North York's Person of the Year: Patrick Chan
For all his ordinariness — he likes movies, music, video games, Jessica Alba, hanging at the mall — Patrick Chan is anything but a typical teenager.
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Bayview's Person of the Year: Jeff Skoll
Jeff Skoll, former president of EBay, founder and chairman of the philanthropic Skoll Foundation and Participant Media (the film production company behind some of the decade’s most socially conscious films) got his start pumping petrol just down the street.
Forest Hill's Person of the Year: Belinda Stronach
Belinda Stronach is a philanthropist, power broker, socialite, former public servant and our area’s latest high-profile resident.
Richmond Hill's Person of the Year: Arnie Warner
The man who made one of Richmond Hill’s biggest dreams a reality
North Toronto's Person of the Year: Galen G. Weston
Galen G. Weston: Trailblazer, philanthropist and North Toronto’s ‘greenest’ grocer
Little black dress blues
T.O.’s custom-made dress kings design the perfect LBD
T.O.’s goose down dreams
The National Ballet’s Sonia Rodriguez & Xiao Nan Yu took time out from The Nutcracker to help us find T.O.’s hautest parkas
On a wing and a player
With the Bills in town Dec. 3, we asked NFL Hall of Famer Thurman Thomas to rate our city’s best Buffalo wings
Designer's guy-de to the Distillery District
A trip through Toronto’s Distillery District with designer gurus Steven and Chris.
It's all about local at Corktown's Gilead Café
The Gilead Café has an obscure location, in an alley south off King Street, but what a charming and casual venue. Here Chef Jamie Kennedy is doing what he loves to do: selecting the very best local fare from farmers and food producers, crafting the products in his long established creative, minimal way, and adding culinary touches that are all about harmonious and complementary flavours and textures.
Indulge your shopping fantasies at Girl Friday
Here’s the thing about Girl Friday… women LOVE this store! Girl Friday owner Rebecca Nixon runs two boutiques in Toronto, and designs the house-branded clothing line sold in boutiques across Canada. The designs are classic, easy-to-wear, and affordable. In addition to their house line, Girl Friday carries casually chic designs like Soia and Kyo coats from Montreal, Dish jeans from Vancouver, and Akiko’s beautiful silk blouses from L.A.
A blind wine tasting at the new Splendido
The new Splendido has a very casual but elegant atmosphere. It’s a great place to take a first date, have a 50th anniversary, or just to meet for a business dinner. Together with a group of good friends, all who have extensive wine cellars, we gathered to taste the fruits of the wonderful 1990 vintage. The tasting was conducted with all of the wines masked and numbered by the restaurant staff. There were 12 wines in all, presented in two flights of six bottles.