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A look back at the best celebrity parties from 50 years of TIFF
Featuring an Old Hollywood soirée, a robot dance-off and a star-studded conga line
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Deep Dives
Starry Nights: Untold stories from the Toronto International Film Festival’s first 50 years
Every September, Toronto turns into an orgy of air kisses and after-parties, VIPs and paparazzi, celebrities and superfans, lineups and meltdowns—and we love it all
Culture
Eighteen stunning celebrity photos by George Pimentel, Toronto’s resident Hollywood photographer
Over 30 years, he’s captured almost every imaginable A-lister—including Taylor Swift, Jennifer Aniston, Beyoncé, Adam Sandler and Sandra Bullock
Culture
TIFF 2013 Trend: Stars getting friendly with fans
It felt like the celebs at this year’s festival were engaged in a no-holds-barred competition to be the sweetest star at...
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Culture
TIFF Red Carpet: Brad Pitt heads a parade of hunks at the 12 Years a Slave presentation
Last night, Brad Pitt made up for keeping fans guessing whether he’d show at the TIFF red carpet for 12 Years a Slave. When the...
Culture
SPOTTED: Brad Pitt dines on Dundas West, then dashes
After Brad Pitt snuck out of the premiere of 12 Years A Slave, it was leaked— supposedly by his driver —that he would be...
Culture
Quoted: Brad Pitt on early retirement at the 12 Years a Slave premiere
—Brad Pitt gets hyperbolic about 12 Years a Slave, director Steve McQueen’s emotionally crushing account of a free black man...
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CONFIRMED: Brad Pitt has landed in Toronto
After weeks of will-he, won't-he speculation , the flaxen-haired hunk touched down at Pearson this afternoon, according to tweets...
City News
Gallery: David Miller, Jully Black and others share the one thing you should know before you die at the Top Ten Event
Here’s the concept: nine notable Torontonians (chef David Rocco couldn’t make it)—or honorary Torontonians for the...
City News
Ryan Gosling portrays the Invisible Man for the New York Times
Any and every publication can (and does) make a “best of” list, but the New York Times magazine has taken it a step further by...
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Culture
TIFF 2011 Roundup: the five o’clock shadow was this year’s hottest accessory for men
We noticed something prickly growing on the chins of many A-list men at TIFF this year (no, not a beard— we’ve covered that...
Culture
Kathy Griffin swears a lot and Kim Cattrall sells the clothes off her back at this year’s Cinema Against AIDS gala
Last night, The Carlu played host to the third annual Cinema Against AIDS event in support of amfAR and Dignitas...
Culture
SPOTTED: Top Chef head judge Tom Colicchio feeding the stars at last week’s Moneyball cast dinner
When you’re feeding Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Anna Faris and Jonah Hill at the Moneyball cast dinner, it makes sense to spring...
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Culture
TIFF Weekend Roundup: the five buzziest red carpets
The first weekend of TIFF is basically one big long party, with a non-stop crush of big premieres, boldface names and tremendous...
Culture
TIFF PHOTO GALLERY: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Philip Seymour Hoffman on the red carpet for Moneyball
Screaming fans stretched from Wellington to King Street waiting for the horde of stars associated with director Bennett Miller’...
Culture
TIFF PHOTO GALLERY: Brad Pitt, skinny Jonah Hill and Philip Seymour Hoffman talk money and baseball at the Moneyball press conference
The boys were all smiles at the press conference for Moneyball this afternoon at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. Brad Pitt was front and...
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SPOTTED: Like everybody else, construction workers can’t resist Brad Pitt
Here we have a case of a classic cliché: construction workers ogling a noted hottie passing them by—but this time with a twist!...
Culture
50 buzziest films of TIFF 2011: we slice through the hype so you don’t have to
We’ve already told you about the celebs filing into town for TIFF and the extended-licence nightspots they’ll be...
Culture
TIFF Teaser: Moneyball, the humble story of Brad Pitt and the Oakland Athletics
Now that Brad Pitt’ s attendance at this year’s TIFF has been confirmed, we can get excited for his turn as the visionary...
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CONFIRMED: Brad Pitt is going to attend TIFF 2011
Brad Pitt, one of the biggest male movie stars on the planet will be joining us at TIFF in September to celebrate the baseball...
Culture
Bollywood megastar Shah Rukh Khan will, in fact, be in town for the IIFA Awards
Although the rumour mill is still rapidly churning, we’re happy to confirm that Shah Rukh Khan —the man who drew a bigger...
Shopping
Sale rack scavenger: Holt Renfrew edition
The holidays are officially over, but sale season is still in full swing. We stopped by Holt Renfrew to see what the city swank...
