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1. ROB FORD LOSES STAFFER Jonathan Goldsbie gets the scoop on the last pre-crack-scandal aide to leave the mayor’s office. 2. Ford Nation YouTube woes Rob and Doug’s online show has only a fraction of the audience of their TV and radio gigs. 3. Cop kerfuffle Police Services Board vice-chair accuses fellow members of trying to silence him. 4. Kyary Pamyu Pamyu Kevin Ritchie gives you the goods on the J-pop sensation’s Sound Academy show. 5. Psychic Sun writers Sycophant columnist Joe Warmington reviews mayor’s Kimmel interview before it occurs.

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Lorde lights up the Sound Academy, Mar 15

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Bend Sinister rock out at the Horseshoe, Mar 20

+Foundry Music & Arts Festival Forward-thinking

This Is Not A Toy is on view, Mar 21

and Bob Rae kick off the threeday 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 bring their Reflektor tour to town. Don’t forget to dress up. Air Canada Centre. 7:30 pm. $30.50-$70.50. LN, TM. Camp-X Talk about Canada’s military training camp with historian Lynn Philip Hodgson. St. Andrew’s United Church. 2 pm. $10. 416-463-3405.

music series kicks off with Four Tet and Anthony Shakir. 99 Sudbury. 10 pm. $27.50-$47.50, series pass $99.50. To Apr 5. TF. Heather Cassils Video artist uses his body as artistic terrain in works on view until tomorrow. Free. Trinity Square Video. 416-593-1332. Atom egoyan Interview with the scriptwriter about his creative process. Randolph Academy. 7 pm. $15. pagesfestival. com.

esearch-based show linking R visual arts and military intelligence ends today at Justina M. Barnicke. Free. 416-9788398. +IN SPIRIT Final day for Tara Beagan’s play about the disappearance of a native girl. 2 pm. Aki Studio Theatre. $15$20. nativeearth.ca.

idiosyncratic singer/songwriter throws a Martian Awareness Ball on St. Paddy’s Day. Horseshoe. $15. seeing red power Poet Duke Redbird discusses the Red Power movement of the 60s and 70s at the Drake Hotel. 7 pm. $10. thedrakehotel.ca.

Massey Hall hosts the influential jazz fusion guitarist. 8 pm. $55-$85. RTH. Better brains Learn how a better tomorrow begins today for the 50-plus crowd at an information fair at Central Eglinton Community Centre. 9:15 am-3:15 pm. Free. centraleglinton.com.

new space opens today with a community open house and performance of Alanna Mitchell’s show Sea Sick. From 11 am. $25-$30 (show). 416-538-0988.

Vancouver rock band bring their new LP to the Horseshoe. Doors 8:30 pm. $10. HS, RT, SS, TF. prosecutor Screening of the documentary about Luis Moreno Ocampo, former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. University College. 7 pm. Free. scienceforpeace.ca.

Hamilton punk band launches new album at the Silver Dollar. Doors 9 pm. $10. RT, SS, TF. PATHWAYS TO PRIVACY Canadian Civil Liberties Association discusses what’s public and what you may want kept private, at U of T Faculty Club. 8:30 am to 5 pm. Register at ccla.org/pathways2privacy. This is not a Toy Exciting group show of sculptural toys inspired by pop culture is at the Design E xchange to May 19. $13-$16. 416-363-6121.

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ning at the LOT, Comedy Bar and Randolph Theatre ends today. $15-$39, four-show pass $50. torontosketchfest.com.

100th Anniversary of the Howard Memorial Gates, including a print sale, parade and pipe band at High Park and Parkside. 12:45 pm. Free. highpark. org. arrabal The world premiere of this Argentine coming-ofage story told through dance and song continues at the Panasonic to May 11. 2 pm. $44-$84. 416-872-1212.

edic actor shows his musical side. Sound Academy. Doors 7 pm, all ages. $39.50-$55. LN, RT, SS. And Mar 25. pen picks great flicks Screening of Marwencol followed by discussion with author Miriam Toews at the Bloor. 6:15 pm. $15. bloorcinema.com. lorrie moore The author launches her story collection Bark, at the Brigantine Room. $10. 7:30 pm. ifoa.org.

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Heather Goodchild/Jérôme Havre Superb installations of

sewn imaginary worlds are on view at the Textile Museum. To Apr 13. $6-$15. 416-599-5321. Andrew WK Party rocker plays a sure-to-be-sweaty show at Hard Luck. 8:30 pm. $20. TF. Diverse-aret Creativity Cabaret includes live art installation, stand-up, musical theatre and more at Sheridan College. 6 pm. Free. diasporadialogues. com.

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An illustrated lecture on the life cycle of stars. Beaches Library. 7 pm. Free. torontopubliclibrary.ca. HARD TWIST 8 Great show of artworks made of fabric hangs at the Gladstone Hotel, to Apr 27. Free. 416-531-4635.

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activist Spencer J. Harrison leads a tour through Generations Of Queer exhibit at OCAD U’s Onsite Gallery. Free. 6:30 pm. ocadu.ca/onsite. chicago Olympic medalist Elvis Stojko plays Billy Flynn in the touring production of the dark musical. To Mar 30 at the Princess of Wales. 8 pm. $32$130. 416-872-1212.

coming lit star launches Prairie Oyster at Another Story. 7 pm. Free. 416-462-1104. oil and water Journalist and author Alanna Mitchell lectures about our delicate ocean ecosystem at University College. 7 pm. Free. scienceforpeace.ca.

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Seth, Fiona Smyth, Michael DeForge and others discuss the craft at the Pages Festival. 9 pm. $15. Randolph Theatre. pagesfestival.com. Lorde Royals singer takes over the Sound Academy. 7 pm, all ages. $44.50-$55. LN, RT, SS. GO POSTAL Demand the Harper government keep door-todoor delivery and not raise the price of postage. MP Joe Oliver’s office. 2 pm. socialistaction.ca.

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group show of post-internet art closes today at Angell Gallery. 416-530-0444. The Wooden Sky/Dusted The Horseshoe hosts a great double header of local bands. Doors 9 pm. $17.50. HS, RT, SS, TF.

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So our pseudo-mayor has finally found the gravy train. Call it the “blue line,” aka police headquarters at 40 College, where the annual budget is $1 billion-plus. Robert Lee From nowtoronto.com

Dumpster diving with a stigma attached

At issue: more CBC conflict questions

Thank you for Cynthia McQueen’s useful summary in the case of Peter Mansbridge and Rex Murphy receiving speaking fees from Big Oil (NOW, March 6-12). I think you might be interested as well in my multi-year campaign to get oil industry advertising [barred from] the CBC website and on those pages where news and public affairs programming is posted. I have been writing to CBC for many years about these conflict of interest situations without luck. Donald Gislason Vancouver

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I’m not always a fan of all of your ar ticles, but your paper always makes me think, which is great. As an increasingly proud second-generation Canadian Ukrainian, I really appreciated hearing Mark Marczyk’s take on his trip to Kiev (NOW, March 6-12). More people need to understand what’s happening there right now. More folks need to know about the march 13-19 2014 NOW

Re “If he’s going to arrest me, arrest me” (NOW, March 6-12). The Toronto police have charged the mayor’s alleged drug dealer, Sandro Lisi, with extortion over attempts to retrieve the crack video. If they were going to charge Ford with anything, I figured it was also going to be in connection with Lisi in the extortion case. Now police are going after more phone rec ords. If police can prove Ford was giving Lisi orders, they have him. Matthew Fabb Toronto

Gravy train leads to police Chief Blair

Edith Wilson’s article advocating dumpster diving as a pursuit for the poor (NOW, March 6-12) in fact further stigmatizes the practice. Dumpster diving advocated more broadly would bring attention to the issue of waste in our society more forcefully. Additionally, even using a “tiny splash” of bleach to clean the food makes it seem as if it is “contaminated.” The whole point is that it’s not. R. Little Toronto

What police can and can’t prove with Ford

Biking a two-way street on one-ways, too crimes Vladimir Putin is committing. Thanks for sharing the good work. The people of Toronto need to hear more on the subject. PS: Marczyk’s band, Lemon Bucket Orkestra is pretty special, too. Bannon Kopko Toronto

Beck’s transcendent Morning Phase

A very interesting take on the new Beck LP (NOW, March 6-12). Usually a little Beck goes an awfully long way. The words are dreadful. The voice is dreadful. But there are moments on Morning Phase that are damn close to transcendent because he buries the weak vocals and the horrible lyr ics in beautiful string arrangements. From the very start the orchestration flattened me. Four songs on MP are kicking my ass. They’re the best things I’ve heard in ages. But no mention of Gene Clark’s massive influence on Beck. It’s kind of like reviewing ELO & not mentioning the Beatles. Nick Winters Toronto

David Soknacki means business

The mayor’s (mare’s?) race is getting hot (NOW, February 27-March 5). It will be interesting to see who folds first. Bravo to Ben Spurr for seeing through the transit fantasy pool of rainmakers in John Tory and Karen Stintz. They are just all wet. However, Spurr’s insight on David Sonacki is almost cosmic. I called Soknacki’s spice and extract company in Scarborough on a business matter. His staff’s zeal and dedication to product excellence is emblematic of the owner’s. Soknacki puts his staff and his company’s customers first. In 2014 Soknacki

Letter-writer Scotty Robinson honest ly thinks he should be riding his bike on a snowy narrow one-way street (NOW, February 20-26)? Dumb-ass! He’s just asking to get hurt. He’s lucky he didn’t get killed by that SUV! No sympathy. Drivers are being asked to share their road with cyclists, yet most cyclists ride the streets like they were made for bikes. Do you see motorcycles on the streets in the winter? No. Do you know why? Because it’s dangerous! Rui Dos Santos Toronto

Crash course in e-bike dangers

Re Are e-bikes getting a free ride? (NOW, February 27-March 5). Most cyclists in the city move at a sedate-to-moderate pace. Cyclists who top out at 120 kilograms, the average weight of an e-scooter, are relatively rare, and they tend to ride at least as slowly as the general population of cyclists. People using e-bikes tend to come in all shapes and sizes and levels of fitness, too, but they can travel at much faster speeds than most cyclists with no additional effort required. When these fast, quiet, massive machines are used carelessly in bike lanes, they can do a lot of damage to cyclists – a lot more than the typical cyclist can cause to another typical cyclist. I’m not saying that every e-bike user is reckless. I’m sure there are many aware and courteous ones out there. But fast, heavy, quiet machines piloted by careless, reckless or just plain ignorant people are a genuine risk to others in the bike lane. Mary L. nowtoronto.com 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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Then Cronenberg capped it all by almost crying when he thanked his wife for her support over the years. The tribute restored the dignity host Short and his writers had sucked out of the evening with an opening monologue and song that sank to unbelievable depths, demeaning the film and television artists the event was supposed to celebrate. Short’s Rob Ford jokes (“Glad to be back in Toronto now that we’ve legalized crack”) were unfunny. He hit his lowest low in a pathetic ditty that encouraged the women who lost in their categories to come to Uncle Marty: he’d make them all feel better. The ick factor went off the charts when he descended into the audience to sing directly to some of the (mostly young – like 40 years younger) female nominees. Later, Short came back for a sketch dressed as the puppet Leon and delivered a punchline about Dave Foley looking like the bouncer at a lesbian bar. There’s an irony here. The filmmaker famous for his creepy-crawlies was the epitome of class, leaving the creepiSUSAN G. COLE ness to the host.

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Those patient enough to line up outside for four and a half hours were rewarded with a little bit of Toronto history at an auction of the store’s iconic hand-lettered signs on Monday, March 10. Slide show at nowtoronto.com.

Strombo Night George Stroumboulopoulos, long- time host of his Tonight talk show on CBC-TV and diehard Montreal Canadiens fan, was named the new host of Hockey Night In Canada as of October 2014. Rogers, which recently acquired Canadian rights to NHL games for $5.2 billion, is attempting to put its own spin on a broadcast that’s grown stale, choosing Stroumboulopoulos to head a Hockey Night dream team. Weird to think of Strombo as the face of the corporatization of hockey.

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Chow Launch Police blotter Downtowners, rejoice. Olivia Chow is a go for launch. Word came late Tuesday, March 11, that the NDP MP will be entering the mayor’s race officially at an 11 am event Thursday, March 13 in St. James Town. The Chow c ampaign later announced some structural changes. Jamey Heath, former NDP research and communications head under Jack Layton, will be the campaign’s communications director. Check nowtoronto.com for more details.

Raw numbers from this week’s police services board agenda

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Hate/bias crimes reported to police in 2013 – 11 fewer than in 2012. People arrested for hate/bias crimes in 2013 – two more than in 2012.

Number of times police used tasers in 2013, 30 per cent of those against “emotionally disturbed” individuals. Toronto Police Service employees who earned more than $100,000 in 2013, including 860 employees whose base salary is under $100K. Upper end of salary for Toronto police constables.

Ali Mustafa R.I.P.

“People are on the streets selling their goods, going to the market and trying to make a living as best as they can, living maybe on $2 a day.” Toronto freelance photojournalist Ali Mustafa to NOW last July on the civil war in Syria. Mustafa was killed in an air strike last week. Sixty-three journalists have died in Syria since 2011.

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BRAZEN MOVE GAMECHANGER FOR FORD By ENZO DiMATTEO There are many ways to look at the latest revelations in the Rob Ford crack video scandal, but only one real conclusion to draw: the police dragnet surrounding the mayor has just tightened substantially. Chief Bill Blair’s move last week to hand oversight to the OPP is a clear sign the police probe into Ford and his alleged drug dealer, Alexander “Sandro” Lisi, is far from over. On the contrary, it’s intensifying. Consider the other interesting piece of info revealed Friday, March 7: cops have taken out a new search warrant in the case known as Project Brazen 2, possibly related to phone conversations involving the mayor. That’s in addition to the warrant reportedly related to Lisi’s iPhone and iCloud records that media outlets have been trying to convince a judge to release in recent weeks. Ford says he’s not worried, but cops wouldn’t be swearing more warrants if their investigation were winding down. Given the war of words between the chief and Ford, it’s highly unlikely that Blair is trying to duck Ford now by pawning him off on the OPP. In fact, the team that was handpicked by Blair to head up the Ford investigation will still be calling the shots, only they’ll now be reporting to the OPP. Blair could have asked any other police force for help, but choosing the OPP suggests we’ve entered new, more serious territory. After all, we’re talking about a probe into the mayor

that may involve a murder outside a King West club, a couple of jailhouse beatings, a shooting in the city’s northwest end and a home invasion with a metal pipe at the house of the mayor’s former high school chum (where, not coincidentally, the now infamous cellphone video of Ford allegedly smoking crack was shot). Speaking of coincidences, Ford’s longest-serving staffer, Tom Beyer, unexpectedly left the mayor’s employ last Friday, as first reported by NOW’s Jonathan Goldsbie. Does anything ever happen in a vacuum at City Hall? Police logged a number of meetings between Beyer and Lisi and dozens of telephone contacts during their investigation, according to the search warrant information. Perhaps the best clue that police may be preparing to lower the boom is the bravado the mayor and his big brother Doug have displayed in recent weeks. It’s the Ford pathology: every time something bad is about to

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Trustee lays bare on pride

How Sam Sotiropoulos got an education in nudity law when he challenged Toronto’s peens on parade By ANDREA HOUSTON

ebate over a Toronto District School Board trustee’s bid to ban boobs and bums at the Pride parade will have to wait another month. A seven-anda-half-hour board meeting ended Thursday, March 6, before trustees could debate the controversial motion tabled by Sam Sotiropoulos. Since the TDSB has a float in the parade the Scarborough-Agincourt trustee says he wants “clarification” from the mayor and city council about whether it intends to enforce Canada’s public nudity laws. Although public nudity is legal in places where it’s expected, like specific beaches and Pride parades, Sotiropoulos maintains that nudity at the parade is illegal. “[Pride] is supposed to be a familyfriendly event,” he said in a scrum after the board meeting. “If you went to any other ward in the city on that day and paraded around naked, you would likely be arrested.” He believes this is “a municipal enforcement issue.” In an interview, Bert Bik, founder of Totally Naked Toronto Men Enjoying Nudity (TNTmen), a group of older nudists, mostly gay, who have been a fixture in the parade since 1997, says he believes nudity is natural. “I have seen many people watching Pride shield the eyes of their children when nude people walk by, and that’s fine. Nudity isn’t strange for kids. Parents make it strange,” he says. Before the board meeting, Sotiropoulos lost trustee Irene Atkinson’s support. She backed down following angry emails and phone calls from “an amazing number” of LGBT families in her ward, but doesn’t “believe that people should be running around naked in the streets – simple as that.” Sotiropoulos calls accusations that he is homophobic “slanderous.” Last month, the embattled trustee took to Twitter to accuse members of the LGBT community of “homosexism,” which he de fined as bullying by “homosexuals against heterosexuals.” This is what he tweeted:

“One of the most divisive influences in Canada today is #homosexism it’s disseminators are maliciously rabid.” When asked for the meaning of “homosexism” – the word is not in the dictionary – Sotiropoulos cited UrbanDictionary.com, a crowd-sourced slang directory to which anyone can contribute “definitions.” On his 2010 campaign website, Sotiropoulos describes himself as a “strong believer in traditional family values.” His Pride motion is uninformed by any understanding of the law. In 2000, the charges of public nudity against seven men at Pride Toronto were dismissed by the Crown. The key part of that decision, their nudity

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took place in an environment where it was expected, as at Hanlan’s Point. A 2012 Ontario Court of Justice decision again affirmed the constitutionality of Canada’s public nudity laws by upholding the conviction of a man who walked naked to a Tim Hortons window, an unexpected place. In local schools, some teachers are concerned that Sotiropoulos’s motion could result in the cancellation of the TDSB Pride float. Joy Lachica is a Grade 7 and 8 teacher at Duke of Connaught Junior and Senior Public School at Queen and Greenwood. The out lesbian says queer youth, especially those who aren’t out yet, are inspired by the TDSB float filled with dancing students from the board’s many gay-straight alliances. The TDSB has traditionally “been a leader in equity,” and she worries this would be a step back. “That would be doing students a disservice,” she says. “I know many students who march behind that float because they feel affirmed and acknowledged.” Pride Toronto executive director Kevin Beaulieu says the event is inclusive. Events for families during the annual 10-day festival, like Family Pride, a

kid-friendly space at Church Street Public School attract more than 6,000 children. “Pride works very hard to make sure everyone is included, is safe and can express themselves, and we don’t get in the way of that expression,” Beaulieu says. “One of the most heart-warming changes in recent years is seeing kids with their parents out waving the rainbow flag.” The history of nudity at Pride celebrations goes back to its early activist roots at the Stonewall riots in New York City in 1969, considered the birth of the gay rights movement. In Toronto in 1981, nude and semi-nude men were targeted by police at four gay bathhouses in a series of raids, a seminal moment in local LGBT history that resulted in the arrest of around 300 men. The response from the community was immediate and angry. Thousands took to the streets in protest. Those demos, in part, helped give birth to Pride, an event that is part celebration and part protest for sexual and body liberation. In recent years the number of people marching nude has actually been quite small, despite what Sotiropoulos tells the media, says Bik. When people refer to nudity at Pride, they’re usually talking about the 10 per cent of TNTMen’s 350 members who march in Pride. Bik, a grandfather of two, says, “For me, nudity is such an amazing thing because it’s the natural state of who we are.” Toronto Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays executive director Irene Miller has been attending Pride festivities since 1978. She recalls Pride 2010, when PFLAG marched behind grand marshals Todd Klink and Mandy Goodhandy, owners of pansexual nightclub Goodhandy’s. “They had an entourage with them, and we had the privilege of marching behind a good number of bums, and it was wonderful,” she says. “The purpose of Pride is not to normalize gay culture. We don’t want our gay children to conform to straight culture. We want them to be accepted exactly as they are. If that’s leather chaps and bare bums, then that’s what we’ll love.” 3 news@nowtoronto.com

happen, their lies get a little more ridiculous – to wit, the mayor’s claim that Blair’s leading a political conspiracy that’s out to get him. Ford seems to have forgotten that when embarrassing audio of his 911 freak-out after his Marg Delahunty ambush was floating around, it was Blair who put it under lock and key and came to Ford’s defence. The only way Ford thinks he can maintain belief in the myth that he’s a fighter for the little guy is to pit himself against the world. His conspiracy theory is not only meant to help in the court of public opinion, but it could also be laying the groundwork for a “malicious prosecution” argument that the entire investigation against him has been motivated by a personal vendetta. It’s a long shot, but if the circle is indeed closing, what option does Ford have? Blair’s move to call in the OPP defuses that argument. Every time it looks like the cops have hit a dead end, there’s a new signal from the chief that the cops are on Ford’s case. The conventional wisdom a few months ago was that the police had lost their opportunity to charge him. Many of us made our peace with that by hoping embarrassment over coke-sniffing and cavorting with prostitutes would force Ford to resign. But shame alone won’t take down the shameless. This was only going to go as far as Ford pushed it. If he’d resigned a year ago, some of his troubles would have gone away. But this is a guy both prone to risky behaviour and convinced of his entitlement to political power. It can only end badly. 3 enzom@nowtoronto.com @enzodimatteo

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Queen West in big-box fix

Landlords turn away desperate smaller retailers, using a convenient tax rebate on vacant space to hold out for brand-name tenants By SABRINA MADDEAUX

oronto’s indie retailers are dropping like flies. At least once a week for the last few months, an e-mail lands in my inbox with notice of another store closure. Some shops, like Fashion Crimes, Klaxon Howl and Theodore 1922, have been lucky enough to set up again in more affordable locations. Others, like Magic Pony, Jacflash and Preloved have shuttered stores in favour of e-commerce. Others still, like GreenShag and Perry’s, have folded for good. Affordable retail space is hard to come by, especially on gentrified strips like Queen West, where it’s now the norm for tenants to pay upwards of $10,000 a month for street-level retail space.

