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The Swag Series: RealTVFilms caters to Canadian celebrities and maybe Glenn Close
What it is: RealTVFilms, a California-based social media–type blog covering TV and films, has launched its annual TIFF gifting...
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Culture
Venice vs. TIFF fashion showdown, Marisa Tomei edition
The seemingly ageless Marisa Tomei (can you believe she’s turning 47 in December?) attended the Ides of March premiere at both...
Shopping
The Find: a barely-there nude chiffon blouse inspired by a much maligned ’80s hairstyle
We never endorsed the mullet, but somehow the haircut has worked its way into fashion, with mullet gowns on the red carpet and...
Food & Drink
Introducing: the second stop on the Drake Dining Roadshow, 1940s L.A. Chinatown
Back in June, we told you about the Drake Hotel’ s Dining Roadshow , a series of thematically changing restaurant concepts...
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Culture
Broken Social Scene’s Kevin Drew talks hiatus, and the interweb goes wild
Yesterday, independent music review site Pitchfork published a story online in which Kevin Drew , lead singer of Toronto’s...
City News
Urban Diplomat: What’s the dress code for meetings when they take place on Skype?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I run a tech company, and a lot of my meetings take place via Skype with programmers and designers who work...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Le Kensington, the new French bistro from the owners of Loire
Le Kensington Bistro , the second eatery from the owners of Harbord Street’s Loire (one of 2009’s best new restaurants...
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Style
Kid Culture, a cute-as-a-button, schoolhouse-themed shop for tots in the Junction
The Place: Kids (and even their parents) are romanced by this whimsical children’s boutique from owner Clare Raman, who is still...
Style
Philip Sparks is taking his fall/winter 2011 collection on the road, starting at Smash in the Junction
Just in time for fall weather to take hold, Toronto designer and Rogue Fashion Week regular Philip Sparks will launch his first...
City News
Urban Diplomat: Taking a free coffee shop newspaper into the bathroom is not cool, right?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I regularly read in a coffee shop that’s well stocked with free newspapers. Last Sunday, a fellow café...
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Food & Drink
’Wich Craft: how the city’s ice cream sandwiches stack up
Ice cream sandwiches have become the city’s chicest sugar rush, proving there’s no junk food too humble for the gourmet...
City News
Urban Diplomat: Can we tell our neighbours to stop smoking—for the sake of our baby?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My husband and I have detected the smell of cigarette smoke coming through the shared wall of our...
Culture
Today at TIFF: Hysteria gala presentation, The Day midnight madness screening and more
Our daily roundup of opening galas, parties and screenings. • 10 a.m. The Story of Film: An Odyssey • 6:30 p.m. A Happy Event...
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Culture
SPOTTED: Steve McQueen at the Spoke Club
Another tip from the Spoke Club’s cultural curator: Steve McQueen, director of the Michael Fassbender/Carey Mulligan pic...
The Weekender: Private Lives, Queen West Art Crawl and six other events on our to-do list
1. PRIVATE LIVES This 1930s comedy by Noël Coward is responsible for about three quarters of romantic comedies today. Just look...
Food & Drink
Hanif Harji and Charles Khabouth plot to take over King West
A few months back, we reported that restaurateur and nightlife impresario Charles Khabouth was planning to open two new...
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Food & Drink
President’s Choice gets in on the bacon-everything trend with the new, upscale Black Label line
Loblaws is set to launch a line of gourmet products meant to compete with the likes of Pusateri’s or Mark McEwan’ s grocery...
Culture
On night one of Festival Music House, Toronto’s indie musicians come out to support their friends
Every year TIFF seems to get bigger and better. Case in point: for the second year running, in addition to an overwhelming number...
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...
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Culture
SPOTTED: Andrew Garfield and Francis Ford Coppola dining at Oro
Golden Globe nominee Andrew Garfield and legendary Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola were spotted eating at Elm Street...
Culture
Since you probably don’t have an invite, here’s a tour inside the Grey Goose Soho House
The Grey Goose Soho House pop-up just around the corner from the TIFF Bell Lightbox has become a magnet for stars at this year’s...
Food & Drink
Food Truck Eats to pull an all-nighter for round three
Food Truck Eats has proven itself a hugely popular new addition to Toronto’s street food scene (despite a setback earlier this...
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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
TIFF Weekend Roundup: the best fashion, spottings and gossip
As usual, the opening weekend of TIFF meant an overdose of red carpets and parties, but we’ve still got our eyes and ears glued...
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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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