Indholdsfortegnelse for October 2025 i Toronto Life

CREATED FOR A though new developments offer the allure of modern living, the customization options can fee restrictive, forcing a choice between a handful of pre-set layouts and finishes For those accustomed to a lifestyle of thoughtful design and personal expression, this can feel like a compromise. But at 110 Avenue Road—a new boutique residential development by Sierra—there is no such compromise. Located where Yorkville meets the Annex, the project offers a rare opportunity for personalization, inviting residents to shape their living space into a true reflection of themselves Designed by renowned architect Richard Wengle, 110 Avenue Road is a prominent yet balanced addition to the streetscape, seamlessly integrating a striking new modern structure into a restored historic building. The result is a bold presence that feels both timeless and…

Cassandra Della Mora is a 34-year-old coordinator and entrepreneur who, in 2024, abandoned her almost decade-long career as a high school math teacher to pursue her passion for sustainability. She now works 25 to 30 hours per week for the non-profit VegTO, where she makes $31,200. She’s also building up her own content and events business, Conscious Cass, on the side. In her years as a teacher, she saved roughly $1,750 a month, which she now draws on to make ends meet. She rents a one-bedroom apartment near Yonge and Davisville for $1,945 a month and spends her free time travelling and attending climate panels. “I need a generous data package to post cute videos of plant-based restaurants and farmers’ markets” REGULAR EXPENSES Rent: $1,945 a month. “My place is about…

Hilariously Early Best Picture Predictions THE INK WAS barely dry on the, er, online announcements about what movies would be premiering at which fall festivals before the pundits started punditing about which titles would be battling it out for best picture nominations. While there are some spring releases that will probably be in the mix (oh hi, Sinners), most studios wait until fall to unload their prestige flicks so they can be top-of-mind when Oscar voting starts in January. Here are some of the buzziest autumn releases that we’ll probably see on the ballot. OCT. 24 Bugonia Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons star in Yorgos Lanthimos’s dark comedy about two conspiracy-obsessed bros who kidnap the CEO of a major company because they think she’s an alien plotting to destroy the…

DEC. 2–28 A Play About Petty Oligarchs, Succession Wars, and Fathers and Sons Rogers v. Rogers, Crow’s Theatre WHO’S AFRAID OF Ed ward rogers? Not Michael Healey. The star playwright has been on a hyper-specific hot streak since his hit 2019 play, The Master Plan, which dove into the tech-bro arrogance that killed Google’s smart-city waterfront plan. For his next trick, he’s adapting Globe and Mail reporter Alexandra Posadzki’s book, which dramatizes the family feud that saw Edward Rogers wrench the company from his mother and sisters. Meanwhile, a crusading bureaucrat fights to stymie Edward’s ambition to merge Rogers with Shaw Mobile. The twist? It’s also a one-man play, with beloved comic actor Tom Rooney playing all the parts. You once had a theatre pull your play about Stephen Harper…

Picture This OCT. 19-MAR. 22 Jeff Wall Photographs 1984–2023, MOCA VANCOUVER-BORN photographer Jeff Wall will be taking over three entire floors of MOCA for his first major Canadian exhibition in more than 25 years. Wall has long been celebrated for blurring the lines between art, cinema and photography, and the show reintroduces audiences to his trademark “near documentary” style, which challenges conventional ideas of what it means to record real life. Among the highlights is “In Front of a Nightclub,” a large-scale tableau depicting a seemingly ordinary lineup outside a bar—a scene that was, in fact, meticulously staged. Here, Wall describes how this shot came together. “I’d seen the activity in front of this club, and I wanted to focus on the middleaged man selling roses in the midst of…

Paradise Lost Caitlin Walsh Miller’s exposé on the short-term rental ruckus in cottage country generated fiery responses from both sides of the property line. “The article describes one owner who rents out his five-bedroom cottage to help cover his mortgage, and he claims to be mentally and emotionally exhausted? Good. Nobody wants to live beside a party house with strangers coming and going nonstop. Can’t afford your $6,000 mortgage? Sell! I hope his hairline recedes and his property taxes go up.” —@Muffinzzztop, X “Neighbours need to mind their own business. Without those short-term rentals, their local businesses would suffer.” —@StrategicMove1, X “Good read from @torontolife—an eye-opening article that describes what’s really going on in cottage country, highlighting racism, NIMBYism, classism and the lengths that residents will go to maintain the…

