Top picks from Toronto’s new theatre season
Toronto theatre-goers have a lot to look forward to this fall. From Mirvish mega-musicals to silly scenes from The Second City, we’ve got a busy theatre season ahead of us. Here are our top picks.
Category: Culture
What to Watch at TIFF 2013: day six
The Toronto International Film Festival has descended upon the city, and with hundreds of choices, picking the right film to see can be overwhelming. We’ll be bringing you recommendations every day, from major Hollywood features to compelling docs — the best from around the world. These are films that deserve to be seen, either during the festival or after.
What to Watch at TIFF 2013: day five
The Toronto International Film Festival has descended upon the city, and with hundreds of choices, picking the right film to see can be overwhelming. We’ll be bringing you recommendations every day, from major Hollywood features to compelling docs — the best from around the world. These are films that deserve to be seen, either during the festival or after.
What to Watch at TIFF 2013: day four
The Toronto International Film Festival has descended upon the city, and with hundreds of choices, picking the right film to see can be overwhelming. We’ll be bringing you recommendations every day, from major Hollywood features to compelling docs — the best from around the world. These are films that deserve to be seen, either during the festival or after.
What to Watch at TIFF 2013: day three
The Toronto International Film Festival has descended upon the city, and with hundreds of choices, picking the right film to see can be overwhelming. We’ll be bringing you recommendations every day, from major Hollywood features to compelling docs — the best from around the world. These are films that deserve to be seen, either during the festival or after.
Q&A with Toronto filmmaker Don McKellar
Toronto filmmaker Don McKellar is one of the faces everyone expects to see at the Toronto International Film Festival. Before appearing in his first TIFF film — Bruce McDonald’s Roadkill — he worked at the festival. But he hasn’t had a film at the festival since Blindness in 2008. But he’s back.
What to Watch at TIFF 2013: day two
The Toronto International Film Festival has descended upon the city, and with hundreds of choices, picking the right film to see can be overwhelming. We’ll be bringing you recommendations every day, from major Hollywood features to compelling docs — the best from around the world. These are films that deserve to be seen, either during the festival or after.
Tapping into a powerful topic
In Toronto’s east end, the Queen Street viaduct has carried streetcars, cyclists and pedestrians over the Don River since 1911. Daily, countless people cross the river, but with the passing of time, the waterway has blended into the fabric of the city — an unremarkable landmark.
What to Watch at TIFF 2013: day one
The Toronto International Film Festival has descended upon the city, and with hundreds of choices, picking the right film to see can be overwhelming. We’ll be bringing you recommendations every day, from major Hollywood features to compelling docs — the best from around the world. These are films that deserve to be seen, either during the festival or after.
The crib guru
If The Dude from The Big Lebowski needed an interior designer to fix up his living space, he’d call Damon Snider.
Miracle on 87th Street
Monica Smiley, a 2005 Thornlea Secondary School grad, anxiously picks up the phone, dials a few numbers and waits. She has made a half dozen calls so far, asking stores to meet with her and look at her product, Eighty Seventh St., a series of fashion-inspired greeting cards for any ocassion (she recently produced a beautiful 2013 holidays line) that she built from the ground up.
Physics to cosmetics
When Linda Stephenson, founder and creator of Toronto-based cosmetics company Mèreadesso, left her North Toronto all girls high school, she was in for a bit of a shock. With math and science her favourite subjects at Branksome Hall, the keen teen decided to try for a bachelor of science degree at Toronto’s U of T.