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1. Ford’s homophobia leads to amazing day A woman goes to City Hall to protest the mayor’s gay-bashing and ends up being witness at a wedding.

2. Ford untruths The mayor goes on the Today show, lies about things.

3. Ford almost walks The mayor threatens to end a scrum when a reporter calls him on transit hypocrisy.

4. E-scooters allowed To the frustration of beleaguered bikers, council allows electric bikes in cycling lanes.

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Square kicks off a series of powerful pics about injustice, at the Lightbox. $5-$12. Fest runs to Mar 6. ff.hrw.org.

Doomsquad The emerging T.O. darkly cosmic band launch their new album at the Comfort Zone. 9 pm. $7. RT, SS, TF.

MacIvor’s play examines the changing relationship between two women over a decade. To Mar 9 at Factory Studio. $20$25. 416-504-9971.

The Beverleys The punk grunge group throw a party for their new EP at Sneaky Dee’s. 9 pm. 416-603-3090.

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Early 20th century European art from the NYC museum’s collection at the AGO closes today. $16.50-$25. 416-9796648, ago.net. tribes Last chance to see Nina Raine’s play about a deaf man who meets a woman who’s losing her hearing. Berkeley Street Theatre. 2 pm. $22-$49.

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by journalist Andrew Mitro­vica is part of Freedom To Read Week. 6:30 pm. Free. Deer Park Library. freedomtoread.ca.

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Doors 7 pm. $39.50. LN, RT, SS. DAVID HAWE Last chance to see NOW photo­­grapher’s Big Locks show – queer bears with bouffant hair – at Wayla Bar. Free. 416-901-5570.

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arrabal The world premiere of this Argentine coming-ofage story told through dance and song continues at the Panasonic to Apr 20. 2 and 8 pm. $44-$84. 416-872-1212.

This is not a Toy Exciting group show of sculptural toys inspired by pop culture is at the Design ­Exchange to May 19. $13-$16. 416-​363-​6121.

­ xpressive play, presented as e part of the Panamerican Routes ­Festival, looks at the disappearance of a native girl.

11 am. To Mar 16 at Aki Studio Theatre. $15-$20. nativeearth. ca.

social media as civic engagement A talk organized by Canadian Voice of Women for Peace at E.J. Pratt Library, rm 306. 7 pm. Free. info@vowpeace.org.

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s­ oldiers’ experiences of war – featuring actual ex-servicemen and women – closes at the Princess of Wales. 2 pm. $19-$79. 416-872-1212.

Billy Joel Catch the piano man in concert at the ACC. 8 pm. $50.50-$146.50. LN, TM.

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TORONTO SKETCH COMEDY F­ ESTIVAL The annual fest runs at the LOT, Comedy Bar and Randolph Theatre. To Mar 16. $15-$39, four-show pass $50. torontosketchfest.com.

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It’ll be a family affair when the British folk legend and his son come to Koerner Hall. 8 pm. $35-$80. 416-408-0208.

SNAP! ACT gala Live and silent auction of photographs benefits the AIDS Committee of ­Toronto. 5:30 pm. $100. ­Andrew Richards Designs. snap-toronto.com.

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play looks at a family transplanted from war-torn Afghanistan to a new and sometimes disturbing life in Canada. To Mar 23 at Buddies. 8 pm. $26$31. 416-975-8555.

BRAIN CANDY The Kids in the Hall’s 1996 cult fave gets a staged reading by the original cast. Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

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Doors 9 pm. $8. RT, SS, TW.

Bob Rae kick off the three-day fest celebrating the written word in the digital world, in all the arts and everywhere else, at Randolph Theatre. $15. pagesfestival.com.

Arcade Fire Montreal art rockers finally bring their Reflektor tour to town. Don’t forget to dress up. Air Canada Centre.

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Paul Simon and Sting The ACC hosts this unusual pairing of world-music-friendly pop stars. 8 pm. $63-$268. LN, TM. Hands-on urbanism Symposium with lectures by activists, architects, artists and planners at U of T. 230 College. 9:30 am.

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Bollywood films and shadeism in 1989 and today. To Mar 8 at Theatre Passe Muraille. Pwyc$32.50. 416-504-7529.

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A Tribe Called Red The ­Ottawa electronic group that mixes in First Nations chanting and drumming plays the Hoxton with Tom Wrecks. Doors 10 pm. $15. TW. +CounterIntelligence Research-based show linking ­visual arts and military intelligence is on view at Justina M. Barnicke, to Mar 16. Free. 416978-8398.

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Julia LeConte’s cover yarn on DeMar DeRozan (NOW, February 20-26) was just outstandingly good. Wonderful writing.

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There are good reasons for a Gardiner teardown east of Jarvis (NOW, February 13-19).

But Waterfront Toronto and city staff, who seem to think this highcapacity traffic-moving behemoth could simply be replaced by tacking a few extra lanes onto Lake Shore, have got to take off their rose-coloured glasses. That would result in chronic lakefront gridlock.

For the sake of yet-to-be developed waterfront neighbourhoods and city commerce, it’s very important a Gardiner replacement be done properly.

Either go big and deep with a tunnel or leave it where it is and go home.

Is their teardown proposal maybe a way to give developers an easy land grab? Tunnelling should be doable.

Maybe tearing the “sucker” down is a sucker’s game, and we’re the developers’ suckers.

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Customer service crack needs clarifying

While CUPE Local 79 appreciates the attention focused on Ombudsman Fiona Crean’s recent report on customer service standards at the city of Toronto (NOW, February 13), I want to clarify an important distinction regarding my remarks.

While I did state in my interview that staff should be dealing respectfully with the public, these comments followed a discussion of the cumulative effects of leaving 2,500 positions

Space provided through a partnership between industry and Ontario municipalities to support waste diversion programs.

at the city unfilled and the ongoing cuts that have been made across the board over the past three years of the Ford administration.

At no point did I ever “concede” that all or part of the problem was the result of “under-performing employees.”

Thanks for the opportunity to clarify my remarks.

Tim Maguire President, CUPE Local 79

Hot for Walkinshaw

Regarding Christina Walkinshaw’s Single, Sexy And Hot For Tinder (NOW, February 13-19). I feel like I need to bookmark this story so I can send it to everyone who asks me why I haven’t “found a nice boy to settle down with yet.” Walkinshaw, you are amazing and inspiring and the perfect combination of vulgar and eloquent!

Caitie Rosen Toronto

Pride problem with Ford

Re letter-writer Don Christopher Collymore on Rob Ford’s Twisted Family Values (NOW, February 13-19).

Help me understand the logic in Ford attending Pride. In December he was asked not to attend the Santa Claus parade because he’s a giant goof.

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Now we want Ford to attend the Pride parade – and we’re upset that he won’t? Aren’t people happy that he won’t attend because he’s a giant goof?

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E-​bikes in bike lanes a crap idea

Oh, crap. E-​bikes are being allowed in bike lanes (NOW, February 20)?

The worst kind of people use those things – too stupid to get a driver’s licence, too lazy to pedal. Thanks, Toronto city council. Bad idea.

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“ Ford was asked not to attend the Santa parade because he’s a giant goof.

Now we’re upset that he won’t ­attend Pride? ” Bike physics 101 for drivers

After an SUV hit me a few days ago trying to pass my bike on a snowy, narrow one-way street, I feel a need to explain the laws of physics to drivers.

When you follow a bike on a road, less than one car length behind but cannot pass it, the laws of physics say you may not be able to stop in time if I happen to fall.

Add snow into that mix and you wonder why cyclists get pissed off when cars follow too closely. Think physics before you kill some­one Scotty Robinson Toronto

A bead on IUDs

I was disappointed in your AltHealth column on contraception (NOW, February 13-​19). Looking to the U.S., for ex­ample, was hardly useful since implants are not available in Canada.

The copper IUD, as opposed to the IUS (Mirena, which was not mentioned), is a safe and effective method of birth control. Perforation during insertion is rare, and the IUD can also be used as a post-​coital method up to seven days after unprotected sex. Fertility awareness does not require beads Lyba Spring Toronto

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Gay questions about Israel

After reading of the oppression of homosexuals in Russia (NOW, February 13-19), I am reminded of all the energies Toronto’s gay community directs against Israel.

It seems that all over the world homosexuals face danger, yet in Israel they live virtually as they do in Canada, with the same rights and self-determination.

It seems more political when gay groups in Toronto make very little noise about other crimes against homo­sexuals around the world.

Why no boycott of Russia or any of the other countries that have anti-gay laws?

Mark Rubin Toronto NOW welcomes reader mail. Address letters to: NOW, Letters to the Editor, 189 Church, Toronto, ON M5B 1Y7. Send e-mail to letters@nowtoronto.com and faxes to 416-364-1166. All correspondence must include your name, address and daytime phone number. Letters may be edited for length.

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Why To demand the immediate r­ elease of three Al Jazeera English journalists, including Canadian Mohamed Fahmy, Australian Peter Greste and Egyptian Baher Mohamed, who are being held in Cairo for “spreading false news.”

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Hundreds turned out Saturday, February 22, for the annual Coldest Night Of The Year walk in support of Yonge Street Mission and other charities serving the homeless and hungry. Slideshow at nowtoronto.com.

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“Have I had a drink? Yes, I have, but not to the point of some of the episodes before­. So you know what? That’s past me.”

Rob Ford to the Today show’s Matt Lauer on Tuesday, February 25. He’s still in denial about his booze problem.

mall envy

Sixties-era shopping malls are the last place you’d expect to find architectural beauty. For example, Yorkdale Shopping Centre, which turned 50 this week, was panned in Canadian Architect magazine as “a gigantic compendium of follies.” But flourishes of style can be found amid the commercial blandness. The window-lined balcony above the entrance to Eaton’s is a rare standout.

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closing in on blair

Briefly overshadowed by the curious report that the Office of the Indepen­dent Police Review Director (OIPRD) will be probing Chief Bill Blair’s fishing trip with Police Services Board member Andrew Pringle (an investigation requested by Councillor Doug Ford) was this week’s major news from the provincial watchdog. Namely, that it will conduct a review of Toronto police’s use-of-force guidelines for handling people dealing with mental illness. OIPRD head Gerry McNeilly says, “Recent high-profile cases... have affected public confidence in policing.” We’ll see if this is just another ass-covering exercise. Blair has some influential fans at Queen’s Park, including the ­premier.

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By ENZO DiMATTEO The plan was for John Tory to bide his time.

But time – and timing – became of the essence when word leaked late Friday, February 21, that TTC chair Karen Stintz would be registering to enter the mayoral race Monday mor­ ning.

So the crew that’s been working be­hind the ​scenes on a Tory run de­ cid­ed it was now or never, lest those questions about his legen­dary dither­ ing become the topic of con­ver­sa­ tion.

Why, it was only last week that To­ ronto Community Foundation CEO Rahul Bhardwaj was being floated as a possible replacement for Tory. What changed?

The arrival of Tom Allison, Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne’s deputy chief of staff, as Tory’s campaign chair may have had something to do with the shift in strategy.

Tory showed up an hour and a half before Stintz was scheduled to sign her registration papers, forcing her to play catch-up on the morning talk

show circuit on what was supposed to be her day in the limelight.

Mission accomplished. The name everyone was waiting to see in the race – besides Olivia Chow’s, that is – was now official.

Now we can have a serious conver­ sation about the issues, including grid­lock. At least that was one topic of discussion on those talk shows.

May­be.

The plan this time is to position Tory as the big-tent candidate. There will be a rally sometime next month packed with big-name supporters to cast him as the guy who can get coun­ cil working together to deliver on big promises like the downtown relief line. In an obvious bid for downtown voters, Tory says it’ll be his priority number one. He’s promising shovels in the ground.

How he plans to pay for it is an­ other question, of course. (See story page 12) But the business community is firmly on Tory’s side on this one. Be­ sides, isn’t the mayor’s Scarborough “stubway” extension being financed

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transit fantasy pool

Honesty and political courage about how the city will pay for future transit are in short supply on day one of Karen Stintz and John Tory campaigns By BEN SPURR

Karen Stintz and John Tory kicked off their re­ spective mayoral campaigns this week by talk­ ing about building transit. Neither of them talked about how they would pay for it.

Both contenders filed their papers on Mon­ day, February 24, and both immediate­ly identi­ fied the downtown relief subway line as a top priority of their would-be administrations.

In her first scrum as an official candi­ date, Stintz announced that the initial $3.2 billion phase of the subway could be built without any new “revenue tools” – the taxes, tolls and levies that many see as the only way to raise enough cash for hugely expensive infrastructure projects.

“There are ways we can fund that portion of the downtown relief line without going to people and asking for them to pay more,” she said.

Tory, too, would not endorse transit tax­es, at least not yet.

Journalists asked five separate times how he would fund the relief line. “That will all be re­ vealed in due course,” he finally answered.

Stintz’s comments and Tory’s dodges marked a drastic change from what the pair were say­ ing less than a year ago, when the debate about revenue tools hit City Hall. At the time, Metro­ linx, the provincial transit agency, was about to release a report recommending a raft of rev­ enue tools to fund a $50 billion expansion of public transportation in the GTA. The agency asked the city to weigh in, but Mayor Rob Ford, who opposed the revenue tool idea, blocked the issue from going to council.

Stintz excoriated him for not being serious about funding transit. “He talks about wanting to build subways; he doesn’t talk about how he is going to pay for them,” she said on April 24.

Tory also took a shot at Ford.

CivicAction, the non-partisan agency Tory chaired at the time, had recently launched a major campaign for more transit investment.

In a speech to the Empire Club of Canada, Tory called out politicians who weren’t willing to bite the bullet and support transit taxes.

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“If there are two commodities more needed than any others in politics at all levels in 2013, it is honesty and courage. The honesty and cour­ age to tell people there is no free transit,” he said in his prepared remarks.

Now that Stintz and Tory are running for mayor against an incumbent whose politi­cal

“ There is no free transit.”

Mayoral candidate John Tory in a 2013 speech to the Empire Club of Canada

brand is based almost entirely on anti-tax rhet­ oric, that honesty and courage seem to be in short supply.

In an interview with NOW, Stintz confirms that her new position on revenue tools doesn’t just apply to the relief line. Taxes or fees for any new transit projects will not be part of her cam­ paign.

Her reversal is all the more astounding be­ cause she’s holding up the Scarborough subway extension as an example of how her adminis­ tration would pay for new lines. On Monday she boasted that as TTC chair she secured money from the province and federal government for the project, omitting the inconvenient detail that the city’s contribution is in fact being funded by a revenue tool that she supported: a dedicated 1.6 per cent property tax increase that residents will be paying for 30 years.

Whether Tory will perform a similar flipflop remains to be seen. It’s entirely possi­ble that the former Ontario PC leader simply didn’t want to launch a controversial pro­posal on the first day of his campaign and still intends to un­ veil a platform of new transit taxes in the com­ ing weeks.

But spokesperson Erika Mozes warns that voters shouldn’t expect Tory the candidate to promote the same policies as Tory the CivicAc­ tion leader.

“His position as chair of CivicAction and his being candidate for mayor, they’re a little bit different, obviously,” she says.

For the moment, the only substantial com­ ments he’s made since registering suggest he’s adopting the position, used so successfully by Ford in the 2010 election, that billions of dol­ lars’ worth of transit can be built without much impact on taxpayers’ wallets.

“We have to build the transit, but we also have to keep the taxes low,” Tory said Monday.

While conservatives like Tory and Stintz might be expected to get nervous about going to the polls promising to raise taxes, the pro­ gressive players in this debate aren’t looking much better.

NDP MP Olivia Chow, who is expected to en­ ter the mayor’s race within weeks, has so far refused to take a position on revenue tools.

There’s a chance she will borrow a page from her provincial counterparts, who are outright opposed to the idea.

Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath in­ formed Premier Kathleen Wynne last week that she will topple the minority government if the Liberals’ spring budget includes “any new taxes, tools or fees that hit middle-class families,” in­ cluding transit levies.

Wynne is refusing to back down, meaning her government (and the transit funding scheme) could be defeated in an election called as early as next month.

All this leaves mayoral candidate David Sok­ nacki as a conspicuous advocate of a realistic approach to transit funding.

A conservative former city councillor with only an outside chance of winning, Soknacki prefers a dedicated property tax or develop­ ment charge increase to pay for new transit.

He says any transit funding scenario that doesn’t include new taxes is a “fantasy,” and argues that all revenue tools “need to be on the table.”

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by a 1.6 per cent property tax increase over the next 30 years?

Back to the launch. It sure had the smell of establishment politics from the days when Toronto’s mayors were preordained by Bay Street. All the major dailies had the “scoop” that Tory would be officially enter­ing the race.

There was a YouTube video. And of course the formidable dream team of Liberal and Conservative strtegists that has coalesced around Tory.

Doug Ford says the 2014 mayoral race will be a choice between what he likes to call the “bluebloods” and the working folks his bro­ther allegedly represents. It’ll be about a lot more than that, of course. The not ​so small matter of the police investigation into drugs and gangs hanging over the mayor’s head, for example, will no doubt figure at opportune points.

But the elder Ford isn’t completely off his rocker. There’s no doubt the big Bay Street moolah will be on Tory.

Conservative political forces are lining up against the Fords in a big way.

There was another sign of that Fri­ day, February 21, when Doug an­ nounced he won’t be running for the PCs provincially as he was expected to in the next election. And nor will he be running to reclaim his council seat. He wants to concentrate on run­ ning Rob’s campaign.

Don’t believe it for a second. Truth is, PC leader Tim Hudak told Doug in no uncertain terms in a telephone conversation before his surprise presser that there was no way he was going to support his candidacy. It’s no secret Ford wants Hudak’s job.

Doug’s choice was simple. Either pretend it was his decision not to run, and bow out, or force Hudak to make the decision for him by not signing his nomination papers.

He could barely mask his dis­ appointment in front of the cameras.

One minute he was declaring his love for the PC party and Hu­dak. In the next he made it clear that the Fords won’t be campaigning for the PCs in the next election.

The Fords are back where they started – political pariahs in their own party. And if the Conservatives don’t want the Fords, why would any­ body else?

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The drake decade

It took a while, but we’ve accepted the West Queen West spot as an edgy part of the city’s cultural history, despite the well-heeled crowds By ­benjamin boles

Even if you hated what the Drake represented, you’d be ­forgiven for hanging out there.

Happy 10th birthday, Drake Hotel! In a city where most bars and restaurants go out of business in less than a year, making it a decade is a big deal indeed.

The building may no longer have that shiny brandnewness, but it’s now a bona fide institution – one that has for better or worse become a potent symbol of West Queen West’s gen­trification over the last 10 years.

When press releases went out detailing the plan to turn the decaying building into a bohemian arts and culture hub, there was eye-rolling and hand-wringing among the actual artists who’d been building a community for themselves on that stretch of Queen West.

Attracted by cheap rents, storefront galleries had been multiplying, unintentionally creating the ideal conditions for bigger changes.

“In the first couple of years, my gallery felt a bit more like a project,” recalls Katharine Mulherin, who opened her first spot in the area 16 years ago. “I did imagine, though, that the neighbourhood was going to have a denser population in the years to come, and that in some ways it was contemporary art that would be its focus.”

The area has been in a constant state of development. In fact, the Drake was a landmark long before Jeff Stober purchased it.

It opened in 1890 as Small’s Hotel in an area that was at the time a major Canadian Pacific Railway hub and near one of the city’s wealthiest districts.

It was renamed the Drake in 1949, and went through many more in­creas­ingly grimy incarnations, including as a punk hangout and rave den in the 80s and 90s, before Stober turned it into a fancy boutique hotel.

By the time the Drake finally reopened after three years of renovations in 2004, battle lines were clearly drawn between the haters and the supporters. Nevertheless, a fuzzy middle ground soon emerged.

Even if you supposedly hated what the Drake represented, you’d be forgiven for hanging out there if you were performing. That wiggle room was extended to hipsters who were just there for the free guest list, drink tickets or easy line bypass.

Despite feeling way underdressed and underfunded compared to the well-heeled crowd who waited to get in every Friday and Saturday, I found myself not only listening to mu­sic there semi-regularly, but also playing DJ gigs and shows.

It might have felt a bit like my friends and I were being paid to hang out to help the bankers feel edgy, but that’s how a lot of nightlife functions and flourishes.

When a Starbucks opened down the street, it was famously spraypainted with the slogan “Drake you ho, this is all your fault,” which was promptly erased but immediately replaced with, “Drake you slut, this is all your fault.”

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That graffiti lodged in our brains. You can still buy T-shirts online emblazoned with the slogan from antigentrification activists.

But the oversimplification, not to mention the slutshaming, also stirred a backlash against the back­lash.

As much as the line captured the raw anger many felt about their rap­id­ly changing turf, seeing that rage laid out in all its childish, unfiltered glory highlighted just how much our reaction to these changes was driven by emotion.

“It’s sad that there are fewer and fewer storefront galleries along this strip now,” Mulherin admits, “but that’s a very common pattern. Artists move to neighbourhoods that are a bit rough around the edges because of cheaper rents but then break the ground for people who want culture where they live.”

The condo towers we were warned about arrived eventually, but astute observers had known they would. The shift had started before Stober moved in, back when the Drake was still called the Stardust. If you believe that a Starbucks leads to rising prop­erty values, then you have to accept that art galleries do, too.

Now “the Drake feels like an established part of the neighbourhood,” Mulherin says. “It was a bit scarier when it first opened. It seemed like all the galleries would get priced out because something fancier had landed. We don’t have that concentrated storefront gallery district any more, but some of us are still here. Things just evolve over time – they have to.”

Says Stober: “Our vision of creating an arts-inspired hotel for locals and visitors alike has remained true to this day. We have worked really hard to remain true to the spirit of what the ‘hood has always represented to us.”

It took a while, but we’ve accepted the Drake into our hearts as an important part of the city and its cultural history.

We remember seeing one of MIA’s first-ever live shows in the basement, and knowing she was going to be huge. We remember being there when Antony and the Johnsons played that super-intimate showcase early in their career.

We remember Peaches doing her best to freak out the TIFF crowds, and Kid Cudi pouring vodka down the throats of fans in the front row.

We remember fending off requests from patrons for the Backstreet Boys and DJing LCD Soundsystem tracks instead.

We remember playing countless Elvis Monday showcases for small crowds of other musicians, knowing the lineups outside on the weekends were helping fund those indulgences.

The Drake has matured into an institution, and maybe helped us grow up a bit, too.

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Anser, one of Toronto’s most secretive and iconic graffiti writers, doesn’t give many interviews.

However, in advance of a show opening tonight (Thursday, February 27) at Hashtag Gallery (801 Dundas West), the artist has agreed to speak about her work and the misconceptions surrounding Toronto’s oft-­maligned graffiti culture.

To protect the artist’s anonymity, Anser has asked us to arbitrarily choose a gender to represent her in this article.

“I don’t like lying to people or hiding who I am,” she says. “But there’s also something compelling about anonymity. It makes the work about how people respond to the image rather than about some personality cult of the artist.”

On Mysterious Date, her signature graffiti bomb of minimalist portraits.

“These build on the idea of the face as a mask.

When you look at someone’s face, you’re seeing just that, a surface. A person’s appearance and what’s inside that person are often two very different things.”

On appropriating private property for free public art.

“Inherent in all graffiti art is a critique of capitalism – specifically our society’s obsession with property. That’s why I prefer to tag banks and government buildings – especially because the cost for them of painting over a couple of quick spray-painted lines is so mini­mal.”

On our advertising c ­ ulture.

“Part of why I paint is to try to reclaim some of our visual terrain for the public, to create an image that isn’t inherently commercial and helps people identify with their city.”

On communicating rather than alienating the public through graffiti.

“While I love graffiti, it’s often painted in very coded letter-based forms that mean nothing to people outside the graffiti world. But graffiti has tradi­tionally been a way to empower young people without a voice.”

On her decision to create graffiti work for an indoor exhibit.

“Graffiti belongs in the streets. One of the best things about it is that it doesn’t last – it resists ownership. By using unique surfaces from our urban environment [including brick, canvas, plexiglass, vinyl and found objects], my gallery pieces are as true as possible to the medium while at the same time becoming something wholly different.”

Anser’s Crowded Kingdom opens tonight (Thursday, February 27) at 7 pm and runs to March 9 at Hashtag Gallery. news@nowtoronto.com

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INTIMATE DISCUSSIONS. LIVELY GUESTS.

Circular logic “E-scooters are faster than bikes and slower than cars, so let’s put them where they’ll cause less damage, i.e., out of the way of cars, in bike lanes.” That seems to be the gist of the reasoning behind staff’s recommendation.

To quote Public Works Committee chair Denzil Minnnan-Wong “Both of them [bikes and electric scooters], if they get hit by a car, will come to a terrible, terrible end.”

Danger contradiction While the city doesn’t see e-bikes as a danger to cyclists, councillors think they pose a risk to pedestrians. Unlike bikes, e-scooters are still banned from trails in parks and ravines.

Pedal problem E-scooters are defined as bicycles because they have pedals. But as the city’s report points out, the pedals are useless in many models, in that they can’t be used to propel the e-bike. Some owners have removed them because they get in the way, which makes them no longer e-bikes according to the province’s definition.

Renegades of the road Three reasons why they might be outlaws: 1 Riders don’t need a licence or insurance despite the fact that e-scooters are motorized and weigh just as much as their gas-powered counterparts.

2 Cops are not collecting data on collisions involving e-bikes.

3 They’re silent and sneak up on you before you know it. Also, there’s some suggestion in the city staff report that e-scooters are being modified to make them go faster than the allowable speed limit. Council has asked the Ontario Ministry of Transportation and Transport Canada to review the vehicle types currently being sold to ensure they comply.

Zero health benefits E-scooters are a clean way to get around. But putting aside the danger posed by their bulk to cyclists, when it comes to human health, the benefits of e-bikes are next to zero. Few riders ever use the pedals.

The big question “E-scooters have nothing in common with bicycles, so why would we put them in bicycle lanes?” – Councillor Mike Layton

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Except for a brief protest by punk collective Pussy Riot, there were few signs of civil disobedience over Russia’s anti-gay law at the Sochi Games.

no pussyfooting around

The 2014 Winter Olympics have come and gone, and besides a brief protest by punk collective Pussy Riot and a few isolated shows of rainbow solidarity, the highly-anticipated acts of civil disobedience by athletes and fans against Russia’s anti-gay laws never materialized.

Instead of staging overt demonstrations or an outright boycott, Canada’s athletes joined thousands of other Olympians from almost 90 countries and competed in Sochi. Many had earlier voiced disapproval of Russia’s laws, but should they have gone further and stayed away from the Games?

I think not.

When it comes to events like the Olympics, I prefer engagement over boy­cotts – although I can’t say my thinking on the subject was that sophisticated back in 1980.

I was 20, and as a newly minted member of the Canadian men’s field hockey team, was focused on a dream of representing Canada at the Summer Games in Moscow.

When we were told that our country, along with other Western nations, was boycotting the Games and that there’d be no chance at Olympic qualification for us, my 20-year-old self was too choked at seeing my slim Olympic hopes disappear to think much about Russia’s invasion of Afghanistan – or whether a boycott of a sporting event was an effective way to make a political point.

Russian tanks rolling into the Afghan desert seemed very remote when my reality was living and training on the UBC campus in Vancouver.

This was the pre-digital era, when you relied on network TV and newspapers for your updates. Like many serious athletes, my teammates and I were focused mainly on our sport: training twice a day, fighting for a spot in the starting 11, playing hard, hoping to qualify for the big tournaments. These victories and defeats were what passed for strug­gles in our world.

Sad to say, most of the guys weren’t too aware of the life-or-death struggles taking place on the other side of the globe.

I wish I could say different. And that I’d thought more about the wider implications of the boycott and about what was happening in Afghanistan – but the truth is I didn’t, not until later.

There was no John Carlos moment, but Canada’s participation in the Olympics was more likely to shift Russia’s anti-gay stance than staying home By ­MIKE TANNER

Did Canada and the other boycott­ing nations do the right thing in 1980?

You could ask the same of the African nations that boycotted the 1976 Games to protest apartheid, and the Eastern Bloc countries that stayed away from the 1984 Games.

While I think a boycott might – might – be justified by the attention it draws to an international geopolitical situation (e.g., an invasion), in the case of this year’s controversy surrounding Russia’s anti-gay law, I believe our athletes took the best course by going to the Sochi Games.

Participation, dialogue and en­gage­ment are more likely to shift Rus­sia’s unconscionable anti-gay stance than staying away ever would have. Putin & Co.’s official response has been stony silence and stilted pro­p­aganda, but you can bet that ordinary people from Volgograd to Vladivostok are talking about sexual orientation more than ever before. And ultimately, this attention is bound to help the mil­lions of Russians discriminated against by their own government.

And remember: without participation, the world would never have witnessed the extraordinary triumphs of Jesse Owens in 1936 or the stunning silent protest of Tommie Smith and John Carlos in Mexico City – and the social dialogue generated by these athletes’ actions.

Oh, and by the way, Canada did compete in the 1984 L.A. Olympics, but by then I’d left the field hockey program. The band I’d co-founded and played with since high school had decided to make a go of it.

So by the summer of 84, I was on a neverending tour of northern BC and the Prairies and had to watch my former teammates play on a grainy TV mounted behind the bar of the Silver Spur Cabaret in Fort St. John, BC. For about a week, I wrestled with a late-night case of the what-ifs... until Canada got knocked out. Then it was back to the challenge at hand: convincing the rig workers coming in off the deck at Tumbler Ridge that our originals were as good as anything off ZZ Top’s Eliminator.

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Bryant’s caREFUL comeback Former Liberal rising star’s political rehabilitation hasn’t quite gone according to plan By ­wayne scott

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was Tuesday, February 18, the return of the legislature from their more than nine-​and-​a-​ half-​week hol­i­day break, and most media attention was trained on NDP leader Andrea Horwath and what zingers she’d have ready for Premier Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals after another NDP by-election triumph in Niagara.

Meanwhile, a familiar figure darkened the door of committee room 1.

A bespectacled Michael Bryant, brown hair slicked straight back and greying at the temples, entered the meeting room a few minutes before his scheduled appearance, looking

slight­ly transfixed.

The former Ontario attorney general in Dalton McGuinty’s government, once-rising political star, hasn’t been publicly seen often since he was charged with criminal neg­ ligence in the death of cyclist Dar­cy Allan Sheppard in a 2009. The charges were eventually withdrawn by a special Crown prosecutor called in to handle the case.

Since then, his public rehabilitation – and the political comeback that was supposed to follow – hasn’t quite gone according to plan.

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fairs in an iPolitics.com column and the occasional op-​ed piece for the Toronto Star. But toiling in obscurity as chair of the Public Accountants Council overseeing the province’s accountants, which is the job he was hoping to secure at the Legislature Tuesday, seems like an odd place to start a political resurrection.

Appointments like this one are usually pro forma, but opposition MPPs on the committee wanted to question Bry­ant before handing it to him. They needn’t have bothered; it was ob­vious­ly a slam dunk.

NDP MPP Rosario Marchese handled the honours for the NDP by welcoming Bryant back to the leg.

“How does it feel to be sitting there as someone who needs to be appoint­ ed but was once a minister for a while and an MPP?” “Uh, terrifying”, replied Bryant, and all the politicians shared a little laugh.

“Well, I’ll be supporting your appointment, so you don’t have to worry about that,” Marchese assured him.

How nice.

The two PC committee members were only slightly more penetrating in their questioning.

Etobicoke-​Lakeshore MPP Doug Holy­day asked Bryant how he felt about the fact that the nine members already serving on the council might resent an outsider’s getting the chair’s job.

Bryant responded with what he knew about the process.

Committee members ignored the elephant in the room. That would be the fact that same man who recommended Bryant for the appointment, Attorney General John Gerretsen, continues to deny Sheppard’s father, Darcy Allan Sheppard Sr., access to the Ontario government’s voluminous files on his son’s violent death.

Sheppard Sr. has doggedly sought all pertinent official documentation that might explain the horrendous event. Slowly, he’s unearthed much of the raw police report, and last year he posted many of those documents on​line. Inconsistencies have been flagged.

The general public has been led to believe that Sheppard was killed only after he had attacked Bryant. But the police’s collision reconstruction report states that, “There was no physical evidence, or independent witness statements... to suggest he (Sheppard) physically attacked Mr. Bryant.”

Ideally, the dead man’s father would also like to see a full public inquiry into how the whole “special prosecutor” concept is used by governments to make potentially problem cases just go away.

But Sheppard Sr. will settle for provincial documents that shed light on why the special prosecutor accepted the defence’s arguments that Bryant was attacked as fact.

Sadly, most of the press and politicians have largely moved on as Bryant continues his slow ascent to his accustomed perch of professional entitlement.

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Daily events appear by date, then alphabetically by the name of the event.

B indicates Black History Month events I indicates International Women’s Day events r indicates kid-friendly events indicates queer-friendly events

The Sugarbush Maple Syrup Festival begins March 1.

All listings are free. Send to: listings@nowtoronto.com, fax to 416-​364-​1168 or mail to Daily Events, NOW Magazine, 189 Church, Toronto M5B 1Y7. Include a brief description of the event, including participants, time, price, venue, address and contact phone number (or e-mail or website if no phone available). Listings may be edited for length. Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm.

Anthropological Cosmopolitanisms And World Anthropologies Talk by Gus-

tavo Lins Ribeiro on the world anthroplogies project. 3:30 pm. Free. York University, 4700 Keele, Founders College rm 305. 416-7365237, ­yorku.ca/founders.

Artscape Street Party: Scribbling Rivalry Live painting, music, dance and

spoken word competitions. 6:30 pm. $30, adv $25, stu $20. Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. ­artscapestreetparty.ca.

Benefits

B 5Bavard Rustin: Non-Violent Warrior For Justice/Pacifist Champion For Diversity Talk on the gay African American

Get Your Heart On (Heart and Stroke Fdn)

Affect, Patina, Atmosphere: Prowling Through The Work Of Mike Nelson Discus-

sion with Journal Of Curatorial Studies editors Jennifer Fisher and Jim Drobnick. $15.

Harbour­front Centre Studio Theatre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949.

BConversations On Haiti United Black Students at Ryerson presents a discussion. 6-9

Festivals this week

Human Rights Watch Film Festival

New Creations Festival Toronto Symphony Orchestra presents the hottest works in contemporary music. Performances and pre- and post-concert events. $14, some free events.

Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe. tso.ca.

Mar 1 to 7

Screenings of films about human rights issues including LGBT rights, racism and ­violence against women. $5-$12. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. ff.hrw.org/toronto.

Feb 27 to Mar 6 rJapanese Spring Festival Music, dance, drumming, martial arts, food, crafts, a Japanese Hina dolls display and more.

Noon-5 pm. $­6, stu/srs/child $4. Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, 6 Garamond. 416441-2345, jccc.on.ca.

Mar 1 and 2

Panamerican Routes/Rutas Panamericanas Aluna Theatre festival of theatre for

Network workshop. 7-9 pm. $30. Uniiverse, 111 Jarvis. Pre-register uniiverse.com/listings.

Pursuit Grooves, Adrian X, 88 Days of Fortune’s Ayo Leilani and Brendan Philip. 9 pm.

The Piston, 937 Bloor W. daltonhiggins.wordpress.com.

BFrom Negro History Week To African Liberation Month Talk by Norman (Otis)

Richmond. 7 pm. Free. GCDO Hall, 290 Danforth. 416-469-2446.

Holistic Pain Relief Lecture by integrative medical practitioner Heather Tick. 7 pm. Free.

Big Carrot, 348 Danforth. 416-466-2129.

How To Ban A Book In 10 Easy Steps A notso-tongue-in-cheek guide to the crazy world of book banning and censorship is part of Freedom To Read Week. 2 pm. Free. Weston Library, 2 King. ­freedomtoread.ca/events.

In Conversation With Manga Artist Nao Yazawa The artist discusses his work with

pm. Free. Student Centre, SCC115, 55 Gould. rsuonline.ca/index2.php/section/20.

Economics Of The Golden Commons ­Science for Peace lecture by Earthsharing Canada president Frank de Jong. 7 pm. Free. University College, rm 179, 15 King’s College Circle. ­scienceforpeace.ca.

scholar Rolant Kelts. 6:30 pm. Free. Japan Foundation, 131 Bloor W. ­jftor.org.

Jan Jongert The Rotterdam architect talks about his sustainable designs. 6:30 pm. Free.

Ryerson University, the Pit (ARC 200), 325 Church. arch.ryerson.ca.

Edward Snowden: What He Should Mean To You A talk by investigative reporter An-

Discussion on the labour movement with ­author Jane McAlevey and Sam Gindin. 7 pm.

Free. Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil. ­workersassembly.ca.

drew Mitrovica is part of Freedom To Read Week. 6:30 pm. Free. Deer Park Library, 40 St Clair E. f­ reedomtoread.ca/events.

Etsy Shop 101 For Beginners Women’s Art

(­ LGBTOUT) Drag cabaret and music by DJ Cozmic Cat supports the LGBT community at U of T. 8 pm. $14-$16. Hart House Debates Room, 7 Hart House Circle. uofttix.ca.

Events

Thursday, February 27

cussion with authors Stacey May Fowles, Brian Francis and Michael Winter. 7 pm. Free. Spoke Club, 600 King W. Pre-register events@openbooktoronto.com.

5The Queer Ball 2014: At The Movies

Winter Palace Ball – A Masked Evening

How to place a listing

Advice For Myself: Writers On What They Wish They Knew Back Then Salon-style dis-

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(Ruskoka Camp) Champagne reception, dinner, dancing and an art showcase. 6:30 pm. $150, yth $90. Palais Royale, 1601 Lake Shore W. w ­ interpalaceball.com.

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Cocktail-style fundraiser for young professionals. 7 pm. $60. Switch, 55 Colborne. ­thosegirls. org.

It’s S’more Fun At Camp (Camp Towhee) Dancing and a fundraising raffle celebrate all things camp. 7 pm-2 am. Free admission.

Imperial­Pub, 54 Dundas E. facebook.com/ events/1413431938904997.

Literary Moot (University in the Community) Local personalities and lawyers star in a play that puts Jay “The Great” Gatsby on trial for his actions in the book. Doors 6:30 pm. $10 sugg. Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex. ­literarymoot. wordpress.com.

Recipe For Change (FoodShare) Food by 30 chefs plus local wine and beer tasting. 6-9 pm. $125. St Lawrence Market North Bldg, 92 Front E. ­foodshare.net/recipeforchange.

Rouge (United Way Toronto) Evening of art, music, food, and networking for young professionals. 8 pm. $45. Fifth Social Club, 225 Richmond W. unitedwaytoronto.com/rouge.

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Raising Expectations (And Raising Hell)

BRap N’ Roll: The Afro Alternative Music Showcase Performances by Complaints Dept,

human rights with international and local artists performing, exhibits, installations, concerts, master classes and a conference. $15-$25. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E. ­alunatheatre.ca.

Feb 27 to Mar 9 rSugarbush Maple Syrup Festival Demonstrations, wagon rides, entertainment, maple syrup pancakes and more. Free w/ ad-

Remembering Toronto’s Indigenous And Colonial Pasts Lecture by professor Victoria

Freeman. 7 pm. Free. Spadina Road Library, 10 Spadina Rd. ­torontopubliclibrary.ca.

Rise Up! Freeform dance party with a DJ, yoga, snacks and more. 6:30-9:30 am. $5-$10. City Dance Corp, 489 Queen W, 3rd fl. picatic.com/­ RiseUp3.

BSneaking Into The Big Leagues: Emergence Of Sneaker Culture In Mainstream Society Panel discussion with Bata Shoe Mu-

seum curator Elizabeth Semmelhack, Toronto

mission. Kortright Centre, Pine Valley and Major Mackenzie (Kleinburg). 905-832-2289.

Mar 1 to Apr 6 Toronto Irish Film Festival Screenings from the best of Irish cinema including filmmakers to the Greater Toronto Irish community. $12-$15. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. ­torontoirishfilmfest.com.

Feb 28 to Mar 2

continuing

Spotlight On Israeli Culture Festival of

contemporary Israeli art, film, photography, video, theatre, dance and music. Various prices and venues across the GTA. ­spotlightonisraeliculture.com.

To Mar 31

and performance highlight the cultural contributions of queer African-Canadians through music, spoken word, dance, performance art and a panel discussion. 6 pm. $10. 519 Community Centre, 519 Church. f­ acebook.com/ writeonopenmic.

Friday, February 28

Benefits

5The Boylympics (Egale Canada) Cabaret

showcase of cold sport, hot men, spandex and more by Boylesque T.O. Doors 9 pm. $22-$28. Lee’s Palace, 529 Bloor W. boylympics. eventbrite.ca.

civil rights activist by Margaret Chisholm of Yale Law School. 1:30-3 pm. Free. Osgood Hall Law School, rm 1003, 4700 Keele. ­micaowusu@gmail.com.

Brain Fitness Health talk. 1 pm. Free. Toronto Western Hospital Auditorium, 399 Bathurst. Pre-register sarah.cunningham@ uhn.ca.

Hands-On Urbanism: How To Make A Difference Lecture on alignments between

architecture, landscape, planning, art, activism and civic engagement by cultural theorist Elke Krasny. 6 pm. Free. Urbanspace Gallery, 401 Richmond W. Pre-register: ­houkeynote.eventbrite.ca. rOff Leash Safety Course Learn what you need to know to keep your dog safe in an off-leash environment. 6 pm. $10.75/family.

PawsWay, 245 Queens Quay W. p ­ awsway.ca.

Public Interest Day Info fair for law students to learn about legal aid clinics, community-based associations, NGOs and firms committed to public interest work. 9:30 am12:30 pm. Free. Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front W. p ­ ublicinterestday.ca.

B 5Queering Black History Month An evening of queer black history, speakers, performances and more. 5:30 pm. Free.

Ryerson Student Centre, SCC115, 55 Gould. ­facebook.com/events/604572219612687.

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Loves Kicks co-founder Dion Walcott, journalist Dalton Higgins and others. 6 pm. Free. Hart House East Common Rm, 7 Hart House Circle.

Pre-register harthouse.ca.

BTwelve Disciples Of Nelson Mandela Film screening and live video Skype Q&A with filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris and others. 7 pm.

Pwyc. Performing Arts Lodge, 110 the Espslanade. ­commffest.com.

5Violet Wand Demo Master Tony demonstrates the use of the kinktoy. 11 pm. Free.

Black Eagle, 457 Church. 416-413-1219.

B5Write On! Open Mic Nite Series Dialogue

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7-9 pm. $33. Good for Her, 175 Harbord. Preregister 416-588-0900.

Surveillance After Snowden: National Security And The Limits Of Freedom Of Expression A panel discussion with political science prof Ron Deibert, journalist Colin Freeze and others is part of Freedom To Read Week. 7 pm. Pwyc ($10 sugg). Reference Library, 789 Yonge. f­ reedomtoread.ca/ events.

Toronto International Bicycle Show

Seminars by Toronto Bicycling Network, a bike polo tournament, test ride zone, kids’ area, demos and more. Today noon-9 pm; tomorrow 10 am-7 pm; Mar 2, 10 am-6 pm. $9-$13. Better Living Centre, Exhibition Place. ­bicycleshowtoronto.com.

Saturday, March 1

Benefits

Bowlathon (Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/ Multicultural Women Against Rape) Fundraising bowling games. 4 pm. Donation.

Bowlerama, 5429 Dundas W. 416-597-1171 ext 233.

Get Pampered For Peace (Canadian Voice of Women for Peace) Drop-in fundraiser with workshops, mini-manicures, tarot readings and more. 1-5 pm. Free admission (charges for workshops, readings). Christine’s Fitness, 457 Richmond W. info@vowpeace.org. rTable Hockey Tournament (YMCA Strong Kids Campaign) Table hockey, hockey videos, raffles and more. 2 pm. $20, stu $15.

