2011 Toronto International Film Festival

DailyXY’s TIFFtown blog is sponsored by the Alliance film, Drive. Our award for most interesting TIFF press conference goes to Trespass. It featured writer/director Joel Schumacher and star Nicolas Cage, and there was plenty to chew on in their comments — not so much on Trespass itself, rather their more … Read More

2011 Toronto International Film Festival

DailyXY’s TIFF coverage is sponsored by the Alliance film, Drive. In a fairer world, it would have been the great Neil Young, not U2, given the honour of TIFF’s opening night gala. The man’s one of our own and his new concert film, Neil Young Life, was even shot here. … Read More

2011 Toronto International Film Festival

DailyXY’s TIFF coverage is sponsored by the Alliance film, The Ides of March We’ve reached the halfway point of TIFF madness, and the physical symptoms are showing. There’s that shaky, dehydrated feeling that comes from an excess of caffeine, not to mention the mojitos, sea breezes and what-have-yous scoffed at … Read More

September in Style, Toronto

Finally, fashion’s favourite season is upon us. Gentlemen, let the refreshing fall breeze guide your choice of utilitarian military cuts, punchy detailing, and textured fabrics. Watch out for fall classics turned modern chic with leather buttons, pebbled leather elbows, and modest punches of colour in the detailing. Corduroy fashion editor Tim … Read More

4 Toronto Martini Lunches

Decades before a little cultural phenom called Sex and the City tainted its reputation as a drink for the ladies, the martini was a drink for the sophisticated gentleman. Before Sarah Jessica Parker and her leathery cronies started pushing the Cosmo on every thirty-something with HBO, author E. B. White, … Read More

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