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Spice City Toronto: Tons of Tamil Cuisine

At a strip mall in Markham, customers flock to a shop that serves massive Tamil meals on banana leaves, to go.

Tamil cuisine is some of the tastiest food in the world. Lucky for Toronto, we have a large Tamil population from Sri Lanka and South India, and their cuisine is available if you know where to find it. Tamil food is notable for its high spice levels, and it has different combinations of flavours than [...]

Reel Toronto: The Cutting Edge

If you’re a lady of just the right age, there is a good chance you went head over heels for The Cutting Edge. You swooned over D.B. Sweeney, maybe took a few skating lessons, and now must accept full responsibility for the three (!) sequels…and you probably were too young to know or care it [...]

Markham and Toronto and the OMB, Oh My!

A rendering of the proposed redevelopment, designed by Kirkor Architects. The Shops on Steeles and 404, situated right at the corner of Don Mills and Steeles, is something of a suburban outlier. In addition to having a sort of unwieldy name, it was never designed with a movie theatre or huge anchor stores (the former [...]

Reel Toronto: Repo Men

Toronto’s extensive work on the silver screen reveals that, while we have the chameleonic ability to look like anywhere from New York City to Moscow, the disguise doesn’t always hold up to scrutiny. Reel Toronto revels in digging up and displaying the films that attempt to mask, hide, or—in rare cases—proudly display our city. Behold, [...]

Futurist: Toronto in 2020

The Toronto of 2020 will be a different, but recognizable place. Between now and 2020, immigration will have made the world’s most multicultural city even more diverse, new building projects will have altered the city’s landscape, and Transit City will have broken down many of the city’s spatial barriers.

Reel Toronto: In the Mouth of Madness

Streeter: Suburban Partying Edition

Two cashiers overheard at a Loblaw in Markham talking about getting caught with someone else’s ID. Cashier 1: I told [the bouncer] that I had lost mine, so I borrowed a friend’s. I swore I was old enough to get in though! I promised never to use it again if he gave it back to [...]

Vandalist: Operator? I’m Looking For The Man That Shot My Pa.

Once a week, Vandalist features the best street art and graffiti from around Toronto. You should contribute. By Teeth AT DUNDAS AND MARKHAMPHOTO BY TEETH

Portrait Project: Mr. Golden Star

Sarah Lazarovic––curator of the garage-based Montrose Portrait Gallery of Canada––is painting a portrait of a Torontonian (be they grannies or gardeners or Gord Perks) every day for one hundred days. Each Monday, we’ll feature one of those portraits here. This is Mr. Golden Star, proprietor of a Thornhill burger joint that some consider the best [...]