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Best of Fall 2010

Best of Fall 2010

This season, we’re peculiarly obsessed with doom and gloom. And we love it. Our favourite play is about a pensive widow, and our...

Three must-have new albums

Three must-have new albums

Chilly Gonzales Making a living as a producer and foil to Feist and Peaches isn’t too shabby. And the musician otherwise known...

Required Reading: Douglas Coupland’s new book is about five torturous hours

Required Reading: Douglas Coupland’s new book is about five torturous hours

When Douglas Coupland was asked to give this year’s Massey Lectures, he bucked the event’s long-standing non-fiction tradition...

Mayor shocks no one by endorsing his deputy mayor, Joe Pantalone

Mayor shocks no one by endorsing his deputy mayor, Joe Pantalone

Rumours circled yesterday evening, and this morning at 11 they were all confirmed. Mayor David Miller has endorsed his...

Fox News North accepts defeat (or, as they’d put it, stops begging for welfare)

Fox News North accepts defeat (or, as they’d put it, stops begging for welfare)

Looks like any legal arguments against Fox News North may soon be over, as Pierre Karl Péladeau announced yesterday that Quebecor...

Inside the Latest Issue

The June issue of Toronto Life features the best new restaurants of 2026. Plus, our obsessive coverage of everything that matters now in the city.

Our schadenfreude-fuelled love affair with reality TV

Our schadenfreude-fuelled love affair with reality TV

There’s something to be said for watching perfect strangers (or, even better, pseudo-celebrities) make fools of themselves in...

The best guilty pleasure on TV

The best guilty pleasure on TV

The campy new TV series Lost Girl makes succubi sexy After Buffy and Lord of the Rings and Lost , we are all nerds, hungry for the...

Anyone-but-Ford movement gathers steam: Joe Mihevc jumps off Pantalone’s ship and onto the deck of the S.S. Smitherman

Anyone-but-Ford movement gathers steam: Joe Mihevc jumps off Pantalone’s ship and onto the deck of the S.S. Smitherman

As the early polls opened today, Sarah Thomson made good on her endorsement of George Smitherman and cast her early ballot for the...

Rossi unveils finance plan that doesn’t involve magic

Rossi unveils finance plan that doesn’t involve magic

In his race for the mayor’s office, Rocco Rossi has made some pretty big promises: privatizing Toronto Hydro, building subways...

A modest proposal for Toronto politics: more Bolivia-style junk shots

It’s video like this (at left) that makes us want to learn more about Latin American politics. In a soccer match designed to...

Boogie Nights: three trippy dance shows and their inspirations, in pictures

Boogie Nights: three trippy dance shows and their inspirations, in pictures

Eonnagata Robert Lepage turns his genre-splicing genius to one of history’s most notorious boundary blurrers, Charles de...

Air Canada announces its first flights from the Island; Porter CEO “pleased”

Air Canada announces its first flights from the Island; Porter CEO “pleased”

The battle for the hearts and minds (and wallets) of Toronto’s travellers continues. The latest chapter in the throwdown between...

Seana McKenna channels Joan Didion in The Year of Magical Thinking

Seana McKenna channels Joan Didion in The Year of Magical Thinking

Before the publication of The Year of Magical Thinking in 2005, Joan Didion was known as a brilliant essayist and...

Fall theatre guide: seven must-see performances

Fall theatre guide: seven must-see performances

Ali and Ali: The Deportation Hearings What are political satirists to do once a walking punchline—Dubya—leaves office? Go...

Q&A with Nazila Fathi, Writer in Exile

Q&A with Nazila Fathi, Writer in Exile

Nazila Fathi covered politics from Iran for the New York Times for 15 years. But after the protests of 2009, when she realized her...

Smitherman briefly yields “furious” title to another George: Galloway comes to Toronto

Smitherman briefly yields “furious” title to another George: Galloway comes to Toronto

Former British MP and professional shouter George Galloway made it to Canada this weekend after a long battle with the...

Plague of election signs takes over Toronto

Plague of election signs takes over Toronto

As of 12:01 this morning, candidates for municipal office can officially put their signs up all over Toronto (and keep them there...

Top Rossi aide preparing to jump ship, order doughnuts

The most delicious story this Monday morning has to be the Globe ’s report on a top Rocco Rossi aide who is contemplating...

Guiding lit: eight must-read books of the season

Guiding lit: eight must-read books of the season

We asked three of the city's booksellers for their top fall reads. Their picks below, plus five more page-turns after the...

