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Adam Sandler talks Rob Ford at
Men, Women & Children
red carpet
Considering that most of his early comedies are about blubbering, barely coherent man-children flailing to redeem themselves and...
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The Drop
director Michaël R. Roskam talks about being one of the last to work with James Gandolfini
The crime thriller The Drop features one of the final on-screen performances by James Gandolfini . Questions about what it was...
Jason Reitman, Adam Sandler and Jennifer Garner talk about today’s youth, or social media, or something
After much delay, the cast of Men, Women & Children finally arrived in the Lightbox's HSBC gallery for their film's press...
Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace
Drop
by the Princess of Wales Theatre
In the gritty crime drama The Drop , living meat man Tom Hardy plays a Brooklyn bartender drawn into the seedy Chechen crime...
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Jake Gyllenhaal shows off his perfect stubble on the red carpet for
Nightcrawler
Well, this stupid jerk weather wasn't enough to scare Jake Gyllenhaal fans, all of whom presumably love him for Zodiac ’s...
Robert Downey Jr. makes a threesome joke, because that’s his job
Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! Here comes the cast of TIFF 2014 opener, The Judge: Robert Downey Jr., Robert Duvall , Vera Farmiga , Vincent...
Food & Drink
VIDEO: New factual ad depicts horrifying alternate universe where you can buy beer in convenience stores
Yesterday, Ontario Beer Facts —presumably an independently operated special interested group with no corporate tethering...
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Culture
The Surreal World: how Denis Villeneuve transformed Toronto into a spooky nightmare
In his new film, Enemy, the director shows us our city as we've never seen it before In Denis Villeneuve’s mind-bending new...
Culture
TIFF RED CARPET: Rachel McAdams and Olga Kurylenko shine for To The Wonder (director Terrence Malick does not)
Time was, director Terrence Malick’ s films came once in a blue moon, each an organic outgrowth of the filmmaker’s elusive...
Culture
TIFF PRESS CONFERENCE: Shola Lynch talks afros and Angela Davis talks Communism at the Free Angela presser
There are few American public intellectuals as recognizable as scholar, activist and former Communist Party USA and Black Panther...
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Culture
TIFF RED CARPET: Deepa Mehta, Salman Rushdie and shrieking lovers of Bollywood at Midnight’s Children
Screaming Hollywood fans have nothing on screaming Bollywood fans. Absolutely bupkis. Case in point: members of Toronto’s Indian...
Culture
TIFF PRESS CONFERENCE: Tom Hanks gets everyone laughing (and singing) at the Cloud Atlas presser
Okay, first things first. The following four thousand people were in attendance at TIFF’s press conference for the epic...
Culture
TIFF PRESS CONFERENCE: Jennifer Lawrence teases Bradley Cooper at the Silver Linings Playbook presser
Best filmmaking insider lingo to crop up during the press conference for Silver Linings Playbook ? “Bedroom perfect.”...
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Culture
TIFF RED CARPET: Gwyneth Paltrow, Mark Ruffalo, Tim Robbins and Edward Norton at Thanks for Sharing
At last year’s festival, Steve McQueen’ s Shame taught us that there’s nothing funny about sex addiction, grinding Michael...
Culture
TIFF RED CARPET: Johnny Depp gets mobbed at the premiere of documentary West of Memphis
The red carpet for West Of Memphis lacked the glitz and gowns of some of the week’s other events, which is somewhat...
Culture
TIFF RED CARPET: The very long Cloud Atlas draws a suitably long list of stars
Cloud Atlas, based on David Mitchell’ s expansive sci-fi tome, attempts nothing less than to prove the existence of love and...
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Culture
TIFF PRESS CONFERENCE: The Master’s Amy Adams and Paul Thomas Anderson share parenting secrets
The Master may be Joaquin Phoenix’ s comeback film after his journey off the deep end, but the star was a no-show at the press...
Culture
TIFF PRESS CONFERENCE: Ben Affleck reveals the secret to faking Canadian at the Argo presser
Culture
TIFF PRESS CONFERENCE: Snoop Dogg/Lion is surprisingly sincere at the Reincarnated presser
“I was double-dutchin’, jumping in and out,” said Snoop Lion, née Snoop Dogg (ok, actually née Calvin Cordozar...
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Culture
TIFF RED CARPET: A cute Shih Tzu (plus Colin Farrell, Woody Harrelson and Christopher Walken) at Seven Psychopaths
Martin McDonagh ’ s Seven Psychopaths is about a group of socially maladjusted losers and weirdos embroiled in a dog-napping...
Culture
TIFF RED CARPET: Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams and a bespectacled Joseph Gordon-Levitt at The Master
Sure, it’s early, but we suspect the cutest, most endearing and funniest #TIFF12 celeb-spotting moment will be the hunched-over...
Culture
TIFF PRESS CONFERENCE: James Franco holds court with Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens at the Spring Breakers presser
Bless James Franco! Without him, filmmakers might actually have to talk about their own films. Oddball American director Harmony...
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Culture
TIFF PARTY: The festival’s opening-night party featured tacos (but no dark liquor) and a venue change
What could be more Canadian than Canada’s biggest film event hosting its opening party at a hockey arena? We guess TIFF...
