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TIFF 2011 Spotted
Culture
SPOTTED: Steve McQueen at the Spoke Club
Another tip from the Spoke Club’s cultural curator: Steve McQueen, director of the Michael Fassbender/Carey Mulligan pic...
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Culture
SPOTTED: Scott Speedman at the Alliance Films/Ben Sherman Lounge
Our TIFF eyes and ears are telling us that Scott Speedman, whom you may remember best from his days as the hunky Ben Covington on...
Culture
SPOTTED: Top Chef head judge Tom Colicchio feeding the stars at last week’s Moneyball cast dinner
When you’re feeding Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Anna Faris and Jonah Hill at the Moneyball cast dinner, it makes sense to spring...
Culture
SPOTTED: Andrew Garfield and Francis Ford Coppola dining at Oro
Golden Globe nominee Andrew Garfield and legendary Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola were spotted eating at Elm Street...
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Culture
SPOTTED: James Franco, fan art collector
James Franco was in town yesterday to promote Memories of Idaho , an art installation presented in collaboration with Gus Van Sant...
Culture
SPOTTED: Jon Hamm drinks old-fashioneds at Goodnight Gansevoort
We figure men and women alike who want to model their future alcoholism after Mad Men’ s Don Draper might be interested to know...
Culture
SPOTTED: Don McKellar at the red carpet—but not on the red carpet—at The Eye of the Storm
We saw Canadian actor, writer and director Don McKellar waiting outside the Winter Garden Theatre yesterday for the premiere of...
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Culture
SPOTTED: Abel Tesfaye (a.k.a. The Weeknd) at Goodnight Gansevoort
The rise of the post- Drake R&B sensation The Weeknd has been pretty meteoric, so we weren’t too surprised to see him in the wee...
Culture
SPOTTED: Willem Dafoe pulls a (semi-terrifying) face
Willem Dafoe is an incredibly talented actor but he seems to be having bad luck with photos taken at inopportune moments at this...
Culture
SPOTTED: A snap-happy Dave Matthews outside Grey Goose Soho House last night
Dave Matthews is in town for TIFF and has been spotted socializing with A-listers at Grey Goose Soho House over the last couple...
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Culture
SPOTTED: Every famous person ever (well, almost) at Grey Goose Soho House last night
Apparently, David Cronenberg knows how to throw a party: pretty much every celebrity currently in town for TIFF attended the...
Culture
SPOTTED: Elisha Cuthbert and Dion Phaneuf at Holts
It seems Prime Minister Harper isn’t the only one that’s in town to hobnob with hockey players — Elisha Cuthbert was spotted...
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
SPOTTED: Kirsten Dunst walking Toronto’s streets
The Toronto Star is reporting that Kirsten Dunst is out and about in the city today, looking melancholy in head-to-toe black...
Culture
SPOTTED: Jon Hamm at Strombo’s Hazelton Takeover party at One restaurant at the Hazelton Hotel
We saw Don Draper last night—with our own eyes! That’s right, Jon Hamm in the flesh. Only, rather strangely, Hamm was looking...
Culture
SPOTTED: Emily Blunt and Ewan McGregor lunching at the InterContinental Toronto Centre
We just got wind from a source that Emily Blunt and Ewan McGregor lunched together today at the Ben Sherman lounge at the...
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Culture
SPOTTED: Leighton Meester lands in Toronto and, apparently, knows our national anthem
Leighton Meester, the sassiest and, arguably, most put-together cast member of Gossip Girl (only Blair could pull off extreme...
Culture
SPOTTED: Stephen Harper (yes, that one) partying with Ludacris (yes, that one) at the Thompson Rooftop Lounge
We’d say this is the kind of pairing that could happen only at TIFF, but for all we know it’s not the first time that Prime...
Culture
SPOTTED: Woody Harrelson getting harassed outside the Elgin Theatre
Woody Harrelson has now been officially spotted in Toronto for TIFF—but we wonder if he ever really left. Before attending...
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Culture
SPOTTED: Paul Haggis kibitzing with fans at The Hazelton
We spotted three A-listers at George Stroumboulopoulos’ s Hazelton Takeover last night, two of whom kept strictly to...
Culture
SPOTTED: Kiefer Sutherland at the Ritz-Carlton
A Toronto Life tipster caught a glimpse of former Toronto resident and 24 star Kiefer Sutherland leaving the Ritz-Carlton and...
Culture
SPOTTED: George Clooney gives a friendly salute to his adoring public
A Toronto Life tipster shared this shot of George Clooney heading back to the Ritz-Carlton less than 24 hours after being spotted...
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SPOTTED: Paul Giamatti declining to mug for the cameras on King West (allegedly)
Now that every fan with a cell phone has become a part-time paparazzo, it ain’t easy out there for a star. Apparently, Paul...
Culture
SPOTTED: A svelte Jonah Hill eating sushi at Japango
After polling his legion of Twitter followers on the best sushi joint in the city, Superbad funnyman Jonah Hill was spotted at...
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Deep Dives
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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