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The Pick: Lang Lang’s youthful fireworks with the Toronto Symphony
The 29-year-old Chinese pianist Lang Lang has an unimpeachable image. He’s got perfectly sculpted spiky hair, lots of carefully...
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The Weekender: Lang Lang, Mary Poppins and six other things on our to-do list
1. LANG LANG BEETHOVEN SERIES Lang Lang—a 29-year-old Chinese piano prodigy and one of Time’ s most influential people of...
The Weekender: Liza Minnelli, Día de los Muertos and six other events on our to-do list
1. LIZA MINNELLI La Liza, one of the world’s few EGOT winners (that’s Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony), takes the stage this...
The Weekender: International Festival of Authors, Operanation and six more items on our to do list
1. LG FASHION WEEK Some of the city’s more fashionable citizens have been accumulating this year behind Roy Thomson Hall to...
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City News
The Moment: the astounding emotional outpouring following Jack Layton’s death
Saturday, August 27, 2 p.m. When Jack Layton announced in July that he intended to return from cancer treatment in time for the...
Culture
TIFF 2011 Roundup: “Glowing” (i.e. pregnant) mothers edition
Baby bumps were in fashion this year at TIFF, where several expecting stars strolled red carpets in clothes that skirted the usual...
Culture
Wherein we get the story behind the rogue autograph-seeker at the Madonna press conference
The rumour mill has been constantly churning regarding the Material Girl’s behavior at TIFF, ever since a rogue fan somehow...
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Culture
Today at TIFF: Page Eight gala presentation
Our daily roundup of opening galas, parties and screenings. • 9:15 a.m. The Story of Film: An Odyssey TIFF Bell Lightbox • 6...
Culture
Today at TIFF: The Awakening gala presentation and Midnight Madness
Our daily roundup of opening galas, parties and screenings. • 10 a.m. The Story of Film: An Odyssey • 6:30 p.m. The Awakening...
Culture
TIFF PHOTO GALLERY: Nicolas Cage walks the red carpet for Joel Schumacher’s Trespass
After charming the assembled press corps with tales of a naked man eating a Fudgsicle in his bed at the press conference for...
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Culture
Today at TIFF: Hysteria gala presentation, The Day midnight madness screening and more
Our daily roundup of opening galas, parties and screenings. • 10 a.m. The Story of Film: An Odyssey • 6:30 p.m. A Happy Event...
Culture
TIFF PHOTO GALLERY: Jennifer Garner and Olivia Wilde walk the red carpet for Butter
The gala presentation of Butter at Roy Thomson Hall last night was all about the ladies. Little Yara Shahidi kicked off the...
Culture
Today at TIFF: Starbuck gala presentation and Trespass after party with Nicolas Cage
Our daily roundup of opening galas, parties and screenings. • 6:30 p.m. Starbuck gala presentation at Roy Thomson Hall • 7...
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Culture
Today at TIFF: Butter gala presentation and Festival Music House
Our daily roundup of opening galas, parties and screenings. • 6 p.m. Like Crazy special presentation at Ryerson Theatre • 6:30...
Culture
TIFF PHOTO GALLERY: Gerard Butler delights his fans with ridiculous antics at the Machine Gun Preacher red carpet gala
The premiere of Machine Gun Preacher yesterday at Roy Thomson Hall turned out to be a roisterous affair, as Gerard Butler pulled...
Culture
TIFF Weekend Roundup: the five buzziest red carpets
The first weekend of TIFF is basically one big long party, with a non-stop crush of big premieres, boldface names and tremendous...
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Culture
Today at TIFF: W.E. gala presentation, Festival Music House and more
Our daily roundup of opening galas, parties and screenings. • 2:30 p.m. Intruders • 5:30 p.m. Ten Year official cast dinner at...
Culture
TIFF PHOTO GALLERY: Keira Knightley and Viggo Mortensen lit up the (sadly Fassbender-less) red carpet for A Dangerous Method
Said one screaming fan behind a metal stanchion at Roy Thomson Hall yesterday afternoon: “Viiiiggo! Viiiigo! No one ever comes...
Culture
SPOTTED: Sarah Silverman at the Alliance Films soiree last night
The very funny Sarah Silverman showed her face at the very exclusive Alliance Films party last night wearing a suit-inspired...
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Culture
TIFF PHOTO GALLERY: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Philip Seymour Hoffman on the red carpet for Moneyball
Screaming fans stretched from Wellington to King Street waiting for the horde of stars associated with director Bennett Miller’...
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...
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...
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Food & Drink
The Weekender: Boyz II Men, La La La Human Steps and six other events on our to-do list
1. LA LA LA HUMAN STEPS This Québécois contemporary dance troupe, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, is known...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Ariadne auf Naxos, Itzhak Perlman and five other events on our to-do list
1. TORONTO INTERNATIONAL CIRCUS FESTIVAL Acrobats, fire-eaters, stilt-walkers—it’s not just the kids who’ll love this...
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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
Big Stories
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!”
Deep Dives
Young and Retired: Meet the super-savers quitting work decades before the average Canadian
In the age of doomspending, these ultra-driven Torontonians give up their weekends, work multiple jobs and never, ever eat out. The upside: they’ll retire long before the rest of us
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