In-between seasons definitely present a sartorial challenge—how do you still dress dapper when the temperature swings so wildly from hot to cool to cold? We visited menswear shop Nomad for an outfit ...
(Image: Christopher Drost) As expected, the executive committee of the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority has decided to follow its staff’s recommendation and has rejected Rob Ford’s bid to bu...
The old Four Seasons Hotel, which will soon be converted to a condo building (Image: Danielle Scott) The storied Four Seasons Hotel in Yorkville is going condo, but not without a snag or two: several...
(Image: Karolyne Ellacott) Planted smartly on Yorkville’s main thoroughfare, The Oxley Public House has arrived in style. This English-style pub is the work of The Queen and Beaver’s Andrew Carter an...
ADDRESS: 43 Hanna Avenue, Unit 711 NEIGHBOURHOOD: South Parkdale AGENTS: Claude and Pierre Boiron, Coldwell Banker Terrequity Realty PRICE: $2,575,000 THE PLACE: A spacious 3-bedroom penthouse in the...
Sophie Milman The Russian-born, Israel-raised Milman has a voice that curls out like a memory of smoke-and-martini-fuelled cocktail parties. She credits our public library for lending her the jazz al...
Come summer, you might just be able to drive out to the See Ya Later Ranch in Okanagan Falls and drive back with this gewürztraminer Canada is taking a few more baby steps toward loosening the straig...
Changes are coming (Image: Nick Farnhill) The Toronto Island Ferry Terminal is set to be renamed the Jack Layton Ferry Terminal, which we think is a fitting tribute to the late NDP leader and promine...
Les Hauts de Montfort 2009 Les Mégalithes Minervois $13.95 | Languedoc, France | 90 points Mediterranean France keeps on unearthing bargain gems, especially in the excellent 2009 vintage. This nifty ...
While Chicago has Toronto beat on virtually every other count when it comes to arts and culture, the Big Smoke trounces the Windy City when it comes to festivals. The Toronto Star’s Martin Knelman pi...
It is only late May and we already know one A-lister who is coming to town in September during TIFF: Maggie Smith. The Dowager Countess herself will be here to receive the Stratford Shakespeare Festi...
Devin Connell (Delica Kitchen) was torn between two loves: a really good, artisanal doughnut and super-crunchy fried chicken. “I knew I wanted to open a place that focused on one thing, did one thing...
(Image: The City of Toronto) Funnily enough (or sadly enough, from the perspective of civic engagement), the ridiculous Daniel Dale incident seems to have affected Rob Ford’s approval rating more tha...
Jeanne Beker The Banff World Media Festival, taking place from June 10–13, has announced that Jeanne Beker will be receiving the 2012 Canadian Award of Distinction for being “one of the most iconic a...
T. Boone Pickens, the billionaire oil tycoon, isn’t the kind of guy you’d expect to see on Twitter, let alone retweet Drake. But yesterday, the Oklahoma-born oil king, whose Twitter account claims it...
Over 200 people gathered for the first Stop Beer Garden of the year (Image: Natalie Swiercz) Despite threatening clouds, over 200 hundred people gathered at Wychwood Barns No. 4 this past Sunday afte...
Despite ongoing reports of a TTC versus Metrolinx power struggle, TTC brass have grudgingly come out in support of Metrolinx’s aggressive 2020 deadline for the Eglinton Crosstown LRT line. In a prese...
David Cronenberg and Robert Pattinson (Image: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP) The moody nihilism of Cosmopolis still lingers in the blogosphere like a weird perfume, but David Cronenberg has already moved on to...
(Image: Christopher Drost) A lot of people had a lot to say about Rob Ford’s apathetic attitude toward his weight-loss challenge, but none offered much earnest support—except Psychology Today. On the...
Big Brother has been on the air in the United States for 13 seasons, and now Canada is getting its turn. Endemol and Insight Productions announced yesterday that it will be starting a Canadian versio...
Sedlak at The American Cheesesteak Co. (Image: Sedlak) Hidden away on Wynford Drive, at Eglinton and the DVP, the Toronto Don Valley Hotel and Suites is undergoing a $4-million transformation, which ...
(Image: Chris Tyler) Property firm Morguard is pushing to build Canada’s tallest condo building on top of the Holt Renfrew at Bloor and Yonge, and has irked local councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam in the p...
Guelph Contemporary Dance Festival Toronto’s Tiger Princess Dance Projects and Kaeja d’Dance and Vancouver’s Kinesis Dance SomaTeatro are just a few of the big-name troupes that will bring an urban f...
This season, we’re chatting with each week’s eliminated chef after they get the boot (or, rather, after their boot-getting episode airs—this stuff was recorded months ago). This week’s eliminated che...
The winner of the Giro d’Italia rode a Cervélo P5 (above) (Image: Cervélo) Last weekend, Ryder Hesjedal won the Giro d’Italia road cycling race, and he rode a Toronto brand’s bicycle to win it. Cervé...
A shout-out to the Town of Markham, which will finally become a city on July 1. (Since Markham has about 310,000 residents, the town designation was a bit of a joke.) Welcome to the club! Also, stop ...
The city has been working for months to off-load one or more of its three theatres—the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts and the Toronto Centre for the Arts—be...
Buster’s Sea Cove owners Tom Antonarakis and Quinten Tran (Image: Gizelle Lau) With lobster rolls seemingly showing up everywhere this spring, the timing couldn’t be better for the city’s first seafo...
(Image: arrayexception) Research in Motion hasn’t been the topic of happy headlines in a while, but the past few days have been especially bad for the BlackBerry maker (probably even worse than this ...
1. HAMLET Arguably Shakespeare’s most famous play, Hamlet is the classic story of the titular character, a young prince whose back-stabbing uncle Claudius has usurped his father’s throne. Understanda...
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