Toronto Life: Toronto Life Magazine

September 2008

FEATURES

PS, I Love You
A handful of schools in the city drive parents into a frenzy of status lust. They’ll do almost anything—falsify an address, go deep into debt, harass the principal—to get their kids in. How Toronto got a two-tiered public education system By Philip Preville

The Lonely Death of Paul Croutch
Before he lived on the streets, he had a wife and a daughter and ran a small-town newspaper. He was sleeping on a bench when two drunk recruits from the Moss Park Armoury attacked, kicking him to death. The ill-fated clash of soldiers and street people at Queen and Jarvis By John Lownsbrough

The Curse of the Aluminum Crystal
The Libeskind addition was supposed to save the ROM and put Toronto on the map. The good news: it’s finally, officially finished. The bad: it caused nasty infighting, came in fabulously over budget, and is a box-office flop. Inside a $320-million reno from hell By Chris Nuttall-Smith

THIS CITY

Paul Gross’s $21-million passion project • Toronto’s most knowledgeable computer geek • Amber’s annual White Night bash • Are you a bohemian ambassador or garment factory lofter? Let the condo calculator decide

COLUMNS

SPORTS
Turf Wars
Ted Rogers thinks that hosting Buffalo Bills games at his stadium will bring him one step closer to getting an NFL franchise in Toronto. Silly billionaire By Jay Teitel

CULTURE
My Lesbian Vampire Movie
I wrote the script in six days and made 15 grand. David (Kung Fu) Carradine starred. Inside Toronto’s booming B-movie industry By David Robbeson