The new Globe and Mail is out. Let's take a look

The new Globe and Mail is out. Let’s take a look

OLG shocked to discover dozens of people will claim to be owed $12.5 million

A tip for the next time our provincial lottery finds itself walking around yelling “Anybody think they’re owed millions of...

Like magic, TTC and Queen’s Park find some common ground on Presto

One of the most bizarrely acrimonious fights in the city over the past few months has been not over who pays for transit, or how...

Art attack: six must-see gallery exhibits

Art attack: six must-see gallery exhibits

Euan Macdonald This Scottish-born multimedia artist has built a career out of making ordinary objects and moments seem...

The best art fix this fall: Shary Boyle's exhibit at the AGO

The best art fix this fall: Shary Boyle’s exhibit at the AGO

Multidisciplinary indie whiz Shary Boyle festoons the AGO with her twisted porcelains and portraits Shary Boyle’s...

Cost of Living

This 22-year-old venture capitalist is on track to make $180,000 this year. How does he spend it?

This 22-year-old venture capitalist is on track to make $180,000 this year. How does he spend it?

“I love a good bargain, so I shop at No Frills”

This globetrotting couple earns a combined $287,000 a year. How do they spend it?

This globetrotting couple earns a combined $287,000 a year. How do they spend it?

“Groceries are our biggest monthly expense after rent”

This Doctors Without Borders marketer earns $100,000 a year. How does she spend it?

This Doctors Without Borders marketer earns $100,000 a year. How does she spend it?

Manpreet Badyal moved from Delhi to Vancouver to Toronto in search of success

How a Gen Z finance enthusiast in Forest Hill spends her money

How a Gen Z finance enthusiast in Forest Hill spends her money

Business analyst and budding TikTok investment guru Chaeeun Lee hopes to visit 50 countries before she turns 30

This policy analyst and stand-up comedian makes $83,000 a year. How does she spend it?

This policy analyst and stand-up comedian makes $83,000 a year. How does she spend it?

“Investing in mental health is important. I have an unlimited membership at Othership in Yorkville”

This entrepreneur is on track to make $23,000 this year. How does she spend it?

This entrepreneur is on track to make $23,000 this year. How does she spend it?

“It was hard to accept financial aid from my parents, but it actually brought us closer together”

How an actor, influencer and amateur investor managed to earn a six-figure salary

How an actor, influencer and amateur investor managed to earn a six-figure salary

“My family taught me to invest. It’s probably the wisest advice they’ve ever given me”

Urban Diplomat

Dear Urban Diplomat: What’s the etiquette for EV charging?

Dear Urban Diplomat: What’s the etiquette for EV charging?

Dear Urban Diplomat , What’s the etiquette for EV charging? A few weeks ago, I finally found a spot in my neighbourhood to juice...

Dear Urban Diplomat: My husband thinks I'm a hoarder, but I'm a collector

Dear Urban Diplomat: My husband thinks I’m a hoarder, but I’m a collector

He’s started quoting Marie Kondo and insisting that I get rid of my “emotional support tchotchkes.” How can I get him to back off?

Dear Urban Diplomat: My condo building has zero tolerance for the slightest noise

Dear Urban Diplomat: My condo building has zero tolerance for the slightest noise

They’ve asked us not to shower after 11 p.m. because of “pipe whistling.” Is this normal?

Dear Urban Diplomat: My husband bought us a pass to skip the line at the ski hill. Why do I feel guilty for using it?

Dear Urban Diplomat: My husband bought us a pass to skip the line at the ski hill. Why do I feel guilty for using it?

I can’t help being embarrassed every time I sheepishly walk past the eye rollers in the regular queue

Dear Urban Diplomat: My brother is lying online about Dry January

Dear Urban Diplomat: My brother is lying online about Dry January

He’s preaching the virtues of sobriety on TikTok but still crushing six-packs every weekend, and the hypocrisy is getting on my nerves. Should I call him out?

Dear Urban Diplomat: My co-workers have forgotten how to behave in an office

Dear Urban Diplomat: My co-workers have forgotten how to behave in an office

I actually don’t mind the return-to-office mandate, but it seems like so much working from home has caused my fellow employees’ self-awareness to atrophy

Dear Urban Diplomat: My friends are getting into sober raves, and I just can't see the appeal

Dear Urban Diplomat: My friends are getting into sober raves, and I just can’t see the appeal

How does one cut loose in a well-lit room while the sun is shining and no one is even a little intoxicated?