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Food & Drink
Ossington’s new martini bar has a champagne vending machine
Small Talk, a martini bar and jazz club, is now open in the old Baby Huey space
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Food & Drink
Introducing: Jazz Bistro, a new spot for live music in the downtown core
Name: Jazz Bistro Neighbourhood: Downtown Core Contact info: 251 Victoria St., 416-363-5299, jazzbistro.ca, @JazzBistro_CA Owners:...
Today in Toronto: Jason Marsalis Quartet and Spotlight Japan
Jason Marsalis Quartet Marsalis, the youngest member of New Orleans’ first family of jazz, began his musical career as a...
Today in Toronto: CIBC LunarFest, Lady Gaga and more
CIBC LunarFest The festival of contemporary Asian arts and culture helps attendees slither into the Year of the Snake with...
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Food & Drink
Jazz Bistro set to take over the old Top o’ The Senator space
Come February, Toronto’s long-defunct Top O’ The Senator space will once again be filled with jazz and other live music, six...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: The Toronto Christmas Market, Molly Johnson and six other events on our to-do list
1. LOWE’S TORONTO CHRISTMAS MARKET Each year, the Distillery District gets a makeover and transforms into a traditional European...
Today in Toronto: Brandenburg Concertos, Tribute to John Coltrane and more
Brandenburg Concertos For these concerts, Tafelmusik performs the odd-numbered selections from Bach’s series of instrumental...
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Today in Toronto: David Byrne and St. Vincent, Gotye, James Ehnes and more
David Byrne and St. Vincent An odd couple? Not really. The former Talking Heads frontman and the one-time member of the indie-rock...
Today in Toronto: Lara Solnicki Jazz Band and No Great Mischief
Lara Solnicki Jazz Band Solnicki was on the road to becoming an opera singer when she decided to swerve into the world of...
Today in Toronto: Bruce Springsteen and Raoul and the Big Time
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band The Boss turns 63 this fall, and he’s more visible lately than he’s been in...
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Culture
Bathurst Street’s Trane Studio shuts down
After nine years on Bathurst Street, The Trane Studio, the little neighbourhood jazz club that could, has decided not to renew its...
City News
The List: 10 things Juno-winning jazz singer Sophie Milman can’t live without
1| My childhood toy I grew up in Russia when it was hard to get children’s toys. I had one plastic doll, a couple of blocks and...
Today in Toronto: Joel Miller and Pam Ann
Joel Miller The New Brunswick–born saxophonist has been amassing awards ever since landing the Grand Prix at 1997’s Montreal...
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Today in Toronto: Sophie Milman and Whoopi Goldberg
Sophie Milman The Russian-born, Israel-raised Milman has a voice that curls out like a memory of smoke-and-martini-fuelled...
Today in Toronto: Ron Sexsmith, Kim’s Convenience and more
Evgeny Kissin If anyone can breathe new life into Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor, it’s the renowned Russian pianist with...
Style
Should Casa Loma open a retro supper club and dance hall?
Casa Loma needs $20 million for external repairs, and because the castle only nets about $1 million a year from entry fees and...
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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...
Today in Toronto: The Gismontis
The Gismontis Musical royalty in Brazil, the Gismonti family is known for their weaving together of jazz, classical and Brazilian...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Picasso, Bring It On and six other items on our to-do list
1. PICASSO: MASTERPIECES FROM THE MUSÉE NATIONAL PICASSO, PARIS Even if you know nothing about art, there’s a good chance...
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Today in Toronto: Brandi Disterheft
Brandi Disterheft There aren’t a lot of female bass players around, but gender has nothing to do with Disterheft’s...
Today in Toronto: Dave Young Octet, Canadian International Autoshow and more
Dave Young Octet The silver-haired Young has covered a lot of ground—he’s been a bass player in several symphony...
Today in Toronto: Gryphon Trio, National Geographic Live and more
Caroline, or Change It was only a matter of time before the adventurous Acting Up put on this show by big-issues playwright...
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Today in Toronto: Andrew Downing Quartet
Andrew Downing Quartet Improvisation—the very soul of jazz—gets a healthy workout from a team of U of T faculty members who...
Today in Toronto: Will Munro and Jews, Music and the American Dream
Jews, Music and the American Dream The third instalment of a four-part cabaret series sponsored by Jazz.FM, this tribute to...
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’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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