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Toronto’s coolest music festival, NXNE, will return this June
Entering its 31st year, the Canadian music fest is bigger and better than ever
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Culture
The ultimate 2022 summer music festival guide
After two mostly silent years, IRL music festivals are back and their line-ups are stacked
Culture
The Pride parade, NXNE and seven other things to see, do, hear and read this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of June 19
Culture
Fifteen can’t-miss concerts coming to Toronto this summer
WayHome, Kendrick Lamar and the rest of the best
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Culture
Dinner at Jamie Kennedy’s farm, an Ellie Goulding concert and six other things to do this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of June 13
Culture
See Rush for the last time, survive NXNE and eight other things to do this week
Go on a late-night sampling spree The twinkly Stop Night Market returns for its fourth annual carnival of sno-cones and small...
Food & Drink
Five things to do in Toronto on the weekend of June 20–22
In this edition of The Weekender, free concerts in Yonge-Dundas Square, a Gatsby-themed garden party and three other things to do...
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The Pick: The Men’s fuzzed-out reinvention of punk rock at NXNE
No one would confuse 2012 with 1979, but thanks to genre-bending acts like Denmark’s Iceage , Vancouver’s White Lung and local...
Today in Toronto: La Belle et la Bête and Irvine Welsh
La Belle et la Bête The tale of a beauty who falls for a beast is infinitely more interesting when framed as a love triangle...
Culture
Luminato 2012 guide: 20 must-see events at this year’s arts festival
Luminato begins this Friday, and it can be a bit of a whirlwind. Everything from a Philip Glass opera about Einstein’s life to a...
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The Flaming Lips, Bran Van 3000, Raekwon and Ghostface Killah and more to play NXNE
The roster for this year’s North by Northeast music and film festival is already shaping up nicely, with free Yonge and Dundas...
Sunday’s NXNE picks: The Pharcyde, Paul Quarrington, William S. Burroughs and more
We’ve managed to keep our wits about us and our energy up all week in order to maximize our concert attendance, but we have to...
Saturday’s NXNE picks: Handsome Furs, Memoryhouse, Chad VanGaalen and more
Tonight is the unofficial last hurrah for the North by Northeast faithful—and that means it’s going to be a good one. The bars...
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Friday’s NXNE picks: Dirty Beaches, Land of Talk, Writer and more
This year’s North by Northeast features 650 bands, the bulk of which are playing Friday and Saturday night. Needless to...
Wednesday’s NXNE picks: Pat Jordache, Library Voices, We Are Wolves and more
For NXNE wristband holders and general music enthusiasts alike, today is the day. More specifically, it’s Wednesday, and more...
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The Weekender: Deli Duel 2, Toronto Sketch Com-ageddon and six other events on our to-do list
1. ST. LAWRENCE MARKET STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL It’s berry season in Ontario, and St. Lawrence Market is celebrating with its annual...
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Tuesday’s NXNE picks: The Antlers, Nu Music Nite and the Disposable Film Festival
North by Northeast is, first and foremost, a music festival, so it gives us great pleasure to present our first concert picks on...
Monday’s NXNE picks: Kurt Cobain, Jack Clement and early T.O. punk
North by Northeast officially kicks off today, and that means the city will be chock full of musicians, music lovers and events...
Culture
Brian Wilson named inaugural recipient of the NOW Magazine Lifetime Achievement Award
Amid announcements of performances by up-and-comers like Shad , Black Light White Light and Rick and Chuck at this year’s North...
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North by Northeast music festival announces film program lineup, including three Canadian premieres
Like most music festivals these days, North by Northeast offers more than just live concerts—it boasts workshops, merchandise...
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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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