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Ford’s subway dream comes crashing down Fight. Mayor promises to continue his subway crusade even though the city has officially approved another plan

With Rob Ford’s Sheppard subway dream officially crushed, the increasingly isolated mayor is vowing to carry the fight for underground transit into the next election — immediately. Ford’s leadership has come under scrutiny, even from his

council allies in the run-up to Thursday’s 24-19 council vote approving light rail rather than a subway extension for Sheppard Avenue East. In the wake of the most recent defeat on his transit agenda, Ford immediately told

reporters he will urge Premier Dalton McGuinty not to fund “streetcars.” “I’m not going to support the LRTs.... I’m going to do everything in my power to try to stop it,” he said. “I’m willing to take anyone

to fight streetcars against subways in the next election, and I can’t wait for that,” he said. But TTC chair Karen Stintz, who led the support for LRT, said it’s time to get on with spending the $8.4 billion Queen’s Park has pledged to To-

ronto transit expansion. “We’ve come to a solution about how to bring transit to the suburbs. Now’s the time for us to celebrate and move forward. torstar news service

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Students vow to ‘yell louder’ Tens of thousands of students hit the streets in Montreal to protest a hefty tuition hike that will see the cost of education in Quebec nearly double over five years. One group is even threatening to ‘disrupt the economy’ if the government doesn’t back down pages 14-15

She’s all that Hunger Games’ Jennifer Lawrence is strong enough to carry the film on her own. As for the rest of it? Reel Guys see it as ‘Survivor on steroids’ page 23

i scream for... this sunshine to last page page22

Students at the Etobicoke School of the Arts, from left, Danaka, Olivia, Summer and Megan, enjoy ice cream and lunch at Tom’s Dairy Freeze on The Queensway on Thursday. Toronto came within a fraction of surpassing the all-time-high temperature for that date. VINCE TALOTTA/torstar news service

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Grizzlies make debut at zoo Three orphaned grizzly bear cubs that came to the Detroit Zoo from Alaska in December have made their zoo debut. Mike, Thor and Boo spent the winter “denned up” as they would in the wild. Watch at metronews.ca/video

A Toronto long boarder takes a time out during an unseasonably warm Thursday afternoon. Photographer Andrew Williamson captured this magical moment as a seagull flew by on the west pier near Toronto’s Harbourfront centre. ANDREW WILLIAMSON/FOR METRO

Sweltering March sets temperature records Spring sizzle. Thursday’s Quoted high of 25.5 degrees just will be the crucial month. If we do get a suda fraction off the hottest “April den return to winter conditions, there will be some March day on record consequence.” David Phillips, climatologist for Environment Canada

When the heat record was set, Toronto was preoccupied with matters in Berlin. It was March 28, 1945. Headlines proclaimed Hitler’s defeat speech was days away and Stalin’s tanks were inside Austria. In Toronto, the heat peaked at 25.6 C — the hottest March day on the books at Pearson since records were kept in 1937. The following year, on the same day, the record was matched. On Thursday, 67 years later, Toronto came within a fraction with a daytime high of 25.5. On that unseasonably

warm 1945 day, ballerinas in knee length skirts and some “itinerant Royal Navy lads” embraced “the balmy spring air to gambol out of doors” in High Park, the Toronto Star reported. In 2012, it’s the warmest March week on record, and the city is embroiled in a transit war between subways and streetcars as bare shouldered men and women stroll downtown. The heat is speeding up the onset of summer: All five of the city’s golf courses are in good shape and slated to open

early this Friday, and allergy season is ahead of schedule. Normally, allergy season begins in late April and early May. Aerobiology Research Laboratories in Ottawa confirmed pollen season is “high and early” this time around. Pollen from poplar, alder and maple trees are all at moderate or high levels in the city, making life miserable that much earlier for a certain segment of the population. “One thing a lot of people find relief in, they can close their windows, put on central

air, and keep that outside. But many people don’t have that luxury because many buildings haven’t gotten into air conditioning season,” said Monika Gibson, the Ontario coordinator of the Allergy Asthma Information Association. According to Environment Canada stats, the average temperature this March has been 5.9 degrees, which is much higher than the normal -0.4 degrees, which will likely make 2012 the warmest March on record. But with a week to go, it’s not sewn up. The summer weather will be swapped for spring on Friday, with an expected high of 16 degrees. There has never been a spring without snow in Toronto in 75 years.

The father of Mariam Makhniashvili, who went missing in September 2009 and was confirmed dead earlier this month, will not be allowed to attend his daughter’s funeral. The news was confirmed by his wife and Mariam’s mother, Lela Tabidze. She does not know why he was denied permission to be at their daughter’s funeral or whether the family can appeal the decision. Vakhtang Makhniashvili was sentenced to six years in prison after pleading guilty to three counts of aggravated assault. He is serving his sentence at the Millhaven Institution in Bath, Ont. When asked if she wished her husband could be at the funeral, Tabidze emphatically said, “Of course. He should be there.” Makhniashvili was convicted of stabbing his neighbour, Sean Ure, in May 2010 following a noise complaint. Six months later, he stabbed David and Delores Langer, private investigators with an interest in his daughter’s disappearance. A courtordered psychiatric assessment found Makhniashvili’s actions were likely caused by a delusional disorder that developed after Mariam went missing. Skeletal remains found at the Don Valley Golf Course near Yonge Street and Hwy. 401 were confirmed by Toronto police on March 9 to belong to Mariam. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

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Twitter conversation taking social media to the streetcar Social experiment. Reporter engaging travellers along Queen Street route Phoebe ho

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Tweeting every few minutes and living life in Twitterland can be socially alienating, but city hall reporter Jonathan Goldsbie, an avid Twitter user, says it can also bring conversation and engagement to a whole new level. “I mean obviously we are out and about buried in our phones for a number of reasons,” he said. “But Twitter is particularly interesting... as opposed to simply reading an article, which is valuable and important as well, it’s nice to sort of dip into this ongoing parallel of conversation that’s pretty much

City hall reporter Jonathan Goldsbie is out to prove that Twitter can help engage residents. Contributed

always existing.” Goldsbie is no stranger in the political arena or Twitter-verse, sending out at least 50 tweets a day on the latest TTC debate and other city hall hot topics. But he’ll be using his expertise in a whole new medium. Asked to come up with a Twitter-based performance, “as a way of telling stories and giving information for

an unusual sense of performance,” for the upcoming Free Fall ‘12 festival, Goldsbie decided to charter the 501 Queen streetcar to show how an entire conversation conducted via Twitter can lead to unusual and enlightening discussions. No talking will be allowed throughout the entire Queen streetcar route from Neville Park all the way to Long Branch. Goldsbie will engage his audience in Twitter discussions about their observations in and outside of the 501 Queen streetcar. “I want them to enjoy, but also to find it somewhat enlightening about the possibilities of the online medium, but also the possibilities of riding a streetcar and the possibilities of a group adventure,” he said. “And to carry it out and discuss it, report on it and observe it in an unusual way to try to remove the middleman of real life conversation”

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No talking will be allowed throughout the entire Queen streetcar route from Neville Park all the way to Long Branch. photo illustration by Jonathan Goldsbie

Social media showdown. Debate on subways and the LRT rages on Twitter The Sheppard showdown at city hall sparked fierce debate on the council floor, but also online. #TOcouncil, LRT, and Mayor Ford trended on Twitter for much of the day. Here’s a slice of what the Twittersphere had to say: Josh Matlow @JoshMatlow The mayor Ford’s transit plan: Subway, subway, subway. Finance plan: Subway, subway, subway. What color is your tie? Subway, subway, subway. Hulk Mayor @HULKMAYOR

HULKMAYOR GO TIM HORTON FOR LUNCH AND ROLL UP RIM! MAYBE WIN SUBWAY MONEY FINALLY #TOpoli Jonathan Goldsbie @goldsbie Now they’re arguing over whether Doug Ford called (Councillor John) Filion a monkey. “I apologize for saying ’monkeys.’” Coun. Gloria Lindsay Luby’s executive assistant Jim Burnett @Jimfburnett …I’m listening to Council while getting a root canal. http://pic.twitter.com/WdjK-

T3U1 From the Star bureau: David Rider @dmrider Standing back for a sec and realizing Ford allies are desperately fighting for a tax the centre-left won’t give them. Robyn Doolittle @robyndoolittle Here is the scoop: Team Ford is convinced Flaherty will give them $1B for a subway. “Wait for the fed budget!” is the pitch to middle clrs torstar news service

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Taming of the brew for breast cancer Girl power. The number of female brewers in GTA has doubled in past year

all nine of them (12 if students are included). “Women generally have more adventurous taste buds,” beer brewer and marketer Tracy Phillippi said. “Men, as a blanket generalization, get Lemon peels and grains of para- stuck drinking the same beer dise may not be typical beer with their buddies.” The difference shows, Philingredients, but this sour mash ain’t made by typical brewsters. lippi said, in the “inventive WJ _ 4the 0 3Saison 4 _ Yde Y Zfilles, M e t and r o imaginative” . pdf P cask a g eand 1keg 3 Called this beer was concocted by all libations these women collectof Toronto’s female brewers — ively brewed for a breast cancer

charity event dubbed Beer For Boobs. For most of the women, who work at local breweries such as Amsterdam and Mill St., it’s the first time their own recipes will be on tap at a bar. That’s as exciting as their newfound strength in numbers, the women agreed as they named their beers. With their plaid shirts and /work 2 0 boots, / 1 2 the , 2 : 0 2brewPM women ers dismiss gender stereotypes and say there’s no major differ-

ence between them and their male-counterparts. The spike in women could simply be due to a new beer program at the Niagara Teaching College or the growing interest in craft beer. “It’s just nice to see them represented,” beer specialist Mirella Amato said. “There are a lot of women who would probably love to be brewing who are missing out because it doesn’t occur to them as a job.” torstar news service

The 12 women beer brewers in the GTA got together to make a series of craft beers to raise money for breast cancer research. torstar news service

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With Saturday’s strike date looming, the union representing Toronto’s indoor workers has significantly softened its position on job security, its president told the Toronto Star’s editorial board Thursday. Under the city’s February deal with CUPE Local 416, outdoor workers are protected from outsourcing-related layoffs after 15 years of service. Until now, CUPE Local 79, the indoor workers’ union, had proposed that no outsourcing be permitted — a notion Deputy Mayor Doug Holyday called outlandish. President Tim Maguire acknowledged that the proposal was a mere bargaining “chip” meant to counter the city’s extreme initial proposal to eliminate job security for all employees. At present, all permanent full-time employees are protected. The latest offer, submitted Thursday, would protect

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Grits turn eye to realty Cash. Announcement coming Friday on how province will make more efficient use of current properties, says infrastructure minister Premier Dalton McGuinty’s Liberals are going to squeeze more money out of the government’s $14 billion in real-estate

holdings, the Toronto Star has revamping public services. Among those are suggeslearned. The cash-strapped Liberals, tions from his report that the who face a $16-billion budget province end the artificiallydeficit this year, plan to make low rents ministries pay the more profit from office build- treasury. “The government of Ontario ings and other public assets by using them more efficiently is the largest owner of realty in and making it easier to sell off the province. This portfolio is ... worth an estimated $14 billion, unneeded property. Tuesday’s budget will including $2 billion for the land adopt more than half of the alone. Holdings include office 362 money-saving recom- buildings, jails, courts, hospitals and more,” wrote Drummendations from Don DrumT:6.61” mond’s Feb. 15 report on mond. torstar news service

Hockey Night in Burlington The Burlington Bulldogs Peewee AA team was given a taste of the spotlight this week when it was chosen from squads all across Canada to be the “Scotiabank Hockey Tonight Kids.” Filming took place earlier this week and you can catch them on CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada’s pre-game show at 6:30 p.m. Saturday. mark ingram/shutterbug

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Renegade soldiers in Mali oust president Fall of democracy. Drunken soldiers loot presidency after coup, just weeks ahead of national election Drunk soldiers looted Mali’s presidential palace hours after they declared a coup on Thursday, suspending the constitution and dissolving the institutions of one of the few established democracies in this troubled corner of Africa. The whereabouts of the country’s 63-year-old president Amadou Toumani Toure, who was just one month away from stepping down after a decade in office, could not be confirmed. The United States Embassy issued a statement dispelling rumours that he had sought refuge in their compound. Soldiers smelling of alcohol ripped flat-screen TVs, computer monitors, printers and photocopiers out of the presidential palace, carting

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them off in plain sight. Others in pickup trucks zoomed across the broad avenues, holding beer bottles in one hand and firing automatic weapons with the other. The mutineers said they were overthrowing the government because of its mishandling of an ethnic Tuareg insurgency in the country’s north that began in January. Tens of thousands of Malian civilians have been forced to flee. The soldiers sent to fight the separatists have been killed in large numbers, often after being sent to the battlefield with inadequate

arms and food supplies, prompting fierce criticism of the government. The coup began Wednesday, after young troops mutinied at a military camp near the capital. The rioting spread to a garrison thousands of kilometres away in the strategic northern town of Gao. By evening, troops had surrounded the state television station in Bamako. At dawn on Thursday, some 20 soldiers huddled behind a table, facing the camera. They introduced themselves as the National Committee for the Reestablishment of Democracy and the Restoration of the State, known by its French acronym, CNRDR. Criticism of the coup was swift. France is suspending all government cooperation with Mali, except for aid. In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said officials were meeting to discuss whether to cut off the $137 million in annual U.S. assistance.

Ousted president • The coup is a major setback for Mali, a landlocked nation of 15.4 million that is poor but fiercely proud of its democratic credentials. • The current president, a former parachutist in the army, came to power himself in a 1991 coup. He surprised the world when he handed power to civilians, becoming known as The Soldier of Democracy. • A decade later, he won the 2002 election and was reelected in 2007. There was never any question that Toure would step down at the end of his term next month. • The last statement from the presidency came via Twitter from the government’s official account. Late Wednesday, they said: “This is not a coup. It’s just a mutiny.”

