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What Giller-winning author Souvankham Thammavongsa loves about the Entertainment District
Including a beautiful bookstore, an ’80s-chic vintage spot and the aquarium she shouted out in the
New Yorker
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Culture
The Scotiabank Theatre’s escalator is broken for TIFF and everyone is freaking out
How Twitter reacted to Canada's latest national embarassment
Culture
A Blue Jays art show, an all-you-can-eat fundraiser and seven other things to do this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of October 13
Food & Drink
Five things to do in Toronto on the weekend of January 31–February 2
In this edition of The Weekender, a frigid bike ride, a kimono exhibit and three other things to do in Toronto this...
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Culture
Today at TIFF (Sunday, Sept. 16th): Last day, last chance to catch TIFF
Our daily roundup of opening galas, parties, screenings and more. • 9 a.m. Love, Marilyn at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema • 9...
Culture
Today at TIFF (Saturday, Sept. 15): Bad 25 North American premiere, Song for Marion and more
Our daily roundup of opening galas, parties, screenings and more. • 9 a.m. Venus and Serena special presentation at the Bloor...
Culture
Today at TIFF (Thursday, Sept. 13): Jayne Mansfield’s Car, Twice Born and more
Our daily roundup of opening galas, parties, screenings and more. • 12 p.m. Love, Marilyn screening at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema...
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Culture
Today at TIFF (Wednesday, Sept. 12): Love, Marilyn gala, A Royal Affair, and more
Our daily roundup of opening galas, parties, screenings and more. • 12 p.m. Disconnect special presentation at Ryerson Theatre...
Culture
Today at TIFF (Monday, Sept. 10): Antiviral, Hyde Park on Hudson and more
Our daily roundup of opening galas, parties, screenings and more. • 10 a.m. Alternative Africa: Filmmakers in Markets Without...
Culture
QUOTED: How a bunch of TIFF filmgoers conquered the Scotiabank Theatre stairs
– Kiva Reardon, a film writer, on the moral support offered to moviegoers left with no choice but to climb the vertigo-inducing...
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City News
The Hunger Games red carpet draws celebrities and hyperventilating teens
Yesterday afternoon, at the Scotiabank Theatre, Liam Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson and Alexander Ludwig walked the red carpet for the...
Culture
Roger Ebert is in the building: five reasons we’re happy to have the world’s best-known film critic in town
We’d feign resistance to making this terrible pun, but there’s really no way around it, so here it goes: Roger Ebert touched...
Culture
SPOTTED: Geoffrey Rush standing outside the Scotiabank Theatre on Richmond Street
After a lucky TIFF volunteer escorted one of the stars of last year’s buzziest films —Cadillac People’s Choice...
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 hits Toronto with a premiere and a Hogwarts-themed party at Casa Loma
It may be surprising to some (no one) that Harry Potter is a big deal for small children, teens, adults and the elderly. It was...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Nixon in China, Kuumba and six other events on our to-do list
1. FRIDAY AFTER FIVE: DINNER AND A MOVIE This edition of the Gardiner Museum’s popular Friday night event features a screening...
Culture
Guillaume Canet narrowly escapes disaster at his Little White Lies premiere
Director and actor Guillaume Canet almost cancelled his own premiere for Little White Lies at Roy Thomson Hall because there was a...
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The Weekender: TIFF, Roald Dahl Festival, the Cake Boss and six other events on our to-do list
1. TIFF It’s that time again—the time of celeb stalking, party crashing, 4 a.m. tipples and maybe catching the occasional...
Culture
TIFF folk heave sigh of relief after confirming Scotiabank Theatre doesn’t have bedbugs
Earlier today, we reported that TIFF co-director Cameron Bailey and Cineplex Odeon were scrambling to do damage control after a...
Culture
Bedbug scare at the Scotiabank Theatre sets off pre-TIFF firestorm
Forget Oscar buzz. Rumours have it that TIFF theatres are featuring something so creepy, they'll keep you up at night:...
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Nada’s 3-D fashion show premieres at Scotiabank Theatre
This season, Nada Shepherd, eponymous designer of the Toronto-based womenswear line Nada, skipped the fashion week brouhaha and...
Style
Nada Shepherd to present Canada’s first 3-D fashion show
Like several other designers, Nada Shepherd is skipping Toronto's official fashion week in order to do something more...
Culture
Today at TIFF: September 14, 2009
Our daily roundup of the most buzz-worthy opening galas, parties and screenings. • Stop Making Sense free public...
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The long-distance love of Lars von Trier and Willem Dafoe
The Scotiabank Theatre screen used to project Antichrist director Lars von Trier (he refuses to fly, so he appeared at this...
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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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