Features

Girl, Interrupted
Aqsa Parvez had a choice: wear a hijab to please her devout family or take it off and be like her friends. She paid for her decision with her life By Mary Rogan

Lives of the Rich and Not So Famous
The biggest mansions in the Bridle Path are home to elite families from around the world. Meet the new establishment

Sickness and the City
Doctors at Toronto’s main health clinic for new immigrants are experts at diagnosing tropical diseases. How we’re avoiding another SARS By Shyam Selvadurai

What Fifth Graders Want
At Crescent Town Public School, 90 per cent of the kids speak English as a second language. Inside Toronto’s mini-UN By Denise Balkissoon

The Prince of Little Mogadishu
He escaped Somalia’s bloodbath, ran with a Toronto gang and spent time in jail. But he never stopped writing. How K’naan became rap royalty By Gerald Hannon

This City

Shop Girl
Bonnie Brooks has a black belt in retail make-overs, but can she bring shoppers back to The Bay? By Olivia Stren

Business Casualties
How Bay Street is coping with bonus-less-ness

Telling Tales
Dispatches from the urban jungle

Oscar Wild
The highs and lows on Rachel McAdams’ road to Hollywood royalty

City Sindex
The most absurd antics of our not-always-civil servants

Before the Fall
A look at the luxe life then and now By Graham Silnicki

The Temperature
Our monthly assessment of all things faddish and fleeting

Columns

Full of Crap
Self-storage facilities are booming, thanks to our insatiable need for stuff. Inside an industry that thrives on consumption, condo-mania and calamity By Don Gillmor

Performance Art that Doesn’t Suck
Darren O’Donnell—famous for his show Haircuts by Children, which has prepubescent barbers sculpting adult dos all over the world—is at the forefront of a movement that’s part social experiment, part community outreach. But is it art? By Carl Wilson

Holiday Guide

Holiday Super Shopper
Brilliant gifts for under $30, under $100 and, yes, some definite bank breakers By Jane Apor and Alanna Davey

Outsourcing
The anti-DIY solution: a nine-step guide to a no-sweat, stress-free, make-someone-else-do-it season By Viia Beaumanis

The Holiday List
What four Torontonians couldn’t survive the season without By Amy Verner

Eating and Drinking

Dining
Eating in has never been so glam: Toronto’s hottest private caterers By James Chatto

Food
Dirty little secrets about the world’s most expensive ’shroom By Sasha Chapman

Drink
The year’s best party pours By David Lawrason

Total Eclipse of the Heart
A risk assessment of five killer poutines By Shaun Smith

That’s Amore
Sardines on pizza may be sacrilege, but damn, they taste good By Claire Tansey

Susur’s Dynasty
Four Susur-ites keep the home fires burning By Brooke Lockyer

This Month

Where the Truth Lies
Funnyman David Sedaris admits his latest work stretches the boundaries of autobiography. He’s not alone By John Keillor

Guitar Heroes
Neil Diamond and Neil Young are competing for your concert dollars. Which of the same-named legends is worthy of your worship? By Courtney Shea

Hot Chocolate
A new shop-resto-lounge hybrid caters to Yorkville’s Valrhona addicts By Amy Grigg

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