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Summer of the Beast Horror novelist Michael Rowe delves deep into one of the hottest, most violent Canadian summers on record. Warning: There be monsters.
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39 A Welcome Introduction Think Beth Riesgraf looks good here? Just wait until you see her animated GIFs.
42 A Man Worth Listening To Jian Ghomeshi is a man you’ve been listening to since his Moxy Früvous days. This month he proves he’s a man worth reading, too.
44 Five Recommendations Lord of the Rings and Lost star Dominic Monaghan offers up five more things to make your life better.
46 Books Critical darling Michael Chabon’s new book Telegraph Avenue is a complicated love letter to families, vinyl, jazz and Obama’s America.
48 Television It turns out, the new powerhouses of American television aren’t so powerful at all. Your introduction to the showrunner phenomenon.
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58 The Well-Fed Man: Chicago Food columnist Corey Mintz eats his way through the windy city. And he only gets sick once.
62 Food If there is a culinary skill every man needs to master, it’s how to properly roast a chicken. Don’t worry, it’s ridiculously easy.
64 Grooming There is a science to staying up all night and not looking like it. And that science made these products.
66 Dad Skills This issue, Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall learns how generations can be joined by a fishing line.
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76 Watches Rose gold—also known as pink gold—has pretty much replaced yellow gold in new timepieces. Here are five that’ll make a pink fan out of anyone.
70 Cars BMW gets in the four-door coupé game with its sexy new 6 Series Gran Coupé. Plus: Mercedes-Benz’s feisty new GLK will make you want to go diesel.
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80 Heroes of Menswear Greg Lauren, nephew of Ralph, is a visual artist who never planned on going into the family business. We’re lucky he did.
82 Survival of the Sharpest Meet Jonathan Cavaliere, Canada’s Sharpest Man. With a little help from Sharp, he shows you how to make a $5,000 wardrobe from The Bay look like a million bucks.
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Where you’ve seen her
In Leverage, where she plays a sophisticated thief who, along with her other kindhearted criminal friends, rights corporate wrongs for the 99 percent.
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Character assassination through kindness
When you research Beth Riesgraf, one sentence from her Wikipedia page pops up over and over: in high school, she was voted “Most Admired Senior,” by her graduating class. “I swear to God some person I went to school with is trying to get the revenge they were never able to get in those high school days,” she says. “It’s like they’ve snuck up and swooped in and planted all this shit about me online! People say, ‘It’s really positive and so cute.’ No, it makes me sound like a total nerd. It’s not like I can say I decline to accept that. They just print that shit in the yearbook whether you like it or not, okay? So, that’s my statement.” Beth Riesgraf doth protest too much?
While Riesgraf was probably not a nerd in high school—she may or may not have made out with a gang member or two,
even—her evident charms didn’t exactly show up immediately. “I don’t know if it was just growing up on a farm in Minnesota or being a tomboy, but I never had the filter of, ‘Oh I probably shouldn’t make that face, because it’s not attractive.’ I never thought there was anything wrong with the way I reacted to jokes. Most girls would kick boys in the balls and run away; I would give them a crazy facial expression like a weapon, and they would recoil like, ‘Oh, fuck, that was disgusting!’” But the facial exercises paid off
Proof? The many fan-made GIFs of her expressive face on the Internet: just looping images of her smiling, rolling her eyes, looking charmingly confused. “Maybe most people are going to be really intimidated by this. It’s not like everyone can do what I do. But, I’m really trying to set a good example with my GIFing,” she says, after learning what the heck a GIF is.
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at A s c ari E note c a in T oronto As part of Sharp and Peroni’s multi-part series on Canadian tastemakers, we met with artist Thrush Holmes at Ascari Enoteca in Toronto. Raised in small-town Ontario, Holmes found early success in the southern US before returning to Toronto and shaking up the Canadian art scene with the Thrush Holmes Empire, his raucous Queen West gallery. We spoke with Holmes about the differences between the Canadian and American art scenes, tattoos and summer in the city. Your full legal name is Thrush Keats Byron Holmes, and the middle names were your own addition. What appealed to you so much about Keats and Byron?
