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In EVERY ISSUE
1. Cover 2. Letters and 3. This City — 4. Navigator —
Editor’s Letter A lively look at what’s A monthly look at
new and interesting shopping and real
LETTE RS
in the city including estate in the city
Tall Order
At the end of “Mirvish
on the Edge,” Leah
McLaren’s informat
ive
I live near High Park,
developers in my
chicken with the
Unfortunately, the
and I’ve seen
neighbourhood play
planning department
to get unprecedented
height allowances.
recurring sections featuring The Thing,
Q&A, Urban Diplomat, The List, Great Spaces
City often agrees
article about the compromise with
developers on the
to
planning department’s
negotiations for the guidelines to avoid
maximum height
going to the OMB,
proposed Frank where decisions
are made by individuals
who may not even
Gehry towers, David undermines the
live in Toronto. This
credibility of the
Mirvish is quoted planning process. entire
It’s absurd that a
as
compromised, but saying, “People might say I
as big as Toronto city
The Audit, Columns, and Real Estate
doesn’t have its own
I appeal board, like
compromise a dirty disagree.” Since when is
they do
New York and Chicago. in Vancouver,
who can see that word? It’s a visionar —Michael Davidson,
compromise is necessary leader Toronto
projects benefitin y for Stage Fright
g more
fortunate that Jennifer than one interest. We’re
I take issue with
Sarah Fulford’s
missal in her “Editor’s dis-
of the city’s planning Keesmaat is at the helm public outrage over
Letter” of the
David Mirvish’s
department.
Camera and Ego Meter
initial plan to tear
down the Princess
Wales theatre. Our of
were protests
—Penelope Wolosz,
legitimate—it’s not
A cynical person, Toronto over like we were upset
upon reading Leah the destruction of
McLaren’s take on David Mirvish has a parking lot.
David Many of us saw
earned a reputation his proposal as an
development proposal, Mirvish’s big as a generous man of greed, with no act
would have to and a devoted sup- regard for how much
wonder if he really porter of the arts. the building means
wanted two towers Toronto Life’s sugges- to the general pop-
from the get-go. How tion that he harbours ulation. I have many
EDITOR’S LETTER
do you get the city a lack of respect fond
to approve two massive for his father’s work the place. It’s a beautiful memories of
new towers? is unfounded and theatrical
Answer: submit unfair. As his sister-in-law, house with the best THE LIST
a proposal for three, I have had seats
and then, when the the opportunity in the city. Try watching and sightlines
Jamie Kennedy fish
planning depart- to observe his behav- a show from
ment balks, say okay, iour for more than the last row in the “More
we’ll settle for two. 50 years. His rela- corner at the Ed
—Dave Craig, Toronto tionship with his parents Mirvish Theatre. should come
Road
close and to Nowhere was loving,
most famous locavore
releases
in
This month, the city’s more than a decade.
warm, and he remains —Ryan Jones, Toronto tubes” the
Here,
I am old enough to remember when Toronto’s
How sad that David inspired by his father’s
Mirvish should in —Don McKellar, The List............. p. 76
denigrate Honest ness spirit and his
creative busi-
Killer Instinct his first cookbook without p. 76
things he can’t live
The Chase ......... p. 78
transit system was admired for being innovative,
Ed’s—a mother’s passion
landmark—by thinking Toronto the arts. Ed and for “Murder in Muskoka,” 10 thing
Anne’s little World
relic. And how ironic, of it as a vulgar War II dress shop Zander Sherman’s
clean and effective. Back in the 1980s, when I was
grew into Honest August issue article
given that this about what sounds
vulgar relic helped Ed’s and Mirvish like a psychopathic
Q&A ................ p. 18
a kid, riding public transit in Toronto was a
put Mirvish where Village. Ed saved killer, left me puz-
he is today. the “The crack
6|
Royal Alex from zled. I can’t fathom My commute
becoming a parking the rationale for
Ego Meterr ......... p. 20 in the
pleasant experience and a source of civic pride. I
Like it or not, his lot, thus preserving publishing such I bike from my place
of kitsch” is a part
father’s “empire
and sowing the seeds
a heritage building a story in minute,
grue- scandal made west end to Gilead,
in Corktown, Spring
1|
some and lurid detail. Camera ............ p. 22 My knife
recall showing off the TTC to out-of-town visitors.
