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What went down at the virtual Fireside Chat with Weyni Mengesha, Artistic Director of Soulpepper Theatre Company
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Five things to do in Toronto on the weekend of July 19-21
In this edition of The Weekender, Shakespeare in High Park, a pop-up market with a party vibe and three more things to do in...
Five things to do in Toronto on the weekend of June 21-23
The Man in Black The National Ballet of Canada’s rough-and-tumble Toronto premiere of James Kudelka’s The Man in Black is set...
Going Out: Must-see art openings in Toronto in May
Every month, we select the city’s best art openings. In May, we suggest Richard Barnes’s new show at Bau-Xi...
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Going Out: Top theatre and dance performances in Toronto in May
We pick the best theatre and dance openings in the city every month. This May, the best things to do in Toronto include Fiddler on...
Going Out: Top Toronto concerts for May
From classical and jazz to pop, we pick our favourite Toronto concerts every month. This May, Jill Barber plays Massey...
City News
Editor’s Letter (January 2013): why Toronto is suddenly such a hotbed of creative talent
Over the past year or so, a particular breed of talented Torontonians made it big. Sheila Heti’s quirky semi-autobiographical...
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Today in Toronto: I on the Sky and Tear the Curtain!
I on the Sky Combining music, dance and acrobatics, I on the Sky tells the beautiful, wordless tale of a woman who is blown way...
City News
Spotlight: Jamie Travis, the director of the new R-rated comedy For A Good Time, Call...
Travis’s film about phone sex and friendship has people talking (dirty) Jamie Travis made his name with a handful of...
Style
Great Spaces: an artist takes the live-work concept to extremes
A home turned into a workshop, showroom and retail space Alex Jowett has led a peripatetic life. For much of the last decade, the...
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Today in Toronto: Sam Roberts Band, Gryphon Trio and more
Sam Roberts Band After years of trying, the hirsute Montrealer has finally been getting attention for his rootsy rock south of the...
City News
The A.V. Club Toronto is shutting down
Torontoist is reporting that the Toronto-centric edition of the A.V. Club, the Onion’ s arts and culture publication, will shut...
City News
Spotlight: Tanis Rideout’s debut novel is the season’s most buzzed-about book
Tanis Rideout has been in a kind of knock-wood daze since last fall, when her debut novel, Above All Things, sparked a bidding war...
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City News
The List: 10 things Juno-winning jazz singer Sophie Milman can’t live without
1| My childhood toy I grew up in Russia when it was hard to get children’s toys. I had one plastic doll, a couple of blocks and...
City News
Current Obsession: Lori Nix’s spellbinding post-apocalyptic miniatures
To be a regular at the bar pictured here, you’d have to be no more than an inch tall. The whole scene is only about two feet...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Beauty and the Beast, Festival of India and six other items on our to-do list
To July 22. $42–$150. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. W., 416-363-6671, dancaptickets.com. awkeotsang...
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City News
Current Obsession: Larry Towell’s haunting photographs from the ruins of Afghanistan
The Canadian photographer’s images capture the human side of an unwinnable war Larry Towell was in New York for a meeting when...
Culture
Factory Theatre artistic director Ken Gass has been fired
Last Thursday, Ken Gass was terminated from his position as artistic director by Factory Theatre’s board of directors. Gass sent...
City News
See, Hear, Read: our experts pick the movie, music and book release of the month
They love it. We want it. Three red-hot releases "In this affecting movie, a 10-year-old girl moves with her family to a small...
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Culture
Chicago wants something Toronto has: a Luminato-like arts festival (and tons of international tourists)
While Chicago has Toronto beat on virtually every other count when it comes to arts and culture, the Big Smoke trounces the Windy...
Today in Toronto: Guelph Contemporary Dance Festival, Sitayana and more
Guelph Contemporary Dance Festival Toronto’s Tiger Princess Dance Projects and Kaeja d’Dance and Vancouver’s Kinesis Dance...
City News
The gravy search moves to the Sony Centre and other city-owned theatres
The city has been working for months to off-load one or more of its three theatres—the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, the...
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City News
Current Obsession: illustrator Michael Cho celebrates the unsung parts of Toronto, one back lane at time
Michael Cho’s gloriously retro drawings of superheroes like Iron Man and the X-Men made him a star in Toronto’s fanatical...
