_JOIN THE GRID

No worries! We'll send you an e-mail containing instructions for how you can recover your password.

Reset your password

No worries! We'll send you an e-mail containing instructions for how you can recover your password.

Join The Grid

The Grid is all about what's going on in your neighbourhood, and nobody knows it better than you do. Join to submit event and location listings, and start neighbourhood-related discussions.

Register
  • Join The Grid

Issue 69

A/City
PHOTO: LUCAS OLENIUK/TORONTO STAR

_Politics

Rob Ford’s latest headscratcher

Rob Ford appeared in a Toronto courtroom today, engaged...

PHOTOS: JAIME HOGGE/THE GRID

_People

Andrew and Matthew Patel: Defiant chicken-keepers

As the youngest members of the Toronto Chickens organization...

PHOTO: MATTHEW HALLIDAY/THE GRID

_Places

Ghost City: Blondin Avenue

There’s a street near Downsview where no one lives...

Graphic Content

_Local News

Graphic Content: Making the grade

Yes, students in affluent neighbourhoods tend to get...

PHOTO: Richard Lautens/Toronto Star

_Local News

Making the moment last

Standing at the northern edge of Christie Pits Park...

PHOTO: PORTIA COLBERT/THE GRID

_Sports

Expos nation comes to Toronto

In section 240 of the Rogers Centre’s bleachers...

Awesome Toronto

_Local News

Money for nothing

About 40 people convened in the Gladstone Hotel’...

PHOTOS: ALEX NINO GHECIU/THE GRID

_Local News

All burned out

As a 50-foot-tall effigy combusted in Nevada’s ...

Photo: Andrew Wallace/Toronto Star

_Opinion

We the Tweeple: Introducing Phanbert

Talk about CanCon: On Monday, Calgary-born actress...

Gary Roberts

_Local News

Choice beverage

Last week, on a private property amid rolling hills...

B/Life
PHOTOS: NANCY TONG/THE GRID (FLEA SIGN) CONNIE TSANG; (FLEA 5 & 7) PORTIA COLBERT

_Design

What to see at the flea

The wildly successful Junction Flea is the brainchild...

ILLUSTRATION: TORONTO STAR ARCHIVES

_Advice

Freaking out over “freaking out”

“Why do guys act like jerks all the time?” is...

student loans

_Finance

Life on loan

On the day Alex Kenjeev was set to make his final...

PHOTO: KEITH BEATY/TORONTO STAR

_Fashion

This week in style: Fashion’s Night Out edition

■ One of the evening’s biggest events is The...

wine

_Food and Drink

The Wine Ponce: Sparkling wine

Some 95 per cent of Cava comes from the Penedès region...

PHOTO: PAUL WEEKS/THE GRID

_Food and Drink

Beer canto

Last month, when opera singer Melanie Esseltine stood...

PHOTOS: GEOFF FITZGERALD/THE GRID

_Food and Drink

The real Chilean deal

It’s somewhat of a cruel notion, but tough times...

PHOTO: REENA NEWMAN/THE GRID

_Food and Drink

TLC for the BLT. OMFG!

Anthony Rose left his post as head chef at the Drake...

real estate home

_Real Estate

There are thousands of realtors in Toronto. Here’s how to pick one.

I’m not the right realtor for everyone. No one is...

C/Culture
jefferson airplane

_Music

What We’re Listening To: White After Labour Day edition

“Into the White,” by The Pixies (KIM DEAL 4-...

Brandon Cronenberg

_Film

Going viral

Upon watching David Cronenberg’s two youngest children...

PHOTO: LUIS GUERRA/©2012 RAMEY PHOTO

_Film

TIFF Festival’s T.O. rising talent

T.O. cred: Toronto born and bred, the 25-year-old...

sheepdogs

_Music

The Sheepdogs: The Sheepdogs

The Sheepdogs’ unlikely ascent to the cover of Rolling...

byrne

_Music

David Byrne and St. Vincent: Love This Giant

There’s something fitting about the revelation that...

avett

_Music

The Avett Brothers: The Carpenter

On the opening track of The Carpenter, folk-rockers...

lisa

_Music

Lisa Bozikovic: This Is How We Swim

You can practically hear the waves on This Is How...

bob dylan

_Music

Bob Dylan: Tempest

Right around the time disgraced New Yorker journalist...

PHOTO: KEITH BEATY/TORONTO STAR

_Theatre

Toronto theatre needs a Lightbox of its own

Clichés don’t always accurately reflect reality...

PHOTO: ALEXANDRA WAESPI

_Music

What do you say, The xx?

1. After conquering the world and winning the Mercury...

PRESENCE_ Jay Leno

_Arts

Where’s Leno?

Buck doesn’t shoot and tell, so we can’t know...

PHOTO: AP PHOTO/COLUMBIA PICTURES/SONY, SCOTT GARFIELD

_Film

The Ode: In praise of blooper reels

About a month ago, for reasons I still can’t entirely...

The Words

_Film

The Words

Starring Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Irons. Written and...

Second City

_Theatre

We’ve Totally (Probably) Got This!

Written and performed by Ashley Comeau, Jason DeRosse...