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Ballet
Culture
How the National Ballet keeps its 30-year-old
Nutcracker
costumes looking fresh
The production’s legendary outfits have survived 672 performances
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Culture
Scottie Barnes and Jamal Shead are ditching sneakers for dancing shoes
Don’t tell Nike
Style
Inside a ballet power couple’s romantic bash at the Great Hall
Featuring a Fonda Balam slushie machine, a song written for the occasion and a costume change for the dance floor
Culture
“At home, our theatre doubles as our bomb shelter”: A National Ballet of Ukraine dancer on touring across Canada
Award-winning dancer Nikita Sukhorukov talks about performing in wartime, representing Ukraine abroad and raising money for refugees
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Culture
Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #35, Karen Kain
The boss of the ballet
Culture
Behind the scenes with the cast of the National Ballet’s
The Sleeping Beauty
In 1972, the sneering, stately Russian dance icon Rudolf Nureyev joined the National Ballet of Canada to stage a sumptuous new...
City News
The naked ambition of National Ballet artistic director Karen Kain
Beneath her poised veneer is an exacting perfectionist, a tenacious fundraiser and a total control freak. Which explains how she turned the floundering National Ballet of Canada into one of the world’s premiere arts organizations
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Watch a former Bolshoi dancer stretch her boundaries with the National Ballet
Until last year, the doe-eyed ballerina Svetlana Lunkina was a principal dancer at Moscow’s world-famous Bolshoi Ballet, where...
City News
How National Ballet dancer Heather Ogden would spend a perfect Saturday in Leslieville
“I’m not one for sleeping in, but I do like lounging in bed. My husband, Guillaume, is a coffee addict. That’s the first...
Food & Drink
Five things to do in Toronto on the weekend of March 1 to 3
In this edition of The Weekender: dachshunds run the United Nations, a ramen party at the Great Hall and three more things to do...
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City News
Primer: how to choose between Toronto’s big holiday shows
It’s time to suspend your cynicism and surrender to one of the city’s big, gooey, hurt-your-teeth-sweet holiday...
The Weekender: A Christmas Carol, The Brothers Grimm and six other events on our to-do list
1. A CHRISTMAS CAROL For the sixth time in his Soulpepper career, founding member Joseph Ziegler steps into Scrooge’s shoes in...
City News
Current Obsession: Desmond Heeley spins dollar store dross into gold with his National Ballet costumes
Desmond Heeley is stage royalty. The 81-year-old designer has created sets and costumes for major theatre, ballet and opera...
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The Weekender: Dan Deacon, Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland and six other events on our to-do list
1. ROYAL WOOD With a name as smooth as his voice, Canadian crooner Royal Wood brings his signature debonair persona to his upbeat...
Today in Toronto: Playing Cards 1, Loreena McKennitt and more
Chroma, Song of a Wayfarer, Elite Syncopations This triple bill seems designed to show off the National Ballet’s various...
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The Weekender: Hamlet, Whoopi Goldberg and six other items on our to-do list
1. HAMLET Arguably Shakespeare’s most famous play, Hamlet is the classic story of the titular character, a young prince whose...
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The Weekender: Doors Open Toronto, Bonnie Raitt and six other items on our to-do list
1. DOORS OPEN TORONTO This long-running design event is really the architectural equivalent of a peep show. For one weekend of...
Food & Drink
The Pick: the Bolshoi’s Swan Lake, a breathtaking production of the quintessential classical ballet
Late last year, Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre reopened after a seven-year, $760-million renovation. There was a splashy gala, where...
Today in Toronto: Rent, Swan Lake and more
Miles Perkin Trio Canadian double bass player Perkin, who divides his time between Montreal and Berlin, is renowned for honouring...
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The Weekender: Sleeping Beauty, Canada Blooms and six other items on our to-do list
1. THE SLEEPING BEAUTY This classic ballet, adapted by legendary dancer and choreographer Rudolf Nureyev, is based on Marius...
Today in Toronto: Cosi Fan Tutte, Dancing With Rage and more
Cosi Fan Tutte Despite its somewhat contrived happy ending, Mozart’s opera about two men testing their fiancées’ affections...
Culture
The National Ballet borrows from Johnny Cash, Shakespeare and Lewis Carroll for its 2012-13 season
The National Ballet of Canada revealed its program for 2012-13 yesterday morning (it’s the season for that kind of thing ), and...