North York YMCA, 4580 Dufferin. Pre-register ­ymcatablehockeytournament@mail. com.

Events

Champion Mindfulness In Education

Public meeting to strategize and get involved in programs for the classroom. 2-5 pm. OISE, 252 Bloor W, rm 4-22. ­discovermindfulness.ca.

Curiouser And Curiouser & The Second Skin Kinesiologist/author Michael Atkinson talks about tattooing as quasi-legitimate

performance art. 1 pm. Free. MOCCA, 952 Queen W. 416-395-0067.

Divestment Or What? Economic Tools For Creation Advocacy In A Time Of Crisis Forum exploring alternatives to the

fossil fuel-based economy. 9 am-2 pm. $15.

Beach United Church, 140 Wineva. Preregister 905-771-5124, ontario-sea.org.

DJ Skate Nights Outdoor skating party season finale with FLOW 93-5. 8 pm. Free. Har­ bourfront Centre Ice Rink, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. rFamily Screech & Hoot Owl Prowl An interactive slide show, hike to explore owl habitat and dissecting an owl pellet. 6-8 pm. $8, under 4 free. Howard Park Tennis Club, 430 Parkside. ­highparknaturecentre. com.

Hands-On Urbanism: How To Make A Difference Symposium with lectures by activists, architects, artists and landscape planners. 9:30 am. Free. U of T Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Design, 230 College. Pre-register ­housymposium.eventbrite.ca. rKnow Your Nature Family nature walk.

1 pm. $2 or pwyc. High Park Nature Centre, 440 Parkside. ­highparknaturecentre.com.

Organizing Against Multiple Oppression In Our Time Presentations by labour ogan-

izer Ajamu Nangwaya and others. 7 pm.

Free. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. ­workersassembly.ca.

Phoenix Poetry Workshop Read your poem for feedback and provide feedback to others. 2:30 pm. Free. College/Shaw Library, 766 College. ­phoenixpoetryworkshop.ca.

Science: Uncensored! Freedom To Read Week talk by Evidence for Democracy’s Katie Gibbs on how scientific information in Canada is being censored by the federal government. 2 pm. Free. Jane/Dundas Library, 620 Jane. ­freedomtoread.ca/events.

Spinlaw 2014 Conference for students, activists and community members to raise awareness and generate discussion on social justice issues. 9 am-5 pm. Free. Osgoode Hall Law School (York U), 4700 Keele. Preregister ­spinlaw.ca.

Winter Tree Identification Tour Learn how to identify trees in Trinity-Bellwoods Park in winter by their twigs, buds and bark.

1-3 pm. $5/pwyc. Trinity Community Re-

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Now that the anti-gay Olympic Games are over, enjoy the Boy­ lympics, an unabashed celebration by queer entertainers of LGBT sensi­bilities, featuring the all-male burlesque troupe Boylesque T.O., Friday (February 28) at Lee’s Palace.

The event is a funder for Egale, the national charity pursuing LGBTQ human rights through research, education and community engagement – the kind of org Russia wants to ban and which will keep the pressure on for rights here and around the world. Doors open at 9 pm, $22-$28. 529 Bloor West. ­boylympics.eventbrite.ca. creation ­Centre, 155 Crawford. y­ ourleaf.org. rWinter Trees Family nature walk. 1-2:30 pm. $2-$5 or pwyc. High Park Nature Centre, 440 Parkside. highparknaturecentre.com.

Sunday, March 2 Artbus Bus trip to view exhibitions at the

Art Gallery of Hamilton and Oakville Galleries. 11:30 am-5 pm. $10. Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, 952 Queen W. Preregister artbus@oakvillegalleries.com.

Beauty In Nature Illustrated talk by photographer Kyle Horner. 2:30 pm. Free. Northrop Frye Bldg, rm 003, 73 Queen’s Park. ­torontofieldnaturalists.og.

The (Burlesque) Oscars The Harlettes pay tribute to movies and stars. 7 pm. $15$25. Revival, 783 College. ­burlesqueoscars2.

CELEBRATE TOOKER GOMBERG

Hard to believe its been 10 years since the death of Tooker Gomberg, the activist who gave Toronto greenspiration when we needed it most, during the Mel Lastman years. His ­legacy lives on in efforts to build bike lanes on Bloor, a plan recently revived by council. Gomberg’s partner in green activism, Angela Bischoff, holds a celebration Sunday (March 2) at 7 pm. Free. Friends House, 60 Lowther. a ­ ngela@cleanairalliance.org.

AFTER SNOWDEN, WHAT?

Ron Deibert, the director of the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global ­Affairs, joins Globe and Mail investieventbrite.com.

BColored Frames: A Visual Documentry

Movie night celebrating artists of the African diaspora with a screening, drumming, performances and more by artists Audrey Hudson and Charmaine Lurch. Doors 6:30 pm. Free. OCAD U, 100 McCaul. facebook. com/events/687240881316741.

Emergency Transit: Jitney Trains And Buses To Portland And Areas (First World War, 1914-18) Urban ecology walk.

11 am. Free. Queen and River. 416-593-2656.

Farewell Babylon Talk on the Jewish exo-

dus from Arab lands from 1947-67 by writer Naïm Kattan. 7:30 pm. $10. Congregation Darchei Noam, 864 Sheppard W. ­darcheinoam.ca.

Fashion Takes Action Sustainable fashion

Remember activist Tooker Gomberg at a special event March 2.

gative reporter Colin Freeze and others in a panel discussion called Surveillance After Snowden: Na­ tional Security And The Limits Of Freedom Of Expression, part of Freedom To Read Week. Friday (February 28), 7 pm. Pwyc ($10 suggested). Metro Reference Library, 789 Yonge. f­ reedomtoread.ca/ events. expo and conference. 10 am-4 pm. Free.

Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview. ­fashiontakesaction.com.

Parsing Toronto Pop Music Gallery panel discussion with Rosina Kazi, Nicholas Murray and others. 3 pm. Free. St George the Martyr Church, 197 John. m ­ usicgallery.org.

Remembering Tooker Celebration and sharing on the 10th anniversary of the passing of local activist Tooker Gomberg. 7 pm.

Free. Friends House, 60 Lowther. facebook. com/events/816649505028630. angela@ cleanairalliance.org.

Toronto Monologue Slam & Oscar Party Up-and-coming actors perform in

front of judges, followed by an Oscar-watching party. Doors 4:30 pm. $10-$15. Rize Studios, 21R Atlantic. t­ oslam.com.

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Monday, March 3 Becoming Ourselves: How Immigrant Women Transformed Their World Film

screening and discussion with Asian Immigrant Women Advocates’s Young Shin. 7 pm.

Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex. asian.institute@ utoronto.ca.

Camilla Gibb Hosts The Unknown Famine PEN Picks film screening and talk with the author. 6:15 pm. $15. Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor W. ­bloorcinema.com.

Chanting Join in chanting for peace, happiness and spiritual growth. 7 pm. Free. Tao Sangha Toronto Healing Centre, 375 Jane.

416-925-7575.

Coffee, Beer And Mosh Pits Celebration of the Toronto music scene with singer-songwriters Murray McLauchlan, Lorraine Segato and others. 7 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. t­ orontopubliclibrary.ca.

Defining Greatness: Director Steven Spielberg Film clips and a talk by critic Shlomo

Schwartzberg. 7 pm. $11, stu $6. Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina. mnjcc.org.

Exile And Belonging: Stories Of Immigrant

Experience Class with Sanja Ivanov. 6:30 pm.

Free. Lillian H Smith Library, 239 College. ­torontopubliclibrary.ca.

Making Culture Matter Symposium Professional development conference explores arts, culture and heritage in transition. $90, stu $50. Berkeley Church, 315 Queen E. Preregister ­makingculturematter.com.

Mindfulness In Daily Life Talk with monastics from Plum Village. 6 pm. Donation. U of T Multi-Faith Centre, 569 Spadina. ­curvedspace@gmail.com.

Social Media As A Civic Engagement Tool

Canadian Voice of Women for Peace talk. 7 pm. Free. EJ Pratt Library, rm 306, 71 Queen’s Park Cres. info@vowpeace.org.

The Systemic Crisis Of Financialization From 2007 To The Present Lecture by economist Costas Lapavitsas. 7 pm. Free.

Ryerson U George Vari Engineering Bldg, Sears Atrium, 245 Church. ryerson.ca.

BViola Desmond Award Ceremony

Awards presentation by the Black History Awareness Comm at Ryerson University. 5 pm.

Podium Bldg, POD250, 350 Victoria. ­facebook. com/events/479806302130132.

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IVinifera Fundraiser (Women in Capital Markets) Live music, silent auctions and more celebrate International Women’s Day and raise funds for scholarships. 6 pm. $250. Andrew Richard Design, 571 Adelaide E. wcm.ca.

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Eco-Sex Workshop Learn about holistic fertility, sexuality and contraceptives. 7:309 pm. $15, stu/srs $13.50. Grassroots Danforth, 372 Danforth. Pre-register grassrootsstore.com.

Inspire 2014 Medical professionals Jay Dahman and Barbara Collins share stories about what the human spirit can accomplish. 6 pm. Free. St Michael’s College, 100 St Joseph. Pre-register goo.gl/9RFjBF. Made In The USA Film screening for socially conscious singles and a Q&A with director Bill Gillespie. 6:15 pm. ING Direct Café, 221 Yonge.

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Men’s Undies Only Yoga Yoga class. $20, stu $15. Glad Day Bookshop, 598 Yonge. ­yogibare.ca.

Post-Neoliberal Money & Banking Occupy Economics workshop. 6:30 pm. Free. Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil. occupyeconomics.ca.

Star Clusters: Engines Of Galactic Turmoil Talk. 6:30 pm. Free. Kennedy/Eglinton Library, 2380 Eglinton E. 416-396-8924.

Steven Truscott: Decades Of Injustice

Talk by true crime author Nate Hendley. 7 pm. Free. St Lawrence Library, 171 Front E. ­torontopubliclibrary.ca.

3D Printing For Absolute Beginners Class on getting started. 6:30-9:30 pm. $49. Hot Pop Factory, 215 Spadina. Pre-register ­hotpopfactory.com.

What Is Happening To Our Democracy?

Community meeting to help elect people with a strong mandate for action on democracy, climate and inequality. 6 pm. Free. 519 Church Community Centre. ­electoralalliance.ca.

Wednesday, March 5 CBC Connects A weekly live show lets you

connect with CBC personalities. Noon-1 pm.

Free. CBC Broadcasting Centre Atrium, 250 Front W. cbc.ca.

Celebrate Spain Taste Spanish cheeses,

charcuterie, olives, nuts and condiments paired with regional wines. 7-8:30 pm. $45.

All the Best, 1101 Yonge. Pre-register ­allthebestfinefoods.com.

5Dare To Be Bare Women’s clothing optional yoga class. $20, stu $15. Glad Day Bookshop, 598 Yonge. Pre-register ­yogibare.ca.

Dx3 Canada Digital marketing, advertising and retailing conference. 8 am-6 pm. Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front W. d ­ x3canada. com.

Girls Raising Panel discussion on helping women-founded startups get publicity with Hacker You founder Heather Payne and others. 6 pm. $25. The Lab, 483 Queen W. ­girlsraising.com.

The Power Of Pursuing Your Dream Seminar on pursuing a dream or goal for individuals who are frustrated in their current career or personal life. 7-9:30 pm. $12. Aangen Community Centre, 868 Dovercourt. Preregister ­aangen.com.

An xLECTURE On The xCLINIC Lecture by artist/engineer/inventor Natalie Jeremijenko followed by a Q&A. 5 pm. Free. York U Tribute Communities Recital Hall, Accolade E Bldg, 4700 Keele. 416-736-2100 ext 20763.

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Benefits

Happy Birthday Toronto – Celebrating 180 Years! (Evergreen Brick Works) Semi-

formal cocktail party with big-band music and visual presentations on the city’s past, present and future. 7:30 pm. $40. The Roundhouse, 255 Bremner. ­happybirthdaytoronto.com.

Snap! (AIDS Comm of Toronto) Gala fundraiser with live and silent auctions of photographs. 5:30 pm. $100. Andrew Richards Design, 571 Adelaide E. snap-toronto.com.

Soldiers Of Song (Town of York Historical Soc) A new musical play pays tribute to wartime troupe the Dumbells. 7:30 pm. $25. St Lawrence Hall, 157 King E. c­ abinmedia.ca.

Events

AGO First Thursdays: Long Winter Takeover Art conversations, pop-up perform-

ances, music and more with Egyptrixx, Jordan Tannahill, Astra Taylor and others. 7 pm. $15, adv $12. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. ago.net.

Child Soldier Recruitment In Intra-State

Armed Conflicts Science for Peace lecture by political science professor Vera Achvarina. 7 pm. Free. University College, rm 179, 15 King’s College Circle. ­scienceforpeace.ca.

Exploring The Built Environment Photography lecture by Andrew Emond. 8 pm. $10. Toronto Camera Club, 587 Mt Pleasant. ­torontocameraclub.com.

From Things To Villas To Princely Gifts: Maiolica For Renaissance Dukes And Dutchesses Or Urbino Lecture by professor

Late Night Special

Timothy Wilson. 6:30 pm. $20. Gardiner Museum, 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080, ­gardinermuseum.on.ca.

Humanities: Past, Present, Future Discussion on the present state and future direction of the humanities with professor John Ralston Saul and others. 6 pm. Free. George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre, 3rd fl, 245 Church. rsvp@arts.ryerson.ca.

International Home And Garden Show

Seminars, expert advice, interior design, home and garden products, and more with experts including Kimberley Seldon, Robert Koci and Lynn Spence. To Mar 9. $15, srs/stu $12, under 8 free. Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front W. ­internationalhomeandgardenshow.ca.

Irshad Manji Lecture by the Muslim, feminist activist and writer. 7 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

Is Multiculturalism Bad For Women?

Discussion with author Irshad Manji and TVO broadcaster Steve Paikin. 7 pm. Free.

Reference Library­, 789 Yonge. Pre-register ­torontopubliclibrary.ca/bluma.

New Working Class Leadership And Prospects For Socialist Politics In South Africa Talk by Irvin Jim. 7 pm. Free. Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil. frederick. peters1968@gmail.com.

When Your Kid(S) Just Can’t Shake It: Safe And Effective Natural Solutions For Long-Standing Ailments Seminar with a homeopath. 7 pm. Free. Big Carrot, 348 Danforth. 416-466-2129.

IWomen & Literature International

Women’s Day luncheon with a keynote address by author Lee Maracle. 11 am. $10. U of T St Michael’s College, Carr Hall, 100 St Joseph. Pre-register idigta.eventbrite.ca. 3

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A creative approach to condo shopping and ­design

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hat to do when you buy your first condo in the Massey Harris Building and your mom isn’t around to help decorate? If you’re Zanerobe menswear account executive Brandon ­Kaplan, you enlist an interior decor ­service for dudes to dress up the place with a faux gator head and a regulation-size rusted steel basketball backboard.

“I used Type-D (type-dliving.com), a Toronto-based home decor service for young professional guys. They come in to do a consult, figure out what you like and go from there. For me, basketball is big, so they installed the backboard. You shadow them through the process so you learn the design skills for yourself going forward.”

Kaplan went to Type-D because their services are adaptable to just about anyone’s budget. The initial three-hour consult costs $500, and he ended up spending an additional $2,200 to have all his custom pieces built.

Original condo budget $400,000-$450,000 Unit price $460,000 in 2012 Wish list A loft space with unique and engaging features. High ceilings and brick walls were dream items, and ­Kaplan knew he’d found the one when he saw the kitchen’s floating shelves.

Number of properties seen Forty. “I looked for the good part of four months and used a real estate agent who specialized in the King West area.”

What he got An 800-square-foot one-bedroom suite What he says about the neighbourhood “I love it. The demographic is great.

It’s full of young professionals and it’s a stone’s throw from Queen West and Trinity Bellwoods, and also from King West and the Entertainment District. It’s also close to the Gardiner and the water, which is great in the summer.”

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RED SAUCE (50C Clinton, at College, 416792-6002, redsaucetoronto.com, @­RedSauceToronto) Complete dinners for $35 per person (lunches $25), including tax, tip and a tall-boy of Old Milwaukee.

Average main $12/$9. Open daily 11 am to 2 am. Closed some holidays. No reservations. Licensed. Access: two steps at door, washrooms in basement. Rating­: NNN

Some might say that opening a casual old-school Italian trat at College and Clinton brings coal to Newcastle.

Aren’t there already 87 other casual old-school Italian trats within six blocks of the corner? Do the names San Francesco, California Sandwiches and Bitondo not ring a bell?

But that hasn’t stopped Scott and Lindsay Selland from launching Red Sauce at ground zero in Little Italy directly across the street from Café Diplomatico. When in Rome, make like the locals.

Red Sauce started out as Acadia, that temple to haute gastronomia that wowed the critics with its foams and fiddly bits a few seasons back.

But after two years of high-profile chefs, an avant-garde carte that didn’t change every day so much as every 15 minutes and the whims of fickle foodies with short attention spans – not to mention the addition of two new-born daughters – the Sellands were ready for a simpler life.

And so Red Sauce, a 50-seat room decked out in warm yellow walls and olive-green wainscoting that looks straight out of Scorsese’s Mean Streets. All that’s missing are checkered tablecloths and melting candles in Chianti bottles.

The lineup’s just as familiar. There are Italian-style veal, chicken and garlicky pigs’ knuckle sandwiches, all cooked sous-vide, then breaded ’n’ deep-fried, layered with simple tomato sauce – the red sauce in question – creamy fior di latte from Cheese Boutique and fresh basil, and served on crusty kaisers ($9) or subsized hoagies ($12) from nearby Riviera Bakery. They make very good all-beef meatballs as well.

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At Red Sauce, Amber Ale stands tall, Jason Hirsch preps buffalo cucumbers, calzone keep the old-school spirit, owner Scott Selland holds his draft Negroni, and spicy rapini is a solid side.

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A couple of blocks east of Little Italy, Grasshopper (310 College, at Robert, 647-340-3666, grasshopperrestaurant.ca, @grasshopperrest) quietly opened its doors three weeks ago.

Despite its regulation filament bulb ’n’ barnboard decor, the cozy café’s all-veggie lineup is right on trend, especially co-owner/chef Roy Qian’s faux takes on multiculti comfort food like vegan pulled-pork banh mi and gluten-free quinoa macaroni and ersatz cheese.

Ramen wars Toronto’s obsession with Japanese noodle houses continues apace with the upcoming launch of the seventh Kenzo Ramen (kenzoramen.ca) in the one-time Murray’s Sandwich Emporium at 671 Queen West and Bathurst. Not to be outdone, rival Kinton Ramen (kintonramen. com, @KintonRamen) is about to sign the lease on a Queen West storefront closer to Spadina and super-hot Banh Mi Boys and the Burger’s Priest. The Kinton crew also softly open their new Yakitori Kintori (yakitorikintori.com, @yakitorikintori) upstairs over their ramenya at Bloor West and Manning on Tuesday, March 4.

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the buck, go with any of them as $17 platters, our favourite the retro eggplant parmigiana with cheese and sauce. Sided with a choice of either house-baked bread knots or minicalzone and two of five veggie options – the best, spicy broccoli rabe with sweetly roasted garlic, blistered shishito peppers with lemony aioli, and Buffalo-wing-style cucumbers with blue cheese and peanuts – they’re more than most can finish.

The kitchen sends out solid takes on clams casino in mornay sauce with bacon of unknown address ($8)

and off-menu specials like takeout-friendly tagliatelle with sauce ($10).

Massive muffuletta sandwiches on rosemary focaccia stuffed with mortadella, fatty capicola, lean Berkshire ham, Genoa salami and smoky provolone cheese ($8 half/$14 whole) are sure to please a crowd. Only subpar Caesar salads ($6 small/$9 large) – more anchovies, please – and pedestrian chopped lettuce salads in overly roasted lemon vinaigrette ($8/$12) have room for improvement.

And though we’re tempted by zeppole – think five-packs of Timbits injected with chocolate syrup ($4) – we go with two straws and the Sauce’s Popcorn Float of aged dark El Dorado rum and house-made caramel-corn ice cream ($9) instead, a boozy finale worthy of Disney’s Lady And The Tramp.

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Lipstick puts it on A little further west, Lipstick and Dynamite has finally opened after a lengthy renovation in the former T.A.N. Coffee at 992 Queen West and Ossington. An eclectic card geared toward both herbivores and carnivores will kick in once the chef gets back from vacation next week.

No more Cookbook A favourite of chefs both professional and dilettante, the Cookbook Store (850 Yonge, at Yorkville, 416920-2665, cook-book.com, @cookbookshop) is throwing in the tea towel after a 31-year run, another victim of downtown’s relentless condofication. Owner Josh Josephson had hoped to relocate elsewhere but failed to secure suitable real estate. A final 25-per-cent-offSD everything sale is under way.

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75 Portland, at King W, 416-5992822, buca.ca, @bucatoronto Behind the anonymous facade of a first-floor condo storefront lies the biggest thing to hit the King West strip since half-price wings at the Wheat Sheaf. The cachet of the original trat will get them in the door, but Rob Gentile’s moderately priced Tuscanstyle tapas and all-day kitchen open seven days a week till 2 am will make them regulars. If they can get in, of course.

Best: bruschetta dressed with duck yolk, beech mushrooms and shaved black truffle; crisp baby artichokes with lemony zabaglione custard; house-baked focaccia panini with virgin mozzarella and preserved cherry tomatoes, or porchetta

with apple mostardo; goat ’n’ ricotta meatballs in tomato sauce studded with raisins; at brunch, pork-blood crepes with chocolate-coated figs and buffalo-milk crème anglaise; semolina pancakes layered with lemony mascarpone, crumbled pistachio and candied citrus in grappafortified maple syrup. Complete dinners for $40 per person (lunches $30), including tax, tip and a glass of wine. Average main $10. Open daily from 11 am to 2 am; coffee and pastries from 7 am. Closed some holidays. No reservations. Licensed. Access: barrier-free. Rating: NNNN

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A charming room, engaging service and a no-nonsense card of Sicilian home-cooking classics add up to a trip back to a simpler time. Best: to start, grilled and skewered lamb speducci; meaty white Sicilian anchovies and garlicky chopped tomato crostini; grilled lamb speducci; pressed muffuletta panini with tapenade, capicola, mortadella, sweet and hot soppressata and giardiniere pickles; veal sandwiches in Decina-family tomato ragu with Provolone and grilled hot banana peppers; spicy penne putanesca with capers, olives, garlic and anchovies; grilled New Zealand lamb chops with cheesy baked mashed potatoes and rapini; textbook tiramisu and pistachio cannoli. Complete dinners for $50 per person (lunches $25), including tax, tip and a glass of Chianti. Average main $25/$13.

Open Tuesday to Saturday 10 am to 10 pm; lunch from 10 am, dinner from 5 pm.

Closed Sunday, Monday, some holidays.

Reservations accepted. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms on same floor. Rating: NNNN

Sandwiches HEY MEATBALL! 912 Queen E, at Logan, 647-340ñ 6439, heymeatball.com, @TeamHey-

Meatball One-time Rosebud and Citizen owner/chef Rodney Bowers moves slightly down-market with an upscale take-

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These excellent Italian spots are also making waves Compiled by STEVEN DAVEY

Hey Meatball!’s Rodfather sandwich is made with pork meatballs. away devoted entirely to meatballs, whether naturally raised Rowe Farms beef or pork, free-range Gasparro’s chicken or house-made vegan veggie. Slick design, creative sides and a kid-friendly card mean lineups come suppertime. Also: 719 College, at Crawford, 416-546-1483.

Best: the signature Rodfather sandwich, three hefty ’balls on grilled Boulart baguette finished with simple tomato sauce and powdered parmigiano; Eastender subs, Newfie takes on Halifax donairs with slow-braised roast beef,

smoked provolone and grilled poblano peppers; retro macaroni and cheese; oldschool spaghetti and meatballs; chopped salads of pickled carrot and radicchio over organic greens; cheesy sautéed Brussels sprouts. Complete meals for $18, including tax, tip and a house-made soda.

Average main $12. Open daily 11:30 am to 9 pm; daily 11:30 am to 10 pm (College). Closed some holidays. No reservations. Unlicensed. Access: barrier-free; two steps at door, washrooms in basement (College). Rating: NNNN 3

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Tonica’s Zoey Shamai says cocktails made with kombucha are easier on the body.

KOMBUCHA

Kombucha, an ancient probiotic health tonic made from naturally fermented tea, has been gaining serious trend traction – first as a non-alcoholic, low-sugar digestive aid believed to have energizing and detoxifying properties and now as a cocktail ingredient.

Zoey Shamai, founder of Toronto-based kombucha company Tonica, started her business in her kitchen back in 2008. The company had to halt production last fall while seeking a new facility, but Tonica hits shelves country-wide again this month.

Containing raw digestive enzymes and all organic ingredients, Tonica is particularly high in gluconic acid, said to bind to toxins in the liver, helping to flush out your system. That means there could be real health benefits to kombucha cocktails.

“Along with the fact that it’s helping your liver cleanse itself as you drink, it’s lower in calories than other mixers, with low sugar content so you won’t have a hangover the next day. It’s just cleaner,” Shamai says.

Tonica’s website (tonicakombucha.com) lists cocktail recipes – both boozy and virgin – designed by mixologist Adrien Stein (Boot ’n’ Bourbon, Rock Lobster, Mistura).

Besides its tasty acidity, “there are so many nutritional qualities to kombucha, and these days with

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EVENTS, OPENINGS & CLOSINGS, NEW RELEASES AND MORE Made With Love

On March 24 at 6 pm, 17 of Toronto’s best barkeeps mix off at the Liberty Grand (25 British Columbia) in one of the year’s biggest cocktail competitions, Made With Love. Make your rounds and cast your vote – prizes are awarded by both judges and attendees. Tickets are $55, available online at enjoymadewithlove.com and from participating bartenders.

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health and wellness so prominent in everything we do, it’s a great selling point when offering drinks to guests,” Stein notes.

Robin Goodfellow, GM and barman at Ursa (942 Queen West, 416-536-8963, ursarestaurant.com), cultivates his own kombucha and fruit vinegars in an inhouse fermentation room. It’s a sustainable and natural way to transform unused organics from the kitchen into drinks and dessert, he explains.

Kombucha adds complexity and zing to cocktails like the Clairmont (shiso-infused vodka, honey kombucha, citrus horchata and lemon juice, served hot or cold, $14) or offers a lively alternative to alcohol.

Up the street at Fonda Lola (942 Queen West, 647706-9105, fondalola.ca), owner Andres Marquez incorporates kombucha into one of his signature margaritas (with tequila and smoked horchata, $10.50), reflecting the kitchen’s focus on healthful fare.

“Kombucha’s acidity along with the carbonation and salty sweetness can complement every aspect of a cocktail,” he says.

As health-conscious consumers seek alternatives to high-sugar mixers, expect to see more of this marvellous tea on cocktail lists. It’s nutritious, delicious and fermented – so hot right now.

Old school cool

Once popular in old-school soda fountains, acid phosphate is becoming a staple behind contemporary cocktail bars. A sour alternative to citrus, it imparts no flavour but plenty of tingle and pucker.

By Extinct ($16.95/250 ml), from BYOB (972 Queen West, 416-858-2932, byobto.com) and play bar chemist.

Earth & Sky Pinot ñ Noir

Rating: NNNN Why The sentimentalist in me loves that: a) this wine is made by a family, the Boscs; b) Château des Charmes is a member of Sustainable Winemaking Ontario; and c) it’s balanced, local and affordable, expressing strawberries and wet earth.

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= Critics’ Pick NNNNN = Ambrosial NNNN = Dangerously drinkable NNN = Palate pleaser NN = Sensory snooze N = Tongue trauma

Creekside Cabernet Shiraz 2011

Rating: NNN Why I don’t usually crave cab, but I did enjoy this. Creekside’s blend (49 per cent Cabernet Sauvignon, 48 per cent shiraz and a touch of Cab Franc) doesn’t smash its black pepper and smoky dark berries in your face, but firmly insists you stay for one more glass. It’s bold but not a bully.

Price 750 ml/$16.95 Availability LCBO 305300

Pelee Island Cabernet Franc 2011 Rating: NNN Why Easy and affordable, this Cab Franc brims with currants and spice and has a sturdy tannic finish.

Now all I need is a lamb chop.

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Put your personal style front and centre with a quirky pair of glasses

Philip Sparks/Opticiando yellow frame gradient grey glasses ($295, Philip Sparks, 162 Ossington, 647-348-1827, philipsparks.com)

Thierry Lasry Glitzy sunglasses ($495, Josephson Opticians, 60 Bloor West, 416-964-7070, and others, josephson.ca)

Kuboroum tortoise shell sunglasses ($420, Karir Eyewear, 100 King West, 416-363-4669, and others, karireyewear.com)

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Coal Miner’s Daughter is a boutique all about local love. Owners Janine Haller and Krysten Caddy specialize in indie Canadian jewellery and clothing designers, many of them based right here in Toronto.

Unlike some shops that make a big show of supporting homegrown designs but only carry a few lines, Coal Miner’s Daughter aims to have at least 80 per cent Canadian stock. Melissa Nepton, Sara Duke, Crywolf, Copious, 3rd Floor Studio, Valerie Dumaine, Birds of North America and Norwegian Wood are just a few of the Canuck brands on their racks.

The two women, designers themselves, understand the local fashion scene and its challenges better than most. Haller styles a namesake line of clothing, while Caddy helms the shop’s signature line of sterling silver and gemstone jewellery .

Can’t make it into one of Coal Miner’s Daughter’s two store? Check out their extensive online shop.

Coal Miner’s Daughter picks They predict Montreal designer Eve Gravel’s Arular dress ($236) and Toronto brand Pink Martini’s Harlow dress ($82) will be top sellers this spring.

Look for The final markdowns from their winter sale launch today (Thursday, February 27). Get up to 80 per cent off all winter clothing and accessories, while quantities last. What better time to try out a new local brand?

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The week’s news, views and sales Sweat it up

Roots launches its special XL collection and pop-up store (567 Queen West, canada.roots.com) as part of its 40th-anniversary celebrations. Pick up limited-edition mix-andmatch athletic wear items ($38 to $158) designed by Adrian Aitcheson of the popular street brand Too Black Guys. There’s minimal logo-ing, so no need to worry about looking like a walking billboard. The pop-up runs from today (Thursday, February 27) through Sunday (March 2).

Drama queens

Judy Cornish and Joyce Gunhouse, the design duo behind Canadian fashion powerhouse Comrags (comrags.com), have been tapped to design the costumes for the Chekhov Collective’s production of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull. This is their first foray into theatrical costume design, and it’s sure to be stunning. Catch The Seagull at the Berkeley Street Theatre (26 Berkeley, 416-368-3110, canadianstage.com) March 7 to 23. Tickets start at $36.

Kick some ass

I’ve been telling people not to judge Flirty Girl Fitness (580 King West, 416-920-1400, flirtygirlfitness.com) by its name for years. In addition to striptease and pole fitness classes, this place offers up some seriously hardcore workouts. Check out their free self-defence workshop with fourtime kick-boxing champ Jacqueline Walters on March 9 from 2 to 4 pm. Learn strategies for situational analysis and conflict avoidance – and get a great workout while you’re at it. Call to register.

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Luxury retail chain Holt Renfrew has upped the ante at its Yorkdale location (3401 Dufferin, 416-789-5377, holtrenfrew.com). The store is now twice as large as it used to be and features free shoe shines and shaves with a straight razor in refurbished vintage barber chairs. Dressing rooms have seats for tag-along shopping partners, and there’s even an in-house aesthetician and a café where you can grab lunch. One thing’s for sure: Holt isn’t going to make it easy for incoming American luxury retail giants to steal its customers.

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When you’re addicted to the planet By ADRIA VASIL

SLOW YOUR ROLL: the yoga mat guide In your quest for inner peace and limber limbs, you may be spending a lot of face time with a yoga mat. But what is that squishy substance under your nose, knees and toes?

PVC

Almost all low-​cost, cushiony ­plastic yoga mats are made of PVC (polyvinyl chloride), an ­environmentally contentious ­plastic often softened with ­hormone-​disrupting phthalates.

Those phthalates have been banned from children’s toys because of leaching concerns, but wouldn’t you know it, they’re ­perfectly legal in yoga mats everywhere but Denmark (where they’ll be banned by 2015, anyway).

There are exceptions like Manduka’s top-​of-​the-​line Pro series, which uses PVC that’s OEKO-​TEX-​ certified not to leach certain baddies. Manduka’s also very durable.

One more thing: if your mat says it’s treated with antimicrobial Microban, make sure it’s free of eco-​toxic triclosan before you buy.

Score: N

PER

Scoping out an eco-​branded mat that still looks and feels like the “classic” PVC kind? This yoga mat material can seem about as mysterious as the meaning of life, but do a little digging on polymer environmental resin and you’ll find it’s basically a cleaned-​up PVC. ­Instead of phthalates, it uses acetyl tributyl citrate, considered a safer plastic softener; hence, it’s turning up in more nail polishes and cosmetics. On the other hand, PER is still manufactured with vinyl chloride, the component that’s made PVC so harmful to ­factory w ­ orkers and the surrounding environment. Is it safer for health-​conscious yogis? Yes, but it’s not much greener for the planet. Found in Bean and some Barefoot Yoga Co. mats.

Score: NN

TPE

TPEs, thermoplastic elastomers, are touted as non-toxic, biodegradable, recyclable and phthalate-​free, which sounds amazing.

However, TPEs aren’t just one thing – they’re a class of synthetic rubbers. Some are styrene-​butadiene-based (both compounds are human carcinogens, though it’s hard to say how much is released from mats), some are polyester-​ based, others plant-​based, and the list goes on. Each deserves a different score. ­Many TPE mats are ­styrene-based, which suggests they’re not as biodegradable or eco-friendly as they claim. ­PrAna, Kulae and Hugger all offer TPE ­options. Ask what type is in the mat before you invest. PS: TPE users often complain the mats aren’t durable.

Score: NN

Living in the now

Mindfulness gurus teach me about disconnecting to reconnect I often kid that I’m an old woman trapped in a young woman’s body. I was almost the last person on Facebook (just ahead of my mom), only got a cellphone (the retro flip kind) in 2011 and have trouble maintaining an up-todate blog (ahem). But all it took was a smartphone upgrade to catapult me ass first into the 21st century. At the flip of a switch I’ve become a secret ­device junkie.

Maybe that’s why I felt compelled to get on a plane to San Francisco to go to a tech conference with 2,000 other attendees and one stated question: How can we live with wisdom, awareness and compassion in the digital age?

I’ve been trying to live with a little more wisdom of the capital-W variety

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since my older brother passed away three years ago. He was an avid meditator, and so meditation became my way of connecting to him. Now I see it as a pathway for many of us to connect more honestly and compassionately with ourselves, each other and nature in a crazy, disconnected world.

Still, I check on my phone like it’s a newborn child. What’s the weather outside? Who just text­ed me? Am I falling behind on work emails? (Likely.)

When’s the next streetcar coming? So I’m here in San Fran for Wisdom 2.0, where the tech sector and meditation gurus meet annually for a thought-pro-

voking heart-to-heart on disconnecting to reconnect.

Really I’m here because I want to be in the same room as a handful of Zen masters, hop­ing their magic enlightenment dust rubs off on me. People like Jon Kabat-Zinn, who introduced mindfulness techniques to the medical community, and Eckhart Tolle, bestselling author of A New Earth. If only they could text me reminders to get pre­sent and be in the now. Short of that, I put their books on my phone to get a little inspiration on the go.

But I also came to witness the mindful revolution in action. Exec after exec

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NATURAL RUBBER

Like yoga teachers, rubber mats won’t all jibe with your vibe. Lululemon’s closed-cell rubber mats are pretty thin (3mm), slippery when wet and made with an undisclosed antimicrobial additive.

Jade’s open-cell mats have more grip, more padding (5mm) and are made in the U.S. (rather than China). Also, a tree is planted for every mat sold (plus, an extra $5 goes to cancer research or autism when you buy one in saffron, pink or teal). Spongy open-cell rubber mats like Jade’s absorb more sweat so may require an occasional bathtub soak. Being biodegradable, rubber’s less durable than plastic, but it’s definitely gentler on the planet since it’s made of the sap of rubber trees. Heads up: these mats emit a rubbery odour (that wanes with time) but are 99 per cent latex-​free.

Score: NNNN gets up on stage to share their on-thejob mindful meditation techniques.

U.S. Congressman Tim Ryan explains how he’s bringing five-minute mindful meditation breaks to troubled schools and veterans, with impressive results.

But the surprise inspiration comes from the room of 2,000 engaged people who’ve arrived from all corners of the globe – Sweden, Brazil, Israel – mostly because they felt a tug to be part of a greater mindful socie­tal shift.

Virtually every single person I meet came here to f­ igure out ways they can bring more mindful awareness to their communities.

Through it all, there’s a call to be more present, to get our heads out of the virtual world (yes, this is coming from the very companies that make the websites and devices we can’t stop checking) and be here for the now with more compassion.

Onstage, Tolle a surprisingly funny guy, pokes fun at our “status updates” and how our hamster-​wheel minds mire us in negativity. That negative mind, as he’s said before, wreaks havoc on our lives and the planet, and we won’t get a grip on global pollution ­unless we fix our minds first. The only antidote, he insists, is a shift in human

HEMP/JUTE

Yes, on a regular floor a hemp yoga rug is a bit like doing poses on a cartoon banana peel, but they’re a great mat topper for grippy natural rubber mats and the PVC mats at your yoga studio; this way you’re creating a bit of a barrier between you and offgassing odours or chems. Plus, they’ll ­absorb more sweat when the heat’s cranked. Rawganique has handwoven, sweatshop-​free, ­organically grown European hemp yoga/meditation rugs (from $49).

Barefoot Yoga’s Original Eco mat blends jute with natural rubber.

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consciousness that goes back to being present and aware of ourselves and our environment.

But there’s so much squeaky bubble wrap enveloping our brains. If only being mindful and really present full time didn’t feel as challenging as a 24-hour boot camp. Though it feels a lot better on the soul.

After a weekend taking in a good dose of mindful vibes, I have to ask myself: am I really in the now right now?

Truthfully, I’m just trying to ignore my cat while he paws at my keyboard to convince me he needs an extra feeding.

But, hey, I haven’t checked my email, scanned the web, Twitter or my phone in what feels like an eternity, and I’m pausing to look up at the tree outside my window. I think, at this p ­ recise ­moment in history, that may count as ­fumbling a little closer toward enlightenment.

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Grey’s anatomy: the data If you must dye your hair, do it in healthy ways By elizabeth bromstein I’m 42 and have a thick mane of grey hair. I dyed it until a few years ago, so I’m not sure exactly when it went entirely grey, but probably by my mid30s. I let it grow in because I got sick of dying it and a little freaked out by a friend’s sudden horrible allergic reaction to the same dye she’d been using for years.

Also, it looks really cool. I look like a superhero.

I’ve wondered, though, if there was something in my life that made my hair go prematurely grey. It’s most likely hereditary, but we’ve all heard that stress can turn hair grey.

I suspect being fully grey at my age isn’t quite as rare as people

think. A lot of silver foxes are hiding behind dye.

If you’re going the colour route, are some options safer and easier? Studies of personal hair dye use and cancer risk have had mixed results. If you’re terribly concerned, why not ditch the dye altogether?

What the experts say “Chemical hair dyes are more alkaline and damaging to your hair. Natural dyes are more acidic. They coat the hair, adding body, and are less damaging.

Brunettes with some grey can use henna, but blonds with some grey shouldn’t. Some vitamins protect hair colour: biotin, folic acid, vitamin B5 and paba. They’re part of the B complex, so take a B vitamin supplement.

To keep grey hair shiny and healthy, brunettes can use a nettle tea rinse, and blonds a camomile rinse. Wash your hair, condition, steep a very strong tea and pour it over your hair. Don’t rinse it out, and style as usual.”

STACEY SHILLINGTON, naturopath, ­Toronto

“My lab work has shown that agerelated­greying is caused by a gradual decrease and eventual complete absence of melanocyte stem cells, which are pigment cells.

At birth, each of our hair follicles has a finite number of stem cells for the pigment cell lineage. These become fewer and fewer in number with aging.

Even by the time people are in their 20s and 30s the number of stem cells has very significantly diminished.

Why are they being depleted? A study in Japan showed that the loss of melanocyte stem cells is related to DNA damage. There are many different kinds of DNA damage, and it’s plausible that stress responses may be involved

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in some of those mechanisms.

Oxidative stress is one type that produces DNA damage, leading to the premature loss of melano­cyte cells. The researchers were not looking at psychological stress, but it [could be] associated with oxidative damage.”

DAVID FISHER chair of dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Har­ vard Medical School, Boston “White hair has no melanin – the pigment that gives hair colour – and grey has a small amount. While aging is the most common cause of grey hair, it’s not the only one.

Whether you stop producing melanin is based on genetics, so if you’ve noticed

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by Rob Brezsny

Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 The battles you’ve

been waging these last 10 months have been worthy of you. They’ve tested your mettle and grown your courage. But I suspect that your relationship with these battles is due for a shift. In the future they may not serve you as well as they have up until now. At the very least, you will need to alter your strategy and tactics. It’s also possible that now is the time to leave them behind entirely – to graduate from them and search for a new cause that will activate the next phase of your evolution as an enlightened warrior. What do you think?

Taurus Apr 20 | May 20 “Life is like San-

skrit read to a pony,” said Lou Reed. That might be an accurate assessment for most people much of the time, but I don’t think it will be true for you in the coming days. On the contrary, you will have a ­special capacity to make contact and establish connection. You’ve heard of dog whisperers and ghost whisperers? You will be like an all-purpose, jack-of-alltrades whisperer – able to commune and communicate with nervous creatures and alien life forms and pretty much everything else. If anyone can get a pony to understand Sanskrit, it will be you.

Gemini May 21 | Jun 20 Does Kim Kar-

dashian tweak and groom her baby daughter’s eyebrows? They look pretty amazing, after all – elegant, neat, perfectly shaped. What do you think, Gemini?

Ha! I was just messing with you. I was checking to see if you’re susceptible to

getting distracted by meaningless fluff like celebrity kids’ grooming habits. The cosmic truth of the matter is that you should be laser-focused on the epic possibilities that your destiny is bringing to your attention. It’s time to reframe your life story. How? Here’s my suggestion: see yourself as being on a mythic quest to discover and fully express your soul’s code.

Cancer Jun 21 | Jul 22 The 19th-century American folk hero known as Wild Bill Hickok was born James Butler Hickok. At various times in his life he was a scout for the army, a lawman for violent frontier towns, a professional gambler and a performer in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show.

Women found him charismatic, and he once killed an attacking bear with a knife.

He had a brother Lorenzo who came to be known as Tame Bill Hickok. In contrast to Wild Bill, Tame Bill was quiet, gentle and cautious. He lived an uneventful life as a wagon master, and children loved him.

Right now, Cancerian, I’m meditating on how I’d like to see your inner Wild Bill come out to play for a while, even as your inner Tame Bill takes some time off.

Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 “If I was a love poet,”

writes Rudy Francisco, addressing a lover, “I’d write about how you have the audacity to be beautiful even on days when everything around you is ugly.” I suspect you have that kind of audacity right now, Leo. In fact, I bet the ugliness you encounter will actually incite you to amplify the gorgeous charisma you’re radiating. The sheer volume of lyrical soulfulness that

pours out of you will have so much healing power that you may even make the ugly stuff less ugly. I’m betting that you will lift up everything you touch, nudging it in the direction of grace and elegance and charm.

