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Features
Preparations for the Apocalypse
The good news? It’s not the end of the world. Lessons from a growing group of
21st-century survivalists By Jason McBride
My Black School
Four families explain why segregation is the answer By Denise Balkissoon
The Party Girls
The Society—a hybrid of networking service, social club and finishing school—is the
brainchild of Amanda Blakley and Ashleigh Dempster. Think of it as training wheels
for the wannabe posh and cultured By Mireille Silcoff
Lighten Up
Russell Peters got rich by capitalizing on the fact that yellow, brown and black people want to laugh at yellow, brown and black people. The ethnic joke, reinvented By Robert Hough
COLUMNS
The New Mr. Rogers
Nadir Mohamed, Ted Rogers’ golden boy, won the top job over Ted’s kids. Now he has to keep them, and Rogers customers, happy By Michael Posner
THIS CITY
Killer Instincts
Kathryn Martin, head of Toronto’s homicide squad, on the trouble with guns, and the new breed of bad guy By Patricia Pearson
After-School Activities
How the stars of Degrassi are hacking it in Hollywood By Matthew Halliday
Party Watch
Star-spotting at this month’s biggest bashes
Bar Star
Toronto’s most venerable mix master talks TIFF By Robert Meynell
The Temperature
Our monthly assessment of all things faddish and fleeting
CITY SURVIVOR
The List
Ten things gossip gadfly Shinan Govani can’t live without By Amy Verner
Super Shopper
Silver screen–inspired stuff for stay-at-home cineastes By Alanna Davey
Fashion
In time for TIFF, our semi-annual best-dressed list By Karon Liu and Chloë Ellingson
Real Estate
Hope for the MLS addicted By Bert Archer
Great Spaces
A west-end collector’s seriously cool hangout By Veronica Maddocks
Dining
The pros and (ex-)cons of Thuet’s latest restaurant By James Chatto
Drink
California’s new boutique winery blockbusters By David Lawrason
This Month
Dude Crush
Bathrobes, bowling balls and Viking helmets? There’s only one explanation: Lebowski Fest has landed
Double Exposure
The impossibly sophisticated Edward Steichen is the focus of not one but two trumpeted fall exhibits
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