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Snowball
New spaces lure fresh faces. I saunter into a very well attended Snowball gala at Avenue Road furniture store, where hosts Tommy Smythe, Suzanne Dimma and Mark Challen work the room and dinner is served under the cool blue lights of the second-floor showroom. It’s a tight fit, but
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Book Lovers Ball
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but I hate cooking. Today a bowl of Alpha-Bits readies me for the seventh annual Book Lover’s Ball at The Fairmont Royal York. The $600-a-plate dinner — guests include Margaret Atwood, David Rocco, Lisa Tant and Jeanne
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fly
It would’ve been a totally different TV show if bartender Isaac had been the captain of the Love Boat. Former bartender Gilles Belanger officially takes over as GM on the eve of fly’s 13th Anniversary Party. “I like the number 13,” Belanger says. “I was born on t
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Pretty Mess
It is said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But, I do declare, beauty is in the booty of about 90 percent of the guys who have come out to Pretty Mess. Seriously: good job, Matt Barker. You single-handedly made me do several double takes by luring some of Toronto’s swe
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We begin anew by revisiting the old. After all, 2012 is, according to various experts, either the end or a new beginning. As time goes by, some parties get bigger, some get better and some get bigger because they have gotten better. This is the case as we elegantly sneak past the huge line and into
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NYE @ WOODY’S
Maybe the world will end this year. After all, three large, significant and yearly New Year’s Eve parties (Prism, Onyx Ball and AsianXpress) are eerily missing from my calendar. So instead, comfort is found in the Village. Surrounded by the decadent decor of Woody’s,
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