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Fashion's Finest Hour: Grand Hyatt Mumbai Hosts Bombay Times Fashion Week 2024's Milestone Event

The fashion world witnessed a dazzling spectacle as Bombay Times Fashion Week 2024 unfolded its grandeur at the prestigious Grand Hyatt Mumbai. Celebrating its 20th anniversary in style, the event was a testament to the evolution and innovation within the Indian fashion industry. From iconic runway moments to star-studded appearances, the fashion week left an indelible mark on the cultural landscape.

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Fashion enthusiasts and industry insiders alike converged at the Grand Hyatt Mumbai, eager to witness the latest trends and designs showcased by leading designers and brands. Against the backdrop of Mumbai's vibrant energy, the event encapsulated the essence of glamour, creativity, and sophistication.

In this comprehensive review, we delve into the highlights of Bombay Times Fashion Week 2024, shedding light on the captivating runway shows, standout collections, and notable celebrity sightings that stole the limelight.

Runway Extravaganza:

The runway came alive with a mesmerizing array of collections, each offering a unique perspective on contemporary fashion. Renowned designers such as Manish Malhotra, Sabyasachi Mukherjee, and Anita Dongre showcased their sartorial prowess, captivating audiences with their innovative designs and impeccable craftsmanship.

Manish Malhotra's collection epitomized opulence and elegance, with stunning ensembles adorned with intricate embellishments and luxurious fabrics. Sabyasachi Mukherjee's signature aesthetic, infused with traditional motifs and modern sensibilities, resonated with fashion aficionados, while Anita Dongre's ethereal creations drew inspiration from India's rich cultural heritage.

From glamorous evening gowns to avant-garde couture, the runway presentations offered a diverse range of styles, catering to every sartorial preference. With each collection pushing the boundaries of creativity, Bombay Times Fashion Week 2024 showcased the dynamic and evolving nature of Indian fashion.

Star-Studded Affair:

As one of the most anticipated fashion events of the year, Bombay Times Fashion Week 2024 attracted a galaxy of stars from the worlds of Bollywood, fashion, and entertainment. Celebrities graced the red carpet in their finest ensembles, adding to the allure and excitement of the event.

One of the highlights of the Bombay Times Fashion Week 2024 was the presence of Bollywood's Glam. Leading ladies and style icons such as Karishma Kapoor, Shilpa Shetty, Diya Mirza, Sushmita Sen, and Mrunal Thakur graced the event with their impeccable presence, adding an extra dose of glamour to the proceedings. Their sartorial choices became the talk of the town, setting new trends and inspiring fashion enthusiasts across the country.

Shilpa Shetty made heads turn with her impeccable sense of style, effortlessly blending traditional and contemporary elements. Diya Mirza radiated grace and charm in her ethereal attire, while Sushmita Sen mesmerized the audience with her innate poise and grace. Mrunal Thakur, the epitome of youthful exuberance, showcased her fashion prowess in a series of chic and glamorous outfits.

Celebrating 20 Years of Fashion Excellence:

As Bombay Times Fashion Week marked its 20th anniversary milestone, the event served as a tribute to two decades of creativity, innovation, and inspiration. Over the years, the fashion week has played a pivotal role in shaping the trajectory of the Indian fashion industry, providing a platform for emerging talent and established designers alike.

Bombay Times Fashion Week 2024 at Grand Hyatt Mumbai was a resounding success, showcasing the best of Indian fashion against the backdrop of Mumbai's vibrant culture and energy. From breathtaking runway shows to star-studded appearances, the event captivated audiences and left a lasting impression on the fashion landscape.

As we reflect on the highlights of the fashion week, it's evident that Bombay Times Fashion Week continues to be a driving force in shaping the future of fashion in India. With its 20th anniversary edition serving as a testament to its enduring legacy, the event reaffirms its status as a premier platform for creativity, innovation, and style.

At Zebrans.com we are committed to bringing you the latest updates and insights from the world of fashion and lifestyle. Stay tuned for more exclusive coverage and in-depth analysis of the trends shaping the industry.

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greyparcel79-blog · 5 years

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The Simon Bolivar Statue - Central Park at 6th Avenue

On April 17, 1921 the New-York Tribune noted that "Bolivar Hill," a knoll in Central Park near 83rd Street and the West Drive "has been for thirty years the center of a drama which had the elements of human interest, passion, gossip of the art world, comedy, tragedy and wasted fortune, to say nothing of international relations." It all had to do with the Venezuelan Government's frustrated attempts to have a fitting memorial to Simon Bolivar in the park.