I read a lot of Keats and Byron and Rimbaud while I was in Parry Sound in this isolated area of northern Ontario. This was during a decisive moment in my life, my early 20s, so they sort of shaped a lot of my ideas and idealism. So I thought I’d pay tribute to that by including those names in my name. I also don’t have any tattoos, so I thought this was sort of the ultra tattoo. How did your success south of the border affect your return to Canada?
The US is a different market from the Canadian art scene—it’s louder and it’s more accepting. It’s actually more easily penetrated. So, when I opened shop in Toronto, I really wanted to make a statement and I did so in a louder way than maybe I should have or than what was wanted by the community at large. There was a little bit of confusion on my part because I thought that
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I think the return to painting is quite interesting, and the sort of slow death of conceptual art, or the decline of it anyway. I love conceptual art, but I really love painting, and I’m sort of a tradesman at heart so I appreciate more tangible art objects. What does a summer in the city hold for Thrush Holmes?
I like to sweat. My studio is not air-conditioned and it’s the first studio that I’ve had like this in about a decade. I like that I feel like a man when I’m working in there because it’s a slow profession that might be effeminate in certain lights. You’re not labouring like you would in a different trade, and I like to bring that to my work. I’m very aggressive when I work and I like to sweat and feel like I’m working. I like that about the city in the summer.
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abundance of horny vampires, swanky ad execs and suburban meth dealers. Yet, for all the great TV it’s yielded, the rise of the showrunner has had some less positive effects, too. One is confusion about who does what in an industry that’s become increasingly public thanks to online trade mags like Deadline Hollywood, fan sites and its own practitioners’ Twitter addictions. If it’s hard to get a bead on what a show runner even does, let’s clarify: simply put, it’s the person who is most responsible for maintaining a series’ guiding vision. Since the average show involves a huge cadre of creative personnel, there has to be someone with final say (or as a TV writer put it to me, someone who can do the firing). Since “showrunner” is not an official term, they might be listed as executive or supervising producers. Showrunners’ duties can also change depending on the series. Whereas Matthew Weiner fusses over the smallest details on Mad Men (“I’m the time-wasting showrunner,” he recently confessed), other head honchos give more freedom to directors, who generally have far less clout than their movie-world brethren. In any case, showrunners have come to be portrayed as TV’s own superheroes, like the Avengers with more male pattern baldness. As a result, other industry folk may be edgy about their new prominence. For proof, simply look at the firings of The Walking Dead’s Frank Darabont and Community’s Dan Harmon. Both critically lauded leaders shown the door by the people who really decide what we see. It’s all about the power, you see. And power is a big reason many writers prefer TV to movies in the first place. Whereas screenwriters for Hollywood flicks routinely see their scripts mauled by producers, directors, stars and everyone else who’s above them on the food chain (which includes nearly everyone except the people making the food), writers in TV retain far more control, especially when they’re showrunners. But, despite their vaunted job title, they also have bosses (and bean counters) to which they must answer. After all, TV is an expensive business—as an anonymous insider put it in The Hollywood
Reporter, a showrunner for a network TV series can also be considered “the CEO of a $60 million company.” When doubts arise about how that company is being run, showrunners can find themselves in a world of hurt. A Hollywood player who’d already made it big with movies like The Shawshank Redemption, Darabont kept a tight rein on every aspect of The Walking Dead until AMC ousted him not long into production on the second season. Beloved by fans as much for his candid blogs and tweets as for the hijinks on Community, Dan Harmon was responsible for nearly every wonderful thing about the sitcom… until Sony Pictures Television replaced him with two other showrunners for the upcoming fourth season. Then there was Charlie Sheen’s public war with Two and a Half Men showrunner Chuck Lorre, a conflict so ugly
that the only winner was Ashton Kutcher. Likely as not, when a showrunner fails, they have first fallen prey to a bigger force than accountants and studio execs: their own ego. Just ask David Milch, who earned a huge posse of devotees with Deadwood but crashed out with Luck. The show reeked of TV-auteur self-indulgence. The same was true of Sorkin’s The Newsroom, which was just as dreary thanks to all its blustery speechifying. The lesson here is that the show runners who fostered American TV’s current golden age should be wary of believing the hype that now surrounds them. Loath to be like the Aaron Spellings of yesteryear and play to the mainstream, they could be in danger of disappearing up their own asses.
