Hark! We’re getting into holiday hoopla gear. The seasonal sneak attack of peppermint coffee, sparkling store windows and jolly jingles is in full force, and our guide to the city’s best style, tech and eco-friendly gifts is here to put you in the giving spirit.
NOW DAILY | FRIDAY | NOV | 20 | 2009
Day-after reviews
Leslie Arden is one of our best musical theatre creators. We see her work all too rarely, so treat yourself to the world premiere of The Princess & The Handmaiden, a Grimm Brothers-type tale filled with tuneful music and clever lyrics in a production that would be hard to top.
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Do you hear what I hear? Well, besides the Bing Crosby Christmas carols filling mall corridors, that would be the chiming of cash registers as corporations the world over fire up their sweatshops and start tallying their holiday profits. If handing out mall socks and sweaters is starting to ring hollow for you, consider injecting a little more feel-good factor into your prezzie shopping and give out gifts that pay it forward.
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Let’s speak no more of seeking provincial and federal “funding” for public transit. We don’t want “funding.” We want our money back.
Toronto Living
There are endless ways a shopper can approach the store-saturated strip of Yonge between Eglinton and Lawrence.
Launched exactly one year ago, low-key Loire deserves to be applauded as much for what it does – soberly priced contemporary plates with a decided French accent – as for what it doesn’t do.
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SECRET OF THE SYNCOPE II by Walter Willems, at CAMH, 1001 Queen West
INCURSION 43:38:36.19N/ 79:25:19.89W° by Craig Walsh, at the Great Hall storefront window, 1087 Queen West
LOCUST by Noboru Tsubaki and Hishashi Muroi, at Lamport Stadium, 1151 King West
CITY GLOW by Chiho Aoshima, in Massey Harris Park, 945 King West