Culture
TIFF RED CARPET: Looper’s Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis and Emily Blunt (plus John Krasinski!) open the festival
For the first red carpet of TIFF 2012, the world premiere of Looper at Roy Thomson Hall was fairly subdued. The fans were well...
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Big Stories
Deep Dives
Turf War: Old money versus new money at the Toronto Lawn Tennis Club
For 148 years, the country’s oldest tennis club was an ivy-covered bastion of civility with a roster of like-minded, blue-blooded members. Then chaos erupted
Deep Dives
The Cult of Wellness: Othership, Nutbar and the expensive, obsessive quest for a perfect life
A growing cohort of Torontonians are swapping the coke-fuelled, booze-soaked club scene for cold plunges, sobriety and superfood smoothies. Here’s what it takes (and costs) to foster the ideal body and mind
Deep Dives
Michelin Men: Inside the making of LSL, Toronto’s wildly ambitious new fine-dining powerhouse
The $680-a-head uptown restaurant everyone’s talking about has three giant egos in the kitchen and one very rich benefactor calling the shots. If they don’t self-destruct, they may well produce something spectacular
Deep Dives
Inside Toronto’s explosion of bad dogs and worse owners
Boisterous, barky, humpy, mean: they’re everywhere and no one’s happy. Dispatches from the canine wars
Deep Dives
The Battle for Leslieville: Gentrification, opioids and murder in the city’s most divided neighbourhood
Last summer, when a stray bullet killed a young mother near the South Riverdale supervised consumption site, it sparked a vicious fight between area residents. One year later, tensions are high, neither side will back down and the overdose crisis rages on
Deep Dives
Scatterbrain: Inside the explosion of adult ADHD
Five years ago, hardly anyone was talking about adult ADHD. Now it’s all over social media, and self-diagnosis is rampant. How a complex neurological condition became the new superpower
Deep Dives
Who Earns What: The stories behind Toronto’s top salaries
From Olivia Chow to Galen Weston Jr. to Drake, here’s everything we could find on what the city’s biggest names are bringing home
Deep Dives
How the abuses of a small-town family doctor tore his community apart
Wameed Ateyah was the answer to Schomberg’s prayers: a family physician who took walk-ins, made house calls, gave to local charities. Then his dark secret was revealed
Food & Drink
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2024
This year’s winners include a tiny perfect snack bar, a Japanese listening lounge and a high-flying steakhouse. What they all have in common is a fanatical commitment to excellence
Deep Dives
How Carley Fortune is reinventing the romance novel
In just two years, she’s published two runaway bestsellers, sold film rights to Prince Harry and Meghan, finished a third book—which hits shelves this month—and is well into her fourth. Here, she talks anti-romance snobbery, what makes a good sex scene and how sudden fame has changed her life
Deep Dives
The professor, the caregiver and the missing $30 million
Before he died, William Waters transferred his fortune to his wife’s caregiver. His lawyers say she coerced him. She says they were having an affair. The untold story of a scandalous estate battle
Deep Dives
The perilous lives of Canada’s international students
They come here for the promise of a good education and a better future. Then they discover the target on their backs
Deep Dives
My Psychotic Break: The postpartum nightmare no one talks about
After the birth of my first child, I split with reality. I had terrifying hallucinations, received messages from the spirit world and spent so much on New Age paraphernalia that I had to sell my house. A memoir on finding my way back to reality
Deep Dives
The Great Pretenders: How two faux-Inuit sisters cashed in on a life of deception
Karima Manji wanted it all for her twin daughters, Amira and Nadya. And she found a way to help them get it: financial aid earmarked for Indigenous kids. The fact that they weren’t remotely Indigenous wasn’t going to stop her
Cost of Living
City
This actor, bartender and financial planner makes $264,000 a year. How does she spend it?
“I’ve spent almost $5,000 on my dog this year”
City
This Wychwood couple makes $123,800 a year. How do they spend it?
“Ontario was too expensive, so we’re having our wedding in Mexico”
City
This Distillery District couple makes $120,000 a year. How do they spend it?
“I like fancy brunch and he likes dives—but all of it is expensive”
City
This registered dietitian makes $106,000 a year. How does she spend it?
“I spent more than $4,000 on my cats last year”
House of the Week
Real Estate
House of the Week: This East York property nearly tripled its asking price in two years
The 2,700-square-foot home comes with a wine rack suspended in mid-air, 20-foot vaulted ceilings and a basement with nanny-suite potential
Real Estate
House of the Week: $4.3 million for a quirky detached near Yonge and Eglinton that was won in a lottery
The 4,000-square-foot property comes with an elevator, two laundry rooms, a three-tier backyard and four bedrooms
Real Estate
House of the Week: $3.1 million for an Edwardian duplex in Little Portugal sitting on a massive commercial lot
The 3,800-square-foot property comes with Moroccan tiles, a meditation room, a backyard workshop and a tire swing
Real Estate
House of the Week: $3.7 million for a whimsical custom-built home backing onto an Etobicoke ravine
The 3,800-square-foot property comes with a sauna, a hot tub, cave-like walls and nature all over
Real Estate
House of the Week: $4.2 million for a new build by the Humber with a fireplace in a closet
The 3,900-square-foot property also comes with an elevator, a powder room with a swoosh sink and a playful blue laundry room