February 2010 Contents
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Features
The All-New Downtown
It’s like the recession never happened. There are 53 new corporate towers, luxury
hotels and glassy condos rising between Queen Street and the lake, and thousands
of urban converts are moving in. Portrait of a city reborn By Jason McBride
Hammered
Ritchies was the favourite auction house of Rosedale and Forest Hill. It’s where
Grandmother’s silver was sold and where Ken Thomson dropped millions on
artwork. When the company suddenly collapsed in a mess of debt and recriminations,
it marked the end of an era of genteel wealth By Stevie Cameron
Total Control
Claudio Aprile is one of Toronto’s most talented chefs. He cooks like a scientist and rules
his kitchen like a dictator. At Colborne Lane, he introduced the city to freeze-dried soy and liquid nitrogen ice cream. Now he’s risking a fortune on a second restaurant and has plans for four more. Can a neurotic micromanager run a mini-empire? By Chris Nuttall-Smith
COLUMNS
The Itch
Toronto is in the grip of a bedbug infestation, and no one—rich or poor,
homeowner or renter—is safe. The good news is they won’t kill you. The bad news
is they’ll make you wish you were dead. One woman’s horror story By Jane Wells
THIS CITY
Can Adam Giambrone, the boyish brainiac who chairs the TTC, make the leap to mayor? • Smashed on sanitizer: a bad idea whose time has come • Degrassi girl Stacey Farber scores some comic relief
CITY SURVIVOR
The List
Ten things the architect Will Alsop can’t live without
Super Shopper
The ultimate aphrodisiacs for V Day By Alanna Davey
Great Spaces
An Annex semi gets the royal treatment By Kelvin Browne
Real Estate
A Brampton bachelor’s epic search for a place of his own By Bert Archer
Food
Are omega-3 eggs really all they’re cracked up to be? By Sasha Chapman
Drink
The best bottles of the oughts By David Lawrason
Restaurants
The most beguiling new spot on Ossington • Where to pop the question, and other perfect date locales • The secret behind the finest gnocchi in the west end
This Month
Automatiste snow queen Françoise Sullivan gets a retrospective at the AGO • Belgian teens storm Harbourfront with Once and for All We’re Gonna Tell You Who We Are So Shut up and Listen
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