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General suspects Tories leaked story about jet use Canada’s top soldier suspected the Conservative government was behind a plot to damage his reputation when reports emerged last fall that he had used a Challenger jet to join his family on a Caribbean cruise. Gen. Walter Natynczyk, the chief of defence staff, aired his suspicion after learning a journalist got hold of flight logs that showed him using the military jet to attend sports events, the Calgary Stampede and to catch up to a family trip to the island of Saint Maarten in 2010. He had missed his scheduled departure in order to attend a repatriation ceremony for four soldiers and a journalist killed in Afghanistan. Natynczyk met with Harper on Sept. 19 and insisted he had followed the rules at all times. But he said he would repay the government if his Challenger flight was determined to be an improper use of the government jet. torstar news service

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French standoff ends with murder suspect shot dead Shock. Suspect in the slaying of three paratroopers, three Jewish schoolchildren and a rabbi boasts to police about crimes In a dramatic end to a 32-hour standoff, a masked French SWAT team slipped into the apartment of an Islamist extremist Thursday, sparking a firefight that ended with the suspect jumping out the window and being shot dead in the head. Mohamed Merah, 23, was wanted in the deaths of three French paratroopers, three Jewish schoolchildren and a rabbi — all killed since March 11 in what Merah reportedly told police was an attempt to “bring France to its knees.” Police had been trying

Police officers work outside suspect Mohamed Merah’s apartment in Toulouse, France, on Thursday. Thibault Camus/the associated press

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British athletes pose on Thursday in London during the launch of the team uniforms that will be worn by British athletes at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Matt Dunham/The Associated Press

McCartney flies the flag for Olympians Her ideas. Instead of its traditional form, designer broke flag up and used elements of it in an original way How many ways can you stretch Britain’s red, white and blue Union Jack over finely toned Olympic athletes?

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agers of Le Pionnier, or The Pioneer, to outlaw the two music genres if they wanted any hope of acquiring a licence to serve booze. An anti-racism group and Facebook protest page say the move smacks of discrimination against black people. But the venue’s co-owner, who took over the bar last fall, said she had no choice but to agree because the joint needs to serve suds to survive. “My first reaction was (that) it’s very discriminatory,” said Diane Marois, who co-owns the bar with her husband, Ron Bracken. “I don’t think it’s right in the first place, but... I’d rather be up and running with a limited venue as opposed to being closed.” A spokeswoman for the liquor board said it’s “normal” in Quebec for permit applications to include conditions that forbid specific types of musical acts, like hip hop or rap. In the case of Le Pionnier, Joyce Tremblay said local police asked the regulator to include a clause that called for a ban of live hip-hop and rap performances. Montreal police were not immediately available to respond to an interview request to discuss the matter. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Students march to protest tuition hike Montreal. Rally comes after blunt refusal by Premier Jean Charest to back down A monster crowd, considerably larger than the one at Montreal’s famous 1995 prereferendum rally, formed a kilometres-long sea of opposition to tuition hikes Thursday. The protest began in the same downtown square that hosted the pro-Canada love fest just days before the sovereignty referendum. This one filled the square — and then some. In a spring laden with demonstrations against the Quebec government, this was easily the largest. The parade of protest was so long that its front end would be a full neighbourhood — or even two — away from the tail end. An organizing group boasted that the protest spanned 50 city blocks. There were no immediate

incidents involving the chanting, placard-waving throng. There were, however, reports of some protesters carrying sticks. And there was a threat from a major protest group: “If the government doesn’t announce a retreat on the (tuition) hike today the next step will involve actions that disrupt the economy,” the C.L.A.S.S.E. group posted on its Twitter page. The province is nearly doubling tuition fees over five years, to about $3,800. It will reach its target with a series of $325-a-year increases. However, the tuition fees in the province will still be among the lowest in Canada even after the hikes. University tuition in Quebec has been mostly frozen for the last 40 years, and previous governments have either avoided touching the subject or retreated. Students have been staging almost daily protests for the last several weeks and blocked a major commuter bridge on Tuesday. Police

have also ramped up tactics and have used chemical sprays against the demonstrators. The government has toughened its own tone lately. The protest that shut down Montreal’s Champlain Bridge prompted Charest’s Liberals to cast that demonstration as an affront against hard-working taxpayers. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Students vs. taxpayers • The populist message pitting students against taxpayers was repeated Thursday by the government, which is nearing the end of its mandate and is deeply unpopular. • “We also need to listen to the silent majority — those who can’t be in the streets because they’re too busy working,” Education Minister Line Beauchamp said of the protests.

Tens of thousands of students protest on Thursday “Yell louder so that nobody ignores us,” shouted

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Stafford trial. McClintic denies being ‘engine who drove the events’ Victoria Stafford’s convicted killer is flatly denying a suggestion she was the driving force behind the alleged abduction, sexual assault and murder of the Grade 3 student. Terri-Lynne McClintic was grilled on the witness stand Thursday at the firstdegree murder trial of her former boyfriend, Michael Rafferty. McClintic originally told police that Rafferty delivered the fatal blows to Tori, but court is hearing she changed her story in January — just before Rafferty’s pre-trial hearing began. Rafferty’s lawyer, Dirk Derstine, challenged McClintic to “tell us that you did more than just kill her.” “In fact, I’m going to sug-

gest to you that you were the engine who drove the events of that day,” Derstine said. “That will never happen because that’s not (the) truth,” McClintic replied. McClintic has testified that she snatched Tori outside her Woodstock, Ont., elementary school in April 2009 at the urging of Rafferty. She has also told court that she killed Tori with a hammer after Rafferty sexually assaulted the child. McClintic, 21, is already serving a life sentence after pleading guilty to first-degree murder in Tori’s death. Rafferty, 31, has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder, sexual assault causing bodily harm and kidnapping. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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against a 75-per-cent tuition hike at universities in Quebec, bringing downtown Montreal to a standstill. demonstrators, who converged on the metropolis from across the province, packing a two-kilometre stretch of the city’s streets. ROGERIO BARBOSA/Getty Images

• McClintic has testified that she killed Tori, but that’s not the story she told police when she confessed in May 2009.

• The jury has watched a onehour portion of her statement in which she describes in graphic detail how Rafferty allegedly raped the girl then killed her.

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Six years for ‘Groomzilla’ Worst wedding ever. Dispute over bar tab led to arson causing $9 million in damage to heritage building

A drunken, vindictive British groom who held a cigarette lighter to curtains for two or three minutes to set his wedding reception castle on fire last year has been sentenced to six years in prison. Max Kay, 37, admitted to torching the drawing room of Peckforton Castle Hotel in Cheshire, right over the

bridal suite where his new wife slept, after a fight over the bar bill. “Having been made bankrupt, you embarked upon a wedding that would involve paying a figure of approximately £25,000 ($39,000) for a ceremony you could nowhere near afford,” Judge Roger Dutton said in court Wednesday in sentencing Kay. “In the end you sought, and achieved, revenge against the proprietors of Peckforton Castle.” Kay and his wife have since separated.

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Snowmobilers to the rescue

Sandusky asks judge for dismissal

A Belgian man who attacked his ex-girlfriend with sulfuric acid has been jailed for 30 years. The 2009 attack by Richard Remes, 57, left Patricia Lefranc with a badly deformed face that required dozens of surgeries. the associated press

The federal budget will contain new funding of about $130 million a year for First Nations schooling, a government source said. But the package is also expected to include new accountability measures. the canadian press

Five teens survived two snowy nights on a Vancouver Island logging road after their truck ran out of gas. Rescuers were impeded by poor weather, but the teens were eventually brought to safety by a local snowmobiling club. the canadian press

A lawyer for Jerry Sandusky is asking a judge to throw out charges against the former Penn State football coach. Sandusky, 68, denies allegations that he sexually abused 10 boys over 15 years. His trial begins in May. the associated press

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Talks stall with Indian Maoist rebels over freeing hostages Members of the Bhubaneswar Ladies Society demand the release of two abducted Italians during a rally in Bhubaneswar, India, on Thursday. Talks to free the men, abducted by Maoist rebels in the eastern state of Orissa, have been delayed because of a disagreement over the choice of negotiators. Biswaranjan Rout/the associated press

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A nip and a tuck sans the buck in Brazil Free to be (a better) me. Enhancing one’s appearance seen as beneficial to mental health in Brazil Free Botox and laser hair removal, free chemical peels and anti-cellulite treatments may at first seem shockingly frivolous in a country like Brazil — which, despite phenomenal economic growth in recent years that has lifted millions out of extreme poverty, still battles with diseases like tuberculosis and dengue. But the philosophy behind the more than 220 clinics

across Brazil that treat thousands of maids, receptionists, waitresses and others is simple: Beauty is a right, and the poor deserve to be ravishing, too. The Brazilian Society of Aesthetic Medicine’s Rio clinic has performed free procedures on more than 14,000 patients since its founding in 1997, said Dr. Nelson Rosas, who heads the Rio branch. Good looks, doctors argue, are more than skin deep, and by treating what patients view as physical flaws doctors are often also healing their psyches. The notion that beauty treatments can act in much the same way as psychoanalysis, helping free patients from crip-

Face the facts Surgery statistic: • With more than 11.5 million operations a year, Brazil is the world’s second biggest consumer of plastic surgery after the United States.

pling neuroses, was pioneered over the past decades by celebrated Brazilian plastic surgeon Ivo Pitanguy. Nicknamed the “philosopher of plastic surgery” for his intellectual and psychoanalytical take on the vocation, 85-yearold Pitanguy is largely responsible for Brazil’s reputation as

a world leader in the field and a top destination for cosmetic surgery tourism. His skill with the scalpel catapulted him to international fame — the surgeon is arguably Brazil’s second most famous person after soccer legend Pele. It’s made him the go-to man for A-list celebrities, international statesmen and royalty seeking a quick fix to their esthetic woes. Pitanguy’s long and illustrious patient roster is said to include such luminaries as Zsa Zsa Gabor, Francois Mitterrand and Brigitte Bardot, although the discreet doctor has rarely named names. Pitanguy’s handicraft on the world’s rich and famous allowed him to join their ranks — he com-

Nilcea Furtado receives a free of charge radio-frequency treatment by Dr. Ana Paula, right, at the Brazilian Society of Aesthetic Medicine clinic in Rio de Janeiro. Felipe Dana/the associated press

mutes to Rio by helicopter from his own private island. But he has remained attentive to the less privileged. More than half a century ago, he founded a surgical wing to help treat the poor. While the wing at the

Santa Casa de Misericordia hospital in Rio focuses on reconstructive operations for burn victims and people with serious deformations, it also provides discounted cosmetic procedures. The associated press

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Wireless equipment maker Nokia Siemens Networks says it will lay off 630 workers in Finland, down from a previous estimate of 1,200 planned job cuts.

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Angry Air Canada workers braved the snow to rally outside Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Calgary office, saying their rights to collective bargaining have been taken away.

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Mild weather brings homebuyers out in droves, report says Home sales. GTA records 12% jump in sales during normally calm period before the storm of spring buying Toronto homebuyers need to brace for another spring of bidding wars, warns a new report from ReMax that points to unusually strong activity this early in the year. Real estate listings remain so tight that half of detached homes in the “coveted” $600,000 to $900,000 price range in high-demand Toronto neighbourhoods are selling over the asking price. “The weather has been so nice, buyers are out in droves,” says Adrienne Lake, a veteran realtor. Listings for the first two months are up 11 per cent over last year, but demand far outstrips supply, the report notes. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

A home for sale on MacPherson Avenue. A new real-estate report points to unusually strong activity this early in the year. Dick Loek/TorStar news service

Bidding wars

Low interest rates driving up demand House prices across the GTA jumped 10 per cent in the first two months of this year over the first two months of 2011 to hit an average of $487,254. Bidding wars are now “commonplace” in what a report from ReMax calls “blue-chip areas” of Toronto: Leaside, Riverdale, The Beach, Leslieville, Bloor West Village and High Park, as well as in the Cricket Club area of North York, the North Toronto area of Lytton Park and the Cedarvale area near Vaughan Rd. and Bathurst St. Sales have been especially brisk among properties listed over $1.5 million, with sales up 53 per cent, it says. Adrienne Lake, a Toronto realtor for the past 26 years, says most of the frenzy is driven by low interest rates. “Money is so cheap right now we don’t know where this is going to stop,” she says. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

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Lululemon’s profits beat expectations Growth. Yoga-inspired retailer opened its first store in 1998 in Vancouver and has expanded to 137 stores in the past decade A busy holiday shopping period helped power Lululemon Athletica Inc.’s fourth-quarter profits higher as revenues jumped a whopping 51 per cent. The yoga-inspired retailer posted Thursday net income of $73.5 million US or 51 cents per share for the three months ended Jan. 29. That was two cents higher than analysts had expected, according to a poll by Thomson Reuters. A year earlier, the retailer

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had reported earnings of $54.8 million or 38 cents per share. Revenues grew to $371.5 million from $245.4 million.

Same-store sales, or sales at stores open at least a year, increased 26 per cent. “We have found the right balance between delivering strong growth and maintaining focus on innovation and execution,” said chief executive Christine Day on a conference call with analysts. Lululemon has been fixing troubles with its inventory supply that had once left it struggling to keep up with demand, and ramping up an online store that carries a wider selection. The popularity of Lululemon yoga and run apparel is already well-established in Canada and is growing south of the border — a phenomenon that has been reflected in quarterly results that have soared past expectations for more than a year. The canadian press

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BB or iPhone. Canadians prefer the taste of Apple A technology expert says it’s no surprise BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has been ousted from the top spot in the Canadian smartphone market by Apple’s iPhone. Queen’s University marketing professor and tech expert John Pliniussen says RIM now needs a powerful “onetwo punch” of marketing and exciting products. A report says the Waterloo company shipped just more than two million BlackBerrys last year in Canada, compared with 2.85 million units for Apple.

RIM’s vow • Thorsten Heins, RIM’s new CEO. Says the BlackBerry 7 phones have better browsers and touch-screen navigation than older models and the BlackBerry 10 devices due out this year will represent further improvement.

