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An indie roots fest, an eccentric art bonanza in Ontario Place and seven other things to do this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of September 12
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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...
City News
Five things you didn’t know about Douglas Coupland, who has a cool new exhibition and a novel on the way
1 | He’s not a morning person “I sleep in every single day until 11. As long as I sleep in, I will be creative. If I get up...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Come Up To My Room, The Stop’s Beer Garden and four other events on our to-do list
Toronto Life online editor talks about the weekend’s top events on The Morning Show 1. COME UP TO MY ROOM (FREE!) Each year, the...
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Great Spaces: five tiny homes that prove tight spaces can be completely comfortable
Toronto homes are getting smaller by the second—250-square-foot units are coming soon to a condo near you. Here, a look at how a...
Food & Drink
Nuit Blanche 2012 guide: our top 20 picks for Toronto’s seventh annual all-night art crawl
This Saturday, September 29, hordes of art lovers, all-purpose revellers and the generally curious will take to downtown for the...
City News
Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 8, because we’ll traipse anywhere for conceptual art
Not too long ago, the intersection of Bloor and Lansdowne was best known for a decent Value Village, two competing strip clubs and...
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City News
The Conversation: artist-illustrators Gary Taxali and Graham Roumieu on art, wine and wolverines
The place: The Gem on Davenport. The people: artist-illustrators Gary Taxali and Graham Roumieu. The subjects: art, wine and...
The Weekender: International Festival of Authors, Operanation and six more items on our to do list
1. LG FASHION WEEK Some of the city’s more fashionable citizens have been accumulating this year behind Roy Thomson Hall to...
Culture
Nine good reasons to attend Art With Heart 2011—one being the chance to own a Mapplethorpe
It’s that time of the year again—not Halloween, but on October 18, TD’s annual Art With Heart auction will raise money for...
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City News
In the ’60s, Marshall McLuhan was Toronto’s most famous intellectual; now, the world has finally caught up with him
In the ’60s, McLuhan was hobnobbing with celebrities, advising politicians and forever changing how we think about mass media. A...
Culture
Toronto’s public art policy working surprisingly well
Remember back in 2007, when the city implemented the Percent for Public Art policy, which requires large construction projects to...
City News
Required Reading: Douglas Coupland’s new book is about five torturous hours
When Douglas Coupland was asked to give this year’s Massey Lectures, he bucked the event’s long-standing non-fiction tradition...
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The Thing: the oxymoronic appeal of Canadiana cool
In Toronto, we’ve been fashioning chandeliers from antlers and cherishing Cowichan sweaters for years. It took the Vancouver...
Culture
Eleven reasons CBCers loved/hated Richard Stursberg
The CBC's anything-to-boost-ratings executive VP Richard Stursberg has left the building (some say he was escorted out) after six...
Food & Drink
Margaret Atwood coffee: coming soon to a café near you
Synergy is becoming something of a trend among Canadian writers. Douglas Coupland launched his clothing collection with Roots...
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Culture
Conrad Black writes like the author of The Godfather
By now many people have heard of I Write Like , the site that takes a person’s writing and matches it to that of a famous...
City News
Hot child in the city: Drake is on the patio at One
Drake is apparently over his fear of rough-and-tumble Toronto, because he's on the patio at One , the oh-so-exclusive Yorkville...
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Get a look at Douglas Coupland’s fashion line for Roots
The microsite for Douglas Coupland’ s fashion collaboration with Roots, known as RootsxDouglasCoupland, went live today. True to...
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Coupland vs. Pachter: Canadian artists launch rival fashion collaborations
The rivalry between Toronto and Vancouver now has two new combatants—thanks to Roots paraphernalia, strangely enough. On the...
Culture
Take that, Oprah. Canada Reads winner beats talk-show favourite
Who said debate clubs for book nerds are boring? (Oh, wait…) This year’s Canada Reads competition was a veritable cage...
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What is the purpose of those multicoloured statues in the CityPlace park?
The sculptures are one set of several installations commissioned by Concord Adex for its new CityPlace green space. The mammoth...
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Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Food & Drink
“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