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Shinan Govani

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.

Toronto Riverdale Neighbourhood
Neighbourhoods August 12, 2019 August 16, 2019

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…

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Kirk Douglas Home
Home Tours, Profiles, Style & Decor January 29, 2019 January 28, 2019

Toronto Power Couple Gently Restores Kirk Douglas’ Iconic Palm Springs Home

Cubist shapes. Glass walls. Open plans. Long seen as a beacon for Hollywood’s A-list – a custom begun when actors, under the old “studio…

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Yotam Ottolenghi
Community, Events, Sports & Entertainment November 13, 2018 November 13, 2018

A Deliciously Intimate Exclusive with Chef Yotam Ottolenghi

Yotam Ottolenghi had a confession. The man who has probably done more than any one chef over the last decade to influence home cooking,…

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Montreal tennis beauty Eugenie Bouchard might only be 23 but her experience on the courts is unparalleled. Now repping SmartWater, Bouchard was the first Canadian at Wimbledon to make it to the Grand Slam singles finals in 2014. She recently lost her Rogers Cup opening match to Croatia's Donna Vekic.
Style & Decor, Toronto Condos & Homes August 16, 2017 August 22, 2017

Yorkville manse serves up an ace party

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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Insider Voices July 19, 2017 July 19, 2017

Muskoka dock party attracts the A-listers

A rose is a rose is a rose — but is it a yurt? It depended, alas, on who you asked, at one of…

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Lauded restaurateur Janet Zucchini recently hosted a Thai-themed staff party at her Rosedale home. While her restaurants Gusto 101 and Cafe Nervosa are top of mind among Toronto's foodies, Zuccarini has a buzzy spot in L.A., a new Jamaican restaurant in the works, is a judge on the Food Network's Top Chef Canada, and spots trends like no other (you know that outstanding kale salad at Nervosa?).
Profiles July 5, 2017 July 5, 2017

Toronto restaurateur is front-of-house in her Rosedale home

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…

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Toronto writer and style commentator Karen von Hahn recently released her memoir, What Remains: Object Lessons in Love and Loss.
Profiles May 15, 2017 May 15, 2017

Toronto tastemaker pens about the quest for perpetual posh — even in burial

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…

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Profiles April 18, 2017 April 18, 2017

Lauded Toronto chef turns up the heat in home entertaining

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…

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Shinan Govani - One Bedford
Insider Voices January 31, 2017 January 31, 2017

Where Tory and Toronto’s other big kahunas call home

“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…

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