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The Pick: Einstein on the Beach at Luminato, your one chance to see Philip Glass’s masterwork
Einstein on the Beach, the 1976 magnum opus scored by American minimalist composer Philip Glass, isn’t your average opera:...
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Culture
Chicago wants something Toronto has: a Luminato-like arts festival (and tons of international tourists)
While Chicago has Toronto beat on virtually every other count when it comes to arts and culture, the Big Smoke trounces the Windy...
Food & Drink
Luminato announces lineup for 2012 edition of 1,000 Tastes of Toronto
On Friday, Luminato announced the full list of restaurants, vendors and food shops participating in its annual 1,000 Tastes of...
Culture
Luminato hires new artistic director, Jorn Weisbrodt
The Luminato Festival has announced today that its new artistic director is Jorn Weisbrodt , partner of Canadian musician Rufus...
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City News
Stratford star Seana McKenna is trading in her corsets to play Richard III. Can audiences handle a female portrayal of true evil?
At this point in our cultural history, cross-dressing is subversive only to the most sheltered among us. Drag now is the kind of...
Weekend Luminato picks: Incendies, 1000 Tastes, One Thousand and One Nights and more
The fifth edition of Luminato, the city’s annual everything-culture fest, kicked off last Friday and goes until...
Friday’s Luminato Picks: Sargasso, k.d. lang and Vodavil
The fifth edition of Luminato, the city’s annual everything-culture fest, kicked off last Friday and goes all through the...
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Thursday’s Luminato Picks: Habit, Confluence and Lu Xun Blossoms
The fifth edition of Luminato, the city’s annual everything-culture fest, kicked off last Friday and goes all through the...
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Wednesday’s Luminato Picks: Ron Sexsmith, Joyce Carol Oates and the Kronos Quartet
The fifth edition of Luminato, the city’s annual everything-culture fest, kicked off last Friday and goes all through the...
The one thing you should see this week: 50 of the city’s leading ladies on one stage
This week’s pick: Tout Comme Elle Most plays can usually only scrounge together one or two headliners for the marquee, but Tout...
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Tuesday’s Luminato picks: Andromache, Raj Kapoor and David Ben’s Natural Magick
The fifth edition of Luminato, the city’s annual everything-culture fest, kicked off last Friday and goes all through the...
Monday’s Luminato picks: Beatniks, Broadway and Denis Gagnon’s take on Alice in Wonderland
The fifth edition of Luminato, the city’s annual everything-culture fest, kicked off last Friday and goes all through the...
Today in Toronto: Luminato Day 1, Okkervil River and more
Okkervil River This folksy Austin group is a serious crew—the band took its name from a short story by Russian writer Tatyana...
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The Weekender: Luminato, Toronto Taste and six other events on our to-do list
1. LUMINATO Luminato No. 5 kicks off this Friday with a free concert at Metro Square featuring Beast and the Joel Plaskett...
City News
Why writer Tabatha Southey and artist-architect Philip Beesley are smitten with Toronto
The place: C5 at the ROM. The people: writer Tabatha Southey and artist–architect Philip Beesley. The subject: why they’re...
Style
Denis Gagnon is selected as this year’s Lancôme partner and fashion connection at Luminato 2011
With Luminato 2011 fast approaching, we were particularly excited to learn that Lancôme has appointed Denis Gagnon as this...
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Culture
Luminato adds Ron Sexsmith tribute to this year’s music-heavy lineup
This year is shaping up to be a big one for Toronto singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith : he’s released a new album, Long Player Late...
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Highlights from Luminato’s just-announced 2011 theatre and dance program
Yesterday, Luminato announced the theatre and dance programs for this year’s edition of the mega-festival, now in its fifth...
City News
Former Toronto Life editor among the 40 new Order of Canada inductees
Governor General David Johnston inducted his first group of distinguished Canucks into the Order of Canada last night. Among the...
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City News
The Argument: why we pay rock concert prices for Robert Lepage
His mind-blowing stagecraft made him a superstar, especially here. Why we pay rock concert prices for Robert Lepage In the 25...
City News
Get off the Road: Toronto street festivals take the whole city hostage. Jan Wong says that it’s time we learn to say no
One of Toronto’s biggest, most aggravating problems is traffic. In a recent poll about the upcoming mayoral...
Today in Toronto: The Book Summit, Isabel Bayrakdarian, Enana Dance Theatre
The Book Summit: Sci-fi writer Robert J. Sawyer, city librarian Jane Pyper and the New York Times’ insanely-on-top-of-things...
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Culture
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...
Today in Toronto: Homage, Ken Vandermark, Found in Translation festival
Authors at Harbourfront: A new festival celebrates writers working in their non-native tongue. The inaugural Found in Translation...
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Wines of the World
Food & Drink
Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
Toronto Life’s
Best Restaurants
From cabernet and merlot to icewine and chardonnay, these wines are primed to pair and delight
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Deep Dives
The Monster Cottages vs. the Resistance: Inside the ruthless battle for the future of Muskoka
From Gravenhurst to Port Cockburn, the uber rich and powerful are buying up shoreline for private island compounds and sprawling mega-resorts, radically changing the face of Muskoka and infuriating environmentalists, locals and long-time cottagers
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
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