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The One Thing You Should See This Week
The Pick: The Artist Is Present, a look behind Marina Abramović’s carefully guarded public persona
The performance artist Marina Abramović comes across as positively otherworldly. She looms on the stage, tall and imposing like a...
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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...
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:...
The Pick: Indie Game, a movie about the tortured artists behind, yes, video games
Video games don’t get enough credit. They’re the ugly stepchild of popular culture, dismissed from most serious discussions...
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The Pick: Berenice Abbott’s unsurpassed visions of New York
One big omission in Woody Allen’s cavalcade of American expats in Midnight In Paris : Berenice Abbott, who started her career as...
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The Pick: the Bolshoi’s Swan Lake, a breathtaking production of the quintessential classical ballet
Late last year, Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre reopened after a seven-year, $760-million renovation. There was a splashy gala, where...
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The Pick: Dan Dubowitz’s apocalyptically still images of Fordlandia
In 1928, Henry Ford seemed to epitomize everything noble about America: he was enterprising, industrious and self-made (not to...
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The Pick: The Mechanical Bride, a new documentary about sex dolls (and the men who love them)
(Warning: the trailer contains mildly NSFW images of sex dolls without clothing and, at times, heads) Last week, we recommended an...
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The Pick: The Tales of Hoffman, a comic opera that’s actually funny
There’s funny, and then there’s opera funny. You know, the kind of lost-in-surtitled-translation wit or pro-forma buffoonery...
The Pick: Jean Painlevé’s hypnotic underwater films, accompanied live by Yo La Tengo
In 1930, a silent science film documenting skeleton shrimp and sea spiders screened in Paris, earning accolades from painter Marc...
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The Pick: Clybourne Park, an acerbic play about the intersection of race and real estate
Clybourne Park, the Pulitzer Prize–winning play currently running at the Berkeley Street Theatre, feels almost tailor-made for...
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The Pick: photographer Arnaud Maggs’s turn as history’s greatest sad sack
Octogenarian photographer Arnaud Maggs keeps making himself over. He started his career as a graphic designer for an advertising...
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The Pick: The playful pop subversions of Stephin Merritt’s Magnetic Fields
Stephin Merritt’ s band, The Magnetic Fields, is technically a five-piece outfit, but for all intents and purposes, Merritt runs...
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The Pick: The lush, whimsical and stark visions of childhood in the films of Studio Ghibli
About a week ago, The Guardian reported the discovery of 500 previously lost German fairy tales. The stories are refreshingly dark...
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The Pick: Joshua Jensen-Nagle’s dreamy echoes of the golden age at Bau-Xi Photo
Every generation idealizes one that came before—just ask Gil Pender from Midnight in Paris. Another case in point: the Instagram...
The Pick: Dark Matters, Crystal Pite’s drama of a puppet gone rogue
Puppets are all over the city this month. Ronnie Burkett, the pioneering Toronto puppeteer, just finished a run of his show Penny...
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The Pick: Canadian Artist, Shary Boyle’s delightfully twisted family tree
Shary Boyle’ s latest installation, hidden 68 floors above the suits and clattering heels of the Financial District in the BMO...
The Pick: Monsieur Lazhar, Quebec’s latest Oscar contender
For Toronto cinephiles, it’s hard not to envy Quebeckers. La Belle Province is home to a robust and thriving film industry, and...
The Pick: Love From Afar, a haunting tale of longing that occasionally masquerades as a circus act
To say the Canadian Opera Company’s production of Love From Afar has a lot going on would be a bit of an understatement. This...
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The Pick: Revelations, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s gospel-tinged masterpiece
In photos, the dancers of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater seem to never touch the ground. Their barely clad bodies, arched and...
The Pick: Tosca, the Canadian Opera Company’s sublimely soapy melodrama
Puccini’s Tosca has never been a critical favourite. The melodies are just too schmaltzy, argue its detractors, and the plot is...
The Pick: Mercer Union’s Diane Arbus retrospective, a glimpse at the birth of the modern magazine
Diane Arbus was as much a voyeur as an artist, famously focusing her lens on the fringes of ’60s...
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The Pick: Gary Hustwit’s Design Trilogy, three docs full of hot typefaces, beautiful objects and glorious city porn
Gary Hustwit has a knack for taking seemingly mundane subject matter—an ubiquitous sans-serif typeface, for example, or a potato...
