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Issue 66

A/City
COLLAGE: ROBYN MCCALLUM/THE GRID

_Places

The Ex Factor

When the 134th annual Canadian National Exhibition...

Nitro at night

_Places

The CNE Attraction-o-meter!

PHOTO: STEVE RUSSELL/TORONTO STAR

_Places

Mistakes by the Lake

While the CNE may teach us something about city building...

PHOTO: KYLE CLEMENTS/THE GRID

_Local News

Making for a fight

Super Street Fire is both a live-action homage to...

Self Storage

_Local News

Toronto’s storage wars

Lisa Rempel and her two sons, Simon and Ike, spent...

PHOTO: ANGELA LEWIS/THE GRID

_People

Jennifer Keesmaat: New chief city planner

The suburbs versus downtown, bikes versus cars, affordable...

PHOTO: TORONTO STAR ARCHIVES

_Places

Ghost City: Before St. James Town

In April 1971, 68-year-old Francis Berghofer’s century...

Rob Ford

_Opinion

We the Tweeple: Driven to distraction

Rob Ford didn’t expect to be grilled on his driving...

PHOTOS: PORTIA COLBERT/THE GRID

_Local News

Designing the Junction

Last Sunday’s Junction Flea market featured a typical...

PHOTO: Portia Colbert/THE GRID

_Local News

Sikh like me

“We really appreciate what the Americans have done...

PHOTO: AP/U.S. Army via Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum

_Local News

Bombs away

More than 100 people gathered to commemorate the 67th...

Blue Jays

_Sports

Graphic Content: Jays malaise

Thanks to a roster of injured pitchers, the Jays’...

B/Life
real estate buying frenzy house

_Real Estate

Is this the end of buyer frenzy?

Throughout the past decade in Toronto, it was almost...

PHOTO: KARON LIU/THE GRID

_Food and Drink

Selling the sizzle

The Bacon Nation booth makes its debut at the CNE...

wine

_Food and Drink

The Wine Ponce: Austria

With a label inspired by Russian artist Alexander...

PHOTOS: ANYA CHIBIS/THE GRID

_Food and Drink

Sip ’n’ swizzle

Shane Mulvany is nothing if not consistent. The Irish...

Sara Diemeran

_Advice

What’s a nice girl like you doing mothering some dude?

I’ve always been the one to prepare healthy, beautiful...

PHOTO: COURTESY OF THE FINANCIAL CONSUMER AGENCY OF CANADA

_Finance

Let’s talk about cents, baby

These days, it seems that when I’m not busy attending...

bricks mortar

_Real Estate

Bricks and Mortar: July 2012

Average price of a Toronto condo in July 2012, down...

PHOTOS: REYNARD LI/THE GRID

_Design

In Parkdale, old is the new new

Queen West Antique Centre owners Mike and Amy Mason...

PHOTOS: GEOFF FITZGERALD/THE GRID

_Food and Drink

Zouk, alors

For the better part of a century, Kensington Market...

PHOTO: LIAM MOGAN/THE GRID

_Food and Drink

Bust out the bibs

Thanks to a particularly abundant catch this summer...

C/Culture
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: NICOLA HAMILTON/THE GRID

_Film

Porn again

It’s a smell that’s impossible to forget, as anyone...

paranorman

_Film

ParaNorman

Starring the voices of Kodi Smit-McPhee, John Goodman...

The Awakening

_Film

The Awakening

Starring Rebecca Hall, Dominic West. Written by Stephen...

Expendables

_Film

The Expendables 2

Starring Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham. Written...

yea

_Music

Yeasayer: Fragrant World

The past couple of years have been banner ones for...

bloc

_Music

Bloc Party: Four

When the four-man unit of Bloc Party unraveled and...

This Space Available

_Film

This Space Available

Directed by Gwenaëlle Gobé. STC. 90 min. Opens...

corb lund

_Music

Corb Lund: Cabin Fever

The end of a 13-year relationship, the death of a...

ariel

_Music

Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti: Mature Themes

Ariel Pink has been responsible for some of the most...

Le jetee

_Film

Sans soleil/La jetée

Directed by Chris Marker. Screens Aug. 21, 6:30 p....

hz new_mediations_10

_Arts

Four squares

In 1915, Russian avant-garde artist Kazimir Malevich...

shakespeare

_Theatre

Shakespeare in High Park by the numbers

This summer’s al fresco production of A Midsummer...

50

_Arts

The Argument: Books shouldn’t need soundtracks to set the mood

Of all the thoughts roused by the dirty-little-secret...