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Match made in 3-D heaven: James Cameron and Cirque du Soleil
In hindsight, this story seems inevitable. Epic director James Cameron will be teaming up with the equally epic Cirque du Soleil...
Culture
Looking back at TIFF 2010: Nick Di Donato on how to throw a film festival party
Nick Di Donato , president and CEO of Liberty Entertainment Group, is sitting in his newest Yorkville restaurant, Ciao , where...
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’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8
General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
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Deep Dives
Dead Reckoning: The executor of their estate was supposed to divide it among their friends and family. Instead, he bankrupted it
When Sami and June Suomalainen died, it fell to the executor of their wills, a lawyer they hardly knew, to sell their million-dollar midtown home and split the proceeds among their inheritors. Seven years and six lawsuits later, the beneficiaries haven’t seen a cent
Deep Dives
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2026
This year’s list includes a 150-square-foot omakase counter, a Parisian brasserie in the Annex, Korean comfort food, Filipino karaoke and a Summerhill seafood spot that’s reinventing the raw bar
Deep Dives
Hoop Dreams: Inside the making of the Toronto Tempo, the city’s newly assembled WNBA team
After years of false starts, months of nail-biting negotiations between the league and the players’ union, and an 11th-hour scramble to build a roster, Toronto finally has its own major-league women’s basketball team. Now it just has to live up to the hype
Deep Dives
Live From New York: Inside the slay-or-be-slayed world of Studio 8H with
SNL
rookie Veronika Slowikowska
Slowikowska is the first Canadian to join the cast of
Saturday Night Live
in more than 25 years. She’s also this season’s breakout star. Now all she has to do is keep crushing it
Deep Dives
Better Call Deepak: Meet drug lord Ryan Wedding’s self-styled cocaine lawyer
The man who represented the infamous drug lord is unapologetically flashy—he has a Lamborghini and two Maseratis and wears $1,200 Louboutins. But did he become an accomplice to his client’s crimes? Deepak Paradkar says he was just doing his job. The FBI says he crossed a line
Deep Dives
The Redemption Tour: The Blue Jays are back. Can they finish what they started?
We’re not over it, but they are. Six months after that devastating defeat, the Jays take the field once more, bent more than ever on winning the World Series. Dispatches from the dugout
Deep Dives
My Life as a True Crime Spectacle: My father’s crimes fractured our family. Then came the press
My dad was the infamous Rolex Killer. The news of his crimes nearly broke me. And ever since, my family has been hounded by reporters, podcasters and true crime fanatics—a whole new circle of hell
Deep Dives
Robby on the Line: Out and about with Robby Hoffman, comedy’s equal opportunity assassin
Larry David is the indisputable king of brutal honesty. But if anyone comes close, it’s Robby Hoffman, the suddenly everywhere comic from whom no group is safe
Deep Dives
Notes on an Academic Scandal: Why did TMU demote a leading advocate of DEI?
Pamela Sugiman, a former arts dean at Toronto Metropolitan University, was a key player in the school’s push for diversity, equity and inclusion. When the backlash against DEI arrived, she was demoted. The school says it was a coincidence. She disagrees
Deep Dives
City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?
Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution
Deep Dives
This generation was pummelled by Covid high school. Now the job market wants to replace them with AI
It’s hard out here for a 20-something
Deep Dives
The High Price of Hope: Inside Toronto’s white-hot fertility market
Desperate wannabe parents are betting their life savings on unproven treatments and false promises
Deep Dives
Man vs. Machine: ChatGPT caused him to spiral into delusion. Now he’s suing OpenAI
Last spring, a chatbot convinced Allan Brooks that he had discovered a revolutionary mathematical theory. He says it nearly destroyed him
Deep Dives
Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world
Homegrown innovations that will transform lives for the better
Deep Dives
293 Days Without My Son: I gave up everything to rescue my kidnapped child from my abusive husband
When Valentino was abducted, I knew three things: he’d been taken by his father, he was somewhere in India and I would not rest until I found him
Deep Dives
The Violent Life of a Tow Truck Driver: How an unremarkable profession turned Toronto into a war zone
The towing industry has been hijacked by criminals and kingpins who fleece customers, beat up dissenters and shoot their enemies. Inside the brutal turf war for the city’s wrecks
Deep Dives
Street Fight: Inside the battle raging over Toronto multiplexes
If this city stands any chance of solving the housing crisis, it will need buildings with multiple units in residential neighbourhoods—a move that has many residents saying, “Anywhere but here!”
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