When Jon Hamm entered the room, Eric Hendrikx was ready. This year, at the Toronto International Film Festival, Hendrikx was gifting his new coffee table book, Motorcycle Life, to celebrities at the People and Entertainment Weekly portrait studio. Hamm was a man on a mission – to get in and out quickly – but the…

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From Pulitzer Prize winners to Oscar-winning performances, these portraits of LGBTQ2+ life and love should be at the top of your must-read and must-watch list.    Less Andrew Sean Greer's wonderful satire – which won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize (lauded as "a generous book, musical in its prose and expansive in its structure and range,…

For decades, James Cameron has devoted his career to expanding the frontiers of blockbuster cinema and defying naysayers. Before Titanic (1997) smashed box-office records, the media piled on with gleeful predictions that the film would suffer the same fate as the ship. They scoffed at Cameron’s promise of a tech revolution that would bring 3D…

Chef Anthony Rose, known as the "king of comfort food,"  partnered with food writer Chris Johns to create The Last Schmaltz: A Very Serious Cookbook (2018) in which storytelling and cooking come together in delicious harmony. Here, for Hanukkah, Johns shares one of his favourite recipes from the book: Schmaltz Latkes.   The Backstory (from…

Anyone who’s ever guarded DeMar DeRozan knows just how untrustworthy the six-time NBA All-Star can be. His legendary pump fake is so convincing the Cleveland Cavaliers front office instituted a $100 fine to any player who fell for it during their 2018 playoff battle with the Raptors.  But off the court, the former Raptor is…