Toronto Life: Toronto Life Magazine

August 2008

Features

Stray Bullets
Violent crime is migrating downtown, but even more alarming is our inevitable acclimatization to it. How Toronto is learning to live with the gun By John Lorinc

Last Woman Standing
The bombshell widow and her resentful sister-in-law each wanted the family business for herself. Inside the nasty, operatic feud at Pusateri’s By Alec Scott

The Battle for Lake Simcoe
Big Bay Point used to be a quiet community of well-to-do cottagers—until a developer proposed a mega-resort in their backyard. They say he’s destroying the lake; he says they’re a bunch of NIMBYists. Six years and $255 million in lawsuits later, it’s become the mother of all development wars By Paul Wilson

This City

Pop violin prodigy Owen Pallett’s fear of fame • Leslievillians who secretly want their Wal-Mart • An ode to anti-enviro pleasures • A tale of two society balls

Columns

MEDIA
Lost in Translation
The Chinese daily Sing Tao, owned by media giant Torstar, is pumping out Communist propaganda. Who let the censors into the newsroom? By Nicholas Hune-Brown

CULTURE
Art? Advertising? Vandalism? Brandalism?
A look at the murky world of profitable graffiti By Carl Wilson