August 2011 Contents
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This City
Reason to Love Toronto Because Echo Beach delivers music under the stars
Q&A Can Heather Reisman do for online news what she did for books?
Urban Diplomat Advice on how to be a civilized Torontonian
Camera Henry Kissinger, Cold War icon and party animal, wows the crowd at the 2011 Munk Debates
Primer Felonious impresario Garth Drabinsky strikes again
Ego Meter What’s making and shaking the city’s self-image this month
Columns
Jan Wong Bad bedside manner is the scourge of modern medicine. The good news? It’s treatable
Jesse Brown How Metro, that disposable pamphlet of infotainment, became Canada’s best-read newspaper
Features
Best of the City
It isn’t easy, discernment. This risky job of eating and drinking and shopping and sitting for manicures invites diabetes, liver damage and new enemies galore (since many candidates don’t make the cut). But our crew of experts did it for you. Here, the indispensable list of all that’s excellent in Toronto in 2011
The Running Cult
It’s a multi-million-dollar apparel and tech industry, a fundraising juggernaut and a playground for social networking and status brokering. How running became the city’s collective obsession By Rachel Heinrichs
Cop-Out
Bill Blair was as popular as a police chief could be. Then came the G20 weekend of burning cars, broken storefronts, violent beatings and mass arrests. One year later, he finally admitted mistakes were made. Too little, too late? By Nicholas Hune-Brown
Navigator
The Thing The cruiser bike’s timely comeback
The List Ten things Dave Salmoni, zoologist, lion tamer and host of Expedition Impossible, can’t live without
Great Spaces A 19th-century Creemore farmhouse gets a mod and minimalist facelift
Real Estate One couple resists the lure of suburbia for a few more precious years downtown
Food & Drink
Introducing Little Dog’s nostalgic Montreal-style steamies
The Critic Chris Nuttall-Smith on the palate-pleasing rise of beer geekery
Wine Greek chic
Culture
Spotlight Cara Ricketts gets her close-up in Stratford’s The Homecoming
The Argument Toronto rappers and the war on bling
See, Hear, Read Know-it-alls pick the movie, music and book release of the month
The Conversation Colm Wilkinson and Deborah Hay on our ardent affection for the mega-musical
Going Out
Restaurants, Theatre, Music, Art, Dance, Family, Etc.
Memoir
Confessions of a basement-dwelling divorced dad