In 1883 it had commissioned Venezuelan sculptor Rafael de la Cova to create a monument to the hero. Bolivar is credited with gaining independence from Spain for not only Venezuela, but Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru and Panama. The completed statue, a gift to New York City, was dedicated on June 17, 1884. On one side of the pedestal was the single word "Bolivar" and on the opposite "Venezuela to the City of New-York, 1883."

At the time The New York Times reported "Upward of 2,000 people witnessed the unveiling of the statue of Gen. Simon Bolivar, in Central Park, yesterday afternoon, and most of them were obliged to stand patiently beneath the pelting rays of the sun." When the drapings came off the speeches and ceremony went on as planned. Parks Commissioner Egbert Viele diplomatically pronounced "This statue is not merely a work of art...It is a tribute of esteem from a young republic of South America to her sister in the North."

But in fact everyone, perhaps more so the Venezuelan representatives, were aghast. Rafael de la Cora's Boliva was a stiff, comic looking figure--what was a century later termed a "monster-piece."

The 1883 statue was, in a word, hideous. (image from a vintage stereoscope card)

Before long the President of Venezuela, Joaquin Crespo, decided that the statue was "not fitting." In 1896 his government commissioned Giovanni Turini to execute a replacement. Completed in 1898, it was no more acceptable. The New-York Tribune later said "Turini's Bolivar was modeled after a statue at Caracas, a pompous figure seated stiffly on a conventional Roman horse."

The New York Times politely said "A new statue ordered from another sculptor was not altogether satisfactory," while The National Sculpture Society "flatly rejected" the ungainly statue. It was put in place. The Venezuelan government refused to pay Turini his agreed-upon $75,000 commission (a rather stunning $2.3 million in today's money). The New-York Tribune remarked "only $8,000 was paid."

In 1897 the Parks Commission could abide the hideous De la Cova statue no longer and "condemned" it, as worded by The New York Times. The stone pedestal sat empty for 19 years until on the morning of April 4, 1916 New Yorkers awoke to find a bronze grouping of hounds in place. In the dark of night a group of about a dozen men helped William Hunt Diedrich hoist his Levriers, or Greyhounds, into place.

Park police were not amused and the following day The New York Times reported "the playing dogs of Paris were thrown ten feet to the ground and 'damaged almost beyond repair.'" Deiderich lamented that the Parks police had treated the gift "as a pretty woman sometimes spurns a flower."

Deidrich was perhaps unaware that the Venezuelan government had plans for the pedestal. That year it sponsored a global competition to select a sculptor for a third stab at a respectable rendering of Bolivar. Art critic Alexander Woollcott, writing in The Delineator a few years later remarked "Venezuela wanted to place a monument to him in Central Park, particularly as a quite painful equestrian statue of Bolivar had previously been taken out of that playground and hidden somewhere by New York's Municipal Art Commission."

Twenty artists competed and the winner was surprising, indeed. Born in Ogdensburg, New York in 1869 Sally James Farnham had no artistic training. The daughter of a U.S. Army colonel, she had traveled throughout Europe and Japan as a child where her father took her to art museums. At the age of 32 she was hospitalized, recovering from a long illness. The mother of three was bored and her husband, George Paulding Farnham, a jewelry designer for Tiffany & Co., suggested she use modeling clay to while away the time.

After her release from the hospital, Sally kept up her clay modeling. As it turns out she was a long-time friend of Frederic Remington. She took him a figure of a Spanish dancer, asking him if it were any good. "Well, I'll be," he reportedly responded. "I don't know how you learned it...but she's full of ginger. Keep it up, Sally." And she did.

At a time when female sculptors were rare, Farnham received the prestigious commission. She worked on the 15-foot Bolivar statue in a rented Brooklyn studio while she simultaneously went through a divorce. She depicted Bolivar in full military dress astride his prancing horse. The South American described the statue in April 1921 as "shown in the attitude of acknowledging the shouts of an applauding populace, a gallant figure of a soldier and a gentleman."

Sally James Farnham at work in her Brooklyn studio. The caption reads "The largest statue ever made by a woman." The Delineator, May 1921 (copyright expired)

Five years after winning the contest plans were made for the dedication. Art critic Alexander Woollcott said Farnham's Bolivar outshown even Anna Hyatt Huntington's Jeanne d'Arc in Riverside Park. "But this is a loftier figure, this one of Bolivar." He called the Venezuelan gift a "towering monument that enters the annals of American sculpture as the largest work by a woman which history anywhere records."

