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“I cut my bangs with kitchen scissors”: Bif Naked opens up about her new documentary
The alt-rock icon on her unorthodox beauty habits, Blue Jays fandom and new top secret EDM album
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Culture
Lights, the Beaches, WondaGurl and more took home awards at this Canadian music gala
Hosted by Billboard Canada, the Women in Music awards showed just how many Canadian women are making it big
City News
Toronto is getting a star-studded music fest in support of mental health
The inaugural World Congress on the Social Impact of Music is coming to town—and it’s bringing a healthy dose of star power
Culture
Denied entry to Canada, this popular band plans to sue a Toronto MP
The federal government claims the pro-Palestine Irish hip hop group Kneecap is a public safety threat
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Culture
Chandler Levack on her new movie,
Mile End Kicks
, and her love-hate relationship with Toronto
The Canadian filmmaker dishes about her obsession with Alanis Morissette and why she’s revisiting an iconic era of Montreal’s music scene
Memoir
“My son was diagnosed with cancer. Metallica’s Toronto concert gave him something to fight for”
When Chris Mallinos’s 11-year-old son, Theo, received a diagnosis of leukemia, he had just one question: “Can we still see Metallica?”
Culture
MuchMusic’s new YouTube channel Much Rewind is a time machine back to the glory days
The archival footage is chock–full of ’90s ’fits and early aughts attitude
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City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: Is it so wrong to attend a concert while being tall?
I’m paying the same exorbitant ticket prices as everyone else, but lately I’ve been getting harassed for blocking the view because of my height. How should I respond?
Culture
“Success is random—all you can do is keep improving”: Max Kerman of Arkells on his new memoir,
Try Hard
The indie rock frontman talks growing up downtown, the changing nature of the music business and the inspiration behind his first book
Culture
“Fame made me feel like I wasn’t a person anymore”: Alessia Cara on her Valentine’s Day album,
Love & Hyperbole
The “Scars to Your Beautiful” singer discusses stepping back into the limelight, the evolution of her songwriting and her favourite spots in Toronto
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Deep Dives
Almost
Famous: Inside the Beaches’ rise to rock stardom
A viral earworm about a breakup turned the Beaches into Toronto’s hottest export. Now, the panty-throwing, stage-diving, all-girl rock band is seducing fans around the world
Culture
“It’s cool to be ending the band on our own terms”: Tokyo Police Club on their farewell tour
Singer and bassist Dave Monks and keyboardist Graham Wright talk growing up in the burbs, bittersweet endings and Toronto’s music scene
Culture
“When you achieve success at a young age, it stunts your development”: Pop star Amanda Marshall on returning to the stage after two decades
Beginning in 2002, a protracted legal battle with her manager and label led to Marshall’s exile from the music industry. Here, she talks about why that was ultimately a good thing
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City News
Kiss and Tell: “For months, I wrote every text my friend sent to the guy she was seeing”
Camille, a 28-year-old music producer, enjoyed the feeling of living a double life
Memoir
“I left a career in politics to open a music venue in Kensington Market”
Shaunt Raffi co-owns Tapestry with his brother, Raz Tchakmak. They’re about to host their biggest performance yet
Culture
“There was a period when we were doing cocaine just to keep the energy up”: A Q&A with Geddy Lee of Rush
Lee’s new memoir is about love, drugs, death and, of course, music. How the septuagenarian prog-rock icon found another way to use that voice
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Culture
“A younger me would be horrified”: Rufus Wainwright on returning to his parents’ genre with his new album,
Folkocracy
The singer-songwriter discusses his collab with Chaka Khan, why his record is both Grammy bait and a cosmic necessity, and what he misses most about Toronto
Culture
“I know my music tends to be polarizing”: A Q&A with Tanya Tagaq and co-director Chelsea McMullan on the making of
Ever Deadly
The documentary begins its theatrical screening in Toronto at the Hot Docs Cinema today
Culture
Play De Record founder Eugene Tam on supporting Toronto’s music scene
How his store became a community hub and the subject of a new documentary
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City News
Inside Universal Music Canada’s trendy new Liberty Village headquarters
Including state-of-the-art recording studios and a coffee shop known to serve stars like Shawn Mendes
Culture
Toronto’s Polaris 2022 shortlist nominees on their latest albums
Shad and Charlotte Day Wilson are up for the prize. Get to know them better here
Culture
“The crowd looked like thousands. It was a proper rock show”: What it was like for Tokyo Police Club’s Graham Wright to return to live performances
"Fans are sick of waiting, bands are sick of waiting, venues are on razor's edge to pay the rent every month"
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Life
“I’ve seen people dancing on their balconies”: This nurse and saxophonist plays outdoor concerts for locked-down seniors’ homes
When Ivgeni Kriger moved from Israel to Toronto in 2016, he combined his two passions: music and nursing
Culture
“People have been in tears at our shows because they miss live music”: How the Royal Conservatory is forging ahead with in-person concerts this fall
Even the world-famous pianist Angela Hewitt is flying in to play a show—and quarantining for two weeks first
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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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