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TIFF Awards Brunch

TIFF 2011 comes to a close with a sit down brunch at the Four Seasons. Oh, and awards.

Turns out rushing to the TIFF awards brunch is about as pressing as zipping off to The Story of Film—it’s long, you’ll catch most of it. Besides elbowing for a mimosa and fresh pastries, the urgency of the awards starting took a back seat to ensuring everyone was sufficiently caffeinated to be glued to their [...]

TIFF Review Roundup: September 11

TIFF day four and we've got more! Reviews, that is!

As TIFF rolls on, callow and unfeeling, we’re here to help you choose which movies to see, and which ones to avoid like they suffer from a serious dose of cine-cooties. First off today is Nicolas Winding Refn’s much-anticipated Drive (), which while fast, furious, and pretty fun in places, is a bit hollow. (Though it [...]

Gran Chorizo

Photo by Jaime Woo. Two weeks ago, kids got their fair share of chocolate: milky, sugary, fairly generic kind of stuff. For adults, we’ve found a chocolate that’s a little kinkier: chorizo chocolate at Xococava (1560 Yonge Street, north of St. Clair Avenue). Just writing the words feels like a gauntlet has been thrown down. [...]

Maple Leaf Gardens: 76 Years and Counting…

Last week, Maple Leaf Gardens quietly turned 76. When the Gardens was sold to Loblaw in 2004, it appeared that the grocery store chain would fast-track the historic building into a supermarket. Now the projected summer 2007 construction date has come and gone, and nothing has changed since Torontoist covered the Gardens' 75th anniversary. We worried that the Gardens would be neglected while Loblaw dealt with its financial woes and ailing restructuring of existing...