Midtown Post - May 2010

MIDTOWN’S BELINDA STRONACH

Our area’s controversial & charismatic health crusader on life under the media microscope, plans for the G20 & loving life post-politics

Barrett Hooper

Midtown Break-Ins

Local set to tour Africa with Michaëlle Jean

A GRADUATE OF North Toronto Collegiate Institute, Ben Peterson, was selected as one of nine delegates to tour Africa.

Lacy Atalick

Joanne Kates' 100 Best Restaurants — 2010

Joanne Kates ranks and reviews her favourite places to eat in Toronto.

Beat the big bucks in Bayview

The clock is ticking on this opulent oasis

Elizabeth Beddall

The iron is hot!

Come July, buyers of new homes will pay an additional 13 % under Ontario’s new Harmonized Sales Tax. Bypass the bump and buy up these novel nests ASAP!

Elizabeth Beddall

Nail down a nest egg in the 905

Think fast, this Richmond Hill residence won’t be around for long

Elizabeth Beddall

Seal the deal in Cedarvale

Buy this cottage-like castle and hop over a hefty hit of tax

Elizabeth Beddall

North York nickel-saver

Purchase this property pre-July and pocket some extra pennies

Elizabeth Beddall

She’s in the baby business

Local moms are taking over the business world in a major way by parlaying their knowledge of newborns into groundbreaking new ventures and hip careers. Meet six Toronto moms who’ve made the most...

Elizabeth Beddall

Sisterhood of the travelling punchlines

We catch up with Jayne Eastwood and her touring troupe of witty women (plus a guy), just in time for Mother’s Day

Malcolm Johnston

New comedy show a return to political satire

Fake picket line in front of theatre shows moxie

MARK BRESLIN

Toronto’s new Ionian ode to seafood

There is no mistaking the hands of experience at work in Malena: whether it lies in the warm greeting or the deft blending of one course into another, we relax knowing our hosts are sharing our...

Janice Warren

The biggest fight of their marriage

Jack Layton and Olivia Chow discuss their relationship and explain how their respective battles with cancer have strengthened their marriage

Elizabeth Beddall

Jamaican me hungry!

When it comes to T.O.’s best jerk chicken, nothing beats Mom’s home cooking, says Toronto FC soccer star Julian de Guzman — though some come close

Malcolm Johnston

Highly anticipated music release hits this month

Broken Social Scene prepares to celebrate a decade of their original chaotic hipster-pop orchestrations.

Ron Johnson

In search of the perfect steak

The slight, smartly attired scribe sitting across the table does not meet expectations.

Ron Johnson

Raise a glass to dropping a few pounds

Low calorie wines for summer and spritzers

Tony Aspler

T.O.’s musical mommy

Toronto's star soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian reflects on balancing her career with being a mom

Liza Fromer

Beat the jacket blues with dash of denim

Post City Magazines’ femme fatale of fashion, Jeanne Beker, embraces the blues in the city’s most dynamic denim

Elizabeth Beddall

Teetotallers in training

Is T.O.’s queen of good manners all she’s cracked up to be?

Rebecca Eckler