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Elite stores head to Nigeria Kabir Wadhwani displays expensive Amrapali jewelry for sale at a shop in Lagos, Nigeria. The wealthy elite in Nigeria — upstart business owners, oil industry executives and corrupt politicians — have a healthy appetite for top-shelf brands, but have had to shop in Dubai, London and Paris to find what they want. Now, though, sellers of luxury goods are opening stores in Nigeria, where seemingly gratuitous displays of wealth are the norm. Sunday Alamba/the associated press

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Body of work: Charlie Sheen’s porn-star ex-girlfriend Bree Olson produced a video designed to hasten the capture of fugitive Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony. The clip shows a bikini-clad Olson wiggling in the sand, while flashing harsh images of the conflict. Because nothing screams “justice” quite like a healthy dose of cleavage. Where was she when we were trying to free Nelson Mandela? Punk’d in Space: Sir Richard Branson has declared that his Virgin Galactic spaceships “are built and flying in the final stages of our exhaustive test flight program.” Tickets to outer space will cost about $200,000 US. Ashton Kutcher has already signed on for the Virgin voyage, and will attempt to stash his assets far from Demi Moore. Take a byte: Thousands of consumers lined up outside of Apple’s flagship stores in NYC last week to buy the newest iPad. Investment firm UBS conducted a survey to find out why customers hadn’t attempted to order online. A handful of people stated, “What else would we do on a Friday night? We’re nerds.” Poetic Demeanor: Congrats to Kris Demeanor on becoming Calgary’s first poet laureate. He hopes to find creative ways to get Calgarians into the enjoyment of language. Engaging Canadian youth might be a challenge, but perhaps he can create rhymes in SMS. “R U well? Luv ur smell. Lol.” Good luck, Kris! Sign of the times: So jaded are sports fans in Toronto that when a player like Phil Kessel actually reaches peak performance, all we can say is “Quick, trade him!” The rationale, of course, is that it’s got to be downhill from here. I liken this to my wife serving me leftovers from a delicious home-cooked meal, and saying, “Eat fast. It’s just about to rot.” Retro in HD: This Sunday marks the long-awaited two-hour premiere of Mad Men’s 5th season. The show is popular among those nostalgic for a time when men had body hair and women had real breasts. Also recommended for anyone feeling guilty about their parenting skills, or how much they drink and smoke. Ready to Rumba: Dancing with the Stars premiered this week with an odd crew of has-beens, might-bes and barely-ares. Nevertheless, after watching 15 intermittent minutes, I am prepared to make predictions. A “Pip-less” Gladys Knight will lose early, but thank the lord for the journey. Urkel will do the robot at least once and Martina Navratilova will struggle not to lead. Finalists: Welsh soprano Katherine Jenkins, Latino stud William Levy and Prairie star Melissa Gilbert. Beach-body: Every spring we discover our “winter fat” and torture ourselves with diets. Now, there is a great new book called Unjunk Your Junk Food, for people (like me) who refuse to forgo the sweets for more than a couple of days. Instead of contradicting Marie Antoinette, Andrea Donsky and friends will simply tell you which cake to choose. A free sneak peek is available for download at naturallysavvy.com. Also, when returning from the supermarket, try taking the stairs. the list

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Obama takes a shine to solar energy BOULDER CITY, NEV. Amid soaring fuel prices, Obama finds solace in solar. U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at Copper Mountain Solar 1 facility, the largest photovoltaic solar plant in the United States. Obama is on a four-state trip to promote renewable fuels and increasing domestic oil and gas production.

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Bright facts • Most untapped renewable resource. More energy hits Earth from the sun in one hour than the whole planet uses all year; 120,000 terrawatts of solar energy hits Earth daily. Over one year, Earth uses 15 terrawatts of energy.

A lot of power

“I don’t want to break one of these. They look expensive.” Obama said jokingly as he walked past a solar panel.

1 million solar panels are at the Copper Mountain plant, which at peak performance are capable of producing 58 megawatts of clean electricity, enough to power more than 17,000 average homes.

• Poor-efficiency conversion. Solar panels now have efficiency conversion rate of 15 per cent; water turbines up to 90 per cent.

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Alabama honours Octavia Jennifer Lawrence has found the role she’ll likely forever be associated with in The Hunger Games.

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The Hunger Games. Jennifer Lawrence brings an emotional richness to the book’s main character, Katniss Everdeen Richard: Mark, from its opening moments, The Hunger Games feels more intimate than your average blockbuster thanks to some inventive hand held camera work. And that’s a good thing. As fans of the books know, the focus of the story is the characters. Sure, they are thrown into a wild situation, but admiring Katniss Everdeen’s inner strength and courage or Peeta Mellark’s big heart is as important to the success of the story as are the action scenes or the dystopian premise. What did you think? Mark: Yes, but I never quite

saw Katniss and Peeta as a couple, perhaps because she seems so much more savvy than him, or perhaps because he has the name of a Lebanese flatbread. But Jennifer Lawrence is strong enough to carry this movie on her own, anyway; she’s that good. As far as the rest of the film goes, I loved the first 40 minutes — everything that leads up to the actual games — but found the rest of it a bigger budget version of Survivor on steroids. RC: Lawrence has found the role that she will, likely, forever be associated with and brings substance to it. She gives Katniss a rich inner life — you can see the machinations of the character churning behind her eyes. Without her level of performance this would be a far less interesting movie. Having said that, I enjoyed the movie’s steampunk world; that mix of old and new to create something familiar, yet strange.

MB: I thought the art direction and costuming of the capitol really created a vivid portrayal of a decadent, fey society. Although I have to say that Elizabeth Banks’ over the top Marie Antoinette impression was grating and out of whack with even the most satirical elements of the movie. And the satire worked for me — it isn’t really that far from current reality shows. Although there were derivative elements in the story, using teenagers as contestants amps up the cruelty factor. RC: I enjoyed Banks. I thought she brought some much-needed levity to a grim story about kids killing one another. But as much as I enjoyed the movie — and I really did — I couldn’t help but wonder what a truly visionary director like Terry Gilliam might have done with this material. MB: Yes, I did think Gary Ross, director of sweet fare

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The Hunger Games is set in Panem, a dystopian world ruled by a fascistic leader (Donald Sutherland). Each year the state holds The Hunger Games, a battle to death between 24 players, two from each of the country’s districts. The televised games are equal parts Miss Universe, American Idol and Death Race. The story follows two “tributes” from District 12: Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson), two reluctant warriors whose survival is at stake.

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Oscar-winning actress Octavia Spencer is being honoured at the Alabama Statehouse, where about 400 people turned out to welcome her. Spencer won this year’s best supporting actress Oscar for her performance as a maid in The Help. She rode up to the Statehouse in a pink limousine for the Wednesday ceremony. As she stepped out, she was serenaded by the band from her alma mater, Jefferson Davis High School. A Montgomery native, Spencer told the crowd that she would do whatever she could to see that more movies are made in Alabama. She also cautioned young people in the audience to think twice before heading to Hollywood to become a movie star. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Will Lily Collins (daughter of Phil) live up to being the fairest of them all? Mirror Mirror. Young actress talks about her new role, and giving the beloved Snow White story some modern twists Ned Ehrbar

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Lily Collins faces quite the tall order with director Tarsem Singh’s Mirror, Mirror — namely, putting a non-animated face and an updated spin on perhaps the most classic of fairy tales, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. But it’s a challenge she’s been happy to tackle. Even with a competing Snow White film grabbing for headlines and a presidential election looming — Collins (a.k.a. singer Phil’s daughter) covered the 2008 race for Nickelodeon — she is working hard to keep her focus where she wants it.

Did you ever think, in playing a fairy tale princess, that you’d get to do an action movie training montage? No! I mean, it was written in the script that she meets the dwarves and there would be sword fighting, but the script changed so much during filming that this montage, when it was added, I thought, “This is going to be so much fun to shoot.” It took a long time to shoot, but when it’s all cut together with the music, it’s just so fun. And I never thought that I’d be swordfighting and fencing and learning all these cool stunts. You sign on to do a princess; you don’t think she’s going to be fighting in it. It is an interesting update. Fairy tales traditionally aren’t great for the their female characters — lots of sitting around and pining, waiting to be rescued. And that’s what we did not want. We didn’t want to take the animation and just make it live-action. We wanted to

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very Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy back-and-forth — not just the physicality of the sword-fighting but the physicality of the language because it is so back and forth, and we’re both trying to one-up each other in conversations. It was very playful.

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take it and have a reason to redo it. In today’s day and age, girls are very empowered to do the same things that guys do. And young girls want to see movies that show Drama

Footnote Director. Joseph Cedar

“LAUGH ALL YOU WANT...IT’S A BLAST.” Peter Travers,

••••• Israel’s 2012 Foreign Language Oscar entry is an intriguing, nerve jangling and oppressively narrow story that would be funny if it weren’t so pathetic. Israeli father and son academics are torn apart by a national prize; the elder doggedly pursued Talmudic theories for 30 years only to have them made redundant when a colleague scooped him. In his obsessive, paranoid misery, he sees his son as his real rival. Things get a lot worse in grandly academic and hilariously lowbrow ways.

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Stars. Shlomo Bar-Aba, Lior Ashkenazi, Aliza Rosen

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people that they admire are not needing the prince as much as they used to — or the fact that a princess can save a prince just as much as a prince can save a princess. Thriller

The Raid: Redemption

Documentary

Stars. Iko Uwais, Ananda George, Ray Sahetapy

••••• An ingeniously shot and edited low-budget thriller, The Raid: Redemption brings Indonesian genre cinema back to life. This Jakarta-set tale of a SWAT team raid gone wrong may be the international action film of the year. Director Gareth Evans stages gunplay and handto-hand-combat with the exuberance and élan of a director who loves his material, and the cast — actors, stuntmen and martial artists — tear into their physically demanding roles with relish.

Comedy

One Life

Sisters & Brothers

Directors. Michael Gunton, Martha Holmes

Director. Carl Bessai

Stars. Daniel Craig

Stars. Cory Monteith, Gabrielle Miller

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Narrated by Daniel Craig, One Life is an astonishing, albeit conventional, nature doc about survival in the wild. Compiled from a wide-array of footage filmed beautifully by the BBC (who have a fine reputation with nature series), the film is broad in focus but a stunning introduction to everything from water-walking lizards to tool-utilizing capuchins, and even the ominous venus flytrap will keep you planted in your seat.

Sisters & Brothers, the third and apparently final installment of director Carl Bessai’s family relationships series, tackles the oftencomplicated interactions between siblings. Through four interweaving stories, Bessai and his cast explore different shades of these complications. Yet in spite of an improvised script and some fine acting, particularly in the story of Corner Gas’s Gabrielle Miller, each story feels rote and clichéd. His conclusion — that sibling relationships are never perfect, but we love each other anyway — is sweet, if hardly earth shattering.

Director. Gareth Evans

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How was it playing opposite Armie Hammer with these new takes on Snow White and Prince Charming? It was fun because we both agreed from the get-go it’s a

There’s that other Snow White movie coming out in June. How much were you aware of the competing project? I think it was known before we even started that there were these two projects. Aesthetically and with the storyline, they’re so different. And the advertising has shown that so far. I think more of the struggle was just this whole, like, who’s coming out first kind of a thing and making sure there’s enough time in between so that everyone’s not overloaded with the fairy tale. But that never really trickled down to us on set, I think.

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Ian Gormely

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metronews.ca WEEKEND, March 23-25, 2012

Putting The Hunger Games’ Panem on the map Fan-made

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Mapping Panem

How she placed the districts

The world of Panem has captivated The Hunger Games fans. Now, thanks to a dedicated writer-turned-cartographer, readers can visualize the region. The map was created by a previously published fiction writer who goes by the pen name V. Arrow. Metro World News

Experience pays off

This isn’t her first world map Arrow also completed one detailing the world of Matched by Ally Condie. But the Panem map will always hold a special place. She was especially proud that the A.V. Club wrote about her efforts, even though they did mention she might be a bit crazy. “I consider it a nerd badge of honour to be called a ‘fruit loop’” she says. Her obsession doesn’t end there. In The Panem Companion, Arrow details the sociological and psychological implications of Panem.

Investigation

“I was interested in how different the story was from the (typical) unification of a country.”

Arrow took clues from the book — North America was said to be destroyed by cataclysmic event; District 12 is said to have once been the Appalachians. She used a phi spiral — a logarithmic shape that gets wider by every quarter turn — to place the evil Capitol in the centre. The rest was just guesswork.

V. Arrow on her motivation for building the map of Panem.

Time it took

4 1/2

The whole project took V. Arrow and her friend about four and a half days combined to research and six to seven hours to draw out. But, she’s been tinkering with details over the last six months to make it more scientifically accurate.

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Clock map not a big enough challenge V. Arrow considered doing a map of the clock arena from Catching Fire, but thought it wouldn’t be a big challenge.

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metronews.ca WEEKEND, March 23-25, 2012

These pages cover movie start times from Fri., March 23 to Thurs., March 29. Times are subject to change. Complete listings are also available at metronews.ca/movies.

Downtown Bloor Theatre 506 Bloor St., 416-516-2330 Banff Mountain Film Festival 2012 (STC) Fri-Sat 7:30 Sun 2:30 Eames: The Architect & the Painter (STC) Tue-Wed 6:30 Thu 9 Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone (STC) Sun-Mon 9:15 For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism (STC) SunMon 6:30 Grizzly Man (STC) Sat 3:30 Tabloid (STC) Tue-Wed 9 Thu 6:30

Carlton 20 Carlton St., 416-494-9371 Albert Nobbs (14A) Fri-Thu 1:25-3:507:15-9:40 Being Flynn (14A) Fri-Thu 2-4:206:40-9:05 Café de Flore (14A) Fri-Thu 1:30-6:55 A Dangerous Method (14A) Fri-Thu 4:05-9:25 The Descendants (14A) Fri-Thu 1:35-6:50 Hugo (PG) Fri-Thu 1:20-7 In Darkness (14A) Fri-Thu 3:55-9:10 The Iron Lady (PG) Fri-Thu 1:40-6:45 King of Devil’s Island (STC) Fri-Thu 4-9:30 My Week With Marilyn (14A) Fri-Thu 1:45-7:25 Project X (18A) Fri-Thu 7:20-9:15 Rampart (STC) Fri-Thu 4:30-9:45 Safe House (14A) Fri-Thu 4:10-9:35 The Secret World of Arrietty (G) FriThu 1:55-4:25 Wanderlust (14A) Fri-Thu 1:50-4:157:10-9:20

Cumberland Cinemas 159 Cumberland Ave., 416-646-0444 The Artist (PG) Fri-Sat 1:30-4:15-7-9:30 Sun-Thu 2:45-5:30-8:20 Footnote (14A) Fri-Sat 1:15-3:50-6:209:10 Sun-Thu 2:15-5:10-7:45 A Separation (14A) Fri-Sat 1-4-6:509:40 Sun-Thu 2:30-5:20-8:10 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (14A) Fri-Sat 12:45-3:40-6:30-9:20 Sun-Thu 2-5-8

