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Let Zun Lee’s photographs challenge your notions of black fatherhood
Zun Lee ’ s images of black fatherhood are refreshingly candid. The Toronto photographer’s black-and-white shots—a father...
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Hear Dan Mangan’s ambitious art rock at Massey Hall
The Vancouver artist Dan Mangan built his name on easy, likeable songs: palatable indie-folk melodies with quiet acoustic guitars...
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See a strange, secretive, practically silent opera
It doesn’t feel like an opera at all. Instead of a palatial hall, The Whisper Opera is performed in the Theatre Centre for an...
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Discover the earth’s raw beauty through the lens of Sebastião Salgado
The Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado made his name with stunning images that document humanity’s devastating footprint...
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Worship at the altar of Father John Misty at the Danforth Music Hall
When the American folk musician Father John Misty (otherwise known as Josh Tillman ) released his debut album, Fear Fun , in...
Rewrite Canadian history with the Cree artist Kent Monkman
Paintings by the Canadian Cree artist Kent Monkman feel familiar at first—romantic landscapes, coniferous forest, Mount...
Watch Angela Lansbury bring
Blithe Spirit
to life
Separately, Angela Lansbury and Blithe Spirit have been around for ages. One is the 89-year-old British star of Murder, She Wrote...
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Listen to the sound of old meeting new, with pianists Emanuel Ax and Jan Lisiecki
Age difference aside, the international piano superstar Emanuel Ax and Calgary-born teen sensation Jan Lisiecki have a lot in...
Discover the culture-clashing art of Jean-Michel Basquiat
A product of New York’s punk scene, the Brooklyn artist Jean-Michel Basquiat quickly jumped from the street to the gallery...
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See solo stars come together at the New Pornographers gig
The New Pornographers are busy people. Dan Bejar is also the prolific front man of the indie-pop band Destroyer . Neko Case has...
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Watch Owen Pallett reinvigorate pop music with a pair of Saturday shows
Owen Pallett is Canada’s most sought-after musician: he’s created orchestral arrangements for Taylor Swift and R.E.M. , played...
Culture
See Douglas Coupland’s futuristic pop art at MOCCA and the ROM
Douglas Coupland’s art dwells on the same subjects as his novels: urbanism, technology and a culture accelerating toward...
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Rethink glamour at a pair of Ryerson photo exhibitions
In a pair of clever new exhibitions, the Ryerson Image Centre documents how photography has shaped Western conceptions of...
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Say farewell to The Guvernment with a Deadmau5-led dance party
The Guvernment , the iconic 18-year-old dance club, will soon be demolished for a strip of waterfront condos—but before that...
Get lost in the Gladstone’s annual art takeover
Every year, as part of the alt-design event Come Up To My Room, the Gladstone Hotel lets artist loose on its quirky rooms and...
Discover the staying power of Gordon Parks’s segregation photography
At Life magazine, where he was the magazine’s first African-American staff photographer, the American photographer Gordon Parks...
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See your favourite local artists play their favourite tunes
The one-night-only Cover Me Impressed showcase features a goldmine of local roots-rock talent performing their favourite...
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Venus in Fur,
Canadian Stage’s seductive and sophisticated hit
Canadian Stage’ s production of Venus in Fur, the darkly sexy comedy from American playwright David Ives, leaves no space for...
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Get tipsy with Santa at Tallboys’s Christmas Craft Beer Carnival
The Christmas Craft Beer Carnival is a boozy oasis in a beer geek’s wintry wonderland. The second annual festival, from the...
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See a radiant retrospective of Art Spiegelman’s comic (and not-so-comic) art
Art Spiegelman never wanted a retrospective. “It feels like walking around among a bunch of tombstones,” he recently...
Check out Austra’s thrilling, trilling pop operatics
No one sounds quite like Austra. The Toronto synth-pop trio has cultivated an innovative sound that blends theatrical vocals with...
Relive the entire Harry Potter saga in just 70 minutes
Harry Potter' s popularity is as durable as a lightning-shaped scar. Two actor-writers have cashed in on the perma-fandom by...
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Discover the surprising story of Wonder Woman’s feminist, polygamist creator
The Secret History of Wonder Woman , the new book by Harvard history prof and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore , is much more...
Start a strange new Christmas tradition with Henri Fabergé’s holiday rock opera
The avant-garde enigma Henri Fabergé (real name: Henry Fletcher ) has been hovering around the city’s art, music and theatre...
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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Almost
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
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“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
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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
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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
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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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The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative
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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
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“We have over 100 cases of American wine trapped at the LCBO”: Toronto’s Grape Witches on what it’s like to run a bottle shop during a trade war
It’s not as simple as taking sides when you’re a small business
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Six Toronto restaurants serving up all-Canadian menus
With a trade war upon us, our city’s chefs are taking a stand