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 …