Scotiabank Theatre 259 Richmond St., 416-368-5600 21 Jump Street (14A) Fri-Sat 12:151:15-3-4:10-6:10-7:10-9:30-10:30 Sun 12:10-1:30-3:25-4:10-6-7-9:10-10:20 Mon 1-3:15-3:50-6-9:10 Tue 1-3:154:10-6-7-9:10-10:20 Wed 1-3:15-4:106-7-9:20-10:20 Thu 1-3:15-4:10-6-79:10-9:40 Casa de Mi Padre (14A) Fri-Sat 1:45-46:20-8:30-11:15 Sun-Mon 1:50-4:206:30-8:45 Tue-Wed 1:30-3:45-6:20-8:45 Thu 1:30-4:20-6:30-8:45 Hugo 3D (PG) Fri-Sat 12:40-3:30-6:409:45 Sun 12:20-3:40-6:40-9:45 Mon 12:45-3:40-6:40-9:45 Tue-Wed 12:453:40-6:30-9:20 Thu 12:45-3:40-6:40 The Hunger Games (PG) No Passes Fri-Sat 11-11:30-12-12:30-1:30-2:152:45-3:15-3:40-4:50-5:30-6-6:30-78:10-8:50-9:20-9:50-10:20-11:30 No

Passes Sun 11:45-12:15-1:15-1:452:15-3-3:30-4:40-5:10-5:40-6:15-6:458-8:30-9-9:30-10 No Passes Mon-Tue 1:15-1:45-2:15-3-3:30-4:40-5:10-5:406:15-6:45-8-8:30-9-9:30-10 No Passes Wed 1:15-1:45-2:15-3-3:30-4:40-5:105:40-6:45-8-8:30-9-9:30-10 No Passes Thu 1:15-1:45-2:15-3-3:30-4:40-5:105:40-6:15-8-8:30-9-9:30 No Passes FriSat 1-4:20-7:40-11 No Passes Sun-Thu 12:45-4-7:15-10:30 Jeff, Who Lives at Home (14A) Fri-Sat 11:45-2:30-5:45-8:20-10:50 Sun 12-2:304:50-7:10-9:20 Mon 2:30-4:50-7:40-9:50 Tue 2:30-4:50-7:10-9:40 Wed-Thu 2:304:50-7:40-9:50 The Metropolitan Opera: The Enchanted Island Encore (STC) Mon 6:30 Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol: The IMAX Experience (PG) Fri-Sat 12:50-3:50-6:50-9:50 Sun 12:30-3:506:50-9:50 Mon 12:50-3:50-7-9:50 Tue-Wed 12:50-3:50-6:50-9:50 Thu 12:50-3:50-6:50 Project X (18A) Fri-Sat 12:20-2:40-5:158-10:40 Sun-Wed 2:45-5:20-7:50-10:15 Thu 1:20-3:45-6:20-9:20 The Raid: Redemption (18A) Fri-Thu 2-4:30-7:30-10:10 She Stoops to Conquer (STC) Thu 7 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (STC) Sun 1 Wrath of the Titans 3D (14A) Thu 10:15 Wrath of the Titans: An IMAX 3D Experience (14A) Thu 10

Market Square 80 Front St., 416-494-9371 21 Jump Street (14A) Fri 1:30-4:05-6:559:15-11:30 Sat-Wed 1:30-4:05-6:55-9:15 Thu 4:05-6:55-9:15 Thu 1 The Artist (PG) Fri 1:10-3:10-5:107:15-9:25-11:30 Sat-Thu 1:10-3:10-5:107:15-9:25 Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax (G) Fri 1:05-3:055:05-7:05-9:05-11:05 Sat-Thu 1:05-3:055:05-7:05-9:05 The Hunger Games (PG) Fri 1-2-4-5-78-9:45-11 Sat-Thu 1-2-4-5-7-8-9:45 John Carter (PG) Fri-Sat 12:45-3:456:45-9:40 Sun-Mon 3:45-9:40 Tue 12:45-3:45-6:45-9:40 Wed 3:45-9:40 Thu 12:45-3:45-6:45-9:40 Sun-Mon 12:45-6:45 Wed 12:45-6:45 Wrath of the Titans (14A) Thu 10

Revue Cinema 400 Roncesvalles Ave., 416-531-9959 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (PG) Sat-Sun 2 A Matter of Taste: Serving Up Paul Liebrandt (14A) Thu 6:30 Monsieur Lazhar (PG) Fri 7 Sat 4-7 Sun-Tue 7 Wed 1-7 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (14A) Fri 9 Sat 9 Sun 4-9 Mon-Wed 9 Thu 9:30

The Royal 608 College St., 416-466-4400 Canadian Film Festival (STC) Wed 8 Thu 6-7:45-9:55 Goon (18A) Fri-Sat 7-9:15 Sun 4:30-7 Tue 7-9:15 No Films Showing Today (STC) Mon

Varsity 55 Bloor St. W., 416-961-6304

Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax 3D (G) Fri-Sat 12:10-2:30-4:55-7:20-9:40 Sun-Thu 12:20-2:30-4:55-7:20-9:40 Friends With Kids (STC) Fri-Sun 1-4-6:50-9:30 Mon 1-4-6:50-10 Tue 1-4-6:50-9:30 Wed 1-4-9:30 Thu 4:206:50-9:30 The Hunger Games (PG) No Passes Fri-Sat 12:30-3:50-7:10-10:30 No Passes Sun-Thu 12:30-3:45-7-10:15 No Passes Fri-Sat 11:50-3:10-6:30-9:50 No Passes Sun 1:30-4:45-8 No Passes Mon-Tue 1:30-4:30-8 No Passes Wed 1:30-4:45-8 No Passes Thu 1:30-4:30-8 No Passes Fri 12:25-6:35 No Passes Sat-Mon 12:25-3:25-6:35-9:35 No Passes Tue 12:25-3:25-9:35 No Passes Wed 12:25-3:25-6:35-9:35 No Passes Thu 3:25-6:35-9:35 Jeff, Who Lives at Home (14A) Fri-Sat 12:40-2:50-5:10-7:30-10:10 Sun-Thu 12:35-2:50-5:10-7:30-10:10 Fri-Sun 12:35-2:35-4:55-7:05-9:15 Mon-Thu 1:35-4:25-7:05-9:25 Monsieur Lazhar (PG) Fri-Sun 1:104:10-6:40-9:10 Mon 1:10-4:10-10:10 Tue-Thu 1:10-4:10-6:40-9:10 Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (STC) Fri-Sat 12:20-3-6:20-9 Sun-Thu 12:40-3:30-6:30-9 Fri-Sun 12:55-3:05-5:25-7:35-9:55 Mon 1:554:15-9:45 Tue-Thu 1:55-4:15-7:25-9:45 Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (PG) Fri-Sat 12:50-3:40-7-10 Sun-Thu 12:503:40-7:10-10 Fri-Sat 12:15-2:45-5:157:45-10:15 Sun-Thu 1:05-3:45-6:25-9:05

Canada Square 2200 Yonge St., 416-646-0444 The Artist (PG) Fri 4:05-6:30-9:10 Sat-Sun 1:40-4:05-6:30-9:10 Mon-Thu 4:05-6:30 The Descendants (14A) Fri 4:20-7-9:40 Sat-Sun 1:30-4:20-7-9:40 Mon-Thu 4:20-7 Friends With Kids (STC) Fri 4:35-7:209:45 Sat-Sun 2-4:35-7:20-9:45 Mon-Thu 4:35-7:15 The Iron Lady (PG) Fri 4:45-7:10-9:35 Sat-Sun 1:50-4:45-7:10-9:35 Mon-Thu 4:45-7:10 The Secret World of Arrietty (G) Fri 4:25-6:40-9 Sat-Sun 1:45-4:25-6:40-9 Mon-Thu 4:25-6:40 A Separation (14A) Fri 4-6:45-9:25 SatSun 1:15-4-6:45-9:25 Mon-Thu 4-6:45 Wanderlust (14A) Fri 4:50-7:30-9:45 Sat-Sun 2:10-4:50-7:30-9:45 Mon-Thu 4:50-7:20 We Need to Talk About Kevin (14A) Fri 4:10-6:50-9:20 Sat-Sun 1:20-4:10-6:509:20 Mon-Thu 4:10-6:50 Mt. Pleasant Theatre 675 Mt.Pleasant Rd., 416-489-8484 The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (18A) Fri 9:25 Sat 9:30 Sun 7 No Films Showing Today (STC) Mon Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (14A) Fri-Sat 6:50 Sun 4:15 Tue-Thu 7

Regent Theatre 551 Mt.Pleasant Rd., 416-480-9884 In Darkness (14A) Fri-Sat 9:30 Sun 7 Tue 7 No Films Showing Today (STC) Mon Wed War Horse (PG) Fri-Sat 6:45 Sun 4 Thu 7

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Yonge-Eglinton Centre 2300 Yonge St., 416-544-1236 21 Jump Street (14A) Fri-Sat 2-4:407:30-10:40 Sun 2-4:40-7:10-10 Mon-Tue 1:40-4:20-7:10-10 Wed 4:20-7:10-10 Thu 1:40-4:20-7:10-10:15 Star & Strollers Screening Wed 1 Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax (G) Fri-Sun 12:10 Mon-Thu 12:30 Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax 3D (G) Fri-Sat 2:40-5-7:20-9:45 Sun 2:30-4:50-7:209:35 Mon-Thu 2:45-5-7:30-9:45 The Hunger Games (PG) No Passes Fri-Sat 1-4:20-7:40-11 No Passes Sun 12-3:15-6:30-9:45 No Passes Mon 1:30-4:40-8:20 No Passes Tue 12:554:10-7:40 No Passes Wed 1:30-4:40-8:20 No Passes Thu 12:30-1-1:30-2-2:303:45-4:10-4:40-5:10-5:40-7:408:20-9-9:35-10:30 No Passes Fri-Sat 12-12:30-1:45-2:30-3:20-3:50-5:10-66:40-7:10-8:30-9:30-10-10:30 No Passes Sun 12:30-1-1:40-2:20-3:45-4:20-55:40-7-7:40-8:20-9-10:15 No Passes Mon 12:30-1-2-2:30-3:45-4:10-5:105:40-7-7:40-9-9:30-10:15 No Passes Tue 12:30-1:30-2-2:30-3:45-4:40-5:105:40-7-8:20-9-9:30-10:15 No Passes Wed 12:30-2-2:30-3:45-4:10-5:10-5:407-7:40-9-9:30-10:15 Star & Strollers Screening, No Passes Wed 1 John Carter 3D (PG) Fri-Thu 12:403:40-6:50-9:55 Safe House (14A) Fri-Sat 12:50-3:306:30-10:10 Sun-Wed 12:50-3:30-6:4010:10 Thu 12:50-3:30-6:40 She Stoops to Conquer (STC) Thu 7 Wrath of the Titans 3D (14A) Thu 10

Yonge & Dundas 24 10 Dundas St East, 416-977-2642 Act of Valor (14A) Fri 2:30-5:15-8-10:25 Sat-Sun 11:40-2:30-5:15-8-10:25 MonThu 2:30-5:15-8-10:25 Agent Vinod (STC) Fri 3:05-6:25-9:50 Sat-Sun 11:40-3:05-6:25-9:50 Mon-Thu 3:05-6:25-9:50 The Artist (PG) Fri-Thu 2-7:10 Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax (G) Fri 3:15-5:458:15-10:30 Sat-Sun 10:30-12:45-3:155:45-8:15-10:30 Mon-Thu 3:15-5:458:15-10:30 Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax 3D (G) Fri 2:30-57:30-10 Sat-Sun 11:45-2:30-5-7:30-10 Mon-Thu 2:30-5-7:30-10 Fri 4-6:30-9 Sat-Sun 11-1:30-4-6:30-9 Mon-Thu 4-6:30-9 Friends With Kids (STC) Fri 2:153:45-4:45-6:15-7:15-9-10:15 Sat-Sun 10:45-11:45-1:15-2:15-3:45-4:45-6:157:15-9-10:15 Mon-Thu 2:15-3:45-4:456:15-7:15-9-10:15 The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (18A) Fri-Thu 6:40-10:05 Gone (14A) Fri 3:35-8:15 Sat-Sun 10:45-3:35-8:15 Mon-Thu 3:35-8:15 The Iron Lady (PG) Fri 4:20-9:40 SatSun 11:25-4:20-9:40 Mon-Thu 4:20-9:40 John Carter (PG) Fri 2:45-6-9:15 Sat-Sun 11:15-2:45-6-9:15 Mon-Thu 2:45-6-9:15 John Carter 3D (PG) Fri 3:15-3:456:30-7-9:45-10:15 Sat-Sun 11:45-12:153:15-3:45-6:30-7-9:45-10:15 Mon-Thu 3:15-3:45-6:30-7-9:45-10:15 John Carter: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Fri 4:15-7:30-10:30 Sat-Sun 1-4:15-7:30-10:30 Mon-Thu 4:15-7:3010:30 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 3D (PG) Fri 2:10-4:50-7:20-9:50 Sat-Sun 11:35-2:10-4:50-7:20-9:50 Mon-Thu 2:10-4:50-7:20-9:50 Kahaani (14A) Fri 3:20-6:45-10:05 SatSun 11:50-3:20-6:45-10:05 Mon-Thu 3:20-6:45-10:05 Mirror Mirror (STC) Thu 12:01 One Life (G) Fri 2:20-4:45-7:10-9:25 Sat-Sun 11:55-2:20-4:45-7:10-9:25 MonThu 2:20-4:45-7:10-9:25 Safe House (14A) Fri 4-7:15-10:10 SatSun 10:35-1:15-4-7:15-10:10 Mon-Wed 4-7:15-10:10 The Secret World of Arrietty (G) Fri 3:45 Sat-Sun 10:45-1:20-3:45 Mon-Thu 3:45 Silent House (14A) Fri 3:10-5:25-7:5010:20 Sat-Sun 10:35-12:55-3:10-5:257:50-10:20 Mon-Thu 3:10-5:25-7:5010:20

Sisters & Brothers (STC) Fri 2:10-4:357-9:20 Sat-Sun 11:50-2:10-4:35-7-9:20 Mon-Thu 2:10-4:35-7-9:20 Starry Starry Night (STC) Fri 2:05-4:357:05-9:40 Sat-Sun 11:35-2:05-4:35-7:059:40 Mon-Thu 2:05-4:35-7:05-9:40 A Thousand Words (PG) Fri 2:45-57:35-10 Sat-Sun 10:30-12:30-2:45-57:35-10 Mon-Thu 2:45-5-7:35-10 The Vow (PG) Fri 3:30-6:35-9:30 Sat-Sun 10:30-12:45-3:30-6:35-9:30 Mon-Thu 3:30-6:35-9:30 Wanderlust (14A) Fri 2:35-5:05-7:3510:10 Sat-Sun 11:55-2:35-5:05-7:3510:10 Mon-Thu 2:35-5:05-7:35-10:10 The Woman in Black (14A) Fri 5:5510:30 Sat-Sun 1:05-5:55-10:30 Mon-Thu 5:55-10:30

