January
2008
Features
Hall of Shame
Incompetence, mismanagement, buffoonery and outright corruption have left Toronto in a shambles. A pull-no-punches report on what’s ailing city hall By Philip Preville
Last Known Address
Regent Park’s ambitious overhaul will displace 7,500 people and take 12 years to complete. Maybe this time the planners will get it right Photography by Tory Zimmerman
The Big House
There’s a $30-million palace rising on the edge of Moore Park Ravine that will be home to a math prof with a music obsession. It’s the largest project undertaken to date by Brigitte Shim and Howard Sutcliffe—the humble architect couple who want to reinvent how we live By Gerald Hannon
This City
Kelly Rowan’s rise from B-list to billionaire bride • Beards are back: blame Kevin Drew • Big-box chains are re-branding to muzzle the tree-hugging masses
Columns
The Agitator
When he isn’t teaching math to U of T students, he’s in court representing such motley clients as OCAP’s John Clarke, the Marijuana Party and axe attack victim Wyann Ruso. Peter Rosenthal’s double life By Sylvia Fraser
Waiting to Exhale
In 2006, Toronto General—one of the world’s leading lung transplant centres—gave new hope to 87 terminal patients. My stepmother was one of them By Pasha Malla
City Survivor
The List
Ten things club king Zark Fatah can't live without By Amy Verner
Super Shopper
The city's best loot By Jane Apor
Great Spaces
Salah Bachir's royal retreat
Real Estate
The flophouse fixer-upper By Bert Archer
Good Stuff Cheap
The Value Village People By Karen Steward
Dining
Why Toronto schools feed our kids crap By James Chatto
Food
Angst, envy and the modern-day bake sale By Andrea Curtis
Drink
Screw the sweater: this holiday, buy them a bottle By David Lawrason
Restaurants
House-made butter is coming to a menu near you • The offal truth about anticuchos • Quest for the best tarte tatin
This Month
Kevin Costner takes his hurtin’ tunes to Fallsview • Arsinée Khanjian rises up at Canadian Stage • The Parkdale Drink brings bottle service to the ’hood
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