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The Weekender: War Horse, Harbourkids SK8 and six other items on our to-do list
1. I, ROBOT… YOU, ROBOT… WE, ROBOT This kid-friendly Science Centre exhibit is more prosaic than its literary—or...
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The Weekender: Avenue Q, Super Bowl XLVI Party and six other items on our to-do list
1. AVENUE Q This hilarious musical is part puppet show for grown ups—it’s essentially a Sesame Street parody—and part...
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The Weekender: Winterlicious, Come Up To My Room and six other items on our to-do list
1. WINTERLICIOUS It seems like every culinary event these days has “licious” tacked onto the end, but it’s this semi-annual...
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The Weekender: All-Girl Pillow Fight League, a Spice Girls tribute band and five other items on our to-do list
1. THE PENELOPIAD A “mix of tragedy, burlesque and Victorian melodrama,” this much-anticipated theatrical adaptation of...
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The Weekender: The Tsar’s Cabinet, The Nutcracker and six other items on our to-do list
1. THE POLAR EXPRESS PJ PARTY Most children love slumber parties and Christmas movies, which makes the decision to combine the two...
The Weekender: Memphis, DJ Skate Night and six other items on our to-do list
1. DJ SKATE NIGHT We’re more into huddling by a fire with hot chocolate than actually skating (is there such a thing as...
The Weekender: La Bohème, The Wizard of Oz and six other items on our to-do list
1. LA BOHÈME La Bohème is an oft-performed piece of work—sometimes that means a complete reworking (like we’ve seen in other...
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The Weekender: Prince, Romeo and Juliet and six other items on our to-do list
1. PRINCE He’s a rock star, an icon and, um, something of an odd duck. (Remember his “Internet’s completely over” moment?)...
The Weekender: The Santa Claus Parade, Idina Menzel and six other items on our to-do list
1. THE SANTA CLAUS PARADE This is the one Sunday in the whole year when otherwise adamant proponents of sleeping-in rise with the...
City News
Weekend Reading List: top stories from our sister sites, from the debt of nations to male gyrations
Every weekend we round up the highlights from the other websites in the St. Joseph Media family. Check them out, after the...
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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: Don Giovanni, Literary Death Match and six other events on our to-do list
1. LITERARY DEATH MATCH TORONTO In this singularly silly lit event, four authors ( Grace O’Connell, Carolyn Black, Rebecca...
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...
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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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The Weekender: Screemers, Margaret Atwood and five other items on our to-do list
1. I SEND YOU THIS CADMIUM RED When artist John Berger and filmmaker John Christie originally began corresponding, they discussed...
The Weekender: Ghosts, David Hockney’s Fresh Flowers and six other items on our to-do list
1. DAVID HOCKNEY’S FRESH FLOWERS Pop artist David Hockney is back in Toronto with his latest exhibit, Fresh Flowers: Drawings on...
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The Weekender: Nuit Blanche, Spring Awakening and six other items on our to-do list
1. NUIT BLANCHE We wish good luck to those who aim to see all there is to see at this year’s sundown–to–sun-up contemporary...
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The Weekender: Christopher Plummer and the TSO, Bill Maher and six other items on our to-do list
1. CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER AND THE TSO We’re of the opinion that Christopher Plummer could stand on a stage reading a grocery list...
The Weekender: Private Lives, Queen West Art Crawl and six other events on our to-do list
1. PRIVATE LIVES This 1930s comedy by Noël Coward is responsible for about three quarters of romantic comedies today. Just look...
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The Weekender: TIFF 2011, Pearl Jam and five other items on our to-do list
1. TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Things have changed a little in TIFF-land—there’s a whole extra day, some new...
The Weekender: Buskerfest, Come Fly Away and five other items on our to-do list
1. BUSKERFEST As those vaguely sinister subway ads have been promising for weeks, the instrument players, joke tellers, balloon...
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The Weekender: Lil Wayne, Wild Blueberry Festival and five other items on our to-do list
1. CANADIAN NATIONAL EXHIBITION The Ex is back, which means wobbly rides, carnival games and plenty of midway food. Whatever your...
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The Weekender: Taste of the Danforth, Rogers Cup and six other items on our to-do list
1. ONTARIO VINIFERA SHOWDOWN Forget everything we‘ve said about other showdowns (smoked meat, the kickass women of roller...
The Long Weekender: Drake’s October’s Very Own festival, the festival formerly known as Caribana and six other items on our to-do list
1. OVO FEST We didn’t make it to Drake’s first October’s Very Own festival (and we are so very bitter about it, since...
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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
Deep Dives
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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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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
Lady Parts: Inside Meredith MacNeill and Jennifer Whalen’s new show,
Small Achievable Goals
The
Baroness von Sketch Show
alumnae have elevated joking about women’s issues to an art. Their new show takes aim at menopause. How funny is that?
Deep Dives
Murder in the Blue Mountains: The story behind the killing of Ashley Schwalm
Ashley and James Schwalm had what seemed like a fairy tale life—two wonderful children, fulfilling careers and a gorgeous home close to the private ski club where they’d fallen in love. Then Ashley’s remains turned up in a burned-out car at the bottom of a ditch, and all signs pointed to her husband
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Dark Horse: Inside the fall of Eric Lamaze, Canada’s most famous equestrian
For years, Lamaze was the world’s top-ranked show jumper, living an enviable life filled with fancy cars, international travel and adoring fans—the kind of life a person might do anything to protect
Deep Dives
Dividing Line: How the Bloor Street bike lane turned the city into a battlefield
A few kilometres along Bloor has become Toronto’s most contested strip of concrete, igniting fights over congestion, safety and the future of downtown
Deep Dives
The Chosen One: At just 23, Scottie Barnes is the new face of the Raptors—and the team’s best chance of salvation
Barnes is shouldering the weight of an impatient, basketball-mad city, a hit-and-miss team, and his own colossal ambitions. Does he look worried?
Deep Dives
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Famous: Inside the Beaches’ rise to rock stardom
A viral earworm about a breakup turned the Beaches into Toronto’s hottest export. Now, the panty-throwing, stage-diving, all-girl rock band is seducing fans around the world
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“I was nearly beaten to death by my partner. The case was dismissed because it took too long to get to trial”
How an overburdened justice system is failing survivors of intimate partner violence
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“We felt disconnected from the outdoors before”: What St. Lawrence Market North vendors think of their new home
And what locally made and grown goods they’re selling
Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Amelia’s Market, a Geary Avenue grocer selling local goods and light lunches
Like lovely cheese plates paired with glasses of Ontario-made wine
Food & Drink
“There’s more attention now on shopping close to home”: How Broadfork Produce is connecting Toronto’s top chefs with Ontario farmers
And the west-end supplier is opening to the public soon
Food & Drink
The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative