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TIFF 2014 Insider’s Guide: Where to Get Pampered
The best salons, spas and gyms the city has to offer Stillwater Spa at the Park Hyatt 4 Avenue Rd., 416-926-2389 The Park Hyatt...
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TIFF 2014 Insider’s Guide: Where to Go All Out
Over-the-top services that help you do TIFF the way it was meant to be done The Four Seasons 60 Yorkville Ave., 416-964-0411 The...
Culture
The Toronto International Film Festival announces its opening-night film for 2014
The lucky flick is The Judge , a David Dobkin movie about a big-city lawyer with daddy issues who returns to his hometown to find...
Culture
Here are five trailers for films we now know are coming to TIFF
This morning, the Toronto International Film Festival made its first in what will certainly be a long series of programming...
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John Cameron Mitchell may lead a
Hedwig
sing-along in Toronto during World Pride
In what may be the ultimate confluence of things a lot of LGBT people love, John Cameron Mitchell is coming to Toronto to host a...
Food & Drink
Five things to do in Toronto on the weekend of April 11–13
In this edition of The Weekender, a modern reinterpretation of a classic opera, a festival of kids' movies and three more things...
Culture
TIFF’s new policy: only world and North American premieres can play the busiest days of the festival
The Toronto International Film Festival is such a big deal to locals that it's easy for us to lose sight of the fact that it's...
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Five things to do in Toronto on the weekend of January 24–26
In this edition of The Weekender, a festival of craft beer and indie music, a walk to raise money for Alzheimer's treatment, and...
Five things to do in Toronto on the weekend of January 3–5
In this edition of The Weekender, a last chance to see the National Ballet perform a Christmas classic, a strip spelling bee and...
Six things to do in Toronto on the weekend of December 13–15
In this edition of The Weekender, a retrospective of the work of Japan's best-known animation studio, a chance to learn how to...
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TIFF 2013 Trend: Spectacles, suspenders and other stylin’ man-cessories
Suits get boring, especially when you’re wearing one to premiere after premiere. It’s only natural, then, that...
Culture
TIFF 2013 Roundup: the best, worst and weirdest from this year’s festival
After eleven hectic days, 288 feature films and enough glitzy red carpets and parties to leave us verging on celebrity...
Culture
TIFF GIF: Emma Thompson gives one lucky fan some skin-to-skin contact
At the gala for The Love Punch, the delightfully goofy Emma Thompson leaped out of her limo with jazz hands, screamed “TIFF!!...
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TIFF GIF: Mike Myers and Shep Gordon point fingers
Literally. The Canadian funny man and his documentary subject goofed around at the pre-screening gala for Supermensch: The Legend...
Culture
TIFF 2013 Trend: Mega-hunks with lustrous locks
Two years ago, the men at TIFF were all wearing beards; then last year, it was sexy scruff. At this year’s fest, we saw an...
Culture
TIFF Red Carpet: Catherine O’Hara slips under the radar at the gala for The Right Kind of Wrong
At first we thought Catherine O’Hara stayed home. The SCTV actress, best known for roles in Home Alone, Beetlejuice and Best in...
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The Dish Power Rankings: Go West, Brad Pitt Edition
A new restaurant on Dundas West hosts Hollywood’s sovereign hunk, and Soho House becomes celebrity drive-by central . 1. Hudson...
Culture
Quoted: the director of Daniel Radcliffe rom-com The F Word on why it’s the perfect date movie
– Another reason to see the When Harry Met Sally –style romance: it stars Toronto as its beautiful self, complete with Beck...
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Emma Thompson is adorably goofy at the presser for heist flick The Love Punch
Emma Thomspon will never retire. She’d rather become a full-time thief like the one she plays in her newest flick, The Love...
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Quoted: Rob Ford on Smurfs 2, American Gangster and what he looks for in a quality film
– Rob Ford, dishing on his cinematic preferences after sashaying down the red carpet outside the TIFF Bell Lightbox...
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More record-setting wheeling and dealing at TIFF 2013
Welcome to one of the most lucrative TIFFs yet. After a record-setting opening weekend, the deals keep coming: Harvey...
Culture
Scarlett Johansson and Joseph Gordon-Levitt get (platonically) friendly at the party for Don Jon
There wasn’t much on-set turmoil, it would seem, for Don Jon stars Scarlett Johansson and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Last night’s...
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Olivia Wilde discusses Italian nude scenes at the presser for Third Person
Some celebrities are just itching to share. At yesterday’s presser for Third Person, Paul Haggis’ s multi-story love flick set...
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TIFF Party: Keanu Reeves pounds beers and chain-smokes at the after-party for Man of Tai Chi
Down a King West alleyway, not far from Susan Sarandon ’s ping pong club Spin, Keanu Reeves ambled into the Virgin-hosted...
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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
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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“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