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Alanis Morissette, Frances McDormand and Mike Myers have all made surprise appearances in this Luminato play
This month, celebrity guest actors will perform in an 80-minute show by British playwright Tim Crouch—having never before seen the script
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Culture
“I never had a nuanced explanation of sexual assault growing up”: Hannah Moscovitch on her new play,
Red Like Fruit
The playwright talks straddling the Canada–US border, working with Hugh Jackman and coming to terms with childhood trauma
Food & Drink
Consumed: What Janet Zuccarini, owner of Trattoria Nervosa and Gusto 101, ate last week
"At a table of seven people we ended up with 15 bottles of really ridiculous wine"
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Le Pavillon, Luminato’s fancy French pop-up in a power plant
For 17 days in June, the Hearn Generating Station is a fine-dining destination
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City News
How much do Toronto’s new foreign-born CEOs know about the city?
A Toronto trivia quiz for the city's new crop of executive imports
Culture
Luminato is transforming the Hearn Generating Station into a massive multi-arts hub
The annual festival is moving to the Port Lands
Culture
Show your Pride, listen to some jazz and eight other things to do this week
Listen to Spoon’s cultish indie rock Ask any music nerd to name the most consistent indie band of the past two decades, and...
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Culture
The Sound and the Furor: R. Murray Schafer’s
Apocalypsis
gets an epic production at Luminato
This month, Luminato will mount Apocalypsis, an oratorio by the 81-year-old composer R. Murray Schafer. The production features 24...
Style
Memoir: Luminato artistic director Jorn Weisbrodt on why he loves a bit of bling
One day, not so long ago, I was looking in a mirror after getting dressed for the Met Gala, and I was blinded by my reflection. I...
Food & Drink
Luminato 2013 guide: 17 must-see events at this year’s arts festival
This year’s Luminato Festival, the first under the complete oversight of artistic director Jorn Weisbrodt, seems to have...
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Food & Drink
Five things to do in Toronto on the weekend of June 14-16
The National (FREE!) The Life and Death of Marina Abramović The hardcore Serbian performance artist stars in a biopera...
Style
Slideshow: the wonderfully peculiar Viktor & Rolf Dolls at the ROM
For years, lookalike Dutch designers Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren have chosen one or two iconic looks from each collection and...
Food & Drink
Nuit Blanche 2012 guide: our top 20 picks for Toronto’s seventh annual all-night art crawl
This Saturday, September 29, hordes of art lovers, all-purpose revellers and the generally curious will take to downtown for the...
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City News
The Argument: Why is quintessentially American writer Richard Ford’s new novel about Canada?
The day after George W. Bush was re-elected president, the American novelist Richard Ford got in his car and drove across the...
City News
SPOTTED: Jake Gyllenhaal hanging out with a gay power couple—again
Just last week, at Luminato, Jake Gyllenhaal took in the Rufus Wainwright concert at David Pecaut Square, hanging out with gay...
City News
Party Pages: Rufus and Martha Wainwright, Jorn Weisbrodt and more at Sunday night’s hottest Luminato after-party
On Sunday night, after Rufus Wainwright sang his heart out to a massive crowd at David Pecaut Square for Luminato, the Shore Club...
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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...
Today in Toronto: La Belle et la Bête and Irvine Welsh
La Belle et la Bête The tale of a beauty who falls for a beast is infinitely more interesting when framed as a love triangle...
Food & Drink
Some of the tastes—and sights—at last weekend’s 1,000 Tastes of Toronto
Luminato’ s always-popular 1,000 Tastes of Toronto food festival returned to the Distillery over the weekend, heading back to...
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City News
Spotted: Jake Gyllenhaal hangs out with gay power couple
Jake Gyllenhaal is still in town filming An Enemy, and he spent last night as a VIP at Rufus Wainwright’ s Luminato concert at...
Today in Toronto: Nicole Krauss and Luminato and TIFF Go to the Movies
Nicole Krauss Nicole Krauss is one half of literature’s golden couple—her husband is Everything is Illuminated scribe Jonathan...
Food & Drink
A preview of the Toronto Carretilla Initiative, Luminato’s roving cooking-meets-participatory-art project
The Toronto Carretilla Initiative is a free contemporary participatory art project that brings together for the first time the...
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City News
Toronto vs. Chicago: mayors, ballparks and nicknames edition
Emanuel served as an advisor to both Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, has a Hollywood uber-agent for a brother and won a scholarship...
Culture
Luminato 2012 guide: 20 must-see events at this year’s arts festival
Luminato begins this Friday, and it can be a bit of a whirlwind. Everything from a Philip Glass opera about Einstein’s life to a...
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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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