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Our roving scribe tackles T.O.’s famed ‘frat house row’ and wrangles an honorary pledge

Standing up for Mother Earth: Tzeporah Berman reminisces on a life of activism with her new book

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It was environmentalist Tzeporah Berman’s second summer on Vancouver Island helping conduct scientific research for the Wilderness Committee. The data the team had collected the previous summer, while camped in a grove of Sitka spruce in an old-growth temperate rainforest, proved that the survival of a seabird called the marbled murrelet depended on the forest. It was supposed lead to the permanent preservation of the forest.

Trending in Theatre: In the Next Room, The Zoo Story, The Maids, His Greatness, Private Lives

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Yep, this Pulitzer Prize-nominated play is about the invention of the vibrator. At the dawn of the age of electricity, women are treated for a variety of disorders by paraoxysms induced by, well, a vibrator, and soon the little device becomes, er, a sensation, inducing a whole different kind of hysteria. All women hail Thomas Edison.
Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman Avenue, 416-531-1827. Sept. 21 – Oct. 23.

It’s time for the fall edition of The Clothing Show. Here are eight vendors we’re looking out for

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Touted as Canada’s biggest vintage and brand-spankin’-new indie designer show, The Clothing Show has over 300 booths brimming with local goods. While most of the vendors are focused on swathing your bod in clothing — both vintage and non — there are plenty of accessories, tasty treats and even fetish wear up for grabs. We’ve gone through the list of vendors to find our favourites. Here’s what we hope they’ll bring out this weekend.

Old school, new attitude

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Chef Rocco Agostino has enjoyed molto successo with the three critically acclaimed restaurants he has opened in Toronto’s west end over the past 11 years — Pizzeria Libretto, Enoteca Sociale and the now-closed Silver Spoon. Agostino is expanding east as he prepares to open up the second Pizzeria Libretto on the Danforth this fall. Although … Continued

Danier’s collaboration with T.O. stylist George Antonopoulos hits stores

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Following months of anticipation from Canada-wide leather aficionados, the luxe OBJECT for Danier collection by stylist extraordinaire George Antonopoulos has just hit select Danier stores. The second in a series of Danier collaborations this season — Greta Constantine’s tightly edited Skin collection being the first — was unveiled last week at a Yorkdale trunk show, bringing bigwigs like FASHION and Zoomer editors Bernadette Morra and Suzanne Boyd all the way up-up-uptown.