Bayview Village has a new jewel opening up in mid-November, and it’s a Pearl. Owner Kim Mak and his partners are bringing a new incarnation of the decades-old Pearl Harbourfront Chinese Cuisine, one of Toronto’s best Chinese restaurants, to the trendy Bayview neighborhood.
Toronto’s cost cutting measures and tax windfall may mean a budget surplus of $140 million for the city in 2012.
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Alberta native Morris Panych is a veteran of all trades in Canadian theatre: he’s had over eighty of his productions and two-dozen plays shown across Canada, Britain and the United States. Now, the playwright, actor, director and winner of two Governor General’s Awards seeks to delight and enlighten audiences with his own adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s masterpiece, Ghosts. We caught up with Panych, who opened up about what it’s like to take on such a famous work.
For generations now, mothers have championed the belief that there was little less than the whole story to be read from the shoes on a man’s feet. In other words, daughters: if your suitor be a man with shined and polished shoes, then he be a man capable of earnest hard work that will devote himself to building a healthy and prosperous future for his family.
The historic Flatiron Building, otherwise known as the Gooderham Building (and apparently one of Toronto’s most photographed buildings) has gone up for sale.
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For Torontonians, the quaint city of Stratford, Ontario — 96 miles from downtown — is a theatre getaway as much as it is a culinary destination. For Chef, the scale leans heavy on the latter side. Stratford was the birthplace of his career in the kitchen and home to his alma mater, the Stratford Chefs School.
This week we popped into Su-Hui Chu’s studio on Ossington. Chu is the designer behind Ella Peru, a fashion line that has made waves in the Vancouver scene ever since its award-winning debut in 2009. We chatted with the vivacious Chu about her move to Hogtown and her soon-to-be-released Holiday 2011-12 collection.
David Hockney once said, “All art is contemporary, if it’s alive, and if it’s not alive, what’s the point of it?” This might explain his usage of some of the most influential innovations of our time — fax machines, laser printers, office photocopiers, Polaroids — to produce art throughout his 60-year career.
Loads of flavour here for the price. Dense purple in colour with a bouquet of mint, cola and blackberries. The palate offers a full-bodied, fleshy and juicy taste of sweet blackberries backed by oak and a fine thread of acidity. Food match: pepper steak, mature cheddar.
Torontonians came out in droves last night to show that in the between blue and red, there is only one true winner: the Maple Leafs.
[Toronto Sun]
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It was pretty much music to our ears when reports surfaced yesterday that tween superstar Justin Bieber was the dream choice to play Marius in Toronto’s 2012 restaging of Les Misérables. Isn’t “A Heart Full of Love” basically a fancier version of “Baby”? Anyway, all of this got us thinking about other musical roles the Biebs could undertake. Here are our top choices.
The Butchers is back. Well, almost. Despite rumours that meat monger Marlon Pather had skipped town to avoid flack for his now-notorious couponing debacle, he’s revamped and re-opened his north Toronto store. It’s now called Marlon’s Meat. And it has chandeliers.