Such high rates are almost impossible for small retailers to pay, but some landlords aren’t angling for them – they’re waiting for the bigger guns with bigger wallets to swoop in. Queen West, which was once a hotbed of opportunity for hip indie retailers is quickly becoming the land of big-box stores and $10 dresses. “It’s become a block of commercial shops selling mass-produced, poorly made fashion manufactured in unethical factories,” says Fashion Crimes owner and designer Pam Chorley. “The shoppers attracted to the block are looking for the lowest common denominator.” “I don’t know what is going to become of Queen West, but it will definitely not be the place where indepen dent boutiques open up shops any more,” Preloved owner Julia Grieve tells me over the phone. Oddly, in the midst of all these closures, vacant storefronts abound on Queen West. (I casually counted upwards of 10 between University and Strachan on my daily streetcar commute.) The pattern is repeated along Harbord and Bloor West. Some of these spaces have been empty for months, if not years, but desperate retailers who call the numbers on For Lease signs aren’t having much luck. Asking prices are too high, the spaces are

derelict, with no plans for improvement, and property managers seem generally uninterested in negotiating, let alone renting. “If Toronto were going through a recession or a brain drain, it would make sense. But Toronto is supposed ly growing,” says Theodore 1922 own er Miranda Black, who decided to move when the rent for her Bloor West store spiked from $7,600 a month to more than $11,000. One space she visited in the search for a new location had no heating; another was a former restaurant with mouldy food splattered across the floor. “The space cost $10,000 a month, and mice were running the place. When I asked the property manager what would be done to clean it up, he just told me it comes as is,” recounts Black. The stores that do stick around find new locations by word of mouth and inside connections. This is how both Chorley and Black found their most recent properties. Good spaces with fair landlords seldom make it to market. But what about all those empty spaces sitting on supposedly hot real estate? Why aren’t landlords eager to rent them out? Black vents her frustration: “It doesn’t make sense. I’m a successful retailer who can guarantee that I’ll pay my rent, so why are these land-

lords not motivated to get me in there?” Some are waiting for H&M or Joe Fresh to fill their pockets by signing long-term leases that pay them five figures a month, few questions asked. Others are real estate speculators greedily waiting for prices to skyrocket further. “There certainly are landlords who do that, “ says real estate broker Coldwell Banker Real Estate Group’s Alex Edminson, who specializes in the sale and leasing of flagship retail properties in Toronto. “From a financial perspective, it makes sense.” Edminson is careful to add that not all landlords engage in these sorts of practices, and that there are still many who favour local retailers. “It’s a mix, and different parts of Queen West are more amenable to international tenants than others.” While the landlords who do decide to roll the dice wait, they can take advantage of Ontario’s convenient tax rebate for vacant commercial spaces. Landlords with commercial spaces that remain vacant for 90 days can receive a 30 per cent rebate on their property taxes – essentially enough to knock the commercial tax rate back to the residential rate. That rebate has come under fire in both Hamilton and Ottawa for stifling economic revitalization and subsidizing deadbeat landlords. Ottawa’s finance committee passed a

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Keeping track of transit plans

Weighing in on Karen Stintz’s platform lynchpin By ADAM GIAMBRONE

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hile other big cities have frustrations about their public transit, fights over how to improve the TTC have been particularly nasty. The issue will continue to play a central role in the upcoming municipal election, and all declared (and expected) candidates will talk transit. Former TTC chair Karen Stintz has made it the central plank in her platform. But are her solutions credible?

motion last year to lobby Queen’s Park to cap rebates to three years maximum. Opposition to the rebate has been much quieter in the Toronto political sphere, although Councillor Mike Layton made a motion to “redesign the commercial tax relief program as a strategic incentive to stimulate eco nomic development” back in 2012. As it stands, the city receives no benefit from the tax break. Layton suggested tweaking it so that instead of providing an incentive for specu lation it would motivate landlords to offer vacant spaces to small business es and not-for-profits in exchange for the rebate. “The problem is there’s only so much that we can actually do about it, because it falls under provincial purview,” says Layton. His motion was referred to the Economic Development Committee, which, two years later, has yet to re turn any findings. Lack of traction among Layton’s peers at City Hall means change isn’t likely any time soon. For now, Layton encourages con sumers to take support for local re tailers into their own hands: “Rather than jumping in a car and driving to Costco, walk to your neighbourhood shop.” If there are any left, that is. 3 sabrinam@nowtoronto.com | @sabrinamaddeaux

Transportation Czar

Stintz brought up the idea of putting one person in charge of the TTC and the functions of Transportation Ser vices. In one way this isn’t a bad idea. London, England, for example, has Transport for London (TFL), which operates the Tube and controls the major roads, bridges and transit lines, in addition to regulating taxis,

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The official go-ahead on Line 9 leaves a litany of liability concerns around water crossing, health issues and old pipes By SAUL CHERNOS

he green light from the National Energy Board means Line 9 can pump 300,000 barrels a day through a 38-year-old pipeline. Residents along the route stretching from Sarnia to Montreal protested that decision at Queen’s Park on Friday, March 7. The NEB’s approval a day earlier was never in doubt, but environmentalists, affected First Nations and residents living near the line say the dozens of stipulations the NEB attached to the approval fall short. They raise liability concerns and water protection and safety issues related to an aged pipeline carrying heavy tar sands crude. The line has pumped conventional crude but is now approved to transport more volatile crude from Alberta and North Dakota eastward to refineries in Quebec. Environmentalists argued at hearings last year that the more abrasive crude also raises risks of ruptures and leaks along the line. Environmental Defence climate program manager Adam Scott says the conditions imposed on Enbridge are merely procedural and do little more than “create a paper trail that consists largely of check-boxes where all Enbridge has to do is self-police.” Scott says the regulatory system in Canada is “completely broken.” The 158-page decision document requires the company file reports detailing procedures with the NEB before work can begin on specific compo

nents and sections of the pipeline. Line 9 either crosses or runs under many rivers in Ontario and Quebec, including the St. Clair, Rivière des Milles Îles, Rivière des Prairies, the Ottawa River, the Niagara, the Don, the Humber and Rouge. Enbridge must also submit a water course-crossing management plan outlining risks and planned actions in the event of a spill. According to Scott, almost all NEB decisions look like this. “There’s nothing of substance. It’s pretty basic stuff that’s already required” by legislation. Stakeholder requests that the NEB order Enbridge to carry out pressurized water testing to determine the pipeline’s load-bearing capacity went unanswered. “That would be the only real way to determine if this pipeline is safe,” says Scott. “But [the NEB] very explicitly stated that a hydrostatic test is not required.” City of Toronto requests regarding civil liability insurance and specific conditions addressing municipal wa ter source protection also went unanswered. Likewise, intervenor requests for an independent third-party review of Enbridge’s engineering assessments were ignored. The data provided is largely from earlier reporting. “Enbridge got its way on everything,” says Scott, adding that the

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Everyone’s favourite solution, aside from finding efficiencies, is contracting out. Stintz pushed for contracted out cleaning services at the TTC. The reality is that the collective agreement, imposed by provincial legislation, makes large-scale contracting out virtually impossible in the short run. Likewise, the essential service designation that council requested and the province passed means the TTC and the union would have to negotiate a new clause allowing contracting out in “fair and unfettered” bargaining, involving an arbitrator. In light of the transit union’s public statements, it seem unlikely it would agree.

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Don’t believe promises of fare freezes, not that Stintz has promised one. Just maintaining what many consider inadequate levels of service costs around $60 million more annually due to inflation. Holding the fares means either cutting service or levying an additional 1 to 2.5 per cent on top of the normal 2 to 3 per cent property tax increase. That kind of tax increase would never make it through council. If no extra provincial funding is coming, improving services will likely require fare hikes of closer to 10 cents per year, combined with raising property taxes. That’s the reality. 3 news@nowtoronto.com

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Benefits

Used Book Sale (Toronto Public Library) Sale

of library materials. Today 10 am-8 pm; tomorrow 9:30 am-4:30 pm; Mar 15, 9 am-4 pm. Free (books $0.10 to $0.50). Reference Library, 789 Yonge.friendssouthchapter@torontopubliclibrary.ca.

The Vagina Monologues Meets The F Word (Centre of Women’s Studies in Education/ Nellie’s Shelter) Benefit performance of the Jennifer Phillips play. 7:30 pm. $16. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-9758555, totix.ca.

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Be Your Own Advocate Seminar on navigat-

ing the health care system. 7 pm. Free. Big Carrot, 348 Danforth. 416-466-2129. Camp-X Women’s Canadian Club meeting with Lynn Philip Hodgson talking about the military training camp. 2 pm. $10. St Andrews United Church, 117 Bloor E. 416-463-3405. Community Quilt Group Explore quilting techniques, make friends and improve your sewing skills. 6-8 pm. Free. Gibson House, 5172 Yonge. 416-395-7432. Davy The Punk Folksinger Bob Bossin and Bob Rae present songs, visuals and stories about the secret underworld of “Toronto the Good” in the 30s and 40s. 8 pm. $15. Randolph Academy, 736 Bathurst. pagesfestival.com. MrDisney On Ice: Let’s Party! Characters from 16 Disney stories perform live on ice. To Mar 16. $23-$98. Rogers Centre, 1 Blue Jays Way. disneyonice.com.

Dressing For Downton: The Costumes Of Downton Abbey Tour an exhibit featuring 20

costumes from the TV series plus items from the city’s collection of the same era. To Apr 13. $25-$30. Spadina Museum, 285 Spadina Rd. 416-392-6910. Fail Again, Fake Better York U art history graduate student symposium with an artist talk by Iris Haussler and presentations. Today 5-7 pm (Katzman Contemporary, 86 Miller); tomorrow 8 am-6 pm (Joan & Martin Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts, rm 130, York U, 4700 Keele). Free. ahgsay@gmail.com. MFlipbook Animation Kids learn how to animate their own cartoon characters. 1:30 pm. Free. Runnymede Library, 2178 Bloor W. 416-393-7697. Food Photography Talk by Robert Watson. 8 pm. $10. Toronto Camera Club, 587 Mt Pleasant. torontocameraclub.com. MrMarch Break At Colborne Lodge Drop in for house tours and kids’ activities. To Mar 16, 12:30-4 pm. Free w/ admission. Colborne Lodge, High Park. 416-392-6916. MrMarch Break At The AGO The Hot Wheels Track Builder Challenge, Kids’ Gallery, a gallery-wide game of Clue, family yoga, artmaking and more. To Mar 16, 10 am-4 pm. Free w/ admission. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648. MrMarch Break-A-Palooza Scavenger hunts, live shows with the Grinch, arts and crafts, storytelling, screenings and performance art. To Mar 15. $27, srs $21, child $17. Casa Loma, 1 Austin Terrace. 416-923-1171, casaloma.org. MrMarch Mania In The Valley! Drop in to explore historic homes and sample 19th-

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Festivals this week

Foundry Music & Arts Festival Explora-

tion of forward-thinking music and experimentation in technology. performances by Four Tet, Carl Craig, Efdemin, DJ Harvey, Skudge, Invisible City and others. Tower Automotive, 158 Sterling. f oundryto.com. Mar 14 to Apr 5 New Directions In Indian Dance Festival and symposium presented by Kalanidhi Fine Arts with performances, screenings and talks. Some performances live-streamed online. $10-$35. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. kalanidhifinearts.org. Mar 13 to 16

Pages Festival + Conference: Unbound – Exploring The Evolving Word Festival of

new technology featuring mixed-media events that combine Canadian writers with digital practitioners from media and other art forms. $15, passes $20-$60. Randolph Academy (736 Bathurst) and Tranzac (292 Brunswick). pagesfestival.com. Mar 13 to 15

century treats. To Mar 16, 11 am-4 pm. Free w/admission. Todmorden Mills, 67 Pottery. 416-396-2819. MrMarch ‘Musements Drop-in activities for kids of all ages include Victorian crafts and cooking. To Mar 16, Mon-Fri noon-4 pm, Sat & Sun noon-5 pm. Free w/ admission. Mackenzie House, 82 Bond. 416-392-6915. MrThe Miller And His Wife Puppet adaptation of two folk stories about power, bullying and trickery. To Mar 15. $20. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. puppetmongers.com. MrNAISA Sound Bash New Adventures in Sound Art event with an installation (to Mar 30), fun fair and concerts. To Mar 16, 10 am-3 pm. Installation/fun fair $2, concerts $10. Artscape Wychwood Barns, NAISA Space, 602 Christie, #252. naisa.ca/festival/sound-bash. Nerd Nite Toronto Talks on royalty and the media, the physics of fire, trivia and Pi Day celebrations. 8 pm. $5. Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick. toronto.nerdnite.com. MPrintmaking For Teens Teens 12 to 19 learn how to create their own eco-bag design. 2-3:30 pm. Free. Palmerston Library, 560 Palmerston. Pre-register 416-393-7680. MrSkating At The Ice Oval Open air skating. Mon to Fri 10 am-9 pm, Sat 9:30 am-7 pm, Sun 11 am-6 pm weather permitting. To Mar 16. Free. Shops at Don Mills, 1090

continuing New Ideas Festival Alumnae Theatre’s

nnual showcase of new writing, works-ina progress, experimental theatre and staged readings. $15, Sat readings pwyc, festival pass $40. 70 Berkeley. alumnaetheatre.com. To Mar 30 Spotlight On Israeli Culture Festival of contemporary Israeli art, photography, film, video, theatre, dance and music. Various prices and venues. spotlightonisraeliculture.com. To Mar 31

Leave, FUCT, the Connie Chungs, the Sketchersons and many others. $15-$39. Lower Ossington Theatre (100 Ossington), Comedy Bar (945 Bloor W), Randolp Theatre (736 Bathurst). t orontosketchfest. com. To Mar 16

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rSugarbush Maple Syrup Festival Demonstrations, wagon rides, entertainment, maple syrup pancakes and more. Free w/ admission. Kortright Centre, Pine Valley and Major Mackenzie (Kleinburg). 905-832-2289, maplesyrupfest.com. To Apr 6

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for Peace lecture by health and labour studies professor David Langille. 7 pm. Free. University College, rm 179, 15 King’s College Circle. scienceforpeace.ca.

Ukraine: What’s Happening? Who’s Responsible? Discussion with Wilfred Szczesny,

Ukrainian-Canadian Herald editor. 7:30 pm. Free. GCDO Hall, 290 Danforth. 416-469-2481. Ukulele Night Teens learn to play the ukulele. 4 pm. Free. Don Mills Library, 888 Lawrence E. 416-395-5710. MrWar Of 1812 March Break Musket practice, sword drills,historic cooking, exhibits, costumed staff and more. To Mar 14, 10 am-3 pm. Free w/ admission. Fort York, 100 Garrison. 416-392-6907.

Writing Urban Fantasy: Find Magic In

Your Neighbourhood Workshop on using the library as a jumping-off point with author Leah Bobet. 2 pm. Free. Cedarbrae Library, 545 Markham. 416-396-8850.

Friday, March 14 Artists And The Book: A Crazy Love Affair Visual artists Derek Sullivan, Carole Condé, Jo-Anne McArthur, Karl Beveridge and Jim Miller present their work and discuss the

Night Of Art And Expression: Creating Dis-

ability Differently Access Awareness Month exhibit. 5 pm. Free. New College Lounge, 45 Willcocks. Pre-register goo.gl/tMofUz. Sounding Off Authors Stuart Berman, Vivek Shraya and Misha Bower discuss the influence music has on their work with host Dalton Higgins. 10 pm. $15. Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick. pagesfestival.com. Treehouse Talks Three speakers present talks on three topics. 6:30 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca. Waltz With Bashir Rebel Films screening and discussion. 7 pm. $4. OISE, rm 4-422, 252 Bloor W. socialistaction.ca.

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Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival Performances by

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23. $13-$29, under 12 free. Direct Energy Centre, Exhibition Place. nationalhomeshow.com.

power of the book. 9 pm. $15. Randolph Academy, 736 Bathurst. pagesfestival.com. Atom Egoyan: Writing And Film Marc Glassman interviews the scriptwriter about his creative process. 7 pm. $15. Randolph Academy, 736 Bathurst. p agesfestival.com. Capitalism Is The Crisis CD launch of the radio documentary written by Asad Ismi. 7 pm. Free. OISE, rm 5230, 252 Bloor W. redstorm.ismi@gmail.com.

Digital Mena: The Next Hotbed Of Innovation? Panel discussion with journalist Tony Burman, Polar CEO Kunal Gupta and others. 7:45-9:15 am. Free. Peter Bronfman Learning Centre, 7th fl, 297 Victoria. Pre-register ryerson.ca/ce/digitalmena. Gem Expo Beads, gems, jewellery and minerals. Today 11:30 am-8 pm; tomorrow 10 am-6 pm; Mar 16, 10 am-5 pm. $5, 3 days/ $10, kids free. Hyatt Regency, 370 King W. thegemexpo.com. Judy Baca The Mexican-American painter talks about her work. 7 pm. $10. Prefix, 401 Richmond W. 416-591-0357, lacap.ca.

MrMarch Break Chinatown Food Tour

Food tour with dim sum. 10 am. $50, stu/srs $45, child $35. 393 Dundas W. 416-923-6813. National Home Show Design and renovation tips, celebrity experts, model homes, gardens, green-friendly trends and more. To Mar

Violence) 3-on-3 tournament with guests Jonas Valanciunas and Jamaal Magloire. Min $250 in pledges to play. HoopDome, 75 Carl Hall. Pre-register loveandbasketball.ca. Syria, Humanity’s Call (Syrian Canadian Fdn for Humanity) Fundraising dinner. 6:30 pm. $50, child $25. Royal Canadian Legion, 3850 Lake Shore W. scfh.info.

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The Art Of The Graphic Novel Evening with graphic novelist Seth, cultural commentator Jeet Heer and writer/illustrator Michael De Forge. 9 pm. $15. Randolph Academy Theatre, 736 Bathurst. p agesfestival.com . Defend Canada’s Postal Service Mass picket to demand that the Harper government cancel plans to eliminate door-to-door delivery and increase the price of postage. 2 pm. 511 Lawrence W. socialistaction.ca. Jane Austen Dancing Regency-style masquerade ball with makeovers, an English country dance workshop, live music and more. 1:30-10:30 pm. $45-$55, stu/srs $35$40. St Barnabas Anglican Church Hall, 361 Danforth. janeaustendancing.ca. The Many Tales Of Susanna Moodie Multimedia presentation on the influence of Moodie. 7 pm. $15. Randolph Academy, 736 Bathurst. pagesfestival.com. Murder At the ROM Scavenger Hunt Murder mystery team scavenger hunt for adults. 1 pm. $30. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. Pre-register urbancapers.com. Queen West Gallery Tour Guided tour of galleries along Queen West. 11:45 am. $25. Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042. continued on page 20 œ

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Seed Saving For The Toronto Seed Library

Seed saving workshop. 1-5 pm. PermaCulture, 160 Bartley. torontoseedlibrary.org. Toronto Indie Arts Market Spring fashion extravaganza. 10:30 am-4 pm. $5. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. torontoindieartsmarket.com. Toronto Militaria Fair Talk by millitary historian/author Norm Christie, re-enactors, militaria and more. 9:30 am-2 pm. $5. Royal Canadian Legion, 1240 Woodbine. 416-425-1714. Ukrainian Easter Egg Workshop Learn to make beautiful pysanky. 2-5 pm. $20. St Vladimir Institute, 620 Spadina Rd. Pre-register kosa.kolektiv@gmail.com. Urban Narratives Author Shawn Micallef, Track Toronto’s Chloe Doesburg and filmmaker Gerry Flahive discuss the complex nature of T.O.’s appeal. 3 pm. $15. Randolph Academy, 736 Bathurst. pagesfestival.com. Westwood Sailing Club Open House Learn about albacores, lasers and catamarans. 1-3 pm. Free. 12 Regatta (just E of Cherry Beach). 416-461-2870. rWinter Trees Family nature walk. 1 pm. $2 or pwyc. Howard Park Tennis Club, 430 Parkside. highparknaturecentre.com.

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Benefits

St Patrick’s Day Run/Walk (Achilles Canada) A 5K run/walk supports disabled athletes. 10:30 am. $40-$50. Starts and finishes at Steam Whistle Brewing, 255 Bremner. achillesstpatricksday5k.ca.

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Keeping You In Stitches Knitting and crochet social. 2-4 pm. Free. Gibson House, 5172 Yonge. 416-395-7432.

Left Alternatives To Social Democracy

offee house discussion with Roger Rashi of C the left-wing Québec solidaire party and others. 4 pm. Free. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org. A Letter To Three Wives Film scholar David

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SEEING RED POWER

Activist, indigenous intellectual, poet and storyteller Duke Redbird discusses the Red Power movement of the 60s and 70s for Red Talks at the Drake Hotel. The former head of the Ontario Métis and Non-Status Indian Association discusses how the movement has evolved and continues to inform our national identity. Monday (March 17), 7 pm. $10. 1150 Queen West. thedrakehotel.ca.

BOOKS TO GO

The Toronto Public Library is selling off old books and pocketing the cash in support of the library system. Here’s the thing – the goods go for anywhere from 10 to 50 cents. Some Bordwell talks about Joseph L Mankiewicz’s Oscar-winning classic. 6:30 pm. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 50 King W. tiff.net. Lost Rivers Walk Kick off Canada Water Week with a guided walk to hear tales of food and water in the Garrison Creek watershed. 2 pm. Free. Ossington subway. torontogreen.ca. rPurim Celebration Purim songs and drama plus holiday crafts and games. 11 am-1 pm. $20, child $5. 918 Bathurst Centre for Culture. winchevskycentre.org. rSamba Drumming Drop-in workshop for adults and kids. 11 am-noon. $10. Drum Artz Community Centre, 27 Primrose. drumartz. com. Silhouettes And Signals Danielle Meder fashion lecture. 2 pm. $10. Underground @ The Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. 416-5315042.

of them will be way more than gently used, but who can say no to those prices? Today (Thursday, March 13) 10 am to 8 pm, Friday (March 14 ) 9:30 am to 4:30 pm, and Saturday (March 15) 9 am to 4 pm, at the Reference Library (789 Yonge). friendssouthchapter@torontopubliclibrary.ca.

