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CONFIRMED: Music legends Neil Young and U2 will attend TIFF this year
TIFF 2011 has officially one-upped TIFF 2010. Last year, the biggest musician in attendance was The Boss. Admittedly, that was a...
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CONFIRMED: Gerard Butler will be attending TIFF 2011
Attention fans of hot, gruff men who are friends with John Mayer: Gerard Butler will be attending TIFF this year to promote...
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CONFIRMED: Blake Lively will be attending TIFF 2011
Blake Lively is more than a Gossip Girl character these days, what with being the face of Chanel Mademoiselle and even sitting...
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CONFIRMED: Salma Hayek and Toronto fanboy Woody Harrelson will be attending TIFF 2011
It’s official: Salma Hayek and Woody Harrelson are coming to TIFF this year. Hayek and Harrelson are world-class actors who...
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CONFIRMED: George Clooney is coming to TIFF 2011, and yes, he’s still single!
George Clooney has saved lives as Dr. Doug Ross, robbed casinos as Danny Ocean, fired a whole lot of people as Ryan Bingham, and...
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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...
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CONFIRMED: Evan Rachel Wood will be attending TIFF 2011
Evan Rachel Wood first won our hearts with her raw performance in Thirteen, and later confused us profoundly by dating Marilyn...
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CONFIRMED: Keira Knightley and Clive Owen will attend TIFF 2011
Keira Knightley and Clive Owen have each done something new and exciting for their latest movies: Keira has dropped her...
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CONFIRMED: Michelle Williams to attend TIFF 2011
Publicists for Michelle Williams have confirmed that the star will be in town to promote her film Take this Waltz at TIFF...
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CONFIRMED: Gossip Girl reunion? Chace Crawford and Leighton Meester scheduled for TIFF 2011
Okay, so maybe it’s not an official reunion, but publicists for Gossip Girl’ s Chace Crawford and Leighton Meester have...
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CONFIRMED: Maggie Gyllenhaal will be attending TIFF 2011
She charmed us as Donnie Darko’s older sister and excited us as Lee Holloway, and now Maggie Gyllenhaal will hopefully do both...
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CONFIRMED: Ryan Gosling will be attending TIFF 2011
Ryan Gosling is hot, Canadian, an accomplished actor and he breaks up fights. We can’t think of any reason why we wouldn’t...
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Will amfAR’s Cinema Against AIDS gala be TIFF 2011’s splashiest affair?
The Toronto International Film Festival is, of course, about selling movies and watching them, but another component is the...
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CONFIRMED: Funny men Jonah Hill and Seth Rogen will be at TIFF 2011
Jonah Hill and Seth Rogen have a lot in common: they’re funny as hell, they’ve rocked thick-rimmed glasses and ’fros and...
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CONFIRMED: Wild child Juliette Lewis is headed to Toronto for TIFF 2011
Publicists have confirmed that Juliette Lewis will be attending this year’s festival to promote her film Hick , a comedy about...
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CONFIRMED: Michael Shannon will be attending TIFF 2011
With all the weirdos, bad guys and sociopaths Michael Shannon has played in movies, it’s hard to figure out what he’s actually...
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CONFIRMED: Rebecca Hall, Rosemarie Dewitt and Elizabeth Olsen will be at TIFF 2011
We’re embarrassingly over-excited that a triumvirate of up-and-coming pretty young-to-30-something things are going to be...
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CONFIRMED: Baby mama Selma Blair and indie heartthrob Emile Hirsch to attend TIFF 2011
According to publicists, new mom and Cruel Intentions alum Selma Blair will be in town to promote Dark Horse , a mere two months...
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CONFIRMED: Mira Sorvino to attend TIFF 2011
Publicists for Mira Sorvino have confirmed to The Hype that the bubbly blonde will be headed to Toronto to promote Union Square at...
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CONFIRMED: Philip Seymour Hoffman will make an appearance at TIFF 2011
Philip Seymour Hoffman ’ s publicists have confirmed his attendance at this year’s festival. He’ll be in town to promote The...
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CONFIRMED: Super-sexy Rachel Weisz will be attending TIFF 2011
The Hype has just received word that Academy Award winner and naked snake wearer Rachel Weisz will be crossing the Atlantic for...
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CONFIRMED: Ethan Hawke and Glenn Close will be in Toronto for TIFF 2011
We at The Hype have been hunting down the celebrities (and their publicists), and we’ve got two new confirmed TIFF attendees to...
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CONFIRMED: Maya Rudolph to attend TIFF 2011
The beautiful, smart and funny Maya Rudolph will be coming to Toronto to promote Friends With Kids at this year’s...
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CONFIRMED: Emily Blunt will be attending TIFF 2011
Publicists for Emily Blunt have confirmed the star of the film Salmon Fishing in the Yemen will be in attendance at the festival...
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Food & Drink
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
Deep Dives
Inside the rise and fall of the Vaulter Bandit, the 21st century’s most notorious bank robber
To fellow tourists he met around the world, Jeffery Shuman was a semi-retired developer with a bright smile, an even tan and a fat wallet. In truth, he was a legendary bank robber on the run from the Toronto police and the US Marshals
Deep Dives
Anchor Man: Fox News host John Roberts on Trump, the trade war and the American psyche
If Fox News seems an unlikely landing spot for a guy who got his start pumping out Platinum Blonde on MuchMusic, you probably haven’t heard his thoughts about joining the notorious network, the Canada–US relationship and what he misses most about Toronto
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Trump’s Loss, Toronto’s Gain: Meet the artists, professors, scientists and other luminaries ditching the US and moving north
They’re coming from Big Law, the Ivy League, arts institutes and beyond, brimming with smarts and energy and united by a common cause: avoiding the carnage of Donald Trump. True tales from the brain gain
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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
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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
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
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Food & Drink
“We felt disconnected from the outdoors before”: What St. Lawrence Market North vendors think of their new home
And what locally made and grown goods they’re selling
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
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“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