Dear Urban Diplomat, I am well into my 30s and still go clubbing to unwind. Lately, my friends only want to attend silent, sober, daytime raves—but these things are like dressed-up networking events: too commercial, too annoying and, frankly, kind of embarrassing. They’re making me feel like a degenerate for wanting to drink while I dance the night away. When did wellness become so boring? What is this, Vancouver? —RANTING AND RAVING, Little Portugal UD: Health consciousness has always been boring, but most people make peace with that, usually around your age. If you want to exercise your God-given right to party until dawn, that’s your prerogative, just as it’s fine for your pals to choose abstinence over indulgence. It sounds like your issue is more that your friends’ lifestyles…

Fire Up the Discman The ’90s are back DIG OUT the low-rise jeans and frost those tips: a whole pack of pre-Y2K artists went back into the studio, and the new releases are coming in hot for fall. SEPT. 5 Suede Antidepressants The London alt-rock five-piece helped launch Britpop more than 20 years ago. This will be their 10th studio album and their fourth since reuniting in 2010. Lusting for something new, they’ve described it as an “experimental, primal howl of a record.” SEPT. 19 Sarah McLachlan Better Broken McLachlan is back with a full album of original music for the first time in more than a decade. The OG Lilith Fair diva will also be appearing at Massey Hall on November 8 for a concert celebrating 30 years since…

For deep-pocketed diners living la dolce vita BISTECCHERIA SAMMARCO 4 Front St. E., sammarco.ca FOR THEIR latest project, the team behind Giulietta and Osteria Giulia borrows American chophouse bones—prime cuts, tableside touches, stiff martinis—but swaps the usual dishes for ones rooted in Italian tradition. Out goes the caesar, in comes gem and bibb lettuces in a yogurt-herb vinaigrette. Carne cruda topped with Cantabrian anchovy replaces tartare, and patate al formaggio stands in for potatoes au gratin. Instead of a laundry list of cuts from a dozen farms, chef Rob Rossi keeps his menu focused: four cuts, all from Cumbrae’s, aged in-house for at least 60 days, trimmed, seasoned simply with salt, pepper and olive oil, and charbroiled. And five pages of the wine menu are devoted to standout Niagara producers.…

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Making History A totally unscientific assessment of fall’s biggest memoirs and biographies This Is for Everyone Tim Berners-Lee, out now The man behind the World Wide Web pulls back the curtain on the risks and rewards of his revolutionary inventions. Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts Margaret Atwood, Nov. 4 CanLit’s high priestess turns inward for a story that braids the Atwood who lives with the Atwood who writes. Taylor’s Version Stephanie Burt, Oct. 7 A Harvard English prof and hard-core Swiftie unpacks the impact of this era’s most prolific pop star. Luigi: The Making and the Meaning John H. Richardson, Nov. 4 Esquire writer Richardson puts Luigi Mangione’s killing of a health insurance CEO—and the swell of support for the shooter—into context. You Will Not Kill Our Imagination…

A Diva on a Mission SOPRANO RENéE FLEMING has sold out opera houses and concert halls across the globe, has been nominated for 19 Grammys, and got nerd pulses racing when she sang in Sindarin for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. On November 1, she lands at Koerner Hall for a gala evening featuring songs from her 2021 album, Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene, a collaboration with another classical music superstar, Montreal conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Her performance, accompanied by the Royal Conservatory Orchestra, is set against National Geographic films produced especially for Fleming. Your album uses music to explore humanity’s impact on the natural world. Essentially, it’s about the climate crisis. What made you want to tackle such a thorny topic? I came up…

I FELL IN LOVE with games of skill and chance when I was five years old, around the same time I moved to Canada from China with my family. I started playing Chinese chess with my grandma and eventually moved on to Western chess. I was obsessed with the strategy of the game. After high school, I studied social development at the University of Waterloo in the early aughts. It was the beginning of a golden age for televised poker because hole cameras that allowed viewers to see players’ cards had recently come on the scene. I started watching shows like Poker After Dark and High Stakes Poker. I was completely fascinated. All the players looked like cowboys, and they were playing for millions of dollars. I thought, Sure, these…