TIFF Bell Lightbox 350 King St. West, 416-599-8433 Adaptation (14A) Sat 10 The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye (14A) Fri-Sat 2:15-9:30 Sun-Mon 9:30 Tue-Thu 2:15-9:30 The Cat Returns (PG) Fri 6:30 Sat 10:30 Jiro Dreams of Sushi (G) Fri-Sun 2-5-7:15-9:15 Mon 7:15-9:15 Tue-Thu 2-5-7:15-9:15 The Junos at TIFF: Canadian Music on Film (STC) Thu 7 The Lusty Men (PG) Tue 6:30 Monsieur Lazhar (PG) Fri-Sun 1:15-6 Mon 6 Tue-Thu 1:15-6 My Neighbors the Yamadas (G) Sat 7 Off World (14A) Fri-Sun 4:15 Tue-Thu 4:15 Once Upon A Time in Anatolia (14A) Fri-Sun 12-6:15 Mon 6:15 Tue-Thu 12-6:15 Piers Handling on the Lusty Men (STC) Sun 1 Pina 3D (G) Fri-Sun 3:30-8:45 Mon 8:45 Tue-Thu 3:30-8:45 Pom Poko (G) Sun 4 Tue 9 Spirited Away (PG) Sun 7 West End

Albion Cinemas 1530 Albion Rd., 416-742-3456 Agent Vinod (STC) Fri 3-4:45-6:15-89:30 Sat-Sun 1:30-3-4:45-6:15-8-9:30 Mon-Thu 4:30-6-7:45-9:15

Queensway 1025 The Queensway, 416-503-0424 21 Jump Street (14A) Fri-Sat 12:05-1:45-2:45-4:30-5:30-7:15-8:1010:05-10:55 Sun 12:55-1:55-3:554:40-6:50-7:20-9:35-10:05 Mon-Tue 1-2-3:55-4:50-6:35-7:35-9:20-10:20 Wed-Thu 1:10-2-3:55-4:50-6:35-7:359:20-10:20 Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax (G) Fri-Sat 12:302:50-5:15-7:40 Sun 12:30-2:55-5:15-7:40 Mon-Thu 1:20-4:15-6:40 Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax 3D (G) Fri-Sat 1:15-3:35-5:55-8:25-10:40 Sun 1:103:35-5:55-8:25 Mon-Thu 2:20-5:107:25-9:45 Friends With Kids (STC) Fri-Sat 1-3:556:55-9:35 Sun-Tue 1:05-3:50-6:55-9:40 Wed 3:50-6:55-9:40 Thu 1:05-3:50-6:559:40 Star & Strollers Screening Wed 1 The Hunger Games (PG) No Passes Fri 11:50-1:20-1:50-2:40-3:10-3:404:40-5:10-6-6:30-7-8-8:30-9:159:45-10:15-11:15 No Passes Sat 11:20-11:50-12:20-1:20-1:50-2:403:10-3:40-4:40-5:10-6-6:30-7-8-8:309:15-9:45-10:15-11:15 No Passes Sun 11:45-12:15-1:15-1:45-2:30-3-3:30-4:305-5:45-6:15-6:45-7:45-8:15-9-9:30-10 No Passes Mon-Tue 1:15-1:452:30-3-3:30-4:30-5-5:45-6:15-6:457:45-8:15-9-9:30-10 No Passes Wed 1:15-2:30-3-3:30-4:30-5-5:45-6:15-6:457:45-8:15-9-9:30-10 No Passes Thu 1:15-1:45-2:30-3-3:30-4:30-5-5:45-6:156:45-7:45-8:15-9-9:30-10 No Passes Fri-Sat 12:50-4:10-7:30-10:45 No Passes Sun-Thu 12:45-4-7:15-10:30 Star & Strollers Screening, No Passes Wed 1 Jeff, Who Lives at Home (14A) Fri-

Sat 1:35-3:50-6:05-8:20-10:35 Sun 12:20-2:35-4:45-7:05-9:15 Mon-Thu 2:25-4:45-7-9:15 John Carter 3D (PG) Fri-Sat 12:40-47:10-10:20 Sun 12:40-3:45-7:10-10:20 Mon-Thu 12:55-4:05-7:10-10:15 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (PG) Fri 2:10 Sat 11:35 Sun 2 Mon-Thu 1:40 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 3D (PG) Fri 4:50-7:20 Sat 2:10-4:50-7:20 Sun 4:50-7:25 Mon-Thu 4:40-7:05 The Metropolitan Opera: The Enchanted Island Encore (STC) Mon 6:30 Project X (18A) Fri-Sat 1:10-3:45-6:108:35-11:05 Sun 12:25-2:50-5:25-7:5010:10 Mon-Thu 2:50-5:20-7:50-10:10 Safe House (14A) Fri-Sat 1:30-4:207:35-10:30 Sun 1:30-4:20-7:35-10:25 Mon-Thu 1:30-4:20-7:30-10:25 She Stoops to Conquer (STC) Thu 7 Silent House (14A) Fri-Sat 12-2:205:20-7:45-10:10 Sun 5:35-7:55-10:15 Mon-Wed 2:40-5:15-7:40-10:05 Thu 1:50-4:10-10:35 Stuart Little (G) Sat 11 This Means War (14A) Fri-Sun 9:55 Mon-Thu 9:10 A Thousand Words (PG) Fri-Sat 12:102:35-5-7:50-10:25 Sun 11:50-2:10-4:357-9:25 Mon 1:10-3:40-10:30 Tue-Thu 2:35-4:55-7:20-9:50 The Vow (PG) Fri-Sun 9:50 Mon-Wed 9:35 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (STC) Sun 1 Wrath of the Titans 3D (14A) Thu 10:05

Woodbine Centre 500 Rexdale Blvd., 416-213-1998 21 Jump Street (14A) Fri-Thu 1:104:05-7-9:35 Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax (G) Fri-Thu 1-35-7:05-9:15 The Hunger Games (PG) Fri-Thu 1-3:30-4-6:30-7-9:30 John Carter (PG) Fri-Thu 12:55-3:556:45-9:30 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 3D (PG) Fri-Wed 1:05-3:45-6:50-9:20 Thu 1:05-3:45-6:50 Silent House (14A) Fri-Thu 1:30-3:507:15-9:45 A Thousand Words (PG) Fri-Thu 1:203:40-6:55-9:25 Wrath of the Titans 3D (14A) Thu 10

Kingsway Theatre 3030 Bloor St. West, 416-232-1939 The Artist (PG) Fri-Thu 7 The Descendants (14A) Fri-Thu 2:30 The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (18A) Fri-Thu 8:55 The Iron Lady (PG) Fri-Thu 12:30 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (14A) Fri-Thu 4:30 Humber Cinema 2:2442 Bloor St. West, 416-232-1939 Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax (G) Fri-Thu 2:304:30-6:30 The Hunger Games (PG) Fri-Thu 12:45-3:45-6:45-9:45 Safe House (14A) Fri-Thu 9

East End Beach Cinemas 1651 Queen St. E., 416-699-5971 21 Jump Street (14A) Fri 1:10-4:10-710:10 Sat-Sun 10-1:10-4:10-7-10:10 MonThu 4:20-7-10:10 Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax (G) Fri 12:20 Sat-Sun 10:10-12:20 Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax 3D (G) Fri-Sun 2:405-7:20-9:40 Mon-Thu 4:10-6:30-9 The Hunger Games (PG) No Passes Fri 12-12:30-3:20-3:50-6:40-7:10-10-10:30 No Passes Sat 10-10:10-12-12:30-3:20-3:506:40-7:10-10-10:30 No Passes Sun 1010:10-12-12:30-3:20-3:45-6:40-7-10-10:15 No Passes Mon-Thu 3:40-6:40-7-10-10:15 John Carter 3D (PG) Fri-Sun 1-4-6:509:50 Mon-Thu 4-6:50-9:50 Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (PG) Fri-Sun 12:40-3:30-6:30-9:20 Mon-Thu 3:50-6:20-9:20

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Fox Theatre 2236 Queen St. E., 416-691-7330 The Adventures of Tintin (PG) SatSun 2 Albert Nobbs (14A) Wed 7 Thu 9:15 The Descendants (14A) Fri 9 Sat-Sun 4:15-9 Mon-Tue 9 Wed 2 Monsieur Lazhar (PG) Fri-Tue 7 Pina 3D (G) Wed 9:15 Thu 7

North York Sheppard Grande 4861 Yonge St., 416-590-9974 Act of Valor (14A) Fri-Thu 9:55 The Artist (PG) Fri 4:15-6:50-9:35 Sat-Sun 1:05-4:15-6:50-9:35 Mon-Thu 4:15-6:50-9:35 Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax (G) Fri 4:20-6:45 Sat-Sun 1:20-4:20-6:45 Mon-Wed 4:206:45 Thu 4:20 Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax 3D (G) Fri 4:507:15-9:30 Sat-Sun 2:20-4:50-7:15-9:30 Mon-Thu 4:50-7:15-9:30 Friends With Kids (STC) Fri 4:40-7:3010 Sat-Sun 1:30-4:40-7:30-10 Mon-Thu 4:40-7:30-10 Hugo 3D (PG) Fri 4-7-9:50 Sat-Sun 1-4-7-9:50 Mon-Thu 4-7-9:50 Jeff, Who Lives at Home (14A) Fri 4:257:10-9:25 Sat-Sun 1:45-4:25-7:10-9:25 Mon-Thu 4:25-7:10-9:25 The Metropolitan Opera: The Enchanted Island Encore (STC) Mon 6:30 Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (PG) Fri 4:05-6:40-9:40 Sat-Sun 1:15-4:05-6:409:40 Mon-Thu 4:05-6:40-9:40 A Separation (14A) Fri 4:10-7:10-9:50 Sat-Sun 1:10-4:10-7:10-9:50 Mon-Thu 4:10-7:10-9:50 She Stoops to Conquer (STC) Thu 7 Silent House (14A) Fri 5:10-7:40-10 Sat-Sun 2-5:10-7:40-10 Mon-Wed 5:107:40-10 Thu 5:10-7:40 Wanderlust (14A) Fri 4:45-7:20-9:45 Sat-Sun 1:50-4:45-7:20-9:45 Tue-Thu 4:45-7:20-9:45

Empress Walk 5095 Yonge St., 416-223-9550 21 Jump Street (14A) Stadium Seating Fri 2:30-4:15-5:15-7:30-8:30-10:15 Stadium Seating Sat-Sun 1-2:30-4:155:15-7:30-8:30-10:15 Stadium Seating Mon-Thu 2:30-4:15-5:15-7:30-8:3010:15 The Descendants (14A) Stadium Seating Fri-Thu 9:40 The Hunger Games (PG) Stadium Seating, No Passes Fri 3-6:30-9:45 Stadium Seating, No Passes Sat-Sun

12-3:20-6:45-10 Stadium Seating, No Passes Mon-Thu 3:20-6:45-10 Stadium Seating, No Passes Fri 2:15-4-4:305:30-7:20-7:45-8:45-10:45-11 Stadium Seating, No Passes Sat-Sun 12:45-1:152:15-4-4:30-5:30-7:15-7:45-8:45-10:3011 Stadium Seating, No Passes Mon 2:15-4-4:30-5:30-7:15-7:45-8:45-10:30 Stadium Seating Tue 2:15-4-4:30-5:307:15-7:45-8:45-10:30-11 Stadium Seating, No Passes Wed-Thu 2:15-4-4:305:30-7:15-7:45-8:45-10:30 John Carter 3D (PG) Stadium Seating Fri 3:30-6:30-9:30 Stadium Seating Sat-Sun 12:30-3:30-6:30-9:30 Stadium Seating Mon-Thu 3:30-6:30-9:30 Safe House (14A) Stadium Seating Fri 4:20-7-10:10 Stadium Seating Sat-Sun 1:20-4:20-7-10:10 Stadium Seating Mon-Thu 4:20-7-10:10 A Thousand Words (PG) Stadium Seating Fri 3:50-4:10-6:50-7:10-9:50 Stadium Seating Sat-Sun 1:10-3:504:10-6:50-7:10-9:50 Stadium Seating Mon-Thu 3:50-4:10-6:50-7:10-9:50

SilverCity Yorkdale 6 3401 Dufferin St., 416-444-3456 21 Jump Street (14A) Fri-Sat 12-1:302:40-4:30-5:25-7:35-8:15-10:20-11 Sun-Wed 1:10-1:50-4:05-4:40-6:507:30-9:40-10:15 Thu 1:10-1:50-4:054:40-6:50-7:30-10:15 Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax (G) Fri-Sun 12:50 Mon-Thu 1 Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax 3D (G) Fri-Sat 3:15-5:40-8:05-10:30 Sun 3:15-5:408:05-10:25 Mon-Thu 3:20-5:40-8:0510:25 The Hunger Games (PG) No Passes FriSat 12:20-3:40-7-10:15 No Passes Sun 12-3:15-6:30-9:45 No Passes Mon-Wed 3:15-6:30-9:45 No Passes Thu 3:15-6:30 No Passes Fri-Sat 11:50-1:20-3:10-4:406:30-8-9:45-11:15 No Passes Sun-Wed 1:30-2:30-4:45-5:45-8-9 No Passes Thu 1:30-2:30-4:45-5:45-8-9-9:45 No Passes Fri-Sat 12:50-4:10-7:30-10:45 No Passes Sun-Thu 12:45-4-7:15-10:30 John Carter 3D (PG) Fri-Sat 12:40-47:20-10:35 Sun 12:40-3:50-7:10-10:20 Mon-Thu 12:50-3:55-7:10-10:20 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (PG) Fri-Sat 12:30-3-5:30-8:05 Sun 12:152:45-5:20-7:50 Mon-Thu 1:40-4:30-7:20 Project X (18A) Fri-Sat 10:40 Sun 10:30 Mon-Thu 10 A Thousand Words (PG) Fri-Sat 12:252:55-5:20-7:50-10:25 Sun 12:20-2:505:20-7:50-10:20 Mon-Thu 2:40-5:207:40-10:05 Wrath of the Titans 3D (14A) Thu 10

