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DEFYING GRAVITY: THE MUSIC OF Stephen Schwartz will be presented tonight, June 18th at Toronto's Jazz Bistro.

Toronto police say a 42-year-old woman was at a bar in the Kennedy Road and Eglinton Avenue area on June 6. About 10 minutes later, the woman became "incoherent" and was assisted into a taxi by the man and another man, police said.

What began with scraps of paper at a Brampton, Ont., kitchen table nearly 40 years ago grew into a Canadian fitness and health publishing empire, with the company's founder counting bodybuilding legend Arnold Schwarzenegger among his friends.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford peers over the edge of the Dufferin Street Bridge June 5, 2013.

George Randolph set out to create a training program that would produce performers who could sing, dance and act in Broadway-type shows.

A demolition expert examines the letters atop the old Westwood Theatre on the southeast corner of Kipling Road and Bloor Street.

The migration pattern of some Canadian snowbirds would change under immigration legislation being debated in the U.S. Senate.

Couture clothing designer and entrepreneur Lynne Tyrrell lived in a sequined world of her own creation, a world filled with fabrics, feathers and fur.

Coming to PBS in fall 2040 - Ken Burns Jr.'s 18-hour series "Operation Maple Leaf: New York vs. Canada"! Narrator: It began in the New York state Capitol in Albany one day in June 2013, when the Legislature voted to allow the dissolution of a previously obscure binational entity called the Peace Bridge Authority .

Joni Mitchell speaks at Toronto's Isabel Bader theatre as part of the city's Luminato Festival of Arts and Culture on Sunday.

Jennifer Carvalho, the painter of Stair , is one of the 15 finalists in the 2013 RBC Canadian Painting Competition.

Linda J. Hawkins, owner of Heart to Heart Publishing Inc., was recently invited to participate in the Kentucky Export Initiative' Trade and Business Mission to Canada.

Here at Maclean's, we appreciate the written word. And we appreciate you, the reader.

Here at Maclean's, we appreciate the written word. And we appreciate you, the reader.

The scene of a fatal crash on Havenwood Drive, near Bloor and Dixie, where a teen died after being struck by a vehicle.

The World Naked Bike Ride took to the downtown streets of Toronto on Saturday, June 15, 2013.

After taking the Next Stage Festival by storm this past January, Jennifer Walls and Laura Anne Harris team up once at for the Toronto Fringe at the Annex Theatre .

She's well known for having her name emblazoned on designer jeans and writing numerous memoirs and works of fiction, but through it all, Gloria Vanderbilt has also pursued a passion for creating visual art.

As the summer weather can't seem to make up its mind between hot and cold, one this is for sure; rain or shine, short-shorts are here to stay.

Judges watch as Toronto bartender Brad Gubbins, dressed as Inspector Clouseau, competes in Canada's World Class Bartender competition at the SoHo Metropolitan Hotel in Toronto June 10, 2013.