Virgo Aug 23 | Sep 22 “You miss 100 per-

cent of the shots you don’t take,” says hockey great Wayne Gretzky. In other words, you shouldn’t be timid about shooting the puck toward the goal. Don’t worry about whether you have enough skill or confidence or luck. Just take the damn shot. You’ll never score if you don’t shoot. Or so the theory goes. But an event in a recent pro hockey game showed there’s an exception to the rule. A New York player named Chris Kreider was guiding the puck with his stick as he skated toward the Minnesota team’s goalie. But when Kreider cocked and swung his stick, he missed the puck entirely. He whiffed.

And yet the puck kept sliding slowly along all by itself. It somehow flummoxed the goalie, sneaking past him right into the net. Goal! New rule: you miss only 99.9 per cent of the shots you don’t take. I ­believe you will soon benefit from this loophole, Virgo.

Libra Sep 23 | Oct 22 If you are the type of person who wears gloves when you throw snowballs, Germans would call you Handschuhschneeballwerfer. They use the same word as slang to mean “coward.” I’m hoping that in the coming days you won’t display any behaviour that would justify you being called Hand-

early grey hairs, your parents likely started to grey early, too.

Studies have shown that if you’re young and have grey hair, it could be due to a lack of B vitamins in your diet.

Non-permanent touch-up wands, pens and powders work well to conceal grey. They’re less harsh on hair and safer than permanent dying. All chemical processes reduce hair’s elasticity and can increase the chances of breakage, so take proper steps to hydrate and care for your hair afterwards.”

ELIZABETH CUNNANE PHILLIPS, tri­ chologist, Philip Kingsley Trichological Clinic, London, England “If no one in the U.S. coloured their hair, schuhschneeballwerfer. You need to bring a raw, direct, straightforward attitude to everything you do. You shouldn’t rely on any buffers, surrogates or intermediaries.

Metaphorically speaking, make sure that nothing comes between your bare hands and the pure snow.

Scorpio Oct 23 | Nov 21 In his song 4th

Of July, Asbury Park (Sandy), Bruce Springsteen mentions a disappointing development. “That waitress I was seeing lost her desire for me,” he sings. “She said she won’t set herself on fire for me any more.” I’m assuming nothing like that has happened to you recently, Scorpio. Just the opposite: I bet there are attractive creatures out there who would set themselves on fire for you. If for some reason this isn’t true, fix the problem! You have a cosmic mandate to be incomparably irresistible.

Sagittarius Nov 22 | Dec 21 “Some

people say home is where you come from,” says a character in Katie Kacvinsky’s novel Awaken. “But I think it’s a place you need to find, like it’s scattered and you pick pieces of it up along the way.” That’s an idea I invite you to act on in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. It will be an excellent time to discover more about where you belong and who you belong with. And the best way to do that is to be aggressive as you search far and wide for clues, even in seemingly unlikely places that maybe you would never guess contain scraps of home.

Capricorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 What words bring the most points in the game of Scrabble? Expert Christopher Swenson says that among the top scorers are “piezoelectrical” and “ubiquitarianism” – assuming favourable placements on the board that bring double letter and triple word scores. The first word can poten-

more than half of men and women would be grey.

That stat reminds us how much greying continues to be viewed as unappealing. In spite of the cost and time – and ever-increasing number of people over 50 – colouring your hair is viewed as an important part of grooming. We associate greying with loss of vitality and youth, a visible reminder that we are heading toward the end of life.

A woman’s value for thousands of years was connected to her ability to attract a mate. Our roles have expand­ed over the past few decades, but wo­men are probably hard-wired to fear that greying means a loss of value.

For men, greying is associated with loss of power and virility, but because [aging men] have historically been associated with wisdom, greying frightens them less. But that, too, is changing as youth becomes increasingly important.”

VIVIAN DILLER, author of Face It: What Women Really Feel As Their Looks Change, New York City

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tially net 1,107 points, and the second 1,053. There are metaphorical clues here, Capricorn, for how you might achieve maximum success in the next phase of the game of life. You should be well-informed about the rules, including their unusual corollaries and loopholes. Be ready to call on expert help and specialized knowledge. Assume that your luck will be greatest if you are willing to plan non-standard gambits and try bold tricks.

Aquarius Jan 20 | Feb 18 Sorry to report

that you won’t win the lottery this week.

It’s also unlikely that you will score an unrecognized Rembrandt painting for a few dollars at a thrift store or discover that you have inherited a chinchilla farm in Peru or stumble upon a stash of gold coins halfburied in the woods. On the other hand, you may get provocative clues about how you could increase your cash flow. To ensure you will notice those clues when they arrive, drop your expectations about where they might come from.

Pisces Feb 19| Mar 20 Avery, a character

in Anne Michaels’s novel The Winter Vault, has a unique way of seeing. When he arrives in a place for the first time, he “makes room for it in his heart.” He “lets himself be altered” by it. At one point in the story he visits an old Nubian city in Egypt and is overwhelmed by its exotic beauty. Its brightly coloured houses are like “shouts of joy,” like “gardens springing up in the sand after a rainfall.” After drinking in the sights, he marvels, “It will take all my life to learn what I have seen today.” Everything I just described is akin to experiences you could have in the coming weeks, Pisces. Can you make room in your heart for the dazzle?

Homework: What is the best gift you could give your best ally right now?

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BLUE RODEO with THE DEVIN CUDDY BAND at Massey Hall, Wednesday, February 19. Rating: NNNN

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It was a family affair. The Devin Cuddy Band, led by the son of Blue Rodeo’s Jim Cuddy, warmed up the polite crowd with a bluesy set straight from the banks of the Mississippi River. On the home stretch of a lengthy crossCanada tour, the band was tight but seemed slightly overwhelmed by one of the country’s legendary venues.

Blue Rodeo, meanwhile, acted like they’d played the hall a thousand times, easing the house into a first set largely composed of songs from their newest album, In Our Nature.

Guitarist/lead singer Greg Keelor was particularly verbose throughout the evening, giving the audience a glimpse into the band’s artistic drive.

The evening’s second set celebrated their back catalogue. Keelor owned the spotlight on a delicate solo rendition of Dark Angel, but not before Cuddy shone during a rare performance of

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Girl Of Mine.

Five Days In May showcased their depth, with extended jams as Cuddy worked the stage, ripping a bluesy solo and even kneeling to pose for photos with fans in the front row.

Finally, Devin Cuddy and his band joined in for the rousing closer, Lost JOSHUA KLOKE Together.

ILLITRY with KENNEDY CULT at the Rivoli, Friday, February 21. Rating: NNN

Among Hamilton’s current crop of bands making exciting electronic sounds is Illitry. On Friday the foursome impressed with a set of atmospheric alt rock: dramatic drumming, big bass and glitchy pop noises. Troy Witherow’s gentle vocals enhanced the overall dreamy sound and added a cool, neo-soul undercurrent. Even cooler: each member took a turn around a large centre drum, creating an almost ritualistic vibe.

Earlier the room was significantly fuller for Peterborough quartet Ken-

HOODED FANG at Smiling Buddha, Friday, February 21.

Rating: NNN Smiling Buddha hasn’t changed that dramatically since the new owners took over, but just enough work has been done to make it feel less makeshift while maintaining that comforting dive bar feel. The changes also attracted booker Mark Pesci, who kicked off his new gig with a quirky concept show featuring Toronto surf punks Hooded Fang.

The band are big fans of legendary NYC punk-funk band ESG, but that influence isn’t normally audible in their jangly indie pop. So for this gig they did an entire set of ESG covers to pay tribute to their influential underground heroes. While they didn’t attempt to reproduce the originals note for note, they did a great job of approximating the overall sound and feel, and resisted the temptation to dress up the starkly minimalist percussion and bass grooves with unnecessary ornamentation.

Lots of fun, but it made you wish they’d start a side project and explore BENJAMIN BOLES these ideas in new songs rather than just a tribute show. nedy Cult. Members of Rikers, Birthday Boys and A Plot Against Me, the guys brought seasoned rock ’n’ roll charisma to their new outfit. Songwriter and singer Ryan Kennedy drips stage presence, and his polished vocals are better suited to this edgy 80s-evoking alt pop than the rockier stuff he belted in Rikers. Still, saxophonist Shawn Bradley stole the show. Having abandoned the instrument mid-set, he was met

with audience squeals when the brass returned for the last few songs. A solid show boasting two extra-killer songs (Alibi, Forever) that have since lodged JULIA LECONTE in our brain.

LETTUCE with KC

ROBERTS & THE LIVE ñ REVOLUTION at the Phoenix, Saturday, February 22.

Rating: NNNN Parkdale septet KC Roberts & the Live

Revolution are a funk band, sure, but they also crank out rock-star guitar solos, ebullient piano slides and occasional raps. It’s what makes them one of Toronto’s best live bands. At the Phoenix, Roberts’s vocals sometimes couldn’t match the instrumental grandiosity, but that didn’t bother the 1,200 dancing fans, who were also jazzed by phenomenal guest trumpet player Brownman and surprise verses from D-Sisive.

Just after midnight, headliners Lettuce kicked off with blinding white lights that evoked a stadium metal show and dove into a set of Easterninfluenced psychedelic funk. It was pretty trippy, even when they brought out powerhouse vocalist Alecia Chakour for a short run of more classic soul songs.

The band’s hip-hop influences were also showing, from a tribute to J Dilla near the top to a reimagining of the now-famous Niggas In Paris intro near JL the end.

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To close out Black History Month in celebratory style, local music presenter and journalist Dalton Higgins curates an “urban alternative” concert featuring some of Toronto’s most innovative, genre-defying artists.

Fresh off her brand-new release, Modern Day Minerals, producer Pursuit Grooves brings her bass-heavy beat music; Drake music director and guitarist Adrian X steps into the spotlight solo; 88 Days of Fortune collective founder Ayo Leilani shows off her killer R&B pipes; SoundClash Music Award finalist Brendan Philip boasts his indefinable brand of soulful, funky alt-pop (“soul-fi,” he calls it). And last but certainly not least, Complaints Department rock out with their punk-, rapand reggae-inspired brand of hardcore.

In case it’s not overwhelmingly obvious already, what these musicians have in common is their stereotypebusting avoidance of the mainstream.

Prepare to have your horizons broadened.

Tonight (Thursday, February 27), at the Piston (937 Bloor West), 9 pm. $10. daltonhiggins.wordpress.com.

Just Announced HORMOANS Boat doors 9 pm, $5. March 6.

INLET SOUND, MALADIES OF ADAM STOKES, DONOVAN WOODS Lee’s Palace $10. March 7.

ABSOLUTELY FREE On The Beach Release Party Salt-water pool swimming and listening party. Miles Nadal JCC 7 to 9 pm, $15. absolutelyfree.ca/inthepool.html. March 8.

KANDLE Drake Hotel doors 7 pm, $8. March 11.

ZONES, LIDO PIMIENTA, MIMICO, MAS AYA Album release Izakaya Sushi House doors 8 pm, $7-$10. March 13.

D-SISIVE, ADAM BOMB & TECHTWELVE Drake Hotel doors

9 pm, $10. March 13.

FOUR TET, CARL CRAIG, EFDEMIN, BLUE HAWAII, SHED, PURITY RING AND OTHERS Foundry Music & Arts Festival Tower Automotive Building doors 10 pm, $27.50-$47.50, series pass $99.50. TF. March 14, 15, 21, April 4 and 5.

LADYHAWK, THE HIGHEST ORDER, MARINE DREAMS Decade Of Passive Aggression 10th

Anniversary Tour Horseshoe doors 9 pm, $15. RT, SS, TF. April 17.

5 SECONDS OF SUMMER Sound Academy doors 7 pm, all ages, $24.50. LN. April 19.

BUNJI GARLIN Fire Fete Sound Academy doors 9 pm. April 20.

BAND OF SKULLS, SACCO Phoenix

Concert Theatre doors 8 pm, $21. LN, RT, SS. April 24.

THE TREWS, THE GLORIOUS SONS

The Danforth Music Hall doors 7 pm, all ages, $24.50-$29.50. LN, TM. April 26.

LEMON BUCKET ORKESTRA Lee’s Palace doors 8 pm, $20-$30.

DUKE DUMONT CODA. April 26.

PIERRE BENSUSAN 40th Anniversary

KIM BEGGS, ALISON BROWN, MELANIE BRULÉE, GRAYDON JAMES & THE YOUNG NOVELISTS, WENDY LANDS, TREASSA LEVASSEUR, QUEEN OF THE FLEET & JORY NASH The Two Sides Of Carole King Hugh’s Room 8:30 pm, $25-$30.

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World Tour St Stephen-in-the-Fields Church 8:30 pm, $25. RT, SS. tinyurl.com/bensusan.

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JULY TALK Lee’s Palace doors 9 pm, $15. RT,

THE MAHONES St Patrick’s Day Tattoo doors 8 pm, $15. INK, RT,

EMA Horseshoe doors 8:30 pm, $13.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. May 6.

SS, TM. March 17.

YOSHIKI Queen Elizabeth Theatre doors 7 pm,

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POTTY MOUTH Silver Dollar doors 9 pm, $11.

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CANTEMUS SINGERS The Faerie Queene Church of the Holy Trin-

MICHAEL BOLTON Living Arts Centre 8 pm, all ages, $80-$120. June 3.

EACH OTHER, THE TASTE, GOLD PONY Smiling Buddha.

A TRAK, SALVA The Hoxton. June 6.

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TAYLOR DAYNE Living Arts Centre 8 pm, $40-$80. March 27.

SECRET GUEST, PETRA GLYNT, ICE CREAM, VCR CineCycle

doors 7 pm, all ages, $33.50-$43.50. LN, RT, SS. June 19.

SKATERS Drake Hotel doors 8:30 pm, $10.50. RT, SS, TF. April 9.

PICASTRO Wavelength CineCycle. April 9.

HNNY, MEMBERS ONLY, CHARLTON Wrongbar 10 pm,

NEON TREES, SMALLPOOLS, NIGHTMARE & THE CAT Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 7 pm, all

9 pm, $5. March 28.

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RAE SPOON, CRIS DERKSEN, LIGHT FIRES Rivoli (332 Queen West), tonight (Thursday, February 27) Electro folk-pop.

ISAIAH RASHAD, TRE MISSION Tattoo (567 Queen West), tonight (Thursday, February 27) See previews, page 52.

ZAKK WYLDE Danforth Music Hall (147 Danforth), tonight (Thursday, February 27) Solo show by Black Label Society (and former Ozzy) axeman.

JACK DEJOHNETTE, JOE LOVANO, ESPERANZA SPALDING, LEO GENOVESE Massey Hall (178 Victoria), tonight (Thursday, February 27) Jazz At Massey Hall: The Spring Quartet.

DIGITS, KEN PARK, MEKELE, FARRAGOES Encore Studios (76A Geary), Friday (February 28) See preview, page 51.

DEAFHEAVEN, BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME, INTRONAUT, THE KINDRID Phoenix Concert Theatre (410 Sherbourne), Friday (February 28) See cover story, page 42.

THE BEVERLEYS, WISH, MEXICAN SLANG Sneaky Dee’s (431 College), Friday (February 28) Punk-grunge EP release.

WAKE OWL, LYON The Garrison (1197 Dundas West), Friday (February 28) See album review, page 57.

PAUL SIMON & STING Air Canada Centre (40 Bay), Saturday (March 1) Two legends unite.

THE FRATELLIS Phoenix Concert Theatre (410 Sherbourne), Saturday (March 1) Scottish indie rock.

PHANTOGRAM Virgin Mobile Mod Club (722 College), Saturday (March 1) Electro rock duo.

BROKEN BELLS, AU REVOIR SIMONE Danforth Music Hall (147 Danforth), Monday (March 3) See preview, page 41.

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BROKEN BELLS SOUL-POP

Musical heavyweights are a match made in heaven the second time around

By SAMANTHA EDWARDS BROKEN BELLS with AU REVOIR SIMONE at the Danforth Music Hall (147 Danforth), Monday (March 3), doors 7 pm. $39.50, SOLD OUT. LN, RT, SS.

The secret behind James Mercer and Brian Burton’s happy partnership is classic couples counselling 101: good communication.

“With the first album, we were just starting to get to know each other,” says Burton over the phone from his home in Los Angeles.

“With this album, we weren’t worried about hurting each other’s feelings. I could play something and I knew that if James didn’t say anything right away, well, then I should probably try something else.”

Burton and Mercer are both musical heavyweights in their own right, the former better known as mega-producer Danger Mouse, the latter fronting the Shins. Carving out time between other projects, they recorded their recently released smooth, psychedelic pop album After The Disco (Sony) the same way they made their debut.

Mercer left his home in Portland and shacked up with Burton in L.A. They arrived at Burton’s studio – an old, lowceilinged lawyer’s office packed with instruments – with a few melody ideas but not much else. Eight weeks later, they had a full album.

They write and record at the same time – a quick and dirty way of working that suits their relationship.

“We’ve been in the studio when the first five hours we don’t keep anything. Nothing, nothing, nothing, then all of a sudden there’s this one thing, and then two hours later we have the beginning of a song,” says Burton.

“We don’t have a lot of songs that we finish and don’t use. The ideas don’t get that far.”

The results are golden. Their best album to date, After The Disco boasts a killer combo: Mercer’s whimsical vocal melodies and Burton’s signature dreamy psychedelia. Burton describes it as “a sad record” that’s equally beautiful and hopeful.

However it makes you feel, the album shows it’s officially time to stop thinking of Mercer as an indie pop guy and Burton as a hip-hop man.

“I remember when I was younger, people identified themselves a lot more with what kind of music they listened to, but culturally it’s just not like that any more,” says Burton.

“It’s a big mishmash now. Things are just way different.”

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eaven

I No corpse paint? No problem.

Whether they wanted to or not, the San Francisco black metal band are ­forcing us to rethink a genre.

By JOHN SEMLEY

I suffered five failed attempts before I finally secured a proper physical, pressed-vinyl copy of Sunbather, the latest record by San Francisco black metal/shoegaze/blackgaze band Deaf­heaven.

It’s the sort of record that can blast a band like this out of the sleazy mu­sical ghetto of “top 40 metal albums” lists into straight-up “best albums of the year” compilations by staffers at Pitchfork, Consequence of Sound, NOW and the like.

When it was released last June by U.S. hardcore label Deathwish Inc., we raved that “the record alchemizes shoegaze’s hazy wall of distortion and black metal’s quick-fire drumming and tormented, raspy howling. The astonishing opener, Dream House, unveils a cresting triumphalism that’s pretty un-black metal. But elsewhere (Please Remember, Vertigo), Deafheaven retain the genre’s de­fining dread.”

At the time, every record store in To­ronto seemed sold out. It was weird. It seemed likelier that a black metal record – and Sunbather is, at least genealogically, a black metal rec­ord – would be under-stocked by even the city’s most broadly curated shops.

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Deafheaven (from left) Stephen Clark, Kerry McCoy, George Clarke, Daniel Tracy and Shiv Mehra

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ut, then, everything about Sunbather seemed contradictory and un­ precedented. It was a metal record people were buying en masse. It was a metal rec­ ord with a pink cover many claimed was deliberately goading genre purists. It was a metal record people were raving about: Meta­critic computed that it was the bestreviewed album of 2013. It was a metal record that could get a metal band on the cover of a widely circu­ lated weekly paper in time for their show this week at the Phoe­ nix.

“It was very flattering,” says George Clarke, the band’s lyricist and screeching vocalist, over the phone from his home in San Francisco. “Certainly the attention we got last year, and we’ll continue to get this year, is unexpected. We’re very grateful. It took me by surprise more than anything.”

Clarke’s surprise echoes that of many critics.

Deafheaven’s debut, 2011’s Roads To Judah, received smatter­ ings of praise from inside the metal press, topping some charts of that year’s most “extreme” albums.

Knitting together Clarke’s anguished black metal vocals (think Krusty the Klown screaming as he plummets through a vortex) with the band’s expansive post-metal compo­sitions and shoegazing fuzz had all kinds of promise. What’s remarkable is how quickly the band made good on their potential; follow-up Sunbather is an unqualified master­piece. It’s been like watching

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a kid go from capably knocking two-run grounders off a tee to sending dingers straight over the fences overnight.

“I just knew that Sunbather was going to be not necessarily impor­tant in the scheme of music and all that, but certainly im­ portant to us,” Clarke explains.

“I think we wanted to prove to ourselves that we could write a better rec­ord than Roads To Judah. I didn’t know if we were going to succeed, but we really wanted to push ourselves.”

But not every metalhead was pleased.

Just search “Sunbather not black metal” on Twitter:

“We wanted to prove to ourselves that we could write a better rec­ord than Roads To ­Judah. I didn’t know if we were going to succeed, but we really wanted to push ourselves.”

spaghetti lord ‫@‏‬FlexxxMentallo 9 Jan SUNBATHER IS NOT A PROCLAMATION FOR A NEW ERA OF BLACK METAL. DEAFHEAVEN JUST PLAYS SHITTY PANOPTICON RIFFS. FUCK YOU ALL. Brandon Duncan ‫@‏‬expiringsun 29 Jun Deafheaven is NOT black metal. They have a peach album cover. Any preschooler can tell you they’re not black metal.

They’re peach metal… :) TV Girl ‫@‏‬tvgirlz20 Jun My metalhead friend confirmed that Deafheaven do not qualify as black metal

The music cranked up the treble, accentuating the wailing vocals and rapid double-bass drumming (called “blast beats”). The records were cheap­ly produced and comically lo-fi. The guiding philosophy was staunch­ly anti-Christian – to the point of criticizing the Church of Sa­tan for being too benevolent.

Some members of these bands were implicated in serious crimes including a string of church burnings and even murders. Emperor drummer Bård “Faust” Eithun stabbed a gay man to death in a forest outside Lillehammer in 1992. A year later, Varg Vi­k­ ernes (aka Burzum) murdered May­hem guitarist Øystein “Euro­nymous” Aarseth, effectively dis­ placing him as the scene’s most notorious figure.

This helps explain why a 2007 British documentary on black metal called the genre, rather uncharitably, “Murder Music.”

Later, black metal’s ethic of cultural rejection, nonconformity and Eur­o­pean paganism was adopted by bands explicitly espousing neo-Naz­ism – the so-called National Social­ist black metal (NSBM) movement.

This is music with a troubling history. And its trickling into the mainstream raises all kinds of ponderous, sometimes troubling, questions.

For his part, Clarke doesn’t really want to talk about it. At least not in a brief phone interview. “Getting into the whole NSBM side of things could be an entire conversation,” he says. “A long conversation.” * * * n The Complicated Appeal Of Black Metal, published on BuzzFeed in August, Jessica Hopper snarked at the “hipster obsession with transgressive scenes,” calling it “cultural tourism” for fair-weather fans who wrested black metal away from the troos and kvltists.

At the same time, she provided a step-by-step guide for late adopters, connecting the dots between bands like Burzum and Weakling and slacker standbys like Slint, Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine – a hip­ster-friendly how-to for precisely the folks she was criticizing.

That clichéd idea of hipsters “co-optdeafheaven ing” (as opposed to unironically, with between the naively en­joying) black metal asburied and me, sumes that the entire genre – which intronaut and ­ takes plenty of forms that reject the the kindred at the ideological nastiness of its origins Phoenix (410 Sherbourne), – has nothing to offer beyond the Friday (February 28), doors cool thrill of frivolously dabbling in 6:30 pm, all ages, $24.50, Sa­tanism and xenophobia.

RT, SS, TF. The lengths to which some black “People are sensitive about that thing,” says metal listeners will go to avoid any Clarke. “It’s weird to see adults do it. I remember active participation in this ugly past are being 14 or 15 and having arguments about what was hilarious. The BuzzFeed article de­scribes a fan quote/unquote ‘legit.’ I literally couldn’t care less any more.” who will only buy boot­leg Bur­zum shirts on eBay so This intense emotional investment in defining legitimacy no money goes directly into the artist’s pocket. Me, I (and pointing a finger at its opposite) applies a hundredfold for once followed a loose rule of only listening to recblack metal fans, who have their own private language of insider ords Bur­zum recorded in prison, as if Viker­nes’s osappreciation. Terms like “troo” (i.e., “true,” meaning it’s the real tensible atonement could sub­stitute for my own. deal) and kvlt (i.e., “cult,” used to refer to the purest forms of subIt’s not just black metal, though. The long conversub-sub-underground music) are tossed around to signify a sation concerns the broader moral gymnastics given album’s or artist’s authenticity. people per­form to justify liking a bad or immoral thing. Look to the conversations around R. Kelly. Or * * * ioneered in the early 80s by Scandinavian bands Woody Al­len. Or Roman Polanski. Or anyone else like Sweden’s Bathory and Switzerland’s Hell- whose moral reprehensibility we shadowbox with hammer, black metal’s darkest shadows fell so we can enjoy the art without having to feel bad. when its so-called “second wave” – Mayhem, CarThe thing is, though, you probably should feel pathian Forest, Enslaved, Immortal, Burzum – bad. formed in Oslo in the early 90s.

That, at some level, black metal offers a confrontaThe Norwegian black metal subculture adopted the shocktion with its crueller connotations is one of its great value Sa­tanism of 80s heavy metal in ear­nest. Adherents slath- virtues. This is expressed in the mu­sic’s incompreered themselves in chalky white “corpse paint,” snapping them- hensible howling and atonal guitar squawks. selves into spiked gauntlets and belts like grim combatants Its violence confronts us with the constantly suparmed for a war against everything. pressed idea that may­be we’re “You don’t perform black metal if you’re not a warrior,” says not good people who deserve Gorgoroth vocalist Gaahl in the 2007 Vice-produced web series good things, who should inher- continued on page 50 True Norwegian Black Metal. “Black metal is a war against what ently feel worthy of our own everyone knows.” esteem.

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Genre-​ defying black metal records The time has come to set aside Satanic things. Retire those spiked gauntlets. Wash off the corpse paint. A new generation of black metallers is pushing the genre beyond the “troo” confines of its second-​wave aesthetics, to the delight of many fans and the grumpy frustration of many others. Here are some noteworthy experimental records of the past few years.

Skagos: Ást (2009) Part of an American black metal movement called Cascadian (due to the groups’ proximity to the Cascade Range and shared interests in ambience and ecology), this Vancouver Island two-​piece crafts experimental opuses about nature and the trampled rights of native Canadians.

Alcest: Écailles De Lune

(2010) Deafheaven’s refined amalgam of shoegaze and black metal owes much to this French band, the primary outlet for guitarist/vocalist/writer/synth-​player Neige. Alcest’s early releases were more straight-​ahead black metal, but Écailles De Lune fuses the genre with Neige’s explorations in shoegaze and post-​metal. He even performs a spoken-​word piece on the track Please Remember from Deafheaven’s Sunbather.

Liturgy: Aesthethica (2011) Frequently labelled with the meaningless “hipster metal” tag, Brooklyn’s ­Liturgy have drawn positive notice for crossbreeding black metal, math rock and Swansish noise. Frontman Hunter Hunt-​Hendrix drew less positive notice for writing and distributing a half-​jokey pamphlet titled Transcendental Black Metal: A Vision Of Apocalyptic Humanism. (Sample: “Transcendental Black Metal is in fact nihilism, however it is a double nihilism and final nihilism, a once-​and-​for-​all negation of the entire series of negations.”)

Panopticon: Kentucky (2012)

An incredible accomplishment in U.S. black metal, Panopticon (aka Austin Lunn) adapts the folky medieval influences of some European black metal into a uniquely American context. The album blends banjo into squealing black metal, and the lyrics speak to rural Kentucky’s sordid history of worker exploitation and union-​bashing.

Behemoth: The Satanist

(2014) The Polish blackened death metal band’s latest record hit number 34 on Billboard’s Top 200 chart when it dropped earlier this month. Maybe singer Negral beating blasphemy ­charges had something to do with it? It’s only a matter of time before an ­extreme metal record debuts at number 1.

Lady Gaga: Untitled Black Metal Single (20??)

Just kidding. But again, it’s only a matter of time.

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this week How to find a listing

Music listings appear by day, then by genre, then alphabetically by venue. Event names are in italics. See Venue Index, online at nowtoronto.com, for venue address and phone number.

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= Critics’ pick (highly recommended) = Queer night B = Black History Month event

How to place a listing

All listings are free. Send to: music@nowtoronto.com. Include artist(s), genre of music, event name (if any), venue name and address, time, ticket price and phone number or website. Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm.

Weekly events must confirm their listing once a month.

Thursday, February 27 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

Alleycatz Project Phonix.

Comfort Zone CD release

“I remember being 14 or 15 and having arguments about what was quote/unquote ‘legit.’ I literally couldn’t care less any more.”

It reminds us of what we’re trying to forget.

This is what makes Deafheaven’s mu­sic beautiful. Clarke and co-found­er/long-time BFF/lead guitarist Kerry McCoy place this sorrow and cruelty in a totally different context.

When Clarke’s wails pierce the gath­ering storm of McCoy’s layered guitars on Dream House, they split the track wide open. “Musically,” Clarke explains, “the vocals act like an instru­ment. They’re lower in the mix; their purpose is to build intensity. They’re sort of the rock in the cen­tre, while the guitars move around it. They help increase the emo­tion.”

Clarke’s pain through the splendour turns it into torment. It’s a reminder that beauty is sometimes just an asylum from anguish. It’s reverse catharsis.

Clarke seems bored with Deafheaven’s being constantly discussed in the context of whether or not they’re troo, kvlt, black metal or what­ever. “I choose to create music and not worry about the proper defi­nition,” he says. “It’s too tiring to get into the details of it all.”

Tiring, sure. But whether they like it or not, their music stages the ideological conflict between beauty and ug­liness, the tension that constitutes whole spheres of politics and culture, that makes up who we are.

They may be painstaking about their production – about as far from black metal’s no-fi roots as possible. They may prefer pilled flannel and Funeral Pyre T-shirts to spiked girdles and corpse paint. They may be both black metal and not.

But in this way they figure directly in the history of a genre that stands precariously atop its values of rejection, of being defiantly your own thing in a world that often demands the opposite.

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Doomsquad, HSY, Petra Glynt, ñ Moonwood, Mas Aya 9 pm.

Crocodile Rock Sonic Parade 10 pm.

The Danforth Music Hall Zakk

doors 8 pm. ñWylde Drake Hotel Underground ñ­Gardens & Villa, Waterstrider (indie rock) doors 8:30 pm.

Drake Hotel Lounge The Digs (funk/ R&B/soul) doors 11 pm.

B519 Church Street Community ­Centre Write On! Black History Month

Showcase ­Ashley Bea & the Flow, Troy Jackson, Ryan Graham Hinds, DJ Dickie 6:30 to 10 pm.

The Garrison CD release Wolf Saga doors 8 pm.

Handlebar Strange Robotix 10 pm.

Hart House Debates Room Toronto 350 ­Divestment Meme Party Gen Why, Century Thief, Biopic, Spectre Hearts, DJ Lumberjockey 8 pm.

Kensington Lodge Jam Derek Mok 7 pm.

Lake Affect Lounge Freedom Train (rock/top 40) 8 pm.

Lula Lounge Yasgur’s Farm (pop/rock/ soul) 9:30 pm.

Mélange Open Stage Lee Van Leer 9 pm.

The Olde Stone Cottage Pub The Marc ­Joseph Band (pop/rock) 9:30 pm.

Opera House Chiodos doors 7 pm, all ages.

The Painted Lady Ronley Teper and the Lipliners 10:30 pm, Ronley Teper’s Experiments 8:30 pm.

Pauper’s Pub Jam Mike Barnes (rock) 10 pm.

BThe Piston Rap N’ Roll: The Afro Alternative Music Showcase Complaints Dept, Pursuit Grooves, Adrian X, Ayo Leilani, Brendan Philip 9 pm.

Rivoli Rae Spoon, Cris Derksen, Light Fires doors 8 pm.

Rockpile Troy Ave. Silver Dollar Convoys, Sons of Revelry, Hayley Stark, Summer & Youth 9 pm.

Smiling Buddha Bird Death, Blastronaut, Aerium, This Is Me As a Woman (metal/post-hardcore) 9 pm.

Sneaky Dee’s Intervals.

Southside Johnny’s Skip Tracer (rock/ top 40) 9:30 pm.

The Steady Cafe & Bar Alex Leggett, Zak M ­ iller, Erika Cirillo 10 pm.

Tattoo Isaiah Rashad & Tre Mission (hip-hop) doors 8 pm. See preview, page 52.

Virgin Mobile Mod Club White Lies, Wildlife doors 7 pm.

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Folk/Blues/Country/World

Aspetta Caffe Open Mic El Faron 8 pm.

Bar Radio Alan Snoddy (alt country) 9

pm.

Cameron House Harlan Pepper 10 pm, Corin Raymond 6 pm.

Cameron House Back Room Bryce Jar-

dine & the Parlour Birds.

Cavern Bar & Bistro Open Mic 9 pm.

Free Times Cafe Meghan Stock (folk)

8:30 pm.

Gladstone Hotel Ballroom Courtney Farquhar 8:30 pm.

Glenn Gould Studio Florence K (singer/

songwriter) 8 pm.

Grossman’s Gary Kendal Blues Band 10 pm.

Hart House Arbor Room Open Mic Night Ryan Flores & Erin Makina 8 pm.

Hawaii Bar Amelie Messier (ukulele) 9:30 pm.

Horseshoe The Bourbonite Regret Society of Toronto Mikey Chuck Rivers, the Old Salts, Suitcase Sam, the Corsets 9 pm.

Hugh’s Room John Hammond, Sugar Brown 8:30 pm.

Lola Brian Cober (double slide guitar) 9 pm.

Lou Dawg’s North Of Nashville Ty Owens (country).

Nawlins Jazz Bar Nothin’ But the Blues 8 pm.

Tranzac Southern Cross John Southworth 10 pm, Bluegrass Thursdays Houndstooth (bluegrass/old-time) 7:30 pm.

Wise Guys Open Jam Jon Long 10 pm.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

Edward Johnson Building Walter Hall Music In The Afternoon Concert Ser-

ies Vincent Lauzer (recorder) 1:30 pm.

Gallery 345 CD release The Nancy Walker Quintet 8 pm.

Gate 403 Cyndi Carleton Jazz & Swing Band 9 pm, Bruce Chapman Duo 5 to 8 pm.

Habits Gastropub Chris Lord Ideal, Box Full of Cash (bluegrass/country) 9 pm.

Jane Mallett Theatre Music Toronto Stephanie Chua (pianist) 8 pm.

The Jazz Bistro Adrean Farrugia Quintet w/ Phil Dwyer 9 pm.

Kama Thursdays At Five Bill McBirnie, Canadian Jazz Quartet (flute) 5 to 8 pm.

The Local Fred Spek & His Camp Combo (swing polka cabaret) 9 pm.

Lula Lounge CD release Don Francks (jazz) 7:30 pm.

Massey Hall Jazz At Massey Hall: The Spring Quartet Jack DeJohnette, Joe ­Lovano, Esperanza Spalding & Leo Genovese 8 pm.

Old Mill Inn Sean Bray’s Peach Trio 7:30 pm.

Poetry Jazz Cafe Andrew McAnsh Group 9 pm.

Reposado The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz).

The Rex Joel Harrison Quintet w/ Chris Cheek & Gary Versace 9:45 pm, Arbuckle 6:30 pm.

Winchester Street Theatre Henderson/Castle: Voyager Dance performance Jennifer Castle 8 pm.

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WAYLA Bar Random Play DJ Dwayne Minard (70s/80s) 10 pm.

Friday, February 28 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

Alleycatz Graffitti Park.

Cameron House Back Room Pedal Steely

Dan.

Drake Hotel Underground Robyn

Dell’Unto w/ Donovan Woods (indie pop) doors 8 pm.

Drums N Flats Acoustic Show Breached, Waxmen.

Encore Studios Mixtape release Digits, Ken Park, Mekele, Farragoes (electronic pop). See preview, page 51.

Free Times Cafe Jessica Speziale, Lora Bidner, Kathryn Merriam, L.O.D (acoustic pop/rock/folk) 8:30 pm.

Holy Oak Cafe LUKA (pop) 10 pm.

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Horseshoe Dwayne Gretzky 9 pm. ñ Lake Affect Lounge Acoustic Affect

Tyler Yarema, Alexander Quail, Martin Rouleau, Cameron Fraser 9 pm.

Linsmore Tavern Monkey Fighting Snakes 9:30 pm.

Opera House Stage 2 Studio Band Warz doors 6:30 pm, all ages.

Phoenix Concert Theatre Deafheaven, Between the Buried and Me, Intronaut, the Kindrid doors 6:30 pm, all ages. See cover story, page 42.

PJ O’Brien Irish Pub The Marc Joseph Band (pop/rock) 10 pm.

Press Club Garage Baby (garage punk) 10 pm.

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Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts Debby Boone 8 pm.

Rivoli Lipstick Junkies, Bordeen, Men-

age, Streetlight Social doors 9 pm.

Silver Dollar Rival Boys, Stella Ella Ola, Aron D’Alesio, Gay 9 pm.

The Sister The James Clark Institute, the Ditch Horses.

Sneaky Dee’s EP release The Beverleys, Wish, Mexican Slang 9 pm.

Southside Johnny’s David Love Band (rock/top 40) 10 pm.

Tattoo CD release The C’mons, Hue, Mora­koza, Beau, Teej Mahal (DJ set) (pop rock) doors 9 pm.

Theatre Passe Muraille Bandcamp Series Pale Eyes, People Tanning, Iskwe doors 10 pm.

Velvet Underground Halfway to Hollywood, I’ve Got Gloria, Shark Week, Wjolf, Switch/Control, Parasona, Hollow Bank, the Turks doors 5:30 pm.

Working Dog Saloon The Rave.

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Air Canada Centre Take Me Downtown Tour Lady Antebellum, ñ Kip Moore, Kacey Musgraves (country) 7

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

Cameron House Nick Teehan 10 pm,

Camp 4 Switched On DJs Pammm &

Lorna Watkins (indie rock/campus radio jams) 10 pm.

Clinton’s Throwback Thursdays (90s ) doors 10 pm.

CODA Beardyman doors 10 pm.

Crawford Twisted Thursdays DJ Law (video dance party).

Dance Cave Transvision DJ Shannon (alt/indie/electro/retro).

Disgraceland A Hard Days Night DJ Nick Harris (rock/hip-hop) 10 pm.

EFS Untitled DJ Soundbwoy doors 10 pm.

Embassy Bar Mötorhome Elaine Banks, Christina Wozniak (power pop/punk/ glam/soul/rock) 10 pm.

Goodhandy’s T-Girl Party DJ Todd Klinck.5 Holy Oak Cafe DJ ChooZey (intergallactic/acid funk) 10 pm.

Rivoli Pool Lounge DJ Bunitall (R&B/ hip-hop).

Round Venue Archi-Textures Hans Ohm, LeeLee Mishi, Purrpelle, Lumberjockey, Kalu (techno/bass/trance/DnB/downtempo) 9 pm.

pm, all ages.

Patrick Brealey 8 pm, David Celia 6 pm.

Dakota Tavern Big Tobacco & the Pick-

ers (country) 10 pm.

Flato Markham Theatre Tiempo Libre ­(Cuban music) 8 pm.

The Flying Beaver Pubaret Whiskey

Jack (bluegrass/country) 7 to 8:30 pm.

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Wake Owl, Lyon doors 8 pm. See album review, page 57.

Grossman’s Frankie Foo 10 pm.

Habits Gastropub Matt Nolson, Rum Cuillin, Melissa Miller (acoustic) 9 pm.

Hugh’s Room John Hammond, Sugar Brown 8:30 pm.

Lola The Mad Housewives 9 pm.

Lula Lounge Changui Havana (salsa) 10:30 pm, Crazy Voda (modern polka/ jazz/Cuban) 8 pm.

Nawlins Jazz Bar The N’Awlins All Star Band w/ Brooke Blackburn (jazz/blues) 8:30 pm.

Reposado The Reposadists Quartet (gypsy bop).

Royal Conservatory of Music Con-

servatory Theatre Chansongs Sienna Dahlen & Marie-Jo Thério 8 pm.

3 Windows Open Jam Dano & Miss Jaye 9 pm to 1 am.

Tranzac Southern Cross Michelle Mc­ Adorey Band (folk/rock) 7:30 to 9:30 pm, the Ryan Driver Quartet 10 pm, the Foolish Things (folk) 5 pm..

Jazz/Classical/Experimental Gallery 345 MB10 Jazz Collective 8

pm.

Gate 403 Annie Bonsignore Jazz Duo 9

pm, Mr Rick Vintage American Duo 5 to 8 pm.

Harlem Mike Field Jazz Quintet (jazz trumpet) 7:30 pm.

Hart House Arbor Room Jazz At Oscar’s U of T 11 O’Clock Band 9 pm.

Hirut Fine Ethiopian Cuisine Hirut Hoot Cabaret 9 pm.

Imperial Pub Jazz Fridays Jazz Generation (big band classics) 5:30 to 7:30 pm.

The Jazz Bistro Adrean Farrugia Quintet w/ Phil Dwyer 9 pm.

Old Mill Inn Home Smith Bar Solo Piano Masters Star Mark Eisenman 7:30 to 10:30 pm.

Poetry Jazz Cafe Patrick Hewan 9:30 pm.

The Rex Joel Harrison Quintet w/ Chris Cheek & Gary Versace 9:45 pm, Chris Gale 6:30 pm, Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm.

Royal Conservatory of Music Koerner Hall Leonidas Kavakos, Enrico Pace (violin, piano) 8 pm.

Touché Mistura Fina Quartet (Brazilian MPB music) 10:30 pm.

Trinity St. Paul’s Church Carnival

Revels The Toronto Consort 8 pm.

Winchester Street Theatre Henderson/­Castle: Voyager Dance ñ performance Jennifer Castle 8 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

Aria Complex Reload Andrew Oddesey, Scotty Scratch, Armani.

Bar Radio Mistah Selector 11 pm.

Brassaii Love Me Till I’m Me Again

Geoff Brown 10 pm.

Cabin Nightclub The Legendary Groove ­Fridays Spence Diamonds & Mista Jiggz (R&B/funk/soul/hip-hop/house ).

CODA Victor Calderone & the Junkies, Brent Hayward doors 10 pm.

Crawford Nightcap Fridays DJ Kobe’J (reggae/hip-hop/old school).

Crocodile Rock DJ CrocRock.

Dance Cave Bif Bang Pow DJ Trevor (60s mod Brit pop) 10 pm.

Drake Hotel Underground Diggy the DJ (hip-hop) doors 11 pm.

Drake Hotel Lounge DJ Your Boy Brian doors 10 pm.

Emmet Ray Bar DJ Funky Flavours (funk/soul) 10 pm.

Gladstone Hotel Melody Bar DJ Max Mohenu (queer weekly dance party) 9 pm.5 Handlebar The Art Of The North (hiphop dance party) 10 pm.

BHarlem Underground Vibes DJ Ace D & DJ Sun Sun, Neverland (dancehall/ hip-hop/trap) 11 pm.

The Hoxton Camo & Krooked doors 10 pm.

Li’ly Deko-Ze’s Celebration Jay Frog, Deko-ze, Jerome Robins (jungle funk) 10 pm.

Maison Mercer Up All Night Super8 & Tab & Jaytech doors 10 pm.

Media Bar & Lounge Faded Fridays DJ Wikked, MC Crazy Chris (hip-hop/R&B/ reggae).

The Painted Lady DJ Frank ‘Mr Phantastik’ Johnson (old-school hip-hop/ reggae/80s) 10 pm.

The Piston Shindig! (60s R&R/soul) 10 pm.

Rivoli Pool Lounge DJ Stu (rock & roll).

The Savoy Frkn Wknd DJ Caff (R&B/ hip-hop/dancehall) 10 pm.

