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Culture
The Twilight brand may not be as immortal as its characters
For the past two years, we've been trying to develop a Twilight -related business. The brand is responsible for bringing in...
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City
Suzanne Rogers delivers Oscar de la Renta to Toronto
When our favourite sparkly socialite, Suzanne Rogers, is in the news, it’s usually for one of two reasons: to praise her fashion...
Real Estate
House of the week: $8.9 million for the Rolling Stones’ Erindale crash pad
ADDRESS: 2350 Doulton Drive NEIGHBOURHOOD: Erindale, Mississauga AGENT: Candice Leigh Chilton and Michael P.J. Parsons, RE/MAX...
Real Estate
House of the week: $12 million worth of charm in Forest Hill
ADDRESS: 36 Forest Hill Road NEIGHBOURHOOD: Casa Loma AGENT: Howard Mark Biderman, Harvey Kalles Real Estate Ltd. PRICE: $12...
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City
Kelly Cutrone to Jaclife: call me
For viewers who have cringed their way through the five-minute Jaclife webisodes, news that Kelly Cutrone is willing to make a...
City
The convenient truth behind Canada’s MP3 player tax bill
NDP copyright critic Charlie Angus has delivered a private member’s bill that would tax MP3 players and prolong users' rights to...
City
Galleries reap rewards of Ossington restaurant restrictions
When the contentious moratorium on new bars and restaurants on Ossington Avenue was passed last year, the strip lost its...
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Food & Drink
“Tapping” jokes inevitable as city allows environmentalists to make syrup from inner-city maples
The city has officially backed down from its stance on tapping inner-city trees for sap. A few weeks ago, we reported that the...
Real Estate
House of the week: glassed-in glory on the Bridle Path for $12.9M
ADDRESS: 83 The Bridle Path NEIGHBOURHOOD: Bridle Path–Sunnybrook–York Mills AGENT: Steven Maislin, Cooper and Company PRICE:...
Shopping
These coats are Canadiana at its finest
It might be March, but winter is hardly over, and these custom-order handmade wool coats from the Northwest Territories make cold...
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Food & Drink
The next generation of pizza: the pizzacone
At one midtown Manhattan restaurant, pizza is undergoing an extreme makeover. Ingo Pinto, co-owner and manager of K! , has...
Food & Drink
Water buffalo cheese is the latest in artisinal dairy
Two years ago, Martin Littkemann and Lori Smith were tired of milking cows, so the couple purchased 40 young water buffalo for...
Style
Celebrities are out, Alexander McQueen label lives on, Tyra Banks tones down look
• Tabloids may need to cross fashion shows off their list of places to snap Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan throwing a hissy...
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Style
Lindsay Lohan as Jesus, Abercrombie store scares Japanese shoppers, Tavi talks back
• Armani Exchange’ s Share the Love Valentine’s Day campaign, which features steamy photos of same-sex couples, has angered...
Food & Drink
Susur Lee to compete on second season of Top Chef Masters
The second season of Bravo’s reality series Top Chef Masters, in which 22 world-renowned chefs compete against each other in...
Food & Drink
Something is a lot less fishy at Loblaws seafood counters
Loblaws put its green foot forward this week, with a pledge to sell only sustainable seafood by the end of 2013. This means that...
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Food & Drink
Chef burnout: the culinary creative class sounds off on Ferran Adria’s two-year break
Canadian chefs are sounding off about the announcement by Ferran Adria, Spanish chef extraordinaire, that he is temporarily...
Style
Luxury goods consumers are selfish, DSquared2 designing opening ceremony costumes, Bloomingdale’s in Dubai
• Beautiful things happen when fashion and athletics collide, and we’re not talking about Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen’ s...
Food & Drink
Neighbourhood butchers gain popularity, sex appeal
Time to toss out the cliché image of the neighbourhood butcher as a balding, blood-soaked hulk. The National Post is reporting a...
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Food & Drink
David Miller to Corey Mintz and carbohydrates: “Bugger off”
David Miller will walk out of city hall a changed man, having lost 50 pounds and the approval of most Torontonians. We can draw...
Style
Young Toronto designers create vest for Olympics
Five up-and-coming local designers from the Toronto Fashion Incubator , a non-profit organization that promotes growth in the...
Style
Thirteen-year-old makes Flare editor cry, H&M organic line is not organic, Jimmy Choo emulates Tommy Ton
• Are Tommy Ton and Jimmy Choo starring in the sequel to Single White Female? Ton thinks so. Earlier this morning, Toronto’s...
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Food & Drink
“World’s best restaurant” closing for two years
Come 2012, the small Spanish coastal town of Roses will have to rely on its natural charm to bring in the tourists. Its primary...
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Private School Guide
Private Schools
The Private and Independent School Directory Fall 2024
Browse through Canada’s top independent and private schools to find the right fit for your child
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 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”
City
This insurance analyst makes $62,000 a year. How does she spend it?
“Groceries are so expensive that I rely more on takeout”
House of the Week
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
Real Estate
Surreal Estate: $6 million for a Rosedale Victorian with a bath fit for a temple
What property off Sherbourne would be complete without a floating fireplace, a 14-foot butcher block, smart-home tech and a deck built around a tree?
Real Estate
House of the Week: $5.5 million for a Lytton Park home with a cocktail lounge
The 5,200-square-foot property also comes with six bathrooms, automated everything, a ribbon staircase and a display for purses