RULE OF LAW

It took former International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo five years to bring Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga Dyilo to justice. Dyilo, who led the Congolese Patriotic Union, was found guilty of using child soldiers and implicated in torture, rape and ethnic massacres. He was the first person con-

Monday, March 17 Chanting Chanting for peace, happiness and spiritual growth. 7 pm. Free. Tao Sangha Toronto Healing Centre, 375 Jane. 416-925-7575. Duke Redbird The poet/storyteller talks about the Red Power Movement in the 1960s and 70s. 7 pm. $10. Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. thedrakehotel.ca. Exile And Belonging: Stories Of Immigrant Experience Class with Sanja Ivanov. 6:30 pm.

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

I Love A Mystery: How 1940s Hollywood Reinvented Cinematic Storytelling Lecture

by film scholar David Bordwell. 6:30 pm. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 50 King W. tiff.net. Manga Dojo Four-week comic art workshop with industry pro Eric Kim. 5-6:30 pm. $120.

Duke Redbird talks about the Red Power Movement as part of the Drake’s Red Talks March 17.

victed by the ICC. See how the ICC’s first case came together in the documentary Prosecutor on Thursday, March 20, 7 pm. Free. University College, rm 179. 15 King’s College. Check out the trailer at scienceforpeace.ca. Little Island Comics, 742 Bathurst. Pre-register littleislandcomics.com. Meditation Introductory class. 7 pm. Free. College/Shaw Library, 766 College. 416-5390234, meditationtoronto.com.

New Music 101: Paul Hodge At The Controls

Presentation on the mic techniques, mixing strategies and more. 7 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. m usicgallery.org. Perspectives On Children Presentation on keeping children safe and focused in the classroom by psychology professor Stuart Shanker. 7 pm. Free. One King West Hotel, 1 King W. tiny.cc/speakerseries.

Tuesday, March 18 Brain Wave: A Better Tomorrow Begins Today 50+ active living and info fair. 9:15 am-

3:15 pm. Free. Central Eglinton Community

Centre, 160 Eglinton E. c entraleglinton.com. Climbing Kilimanjaro Travel talk. 6:30 pm. Free. Adventure Travel Co, 408 King W. atcadventure.com. rIranian Fire Festival Iranian musical performances, dance, a kids’ zone, food, fireworks and more. 7-10 pm. Free. North York Civic Centre, 5100 Yonge. iranianfirefestival.com. 5Men’s Undies Only Yoga Class. $15-$20. Glad Day Bookshop, 598 Yonge. yogibare.ca. Occupy Economics Workshop on the nexus between economic and political power. 6:30 pm. Free. Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil. occupyeconomics.ca. Toronto Ravel Music and media professionals gather to study great orchestral music. 9:30 am. $25, adv $22.50. Hugh’s Room, 2261 Dundas W. 416-531-6604. What Water Means To Us Stories and ideas about water with Lotika Shaunik Paintal of WASH Canada, artist/filmmaker Jessica Lea Fleming and others. 5:30-7 pm. Free. Native Canadian Centre, 16 Spadina Rd. Pre-register rsvp@sustainabilitynetwork.ca.

Wednesday, March 19 Arab Revolutions & Beyond: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back Talk. 7 pm. $5. Beit

Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org.

The Birth, Life And Bizarre Deaths Of The Stars Illustrated lecture. 7 pm. Free. Beaches Library, 2161 Queen E. 416-393-7703.

Child Custody & Access Upon Marriage Breakdown Workshop with a family lawyer. 7 pm. Free. Four Elms Retirement Residence, 1500 Steeles W. Pre-register 905-695-5374.

Cooking Discussion Group On Mental Health Access Awareness Month event. Noon.

Free. CWTP, North Borden Bldg, 563 Spadina. facebook.com/events/233284653523463. 5Dare To Be Bare Women’s clothing optional yoga class. $20, stu $15. Glad Day Bookshop, 598 Yonge. Pre-register yogibare.ca. Draw By Night Open drawing event, art supplies provided. 7-10 pm. Free. Handlebar, 159 Augusta. 647-748-3233, thehandlebar.ca.

The Future Of Bookselling In A Wired World Talk by bookseller Ben McNally. 6 pm.

Free. Riverdale Library, 370 Broadview. 416393-7720. Hart House Art Tours Tour of the Canadian art collection including 59 artworks deemed national treasures. Free. Hart House Information Hub, 7 Hart House Circle. 416-978-2452. Memories Of Leaside Revisited Discussion with writer Karen Fraser and others. 2 pm. Free (bring photos and memorabilia). Leaside Library, 165 McRae. eastyork.org/eyhs.html.

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Thursday, March 20 Drag Makeup Masterclass Learn to create your drag makeup with Katinka Kature. 6-8 pm. $50. Kryolan Makeup Store, 110 Lombard. 416-968-6212. Earth’s Extremes Talk by storm chaser/photographer George Kouronis. 8 pm. $10. Toronto Camera Club, 587 Mt Pleasant. torontocameraclub.com. Feed Your Brain: Essential Nutrients For Good Moods And Healthy Brains Seminar

on good-mood foods with neuroscientist/life coach Mandy Wintink. 7 pm. Free. Big Carrot, 348 Danforth. 416-466-2129. Home Relief Launch party for a non-profit organization helping those experiencing financial diffculties due to health issues, with music, a silent auction and more. 7 pm. $40. Oz Studios, 134 Ossington. homerelief.ca. A Kensington Market Childhood Talk by Leslie McGrath about programs of the Boys and Girls House from 1912-49 and his youth in the Market. 6:30 pm. Free. Lillian H Smith Library, 239 College. t orontopubliclibrary.ca. Marci Carmen Ramirez The Latin American curator gives a talk. 7 pm. $10. Prefix, 401 Richmond W. 416-591-0357, lacap.ca. 9/11: Blueprint For Truth Talk on the collapse of the towers by architect Richard Gage. 7 pm. $20, adv $15. Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex. ticketweb.ca. Prosecutor Science for Peace screening of the Barry Stevens film. 7 pm. Free. University College, rm 179, 15 King’s College Circle. scienceforpeace.ca.

Talking About Israel & Palestine Without Exploding Talk by Dawson College professor/ writer Joseph Rosen. 7 pm. Free. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org.

What Sir John A Macdonald Thought About “Indians” & Other Courtroom Tales Presentation by prof William Wicken on the federal court decision regarding non-status and Métis people. 7 pm. Free. Dufferin/St Clair Library, 1625 Dufferin. 416-393-7712.

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it is the new skinny. At least that’s what hordes of trendy fitspiration posts on Pinterest, Tumblr and Instagram would have you believe. Fitspiration (fitspo) bills itself as a support movement focused on health and, as the name would suggest, fitness. Typical fitspo content consists of images and slogans supposedly meant to inspire women to live more active, stronger lives. A noble idea, to be sure, but most fitspo is just old-school thinspo disguised with little more than a neon sports bra and a perky can-do attitude. Thinspo – photos and other materials intended to provide inspiration for thinness and/or anorexia nervosa as a lifestyle choice – has been forced into the dark corners of the internet. Instagram made headlines last year when it followed the lead of Pinterest and Tumblr in banning images that, according to their guidelines, “promote or glorify self-harm,” and encourage “anorexia, bulimia or other eating disorders.” Instagram enforces this ban by making hashtags like

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#thinspiration, #thinspo and #proanorexica unsearchable. Other hashtags that promote “skinniness” may not be banned but come with a warning that refers users to nationaleatingdisorders.org. #Ana is one of the few “pro-skinny” hashtags still searchable on Instagram (though it comes with the standard warning and mental health redirect). A comparison of the #ana feed to the #fitspo feed turns up some uncanny, disturbing similarities. Whereas a search for #ana turns up a motivational poster that reads, “I want to be so thin that people whisper how skinny I’ve gotten behind my back,” the friendlier #fitspo produces one that proclaims, “Do it for the ‘Holy shit, you got hot.’” Another #fitspo post reads, “Nothing tastes as good as being fit feels,” an ever-so-slight deviation on the infamous Kate Moss “Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels” quote that became thinspo gospel. Beyond the slogans, most fitspo includes photos of impossibly thin bodies. These images, masquerading as healthy motivation, praise the now trending “thigh gap”

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as proof of hard work and dedication. Pretty young white girls reign supreme, and some have become bona fide lifestyle icons with lucrative brand partnerships, interviews in major fashion magazines and, thanks to this season’s sportswear trend, contracts to design their own lines of workout clothes. While ana posts have undeniably dark undertones – images of flat stomachs (even the filters applied to these are darker and grainier) mixed with ones that depict self-harm – the fitspo thread is bright and bubbly. It’s also consistently more highly sexualized and male-gazey (perhaps why social media’s mostly male execs are more comfortable with these images). Twisted but upbeat, fitspo has become even more delusional than its predecessor that shall not be searched. Disturbingly, it’s also become highly commoditized by brands both corporate and personal. The fitspo they produce purports to empower women, but actually serves to make extreme thinness and cookiecutter beauty more palatable for mass consumption. There’s a terrible irony in prettifying disordered thinking caused by an insatiable need to look perfect. Unfortunately, the fashion industry is all too eager to jump on this bandwagon, casting pin-thin models to walk runways and star in editorials that are “sportswear-inspired.” Too often, the women we see staring back at us from magazines and ads don’t look fit in these clothes; they look sick, too weak to compete in the very sports that supposedly inspired their outfits. It was with this in mind that we decided to cast Helen for our very own sportswear-inspired spread. In her 60s, she is a strong, fit, naturally beautiful woman. I think the images we captured are far more inspiring to women of all ages than those of yet another underage-looking, size-zero model. 3

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1Mikhael Kale, the sort of highly talented designer who should be closing Fashion Week, is inexplicably opening it at 5 pm Monday (March 17) in the tent’s small studio space. An excellent opportunity for front-row wannabes to snag seats from top editors and socialites who never seem to make early time slots. 1Forget Kim and Joe. There’s a hot new fashion couple in town. Chloé Gordon of Beaufille and Sid Neigum (showing Monday, March 17, at 5 and 7 pm respectively) are two of the most talented young designers in the country, and sorrynotsorry if I can’t help

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1Power duo Pink Tartan and Joe Fresh (Wednesday, March 19, 7 and 8 pm) haven’t been scheduled back-to-back in a few seasons, and with good reason. The two shows are notorious for long lineups, overcrowding and delaying the whole damn program. There are better designers elsewhere on the calendar minus the headaches, and, in the case of Joe Fresh, without Bangladeshi blood on their hands.

1Notable absences from last season: Caitlin Power, Travis Taddeo and Cara Cheung; Barbie in the sponsor category. One Sports Illustrated cover and she ditches Toronto. Typical. 1PETA’s going to love this guy. Farley Chatto (March 20, 6 pm) is using the hashtag #furtastic to promote his new fur-centric collection. If he’s lucky, the animal rights organization’s local chapter won’t be much to fear. Sunday, March 23

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1The last thing anyone wants to see after this winter from hell is more outerwear. That said, the newly grown-up version of Soïa & Kyo (March 20, 8 pm) is worth watching. Last season the label outshone its more highprofile sister brand Mackage (Wednesday, March 19, 9 pm), but can they keep the fresh designs coming?

1Printophiles will want to catch local textile and clothing designer Anu Raina (March 21, 3 pm), whose prints are hand-drawn with watercolours, dyes and inks. She re-enters the fold with a Toronto-inspired collection after being off the schedule for a few years. 1Matthew Gallagher (March 21, 8 pm) was last season’s breakout star with a feminine Italian Riviera-inspired collection that made even this black-hearted editor want to drape herself in his pretty pink styles. Another strong showing would cement Gallagher’s spot as one of Canada’s most promising Sabrina Maddeaux emerging designers.

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COLD-PRESSED: THE OLIVE OIL GUIDE Drizzled with deceit and a hint of pesticides, too, many olive oils are poor-quality imposters. Which bottles can you feel good about buying? BERTOLLI and FILIPPO

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EVOO seems to be drenched in scandal year after year. Last winter 80 per cent of Italian olive sold in the U.S. was detained at U.S. Customs because of residues of an outlawed pesticide. Also in 2013, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency found 27 per cent of extra virgin olive oil samples to be fraudulent in some way, many watered down with canola, soybean, refined olive and olive pomace oils. Earlier California studies found some Bertolli and Filippo samples failed extra-virgin tests. SCORE: N

When I first spotted the word “certified” splashed front and centre across this green bottle, I assumed it was advertising its organic status. Nope. This slickly packaged Spanish olive oil is third-party certified to demonstrate that it’s not faking its virginity the way so many other brands have. A step up, no doubt, but sustainability-wise you’d be better off with one of Jesse Tree’s organic imports like Olivastro or Q Organic. SCORE: NN

EMILE NOËL and TERRA DELYSSA ORGANIC Avoid dipping your bread in pesticide residues by reaching for a certified organic oil. These two are among the most affordable organic on shelves, partly because they get some organic olives from Tunisia (rather than EU countries). Terra Delyssa’s organic oil can be scored at Costco for a steal, though in this price range I prefer Emile Noël since it has fruitier options and only offers organic and/or fair trade products. Both say they’re extra-virgin. SCORE: NNNN

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What other olive oil inspires a taste for peace and understanding? Zatoun is the world’s first certified fair trade olive oil, a non-profit enterprise from which proceeds go directly to Palestinian olive growers as well as the planting of olive trees, some 350,000 in the region to date. An additional dollar from each bottle goes to Project Hope, an art therapy program for young Palestinians living in refugee camps. Not all the products are certified organic, but they’re all grown traditionally. Zatoun.com. SCORE: NNNNN

This gourmet first coldpressed extra-virgin olive oil takes sustainability to a whole other level. All the olives are grown on one family estate on the island of Crete, in line with biodynamic principles (a more holistic version of organic). While they’re awaiting official biodynamic certification, their biodynamic bottles are half the price of their certified organic ones. Both are certified extra-virgin and quite lovely dripped on bread or salad. acropolisorganics.com. SCORE: NNNNN

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PLANTING MONARCH-SAVING MILKWEED SOON LEGAL

Cereal/snack giant Kellogg, a partner in the world’s largest palm oil trading company, has announced its commitment to deforestation-free palm oil. The move came after U.S.-based Green Century Equity Fund filed a shareholder proposal on the issue and Rainforest Action Network (RAN) ramped up its consumer campaigns against the company’s use of “conflict palm oil.” Kellogg was this week joined by Mars (maker of M&Ms) in vowing to put an end to deforestation-linked palm oil, acknowledging the need to go beyond inadequate standards like the one behind so-called “sustainable” palm oil certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). This means Snickers and Pringles should be “deforestation-free” by the end of next year. Ecoconscious snackers of the world will be celebrating. But the battle for deforestation-free palm is far from over. With the U.S. Food and Drug Admin poised to ban trans fats, activists worry companies will ramp up their use of palm oil as a substitute, as they did when labelling of trans fats was first enforced a decade ago. RAN, the Union of Concerned Scientists and Greenpeace International are all cranking up the palm oil pressure on brands like Procter & Gamble and Pepsico. For info, go to ran.org/palmoil.

David Suzuki’s telling us to plant more milkweed to help save endangered monarch butterflies. But right now in Ontario, planting common milkweed is technically illegal. That’s because it’s listed as a noxious weed. And under 1990’s Weed Control Act, “every person in possession of land is obligated to destroy all noxious weeds on it.” Thankfully, the province is moving to protect the long-vilified plant. And none too soon: my otherwise friendly neighbours despise the swaying milkweed in my front yard, and the plants have a habit of disappearing in the night. Soon, hopefully, we can all kick into high gear to spread a nationwide welcome mat for struggling monarchs, planting milkweed in gardens, parks and grassy outcrops everywhere. And maybe millkweed-cursing neighbours can learn to love the “weed,” too.

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Processing the paleo diet It’s not really what hunter-gatherers ate, but it has merit By ELIZABETH BROMSTEIN My husband recently started following the paleo diet purportedly based on the foods our early ancestors ate. He eats no grains or legumes and almost no dairy. According to my understanding, it’s high-protein, often high-fat, lowcarb and low-glycemic-index. Mainly, the idea is to eat no processed foods and only natural ones. He has lost a ton of weight and has never felt better. At first I was resistant (who wants to cut croissants?), but I recently decided to join him most of the way. We’ll see if I lose that last 10 pounds of baby weight. Proponents claim you’ll not only lose weight but eliminate all sorts of inflammatory conditions. Detractors, however, have said it’s limiting and prohibits foods that are perfectly healthy. Archaeologists say it doesn’t really resemble an actual Paleolithic diet. But that doesn’t mean the (pseudo-) “paleo” people aren’t onto something wonderful.

What the experts say “Most of these ‘paleo foods’ didn’t even exist in the Paleolithic. The period actually covers a really long time, 2 million years, with many ice ages and changes in climate. Our entire genus really evolved during this period of cli-

mactic fluctuation, especially the last 900,000 years. During that period, humans colonized multiple continents and ate different things based on local food availability. The only constant during this period was change. We probably survived due to our tremendous dietary flexibility and ability to exploit food resources in our area.

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One thing the paleo diet gets right is that we consume far too many artificial and processed foods. But it tends to demonize a lot of domesticated foods that are also good for you. Plenty of excellent foods were developed in the Neolithic, the Iron Age, the Bronze Age and in the 19th century.” CHRISTINA WARINNER WARINNER, assistant professor of anthropology and Presidental Research Professor, University of Oklahoma, Norman “The current paleo diet is a regimen of natural foods, as close to nature as possible. It cuts out foods introduced after humans were hunter-gatherers. Farmers domesticated grains, legumes and dairy animals. North American aboriginals collected wild rice, but it took a day to get a little pile of rice in the bottom of a canoe. It’s very labour-intensive. Grains are okay in small amounts, but in excess are problematic. Some versions of the diet permit dairy products – fine provided they’re organic. Legumes are very starchy. If the plan stops people from eating a grain-heavy diet and refined and pro-

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ARIES Mar 21 | Apr 19 ”There was another

life that I might have had, but I am having this one.” So says a character in Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel The Unconsoled. At this juncture in your life story, Aries, it might be healing for you to make a similar declaration. Now is an excellent moment to say a final goodbye to plot twists that you wished would happen but never did. To do so will free up stuck energy that will then become available for future projects. You may even awaken to exciting possibilities you haven’t imagined yet.

TAURUS Apr 20 | May 20 In May 2011, two Nepali men reached the top of Mt. Everest after a six-week climb. Lakpa Tsheri Sherpa and Sano Babu Sunuwar had prepared an unprecedented way to get back down off the mountain. Strapping themselves to a single parachute, they leaped off and paraglided for 45 minutes, landing near a Sherpa village thousands of feet below the summit. I suggest you look around for a metaphorical version of a shortcut like that, Taurus. Don’t do the next part of the journey the same way you did the previous phase. Take a more direct route. Enjoy an alternate adventure. Give yourself a fresh challenge. GEMINI May 21 | Jun 20 Seeking wisdom

and chasing after pleasure are polar opposites, right? You must devote yourself to either one or the other, correct? You can be an enlightened servant of the greater good or else an exuberant hedonist in quest of joy, but not both. True? No. No.

No. False. Wrong. Here’s the bigger truth: Now and then, grace periods come along when you can become smarter and kinder by exploring the mysteries of feeling really good. Can you guess when the next of these grace periods will arrive for you, Gemini? Here’s the answer: It’s here now!

CANCER Jun 21 | Jul 22 Humans walked

on the moon before anyone ever had the simple idea of putting wheels on suitcases. Unbelievable, right? Until 1972, three years after astronauts first walked on the lunar surface, travellers in airports and train stations had to carry and drag wheelless containers full of their belongings. I suspect that a comparable out-ofsequence thing may be going on in your own life, Cancerian. In some ways you are totally up to date, and in other ways you are lagging behind. Now would be a good time to identify discrepancies and start correcting them. Metaphorically speaking, I’d love you to have rolling luggage by the time you take your next journey.

LEO Jul 23 | Aug 2 Have you ever heard of

the sasquatch, also known as Bigfoot? You know, one of those big, hairy, humanoid beasts that walks upright and lives in dense forests? Scientists assure us there is no such thing. But, then, they used to say the same thing about the platypus. It was a myth, they declared, a figment of explorers’ vivid imaginations. A duck-billed, egg-laying mammal simply could not exist. When the respected British zoologist George Shaw claimed there was in-

deed such a creature, he was mocked by his contemporaries. Eventually, though, the truth emerged and Shaw was vindicated. I suspect that you Leos will soon experience an event akin to the discovery and confirmation that the platypus is real.

VIRGO Aug 23 | Sep 22 “Kyoka” is a Japa-

nese word that means “a flower reflected in a mirror.” I suggest you use it as a metaphor to help you understand what’s happening in your life right now. Here are some clues to jump-start your ruminations. Are you more focused on the image of what you love than on what you love? If so, is there anything wrong with that, or is it perfectly fine? Are you more interested in ephemeral beauty that you can admire from afar than in tangible beauty you can actually touch? If so, is there anything wrong with that, or is it perfectly fine? Should you turn away from a dreamy surrogate and turn toward the real thing? If so, why?

LIBRA Sep 23 | Oct 22 A British researcher poured 300 million facts into a computer program designed to determine the most boring day in history. The winner was April 11, 1954. It was selected because almost nothing important happened except an election in Belgium. I’m wondering if you Libras might reach that level of blah sometime soon. The astrological omens suggest it’s a possibility. And frankly, I hope that’s exactly what happens. You need a break from high adventure and agitated activity. You would

cessed foods, there’s nothing to lose. You’re allowed fish, eggs – we’ve eaten whole eggs, not just the white, since we walked this earth – nuts and seeds, vegetables, fruit. Meat should be natural, either game or grass-fed. Cows are supposed to eat grass, not corn. On the paleo diet you’re allowed the oils of the good nuts and seeds: olive, walnut, flaxseed, avocado, coconut, which is a saturated fat and has many health benefits. Your diet should be as near to nature as possible, and veggie-centric.” AILEEN BURFORD-MASON, nutritionist, author, Eat Well, Age Better, Toronto “Paleo eating can be characterized as a low-inflammation diet. Since inflammation is at the root of virtually all Western degenerative disease, those on the diet tend to see improvements for a wide range of issues, from autoimmunity to insulin resistance. If you have historically eaten a diet of refined foods, you may feel pretty rough for a few days when eating paleo or just eating better. This is because you’re insulin-resistant and inflamed. It’s a misconception to say that paleo is specifically a high-fat, low-carb diet. Macronutrients are best approached on an individual basis. For example, an athlete will likely do better with more carbohydrates, a sedentary desk worker with fewer. The key here is that eating whole, unprocessed foods tends to restore the normal neuro-regulation of benefit from indulging in some downtime that allowed you to luxuriate in silence and stasis. The time has come to recharge your psychic batteries.

