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Toronto International Film Festival
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Ethan Hawke makes a quick appearance at the Woman in the Fifth party, but Dave Matthews sticks around
It’s day four of TIFF and events are slowing down (okay, maybe we’re just slowing down), but we managed to make it out to the...
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Culture
Venice vs. TIFF fashion showdown, Sarah Gadon edition
Toronto’s own Sarah Gadon is certainly one to watch—she’s recently starred in The Moth Diaries and David Cronenberg’ s...
Culture
Madonna bails on her after-party, but that doesn’t stop Harvey Weinstein from throwing a great one at Grey Goose Soho House
For the fourth and final evening, Grey Goose Soho House was the celebrity venue of choice, with back-to-back-to-back parties for...
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...
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Culture
The cast of Killer Elite (but not Robert De Niro) had a party at Maison Mercer’s rooftop deck
Not only did Robert De Niro not stay for his post-screening Q&A, he also bailed on the after-party at Maison Mercer on Saturday...
Culture
SmartWater and Bungalow 8 threw a party that was tough to get into at the Burroughes building
Last night’s Creative Artists Agency jam at the Burroughes building, sponsored by Smart Water and hosted by Bungalow 8, seemed...
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...
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Culture
Rachel Weisz is a consummate professional at the Deep Blue Sea dinner at Grey Goose Soho House
By now, Soho House’s once discreet location is known by all to be home to the hottest celebs at TIFF, but at last night’s The...
Culture
The Independent Filmmaker Project party at the Thompson Rooftop was packed with thieves and pretty young things
The Calvin Klein–sponsored Young Filmmakers celebration on the Thompson Rooftop wasn’t the hotel’s hottest ticket—that...
Culture
Some of the Your Sister’s Sister’s cast, and the Westons, were at Grey Goose Soho House
For the third night in a row, Grey Goose Soho House proved to be a celebrity pit stop during TIFF 2011. Last night at the fete for...
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Culture
Today at TIFF: W.E. gala presentation, Festival Music House and more
Our daily roundup of opening galas, parties and screenings. • 2:30 p.m. Intruders • 5:30 p.m. Ten Year official cast dinner at...
Culture
Melancholia was packed to the walls with fan girls and boys as Alexander Skarsgård and Kirsten Dunst made an appearance
Hugo Boss on Bloor Street played host to a party for Lars Von Trier ’s film Melancholia , starring Kirsten Dunst and Alexander...
Culture
This year’s Vanity Fair party was a splashy affair, obviously
There are certain markers that make a TIFF party successful: people need to be happy (drunk), celebrities (i.e. not the Degrassi...
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Culture
Apparently, TIFF co-director and CEO Piers Handling isn’t too excited about the state of post-9/11 cinema
We’re pretty sure most of the city is having a good time taking in the hype and hoopla surrounding the 10-day celebrity bonanza...
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
Kathleen Turner got people talking at this year’s annual George Christy luncheon
Famed Hollywood reporter George Christy ’s annual Four Seasons cocktail party and luncheon saw Toronto’s upper-crustiest...
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At A Dangerous Method’s party at Soho House, A-list celebrities outnumbered the common folk
The sheer abundance of A-listers at A Dangerous Method ’s party at Soho House put celeb gossip mongers on overload, and by 2:30...
Culture
Jon Hamm, Paul Haggis, Morgan Spurlock and more came out to George Strombo’s Hazelton Hotel fete
The CBC George Stroumboulopoulos Takeover at the Hazelton Hotel is always a mixed bag: big-name celebs mingle with more...
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
Kate Spade and Bryce Dallas Howard celebrate women in cinema at the Harbord Room
A very pregnant Bryce Dallas Howard co-hosted a cocktail in honour of women in the film industry last night with Kate Spade...
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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The Swag Series: NKPR’s IT Lounge, like Oprah’s Favourite Things, but in a TIFF gifting lounge
What it is: Another year of NKPR’s IT Lounge, hosted at their Adelaide Street headquarters. NKPR honcho Natasha Koifman has...
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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