The dedication was to be no small affair. On April 17, 1921 the New-York Tribune announced that "Last week the great bronze was put in place on Bolivar Hill. President Harding has accepted the invitation to assist at the unveiling on Tuesday."

Five days earlier The New York Herald had begun reporting on the luminaries already arriving in New York for the ceremony. Dr. Estaben Gil-Borges, Venezuelan Minster of Foreign Relations, along with his wife and three children, arrived on April 11. On the same ocean liner were five other high-ranking Venezuelan officials. The newspaper added that now Charles E. Hughs, the Secretary of State, would be joining the President at the unveiling along with other cabinet members.

The unveiling ceremony, on April 19, was grand. The Presidential party was escorted from the Waldorf Astoria by United States marines, soldiers and sailors and a detachment of sailors from the Brazilian battleship Minas Geraes. At the park a squad of New York State Guardsmen fired the Presidential salute. Two little girls, 7-year-old Patricia Paez MacManus and her sister Mariquita Paez MacManus, granddaughters of General Jose Antonio Paez, an associated of Simon Bolivar, pulled the cords to unveil the statue.

This time there was no disappointment. Sally James Farnham's statue was deemed masterful. The South American wrote "The bronze horseman fashioned by Mrs. Farnham is declared by all who have seen it to be a great work of art, worthy of our great city."

The Bolivar statue became the site of annual celebrations of the liberator's birthday. But the beloved statue appeared threatened when President Franklin Roosevelt formed his War Production Board. On August 7, 1942 Roosevelt endorsed a program to scrap bronze statues and recycle their metal into weapons of war. The New York Times explained "At his press conference he agreed with reporters that some of the statues and the guns used as monuments would serve a more useful purpose if junked...Some of the statues, he said with a smile, could be replaced after the war with--and here he paused to cough apologetically--something more artistic."

Art critic Edward Alden Jewell, writing in The New York Times on March 7, 1943, warned patriotic New Yorkers not to be too hasty. "Supposing an inclusive call for scrap bronze to have been sounded, which of the hundreds of statues in our city are to be deemed of particular worth and which are not? More simply put which are good and which are bad?" He said "Before Art gives Mars the green light," the merits of the city statues should be weighed Jewell compiled a jury of one sculptor; an architect; a "widely known collector," Chester Dale; a painter and himself to do just that.

The group was brutally honest in its condemnation of some statues which it said "should go into war's caldron." Not surprisingly, the Bolivar statue passed with the esteem of the cultured and knowledgeable crew. (As it turned out, very few bronzes were lost to the war effort.)

In 1945 Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia prompted the city to rename Sixth Avenue "The Avenue of the Americas" to honor Pan-American ideals. A new plaza was designed in Central Park at the head of the avenue and on November 15, 1948 The New York Times announced plans had been approved by the United States State Department to move the statues of Simon Bolivar and José de San Martin to either side of its entrance. The idea quickly became a political issue.

On September 11, 1949 Oren Root, candidate for Manhattan Borough President, railed against the project's high cost. He saw no logical reason to move the statues and said "the amount seemed excessive and that the $495,000 might better be used to rehabilitate some school or hospital."

It created a stalemate that was broken by the Venezuelan Government. On October 19 Parks Commissioner Robert Moses announced that Venezuela had "formally requested" the statue to be moved and offered to pay all expenses. The $190,000 necessary to move Bolivar left the city taxpayers with a substantially reduced bill.

The second unveiling of the Bolivar statue, on April 19, 1951, was only slightly less impressive than the first. A parade up Fifth Avenue included 3,000 marchers, 360 Venezuelan military cadets, and American and Venezuelan dignitaries who rode in automobiles. Five bands joined in the procession as did hundreds of school children.

A crowd estimated at 15,000 pushed in to witness the unveiling. The New York Times, April 20, 1951

But the best was to come. The estimated crowd of 15,000 heard a message by President Harry Truman before G. Suarez Flamerich, President of Venezuela, unveiled the statue by pressing a button at Caracas, almost 2,000 miles away.

As had been the case for three decades, the yearly ceremonies on Bolivar's birthday continued for years. One of the first important sculptures by a female artist, Sally James Farnham's monumental Simon Bolivar holds a commanding spot at the entrance to the Central Park.

photographs by the author

Source: http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-simon-bolivar-statue-central-park.html

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It’s been close to a decade since serial entrepreneur Manish Chandra assembled a dream team of fashion and technology insiders — in his home garage, no less — to help him create and launch Poshmark. Now — amid a drawn-out retail evolution, bolstered by digital disruption and rapid shifts in consumer habits — the company is firing on all cylinders.

