Marilyn Denis Host of CTV’s The Marilyn Denis Show Which emerging Canadian designer has recently caught your eye? Toronto’s very own Queen Street designer Jeremy Laing. His designs have been called “clean,” “modern” and “minimalist” — but I just call them gorgeous. Where will we spot you wining and dining on a Saturday night? …
Bruce Springsteen’s raging ’80s song “Cover Me” sets the stage for a lyrical morning. The Boss’s baritone vocals are crooning through the sound system of metal mogul Alex Shnaider’s sprawling Bridle Path abode as he insouciantly poses for his cover shot. This steely parallel wasn’t planned, but as Shnaider’s story proves: not many things in …
Lisa Ray Actress, model and Top Chef Canada host, and Jason Dehni, vice-president at Scotiabank Group and co-founder of Artbound Q: Favourite restaurant? A: Outside of “Lisa and Jason’s kitchen”, I’m digging Actinolite Restaurant, which is my friends’ labour of love and has just opened on Ossington Avenue north of Dupont Street. Jason’s current fave …
For a man who’s written a bestselling book on the power of first impressions, you could say that Malcolm Gladwell has an unfair advantage tonight. He’s back in his former stomping ground, under the lights of the Four Seasons Hotel Toronto, to accept an award for his groundbreaking literary accolades. Standing solo, the internationally revered …
Touring the headquarters of the world’s largest circus franchise is a lot like stumbling into the fantastical pages of a Roald Dahl classic. Simply substitute Willy Wonka for Guy Laliberté and a chimerical chocolate factory for Cirque du Soleil, and you have the genesis of a story so surreal, you wonder if it too might …
We’ve all been there. Compressed on a subway car, mourning over the morning news, late for work, again. The mundane, the banal, the ‘everyday.’ It’s everything Tanya Howard aims to eliminate with each mind-bending plié. And she does so with the poetic pull of a playwright whose stories she tells without making a peep. “What …
Fourteen years have passed since Nancy Pencer lost her husband. “I never thought that I would not grow old with him,” she says, just two days before the anniversary of Gerald Pencer’s death. Her eyes carefully hold tears captive, and as she pauses to swallow and take a deep breath, you can hear it. Sitting …
DV: A chance conversation at your wedding in France led to Coco Rocha for Senhoa, what connected you to this cause? CR: Children will always have a huge place in my heart. While I certainly believe in charities that help people of all ages, I think children, and especially orphans, are by far the most …
The Artist left many movie-watchers speechless with its seemingly uncomplicated format that has become ironically revolutionary in a cinematic world ruled by special effects, dramatic scripts and vibrant colours. Director Michel Hazanavicius’s silent film received anything but a silent reception from critics, who hailed its ability to achieve emotion without speech, transcend generations and help …
Six of Canada’s top chefs took their oven mitts off to fight for a good cause last November at the 2nd Annual Chef’s Challenge. David Rocco, Chuck Hughes, Lynn Crawford, Mark McEwan, Massimo Capra and Nadia Giosai each lead their teams in a heated cook-off that raised $1.17 million for breast and ovarian cancer education …
