March 2012 Contents
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Editor’s Letter
This City
Reason to Love Toronto Because we salute the sun at the AGO
Q&A Funny guy Martin Short, now a celebrity judge on Canada’s Got Talent, on his love-hate relationship with reality TV
Urban Diplomat Advice on how to be a civilized Torontonian
Camera Toronto Film Critics Association launches awards season with a bang
Ego Meter What’s making and shaking the city’s self-image this month
Columns
Rob Granatstein Every time city council tries to fix the systemically screwed-up taxi industry, they make it worse. Here we go again
Jesse Brown The latest multi-purpose e-readers are great for everything—except reading books
Features
Something Rotten on Bay Street
Roger Martin, the head of Toronto’s most prestigious business school, is preaching a complete overhaul of the corporate world. It’s a seditious idea that might just save us from financial catastrophe By Jason McBride
The Anti-Ford
In her first year on city council, Kristyn Wong-Tam hogged the spotlight with bold proposals. She’s a charismatic lesbian immigrant art lover—the opposite of our mayor in every way—and she believes Toronto is in better shape than you’re being told By Nicholas Hune-Brown
Return of the Dads
The most taboo question in Toronto’s Caribbean and African communities is why some 50 per cent of black fathers walk away from their kids. One dad from Scarborough has a simple solution to the problem By Lauren McKeon
Navigator
The Thing A status stove worth its considerable weight (and price)
The List What Stratford artistic director Des McAnuff can’t live without
Great Spaces A Forest Hill house with a boatload of art
Real Estate Abandoning the tiny downtown condo for a Leaside semi
Food & Drink
Must-Try Bannock’s pickerel steamed bun—best thing we tasted all month
Outsourcing Twenty-five places that deliver—figuratively and literally
Just Opened The city’s hottest new restaurants reviewed
Wine Malbec and other Argentine wonders
Culture
Spotlight Prima ballerina Jillian Vanstone’s perfection problem
The Argument An ode to the real Shrek—the malevolent, remorseless, child-hating ogre he once was
See, Hear, Read Know-it-alls pick the movie, music and book release of the month
The Conversation Linden MacIntyre and Kyo Maclear on love, family and other reasons to deceive
Current Obsession Junko Mizuno’s Hello-Kitties-turned-hellcats
Going Out
Restaurants, Theatre, Music, Art, Dance, Family, Etc.
Memoir
Adventures in DIY hairdressing By Marni Jackson
