Toronto’s Riverdale Neighbourhood Inspires Bestselling Author’s New Book
Who killed her? Who can you trust? And how well do you really know your neighbours? Just some light mid-morning thoughts as I planted…
Shinan Govani, once dubbed “the go-to Canadian” by Page Six, is both social chronicler and pop culture decoder. Currently a columnist with the Toronto Star, and for a decade-plus, previously, with the National Post, he’s reported from scenes as varied as Art Basel in Miami, Fashion Weeks in Milan and Paris, and the Film Festival circuit including Sundance, Cannes and Toronto. The author of the novel Boldface Names, and the man, moreover, behind the Last Word column in Hello! Canada magazine, his work has also appeared in Vanity Fair, Town & Country and The Daily Beast.
Who killed her? Who can you trust? And how well do you really know your neighbours? Just some light mid-morning thoughts as I planted…
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Yotam Ottolenghi had a confession. The man who has probably done more than any one chef over the last decade to influence home cooking,…
Keeping her head above smartwater, as the other guests drank in sight of her: tennis stunner, Eugenie Bouchard. The city was swept up in…
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Last month, she fed Cameron Diaz and Gwyneth Paltrow. Now, it was time to serve the servers. “It” restaurateur Janet Zuccarini, who now has happening…
Just when you thought you’d heard everything about Toronto’s frenzied housing lust — the much-sketched sagas of supply and demand — we get word…
He makes house calls. After calling it curtains at his beloved Harbord Room last fall and focusing these days on his fast-expanding couture chicken…
“Do you ever see him?” Invariably, that’s the question I get when people find out that I live in the same building as the…