This week in NOW feature
Pride 2018: The future of music is queer
With big pop stars letting their queer flags fly, music is basking in the LGBTQ+ rainbow like never before. Artists like Toronto's Witch Prophet are succeeding on their own terms, but the industry needs to realize queerness is more than a trend more
Samuel Engelking
Toronto's best new patios 2018
Your guide to the best new patios in Toronto's bar and restaurant scene including Assembly Chef's Hall, Drake Mini Bar and Pick 6ix. more
Samuel Engelking
How safe is Toronto's music scene?
It's time to stand up for safety in Toronto's music scene. If a reckoning is coming for sexual misconduct, it will take the entire community, from showgoers to venue owners, to make it happen. more
Samuel Engelking
The best festivals, concerts, movies and free events in Toronto this summer
Find over 60 events including concerts, food festivals, outdoor movies and more in NOW's annual Hot Summer Guide. more
Samuel Engelking
Torontonians should take control of their data
As Google-affiliated Sidewalk Labs proposes building a high-tech neighbourhood on the waterfront, citizens should demand ownership of data collected in public spaces more
Natalia Manzocco
Toronto's best new restaurants 2018
The city's hottest new spots are all about seafood, sustainability and a whole lot of pasta more
Alice Glass is finally telling her story
A decade after she appeared on the cover of NOW as a member of Crystal Castles, the electro-punk star opens up about going solo, #MeToo and growing up in Toronto more
Ontario Election Primer 2018: it’s a crapshoot
With the writ set to drop any day on the most important Ontario election in recent memory, we offer a primer on the main contenders, hot takes from the experts and a word on the Green Party more
Samuel Engelking
Women chefs step up to the plate in Hot Docs opener The Heat
Director Maya Gallus’s timely film shows how gifted women are transforming kitchen culture and grappling with its hierarchies and misogyny more
Illustration by Jason Carter
Decolonizing cannabis: can legalization set Indigenous communities free?
“This is going to be bigger than tobacco,” says Jamie Kunkel, who owns Smoke Signals, a medical cannabis dispensary on the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory east of Belleville more
Photos by Samuel Engelking
U.S. Girls is untangling the misogynist mess of America
There's suddenly a lot of attention on U.S. Girls. Toronto’s Meg Remy is untangling America’s misogynist mess with lush disco grooves. The time is right for her subversive brand of political pop. Read our cover story interview here. more
Samuel Engelking
Masculinity detox: redefining what it means to be a man
The rise of Jordan Peterson, men's right activists and toxic masculinity has made the need to examine what it means to be a man all the more urgent. Canadian authors, activists and artists are finally taking a critical look at redefining masculinity. more
Michael Watier
Serial killer shame shines light on Toronto police's history of violence against the vulnerable
The inflexibility of the structures of the Toronto police and its civilian overseers on the Toronto Police Service Board, does not – cannot – allow for the democratic civic engagement and analysis necessary to realize constructive change more
Photos by Samuel Engelking
How millennials turned owning a rescue dog into a social cause
Purebred pups were once the norm, but socially aware millennials are driving rescue dog adoption. Unlike the baby boomers generation, millennials are adopting dogs through rescue groups in Toronto and Petfinder. more
Photo essay: Toronto's heritage lost, found and reframed
How the mysterious loss of the 13 earliest known photos of Toronto inspired the chronicling of the city's modern skyline more
Photos by Natalia Manzocco
Toronto's best new bars 2018
It's never been a better time to grab a drink in Toronto more
Samuel Engelking
Antonio Park rolls into Toronto with Pick 6ix
How the Montreal mega-chef became Drake’s pick for the sushi-forward new spot more
Charlotte Day Wilson wants to break up the boys' club
Poised for stardom, the Toronto soul auteur wants to help other young women achieve their own self-made success more
Samuel Engelking
Eight classic Toronto diners serve up their secrets
What keeps them going? Tenacity, thriftiness and a whole lot of love more
Your juiciest love and sex questions answered
Threesomes, open relationships, polyamory...readers take a bite out of our burning questions on love and sex more
