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Toronto Life
Music on the Block party
Music on the Block perfectly captured the vibrant spirit of summer in a warm and energetic community celebration
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What TL Insiders can look forward to in July
Including one-of-a-kind dinners, patio parties and engaging masterclasses
Food & Drink
What went down at the Diageo World Class Canada Bartending Competition 2021
Last week, nine of the country’s top bartenders descended on Real Sports in Toronto to prove that they have what it takes to...
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“We were ready to pull the plug if we had to”: the inside story of Toronto’s first in-person charity event since Covid
There was no table hopping and guests were spread apart in three rooms
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Food & Drink
We asked these perfectly sane-looking Torontonians to explain their absurd CNE food choices
We're just trying to understand why.
Let Zun Lee’s photographs challenge your notions of black fatherhood
Zun Lee ’ s images of black fatherhood are refreshingly candid. The Toronto photographer’s black-and-white shots—a father...
Hear Dan Mangan’s ambitious art rock at Massey Hall
The Vancouver artist Dan Mangan built his name on easy, likeable songs: palatable indie-folk melodies with quiet acoustic guitars...
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Rewrite Canadian history with the Cree artist Kent Monkman
Paintings by the Canadian Cree artist Kent Monkman feel familiar at first—romantic landscapes, coniferous forest, Mount...
Watch Angela Lansbury bring
Blithe Spirit
to life
Separately, Angela Lansbury and Blithe Spirit have been around for ages. One is the 89-year-old British star of Murder, She Wrote...
Discover the culture-clashing art of Jean-Michel Basquiat
A product of New York’s punk scene, the Brooklyn artist Jean-Michel Basquiat quickly jumped from the street to the gallery...
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Hear Rufus Wainwright pay tribute to his folk-legend mom
Before the Canadian folk legend Kate McGarrigle died of cancer five years ago, she spent her final days championing Patients...
Watch Owen Pallett reinvigorate pop music with a pair of Saturday shows
Owen Pallett is Canada’s most sought-after musician: he’s created orchestral arrangements for Taylor Swift and R.E.M. , played...
Say farewell to The Guvernment with a Deadmau5-led dance party
The Guvernment , the iconic 18-year-old dance club, will soon be demolished for a strip of waterfront condos—but before that...
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Get lost in the Gladstone’s annual art takeover
Every year, as part of the alt-design event Come Up To My Room, the Gladstone Hotel lets artist loose on its quirky rooms and...
Secrets to a Happy Toronto Winter: #13. The sassiest dance parties are on ice
There are bigger rinks and smoother rinks and more famous rinks, like Nathan Phillips Square, where at some point every...
Secrets to a Happy Toronto Winter: #15. The best festivals happen in winter
Long Winter Once a month, the thrash-rock outfit Fucked Up throw the city’s hottest party at the Great Hall, featuring sets from...
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Discover the staying power of Gordon Parks’s segregation photography
At Life magazine, where he was the magazine’s first African-American staff photographer, the American photographer Gordon Parks...
See your favourite local artists play their favourite tunes
The one-night-only Cover Me Impressed showcase features a goldmine of local roots-rock talent performing their favourite...
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Venus in Fur,
Canadian Stage’s seductive and sophisticated hit
Canadian Stage’ s production of Venus in Fur, the darkly sexy comedy from American playwright David Ives, leaves no space for...
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Check out Austra’s thrilling, trilling pop operatics
No one sounds quite like Austra. The Toronto synth-pop trio has cultivated an innovative sound that blends theatrical vocals with...
Relive the entire Harry Potter saga in just 70 minutes
Harry Potter' s popularity is as durable as a lightning-shaped scar. Two actor-writers have cashed in on the perma-fandom by...
Discover the surprising story of Wonder Woman’s feminist, polygamist creator
The Secret History of Wonder Woman , the new book by Harvard history prof and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore , is much more...
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Start a strange new Christmas tradition with Henri Fabergé’s holiday rock opera
The avant-garde enigma Henri Fabergé (real name: Henry Fletcher ) has been hovering around the city’s art, music and theatre...
Go beyond the Grinch at Liss Gallery’s Dr. Seuss exhibition
Searching for a perfect complement to the obligatory annual viewing of How the Grinch Stole Christmas ? Head to Yorkville, where...
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Private School Guide
The Private and Independent School Directory Spring 2025
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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
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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
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
Deep Dives
The 50 Most Influential Torontonians of 2024
Our annual ranking of the people whose courage, smarts and clout are changing the world as we know it
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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
Food & Drink
“We have over 100 cases of American wine trapped at the LCBO”: Toronto’s Grape Witches on what it’s like to run a bottle shop during a trade war
It’s not as simple as taking sides when you’re a small business
Food & Drink
Six Toronto restaurants serving up all-Canadian menus
With a trade war upon us, our city’s chefs are taking a stand