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Game of Thrones
Culture
Everywhere you can watch the
Game of Thrones
premiere on Sunday
For those who need some emotional support to get through the episode
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Culture
A séance in High Park, a haunted Island tour and seven other spooky things to do this Halloween
All the haunted happenings worth doing this Hallow's Eve
Culture
Watch a choir pack into a Toronto bar to sing the
Game of Thrones
theme song
Winter is coming, and its sounds great
Culture
An Ariana Grande concert, a zany food fest and eight other things to do this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of February 27
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Father’s Day Gift Guide: 20 great ideas for every kind of dad
Including a playful ice-cream maker, a manly facial and a rowdy Game of Thrones edition of Risk
Culture
Five beautiful adult colouring books made in Toronto
Toronto illustrators are riding the adult colouring wave. Here are our favourite local titles—Crayolas not included
Culture
Alessia Cara’s homecoming, a new play from two
Game of Thrones
stars and seven other things to do this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of January 11
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City News
Best Seats in the House: a guide to the celebs and Bay Streeters who cheer on the Raptors
The high-profile spectators who’ve made Raps games the hottest ticket in Toronto sports Half the fun of NBA fandom is peeping...
Culture
This could be your big chance to have an awkward run-in with Peter Dinklage
There are few celebrities bigger (or smaller , for that matter) than Peter Dinklage in 2014, and so it's not surprising that the...
Food & Drink
Slideshow: Côte De Boeuf’s
Game of Thrones
-inspired dinner party
On Wednesday and Thursday, Ossington haute butcher Côte De Boeuf and The Kitchen Bell hosted A Feast For Kings , a Game Of...
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Food & Drink
Ossington meat shop Côte De Boeuf is hosting a Game of Thrones dinner party
With the premiere of Game of Thrones season four on HBO just four weeks out, Toronto fans are running out of ways to sate their...
City News
Medieval Times is on the hunt for a new king
Attention Game of Thrones fans: Medieval Times, the kitschy, themed dinner show, is looking for a new king. An online job ad lists...
City News
Toronto Maple Leafs stoke a little playoff excitement with a pair of bad-ass Game of Thrones-style pics
As of 9:45 p.m. on Saturday night, it was official: the Toronto Maple Leafs made the playoffs for the first time in nine...
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Style
Toronto Fashion Week: Jean-Pierre Braganza’s inner sci-fi nerd emerges in his fall 2013 collection
Each season, The Shows invite a handful of high-profile Canadian designers (many of whom now show in New York, London and Paris)...
Five things to do in Toronto on the weekend of March 8 to 10
In this edition of The Weekender: the annual Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival, a Trekky’s greatest fantasy and three more things...
Culture
TIFF PARTY: Naomi Watts is a dancing queen at the CAA bash
Watching Naomi Watts shake her groove thang to the sultry sounds of George Michael at the CAA party at Cinema in Liberty Village...
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Food & Drink
Introducing: the big new location of Sanagan’s Meat Locker, down the street from the old one
When Kensington Market's European Quality Meats and Sausages decided to leave the space it had occupied for five decades, many...
City News
Which city councillors are most like which Game of Thrones characters?
Yesterday, the Toronto Standard posted a roundup comparing Rob Ford, Karen Stintz, Giorgio Mammoliti and other city hall figures...
The Weekender: Sleeping Beauty, Canada Blooms and six other items on our to-do list
1. THE SLEEPING BEAUTY This classic ballet, adapted by legendary dancer and choreographer Rudolf Nureyev, is based on Marius...
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City News
See, Hear, Read: our experts pick the movie, music and book release of the month
They love it. We want it. Three red-hot releases “I have to admit: I haven’t read the books this TV series is based on, and I...
City News
City hall storms Casa Loma’s gates! (Well, sort of)
While the rest of the city has managed to go about its business without really noticing, there's a long-running feud taking place...
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Private School Guide
The Private and Independent School Directory Spring 2025
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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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“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
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