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It’s the Golden Age of Televisions, too
You may have heard—on this very page, in fact—something about the glorious times in which we live when it comes to the small screen. Thing is, that term is pretty relative. These days, the quality of the television should be just as good as what you watch on the television. Don’t watch another episode of Breaking Bad on a bad TV (or worse, your laptop). Get one of these TVs instead. – Nick Healey
LG Smart T V As if Google didn’t already dominate your daily life, they are now about to seize control of your TV. LG’s Smart TV is teaming up with the information giant to create a hybrid of Web browsing and TV watching. In addition to live TV viewing, a feature will include a “launcher bar” which will have access to the ubiquitous browser. Depending on what kind of processor you want, the 55-inch TV will run you about $2,400 to $3,700.
Sharp Aquos LC-90LE745U If your TV is simply not mindblowingly audacious enough, rectify that first-world problem with Sharp’s new 90-inch Aquos LED. With a diagonal length of 8 feet, it will make your puny 55-inch seem as precious as a wind-up radio. For just over $10,000 you can be the proud owner of what Sharp claims is the world’s largest TV. Despite its size, it has a crystal-clear 1080p resolution. Plus, it has apps for YouTube and Netflix to keep you entertained beyond the means of conventional TV.
Vizio XV T3D650SV All we want is for 3D TV to give us an Avatar-like experience in our living room, but instead we have to sort out whether we want “active” or “passive” 3D. Long story short, active 3D requires the viewer to wear those bulky, battery-powered glasses. Passive 3D requires the regular, dark-framed hipster ones you’ve worn at the movies. Vizio is relatively new on the TV scene, but they’ve come up with a fancy passive 3D model. Their 65-inch Class Theater 3D is an HDTV, fully equipped with WiFi and backlight with smart dimming and will set you back $3,190.
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Canadian Mist Collingwood, Ontario Brands: Canadian Mist, Canadian Mist Black Diamond, Collingwood. Long before the advent of NAFTA, Canadian Mist was a collaborative effort with our southern neighbours. Due to the popularity of Canadian whisky in the US—starting when the Civil War forced Americans to try our stuff—Kentuckybased Barton Brands founded the company to design a whisky suited to American palates. It went on to become one of America’s best-selling whiskies. Try: Collingwood—creamy, vibrant taste with marzipan and grain notes.
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Kittling Ridge Grimsby, Ont. Brands: Forty Creek, Forty Creek Double Barrel Reserve, Mountain Rock, Canada Gold.
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Gimli Distillery Gimli, Manitoba Brands: Crown Royal and its various incarnations This Manitoba town 75 km north of Winnipeg may be famous for a 1980s aviation miracle, but their real claim to greatness comes in a bottle. It’s home to 46 warehouses, aging 1.6 million barrels of Crown Royal whisky—the world’s entire supply. That’s 267 barrels for each of the town’s 6,000 residents—most of whom, incidentally, are of Icelandic descent. Try: Crown Royal Reserve—notes of oak, and spicy flavours of cinnamon and vanilla.
Calgary, Alberta Brands: Windsor Canadian, Alberta Springs, Alberta Premium.
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Cape Breton, Nova Scotia Brands: Glen Breton Rare, Battle of the Glen. Ironically, Canada’s “oldest” single-malt distillery has only actually been making their Scotch-style whisky since 1990. But for a distillery that emulates the Scottish method, what more fitting place for them to be located than Canada’s “New Scotland”. Try: Glen Breton Battle of the Glen—floral notes with nutty grain, minty herbs and black licorice.
