Toronto Life: Toronto Life Magazine

March 2008

Features

That Sinking Feeling
To stay afloat, new homeowners are forgoing vacations, putting off having kids and surviving on tuna sandwiches. Portrait of a mortgage-enslaved generation By Rachel Giese

Twisted
We were primed to hate the AGO reno. The last thing Toronto needed was another starchitect-designed car wreck of a building. But behind closed doors, something spectacular is shaping up Introduction by Michael Posner; photography by Craig Boyko

Victimology
We call ourselves the most harmonious multicultural city in the world. But when a Queen’s Park staffer branded a young black job applicant a “ghetto dude,” the storm that followed exposed our dissonant feelings about race and racism. How Evon Reid shook up the city By Denise Balkissoon

This City

MTV host Dan Levy’s geek appeal • How Toronto fell hard for Richard Florida • The unbearable ubiquity of Feist • Is it art or is it stupid? The ROM bomb scare and other OCADian hoaxes

COLUMNS

ARTS
Flop culture
Toronto’s alt theatres used to produce plays that drew buzz, profits, even the police. Have the Factory, Tarragon and Passe Muraille lost the plot? By Alec Scott

SPORTS
Net Gains
While the Leafs self-destruct, the Raptors’ savvy GM, Bryan Colangelo, is taking his team to the playoffs and quietly saving our collective sports ego By Jay Teitel