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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
CITY SURVIVOR
The List
Ten things Pink Tartan designer Kimberley Newport-Mimran
can’t live without By Amy Verner
The Thing
The must-have accessory for guys man enough to carry a purse By Alanna Davey
Design
How store design firm Burdifilek
persuades us to spend, spend,
spend By Olivia Stren
Great Spaces
Two junktique collectors boldly go
where no Bloor West semi has gone before By Veronica Maddocks
Real Estate
True story: the art crowd is moving
to Hamilton By Bert Archer
Dining
An affordable Splendido: the year’s most anticipated opening By James Chatto
Drink
The secret to successful pairings:
drink a lot By David Lawrason
Restaurants
Star-rated reviews
This Month
Arts and entertainment listings
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