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Watch National Ballet of Canada hottie Guillaume Côté ripple, jeté, pirouette and glisten
When was the last time someone described male ballet dancers as studly? Taut, maybe. Focused, surely. Poised, definitely. Studly...
Today in Toronto: The Nutcracker and Chagall Through Toronto’s Artists
Ballet Jörgen Canada: The Nutcracker Same old score, but choreographer Bengt Jörgen moves the action from Russia to Canada (not...
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General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
Big Stories
Deep Dives
Dead Reckoning: The executor of their estate was supposed to divide it among their friends and family. Instead, he bankrupted it
When Sami and June Suomalainen died, it fell to the executor of their wills, a lawyer they hardly knew, to sell their million-dollar midtown home and split the proceeds among their inheritors. Seven years and six lawsuits later, the beneficiaries haven’t seen a cent
Deep Dives
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2026
This year’s list includes a 150-square-foot omakase counter, a Parisian brasserie in the Annex, Korean comfort food, Filipino karaoke and a Summerhill seafood spot that’s reinventing the raw bar
Deep Dives
Hoop Dreams: Inside the making of the Toronto Tempo, the city’s newly assembled WNBA team
After years of false starts, months of nail-biting negotiations between the league and the players’ union, and an 11th-hour scramble to build a roster, Toronto finally has its own major-league women’s basketball team. Now it just has to live up to the hype
Deep Dives
Live From New York: Inside the slay-or-be-slayed world of Studio 8H with
SNL
rookie Veronika Slowikowska
Slowikowska is the first Canadian to join the cast of
Saturday Night Live
in more than 25 years. She’s also this season’s breakout star. Now all she has to do is keep crushing it
Deep Dives
Better Call Deepak: Meet drug lord Ryan Wedding’s self-styled cocaine lawyer
The man who represented the infamous drug lord is unapologetically flashy—he has a Lamborghini and two Maseratis and wears $1,200 Louboutins. But did he become an accomplice to his client’s crimes? Deepak Paradkar says he was just doing his job. The FBI says he crossed a line
Deep Dives
The Redemption Tour: The Blue Jays are back. Can they finish what they started?
We’re not over it, but they are. Six months after that devastating defeat, the Jays take the field once more, bent more than ever on winning the World Series. Dispatches from the dugout
Deep Dives
My Life as a True Crime Spectacle: My father’s crimes fractured our family. Then came the press
My dad was the infamous Rolex Killer. The news of his crimes nearly broke me. And ever since, my family has been hounded by reporters, podcasters and true crime fanatics—a whole new circle of hell
Deep Dives
Robby on the Line: Out and about with Robby Hoffman, comedy’s equal opportunity assassin
Larry David is the indisputable king of brutal honesty. But if anyone comes close, it’s Robby Hoffman, the suddenly everywhere comic from whom no group is safe
Deep Dives
Notes on an Academic Scandal: Why did TMU demote a leading advocate of DEI?
Pamela Sugiman, a former arts dean at Toronto Metropolitan University, was a key player in the school’s push for diversity, equity and inclusion. When the backlash against DEI arrived, she was demoted. The school says it was a coincidence. She disagrees
Deep Dives
City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?
Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution
Deep Dives
This generation was pummelled by Covid high school. Now the job market wants to replace them with AI
It’s hard out here for a 20-something
Deep Dives
The High Price of Hope: Inside Toronto’s white-hot fertility market
Desperate wannabe parents are betting their life savings on unproven treatments and false promises
Deep Dives
Man vs. Machine: ChatGPT caused him to spiral into delusion. Now he’s suing OpenAI
Last spring, a chatbot convinced Allan Brooks that he had discovered a revolutionary mathematical theory. He says it nearly destroyed him
Deep Dives
Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world
Homegrown innovations that will transform lives for the better
Deep Dives
293 Days Without My Son: I gave up everything to rescue my kidnapped child from my abusive husband
When Valentino was abducted, I knew three things: he’d been taken by his father, he was somewhere in India and I would not rest until I found him
Deep Dives
The Violent Life of a Tow Truck Driver: How an unremarkable profession turned Toronto into a war zone
The towing industry has been hijacked by criminals and kingpins who fleece customers, beat up dissenters and shoot their enemies. Inside the brutal turf war for the city’s wrecks
Deep Dives
Street Fight: Inside the battle raging over Toronto multiplexes
If this city stands any chance of solving the housing crisis, it will need buildings with multiple units in residential neighbourhoods—a move that has many residents saying, “Anywhere but here!”
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