December 2011 Contents
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Editor’s Letter
This City
Reason to Love Toronto Because staycations just got a lot more luxe
Q&A Nick Kouvalis, the mind behind the Rob Ford show
Urban Diplomat Advice on how to be a civilized Torontonian
Camera A French-Russian love-in at the AGO’s Chagall Ball
Neighbourhood Watch How the east Annex became the new Rosedale
The Moment Occupy Toronto’s Dial-a-Protest vibe
Ego Meter What’s making and shaking the city’s self-image this month
Columns
Jesse Brown Why we’re the most screwed-over cellphone users in the world
Features
My Cybersexual Education
I’m among the first generation to come of age online. By 13, I was an expert at chat room sex, spotting cyber-pervs and hiding my secret life from my parents By Alexandra Molotkow
Shades of Brown
Shaadi.com is the GTA’s largest South Asian dating website. Here, four of its 24,000 users share the secrets of ethnically loaded matchmaking By Natasha Fatah
How to Die on Facebook
When you’re dead, your Facebook page becomes a permanent digital gravestone. Beware the perils of online legacies By Nicholas Hune-Brown
Poker Face
Matt Marafioti, a university dropout who plays 1,000 hands of online poker a night, is notorious among a new breed of pros who are winning—and losing—millions By Jason McBride
Navigator
Holiday Gift Guide Eight pages of Toronto’s best stuff
The List Ten things Blue Rodeo’s Jim Cuddy can’t live without
Great Spaces A 10,000- square-foot party palace in Forest Hill
Real Estate A growing Markham family desperately seeks four bedrooms and a fireplace
Food & Drink
The Find The advent of the $200 turkey, plus seven big birds worth every cent of the hefty price tag
Flavour of the Month Passion of the crust: 10 rapturous pies, no suffering required
Outsourcing Gourmet feasts, without the heavy lifting
Wine Lawrason’s picks for bird-perfect pairings
Culture
Spotlight Sarah Gadon’s breakout moment
The Argument Feist’s voice is her not-so-secret weapon
See, Hear, Read Know-it-alls pick the movie, music and book release of the month
The Conversation Book of Awesome eternal optimist Neil Pasricha and comedian Jessica Holmes on surviving the holidays, sense of humour intact
Going Out
Restaurants, Theatre, Music, Art, Dance, Family, Etc.
Memoir
The big C and the etiquette of illness