of Toronto’s varied for long hours so it
history. Looking
at the photographs entertainment district. the King Street Toronto Life, stabbings,What’s next for news in ng a general-
I’ve been using even in winter. I work Fashion
of Frank Gehry’s David worked drive-by shoot- Roundup........... p. 24 hef’s knife for a helps me get some
exercise. And
One friend from Ottawa was particularly
many designs for closely in partnership ings and other tabloid purpose Global chef’s I speed
Mirvish’s King Street port and expand
with them to sup-
—Peter Alexander
fodder? Russia” The Auditt ......... p. 26 decade. I like the way
it feels in my ere s heavy traffic,
when there’s
impressed by the TTC’s transfer system; back
project, one could on their visions. Por, Toronto ryday work tool. ough.
right through.
say they are nothing Seems to me that hand: a solid everyday
more than contem- Toronto Life’s dra- —Pyotr Verzilov, The Urban
then few cities allowed a passenger to pay one fare
porary versions matic spin casts I am writing to you
7|
of kitsch. David Mirvish in Myy snack
p. 18
2|
in regards to purpose
Mirvish has contributed Certainly dark role. Leah McLaren’s a Zander Sherman’s Diplomatt ........ p. 28 My multi-purpose
and use a little slip of paper to get from a streetcar
a great deal to “behind-the- murder article about the condimentt I’m known
Toronto’s theatre scenes” story may of my niece, Samantha aunt’s ies, and I
scene, but, viewed attract sensation- myy great
I use m g for my fries,
over time, Mirvish Collins.
to a subway without paying twice.
seekers, but it misses I’m very disturbed Coming up for mustard pickle,
recipe for eat themm almost
Productions has an opportunity and upset with the
become something to explore the sincere story, which is demeaning whichh iss like an old- ay. Like
of a recycler of for- entrepreneurial to Samantha An investigative report on the turmoil at every day.
goes
eign musicals—cas spirit of a family and provides an fashioned relish. It hey’re the
bread, they’re
h cows
producer’s imagination. that dull a
that has given
Well, here much 30 years
we are, about later, needs incomplete the fact that Ford him- the mega-corp Rogers, by Kelly Pullen; an
(never mindportrait.
fashioned
fe.
to our city. Far Samantha eveerything,
with everything, staff of life.
in the end, will Mirvish The question is, father’s empire,
from dismantling you selfwassays
not he’ll
the drug three new subway stops examination of how boomer parents are
fundaddict and
using the exact same technology—if
his everyone says she was—she with that their kids, by Leah especiaally meat pies
especially
David wants to grow had a property tax still supporting My morning meal
for anything substantial?be remembered the family legacy
—Grahame Woods,
can call a tiny
Toronto landscape.
as he
scrap of paper that
ink on yourrevitalizes
hands andthe
leaves in Scarborough
straightened her life out.
in your increase).
gets lostfrom
epilepsy, and she
has surprising
Even Chow,
She in one of the more McLaren; and a profile of the smarty-pants
suffered
the mayoral contest, behind the runaway web success Wattpad.
helpedoforganize
twists
wicches It’s better
sandwiches.
sandwic
than ketchup.
ke 8| The older I get, the
my set rituals. Every
more I have
morning, I arrive
Cobourg
—Susanbag a piece of technology. Little a petition sheep’s milk
Conway Mitchell, the tohas
keep a Bracebridge as a fiscally conser- c
My custom chef jackets at work and grab some
3|
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most exciting food and and culture and the events and happenings MEMOI R
Speechless
beverage stories in the personalities that in Toronto including
For decades, I made my
living as a poet. Then I
with Alzheimer’s—and was diagnosed
found myself at a loss for
words
by dav i d m c fa dde
n
I don’t remember exactly
when I stopped remembering.
city including our are shaping the restaurants, music,
years, I’d find myself pausing For I start pointing
in the middle of sentences, to pictures
to summon the right phrase. unable chair, an elephant—and on a chart—a cat, a toaster, a frog, a
I was in my 60s: I figured tell her what each object
just a part of getting older. it was people keep telling was. Yes,
It was only five years ago, me to do this, do that, do
the woman who would when I met need me this, do that—they
become my wife, that it to perform embarrassing
something was wrong. became apparent because kindergarten-level tests
We fell in love, and it was they want standardized
she noticed that I was wonderful. But function, measures of my cognitive
missing appointments before and after the exercise
things repeated to me and often needed “No, periods. I’d like to say,
before I understood. Love no, no, I’m not going to
scious that I was no longer made me con- because do that anymore.” But
quite who I’d been, and my wife insists. She says I continue
seriously seek advice to I began to in an effort, she needs to see me putting
Critic column, Flavour city including The theatre, art, dance
find out what was happening because she puts in an
Less than two years ago, to me. Perhaps I’ve waited too effort living with me.
