In today’s edition of This City: a three-part wedding celebration in Nigeria, Brampton and Mexico. Plus, a 28-year-old music producer who wrote all of her friend’s flirty texts, the best cheap pizza slices in Toronto right now, and more. Visit torontolife.com for all our city coverage. |
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Henry Beedie and Dorcas Etim met after both moving from Nigeria to Mississauga for boarding school. The couple started dating a year later, and after nine years, Henry proposed in the Kawartha Highlands. Between 2022 and 2023, they had a three-part wedding consisting of a traditional Nigerian ceremony, a civil ceremony at Brampton City Hall and a destination wedding in Mexico. Here’s how it all came together. |
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| | For our March issue, we scoured the city’s new takeout spots and rounded up our all-time favourite budget-friendly bites. Here, five of the best pizza slices you can find in Toronto for $10 or less, including a vodka pie, a version with punchy ’nduja and a pesto-brushed option. |
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What to see, do and read this month |
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| | The concept of an AI girlfriend isn’t new: there’s Scarlett Johansson’s sentient OS in Her and Ana de Armas’s holographic housewife in Blade Runner 2049. But they were secondary characters, subjugated in both plot and purpose. In her debut novel, Annie Bot, writer Sierra Greer flips the script, making the book’s titular robot—an AI girlfriend built by and for her partner, Doug—the main character. As Annie begins taking on more complicated human emotions to better perform her duties, she stumbles upon the paradoxical nature of sentient life. Out March 19 |
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| | Toronto Life’s iconic Best Restaurants event, presented by Uber Eats, is back on May 13 at Evergreen Brick Works. Save the date and prepare your appetite for an immersive culinary experience featuring talented chefs and the restaurants that make up the June Where to Eat Now issue, which celebrates the very best places to eat in Toronto. Get tickets here. |
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| | In the latest issue: how two faux-Inuit sisters cashed in on a life of deception. Plus, the city’s best cheap eats, a suburban holy war between religion and real estate, a bittersweet memoir about ditching Toronto, and more. Still not receiving Toronto Life at home? Subscribe today. |
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