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The DIY Maestro: How a millionaire paid to lead the Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Tech CEO Mandle Cheung was willing to hand over big money to conduct a symphony. The TSO said yes. Its musicians said,
Seriously?
A story about outsized ambitions, cash-strapped arts organizations and the limits of wish fulfillment
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City News
The Argument: Musical visionary Tod Machover crowd-sourced a symphony for Toronto—now other cities want one too
In early 2011, Peter Oundjian, the music director for the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, enlisted Tod Machover to compose a piece for...
City News
The Argument: why the stakes are so high for Ben Heppner’s return to the Canadian Opera Company
A controversial production. A hugely difficult role. A star with a reputation for choking onstage. The stakes are high for Ben...
Today in Toronto: Clybourne Park and Gabriela Montero
Clybourne Park There goes the neighbourhood—again. For its second-stage series, Mirvish has picked up Studio 180’s hit...
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Today in Toronto: Variations on 1930
Variations on 1930 This concert takes as its whimsical concept music that was big in the year 1930. Find out more »
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Super Bowl XLVII Party, Tristan und Isolde and five other items on our to-do list
1. KUUMBA Harbourfront kicks off Black History Month with the 17th edition of its annual Kuumba festival (“kuumba” means...
The Weekender: Dance Weekend, Yamantaka // Sonic Titan and four other events on our to-do list
1. YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN Just decoding Yamantaka // Sonic Titan’s description of their own sound—“psychedelic noh-wave...
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Culture
Current Obsession: New York’s blogger-pianist Jeremy Denk
Jeremy Denk has recorded three well-received solo albums, toured with classical violin superstar Joshua Bell and played with many...
The Weekender: Sing-Along Messiah, Wildlife and five other events on our to-do list
1. SING-ALONG MESSIAH That only-used-in-the-shower voice deserves to be heard, so why not join your fellow shower-belters in some...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: The Killers, Beat Nation and six other events on our to-do list
1. BEAT NATION: ART, HIP HOP AND ABORIGINAL CULTURE Beat Nation, a new exhibit at the Power Plant, shines a light on artists who...
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City News
Primer: how to choose between Toronto’s big holiday shows
It’s time to suspend your cynicism and surrender to one of the city’s big, gooey, hurt-your-teeth-sweet holiday...
The Weekender: Dan Deacon, Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland and six other events on our to-do list
1. ROYAL WOOD With a name as smooth as his voice, Canadian crooner Royal Wood brings his signature debonair persona to his upbeat...
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The Weekender: Soupstock, Cat Power and six other events on our to-do list
1. SOUPSTOCK In the wake of last year’s wildly successful Foodstock, over 200 chefs from across Canada—among them, Susur...
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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...
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...
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Today in Toronto: Bella Napoli, Joanne Tod and more
Bella Napoli For these concerts, Tafelmusik joins forces with Vesuvius Ensemble, a local group devoted to preserving and...
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The Weekender: The Junction Flea, Ellie Goulding and six other events on our to-do list
1. THE JUNCTION FLEA Presented by Smash and Russet and Empire, this eclectic outdoor market features vintage and kitschy items...
City News
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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Today in Toronto: Anne-Sophie Mutter, Die Fledermaus and more
Anne-Sophie Mutter Known as much for her commitment to contemporary music as for her haute couture sleeveless gowns (they free her...
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Today in Toronto: Anne-Sophie Mutter, Light the Night Walk and more
Anne-Sophie Mutter Known as much for her commitment to contemporary music as for her haute couture sleeveless gowns (they free her...
Today in Toronto: Pictures at an Exhibition, SLoE by Julia Sasso and more
Pictures at an Exhibition Tunefulness and conspicuous displays of virtuosity come together in Mussorgsky’s musical tribute to an...
Today in Toronto: Aspects of Oscar and Brandenburg Concertos
Aspects of Oscar Award-winning bassist and composer Dave Young won accolades from jazz genius Oscar Peterson. Find out more »...
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Today in Toronto: Dinosaur Jr., Glenn Gould’s Birthday BACHanalia and more
Dinosaur Jr. Every time a once-mighty band reunites, the question arises: for the money or the music? It’s been seven years...
Today in Toronto: Brandenburg Concertos, Tribute to John Coltrane and more
Brandenburg Concertos For these concerts, Tafelmusik performs the odd-numbered selections from Bach’s series of instrumental...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
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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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