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The Long Weekender: Inside Out Film Festival, Design On Dundas and six other items on our to-do list
1. INSIDE OUT LGBT FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL The annual Inside Out fest, which focuses on cinematic expressions of queer culture, is...
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Deep Dives
Dancing Queens: Patrons, staff and performers share their wildest memories of Crews and Tangos, Toronto’s most storied drag bar
Crews and Tangos has been enforcing the rules of the Village for more than 30 years: wear what you want, kiss who you want, but don’t forget to tip the drag queens. With a condo development looming, we asked around for tales from the iconic spot
Deep Dives
The Joy of Sex with Strangers: A Toronto hotwife’s adventures in ethical non-monogamy
Three months ago, I was a suburban mom in a monogamous relationship. Now I’m sleeping with people I meet online—with my husband’s blessing—and we’ve never been happier. Don’t judge us until you’ve read our story
Deep Dives
The Scandal, the Firing and the Fallout: Anatomy of a Bay Street fiasco at RBC
Nadine Ahn was a high-ranking executive at the bank. Ken Mason, her subordinate, was rapidly promoted. Then someone claimed to see them canoodling at the Royal York, tipped off HR and triggered an inquisition
Deep Dives
Edward the Conqueror: The unlikely ascent of Canada’s telecom king
Edward Rogers was dismissed as a meddling nepo baby—until he muscled out his siblings, acquired his competitors, cornered the telecom market and became the dominant force in Canadian sports
Deep Dives
Lady Parts: Inside Meredith MacNeill and Jennifer Whalen’s new show,
Small Achievable Goals
The
Baroness von Sketch Show
alumnae have elevated joking about women’s issues to an art. Their new show takes aim at menopause. How funny is that?
Deep Dives
Murder in the Blue Mountains: The story behind the killing of Ashley Schwalm
Ashley and James Schwalm had what seemed like a fairy tale life—two wonderful children, fulfilling careers and a gorgeous home close to the private ski club where they’d fallen in love. Then Ashley’s remains turned up in a burned-out car at the bottom of a ditch, and all signs pointed to her husband
Deep Dives
Dark Horse: Inside the fall of Eric Lamaze, Canada’s most famous equestrian
For years, Lamaze was the world’s top-ranked show jumper, living an enviable life filled with fancy cars, international travel and adoring fans—the kind of life a person might do anything to protect
Deep Dives
Dividing Line: How the Bloor Street bike lane turned the city into a battlefield
A few kilometres along Bloor has become Toronto’s most contested strip of concrete, igniting fights over congestion, safety and the future of downtown
Deep Dives
The Chosen One: At just 23, Scottie Barnes is the new face of the Raptors—and the team’s best chance of salvation
Barnes is shouldering the weight of an impatient, basketball-mad city, a hit-and-miss team, and his own colossal ambitions. Does he look worried?
Deep Dives
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Famous: Inside the Beaches’ rise to rock stardom
A viral earworm about a breakup turned the Beaches into Toronto’s hottest export. Now, the panty-throwing, stage-diving, all-girl rock band is seducing fans around the world
Deep Dives
“I was nearly beaten to death by my partner. The case was dismissed because it took too long to get to trial”
How an overburdened justice system is failing survivors of intimate partner violence
Deep Dives
Brave New Year: The ultimate try-anything-once bucket list for 2025
For inspiration on wonderful, wild and even some slightly reckless experiences to enjoy in the year ahead
Deep Dives
The stars of the PWHL’s Toronto Sceptres on finally having a league of their own
After kicking off a new chapter for hockey with the PWHL, Natalie Spooner, Sarah Nurse and Blayre Turnbull are blazing a trail for women in sports
Deep Dives
The 50 Most Influential Torontonians of 2024
Our annual ranking of the people whose courage, smarts and clout are changing the world as we know it
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Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Amelia’s Market, a Geary Avenue grocer selling local goods and light lunches
Like lovely cheese plates paired with glasses of Ontario-made wine
Food & Drink
“There’s more attention now on shopping close to home”: How Broadfork Produce is connecting Toronto’s top chefs with Ontario farmers
And the west-end supplier is opening to the public soon
Food & Drink
The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative
Food & Drink
These Ontario-made booze collaborations are coming to a restaurant near you
Toronto bars and restaurants are partnering with their favourite distillers, winemakers and brewers to produce custom-made drinks. Here, nine crushable new concoctions