Thymeless Standard DJ Louie Don (reggae/lovers/dancehall).

Toika 16 Bit Lolitas, Mystic Mind 10 pm.

Saturday, March 1 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL

AIR CANADA CENTRE On Stage Together Paul Simon & Sting 8 pm. ñ ALLEYCATZ Graffitti Park.

BAR RADIO Sheldon Holder (roots/soul/reggae) 9 pm.

BLACK SWAN Saturday Ses-

sions Open Stage And Jam Brian Gladstone 2 pm.

CAMERON HOUSE Rattlesnake Choir 6 pm, Sue & Dwight 3:30 pm.

CAMERON HOUSE BACK ROOM CCRR-the Revival of

Creedence Clearwater Revival Revival 10 pm.

THE CENTRAL Perpetual Stress Life in Vacuum, Girl Arm, Notta Comet, Blackbelt doors 9 pm.

EL MOCAMBO Mardi-Gras Swamperella, the Boxcar Boys, Kristine Schmitt & Her Special Powers doors 8 pm.

DIGITS SYNTH POP

For local artist Alt Altman, there’s no place like home By BENJAMIN BOLES

FLATO MARKHAM THEATRE

Jully Black (R&B/soul) 8 pm.

THE GARRISON Chris Strazz, Mumbai Standstill, UKAE, Bowes/Morningstar doors 9 pm.

GERRARD ART SPACE Feast In The East 35 ñ Dildoniks, Sasha Chapin,

DIGITS with KEN PARK, MEKELE and FARRAGOES at Encore Studios (76A Geary), Friday (February 28), 9 pm, $8. silentshout.ca.

Toronto synth pop artist Digits (aka Alt Altman) has spent a lot of the past few years living overseas in London and Berlin, but returned to Canada last spring to explore a new chapter: turning the project into an actual live band by adding keyboardist Dan Miller.

“I wanted to perform as more than just a solo act. Dan is one of the best synth players in the country, and I always thought that when I expanded the live incarnation, he would be the person I’d want in it,” Altman explains over coffee.

Newsmen 8 pm, all ages.

HANDLEBAR Twin Peaks Tribute The Julee Cruise Ships, Fiver, the Sandy Pockets 10 pm.

HORSESHOE Adam Baldwin, Sam Cash & the Romantic Dogs, Black Pistol Fire, Dear Sister doors 9 pm.

LEE’S PALACE The Sword, Big Business, O Brother (metal) doors 9 pm.

LINSMORE TAVERN My Favorite Headache (Rush tribute band) doors 9 pm.

MCQUEEN’S PUB The Ronnie Hayward Trio (rockabilly) 4 to 7:30 pm.

MUSIC GALLERY Pop Avant series LAL, Dub Fantasy doors 7 pm.

PHOENIX CONCERT THEATRE We Need Medicine Tour The Fratellis (indie rock) doors 8 pm.

PJ O’BRIEN IRISH PUB The Marc Joseph Band (pop/rock) 10 pm.

PRESS CLUB Scoop Trumbull & the Wrong Notes w/ John Creeden 10 pm.

QUEEN ELIZABETH THEATRE Black Canadian Awards 5 pm.

THE REX Danny Marks (pop) noon.

RIVOLI MENEW, Time Giant, Trust Funds, Lost Cause, Die by Remote doors 8:30 pm.

ROUND VENUE Professor Groove & Ruby Jane, Trojan Pony 9 pm.

SILVER DOLLAR Labour Day, Fuss, the Dead Projectionists, Terrorista, Lint 8:30 pm.

SMILING BUDDHA Dead Leaf Echo, Cell Memory, Sisters of Your Sunshine Vapor, Breeze (shoegaze/noise pop) 9:30 pm.

SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY’S The Bear Band (rock/ blues) 4 to 8 pm.

3030 DUNDAS WEST The Intentions! (Motown/soul) doors 9 pm.

VIRGIN MOBILE MOD CLUB Phantogram doors 7 pm.

WRONGBAR New Young Pony Club, Kill Them with Colour, Canada Thrust 10 pm.

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It wasn’t just Miller’s fancy fingers that lured Altman back home. Many artists see Berlin as a promised land of cheap rent and bohemian attitudes, but living there for extended periods can help you appreciate what home has to offer.

“Berlin and London are both very cool cities, but neither one ever really felt like home. There’s a lot to be said for what we have here in Toronto: I never really found a grassroots indie music scene over there similar to what we have here.”

You won’t hear Miller on the new Digits mixtape Shake Your Body Down; he’s just on board for the stage shows. However, the new songs do sound significantly bigger and warmer than previous material, which Altman credits to working in an actual studio this time around in-

stead of doing everything on his laptop. That access to analog synths and a good collection of vintage hardware resulted in Digits sounding far less digital – appropriate, given that it’s being released on old-school cassette tape.

Featuring new Digits material alongside songs

by Altman’s side project, Bad Passions, as well as collaborations and remixes, Shake Your Body Down is a very effective teaser for the upcoming full-length Digits album as well as a new Bad Passions concept EP of songs about Harrison Ford movie characters.

In addition to all that, Altman has a new costumed robot band, Matrox. Coming home, it seems, has been a very productive move indeed. benjaminb@nowtoronto.com | @benjaminboles

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BLUE GOOSE TAVERN The Diamond Drapes (50s Teddy Boy rock n’ roll) 9 pm.

THE CENTRAL Luke Vajsar, Alaniaris 5:30 pm.

C’EST WHAT The Boxcar Boys (old-time/folk) 3 pm.

DAKOTA TAVERN Bluegrass Brunch 10 am to 2 pm.

DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Folly & the Hunter, Grey Lands (indie folk) doors 8 pm.

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Isaiah Rashad is pumped for tonight’s show. inked him a deal shortly thereafter.

It’s not only his first time in Canada, but this trip Blessed with a distinctive, gravelly voice and a also puts the very first stamps in his newly actalent for elaborate storytelling through concisely quired passport. Life has been moving ridiculously constructed lyrics, Rashad doesn’t sound like a fast for the 22-year-old rapper from Chattanooga, rookie.

Tennessee, since his debut extended EP, Cilvia Still, the immediate outpouring of critical and Demo, was released in Januconsumer love caught him offary. guard. Since Cilvia Demo’s reISAIAH RASHAD with But, he’s learning how to lease, Rashad has watched his TRE MISSION at Tattoo embrace the craziness. fan base grow (in today’s inter(567 Queen West), tonight “I adjust to changes pretty net age, he can literally watch it (Thursday, February 27), quickly,” says Rashad over the get bigger every day). doors 8 pm. $20. INK, PDR, phone from Atlanta. “I While he says he’s usually “on RT, SS, TM. plan the important some mellow, peaceful shit,” it’s stuff. I plan the big impossible for him to downplay stuff. The other how good these early days of stuff I just freestyle. I think focusing on success feel. control too much will make you go “It was kind of shocking,” he says. “I’m like, ‘Are crazy. Control what you can.” you bullshitting? Are you lying? Are you just saying A little over a year ago, Rashad that to say it?’ But, no, people really fuck with it. I was putting music out for free – love it. working at a fast-food joint “I can’t even front about it. I feel on top of the called Hardee’s to pay the bills world sometimes. It’s a pretty cool way to start – when he landed a recording your career.” session at Top Dawg Another first: after tonight’s show, he joins TDE Entertainment’s labelmate ScHoolboy Q on an international tour. studio in Los Angeles “I’ve been waiting for this since I got signed,” he (his first time on a says. “It’s going to be tight as fuck. It’s going to be plane). The label, fun for me, its going to be fun for you, it’s going to home of Kendrick be fun for them. Everybody is going to have a ball.”

Lamar, Ab-Soul 3 music@nowtoronto.com and Jay Rock,

with A$AP Rocky, A$AP Ferg and Party Next Door.

Tre Mission’s favourite performance ever was a co-headlined show with “I wasn’t trying to think about Malmaison too much when I fellow Torontonian TFHouse at Wrongbar (capacity 300) last August. made this, cuz I knew that would just be setting myself up. So “The energy was like nothing I’ve ever seen before in all my years I thought, ‘Let me make all the songs I didn’t get to make on of going out,” he recalls over beers at a Queen and Broadview pub.

Malmaison,’” says Tre, who sounds a lot like Jay Z except That says a lot about the artist, who opened for seven-time with a whisper of London lilt.

Grammy nominee Kendrick Lamar at a much larger, sold-out Sound Beyond his current project and the white jeep with a tan Academy (capacity 3,000) that same month.

GRIME interior he hopes to procure sooner rather It also bodes well for tonight’s Tattoo show with than later, Tre has a lot on his to-do list: Top Dawg Entertainment sensation Isaiah Rashad, more remixes like Walk Away, the one he which will be much closer in scale to the Wrongbar produced for PBR&B singer JMSN; a whole gig. album full of instrumental beats; and the “The intimate thing is fun, especially when I’m at opportunity to develop other artists, most home,” he says. notably his good friend and London When he’s not home, Tre is usually in England – Toronto emcee has one foot on either side grime-scener Prowla. (“If I was to beat Justin Bieber on home to his label, Big Dada (with which he has a three-album the Billboard charts and make a million dollars, he’s the deal), and also his hip-hop/drum ’n’ bass/electro-blurring genre, of the Atlantic, and a ton of ground he still first artist I would work with.”) grime. wants to conquer By JULIA LECONTE Whatever he does, he’ll be on the move.

The London scene embraced the Canadian producer/ “The world is so big. Life is so short and you’re only emcee’s lightning raps and off-kilter, jungle-fied beats when one person. And you’re going to stay in one place? I he was still a teenager, and he’s been going back and forth don’t understand how that’s even the norm. ever since. His free album Malmaison, released last June, “At 22, you can fit your stories into maybe two almade waves both here and across the pond. bums. So I need to grow and go have more experienCurrently he’s working on the follow-up, Stigmata, for ces and see some crazy shit.” which he’s already shot two large-scale videos in Los Anjulial@nowtoronto.com | @julialeconte geles with director Andrew Hines, who’s also worked

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The company focuses on bands that go beyond top 40 set lists, and so far the roster includes Sheezer (women covering early Weezer), the Black Pearls (Traveling Wilburys, etc), Tommy Youngsteen (a mix of Tom Petty, Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen), the Mercenaries (1950s soul-rock), Hot Rock (Rolling Stones, the Band, etc), and danceparty starters Big Sound and Loving in the Name of.

The Prism Prize announced its 10 best Canadian videos list last week, and a handful of T.O. acts made the cut, including hip-hop electronic trio Keys N Krates (song: Dum Dee Dum, director: Amos LeBlanc), indie poppers Hollerado (song: So It Goes, director Marc Ricciardelli) and international rap star Drake (song: Started From The Bottom, director X). The winner, to be announced at a gala on March 23, will take home 5 grand. There’s also an audience award, voted on by the general public, who can watch vids and get their vote on at prismprize.com.

NXNE, ROUND 2 Toronto’s biggest and baddest music festival, North By Northeast, has announced its second wave of bold-face performers. And there’s plenty

to get excited about, regardless of what you’re into. For rock fans, prolific Austin quartet Spoon; for hip-hop heads, A$AP mobber A$AP Ferg and alt-hip-hop emcee Le1f; for experimental minds, psychedelic space-rocking band Spiritualized; for those wanting something a little harder, badass punk-rockers Perfect Pussy, Brooklyn noise duo Sleigh Bells and local noise-rockers METZ; for electronic fiends, Ryan Hemsworth, Fuck Buttons and Tim Hecker. Plus, some artists we’ve just been totally digging around the NOW offices of late: Alvvays, Juan Wauters and Mutual Benefit. Happily, that just scratches the surface. See all the new additions, plus the complete list of previously announced acts at nxne.com.

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HABITS GASTROPUB Arlene Paculan (singer/ songwriter) 9 pm.

HUMBLE BEGINNINGS Melanie Peterson (folk) 12:30 to 2:30 pm.

LOU DAWG’S Jeff Eager (acoustic blues/funk/ rock/soul).

LULA LOUNGE Moda Eterna (salsa) 10:30 pm.

MASSEY HALL Matt Andersen, David Myles 8 pm.

MAY CAFE Mardi Gras! Ted Peters & Gumbo Ya Ya, Amaya, Fin-S, Ron Littlejohn doors 8 pm.

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GALLERY 345 The Look Of Love Paula Griffith, Nicole Byblow (jazz/soul) 8 pm.

GROSSMAN’S The Happy Pals (trad jazz) 4:30 to 8 pm.

THE JAZZ BISTRO Adrean Farrugia Quintet w/ Phil Dwyer 9 pm.

MUSIDEUM Brendan Davis, Sharron McLeod, Mark Hudevad (jazz) 8 pm.

NAWLINS JAZZ BAR The N’Awlins All Star Band w/ Brooke & Duane Blackburn (jazz/blues) 9 pm, Sam Heineman (piano jazz) 6:30 to 8:30 pm.

OLD MILL INN Bernie Senensky Trio 7:30 pm.

REPOSADO Great Bob Scotts Swing-O-Rama.

THE REX David Buchbinder’s Odessa/Havana 9:45 pm, Bacchus Collective 7:30 pm, the T.J.O. Big Band 3:30 pm.

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SEVEN44 Climax Jazz Band (traditional jazz) 4 to 7 pm.

TORONTO CENTRE FOR THE ARTS The Emperor Mauro Bertoli, Karen Ouzounian, Sinfonia Toronto (piano, cello) 8 pm.

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CODA Drumcode Night Adam Beyer, Jamie Kidd Vs Greg Gow, I Am Be doors 10 pm.

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DISGRACELAND In Between Days DJ Demanda, Chakashawn (80s) 10 pm.

DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Never Forgive Action DJ Numeric & DJ Dalia (hip-hop/R&B) 11 pm.

EMMET RAY BAR DJ Sawtay (hip-hop/soul) 10 pm.

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Marquis of Granby 2nd Floor Prakata! DJ Wayuu, Son Tocuba (salsa/Latin/hip-hop/ trap/twerk/reggaeton/cumbia/house).

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Opera House Tosca doors 8 pm.

The Painted Lady Music by Salazar 10 pm.

The Piston With It (Mod dance party) 10 pm.

Rivoli Pool Lounge DJ Plan B (hip-hop/rap/club).

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Sneaky Dee’s Shake A Tail (60s pop/soul) 11 pm.

Tota Lounge Sixteenarmedjack, Ninjah Fareye, Chili Banks, Mighty Dreadnaut, Ghaleon (jungle/dnb/raggajungle).

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Lee’s Palace Hellfyre Club Busdriver, Nocando, Open Mike Eagle, Milo (hip-hop) doors 8 pm.

Linsmore Tavern Pat Perez & John Dickie Band (R&B) 3 to 7 pm.

Lula Lounge Shine Concert: Jim Fay Music Bursary The Jerome Godboo Band, the Russell deCarle Trio, Lorraine Segato, Andrew Cash 7 pm.

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The Rex Sean Bray Trio 9:30 pm, Richard Whiteman 7 pm, Club Django 3:30 pm, Excelsior Dixieland Jazz noon.

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Clarinet Day University of Toronto Clarinet Ensemble, Wychwood Clarinet Choir 7:30 pm.

Flato Markham Theatre Favourites Old And New Markham Concert Band 2 pm.

Grossman’s New Orleans Connection All Star Jazz Band 4:30 to 9 pm.

Heliconian Hall Syrinx Concert Julien LeBlanc, Mark Djokic (piano, violin) 3 pm.

The Jazz Bistro Maureen Washington Quartet 7 pm, Young Artists Brunch Series Amir Brandon & Chris McFarlane 12:30 pm.

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On Cue Ken Yoshioka (blues) 8 pm.

The Painted Lady Open Mic Mondays 10 pm.

Tranzac Southern Cross Open Mic Mondays 9 pm.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

Musideum Tina Pearson,Wendalyn Bartley, Gayle Young (avant/improvised) 8 pm.

The Rex Humber College Student Jazz Ensem-

bles 9:30 pm, U of T Student Jazz Ensembles 6:30 pm.

Seven44 Advocats Big Band (bop/swing/ swoon) 7:30 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

Alleycatz Salsa Night DJ Frank Bischun 8 pm.

Dance Cave Manic Mondays DJ Shannon (ret-

ro 70s/80s) 10 pm.

Reposado Mezcal Mondays DJ Ellis Dean.

Thompson Hotel 1812 Bar Blacklist DJ PG-13.

Tuesday, March 4 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

Air Canada Centre Imagine Dragons, the Naked & Famous doors 6 pm, all ages.

Axis Gallery & Grill Derek Downham 10 pm.

The Danforth Music Hall Riff Raff doors 7 pm.

Drake Hotel Underground Elvis Monday...

On A Tuesday Jaymz Bee & the Bee People, Bonsai Suzuki, Noah Minsk, Kurt Swinghammer, Tony Blue, Lynn Crosby, William New, Alexandra Leggat and others doors 9 pm.

Grossman’s Nicola Vaughan (pop rock) 9:30 pm.

Horseshoe Bookie’s New Music Night When Earth Sleeps, the 8 1/2s, the Marwills, Modern Sands.

Lee’s Palace North Mississippi Allstars, Lightning Malcolm, Ross Neilson doors 8 pm.

Lula Lounge Highgate Road (pop/rock/folk) 8:30 pm.

The Piston The Electric Revival 9 pm.

Supermarket Celebrate Paul Dutton At 70: A Tribute Performance John Kamevaar, John Oswald, Michael Snow, John Farah and others 7 pm.

THE PAINTED LADY Ababe Music Showcase Zook & Boots, the Sleepovers, Stan Simon & the Hotel Bible, the Little Brothers 9 pm.

Tranzac Southern Cross Collette Savard (indie pop) 7:30 pm.

Virgin Mobile Mod Club Stay Seventeen, Hollywood Ending.

Folk/Blues/Country/World

Cameron House Harlan Pepper 10 pm, John

Showman & Tom Powers 6 pm.

Drake Hotel Lounge Memphis Tuesdays Young Running (country) doors 10 pm.

The Duke Live.com Open Jam Jon Long 8:30 pm.

Free Times Cafe Sparks Music JF Robitaille, Brad Fillatre, Noel Johnson 8 pm.

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Holy Oak Cafe Max Kelly (jug band music) 9 pm.

Old Nick Live Forum Jennifer Brewer 9:30 pm.

Press Club Toast n’ Jam: Press Club Open Jam Yawn Temiseva 10 pm.

751 Open Mic The Stoopids 10 pm.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre

New Creations: John Adams & Hans Thomalla Claudia Chan, Ryan MacEvoy (piano) noon to 1 pm.

Nawlins Jazz Bar Stacie McGregor (solo piano jazz) 6:30 to 9:30 pm.

Rasputin Vodka Bar The Absinthe Saloon Jazz Distillers Linda Carone (vintage jazz & blues) 9:30 pm.

The Rex Classic Rex Jazz Jam 9:30 pm, David Hutchison Quartet 6:30 pm.

Tranzac Southern Cross Peripheral Vision (jazz ) 10 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

Alleycatz Salsa Night DJ Frank Bischun 8:30 pm.

Bloke & 4th Swank DJ Geoff Brown.

Disgraceland Tornado DJs Karen, Ian and

Alison (rock/mashups/hip-hop/stoner/electro) 10 pm.

Reposado Alien Radio DJ Gord C. Toby’s Famous All Dressed Tuesdays DJ Caff (funk/soul/new Jack swing/rock/reggae) 10 pm.

Wednesday, March 5 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

Black Swan Acoustic Open Stage Nicola Vaughan (pop rock) 9:30 pm.

Curzon Tony Carpino.

Hard Luck Bar The Summer Set doors 7 pm, all ages.

Horseshoe Mickey Love Mallary, the Steadies, Mind & the Matter, the Communication.

The Jazz Bistro The Soul Nannies (R&B/funk/ soul) 8, 9:30 & 11 pm.

The Loaded Dog Tommy Rocker (classic rock) 9 pm.

Monarchs Pub Michael Bell 8 pm.

The Painted Lady Blurred Vision 10 pm, Emile d’Eon 8 pm.

Toronto Centre for the Arts Bare Bones & Upfront (indie) 8 pm.

Folk/Blues/Country/World

Aspetta Caffe Open Jam El Faron.

Dakota Tavern Sherman Downey & the

­Ambiguous Case.

Dominion on Queen Corktown Ukulele Jam

8 pm.

Emmet Ray Bar Kevin Butler (folk) 9 pm.

Grossman’s Bruce Domoney 10 pm.

Hawaii Bar Gary Gray & Voodoo Walters

(blues/funk/soul) 9:30 pm.

The Hole in the Wall Poppa K & Olesh (Richard Keelan, Alex Maksymiw) (folk/roots).

Johnny Jackson Jam Matt Cooke (folk/pop) 9 pm.

Lula Lounge Sierra Maestra (Cuban son) doors 7:30 pm.

On Cue Brian Cober (double slide guitar) 8 pm.

Press Club Mark Weston (folk rock) 10 pm.

Silver Dollar High Lonesome Wednesdays Crazy Strings (bluegrass).

Toronto Centre for the Arts Kim Jarrett, Sarah Burton (folk rock) 8 pm, all ages.

Tranzac Southern Cross Ronley ­Teper’s Lipliners 10 pm, Katie DuTemple 7:30 pm.

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Jazz/Classical/Experimental

Chalkers Pub Lisa Particelli’s GNOJAZZ Jam

Session 8 pm.

Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre

Take 2 Robi Botos, Hilario Durán (piano) 5:30 to 6:30 pm.

Nawlins Jazz Bar The Jim Heineman Trio (jazz) 7 to 11 pm.

The Rex Myriad Trio 9:30 pm, Griffith/Hiltz Trio 6:30 pm.

Victory Café The Hot Jazz String Quartet 8 to 11 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

Bovine Sex Club Pussy Whipped Wednesdays DJ Misty.

Brassaii Les Nuits DJ Undercover.

Crocodile Rock DJ CrocRock.

Disgraceland Pressure Drop DJ Vania (rock/ post punk/old skool beats) 10 pm.

Goodhandy’s Open Mic Night DJ Sasha Van

Bon Bon.5

Reposado Spy Vs Sly Vs Spy (live guitar soundtracks).

Sneaky Dee’s What’s Poppin’.

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(Universal) Rating: NNNN There’s no hiding behind anything if you’re ScHoolboy Q. That throaty, caustic yap – the most abrasive voice in rap – makes everything he spits shivery and intense: gun culture, selling crack, anal sex.

The debaucherous 17-track follow-up to 2012’s breakthrough Habits & Contradictions rubs your face in discomfort: Q explores drug use (and abuse) in great detail, especially on the sobering confessional Prescription/Oxymoron. He presents gang culture in all its violent non-glory on The Purge and Blind Threats. He describes sex with unsettling vulgarity throughout. As a strange counterbalance, Q’s very young daughter pipes up from time to time, lending softness and humour – except that she’s calling her daddy a “gangsta” and saying the word “nigga” (how un-Blue Ivey of her). As with most of the record, there is no right reaction. You have to decide how these songs play out after going through your own moral filters.

But through varied production, Q strikes a balance between his hard persona and the party vibe found on Habits’ catchiest tracks.

Hoover Street opens with funky, Thundercat-like bass; Mike WiLL Made It-produced What They Want sounds straight out of Atlanta; irresistible, Pharrell-crafted Los Awesome feels like a more sophisticated Ludacris joint; and with synths and an 80spop-like vocal loop on Hell Of A Night, DJ Dahi continues his streak of producing the most repeat-worthy track on major rap albums.

Top track: Prescription/Oxymoron JULIA LECONTE

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Atlas (Domino) Rating: On their third full-length, Real Estate prove that their powerful mood music is no fluke. (The casually graceful Crime and the cinematically sombre How Might I Live are both intoxicating.)

The New Jersey indie rockers are in complete control of their aesthetic: their hazy vibe never becomes inaccessible, and singer Martin Courtney sings so affably and softly, you can’t help feeling invited into his benevolent headspace.

The album plods occasionally, but then the band’s mastery of mood shifts kicks in and a dreamy landscape and simple, jangly verse turn into a big, beautiful chorus. Those tempo changes happen between tracks as well: spirited bass carries Past Lives down a meandering, emotionally wrenching road, while the next track, Talking Backwards, is peppier than anything they’ve done before.

Top track: Talking Backwards JK

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Intervention (independent) Rating: NNNN Talk about a tease!

If you’re among those Shi Wisdom fans who have been patiently (or not) waiting for the singer to release a proper full-length, just try not to listen to this brand-new EP. Don’t bother with slow burner Show & Prove and its spot-on backup vocals.

Don’t you dare get down with the finger-snapping, 90s-evoking soul of Magic. And above all, stay the hell away from The Mirror, unless you want to confront some painful past (or present) capital-F feelings. “Maybe if I looked like Beyoncé they would not have played me,” Wisdom opines on the EP’s most writerly track. But Beyoncé herself couldn’t have penned a song that so perfectly captures broken self-esteem and the painstaking task of putting it back together again.

Wisdom’s voice can do anything, but on Intervention she demonstrates remarkable restraint. Nuance and careful inflection win out over in-your-face vocal gymnastics (of which she is equally capable).

Cop this at your own risk.

Top track: The Mirror JULIA LECONTE

Metal Pop/Rock THE MEN Tomorrow’s Hits

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(Sacred Bones) Rating: NNNN Is it summertime yet? The newfound bounce in the Men’s fifth full-length since 2010 is so damn infectious, it screams for endless cheap-beer-fuelled nights in the park. There isn’t much margin for error on the eight-song record, but never throughout the Men’s prolific career have they displayed such finely tuned groove.

The New York five-piece has embraced the Americana that 2013’s New Moon was hinting at and gone all-out the Band on us, a sound best exemplified by rollicking, country-infused opener Dark Waltz. Another Night seamlessly follows a jaunty piano opening with a saxophone-led party that never quits.

Pearly Gates is six minutes of a crashing blues-heavy stomp and speaks yet again to the entire record’s tireless energy.

We keep hearing about the death of rock ’n’ roll supplanted by some fleeting, trendy sub-genre; but with more confidence than ever, these dudes remind us just how powerful the pure stuff can be.

Top track: Another Night JOSHUA KLOKE

BARZIN To Live Alone In That Long

Summer (Monotreme) Rating: NNN Barzin’s fourth album is another unshowy affair. Songs are hushed and intimate meditations on relationships, slowly and evenly rolled out with few spikes or dips in emotion; the main mood is sensitive contemplation. Sometimes Barzin’s singing is soft and serious, others times dreamy and wistful. Immaculately arranged, it’s an album you settle into, then relax into.

Though the project goes by the Toronto musician’s first name, it’s a collective effort. Nick Zubeck (pedal steel, electric guitar), drummer Marshall Bureau, bassist Mark Macintyre and keyboardist Robbie Grunwald make up the band, while backup singers (Tamara Lindeman, Tony Dekker, Daniela Gesundheit) and string players, including Karen Graves, help bring the songs to life.

The flugelhorn, soft snare shuffling and Lindeman’s backup vocals in slowly building In The Dark You Can Love This Place make the track stand out, while piano-driven orchestral pop tune Fake It ’Til You Make It exposes Barzin’s (slightly) bolder side. For fans of the National, Mazzy Star and Low. Top track: In The Dark You Can Love This Place CARLA GILLIS

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CHINAWOMAN Let’s Part In Style

(independent) Rating: NNN “I’m on vacation from love,” Michelle Gurevich sings over a menacing bass line on the opening song of her third album as Chinawoman. What follows is a series of smoky and often sardonic reflections on aging and solitude that could be the soundtrack for a noirish barroom or cabaret.

The Toronto-bred, Berlin-based singer/ songwriter is a prime example of how a vocalist with seemingly limited range can tease out a wealth of emotional subtlety.

She sings with a precise theatricality, and each enunciation and turn of phrase lands with maximum intimacy. The richness and bass in her near-spoken vocals recall Laurie Anderson’s Eno-produced Bright Red album, but with a greater affection for melody.

Her cutting, fatalistic lyrics are enhanced by ominous effects, echo and arpeggiated synths. Its foreboding quality would make it an odd album to listen to on a sunny day, but Gurevich’s warmth shines through in her deadpan wit, lowbrow humour (see the “loner/stoner/ boner” rhyme scheme) and waltzy eastern European influences.

Top track: To Be With Others KEVIN RITCHIE

WAKE OWL The Private

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World Of Paradise (Rezolute) Rating: NNNN Up until now, it seemed pretty safe to categorize Vancouver’s Wake Owl as a folk act, but the sounds on their debut full-length are very far from the soft acoustic strumming and overall tweeness of their 2012 EP, Wild Country. It’s a major risk to change so much so early in a career, but the gamble has paid off with an album that’s not only far more difficult to label, but also much more sonically rich than anyone anticipated.

Where Wild Country felt very much like the one-man project of Colyn Cameron, Wake Owl now sound like a full band, thanks in part to producer Richard Swift, who brought elements of 60s pop and 50s R&B into the mix. However, while there are plenty of retro references, the cavernous reverb, unexpectedly dramatic arrangements and subtle electronic elements result in something much more modern. Somehow they’ve managed to become both more accessible and more unique.

Top track: Buffalo Wake Owl play the Garrison Friday (February 28).

BENJAMIN BOLES

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Shelter (Prophecy Productions) Rating: NNNN French blackgaze pioneers Alcest (the project of Neige, aka Stéphane Paut) have broken from the old-fangled black metal of earlier releases like their Tristesse Hivernale demo and Le Secret EP. Gone is the push-pull between dreamy exploration and bayed anguish that enlivened 2010’s Écailles De Lune and 2012’s Les Voyages De l’Âme. Alcest is now a shoegaze band, straight up. They even enlist Slowdive’s Neil Halstead for a flat, anaesthetized vocal on Away. So there.

The move allows Neige to more fully survey the fairylands. On Shelter, the clouds of gloom have rolled back, revealing the landscapes of Neige’s imagined otherworld in all its sunny splendour.

After the energetic peaks of opener Wings crack open into lead single Opale (with its U2ish guitars), Shelter offers a leisurely comedown. But the fluffiness rarely feels formless or meandering – the songs are effortlessly pleasant even when they threaten to dissolve into the ether like the woolly memory of a sweet dream receding into your subconscious.

Top track: Opale JOHN SEMLEY

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Before you cringe at yet another novel about a mid-life crisis, take into account that this one is actually something rarer – a story about a woman sorting herself out at 60.

Rebecca Winter was wildly famous in the 80s and 90s, a photographer who gave new weight to women’s experience, especially in the work Still Life With Bread Crumbs – later an iconic poster – a photo of her post-dinner-party kitchen.

Domesticity raised to the level of artistry gave her a reputation and a ton of money.

But that’s over now. She hasn’t had

READINGS THIS WEEK Sunday, March 2

Thursday, February 27 ADVICE FOR MYSELF: WRITERS ON WHAT THEY WISH THEY KNEW BACK THEN ñ Salon-style discussion with Brian Francis,

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a successful show in years, and her agent isn’t helping. Having been dumped by her prof husband for a trophy wife, she decides to sublet her fabulous New York apartment and rent a dilapidated country cottage an hour out of the city.

There, loneliness leads her to assess her life – and her art – with fresh eyes. Suddenly she’s connecting with down-to-earth townspeople like Sarah, who owns the local café, and Tad, a professional clown.

And when she starts getting close to Jim, the roofer, she can hardly recognize herself.

Quindlen, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author who herself was influential in the battle to get major media outlets to take women’s everyday lives seriously, creates a terrific character in Rebecca. And buried in here is a serious consideration of the ethics of photography. Do you just shoot and thank the gods, or

BRAINS, WORDS AND VOICES Poetry readings.

6:30 pm. Pwyc. Tutorino, 109 Niagara (buzzer 007). therotarydial.ca.

Stacey May Fowles and Michael Winter. 7 pm.

Free. Spoke Club, 600 King W. Pre-register events@openbooktoronto.com.

ANTHONY VINCENT CRISTINA Launching his debut novel, Gentlemen Pigs, with a reading.

Doors 9 pm. Free. Brooklynn Bar, 1186 Queen W. facebook.com/awgystpress.

HOW TO BAN A BOOK IN 10 EASY STEPS A notso-tongue-in-cheek guide to the crazy world of book banning and censorship is part of Freedom To Read Week. 2 pm. Free. Weston Library, 2 King. freedomtoread.ca/events.

ELIZABETH RUTH/AYELET TSABARI

THE EXILE BOOK OF YIDDISH WOMEN WRITERS

Book launch with presentations by editor Frieda Forman, and translators Sam Blatt and Sylvia Lustgarten. 1 pm. Free. Winchevsky Centre, 585 Cranbrooke. ujpo.org.

ANDREA GIBSON Spoken word performance.

7 & 9 pm. Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. 416531-5042.

POETRY RECITATION CONTEST Poets and poetry lovers recite classic, pre-1975 poems from memory for a prize. 3 pm. Free. Turorina, 109 Niagara. therotarydial.ca/poetry-karaoke.

Reading. 5 pm. Free. OISE, rm 2-212, ñ 252 Bloor W. oise.utoronto.ca/oise.

Monday, March 3

Saturday, March 1

PEN Picks film screening and talk with the author. 6:15 pm. $15. Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor W. bloorcinema.com.

MANFRED J VON VULTE Signing copies of his book Comic Books And Other Hooks: 21st Century Education. 11 am. Free. Chapters Bayview Village, 2901 Bayview. chapters. indigo.ca.

CAMILLA GIBB HOSTS THE UNKNOWN FAMINE

JIMMY MCINNES/PATRICK CONNORS/JACK HOSTRAWSER Poetry reading. 7:30 pm.

Pwyc. Magpie Bar, 831 Dundas W. lionatnight.com.

IN PERSON

No surprise that when we think of The Great Escape, the true story of hundreds of POWs in Stalag Luft III, we think of the movie and supercool Steve McQueen riding his motorcycle. Turns out many Canadians and other plotters who trained here were involved in the plan.

Ted Barris gives them their due, mining interviews, diaries and letters for his entertaining book The Great Escape: A Canadian Story ($33.99, Thomas Allen).

Barris reads and answers questions Tuesday (March 4) at Deer Park Library. See Readings, this page. SGC consider the provenance of your subject matter?

But even with a touching funeral sequence, the story is almost too gentle. Stuff happens and Quindlen definitely knows how to keep the pages turning. But she seems not to want things to get emotionally messy, so Still Life With Bread Crumbs never SUSAN G. COLE totally grabs you. susanc@nowtoronto.com | @susangcole

Tuesday, March 4 TED BARRIS Reading from his book The Great

Escape: A Canadian Story. 6:30 pm. Free. Deer Park Library, 40 St Clair E. 416-393-7657.

CELEBRATE PAUL DUTTON AT 70 Readings and performances by Steve McCaffery, Margaret Christakos, Jenny Sampirisi, Karl Jirgens and others pay tribute to the sound poet/musician. 7 pm. Free. Supermarket, 268 Augusta.

416-840-0501.

STEVEN TRUSCOTT: DECADES OF INJUSTICE Talk by true crime author Nate Hendley. 7 pm.

Free. St Lawrence Library, 171 Front E. 416393-7655, torontopubliclibrary.ca.

SUE MONK KIDD Talking about her new novel, The Invention Of Wings. 7 pm. Free. Indigo Manulife, 55 Bloor W. chapters.indigo.ca.

Wednesday, March 5 ANGIE ABDOU/JOHN DEGEN/MICHAEL FRASER/VEENA GOKHALE Readings and an open

mic. 7 pm. Free. Full of Beans Coffee, 1348 Dundas W. brocktonwritersseries.wordpress.com.

MATTHEW QUICK Signing copies of his latest novel, The Good Luck Of Right Now. 7 pm.

Free. Indigo Manulife, 55 Bloor W. chapters. indigo.ca. books@nowtoronto.com

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Friday, Mar. 7 7:30pm

235 Queens Quay West Toronto

Box Office/Info: 416-973-4000 ifoa.org $10/FREE for supporters, students & youth

Charlotte Gray, The Massey Murder Thomas King, The Inconvenient Indian J.B. MacKinnon, The Once and Future World Graeme Smith, The Dogs Are Eating Them Now David Stouck, Arthur Erickson co-presented by

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RESEARCH-BASED ART

War in pieces

CENTRE SPACE Edward Maloney, to Mar 15.

65 George. 416-323-1373.

COOPER COLE Sculpture/painting: David

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M. Barnicke Gallery (7 Hart House), to March 16. 416-978-8398. Rating: NNNN

Many artists do archival research, but often their source material turns out to be more compelling than what they make of it.

Berlin-based Canadian artist/curator Charles Stankievech bypasses the reworking approach in CounterIntelligence, instead presenting a wealth of information linking visual arts and military intelligence as its own research-based art form.

The result is an absorbing exhibit that pulls in books, videos, government documents, photographs and artworks, exploring its loaded topic through a number of threads.

Videos depict contemporary warfare: Harun Farocki juxtaposes Mid-

east war simulations used by U.S. armed forces to train soldiers and to treat them for PTSD; American and Hizbollah shooter games run side by side; and Wikileaks’ Collateral Murder documents a U.S. helicopter attack on Iraqi civilians.

Photos from Paul Virilio’s Bunker Archaeology, a poetic study of Nazibuilt lookouts in France, and video adapted from Eyal Weizman’s book Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture Of Occupation examine the impact of war on the built environment.

Vitrines contain material on a wide range of subjects: encryption and code-breaking, the CIA’s notorious LSD experiments, interrogation techniques, the development of camouflage patterns, a CIA-funded postwar art magazine, a Spanish torture chamber inspired by Surrealism, and the relationship of con-

THIS WEEK IN THE MUSEUMS ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO The Great Upheaval: Modern Masterpieces From The Guggenheim, to Mar 2 ($25, stu $16.50, Wed 6-8:30 pm $12.50). Light My Fire: Five Propositions About Portraits, to Apr 30. Brian Jungen and Duane Linklater, to Jun 15. $19.50, srs $16, stu $11, free Wed 6-8:30 pm (special exhibits excluded). 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648.

ART GALLERY OF YORK U The Centre For Incidental Activisms (CIA) #2, to Mar 2. 4700 Keele, Accolade E bldg. 416-736-5169.

DESIGN EXCHANGE This Is Not A Toy, to May 18 ($16, stu/srs $13). Emerging Designer Competition, to Apr 1. $10, stu/srs $8.

234 Bay. 416-363-6121.

DORIS McCARTHY GALLERY Glam North: Doris McCarthy And Her New Contemporaries, to Apr 26. 1265 Military Trail. 416-287-7007.

GARDINER MUSEUM OF CERAMIC ART Amber Zuber, to Mar 2. Ron Thom And The Allied Arts, to Apr 27. $12, stu $6, srs $8; Fri 4-9 pm half-price, 30 and under free. 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080.

JUSTINA M. BARNICKE CounterIntelligence, to Mar 16. 7 Hart House. 416978-8398.

McMICHAEL CANADIAN ART David McEown and Ben Barak, to Mar 15. Mary Pratt, to Apr 27. Changing Tides: Contemporary Art Of Newfoundland And Labrador, to Jun 1. $15, stu/srs $12. 10365 Islington (Kleinburg). 905893-1121.

MOCCA Misled By Nature: Contemporary Art And The Baroque, to Apr 6, talk 1 pm Mar 1.

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952 Queen W. 416-395-0067.

OAKVILLE GALLERIES The Talking Cure; Olia Mishchenko, Mar 2-May 11, reception 2:303:30 pm (Centennial), 3:30-5 pm (Gairloch) Mar 2. Gairloch Gdns, 1306 Lakeshore E; Centennial Sq, 120 Navy (Oakville). 905-844-4402.

POWER PLANT Mike Nelson, to May 19, Jennifer Fisher/Jim Drobnick talk 7:30 pm Feb 27 (Studio Theatre, $15), Ryan Ferko talk 2 pm Mar 2. 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949.

ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM Wildlife Photographer Of The Year, to Mar 23 ($21, stu/srs $18.50, under 14 free). $16, stu/srs $14.50; Fri 4:30-8:30 pm $10, stu/srs $9. 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000.

RYERSON IMAGE CENTRE Black Star Subject: Canada; Robert Burley, Phil Bergerson and Elisa Julia Gilmour, to Apr 13. 33 Gould. 416979-5164.

BTEXTILE MUSEUM OF CANADA Heather Goodchild and Jérôme Havre, to Apr 13.

The Kimonos Of Ichimaru, to May 11. Telling Stories, to Apr 13. $15, srs $10, stu $6; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre. 416-599-5321.

U OF T ART CENTRE Lutz Dille, to Mar 8. Framing Narratives: Renaissance To Modernism, to Mar 8. 15 King’s College Circle. 416-978-1838.

VARLEY ART GALLERY Colour, In Theory, to May 4. $5, stu/srs $4. 216 Main (Unionville). 905477-9511.

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Video: Sylvia Safdie, to Mar 29. 401 Richmond W #124. 416-591-0357.

STEPHEN BULGER Photos: Sarah Anne Johnson, Mar 1-29, reception 2-5 pm Mar 1. 1026 Queen W. 416-504-0575.

RYERSON IMAGE C E N TR E January 22 – April 13, 2014

ROBERT BURLEY THE DISAPPEARANCE OF DARKNESS Curator: Dr. Gaëlle Morel

PHIL BERGERSON EMBLEMS AND REMNANTS OF THE AMERICAN DREAM Guest Curator: David Harris

PIERRE TREMBLAY BLACK STAR SUBJECT: CANADA

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ceptual art and military secrets.

Walls display, among other things, aerial photos equating land art with black sites, Abbas Akhavan’s enigmatic excision in a gallery wall to create the square-and-triangle symbol used to protect cultural properties during war and Richard Mosse’s spectacular infrared photo of Congolese soldiers in an eerie magenta landscape.

In a soundproofed cell, a dozen folders hold additional reading. Most fascinating is the dossier on Anthony Blunt, an art historian who spied for Britain during the Second World War, ran the National Gallery of Canada – where he purchased a now discredited Poussin painting (the subject of an installation in the vitrine room) – and was later unmasked as a double agent for the Soviets.

These are just a few highlights in a deluge of information, but Stankievech’s train of thought is always worth following.

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ART LINK Opening Saturday March 1 | 2-5 PM

Installations in Counterintelligence, including the soundproof cell below that holds a number of dossiers, use books, video and government documents in creative ways.

Kennedy Cutler, Ryan Wallace and Brie Ruais, Feb 27-Mar 23, reception 6-10 pm Feb 27. 1161 Dundas W. 647-347-3316.

DANIEL FARIA Sculpture: Iris Häussler, An Te Liu and Jennifer Rose Sciarrino, to Mar 22. 188 St Helens. 416-538-1880.

DIVISION GALLERY Painting: Simon Hughes, Feb 27-Apr 5, reception 6-9 pm Feb 27. 45 Ernest. 647-346-9082.

IFEMINIST ART CONFERENCE Talks, film screenings, exhibits, Mar 3-8 exhibit (Beaver Hall), pwyc, sugg $10, register eventbrite.ca. OCAD U (100 McCaul), Beaver Hall (29 McCaul). factoronto.org.

GLADSTONE HOTEL Textiles: Hard Twist 2014 – This Is Personal, to Apr 27. Humber College Chair Show, 6:30-11 pm Mar 4. B Photos: Jon Blak, to Feb 28.

1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.

GRAVEN FEATHER Painting: Rosalind Breen, to Feb 28, reception 7-9 pm Feb 27.

906 Queen W. 416-858-4401.

HASHTAG GALLERY Anser, Feb 27-Mar 9, reception 7-11:30 pm Feb 27. 801 Dundas W. 416-861-1866.

JAPAN FOUNDATION Prints: The Many Faces Of Danjuro IX, to Apr 30. 131 Bloor W. 416-966-1600.