Hiram Walker Windsor, Ontario Brands: Canadian Club, Wiser’s, Gibson’s Finest. The legendary distiller who created Canadian Club had a number of swindling Americans counterfeiting his beloved product. To put a stop to the shenanigans, he bought billboards that outed the culprits and drove them out of business. Also, someone named Alphonse Gabriel Capone ran a tidy prohibition-era business from the distillery’s basement. Try: Canadian Club Reserve 10 Year Old—toffee taste with hints of oak, nutmeg and clove.
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Highwood Distillers High River, Alberta Brands: Highwood, Century Reserve 15/25, White Owl Highland Distillers’ charcoal-filtered White Owl is notorious for being a clear whisky. Offensive to the purists? Maybe. But, the perplexing blend is excellent for cocktails and helping bring whisky to a new demographic of drinkers. Try: White Owl Spiced Whisky—vanilla and butterscotch flavours with traces of clove and oak.
Valleyfield Distillery Valleyfield, Quebec Brands: Seagram’s VO, Canadian Five Star.
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• 4-pound farm-raised chicken, left to stand at room temperature for 1 to 2 hours • Kosher salt and fresh ground black pepper • 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature • 1 small onion, trimmed, cut into quarters • 3 medium carrots, peeled, cut into 2- to 3inch pieces • 2 medium turnips, peeled, cut into 3/4 inch wedges • 8 small red-skinned potatoes, scrubbed clean • 8 oz crimini or button mushrooms, cleaned • 2 tablespoons canola or olive oil • 2 tablespoons Herbes de Provence (optional) • ¼ cup dry white wine or water • Roasting pan, twine, meat thermometer
Centre a rack in the oven and preheat the oven to 450°F. Remove the neck and innards if they are still in the cavity. Generously salt and pepper the cavity, then truss the bird with twine by tying the wings and legs close to the body with the ends of the drumsticks crossed over the top of the breast. Toss vegetables with oil, Herbes de Provence, salt and pepper. Spread seasoned vegetables over the base of a lightly greased roasting pan. Make a nest in the centre of the vegetables and place chicken in it, breast side up. Try not to crowd the pan. Rub the chicken’s skin with butter, then season with salt and pepper. Add wine (or water) to the pan. Put the chicken in the oven and roast for 25 minutes. Reduce the heat to 400°F and roast for an additional 45 minutes, or until the temperature of the thickest part of the thigh registers 160°F, and the juices run clear. Transfer the chicken to a platter and let rest for 20 minutes. Remove the twine, carve into pieces and serve with pan sauce (below) if desired. S im p le Pan Sauc e Spoon the fat off the jus left in the roasting pan and place the pan on medium heat. Add ¾ cup dry white wine or water and cook, scraping solids off the bottom of the pan. Allow the sauce to boil for a few minutes; season with salt and pepper then turn off the heat and stir in a tablespoon of cold butter. O p t io n: B ee r Ca n C h i c ken Instead of trussing, insert a half-full can of beer into the cavity of the bird and adjust the chicken to sit upright on it (think: tripod). Surround the bird with vegetables, tent the top with foil and bake as outlined, using the remaining beer as cooking liquid. Use caution, and tongs, when removing the beer can from the chicken as it contains hot liquid.
Ketchup: that shit will go with anything. You can dress it up for gourmet burgers, or you can slather it all over whatever your kid needs to eat, but won’t. If ketchup were a man, he’d be good people. Ditto mayonnaise. Both of those things are good. Now stop throwing chipotle peppers in them and thinking you’re the next Wolfgang Puck. Enough with chipotle. We get its popularity: it’s a little hot, a little smoky, and it’s great on yam fries. But it doesn’t deserve ubiquity. It’s the sun-dried tomato of the new millennium, the Jay Leno of condiments. It has its place, sure, but seriously, it’s not that great. Either get creative—really creative—with your condiments, or just pass the ketchup and shut up. – GH
c o o k’s no t es : 1 Letting the chicken stand at room temperature before cooking dries the skin to help it crisp up when roasting. 2 Trussing ensures the bird is evenly cooked. Bonus: the roasted bird looks professionally done. 3 Resting the just-cooked bird lets the juices thicken slightly so that they don’t get lost when the chicken is sliced. 4 If you’re using a convection oven, drop the oven temperatures by 25°F. 5 Keep the crisp and juicy pope’s nose (aka chicken butt) for yourself. It’s the cook’s reward. visit sharpformen.com for more delicious man-meals and top chef interviews
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Like a suit or a great pair of shoes, a leather jacket is one of those staples that every man should invest in. You can dress it up with a slim tie and dress pants, or down with your favourite t-shirt and jeans. Whether you decide to go with a biker or bomber is up to you, just make sure that it firmly hugs your body and isn’t too long in the sleeves or torso.
