performance

The Argument: Why we can’t stop gawking at Marina Abramović’s pain

Party Pages: Artists, philanthropists and Margaret Atwood at the Art of Time Ensemble Salon

Reason to Love Toronto: because our most priceless art is free

Remember when Perez Hilton was assaulted in Toronto? He’s coming back to visit!

The Weekender: Hamlet, Whoopi Goldberg and six other items on our to-do list

Eight and a Half play a private show for hipsters and real estate developers at a soon-to-be Ossington condo

Party Pages: Members of the TSO play a private show at a Distillery District warehouse

Dear Urban Diplomat: Do you need to give a standing ovation in Toronto even when one isn’t deserved?

Spotlight: the National Ballet’s newest prima ballerina leaps from playing the chicken to dancing the lead

Rob Ford chosen to cameo in The Nutcracker ballet (cue last-minute cottage vacation)

How Deadmau5—a.k.a. DJ Joel Zimmerman—came to make $100,000 a show and have four million Facebook fans

Best of Fall #1: Renowned mezzo-soprano Susan Graham as an anguished princess in Iphigenia in Tauris

Jan Wong: how the rise of horticultural training at Toronto schools is bad for students