KATZMAN CONTEMPORARY Painting/installation: Allyson Clay, Kika Thorne and Sean Martindale, to Mar 22. 86 Miller.

416-504-9515.

LOOP GALLERY Painting/textiles: Tanya Cunnington and Kim Stanford, Mar 1-23, reception 2-5 pm Mar 1. 1273 Dundas W. 416-516-2581.

NICHOLAS METIVIER Painting: Shelley Adler, Feb 27-Mar 22, reception 6-8 pm Feb 27. 451 King W. 416-205-9000.

BRYERSON STUDENT CENTRE Queering Black History Month: Jah Grey and Nadijah Robinson, 5:30 pm Feb 28. 55 Gould.

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Beatriz Pizano partners with Native Earth for Routes festival.

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Festival enthusiastically links experiences in the Americas By JON KAPLAN PANAMERICAN ROUTES (RUTAS PANAMERICANAS) a festival of performances, workshops and conferences featuring Canadian, indigenous and Latin American artists and speakers. Presented by Aluna Theatre and Native Earth Performing Arts at Daniels Spectrum (585 Dundas East).

Opens today (Thursday, February 27) and runs to March 9. $15-$25. alunatheatre.ca; nativeearth.ca.

Panamericanism involves Canada.

That’s the strong belief of Colombianborn Toronto theatre artist Beatriz Pizano, artistic director of Aluna Theatre.

“I used to say it half-jokingly, but in

Lost youth The focus on indigenous peoples that marks this year’s Panamerican Routes Festival draws parallels among the ways native women are treated throughout the Americas.

Native Earth’s contribution, Tara Beagan’s In Spirit, looks at the disappearance of Molly, a 12-year-old on her way to show a friend her new bike.

Moving and full of insights about a maturing young woman, the play has grown since it first appeared as Quilchena in SummerWorks 2007.

“A play needs more than one production to become what it wants to be,” says Beagan from Vancouver, where the show runs before coming to Toronto.

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this year’s Panamerican Routes Festival Canada is an important component,” says the busy Pizano, taking a brief break from her producing duties. “We are part of the Americas, and the conversation that involves Central, South and North America is a crucial one.”

New to this second festival is the involvement of Native Earth Performing Arts, along with the inclusion of stories and participants from Latin American indigenous communities.

“I was deeply impressed at a panel I saw in São Paulo where several native women stated that they had moved beyond the idea of resistance and in-

stead were building the world they had imagined,” recalls Pizano. “That’s changed my idea of the theatre I create, and that is important to me.”

This year’s festival includes eight productions (four each from Canada and Latin America) and as many discussion topics that range from treaties with native people to femicide, and from displaced youth to corn seen in both ritual and commercial terms.

Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani from Peru brings Antigona, a solo show by Teresa Rallí based on Sophocles’ classical play. Set in Peru after 20 years of internal bloodshed, the work

Highway of whose reference Tears, she’s points were teleangry about vision as much as the society the world around that failed her. them. In Spirit I think uncovnow shows ering that anMolly’s relationger is healthy ship to TV, which and makes an has led to a new implicit demand video design. There’s on those who are a visual difference, a Tara Beagan still alive to find out distinct and separate qualwhat happened to the ity of video, between when her disappeared women. It’s crumemories come from TV and when cial to the storytelling that viewers she recalls something that happened actively hear her and realize that while to her.” we’re not blamed, we do have some It’s clear from the start that Molly level of responsibility.” speaks to us from the limbo of death Andy Moro’s design has been an inas she looks for friends and family in trinsic part of the production from the the audience. start. The two native artists recently “One of the hundreds of native formed a new company, Article 11. women who have disappeared on BC’s

was developed through interviews with the families of the desaparecidos (the disappeared).

“This company has been together for 42 years. When the members started creating in a multicultural society, they knew they had to learn other languages and cultures in order to make art in their own country. Since then, they’ve been using that art to affect the truth-and-reconciliation process in Peru, investigating crimes against humanity committed during the 1980s and 90s.”

Colombia’s Mapa Teatro offers Witness To The Ruins, a multimedia documentary about the razing of El Cartucho, an old barrio in Bogotá, to create a public park. The irony of its staging in Regent Park, which has undergone its own redevelopment, isn’t lost on Pizano.

“Mapa’s piece is a kind of testimony; artists are witnesses of transformation all around the world. One of our discussion sessions is on this production and the urban renewal in this neighbourhood of Toronto.”

Also on the festival bill are NK603: Action For Performer And E-Maiz, a show featuring returning performer Violeta Luna that looks at GMO corn and the corn of ancient ritual; Alicuanta, a song cycle about a Mexican general mysteriously murdered in 1927; Diego Y Ulises, a love story in dance inspired by the work of filmmaker Gus Van Sant; and El Refugio De Freidel (The Refuge Of Freidel), a poetic look at the forced exile and refugee experience of a Colombian actor living in Canada.

All shows are accessible in both English and Spanish, with performances in the original language and surtitles in the other.

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“I found that I was writing stage directions for him, and in early workshops we improvised like jazz musicians,” Beagan recalls. “He sees me as a director with a strong sense of design, but I know he can implement ideas that exist only in my head. I give him a seedling and he can grow a forest from it.”

Beagan feels the appropriateness of In Spirit’s inclusion in Panamerican Routes. “The desaparecidos in Latin America were the first group of missing people I’d heard of. They’ve been in my consciousness ever since, and having the chance to tell this Canadian story to Central and South American people at the festival is special to me.”

In Spirit runs Tuesday (March 4) at 11 am, March 7-8 at 7:30 pm and March 9 at 2:30 pm, Aki Studio. It also continues JK after the festival, March 11-16.

Question time It’s arguable that our anxiety about the Other became paranoia with 9/11.

In What I Learned From A Decade Of Fear, creators Trevor Schwellnus, Beatriz Pizano and Lyon Smith explore contemporary concerns around terrorism and national and personal security.

Aluna Theatre’s show was inspired by a number of things, including what they call the “new medievalism,” described by Schwellnus as “the bunkering up and fortification of structures, especially corporate headquarters worried about attacks.

“When Bea talked to a friend in Colombia, she learned that they’ve had such ‘intelligent buildings’ for years. That led us to think about how the environTrevor ment has Schwellnus changed since the Twin Towers, how we’ve started bunkering our minds as well.”

Developed in residency at the Theatre Centre, the play had an ironic beginning: the first day’s rehearsal was the start of the G20 weekend. Talk about paranoia.

Using a combination of live performance and multimedia (Schwellnus is scenographer as well as director) much of the action is an extended interrogation during which Pizano questions Smith about seemingly everyday things like his children and the organic jam they eat.

“We’re looking at what it means to interview someone and how that can move to interrogation or something more sinister. Linked to that style is how we frame our understanding of the thing or person we don’t understand, how that becomes an active tactic in how we deal with others.”

The treatment of Omar Khadr and other areas of research – Pizano drew on the abuse at Abu Ghraib and Coco Fusco’s A Field Guide For Female Interrogators – fed the project, as did Schwellnus’s playing around with a security camera as a storytelling device.

“Looking at a screen and looking at a live environment are totally different,” he notes. “We’re experimenting with how an open room can appear to be contained, even made to look like a prison, through the use of a camera.

That’s become a subtext in the show: how a person’s viewpoint is a perspective but also a cage that defines how you look at the world.”

What I Learned From A Decade Of Fear runs March 1 at 6:30 pm and March 2 JK 3 at 2:30 pm, Aki Studio.

Theatre Q&A

Becky ­Johnson Actor, A Beautiful View

Daniel MacIvor’s A Beautiful View – a memory play about a decade-long relationship between two women – was a big hit when it debuted in 2006 in a stellar da da kamera/Buddies production starring Caroline ­Gillis and the late, great Tracy Wright. Now Toronto’s Volcano and Munich’s BeMe Theatre are presenting a new take on it, directed by Volcano’s Ross Manson, featuring a score by German composer Krister Schuchardt. It stars Amy Rutherford (Goodness, Divisadero) and Becky Johnson, who’s better known in the improv comedy world and as a clown but has made some impressive theatre outings, most recently in Sheila Heti’s All Our Happy Days Are Stupid. The play opens tonight (Thursday, February 27) at the Factory Studio. See Openings, this page.

The two unnamed characters in A Beautiful View have a long history that you need to suggest subtly.

Did you and co-star Amy Rutherford bond in any special way before, during or after rehearsals?

Amy and I met in high school at the Canadian Improv Games. Our career paths have been quite dif­ ferent since then (me doing clown and improv, she classically trained with much more dramatic experi­ ence). Getting to re-meet her through this process was such a treat. And I feel that our long-time knowledge of one another really feeds into that sense of odd intim­ acy in the play.

You performed the piece in Munich. Did the Germans laugh in the right places?

This show is really interesting in that it doesn’t have right places to laugh. It sits right on the edge of humour and drama a lot of the time. Different audiences receive it differently, and that always felt correct. Plus, being an English pro­ duction, we were playing to a lot of expats, so I can’t really speak to German sensibilities in this case.

Did you pick up any great German ­expressions?

I learned how to order a litre of beer.

Who in the theatre or comedy community do you have a girl-crush on?

There are always so many, but I’ll go with Carolyn Taylor, mostly because I can’t stop thinking about the amazing­ ly bizarre nun she played in Wayward, the serialized improv show I directed for Bad Dog Theatre last year.

At the Inessa Frantowski farewell show at the Comedy Bar, you won one of her sequined dresses. What have you done with it?

I wore it to a house party for New Year’s and overwhelmed everybody.

Sarah Hillier and I did have the idea to do Catch 23 Improv in sequins and call ourselves Inessa’s Dresses. Maybe we should get on that.

You recently starred in Sheila Heti’s All Our Happy Days Are Stupid. How much fun was it to have cat fights with (former NOW theatre writer) Naomi Skwarna?

I can’t imagine anyone I’d rather get catty with than Naomi. In fact, I can’t understand exactly how two such pot­ entially loathsome women were so

much fun to play. Naomi was so good in the role, in fact, that I predict she will soon quit writing altogether in ­favour of the lucrative life of an indie theatre star.

How does improv affect your theatre work, and vice versa?

I don’t see the theatre and improv work I do as all that different. It’s just that the sections in arts weeklies tell me otherwise.

Besides your Sufferettes partner, Kayla Lorette, who’s your favourite comic to improvise with – and why?

Right now I’m really enjoying improvis­ ing with Dan Beirne. He’s a master at playing comedic moments to their full­ est, always stays true to the reality of a scene, listens minutely and doesn’t get too upset when I try to smooch him in scenes.

You’re embarking on an Ontario tour after the Toronto run. What place are you most looking forward to – and why?

North Bay, because it is far away, I have never been and I know almost nothing GLENN SUMI about it.

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Opening Antony & Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (St Genesius’ Drama Society/SMCSU). Sparks fly between Egypt’s queen and the Roman ruler. Feb 27-Mar 1, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $12, stu/srs $10. St Michael’s College Brennan Hall, 81 St Mary. ­uofttix.ca.

Art by Yasmina Reza (Column 13 Actors Com­ pany). An expensive modernist painting tests the limits of friendship. Opens Feb 27 and runs to Mar 8, Wed-Sat 8 pm. $20, Feb 26-27 pwyc. Unit 102 Theatre, 376 Dufferin. 416414-6745, ­secureaseat.com/art.

A Beautiful View by Daniel MacIvor (Volcano Theatre/BeMe Theatre). This play explores a turbulent friendship between two women and the use of labels in relation­ ships (see Q&A, this page). Opens Feb 27 and runs to Mar 9, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm, Sun 4 pm. $25, stu/srs $20, Tue pwyc. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst. 416-504-9971, ­volcano.ca.

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Reimagined classic

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AFTERPLAY by Brian Friel (Afterplay

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Collective). At Campbell House (160 Queen West). Runs to March 2. $25 (includes Russian tea). 416-597-0227 ext 2.

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Bittersweet humour, missed emotional connections and a sense of loneliness are all part of Anton Chekhov’s best works.

Playwright Brian Friel understands those qualities and makes them central to Afterplay, a sensitive one-act work inspired by the Russian master.

Two decades after the curtain falls on those two stories, Uncle Vanya’s Sonya and Andrey from Three Sisters meet at a Moscow tavern. When we last saw Sonya, she was devoting herself to the family estate and dreaming of rest in the next world. Andrey was saddled with two children and an ­unfaithful wife and had lost his life’s ambitions.

Now Sonya’s in Moscow trying, without much success, to sort out ­estate plans with the ministry and the bank. Andrey, a musician, shares a table with her and presents himself as a member of the opera orchestra sche­ duled to premiere La Bohème the next evening.

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Tracey Ferencz and Steve Cumyn revive Chekhov’s characters in Afterplay with immense skill.

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Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) by Ann-Marie MacDonald (Hart House

Theatre). A professor goes on a surreal journey to prove her theory about two Shakespeare plays. Opens Feb 28 and runs to Mar 8, WedSat 8 pm, mat Mar 8 at 2 pm. $28, srs $17, stu $10-$15. 7 Hart House Circle. ­uofttix.ca.

In Spirit by Tara Beagan (Native Earth Performing Arts/Panamerican Routes Festival). A community struggles with a young girl’s disappearance (see story, page 58). Opens Mar 4 and runs to Mar 16, Festival dates: Mar 4 at 11 am, Mar 7-8 at 7:30 pm, Mar 9 at 2:30 pm. Mar 11-16: Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $20. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E, Aki Studio Theatre. ­nativeearth.ca/inspirit.

Lungs by Duncan Macmillan (Tarragon Theatre). A couple discuss the ethics of having a child in today’s world. Previews to Mar 2.

Opens Mar 4 and runs to Mar 30, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $21-$53, rush $13. 30 Bridgman, Extra Space. ­tarragontheatre.com.

Marion Bridge by Daniel MacIvor (The Village Players). Three Cape Breton sisters are reunited by a family crisis. Opens Feb 28 and runs to Mar 22, see website for schedule. $20, stu/srs $16. Bloor West Village Playhouse, 2190 Bloor W. 416-767-7702, ­villageplayers.net.

Marry Me A Little by Stephen Sondheim (Tarragon Theatre). Sondheim songs surround a dialogue-free plot about the relationship between two lonely New Yorkers.

Previews to Mar 2. Opens Mar 5 and runs to Apr 6, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $27-$53, previews $21-$25, rush $13. 30 Bridgman. 416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com.

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Friel supplies enough details from Chekhov’s plays to fill us in on these histories. He goes further, though, by enriching two characters whose hopes were taken away 20 years earlier.

Director Kyra Harper’s production in Campbell House brings us right into their world, from the Russian tea and cookies we’re served before the show to the intimacy of its café setting.

Actors Steve Cumyn and Tracey Fer­ encz understand Andrey and Sonya, their little social lies as well as the truths they try to hide from themselves. Hyperactive at the start, he develops a nervous blink when uncomfortable, and even blushes on cue. This

Andrey shyly expresses his interest in Sonya and then pulls back. She’s all business, the occasional sigh alerting us to the fact that all’s not well.

A little vodka helps to loosen them up. Sonya talks of the happiness she’d hoped for with Astrov, the doctor in Uncle Vanya, while Andrey starts to unravel the “fables” he’s told her.

There’s a warmth and gentleness here that initially suggest this pair might find happiness – a kiss near the end intentionally goes on just a second too long. But, as in most Chekhov plays, the ending is a small tragedy, perhaps not heartbreaking but painful JON KAPLAN for them both.

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A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant, and A Prayer. (V-Day Toronto). Monologues edited

by Eve Ensler are read to benefit women’s charities. Feb 28-Mar 2, Fri-Sun 7:30 pm, mat Sun 2 pm. $15. The Box Studio, 89 Niagara. ­mmrptoronto.eventbrite.ca.

Menopause The Musical by Jeannie Linders (Flato Markham Theatre). Women make fun of hot flashes and more. Mar 5-6 at 8 pm. $79$84. 171 Town Centre Blvd. 905-305-7469.

Panamerican Routes/Rutas Panamericanas (Aluna Theatre). Works by Canñ adian and Latin American artists, including

Performers throw themselves into the action of the potent movement piece Forgiveness.

Physical theatre

Beyond hurt FORGIVENESS by Peter Farbridge, Soheil Parsa and Barbara Simonsen (Modern Times/Bora Bora/Laboratiet/Don*Gnu/ Dreamwalker). At the Black Box Theatre (1087 Queen West). Runs to Saturday (March 1). Pwyc-$35. 416-538-0988. See Continuing, this page. Rating­: NNN

Forgiveness, a powerful piece of movement theatre, looks at what it takes to forgive on both the personal and social level, and whether we can forgive others as well as ourselves.

Given the complexity of the topic, this new production can be pardoned if not every scene has equal strength.

The five performers (Peter Far­ bridge, Stavroula Logothettis, Andrea Nann, Jannik Elkaer Nielsen and Kris­ toffer Louis Andrup Pedersen) literally throw themselves into the sometimes

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abstract action, whether they’re taking lessons from a self-help guru who asks them to follow a steps system, looking for mercy from a silent deity or beating each other up in a goading wrestling match.

The movements and performances are so clean that even if the specific meaning of a scene isn’t clear, the performers’ commitment to the material is never in doubt.

Among the individual episodes are a relationship’s messy breakup, a historic look at aggression, and a series of taped public apologies. The serious can become the comic with a body’s twist or the repetition of a phrase that turns the intense into the ludicrous.

One moment we’re being sung a gentle lullaby, the next we’re in an operating room where an injured man – identified as various people who have committed crimes against humanity – begs for water as his caregivers turn on him.

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Under director and co-writer Soheil Parsa, the staging is tight and sharp, aided by Lindsay Anne Black’s white plastic set and lighting by Michelle Ramsay, the actors in Angela Thomas’s black costumes. Thomas Ryder Payne’s soundscape, incorporating breathing, faint singing, night sounds and other elements, works on the subconscious to suggest an unsettling world.

Tape recorders and microphones are crucial here, too, with some of the text recorded and the mikes giving a sense of intimacy of thought and feeling. A microphone can also become a wea­ pon, as likely to deliver a blow as to ­allow the release of feelings through speech.

The intentionally ambiguous ending offers the hope that in the grand scheme of things an injury, personal or larger, is a minor event. Can we go ­beyond our hurt, our pain, our desire to punish? The show’s last words suggest JON KAPLAN that we can.

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Mapa Teatro, Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani, Aluna Theatre, Native Earth and others (see story, page 58). Opens Feb 27 and runs to Mar 9, see website for schedule. $15-$25. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E. ­alunatheatre.ca.

Plays In Cafés (Shadowpath Theatre). Three short plays about relationships are performed in cafés north of Toronto. Pwyc. Feb 28-Mar 2, Fri 8 pm at Coffee Culture (10037 Keele, Vaughan), Sat 7 pm at Java Joe’s (298 John, Thornhill), Sun 3 pm at Baci Cafe (10200 Keele, Vaughan). ­shadowpaththeatre.ca.

Port Authority by Conor McPherson (Fly on the Wall Theatre). Reading of the play about three generations of Irishmen. Mar 2-3, Sun 2 pm, Mon 7:30 pm. Pwyc. Fionn MacCool’s Pub, 181 University. ­flyonthewalltheatre.ca.

BRomeo And Juliet by William Shakespeare (African Students Association at U of T). The tale of star-crossed lovers is set in Africa in this adaptation. Feb 27-Mar 1, Thu-Sat 7 pm, mat Sat 1 pm. $20, stu $15. Al Green Theatre, 750 Spadina. african.sa.utoronto.ca.

The Wanderers by Kawa Ada (Cahoots Theatre Company). The war back home continues to fracture life for an Afghan-Canadian family. Opens Mar 1 and runs to Mar 23, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $20-$37, Sun pwyc. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, ­cahoots.ca.

Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (Presentation House Theatre). A boy embarks on imaginary travels with animals in this adaptation of the kids’ book. Opens Mar 4 and runs to Mar 30, see website for schedule. $19$24. Young People’s Theatre, 165 Front E. 416862-2222, ­youngpeoplestheatre.ca.

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6 Essential Questions by Priscila Uppal (Factory Theatre). A woman reconnects with the mother who abandoned her 30 years before.

Previews Mar 1-5, Sat and Tue-Wed 8 pm, Sun 7 pm. Opens Mar 7 and runs to Mar 30, TueSat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $23-$45, mat pwyc. 125 Bathurst. 416-504-9971, ­factorytheatre.ca.

One-nighters

bBejide (Toronto Psychoanalytic Society & Institute). Two women wrestle with what it means to protect someone they love in this drama about multiculturalism and ideals. Mar 1 at 7:30 pm. $75. George Ignatieff Theatre,

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15 Devonshire. torontopsychoanalysis.com.

The Boylympics (Go Play Producing/Egale Canada). Boylesque T.O. performs interpretive figure skating, podium prancing and more.

Feb 28 at 10 pm. $22-$28. Lee’s Palace, 529 Bloor W. b ­ oylympics.eventbrite.ca.

Chutes & Corporate Ladders (Second City Training Centre). Conservatory grads put on an original musical show. Mar 2 at 3 pm.

Pwyc. Second City, 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011.

Ibsen’s Ghost by JM Barrie (Theatre Inamorata). Fundraising workshop performance of the one-act satire. Mar 2 at 4 and 7 pm. $15.

Women’s Art Association, 23 Prince Arthur, Dignam Gallery. t­ heatreinamorata.com.

Masque: History Of An Interdisciplinary

Art Form (Toronto Masque Theatre). Learn about how masque is being reinvented for the 21st century. Mar 3 at 7:30 pm. $20 sugg (must RSVP). TMT Studio, 21 Shaftesbury.

416-410-4561, ­torontomasquetheatre.com.

RAW: Awakening (RAW: Natural Born Artists).

Showcase of emerging underground talent.

Feb 27 at 7 pm. $20. Revival, 783 College. ­rawartists.org/toronto/awakening.

Reveal Me Burlesque (Red Herring Burlesque). Virgin vixens and professional peelers put on a show. Mar 5, doors 8 pm. $10. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. ­aprofessionaldistraction.com.

Tough Jews by Michael Albert Ross (Between Stages). Reading of the play about a family of Jewish bootleggers in Prohibition-era Toronto.

Mar 1 at 7 pm. $10. Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina. 416-924-6211 ext 606, mnjcc.org.

With Love And A Major Organ by Julia Lederer (O Muse Plays for Parents). Play reading in a baby-friendly setting. Mar 3 at 1:30 pm. $10. Bebo Mia, 1 Munro. omuse.ca.

Continuing Afterplay by Brian Friel (AfterPlay Collective). Chekhov characters Sonya from ñ Uncle Vanya and Andrey from Three Sisters

have a brief encounter in 1920s Moscow (see review, this page). Runs to Mar 2, Thu-Sun 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $25. Campbell House Museum, 160 Queen W. 416-597-0227, ­campbellhousemuseum.ca. NNNN (JK) Arrabal by Gustavo Santaolalla and John Weidman (Mirvish/BASE Entertainment). A sultry mix of passion and politics, this new dance-theatre piece isn’t where it could be dramatically, but the music, movement and heart still make it an entertaining show. The young Arrabal (Micaela Spina) immerses herself in the tango clubs of Buenos Aires and learns what happened to her father, Rodolfo (co-choreographer Julio Zurita), who was disappeared under Argentina’s military dictatorship. The dance sequences smoulder and ignite­, and Gustavo Santaolalla’s music is electric and catchy. But writer Weidman needs to find more clarity in the storytelling. Runs to Apr 20, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm. $44-$84. Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge.

416-872-1212, mirvish.com. NNN (GS) Big Maggie by John B Keane (Toronto Irish Players). A newly widowed woman sets out to fulfill her dreams in 1960s rural Ireland. Runs to Mar 8, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20, stu/srs $18. Alumnae Theatre, 70 Berkeley. 416-4402888, torontoirishplayers.com.

Cabaret by Christopher Isherwood, Fred Ebb and John Kander(Lower Ossington Theatre).

An American writer falls for a nightclub singer in Nazi-era Berlin. Runs to Mar 2, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm, Sun 4 pm. $49-$59. 100A Ossington. ­lowerossingtontheatre.com.

Cher menteur (Dear Liar: A Comedy of Letters) by Jerome Kilty (Théâtre français de To-

ronto). This comedy is based on letters exchanged between Mrs Patrick Campbell and George Bernard Shaw. Runs to Mar 1, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 3:30 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $20-$48.

Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley, Upstairs.

416-534-6604, theatrefrancais.com.

Cosi Fan Tutte/Carmen by Mozart/Bizet (Toronto City Opera). The popular operas are performed in repertory. Runs to Mar 2, see website for times. $28, srs $20, stu $15. Bickford Centre Theatre, 777 Bloor W. uofttix.ca.

Forgiveness (Modern Times Stage Co./Bora Bora Dance & Visual Theatre/Dreamwalker Dance Productions/Don*Gnu/Laboratoriet).

This dance-theatre production looks at one of life’s most elusive themes (see review, this page). Runs to Mar 1, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm. Pwyc$35. The Great Hall, 1087 Queen W. moderntimesstage.wordpress.com. NNN (JK) Handle With Care by Jason Odell Williams (TEATRON Theatre). A woman grills a courier about a missing package in this romantic comedy. Runs to Mar 9, Tue-Thu 8 pm, Sat 8:30 pm, mat Sun 2 pm. $26-$48. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge. teatrontheatre.com.

Idiot’s Delight by Robert E Sherwood (Soulpepper). In the hands of director Albert Schultz and the ensemble, Sherwood’s

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The Last Seven Steps Of Bartholomew S. by Daniele Bartolini (Bata Shoe Muñ seum). A walkabout show at Bata traces the

footsteps of the mysterious title character, who may be a mythic figure. The audience, playing with the clues it has and finding others along the way, is never quite sure of reality as we follow several people who claim to have known Sebastian. Intriguing, interactive theatre. Runs to Feb 28, Fri 7 pm. $50. 327 Bloor W. batashoemuseum.ca. NNNN (JK) Letters To Saint Rita by Michael Ripley (Theatre Rattlebag). This play examines the evolution of a romantic relationship over a period of 20 years. Runs to Mar 7, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $15. Red Sandcastle Theatre, 922 Queen E. redsandcastletheatre.com.

Major Tom by Victoria Melody (Harbourfront World Stage). A woman finds herself in a beauty pageant after entering her dog in a competition. Runs to Mar 1, Wed-Sat 8 pm. $29. Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com.

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (Lyric Hammersmith/Vestuport/Mirvish). In this adaptation of Franz Kafka’s allegory about how society treats the other, actor Björn Thors brings a terrific athleticism to Gregor, the man who awakens one morning to find himself transformed into an insect. Another star is designer Börkur Jónsson, who gives Gregor’s bedroom the perspective of a ceiling-hanging bug, allowing Thors to literally climb the walls in his gymnastic performance. The other actors provide broad, heavy-handed caricatures who speak in a tiresomely declamatory style. Runs to Mar 9, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm. $25-$99. Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260 King W. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. NNN (JK) Mrs. Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw (Sterling Studio Theatre). A young woman learns that her mother is a brothel owner in this play about sex, money and morality. Runs to Mar 1, Tue-Sat 8 pm. $20. 163 Sterling, unit 5. sterlingstudiotheatre.com.

The Norman Conquests by Alan Ayckbourn (Soulpepper). In a trio of interconnected plays (Table Manners, Living Together and Round And Round The Garden) all presented in different parts of a country house, Ayckbourn looks at an intended extramarital fling and the effects it has on an extended family. A talented cast gets most of the scripts’ laughs, though the touch of sadness underlying the relationships could be better evoked and at times the rhythms could be smoother. Runs to Mar 8, plays run in rep, see

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website for schedule. $37-$74. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane.

416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. Rating: Table Manners NNNN; Living Together NNN; Round And Round The Garden NNNN (JK) Nude With Violin by Noel Coward (East Side Players). Secrets emerge at an artist’s funeral in this comedy. Runs to Mar 8, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $22, stu $15. Papermill Theatre, 67 Pottery. 416-425-0917, ­eastsideplayers.ca.

Same Same But Different by Anita Majumdar (Theatre Passe Muraille/Alberta Theatre Projects). Two intersecting stories about a Bollywood starlet and her mother look at Indian cinema and clashing cultures (see review, this page). Runs to Mar 8, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $15-$32.50, mat pwyc. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. 416-504-7529, passemuraille.on.ca. NNN (Jordan Bimm) Shrew by William Shakespeare (Red One Theatre Collective). Director Tyrone Savage’s production of Shakespeare’s The Taming Of The Shrew is a mix of commedia, the Bard, improv and a Klondike setting. It works because the actors have a lot of fun and can handle the text well, though the setting is inconsistently used and some of the action is silly rather than funny. Runs to Mar 1, Tue-Sat 8 pm (NOTE: venue changed from Storefront Theatre, see website for info). $20. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson, Backspace. 416-5047529, redonetheatre.com. NNN (JK) Tribes by Nina Raine (Theatrefront/Canadian Stage/Theatre Aquarius). A deaf-from-birth young man (Stephen Drabicki) meets a woman (Holly Lewis) who’s losing her hearing, prompting him to question his identity and allegiance to his loud, narcissistic, literary family, who raised him as if he had no disability. There are lots of rich themes in Raine’s script, but they’re not all mined in Daryl Cloran’s production. There are some solid performances, but the family dynamics don’t feel organic and the design isn’t as suggestive as it could be. Runs to Mar 2, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $22-$49. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416-368-3110, canadianstage.com. NNN (GS) The Two Worlds of Charlie F. by Owen Sheers (Mirvish). This darkly comic play presents a soldier’s view of service, injury and recovery. Runs to Mar 9, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm. $19-$79. Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King W. ­mirvish.com.

The Witlings by Frances Burney (Theatre Erindale). This play by the comic novelist depicts lovers kept apart by economic difficulties. Runs to Mar 2, Thu 7:30 pm, Fri-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $15, stu/srs $10. Erindale Studio Theatre at UTM, 3359 Mississauga Rd N. 905-569-4369, theatreerindale.com.

WWI. (Re)Visions of the Aftermath by the Approaches to Theatre class (Theatre Glendon). This collaborative creation looks at World War I through the eyes of those involved. Runs to Mar 1, Thu-Sat 7 pm. $10, stu $5. 2275 Bayview. 416-487-6822, facebook. com/revisionsoftheww1aftermath.

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Thursday, February 27 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents headliner Larry

XL w/ Ayanna Dookie and host Herb Irving. To Mar 2, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:45 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10-$15. 2335 Yonge. 416-4867700, ­absolutecomedy.ca.

BEERPROV: THE DRAFT Jim Robinson presents up-and-coming improvisers competing in a series of elimination games. 9:30 pm. $12.

Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, ­beerprov.com.

FOX COMEDY Fox & Fiddle Danforth presents stand-up w/ Michael Harrison, Ben Bankas, Travis Albers, Jesse Owens, Mike McGregor,

Roy Daye and host Matt Holmes. 10 pm. Free.

535 Danforth. 416-462-9830.

LAUGH SABBATH Comedy Bar presents Tim Gilbert, James Hartnett, Dan Galea, Tom Hobson, Todd Graham, Jess Beaulieu, Mack Lawrenz, host Sara Hennessey and others. 9:30 pm. $5. 945 Bloor W. ­laughsabbath.com.

LAUGHING LIKE CRAZY SHOWCASE Mood Disorders Association of Ontario presents standup by graduates of its program who find humour in their experiences with the mental health system. 7 pm. Free. Metro YMCA, 20 Grosvenor, Auditorium. m ­ ooddisorders.ca.

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Same thing SAME SAME BUT DIFFERENT by Anita Majumdar. Directed by Brian Quirt (­Theatre Passe Muraille/Alberta Theatre Projects). At Theatre Passe Muraille Main­ space (16 Ryerson). To March 8. $15$32.50. 416-504-7529. See Continuing, this page. Rating­: NNN

This pair of one-act plays uses the backstage politics of Bollywood film and music production to make pointed observations about issues surrounding skin tone, class and national identity in post-colonial India. However, this important goal is largely accomplished by the first intermission, and the weaker second play struggles by comparison.

The first story takes place on the set of a present-day Bollywood production shooting in Vancouver and tells the story of an unlikely budding romance between newcomer backup dancer Ben (Nicco Lorenzo Garcia) and star performer Aisha (Anita Majumdar). While the unseen director (voiced by Reza Jacobs) badgers Aisha about lightening her complexion, Ben, whose parents are Pilipino and Spanish, slowly reveals his obsession with Bollywood, and with Aisha in particular.

In the second story, set 20 years ­earlier, two unknown singers record background vocals in a cramped soundproof recording booth in India.

Here, Majumdar plays Aisha’s mother, Kabira, and Lorenzo Garcia plays Felipe, a Pilipino-born Indian citizen conscious of the violent revolutionary struggle occurring back home.

Unfortunately, the second story doesn’t differ enough from the first to justify stretching the length of the show to nearly three hours. With the same actors playing similar characters (Jacobs is back as an unseen

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Happy Few Shakespearean Improv Company presents an improvised play in the style of the Bard w/ Jeff Clark & musical comedy by Ingrid Hansen. 8 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, comedybar.ca.

SPRING 2014 MAINSTAGE REVUE Second City presents previews of its upcoming collection of sketches, songs and improvisations. Indefinite run, Tue-Thu 8 pm, Fri 7:30 pm, SatSun 7:30 & 10 pm. $25-$29. 51 Mercer. 416343-0011, secondcity.com.

sound engineer), the repetition isn’t productive and the detail that Kabira is Aisha’s mother is easy to miss. And since the action of the second play is confined to a tiny recording booth,

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The Flying Beaver Pubaret presents a benefit for a family w/ Joshua Elijah, Precious Chong, Aisha Alfa, Kenny Robinson, Dave Merheje and Kate Davis. 7:30 pm. $10-$15.

488 Parliament. 647-347-6567, ­pubaret.com.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Garrett Clark. To Mar 2, Thu-Sun 8 pm (and Fri-Sat 10:30 pm). $13-$22. 224 Richmond W. 416967-6425, ­yukyuks.com.

Friday, February 28

everyone loves their mother… don’t they?

Absolute Comedy See Thu 27.

BEERPROV Jim Robinson presents the improv

competition. 10:30 pm. $15. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. beerprov.com.

THE BEST OF THE SECOND CITY presents classic and original sketch and improvisation. 10:30 pm. $24. Second City, 51 Mercer. 416-3430011, s­ econdcity.com.

CATCH 23 Comedy Bar presents a weekly improv pit fight. 8 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, comedybar.ca.

DYKES OF HAZARD COMEDY HOUR The Flying Beaver Pubaret presents underground comics w/ Erin & Nara, Hunter Collins, Chrissie Cunningham, Richard Ryder and others. 9 pm. $10-$15. 488 Parliament. 647347-6567, ­brownpapertickets.com.

FADE TO BLACK COMEDY Fade to Brown Comedy presents a safe environment for ethnic comedy w/ Mike Rita, Chris Robinson, Paul Thompson, JJ Liberman, Ron Josol and Amish Patel. 9 pm. $10. The LOT Comedy Club, 100 Ossington. ­fadetoblack.bpt.me.

HIRUT HOOT Hirut Fine Ethiopian Cuisine presents Chris Finn, Jeff Elliott, Leny Corrado, Dave Martin, Jamie O’Connor, Billy Wiegand,

PORT CREDIT COMEDY FESTIVAL OPENING NIGHT GALA presents performances by ñ ñ Mike Bullard, Frank Spadone, Darcy Michael, Graham Chittenden, Erica Sigurdson & Chris Gibbs. 8 pm. $45, festival pass $90. First ñ United Church, 151 Lakeshore W, MissisSHAKESPEARE FORGIVE US, THE THIRD ACT We

Nicco​ Lorenzo Garcia is ­effective in Same Same But​ Different, but the​ two oneacts are​ too​ similar.

the staging is static and the pace at times sluggish.

Despite these issues, Majumdar’s stories are rich in detail and, for the most part, she performs them well with Lorenzo Garcia. The pair generate palpable chemistry onstage, especially during the first half in a scene when Ben and Aisha are left to choreograph a dance sequence together.

However, Jacobs, as the voice of the shallow, impatient and easily distracted director and sound engineer ends up being the unintentional breakout character. He provides some comic ­relief as the provoker of Aisha and ­Kabira’s insecurities. His laid-back, foul-mouthed performance is hilarious and worthy of its own spinoff.

The few interesting tidbits in the second play – especially about Felipe’s concept of national identity – could conceivably be incorporated into the first narrative, which would make things less confusing and shorten the near-epic run time. JORDAN BIMM

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rarely performed Pulitzer Prize winner, an anti-war play that blends comedy, chilling foresight, romance and song-and-dance, is both entertaining and instructive. At its centre is the relationship between a charming showbiz impresario and a Russian woman of mystery, played expertly by Dan Chameroy and Raquel Duffy. Runs to Mar 1, see website for schedule. $23-$74, rush $5-$23. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane.

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Ian Sirota and host Kevin MacDonald. 9 pm. $5. 2050 Danforth. 416-551-7560.

THE JOKEBOX Impulsive Entertainment presents Kyle Hickey, She Said What, Kathleen Phillips-Locke, host Adam David and others. 10 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. facebook.com/TheJokeboxComedyLounge.

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Comedy Bar presents a live late show w/ Jarrett Campbell, Ashley Moffatt, host Dean Young, banter man Andy Itwaru and others. 8 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

PORT CREDIT COMEDY FESTIVAL presents performances by Graham Chittenden, Arthur Simeon and Darcy Michael. To Mar 1, Fri 9:30 pm, Sat 8 pm. $26, festival pass $90. Clarke Memorial Hall, 161 Lakeshore W, Mississauga. ­portcreditcomedy.com.

PORT CREDIT COMEDY FESTIVAL At The Legion

presents performances by Gilson Lubin, Erica Sigurdson and Chris Gibbs. To Mar 1, Fri-Sat 8:30 pm. $26, festival pass $90. Royal Canadian Legion #82, 35 Front N, Mississauga. ­portcreditcomedy.com.

Spring 2014 Mainstage Revue See Thu 27.

TOP SHELF COMEDY presents The Main Event, a weekly pro headliner and others. 9:30 pm. $5. St Louis Bar & Grill, 1963 Queen E. 416637-7427.

Yuk Yuk’s Downtown See Thu 27.

Saturday, March 1 Absolute Comedy See Thu 27.

MONKEY TOAST The Tite Group presents the improvised talk show w/ celebrity ñ chef David Rocco, music scene guru Alan

Cross, the Monkey Toast Players & host Ron Tite. 8 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. ­monkeytoast.com.

Port Credit Comedy Festival See Fri 28.

PORT CREDIT COMEDY FESTIVAL At The Legion

See Fri 28.

RED ROCKET COMEDY presents a weekly show

w/ host Joel West and guests. 8 pm. Free. Red Rocket Coffee, 1364 Danforth. 416-406-0880.

Spring 2014 Mainstage Revue See Thu 27.

THE SUPERSTARS OF COMEDY Comedy Bar pre-

sents headliner Chris Locke, Pat MacDonald, Darryl Orr & host Tim Nasiopoulos. 9:30 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. ­comedybar.ca.

Yuk Yuk’s Downtown See Thu 27.

Sunday, March 2 Absolute Comedy See Thu 27.

HAPPY HOUR COMEDY: GIVE ME MY SPOT CONTEST Ein-Stein presents five contestants com-

peting for a spot on Yuk Yuk’s Tuesday Night Show. 8 pm. Free. 229 College. ein-stein.ca.

KRAFT QUINNER COMEDY SHOW Harlem presents Quinn C Martin, Cole Zeldin and hosts John Avery & Mitchell Alvis. 8 pm. $10. 67 Richmond E. ­harlemrestaurant.com.

Spring 2014 Mainstage Revue See Thu 27.

SUNDAY NIGHT LIVE The Sketchersons present a weekly sketch and live music show. 9 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. ­comedybar.ca.

Yuk Yuk’s Downtown See Thu 27.

Monday, March 3 ALTDOT COMEDY LOUNGE Rivoli presents Sean Cullen, Alex Pavone, Jon Steinberg, ñ Michael Harrison, Marty Flanagan, Keven

Soldo, Lars Classington, Tim Golden, MC Sara Hennessey and others. 9 pm. $5. 332 Queen W. ­altdotcomedylounge.com.

THE BEST OF THE SECOND CITY presents classic and original sketch and improvisation. 8 pm. $14. Second City, 51 Mercer. ­secondcity.com.

CHEAP LAUGHS MONDAY PJ O’Briens Irish Pub presents a weekly open mic w/ Russell Roy and guests. 9:30 pm. Free. 39 Colborne. 416815-7562.

IMPERIAL COMEDY SHOW Imperial Pub presents a weekly show. 9:30 pm. Free. 54 Dundas E. 416-977-4667, ­imperialcomedy.com.

OFFICE PUB COMEDY presents 12 pros and amateurs each week w/ hosts Cassandra Sansosti and Blayne Smith. 8 pm. Free. The Office Pub, 117 John. 416-977-1900.

Tuesday, March 4 ALTDOT COMEDY LOUNGE Rivoli pre-

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sents an open-mic night w/ headliner Mark DeBonis, MC Kyle Hickey and 12 spots available. 9 pm. $5. 332 Queen W. ­altdotcomedylounge.com.

CLASSY DRUNK Emmet Ray Bar presents stand-up comedy. 8 pm. Free. 924 College.

Volcano presents

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416-792-4497, theemmetray.com.

THE FIRESTARTER Fox & Fiddle presents weekly pros & lotto spots w/ host Kyle Andrews. 8:30 pm. Free. 280 Bloor W. 416-966-4369.

FOUNTAIN ABBEY The Fountain presents stand-up w/ Diana Love & Julia Hladkowicz. 8 pm. Free. 1261 Dundas W. juliacomedy.com.

PROPEN MIC Comedy Bar presents a weekly pro open-mic show followed by lottery spots.

9 pm. $5. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

THE SKIN OF MY NUTS presents a weekly open mic w/ host Vandad Kardar. 9:30 pm. Free.

Sonic Espresso Bar, 60 Cecil. facebook.com/ skinofmynuts.

Spring 2014 Mainstage Revue See Thu 27.

TERRIFIC WOMEN The Ossington presents comedy styled as a 70s cable access show w/ Carolyn Taylor, Dawn Whitwell, Nigel Grinstead, DJ Demers, David DineenPorter, hosts Steph Kaliner & Sara Hennessey and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. 61 Ossington. ­theossington.com.

TUESDAY HEADLINER SERIES COMEDY Imperial Pub presents host Danny Polishchuk and guests. 9:30 pm. Free. 54 Dundas E. 416-9774667, imperialcomedy.com.

WHEEL OF IMPROV Natasha Boomer presents the weekly non-competitive competitive games game-show. 9:30 pm. $5.

Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. ­comedybar.ca.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents the Humber School of Comedy at 7:30 pm, Launching Pad for new stand-ups at 9:30 pm, every Tue. $4/ show. 224 Richmond W. yukyuks.com.

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Wednesday, March 5 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Pro-Am Night w/ headliner Darryl Purvis, Danny Freedman, JJ Liberman, Patrick Stewart, Katharine Ferns, Rene Robichaud, Sebastian Fazio and host Keesha Brownie. 8:30 pm. $6. 2335 Yonge.

416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

CHUCKLE CO. PRESENTS weekly stand-up. 9:30 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. chuckleco. com.

CORKTOWN COMEDY 9TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW Corktown Productions presents ñ an open-mic show w/ Dave Shuken, Susan

Fischer, Rachelle Elie, Todd Van Allen, host Brian Coughlin and others. 9 pm. Free.

Betty’s, 240 King E. 416-988-2675, ­corktowncomedy.com.

