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TIFF Red Carpet
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
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
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...
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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...
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...
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...
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Culture
Reese Witherspoon reveals the contents of her backpack at
Wild
’s premiere
One gets the sense that Dallas Buyers Club director Jean-Marc Valée might be looking forward to snapping up a few more awards...
Culture
Jon Stewart struts the red carpet for
Rosewater,
calls Canadians “upsettingly” nice
The Daily Show host and first-time filmmaker Jon Stewart seems to really like Canada. Maybe it’s because Half Baked , in which...
Culture
Channing Tatum steals the spotlight from Steve Carell at
Foxcatcher
’s red carpet
"Chan-ning, Chan-ning, Chan-ning." If you were within three blocks of Roy Thomson Hall for Monday's red-carpet premiere of...
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Culture
Jennifer Aniston reinvigorates tired TIFF crowds at the
Cake
premiere
Just when you start to think the inevitable TIFF fatigue has gone airborne, Jennifer Aniston shows up. The actress walked the red...
Culture
Brian Wilson brings his otherworldly self to the debut of Beach Boy biopic
Love and Mercy
If my girlfriend and I have something we might consider "our song," it's "God Only Knows" by The Beach Boys. I told this to its...
Culture
Reese Witherspoon draws a crowd at the premiere of
The Good Lie
The always-adorable Reese Witherspoon reeled in big crowds outside of the Elgin Theatre on Sunday afternoon for the red carpet...
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Culture
Denzel Washington wreaks charming vengeance on the red carpet for
The Equalizer
A cool thing about The Equalizer , a movie you may have heard if you (a) live in Toronto and (b) have eyes, is that it’s...
Culture
Tina Fey cracks up the carpet at the debut of
This is Where I Leave You
In years past, the festival has begun to taper off around day four. The stars become less dazzling, the press less rabid—but...
Culture
Jessica Chastain hugs fans, talks corsets at the world premiere of period piece
Miss Julie
At Sunday afternoon’s world premiere of Miss Julie , the 1890-set drama by Norwegian writer and director Liv Ullmann, no one...
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Kevin Smith debuts his creepy, campy “mash note” to Canada at TIFF’s Midnight Madness
If the TIFF slogan "This is your film festival" has been thrown into question in the last few years—what with the bash becoming...
Culture
Chris Rock leads a troupe of comedians down the carpet at the premiere of
Top Five
If the horseplay and high spirits at the Top Five world premiere Saturday at the Princess of Wales Theatre were any...
Culture
Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts and Adam Driver breeze by the crowds at
While We’re Young
’s red carpet
What gives, guys? At the Princess of Wales Theatre on Saturday, the stars of While We're Young —an offbeat comedy about an older...
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Adam Sandler talks Rob Ford at
Men, Women & Children
red carpet
Considering that most of his early comedies are about blubbering, barely coherent man-children flailing to redeem themselves and...
Culture
Michael Douglas and Jeremy Irvine get pally at the premiere of human-sport-hunting thriller
The Reach
For the debut of a cat-and-mouse thriller about one man's attempts to sport-hunt a living, breathing human being, the red carpet...
Culture
Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace
Drop
by the Princess of Wales Theatre
In the gritty crime drama The Drop , living meat man Tom Hardy plays a Brooklyn bartender drawn into the seedy Chechen crime...
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Dustin Hoffman’s arrival is heralded by hallelujahs at
Boychoir
’s debut
Dustin Hoffman is an avuncular guy. On the red carpet premiere of Boychoir on Friday at Roy Thomson Hall, we heard over and over...
Culture
Jake Gyllenhaal shows off his perfect stubble on the red carpet for
Nightcrawler
Well, this stupid jerk weather wasn't enough to scare Jake Gyllenhaal fans, all of whom presumably love him for Zodiac ’s...
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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
Deep Dives
Brave New Year: The ultimate try-anything-once bucket list for 2025
For inspiration on wonderful, wild and even some slightly reckless experiences to enjoy in the year ahead
Deep Dives
The stars of the PWHL’s Toronto Sceptres on finally having a league of their own
After kicking off a new chapter for hockey with the PWHL, Natalie Spooner, Sarah Nurse and Blayre Turnbull are blazing a trail for women in sports
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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
Food & Drink
These Ontario-made booze collaborations are coming to a restaurant near you
Toronto bars and restaurants are partnering with their favourite distillers, winemakers and brewers to produce custom-made drinks. Here, nine crushable new concoctions