at age 71, I received my long to say something
lopogenic aphasia caused diagnosis of despite important:
by Alzheimer’s disease. my condition, I am happy.
logical terms, it’s a In neuro- and I have I have many joys. My
type of atrophy in my a strong marriage. I had wife
temporal cortex that a wonderful time helping
causes me to lose my to renovate our beautiful
vocabulary. By the time house on Havelock
I was diagnosed, the Street in Dufferin Grove,
disease had progressed and I feel blessed liv-
beyond those initial ing in it. I love the cat, the
flickers of memory loss—I bird feeder, my wife’s
was forgetting events, cuisine, seeing movies.
discussions and names.
of the Month and Wine Argument, Scrapbook and Etc.
My greatest joy is reading.
What is it like to be me, Though I’m unable
a poet without words, to remember as much
a poet who can’t speak? as I used to, I savour the
I know what I want to immediate experience
say, but I can’t say it. Often of reading more than
I have no way of tell- ever. I recently heard that
ing anyone how I feel, Joseph Boyden used
myself unable to understand
and sometimes I find What is it like to like Robertson Davies,
so on my way home
the normal speech from an exercise class,
of other people. I think
of a word, then I stop to be me, a poet Books on College and
I stopped at Balfour
thinking of it, then I can’t bought several of his
brilliant idea, and then
remember it. I get a without words? novels. When I got home,
I suddenly realized I
it’s gone, instantly. already had all of Robertson
and Backstory and
When I can’t think of
a word, I feel like I I know what I my shelves—I’ve read
Davies’ books on
them and didn’t remem-
can’t talk at all. Some
remember the word “pizza.”
time ago, I couldn’t want to say, but ber. A few weeks ago,
I picked up a copy of
a
I kept thinking book I wrote, a travelogue
that it started with an
right. Sometimes I misuse
S, but that didn’t seem I can’t say it Scotland. I hadn’t looked
called An Innocent in
at it in a long time, but
a word, or replace my wife asked me to read
it with its opposite—chocola it to her. That gave me
te for vanilla, for instance. a lot of pleasure.
I have some shame. I don’t So far, I’m still able to
speak very often, unless write. I do it slowly, making
MEMO IR
I can get the words out. I know I’ve done it well. sure that
I avoid making phone I think about it, and how
to dinner parties. Noise calls and going finally I would read it, and
Current Obsessions
bothers me more than I get it to where it’s supposed
Peachy Keen interrupts my concentration it used to. It rologist to be. This is what my
and makes me uneasy. refers to as “the mystery neu-
The peaches and cream mostly takes care of My wife and even I can’t that only David understands,”
is summer on a stick. bar at Aria
Less
our arrangements—tr really explain it. In the
Diamonds For
Sweet-corn ice management, appointments. avel, household three books: last two years, I published
Art
cream made with ripe
Our Name
Way Ontario kernels Most of my socializing a poetry collection, a memoir
The
has a luscious, jammy Facebook: oddly enough, is on father, and a book of travelling with my
Says It All
....p. 74
centre of slow- repartee comes quickly of haikus and tanakas.
Gangs of North York
We Eat
roasted Now
peaches. The bar
77 is then F L AV O U R O F when I’m typing. and easily sonnets, I’ve also completed 102
coated
Just Opened .......p.
in a salty-sweet THE MONTH “Beyoncé and which I hope to publish
brittle of pine As part of my treatment, soon.
nutsFlavour
and popcorn. $12. 108 Yes, I would like to speak.
“Like a good sessions. family.
Jay-Z cash in I participate in exercise I’d love to be my old self
78 Peter St.,
my surrogate
Cold Arts
Theatre They’re part of a research
of the Month ....p.
647-228-2434.
became no one knows for sure again, but
dealer, my 83 on their & Dance .....p. 102 of street thugsproject to test whether vigorous
me I’ll never write again after where my disease will
Wine ................p. a group
physical activity—in
weeklybetrayed
take me. Maybe
When I was a teenager,on of them
butcher knows chemistry” this case, three
Chefs are taking
house-made p. 105
Music ...........p. 104
and a stationary
fearless—u ntil one
bicycle—may
one-hour sessions today. But...
how to move Art ...............p. 106
I felt powerfuland help create new neural
illustration by cat yelizarov
ice creams and sorbets slow the decline of my connections Why do we worry?
d
bh a rbrain.
e ry l n e mpitiful
product” p. 74 Family..........p. 108
heights, goosing them to new by c hbut
lessly boring, The exercise is mind- We’re only leaves on a tree.