D&D LIVE Bad Dog Theatre Epic Wednesdays presents an improvised show based on the Dungeons & Dragons cult phenomenon. 8 pm. $12, stu $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, ­baddogtheatre.com.

ELEPHANT EMPIRE Comedy Bar presents the sketch troupe w/ Hannah Spear, Matt Lemche and others, performing fast-paced sketch and a one-act play. To Mar 26, Wednesdays 8 pm. $8. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

HOLODECK FOLLIES The Dandies present a sci fi-inspired improv comedy variety show w/ music by Chelsea Manders, stand-up

by Kris Siddiqi, and sketch by Bitches Leave. 8 pm. $10. Black Swan Comedy, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. improvdandies.wordpress.com.

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Al Khaima Arabesque Dance presents 12

belly dance soloists performing in an Arabian tent. Mar 1 at 8 pm. $15-$20. 1 Gloucester, suite 107. 416-920-5593, ­arabesquedance.ca.

Alloneword Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie presents James Kudelka’s suite of works set to von Biber’s Guardian Angel Sonata. Feb 27 at 8 pm. $49-$54. Flato Markham Theatre, 171 Town Centre Blvd.

905-305-7469, ­markham.ca.

Celestial Play Lîla Ensemble presents a celebration of free improvisation featuring musicians and dancers followed by a creative party. Mar 1 at 8 pm. $15 or pwyc. Dovercourt House, 805 Dovercourt. ­lilaensemble.com.

Flowchart Amelia Ehrhardt presents a series of interdisciplinary performances by artists with a minimal yet intense approach to their subjects. Feb 27 at 8 pm. $10. Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw. ­ameliaehrhardt.com.

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MOonhORsE Dance Theatre presents works by Yvonne Ng & Robert Glumbek, Michael Marye, Vivine Scarlett and others. Feb 28-Mar 2, FriSat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $25, stu/srs $22. Dance-

makers Centre for Creation, 9 Trinity, rm 313.

416-504-6429 ext 30, ­moonhorsedance.com.

BRennie Harris Puremovement Royal Conservatory of Music presents Harris’s trademark fusion of hip-hop, poetry and dance. Mar 1 at 8 pm. $35-$80. 273 Bloor W, Koerner Hall.

416-408-0208, performance.rcmusic.ca.

Romeo & Juliet Ballet Jörgen presents Shakespeare’s tale of love, anguish and revenge, choreographed by Bengt Jörgen. Feb 28-Mar 1, Fri-Sat 8 pm. $30-$76. Betty Oliphant Theatre, 404 Jarvis. 416-978-8849, uofttix.ca.

Tap Works! Tap Dance Centre presents choreographies by David Cox, Kim Chalovich, Ryan Foley and others. Mar 1 at 4:30 pm. $28-$35.

Living Arts Centre, 4141 Living Arts, Mississauga. 905-306-6000, ­livingartscentre.ca.

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Arrabal Mirvish and BASE Entertainment

present a sultry mix of passion and politics.

This new dance-theatre piece isn’t where it could be dramatically, but the music, movement and heart still make it an entertaining show. The young Arrabal (Micaela Spina) immerses herself in the tango clubs of Buenos Aires and learns what happened to her father, Rodolfo (co-choreographer Julio Zurita),

THE JULIEN DIONNE COMEDY HOUR C’est What presents stand-up by Dionne and music by Garage Baby. 9:30 pm. $10. 67 Front E. 416867-9499, ­ticketfly.com.

MAGIC OVEN COMEDY presents a weekly show.

8 pm. Free. Magic Oven, 347 Keele. 416-6040202, facebook.com/MagicOvenKeele.

120 WEDS OPEN MIC Club 120 presents comics, burlesque and novelty performers w/ burlesque performer Belle Jumelles, hosts Sasha Van Bon Bon & Rob Testa and others. 9 pm. $5. 120 Church. c­ lub120.ca.

SIREN’S COMEDY Celt’s Pub presents open-mic stand-up w/ host Kyle Lucey and headliner Kyle Andrews. 8:30 pm. Free. 2872 Dundas W. 416-767-3339.

SPIRITS COMEDY Spirits Bar & Grill presents one of T.O.’s longest-running weekly comedy nights. 9 pm. Free. 642 Church. 416-967-0001.

Spring 2014 Mainstage Revue See Thu 27.

TOP SHELF COMEDY presents The Spotlight, a weekly night of top comics. 9 pm. $5. WAYLA Bar, 996 Queen E. 416-901-5570.

Women Are Funny... Laughing For those Who Cant Wanda Carroll presents music,

comedy and stories w/ Liz McEachern, Shaista Latif, hosts Carroll & Diana Galligan and others, to benefit charities helping those affected by domestic violence. 7 pm. $10. Drake ­Hotel, 1150 Queen W. ­thedrakehotel.ca.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Cedric ­Newman. To Mar 9, Wed-Sun 8 pm (and FriSat 10:30 pm). $13-$22. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

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who was disappeared under Argentina’s military dictatorship. The dance sequences smoulder and ignite, and Gustavo Santaolalla’s music is electric and catchy. But writer Weidman needs to find more clarity in the storytelling. Runs to Apr 20, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm. $44-$84. Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. NNN (GS) Heartbeat Of Home Mirvish presents a mashup of Irish, Afro-Cuban, Latin and flamenco dance and music, linked together with a thin narrative about emigrating to the New World. There are lots of jaw-dropping dance numbers, all backed up by a versatile band, but there’s also plenty of Hallmark-card-ready sentimentality that falls flat. Runs to Mar 2, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm. $35-$130. Ed Mirvish Theatre, 244 Victoria.

416-872-1212, mirvish.com. NNN (GS) Henderson/Castle: Voyager Toronto Dance Theatre presents a collaboration between choreographer Ame Henderson, musician Jennifer Castle and nine dancers. Runs to Mar 1, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $26, stu/srs $20, mat pwyc. Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester. 416-967-1365, tdt.org.

Watch Her/A Month In The Country The National Ballet of Canada presents ñ an original work by Azure Barton and Frederick

Ashton’s ballet based on the Turgenev play.

Runs to Mar 2, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Thu and Sat-Sun 2 pm. $25-$184. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416345-9595, national.ballet.ca.

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By Daniel MacIvor Starring Becky Johnson and Amy Rutherford Directed by Ross Manson Presented in association with BeMe Theatre, Munich

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Human Rights Watch features Tsahi Halevi (left) and Shadi Mar’i in Bethlehem, women mourners in Highway Of Tears and hatred of albinos in In The Shadow Of The Sun (below).

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WATCHING HUMAN WRONGS The films in the Human Rights Watch Festival may be harrowing, but they’re also essential viewing By NORMAN WILNER HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH FILM FESTIVAL at TIFF Bell

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Every year, the Human Rights Watch Film Festival comes to town. And every year I make some joke about how the film program is inevitably miserable and bleak and hopeless. Where most film festivals are about celebration and entertainment, Human Rights Watch leaves you wondering if maybe the planet would be better off without us.

This year’s lineup is even more harrowing than usual, thanks to several films that focus on the targeted assault, mutilation and murder of specific groups.

Harry Freeland’s In The Shadow Of The Sun (Friday, 6:30 pm) investigates a horrific urban legend circulating in Tanzania that the blood and limbs of albinos can bring riches to the right person, a belief that has led their neighbours to murder those with albinism. In this documentary, Josephat Torner, himself an albino, tries to counter the myth and educate his compatriots via a speaking tour. It is, to say the least, a mis-

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erable endeavour.

Daniel Junge and Sharmeen ObaidChinoy’s Saving Face (Sunday, 3:30 pm), which won the Oscar for best documentary short two years ago, looks at the awful legacy of acid attacks in Pakistan – predominantly aimed at women – and the efforts of plastic surgeon Mohammad Jawad to treat the victims as best he can.

And Matt Smiley’s Highway Of Tears (March 6, 6:30 pm) examines the terrible history of British Columbia’s Highway 16, where at least 18 women have gone missing or turned up dead over the past half-century.

It’s narrated by Nathan Fillion, whose voice has a kindness that the material and Smiley’s presentation seem intent on negating.

That’s another thing about the documentaries that make up the Human Rights Watch Festival: they’re not always that interesting as cinema, often being works of journalism rather than works of art. That just means that when a genuinely striking

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project like Rithy Panh’s The Missing Picture (Monday, 6:30 pm) arrives, it can’t help but stand out.

Cambodian filmmaker Panh has addressed the horrors of Pol Pot’s Cambodia before – most memorably in his chilling 2003 documentary S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine – but here he makes it personal, telling the story of his own family’s ordeal. Lacking archival footage, Panh uses clay figurines and dioramas to illustrate the narrative – an flourish that reframes an unimaginable event as something intimate and delicate. It doesn’t quite match the conceptual brilliance of The Act Of Killing, which screened at the festival last year, but it’s awfully powerful stuff.

This year’s dramatic feature, Bethlehem (Saturday, 7:15 pm), tells the story of a Palestinian teenager (Sahdi Marei) enlisted as an informant by Israel’s secret service. In a remarkable coincidence, the same premise was used

by Hany Abu-Assad for his new film, Omar, which opens in theatres this week. Bethlehem thus works as a fascinating mirror image, directed and co-written by former Shin Bet officer Yuval Adler. See them both, why don’t you?

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Adam Bakri plays a Palestinian who makes a deal with Israeli security in Omar.

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Slow tension Omar (Hany Abu-Assad). 98 minutes. Subtitled. Opens Friday (February 28). For venues and times, see ­Movies, page 70. Rating­: NNNN

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I offer them, even if I can’t divine what the industry thinks By NORMAN WILNER The 86th Academy Awards Sunday (March 2) at 8:30 pm on CTV. CTV.ca.

There’s a reason I never enter the NOW Oscar pool: I always vote for the ­movies I feel deserve to win rather than try to figure out the leanings of a few thousand industry professionals.

Will the grinding intensity of 12 Years A Slave prove too much for members, who generally prefer their historical narratives a little more uplifting? Can enough voters understand the magnitude of what Alfonso Cuarón achieves in Gravity if they’ve only seen it on a DVD screener?

I half expect American Hustle to ­be a dark horse on awards night, with David O. Russell’s tale of 70s b ­ ullshit artists scamming each other bamboozling the Academy all the way to a best picture win. (God, I hope I’m wrong about that.)

Predictions? I can see Matthew ­McConaughey winning best actor for Dallas Buyers Club.

The character of Ron Woodruff func-

tions as a combination of Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington’s roles in Philadelphia, impressing us with an actor’s t­ errifying weight loss while letting us feel good when a bigot learns acceptance. Oscar gold is virtually guaranteed!

Cate Blanchett could take best actress for Blue Jasmine if the Academy once again confuses “most acting” with “best acting.” The recent unplea­santness surrounding Woody Allen probably won’t affect her chances, though I’d rather see Sandra Bullock take the prize for Gravity or Judi Dench for Philomena.

Jared Leto and Jennifer Lawrence have been cleaning up on the awards circuit for their supporting performances in Dallas Buyers Club and American Hustle, so they’ll likely be recognized Sunday night, too, though I wouldn’t put it past the Academy to give Lupita Nyong’o the supporting a ­ ctress prize for her work in 12 Years A Slave. She’s had a hell of a breakout year, and this would be a good way to honour the film with a representative award.

Oh, and if anything other than The Act Of Killing takes best documentary feature, we should march on Hollywood. Really, it’s bad enough that the Academy failed to nominate Stories We Tell for this year’s prize.

Follow NOW’s movie critics as we live-tweet the awards: @wilnervision, @glennsumi, @susangcole.

12 Years A Slave (top) may be too intense for voters, and the technical achievements of Gravity, with Sandra Bullock, too hard to fathom, but Dallas Buyers Club’s Matthew McConaughey’s a lock.

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Omar – which could well take home the best foreign-language Oscar on Sunday night – finds Paradise Now director Hany Abu-Assad returning to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for another tightly wound thriller about a West Bank true believer (Adam Bakri) who finds himself drawn into a much larger game.

His name is Omar, a young baker with revolutionary aspirations. When he and two friends (Eyad Hourani, Samer Bisharat) fire on an Israeli military post and kill a soldier, Omar is ar-

rested and thrown into prison, where a Shin Bet agent (Waleed F. Zuaiter) offers him a deal: bring in his friends or disappear down a very dark hole. And so Omar returns to Nablus.

Abu-Assad doesn’t try to recreate the nail-biting immediacy of Paradise Now, which followed two would-be suicide bombers in Tel Aviv. He takes his time establishing the characters and situations, folding in a romantic complication through Omar’s desire for the sister (Leem Lubany) of one of his comrades.

That just forces us to focus on Omar himself, and Bakri’s complex performance, to understand what’s really ­going on in the guy’s head. As AbuAssad drifts back and forth between straight-up thriller and intimate character study, we’re drawn deeper and NORMAN WILNER deeper into the story.

Annie Clark gets lost in the woods in the spooky Solo.

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The feature debut of Toronto writerdirector Isaac Cravit, Solo stars Degrassi: The Next Generation’s Annie Clark as Gillian, a young woman training to be a summer camp counsellor.

The last step involves spending two nights alone on a small island, so she can be trusted to care for her campers if they get stranded on a canoe trip.

Seems sensible enough.

Except that Gillian is not quite as seasoned as her application claimed, and she’s kind of creeped out by the

story of a little girl who disappeared on that island decades earlier. The first night she’s a little spooked and the next day in genuine danger.

Solo has the misfortune of arriving in the shadow of Katie Aselton’s Black Rock, another female-centric survival thriller set on an isolated island.

Aselton’s film was tighter and somewhat smarter about its action mechanics, especially in its final movement.

That doesn’t mean Cravit’s movie can’t be enjoyed on its own, more modest merits: Clark is solid as a young woman being tested on multiple fronts, and her co-stars are never less than convincing, even when their characters are required to act in ways that aren’t entirely logical or credible just to Norman Wilner keep the story going.

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The difference is that this movie packages its commentary in some truly amazing stills. I look forward to freeze-framing the Blu-ray.

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So-so seige Stalingrad (Fedor Bondarchuk). 131 minutes. Subtitled. Opens Friday (February 28). For venues and times, see Movies, page 70. Rating: NN I guess it was inevitable that Fedor Bondarchuk would make a movie about the siege of Stalingrad in IMAX 3D. It’s exactly his thing.

The Russian actor-director specializes in precisely the type of broadstrokes spectacle that lends itself to that kind of upscaling – the Soviets-inAfghanistan drama 9th Company, the sci-fi epic The Inhabited Island and its sequel – and he pulls out all the stops in his latest tale of underdog heroes making a stand in the face of overwhelming odds. The result isn’t very good, but that’s almost beside the point.

After a prologue set in the wreckage of the 2011 Fukushima earthquake – because really, why the hell not? – Stalingrad flashes back to the USSR in the winter of 1942, where a handful of Soviet soldiers find themselves in an extended standoff with the German

Stalingrad has a ton of empty epic sequences­and zero historical context.

army for the fate of an apartment building that blocks the Reich’s march to the Volga.

Bondarchuk alternates high-intensity, large-format action sequences with increasingly schmaltzy melodrama, as half a dozen soldiers from various units bond under fire and attempt to court the lovely young woman (Mariya Smolnikova) trapped in the building with them.

If you’re looking for a larger historical perspective, you’re looking in the wrong place. But if you want to see people get shot in the throat in IMAX 3D, this is the prestige picture for you.

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also opening (D: Jaume Collet-Serra, 106 min) Liam Neeson stars as an air marshal on a transatlantic flight who receives a text saying that unless the airline transfers a whack of dough into an offshore account, all the passengers are at risk. Neeson’s great in this kind of thing – all passion and resolve – and with Julianne Moore and Michelle Dockery along for the ride, things could get interesting.

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The pleasures of Cheryl Dunn’s documentary Everybody Street are as rich and as varied as Dunn’s subjects, the street photographers of New York City.

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Dunn lets them talk at length – and if they’re not available, she finds experts and associates to put them in context. I hadn’t really been aware of Freedman, who has some amazing stories to tell about shadowing police and firefighters to crime scenes and disasters.

Dunn’s interest goes beyond the photographers, though. New York itself is examined through their photos and videos, both as an ever-evolving cultural hub and a sociopolitical pow-

Son Of God (D: Christopher Spencer, 138 min) Diogo Morgado stars as Jesus in this epic retelling of his life story that goes all the way back to Adam and Eve. The cast isn’t exactly rammed with A-listers, but this kind of thing has an audience no matter who’s in it.

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Subtitled. 109 min. NNNN (SGC) Varsity

VIDAL: THE UNITED STATES OF AMNESIA ñGORE (Nicholas Wrathall) is structured as a tribute to the cantankerous vision of its late subject, weaving extensive footage of Vidal discussing American political and cultural policy (and his own illustrious personal life) with admiring testimonials from celebrated writers and thinkers who knew him. 83 min.

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Playing this week How to find a listing

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Reviews are by Norman Wilner (NW), Susan G. Cole (SGC), Glenn Sumi (GS), Andrew Dowler (AD) and Radheyan Simonpillai (RS) unless otherwise specified.

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Movie theatres are listed at the end and can be cross-referenced to our film times on page 75.

ABOUT LAST NIGHT (Steve Pink) stars

115 min. NNNNN (NW) Bloor Hot Docs Cinema nominally a story about the barely remembered 1978 Abscam sting, in which the FBI used a small-time con artist to snare politicians on bribery and corruption charges. But the plot is incidental to the shouting. Director/co-writer Russell has fully embraced the notion that drama only exists when characters are yelling at one another in mid-shots. Everybody races around shouting about their ambitions and desires, and whoever shouts the loudest is the person with whom we’re supposed to sympathize. Some people love this strategy; I find it exhausting and pointless – especially in the second half, when scenes seem to exist because Russell had noticed Christian Bale and Jennifer Lawrence’s characters hadn’t yelled at each other in a while. American Hustle is being compared to Goodfellas (because crime) and Boogie Nights (because sideboob, I guess). Let’s throttle back on that and see it as what it is: an incoherent, overacted mess. 138 min. NN (NW) Beach Cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, SilverCity Yonge, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

motormouth Kevin Hart in an update of the 1986 rom-com, an adaptation of David Mamet’s provocative play Sexual Perversity In Chicago. This will likely be the only occasion you read the names Mamet and Hart in the same sentence. That’s too bad since the comedian has never been funAUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (John nier. Hart is well matched with the excelWells) stars an awesome Meryl lent Regina Hall as an on-and-off couple Streep as the drug-addled matriarch of a fucking and screaming on the sidelines family that’s gathered after the patriarch while their adorable friends (Michael Ealy disappears. This adaptation of Tracy and Joy Bryant) work through the growing Letts’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play has its pains of a yearlong romance. In Hart’s flaws – the family rot borders on parody, previous outings, filmmakers seem satisthe music is awful, and it’s still too stagy fied with throwing – but it’s extremely enterhim in scrappy, taining. 121 min. NNNN (SGC) contrived scenarBeach Cinemas, Canada EXPANDED REVIEWS ios so that he Square, Carlton Cinema, nowtoronto.com could freestyle his Humber Cinemas, Interway through change 30, SilverCity Mississcenes. Here he’s working with real sauga material thanks to the two degrees of BLUE JASMINE (Woody Allen) stars separation from Mamet’s play. His comCate Blanchett as the emotionally edic talents get structure and purpose, unhinged wife of a corporate sleazebag and he has room to put his own stamp on (Alec Baldwin) who moves to San FranMamet’s acidic dialogue. This may be cisco to live with her sister (Sally Hawkins) watered-down Mamet, but for Hart it’s 80 when he’s busted. Expect Oscar to come proof. 98 min. NNN (RS) calling on the amazing Blanchett. 98 min.

401 & Morningside, Coliseum Mississauga, NNNN (SGC) Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Interchange 30, Mt Pleasant Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, THE BOOK THIEF (Brian Percival) reframes SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale, the Second World War as a coming-of-age Yonge & Dundas 24 story about a young German girl (Monsieur Lazhar’s Sophie Nélisse). Director THE ACT OF KILLING (Joshua OppenPercival has helmed a lot of Downton heimer, Christine Cynn) plays its Abbey episodes, and it shows in film’s odd intriguing premise for maximum impact, propriety. A movie about the Holocaust offering former Indonesian death squad can’t be afraid of confronting its own leader Anwar Congo and his associates the message. 131 min. NN (NW) chance to re-enact their crimes onscreen, Kingsway Theatre, Regent Theatre filtered through the tropes of musicals or thrillers or any other genre they might CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (Paul Greengrass) stars choose. It burns itself into you. Subtitled.

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(Alfonso Cuarón) plays as both an immediate, nail-biting thriller and a stunning technological accomplishment, following two astronauts (Sandra Bullock, George Clooney) stranded in Earth orbit and cut off from mission control. There are things here you’ve never seen before; this is a great, unprecedented picture. 91 min. NNNNN (NW) Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Yonge & Dundas 24

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Smart, funny – what’s not to like about box office smash The Lego Movie?

Tom Hanks in a fantastic performance as the eponymous skipper of a commercial vessel hijacked by Somali pirates in 2009.

The rest of the film is far more problematic, with director Greengrass applying the tense, jangled docudrama aesthetic of United 93 to another true-life hostage crisis. Some subtitles. 134 min. NNN (NW) Interchange 30, Kingsway Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24

CONCERT: KASS SINGS PIAF is a high-def broadcast of a concert by Patricia Kass performing Edith Piaf’s greatest hits.

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(Zachary Heinzerling) is a colourful, beautifully directed and touching look at one of the more unusual art couples, Ushio and Noriko Shinohara, Japanese emigrés in NYC. It’s a complex, feminist look at the act of creation, but also a touching portrait of enduring love. Subtitled. 82 min.

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(Jean-Marc Vallée) stars Matthew McConaughey as Ron Woodroof, a hard-living, womanizing Texas electrician who became an unlikely AIDS activist in the mid-1980s after being diagnosed with HIV. McConaughey shed 47 pounds for the role and is almost unrecognizable, but his charm and passion shine through, and he gets strong support from Jared Leto and Jennifer Garner. 117 min. NNNN (GS) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga

ENDLESS LOVE (Shana Feste) is better than

Franco Zefirelli’s 1981 original about passionate young love, but it’s still boring and silly. It starts off fine enough for the first 30 minutes or so, and Alex Pettyfer and Gabriella Wilde are likeable and appealing as two kids just out of high school falling for each other, but it quickly devolves into silliness and contrivance. It’s only really worth it for some good supporting performances by Bruce Greenwood and Robert Patrick as the teens’ dads. 103 min.

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FROZEN (Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee) is an entertaining Disney animated musical about two Nordic princesses, one who’s holed herself up in icy isolation and the other who wants to track her down. It’s basically The Snow Queen mixed with Wicked. The songs are derivative but effective. Look for a hilarious ditty by Josh Gad’s scenestealing happy-go-lucky snowman Olaf, the best sidekick since Timon and Pumbaa. 102 min. NNN (GS) 401 & Morningside, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Sebastián Lelio) stars Berlin Film festival best actress Paulina García as a smart 50-something Chilean divrocée yearning for sex and adventure.

When Gloria meets Rodolfo (Sergio Hernández) at a club for middle-aged singles and begins a relationship, she has to decide whether she’s willing to settle for half measures. A central theme about how past relationships and offspring impinge on a person’s ability to connect makes the film relatable, as does the way director/ co-writer Lelio presents these family situations. They’re never bathed in melodrama, but demonstrate in ordinary ways how Gloria’s self-centred family members can’t recognize that she’s a vibrant, intelligent woman worthy of anyone’s attention, be it theirs or that of a romantic partner. As essential as García’s wonderful performance is the unflinching portrayal of sex between aging partners, a candid glimpse of middle-aged sexuality that’s so

(Paolo Sorrentino) stars Toni Servillo as 60-something journalist Jep, who wrote a bestselling novel in his 20s but hasn’t written a thing that matters since. Instead, he’s immersed himself in all things shallow: the party circuit, pseudo-intellectual confabs with the rich and famous, meaningless sex. Shades of La Dolce Vita. Jep reflects on his empty life in a series of spectacular vignettes that come tumbling out of cinematographer Luca Bigazzi and writer-director Sorrentino’s vivid imagination: over-the-top bashes, an artist performing beside Roman ruins, a moneygrubbing doctor injecting botox in public.

Garish party sequences collide with serene images of Rome’s ancient art; beautiful inspirational music meets club bangers. Sure, it’s self-indulgent, but Sorrentino is the kind of director you want to indulge. Just let the damn thing wash over you. Subtitled. 142 min. NNNNN (SGC) TIFF Bell Lightbox, Varsity

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(Spike Jonze) is set in the very near future, in a Los Angeles where emotionally withdrawn Theodore Twombley (Joaquin Phoenix) installs an operating system on his PC that’s basically an artificial intelligence – and winds up falling in love with it. Of course he’s drawn to it, or her (as voiced with perfect, perky opacity

by Scarlett Johansson). Why wouldn’t he be? She’s perfect for him. She just doesn’t, you know, exist in the physical realm. Her is as wide-open and genuine as writerdirector Jonze’s adaptation of Where The Wild Things Are, though not as emotionally raw. It’s a movie where people process their feelings rather than release them, essentially about how technology can facilitate a relationship over impossible distances and what happens when one partner evolves more quickly than the other. In the end, it’s a movie as beholden to Annie Hall as it is to 2001, and don’t think that isn’t the strangest sentence I’ve written this year. 125 min. NNNN (NW) Interchange 30, Scotiabank Theatre, Varsity

THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG

(Peter Jackson) is another two hours and 40 minutes of Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) and his dwarf allies encountering giant spiders and orcs and elves and more orcs (or possibly the same orcs again) and

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a soupçon of political treachery on the way to the mountain where the dragon Smaug lies sleeping in his plundered gold.

You may ask yourself why this isn’t the end of it. Some subtitles. 161 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Mississauga, Interchange 30, Scotiabank Theatre

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(Francis Lawrence) again features a knockout Jennifer Lawrence, this time having to go back into the arena for another Hunger Games because her last victory has stirred revolution in the dowtrodden districts. Highly entertaining.

145 min. NNNN (SGC) Coliseum Mississauga, Interchange 30, Scotiabank Theatre

ñI AM DIVINE

(Jeffrey Schwarz) chronicles the life and work of oversized drag star Divine, who rose to fame making renegade cult films with John Waters and then became a recording artist, nightclub mainstay and cultural icon before dying, in 1988, of a heart attack. Interviews with Waters, various co-stars and friends help create a picture of a complex man and artist, while fascinating archival footage documents Divine’s huge talent on a theatre or nightclub stage. 90 min. NNNN (GS) Bloor Hot Docs Cinema

I, FRANKENSTEIN (Stuart Beattie) always

seems to be 30 seconds away from making sense, but it’s ultimately just 93 minutes of action sequences and CG cameras swooping through elaborately rendered sets while Aaron Eckhart punches a series of stuntmen in the foreground. 93 min. N (NW) Coliseum Scarborough, Grande - Steeles, Scotiabank Theatre

INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS (Joel Coen,

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Ethan Coen) plays as comedy, musical and drama all at once, with the tone steered by Oscar Isaac’s soulful interpretations of traditional folk songs that somehow manage to reflect precisely what his character, itinerant troubadour Llewyn Davis, is feeling in the moment.

Beautifully realized and packed with delightful incidents – the recording of Please Mr. Kennedy is probably the most satisfying three minutes you’ll spend in a movie theatre this year – Inside Llewyn Davis understands its characters in a way few movies do, giving Isaac and co-stars Justin Timberlake, John Goodman, Adam Driver and F. Murray Abraham room to detail their performances into something much more than folk scene clichés. 105 min.

NNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre, TIFF Bell Lightbox

ñTHE INVISIBLE WOMAN

(Ralph Fiennes) seems like a conventional drama about the relationship between Charles Dickens (director Fiennes) and his mistress Nelly Ternan (Felicity Jones). But this is a much more experimental treatment of the story than you might expect, and Fiennes gets excellent work out of pretty much everyone, including his English Patient co-star, Kristin Scott Thomas.

111 min. NNNN (NW) Interchange 30, Regent Theatre

JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT (Kenneth Branagh) is a proudly square espionage thriller that satisfies on that basic spymovie level – the one where people race through city squares shouting technobabble into jacket mics while a clock ticks down to an unspecified disaster. The plot itself never makes too much sense – an initial attempt on hero Chris Pine’s life, while nicely conceived and executed, is forgotten maybe three seconds after it happens – and the scenes between Pine and Keira Knightley are painfully stiff, compounded further by her laboured American accent. Director Branagh can’t stop hamming it up as the Russian baddie, glowering and snarling in scenes that don’t call for that level of intensity. In fairness, it’s not his fault. That’s exactly how Tom Clancy would have written it. Some subtitles. 105 min. NNN (NW) Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Steeles, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24 LABOR DAY (Jason Reitman) is director

Reitman’s remake of The Bridges Of Madison County, with a lonely woman (Kate Winslet) rediscovering love at the hands of the imposing stranger (Josh Brolin) who’s taken her and her son hostage.

Winslet settles for another mannered, Important Actor performances like she gave in The Reader and Revolutionary Road, and Reitman doesn’t do anything to snap her out of it. 111 min. NN (NW) Carlton Cinema, SilverCity Mississauga

ñTHE LEGO MOVIE

(Phil Lord, Christopher Miller) feels like a quantum step up for both CG animation and movies based on marketing pitches. Lord and Miller, whose 2009 adaptation of Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs was similarly ambitious in its use of CG storytelling, have created a sprawling 3D fantasy universe designed to mimic stop-motion animation. They’ve also folded every heroic quest narrative into the story of an ordinary construction worker (voiced by Moneyball’s Chris Pratt) who might be the one person who can save the universe from the evil plans of the sinister Lord Business (Will Ferrell). Kids will be thrilled by the non-stop activity and insane creative leaps, while grown-ups will also appreciate those leaps – especially one toward the end – and delight in how the voice actors are enjoying themselves as much as the audience. Sweet, funny, preposterously complex and uniquely ridiculous. 100 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

LONE SURVIVOR (Peter Berg) turns an

actual 2005 incident in which four Navy SEALs were stuck in the mountains of Afghanistan when a mission went sour into an endless action sequence meant to celebrate brotherhood, honour and shooting people in the head. Some subtitles.

122 min. N (NW) Colossus, Scotiabank Theatre

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MONEY FOR NOTHING: INSIDE THE FEDERAL RESERVE (Jim Bruce) recounts Amer-

ican economic history in full in the service of a thorough explanation of the workings of the Federal Reserve Bank, which shapes the U.S. economy by setting interest rates, printing money and saying reassuring things when the raging monster that is American capitalism starts to eat itself.

(That happens more often than you’d expect, if you’re the Fed.) Documentarian Bruce clearly has the best intentions, but his gimmick of explaining financial concepts with familiar clips from Frankenstein and It’s A Wonderful Life was square when Michael Moore did it 20 years ago.

Money For Nothing can’t help but feel superfluous and tepid when compared to Charles Ferguson’s 2010 Oscar winner, Inside Job, which blended historical insight with a furious moral certitude. 104 min.

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(George Clooney) is the kind of movie nobody makes any more: a Second World War caper picture with charming character actors zipping around in Europe using their wits far more than their weapons.

Based on clues in Alexandre Desplat’s score, I’m thinking director-star Clooney loves The Great Escape at least as much as I do. He applies that model to the true story of a small band of art experts dispatched to locate thousands of sculptures and paintings seized by the Nazis from Jewish collectors. The earnest and clever script makes some very good points about the importance of art while telling an involving story about characters we come to adore. In the film’s best scene, an unexpected amateur performance of Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas touches someone very, very deeply, and Clooney is smart enough to let us see it happen in something close to real time and let us feel what that person feels. There’s more than one kind of art, after all. Some subtitles. 118 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Interchange 30, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotia-

If you see magic in great art, you’ll love this doc that tracks CGI expert Tim Jenison’s efforts to paint a work by Johannes Vermeer with his own hands to figure out the artist’s optic technology.

Oscar-nominated for animation, this adult-oriented drama features Hayao Miyazaki’s spectacular images in a story about an engineer who worries his artistic ideas may get used destructively.

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Morris’s ballet about love and heartbreak in turn-of-the-century Paris. 143 min.

Yonge & Dundas 24

NATIONAL THEATRE – WAR HORSE is a

high-def screening of the stunning stage version of Michael Morpurgo’s youngadult tale of a boy and his horse in World War I. 168 min.

Feb 27, 7 pm, at Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Queensway, SilverCity Yonge, Yonge & Dundas 24

NEBRASKA (Alexander Payne) is a black-

and-white road movie about a Montana speaker salesman (Will Forte) who gets to know his remote, alcoholic father (Bruce Dern) as the pair drive to Lincoln to cure the older man’s obsession with a sweepstakes. It’s awfully safe and contrived, which is not what we’ve come to expect from director Payne (Sideways, The Descendants). 115 min. NNN (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre

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Opening, page 68. 106 min.

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AMERICAN HUSTLE

Amy Adams – along with just about everybody else in the cast – has an Academy Award nomination for her impressive turn as a scam artist forced to do some dirty work for the FBI.

This movie about a free man sold into slavery – boasting a passel of Oscar noms, including best actor for its star, Chiwetel Ejiofor – is superb even if it turns out to be too intense for the Academy.

Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

THE NUT JOB (Peter Lepeniotis) has a horrible-pun title that sets the tone for this animated rodent heist flick’s supposed humour. It’s a new low point for CGI movies about anthropomorphized animals. 83 min. N (Phil Brown) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Grande - Steeles, SilverCity Mississauga

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(Hany Abu-Assad) 98 min.

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ñPhilomena

(Stephen Frears) is an odd but effective combination of ­investigative drama and buddy picture, as a devout, working-class woman (Judi Dench) and a privileged, cynical journalist (Steve Coogan, who also co-wrote and coproduced the film) find common ground in the search for the son she was forced to give up. 98 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Interchange 30, Kingsway Theatre, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Varsity

Pompeii (Paul W.S. Anderson) is a swords-

and-sandals apocalypse from Resident Evil director Anderson, who’s clearly more concerned with his third-act CG pyrotechnics than with the low-rent mashup of Spartacus and Titanic that forms the bulk of the script. At least Kiefer Sutherland is fully aware that he’s got the Billy Zane role. The story’s your basic “Romeo and Juliet witness a historical disaster” pitch, with Game Of Thrones star Kit Harington as a gladiator and Emily Browning as a forward-thinking socialite who fall in love in the days leading up to the eruption of Vesuvius. This allows Anderson to alternate subpar fight sequences with dull conversations about the glory of Rome between Browning’s parents (Jared Harris and Carrie Anne-Moss) and Sutherland’s eeeeevil senator. 104 min. NN (NW) Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

ñPussy Riot: A Punk Prayer

(Mike Lerner, Maxim Pozdorovkin) sends a note to authoritarian regimes: don’t think you can mount a show trial if the defendants are more media-savvy than you are.

This and about a dozen other ideas – including the value of performance art and the power of Putin – are behind this kickass doc about Russian punk art collective Pussy Riot and the trial that ensued after the group put on a guerrilla performance – playing an anti-Putin anthem – in ­Moscow’s central cathedral. Charismatic arrestees Masha (Maria Alyokhina), Katia (Yekaterina Samutsevich) and especially Nadia (Nadezhda Tolokonnikova) plus coverage of the trial and demonstrations

for and against Pussy Riot give this pic electrifying energy. See it. Subtitled. 88 min. NNNNN (SGC) Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, Carlton Cinema

Ride Along (Tim Story) is a buddy cop flick in which Ice Cube pays homage to himself by citing It Was A Good Day, his classic track about going 24 hours without police harassment. Now Cube plays a detective with an iron fist who shakes down ex-cons for information and threatens frame-ups. Here’s a rich opportunity to say something meaningful, but instead the premise is played for cheap laughs. I guess I shouldn’t have expected more from a movie that pairs Ice Cube with Kevin Hart as future in-laws in arms. Cube scowls, Hart gabs incessantly. Reduced to a growling bear and a yapping parakeet, the two get no assist from a screenplay as nuanced as a parking ticket. 100 min. NN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale RoboCop (José Padilha) appropriates the title of a beloved movie property and a couple of key images and builds a joyless, insensate new mechanism around them.

All the good stuff gets left behind. Oh, there’s still a cop named Alex Murphy (The Killing’s Joel Kinnaman) who still winds up inside a cyborg body through the questionable generosity of a megacorporation that sees him as the first in a highly profitable series of peacekeepers. But all the ­dynamics are different, and for no good reason; other than one inspired reference to Manufactured Landscapes, of all things, Padilha fails to make his movie feel compelling or even necessary. There are moments when the new Robo seems about to engage with the original’s subversive humour and ghoulish central concept, which rattle around inside the new body like a ghost. You need an artist to coax them out, though, and Padilha’s just a hired gun. Some subtitles. 110 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, ­Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum ­Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, ­Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre,

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Throwback treat The Monuments Men boasts a cast of charming character actors, including Bill Murray.

SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, ­SilverCity Yorkdale

Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre

Saving Mr. Banks (John Lee Hancock)

page 66. NNN (NW) Opens Feb 28 at Carlton Cinema

covers the last several months of the 20plus years that Walt Disney (Tom Hanks, who’s terrific) spent convincing author P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson) to sell him the rights to Mary Poppins. The film sheds ­little light on the creative process, and its portrayal of Travers is insultingly paternalistic. It’s all about burnishing Disney’s ­personal reputation. 125 min. NN (SGC) Kingsway Theatre

7 Boxes (Juan Carlos Maneglia, Tana Schémbori) is a slight but not unsatisfying thriller that features a number of cartoonish supporting characters while making inventive use of Asunción, Paraguay’s labyrinthine Market No. 4. Its protagonist, a 17-year-old with far-fetched fantasies of screen stardom, accepts a dubious gig looking after some mysterious crates for a dodgy butcher, hoping to earn cash for a phone with a video camera. Inevitably, he draws the attention of an ever-growing number of criminals and corrupt cops who want a piece of whatever he’s holding. The proliferation of obstacles feels mechanical, but there’s something to be said for co-directors Maneglia and Schémbori’s ability to keep their machine running at a breathless clip. Subtitled. 102 min. NNN (Jose Teodoro) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre Sex After Kids (Jeremy Lalonde) is a limp

Canadian comedy connecting six stories of people’s shrivelled-up sex lives after children have entered the equation. There’s some good acting, but I wish the thing were funnier. 107 min. NN (GS)

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Solo (Isaac Cravit) 83 min. See review, Son of God (Christopher Spencer) 138

min. See Also opening, page 68.

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ñThe Square

(Jehane Noujaim) is an exhilarating doc that follows three activists during the Cairo demonstrations that toppled Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak and their aftermath. Director Noujaim and her crew fearlessly capture the activists’ arguments, violence and bitter disappointment, approaching a subject that is often simplified and reduced with uncommon nuance. Oscar-nominated for best doc. Subtitled. 108 min. NNNN (SGC) Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, TIFF Bell Lightbox

Stalingrad (Fedor Bondarchuk) 131 min.

See review, page 68. NN (NW) Opens Feb 28 at Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Yonge & Dundas 24

Takedown: The DNA of GSP (Kristian Manchester, Peter Svatek) is a documentary about UFC champion Georges StPierre. 90 min.

Yonge & Dundas 24 That Awkward Moment (Tom Gormi­

can) is supposed to be a light, frothy rom-

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com about three New York bros (Zac Efron, Michael B. Jordan and Miles Teller) who all swear off proper relationships and immediately find themselves bedding women with real romantic potential. And then, well, it shits the bed. At a key moment, writer/director Gormican actually seems to believe that the unforgivably cruel actions of a certain character are not only not that big of a deal, something that can be fixed. He’s so very, very wrong.

That’s a shame, because the movie ­Gormican thinks he’s making seems like it’d be kind of fun, with engaging performances by Jordan, Teller and Mackenzie Davis, some nicely complex work from ­Imogen Poots and mostly competent work from Efron. Pity it’s all for nothing. 95 min.

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3 Days to Kill (McG) tries to recapture the

lightning-in-a-bottle success of Taken with another middle-aged action hero beating up ethnic caricatures in Paris, but the formula just doesn’t work this time around.

Kevin Costner is entirely convincing as a dying CIA operative whose attempts to reconcile with his ex (Connie Nielsen) and their daughter (Hailee Stein­feld) are complicated by the agency’s ­insistence that he hunt down an elusive super-terrorist who’s surfaced in the City of Light. This ought to be a no-brainer, but the mismatched sensibilities of producer/co-writer Luc Besson and director McG, stiff supporting turns from Nielsen and Amber Heard as Costner’s insistently slinky handler and insultingly haphazard production values (atrocious dialogue looping, incoherent action scenes, a character called The Albino who’s basically just bald) keep it from ever taking off. Some subtitles. 117 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, ­Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñTim’s Vermeer

(Teller) may have art historians in a huff. The revelatory documentary on the magic behind Johannes Vermeer’s paintings comes to you courtesy of Vegas headliners Penn & ­Teller. The illusionists, known for breaking down tricks, are the ideal hosts for a film that deconstructs the 17th-century painter’s craft and hypothesizes how he so ­meticulously recreated lifelike light and details. The filmmakers follow their good friend Tim Jenison, an inventor of 3D imaging, who obsessively attempts to paint a Vermeer with his own hand in order to figure out what optic technology the Dutch master might have used. Thanks to Penn & Teller’s inexhaustible charm in front of and behind the camera and Jenison’s endearing case of OCD, the resulting film is a comic delight that marvels at the intersections between art and science, painting and cinema, and illusionists and documentarians. 80 min. NNNN (RS) TIFF Bell Lightbox

ñ12 Years a Slave

(Steve McQueen) is a stunning adaptation of the memoir of Solomon Northup, a free American sold into slavery in 1841. Chiwetel Ejiofor is a revelation as Northup, and ­McQueen directs with a total lack of ­sentiment, crafting each sequence with a merciless forward momentum that compensates for the episodic nature of the narrative. One of the best films of the year.

133 min. NNNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Interchange 30, Kingsway Theatre, Mt Pleasant, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñ20 Feet From Stardom

(Morgan Neville) tracks the careers of Darlene Love of Blossoms fame, Merry Clayton, famous for her vocals on the Rolling

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Stones’s Gimme Shelter, Claudia Lennear, another Stones collaborator, and others to probe who’s got the power within the music industry. Spectacular voices, powerful stories in a must-see doc. 91 min. NNNN (SGC) Bloor Hot Docs Cinema

Vampire Academy (Mark Waters) has an

academy in it, and vampires, so at least there’s that. I have no idea whether Waters’s movie accurately represents the tones or textures of Richelle Mead’s novel, but I doubt it; surely if an author tried so nakedly to staple Harry Potter and Twilight together, the young-adult audience would see straight through it and move on to the next Mortal Instruments book. I also suspect that Mead’s books have a consistent tone, though whether that’s a jokey high-school-with-monsters thing or a grim young-woman-caught-betweentwo-worlds thing, again, I cannot say, ­because the movie is a mess. Zoey Deutch makes a very charming hero, juggling supernatural gravitas and looser, comical scenes easily. The movie ends on the promise of a sequel, not that one is likely to materialize. But I’d almost be willing to sit through it to see what she can do as a proper star. 110 min. N (NW) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Yonge & Dundas 24

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ñThe Wind Rises

(Hayao Miyazaki) is a historical drama with a classical sweep that recalls David Lean’s epics – Miyazaki’s Doctor Zhivago. The animator finds a kindred spirit in subject Jiro Horikoshi, a WWII-era engineer who designed planes. Like Miyazaki, Jiro employed technology to realize artistic dreams, but Jiro lives with the bitter understanding that what he builds will be used for destruction – including the bombing of Pearl ­Harbor.