The WellDressed Man Man-waxing, workout wear and the perfect leather jacket: your style questions answered Q: My workout buddies are always going to the gym in clothes that look horrible. They tell me that I shouldn’t care so much, but I beg to differ. Help a guy out? A: Who says you can’t have both style and func-
tionality at the same time? Skip the deep Vs and sloppy sweats and go for workout gear that’s roomy enough to freely squat and lunge, but also snug enough to show off a little of what you’ve been working on.
Number:Lab shorts, $86
Burberry Brit, $1,350
Q: Can I get away with wearing plaid under a suit? I feel like it’s a bit casual, but I’ve been noticing more and more men wearing it these days. A: Why not? A good plaid, or another
one of its checked brethren, can add a little bit of personality to your office look. If you’re going to go down this road, though, make sure to tone down the rest of your outfit. The goal is always to complement, never compete.
Q: I’ve got a really bushy set of eyebrows and I’ve noticed that more and more men have been getting theirs plucked or waxed. Is this something that I should try? A: Grooming your eyebrows can be a
tricky path to walk down. You don’t want to look like Bert (of Sesame Street), nor do you want them to be more shapely than those of your female companions. Find a trusted aesthetician and tell them you want your brows to be cleaned up, but don’t want to look feminine either. They’ll go easy on you.
Q: Is it acceptable to wear white after L abour Day? A: The age-old rule was originally
instated due to the changing seasons. Darker colours were preferred due to their ability to retain heat as the weather cooled down. However, with global warming in full swing, we’d say that’s not as much of a concern as it was back in the day. Go ahead and knock yourself out. J.Crew 484 selvedge jeans, $175
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MEET CANADA’S SHARPEST MAN our search for the bestdressed man in the nation Photos By Mario Miotti
Jonathan Cava l i e re Age: 22 Occupation: Menswear sales/Fashion blogger hometown: Vaughan, Ont.
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n June 1, we partnered with the Hudson’s Bay Company and launched our search for “Canada’s Sharpest Man.” Setting up photo kiosks in four different Bay locations (Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, Toronto), we had men compete for a $5,000 designer shopping spree at The Bay, as well as a photo shoot in this issue. Not wanting to exclude the stylish gentlemen living outside of these four cities, we opened up the contest so that men could upload photos from their own computers and invite Canadians from all over to vote for them.
It was a grueling month for our contestants as they campaigned to get as many votes as possible—over 50,000 in all. Some used their blogs and YouTube channels, while others hustled on Facebook and Twitter to rack up numbers. In the end, 15 men were voted into the finals. Our judging panel, composed of Suzanne Timmins, Senior Vice President and Fashion Director of the Hudson’s Bay Company; Shawn Hewson, Bustle Creative Director; and our own Editor-in-Chief, Jeremy Freed, met at Suits Lobby Lounge at the Trump Hotel in Toronto to deliberate. Finalists were evaluated on fit, creativity and attention to detail, and while the competition was tight and the votes were close, only one man could be crowned the victor. In the end, that man was Jonathan Cavaliere, Canada’s Sharpest Man.
our judging panel deliberates at Suits Lobby Lounge at the Trump, Toronto (From Top): Jeremy Freed, Shawn Hewson and Suzanne Timmins) Previous page: Z ZEGNA Suit, $1,860 Shirt, $265; and Tie, $130
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Breezy, nonchalant style in the enchanting streets of rural Italy
Photographer:
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Fashion Director:
Luke Langsdale
On him: Ermenegildo Zegna suit, price upon request; Eton shirt, $250; Huntsman tie, $155; Paul Smith shoes, $465. On her: Toast dress; Paul Smith heels and bag; BOSS Black jewelry.