SCORPIO Oct 23 | Nov 21 You won’t be the recipient of good luck in the coming days. Nor will you experience bad luck or dumb luck or weird luck. No, Scorpio. The serendipitous slew of synchronicities that will slip and slide into your sphere requires a new word, which I have coined for this occasion. That word is “shluck.” Shluck is a cracked yet plucky sort of backwards luck that provides you with an abundance of curious slack. Shluck slings your way a series of happy accidents and curious coincidences that give you experiences you didn’t even realize you needed. To take maximum advantage of shluck’s benefits, you have to dispense with your agendas and drop your expectations.

SAGITTARIUS Nov 22 | Dec 21 In the old

fairy tale Ali Baba And The Forty Thieves, the poor woodcutter Ali Baba is collecting firewood in the forest when he spies a gang of thieves bragging about their exploits. Observing them from a hiding place, he hears them chant a phrase, “Open sesame.” This magically unseals the opening to a cave that happens to be full of their stolen treasure. Later, when the thieves have departed, Ali Baba goes to the cave and says, “Open sesame.” The hocus-pocus works. He slips into the cave and steals a bag of gold from the robbers’ plunder. This story resembles an adventure you could enjoy sometime soon, Sagittarius. I suspect you may discover your own version of “open sesame.” It will give you access to a less literal and more legitimate bounty.

CAPRICORN Dec 22 | Jan 19 Your ability to heal rifts and bridge gaps is unusually high. You could connect seemingly

appetite, so folks simply eat fewer calories overall. ROBB WOLF, author, The Paleo Solution, Reno, Nevada “The major problem with the paleo diet is that it provides a narrow view of the ‘natural’ human diet. Around the world, traditional societies are able to create healthful diets from a great diversity of different food resources. Instead of reflecting that diversity, the paleo diet approximates one possible type of traditional hunter-gatherer diet. It has its merits and potential health benefits. Relative to the average North American diet, it’s higher in protein, fibre, ‘heart-healthy’ fats and other key nutrients including iron, zinc and calcium; lower in simple carbohydrates, sugar, saturated and trans fats and sodium. So it can help people lose weight and prevent or reverse chronic health problems like high blood pressure, high cholesterol and type 2 diabetes. Concerns remain about long-term effects of a diet high in animal protein. While it works well for many people, research indicates it’s a hard dietary regime to maintain long-term.” WILLIAM R. LEONARD, director of global health studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois

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irreconcilable elements and forge apparently impossible links. Former allies who have become estranged might be moved to bond again through your compassionate intervention. I’m not promising amazingly miraculous feats of unification, but I’m not ruling them out either. You have a sixth sense about how to create interesting mixtures by applying just the right amount of pressure and offering just the right kind of tenderness.

AQUARIUS Jan 20 | Feb 18 My friend

Harry said he wanted to teach me to play golf. “Are you kidding?” I asked him incredulously. “The dullest game on the planet?” He tried to convince me that it would provide lots of interesting metaphors I could use in writing horoscopes. “Name one,” I challenged him. He told me that “Volkswagen” is a slang term to describe what happens when a golfer makes an awkward shot that nevertheless turns out to be quite good. “Hmmm,” I replied. “That is exactly the theme I have decided on for the Aquarius horoscope.”

PISCES Feb 19 | Mar 20 Do you remember

being in your mother’s womb? Probably not. But here’s what I know about that time: In the first few weeks after you were conceived, your body grew at a very rapid rate. Once you were born, if you had continued to expand and develop with that much vigour, you would literally have grown to be as big as a mountain by now. So let’s be thankful you slowed down. But I do want to sound an alert and let you know that you’re currently in a growth spurt with some metaphorical resemblances to that original eruption. It’s basically a good thing. Just be aware that you may experience growing pains.

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The kefta burger (clockwise from top left) with arugula, fig jam, Brie and spiced frites; the cauliflower steak held by owner/chef Isam Kaisi; flatbread pizza, with figs, shallots, mint and halloumi cheese; and the signature District margarita make Middle Eastern-inspired District Oven a delicious destination.

Lovin’ the Oven District Oven taps the Mideast foodie fad in authentic ways By Steven Davey World Cup-obsessed Little Portugal and transformed it into a sophisti cated 140-seat lounge-like space worthy of the hip Ossington strip. He calls it District Oven. There are shiny red-tufted ban quettes lit by ornate chan deliers, and coffee tables fashioned from logs. To the Dis trict’s rear, the large gas-burning Wood Stone oven that gives the restaurant its name takes centre stage. To begin, chef Kaisi automatically sends out complimentary puffedup pitas still warm from the oven and the size of soccer balls, paired with buttery olive oil spiked

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with za’atar and sweet pomegranate molasses. The same cracker-thin flat bread becomes a tasty Lebanese pizza when topped with fresh figs, hallou mi cheese and a stra tegic scattering of mint leaves ($14). Of course, he does fala fel, only his are exclusively chickpea and arrive sided with a Village-like salad of chopped tomato, green onion and parsley in creamy tahini dressing ($7). Only his tongue-in-cheek starter of braised beef cheeks and beef tongue and attendant raw green harissa studded with caramel ized apple and charred ginger ($12) disappoints, and that’s because there are only two bite-sized slices of each. We would happily eat twice as much. The Oven’s outrageously juicy kefta burgers, made with both houseground beef and lamb, their garnish of arugula, fig jam and molten Brie accompanied by a mini-basket of crisp Yukon Gold frites dusted with paprika and oregano ($15). Halves of pan-seared Cornish hen get coupled with gently roasted Jerusalem arti chokes and a lip-puckering green chili sauce ($19), while duck legs à la tagine ($23) get smothered with ap ples ’n’ apricots.

But if you order only one main, go with the cauliflower steak ($17). Strictly vegetarian, it finds meaty baked cauli’ flowerets sauced with sumac-scented chili oil and plated over a rich risotto of Israeli couscous strewn with mushrooms, sultanas and Parmesan, a handful of toasted almonds to finish. Follow it with pears poached in potent arak liqueur in a sour-cherry reduction drizzled

with clotted cream ($10) and you’ll be dancing in the street. Speaking of which, will District Oven be celebrating the World Cup this June? “I don’t think so,” says Kaisi. “I just spent three years fixing this place. It’s a miracle we’re even open now. I wouldn’t want to see it get trashed.” 3 stevend@nowtoronto.com | @stevendaveynow

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980 Queen E, at Carlaw, 416-5245209, skinandbonesto.com, @skinandbonesto Ex-Enoteca Sociale partner Daniel Clarke’s stylish Leslieville wine bar might be more at home on the King West strip, but its moderately priced Sunday brunch menu and supplementary all-you-can-eat buffet – buy any main and get chef Tara Lee’s exceptional spread of charcuterie, cheese and pastries for an additional 3 bucks – fits this brunchiest of nabes like a glove. Best: gluten-free porchetta Bennys with sousvide poached eggs in textbook hollandaise over cheesy polenta laced with kale;

freshdish Openings, closings, events and other news from T.O.’s food and drink scene Get fried Das Gasthaus on the Danforth isn’t the only recent addition to our woefully under-represented German gastro-scene. Over in Cabbagetown, the tiny Fry Haus (296 Gerrard East, at Parliament, 416-901-3100) dishes up an extensive takeout lineup of very deep-fried Mitteleuropean street food, such rarely seen fare as Fritten Mischmasch poutine and Huhnerflugel chicken wings, though everyone seems to go for the $5 schnitzel sandwiches.

Clever Trevor Trevor Wilkinson of Wellington East’s Trevor and Michael Yaworski of Wide Open are teaming up for the

imminent Tavern by Trevor at 147 Spadina just north of Richmond West in the now-defunct Steamy’s. They’re hoping to be up and running as early as next week. “Tavern’s a collision of dive bar and fine dining,” says Wilkinson. “Still regional and seasonal, but fun. At least I hope it is!”

Wright stuff Martha Wright has superseded Mark Cutrara at Hawthorne (60 Richmond East, at Church, 647-930-9517, hawthorneto.ca, @hawthorneto). The former Frank and Starfish chef quietly took over the reins at the resto slash training centre from the ex-Cowbell toque last November. “Mark and I have very similar styles,”

says Wright. “We’ve always shared a strong belief in supporting our local suppliers. Strangely, we’ve also traded staff back and forth for years.”

Dumpling deploys Over on the east side, the second outpost of the super-popular Mother’s Dumplings (804 Danforth, at Woodycrest, 647-350-8988, mothersdumplings.com) is open for business. Coowner Catherine Feng says that while the new 65-seat resto’s NOW Readers Poll-winning dim sum menu remains the same as the original’s, she hopes to make a few additions. “I’m thinking spring rolls and other things that go with beer. People like SD to share.”

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District Oven isn’t the only resto with a Wood Stone oven at its heart. Rose City Kitchen (406 Queen West, at Cameron, 416-603-8102, rosecitykitchen.com, @rosecitykitchen, rating: NNN) also uses one to bake its pita. But where the District’s flatbread are the size of footballs, RCK’s are significantly smaller. A half (priced from $3.50 to $5) comes stuffed with the Mediterranean likes of hummus, Agave y Aguatabbouleh, shredded cate carrot and iceberg let35 Baldwin, at Henry, tuce drizzled with the 647-748-6448, agavesweet heat of cherryy-aguacate.com, infused harissa (the Ori@AgaveyAguacate Celebrated for the Kensington ginal), a jaunty pair of upright Market cantina that Anthony French fries to garnish. Bourdain called “some of Pita pockets at Rose City Others get festooned the most amazing MexKitchen aren’t exactly with kale, like the Morocican takeout north of the huge, but they’re tasty. border – any border,” can, with chickpeas, cousFrancisco Alejandri resurfaces in Baldwin cous, slivered almonds and tiny bits of Village in the former home of the equally apricot, or the Greek, with tomato, cablegendary Gaston’s. Anyone who ever bage and crumbled halloumi in creamy lined up for hours at the old one-man tzatziki. Only the Lebanese, with garlic operation will appreciate the much speedier service. Tables and chairs, too! sauce, crunchy pickles and not much Best: chileajo, stir-fried fingerling spuds, else, misses the mark. You also get a pearl onions, green beans and chickpeas choice of protein: Jordanian-style falain garlicky guajillo pepper sauce and mild fel, grilled chicken, halloumi or ground queso fresco cheese; white fish ceviche verde with avocado, tomatillo and coriansteak kebabs. The menu advises you’ll der pesto; chile relleno, blistered poblano need one pita pocket “for a snack, two peppers stuffed with pineapple and purfor a meal, and three if you’re starving.” éed avocado, dressed with roasted garlic; Owner/chef Shontelle Pinch of slow-poached veal ’n’ pork meatballs in Gourmet B1tches food-truck fame also smoky chipotle gravy; tiramisu-like lime charlotte with black Hawaiian lava salt. puts a Middle Eastern spin on poutine Complete dinners for $40 per person, in($6 plus protein) topped with tabboucluding tax, tip and an imported beer. leh, tahini and a lotta falafel. Watch for Average main $9. Open for dinner Tuesday Pinch and team to launch two more to Saturday 5:30 to 11 pm. Closed Sunday, Monday, holidays. Reservations accepted. RCKs – one at Adelaide and Toronto in Licensed. Access: two steps at door, washthe defunct BLD, the other at Yonge rooms upstairs. Rating: NNNNN 3 and Eglinton – later this year. SD

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within two blocks.” Drop in to Shakey’s for a true taste of Bloor West Village, to catch the game with friends or for one of the great everyday specials.

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smoky árbol chili sided with pineapple kimchee salsa; South Korean fried chicken tacos in sweet ’n’ sour kampungki sauce on blue corn tortillas; the built-to-share 32-ounce Cowboy aged rib-eye steak; flourless chocolate cake in jars finished with green tea ice cream; to drink, kimchee sours with Jack Daniels, fresh lime and pickle syrup. Complete dinners for $40 per person, including tax, tip and an imported beer. Open Tuesday and Wednesday 5 to 11 pm, Thursday to Saturday 5 pm to 2 am, Sunday 5 to 11 pm. Closed Monday, holidays. Reservations accepted. Licensed. Access: two steps at door, three steps to washrooms. Rating: NNNN

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Thursday, March 13 THIRSTY THURSDAY Ena’s tradi-

tonal music session. 8 pm. The Ceili Cottage, 1301 Queen E. 416-406-1301, ceilicottage.com. WEEK OF CRAIC Detour play this party followed by Julian Taylor. Fionn MacCool’s Esplanade, 70 the Esplanade. 416-362-2495.

Friday, March 14 CELTIC CROSSROADS Traditional

Irish music and percussive dance. 8 pm. $58-$68. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Lane (Brampton). 905-874-2800, rosetheatre.ca. COLM WILKINSON Celebration with the actor and singer performing Irish classics such as Danny Boy. 8 pm. $50-$90. Living Arts Centre, Hammerson Hall, 4141 Living Arts, Mississauga. livingartscentre.ca.

FLOSSIE’S FRIDAY COCKTAIL SOIREE Dress up in smoking jackets,

big hats, fascinators, fab shoes or winter boots (pending weather). The Ceili Cottage, 1301 Queen E. 416-406-1301, ceilicottage.com.

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SHAMROCK Laughs, food, drinks

and music with Lady Kane playing pop, R&B, soul, disco, reggae and more. Doors 9:30 pm. $10, RSVP for table reservations. Baltic Avenue, 875 Bloor W. 647-222-7178. ST PARTY’S DAY Traditional Irish dancing and dance lessons, music, DJs and beer in a massive heated tent. Today and tomorrow various times. $15$22. Andrew Richard Designs, 571 Adelaide E. stpartysday.com.

ST PATRICK’S GRAND MARSHAL BALL Irish entertainment by

Hugo Straney, appearance by Irish Olympic gold medalist Katie Taylor, dinner and a reception. 6:30 pm. $130. Hilton Toronto, 145 Richmond W. Pre-register 416-487-1566, topatrick.com.

Saturday, March 15 CORKTOWN’S IRISH HERITAGE (1847 AND LATER): CREEKS, WATER SPRINGS, WELLS Lost

rivers walk. 2 pm. Free. Queen and Power. 416-593-2656.

DAVENPORT’S SHAMROCKIN NIGHT OUT Gear up for St Paddy’s

Day with city council candidate Saeed Selvam. Meet your local community advocate and have a drink 8 pm. $10. Bar 918, 918 St Clair W. facebook. com/events/710817085605270.

Looking for spots to celebrate St. Paddy’s? Note the following. The party at Ceílí Cottage (1301 Queen East, 416-406-1301, ceilicottage.com) runs through Monday (March 17), with live music, an oyster shucking contest and daily $6 Irish beer and whiskey specials. Enjoy live Celtic bands, litre boots of Steam Whistle and a complimentary Jameson tasting (Sunday, March 16, 5 to 7 pm) at Stout (221 Carlton, 647-344-7676, stoutirishpub.ca) before Monday’s final shindig. Get an early start at the Roy Public House (894 Queen East, 416-465-3331, theroy.ca) with $5 food and drink specials through Friday (March 14) to mark the Leslieville local’s fifth anniversary. It wouldn’t be St. Paddy’s Day without live music (Friday to Monday, March 14 to 17) and Guinness at McVeigh’s (124 Church, 416-364-9698, mcveighspub.com), one of T.O.’s oldest Irish pubs. Cover at the door. An Sibín (709 Queen East, 647-748-2111, ansibinpub.com) offers live music and drink specials – cheap Jameson and Guinness – over St. Paddy’s weekend. SARAH PARNIAK

JUMP AROUND St Patrick’s Day

weekend dance party with DJs Undercover and Mike Toast. $20, ladies free before midnight. Cinema, 135 Liberty. 416-588-2888.

THE LEPRECHAUN AND UNICORN EXPERIENCE Dance

party with DJs Nature of Music, Takin, Aquatic Mind, K-Dust, Braudé, NUNER and Morro Mendez. Costumes encouraged. $20-$25, adv $15. Big Picture Cinema, 1035 Gerrard E. guestlistapp.com/events/234165.

LOFT + LANEWAY PARTY Music by NTRL

ANML, No Big Deal, Gray, Kill Them with Color, Andrew Green, Evan Christiensen, PB&J and many others at this St Pat’s party. Free ping pong and dancing to house, hip-hop, rap and rock. Noon to 2 am. $20 (eventbrite.ca). 2nd Floor Events Loft, 461 King W. bit.ly/1kqRrHo. continued on page 41œ

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SAY AYE TO WHISKEY New brands are battling traditional favourites for Irish whiskey supremacy

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By SARAH PARNIAK

Just one of many reasons why I love the Irish: they’re credited with the invention of the liquid Jesus widely known as whiskey. The origins of the spirit can be traced back to the Emerald Isle, where distillation may have taken place as early as the 12th century. In fact, the etymology of the word “whiskey” comes from the Gaelic “uisce beatha,” meaning the water of life. Amen.

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Over a century ago, Irish whiskey was one of the world’s most consumed spirits. Then a series of misfortunes – war, temperance, economics, the usual malaise – stunted its popularity and almost crushed the category. Somehow, Irish whiskey’s triple-distilled approachability was long misinterpreted as spinelessness. But no one’s ever accused the Irish of having no

Bartender Drac Child and manager Kevin Michael Butler showcase some of the Emmet Ray’s fine Irish whiskeys.

backbone without facing a furious fight. Irish whiskey has lifted itself from the dust and made an astonishing comeback; the category is soaring as one of the world’s fastest-growing spirits sectors. A quick glance around Toronto bars lends insight into this fad: Jameson, the market leader, has become the drink of choice for bartenders and college kids alike, adored for its smooth fruit and characteristic oiliness. Pot still whiskies (an Irish signature) are currently produced in a small handful of distilleries, yet a range of unique and flavourful whiskies are spilling out of Ireland – from the peated Connemara line to more recent releases like Writers Tears and The Wild Geese Irish Soldiers & Heroes. With many more distilleries planned or under construction, old brands being resurrected, new labels emerging and innovation colouring contemporary production, the future looks golden for Irish whiskey. Now that you’re good and thirsty, here’s where to lap up the Irish: The Emmet Ray (924 College, 416-792-4497, theemmetray.com) is no Irish pub, but it’s still one of the best spots in the city to sip uisce beatha thanks to its marvellous commitment to all whisk(e)y. Choose from almost 20 bottles including Bushmill’s 16 ($10.25) and the Green Spot ($9.50). You can find about 25 bottles of Irish at Leslieville’s charming Ceili Cottage (1301 Queen East, 416-4061301, ceilicottage.com), from Tyrconnell 10-year-old Madeira Finish Single Malt ($12) to Connemara 12-year-old Peated Single Malt ($15), Redbreast 12-year-old Single Pot Still and Writers Tears (both $8). An Sibín (709 Queen East, 647-748-2111, ansibinpub.com) boasts one of T.O.’s best selections, including trophy bottles like Midleton Very Rare ($16), Jameson Small Batch Reserve ($8) and Gold Reserve ($11). 3

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5MEN OF STEEL ST Patrick’s

Day CELEBRATION 25 hot men strip

for “Kiss Me, I’m Irish” night. 5 pm-2 am. No cover before 8 pm, $10-$15 after. Remington’s, 379 Yonge. remingtons.com.

Mr Ruddys St Pats Session

Noon to 2 am. Upfront Bar & Grill, 106 Front E. 416-364-6054.

The O’Brothers Irish Duo

Music and laughs by Randy Vancourt and Daniel Giverin. 7 pm. $15-$20. Flying Beaver Pubaret, 488 Parliament. 647347-6567, pubaret.com. SPD Live bands including the High Rollers entertain. DJ Ikhan, Conor Cutz and Soundbwoy spin at the adjacent Shamrock Centre. Entry times: 11 am-2 pm, after 4 pm, after 8 pm. $20. Amsterdam Brewhouse, 245 Queens Quay W. spdcanada.ca. ST PATRICK’S CEILIDH Traditional music with Gin Lane, Irish stew and more. 7 pm. $5 (food/drink extra). Montgomery’s Inn, 4709 Dundas W. 416-394-8113.

St Patrick’s Day Celebration Celtic world beat quartet Rant Maggie Rant perform. 8:30 pm. $27.50, adv $25. Hugh’s Room, 2261 Dundas W. hughsroom.com.

St Patrick’s Day Club/Pub Crawl Pub crawl for green beer

lovers. 8:45 pm. $20-$25. Gravity Sound Bar, 296 Richmond W. gcparty.ca. ST PATRICK’S DAY PARTY Irish celebration with Celtic band the Piper Guys, leprechauns and Irish drinks. 7 pm. Crocodile Rock, 240 Adelaide W. crocrock.ca. St. Saturday Learn about whiskey and enjoy the whiskey menu. The Gilchrist-Canavan Irish dancers perform at

various times. The Ceili Cottage, 1301 Queen E. 416-406-1301, ceilicottage.com. Week Of Craic Rough Copies entertain at this party with all things Irish. Green noisemakers, necklaces, hats, Irish beverages and an Irish-themed menu. Fionn McCool’s Esplanade, 70 the Esplanade. 416-362-2495.

Ceili Cottage, 1301 Queen E. 416-4061301, ceilicottage.com. Week of Craic St Practice Day for the big event tomorrow. Fionn MacCool’s Esplanade, 70 the Esplanade. 416-362-2495.

