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Keanu Reeves is not going to be this year’s Sean Penn, sorry
“He talked to me, you know,” breathed a girl at Joe Fresh’s dinner for The Private Lives of Pippa Lee and its players:...
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Culture
Danny Glover is a no-show at the Down For Life party
Why is it, again, that our city is nicknamed Toronto the Good? Because based on everything we’ve seen so far at TIFF, we’re...
Food & Drink
Just Opened: Local Kitchen and Wine Bar
It takes guts to open a fledgling restaurant on a Parkdale strip during Toronto’s recent civil servant strike and this decidedly...
Food & Drink
Diners poisoned by human sewage, grapefruits are the new miracle weight-loss drug, Pusateri’s five fall pantry staples
• One of Toronto’s newest ethnic enclaves, Danforth’s Little Ethiopia, began with the crank of a slot machine. When Daniel...
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Culture
Chatting up Being Erica hunk Tyron Leitso at the Celebrate Ontario party
With politicians talking tax credits, Celebrate Ontario was hardly the average stiletto-studded TIFF affair. Hazelton Lanes’...
Culture
Traipsing through Yorkville without an iPod, we can finally hear the passersby
After an unsuccessful afternoon of celeb hunting, we decided the best thing to do would be to hang out in Yorkville and hope for...
Food & Drink
Grace starts monthly wine program at “pour man’s prices”
As corkage fees drop like flies across the city, Grace Upstairs is hosting a monthly wine event starting on September 23 at which...
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Food & Drink
Just Opened: Swish by Han
It’s an old story: A restaurant has its opening put off again and again due to long waits for licences, construction work and...
Culture
Spotted: The Jonas Brothers enjoying reasonably priced cashmere
The many awestruck reports of Jonas Brothers loitering around Yorkville —the trio is outstaying their August 30th concert...
Food & Drink
The marshmallow craze, the baffling DIY wine critic, the case for doggy bags
• “Bouquet of Nerds candy” good; “notes of Bazooka Joe gum” bad. So says the populist, DIY wine critic Gary Vaynerchuk...
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Corey Mintz’s review of Café du Lac sparks Twitter drama
It’s was a tad more intriguing than the typical Twitter fight when several fake Corey Mintz accounts were created this week...
Food & Drink
How to cook a pig’s head, the chocolate-and-meat trend, restaurants bribe Yelp users
• British chef Fergus Henderson , who espouses a nose-to-tail philosophy when it comes to eating animals, appears in a new video...
Food & Drink
Here comes the Rain again: a peek inside Guy and Michael Rubino’s Ame
After over six months of renovations and about two months of delay, Guy and Michael Rubino' s Rain has been reborn as Ame...
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The holy grail of ice cream, wagyu for $45 per pound, Farmville takes over Facebook
• Facebook trends continue to follow those in the real world: first, there was the restaurant craze (known as Restaurant City on...
Food & Drink
Truffles to close: Toronto’s grandfather of fine dining bites the dust after 37 years
After nearly four decades of obsequious service and high-end dining, the Four Seasons' restaurant Truffles announced that it will...
Food & Drink
The Roosevelt Room takes the supper club back to the future
Another supper club is opening in the Entertainment District, but before the eye rolling commences, note that The Roosevelt Room...
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Bud Lite makers sue Ontario craft brewer, the anatomy of a restaurant closure, rice-pairing guide
• The Star reports that Ontario beer maker Brick Brewing Co. is being sued for copyright infringement by the makers of Bud Light...
Food & Drink
Dominic Amaral leaves Madeline’s, Jason Carter takes over
After working under Susur Lee for nine years, head chef Dominic Amaral has left his post at Madeline’s and is now working at...
Food & Drink
Instant pleasure? Starbucks replaces actual java with the just-add-water variety
When Starbucks invited us to The Drake for a big announcement last week, we instantly started dreaming up the next designer...
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Brad Long’s new spot in Bloor West Village will have four floors, luck and tourtière
Chef and Food Network star Brad Long has a quick answer when asked what will be on the menu at his new Bloor West gastropub:...
Food & Drink
Decoding the real and imagined T.O. restaurants in Shinan Govani’s new novel
Food & Drink
Robot chefs, 10 best American restaurants, Whole Foods boycott
• Chinese restaurant chain I Robot is being picketed by chefs who say their robot counterparts—which each do the job of five...
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Anthony Rose and Alida Solomon team up for The Drake’s outdoor eat-fest
Despite being one of the most talked about West Queen West bars, the Drake Hotel always creates an atmosphere of being at our best...
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Restaurant closures roundup: now is the summer of our discontent
Steel for some heartbreakers. Since our last roundup of restaurant closures, three of Toronto’s hoariest dining institutions are...
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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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