Toronto Life Magazine - October, 2008

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FEATURES

Best of Fall
Everything you need to know (and some stuff you don’t) about the season’s hottest shopping, movies, TV shows, concerts, restaurants, bars and more

The New Death Etiquette
Bereavement blogs, custom-made keepsakes, multiculti hybrid memorials— an intimate look at 21st-century mourning in Toronto By Katherine Ashenburg

The Talented Walter Garrick
He told his victims he was a billionaire, dazzled them with his private jet, his box at the Rogers Centre, his friends in high places. Cool and charismatic, he promised them power and riches, and they handed over their savings. Now they want revenge By Joshua Knelman

THIS CITY

Toronto’s Indiana Jones • A new Web site picks the best looking Torontonians • Chinatown’s latest make-over story • The explosion that rocked the city

COLUMNS

POLITICS
Resistance is Futile
Like it or not, big-box chains are migrating downtown. Instead of mounting protests, urbanites should embrace the monster-retail movement By Philip Preville

CRIME
Igor the Terrible
What kind of person collects 2,700 bicycles and leaves them to rust in warehouses all over the city? The mad, mysterious world of Igor Kenk By Richard Poplak