Sunday, March 16

Flying Beaver Third Anniversary & St Paddy’s Party

The Bonspiel! Cabaret Impro-

visers Ashley Botting, Rob Baker, James Gangl, Jan Caruana and Alastair Forbes perform a three-act comedy cabaret. 9 pm. $10. No One Writes to the Colonel, 460 College. b onspieltheatre.com. ST PATIO’S DAY Wear green for this “top of the morning” event with Irish Sunday brunch, Irish-inspired cocktails and music by DJ Soul Proprietor. 11 am-4 pm. No cover. Drake Hotel Sky Yard, 1150 Queen W. thedrakehotel.ca. r St Patrick’s Day The Community History Project presents a celebration of Irish Tollkeepers of Toronto’s past with a tour of the museum, tea and soda bread, leprechaun spotting and learning a little “blarney.” 1-4 pm. Tour $2, $5 tea, (membership $20, family $35). Tollkeeper’s Cottage Museum, 750 Davenport. tollkeeperscottage.ca. r St Patrick’s Day Parade The annual celebration of all things Irish starts at Bloor and St George, heads east on Bloor to Yonge, south on Yonge to Queen and west on Queen to Nathan Phillips Square. Noon-2 pm. Free. topatrick.com. St Practice Day Post parade party with oyster shucking contest (2-6 pm), performances by the GilchristCanavan Irish dancers and live music with Leon Gallant of PEI (6-9 pm). The

Monday, March 17 St Patrick’s Day celebration. 3 pm. Flying Beaver Pubaret, 488 Parliament. 647-347-6567, p ubaret.com.

I’m Shmacked St Patrick’s Day Down With Webster host this

party with DJ Diggy spinning. Doors 5 pm. $17 (inktickets.com). Guvernment, 132 Queen’s Quay E. 5LUCK OF THE IRISH DJ Green Peter spins for this celebration. 8 pm. No cover. Woody’s, 465-467 Church. woodystoronto.com. A Night On The Lash Canadian punk rockers the Mahones play this St Pat’s party. Doors 8 pm. $15 (inkevents. com, Ticketmaster, Soundscapes, Rotate This). Tattoo Rock Parlour, 567 Queen W. tattoorockparlour.com.

A ONE NIGHT STAND WITH SHAW FUNDRAISER Never Wrestle

with Pigs Theatre Collective present a cabaret/birthday/hijack fundraiser with musicians, comedians, improvisors, raffles and more. 8 pm. Pwyc, $5 minimum. Monarch Tavern, 12 Clinton. facebook. com/events/589716187772575. St Paddy’s Day DJs A Frick of Abracadabra and Christian Hamilton of Dementia 13 spin. 7-11 pm. No cover. Gladstone Hotel, Melody Bar, 1214 Queen W. gladstonehotel.com. ST PADDYS DAY Saigon Hookers, Fandemics and Creepy Echo all play

this party. 8 pm. $6. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. 416-596-1908. St PADDY’S DAY FESTIVITIES Live rock music by Big Otter Creek and The World Is Yours plus traditional Irish food. 11 am-2 am. The Hideout, 484 Queen W. 647-438-7664, thehideouttoronto.com. St Patrick’s Day Live music by the Mere Mortals (3-7 pm), dancing by the the Gilchrist-Canavan Irish dancers, Irish fare and debauchery with your friends inside and out in the yurt. The Ceili Cottage, 1301 Queen E. 416-4061301, ceilicottage.com. St Patrick’s Day Skip Tracer play rock and top 40 from 9:30 pm, Kat House play from 4 to 8 pm. Southside Johnny’s, 3653 Lakeshore W. southsidejohnnys.ca. St Patrick’s Day The Wolfe Tones play Irish rebel music for this party.

Doors 6 pm, $40. Estonian House, 958 Broadview. 416-402-3279. St Pats Special menu, green beer, shooters, swag and DJs Lacey & Tammy playing Irish classics, hip-hop, R&B, reggae and bangers. 7 pm. Crawford, 718 College. c rawfordbar.com. ST PATTY’S DAY PARTY Horschack play so you can expect to hear some Thin Lizzy. 10 pm. $10. Orbit Room, 580A College. o rbitroom.ca. ST PATRICK’S DAY PARTY Drop in for an all-day party. Dora Keogh, 141 Danforth. allens.to/dora. ST PATRICK’S DAY PARTY Green beer tasting, green goodies and Rodney Dangerfood. 8 pm. Free. Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042. ST PATRICK’S SHOW David Celia Band play from 6 to 10 pm. Open mic Monday from 10 pm. The Painted Lady, 218 Ossington. 647-213-5239, thepaintedlady.ca. St Patty’s Day Party Irish dancers, green beer and live music all day. Joe Reynolds Band & Dale Roossien play from noon to 4 pm, the David Love Band from 5 to 9 pm, and Freedom Train from 10 pm. Lake Affect, 1 Port E (Port Credit). lakeaffect.com. Week Of Craic Bring your thirst, dancing shoes and plan to stay and hear live music all day. Nisha, Bent Nail and the Mere Mortals entertain. Fionn MacCool’s Esplanade, 70 the Esplanade. 416-362-2495.

Wednesday, March 19 Craic & All Other Things Irish Trivia night for teams of four

with prizes and an Irish dinner special. Doors 7 pm. Lazy Daisy’s Cafe, 1515 Gerrard E. lazydaisyscafe.ca. 3

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Rating NNN Why You’re an adult. Do yourself a favour this St. Paddy’s and pass up insipid green swill in favour of a more mature dram. Peated whiskeys aren’t the norm in Ireland, but that doesn’t mean they don’t do it well. A nose of raisin-studded banana bread, baked apples and sweet peat leads into a full, smoky and slightly nutty mouthful. Price 700ml/$54.25 Availability 27946

Innis & Gunn Irish Whiskey ñ Finish

Rating NNNN Why Try Innis & Gunn’s silky stout with your uisce beatha this St. Paddy’s. This year’s seasonal release is aged over Irishwhiskey-infused oak because, symptomatic of Irish whiskey’s escalating popularity, the brewers were unable to source enough casks to house the beer. Price 330 ml/$3.25 Availability LCBO 279349

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The Tipperary

Few classic cocktails feature Irish whiskey. Even the Tipperary, which shares its name with an Irish county, went through various iterations before a version with whiskey was published in Harry Craddock’s iconic Savoy Cocktail Book (1930). The original recipe, which calls for ingredients in equal parts, makes a pretty disgusting drink (real talk). Big-flavour modifiers like WHAT Chartreuse can easily overwhelm the we’re subtleties of Irish whiskey – or any G DRINKIN spirit, for that matter – so always TONIGHT measure. 2 oz Jameson 1 oz sweet vermouth ½ oz green Chartreuse Stir all ingredients well over ice. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

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the scene Shows that rocked Toronto last week SKULL FIST with FATAL-

ITY at the Mod Club, Friñ day, March 7.

Rating: NNNN Toronto boasts a bunch of NWOTHMleaning bands that travel the world yet can barely fill the Bovine back home. But if the number of rambunctious bodies filling the Mod Club for Skull Fist’s Chasing The Dream album release party are any indication, local support for the scene is on the rise. The power metal four-piece blazed through speedy tunes from their two albums, with raven-locked singer/ guitarist Jackie Slaughter getting the crowd singing along to No False Metal and the righteous Head Of The Pack. Only once did he break from guitar shredding and Halfordian levels of wailing – for an oddly straightforward cover of BTO’s Takin’ Care Of Business. Then it was back to carrying second axe slinger Jonny Nesta on his shoulders and, later, crowd-surfing on his back while soloing. Despite touring Europe for the last month, the band had energy to burn, thanks in part to the night’s good

vibes. “I never thought I’d see this in Toronto!” exclaimed Nesta. Earlier, local four-piece Fatality played a high-energy set of thrashy songs with complex structures that beg to be listened to on record. They CARLA GILLIS were tight, tight, tight.

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the Miles Nadal Jewish ñ Community Centre, Saturday,

March 8. Rating: NNNNN On Saturday night, hip 20- and 30-somethings toting impractical gym bags crowded the JCC’s lobby. A curious white-haired man shuffled over and addressed the pack, “What’s going on here?” “There’s a rock show going down in the pool,” someone answered. He walked away with a bewildered grin. It was an understandable response given the concept: experimental hometown boys Absolutely Free playing a release show for their latest EP, On The Beach, at the JCC’s pool. After 15 minutes of swimming, the band started their hour-and-a-half set. Surprisingly, their effects-heavy elec-

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KYARY PAMYU PAMYU at the Sound Academy, Friday, March 7.

KYARY PAMYU PAMYU at the Sound Academy, Friday, March 7. Rating: NNN

Everything about Kyary Pamyu Pamyu is on fast-forward. For the uninitiated, watching the 21-year-old fashion-blogger-turned-Jpop-sensation perform is a mind-melding experience that is OTT for even the most seasoned pop and psych fans. But for her legions of costumed devotees she offers a heartwarming escape into childlike innocence. In a furry rainbow-coloured petticoat, Kyary made her Canadian concert debut to deafening screams that she handily drowned out with a 90-minute set of intense club beats accented by cheery melodies and camp instrumentation (cowbells, surf guitar, magical chimes, bagpipes, piano glissandos, car motors – you name it). The vibe evoked video game music, candy raver culture and the withdrawal sequence from Trainspotting in equal measure. She made up for a bare-bones set-up with rigorous choreography alongside four sparkly dancers wearing maniacal expressions. Highlights included Kyary An-An, which sounded like a sped-up version of Hey Mickey and featured a chicken dance routine, air guitar and multiple slide whistle solos; the thundering Mi, which could almost pass for Middle Eastern wedding techno; and new single Hajima Ring Ring, a wistful, discofied ballad that would KEVIN RITCHIE go nicely with a circa-1981 Hi-NRG Pointer Sisters club remix.

tronic sound worked wonders with the acoustics. All the natural reverb, perhaps? The swimmers splashed along as the band, on a second level overlooking the pool, eased through the EP and other unreleased tracks. Even if it seemed at times like the swimmers weren’t listening, a roar of applause erupted after each song. It was great,

even heartwarming, to see Toronto concertgoers having, well, fun. And who knew? All it took was a rock show at the JCC to bring us out of our shells. See you at Passover? SAMANTHA EDWARDS

ALVVAYS at the Silver Dollar, Saturday, March 8. Rating: NNN

“Girl Day. Dare I say,” said Alvvays frontwoman Molly Rankin during her band’s Silver Dollar set, which fell on

International Women’s Day, “every day is Girl Day?” Damn straight. Rankin’s stage presence is equal parts East Coast inviting (“Come hang out,” she offered sincerely) and I-don’t-give-a-fuck cool, even while her band seems hella laid-back. That mellow vibe belies their ability to channel multiple high-energy genres while maintaining a chill sound. Alvvays are two women and three men – Cape Bretoners and Prince Edward Islanders – who ripped through a punk song one minute, pulled off reverby rock the next and then floated into beachy California pop. If you were listening closely, there were also Celtic hints that nodded to classic Maritime music and channelled, ever so subtly, the Cranberries. The night’s best song, Adult Diversion, most exemplified their lo-fi jangle pop (even if the frank, funny lyrics were barely decipherable). By the time they encored with Archie, Marry Me, they’d got numerous shouts of tipsy admiration from the otherwise wellJULIA LECONTE behaved room. NOW MARCH 13-19 2014

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Arcade Fire, Kid Koala Air Canada Centre (40 Bay), tonight (Thursday, March 13) See preview, page 48. D-Sisive, Adam Bomb, TechTwelve Drake Underground (1150 Queen West), tonight (Thursday, March 13) See preview, page 54. Keb’ Mo’ Massey Hall (178 Victoria), tonight (Thursday, March 13) Grammy-winning Delta blues. Foundry Music & Arts Fest w/ Four Tet, Anthony “Shake” Shakir, Purity Ring (DJ set), Shigeto, Blue Hawaii, Katie Stelmanis & more Tower Automotive Building (158 Sterling), Friday (March 14) to April 5 See preview, page 46. Cuff the Duke, Trish Robb, Beams Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Friday (March 14) Oshawa roots rock. Islands, Escondido Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Saturday (March 15) Broken-hearted, layered indie pop.

Lorde Sound Academy (11 Polson), Saturday (March 15) New Zealand pop sensation. Michie Mee, Saukrates, King Reign and others Wrongbar (1279 Queen West), Saturday (March 15) Big Ticket hip-hop series. Crosss, Soupcans, Special Noise, Ketamines Smiling Buddha (961 College), Saturday (March 15) Doomy grunge, sludgy punk. B-17, Tess Parks, The BB Guns, The Auras, Sun Stone Revolvers, The Disraelis And Others The Great Hall (1087 Queen West), Saturday (March 15) Optical Sounds psych-pop party. Mary Margaret O’Hara Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Monday (March 17) Martian Awareness Ball, what? Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr, Chad Valley The Garrison (1197 Dundas West), Tuesday (March 18) See preview, page 50.

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Swearin’ sometimes live in Brooklyn and sometimes in Philadelphia, but mostly they just tour a lot. Their appearance at Parts & Labour will be their first in Toronto, and it’s in support of their recent full-length album, Surfing Strange (Wichita/Salinas). The four-piece made up of singer/ guitarist Allison Crutchfield, singer/ guitarist Kyle Gilbride, singer/bassist Keith Spencer and drummer Jeff Bolt is still relatively new, and the album finds their earlier fuzz-pop-punk tendencies giving way to 90s alt rock inspiration (think Superchunk, the Breeders). It’s also become more collaborative (note all the singers listed above) and heavier – both sound- and subject-wise. If their shows are anywhere near as goofy as their band photos, this one will be flat-out good times. And you can’t go wrong when boisterous noise punks Neon Windbreaker are sharing the bill. Friday (March 14), at Parts & Labour (1566 Queen West), doors 10 pm, all ages. $10-$12. 416-588-7750.

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Tangled Kids Fest! Daniels Spectrum noon to 3 pm, $5 (must pre-register, katie@tangledarts. org). tangledarts.org. April 9 and 10. Wavelength: Record release CineCycle doors 10:30 pm, all ages, $12. RT, SS, TF. wavelengthtoronto.com. April 9.

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THE STRYPES w/ Sam Cash & The Romantic Dogs

LO-FANG Drake Hotel doors 8 pm, $13. RT,

BOSTON, CHEAP TRICK

MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE w/ Death Valley High

Energy Centre doors 8 pm, $59.50-$129.50. INK. April 25.

SS, TF. May 1.

JUSTIN NOZUKA Canadian Music Week

Virgin Mobile Mod Club doors 7 pm, all ages, $24.50. LN. May 6.

NIKKI YANOFSKY First Canadian Place

Waterfall Stage 12:15 pm, free. May 9.

UH HUH HER Virgin Mobile Mod Club doors

Molson Amphitheatre doors 6:30 pm, all ages, $39.50$82.50. LN, TM. June 23.

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fall Stage 12:15 pm, free. May 15.

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QUEEN & ADAM LAMBERT Air Can-

ada Centre doors 7 pm, all ages, $29.50$129.50. LN, TM. July 13.

7 pm, all ages, $20. LN, RT, SS, TW. May 13.

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Amphitheatre 7 pm, $44$110.75. LN. July 20.

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Uh Huh Her @Virgin Mobile Mod Club, May 13

All dates, acts and ticket prices subject to change without notice. Ticket prices subject to applicable fees.

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Foundry

Second year of series brings divergent styles into a raw space By Benjamin Boles

Foundry program tips The Foundry series brings together several distinct generations of underground dance music and helps connect the dots between the pioneers of DJ culture and the next wave of emerging talent. The programming is a group effort, each night curated by a different team of promoters and DJs. We spoke to some of the artists and promoters about their choices. (Note: Foundry was originally slated to run at the Tower Automotive Building, but city council refused to change the zoning bylaws even temporarily, forcing Foundry to move to 99 Sudbury. For more on the issue, go to nowtoronto.com.

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 the Venue Index, online at nowtoronto.com, for addresses and phone numbers. = Critics’ pick (highly recommended) ñ 5= Queer night

P = St Patrick’s Day event

How to place a listing

All listings are free. Send to: music@nowtoronto.com, fax to 416-364-1166 or mail to Music, NOW Magazine, 189 Church, Toronto M5B 1Y7. 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, March 13 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

Friday (March 14), 10 pm doors

“Shake Shakir is one of the most influential American dance music founders, and one who has consistently injected innovation into Detroit techno and house. Four Tet is a modern UK luminary who synthesizes disparate strains of dance music into cohesive new narratives, simultaneously forging new paths while distilling the essential from dance music’s best.” Gingy (performing DJ and Foundry partner)

Purity Ring, Shigeto, Blue Hawaii, Katie Stelmanis, Saturday (March 15), 10 pm doors

“We wanted to put together a night that allowed some Canadian electronic pop groups to showcase sounds that influenced their own production, so we approached Purity Ring, Blue Hawaii and Austra’s Katie Stelmanis about doing DJ sets. Also on the bill is a live set by Detroit’s Shigeto, whose reputation for beat-driven, richly textured performances fell right into place.” Konrad Droeske (Mansion co-founder)

EFDEMIN, Cosmin Trg, Nautiluss, Martin Fazekas, March 21

“In many ways the pairing of the deep, introspective house of EFDEMIN and the bass-driven party rocking of Cosmin Trg perfectly represents the spirit of a Breakandenter party, a commitment to the simultaneous intelligence and hedonistic abandon of the dance floor.” Andrew Lochhead (of Foundry partner and co-promoter Breakandenter)

DJ Harvey, Invisible City, Members Only, March 22

“Write down your preconceived notion of a great party and place it in a paper shredder. Bring the shredded paper with you to see DJ Harvey. As he soundtracks the perfect night of sips, shouts, swings, screams, smooches, swoons and sweats, you may feel compelled to say, ‘I love you, DJ Harvey.’ At this point release the shredded paper in the air above your head like confetti.” Evening Standard (performing DJs and Foundry p artners)

SHED, Skudge, David Patterson, Kevin McPhee, Michael Krochak, April 4 “Both SHED and Skudge represent key qualities that HDIMYF look for in modern techno acts. SHED has found a way to make memorable melodic dance-floor-friendly hits, while Skudge have perfected the art of the loop.” Kevin McPhee (performing DJ, member of co-promoting Foundry partner How Does It Make You Feel)

Carl Craig, Hali, Jamie Kidd, Mike Gibbs, Fabio Palermo, April 5

“Carl Craig represents the reason why each of us loves underground music, culture and thinking: it’s this understated yet world-class feeling that Detroit techno gives us that makes us identify with our own humble, world-class mentality which is Toronto.” Hali (performing DJ, member of co-promoting Foundry partner Box of Kittens)

Aspetta Caffe Open Mic El Faron 8 pm. Cameron House Jane’s Party (Canadian

roots) 10 pm, C&C Surf Factory 8 pm, Corin Raymond 6 pm. Cameron House Back Room Lotus Wight. Cavern Bar Open Mic 9 pm. Free Times Cafe Songwriters Circle Of Jerks 8:30 pm. Grossman’s The Responsible 10 pm. Hawaii Bar Jack Marks (country/folk) 9:30 pm. The Local Roots n Branches (roots/country) 9 pm. Lula Lounge Bloco Bracatum, T.Dot Batu (Brazilian) 9:30 pm. Nawlins Jazz Bar Nothin’ But the Blues 8 pm. The Painted Lady The Mandevilles 9:30 pm. Rivoli Album launch The Belleregards, VopFever, Jimmy Byron doors 8 pm. Tranzac Southern Cross Jenny Berkel w/ David Newberry 10 pm, Bluegrass Thursdays Houndstooth (bluegrass/old-time) 7:30 pm. Wise Guys Open Jam Jon Long 10 pm.

