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Best of Fall 2012
Food & Drink
Best of Fall 2012: three of the season’s hottest restaurant openings
Three star chefs, three hot new restaurants (Illustrations: Adam Cruft)
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City News
Best of Fall 2012: Guillaume Côté shows off his brilliant ballet moves with three starring roles
Guillaume Côté is this city’s biggest ballet star since Karen Kain and Rex Harrington, and the National Ballet is taking every...
City News
Best of Fall 2012: Deepa Mehta’s dream project, a movie version of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children
When Salman Rushdie visited Toronto on a 2008 book tour, he dropped in on his old friend Deepa Mehta, whom he’d met when she was...
City News
Best of Fall 2012: After years of playing the reclusive literary genius, Alice Munro is back with a new collection of stories
The 81-year-old Alice Munro has been publishing short stories for nearly half a century, and she keeps getting better, sharpening...
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Food & Drink
Best of Fall 2012: How GwaiLo, Nick Liu’s soon-to-open Parkdale restaurant, just might rehabilitate Asian-fusion
In a dining scene rife with duck confit banh mi, peameal bulgogi and brisket steamed buns, the F-word crops up a lot. But you...
City News
Best of Fall 2012: graphic novelist Seth on illustrating the autobiography of Lemony Snicket
The stylishly retro graphic novelist Seth illustrates the fictional autobiography of kid lit superstar Lemony Snicket...
City News
Best of Fall 2012: the season’s top five concerts, from Dan Deacon to Leonard Cohen
(Images: Bunnett by Getty Images; Deacon by Shawn Brackbill; Cohen courtesy of Leonard Cohen; Nagano by Felix Broede; Austra...
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City News
Best of Fall 2012: five of the season’s most anticipated blockbusters
(Images: From top, courtesy of Alliance Films; Weinstein Co.; Warner Bros.; 20th Century Fox Film Corporation; and Newline)
Shopping
Best of Fall 2012: we ask trendsetters to pick their fall must-haves
(Images: flats courtesy of The Room; snood courtesy of Louis Vuitton)
Food & Drink
Best of Fall 2012: three of the trendiest kitchen essentials
(Images: from left, courtesy of Naomi Duguid; The Healthy Butcher; and Herriott Grace)
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Food & Drink
Best of Fall 2012: Charles Khabouth expands his fashionable club empire with King West’s Storys
You already run 11 clubs and restaurants in Toronto. What sets Storys apart? It’s my biggest: a four-storey, 170-year-old...
City News
Best of Fall 2012: opera-star-in-waiting Ambur Braid keeps audiences on their toes in Die Fledermaus
Ambur Braid’s warm sheen of a voice, not to mention her sheer gorgeousness, have landed the young soprano a big, juicy part in...
City News
Best of Fall 2012: Brandon Cronenberg’s Antiviral, a cold, hard and creepy look at celebrity worship
Your movie is set in a futuristic society where people pay to have viruses implanted in them. Yeah, the main character, Syd...
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City News
Best of Fall 2012: Gordon Lightfoot makes a triumphant return to his favourite concert hall
You’ve played Massey Hall more than 150 times in your career, the most solo appearances of any performer. What is it about...
Shopping
Best of Fall 2012: fall’s most desirable new products
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Food & Drink
Best of Fall 2012: fall cocktails from Suits, Enoteca Sociale and the Harbord Room
Fall picks from three hooch heros (Images: Emma McIntyre)
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Best of Fall 2012: Evan Penny’s mind-bending body sculptures at the AGO
In his industrial warehouse studio near Dupont and Dufferin, Evan Penny uses silicone, paint, aluminum frames and real hair to...
City News
Best of Fall 2012: the season’s must-see stage shows
(Images: from top: courtesy of Justin Rutledge; by Keith Beaty/Getstock; by Cylla Von Tiedemann; by Paul Kolnik; by Tim Matheson)
Shopping
Best of Fall 2012: the ambitious—and sexy—new collection from Greta Constantine
When Kirk Pickersgill and Stephen Wong launched their fashion label, Greta Constantine, in 2006, it seemed like an excuse to throw...
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City News
Best of Fall 2012: ten of the season’s top gallery shows
The art world’s most anticipated shows from upstarts and old masters See all ten shows »
City News
Best of Fall 2012: five of this fall’s best books, from Zadie Smith to Rawi Hage
City News
Best of Fall 2012: the five best bets from fall’s deluge of TV premieres
(Images: 1 and 4 courtesy of CTV; 2 courtesy of CBC; 3 courtesy of Shaw Media; 5 by Thomas Langley)
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Best of Fall 2012: Steve Reich, Arvo Pärt and R. Murray Schafer kick off Soundstreams’ 30th anniversary season
The Soundstreams series kicks off its 30th year with a concert featuring new work by a trio of modern music gods. soundstreams.ca...
City News
Best of Fall 2012: Michael Healey on mounting his controversial play Proud
Playwright Michael Healey mounts his own production of Proud, the savage political satire that sparked a storm in the city’s...
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Toronto Life
’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8
General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
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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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For Sale: 92 Arjay Crescent
As luxury buyers become increasingly focused on wellness, privacy, and long-term livability, a new generation of custom homes is emerging – one defined less by excess and more by thoughtful design
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For Sale: 171 Durant Ave
This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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A testament to time presiding over one of Uxbridge's most storied streetscapes, this magnificently preserved circa 1880 residence commands its prominent corner lot with the quiet confidence of a true architectural landmark
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For Sale: 7 Bentley Drive
A commanding architectural statement in prestigious Stonegate–Queensway, this newly completed custom residence by Bali Homes Group presents a refined interpretation of contemporary luxury living
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