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All stories in: Year In Review 2021

  • 10 words and phrases we don’t want to hear in 2022

    The year 2021 is almost over, and I think we can all agree it was not good. "Pandemic fatigue" – an expression we were already...
    A photo of hand sanitizer
    News
  • The top 5 Canadian comedy albums of 2021

    With the pandemic dragging on, the environment burning up and the economy faltering, we really needed to laugh this year. Thankfully Canada's comedians came through...
    ComedyCulture
  • Five defining moments that changed Toronto’s food scene in 2021

    As much as we weren’t hoping for it, 2021 continues to be quite the roller coaster ride for the food scene in Toronto. As in 2020,...
    FoodFood & Drink
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  • The top 10 stage artists of 2021

    It was nice while it lasted, wasn’t it? Theatre returned this year, first slowly and outdoors (thank you Dream in High Park!) and then, when...
    CultureStage
  • The 10 best books of 2021

    This is an unusual list. For starters, intergenerational conflict is a factor in several of the year’s best. Second, rarely do so many prize winners...
    Art & BooksBooks
  • 2021’s best movies: Yasmine Mathurin finds healing in One Of Ours

    Yasmine Mathurin didn’t consider herself a filmmaker when she started making One Of Ours. She began the five-year journey to tell a story that felt...
    One Of Ours film director Yasmine Mathurin lays back at the Hot Docs theatre
    Movies & TVNews & Features
  • 2021’s best movies: celebrating film’s local heroes

    It’s been another weird year for Toronto’s film and television culture. No one seemed to be doing much of anything in the first half of...
    Movies & TVNews & Features
  • 2021’s best movies: Norman Wilner’s Top 10 films

    It’s been really nice to go back to the movies. Almost a full year passed between my last theatrical screening of 2020 (Tenet) and my...
    Movies & TVNews & Features
  • Toronto’s best music 2021: albums, concerts and so many songs to stream

    Needless to say, 2021 wasn't a regular year for music in Toronto. We spent the first half of the year wondering if and when concerts...
    Cadence Weapon, Mustafa and the Weather Station
    CultureLocal musicMusic
  • Toronto’s best music 2021: Luna Li’s unexpected path to breakout success

    Luna Li didn’t expect her music to take off while she was sitting at home.  Hannah Bussiere Kim, the mid-20s Toronto singer/songwriter behind the spritely...
    Luna Li
    FeaturesMusic
  • D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai is crushing it on Reservation Dogs

    Ask Toronto’s D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai about the little details he was excited to see in the hit comedy series Reservation Dogs and the first thing that...
    Reservation Dogs star D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai
    CultureMovies & TVNews & Features
  • The 25 best TV shows of 2021

    TV stayed winning in 2021, benefiting from streamers investing more in long-form content while even more audiences stayed home binging. Most of the shows on...
    The best 25 shows of 2021
    Movies & TVNews & Features