The film draws to a close before that fateful event, but its legacy hangs like a dark cloud over the story as Jiro ­navigates his way through school, the Great Depression and an industrial competition with the West. A sly and telling bit of artistic licence also has death casting a shadow over Jiro’s love life. Miya­zaki’s expressionistic, handdrawn designs are the raison d’être for The Wind Rises – billowing clouds swallow planes whole and the devastating 1923 Kanto earthquake sounds like the Earth digesting life. 127 min. NNNN (RS) Canada Square, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24

Winter’s Tale (Akiva Goldsman) is an

adaptation of Mark Helprin’s 1983 fantasy novel about a young thief (Colin Farrell) whose celestial fate is somehow connected to that of a dying heiress (Jessica Brown Findlay) with whom he falls in love whilst burgling her family’s New York townhome one lovely morning in December 1914. It has angels and demons and spirit-guide horses with translucent wings that

emerge at just the right moments. While that sort of story can sometimes work very well on screen, it doesn’t here, because writer/director Goldsman has absolutely no idea how to manage his movie’s tone or incorporate the plot’s more fantastical elements in ways that make them seem possible or even credible. You can’t have gentle magic realism when you’ve also got Russell Crowe stomping around chewing scenery in a ridiculous Oirish accent; either the whole movie has to match his performance or he has to be talked down off his cliff. 118 min. N (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Interchange 30, Queens­ way, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity

The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin

­ corsese) is another sprawling look at the S inner workings of a massive criminal enterprise, like Goodfellas and Casino; here, it’s the stock frauds and swindles of rich prick Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio).

Scorsese’s prior kicks at this particular can are shot through with real consequence, but the worst thing that can happen to Belfort is that he might face a little jail time for the his white-collar crimes, which are so complex that the movie can’t even engage with them. Since the stakes are so low – and since Belfort is so unlikeable – Scorsese plays the story as a cartoon, treating the ludicrous corporate culture of Belfort’s company, Stratton Oakmont, like a bacchanal and rushing alongside him through the increasingly Dionysian universe he creates around himself. But the movie doesn’t know when to quit, and three hours of spectacular excess proves exhausting. 180 min. NN (NW) Canada Square, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity 3

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THE ACT OF KILLING (14A) Sat 6:30 Mon 3:30 CUTIE AND THE BOXER (PG) Fri 6:30 Sat 1:30 EVERYBODY STREET Tue 9:00 Wed 3:30 GORE VIDAL: THE UNITED STATES OF AMNESIA Fri 4:00 I AM DIVINE Thu 8:45 PUSSY RIOT: A PUNK PRAYER (14A) Thu 6:30 THE SQUARE (18A) Sun 3:30 Mon 9:15 20 FEET FROM STARDOM (PG) Sat 4:00 Sun 1:00 WHEN JEWS WERE FUNNY (14A) Fri 1:45

CARLTON CINEMA (I) 20 CARLTON, 416-494-9371

86TH ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS Sun 7:00 AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (14A) Thu 1:30 4:00 6:40 9:20 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:00, 6:40, 9:15 BROADWAY IDIOT Sat 2:00, 7:30 CHLORINE Fri 9:15 DALLAS BUYERS CLUB (18A) 6:55, 9:25 ENDLESS LOVE (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:10, 6:55, 9:10 INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS (14A) Thu 4:10 9:30 Fri-Wed 4:10, 9:35 LABOR DAY (PG) Thu 1:15, 6:40 THE LEGO MOVIE (G) 1:40, 3:55, 6:35, 9:00 MONEY FOR NOTHING: INSIDE THE FEDERAL RESERVE Fri, Tue-Wed 1:50, 7:05 Sun-Mon 1:50 NEBRASKA (PG) 1:25, 4:20 NON-STOP (PG) Fri-Wed 1:20, 3:50, 7:10, 9:35 THE PAST (14A) Thu 1:10, 6:30 Fri-Wed 4:05, 9:10 PUSSY RIOT: A PUNK PRAYER (14A) Fri-Sat, Tue-Wed 4:30, 9:25 Mon 4:30 ROBOCOP (PG) 1:45, 4:15, 6:50, 9:20 7 BOXES (14A) Thu 1:35, 4:25, 9:30 Fri 1:35, 4:25, 7:00 SatWed 1:35, 4:25, 7:00, 9:30 SEX AFTER KIDS (18A) Thu 3:50, 9:15 SOLO (14A) Fri-Wed 2:00, 7:00 THAT AWKWARD MOMENT (14A) Thu 4:05, 9:45 TORONTO FILM SOCIETY Mon 7:00 12 YEARS A SLAVE (14A) 1:10, 6:45

RAINBOW MARKET SQUARE (I) MARKET SQUARE, 80 FRONT ST E, 416-494-9371

ENDLESS LOVE (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:15, 6:50, 9:25 THE LEGO MOVIE (G) 12:15, 2:35, 5:00, 7:15, 9:30 Sat, Tue 11:35 late THE MONUMENTS MEN (PG) 12:45, 3:30, 6:40, 9:15 Sat, Tue 11:30 late NON-STOP (PG) 12:40, 3:25, 6:50, 9:20 Sat, Tue 11:25 late PHILOMENA (PG) 12:35, 6:45 Sat, Tue 11:30 late POMPEII (PG) 12:50, 3:45, 7:00, 9:25 Sat, Tue 11:25 late ROBOCOP (PG) Thu 3:00, 6:45, 9:30 SON OF GOD (PG) Fri-Wed 12:20, 3:10, 6:40, 9:25 12 YEARS A SLAVE (14A) Fri-Wed 3:00, 9:00 WINTER’S TALE (PG) Thu 12:35, 3:25, 6:40, 9:20

5:00, 7:50, 10:50 Sat 7:40, 10:40 Sun 12:25, 3:15, 6:30, 9:25 Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:10 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: PRINCE IGOR LIVE Sat 12:00 THE MONUMENTS MEN (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 Fri 1:20, 4:20, 7:15, 10:20 Sat 1:20, 4:15, 7:15, 10:20 Sun 1:10, 4:10, 7:15, 10:00 Mon 1:30, 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 Tue-Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:10 NON-STOP (PG) Thu 9:00 Fri 12:25, 1:50, 2:50, 4:30, 5:20, 7:05, 8:00, 9:50, 10:40 Sat 12:20, 1:50, 2:50, 4:30, 5:20, 7:05, 8:00, 9:50, 10:40 Sun 12:25, 1:50, 2:50, 4:30, 5:20, 7:00, 7:50, 9:30, 10:20 Mon 1:50, 2:40, 4:30, 5:10, 7:00, 7:40, 9:30, 10:20 Tue-Wed 1:50, 2:40, 4:30, 5:10, 7:00, 7:40, 9:40, 10:20 POMPEII (PG) Thu 1:20, 3:50 Fri 1:00, 3:45 Sat 1:00, 3:40 Sun 1:40, 4:20 Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:10 POMPEII 3D (PG) Thu 2:00, 5:00, 6:45, 7:40, 9:35, 10:20 Fri 2:40, 5:10, 6:50, 7:50, 9:30, 10:30 Sat 11:50, 2:30, 5:00, 6:50, 7:50, 9:30, 10:30 Sun 2:40, 5:10, 6:50, 7:40, 9:20, 10:10 Mon 2:20, 4:50, 6:40, 7:25, 9:20, 10:00 Tue-Wed 2:30, 5:00, 6:40, 7:30, 9:30, 10:00 RIDE ALONG (14A) Thu 3:40, 6:10, 9:00 Fri-Sat 12:40, 3:10, 5:50, 8:30, 10:50 Sun 2:30, 5:00, 7:25, 9:50 Mon-Tue 1:40, 4:00, 6:30, 9:10 Wed 1:40, 4:00, 10:30 ROBOCOP (PG) Thu 1:40, 3:35, 4:25, 6:20, 7:15, 9:10, 10:00 Fri 1:10, 4:10, 7:20, 10:20 Sat 1:10, 4:00, 7:20, 10:20 Sun 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:40 Mon-Wed 3:20, 6:20, 9:20 ROBOCOP: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 2:45, 5:20, 8:00, 10:30 Fri-Sat 12:30, 3:00, 5:40, 8:20, 11:00 Sun 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Mon 1:10, 3:40, 10:00 TueWed 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 WINTER’S TALE (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:15, 7:10, 9:55 Fri 1:30, 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 Sat 7:30, 10:10 Sun 1:20, 4:00, 7:10, 9:50 Mon-Tue 1:20, 4:00, 6:50, 9:50 Wed 1:20, 4:00, 10:30 THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (18A) Thu 1:20, 5:10, 9:00 Fri 12:50, 4:50, 8:45 Sat 12:50, 4:45, 8:45 Sun 12:45, 4:50, 8:45 Mon-Wed 1:20, 5:15, 9:00

TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX (I) 350 KING ST W, 416-599-8433

THE GREAT BEAUTY (14A) Thu-Fri, Sun, Tue-Wed 12:15, 3:15, 6:15, 9:15 Sat 12:15, 3:15, 7:05, 10:00 Mon 6:15, 9:15 INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS (14A) Thu 12:40, 4:15 Fri 12:10, 2:15, 3:55, 9:15 Sat 12:10, 2:30, 5:05 Sun 12:10, 4:15, 6:45, 9:20 Mon 9:00 Tue 12:10, 2:30, 7:30, 9:35 Wed 3:00, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 THE OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILMS 2014: ANIMATED (G) Thu 2:30, 6:40 Fri 12:00, 4:30, 8:50 Sat 2:30, 7:30 Sun 12:00, 5:30 Mon 8:30 Tue 5:30 Wed 2:30, 5:20, 9:10 THE OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILMS 2014: LIVE ACTION (14A) Thu 12:00, 4:00, 8:40 Fri 2:00, 6:25 Sat 12:00, 4:30, 9:25 Sun 2:05, 7:30 Mon 6:00 Tue 3:00, 8:40 Wed 12:00, 4:15, 7:20 THE SQUARE (18A) Thu 8:00 TIM’S VERMEER (PG) Thu, Sat, Tue-Wed 12:20, 2:20, 6:45, 8:50 Fri 12:20, 2:20, 6:45, 9:05 Sun 1:00, 3:00, 6:45, 8:50 Mon 6:45, 8:50

VARSITY (CE)

55 BLOOR ST W, 416-961-6304 AMERICAN HUSTLE (14A) 1:05, 4:10, 7:15, 10:20 GLORIA (18A) Thu 1:50, 4:35, 7:10, 9:45 Fri-Wed 2:05, 4:45, 7:25, 10:00 THE GREAT BEAUTY (14A) Thu 12:45, 3:55, 7:05, 10:20 FriSun 12:30, 3:45, 7:05, 10:15 Mon-Wed 12:45, 3:55, 7:05, 10:15 HER (14A) Thu 12:50, 9:00 Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:30, 6:20, 9:25 Mon-Wed 12:50, 3:40, 6:30, 9:25 THE MONUMENTS MEN (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Fri-Wed 1:35, 4:20, 7:10, 10:10 OMAR (14A) Fri-Sun 12:35, 3:00, 5:25, 7:50, 10:20 MonWed 1:50, 4:15, 6:40, 9:05 PHILOMENA (PG) Thu 1:55, 4:20, 6:40, 9:00 Fri-Sun 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:55 Mon-Wed 2:15, 4:40, 7:00, 9:40 3 DAYS TO KILL (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:50 THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (18A) Thu 1:45, 5:30, 9:15 FriWed 1:30, 5:15, 9:00

VIP SCREENINGS

AMERICAN HUSTLE (14A) Thu 12:45 3:50 6:55 10:00 FriWed 12:45, 3:50, 6:55, 9:50 THE MONUMENTS MEN (PG) 1:10, 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 3 DAYS TO KILL (PG) Fri-Wed 12:55, 3:40, 6:25, 9:10 WINTER’S TALE (PG) Thu 12:55, 3:40, 6:25, 9:10 THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (18A) Thu 2:15, 6:00, 9:45 Fri-Sun 2:00, 5:45, 9:30 Mon-Wed 2:00, 5:45, 9:20

YONGE & DUNDAS 24 (CE) 10 DUNDAS ST E, 416-335-5323

ABOUT LAST NIGHT (14A) Thu 1:35, 4:00, 8:05, 10:30 Fri 3:00, 5:35, 8:05, 10:30 Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:00, 5:35, 8:05, 10:30 Mon-Wed 1:30, 3:50, 8:05, 10:30 AMERICAN HUSTLE (14A) 6:25, 10:15 Fri 3:15 mat Sat-Sun 11:55, 3:15 mat THE ATTORNEY (14A) Thu 6:55, 9:45 BEIJING LOVE STORY (PG) Thu 3:35 6:20 9:15 Fri-Wed 3:35, 6:15, 9:15 Sat-Sun 12:35 mat CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (14A) Thu 4:00 Fri 4:15, 9:55 Sat 12:45, 7:00 Mon 10:05 Tue 1:30 CONCERT: KASS SINGS PIAF Sun 12:45, 6:45 Wed 1:30, 6:45 ENDLESS LOVE (PG) Thu 5:15, 6:40, 10:20 Fri-Wed 9:05 FROZEN (G) 1:30 FROZEN 3D (G) 3:55, 6:30 GRAVITY 3D (PG) 7:40, 10:10 Fri-Sun 2:10 mat, 4:50 GRAVITY: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 2:10, 4:50, 7:40, 10:05 GUNDAY (PG) Thu 3:15, 6:35, 9:50 HIGHWAY (14A) 3:25, 6:35, 9:45 Sat-Sun 12:10 mat JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT (PG) 9:20 THE LEGO MOVIE 3D (G) Thu 2:30, 3:30, 5:00, 6:00, 7:30, 10:10 Fri, Mon-Tue 2:30, 3:35, 5:00, 6:00, 7:30, 10:10 SatSun 12:00, 1:05, 2:30, 3:35, 5:00, 6:00, 7:30, 10:10 Wed 2:30, 3:35, 6:00, 10:10 THE LEGO MOVIE (G) Thu 4:20, 6:45, 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:30 MOULIN ROUGE – ROYAL WINNIPEG BALLET Mon 4:15 Tue 7:00 Wed 3:45 NATIONAL THEATRE – WAR HORSE Thu 7:00 SHAADI KE SIDE EFFECTS Fri 1:35, 7:15, 10:15 Sat-Sun 12:05, 3:20, 6:20, 9:35 Mon-Wed 3:20, 6:20, 9:35 SON OF GOD (PG) Thu 7:00 Fri 1:40, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20 SatSun 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20 Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:10, 10:20 STALINGRAD (14A) Fri, Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS (PG) Thu 1:30 TAKEDOWN: THE DNA OF GSP (14A) Thu 10:30 THAT AWKWARD MOMENT (14A) 8:00, 10:25 Fri 5:30 Sat-Sun 12:40, 3:10 mat, 5:30 3 DAYS TO KILL (PG) Thu 1:35 4:20 7:20 10:20 Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 12 YEARS A SLAVE (14A) Thu 9:55 Fri 3:40, 6:40, 9:55 SatSun 11:55, 3:40, 6:40, 9:55 Mon-Wed 6:40, 9:55 VAMPIRE ACADEMY (PG) Thu 9:05 THE WIND RISES (PG) Thu 2:20, 3:45, 6:05, 7:05, 9:00, 10:00 Fri 2:20, 4:05, 6:05, 7:05, 9:00, 10:00 Sat-Sun 12:15, 1:15, 3:05, 4:05, 6:05, 7:05, 9:00, 10:00 Mon-Wed 3:05, 3:45, 6:05, 7:05, 9:00, 10:00

Midtown CANADA SQUARE (CE) 2200 YONGE ST, 416-646-0444

AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (14A) Thu 3:40, 6:30 Fri 3:40, 6:50, 9:40 Sat 12:50, 3:40, 6:50, 9:40 Sun 12:05, 3:00, 6:00 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:40 DALLAS BUYERS CLUB (18A) Thu 4:30, 7:00 Fri 4:00, 7:00, 9:45 Sat 1:20, 4:00, 7:00, 9:45 Sun 1:50, 4:30, 7:00 MonWed 4:00, 7:00 NEBRASKA (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:20, 6:50 Fri 4:20, 7:15, 9:45 Sat 1:10, 4:20, 7:15, 9:45 Sun 12:50, 3:30, 6:10 THE PAST (14A) Thu 3:55, 6:40 PHILOMENA (PG) Thu 4:50, 7:00 Fri 4:10, 6:45, 9:10 Sat 12:40, 2:50, 5:00, 7:20, 9:35 Sun 12:30, 2:50, 5:00, 7:20 Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:45 STARTING OVER AGAIN Thu 3:35, 6:35 Fri 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Sat 12:20, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Sun 12:00, 3:10, 6:20 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:35 THAT AWKWARD MOMENT (14A) Fri 4:40, 7:10, 9:30 Sat 12:15, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 Sun 12:15, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:10 THE WIND RISES (PG) Fri 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 Sat 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 Sun 1:00, 3:50, 6:40 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:30

WINTER’S TALE (PG) Thu 3:35, 6:25 THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (18A) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:30 Fri 4:30, 8:30 Sat 12:30, 4:30, 8:30 Sun 1:30, 5:30

MT PLEASANT (I)

675 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-489-8484 BLUE JASMINE (14A) Fri 9:35 12 YEARS A SLAVE (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 7:00 Fri 6:45 Sat 3:45, 6:45, 9:35 Sun 1:45, 4:35

REGENT THEATRE (I) 551 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-480-9884

THE BOOK THIEF (PG) Fri, Sun 4:30 Sat 7:00 THE INVISIBLE WOMAN (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 7:00 Fri 7:10 Sat 4:30 Sun 2:15

SILVERCITY YONGE (CE) 2300 YONGE ST, 416-544-1236

AMERICAN HUSTLE (14A) Thu 12:25, 3:25, 6:30, 9:35 Fri 12:55, 3:55, 7:00, 10:10 Sat 7:00, 10:00 Sun 12:05, 3:10, 6:15, 9:20 Mon-Wed 12:30, 3:30, 6:35, 9:40 ENDLESS LOVE (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 6:45, 9:15 Fri 6:50, 9:50 Sat 7:30, 10:05 Sun 7:30, 10:00 Mon-Tue 7:10, 9:40 Wed 9:40 FROZEN (G) Thu 1:30 Fri 1:30, 4:05 Sat 12:05, 5:00 Sun 12:00, 5:00 Mon-Tue 1:30, 4:30 Wed 12:40, 3:05 FROZEN 3D (G) Thu 4:30, 7:10 THE LEGO MOVIE 3D (G) Thu 3:30, 6:10, 9:00 Fri 3:30, 6:20, 9:20 Sat 12:15, 3:50, 6:20, 9:10 Sun 3:40, 5:00, 6:20, 8:45 Mon-Tue 3:05, 6:10, 8:40 Wed 3:40, 6:10, 8:40 THE LEGO MOVIE (G) Thu-Fri 1:00 Sat 1:20, 2:30 Sun 1:00, 2:30 Mon-Tue 12:40 Wed 1:05 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: PRINCE IGOR LIVE Sat 12:00 THE MONUMENTS MEN (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 12:30, 3:15, 6:00, 8:45 Fri 1:05, 3:50, 6:40, 9:40 Sat 1:00, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Sun 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 NATIONAL THEATRE – WAR HORSE Thu 7:00 NON-STOP (PG) Thu 9:35 Fri 1:50, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 Sat 12:00, 2:35, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:15, 9:55 Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:20, 7:00, 9:35 POMPEII 3D (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:00, 7:00, 9:30 Fri 2:00, 4:40, 7:45, 10:20 Sat 2:45, 5:20, 8:00, 10:30 Sun 12:00, 2:30, 7:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 1:20, 4:00, 6:50, 9:20 ROBOCOP (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:45, 6:35, 9:20 Fri 1:20, 4:20, 7:30, 10:15 Sat 6:30, 9:20 Sun 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:40 MonTue 1:00, 3:45, 6:40, 9:25 Wed 12:45, 3:45, 6:40, 9:25 SON OF GOD (PG) Fri 1:00, 4:00, 7:05, 10:20 Sat 12:30, 3:40, 6:10, 9:30 Sun 12:15, 3:20, 6:30, 9:45 Mon-Tue 12:25, 3:25, 6:30, 9:35 Wed 6:30, 9:35 THAT AWKWARD MOMENT (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:20 3 DAYS TO KILL (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:35, 6:20, 9:05 Fri 12:55, 3:40, 6:30, 9:30 Sat 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Sun 12:40, 3:30, 6:40, 9:30 Mon-Tue 12:50, 3:35, 6:20, 9:05 Wed 3:50, 6:45, 9:25

Metro

West End HUMBER CINEMAS (I) 2442 BLOOR ST. WEST, 416-769-2442

AMERICAN HUSTLE (14A) Fri-Wed 9:40 AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (14A) 6:30 FROZEN (G) Sat-Wed 1:30 FROZEN SING-ALONG Thu 4:30 Fri-Wed 4:00 THE LEGO MOVIE (G) Thu 4:15, 6:50, 9:10 Fri, Wed 2:40, 5:00, 7:20, 9:10 Sat-Sun, Tue 12:15, 2:40, 5:00, 7:20, 9:10 Mon 5:00, 7:20, 9:10 THE MONUMENTS MEN (PG) Thu 3:35 6:40 9:20 Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:45, 6:40, 9:20 Thu-Fri, Wed no 1:00 NON-STOP (PG) 3:30, 7:00, 9:30 Sat-Sun, Tue 12:45 mat ROBOCOP (PG) Thu 3:15, 7:00, 9:30

KINGSWAY THEATRE (I) 3030 BLOOR ST W, 416-232-1939

THE BOOK THIEF (PG) Thu 11:00 Sat, Mon, Wed 12:55

CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (14A) 1:00 Thu 9:10 DALLAS BUYERS CLUB (18A) Thu 7:30 Fri-Wed 11:00, 8:55 INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS (14A) Thu 9:30 MUSCLE SHOALS (PG) 11:00 NEBRASKA (PG) Thu 3:15 Fri-Wed 7:05 NIGHT TRAIN TO LISBON (14A) Thu 5:15 Fri-Wed 3:15 PHILOMENA (PG) Thu 3:25 Fri-Wed 3:05 SAVING MR. BANKS (PG) Thu 1:15 Fri, Sun, Tue 12:55 7 BOXES (14A) Thu 7:15 Fri-Wed 5:05 SEX AFTER KIDS (18A) Fri-Wed 9:05 12 YEARS A SLAVE (14A) Thu 5:10 Fri-Wed 4:50

QUEENSWAY (CE)

1025 THE QUEENSWAY, QEW & ISLINGTON, 416-503-0424 ABOUT LAST NIGHT (14A) Thu 2:50, 5:25, 8:00, 10:30 Fri 2:00, 4:35, 7:15, 9:50 Sat 11:30, 2:00, 4:35, 7:15, 9:50 SunWed 1:30, 4:10, 6:40, 9:20 AMERICAN HUSTLE (14A) Thu 1:50, 3:15, 5:50, 6:30, 9:00, 10:00 Fri 1:05, 4:00, 4:15, 7:15, 7:20, 10:20, 10:25 Sat 12:45, 1:05, 4:00, 4:15, 7:15, 7:20, 10:20, 10:25 Sun 1:40, 3:00, 5:00, 6:30, 8:10, 9:40 Mon-Wed 1:55, 3:00, 5:00, 6:30, 8:10, 9:40 ENDLESS LOVE (PG) Thu 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:20 Fri 1:30, 4:05, 6:45, 9:30 Sat 6:45, 9:30 Sun 1:35, 4:15, 6:55, 9:30 Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:20, 6:55, 9:30 FROZEN (G) Thu 1:05 Fri 3:05 Sat 12:20 Sun 12:40 Mon-Tue 1:00 Wed 12:55 FROZEN 3D (G) Thu 3:45, 6:50 Fri 5:35, 8:10 Sat 3:00, 5:35, 8:10 Sun-Wed 3:30, 6:20 GNOMEO AND JULIET (G) Sat 11:00 JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT (PG) Thu 10:15 THE LEGO MOVIE 3D (G) Thu 2:10, 4:45, 7:20, 9:50 Fri 2:20, 4:55, 7:30, 10:10 Sat 11:45, 2:20, 4:55, 7:30, 10:10 Sun 11:40, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:05 Mon-Wed 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:05 THE LEGO MOVIE (G) Thu 1:20, 3:55, 6:30 Fri-Sat 1:15, 3:50, 6:30 Sun 1:10, 3:50, 6:30 Mon-Wed 1:20, 3:50, 6:30 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: PRINCE IGOR LIVE Sat 12:00 THE MONUMENTS MEN (PG) Thu 1:10, 3:00, 4:05, 6:00, 7:00, 9:00, 9:55 Fri 12:40, 2:30, 3:30, 5:45, 6:50, 8:45, 9:40 Sat 12:30, 2:30, 3:30, 5:45, 6:50, 8:45, 9:40 Sun 12:50, 2:30, 3:40, 5:30, 6:50, 8:30, 9:40 Mon-Wed 12:55, 2:30, 3:40, 5:30, 6:50, 8:30, 9:40 NATIONAL THEATRE – WAR HORSE Thu 7:00 NON-STOP (PG) Thu 9:30 Fri 12:30, 2:40, 4:30, 5:25, 7:45, 8:05, 10:45 Sat 12:05, 1:30, 2:40, 4:30, 5:25, 7:45, 8:05, 10:45 Sun 11:55, 1:30, 2:30, 4:30, 5:10, 7:30, 7:50, 10:30 Mon-Tue 2:30, 4:30, 5:10, 7:30, 7:50, 10:20, 10:30 Wed 4:30, 5:10, 7:30, 7:50, 10:20, 10:30 POMPEII (PG) Thu 4:15, 7:00, 9:40 Fri 3:30, 6:45, 9:45 Sat 12:30, 3:30, 6:45, 9:45 Sun 12:45, 3:20, 6:00, 9:00 MonWed 3:20, 6:00, 9:00 POMPEII 3D (PG) Thu 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 Fri 2:30, 5:15, 8:15, 10:50 Sat 11:55, 2:30, 5:15, 8:15, 10:50 Sun 12:05, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:35 Mon-Wed 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:35 RIDE ALONG (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:45, 9:10 Fri-Sat 9:05 SunWed 9:10 ROBOCOP (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:25, 4:30, 7:30, 9:20, 10:10, 10:15 Fri 1:50, 3:00, 4:45, 6:15, 7:40, 9:15, 10:30 Sat 11:10, 12:15, 1:50, 3:00, 4:45, 6:15, 7:40, 9:15, 10:30 Sun 1:00, 1:20, 4:00, 4:20, 7:00, 7:20, 10:00, 10:10 Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:00, 4:30, 7:00, 7:20, 10:00, 10:10 SON OF GOD (PG) Fri, Sun-Tue 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20 Sat 12:15, 3:20, 7:10, 10:20 Wed 4:05, 7:10, 10:20 THAT AWKWARD MOMENT (14A) Thu 3:10, 5:40, 8:05, 10:25 Fri-Sat 10:45 Sun-Wed 9:00 3 DAYS TO KILL (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:15, 7:10, 10:00 Fri 2:10, 5:00, 7:50, 10:40 Sat 11:20, 2:10, 5:00, 7:50, 10:40 Sun 1:50, 4:40, 7:40, 10:25 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:40, 10:25 THE WIND RISES (PG) Fri 12:45, 3:40, 7:00, 10:00 Sat 12:40, 3:40, 7:00, 10:00 Sun 1:00, 4:05, 7:00, 10:00 MonWed 1:10, 4:05, 7:00, 10:00 WINTER’S TALE (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:20 THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (18A) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 4:55, 8:00, 8:40 Fri 1:40, 6:40, 10:35 Sat 6:40, 10:35 Sun 12:30, 4:30, 8:30 Mon-Wed 1:05, 4:55, 8:45

RAINBOW WOODBINE (I)

WOODBINE CENTRE, 500 REXDALE BLVD, 416-213-1998 ABOUT LAST NIGHT (14A) Thu 1:25, 4:20, 7:15, 9:45 Fri-Tue 1:25, 4:15, 7:15, 9:45 Wed 4:15, 7:15, 9:45 ENDLESS LOVE (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:50, 6:50, 9:15 Fri-Wed 1:10, 6:50 FROZEN (G) Thu 1:10, 4:15 THE LEGO MOVIE (G) 1:15, 4:00, 7:00, 9:20 continued on page 76 œ

SCOTIABANK THEATRE (CE) 259 RICHMOND ST W, 416-368-5600

HER (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Fri 12:25, 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:40 Sat 12:20, 2:00, 5:10, 8:10, 11:00 Sun 1:30, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG 3D (PG) Thu 5:50, 9:20 Fri 6:05, 9:40 Sat 6:40, 10:00 Sun 9:10 MonWed 8:50 THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG (PG) Thu 2:20 Fri 2:30 Sat 11:55, 3:15 Sun 2:00, 5:40 Mon-Wed 2:00, 5:25 THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (PG) Thu 3:25, 6:35, 9:45 Fri 3:20, 6:30, 10:00 Sat 3:25, 6:30, 9:40 Sun 2:15, 5:50, 9:00 Mon-Wed 2:10, 5:30, 8:40 I, FRANKENSTEIN (PG) Thu 1:10, 3:30, 6:00 LONE SURVIVOR (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15 Fri 2:15,

NOW FEBRUARY 27 - MARCH 5 2014

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The Monuments Men (PG) Thu 1:05, 3:55, 6:55, 9:30 Non-Stop (PG) Fri-Wed 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 9:30 Pompeii (PG) Thu 1:30 4:10 7:05 9:40 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:10, 7:10, 9:40 Ride Along (14A) Thu 7:10, 9:25 Fri-Wed 3:45, 9:15 RoboCop (PG) Thu 1:20 4:05 6:45 9:25 Fri-Wed 1:20, 3:55, 6:55, 9:25 Son of God (PG) Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:50, 6:45, 9:35

East End Beach Cinemas (AA) 1651 Queen St E, 416-699-1327

American Hustle (14A) Thu 6:40, 9:35 Fri 3:45, 6:40, 9:45 Sat 3:45, 6:45, 9:40 Sun 12:30, 3:45, 6:45, 9:40 Mon, Wed 6:40, 9:40 Tue 6:40, 9:45 August: Osage County (14A) Thu 6:30, 9:15 The LEGO Movie 3D (G) Thu 7:00, 9:30 Fri 4:30, 6:50, 9:15 Sat-Sun 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 6:50, 9:15 The LEGO Movie (G) Sat-Sun 12:00 The Metropolitan Opera: Prince Igor Live Sat 12:00 The Monuments Men (PG) Thu 6:50, 9:40 Fri 4:00, 7:30, 10:15 Sat 12:45, 7:40, 10:20 Sun 12:45, 4:00, 7:40, 10:20 Mon, Wed 7:00, 9:50 Tue 7:30, 10:15 Non-Stop (PG) Fri 4:45, 7:45, 10:30 Sat-Sun 1:45, 4:45, 7:15, 10:10 Mon, Wed 7:20, 9:55 Tue 7:45, 10:30 RoboCop (PG) Thu 7:15, 10:00 Son of God (PG) 6:30, 9:30 Fri 3:30 mat Sat 12:30, 3:30 mat Sun 12:15, 3:30 mat 3 Days to Kill (PG) Fri 4:15, 7:15, 10:00 Sat 1:00, 4:15, 7:00, 9:50 Sun 1:00, 4:15, 7:15, 10:00 Mon, Wed 7:10, 10:00 Tue 7:15, 10:00 Winter’s Tale (PG) Thu 7:10, 9:50

North York Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk (CE) 5095 Yonge St., 416-847-0087

American Hustle (14A) Thu 3:45, 7:00, 10:10 Fri 3:30, 6:40, 10:05 Sat 6:40, 10:05 Sun 12:20, 3:30, 6:40, 9:50 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:40, 9:50 Endless Love (PG) Thu 4:25, 7:05, 9:40 Frozen (G) Thu 5:00, 7:30 Sat-Sun 12:10, 2:50 The LEGO Movie 3D (G) Thu 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 Fri 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Sat-Sun 2:20, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:20, 9:20 The LEGO Movie (G) Sat-Sun 11:55 The Metropolitan Opera: Prince Igor Live Sat 12:00 The Monuments Men (PG) Thu 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 Fri 3:35, 6:30, 9:40 Sat 6:30, 9:40 Sun 12:30, 3:35, 6:30, 9:30 MonWed 3:35, 6:30, 9:30 National Theatre – War Horse Thu 7:00 Non-Stop (PG) Fri 5:15, 7:50, 10:30 Sat 12:05, 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:30 Sun 1:35, 4:20, 7:10, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:10, 10:10 Pompeii 3D (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:50, 9:50 Fri 3:40, 6:50, 9:50 Sat 12:50, 3:40, 6:50, 9:50 Sun 12:50, 3:40, 6:50, 9:40 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:50, 9:40 RoboCop (PG) Fri 4:30, 7:20, 10:25 Sat 1:10, 4:30, 7:20, 10:25 Sun 1:10, 4:30, 7:15, 10:05 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:15, 10:05 RoboCop: The IMAX Experience (PG) Thu 3:50, 7:20, 10:05 Son of God (PG) Fri 3:50, 7:10, 10:20 Sat 12:40, 3:50, 7:10, 10:20 Sun 12:40, 3:45, 6:45, 9:55 Mon-Wed 3:45, 6:45, 9:55 Stalingrad (14A) Fri 4:00, 7:00, 10:10 Sat 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:10 Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 That Awkward Moment (14A) Thu 10:00 3 Days to Kill (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:10, 9:55 Fri 4:20, 7:05, 9:55 Sat 1:30, 4:20, 7:05, 9:55 Sun 1:30, 4:10, 6:55, 9:45 Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:55, 9:45 Winter’s Tale (PG) Thu 3:20 The Wolf of Wall Street (18A) Thu 4:55, 8:50 Fri-Sun 5:20, 9:10 Mon-Wed 5:00, 8:50

SilverCity Fairview (CE)

Fairview Mall, 1800 Sheppard Ave E, 416-644-7746 About Last Night (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:00 Fri 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:30 Sat 12:10, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:30 Sun-Wed 2:05, 4:40, 7:15, 9:45 Frozen (G) Thu 1:35 Fri 2:10 Sat 11:30 Sun-Wed 1:45 Frozen 3D (G) Thu 4:25, 7:10 Fri 4:50, 7:30 Sat 2:10, 4:50, 7:30 Sun-Wed 4:35, 7:30 Gnomeo and Juliet (G) Sat 11:00 The LEGO Movie 3D (G) Thu 4:30 7:05 9:35 Fri-Wed 4:30, 7:00, 9:40 Sat 1:50 mat The LEGO Movie (G) Thu-Fri, Sun-Wed 1:50 Sat 11:20 The Metropolitan Opera: Prince Igor Live Sat 12:00 The Monuments Men (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:20, 7:15, 10:00 Fri-Sat 1:10, 4:00, 6:50, 9:50 Sun-Wed 1:10, 4:00, 6:50, 9:35 Non-Stop (PG) Thu 9:40 Fri 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 Sat 11:40, 2:20, 5:15, 7:40, 10:15 Sun-Tue 2:00, 4:45, 7:20, 10:00 Wed 4:45, 7:20, 10:00 Pompeii 3D (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 Fri 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:20 Sat 12:00, 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:20 Sun-Wed 1:40, 4:10, 6:45, 9:20 Ride Along (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:00, 6:45, 9:20 Fri-Sat 10:10 Sun-Wed 10:05 RoboCop (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:45 Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 Sun-Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:05, 9:50 Son of God (PG) Fri-Sat 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:25 Sun-Tue

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1:00, 4:05, 7:10, 10:10 Wed 4:05, 7:10, 10:10 That Awkward Moment (14A) Thu 9:30 Winter’s Tale (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:55, 6:50 The Wolf of Wall Street (18A) Thu 1:30, 5:20, 9:10 Fri 1:40, 5:30, 9:30 Sat 5:30, 9:30 Sun-Wed 1:20, 5:10, 9:10

SilverCity Yorkdale (CE) 3401 Dufferin St, 416-787-2052

About Last Night (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:50, 4:25, 7:15, 9:55 Sat 11:30, 2:05, 4:50, 7:40, 10:15 Endless Love (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:05, 7:00, 9:40 Fri-Wed 7:20, 10:05 Frozen (G) 1:15 Frozen 3D (G) Thu-Sat 4:00, 6:45 Sun-Wed 4:00, 7:00 Gnomeo and Juliet (G) Sat 11:00 The LEGO Movie 3D (G) Thu 1:40, 4:20, 7:05, 9:45 Fri, SunWed 2:10, 4:55, 7:35, 10:10 Sat 11:30, 2:10, 4:55, 7:35, 10:10 The LEGO Movie (G) Thu 12:45, 3:30 Fri, Sun-Wed 12:45, 3:20 Sat 1:30, 4:05 The Monuments Men (PG) Thu 1:05, 4:00, 6:55 Non-Stop (PG) Thu 9:50 Fri 2:00, 4:50, 7:35, 10:20 Sat 12:20, 2:55, 5:30, 8:05, 10:45 Sun-Wed 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30 Pompeii 3D (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Fri 1:40, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Sat 11:40, 2:15, 5:00, 7:50, 10:30 Sun-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:35, 10:20 Ride Along (14A) 2:15, 4:50, 7:25, 10:00 Sat 11:45 mat RoboCop (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:10 Fri-Wed 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 10:25 Son of God (PG) Fri-Wed 12:45, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20 That Awkward Moment (14A) Thu 6:40, 9:15 Fri-Sat 9:45 Sun-Wed 9:50 3 Days to Kill (PG) 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:15 The Wolf of Wall Street (18A) Thu 9:30

Scarborough 401 & Morningside (CE) 785 Milner Ave, Scarborough, 416-281-2226

About Last Night (14A) Thu 5:30, 7:55 Fri, Tue 5:25, 7:55, 10:20 Sat 12:20, 3:00, 5:25, 7:55, 10:20 Sun 12:20, 2:45, 5:05, 7:25, 9:45 Mon, Wed 5:20, 8:25 Endless Love (PG) Thu 5:15, 7:45 Fri, Tue 10:25 Sat 10:15 Sun 9:50 Mon, Wed 8:20 Frozen (G) Thu, Mon, Wed 6:00 Fri, Tue 4:40, 8:00 Sat 11:20, 2:00, 4:40, 8:00 Sun 2:00, 4:40, 7:35 Gnomeo and Juliet (G) Sat 11:00 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 3D (PG) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:00, 7:40 Fri-Sun, Tue 4:50, 8:15 The LEGO Movie 3D (G) Thu 5:50, 8:15 Fri, Tue 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 Sat-Sun 12:05, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 Mon, Wed 5:05, 7:30 The LEGO Movie (G) Thu 5:00, 7:30 Fri, Tue 4:20, 6:45, 9:10 Sat 11:05, 1:30, 3:10, 4:00, 6:45, 9:10 Sun 1:30, 3:10, 4:00, 6:45, 9:10 Mon, Wed 5:50, 8:15 The Monuments Men (PG) Thu 5:10, 8:05 Fri, Tue 4:15, 7:05, 9:50 Sat 1:00, 4:10, 7:05, 9:50 Sun 1:00, 4:10, 7:05, 9:45 Mon, Wed 5:10, 7:50 Non-Stop (PG) Fri, Tue 5:10, 7:45, 10:20 Sat 11:15, 12:00, 2:40, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20 Sun 12:00, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 Mon, Wed 5:30, 8:10 The Nut Job (PG) Sat 2:15 Sun 12:00, 2:15 Ride Along (14A) Thu 5:20, 8:25 Fri, Tue 5:35, 8:05, 10:25 Sat 12:45, 5:35, 8:05, 10:25 Sun 12:45, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 Mon, Wed 5:40, 8:05 RoboCop (PG) Thu 5:40, 8:20 Fri, Tue 4:25, 7:15, 10:05 Sat-Sun 1:40, 4:20, 7:15, 10:05 Mon, Wed 5:45, 8:25 Son of God (PG) Fri, Tue 4:15, 6:55, 10:00 Sat 11:10, 12:30, 3:45, 6:55, 10:00 Sun 12:30, 3:45, 6:55, 9:55 Mon, Wed 5:00, 8:00 3 Days to Kill (PG) Thu 5:25, 8:10 Fri, Tue 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Sat 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Sun 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 Mon, Wed 5:15, 7:55 Vampire Academy (PG) Thu 8:25 Winter’s Tale (PG) Thu 5:05, 8:00

Coliseum Scarborough (CE) Scarborough Town Centre, 416-290-5217

About Last Night (14A) Thu 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 Sat 11:45, 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 Endless Love (PG) Thu 1:55, 4:35, 7:30, 10:10 Fri-Wed 9:50 Frozen (G) Thu 1:30 Fri-Wed 1:15 Frozen 3D (G) Thu 4:10, 6:50 Fri-Wed 4:00, 7:00 Gnomeo and Juliet (G) Sat 11:00 I, Frankenstein (PG) Thu 9:50 The LEGO Movie 3D (G) Thu 1:45 4:15 7:00 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:35, 4:15, 6:55, 9:40 Sat 11:05 mat The LEGO Movie (G) Thu 1:15 3:45 6:30 Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:45, 6:30 Sat 11:30 mat The Metropolitan Opera: Prince Igor Live Sat 12:00 The Monuments Men (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 National Theatre – War Horse Thu 7:00 Non-Stop (PG) Thu 10:15 Fri-Sat 12:15, 2:50, 5:25, 8:05, 10:25, 10:45 Sun 12:15, 2:50, 5:25, 8:00, 10:25, 10:35 MonWed 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:20, 10:25 Pompeii 3D (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:40, 10:30 Fri-Wed 2:05, 4:45, 7:20, 10:05 Ride Along (14A) Thu 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 RoboCop (PG) Thu 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 10:25 Fri-Sun 1:45, 4:40, 7:35, 10:35 Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:40, 7:35, 10:30 Son of God (PG) Fri-Wed 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20 Starting Over Again Thu 1:00, 3:55, 6:45, 9:40 Fri, Sun-Wed 12:45, 3:40, 6:45, 9:45 Sat 1:20, 4:25, 6:45, 9:45 That Awkward Moment (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:00, 7:35 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:40, 5:15, 7:50 Sat 7:50 Vampire Academy (PG) Thu 9:15 The Wind Rises (PG) Fri-Wed 12:55, 3:55, 7:05, 10:10 Winter’s Tale (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 10:30 Fri-Wed 9:15

Eglinton Town Centre (CE) 1901 Eglinton Ave E, 416-752-4494

About Last Night (14A) Thu 4:55, 7:30, 10:05 Fri-Sat 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40 Sun 11:50, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50

