Weekend Warrior: How to Train Your Dragon, Taste of the Danforth, Heavy T.O., Rogers Cup, Harbord Street Jazz Festival

You have your typically average spectator shows, in which you’re just sitting back and taking in the action in front of you, and then you have the rare event that is more than that, like How To Train Your Dragon Live Spectacular. This kid-friendly, interactive adventure based on the DreamWorks movie brings you up close and personal with giant, lifelike fire breathers. Don’t get too close, or you may wind up feeling the heat.

Grab of the Week: a ruched bucket bag by Toronto designer Jenny Bird

Every fashion-loving lady lusts for one of Alexander Wang’s Diego bags (unless she owns one already). Why do we love them so much? Well, first off, the bucket shape makes them neither dainty nor annoyingly oversized, and the studs and heavy metal make them all-around badass. While the Diego may be an icon in the handbag world, sometimes we like to look for lesser-known alternatives, especially when it means we can support our homegrown talent.

Toronto Summer Guide: The city’s best events

For the first installment of our three-part summer guide, we take a look at the best summer events and activities happening in Toronto this season. Three great ways to get outside Rollerskating on the Bentway The Bentway, the unique and playful park space under the Gardiner Expressway, is the place to be for roller skating.

North York kids still banging heads after 36 years

TWO YEARS AGO the members of Toronto heavy metal band Anvil were working at day jobs, shovelling pasta, delivering food and working on houses just to make ends meet. Now, the DVD that documented their journey from groundbreaking ’80s band to obscurity and back again has turned the band into an overnight sensation. In the

John Roberts

IN HIS LAST year of high school, future CNN anchor John Roberts would sneak over to the local pub, the only place he could get a beer at his young age.

John Roberts

IN HIS LAST year of high school, future CNN anchor John Roberts would sneak over to the local pub, the only place he could get a beer at his young age.

Here are the biggest concerts you can get $25 tickets for in Toronto this year

As Toronto eagerly gears up for the arrival of summer, the city isn’t just preparing for patio season and longer evenings but also for the lineup of concerts that are set to grace the city’s best stages. But before the official start of summer Live Nation’s Concert Week is right around the corner and it’s

Prep is back and here’s how to style the trend for fall in Toronto

With summer nearing the end and the cool breeze evoking annual back-to-school-nostalgia, our minds are starting to drift towards the potential of our fall wardrobes. A timeless trend is making itself a clear choice for the impending layering weather: prep, but not prep as we’ve always known it. We’ll call it new prep. Ivy league

The top trends from the runway at Toronto’s spring fashion week

Toronto’s Black Creek Assembly was home to some of the top fashion designers from across the country for Fashion Art Toronto‘s spring fashion week this past weekend. To guide your fashion choices this season, there’s nowhere better to look than straight to the runway! The city’s fashion week was full of new and enduring trends

New Music Wednesdays: The passion and power of Long Range Hustle

Long Range Hustle is a five-piece indie rock band based in Toronto. On Feb. 25, the band is set to release its third studio album, I am alive, but only if you say I am. Reuniting with acclaimed Scottish producer, Tony Doogan, Long Range Hustle recorded the album in the tumultuous summer of 2020 at

Jeanne Beker on the best winter boots for when you’re out in the snow

One of Canada’s most trusted authorities on style and fashion, Jeanne Beker has covered the industry for more than 30 years. Now watch her in her current style editor role on TSC’s Style Matters with Jeanne Beker or tune into her new podcast Beyond Style Matters, available wherever you get your podcasts.    Winter is

Jeanne Beker on the three hottest styles in spring footwear

If there’s one thing we are truly tired of in March, it’s those winter boots. So with spring around the corner, we asked Jeanne Beker to pick her favourites of the season’s three hottest footwear trends.   STATEMENT SNEAKERS A) A LITTLE LIZARD “I really love anything to do with lizard. This is a faux

Raising Toronto

With epic commutes, sky-high real estate and taxes up the wazoo, we asked eight Toronto families why they love raising their kids in the city.  Food industry heavyweights The parents: Grant van Gameren, chef/owner of Bar Isabel & Sunny Stone, metal worker and chef on mat leave   Home: Detached house in Trinity Bellwoods Kid: Wylie

Kids provide input on local park

With summer not too far off, I offer an update on the status of the four parks that are in the process of redevelopment. The work in Brookdale Park (located near Avenue Road) and Woburn Park (near Bathurst) will commence mid-May. It is anticipated that construction will last eight weeks. The majority of the park