Gerald Hannon
Articles on torontolife.com written by Gerald Hannon.
Playwright, advice
columnist and now
novelist Claudia Dey
is her generation’s
quirkiest storyteller
Published: May 2008
Personal trainers are the new shrinks, more likely to hear clients moan about
lovers than leg lifts. George Chaker, co-owner of Diesel Fitness, and one of the city’s most beloved trainers, muses on the art of workout therapy
Published: February 2008
It takes guts to report from wartorn, disease-ravaged sub-Saharan villages. The Globe’s Africa correspondent, Stephanie Nolen, has the ego to match
Published: July 2007
Alison Sealy-Smith goes back to the islands in a new stage version
of Austin Clarke’s The Polished Hoe
Published: February 2007
She’s touring the world, topping the charts and squeezing in a commerce degree at U of T on the side. Sophie Milman’s uncompromising career
Published: December 2007
And other medicinal uses for a mother’s cooking
Published: June 2007
As Chatelaine’s newest editor, Sara Angel has been charged with
updating a Canadian icon
Published: January 2007
Harry Stinson is Toronto’s answer to Donald Trump—big talk, big stakes, big ego.
He built one of the city’s most dazzling condo towers, right at King and Yonge.
He wants his next project—the Sapphire—to be the tallest residential skyscraper in the country,
but city hall won’t approve it and the bankers haven’t backed it. Vision is a tough sell
Published: June 2006
He wears ’40s suits and hides away in his basement concocting a comic book town called Palookaville. For Seth, it can be hard to tell where the fantasy ends and the real world begins
Published: January 2006
In "RetroMan," writer Gerald Hannon delves deep into the fantastic world of comic artist Seth. Here, in an audio slide show, Hannon talks further about Seth's life and work, accompanied by images from the graphic novels, Palookaville and It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken
Published: January 2006
Michael Ignatieff on politics, baseball and the delights of deep-fried dough
Published: January 2006
Introducing OCAD's brilliantly loopy new president
Published: May 2006
It took a lot of partying, a little mischief and a feud with an ogre to climb atop the gossip heap. Not to mention at least one night of sex on a piano with “a famous Toronto personality”
Published: September 2006