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I n t e r v i e w b y M a r c o S p a g n o l o / T h e I n t e r v i e w P e o p l e ; PHOTO S BY J im W r i g h t
LATE went from flipping houses to owning the box office –all while pushing 40.
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Hayden Panettiere IS NOT A RAGING B!*$#
and a few other things the actress would like you to know BY GREG HUDSON PHOTOS BY Matthias Vriens-McGrath
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he day I’m supposed to talk to her, I wake up too early and my brain won’t let my eyes stay shut. It’s not the Christmas morning brand of restlessness, it’s an anxiety that’s decidedly adolescent— there’s a test in first period, and I’ve forgotten to study. Failure is imminent. Hayden Panettiere makes me nervous. ·sharpformen.com 119
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seven classic
Investment Pieces
that get better with age By Photos Fashion Director
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USN G-1 Flight Jacket
In the fashion world, imitation isn’t a form of flattery; it’s grounds for a lawsuit. The beautiful replica aviator jackets from Eastman Leather, however, are an exception to the rule. Based in the UK, Eastman’s vintage-obsessed craftsmen meticulously recreate original models (like the authentic WWII-era USN G-1 on the right) from exact military specifications, going as far as using the same hides and tanning processes for the leathers. The resulting garment has all the robust functionality that kept mid-century flying aces comfortable and looking good, but it’s a blank canvas—an opportunity to break it in yourself to reflect the ins and outs of your (likely less exciting) contemporary civilian lifestyle. Sure, it’s a knock-off, but it’s your knock-off. Wear it with pride. $930
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Business At Hand Whether you’re a seasoned boardroom vet or a young executive on the rise, your office wear should radiate confidence, power and just a touch of swagger.
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Whether you’re a seasoned boardroom vet or a young executive on the rise, your office wear should radiate c o n f i d e n c e , p ow e r a n d j u s t a t ou c h o f s wa g g e r .
photographer: raina + wilson stylist: daniel onori
BROWN Brown is the statement colour of the season. Avoid looking like a dowdy chemistry professor by keeping the proportions trim and opting for a fabric with a subtle, modern sheen. Strellson suit, $895, shirt, $165 and tie, $95 at The Bay. Carole Tanenbaum Vintage Collection jewelry.
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OUR HIGHLY SCIENTIFIC RANKING OF THINGS THAT DO AND DO NOT DESERVE yOUR ATTENTION Ta k e n 2 Because Liam Neeson is the ultimate badass.
Boots A man needs at least two pairs of decent boots for fall: one sturdy, for inclement weather, and one dressy pair, just for looking good.
Cat P ow e r The husky-voiced songstress returns with Sun, her first album in four years.
NOT INFLUENTIAL
INFLUENTIAL
The NFL Can Peyton Manning come back after missing a full season with a back injury, watching his little brother win a second Super Bowl and being traded to Denver? A lot of pressure, sure, but that’s what that $90 million contract is for.
Com plicated Co ck ta il s Bartenders, we know you can do more than pour beer and sling martinis, and we respect your skills (and your sweet handlebar moustaches). But we also suspect you may be the only ones who care about the house-made bitters and hand-chipped heirloom ice in that signature drink that takes 20 minutes to make.
T h e Su mme r D r e ss Alas, farewell our fair weather friend. We will miss you.
TIFF The films! The parties! The star power! It’s the one week every year when Toronto gets to briefly overcome its inferiority complex and bask in the warming glow of the only celebrities we truly revere—the American ones.
Matth ew P er ry Another season, another show starring Canadian Matthew Perry. You work harder than all your ex-Friends cast mates. It’s just, dammit, nothing sticks. We didn’t think Matt LeBlanc would work after Joey, either.
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