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Toronto Life Magazine April 2015
Style
Tiny Town: four Torontonians who are living large in micro-condos
Pouneh Rouhani, 31 Advertising Executive Size: 450 square feet Neighbourhood: Liberty Village Monthly rent: $1,450 Why she went...
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City News
Six Degrees of John H. Tory: a peek at the high-powered Rolodex of our new Mayor McSchmooze
(images: John H. Tory by Markian Lozowchuk; Liz Tory, Slaight, Phillips, Peterson, Horn, Lind, Crombie, Mulroney, Campbell by...
Real Estate News
The Chase: twin sisters take a chance on a bargain-basement fixer-upper
Siblings go looking for a house that's priced like a condo
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: can I hate my fellow TTC riders for not giving up seats for me and my toddler?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I’m a young dad, and I take my 16-month-old son to and from daycare on the subway during rush hour. Is it...
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City News
Ten things Russell Martin can’t live without
Last fall, the star catcher signed a five-year, $82-million deal with the Jays. This month, he’ll make his debut on the...
City News
Memoir: my strict Muslim upbringing didn’t stop me from losing faith in God
I grew up in an observant Muslim household in Hamilton. My parents were refugees from Afghanistan who spoke Dari at home, read the...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: how can I convince my racist boss to hire a black sushi chef?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I manage a Japanese restaurant, and I recently interviewed a sushi chef who is insanely talented and happens...
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City News
Q&A: Säad Rafi, CEO of the Toronto Pan Am Games, on leading the most polarizing event since the G20
You were the widely respected deputy minister of health, making $428,000 a year. Then you accepted this highly controversial job...
City News
The Kink Club: inside the secret world of BDSM
Lord Morpheous, arguably Toronto’s reigning king of kink, lives in a downtown penthouse with a panoramic view of the...
Culture
Not Your Grandma’s AGO: how a century-old museum became the city’s hippest hangout
On a frigid February evening, 2,500 partygoers descended on the Art Gallery of Ontario for First Thursdays, the museum’s...
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City News
Fair Enough: skin-lightening is potentially hazardous, politically charged—and disturbingly popular
This past winter, a subway ad for Liberty Clinic sparked much controversy when it proclaimed, “Get brighter and lighter skin!”...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: can I disobey the demands of sidewalk-hogging TV crews?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I work near Victoria and Adelaide, which is almost always occupied by TV crews. I can’t go anywhere without...
City News
The Break-In Artist: The hunt for the cat burglar who terrorized Toronto’s wealthiest neighbourhoods
The Fort Knox of Thornhill is a stucco mansion with a mansard roof, front-yard fountain and U-shaped driveway on the area’s most...
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Food & Drink
Where to Eat 2015: our ranking of Toronto’s 10 best—actually, make that 20 best—new restaurants
It’s official: Toronto has too many great restaurants. Trying to keep track of every new omakase sushi savant, unmarked bar run...
Food & Drink
Best New Restaurants 2015: #1, Buca Yorkville
I’ve been daydreaming about Rob Gentile. I’m in love with his ricotta gnocchi, which he rolls out by hand at Buca...
Food & Drink
Best New Restaurants 2015: #2, Dandylion
Jay Carter studied at the best cooking school in town: Susur Lee’s kitchen. He worked as the master’s sous-chef for four...
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Best New Restaurants 2015: #3, Yasu
There are only 13 seats in this narrow, gleaming white room: 11 at the counter, plus a table for two by the window. Couples on...
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Best New Restaurants 2015: #4, DaiLo
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Best New Restaurants 2015: #5, Boralia
I wasn’t sure what to make of Boralia—yet another trendy restaurant on Ossington. The place, named after a moniker floated for...
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Best New Restaurants 2015: #6, Byblos
The wonder of Charles Khabouth isn’t that he runs so many nightclubs and restaurants, and opens a new spot nearly every...
Food & Drink
Best New Restaurants 2015: #7, Flor de Sal
Anyone nostalgic for the Corner House’s creaky, sunflower-yellow rooms and old-fashioned gastronomy is in for a shock. Cristina...
Food & Drink
Best New Restaurants 2015: #8, Bar Fancy
The name is wink-wink. There are no frilly drinks on offer—only bar rail, draft and decent wines for $11 a glass. Grandma-style...
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Best New Restaurants 2015: #9, Nana
Thai empires are at war. Two years ago, Monte Wan, who owns the line-up-for-hours Adelaide West phenomenon Khao San Road, parted...
Food & Drink
Best New Restaurants 2015: #10, Rasa
Mondays used to be dull before Adrian Niman came along. He and his business partner, Brent McClenahan, run a trendy catering...
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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
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
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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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