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TIFF 2014
City News
Tina Fey on the fans at TIFF: “What is going on in Canada?"
— Tina Fey , discussing the difference between American and Canadian fans on Wednesday night's episode of Late Night with Seth...
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Culture
TIFF 2014 cheers and jeers: the best and worst of this year’s festival
Because everything related to film culture, even tangentially, can and should be evaluated using a Siskel-and-Ebertian binary...
Spotted: Diane Keaton shopping for vintage furniture in The Junction
Diane Keaton appears to be redecorating. Last Saturday, she spent some time searching for vintage statement pieces in the...
Culture
Kate Winslet turns TIFF’s closing red carpet into a full-on media frenzy
In the abstract, The Very Last Red Carpet sounds like a sad affair: the crowds, sick to death with celebrity, staying home to...
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Culture
John Travolta shakes almost too many hands at the premiere of
The Forger
With 10 days of red carpets behind us, we can't help but pick up on patterns. For instance, the fact that it's the biggest stars...
Culture
Christopher Plummer steals the show at
The Forger
press conference, because of course he does
The Forger is one of those movies that sounds like it was made up by a Mad Libs plot generator. Hatched out of jail early, a...
Spotted: Adam Sandler eating short ribs at Hudson Kitchen on Dundas West
On Wednesday night, Adam Sandler showed up with 30 of his closest friends—well, okay, mostly just people who collaborated on his...
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Culture
Method Man salutes Toronto (via pom-pom hat) on the red carpet for
The Cobbler
Sometimes, in the dying days of TIFF—once the stargazing mobs have quieted down and the international press has gone...
Culture
Ryan Reynolds and Anna Kendrick dodge autograph hounds outside Weslodge
Remember when we said that by Tuesday most of the craziest autograph hounds had all but disappeared ? Well, maybe they were just...
Culture
Josh Hutcherson and Claudia Traisac exchange PDAs on Duncan Street
At Thursday's party for Escobar: Paradise Lost , starring Benicio Del Toro , Hunger Games ’ Josh Hutcherson and Claudia Traisac...
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Culture
Tobey Maguire and Peter Sarsgaard talk chess at the world premiere of
Pawn Sacrifice
Leave it to TIFF to turn a movie about something as quiet and intellectual as chess into a frenzied, shrieking star...
Culture
Chugging coffee, making small talk and other ways hard-core TIFF fans survive the festival
TIFF fatigue is a serious thing that tends to set in fairly early . It takes stamina to stay engaged throughout the ten-day...
Culture
Keira Knightley is totally a trooper on the rainy red carpet for
Laggies
It was a dark and stormy night. Keira Knightley pulled up to Roy Thomson Hall for the world premiere of Laggies to nary a...
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Culture
A question for Midnight Madness attendees: what scares you the most?
TIFF's popular Midnight Madness program, which has been showing films of the frightening, strange and action-packed variety for...
Spotted: Robert Pattinson at the Montecito lounge
On Tuesday night, Robert Pattinson showed up sans reservation at Montecito for a casual dinner with three non-celeb pals. The...
Culture
At the premiere of
Maps to the Stars
, David Cronenberg wears sunglasses at night
With the camera flashes so plentiful, it's no wonder hometown auteur David Cronenberg showed up to Tuesday's Roy Thomson Hall red...
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Keira Knightley and the Kingslayer party on Adelaide Street
We got our workout yesterday at the Grey Goose Soho House party for The Imitation Game, which saw all four floors of the house...
Culture
Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley draw huge crowds at the red carpet for
The Imitation Game
Even if half the self-professed Cumberbitches haven’t a clue how a cryptanalyst earns his keep or what on earth a logician...
Culture
Andrew Garfield and Michael Shannon say homelessness is bad
One of those super-topical movies that came a few years too late, 99 Homes stars the Amazing Spider-Man, Andrew Garfield , as a...
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Culture
Jennifer Aniston talks about letting herself go for
Cake
Post- Friends, nobody's really figured out what to do with Jennifer Aniston . Since 2002’s The Good Girl, she's popped...
Culture
Benedict Cumberbatch humbly admits that he is not a genius
At TIFF 2013, you couldn't swing around a Sherlock -issue trench coat without hitting Benedict Cumberbatch. The British star...
Spotted: Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux eating cake on Queen West
After walking the red carpet for her new drama Cake on Sunday, Jennifer Aniston, flanked by fiancé Justin Theroux, met up with...
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Culture
John Cusak talks about the time he met Andre the Giant
Try though he might, Robert Pattinson can't shake the Twi -hards. The alley adjacent to the Lightbox was teeming with adolescents...
Spotted: Jane Fonda speeding away from the Distillery District
Septuagenarian Jane Fonda gave the Distillery District two thumbs down on Sunday. According to gossip guy Shinan Govani, Fonda...
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Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Almost
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
Deep Dives
“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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Food & Drink
“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