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Introducing: Modus Ristorante, the plush new Financial District spot for upscale Italian
Modus Ristorante, a new restaurant in the Financial District, might serve Italian food, but refreshingly, no one’s anxious to...
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City News
Adam Giambrone dazzles us with numbers, but stops short of going for the throat
In a column in this week’s Now, Adam Giambrone vents some frustrations about the TTC’s plans to pile more passengers onto...
Culture
Recipe to Riches reveals judges (including Laura Calder) and contestants (including four from the GTA)
It seems there’s an insatiable appetite for competitive food shows (we certainly can’t get enough ). The latest offering is...
Food & Drink
Introducing: L’Ouvrier, the newest addition to Dundas West’s restaurant row
Back in August we told you about L’Ouvrier, the new restaurant and bar on Dundas West, which takes its inspiration from a line...
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Style
CB2’s Queen West opening will be delayed until—at least—2012
CB2 announced its official opening would take place this fall , but we found out this week that those in search of modular...
City News
Five things we learned about Peter Gatien’s quiet Toronto life
Peter Gatien ’s story is legendary to a generation of New York club kids and would-be New York Club kids who had the bad luck of...
Food & Drink
True Grits: Chris Nuttall-Smith on Acadia’s sublime Lowcountry cooking
There are things you don’t expect in a cheap, casual Little Italy restaurant with a mediocre wine list. You don’t expect to...
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Food & Drink
Calgary’s mayor on street eats: truffle fries (theirs) vs. hot dogs (ours)
Given Rob Ford’ s incessant and dour gravy train mantras, it helps to be reminded that some mayors actually enjoy the role of...
Shopping
6 in 1: an outfit from The Narwhal that is perfect for a fancy party
Now that TIFF is done and dusted, we return to our semi-regular All in One series, in which we visit stores around the city and...
Today in Toronto: Iphigenia in Tauris, the Kira Callahan Quartet and more
Chi of Shaolin: The Tale of the Dragon A thief left for dead after a failed robbery is helped by a Shaolin monk in this Cirque du...
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City News
Margaret Atwood meets Doug Ford in person; universe refuses to explode
If you’re tired of reading stories about big idea man Doug Ford and literary nobody Margaret Atwood , you can thank Councillor...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Bar Vespa, a new Italian-inspired room in Liberty Village
After opening the Sugar Beach–fronting Against the Grain in June, FAB Concepts, the group behind places like Mill Street Brewpub...
City News
Doug Ford allegedly threatens fellow councillor with automated wrath
Now and then we hear griping about Doug Ford’ s outsized influence at city hall given the brief time he’s actually spent as a...
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Culture
TIFF 2011 Roundup: “Glowing” (i.e. pregnant) mothers edition
Baby bumps were in fashion this year at TIFF, where several expecting stars strolled red carpets in clothes that skirted the usual...
Culture
Reaction roundup: Arcade Fire wins the 2011 Polaris Prize
Montreal rockers Arcade Fire had a big year in 2011—they won Junos and a Grammy, and as of yesterday, the esteemed Polaris...
Culture
New Toronto Review of Books reviews Twitter, among other things
The London Review of Books touts itself as having “stood up for the tradition of the literary and intellectual essay in...
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Culture
TIFF 2011 Roundup: Has Ryan Gosling officially overtaken George Clooney? (Also, Madonna vs. Bono)
Every time we mentioned George Clooney on this site during TIFF, our web traffic spiked. And every time we mentioned Ryan...
City News
Ancestry.ca reveals Dalton McGuinty and Tim Hudak are distantly related, generates publicity for itself
The duel for premier seems to have reached an impasse , and an announcement by Ancestry.ca today could offer an...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Hey Meatball!, Rodney Bowers’s new Little Italy mix ’n’ match meatball joint
On a wall in Rodney Bowers’s new College Street venture Hey Meatball! , there’s a photo of a bandana-clad Bowers holding up a...
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Food & Drink
Introducing: Food Cabbie, a new food truck with classic American comfort food
The Food Cabbie, an unassuming yellow-and-black food truck serving American classics, popped up a couple weeks ago in a car park...
Style
American designer Cynthia Rowley will be showing at Toronto Fashion Week
There’s some exciting news for those who love Toronto Fashion Week, but hate Canadian talent: Cynthia Rowley , the American...
Food & Drink
David Lawrason rounds up some of the best Ontario wines from off the beaten track
New Ontario vintners are planting vines in unlikely places and making wine that will warm your indie-loving locavore heart. In the...
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Weekly Lunch Pick: a thin-crust prosciutto pizza in the theatre district
The new theatre district location of Paese opened relatively quietly about a year ago and, like its older uptown sibling, serves...
Culture
TIFF 2011 roundup: (mostly non-fictitious) Dave Matthews edition
Like a hirsute garden gnome, contemporary alt-blues-roots rocker Dave Matthews popped up everywhere at TIFF this year. First he...
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Wines of the World
Food & Drink
Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
Toronto Life’s
Best Restaurants
From cabernet and merlot to icewine and chardonnay, these wines are primed to pair and delight
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Deep Dives
The Monster Cottages vs. the Resistance: Inside the ruthless battle for the future of Muskoka
From Gravenhurst to Port Cockburn, the uber rich and powerful are buying up shoreline for private island compounds and sprawling mega-resorts, radically changing the face of Muskoka and infuriating environmentalists, locals and long-time cottagers
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
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