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1800 Sheppard Ace. E., 416-644-7746 21 Jump Street (14A) Fri-Sat 12:102:50-5:30-8:10-10:50 Sun 2-4:40-7:3010:20 Mon-Thu 1:50-4:40-7:30-10:20 Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax (G) Fri-Sun 12:30 Mon-Tue 2:20 Star & Strollers Screening Wed 1 Thu 2:20 Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax 3D (G) Fri-Sat 2:40-5:05-7:40-9:55 Sun 2:45-5:10-7:4510:05 Mon-Thu 4:50-7:20-9:50 The Hunger Games (PG) No Passes Fri 12:20-1:20-2:40-3:10-3:40-4:40-6-6:307-8-9:15-9:45-10:15-11:15 No Passes Sat 11:20-11:50-12:20-1:20-2:40-3:10-3:404:40-6-6:30-7-8-9:15-9:45-10:15-11:15 No Passes Sun 12:15-2:15-3-3:30-4:455:30-6:15-6:45-8-8:45-9:30-10 No Passes Mon 1:30-2:15-3-3:30-4:45-5:306:15-6:45-8:45-9:30-10 No Passes Tue 1:30-2:15-3-3:30-4:45-5:30-6:15-6:458-8:45-9:30-10 No Passes Wed 2:15-33:30-4:45-5:30-6:15-6:45-8-8:45-9:30-10 No Passes Thu 1:30-2:15-3-3:30-4:455:30-6:15-6:45-8-8:45-9:30-10 No Passes Fri-Sat 12:50-4:10-7:30-10:45 No Passes Sun-Thu 12:45-4-7:15-10:30 Star & Strollers Screening, No Passes Wed 1 John Carter 3D (PG) Fri-Sat 12:403:55-7:10-10:20 Sun 12:40-3:50-7-10:15 Mon-Thu 12:50-3:50-7-10:15 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (PG) Fri-Sun 12-2:30-5-7:40 Mon-Wed 2:305-7:40 Thu 2:30-5-7:35

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Stuart Little (G) Sat 11 This Means War (14A) Fri-Wed 10:10 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (STC) Sun 1 Wrath of the Titans 3D (14A) Thu 10:10

Scarborough Coliseum Scarborough 300 Borough Dr., 416-290-5217 21 Jump Street (14A) Fri-Sat 12:101:10-2:50-4-5:30-7:40-8:15-10:30-11 Sun-Thu 2:05-2:30-4:40-5:10-7:15-7:509:55-10:30 The Hunger Games (PG) No Passes Fri-Sat 12-12:25-1:30-2-3:20-3:50-4:455:15-6:45-7-8-8:45-10:05-10:15-11:15 No Passes Sun-Wed 12:15-1:30-2-2:403:20-4:45-5:15-6-6:45-8-8:45-9:15-10:05 No Passes Thu 1:30-2-2:40-3:20-4:455:15-6-8-8:45-9:15-10:30 No Passes Fri-Sat 12:50-4:10-7:30-10:45 No Passes Sun-Thu 12:45-3:50-7:10-10:20 John Carter 3D (PG) Fri-Sat 1:15-4:207:25-10:40 Sun-Thu 1:20-4:20-7:2510:25 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (PG) Fri 12:05 Sat 11:45 Sun-Thu 1:05 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 3D (PG) Fri 2:40-5:10-7:45-10:20 Sat 2:205:10-7:45-10:20 Sun-Thu 4:15-7:10-9:40

Kathal Pissasae (STC) Fri 1:50-4:307:15-9:45 Sat 11:30-1:50-4:30-7:15-9:45 Sun-Thu 1:50-4:30-7:15-9:45 Safe House (14A) Fri-Sat 2:10-5-8:0510:55 Sun-Wed 1:40-4:25-7:40-10:30 Thu 1:40-4:25-7:40-10:25 She Stoops to Conquer (STC) Thu 7 Stuart Little (G) Sat 11 A Thousand Words (PG) Fri-Sat 1-3:30-6-8:20-10:50 Sun-Thu 12:152:45-5:10-7:45-10:10

Eglinton Town Centre 1901 Eglinton Ave. E., 416-752-4494 21 Jump Street (14A) Fri 12-1:30-2:404:15-5:20-7-8-9:45-10:45 Sat 1:30-2:404:15-5:20-7-8-9:45-10:45 Sun 1-2-3:504:45-6:40-7:30-9:25-10:15 Mon-Thu 3:50-4:45-6:40-7:30-9:25-10:15 Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax (G) Fri-Sat 12:102:30-5-7:30-10 Sun 12-2:15-4:35-6:509:10 Mon-Wed 4:35-6:50-9:10 Thu 4:15-6:30 Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax 3D (G) Fri 1:153:30-5:55-8:20-10:35 Sat 10:50-1:153:30-5:55-8:20-10:35 Sun 12:45-3:105:35-8-10:20 Mon-Thu 5:35-8-10:20 Friends With Kids (STC) Fri-Sat 12:152:50-5:35-8:15-11 Sun-Thu 4:20-7-9:50 Star & Strollers Screening Thu 1 The Hunger Games (PG) No Passes Fri-Sat 12:50-1:20-4:10-4:40-7:30-810:50-11:15 No Passes Sun 12:45-2:30-

4-5:45-7:15-9-10:30 No Passes MonThu 4-5:45-7:15-9-10:30 No Passes Fri 11:50-12:20-1:50-2:40-3:10-3:40-5:10-66:30-7-8:30-9:15-9:45-10:15 No Passes Sat 11:20-11:50-12:20-1:50-2:40-3:103:40-5:10-6-6:30-7-8:30-9:15-9:45-10:15 No Passes Sun 11:45-12:15-1:15-2:40-33:30-4:30-6-6:15-6:45-7:45-9:15-9:30-10 No Passes Mon-Thu 3:30-4:30-6-6:156:45-7:45-9:15-9:30-10 Star & Strollers Screening, No Passes Thu 1 John Carter (PG) Fri-Sat 12:30-3:406:50-10 Sun 1:50-4:50-7:50 Mon-Thu 4:50-7:50 John Carter 3D (PG) Fri-Sat 1:304:35-7:50-11 Sun 12:40-3:50-7-10:10 Mon-Thu 3:50-7-10:10 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (PG) Fri-Sat 12:30-3-5:30-7:55 Sun 2:15-57:30 Mon-Thu 5-7:35 The Metropolitan Opera: The Enchanted Island Encore (STC) Mon 6:30 Project X (18A) Fri-Sat 10:40 Sun-Thu 10 Safe House (14A) Fri-Sat 2-4:50-7:4010:30 Sun 12:05-3-5:50-9:40 Mon 3:4010:45 Tue-Thu 4:10-7:05-9:55 Stuart Little (G) Sat 11 A Thousand Words (PG) Fri-Sun 12:10-2:30-4:50-7:15-9:35 Mon-Thu 4:50-7:15-9:35 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (STC) Sun 1 Wrath of the Titans 3D (14A) Thu 10:20

401 & Morningside 785 Milner Ave., 416-281-2226 21 Jump Street (14A) Fri 5:30-8-10:45 Sat 12:30-3-5:30-8-10:45 Sun 12:303-5:30-8-10:35 Mon 5:40-8:15 Tue 3-5:30-8-10:45 Wed 5:40-8:15 Thu 4:35-7:10-9:45 Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax (G) Fri 4:30-9:30 Sat-Sun 12:10-2:15-4:35-9:30 Mon 4:25 Tue 4:30-9:30 Wed 4:25 Thu 4:25-9:15 Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax 3D (G) Fri 3:306:10-8:15 Sat-Sun 1:15-3:30-6:10-8:15 Mon 5:10-8:15 Tue 3:30-6:10-8:15 Wed 5:10-8:15 Thu 5-7:20 The Hunger Games (PG) No Passes Fri 3:40-4-6-6:30-7-7:25-9:15-9:45-10:1010:25-10:40 No Passes Sat 12-12:2012:50-2:30-3:10-3:45-4:10-6-6:30-77:25-9:15-9:45-10:10-10:25-10:40 No Passes Sun 12-12:20-12:50-2:30-3:103:45-4:10-6-6:30-7-7:25-9:15-9:4510:10-10:25-10:35 No Passes Mon 4:20-4:45-5:25-7-7:30-8-8:30 No Passes Tue 3:10-3:40-4-6-6:30-7-7:20-9:159:40-10:05-10:20-10:35 No Passes Wed 4:20-4:45-5:25-7-7:30-8-8:30 No Passes Thu 4:20-4:45-5:25-7-7:30-8-8:45-10:05

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401 & Morningside 785 Milner Ave., 416-281-2226

Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds (PG) Fri-Thu 6:45 Wrath of the Titans 3D (14A) Thu 10

John Carter 3D (PG) Fri 4:15-7:15-10:30 Sat-Sun 1-4:25-7:15-10:30 Mon 5:508:45 Tue 4:15-7:15-10:30 Wed 5:50-8:45 Thu 4:20-7:15-10:10 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (PG) Fri 3:55-6:15-8:25 Sat-Sun 1:30-4-6:158:25 Mon 6:15 Tue 3:50-6:15-8:25 Wed 6:15 Thu 6:15-9 Project X (18A) Fri-Sat 10:45 Sun 10:35 Mon 8:40 Tue 10:35 Wed 8:40 Safe House (14A) Fri 5-7:40-10:45 Sat 1:45-5-7:40-10:45 Sun 1:45-5-7:40-10:20 Mon 5-7:45 Tue 5-7:40-10:20 Wed 5-7:45 Thu 4:55-7:35-10:10 A Thousand Words (PG) Fri 5:40-7:5010 Sat-Sun 12:40-3:20-5:40-7:50-10 Mon 4:30-7:15 Tue 3:20-5:40-7:50-10 Wed 4:30-7:15 Thu 4:30-7:15-9:30

Kennedy Commons 20 33 William Kitchen Rd., 416-335-5323 Agent Vinod (STC) Fri-Sun 11-2:40-69:30 Mon 2:40 Tue-Thu 2:40-6-9:30 Aravaan (14A) Fri-Sun 11:45-3-6:309:50 Mon-Thu 3-6:30-9:50 The Artist (PG) Fri-Sun 11:05-1:40-4:056:35-9:05 Mon-Thu 1:40-4:05-6:35-9:05 The Descendants (14A) Fri-Sun 11:20-2:15-5:05-7:50-10:30 Mon-Thu 2:15-5:05-7:50-10:30 Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax (G) Fri-Sun 11:402-4:25-6:50-9:10 Mon-Thu 2-4:256:50-9:10 Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax 3D (G) Fri-Sun

11-1:35-3:50-6:10-8:30 Mon-Wed 1:353:50-6:10-8:30 Thu 1:35-3:50-6:10 Friends With Kids (STC) Fri-Sun 11:20-2-4:25-6:50-9:10 Mon-Thu 2-4:256:50-9:10 Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance 3D (14A) Fri-Thu 1:50-10:15 The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (18A) SDDS Digital Fri-Sun 11:30-3-6:30-10 SDDS Digital Mon-Thu 3-6:30-10 Hugo 3D (PG) Fri-Sun 10:40-1:30-4:157:15-10:15 Mon-Thu 1:30-4:15-7:1510:15 The Iron Lady (PG) Fri-Sun 11:10-1:454:15-6:45-9:15 Mon-Thu 1:45-4:156:45-9:15 Kahaani (14A) Fri-Sun 12:30-3:45-710:25 Mon-Thu 3:45-7-10:25 Project X (18A) Fri-Sun 12:15-2:45-5:107:30-9:45 Mon-Thu 2:45-5:10-7:30-9:45 The Secret World of Arrietty (G) FriSun 10:50-1:10-3:40-6:20-9 Mon-Thu

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metronews.ca WEEKEND, March 23-25, 2012

Can Oprah be a team player? Oprah Winfrey GEORGE BURNS/OWN

TV Network. OWN shakeup has brought on some big changes Oprah Winfrey is used to running the show, whether it was her hit daytime TV program or the fledgling cable channel named for her and which she rules as chairman and chief executive. But this week’s Oprah Winfrey Network shakeup, which included a 20 per cent staff layoff, thrusts her into a new dynamic: power-sharing with a top executive from the company that’s bankrolled OWN with $300 million-plus. It’s a crucial moment for the media queen, who made OWN her next big move after The Oprah Winfrey Show, and for OWN itself: Can Winfrey work as an effective corporate teammate with partner Discovery Communications to turn the struggling channel around? There’s another bedrock question: Does a big enough audience exist for the earnest, uplifting fare on Winfrey’s OWN, so antithetical to the blowsy charms of Jersey Shore, Keeping Up With the Kardashians and much else that’s popular on cable TV? In Canada, the OWN brand is licensed and operated by media company Corus Entertainment Inc. and mirrors much of the U.S. cable channel’s programming schedule. As important as control might be to Winfrey, she’s also a savvy businesswoman and has been willing to take advice before — and not just from Dr. Oz, Dr. Phil or her other TV health and wealth protégés. Her syndicated talk show’s distributor made sure she stayed on track. “In the past, when she was becoming too ‘New Age,’ or becoming too distant, which can come with celebrity and wealth, the folks at King World would do a survey,” and pass the results to her, said Bill Carroll, an expert in the syndication market for media consulting firm Katz Media. As a smart broadcaster, Winfrey heard the public “and adjusted to what they were saying,” Carroll said. Winfrey started off slowly with OWN, busy wrapping her talk show’s 25-year run last

By the numbers

318,000

For the year to date, OWN is averaging 318,000 total viewers in prime-time in the United States, a nine per cent increase over the same period last year.

fall with much hoopla. She began exerting more control after leaving daytime, and as part of the executive turnover that began five months after OWN’s January 2011 debut to disappointing ratings. Christina Norman, who was dismissed as CEO in May 2011, had expressed hope that, within its first year, OWN would reach an average of about 400,000 viewers in prime-time among women ages 25 to 54. That would have been a doubling of the prime-time audience in that demo for Discovery Health, the channel OWN replaced. It was philosophy, not numbers, that Winfrey focused on at the channel’s launch. She was insistent that OWN would represent her talk show’s message of self-empowerment writ large across an entire channel. “What if I could take every hero who inspired me, every lesson that motivated me, every opportunity that was ever given to me and give it to you,” Winfrey said in a promotional spot for OWN that showed her beaming against a computer-generated blue sky dotted by soaring balloons and puffy clouds. For a successful woman, one who thinks and lives big, Winfrey has entered new territory. Worthy, but is that entertainment? The high-water mark for OWN so far was the 3.5 million viewers for Winfrey’s exclusive interview with Bobbi Kristina Brown, Whitney Houston’s daughter, which aired earlier this month. The interview, while sensitively done, spun off the tabloid-tragic end to Houston’s checkered life. For viewer Mamie Kwayie of Chicago, OWN’s selling point is programs like Oprah’s Master Class. “These shows work because they’re infused with Ms. Winfrey’s core platform for meaningful messages and impactful storytelling,” she said in an email. the associated press

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metronews.ca WEEKEND, March 23-25, 2012

‘It’s about an era of lounging poolside’ Janie Bryant. The Mad Men costume designer talks Season 5 and her latest Banana Republic collection Kenya hunt

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Now that we’re just days away from the season premiere and the cast photos have been released, what can you reveal about the look of the characters? How has their wardrobe evolved since last season? Honestly, I’m sworn to secrecy until the premiere on March 25. You’ll have to wait and see!

