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Best of Fall
Food & Drink
Best of Fall 2012: three of the season’s hottest restaurant openings
Three star chefs, three hot new restaurants (Illustrations: Adam Cruft)
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Best of Fall 2012: Guillaume Côté shows off his brilliant ballet moves with three starring roles
Guillaume Côté is this city’s biggest ballet star since Karen Kain and Rex Harrington, and the National Ballet is taking every...
City News
Best of Fall 2012: Deepa Mehta’s dream project, a movie version of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children
When Salman Rushdie visited Toronto on a 2008 book tour, he dropped in on his old friend Deepa Mehta, whom he’d met when she was...
City News
Best of Fall 2012: After years of playing the reclusive literary genius, Alice Munro is back with a new collection of stories
The 81-year-old Alice Munro has been publishing short stories for nearly half a century, and she keeps getting better, sharpening...
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Food & Drink
Best of Fall 2012: How GwaiLo, Nick Liu’s soon-to-open Parkdale restaurant, just might rehabilitate Asian-fusion
In a dining scene rife with duck confit banh mi, peameal bulgogi and brisket steamed buns, the F-word crops up a lot. But you...
City News
Best of Fall 2012: graphic novelist Seth on illustrating the autobiography of Lemony Snicket
The stylishly retro graphic novelist Seth illustrates the fictional autobiography of kid lit superstar Lemony Snicket...
City News
Best of Fall 2012: the season’s top five concerts, from Dan Deacon to Leonard Cohen
(Images: Bunnett by Getty Images; Deacon by Shawn Brackbill; Cohen courtesy of Leonard Cohen; Nagano by Felix Broede; Austra...
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Best of Fall 2012: five of the season’s most anticipated blockbusters
(Images: From top, courtesy of Alliance Films; Weinstein Co.; Warner Bros.; 20th Century Fox Film Corporation; and Newline)
Shopping
Best of Fall 2012: we ask trendsetters to pick their fall must-haves
(Images: flats courtesy of The Room; snood courtesy of Louis Vuitton)
Food & Drink
Best of Fall 2012: three of the trendiest kitchen essentials
(Images: from left, courtesy of Naomi Duguid; The Healthy Butcher; and Herriott Grace)
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Best of Fall 2012: Charles Khabouth expands his fashionable club empire with King West’s Storys
You already run 11 clubs and restaurants in Toronto. What sets Storys apart? It’s my biggest: a four-storey, 170-year-old...
City News
Best of Fall 2012: opera-star-in-waiting Ambur Braid keeps audiences on their toes in Die Fledermaus
Ambur Braid’s warm sheen of a voice, not to mention her sheer gorgeousness, have landed the young soprano a big, juicy part in...
City News
Best of Fall 2012: Brandon Cronenberg’s Antiviral, a cold, hard and creepy look at celebrity worship
Your movie is set in a futuristic society where people pay to have viruses implanted in them. Yeah, the main character, Syd...
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Best of Fall 2012: Gordon Lightfoot makes a triumphant return to his favourite concert hall
You’ve played Massey Hall more than 150 times in your career, the most solo appearances of any performer. What is it about...
Shopping
Best of Fall 2012: fall’s most desirable new products
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Food & Drink
Best of Fall 2012: fall cocktails from Suits, Enoteca Sociale and the Harbord Room
Fall picks from three hooch heros (Images: Emma McIntyre)
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Best of Fall 2012: Evan Penny’s mind-bending body sculptures at the AGO
In his industrial warehouse studio near Dupont and Dufferin, Evan Penny uses silicone, paint, aluminum frames and real hair to...
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Best of Fall 2012: the season’s must-see stage shows
(Images: from top: courtesy of Justin Rutledge; by Keith Beaty/Getstock; by Cylla Von Tiedemann; by Paul Kolnik; by Tim Matheson)
Shopping
Best of Fall 2012: the ambitious—and sexy—new collection from Greta Constantine
When Kirk Pickersgill and Stephen Wong launched their fashion label, Greta Constantine, in 2006, it seemed like an excuse to throw...
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Best of Fall 2012: ten of the season’s top gallery shows
The art world’s most anticipated shows from upstarts and old masters See all ten shows »
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Best of Fall 2012: five of this fall’s best books, from Zadie Smith to Rawi Hage
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Best of Fall 2012: the five best bets from fall’s deluge of TV premieres
(Images: 1 and 4 courtesy of CTV; 2 courtesy of CBC; 3 courtesy of Shaw Media; 5 by Thomas Langley)
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Best of Fall 2012: Steve Reich, Arvo Pärt and R. Murray Schafer kick off Soundstreams’ 30th anniversary season
The Soundstreams series kicks off its 30th year with a concert featuring new work by a trio of modern music gods. soundstreams.ca...
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Best of Fall 2012: Michael Healey on mounting his controversial play Proud
Playwright Michael Healey mounts his own production of Proud, the savage political satire that sparked a storm in the city’s...
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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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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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
Food & Drink
Six Toronto restaurants serving up all-Canadian menus
With a trade war upon us, our city’s chefs are taking a stand