NATURAL LIGHT INFILTRATES La Bohème, Sha Taheri’s new French café in North Toronto. Moms on maternity leave head to the back to gossip and lounge on a low couch positioned before a coffee table; busybodies on their lunch breaks perch on stools at an open wood counter; and friends opt for one of the room’s
IT WAS THE spring of 2007, and Adam Lind, a skinny, straw-haired kid from Anderson, Indiana, found himself eating alone at a restaurant on Yonge Street. The future star slugger of the Toronto Blue Jays had just been called up to the big club, and he was terrified. Not so much about his big league
IF WAYNE GRETZKY, Mike Weir and Dan Aykroyd walked into a wine bar, what would they order?
Salmon are not returning in the numbers they once were.
Paralympic athlete shares the sport that changed his life
OLYMPIC SNOWBOARDING hopeful Michael Lambert took a bit of a gentle ribbing from his teammates during a recent phone interview from Switzerland. “Jasey [ Jay Anderson] is here, and he’s really giving it to me about the attention that I’m getting,” he says and laughs. “He’s calling me a rock star. He could just be
Introduction: The Four Horsemen of My Apocalypse I thought Americans were supposed to be stupid about these things. Ignorant of foreign cultures. Disinterested in international affairs. This, I’ve always figured, was particularly true of Africa—Americans presumably have trouble distinguishing between the Kalahari, Sahara, and Luxor on Las Vegas Boulevard. Jay Leno hits the streets to
T.O.’s famous funnyman on a youth merrily misspent in Leaside, finally playing the nice guy and his plans to get Arrested in 2011
Besides being principal dancers for the National Ballet of Canada, Heather Ogden and Guillaume Côté are a blissfully in-love couple who got engaged this summer and are planning to tie the knot next year.
Bayview storm water management moves forward
Ontario’s latest wine region is the yin to Niagara’s yang
ROMAN CANDLES STREAK across the night sky in G. Ross Lord Park, flashes of light as brief as they are bright.
What do Aristotle, da Vinci, Darwin, Gates and Old Doc Lester (here I am using poetic licence) have in common? Brainpower.
Richmond Hill’s Olympic son opens up about his long-awaited return to skating, a daring new project and a little thing called serendipity
I saw Dallas Green last month at Massey Hall. He was brilliant. He was funny and bright, and he intelligently hushed any annoying “who-hooers” in the crowd.
Local woman’s focus is Aboriginal kids
Songstress Melanie Doane, hubby Ted Dykstra and son Theo show off their neighbourhood
