July 2012 Contents
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Editor’s Letter
This City
Reason to Love Toronto Chinese art star Zhang Huan’s big reveal
Q&A Levi Bent-Lee is launching his own restaurant, with Susur in the kitchen. What it’s like to be your famous dad’s boss
Urban Diplomat Advice on how to be a civilized Torontonian
The Moment Conrad Black’s smoochy homecoming
Camera Leonard Cohen, party animal
High Life Private planes of the city’s aviator class
Ego Meter What’s making and shaking the city’s self-image this month
Columns
Stephen Marche The question isn’t whether we should have a downtown casino. It’s how we can make it fabulous. An argument for embracing vice
Features
Faulty Towers
The rush to build new condos in Toronto has resulted in falling glass, disgruntled buyers and multi-million-dollar lawsuits. An investigation into who’s to blame By Philip Preville
Jorn and Rufus in Love
They’ve only been here a few months, and they’re already the most coveted party guests in town. Meet Jorn Weisbrodt, the art world power broker newly
in charge of the Luminato festival, and his fiancé, a newly housebroken Rufus Wainwright By Katrina Onstad
The Cult of Pastor Song
The sex scandal consuming Toronto’s Korean community began when six international students said they were repeatedly gang-raped by members of their small church. The accused alleged that their eccentric pastor brainwashed the women to deflect attention from his own transgressions. A surreal tale of zealotry, blind faith and revenge By May Jeong
Navigator
The Thing Snap decisions about a super-cool iPhone camera lens
The List Ten things jazz singer Sophie Milman can’t live without
Great Spaces A wicked Wychwood Park estate that seems plucked from the past
Real Estate The price of vanity in Roncesvalles? $1.35 million
Food & Drink
Must-try Augie’s pimped-out popsicles
Weekend Traveller The very best places to eat, drink, and sleep off the hangover in Prince Edward County
Just Opened The hottest new restaurants reviewed
Culture
Spotlight Tanis Rideout aims high with her buzzy debut novel about George Mallory’s failed attempt to scale Everest
The Argument Sarah Polley’s romanticization of Toronto in Take This Waltz is as pretty as an Instagram pic
See, Hear, Read: Summer Edition Our picks for the hottest releases of the season
Current Obsession Photographer Lori Nix’s crazy-making miniature worlds
Going Out
Restaurants, Theatre, Music, Art, Dance, Family, Etc.
Memoir
My life on antidepressants By Jan Wong
