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TIFF 2012
City News
Year in Review: our favourite culture stories of 2012
As we approach the cultural dry spell that lingers in the wake of the big holiday shows, it’s good to be reminded of just how...
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Food & Drink
Introducing: Michael’s on Simcoe, a new downtown steakhouse from the old manager of Harbour Sixty
This TIFF season was a busy one for the intersection of Adelaide and Simcoe, with the opening of the new Shangri-La Hotel and Soho...
Culture
Silver Linings Playbook wins the People’s Choice Award at TIFF (despite the lame name)
TIFF differs from Cannes and Venice in that its major awards are chosen by audiences rather than by a jury. So, while critics and...
Culture
TIFF Roundup: the winners and losers from this year’s fest
Make no mistake: While the TIFF red carpet is all air kisses and man-hugs, the festival is also a competition—for distribution...
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Culture
TIFF Roundup: the festival’s worst-dressed stars
Sure, there were many noteworthy ensembles at TIFF 2012, but any star-studded event inevitably comes with a few spectacular...
Culture
TIFF Roundup: the fest’s best-dressed stars
For a truly killer red carpet look, a celebrity—or their stylist—must find a show-stopping ensemble that’s...
Culture
TIFF Roundup: what the stars had to say about Toronto, its fest—and its hot dogs
Now that the red carpets, press conferences and, of course, parties have all wrapped up, it’s time to take stock of how things...
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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
TIFF RED CARPET POLL: Which Toronto celebrity was best dressed at TIFF 2012?
Sure, Hollywood’s stars descend on Toronto during TIFF, but the local talent was also well-represented on the red carpets this...
Culture
Red Carpet Style: 23 looks at TIFF’s leading men and women
Scrutinizing the glamorous gowns and sharp suits worn by film industry elite is one of the principal pleasures of TIFF (after all...
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Culture
Today at TIFF (Friday, Sept. 14): The Paperboy’s North American premiere, Emperor and more
Our daily roundup of opening galas, parties, screenings and more. • 11 a.m. Much Ado About Nothing special presentation at the...
Culture
SPOTTED: Penelope Cruz and the cast of Twice Born at the Spoke Club
This just in: Oscar winner, wife of Javier Bardem and noted looker Penelope Cruz is currently at the Spoke Club, hanging out with...
Culture
TIFF Oscar Scorecard: what this year’s fest tells us about next year’s Academy Awards
It’s still far too early for Oscar pools, but now that the big TIFF movies have screened, it’s high time to get in on the...
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Culture
Venice vs. TIFF fashion showdown, Naomi Watts edition
Naomi Watts seems to have thing for evening gowns in nude and blush, so the bateau-necked lace Marchesa dress she wore at the...
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...
Culture
SPOTTED: Zac Efron makes one fan’s day at the Ritz-Carlton
Zac Efron’ s mission at this year’s TIFF: shed his candy-sweet image as a non-threatening object of tweenage affection ( hence...
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Culture
TIFF RED CARPET: Venus and Serena Williams are conspicuously absent at the premiere of Venus and Serena
Culture
TIFF RED CARPET: James Earl Jones joins Canuck stars for Show Stopper: The Theatrical Life of Garth Drabinsky
Though he spent the bulk of his career behind the scenes in movies, theatres and extravagant, Broadway-style productions, the life...
Culture
TIFF FASHION POLL: Which actor is sporting the sexiest scruff?
Last year we noticed that many leading men went into lumberjack mode for TIFF, sporting full beards on the red carpet. This...
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TIFF RED CARPET: Ralph Fiennes looks much friendlier than Voldemort at Great Expectations
The stampede of literary inspirations at TIFF this year ( Anna Karenina, Midnight's Children, On the Road and Cloud Atlas, to name...
Culture
Venice vs. TIFF fashion showdown, Olga Kurylenko edition
Olga Kurylenko may have hit the scene as a Bond girl, but she’s now looking quite at home on the festival circuit. The...
Culture
VIDEO: Watch Toronto Life’s online editor talk star-spotting and celebrity gossip at TIFF 2012
Our online editor Andrew Wallace appeared on Global’s The Morning Show bright and early yesterday morning to talk all things...
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QUOTED: Brandon Cronenberg on what’s really behind all that TIFF red carpet gawking
–Filmmaker Brandon Cronenberg, director of Antiviral and son of David Cronenberg, talks celebrity obsession. [Grolsch Film...
Culture
TIFF RED CARPET: Sarah Gadon heads a parade of Canadian talent at the premiere of Antiviral
We’ll try to forgive director Brandon Cronenberg ( David’ s son) for debuting his first film at Cannes rather than at his...
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Dead Reckoning: The executor of their estate was supposed to divide it among their friends and family. Instead, he bankrupted it
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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
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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
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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
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My Life as a True Crime Spectacle: My father’s crimes fractured our family. Then came the press
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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
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The High Price of Hope: Inside Toronto’s white-hot fertility market
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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
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Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world
Homegrown innovations that will transform lives for the better
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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
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The Violent Life of a Tow Truck Driver: How an unremarkable profession turned Toronto into a war zone
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