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Issue 62

A/City
Photo: Erin Seaman/The Grid

_Places

How’s Business?: AnimeXtreme

North America’s manga craze may have peaked a few...

Photo: Aaron Lynett/Toronto Star

_Politics

How to bridge the urban-suburban divide

It was fun to pile on Deputy Mayor Doug Holyday last...

Photos: aaron vincent ELKAIM/ The Grid

_Places

The escape clause

Known for its horizon-kissing corn fields, rolling...

Photo: TARA WALTON/TORONTO STAR

_Politics

Rob Ford’s elusive happy face

Getting a flattering shot of Mayor Rob Ford in a good...

Photo: CP PHOTO/J.P. Moczulski

_Local News

Eight tips for Toronto’s job-seekers

Employment increased by 1.5 per cent in the past ...

photo: ERIN SEAMAN/The Grid

_Places

What Goes On In There?: Smiley Guy Studios

Just north of Bathurst and Nassau sits a disused-...

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_Local News

Canada’s videogame hero

The lights dimmed and a horde of sign-wielding fans...

photo: Toronto Star Staff

_Local News

Hot dogged

When Elisaveta Moskova’s hot-dog cart business ended...

Photo: courtesy of Marco Timpano

_Local News

The furthest fringe

If you stage it, Quaids will come. That’s what Daniel...

photo: courtesy of Ruth Stackhouse

_Local News

Escape from CAMH

The question, from Ward 14 councillor Gord Perks,...

Photo: BERNARD WEIL/TORONTO STAR

_Opinion

Scarborough’s tragic night

Toronto’s never seen anything quite like the gun...

photos: angela lewis/The Grid

_People

Municipally minded MP Olivia Chow

What better place is there to ask your opinion on...

B/Life
Photo: CARLOS OSORIO/TORONTO STAR

_Advice

Trying isn’t the same as settling

I am closing in on 30, and I’ve been single for...

Photos: ERIN SEAMAN/The Grid

_Real Estate

In the market for… A home along Bloor West

WALLACE EMERSON: 371 Wallace Ave., Unit 1. #JNT (pictured...

Front View

_Real Estate

First-time buyers: Angela Hamilton, 29, and Joshua Hamilton, 31

What they wanted: A three-bedroom house in the east...

Photo: Rob Duffy/The Grid

_Society

Party on the east side

There’s no easy way to say this, but Toronto’s...

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_Food and Drink

The Wine Ponce: Whites of a different stripe

On Santorini, the dry, rocky landscape forces grapevines...

Photos: anya chibis/The Grid

_Food and Drink

Boozy bedfellows

Megan Jones never thought she wanted to be a bartender...

Photos: reena newman/The Grid

_Food and Drink

That’s so corny

Ituarte uses an old variety of Indian field corn called...

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_Parenting

When do you wash your sheets, and other dad dating quandaries

The dilemma: My kids were sleeping at my sister’...

C/Culture
Photo: reynard li/The Grid

_Arts

What do you say, Michael Snow?

1. You’ve marvelled at his artwork, even if you...

Dark Knight Rises

_Film

The Dark Knight Rises

Epically scaled, impossibly expensive, intermittently...

Soulpepper, Speed The plow

_Theatre

Speed-the-Plow

Starring Ari Cohen, Jordan Pettle, Sarah Wilson. Written...

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_Music

Gaslight Anthem: Handwritten

Brian Fallon, the lead singer of The Gaslight Anthem...

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_Music

Shout Out Out Out Out: Spanish Moss and Total Loss

It’s been three years since Edmonton crew Shout...

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_Film

First Position

None of the teenaged dancers in First Position shove...

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_Music

Purity Ring: Shrines

Like Braids (a Calgary band that relocated to la belle...

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_Film

The Burlesque Assassins

If there was ever a movie title that promised the...

bird

_Music

Andrew Bird: Break it Yourself

After five studio albums and nearly two decades of...

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_Film

Vito

If not for the valiant efforts of film historian Vito...

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_Film

The Redemption of General Butt Naked

There is a lot of reconciliatory rhetoric in The Redemption...

Provided by Alliance Films.

_Film

Moving Day

Rebounding strongly from the debacle of Afghan Luke...

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_Film

Trishna

Though better loved for his collaborations with Steve...

Dark Knight Rises

_Film

Blown away: Batman’s shock and awe campaign

In terms of its scope, logistical complexity, and...

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_Film

Three films good, four films bad

The Dark Knight Rises, which hits theatres this week...

breakingbad

_Television

Circle of jerks

My mom loves Don Draper. I do, too, but at least I...