When creating the collection, were you obligated to design it in such a way that wouldn’t give away too many details about the actual show? For this collection, [Banana Republic creative director Simon Kneen] and I talked a lot about the characters and scenes that inspired us, the roles they were playing, the emotions they’re going through, and worked to translate all that context into beautiful design. We stayed with the traditional Mad Men look that viewers have come to love.

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The new season of Mad Men has been shrouded in CIA-like secrecy. As the premiere date draws closer, we try our best to extract a few clues about what to expect from costume designer Janie Bryant.

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Men collection for Banana Republic reflect the look of Season 5? Our second collection was inspired by the characters while at the club because of the fun contrast to the home and office settings. It’s about an era of lounging poolside or attending a 4th of July barbecue in a crisp blue polo shirt and stunning the crowd in a lush ivory dress.

to feel both vintage and very 2012. It was about taking a vintage look and updating it with a modern twist. We took some of our favourite trending colours and prints, like the bright pinks and large florals in some of the women’s pieces, and fit them on a ’60s silhouette, like a capri pant or nip-waist dress. The first four seasons of Mad Men helped spark a global obsession with the midcentury way of dressing, influencing an entire season of ready-to-wear collections. Do you think Season 5 will do the same thing for late ’60s dressing? People identify with the costume design of the characters and there has already been a clear resurgence of 1960s trends on runways this spring. Beautiful, dressed-up tailoring with emphasis on the waist; bright colours for ladies; and tailored, slim-cut apparel for men are all making a comeback. But as far as Season 5 goes I really can’t comment!

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metronews.ca WEEKEND, March 23-25, 2012

10 questions for Slash The former Guns ‘N Roses man speaks out. Talks about his new album, his love of Canadians and how his pet snake likes music Alan Cross

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For a Guns ‘N Roses survivor — and someone who’s been saved by defibrillator paddles three times — Slash looks awfully healthy sitting in his Toronto hotel suite on the eve of Canadian Music Week (CMW). You must like coming up for this event. I love coming up here —twice in three years — but the timing for CMW is just something that sorta happens.

Guitarist Slash Poses for a photograph in Toronto. Nathan Denette/the canadian press

This album is billed as Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators. Why? The first solo record I did was called Slash but when we took the band on the road, I called it Slash featuring Myles Kennedy (Slash’s singer). That became a bigger event than I expected. So when I thought about doing

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“Ian has a great voice and he did an audition for Velvet Revolver.” Slash Speaking about Ian Thornley.

another record with Brent (Fitz, drummer) and Todd (Kearns, bassist, ex of Age of Electric), I needed to give some kind of credit to the guys who were the backline. You seem to have a thing for hiring Canadians for your band. Brent is from Ottawa, or Toronto? He’s gonna kill me. And Todd is from Vancouver. He’s a great singer, too. Tell me about Ian Thornley. Ian has a great voice and he did an audition for Velvet Revolver. The catch was he wanted to play guitar. You recently appeared on the U.K. edition of Top Gear. How was that? It was OK although I couldn’t get the hang of the left-hand stick in the rain. The Stig couldn’t understand why I

had issues. How did the commercials for the Los Angeles Zoo with Betty White come about? Me and Betty are on the board for the zoo. There’s a new reptile exhibit and I’m a big reptile guy. We just thought it would be fun. You got to play at Muhammed Ali’s 70th birthday celebration. That was a tremendous honour. He’s one of my idols. You’ve done some recording with Steve Adler (GNR drummer in the Appetite for Destruction era). I got him to play on my record and I promised that if he’d stay clean, I’d play on his. Word is that your snake, Sam, really likes the new album, Apocalyptic Love (due May 22). The first time through he just lay there. The second time he was all over the cage. So I figure he either digs it or wants to move. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction ceremony: what’s going to happen? I don’t know. I’m just going to show up.

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metronews.ca WEEKEND, March 23-25, 2012

It remains a universal question: Is it Friday yet? Country music album hitting home with Canadians. Gord Bamford’s feel-good anthem hitting stride jessica smith

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Whether you’re touring country musician Gord Bam-

ford or an office-tower type, you probably know the feeling: you’re working so dang hard you’re not even sure if it’s Friday yet. The title track of Canadian country singer Bamford’s latest album, Is It Friday Yet? has hit home with all kinds of Canadians, he said Tuesday while preparing for a small private show in Ottawa. “I’m definitely going to be getting that question the rest of my life,” he said.

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“Is it Friday yet? Is the weekend here? Is it time for me to kick things off with an ice-cold beer?” Gord Bamford, Is It Friday Yet? lyrics

“It doesn’t matter if you’re in an office tower in Toronto or Ottawa or a tractor in some rural community, everybody

can’t wait for the weekend.” When he’s not on tour, Bamford is waiting for the weekend so he can spend time with his three kids, he said. Bamford grew up with country music in Lacombe, Alta. He got a start by winning the Nornet Radio Network’s Search for the Stars, a much lower-profile competition than the reality TV competitions of today, he said. “They’re definitely creat-

Gord Bamford stands behind the bar at The Crazy Horse in Ottawa. He sings about waiting for an “ice-cold beer” in his song Is It Friday Yet? But Bamford said his drink of choice is vodka. JESSICA SMITH / METRO

ing a lot of stars out of reality television these days,” he said. “Some people are getting an opportunity they never would I guess if they were doing it the hard way, coming up through the trenches.” Despite his radio compe-

tition win, Bamford says he worked hard playing shows at small bars on his way up, something that shows in the subject matter and success of Is It Friday Yet? “It’s just a feel-good anthem song that’s done real good for us so far,” he said.

Sound Check

How much can I earn as a YouTube musician? sound check

Alan Cross scene@metronews.ca

I’ve been following the progress of Burlington, Ontario’s Walk Off the Earth ever since they posted their five people/one guitar performance of Gotye’s Somebody That I Used to Know back in January. As I write this, the video has been viewed 74,423,421 times. That’s about one-tenth the number of people who have seen Justin Bieber’s Baby, but it’s still a magnificent achievement, especially for an indie band. If you’ve watched any music video on YouTube, you’ll have seen the ads that come with each one. YouTube is the world’s largest streamer of music and these ads have allowed it to monetize what many once believed was un-monetizable. I was curious about what this means in financial terms to artists like Walk Off the Earth, so I talked to some people in the industry who know how such things work. Let’s try to estimate things, shall we? YouTube’s payment rate is approximately $2.50 CPM, which means for every one thousand views of a video, it pays out $2.50

US. YouTube keeps 50 per cent of all revenues. Fifteen per cent goes to the rights holder of the song (the publisher/copyright holder) while the remaining amount — 35 per cent — goes to the performer. Now let’s do the math. First, divide 74.5 million views by 1,000 to get the CPM number. Multiply that number (74,500) by $2.50 and you have total gross advertising revenues of $186,250. Of that, YouTube keeps half, which is $93,125. The rest is divided between the publisher (15 per cent of $186,250 or about $28,000; Gotye gets a piece of this) and the band (35 per cent of $186,250 or a shade over $65,000). Finally, divide that amount amongst the five members of the band and you have earnings of $13,000 each. Not bad when you consider that this is the product of 14 hours work in front of a video camera but a little sobering when you consider how difficult it is to get that many people to watch a single video. But then we have to factor in all the spin-off revenues like the tens of thousands of downloads through iTunes, increased attendance at gigs, more merch sales and licensing opportunities. And how can you put a price on the worldwide publicity? What was that featured spot on Ellen worth? I’d say things are working out very well. And Bieber? He’s made over $628,000 in YouTube bucks from Baby.

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metronews.ca WEEKEND, March 23-25, 2012

Madge to push for gay rights in Russia

A Rihanna and Ashton booty call?

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Madonna is set to return to Russia on her tour this summer, and the planned visit is already causing controversy as the pop icon says she plans to defy a new statute in St. Petersburg that outlaws promoting homosexuality. “I will come to St. Petersburg to speak up for the gay community and to give strength and inspiration to anyone

OUR TAKE ON THE WORLD OF CELEBRITIES ‘I’m in love with love.’

Kardashian opens up about the divorce the word

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Kim Kardashian opened up to Jay Leno about her quickie marriage to Kris Humphries on Wednesday night. It was a lot of what you’d expect: It was nobody’s fault, “she still believes in love,” blah, blah, blah. Basically, Kardashian did a great job of making a divorce sound as un-juicy as possible (which is very hard to do). “I’m a girl who really believes in love, I’m in love with love and I thought this was it for me,” she told Leno, never referring to Humphries by name, only as “someone else.” The 31-year-old said that when she “realized [the marriage] wasn’t [what] I thought,” she “tried to be really respect ful of everyone involved.” “I’ve heard stories of

Rihanna

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people who were married for 10 years and they knew it wasn’t right, but they wanted to stick it out and had kids,” she said. “I want that forever. I believed in love, I still do. But to be fair to everyone, I knew I had to end it and I’m OK with that decision.” I’m glad she still believes in love. And I rest easy at night knowing she probably also believes in the kind of love that she can make the most money off of.

Rimes may join The X Factor judges Eddie Cibrian confirms that wife LeAnn Rimes has been in talks about joining the judge’s table on The X Factor, according to Extra. “They’ve been talking. I have no idea what’s going on with that. I think they’ve been talking to a lot of people,” Cibrian says. “I think she would be unbelievable on a show like that. As a mentor, which is key for that show, The X Factor, I think she has a lot of great input and actually could help these people out. Plus, she can sing.”

Rihanna reportedly arrived around midnight — her full security team — and stayed until about 4 a.m. Adding intrigue to the story is the fact that TMZ removed the item from its site shortly after posting it.

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Even with the fear of creating a chink in my hipster armour, I have to confess that until recently I’d never seen an episode of Mad Men. Sure, I’ve admired Christina Hendricks’ talents and had dug out my skinny ’80s ties from the back of my closet so I could channel my inner Don Draper, but when it came to watching the soap opera at Sterling Cooper, I just never got around to it. Now that I’m caught up, I regret not realizing the amazing connection the series has with liquor — especially when it comes to Draper’s love for our nation’s namesake spirit Canadian Club Whisky (750 ml, $22.99 - $26.98). First distilled in 1858 by Hiram Walker, C. C.’s aged blend of rye, corn, rye malt and barley malt was a prohibition favourite (a shout out to you Boardwalk Empire fans) that’s kept its seductive, mixable caché well past the Mad Men era all the way to today. Soft, lightly malted and eminently mixable (try using it as the foundation for your next Bloody Caesar), Canadian Club just happens to be the base of an Old Fashioned — Draper’s favourite cocktail. PRICES REFLECT THE RANGE ACROSS THE COUNTRY. SOME PRODUCTS MAY NOT BE AVAILABLE IN ALL PROVINCES.

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Dine just like TV ad exec Don Draper Avocado and Crab Canapes. The popular show returns on Sunday, so get in the mood with eats from Don Draper’s era Does Don Draper do finger food? Judging by the first four seasons of TV’s popular Mad Men show it doesn’t seem likely unless we’re talking about a belt of bourbon with a couple of smoking hot Lucky Strikes on the side. But since that hardly sounds appetizing, we’ve come up with something a

little tastier to greet the return of Mad Men on AMC on March 25. Try this delicious avocado and crab mini sandwich if you’re looking to get in the Mad Men mood. Avocado — both as a food and colour — was a big hit in the 1960s kitchen. This combo brings in a hint of California, the “Tomorrowland” state where Draper goes to overcome his past. What will happen this season? Who knows? The show creators are known for being stingy with spoilers. But it seems a safe bet this recipe will make for a perfectly swell party.

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Share the Love: Save a Child’s Heart Tonight, 6 Degrees at 2335 Yonge St. will see the annual Share the Love party raising funds for a worthy cause. Grab a cocktail and help support Save a Child’s Heart, whose mission is to improve the quality of pediatric cardiac care for children in developing countries who suffer from heart disease.

Pizza e Pazzi Neapolitan pizza with a wood-fired blistered crust. That’s basically enough said right there. Pizza e Pazzi has opened up a second location just down the street from the first, at 672 St. Clair W. While the city may be overrun with thin-crust glory, we’re a fan of PeP, so we welcome the new spot with cutlery raised.

Toronto Timeraiser A novel event, Timeraiser aims to get people involved with not-for-profits and charities via an art auction where the only currency is time: the hours you pledge to volunteer for an organization. How notable is that? Timeraiser banks hours tomorrow night at the Fermenting Cellar in the Distillery District.

This End Up Sandwiches and Cocktails Combining two trends from the city’s restaurant scene, This End Up (1454 Dundas W.) is mixing up haute cocktails to pair with their gourmet sandwiches. Grab some fried chicken thigh love or The Veg and chase with a few sips of the Hurtin’ Albertan.

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The latest cocktail venue in the city has opened up. Suits Lobby Lounge in the Trump Tower, not surprisingly, attracts a bevy of Bay Streeters for after-work libations like the Cherry Blossom cocktail. Order a drink or two, and kick back with the movers and shakers. Suits opens at 4 p.m.

The Young Patrons’ Circle’s annual fundraiser, PROM, is back at the ROM on March 31st. Known as one of the cavalier events in town, this year’s theme is Circus, and you can expect to be wow’d while mixing and mingling with some of the city’s finest YPs.

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Babcock wants to return for Sochi Mike Babcock told the Canadian Press in an interview Thursday that he wants to be behind the bench when Team Canada defends its hockey gold medal at the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Russia. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Reports say no ambulance was available when Indian player died An Indian soccer player has died after collapsing during a local league game in the southern city of Bangalore. D. Venkatesh, a 27-yearold mid-fielder for Bangalore

Mars, went on as substitute in the 73rd minute and collapsed toward the end of the Bangalore District Football Association A Division match. Domestic media reported Thursday that there was no ambulance available and Venkatesh was taken to the hospital on Wednesday in a three-wheel auto-rickshaw. Preliminary post-mortem reports suggested cardiac arrest was the cause of death. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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“Where we are now from that moment ... we are astonished.” Bolton manager Owen Coyle on Fabrice Muamba’s improvement since suffering an on-field cardiac arrest last Saturday. Coyle said Thursday that Muamba is still seriously ill at London Chest Hospital but that he has improved dramatically.