Restaurants
Etc. ..............p. 110 worse still are the demands
with which I find demeaning. of the research, I followed the rules Let the tree worry.
herbs, spices and from rival territory.
savoury HOW WE DO IT Recently, I was because they came
but exercise The gang
flavours to wildly in Willowdale popu-leaving class,
to stick
getting for fear of retribution.
outready David McFadden
felt is the
like winner
I of the 2103
The following restaurants a townhouse home, when a young not I Griffin Poetry Prize. His
was and tried to go
the first time,Shouting
I grew up in the Vineways, and working-class families. It research
are
ommended by our anonymousrec- assistant family—for collection, new
delicious effect ran after me
my surrogate and insisted for me. That was Your the Name Down the Well, is available
so thin you became like I had people looking outEmail
a now.
lated largely by immigrant
diamondsforless.c reviewers. Restaurant submissions to memoir@torontolife.c
146 walls
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have no con- housing development, with toronto life June it belonged,
2014
om
nection to advertising. a low-income having for dinner—but for many of us.
d Stars are
neighbours were in the attraction advances I’d rebuffed
gang member whose
awarded for food and
wine quality, knew what your of several projects When I was 16, a again, I was
Vineways was one and raped me. Once
as well as presentation,
service,
atmosphere, ambition was home. The the Briarways, way into my house In the following
names (the Willoways,
LERS com- forced his
and original-
Twist Bliss someone I trusted.
JEWEL area, all with similar
ity. The reviews have
“Olivia Chow’s to me that every and betrayed by
RIJK SELL
been selected violent
always seemed funny
The Argument .....p. 100
VAN BUY suffered recurring
Momofuku does soft from our online directory
serve in two and short-
the Fernways). It somewhere. violated my ties to the gang,
heavenly flavours: the TRADE ened. Because of changing
as if we were going months, I cut off belligerent. After
one
bitter double-double pleasantly
is
book is classic See, Hear, Read...p. 102 specific dishes referenced
menus,
may not plex nearby had the
suffix “way,”MEMOIR_SEND.indd
When I was just
146 months old,
a few and became increasinglymy mother, we became
using rich Sam James made always be available.
on nightmares
and cereal milk (shownespresso, (and compelling) Current I was born in Barbados. to start a new life too many fights
with I
up. My mother wanted spoke for three years.
has a sugary tang. Both above)
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—Ad material must be supplied via the AdDirect portal and be accompanied by a colour
1/3 vertical 2.21" x 10.25" 2.71" x 10.75" 2.96" x 11" 2.162" x 9.79" proof (see proof requirements) generated from the supplied PDFX-1a file.
—All ads must include crop/registration marks. These crop/registrations
1/3 square n/a n/a n/a 4.464" x 4.827" marks should have an offset of 1/4”(18pts) beyond trim.
—For all spread ads, please leave 3/8”(27pts) type safety on each side of gutter
1/6 vertical n/a n/a n/a 2.162" x 4.827" —St. Joseph Media reserves the right to add a keyline to floating ads to differentiate
them from editorial.
—St. Joseph Media reserves the right to refuse any or all copy deemed by
St. Joseph Media to be unsuitable.
—Advertisers and/or advertising agencies assume full responsibility for all content of
advertisements and any claim made against St. Joseph Media because of such content.
Visit the AdDirect home page to take —Please do not apply trapping to PDF files. St. Joseph Media will not be responsible for
the tour on how to upload your ad reproduction of trapped files.
using the preflight portal system. —All advertising materials will be destroyed by St. Joseph Media if not requested within
addirect.sendmyad.com one year after date last used.
Proof Requirements
—St. Joseph Media will only be responsible for ad reproduction if a proof conforming to
Ship to: Toronto Life Production Dept., St Joseph Media, 111 Queen St East, Suite 320, Toronto, ON M5C 1S2 DMAC standards is supplied.
Attention: Kristen Sykes, Production Manager (416 364 3333 x 4536, ksykes@stjosephmedia.com) —SWOP certified hard-copy proofs such as EPSON or FUJI are required as a colour accurate
guide for reproduction (PDF, tear sheets, colour laser or inkjet printer proofs are NOT
acceptable for reference).
—Hard-copy proofs are also required for ads submitted via the AdDirect portal.
—NOTE: ANY AND ALL COLOUR PROOFS ARE ONLY AN APPROXIMATION OF
COLOUR REPRODUCTION.
—Refer to DMAC standards for further requirements.
Visit: http://magazinescanada.ca/dmacs.php?cat=dmacs
—EPSON proofs are available at $50 each.You can also read