The social selling platform announced this week that it has managed to double the amount it paid out to seven million “Seller Stylists” in just one year — shelling out around $2 billion to its community of sellers. That’s compared to the $1 billion milestone that Poshmark hit just over one year ago.

And even though the platform has, to date, raised nearly $160 million in funding, hit the elusive unicorn status with a reported $1.25 billion valuation and counts 50 million registered users among its growing selling-buying base, Chandra has remained in full-fledged start-up mode. (Poshmark’s sellers transact with both new and used items.)

“We’re still working very hard,” Chandra told FN, just moments after stepping off stage to deliver remarks to about 200 Poshmark users who gathered at the Grand Hyatt in New York last month for a “Posh Party Live.” Poshmark had launched the city-to-city event series in 2018 as a way to celebrate its community members across the country.

While he’s well aware of the near stroke of luck Poshmark achieved by getting ahead of the resale market boom in 2011, Chandra — who is on his second successful business — has staked his career on creating, predicting and leveraging major fashion technology trends. In 2005, Chandra launched social shopping pioneer Kaboodle in 2005, and she sold it to Hearst in 2007.

“One of the ways I always challenge some of the new [employees] who join Poshmark is to say ‘what happens in fashion if we all stop wearing clothes?” Chandra said. “What if these clothes we’re wearing are just imagined through a chip technology where they’re virtually projected? Think of the future of fashion in that world where fashion becomes completely digital. What happens then?”

According to a 2019 trend report from ThredUp, the resale market is worth $24 billion today and is expected to hit $51 billion by 2023 — with a growth rate 21 times that of traditional retail. What helps set Poshmark apart — other than tennis superstar Serena Williams joining its board of directors last month — is its innovative in-app Wholesale Market that connects fashion brands directly to its massive network of “seller stylists” who are using their social influence to drive sales. It also holds zero inventory, but, instead, connects millions of sellers and buyers, who correspond and transact with the $100 million worth of inventory uploaded to the platform every week.

Poshmark, which launched the home category this summer, collects a 20% commission on each sale; the commission covers backend logistics including payments, shipping and customer service.

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Spending Two Perfect Days In Toronto

Toronto’s condominium boom is no secret — just try snapping a photo of the city’s skyline without including a crane or two — but these rising glass towers are ushering in more than sky-high residences. They’ve also helped create an influx of luxury hotels and restaurants that make the already dynamic destination a newly alluring place to visit. Though you could spend weeks exploring the changing landscape of Canada’s largest city, Toronto is also an excellent choice for a walkable two-day getaway. Hit the highlights, both classic and new, with this itinerary.

Day One

Choosing a Toronto hotel is no small task when the city’s bumper crop of properties includes some of Canada’s most luxurious. The Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star Trump International Hotel & Tower Toronto; Four-Stars The Ritz-Carlton, Toronto, Park Hyatt Toronto, Shangri-La Hotel, Toronto and The Hazelton Hotel; and Recommendeds SoHo Metropolitan Hotel, Toronto, Thompson Toronto and Templar Hotel all delight with their service and amenities. But on our most recent trip, Four Seasons Hotel Toronto fit the bill. Opened in late 2012 as the Toronto-based brand’s new flagship, this Five-Star, 55-story Yorkville stunner is home to 259 sleek guest rooms and suites outfitted with floor-to-ceiling windows, iPads and custom Etro bath products. Its restaurant and spa are among the best in town — but you’ll get to those later.

After checking in and freshening up in your impossibly large bathroom, it’s time for a pre-lunch walking tour of the Yorkville neighborhood. This tony corner of Toronto, a 10-minute drive north of downtown, is also a cornerstone of the city’s fashion scene, and the best way to see all the boutiques its quaint alleys have to offer is with The Refinery’s Wendy Woods, a local style expert. As Woods explains, shopping in Toronto is pricey but unique; because the city has relatively few big-box stores outside of Holt Renfrew and Hudson’s Bay, there’s an opening for local designers to thrive, and a plethora of their combination boutique-studios dot the city. Woods’ tour, which can be customized for men or women, will lead you through her favorite hidden gems and the signature items in each. If you opt to explore Yorkville on your own, don’t miss Pink Tartan to shop tailored women’s clothing in a historic building; Teatro Verde for two floors of one-of-a-kind gifts and a fittingly orange-yellow room dedicated to Veuve Clicquot products; Ça Va de Soi for luxe basics like sweaters woven with rare Karnak Menoufi cotton; Karir Eyewear for high-end, artistic frames; and LeatherFoot for bespoke or prêt-à-porter men’s shoes from European designers such as John Lobb and Gaziano & Girling.