Adelaide Hall Arcade Fire After Party Owen Pallett, Phi SlamJazz/Classical/Experima Jamma, DJ Win Butler doors mental 11 pm. Array Space Audiopollination Air Canada Centre ReFor complete 16.2 Gil Delindro w/ 6 heads, flektor Tour A rcade Fire, St Patrick’s Day David Sait, Glen Hall, Ted PhilKid Koala 7:30 pm. See prelips (electro acoustic) 8 pm. view, page 48. listings, see De Sotos Jam Anthony AbAlleycatz Black Movy. page 38. batangeli (jazz/blues) 8 pm. Bar Radio Adam Beer-ColaFour Seasons Centre for the cino (roots) 9 pm. Performing Arts Richard BradThe Central Hatley, Jackson Steinshaw Amphitheatre Opera Interwall’s Funny Funk Band, Jesse Gold, active Artists of the Canadian Opera Collette Andrea 9:30 pm. Company Ensemble Studio noon-1 pm. Crawford Video Release Party – End Of The Gate 403 Kevin Laliberté Jazz & Flamenco Road Choclair w/ Bishop Brigante, Darryl Trio 9 pm, Roland Racz Trio 5 to 8 pm. Riely, DJ Law (hip-hop) doors 10 pm. The Jazz Bistro Colin Hunter & the Joe Sealy Crocodile Rock Sonic Parade 10 pm. Quartet 8 pm. Dakota Tavern Single release party Freeman Kama Thursdays At Five Denny Christianson, Dre & the Kitchen Party. Canadian Jazz Quartet (trumpet/flugelhorn) Drake Hotel Underground D-Sisive, 5 to 8 pm. Adam Bomb & Techtwelve (hip-hop) Lula Lounge CCHR Benefit Ron Manfield doors 9 pm. See preview, page 54. (jazz piano) 7 pm. Drake Hotel Lounge The Digs doors 11 pm. Musideum Allyson Morris (jazz) 8 pm. Hart House Arbor Room U of T Idol Finale Old Mill Inn Home Smith Bar Faith Amour 8:30 pm. Trio 7:30 pm. The Hideout Dustin Jones & the Rising Tide Reposado The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz). (rock) 10 pm. The Rex Ingrid Jensen & Gray Matter 9:45 pm, Horseshoe Ron Hawkins & the Do Kevin Quain 6:30 pm. Good Assasins, By Divine Right, Lindy doors 8:30 pm. Dance Music/DJ/Lounge Hugh’s Room Genius & Soul: The Music of BassLine Music Bar The Spirit Grenzfall (GerRay Charles John Mays, Jesse O’Brien, Al Lerman techno) 9:30 pm. man, Michael Sloski, Lance Anderson 8:30 pm. Clinton’s Throwback Thursdays (90s ) doors Izakaya Sushi House Album release 10 pm. Zones, Lido Pimienta, Mimico, Mas Aya Dance Cave Different Class (dance/rock/new doors 8 pm. wave/Brit Pop). Kensington Lodge Jam Derek Mok 7 pm. Disgraceland A Hard Days Night DJ Nick Lake Affect Lounge Freedom Train (rock/top Harris (rock/hip-hop favourites) 10 pm. 40) 8 pm. Goodhandy’s T-Girl Party DJ Todd Klinck.5 Lee’s Palace Dave Matthews tribute Guvernment/Kool Haus Knockout 2014 GrooGrux Kings. Kryoman doors 8 pm, all ages. Linsmore Tavern Stray Bullets 9 pm. Handlebar Strawberry Sandwiches Catalist, Massey Hall Zucchero 8 pm. Famous Lee, Kaewonder (vinyl) 10 pm. Mélange Open Stage Lee Van Leer 9 pm. Rivoli Pool Lounge DJ Bunitall (R&B/hip-hop). Orbit Room The Mercenaries (50s R&R/R&B/ WAYLA Bar Random Play DJ Dwayne Minard soul) 10 pm. (70s/80s) 10 pm. Parts & Labour Downstairs Live Karaoke Good Enough (rock/punk/R&B/top 40) 10 pm. Pauper’s Pub Jam Mike Barnes (rock) 10 pm. Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul The Piston Dynamo & Badnutbeats, Retinal Alleycatz Ascencion (R&B/soul/funk). Trauma, Catalog, Easy Street (drums, keyPBaltic Avenue Shamrock Lady Kane Band boards). doors 9:30 pm. Press Club The Dreamboats (50s/60s rock & Bar Radio Dan McKinnon (alt rock) 9 pm. roll) 10 pm. BassLine Music Bar Subtle Blend Nyiam, Saving Gigi Gasp Gasp The Holy Gasp!, RonAstro Mega, CY, Anzola, Josh Grant (beats/ ley Teper’s Good & Evil 8 pm, all ages. instrumental hip-hop) 10 pm. Silver Dollar The Righteous Renegades Tour Cameron House Back Room EP release party Klee Magor & Chief Kamachi, Big Stretch, the Braeden Mitchell (pop singer/songwriter) Demon Slayer, Major Charges, O-Beast, doors 8:30 pm. Hurtin Every Critik and others doors 9 pm. Cherry Cola’s Rock N’ Rolla EP release party The Sister We Are French, Rotary Dial, SubThe Lad Classic, Sons of Revelry doors 9 pm. ject to Change. Dakota Tavern The Swingin’ Blackjacks (blues). Smiling Buddha Cellos, Foam, Toque (noise The Danforth Music Hall Danko rock) 9 pm. Jones, Diemonds doors 8 pm. Southside Johnny’s Skip Tracer (rock/top Duffy’s Tavern Hard Melodies Concert Fest 40) 9:30 pm. July, Harbour, Fighting Season, Bitter Kids, Supermarket CD release party Robertson, DJ the Vegas Wake Up, Cold Front, Adams Mind Andy Williams 8 pm. (pop/punk/rock/hardcore/metalcore) doors 7 Velvet Underground Scrape, Nanochrist pm, all ages. (industrial) doors 9 pm. œ

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ARCADE FIRE Former indie darlings are an important rock band now: Deal with it. By STEPHEN DU MANOIR

The first half of the last decade must have been a liberat2011 (for U2, but still), but there’s no second billing for ing period for musicians. File sharing had established them any more. They’re not just the leading lights of the itself as the accepted distribution network, meaning Montreal or Canadian scene; they are now an Important word-of-mouth recommendations could build your name Rock Band. without major-label support. At the same time, YouTube The pushback against the band, best evidenced by the hadn’t blown up yet, so a band soaring on the strength of weird and visceral reaction to their request that people its music could still move in public fairly anonymously. dress up for their concerts, strikes me as one of those perFor instance, when I went to see Arcade Fire at the verse Canadian habits wherein we reflexively disdain Danforth Music Hall in April 2005, the band’s hype had international ambition (see Graham, Aubrey), preferring reached fever pitch, but there they our talent to remain local, inwardwere, sitting in the seats (there were looking and deferential. ARCADE FIRE with KID seats then) with the rest of the Never mind that Arcade Fire crowd, watching the openers before aren’t exactly chest-pounding selfKOALA at the Air Canada climbing onto the stage for a rapturaggrandizers. No Canadian band Centre (40 Bay), tonight ously received performance. It should have the hubris to be the hot (Thursday, March 13), 7:30 wasn’t until they grabbed their inticket in New York City or headline pm. $30.50-$70.50. LN, TM. struments that I realized the lanky festivals abroad. Us ordinary Canbeanpole sitting beside me was Win adians are just bashful lumberjacks: Butler. we cut down the tallest tree first The freedom allowed by their facelessness let them do and are more than happy to wield the axe when our artcharmingly daffy things like busk on the streets of New ists dare to think big. York City only hours after playing a show with David I don’t believe Arcade Fire need to apologize or rethink Bowie. their approach to stardom, however calculated it may (or There’s going to be no such anonymity tonight at the may not) be. Even if their media appearances reveal a Air Canada Centre, despite the likely presence of the slight discomfort with the trappings of celebrity (which giant papier-mâché heads the members have been wearmay explain the fake heads), it’s still a celebrity generating in the videos and TV spots promoting Reflektor. ed almost entirely on the strength of their albums and (Note: if you try to pay homage by wearing a giant head concerts, not bizarre behaviour, so let’s just sit back and to the show, you’re an asshole plain and simple. Keep enjoy the show. music@nowtoronto.com your costume devoid of headgear.) Arcade Fire were relegated to opening-act status as recently as

CAMERON HOUSE Sean Conway (country/

blues/western swing) 10 pm, Patrick Brealey 8 pm, David Celia 6 pm. FREE TIMES CAFE Allison Murrell & Anthony Moncata 8:30 pm. GROSSMAN’S James Doolin & the Jaguare 10 pm. LAKE AFFECT LOUNGE Acoustic Affect Fun Cam, Martin Rouleau, Alexander Quain 9 pm. LEE’S PALACE Lemon Bucket Orkestra, Gyspy Kumbia Orchestra doors 8 pm. LULA LOUNGE Yani Borrell (salsa) 10:30 pm.

w/ Brooke Blackburn (jazz/blues) 8:30 pm.

folk) 10 pm, Local 164 (old time music) 7:30 pm.

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And Jam Brian Gladstone 2 pm. DAKOTA TAVERN Eugene Ripper (rocker/singer/songwriter) doors 6:30 pm. DUFFY’S TAVERN Hard Melodies Concert Fest Forever Cadence, Great Lakes, Altona, False Hope, Mirrelia, the Hollow Sea, Forgive (pop/ punk/rock/hardcore/metalcore) doors 7 pm. PFIONN MACCOOL’S ESPLANADE St Patrick’s Days Week Of Craic Rough Copies. FRED PERRY In-store performance The Years 2 to 5 pm. THE GREAT HALL Optical Sounds Psych Pop Volume 2 Release Party B-17, Tess Parks, the BB Guns, the Auras, Prince Ness, MIMICO, Sun Stone Revolvers, the Disraelis, DJs Carlyn, Adrienne, Katie. GROSSMAN’S The Porchdog Choir (blues/rock/ pop) 10 pm. HARD LUCK BAR Murphy’s Law, Demolition, Hockey Teeth, Killer of Sheep, Straight Youth doors 8 pm, all ages. THE HIDEOUT The Beggars (rock) 10 pm.

HORSESHOE Islands, Escondido doors 9 pm. ñ IZAKAYA SUSHI HOUSE Abyss, Droid, Demonic Possessor (heavy metal) 9 pm.

LAKE AFFECT LOUNGE JD & Associates 5-9 pm. LINSMORE TAVERN The Neil Young’uns (Neil

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MASSEY HALL Randy Bachman’s Vinyl Tap Presents Every Song Tells A Story 8 pm.

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ican Tour Makj, Manzone & Strong 10 pm. UNLOVABLE Dirty Talk DJs Pammm & Diana M (Italo disco/Euro synth pop/weird dad jams) 10 pm. VIRGIN MOBILE MOD CLUB Ozmozis doors 10 pm. WRONGBAR Make It Funky 9-Year Anniversary DJ Deekline, Marcus Visionary, Farbsie Funk Vs Marty McFly, the Durians 10 pm.

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CODA Yes Yes Y’All doors 10 pm. ñ CRAWFORD DOWNSTAIRS Phazed DJ Aphillyaded (hip-hop/old school/R&B/dancehall) 9 pm.

CRAWFORD UPSTAIRS House Party DJs Gngrn,

JFlex & Chunk (hip-hop/trap/R&B) 9 pm. CROCODILE ROCK DJ CrocRock. CURZON DJ Mr Stylus (hip-hop/funk/soul/ R&B) 10 pm.

DANCE CAVE Bif Bang Pow DJ Trevor (60s mod Brit pop) 10 pm. DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Lay These Knight doors 11 pm. DRAKE HOTEL LOUNGE DJ Your Boy Brian doors 10 pm. DRAKE ONE FIFTY DJ Dougie Boom doors 9 pm. THE GARRISON Chronologic Goin’ Steady DJs (music from 1890 to 2013) doors 10 pm. HANDLEBAR Hug Life DJs Totally OK (house) 10 pm. THE HOXTON Lunice & Branchez doors 10 pm. MEDIA BAR & LOUNGE Faded Fridays DJ Wikked, MC Crazy Chris (hip-hop/R&B/reggae). MUZIK Dash Berlin doors 9 pm. THE PAINTED LADY Soul Sonic DJ NV (hip-hop/ funk/soul/Motown/mashups) 10 pm.

LA PERLA HERToronto: The Butt-HER-fly Edi-

tion DJs Riviera, the Robotic Kid, OMGBLOG. COM doors 10:30 pm. THE PISTON Synthesexer DJs Digits, ARP 2600, Little Kicks (synth dance party) 10 pm. RASPUTIN VODKA BAR Gorka! Trance Mulliniks, Tasc, L. Ken Rich (abstract house). RIVOLI POOL LOUNGE DJ Stu (rock & roll). THE SAVOY Frkn Wknd DJ Caff (R&B/hip-hop/ dancehall) 10 pm. TOIKA Thomas Schumacher, Alberto Jossue 10 pm. TOWER AUTOMOTIVE BUILDING Foundry Music & Arts Festival Four Tet, Anthony ‘Shake’ Shakir doors 10 pm. See preview, page 46. UNIUN Factory Fridays: Peyote North Amer-

one Rick Sacks, Andrew Timar (jam/improvised) 1 pm. BAR RADIO Lindsay Barr (country). CADILLAC LOUNGE Tom Dunphy & the Cold Hard Facts (country) 4 to 7 pm. CAMERON HOUSE QuiQue Escamilia 10 pm, Sue & Dwight 3:30 pm. C’EST WHAT The Boxcar Boys (old-time/folk) doors 2 pm. CLASSICO PIZZA & PASTA Roger ‘Pops’ Zuraw 6 pm. DAKOTA TAVERN Bluegrass Brunch 10 am-2 pm. DARWIN BISTRO 1-Year Anniversary Party Melanie Brulée (folk/cabaret) 8 pm. PTHE FLYING BEAVER PUBARET The O’Brother Irish Duo Randy Vancourt & Daniel Giverin 7 pm. FREE TIMES CAFE Orit Shimoni, Karyn Ellis & Marina Marina 8:30 pm. FULL OF BEANS COFFEE Rebas Open Mic Saturdays Richard Keelan 1 to 4 pm.

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cert Series The Resolutionaries Marimba Band (music from Zimbabwe) 9 to 11 pm.

Harbourfront Centre Brigantine Room

Nagata Shachu, Alcvin Ryuzen Ramos, Kiyoshi Nagata (Japanese taiko) 8 pm. PHugh’s Room Rant Maggie Rant 8:30 pm. Humble Beginnings Dan McLean Jr (acoustic soul) 12:30 to 2:30 pm. Lazy Daisy’s Cafe Smashmouth Spoken Word Open Mic The Bam Bams 7:30 pm. Lee’s Palace Lemon Bucket Orkestra, Raya Brass Band doors 8 pm. The Local Michael Peters (folk/bluegrass) 9 pm, Arthur Renwick (blues) 5 pm. Lula Lounge Ricardo Barboza y su Orquesta (salsa) 10:30 pm. The Sister Steve & Steve, Leon Gallant. Tranzac Southern Cross The Benefit of the Free Man 10 pm, Allison Brown 7:30 pm, Jamzac 3 pm.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

Chalkers Pub Nancy Walker & Kirk MacDon-

March 13-19 2014 NOW

Chinese Cultural Centre P.C. Ho Theatre

Brahms German Requiem Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra, U of T Scarborough Concert Choir, Grand River Choral Society 8 pm. Gate 403 Donné Roberts Band 9 pm. The Jazz Bistro Colin Hunter & the Joe Sealy Quartet 9 pm. NAISA Space Sound Bash Ambrose Pottie (performance w/ sound installation) 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 Home Smith Bar Mark Eisenman Trio (jazz) 7:30 pm. The Rex Mike Downes Quartet 9:45 pm, Bacchus Collective 7:30 pm, the Mojo Stars 3:30 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

The Ballet All Vinyl Everything Agile, Mista

Jiggz & the Real Freqs (hip-hop/R&B/reggae/ house/disco/funk/soul) doors 10 pm. Baltic Avenue Good Vibes 10 pm. BassLine Music Bar Rework DJs Repeat Customer, Wrong Jeremy, Sketi, Hans Ohm, Black Light Activists 10 pm. PBig Picture Cinema The Leprechaun & Unicorn Experience Nature of Music, DJ Takin, Aquatic Mind, K-Dust, Braudé, Nuner, Morro. Bunda Lounge Solid Garage Joe Rizla, Groove Institute doors 10 pm. The Cage 292 Shitshow Saturdays DJ Raz (metal/industrial/rock) doors 10 pm.

electro pop

Dale Earnhardt JR. jr.

Detroit duo explore fast-paced modernity with classic Motor City influences By Samantha edwards Dale earnhardt Jr. Jr. with chad valley at the Garrison (1197 Dundas West), Tuesday (March 18), doors 8 pm. $15. RT, SS.

The music that’s awkwardly playing in the background while I hold for Joshua Epstein of Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. is the antithesis of his duo’s smooth electro pop. It’s brash, cheesy and the main lyrical take-away is “talk dirty to me.” When Epstein finally enters the conversation, friendly and chirpy in Idaho, where he’s currently enjoying a day off from touring, it makes for a startling contrast. “That’s Warner Brothers for you,” he says pragmatically. Not that he’s complaining. In a few short years, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. has evolved from Detroit acquaintances Epstein and Daniel Zott’s casual jamming to a basement recording project to Warner’s latest signees. Fittingly, their sophomore album, The Speed Of Things, explores the pace of the modern world – the way ideas, feelings and trends transform at a moment’s notice. That theme is all over the album, E pstein says. “The song A Haunting is about a guy who’s having so much trouble connecting with his lover emotionally that he’s hoping his lover will die and come back to haunt him so he can actually feel things.”

Dark. But more practically (and less morbidly), the album also explores functioning in our internet-obsessed society. “You can find yourself lying on the couch next to someone and yet still check your iPhone. I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to watch a television show and not look at my phone.” However modern their music – with its beautifully textured layers and poppy vocal harmonies – it’s rooted in the pre-internet age. “I think what you listened to as a kid affects how you end up filtering music. Both of our parents played a lot of Motown, and it’s affected how we think about music.” Detroit’s other music legacy, techno, also played a part in crafting their sound, although Epstein admits he initially didn’t quite get it. “It wasn’t a music that I felt I truly understood. Then all of a sudden I had this moment a few years ago – it made sense to me and I started dabbling in some of the sounds. “It’s great to be able to expand what you listen to and what you do as you grow. Otherwise, you would make the same things over and over again, and I never want to do that.” music@nowtoronto.com

PCinema Nightclub Jump Around St Patty’s Day Weekend DJs Undercover, Mike Toast. Clinton’s Shake, Rattle, Roll (60s rock/pop/ soul) doors 10 pm. Club 120 Roller Derby Girls DJs Apex Hunter & B-Radio 10 pm to 3 am.5 CODA Ida Engberg, Huxley, Nathan Barato, Jonathan Rosa. Crawford Ice Cold Dranks DJs Ry-Fi, K Dilla & FBomb (hip-hop/R&B/pop/party jams) 9 pm. Crocodile Rock DJ CrocRock. Curzon Locals Only Dance Party (hip-hop/R&B/dancehall/top 40) 10 pm. Dance Cave Full On DJ Pat (alternative) 10 pm. Drake Hotel Underground Diggy the DJ (hip-hop) doors 11 pm. Drake Hotel Lounge DJ Dougie Boom doors 10 pm. The Garrison Turning Point A Man Called Warwick, Senor Vishal doors 10 pm. Grasslands Root Down DJ Fish (hip-hop/ soul/indie) 9 pm. Guvernment Chroma Global Saturdays DJ John J, Illegal Alien, DJ JC. Handlebar Twin Peaks Tribute The Julee Cruise Ships & Sandy Pockets (pop) 10 pm. The Hoxton Vicetone doors 10 pm. Lou Dawg’s DJ Kenny Bounce (funk/soul/ blues/hi-hop) 10 pm. Nocturne Coresteppers, Divtech, Decide Today, DJ Plague, P-Team, Amen Fury (hardcore/ breakcore/jungle). The Painted Lady Music by Salazar 10 pm. The Piston Love Handle (80s boogie/funk) 10 pm. Revival Midnight Mix J-Class, Mensa, JB Allen Music, Bass Line (hip-hop/R&B/ EDM/reggae). Rivoli Pool Lounge DJ Plan B (hip-hop/rap/club). P2nd Floor St Patrick’s Loft And Laneway Party NTRL ANML, No Big Deal, Gray, Jay Joliffe, Kay Gee, Kill Them with Color, Dan Berzen and others (house/hip-hop/rap/rock) noon to 2 am. SET Boutique Her Majesty Saturdays Heather Van Viper. Sneaky Dee’s Shake-A-Tail. Tower Automotive Building Foundry Music & Arts Festival Purity Ring (DJ set), Shigeto, Blue Hawaii, Katie Stelmanis doors 10 pm. See preview, page 46.

Sunday, March 16 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

Hawaii Bar The Experiment Anthony Smith & Blaine Donais (funk/groove) 9:30 pm. The Hideout Geoff Unplugged (acoustic rock) 10 pm. Hirut Fine Ethiopian Cuisine Acoustic Open Stage Nicola Vaughan (pop rock) 3 to 6 pm. Imperial Pub The Fairest and Best 8:30 pm. Lake Affect Lounge Parkside Drive (rock) 4:30 to 8:30 pm. Linsmore Tavern Pat Perez & John Dickie Band (R&B) 3 to 7 pm. Orbit Room Horshack (classic rock/bangers) 10 pm.

Rivoli Dylan Murray, Empire’s New Clothes, Concord Coterie, Immortal Jellyfish doors 8 pm.

Folk/Blues/Country/World

Black Bear Pub Jam SNAFU 3:30 to 7:30 pm. The Cage 292 Jam Phill Hood 10 pm. Cameron House Front Room Kristine

Schmitt & her Special Powers 6-9 pm. Cameron House The Double Cuts 10 pm. C’est What The Wordman of Alcatraz, Jennifer LFO, Tom Carson, Shawn William Clarke doors 6:30 pm. Free Times Cafe Gordon’s Acoustic Living Room 8 pm, Jewish Brunch Buffet Mitch Smolkin & Nina Shapilsky 11 am. Full of Beans Coffee Full Of Beans Sundays Peter Eastmure 2 to 4 pm. Gladstone Hotel Ballroom Acoustic Family Bluegrass Brunch 10 am to 2 pm. Grossman’s The National Blues Jam Brian Cober (double slide guitar) 10 pm. Handlebar Sunday Jump The Fugitive Minds, Miss Herbassshifts (reggae/Afrobeat) 8 pm. Hawaii Bar Arnd Jürgensen (blues/country/ folk/improvised) 4 pm. Hugh’s Room De Temps Antan 8:30 pm. The Jazz Bistro Josh White Jr (blues/folk/jazz) 7 pm. Lee’s Palace Sea Perry, Robb Hill, Scoop Trumbull & the Wrong Notes (folk/indie). Lithuanian House Martynas Levickis (accordion) 3 pm. The Local Young Running (indie folk) 9 pm, Chris Coole (old-time/roots) 5 to 7 pm. Lou Dawg’s Gospel Choir Southern Brunch noon. Lula Lounge Sunday Brunch Jorge Maza Group (salsa) 1 pm. Opera Bob’s The Ole Fashion (old country/ folk) 9 pm. The Painted Lady Junik w/ Giampaolo Scattoza, Richard Underhill, Steve Pelletier, Michael Occhipinti 8 pm. Relish Bar & Grill Stir It Up Sundays Open Mic Paul Brennan, David MacMichael 9 pm. The Rex Dr Nick & the Rollercoasters (blues) 3:30 pm. Southside Johnny’s Open Jam Rebecca Matiesen & Phoenix 9:30 pm. Tranzac Southern Cross Convergence Ensemble 10 pm, Happening w/ Scott Thomson 7:30 pm, Monk’s Music 5 pm, Alaniaris (3 pm), Quebecois Jam (1 pm). Tranzac Main Hall Puppy Love 7 pm. Windermere United Church Children’s Concert Splash ‘n Boots 2 pm.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

Edward Johnson Building Walter Hall

Mooredale Concerts Guillermo González (piano) 3:15 pm. Gate 403 Brown-Talsky Jazz Quintet 9 pm, Joanne Morra & the France St Trio 5 to 8 pm. Grossman’s New Orleans Connection All Star Jazz Band 4:30 to 9 pm. The Jazz Bistro Don Francks 8 pm, Wibi (a continued on page 54 œ

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Neutral Milk Hotel Sam Roberts Band HEY ROSETTA . Gaslight Anthem Local Natives . Gogol Bordello Violent Femmes . Gary Clark Jr Andrew Bird . Steve Earle . Jenny Lewis drive by truckers . shovels & rope . Born Ruffians deer tick . Hollerado . Black Joe Lewis . Man Man Pokey Lafarge . paper kites . The Strumbellas . lucius Joyce Manor . The Waco Brothers . Willie Nile Band The Stanfields . New Country Rehab . Noah Gundersen Old Man Markley . andrew jackson jihad Sam Cash & The Romantic Dogs . tift merritt The London Souls . Devin Cuddy Band . caitlin rose

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THURS TRIBUTE MAR 13 $12.00 @ Door

DAVE MATTHEWS

FRI MAR14

SAT MAR 15

$20.00 adv

$30.00 wknd

LEMON BUCKET

ORKESTRA 14th w/ GYPSY JUMBIA ORCHESTRA 15th w/ RAYA BRASS BAND

SUN MAR 16 $5.00 @ Door

SEA PERRY

NO QUARTER FRI MAR 21

FRI. MAR.28

$10.00 @ Door

$15.00 @ Door

LED ZEPPELIN TRIBUTE

GUNSLINGERS

GUNS ‘N’ ROSES TRIBUTE

SAT CD RELEASE PARTY! MAR 22 COLD CREEK $10.00 @ Door

GG COLE & LAKEVIEW

SUN K

TUESDAY, MARCH 25 $18.00

THE DARCYS

@ Door $15.00 Adv

SCOOP TRUMBULL & THE WRONG NOTES

DANIEL MENDEZ

THU FOLKESQUE FEATURING: MAR 20

REUBEN & THE DARK

OL’ SAVANNAH

$20.00 CHINA BONES @ Door STICK AND POKE

DARREN EDENS

SUNDAY, MARCH 23 • $TBA

BLACK PASTELS

ROBB HILL

COUNTY

TUE. APR. 3 $10.00 @ Door

SATURDAY MARCH 15

MOD CLUB • $16.50 adv • All-Ages

PHOENIX • $26.50 advance

THU MAR 13

A TRIBUTE TO

$12.50 Adv

PHISH SAT. MAR.29

$20.00 Adv $23.00 @ Door

RON HAWKINS AND THE

DO GOOD ASSASSINS

BY DIVINE RIGHT

DUM DUM

LINDY

CUFF THE DUKE

FRI MAR 14 $15.00 Adv

GIRLS with

TRISH ROBB

BLOUSE

TUE MAR 18

Bookie’s New Music Night

No Cover

THE FISCALS 60 LPS GREG McEVOY

THE KETAMINE GIRLS

THU MAR 20 $10.00 Adv

Out!

