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Style
Indochino, maker of $500 custom suits, has a semi-permanent shop on King West
Online menswear shop Indochino , known for designing dapper custom suits that won't strain your wallet, launched a temporary...
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Real Estate News
Condo of the Week: $780,000 for a two-storey loft in a former perfumery on King West
Address: 833 King Street West, Penthouse 607 Neighbourhood: Niagara Agent: Elizabeth Machula and Chris Dawson. Re/Max Condos Plus...
City News
Editor’s Letter (December 2012): under the influence
David Mirvish’s plan to tear down the Princess of Wales Theatre and build three 80-plus-storey Frank Gehry–designed condo...
Real Estate News
Condos versus factories: five battlegrounds in Toronto’s re-zoning war
The clashing factions in Toronto’s condo fights used to be easy to identify: angry residents and ambitious developers. Now, the...
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Real Estate News
A look at the best and worst of Frank Gehry’s past mega-projects
When David Mirvish and Frank Gehry announced their major King West redevelopment plans earlier this month, Mirvish said the pair...
Style
Street Style: 18 looks at the after-work crowd on King West
King Street West’s towering glass condos, inordinate number of boutique marketing shops and chock-a-block bistros can make the...
Real Estate News
The Chase: a bachelor decides to stop renting and get in on the hot condo market
The Buyer: Stan Nevolovich, a 28-year-old tennis pro. The Story: Nevolovich loved his 800-square-foot apartment near Yonge and...
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Real Estate News
Condomonium: $1 million for a suite in a King West clock tower (round windows included)
ADDRESS: 700 King St. W., Unit 612 NEIGHBOURHOOD: Niagara AGENTS: George, Frank and John Filntissis, Coldwell Banker Terrequity...
City News
Smart phone app hails luxury cars for rich people frustrated by Toronto’s transit options
With Torontonians annoyed by a troubled taxi industry and public transit mayhem, San Francisco start-up Uber Technologies thought...
Real Estate News
Condomonium: $685,000 for a family-friendly two-level penthouse on King Street West
ADDRESS: 1000 King Street West, Penthouse 16 NEIGHBOURHOOD: Niagara AGENT: Michael Camber and Heikki Walden, Sutton Group...
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Introducing: Riant Boutique, a sparkly King West boutique packed with clothes (and one cute puppy)
The place: A quick wander around Bathurst south of King Street should confirm that the area is slowly morphing into a place worthy...
City News
Exodus to the burbs: why diehard downtowners are giving up on the city
The reasons to abandon the overcrowded, overpriced, not-so-livable city are beginning to outnumber the reasons to stay. More and...
Food & Drink
Hanif Harji and Charles Khabouth plot to take over King West
A few months back, we reported that restaurateur and nightlife impresario Charles Khabouth was planning to open two new...
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Culture
SPOTTED: Thierry Guetta (and hipsters) chilling outside the TIFF Bell Lightbox
A member of our secret underground spy network spotted street artist Mr. Brainwash (a.k.a. Thierry Guetta ) on King Street West at...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Cool Hand Luc, King West’s new ice cream parlour
King Street West has seen a lot of action this month, with the revamp of Brassaii’s menu, the closing of M:brgr, the opening of...
Food & Drink
Free ice cream (no, really) tonight at Cool Hand Luc on King West
We don’t know much about Cool Hand Luc , the brand new ice cream shop opening on King West today, but it is Friday, and who...
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Food & Drink
City’s average burger price plummets with closure of M:brgr’s King West location
On Tuesday, we heard through the grapevine from Montreal food journalist Lesley Chesterman that the Toronto location of M:brgr...
Food & Drink
The sipper club: meet the city’s competitive cabal of top sommeliers
Will Predhomme belongs to a competitive cabal of top sommeliers who sniff, sip and spit their way through hundreds of bottles a...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Briscola, Cinq 01’s rustic Italian successor
Briscola, the new rustic Italian restaurant from Ink Entertainment ’s Charles Khabouth and Amber ’s Toufik Sarwa , opened last...
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Food & Drink
Soma, the Distillery’s chocolate mecca, to open new downtown café
It takes time to coax a cacao bean into chocolate, and it took seven years for David Castellan and Cynthia Leung , Soma ’s...
Real Estate News
King and John BIA wants a new “urban ballroom” and “cultural corridor” in downtown Toronto
The southeast corner of King and John has been targeted by the local BIA for improvement. Specifically, the neighbourhood group...
Food & Drink
Introducing: The Abbott, yet another coffee shop in Parkdale
“Coffee shop opens in west end”—it’s a story we’ve been able to write not once, not twice, not three times , not four...
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Food & Drink
Q&A with Marc Thuet and Biana Zorich: The restaurateurs talk about Conviction Kitchen II, their marriage and how Vancouver compares to Toronto
Marc Thuet and Biana Zorich are exhausted. It’s taken the pair a month to recuperate after shooting the second season of their...
Food & Drink
Just Opened: we review O&B Canteen and Brockton General
Brockton General 1321 Dundas St. W., 647-342-6104 The usual rules of running a restaurant don’t apply at this tiny former sports...
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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
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
Food & Drink
“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