When you’ve worked up an appetite, wind your way to Sassafraz for lunch. A Yorkville institution, Sassafraz consists of a restaurant and a more casual café, both set inside a yellow house where it’s not unusual for famous clientele, from Matt Damon to Bono, to outshine the farm-fresh, French-inspired cuisine. Request a spot on the restaurant’s rearmost banquette for the best vantage point; you can survey the entire dining room from this perch under a glass atrium. After appetizers, such as a baby spinach salad piled high with blackberries and Ontario sheep feta, and a hearty main — the smoked-chicken torchietti with cubed andouille sausage and kale pesto is a warm comfort on a cold Canadian day — finish with the trio of crème brûlée. This dessert flight — with ramekins of white-chocolate-Oreo crumble, Baileys with peppermint crunch, and maple with ginger snap — is just the thing to fuel your trip to the Art Gallery of Ontario or Royal Ontario Museum.

Both have world-class permanent collections — at the Art Gallery of Ontario, work from the last two millennia, and at the Royal Ontario Museum, natural history and cultural articles — and are impressive from the outside in. Daniel Libeskind created the ROM’s incongruous crystalline entrance in 2007; Toronto-born architect Frank Gehry added the AGO’s curved-glass façade in 2008. The one at which you spend your afternoon wandering is your choice. Exhibitions include “Francis Bacon and Henry Moore: Terror and Beauty,” featuring more than 130 pieces from the British art titans at the AGO through July 20, and “The Forbidden City: Inside the Court of China’s Emperors” at the ROM through July 1, along with various retrospectives throughout the year to celebrate the museum’s 100th anniversary.

Recover from your travels to and around the city back at your hotel, where The Spa at Four Seasons Hotel Toronto beckons. At 30,000 square feet, this Forbes Travel Guide Four-Star retreat is the largest luxury spa in Toronto, and it’s filled with serene spaces in which to unwind before you even hit the treatment room. Be sure to spend ample time in the relaxation area where you’ll wait for your therapist; curl up with a fuzzy gray or brown blanket as you browse the music menu and select one of six channels — perhaps “spa chill vibes” or “spa spiritual” — to enhance your massage. For the ultimate pampering with a sense of place, choose one of the spa’s Toronto-inspired treatments: The Cultural Mosaic of Canada blends spa traditions from India, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Europe; We Are Yorkville pays homage to the neighborhood’s 1960s hippie past with a foot bath, hemp-seed scrub, honey-arnica wrap and patchouli hemp oil massage.

You don’t have to go far for a special dinner at Four-Star Café Boulud Toronto, Four Seasons Hotel Toronto’s Daniel Boulud-helmed restaurant. Head to the eclectic second-floor space, filled with celebrity portraits by Banksy protégé Mr. Brainwash, to taste the passion that chef de cuisine Tyler Shedden and wine director Drew Walker have for Ontario-sourced menus. Dishes such as roasted Grandview Farms chicken with ricotta gnudi, white onion, porcini mushrooms and sage jus, and wines such as Norman Hardie pinot noir from Prince Edward County, show off both the area’s bounty and Boulud’s French traditions, and the personable staff discusses local ingredients with Portlandia-style precision. For dessert, the grapefruit givré is a must — so dramatic as to require two hands to eat it with any grace, this blend of grapefruit sorbet, grapefruit compote, rose loukoum and halva crumble, with a towering crown of sesame-seed-dotted halva floss, is as delicious as it is striking.

Day Two

St. Lawrence Market in Old Town Toronto has been home to a thriving city smorgasbord since 1803, so what better place to do some fun foraging for breakfast? The food market is open Tuesday through Saturday, with Saturday heralding in an Ontario farmers market in the North Market building. Start there and wind your way through dozens of stalls heaving with everything from kale to currants before arriving at Cathy Roncetti’s Oodles of Strudels and buying one of her fruit strudels or seasonal loaves — her tropical colada is moist and flavorful. Or pop into the South Market, where two floors house more than 120 permanent vendors specializing in prepared food. Stop by the famed Carousel Bakery, known for its peameal bacon sandwiches, and Anton Kozlik’s Canadian Mustard, where any number of mustards — clobbered cranberry, triple crunch, amazing maple — and pastries may seduce your senses.