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Radulov scores, but Penguins win Nashville’s Alexander Radulov scored in his return to the NHL after four years in Russia, but the Penguins picked apart Predators goalie Pekka Rinne as Pittsburgh clinched a playoff spot with Thursday’s 5-1 win. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NHL waiting on players’ union to begin labour talks: Bettman NHL. ‘We’ve been ready to go for months’, says commish on collective bargaining talks NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said Thursday he’s ready to meet with the players union to negotiate a new contract, but it’s up to the union to decide when that might happen. Bettman said the NHL Players’ Association hasn’t yet indicated that it’s ready. “That’s something that we’re relying on the union for right now,” Bettman said of the timing on talks. “There’s a new executive director and he’s getting up to speed, meeting with his constituents and when the union’s ready, then we’ll start.” Donald Fehr, who previously led the union for Major League Baseball players, became executive director of the NHLPA in December 2010. Union spokesman Jonathan Weatherdon said in an emailed statement that the union was meeting with players to prepare for negotiations. “At our request, the NHL recently supplied the NHLPA

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with some initial financial information that we are currently reviewing,” Weatherdon said. “While we do not have a set date for formal negotiations to begin, we expect negotiations will begin when we have players available to participate in bargaining sessions.” The Stanley Cup finals are scheduled to end in June. Bettman declined to say what the league is looking for in renewing the seven-year deal set to expire Sept. 15. “I don’t discuss what we’re looking for in collective bargaining publicly,” he said. “That’s best done across the table with the principals.” Team owners are expected to meet in Las Vegas when the NHL Awards are held. Bettman met with team presidents at the Encore Las Vegas hotel-casino, the site of the awards last June. Bettman said they discussed marketing initiatives, TV contracts and general business. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Toronto’s Brandon Morrow who out-pitched Philadelphia’s Cliff Lee in the Blue Jays’ 2-0 spring training win over the Phillies on Thursday. Morrow gave up one hit, a single by Carlos Ruiz with one out in the fifth, and a pair of second-inning walks. He threw 59 pitches in five innings. Jays slugger Jose Bautista Jose Bautista doubled twice and scored a run.

“I’m thinking through at-bats and watching the way (hitters are) reacting to balls and calling a little bit more of my own game.... All positives.” Brandon Morrow THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Lupul not ready to give up on Leafs roster

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Yes, the Toronto Maple Leafs look bad. No, they can’t seem to win a game. But now is not the time to start pointing fingers and laying blame, says injured forward Joffrey Lupul. And no, the core of this team should not be torn up. “We enjoy playing together,” said Lupul. “We were a confident group and we were getting results for a portion of the year. “We need to get our bearings. We’ve got a new coach, a new system.... It’s not something that’s going to happen overnight.”

Lupul emerged Thursday from the training room where he was rehabbing his injured shoulder. He’d been named the Maple Leafs nominee for the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy by the local chapter of the Professional Hockey Writers’ Association. It would be an acknowledgment by the hockey world of how much he persevered to come back from his debilitating back injury and blood infections suffered in the 200910 season to be an all-star left-winger. But, eloquent as always,

Lupul ended up addressing so much more. “Right now is kind of the time that finger-pointing is starting,” said Lupul. “It started with Ron (the firing of coach Ron Wilson) and now you hear people on (GM Brian) Burke,” said Lupul. “As players, it’s upsetting for us because we didn’t get the job done, and Brian had the team in place. “There’s going to be people and media and fans are going to try to single out people and blame people ... I take responsibility for it and the rest of the guys do, too.” TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE

Long trip back Joffrey Lupul’s rise up the NHL’s scoring charts has earned him the Maple Leafs nomination for the Masterton Trophy. •

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Lupul returned from careerthreatening injuries in 2010 to produce 67 points in 66 games this season. The trophy is awarded annually for “perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication to hockey”. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Toronto at New Jersey Friday, 7 p.m. (Leafs TV) The Maple Leafs (32-34-8) visit New Jersey (42-27-5). Ilya Kovalchuk scored the 400th goal of his career on Tuesday as the Devils beat Ottawa 1-0. Johan Hedberg made 34 saves for his fourth shutout and second in three starts this month. Zach Parise has gone five games without a point and has one goal in his last 10 games. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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TFC must navigate busy stretch of games without its captain Facing five games in 14 days, starting with Saturday’s home opener against San Jose, Toronto FC is trying to fill the huge void left by injured captain Torsten Frings. The 35-year-old former German international was helped off the field last Saturday in Toronto’s season-opening loss in Seattle, after making a lastditch tackle in the penalty box. The cost of that defensive gem was a strained right hamstring that is expected to keep Frings out for four to six weeks. Manager Aron Winter has been deploying Frings in the middle of the backline of a fluid 3-4-3 formation recently, giving the German licence to move forward as he sees fit.

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Frings, who also plays central midfield, has proved to be a dependable stopper with a nononsense style. He is also key at set plays, keeps his younger teammates honest on the field and serves as the team’s often vocal negotiator with officials. “It is a big loss, of course, because it’s very difficult to replace a player like Torsten,” coach Aron Winter said Thursday. “Not just his quality, but

his leadership.” On the plus side, Winter calls the injury “a little strain” and says Frings has never had hamstring issues before. Just one game into the MLS season, Toronto has already had somewhat of a wild start with success against the Los Angeles Galaxy in the quarter-finals of the CONCACAF Champions League followed by the seasonopening defeat in Seattle and loss of Frings. Toronto’s looming schedule crunch includes MLS games against San Jose, Columbus and Montreal as well as the twolegged CONCACAF Champions League semifinal against Mexico’s Santos Laguna. The Earthquakes, coached by former Canada manager Frank Yallop, are 1-1 after a 1-0 win over New England and 1-0 loss to Houston, both in San Jose. San Jose outshot the Dynamo 22-8, giving up the lone goal of the game on a penalty. the canadian press

Canada opens Olympics’ bid with a draw An attacking El Salvador side couldn’t solve goaltender Michal Misiewicz, and Canada opened the CONCACAF Olympic men’s soccer qualifying tournament with a 0-0 draw Thursday. Canada’s next game is Saturday against the United States. Canada has not qualified for the Olympics since the 1984 Los Angeles Games. the canadian press

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Cardinals defence stifles Spartans Keith Appling of the Michigan State Spartans goes up for a shot between Gorgui Dieng , left, and Jared Swopshire of the Louisville Cardinals in the NCAA West Regional Semifinal game Thursday night in Phoenix. The Spartans were the first #1 seed to lose in the tournament. Eight more teams will try to stake a place in the next round tonight. Jamie Squire/Getty Images

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x — clinched playoff berth; d — division leaders ranked 1-2-3 regardless of points; a team winning in overtime or shootout is credited with two points and a victory in the W column; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the OTL (overtime loss) or SL (shootout loss) column. Last night’s results Philadelphia 2 Washington 1 (SO) Pittsburgh 5 Nashville 1 Edmonton 3 Tampa Bay 2 (SO) Calgary at Minnesota Vancouver at Dallas Colorado at Phoenix St. Louis at Los Angeles Boston at San Jose Wednesday’s results Chicago 2 Vancouver 1 (OT) Buffalo 3 Montreal 0 Carolina 3 Florida 1 N.Y. Rangers 2 Detroit 1 (OT) Anaheim 4 St. Louis 3 Tonight’s games All times Eastern Toronto at New Jersey, 7 p.m. Buffalo at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m. Winnipeg at Washington, 7 p.m. Carolina at Columbus, 7 p.m. Ottawa at Montreal, 7:30 p.m. Edmonton at Florida, 7:30 p.m. Tomorrow’s games Calgary at Dallas, 2 p.m. Boston at Los Angeles, 4 p.m. Minnesota at Buffalo, 7 p.m. N.Y. Rangers at Toronto, 7 p.m. Pittsburgh at Ottawa, 7 p.m. Montreal at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. N.Y. Islanders at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m. Carolina at Detroit, 7 p.m. Winnipeg at Nashville, 7 p.m. Vancouver at Colorado, 10 p.m. Phoenix at San Jose, 10 p.m.

LIGHTNING 3, OILERS 2 (SO) First Period No Scoring. Penalty — Smyth Edm (high-sticking) 16:34. Second Period 1. Tampa Bay, Pyatt 9 (Hedman, Connolly) 3:24 (pp) 2. Edmonton, Omark 3 (Whitney, Smyth) 9:57 3. Tampa Bay, Pyatt 10 (Wyman, Wallace) 18:18 Penalties — Smyth Edm (hooking) 1:46, Mikkelson TB (tripping) 5:26, Sutton Edm (hooking) 11:13. Third Period 4. Edmonton, Smid 4 (Nugent-Hopkins, Gagner) 16:13 Penalties — None. Overtime No Scoring. Penalty — Petry Edm (tripping) 3:00. Shootout Tampa Bay wins 3-2 Edmonton (2) — Eberle, miss; Gagner, goal; Omark, miss; Hemsky, goal; Hartikainen, miss; Smyth, miss. Tampa Bay (3) — Pyatt, miss; Malone, miss; Stamkos, goal; Louis, goal; Hedman, miss; Purcell, goal. Shots Edmonton Tampa Bay

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PENGUINS 5, PREDATORS 1 First Period 1. Pittsburgh, Malkin 44 (Neal, Letang) 1:23

2. Pittsburgh, Dupuis 22 (Letang, Sullivan) 4:06 Penalties — Weber Nash (interference) 19:01, Malkin Pgh (tripping) 19:26. Second Period 3. Pittsburgh, Cooke 17 (Neal) 1:58 4. Pittsburgh, Kunitz 22 (Neal, Orpik) 7:35 5. Nashville, Radulov 1 (Gill, Hornqvist) 12:01 Penalty — Crosby Pgh (high-sticking) 19:04. Third Period 6. Pittsburgh, Malkin 45 (Neal, Kunitz) 2:03 Penalties — None. Shots Nashville Pittsburgh

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FLYERS 2, CAPITALS 1 (SO) First Period 1. Washington, Ovechkin 33, 0:26 Penalty — Timonen Pha (boarding) 4:11. Second Period 2. Philadelphia, Giroux 27 (Jagr, Lilja) 6:05 Missed penalty shot — Johansson Was, 12:58. Penalty — Giroux Pha (interference) 18:56. Third Period No Scoring. Penalty — Halpern Wash (holding) 1:56. Overtime No Scoring. Penalties — None. Shootout Philadelphia wins 2-1 Washington (1) — Hendricks, goal; Ovechkin, miss; Aucoin, miss; Brouwer, miss. Philadelphia (2) — Read, goal; Giroux, miss; Briere, miss; Simmonds, goal. Shots Washington Philadelphia

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GOLF PGA BAY HILL At Orlando, Fla. Par 72 First Round

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ML B SPRING TRAINING Yesterday’s results Baltimore 11, Minnesota 1 Toronto 2, Philadelphia 0 Atlanta 5, Miami 5(10 inn.) St. Louis 9 Washington 0 Tampa Bay 8 Pittsburgh 6 N.Y. Mets 8 Houston 2 Cleveland 9 San Diego 4 Chicago White Sox 16, Kansas City (ss) 4 San Diego 11 Colorado 6 L.A. Angels 7 Kansas City (ss) 4 Chicago Cubs 11, Texas (ss) 4 Boston 4, N.Y. Yankees 4, tie Texas (ss) vs. Cincinnati San Francisco vs. Colorado

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• Husband. Happy Birthday Husband! I’m so proud of all you’ve accomplished this past year! I am so excited for what your future holds and I am so lucky to be spending it by your side. You’re my everything.<3 From Your Panda Bear • Sexy Greg. Is it love? Infatuation? All I know is the warm weather is coming and so are the cut off shorts , wool socks and red work boots ... When you walk by I cannot get enough of your crazy calfs ... And your cinnamon breath . oh how I long to be the honey to your peanut butter sandwich ... Make a noise like a duck ! Scooter

8 J. Edgar’s org. 9 Engine 10 Not just plump 11 Overcaffeinated 17 Resurrection doubter 19 Turning point 21 Branch 22 Potpie veggie 24 Jazz style 26 Readers’ — 28 Crannies’ counterparts 30 Present 32 Defeatist 33 Grecian vessel 34 Cartoon shriek 36 Make into confetti 38 Rags-to-riches author

39 Alabama city 40 Stuffed deli treat 42 Brilliance 45 Office reminder 46 Solemn pledge 48 Aviv lead-in 50 Hasten 51 Away from WSW

Yesterday’s answer

How to play Fill in the grid, so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1-9. There is no math involved. You solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic.

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Yesterday’s answer

• My Penguin. You are my whole world. From the moment I wake until the moment I fall asleep, you are on my mind and in my thoughts. I never thought it was possible to love this much or feel something this big. I have made my share of mistakes with you but, loving you will never be one of them. I will always be there to protect you and make you feel safe. My only wish is to spend the rest of my life finding new ways to make you happy. From Big Love

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Horoscope

Aries | March 21 - April 20.

As retrograde Mercury slips out of your sign, you won’t be quite so sure about your opinions as you usually are — and that’s good.

Taurus | April 21 - May 21.

Make this an ideas day, a day when you make an effort to think outside the box.

Gemini | May 22 - June 20.

There’s no point in being anxious. Look at your situation calmly because only when you do that are you going to find the answers.

Cancer | June 21 - July 22.

You may not be able to explain why you don’t trust someone who seems honest, but you know better than to ignore your instincts.

Leo | July 23 - Aug. 22. Start thinking seriously about what you can and can’t afford and how you’re going to pay what you owe. Virgo | Aug. 23 - Sept. 22.

If you need to put a relationship on a firmer footing, the return of Mercury to your opposite sign today will help you.

Libra | Sept. 23 - Oct. 22.

will give you the opportunity to smooth things out at home.

Capricorn | Dec. 22 - Jan 20. Be careful what you say today

because you could easily let something slip that would have been better to keep to yourself. Are you following a certain course of action because that is what you really want to do or because you think it is expected of you?

You need to think more seriously about a creative or artistic venture you’ve just been toying with.

You won’t have just one good idea today, you’ll have dozens. Write them down and decide what ones to pursue later. sally brompton

Scorpio | Oct. 23 - Nov. 21.

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Aquarius | Jan. 21 - Feb 18.

Don’t be slow to junk old routines if it becomes obvious that they are no longer up to the task of getting you from where you are now to where you want to be tomorrow.

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Pisces | Feb. 19 - March 20.

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