All stories in: Year In Review 2021
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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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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...