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Halloween
Pretend Weezer only ever made two albums at Sheezer’s Halloween show
Twenty years ago, Weezer released its self-titled debut, perhaps better known as the Blue Album. “Say It Ain’t So,” “My...
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Food & Drink
Pop-Up Pick: a grown-up Halloween feast on College Street
We've previously mentioned Dave Mottershall, the east-coast chef who left his prestigious job at The Chase to start a food...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: my wife wants to give out toothbrushes on Halloween—should she?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My wife is a dentist and wants to give out toothbrushes instead of candy for Halloween. I told her this is...
City News
Stefania Zanini: “There are always the zombie haters out there”
—Toronto Zombie Walk spokesperson Stefania Zanini , telling the Star about the public's reaction to the annual parade's online...
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City News
PHOTO: Rob Ford completely freaks out reporters with his haunted house tour (but not in a good way)
Rob Ford is taking Halloween really seriously this year. The holiday is still two days off and he has already transformed his...
City News
Eight Halloween costume ideas for the discerning Torontonian, from the Ikea Monkey to the Cronut Burger
What you’ll need: Darwin is now going clothing free at an animal sanctuary, but you can revisit last winter’s media frenzy...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: Am I allowed to decorate my house any way I want at Halloween?
Dear Urban Diplomat, Every Halloween, I do up my lawn as a graveyard, scatter body parts around the porch and hang a fake corpse...
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Food & Drink
The Feasting Room nears the end of its successful pop-up run
In June, we told you about The Feasting Room, a nose-to-tail pop-up restaurant with a new six-course menu devoted entirely to one...
City News
The 10 best Toronto Halloween costumes this year (including what Karen Stintz and Margaret Atwood wore)
Although one Maple Leaf had trouble finding an appropriate Halloween costume, there were still plenty of great disguises this...
Shopping
The Find: a creepy, crystal-encrusted scorpion ring
Halloween can be a great excuse to have some sartorial fun (see, for instance, the get-ups worn by model Heidi Klum or Barney's...
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Food & Drink
Today in Toronto: Designing 007, Art Toronto and more
Art Toronto This is the city’s biggest art expo, with a focus this year on Asia. Find out more » Designing 007: 50 Years of...
The Weekender: James Bond, Kimbra and six other events on our to-do list
1. DESIGNING 007: 50 YEARS OF BOND STYLE The TIFF Bell Lightbox exhibits all things 007 to celebrate 50 years of the...
City News
Nine Toronto Halloween costumes, from Kevin O’Leary to a condo tower
Since Halloween falls on a Wednesday this year, most of the revelry will be this coming weekend—which means there’s only a few...
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Food & Drink
VIDEO: How to make some last-minute Halloween candy, molecular gastronomy–style
It’s 4:51 p.m. Do you have your Halloween candies in order? If not, perhaps the above video from the folks behind Modernist...
City News
Six Toronto Halloween costumes, from Ryan Gosling’s Driver to Krista Ford
Rachel McAdams at Occupy Toronto What you’ll need: McAdams’ hair has gone from brunette to pink-striped over the years, but...
The Weekender: Liza Minnelli, Día de los Muertos and six other events on our to-do list
1. LIZA MINNELLI La Liza, one of the world’s few EGOT winners (that’s Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony), takes the stage this...
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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...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: My sister wants my child to sport a Stephen Harper costume for Halloween
Dear Urban Diplomat, My sister made my toddler a Stephen Harper costume for Halloween (sweater vest, grey toupée, tiny...
City News
Halloween: blame it on the gays
Halloween is homo-licious! So says right-wing Toronto-born muckraker David Frum. In a piece for CNN, Frum traces Halloween's...
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City News
Regis dressed as Justin Bieber for Halloween, just like everyone else
Just as we suspected, dressing up as Justin Bieber was crazy popular this Halloween. Turns out, it's not just Gordon Pinsent who...
Food & Drink
Richard Florida declares Toronto best trick-or-treating city in Canada
Toronto’s cool factor has just grown exponentially. Urban theorist and imported know-it-all Richard Florida announced today...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: nine things on our to-do list (yes, including Halloween events)
1. CINDERELLA: ROCK THE BALL The annual fundraising gala for the Canadian Opera Company, Operanation is always a place to see and...
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City News
Six Toronto Halloween costume ideas
Still not sure what to be for Halloween this year? Based on last night’s election results, we know that Torontonians are big on...
City News
Margaret Atwood designs Halloween costumes for Detroit doctor
If you haven't been paying attention to our literary matriarch lately, you may be unaware that Margaret Atwood is on Twitter , and...
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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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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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A commanding architectural statement in prestigious Stonegate–Queensway, this newly completed custom residence by Bali Homes Group presents a refined interpretation of contemporary luxury living
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