In the wake of TIFF celebritymania, it's hard to imagine any Torontonian giving a Big Name the cold shoulder. But The New York Daily News reports that chef Guy Rubino of Rain threatened to kick Nelly Furtado and her entourage out of the elite pan-Asian fusion restaurant after her manager got uppity in the kitchen. "She made a reservation for ten guests," explained Rubino at the Bon Appétit magazine awards dinner on Monday. "She......

The best way to take a break from this whole Gomery broohaha, we thought to ourselves yesterday, was to pick up one of our favourite local Euro newspapers, The European Reporter. And it worked. We got our non-Gomery fill right on the front page, with news that the Cardigans finally released another record. But whilst dabbling in local-serving international newspapers, we came across another good read in a Chinese-language broadsheet called Today's Daily News. The......