Once you’re sated, it’s time (10 a.m., to be exact) to meet historian Bruce Bell for a tour of the market and its environs. (Reserve a spot on this popular tour ahead of time.) Bell has a noted knack for making history come to life during his 90-minute excursions, and there isn’t a question about his beloved Toronto that he can’t answer. As Bell guides you from St. Lawrence Hall, a meeting place since 1851, to Toronto’s first jail, you’ll begin to notice plaques marking these as historic buildings, with the label “a Bruce Bell history project.” Throughout the city, Bell’s historical prowess is rather set in stone.

After your tour, enjoy a 15-minute walk down the tree-flanked Esplanade to the Distillery District and sit down to lunch at El Catrin. The design firm Munge Leung, the visionary behind Vancouver’s Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star Rosewood Hotel Georgia and the new Whiskey Down at MGM Grand Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, conspired with Mexican street artist Oscar Flores to create a kaleidoscopic smiling-skulls motif for the space. The team delivers high drama with a two-story Flores mural, a two-story bar and a giant brick patio that glows under black-metal chandeliers. In contrast, chef Olivier Le Calvez’s menu is simple, perfectly spicy comfort food: tacos, burritos, tortas and ceviches, with a weekend brunch menu (10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday) full of savory and sweet stick-to-your-ribs treats, such as chilaquiles verdes with pulled chicken, or 24-hour-soaked vanilla challah with mango, ancho chili mascarpone and mezcal-maple syrup. Wash it all down with any of the flavorful aguas frescas — the hibiscus-spiked flavored water is particularly refreshing.

You no doubt passed some of the galleries and boutiques that line the Distillery District’s red-brick, pedestrian-only lanes on your way to lunch. Now learn about the history of these 47 Victorian industrial buildings that once constituted the Gooderham & Worts Distillery. Segway Ontario, a short walk from El Catrin on Gristmill Lane, runs entertaining 30- and 60-minute tours of the neighborhood that stop at several historically notable corners and, if you’re up for it, tastings at Soma Chocolatemaker and Mill Street Brewery. A five-minute training session on your Segway gives you a ticket to ride in a single-file line between two guides while they regale the group with tales of living, working and drinking in Toronto during the 19th century.

If it’s your first time in Toronto, the CN Tower is worth a quick stop for panoramic views of the city and Lake Ontario. If you’ve already ascended to the 113th-floor, glass-floored observation deck before, consider upping the ante with the 116th-floor, hands-free EdgeWalk (the season starts April 14) that has been thrilling daredevils since 2011. Even just watching the jumpsuited, harnessed participants lean over the edge of tower — which was the world’s tallest freestanding structure until 2010 — is enough to make your palms sweat or your spirit soar, depending on your point of view. Less adventurous visitors may prefer the tower’s new next-door neighbor, Ripley’s Aquarium of Canada, but be sure to reserve tickets ahead of time, as we spotted lines around the building on a recent Saturday afternoon.

You’ll also want to book a table for dinner at one of Toronto’s newest (and most talked about) culinary imports. Ramen ace David Chang brought his New York City-based Momofuku empire to University Avenue in 2012, opening five concepts in a single three-floor glass cube. The ground floor houses Momofuku Noodle Bar; the second level is home to Nikai, a lounge that serves noodle dishes and bigger plates. Dessert mecca Momofuku Milk Bar is also on the second floor, inside its own glass box in which wire baskets overflow with cookies and truffles. And the third level is dedicated to Daisho, where the menu mixes shareable plates with large-format meals such as bo ssäm (a pork shoulder dish and the namesake of a Chang restaurant in New York), and Shoto. Reserve your spot at the intimate Shoto counter between Tuesday and Saturday to enjoy a tasting menu of about 10 courses, or stick with Momofuku Noodle Bar and experience a ramen revelation over a bowl of pork, chicken or vegetable noodles.

Toronto is one of only three cities to lay claim to the famed Second City comedy troupe, so don’t miss an after-dinner show at its intimate downtown theater, where the tables are close together and the jokes even closer. The Second City’s alumni list is a who’s who of Canadian comedians, from Gilda Radner to Martin Short to Mike Myers. Shows last just less than two hours, and you’ll want to catch the last performance, as it’s followed by free improv — the actors’ wheelhouse — every night but Friday. The ensemble’s latest sketch show, Sixteen Scandals, kicked off in March and is the perfect ending to your whirlwind tour north of the border.

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