Mon-Wed 4:35, 7:10, 9:45 Endless Love (PG) Thu 4:15, 6:55, 9:35 Fri-Sat 10:20 Sun 10:05 Mon-Wed 10:00 Frozen (G) Thu 2:15 Fri-Sat 2:40 Sun 11:55, 2:30 Frozen 3D (G) Thu 4:45, 7:35 Fri 5:10, 7:45 Sat 12:00, 5:10, 7:45 Sun 5:00, 7:35 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:30 Gnomeo and Juliet (G) Sat 11:00 Gunday (PG) Thu 2:35, 6:00, 9:45 Fri 3:00, 6:25, 9:50 Sat 11:35, 3:00, 6:25, 9:50 Sun 11:40, 3:05, 6:30, 9:55 MonWed 5:25, 9:25 Highway (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:45, 9:20 Fri 3:30, 6:50, 10:10 Sat 12:15, 3:35, 6:50, 10:10 Sun 12:20, 3:35, 6:50, 10:10 Mon-Wed 5:15, 8:30 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (PG) Thu 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 Fri-Sat 2:20, 4:55, 7:30, 10:05 Sun 2:45, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30 Mon-Wed 5:20, 7:55, 10:30 The LEGO Movie 3D (G) Thu 2:10, 4:40, 7:30, 10:00 Fri 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:10 Sat 11:30, 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:10 Sun 11:45, 2:20, 4:55, 7:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 The LEGO Movie (G) Thu 4:00, 6:40 Fri 1:50, 4:25, 7:00 Sat 11:00, 1:50, 4:25, 7:00 Sun 12:15, 1:20, 4:00, 6:40 MonWed 4:10, 6:40 The Metropolitan Opera: Prince Igor Live Sat 12:00 The Monuments Men (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 Fri-Sun 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:40 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:50, 9:40 Non-Stop (PG) Thu 9:50 Fri 2:55, 5:30, 8:05, 10:45 Sat 12:20, 2:55, 5:30, 8:05, 10:45 Sun 12:00, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20 Mon-Wed 5:10, 7:45, 10:20 Pompeii 3D (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:00, 9:30 Fri 2:45, 5:20, 7:55, 10:35 Sat 12:10, 2:45, 5:20, 7:55, 10:35 Sun 1:45, 4:20, 6:55, 9:30 Mon-Wed 4:20, 6:55, 9:30 Ride Along (14A) Thu 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Fri 2:50, 5:25, 8:00, 10:30 Sat 12:25, 2:55, 5:25, 8:00, 10:30 Sun 12:25, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Mon-Wed 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 RoboCop (PG) Thu 4:25, 7:20, 9:40, 10:20 Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:25, 7:15, 10:05 Shaadi Ke Side Effects Fri 3:25, 6:45, 10:00 Sat 12:05, 3:20, 6:45, 10:00 Sun 12:10, 3:30, 6:45, 10:00 Mon-Wed 3:50, 7:00, 10:20 Son of God (PG) Fri 12:45, 4:00, 7:15, 10:30 Sat 11:10, 12:45, 4:00, 7:15, 10:30 Sun 12:30, 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 MonWed 3:45, 6:55, 10:10 That Awkward Moment (14A) Thu 2:25, 5:00, 7:25 Fri-Sat 9:30 Sun-Wed 9:15 3 Days to Kill (PG) Thu 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Fri 2:10, 5:00, 7:50, 10:45 Sat 11:25, 2:15, 5:00, 7:50, 10:45 Sun 1:50, 4:40, 7:25, 10:25 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:25, 10:25 Vampire Academy (PG) Thu 10:15 Winter’s Tale (PG) Thu 4:10, 7:05, 9:55 The Wolf of Wall Street (18A) Thu 4:30, 8:30 Fri 12:50, 4:45, 8:40 Sat 6:30, 10:25 Sun 12:45, 4:45, 8:40 Mon-Wed 4:45, 8:40

Woodside Cinemas (I) 1571 Sandhurst Circle, 416-299-3456

Brahman Thu 4:00, 7:15, 10:30 Fri 7:15, 10:30 Sat-Sun 4:00, 7:30, 10:30 Mon-Wed 7:30 Gunday (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Fri 4:00 Sat-Sun 1:00 Idhu Kathirvelan Kadhal Thu 7:30, 10:30 Ithu Kathirvelan Kadhal Fri 7:30, 10:30 Sat-Sun 4:15, 10:30 Mon-Wed 4:30 Jilla (14A) Thu-Fri, Sun 4:00 Sat 7:00 Panivizhum Malarvanam Sat-Sun 1:30 Shaadi Ke Side Effects Fri 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Mon-Wed 4:30, 6:30, 8:00

GTA Regions Mississauga

Coliseum Mississauga (CE) Square One, 309 Rathburn Rd W, 905-275-3456

About Last Night (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:35, 7:20, 9:55 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:10 Sat 11:30, 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:10 Sun 2:10, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 American Hustle (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:05, 10:20 Fri 1:00, 4:05, 7:10, 10:20 Sat 12:40, 3:50, 7:05, 10:20 Sun 12:40, 3:50, 7:05, 10:10 Mon-Tue 1:00, 4:05, 7:10, 10:15 Wed 4:05, 7:10, 10:15 Frozen (G) Thu-Fri, Sun-Wed 1:45 Sat 11:50, 2:30 Frozen 3D (G) Thu-Fri, Sun-Wed 4:20, 6:55 Sat 5:05, 7:35 Gnomeo and Juliet (G) Sat 11:00 Gravity 3D (PG) Thu-Fri, Sun-Tue 1:10, 4:40, 7:25, 9:45 Sat 11:00, 1:20, 4:40, 7:25, 9:45 Wed 1:10, 3:40, 6:40, 9:45 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 3D (PG) Thu 6:45, 10:15 Fri, Mon-Wed 9:30 Sat 10:15 Sun 9:50 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (PG) Thu 3:15 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (PG) Thu 9:30 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (PG) Thu 7:15 The LEGO Movie 3D (G) Thu 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:10 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 Sat 12:30, 3:00, 5:45, 8:15, 10:45 Sun 12:30, 2:50, 5:30, 8:00 The LEGO Movie (G) Thu 1:30, 4:05, 6:40, 9:10 Fri, MonTue 1:40, 4:10, 7:15, 9:55 Sat 11:05, 1:40, 4:10, 7:15, 9:55 Sun 1:40, 4:10, 6:50, 9:35 Wed 1:15, 4:05, 6:35, 9:10 The Metropolitan Opera: Prince Igor Live Sat 12:00 Non-Stop (PG) Thu 10:00 Fri 1:15, 2:15, 3:55, 4:55, 6:45, 7:50, 9:40, 10:35 Sat 12:45, 1:15, 3:30, 3:55, 5:35, 6:45, 8:10, 9:40, 10:40 Sun 1:15, 2:20, 3:55, 5:00, 6:45, 7:40, 9:40, 10:15 Mon-Tue 1:15, 1:50, 3:55, 4:35, 6:45, 7:20, 9:40, 10:10 Wed 1:50, 3:55, 4:35, 6:45, 7:20, 9:40, 10:10 The Nut Job (PG) Thu 2:15, 4:30 Pompeii 3D (PG) Thu 2:40, 5:15, 7:55, 10:30 Fri 2:50, 5:25, 8:05, 10:45 Sat 12:15, 2:50, 5:25, 8:05, 10:45 Sun 2:00, 4:50, 7:30, 10:15 Mon-Tue 1:20, 3:50, 6:40, 9:25 Wed 1:40, 4:25, 7:15, 9:50 RoboCop (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 10:00 Fri, Mon-Tue 1:30, 4:15, 7:05, 10:05 Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:15, 7:10, 10:05 Wed 1:00, 4:15, 7:10, 10:05 RoboCop: The IMAX Experience (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Stalingrad (14A) Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 That Awkward Moment (14A) Thu 2:45, 5:20, 7:50, 10:25 Fri 2:45, 5:20, 8:00, 10:30 Sat 12:20, 2:55, 5:20, 7:55,

10:30 Sun 1:55, 4:25, 7:20, 9:55 Mon-Tue 2:10, 4:30, 6:50, 9:35 Wed 1:35, 4:10, 6:50, 9:35 Vampire Academy (PG) Thu-Fri, Sun-Wed 1:05, 3:45, 6:30, 9:20 Sat 6:30, 9:20

Courtney Park 16 (CE)

110 Courtney Park E at Hurontario, 416-335-5323 About Last Night (14A) Thu 3:00, 5:25, 7:50, 10:15 FriSat 1:50, 4:15, 6:40, 9:20 Sun-Wed 1:50, 4:15, 6:40, 9:05 American Hustle (14A) Thu 8:55 Endless Love (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:20, 7:10, 9:40 Fri 2:15, 5:00, 7:30, 10:20 Sat 2:25, 5:00, 7:30, 10:20 Sun 2:25, 5:00, 7:30, 10:05 Mon-Wed 2:15, 5:00, 7:30, 10:05 Frozen (G) Thu 1:55, 4:25 Hasee Toh Phasee (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:05, 10:10 Ishq Brandy Thu 3:25, 6:40, 9:50 Fri-Sat 1:35, 4:25, 7:20, 10:25 Sun-Wed 1:35, 4:25, 7:20, 10:10 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (PG) Thu 6:55, 9:25 Fri 9:15 Sat 11:55, 9:15 Sun 11:55, 9:00 Mon-Wed 9:00 The LEGO Movie 3D (G) Thu 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:45 Fri 2:30, 5:10, 7:35, 10:15 Sat 12:05, 2:30, 5:10, 7:35, 10:15 Sun 12:05, 2:30, 5:10, 7:35, 10:00 Mon-Wed 2:30, 5:10, 7:35, 10:00 The LEGO Movie (G) Thu 1:35, 4:05, 6:30 Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:10, 6:35 The Monuments Men (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:25, 10:05 Fri 1:30, 4:15, 7:10, 10:10 Sat 12:30, 4:15, 7:10, 10:10 Sun 12:30, 4:15, 7:10, 9:55 Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:15, 7:10, 9:55 National Theatre – War Horse Thu 7:00 Non-Stop (PG) Thu 9:20 Fri 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:30 Sat 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:30 Sun 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Mon-Wed 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Pompeii 3D (PG) Thu 2:40, 5:10, 7:55, 10:25 Fri-Sat 1:10, 4:00, 7:00, 9:45 Sun-Wed 1:10, 4:00, 7:00, 9:30 Ride Along (14A) Thu 2:05, 4:35, 7:30, 9:55 Fri-Sat 1:25, 3:50, 6:45, 9:25 Sun-Wed 1:25, 3:50, 6:45, 9:10 RoboCop (PG) Thu 1:10, 3:55, 10:15 Fri-Sat, Tue 2:05, 4:55, 7:40, 10:40 Sun-Mon 2:05, 4:55, 7:40, 10:25 Wed 4:55, 7:40, 10:25 RoboCop: The IMAX Experience (PG) Thu 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30 Shaadi Ke Side Effects Fri 1:00, 4:05, 7:15, 10:35 Sat 12:55, 4:05, 7:15, 10:35 Sun 12:55, 4:05, 7:15, 10:20 MonWed 1:00, 4:05, 7:15, 10:20 Son of God (PG) Fri-Sat 1:15, 4:20, 7:25, 10:45 Sun-Tue 1:15, 4:20, 7:25, 10:30 Wed 4:20, 7:25, 10:30 Stalingrad (14A) Fri-Sat 1:00, 3:55, 6:50, 10:00 SunWed 1:00, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 That Awkward Moment (14A) Thu 1:25, 3:50, 7:00 Fri 2:20, 4:45, 7:05, 9:40 Sat 12:00, 2:20, 4:45, 7:05, 9:40 Sun 12:00, 2:20, 4:45, 7:05, 9:25 Mon-Wed 2:20, 4:45, 7:05, 9:25 3 Days to Kill (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Fri 1:05, 3:45, 6:55, 9:50 Sat 12:40, 3:45, 6:55, 9:50 Sun 12:40, 3:45, 6:55, 9:35 Mon-Wed 1:05, 3:45, 6:55, 9:35 Winter’s Tale (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:45, 7:35, 10:20 The Wolf of Wall Street (18A) Thu 2:10, 5:50, 9:35 Fri-Sat 2:10, 6:05, 10:05 Sun-Wed 2:10, 6:05, 9:50

SilverCity Mississauga (CE) Hwy 5, east of Hwy 403, 905-569-3373

About Last Night (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:30, 7:55 Fri 5:25, 8:00, 10:25 Sat 2:35, 5:15, 8:00, 10:25 Sun 2:40, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05 August: Osage County (14A) Thu 4:50, 7:35 Fri 4:10, 7:00, 9:45 Sat 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:45 Sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:10, 9:55 Mon-Wed 4:55, 7:30 Dallas Buyers Club (18A) Thu 4:35, 7:15 Fri 3:45, 6:40, 9:25 Sat 1:10, 3:50, 6:40, 9:35 Sun 1:10, 3:55, 6:40, 9:30 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:20 Labor Day (PG) Thu 4:55, 7:35 Fri 4:40, 7:20, 10:15 Sat 2:05, 4:35, 7:20, 10:00 Sun 2:05, 4:35, 7:05, 9:45 MonWed 5:15, 7:50 The Monuments Men (PG) Thu 4:45, 7:10, 7:40 Fri 4:20, 7:10, 10:05 Sat 1:20, 4:25, 7:10, 10:05 Sun 1:30, 4:10, 7:00, 9:55 Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:35 The Nut Job (PG) Fri, Mon-Wed 5:00 Sat 2:15, 4:40 Sun 2:15, 4:25 Ride Along (14A) Thu 4:40, 7:20 Fri 5:15, 7:45, 10:10 Sat 2:30, 5:00, 7:45, 10:10 Sun 2:30, 4:50, 7:20, 10:00 MonWed 5:20, 7:45 3 Days to Kill (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:15, 8:00 Fri 4:45, 7:30, 10:20 Sat 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:20 Sun 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 12 Years a Slave (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:30 Fri 4:00, 6:55, 9:55 Sat 1:00, 4:00, 6:55, 9:55 Sun 1:00, 4:00, 6:55, 9:50 MonWed 4:30, 7:25 Walking With Dinosaurs (PG) Thu 4:55 The Wind Rises (PG) Fri 4:30, 7:35, 10:30 Sat 1:40, 4:30, 7:35, 10:30 Sun 1:20, 4:15, 7:15, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:40 Winter’s Tale (PG) Thu 5:05, 7:50 Fri 7:15, 10:00 Sat 7:00, 9:50 Sun 6:45, 9:35 Mon-Wed 7:10

North Colossus (CE) Hwy 400 & 7, 905-851-1001

About Last Night (14A) Thu 4:20, 7:10, 9:35 Fri 12:45, 3:10, 5:35, 8:00, 10:25 Sat 11:05, 12:45, 3:10, 5:35, 8:00, 10:25 Sun 12:45, 3:10, 5:35, 7:55, 10:25 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:30, 10:15 American Hustle (14A) Thu 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 Fri, Sun 12:35, 3:35, 6:35, 9:35 Sat 3:05, 6:35, 9:35 Mon-Wed 3:35, 6:35, 9:35 Endless Love (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 Fri-Sun 2:00, 4:55, 7:30, 9:55 Mon-Wed 4:20, 6:50, 9:40 Frozen (G) Fri-Sat 12:30 Sun 1:25 Frozen 3D (G) Thu 3:55, 6:35 Fri-Sat 3:00, 5:40, 8:10 SunWed 4:15, 6:45 Gnomeo and Juliet (G) Sat 11:00 Gravity 3D (PG) Thu 5:35, 7:50, 10:05 Fri, Sun 1:10, 5:55, 8:15, 10:30 Sat 12:35, 6:05, 8:15, 10:30 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:35, 9:55 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (PG) Thu 3:30, 10:00 FriSun 9:40 Mon-Wed 8:50 The LEGO Movie 3D (G) Thu 3:35, 6:10, 8:40 Fri, Sun 12:15, 2:40, 3:30, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 Sat 12:15, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:05, 9:30

The LEGO Movie (G) Thu 4:10, 6:45, 9:10 Fri 1:05, 4:10, 6:00, 7:05, 9:30 Sat 11:10, 11:40, 1:05, 4:10, 6:00, 7:05, 9:30 Sun 1:05, 4:10, 7:05, 9:30 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:15, 8:40 Lone Survivor (14A) Thu 3:30, 6:30 Fri-Sat 10:35 Sun 9:25 Mon-Wed 9:20 The Metropolitan Opera: Prince Igor Live Sat 12:00 The Monuments Men (PG) Thu 3:40, 6:25, 9:05 Non-Stop (PG) Thu 10:00 Fri-Sat 12:20, 1:55, 2:55, 4:30, 5:30, 7:15, 8:05, 9:50, 10:45 Sun 12:20, 1:55, 2:55, 4:30, 5:30, 7:15, 8:00, 9:50, 10:30 Mon-Tue 4:10, 5:10, 6:55, 7:40, 9:25, 10:10 Wed 4:40, 5:10, 7:10, 7:40, 9:40, 10:10 The Nut Job 3D (PG) Thu 3:40, 6:00 Fri-Sun 2:50, 5:00, 7:20 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:10 The Nut Job (PG) Fri, Sun 12:40 Sat 11:25, 12:40 Pompeii 3D (PG) Thu 4:15, 7:05, 8:30, 9:55 Fri, Sun 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:50, 10:15 Sat 12:00, 2:45, 5:15, 7:50, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:15, 9:50 Ride Along (14A) Thu 4:25, 7:00, 9:30 Fri-Sat 1:20, 3:40, 8:25, 10:45 Sun 1:20, 3:45, 6:25, 9:00 Mon-Wed 3:45, 6:25, 9:00 RoboCop (PG) Thu 4:35, 7:25, 10:15 Fri-Sat 1:45, 4:50, 7:45, 10:40 Sun 1:15, 4:20, 7:00, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:35, 7:20, 10:05 RoboCop: The IMAX Experience (PG) Thu 4:05, 7:00, 9:40 Son of God (PG) Fri 12:50, 4:00, 10:20 Sat-Sun 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20 Mon, Wed 4:00, 7:10, 10:15 Tue 4:00, 10:15 Stalingrad (14A) 4:05, 7:00, 10:00 Fri-Sun 1:00 mat That Awkward Moment (14A) Thu 3:45, 6:55, 9:25 Fri-Sun 1:30, 3:55, 6:40, 9:15 Mon-Wed 3:55, 6:40, 9:15 3 Days to Kill (PG) Thu 4:45, 7:30, 10:10 Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:40, 7:25, 10:05 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:25, 10:05 Vampire Academy (PG) Thu 9:00 The Wind Rises (PG) 3:50, 6:50, 9:45 Fri-Sun 12:55 mat Winter’s Tale (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:20, 10:15 The Wolf of Wall Street (18A) Thu 5:00, 8:45 Fri-Sun 12:25, 4:25, 8:30 Mon-Wed 4:25, 8:30

Interchange 30 (AMC)

30 Interchange Way, Hwy 400 & Hwy 7, 416-335-5323 August: Osage County (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:20 Fri 4:50, 7:20, 9:55 Sat 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:55 Sun 2:20, 4:50, 7:20 Blue Jasmine (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:05, 7:45 Fri 5:05, 7:15, 9:30 Sat 12:35, 2:50, 5:05, 7:15, 9:30 Sun 2:50, 5:05, 7:45 Captain Phillips (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:15 Fri 7:15, 10:00 Sat 1:10, 4:00, 7:15, 10:00 Sun 4:00, 7:15 47 Ronin (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:35, 7:10 Fri 4:35, 7:10, 9:35 Sat 2:00, 4:35, 7:10, 9:35 Sun 2:20, 5:10, 7:35 Grudge Match (14A) Thu 5:10, 7:30 Her (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:35, 7:15 Fri 4:45, 7:20, 10:05 Sat 2:05, 4:45, 7:20, 10:05 Sun 2:05, 4:45, 7:20 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 3D (PG) Thu 6:30 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (PG) 6:45 Fri 9:40 Sat 12:30, 3:30 mat, 9:40 Sun 3:30 mat The Invisible Woman (PG) 4:55, 7:25 Fri 9:55 Sat 12:00, 2:25 mat, 9:55 Sun 2:25 mat Last Vegas (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:55, 7:40 Fri 4:30, 7:35, 9:40 Sat 12:10, 2:40, 5:05, 7:35, 9:40 Sun 2:25, 4:55, 7:35 The Monuments Men (PG) Fri 4:45, 7:30, 10:00 Sat 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Sun 2:15, 4:45, 7:30 MonWed 4:45, 7:30 Philomena (PG) 5:00, 7:25 Fri 9:45 Sat 12:20, 2:55 mat, 9:45 Sun 2:55 mat Shaadi Ke Side Effects Fri 6:00, 9:15 Sat 2:30, 6:00, 9:15 Sun 3:00, 6:30 Mon-Wed 6:30 12 Years a Slave (14A) 7:00 Fri 9:50 Sat 1:00 mat, 4:10, 9:50 Sun 4:10 Winter’s Tale (PG) Fri 4:40, 7:05, 9:45 Sat 2:10, 4:40, 7:05, 9:45 Sun 2:30, 5:15, 7:40 Mon-Wed 5:05, 7:30

Rainbow Promenade (I)

Promenade Mall, Hwy 7 & Bathurst, 416-494-9371 Endless Love (PG) Thu 1:15, 3:45, 7:05, 9:45 The LEGO Movie (G) 1:20, 3:55, 7:00, 9:20 The Monuments Men (PG) 1:10, 3:50, 6:45, 9:30 Non-Stop (PG) Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:05, 9:40 Philomena (PG) Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 1:15, 6:55 Mon 6:55 Pompeii (PG) 1:25, 4:10, 6:55, 9:25 RoboCop (PG) 1:05, 4:05, 6:50, 9:35 12 Years a Slave (14A) Fri-Wed 3:45, 9:15 Winter’s Tale (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:50, 6:50, 9:40

West Grande - Steeles (CE) Hwy 410 & Steeles, 905-455-1590

American Hustle (14A) Thu 7:00, 9:50 Fri, Mon, Wed 7:00, 10:00 Sat-Sun 12:15, 3:35, 6:45, 10:00 Tue 4:05, 6:45, 10:00 Endless Love (PG) Thu 7:15, 9:45 Fri-Wed 9:40 I, Frankenstein (PG) Thu 9:40 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (PG) Thu 7:10 9:55 Fri-Wed 7:20, 9:55 Sat-Sun 1:40 mat, 4:20 Tue 4:30 The LEGO Movie 3D (G) Thu 7:35 10:10 Fri-Wed 7:40, 10:10 Sat-Sun 2:30 mat, 5:05 Tue 5:05 The LEGO Movie (G) Sat-Sun 12:00 The Monuments Men (PG) Thu 7:05, 10:00 Fri, Mon, Wed 7:05, 9:55 Sat-Sun 1:00, 3:45, 6:55, 9:45 Tue 4:10, 7:15, 10:10 Non-Stop (PG) 7:30, 10:15 Sat-Sun 2:20 mat, 4:55 Tue 4:55 The Nut Job 3D (PG) 7:25 Sat-Sun 3:00 mat, 5:15 Tue 5:15 The Nut Job (PG) Sat-Sun 12:30 RoboCop (PG) Thu 7:10 10:10 Fri-Wed 7:10, 10:05 Sat-Sun 1:30 mat, 4:20 Tue 4:20 Son of God (PG) 7:05, 10:15 Sat-Sun 12:40, 3:55 mat Tue 4:00 mat Starting Over Again Thu 7:15, 10:15 Fri, Mon, Wed 7:00, 10:00 Sat-Sun 12:50, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Tue 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 That Awkward Moment (14A) Thu 7:30, 10:05 Fri, Mon, Wed 7:15, 10:05 Sat-Sun 1:15, 4:30, 7:15, 9:50 Tue 4:15, 7:15, 9:50 Winter’s Tale (PG) Thu 7:20, 10:15 3

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Festivals Human Rights watch Film Festival

tiff bell lightbox, reitman square, 350 king w. ff.hrw.org/toronto

thu 27-mar 6 – Festival of films revolving

around human rights issues. $12, stu $5, opening night $100 (includes reception). thu 27 – Opening night: The Square (2013) D: Jehane Noujaim. Reception 6 pm, screening 8 pm. fri 28 – In The Shadow Of The Sun (2013) D: Harry Freeland. 6:30 pm. sat 1 – Bethlehem (2013) D: Yuval Adler.

7:15 pm. sun 2 – Saving Face (2012) D: Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. 3:30 pm. mon 3 – The Missing Picture (2013) D: Rithy Panh. 6:30 pm. tue 4 – Valentine Road (2013) D: Marta Cunningham. 6:30 pm. wed 5 – Big Men (2013) D: Rachel Boynton.

6:30 pm.

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toronto irish Film Festival

tiff bell lightbox, reitman square, 350 king w. ­torontoirishfilmfest.com

repertory schedules

Get lucky at the Irish Film Fest TORONTO IRISH FILM FESTIVAL

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Rating: NNNN Now in its fourth year, the Toronto Irish Film Festival is getting pretty good at cramming a great deal of ­cultural programming into a modest time frame. This year packs shorts, documentaries, features and a couple of TV episodes into three eve­nings at the Lightbox.

The festival opens with The Irish Pub (Friday, 7 pm), documentarian Alex Fegan’s oral history of the eponymous institution. Fegan bounced all over Ireland to interview publicans and patrons at historic locals, shaping the footage into a charming testimonial to tradition, community, drinking and traditional communal drinking.

Fegan does a Q&A after the screening, and your ticket stub gets you into the opening-night party that follows at Dora Keogh on the Danforth.

Saturday offers a program of shorts at 5 pm, the energetic TV documentary When Ali Came To Ireland – about a 1972 fight

between the champ and Alvin “Blue” Lewis – at 7 pm, and Paul Kennedy’s contemporary drama Made In Belfast at 9 pm.

Sunday at 5 pm, the festival premieres the first two episodes of the second season of Moone Boy, a charming sitcom featuring Chris O’Dowd of Bridesmaids and The Sapphires as the imaginary friend of a 12-year-old (David Rawle) in a small town circa 1989. And the whole thing wraps up at 7 pm with Life’s A

Breeze, a comedy from Kisses director Lance Daly about a Dublin family scrambling to find a lost mattress stuffed with cash.

At TIFF Bell Lightbox. See listings, NORMAN WILNER this page.

Chris O’Dowd (left) and David Rawle star in epi­sodes of the charming sitcom Moone Boy at the Toronto Irish Film Festival.

opening night $20.

D: Alex Fegan. 7 pm. Q&A w/ director to ­follow. sat 1 – Irish Shorts Program including The End Of The Counter D: Laura McGann, Breakfast Wine D: Ian Fitzgibbon, and others. 5 pm. When Ali Came To Ireland (2012) D: Ross Whitaker and Aideen O’Sullivan. 7 pm. Made In Belfast (2013) D: Paul Kennedy. 9 pm. sun 2 – Moone Boy (2012) D: Chris O’Dowd. 5 pm. Life’s A Breeze (2013) D: Lance Daly. 7 pm.

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Cinemas big picture cinema gerrard 1035 gerrard e. bigpicturecinema.com

sat 1 – Cutie And The Boxer. 1:30 pm.

Twenty Feet From Stardom (2013) D: ñ Morgan Neville. 4 pm. The Act Of Killing

(2012) D: Joshua Oppenheimer, Anonymous and Christine Cynn. 6:30 pm. Dirty Wars.

9:15 pm. sun 2 – Twenty Feet From Stardom. 1 pm.

The Square (2013) D: Jehane Noujaim. 3:30 pm. Academy Awards broadcast. 7 pm. Free.

GRAHAM SPRY THEATRE

CBC Museum, CBC Broadcast Centre, 250 Front W, 416-205-5574. cbc.ca

thu 27-wed 5 – Continuous screenings ­Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm. Free.

Thu 27-fri 28 AND mon 3-wed 5 – Winter ­preview.

770 Don Mills. 416-696-3127. ontariosciencecentre.ca

thu 27-fri 28 – Great White

Shark. 11 am and 2 pm.

Flight Of The Butterflies. Noon. The Human Body. 1 pm.

Sat 1-sun 2 – Great White Shark. 11 am, 1 & 3 pm. Under The Sea. Noon. Flight Of The Butterflies. 2 & 4 pm. mon 3-wed 5 – Great White Shark. 11 am & 2 pm. Flight Of The Butterflies. Noon. The Human Body. 1 pm.

reg hartt’s ­cineforum 463 Bathurst. 416-603-6643.

thu 27 – Paths Of Glory (1957) D: Stanley

D: Cheryl Dunn. 9 pm.

mon 3 – The Act Of Killing. 3:30 pm.

Wed 5 – Everybody Street. 3:30 pm.

PEN C ­ anada Picks: Camilla Gibb hosts a ñ Hot Docs Doc Soup presents La Maison screening of The Unknown Famine (1973) D: ñ De La Radio (2013) D: Nicolas Philibert. 6:30 Ian Stuttard, and Ye Wonz Maibel: Deluge

(1996) D: Salem Mekuria,followed by discussion. $15.

Tue 4 – Cinema Politica: Mars At Sunrise (2014) D: Jessica Habie. 6:30 pm. Pwyc, $5$10 sugg donation. Everybody Street (2013)

The TIFF Bell Lightbox’s Paul Verhoeven slate features Total Recall, with Arnold Schwarzenegger, on February 28.

Thu 27-sat 1– Check website for schedule.

Sun 2 – Oscar party. Doors at 6, pre-show 7,

show 8 pm.

mon 3-wed 5 – Check website for schedule.

BLOOR hot docs Cinema

506 Bloor W. 416-637-3123. bloorcinema.com

Thu 27 – Money For Nothing: Inside The Federal Reserve (2013) D: Jim Bruce. 2:30 pm.

Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer (2013) D: Mike Lerner and Maxim Pozdorovkin. 6:30 pm. I Am Divine (2013) D: Jeffrey Schwarz. 8:45 pm. fri 28 – When Jews Were Funny (2013) D: Alan Zweig. 1:45 pm. Gore Vidal: The United States Of Amnesia (2013) D: Nicholas D Wrathall. 4 pm. Cutie And The Boxer (2013) D: Zachary Heinzerling. 6:30 pm. Dirty Wars (2013) D: Rick Rowley. 8:45 pm. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) D: Jim Sharman. 11:30 pm.

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ontario science centre

fri 28-sun 2 – Festival of Irish film. $15, fri 28 – Opening night: The Irish Pub (2013)

ne. 7 pm. Her (2013) D: Spike Jonze. 9:15 pm.

Fri 28 – Philomena (2013) D: Stephen Frears. 7 pm. 12 Years A Slave (2013) D: Steve McQueen. 9:15 pm. sat 1 – The Nut Job 3D (2014) D: Peter Lepeniotis. 2 pm. 12 Years A Slave. 4 & 9:15 pm.

Philomena. 7 pm. sun 2 – The Nut Job 3D. 2 pm. 12 Years A Slave. 4 pm. Academy Awards. 7 pm. Free.

Mon 3 – 12 Years A Slave. 6:45 pm. Philomena. 9:15 pm. tue 4 – Philomena. 7 pm. 12 Years A Slave.

9:15 pm.

Wed 5 – 12 Years A Slave. 6:45 pm. Philomena. 9:15 pm.

= Critics’ Pick nnnnn = Top ten of the year nnNn = Honourable mention nnn = Entertaining nn = Mediocre n = Bomb

& 9:15 pm. $15. ­hotdocs.ca.

Camera Bar

1028 Queen W. 416-530-0011. camerabar.ca

sat 1 – A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) D: Elia Kazan. 3 pm.

cinematheque tiff bell ­lightbox

reitman square, 350 king w.

416-599-8433, tiff.net

thu 27-mar 6 – Human Rights Watch Film Festival. See listings, this page. fri 28-sun 2 – Toronto Irish Film Festival. See listings, this page. fri 28 – Total Recall (1990) D: Paul Verhoeven. 9 pm. sat 1 – Godard’s Hollywood Classics: Shock Corridor (1963) D: Samuel Fuller.

1 pm. ­Stephen King: Misery (1990) D: Rob Reiner. 10 pm. sun 2 – Reel Talk: Sneak Preview. 10 am. Godard’s Hollywood Classics: Bigger Than Life (1956) D: Nicholas Ray. 1 pm. Saving Face (2012) D: Danie Junge and Sharmeen ObaidChinoy. 3:30 pm. mon 3 – Books On Film. 7 pm. tue 4-wed 5 – Check website for schedule.

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Fox Theatre

2236 Queen E. 416-691-7330. foxtheatre.ca

Thu 27 – Nebraska (2013) D: Alexander Pay-

Kubrick. 2 pm. The General Line (1929) D: Sergei Eisenstein. 5 pm. Barton Fink (1991) D: Joel and Ethan Coen. 7 pm. fri 28 – The Fall Of The House Of Usher (1928) D: James Watson. 2 pm. The House Of Usher (1960) D: Roger Corman. 2:30 pm.

Blade­runner (1982) D: Ridley Scott. 4 pm. sat 1 – The Sex & Violence Cartoon Festival.

9 pm. sun 2 – La Boheme (1926) D: King Vidor. 2 pm. The Darkside Of Oz: The Wizard Of Oz (1939) D: Victor Fleming w/ soundtrack of Pink Floyd’s Darkside Of The Moon. 7 pm.

Kid Dracula: Nosferatu (1922) D: FW Murnau w/ soundtrack of Radiohead’s Kid A and OK Computer. 9 pm. mon 3 – Where The North Begins (1923) D: Chester M Franklin. 7 pm. The Threepenny Opera (1931) D: GW Pabst. 8:30 pm. tue 4 – Alfred Hitchcock X 2: Blackmail (1929). 7 pm. Dial M For Murder 3D (1954).

8:30 pm. wed 5 – A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) D: Elia Kazan. 7 pm.

revue cinema

400 Roncesvalles. 416-531-9959. revuecinema.ca

Thu 27 – Oscar Shorts: Live Action. 7 pm.

­ efocus: Public Hearing (2012) D: James N R Kienitz Wilkins. 9:15 pm. Pwyc.

Fri 28 – American Hustle (2013) D: David O Russell. 7 pm. Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) D: Ethan and Joel Coen. 9:30 pm. sat 1 – The Hobbit: Desolation Of Smaug 3D (2013) D: Peter Jackson. 1 pm. American Hustle. 4 & 7 pm. Inside Llewyn Davis. 9:30 pm. sun 2 – The Hobbit: Desolation Of Smaug 3D. 1 pm. American Hustle. 4 pm. Academy Awards broadcast. 7 pm. Free. mon 3-tue 4– American Hustle. 6:45 pm.

Her. 9:20 pm.

Wed 5 – Inside Llewyn Davis. 7 pm.

American Hustle. 9:15 pm.

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the royal 608 College. 416-466-4400. theroyal.to

Thu 27 – Fly Colt Fly (2014) D: Andrew and

Adam Gray. 7 pm. Cheap Thrills (2013) D: EL Katz. 9 pm. fri 28 – Lost Heroes (2014) D: Will Pascoe. 7 pm. Gravity (2013) D: Alfonso Cuarón. 9 pm.

Late Night Fridays: Fateful Findings (2013) D: Neil Breen. 11:30 pm. sat 1 – The Neverending Story (1984) D: Wolfgang Petersen. 2 pm. Lost Heroes. 4 pm. Skating To New York (2013) D: Charles Minsky. 7 pm. Gravity. 9 pm. sun 2 – Ernest & Celestine (2012) D: Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar and Benjamin Renner. 2 pm. The Last Pogo Jumps Again (2013) D: Colin Brunton and Kire Paputts. 4 pm. Nebraska (2013) D: Alexander Payne. 7 pm. Gravity. 9:15 pm.

Mon 3 – Nebraska. 7 pm. Gravity. 9:15 pm.

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WEd 5 – The Festival Of New Spanish Cinema presents a screening as part of a fiveweek series: The Wishful Thinkers (2013) D: Jonas Trueba. 6:45 pm. $10, stu/srs $8. pragda.com.

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B Commffest Global Community Film Festival and the PPRA present a screening of Twelve Disciples Of Nelson Mandela (2005) D: Thomas Allen Harris, and live video Skype Q&A with Harris and others. 7 pm. Pwyc.

Performing Arts Lodge, 110 the Espslanade. ­commffest.com. fri 28 – Pleasure Dome presents The Blazeing Familiar: Recent Film And Video From Chicago including Une Terre Familière (2013) D: Marianna Milhorat, Everywhere Was The Same (2007) D: Basma AlSharif, and others. 7:30 pm. $8. CineCycle, 129 Spadina.

416-656-5577, pdome.org. sat 1 – Green 13 presents the CBC Fifth Estate documentary Silence Of The Labs with discussion to follow with Katie Gibbs from Evidence for Democracy, as part of Freedom To Read Week. 1 to 3 pm. Jane/Dundas Library, 620 Jane. ­green13toronto.org. sun 2 – Inertia Entertainment presents As The Palaces Burn, a documentary about rock band Lamb of God. 7:30 pm, all ages. $12.

Opera House,735 Queen E. ­ticketfly.com.

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U of T Centre for the Study of Korea, Centre for Global Social Policy, Dept of Sociology and the Women and Gender Studies Institute present Becoming Ourselves: How Immigrant Women Transformed Their World.

Post-film discussion with Young Shin of Asian Immigrant Women Advocates. 7 pm.

Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex. ­asian.institute@ utoronto.ca. tue 4 – JustiDate Events presents a screening for socially conscious singles of Made In The USA D: Bill Gillespie, about Tim ­Hudak’s plan to bring American-style labour laws to Ontario. Free (RSVP justidateevents@gmail. com). 6:15 pm. ING Direct Cafe, 221 Yonge. justidate.wordpress.com.

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Conan Doyle’s stories to contemporary London continues to feel fresh. The mysteries – a locked-room stabbing, a man’s disappearance from a moving subway car, an untouchable blackmailer – are baffling. The visual style, notably the incursions into Sherlock’s memory palace, has new flourishes. The chemistry between Benedict Cumberbatch as Holmes and Martin Freeman as Watson is as appealing as ever.

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Still going strong 127 years after their first appearance, Holmes and Watson are among pop culture’s most enduring characters.

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Creators Gatiss and Steven Moffat explain their choices in an engaging extras package that also covers the mechanics of Sherlock’s escape from certain death, the show’s enormous fan base and a detailed look at this season’s most spectacular and surprising scene.

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ter) goes looking for her college buddy, who disappeared after taking an unknown drug alleged to have been used in the CIA’s MKUltra program. The trail leads to counterculture writer Tom (Ted Levine), who suggests they try the drug themselves. Bad things happen, and the only clues lie in garbled shortwave radio messages.

The film’s mix of conspiracy and the paranormal, coupled with its flashlight-illuminated visual style, give it some of the flavour of The X Files, but Anne and Tom are more bumbling amateurs than seasoned pros. Winter does solid work as levelheaded but naive Anne and makes a fine foil for Levine, who gives an amusing impression of Hunter S. Thompson in his mumbling, cranky, seen-it-all mode.

In the brief extras, we learn that the MKUltra program was real. From 1953 to 1973, the agency ran illegal mind manipulation experiments using LSD and other abusive techniques on unknowing Americans and Canadians. Look it up. The details are horrifying.

Mentioned in the dialogue but not the extras is an H.P. Lovecraft story. It provides the movie’s only explanation for the uncanny goings-on. The story, From Beyond, was filmed in 1996 and would double-bill well with Banshee Chapter.

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Angry vibe’s a turn-off I’m 21 and still a virgin. I also have epression. I’m not bad-looking. I work d out and generally keep people laughing. I got a lot of female attention in school, but I was hopeless and still am.

Most of my friends have girlfriends, so I don’t understand why I haven’t had a girlfriend since I was 10. I feel myself becoming increasingly violent, to the extent that I have tried to provoke a fight that wasn’t necessary and I try to intimidate other guys when I’m out.

I’ve been unemployed for three years since dropping out of college, and I haven’t really met a girl I was interested in since school. I’ve never made the first move with girls. I never feel compelled to, regardless of how attractive I find them. I do get a lot of eye contact from girls, and I’ve been approached by girls, but we barely ever get past exchanging names before they wander off or their friends pull them away.

Writing this out has made me realize I should start approaching girls, but I don’t think it’s just that. Surely I should’ve met someone by now? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Hopeless Over Painful Experience Women typically expect the guy to do the approaching/asking out/hitting on, HOPE, so that’s definitely something you’ll have to work on. And if a woman is making eye contact with you in a space where it’s generally understood that people are open to meeting new people, flirting with them, and potentially fucking them (house parties, bars, clubs, CPAC), eye contact is an invitation to introduce yourself.

But if women are approaching you and then “wandering off” after conversing with you for a moment or two – or being rescued by their friends – then you’re doing something wrong. I’m guessing you came across as angry and potentially violent because you are angry and potentially violent, and you’ve made a self-defeating decision to cultivate an intimidating vibe. That shit repels people, HOPE, and you’re never going to get anywhere with women – or employers, for that matter – if you give yourself over to anger, violence and menace. Bearing this in mind might take the edge off your anger: fully 15 per cent of 21-year-old men are virgins, HOPE, while only 5 per cent of 25-yearold men are virgins. So you have a better than 66 per cent chance of losing your virginity in the next few years if you can stop (1) wallow­ing in self-pity and (2) giving yourself over to anger.

My advice: Get your ass to a doctor and

a ­therapist. Medication can help with the depression, and a good therapist can help you overcome your anger, selfpity and violent fantasies. Getting help, HOPE, is the best way to increase your odds of getting laid and/or getting a girlfriend.

Bi girl’s missing women I’m a 25-year-old bi girl in the South est, and I’ve been with the same hetw ero guy for almost three years. I miss being with women. We made an attempt at being mono­gamish, but feelings were hurt and we went back to monogamy. He still parties like he’s in college and is a bit dependent on me – socially – whereas I crave independence and, quite frankly, pussy. I’ve started to withdraw and resent him, not just for the lack of sexual freedom but also because he drinks too much and acts like a slob. I want to move out when our lease ends. I’m willing to work on our issues, but I fear that when I have this conversation, it will break his heart and he will break up with me as a defensive approach, rather than seeing the breathing room as a way to work on our relationship. How can I express my need for other sexual partners and more space without sounding like I’m calling off the relationship? Is it even worth attempting dating post-living together?

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club.” I didn’t get outraged, and this outraged her. A four-hour discussion followed during which I held my “good for them” ground, and at the end of it I no longer had yogurt, tampons and birth control pills at my place – and I no longer had a girlfriend. All I did was not get outraged and it cost me a girlfriend. Does this seem a little extreme? Am I crazy?

Her Ex Looks Perplexed No, HELP, you’re not crazy. You’re lucky.

Send that friend-of-a-friend a thank-you note. Because if he weren’t building a website for a swingers club, HELP, you might still have tampons, yogurt and scented soaps in your apartment – along with the crazy, controlling, insecure nutjob who came with ’em.

I’m looking for kinks During my last relationship, I finally got to explore the kinkier side of my libido. My partner and I went to pro doms and sex clubs, and I got to watch my buddy fuck her. While the relationship was ill-fated, sex was not the problem. One year and some heartache later, I’m ready to date. But I don’t want a vanilla sexual relationship again. My problem is, I don’t know how to integrate this into my dating life. People ask to set me up, and I keep turning them down cuz I feel like I don’t want to get involved with someone unless I know we’re sexually compatible. And yet, I feel some internal angst about

Here’s what you should say to your boyfriend: “You’ve got some growing up to do, and I’ve got some eating pussy to do. I don’t want to end our relationship, but I’m moving out when our lease is up.” If your boyfriend breaks up with you, IQAH, it’s probably for the best – and it may not be forever. If he does dump you for purely defensive reasons, then he didn’t really want to dump you at all, right? So once the shock wears off and his anger subsides, your boyfriend may decide that having you in his life is more important than having you all to himself.

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Sexual compatibility is hugely important, NAIVE, and prioritizing it doesn’t make you a bad person. But the choice you’ve laid out for yourself – dating only kinksters you meet on Fetlife or nice girls your friends set you up with – is a false one. Date both. You’ll have to establish emotional compatibility with a woman you meet via Fetlife, or sexual compatibility with a woman you meet via real life. Fetlife or real life, there’s some work to do at the start of any new relationship.

And don’t assume that a woman you meet through friends is gonna be vanilla. She met you through friends, and you’re not vanilla, right? It’s a bad idea to give someone a laundry list of your kinks on the first date, NAIVE, as no one – kinky or vanilla – finds that kind of emotional cluelessness attractive. Just say this when the conversation turns to sex: “I’m pretty sexually adventurous.”

There’s a good chance you’ll get a “me, too” in response.

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