After a heated Ontario Municipal Board hearing and a change in developers, 20 controversial, luxury townhouses at Bayview Avenue and the Bridle Path are scheduled to start being built this month.
In January, prosecutors told a Chicago federal judge they will not be retrying Conrad Black on two convictions. The convictions — one for fraud and one for obstruction of justice -— had been reversed in an appeal court in October 2010.
The big production this February has to be the arrival of Billy Elliot, an Elton John musical based on the joyous movie, in which an adolescent in a coal-mining village in England discovers his talent and passion for ballet.
The Avenue and Davenport area is bursting with Italian restaurants, but Silvio Spano believes Ceno (“to dine” in Latin) offers something more.
Last year, Joanne Kates named French bistro Pastis her number one restaurant in Toronto. Here are five more of Kates’ favourites.
Open Window Bakery, a Toronto fixture for more than 50 years, has closed its doors at all seven locations across the city. The company employs more than 250 people and, aside from their seven locations, provides baked goods to roughly 500 independent outlets and chains across Ontario.
Eight chefs compete, one leaves with a cutting board stuck with Iberico ham hooves? A fitting trophy, perhaps, for Cava restaurant’s second annual Ground Hog Day cook-off on Feb. 2 — an evening stuffed with Toronto’s finest ground, cured, chopped, pureed, emulsified, and brined cold pork dishes.
The plot of PARADE, a deadly serious but powerful musical, is true. In 1913, Leo Frank, an innocent superintendent at a pencil factory near Atlanta, was falsely accused of murdering a 13-year-old girl who worked for just pennies a day.
A restaurant concept that began in Italy, and now has locations in New York and Los Angeles, is coming to Brookfield Place in downtown Toronto. With a focus on using the finest, freshest ingredients, Obika’s whole concept is based around a mozzarella bar.
I know this Sondheim show almost by heart, having seen it performed four times before (once on Broadway). Here’s the ultimate compliment: walking out of the ancient building on Queen Street West, I turned to Merle and said, “I feel as if I’ve experienced this great musical for the first time—and understood it for the first time, too.”
The team behind a popular, denim-exclusive boutique in Vancouver are bringing their knowledge – and their brand – to Toronto. They’ve got their hands on a Queen Street location – just west of Bathurst – with plans to open in early March.
The theatre critics of the daily newspapers all expressed disappointment and surprise: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum has lost so much of the humour and pacing that was seen at the Stratford Festival! It’s true. The present production in downtown Toronto lost a lot of magic and wit in the transfer.
