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queen for a day

April 6th, 2007

Herewith, an afternoon of shopping and drinks on Toronto's Queen Street West. drink Clafouti Patisserie & Café, 915 Queen Street West, 416-603-1935 Francophiles will love Clafouti's perfectly sized and ultra-flaky croissants, mouth-watering brioche and piping hot café allongé. It's clearly the café for Queen Street West's hipster types (enter Maggie Gyllenhaal l ...

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art house

April 4th, 2007

Marie Antoinette is so last season. This month's bravest biopic is the Vancouver premiere of Klimt, which stars the inimitable John Malkovich as the famed art nouveau painter Gustav Klimt, best known for "The Kiss." Set in fin-de-siècle Vienna and featuring the gorgeous Saffron Burrows, there's plenty of eccentricity, sex, lots of gold leaf, and, naturally, a tragic ...

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spring a-head

April 4th, 2007

So you're trying to channel 1960s Brigitte Bardot with your vintage silk scarf tied like a headband. Only you're not quite so chic when you're picking it up off the floor every three minutes. The genius silk headbands ($35) from New York's Headdress look just like a scarf but have a hidden elastic to keep them firmly in place. In dozens of prints, from soph ...

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plastic fantastic

April 2nd, 2007

By calling their store The Fabulous Find, these entrepreneurs must have confidence. And so they should with the speed at which the vintage scores are rotating (a white ball chair lasted four hours). While we love the vintage Marimekko children's curtains from Finland, and mid-century light fixtures and chandeliers, the real score here is sleek melamine dishware and c ...

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