09 Jun 2014

Get in the Garden

After spending six months buried beneath the snow and ice, your garden is as eager to come out and play as you are. City Life spoke to some local gardeners who are challenging plant lovers and amateurs alike to don...
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09 Jun 2014

The Stanley Cup Visits Musiqhäus in Vaughan

Musiqhäus resto-lounge and its neighbouring venue Wendel Clark’s Classic Grill and Sports Lounge welcomed a bigger party than usual on July 1st, 2014, when the coveted Stanley Cup made an appearance. Michael Futa, co-director of amateur scouting for the LA...
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09 Jun 2014

The Road Less Travelled

What were two Gemini Award winners doing camped out in a decrepit village just off a nearly abandoned stretch of Highway 7, somewhere between Toronto and Ottawa? They were hunting a story. Neil Graham and Derreck Roemer are the two...
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09 Jun 2014

Caffeinated Crooner

The world is jazzed by the Italian-Canadian fusion that Espresso Manifesto is bringing to the recording table. City Life sat down with the songstress behind it all, Daniela Nardi Like decades of soul-searchers before her, Canadian jazz singer Daniela Nardi...
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09 Jun 2014

A City in Bloom

It was a typically overcast August afternoon in London when Natasa Kajganic stumbled into a fairy tale. “I was visiting a friend in England, and she took me to Columbia Road Flower Market,” says Kajganic, a Torontonian. “It was beautiful....
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11 Apr 2014

Through Thicke and Thin – with Alan Thicke

Alan Thicke is a reality star — but it’s not what you think. What often comes to mind at the mention of reality television is the opposite of reality: phony drama wrapped in intoxicating eye candy. It’s a common perception...
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11 Apr 2014

Cover to Cover

David Broughall Librarian at Ansley Grove Library 1984 By George Orwell This was the first piece of adult literature I ever read. Even though I’ve read it half a dozen times, I am still deeply affected by the idea that...
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11 Apr 2014

Guess Who? Danielle Knudson

Being selected as the next head model for one of the world’s most iconic fashion labels is one thing — but being handpicked by the brand’s co-founder and creative director is a whole other story. And it’s one that Danielle...
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11 Apr 2014

From Manhattan, With Love

Pnina Tornai is clad in a curve-hugging black leather dress that she crafted herself as she sips a steaming mug of tea. We’re in a sundrenched room in Toronto’s Shangri-La Hotel, where the designer and Say Yes to the Dress...
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