BEND

$20.00 Adv • $25.00 Door

HAWKSLEY WORKMAN RYAN DHALE | STEVE BYS

THE

MOUNTIES

ESCONDIDO

ZEPOLOGY THE ZOLAS

MON MAR 17 $15.00 @ Door

LED ZEPPELIN TRIBUTE

ANNUAL MARTIAN AWARENESS BALL w/ MARY M OHARA

SAT MAR 22

HOUNDMOUTH THE

$17.50 Adv

WOODEN

DUSTED with

THE PEOPLE

MUSIC CITY SUN MAR 23 NORTH FESTIVAL STREET LIGHT $10.00 SOCIAL @ Door

$10.00 Adv

Bookie’s New Music Night TUE MAR 25

OCEAN

NOISE RLMDL No Cover

GLASS TOWERS

LUKE AUSTIN

KATIE DOIDGE Shoeless Mondays MON MAR 24 THE TUNGSTEN HUM No Cover AMAZING DUDE NEW NOBLES

THU MAR 27 $13.50 Adv

Sold Out!

DIVE SAT MAR 29 $10.00 Adv

BIBLICAL PUBLIC ANIMAL HOLLOW EARTH

TUESDAY APRIL 22

THE HOLD STEADY

THE PHOENIX • $ 19.00 adv

CHEAP GIRLS

WITH PURE X THE PHOENIX • $ 29.50 advance

FRI. MAR.28

SHEARWATER DEATH VESSEL + JESSICA HOOP

SUNDAY MARCH 23 @OPERA HOUSE • $ 19.00 advance WEDNESDAY APRIL 9 @THE PHOENIX • $ 20.00 advance

THURSDAY MARCH 27

I HATE TODD ROTARY DIAL No Cover GINGER ALE & THE MONO WALES GIRAFFE WED. MAR.26

LAKESTREET SKY FOSTER

SINISTER PICK BROTHERS BAND

ISLANDS BOX TIGER SATURDAY, MARCH 15 $12.50 Adv

SATURDAY, APRIL 5

WED MAR 19

GOODNIGHT SUNRISE

FRI MAR 21

BEAMS Sold

with

WITH GOLDEN SUN • HRVRD

FRIDAY MARCH 21

LIZARDS

MON APRIL 7 @OPERA HOUSE $19.50 advance • All-Ages

TUESDAY$ APRIL 29 OPERA HOUSE • 24.50 adv • All-Ages

FRIDAY MAY 2 THE PHOENIX • $ 28.50 adv NATURAL CHILD

SAM COFFEY & THE IRON LUNGS

BIG BLACK DELTA + ROMAN REMAINS

WITH ARSON WED APRIL 9 @OPERA HOUSE • $ 20.50 adv

WITH TRASH TALK

APRIL 17 • $ 16.50 advance

VACATIONEERS HELLO

SATURDAY APRIL 5 @MOD CLUB $23.50 advance • All-Ages

JULIE RUIN WITH SCREAMING FEMALES

THURSDAY MARCH 27 LEE’S PALACE • $ 15.00 adv

PIANOS BECOME THE TEETH + MANSIONS

COMEBACK KID

TUESDAY, JUNE 3 OPERA HOUSE $17.00 adv

THURSDAY APRIL 10 LEE’S PALACE • $ 20.00 adv

MAY 18 •

$ 17.50

SUNDAY APRIL 13

LEE’S PALACE • $ 18.50 adv

advance

FU MANCHU advance

THE MAD CADDIES JUNE 13 • $ 16.50 advance

MURDER BY DEATH JUNE 23 • $ 18.50 advance

NICE PETER

MOD CLUB • $ 20.00 advance

THE MENZINGERS POLICA

MARCH 21 • $ 10.00 advance

THE DIRTY NIL

SUNDAY APRIL 6 $ HORSESHOE • 15.00 adv

WEDNESDAY APRIL 9 HORSESHOE • $ 15.50 adv

MONDAY MARCH 31 LEE’S PALACE • $ 20.00 adv

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BUDOS BAND

TUESDAY APRIL 15 $ LEE’S PALACE • 16.50 adv

MARY OCHER

PLEASURE LEFTISTS + GREYS

THURS MARCH 27 @ HARD LUCK • $16.50 adv

RON POPE

SATURDAY APRIL 18

LEE’S PALACE • $ 15.00 ADVANCE

AVEY TARE’S SLASHER FLICKS WITH DUSIN WONG

APRIL 9 • $ 10.00 advance

HELLSHOVEL • $ 13.50 advance

S. CAREY

APRIL 19 • $ 15.50 advance

LEE’S PALACE • $ 21.50 advance

FRIDAY APRIL 11 HORSESHOE • $ 10.50 adv

MARCH 23 • $ 12.00 advance

• HORSESHOE TAVERN • APRIL 21 • $ 12.50 advance

KADAVAR APRIL 23 • $ 12.50 adv

CRUMMY STUFF + THE DIRTY FRIGS

SATURDAY APRIL 26

HOLLY GO LIGHTLY MAY 3 • $ 15.00 advance

THE PAINS OF BATHS BEING PURE EMA AT HEART

HORSESHOE • $ 13.00 ADVANCE

MAY 6 • $ 13.50 advance

APRIL 15 • $ 10.00 advance

BETTY WHO APRIL 19

THURSDAY JUNE 12

THE ROYAL CROWNS

APRIL 12 • $ 11.00 advance

POTTYMOUTH

THE

NOTWIST

MARIJUANA DEATHSQUADS

APRIL 10 • $ 9.00 advance

CONNAN MOCKASIN MAY 16 •

TUESDAY JUNE 3

FRIDAY MAY 9 THE PHOENIX $20.00 adv COUNTERPARTS • BACKTRACK • ALPHA & OMEGA • GREENERY

MAY 5 • $ 15.00 advance $ 18.50

AMINTY AFFLICATION • SECRETS • HEARTIST

MAY 1 • $13.00 advance

LO-FANG MAY 16 •

$ 10.50

advance

DELETED SCENES JUNE 13 • $ 10.50 advance

JESSICA LEA MAYFIELD GEMINI CLUB

MAY 14 • $ 15.00 advance

W/ FEAR OF MEN

& ABLEBODY

SOHN

MON MAY 12 @ HARD LUCK • $12.50 adv

EVAN DANDO

MAY 24 • $ 18.50 advance

SEAHAVEN

• HORSESHOE TAVERN •

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Folk/Blues/Country/World

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cappella group) 12:30 pm.

Morgans on the Danforth Girl’s Night Out

THURSDAY MARCH 13

SATURDAY MARCH 15

East Jam Lisa Particelli (jazz) 2 to 5 pm. Nawlins Jazz Bar Brooke Blackburn (solo guitar jazz/blues) 7 to 10 pm. The Rex Barry Romberg’s Strictly from Prehistoric 9:30 pm, Richard Whiteman 7 pm, Excelsior Dixieland Jazz noon. Round Venue CD release Snappy Homefry, DJ LumberJockey 9 pm. Trinity St. Paul’s Church Creature To Creature Talisker Players, Norine Burgess, Geoffrey Sirett (mezzo soprano, baritone) 3:30 pm.

PRESENTED BY COLLECTIVE CONCERTS

Monday, March 17

RYERSON FASHION SHOW FRIDAY MARCH 14

PRESENTED BY OZMOZIS

JOHN’OO’FLEMING ALEX DI STEFANO

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LYDIA

Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

Drake Hotel Underground Elvis Monday doors 9:30 pm.

SUNDAY MARCH 16

PFionn MacCool’s Esplanade St Patrick’s

PRESENTED BY SMALL WORLD MUSIC

PAINTED ON WATER THURSDAY MARCH 20 PRESENTED BY UNION EVENTS

G-EAZY SATURDAY MARCH 22 PRESENTED BY LIVE NATION

THE STRYPES SATURDAY MARCH 22 PRESENTED BY BOUNDBYSOUND

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Day Week Of Craic Nisha, Bent Nail, the Mere Mortals. PThe Hideout Paddys Day Festivities Big Otter Creek, the World Is Yours (rock) 11 am to close. Horseshoe Martian Awareness Ball Mary Margaret O’Hara. Kitch Hypnotic Lounge Series Luke Vajsar (solo bass) 9:30 pm. PLake Affect Lounge St Patty’s Day Party Freedom Train (rock/top 40) 10 pm, the David Love Band 5 to 9 pm, Joe Reynolds Band & Dale Roossien noon to 4 pm. POrbit Room St Patty’s Day party Horshack (rock/blues) 10 pm. PRivoli St Paddy’s Day Saigon Hookers, Fandemics, Creepy Echo doors 8 pm. The Sister M.I.P., Johnny Awesome & the Good Tones, Coppleganger, Mark Watts. PSouthside Johnny’s St Patrick’s Day Skip Tracer (rock/top 40 ) 9:30 pm, Kat House (rock/top 40) 4 to 8 pm. PTattoo A Night On The Lash The Mahones, DJ Stu (punk) doors 8 pm.

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DOCTOR P

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Jazz/Classical/Experimental

Gate 403 Bianca 9 pm, Jeffrey Hewer Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. The Rex Humber College Student Jazz Ensembles 9:30 pm, U of T Student Jazz Ensembles 6:30 pm. The Yukon The Parkdale Organization (jazz organ trio) 7:30 to 10:30 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

Alleycatz Salsa Night DJ Frank Bischun 8 pm. PCavern Bar St. Patrick’s Day DJ Sash 7 pm. PCrawford St Pats DJs Lacey & Tammy (Irish classics/hip-hop/R&B/reggae) 7 pm.

Dance Cave Manic Mondays DJ Shannon (ret-

ro 70s/80s) 10 pm.

Drake Hotel Sky Yard St Patio’s Day doors 11 am.

PGladstone Hotel Melody Bar St Paddy’s

Day DJs A Frick, Christian Hamilton 7 to 11 pm. PGuvernment I’m Shmacked – St Patrick’s Day DJ Diggy doors 5 pm. Handlebar Secret Meeting Moon McMullen & Barbapoppa 9 pm. Johnny Jackson 90s Party DJ Fawn BC doors 10 pm. The Piston JunkShop (indie rock/electro) 9 pm. Reposado Mezcal Mondays DJ Ellis Dean.

Tuesday, March 18 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

Axis Gallery & Grill Derek Downham 10 pm. The Garrison Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr, Chad Valley doors 8 pm. See preview, page 50. ñ Gate 403 Danny Marks & Alec Fraser Duo

(pop) 9 pm.

March 13-19 2014 NOW

cals, 60 LPS, Greg McEvoy, the Ketamine Girls. Massey Hall Pat Metheny Unity Group 8 pm. Orbit Room The Sattalites (reggae) 10 pm. Rivoli Spookey Ruben’s Dizzy Playground Show Processor, Steve ‘Lips’ Kudlow (Anvil) 9 pm. Smiling Buddha Permanent Ruin, Column of Heaven, Gaucho, Anxiety (hardcore/punk) 8 pm, all ages.

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MARCH

Grossman’s Nicola Vaughan (pop rock) 9:30 pm. The Hideout Jeans Off Duo (acoustic rock) 10 pm. Horseshoe Bookie’s New Music Night The Fis-

MRG CONCERTS presents:

MARCH

Bar Radio Manic Monday Songwriter Open Mic Scott B Sympathy (singer/songwriter) 8 to 11 pm. Cameron House Rucksack Willies 10 pm, C&C Surf Factory 8 pm, Chris Weatherstone 6 pm. Dakota Tavern School Night Mondays Danny Michel. PDora Keogh All Day St Patrick’s Day Party. PEstonian House St Patrick’s Day The Wolfe Tones (Irish /rebel music) doors 6 pm. Free Times Cafe Open Stage Monday Alex Zdravkovic 7:30 pm. Grossman’s Jam No Band Required 9 pm. Hawaii Bar Blues Monday Sugar Brown (blues) 9:30 pm. The Local Hamstrung String Band 9 pm. On Cue Ken Yoshioka (blues) 8 pm. The Painted Lady Open Mic Mondays 10 pm. Tranzac Southern Cross Open Mic Mondays 9 pm.

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Bar Radio Matty Powell (roots) 10 pm. Cameron House Harlan Pepper 10 pm, John Showman & Tom Powers 6 pm.

C’est What The Name Droppers, James Car-

roll, TC Folkpunk doors 8:30 pm. The Duke Live.com Open Jam Jon Long 8:30 pm. Free Times Cafe Stephen Macdonald 8:30 pm. Hugh’s Room Sharon Corr 8:30 pm. The Local Gypsy Rebels (gypsy folk) 9 pm. Lou Dawg’s Tangled Up In The Blues Chris Caddell, Cassius Pereira, Kenny Neal Jr 8 pm. Lula Lounge Marcio Faraco (Brazilian) 8:30 pm. Old Nick Live Forum Jennifer Brewer 9:30 pm. The Painted Lady Ababe Music Showcase The Goatbox Rebels, The Stormalongs, Sarah Sidd, Eight Cubed 9 pm. Press Club Toast n’ Jam Open Stage Paddy Townsend 10 pm. 751 Open Mic The Stoopids 10 pm. Tranzac Southern Cross Chris Wallace 7:30 pm.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre

Virtuoso Masterworks Haiou Zhang (piano) noon to 1 pm. Gate 403 David Rubel Music 5 to 8 pm.

D-Sisive rap

Derek Christoff makes first stabs at media mogulhood By Julia Leconte

D-Sisive with Adam bomb and techtwelve at the Drake Underground (1150 Queen West), tonight (Thursday, March 13), doors 9 pm. $10. 416-5315042.

Over lunch at Albert’s Real Jamaican on St. Clair West, down the road from where Derek Christoff, aka DSisive, grew up, the rapper fills me in on his plan to become “Canada’s majorest mogul.” He’s kidding, sort of. Frustrated by the lack of attention from record labels and inspired by comedian Marc Maron and Vice co-founder Gavin McInnes, Christoff is branching out – launching the Desolate Collective alongside his musical partner, Rob Baker (aka Moonshine). “I don’t even know how to describe it,” says Christoff, neglecting his butter chicken to talk in depth about his passion project. “It’s a ‘record label slash’; I’m doing zines, so ‘publisher slash’; ‘podcast production slash merchandiser.’ I’m releasing my own music solely through it, and I’m trying to make it a big fucking circus.” The inaugural Desolate Radio podcast premieres March 24; SleepyTime With Orville Knoblich (in which Christoff reads classic children’s stories aloud) goes up Monday (March 17); and a new recording called Desolate The Mixtape drops March 29 – Christoff’s birthday and also Juno weekend. (He’s nominated for his fourth.) Christoff gives me sneak peeks on his laptop. The podcast is a quirky mashup of old tunes and hilarious sound bites. The bedtime stories have a spooky undercurrent that makes them entertaining for adults

while still straightforward enough for kids. His new logo – a stuffedanimal bunny perched between two scary-looking plague doctor masks – jibes with the overall left-field vibe. “It’s a lot of work, but it’s fun. A lot of people get the impression that I’m this dark and depressed person because most of my music is dark and d epressing. So I don’t blame them for thinking it. Sure, we all feel that, and I tap into that side of me, but this [project] is not that at all.” Christoff has been prolific of late, releasing nine albums in five years. He’s been mulling over the Desolate Collective for a while. “It was an idea I got maybe two and a half years ago but never pursued because I had my 9-to-5 and I was making records at night and doing shows here and there. But I never really had the fear instilled in me to fully pursue it.” That changed when, a week before Christmas, Christoff lost his day job in the collections department of a website. The situation was especially dicey given that he and his girlfriend had a five-month-old baby. “I’m turning 34. I’m not a fucking old man, but in rap I’m a fucking old man. Even if the music I make doesn’t relate to ‘the rap world’ per se, I don’t wanna be 40, looking like John Goodman rapping, having my kid embarrassed,” he says, laughing. “I gotta go for this. I’m more than rap. I want to channel my creativity in other areas. “Now that it’s a serious time in my life when I have to make it work, it’s the best and only time to move forward,” he says decisively. No pun intended. 3 julial@nowtoronto.com | @julialeconte

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C!C!C! at the Junos We’ve all heard stories of YouTube randoms impressing superstars with cover renditions of their songs. Well, super-sized Toronto community singing group Choir! Choir! Choir! have done just that with their cover of Tegan & Sara’s Closer. The siblings liked it so much that they’ve invited C!C!C! directors Nobu Adilman and Daveed Goldman to perform alongside them at the Junos ceremony on March 30. But instead of having the entire choir come to Winnipeg for the ceremony, the Quin sisters are assembling one made up of 20-plus fans. To take part, upload a video to YouTube of you singing Closer a cappella, title it “Closer Choir Submission” and tweet it with the hashtag #CloserChoir. Check teganandsara.com for contest rules.

mystery at massey Rumour has it that Massey Hall has yet another innovative concert series up its sleeve. A little bird told us that a new set of shows coming this spring and summer will feature bright young Canadian artists who might not have reached Neil Young status just yet but are well on their way to big careers. The shows will also give patrons on a budget the opportunity to experience the historic landmark: tickets will be very reasonably priced. Listen up for an official announcement (complete with artists and dates) on Wednesday (March 19).