The Pick: Love Is a Poverty You Can Sell, a little bit of Weimar-era Kurt Weill at the Factory
Contrary to what his legacy might suggest, Kurt Weill only dabbled in cabaret. Sure, he wrote a few tunes for the darkened German...
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These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
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The $4-Million Girlfriend Experience: The thief, the cam girl and their whirlwind fraudulent romance
Stephanie Sahler was a cam girl. Ralph Puglisi was a man willing to pay anything for her doting attention. It was the perfect arrangement—until she realized that every penny he sent her was stolen
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Dr. Ozempic: Inside the medical discovery that revolutionized weight loss
I was just a baby scientist when I discovered the hormone that made Ozempic possible. I had no idea how life-changing—and world-changing—that breakthrough would be
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A behind-the-curtain look at the insatiable political ambitions of Doug Ford
Is Ontario’s pugnacious premier charting a course for Ottawa? He definitely isn’t
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considering a run for prime minister. A long, hard look at the populist’s playbook
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Sex worker and
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consultant Andrea Werhun’s journey from strip clubs to Hollywood
Andrea Werhun’s dream was to be a writer, but there was a lot more money in sex work. She told herself she’d quit soon, then spent years working as a stripper. In 2022, Sean Baker hired her as a consultant on his Oscar-sweeping film. Now she’s stepping into her own spotlight
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Game Over: Inside fallen Toronto Raptor Jontay Porter’s sports betting scandal
As the pivotal member of a notorious betting ring, Porter was playing for another team. The story of a cheater, his bookmakers and the wager that brought them all down
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Megan Savard for the Defence: Meet the lawyer representing a player at the centre of the Hockey Canada trial
She’s fierce, shrewd and relentless. And she doesn’t just want to win—she wants to dismantle the prison system altogether
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Inside the rise and fall of the Vaulter Bandit, the 21st century’s most notorious bank robber
To fellow tourists he met around the world, Jeffery Shuman was a semi-retired developer with a bright smile, an even tan and a fat wallet. In truth, he was a legendary bank robber on the run from the Toronto police and the US Marshals
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Anchor Man: Fox News host John Roberts on Trump, the trade war and the American psyche
If Fox News seems an unlikely landing spot for a guy who got his start pumping out Platinum Blonde on MuchMusic, you probably haven’t heard his thoughts about joining the notorious network, the Canada–US relationship and what he misses most about Toronto
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Trump’s Loss, Toronto’s Gain: Meet the artists, professors, scientists and other luminaries ditching the US and moving north
They’re coming from Big Law, the Ivy League, arts institutes and beyond, brimming with smarts and energy and united by a common cause: avoiding the carnage of Donald Trump. True tales from the brain gain
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The Magic Lab: How chemist and computer scientist Alán Aspuru-Guzik brought self-driving laboratories from Harvard to Toronto
Aspuru-Guzik and his multinational team of mad scientists are combining chemistry, robotics and AI to fight climate change, streamline organ transplants and supercharge the scientific method. How did their lab end up at the University of Toronto? In a word: Trump
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Dancing Queens: Patrons, staff and performers share their wildest memories of Crews and Tangos, Toronto’s most storied drag bar
Crews and Tangos has been enforcing the rules of the Village for more than 30 years: wear what you want, kiss who you want, but don’t forget to tip the drag queens. With a condo development looming, we asked around for tales from the iconic spot
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The Joy of Sex with Strangers: A Toronto hotwife’s adventures in ethical non-monogamy
Three months ago, I was a suburban mom in a monogamous relationship. Now I’m sleeping with people I meet online—with my husband’s blessing—and we’ve never been happier. Don’t judge us until you’ve read our story
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The Scandal, the Firing and the Fallout: Anatomy of a Bay Street fiasco at RBC
Nadine Ahn was a high-ranking executive at the bank. Ken Mason, her subordinate, was rapidly promoted. Then someone claimed to see them canoodling at the Royal York, tipped off HR and triggered an inquisition
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Edward the Conqueror: The unlikely ascent of Canada’s telecom king
Edward Rogers was dismissed as a meddling nepo baby—until he muscled out his siblings, acquired his competitors, cornered the telecom market and became the dominant force in Canadian sports