogTO this summer was followed in short order by an online NOW piece explaining that the old men shuffling around in their seats probably weren’t interested in her. New York had a vacant Art Deco cinema called the Metro that is now an Urban Outfitters. Locally, gentrification has a few blocks left to go before it reaches Koreatown.