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Monsoon Season (New Damage) Rating: NNNN Toronto hard rockers Biblical don’t sound like they listen to much modern music, but that doesn’t mean their work is derivative. Unless there was some obscure psychedelic-surf-metal scene in the early 70s that we’re unaware of. In retrospect, it seems like an obvious win to mix the menacing surf guitar twang of Link Wray and Dick Dale with the throbbing sludge rock riffage of Soundgarden and Kyuss. The vocals are mixed strangely low throughout, but that helps make the guitars and drums thunderously loud and provides space for the proggy organ bits to swirl around. Monsoon Season could fit on classic rock radio, but the songs are quirky enough to attract indie crowds, too. The epic 11-and-a-half-minute title track pushes the six-song record out of EP range and into short album territory. If only more stoner rock bands understood the value of a concise, excess-free record. Top track: All Justice, No Peace Biblical play the Horseshoe March 29. BENJAMIN BOLES er-space production (Can A Nigga Hit It) only add to the party. Incredibly seductive. Top track: Different Type Of Love JULIA LECONTE

Pop/Rock KYLIE MINOGUE Kiss Me Once

Hip-hop 100S Ivry (Fool’s Gold)

Rating: NNNN On 100s’ latest EP, the Berkeley, California, rapper further defines the smooth persona introduced on his debut mixtape, Ice Cold Perm. There are elements here that recall SNL skits like Dick In A Box or Ladies Man, but Ivry’s not haha funny. It will make you smile till your face hurts as you press repeat for the 16th time, but to steal one of his song titles, 100s isn’t “fuckin around.” He presents himself with sophistication, and you take him seriously as a legit mack rapper rather than a farcical Snoop Dogg type wearing ridiculous oversize velvet or fur. Ivry’s first two tracks are its most straightforward hip-hop. Then he swings full throttle into 70s funk beats and 90s soul grooves for the remainder. The record is as much R&B as it is rap, in fact: Rick Jamesian musicality with an André 3000-evoking spit style. Flourishes like pulsing 80s beats and retro-future vocoder tricks (Different Type Of Love), classic West Coast hip-hop rhythms (Slide On Ya) and twinkly, stuttering out-

(Warner/Parlophone) Rating: NN For more than a quarter-century, Kylie Minogue has been able to maintain her pop queen status by rarely straying from her fun and frothy formula. And here again, she’s convened an enviable conga line of producers/songwriters, including Pharrell Williams, Ariel Rechtshaid and Sia Furler, to work on her 12th album. Kiss Me Once finds Minogue trying out new sounds, but the best songs conform to her glam dance-pop aesthetic. The album starts strong with classic Kylie banger Into The Blue, but it suddenly succumbs to faddishness on nondescript disco tune Sexy Love and the weirdly dated dubstep track Sexercize – a promising title but ultimately too murky and overproduced to work as camp. Williams breaks his production hot streak of late with I Was Gonna Cancel, a bit of pleasant-sounding filler. The self-explanatory Feels So Good, Rechtshaid-helmed ballad If Only and croaking club jam Les Sex (which lives up to its playful title) salvage the album’s latter half. Top track: If Only KEVIN RITCHIE

KEVIN DREW Darlings (Arts & Crafts) Rating: NNN Broken Social Scene’s ongoing hiatus hasn’t stifled its members’ creativity, most notably that of co-founder Kevin Drew. On his 2007 solo debut Spirit If…, Drew

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was still backed by BSS, and the ramshackle vibe recalled the band’s 2005 selftitled release. Darlings, on the other hand, showcases the singer’s intensely personal and sexual poetry. Never the subtlest of lyricists, he’s showing a new vulnerability in his songwriting. Drew repeats his mantras amidst languid slices of comforting pop that’s well suited to the pre-dawn hours. The airy, almost Bono-like You Gotta Feel It features Drew’s playful marimba but never strays into a festering jam, as many BSS songs are wont to do. Most tunes, in fact – like the hopeful acoustic opener Body Butter – are concise and to the point. A few verses drag out too long, but Drew’s storytelling remains firmly in the foreground. Top track: Bullshit Ballad Kevin Drew plays Field Trip June 7. JOSHUA KLOKE

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Lost In The Dream (Secretly Canadian) Rating: The War on Drugs make the old new. The Philadelphia band’s third album, like their 2011 breakthrough, Slave Ambient, brings to mind a more hypnotic Springsteen, a more sprawling Tom Petty, a less verbose

Bob Dylan, a hazier Fleetwood Mac. But then there are the motorik drum loops, and always that heavy, somewhat bleak backdrop of reverbdrenched keyboards and guitars. Adam Granduciel, the band’s songwriter, guitarist, singer and producer, spent the last two years layering and then obsessively sculpting the 10 songs into evocative modern-Americana masterpieces. Take seven-minute An Ocean In Between The Waves, a master class in how to subtly build, tear down and then rebuild a song for greatest impact (and most transcendent ending – those Springsteen hoots!). Or, if you love uplifting Heartland hooks, Red Eyes delivers big. The lyrics are buried and impressionistic, referencing disappearing, darkness and an inability to see. The album may have been borne in a fog, but the result finds Granduciel on the other side of the murk. Top track: Red Eyes The War on Drugs play the Horseshoe on April 14 and Lee’s Palace April 15. CARLA GILLIS

SALLY SELTMANN Hey Daydreamer (Arts & Crafts) Rating: NN Australian singer/songwriter Sally Seltmann is best known in Canada for co-writing Feist’s breakthrough song 1,2,3,4. It takes a certain something (Feist has it) to make that song not insipid. Seltmann has a lovely voice – high, clear, with just enough breath. Unfortunately, Hey Daydreamer employs 1,2,3,4’s cutesiness without the edge and mystique that could prevent it from veering toward twee. In fact, many songs (Holly Drive, Catch Of The Day) seem more suited to a children’s album than a mainstream pop release. Songs like Needle In The Hay that combine major-key, classical-leaning piano with fast-paced diction and a hint of country twang are far more interesting. And the title track proves Seltmann knows how to write a catchy tune. Elsewhere, bursts of brass and harp flare up now and then, providing sonic diversity and interest. More of that colouring outside the lines would be welcome. Otherwise, there’s a lot of sweet cooing but not much to get excited about. Top track: Needle In The Hay JL

BLACK LIPS Underneath The Rainbow (Vice) Rating: NN It can be confusing underneath the rainbow, as evidenced by Black Lips’ scattershot Southern-influenced seventh album. At first, the Atlanta garage rock quartet seem to pick up where they left off after collaborating with megaproducer Mark Ronson on 2011’s Arabia Mountain. Drive By Buddy, Smiling and Make You Mine are a trio of driving songs full of boyish snottiness, harmonies and handclaps. But just when it starts to feel like the album is continuing in a high-powered vein, the Lips start sounding like they’re steering a chuckwagon. Working with co-producers Tommy Brenneck of the Dap-Kings and Patrick Carney of the Black Keys, the band lasso their messy energy and sneering phrasing with twangy riffs and galloping rhythms. Throw in the swampy blues ballad Boys In The Wood and the 60s garage rock novelty Do The Vibrate and it becomes even more random. Top track: Make You Mine Black Lips play the Phoenix April 22. KR

TENSNAKE Glow (Astralwerks/ Universal) Rating: NNN Tensnake’s inescapable 2010 club track Coma Cat turned German producer Marco Niemerski into an in-demand DJ and remixer. His effusive disco influences differentiated his dance tracks from his fellow Germans’ hard-edged techno, a style he makes even more accessible on his popcentric debut LP. When acts like Hot Natured, Storm Queen and Disclosure have top 40 hits in the UK and Daft Punk are winning Grammys, house-pop is having a moment. But Niemerski pushes further, clearly aiming to transcend trends. Glow is a modern, almost fetishistic reimagining of the escapist romance and shuffling grooves favoured by R&B acts of the 1980s like Prince. Beautifully produced earworms like the Nile Rodgers-featured Good Enough To Keep and Love Sublime could’ve soundtracked a montage sequence in Breakin’, while housey bass lines buoy Aussie vocalist Fiona on No Relief and See Right Through. Tensnake mostly favours brisk tempos, though the sultry ballad 58bpm makes you wish he slowed the pace more often. Top track: Love Sublime KR

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THEATRE REVIEWS

Brendan Gall and Lesley Faulkner inhabit Lungs’ cute, complex couple.

Show storm There’s a play for every taste in this week’s roundup of the latest hot (and cold) offerings RELATIONSHIP DRAMEDY

Deep breaths LUNGS by Duncan Macmillan (Tarragon, 30 Bridgman). Runs to March 30. $21-$53, $13 rush Friday and Sunday. 416-531-1827. See Continuing, page 61. Rating: NNNN

Many couples struggle with the question of whether or not to have a child. It’s at the core of Duncan Macmillan’s Lungs, threatening at different moments to tear apart a young couple called simply M (Brendan Gall) and W (Lesley Faulkner) or cement their relationship. In the hands of director Weyni Mengesha and the actors, the thorny discussion makes for thrilling theatre even if the characters’ back-andforthing often covers the same ground. It’s M who first brings up the topic as the two shop in Ikea (there are lots of comic moments, laughs grounded in the personalities of W and M) leading to an angst attack for W. Though they see themselves as good people, concerned with their carbon footprint and so on, they wonder

if they should bring a child into a troubled world, whether they’ll turn into their own parents, and if they’re the right people to raise an impressionable infant. The baby issue spills over into the other stresses facing the couple, including affairs, attitudes toward sex,

Richard Zeppieri, Mina James, Elizabeth Saunders and Maggie Huculak address 6 Essential Questions.

jobs and whether they should get married. Macmillan’s clever script has the feel of everyday speech rather than scripted lines, but the play’s final third, when these other matters come to the fore, is its most impressive. W is the more voluble of the two, constantly to-and-froing in her opin-

ions and self-confidence, and Faulkner expertly catches the woman’s anxiety and tendency to tie herself in emotional knots. M seems more grounded, but Gall suggests there’s on ocean of neurosis beneath the surface; he just doesn’t like to talk about it. Macmillan uses instantaneous

transitions in time and space, and the direction makes those shifts seamless and sometimes breathtaking. The last few minutes of the play, telescoping several decades into recognizable phrases that tell us where and when we are, are beautifully realized.

FAMILY FANTASY

James), demands the truth from her larger-than-life mother. Properly filling the stage, the redgowned Elizabeth Saunders is vibrant and irrepressible, with an endless list of reasons for liking herself. The reality she’s devised keeps her daughter at a distance. At the same time, Renata’s near-invisible uncle, Doctor Garbage (Richard Zeppieri), tries to get her to look at her evasive parent from another angle. The story becomes even more surreal with the addition of Renata’s possibly dead grandmother (Maggie Huculak) to the action, which takes place on Victoria Wallace’s set, a garbage dump filled with memories of the past. Director Leah Cherniak mines the comedy, which has echoes of Monty Python and the Marx Brothers. She also

provides moments of sadness and frustration beneath the smiles, but the scattered script doesn’t add up to a satisfying whole. There’s lots of good work by the cast, especially Saunders’s exotic, energetic mother and Huculak’s sensual, wistful, fantasizing grandmother. Zeppieri is often mesmerizing in the trickster role, prodding Renata toward uncomfortable truths. But until that final hard confrontation, the script casts James as a neutral figure, someone with whom it’s hard to empathize or identify. I wish the production had had a larger budget, which could have made the show’s magic more spectacular and highlighted its tender moments, which include several Brazilian songs, one of which emerges from a purse.

Broken pieces 6 ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS by Priscila Uppal (Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst). To March 30. $27-$42, Sunday pwyc. 416-504-9971. See Continuing, page 61. Rating: NNN

Priscila Uppal’s 6 Essential Questions has the feel of a riotous Rio Carnival: it’s raucous, in your face, often entertaining and leaves you with a jumble of images that are hard to piece together. The script, Uppal’s first, is based on her memoir about tracking down and questioning the mother who left her Canadian family and returned home to Brazil when Uppal was a child. The play stays in the realm of diverting magic realism until near the end, when the writer’s surrogate, Renata (Mina

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Solo drama

Spirits rise IN SPIRIT by Tara Beagan (Native Earth Performing Arts). At Aki Studio, Daniels Spectrum (585 Dundas East). Runs to Sunday (March 16). $20. nativeearth.ca/inspirit. See Continuing, page 61. Rating: NNNN

Tara Beagan’s In Spirit distills the tragic disappearance of hundreds of native women along BC’s Highway of Tears into a powerful theatrical experience. The playwright/director makes the tragedy even more poignant by making her central figure a vibrant 12-year-old. Excited preteen Molly has just gotten a new bike and rides over to show it to a friend. The solo show looks at

past and present to reveal not only what’s shaped her life but also to suggest the loss to the community of this intelligent, caring child. At first, Molly (Sera-Lys McArthur) is forthcoming but a little shy and uncertain as she rises from the ground to address the audience. When she looks for familiar faces in the darkness across the footlights, the fourth wall dissolves and we’re involved in her journey. As she gathers and assembles the parts of her bike scattered around the stage, she recalls her many dogs (all hit by cars, an implicit parallel to the disappeared women), her comforting grandmother, unconscious racism at her school, being asked to be someone’s girlfriend, and a growing awareness that aboriginal people are on the news only when bad things happen. Beagan’s writing is detailed and live-

epic drama

It Wanders THE WANDERERS by Kawa Ada (Cahoots). At Buddies in Bad Times (12 Alexander). To March 23. $20-$37, Sun pwyc. 416-9758555. See Continuing, page 61. Rating: NN

Sera-Lys McArthur gets into the Spirit of things in powerful solo show.

from the past and carefully placed sounds, including the bike’s bell. In Spirit, though perfectly straightforward, packs a cumulative emotional wallop, asking viewers simply to care about the loss of a precious JON KAPLAN life.

ly, McArthur’s performance open and generous, subtly revealing the love this child knows and shares. Just as important to the show’s success is Andy Moro’s production design: the hard but beaten metal backdrop, projections of imagery

Kawa Ada is one of the city’s most promising actors – just ask anyone who saw his riveting performance as a sleazy realtor in Nicolas Billon’s Iceland. His debut as a playwright, The Wan derers, although a mbitious and wellmeaning, is less auspicious. The epic, multi-generational play follows the fortunes of an Afghan family from 1978 Kabul to Ontario in the 1980s and 2010s. Aman is an Afghan chess champion who emigrates to Toronto with his clever wife, Mariam. While he’s working here at a pizza parlour, his son Roshan is born. Nearly three decades later, an embittered, gay Roshan con-

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Seagull soars THE SEAGULL by Anton Chekhov,

directed by Peggy Coffey (the Chekhov Collective). At Berkeley Street Theatre (26 Berkeley). To March 23. $22$45. 416-368-3110. See Continuing, page 61. Rating: NNNN

When Chekhov wrote The Seagull in 1896, he described it as a comedy, which is a bit of a stretch. Like his other best-known plays, this one is full of tragedy and intense psychological introspection, and certainly won’t leave you laughing. Faithfully rendered by the Chekhov Collective, a group of actors who came together last year to explore and mount this show using acting techniques developed by Michael Chekhov (the playwright’s nephew), the strong 10-member ensemble impresses with gripping performances throughout. Set on a country estate in summer, the story revolves around Arkadina (Rena Polley), a famous actor who is visiting her frail older brother Sorin (Greg Ellwand). The party of guests

also includes her lover, Trigorin (Patrick Garrow), an established author, as well as her frustrated and angst-ridden son Konstantin (Riley Gilchrist), who so far has failed in his attempts to become a writer. Tension rises when Arkadina ridicules Konstantine’s latest play and Trigorin becomes enamoured of a younger woman. Director Peggy Coffey nicely plays up the few comedic moments found in the lighter first two acts, before the play’s bleaker themes about frustrated youth and middle-age regret take hold. She foreshadows this coming storm with subtle word emphasis and loaded looks exchanged between characters. A scene in which Trigorin cautiously flirts with Nina (Nicole Wilson), the daughter of a neighbouring estate owner, is just one example of the extensive character work on display here. Convincingly realistic, the coy exchanges effectively reveal Chekhov’s dark subtext. Don’t go in expecting Chekhov’s version of light fare, but watching these characters unravel in spectacular form is well worth the downer of a JORDAN BIMM ride.

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fronts some family secrets. There’s some fine writing, particularly in 14-year-old Mariam’s opening monologue, performed with subtlety and energy by Dalal Badr. Ada integrates a lot about Afghanistan’s wartorn history with impressive skill. But there’s enough plot, not to mention literary, mythical and religious references, for three plays. The scenes, rather than accumulating power, become confusing. The links between characters we know little about are lost. And the Dalal Badr wavering reads Kawa tone and Ada’s fortune rampant in The symbolism Wanderers. feel messy. Director Nina Aquino tries to provide unity. She’s

particularly indebted – as is the play – to Wajdi Mouawad’s Scorched, which also deals with the legacy of war for a family. Camellia Koo’s dusty, sunbaked, circular set hammers home the cyclical nature of life and Michelle Bensimon’s sound design is minimal yet effective. Badr, Ada (who plays both Roshan and the young Aman) and Omar Alex Khan (who plays the older Aman and a biblically named character who could have been excised) all have fine moments. Only Melanie Janzen seems stuck in a bad play by Tennessee Williams (whose name pops up). You can tell a production’s not working when an audience doesn’t know when the play is over. GLENN SUMI

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Mixed couple MARRY ME A LITTLE by Stephen Sondheim (Tarragon). To April 6. $27-$53, rush $13. 416-531-1827. See Continuing, page 61. Rating: NNN

Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim is the best writer of musicals of the late 20th century. But his songs are so carefully integrated into his shows that to perform them out of context is jarring. A Sondheim cabaret or revue is one thing, but what about a show consisting of unrelated numbers with no dialogue, intros or interconnective narrative tissue? That’s what Craig Lucas and Norman René have done in 1980’s Marry Me A Little, originally set in separate Manhattan apartments to illustrate the loneliness of two unnamed characters. Over the years it’s been remounted with different concepts (a same-sex cast, four people instead of two). Now Adam Brazier directs a fascinating version at the Tarragon that imagines the beginning, middle and end of a relationship. “He” (Adrian Marchuk) is a set-in-his-ways composer who falls in love with a singer (Elodie Gillett). Soon “she” moves in with him, and things seem fine until she brings up marriage. Sondheim

shows never end happily, right? In Ken MacDonald’s eerily realistic loft space, Brazier’s direction is imaginative and inventive. The actors delve deeply into the songs, grounding their performance with specific details and echoing other shows, particularly Merrily We Roll Along and Company. A song cut from the latter, Happily Ever After, even contains lyrics from the famous song Being Alive. But alas, connecting the songs with what’s happening onstage is occasionally like forcing square pegs into round holes. Things just don’t fit. Sondheim’s lyrics are full of subtext in the mouths of real characters that’s lost when they’re sung by generic types. So while the actors are excellent, the direction brisk (including Paul Sportelli’s musical pacing) and Gareth Crew’s lighting atmospheric, it’s not a perfect marriage of content and style. On the other hand, Brazier has got the rights to use a song from the upcoming Into The Woods movie. So GLENN SUMI there’s that. Elodie Gillett and Adrian Marchuk help make Marry.

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Opening Belle Gunness: The Black Widow Of LaPorte by Justin Cummings and Peter Grant

Mackechnie (UC Follies Theatre Company). Based on a true story, this play looks at a woman who may have killed up to 40 people in 19th-century America. Opens Mar 14 and runs to Mar 22, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Mar 22 at 2 pm. $20, stu/srs $12. Al Green Theatre, 750 Spadina. 416-978-8849, uofttix.ca. Blackbird by Adam Rapp (Pinchback Productions). Two heroin addicts try to crawl out of the gutter on Christmas Eve in late-90s NYC. Opens Mar 14 and runs to Mar 23, Fri-Sun 8 pm, mat Mar 16 at 1 pm. $10-$15. Hub 14, 14 Markham. blackbird.brownpapertickets.com. A Brimful Of Asha by Ravi Jain (Why Not Theatre/Soulpepper). An Indo-Canadian man learns that his vacation is a wife-seeking scheme by his parents. Opens Mar 19 and runs to Mar 22, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat & Wed 2 pm. $25-$55. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. youngcentre.ca.

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The Carousel by Jennifer Tremblay (Nightwood Theatre). Driving along ñ Quebec’s north shore, a woman enters a

maze of memories as she travels to be with her dying mother. Opens Mar 13 and runs to Mar 30, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $25$45. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416-368-3110, nightwoodtheatre.net. Copy by Ryan Robinson (Two Chips Theatre Group). Five underpaid workers on the night shift discuss unfairness and unfulfilled dreams. Opens Mar 18 and runs to Mar 22, Tue-Sat 8 pm. $15. Sterling Studio Theatre, 163 Sterling, unit 5. twochipstheatre.com. The Crucible by Arthur Miller (Theatre & Performance Studies, UTSC). A small town is thrown into chaos with accusations of witchcraft in 1692 Massachusetts. Opens Mar 13 and runs to Mar 22, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm. $10, stu/srs $8. U of T Scarborough Campus, 1265 Military Trail, Leigha Lee Brown Theatre. 416208-2931, tc-utsc.eventbrite.com. Dark Matter (Circlesnake Productions). Captain Marlow must retrieve the brutal Kurtz from a distant space colony in this adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness. Opens Mar 14 and runs to Apr 6, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20, Sun pwyc ($10 reserved). The Storefront Theatre, 955 Bloor W. circlesnake.com. Into The Woods by James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim (Trinity College Dramatic Society). Characters from fairy tales reunite in a musical about wishes and consequences. Opens Mar 19 and runs to Mar 22, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $20, stu/srs $12. George Ignatieff Theatre, 15 Devonshire. 416-9788849, uofttix.ca. Lord Of The Flies by William Golding (Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts). Marooned on an island, school boys descend into violent chaos in this adaptation of the novel. Opens Mar 18 and runs to Mar 22, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $22. Annex Theatre, 730 Bathurst. 1-855-985-2787, ticketmaster.ca. Monster (Theatre P.O.V/Devised Theatre Festival). Drawing from the Brothers Grimm and Kafka, this play is about a fairy tale, a game and a young girl trying to make her parents happy. Mar 13-15, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $12, stu $10. York University Accolade East Bldg, 4700 Keele, room 207. facebook. com/DevisedTheatreFestival. The Rover by Aphra Behn (Theatre Erindale). The carnal adventures of Englishmen in Naples is depicted in this Restoration comedy. Opens Mar 13 and runs to Mar 23, Thu 7:30 pm, Fri-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm (no show Mar 16). $15, stu/srs $10. Erindale Studio Theatre at UTM, 3359 Mississauga Rd N, Mississauga. 905-569-4369, t heatreerindale.com. Sea Sick by Alanna Mitchell (Theatre Centre Carbon 14: Climate is Culture Performance Series). Mitchell’s solo performance looks at the secrets of the ocean. Opens Mar 19 and runs to Mar 23, Wed-Sun 8 pm. $25-$30. The Great Hall, 1087 Queen W, Black Box Theatre. 416-538-0988, theatrecentre.org.

UK Comedy Double Bill (Red Sandcastle Theatre). Comedic plays from international Fringe festivals include Alex Dallas in Nymphomania and Matt Panesh in Love Hurts Actually. Mar 14-15, Fri-Sat 8 pm. $20, stu/srs $15. 922 Queen E. redsandcastletheatre.com.

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New Jerusalem by David Ives (Harold Green Jewish Theatre). A Jewish philosopher’s radical ideas threaten his community’s safety in 17thcentury Amsterdam. Previews Mar 15-19, TueWed and Sat 8 pm, mat Wed 1 pm, Sun 2 pm. Opens Mar 20 and runs to Apr 13, Tue-Thu and Sat 8 pm, Sun 7 pm, mat Wed 1 pm, Sun 2 pm. $30-$60. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge, Studio Theatre. 1-855-985-2787, hgjewishtheatre.com.

One-Nighters

The Backyardigans: Sea Deep In Adventure

(Koba Entertainment). Characters from the TV show go underwater in this family musical. Mar 16 at 1 and 4 pm. $26-$36. Living Arts Centre, 4141 Living Arts, Mississauga. 905306-6000, livingartscentre.ca.

Helen Of Tronna’s Helluva Birthday Bash

(Bella Fox). This party features burlesque performances by Loretta Jean, Delicia Pastiche and others. Mar 16 at 8 pm. $15. Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas W. 416-588-0307, helensbday. brownpapertickets.com. Jean-Marc Massie: Delirium Tremens (Alliance Française). The Quebecois storyteller performs in French. Mar 14 at 7:30 pm. $10, stu/srs $5. 24 Spadina. alliance-francaise.ca. The Producers (A Platinum Production). This showcase features classic burlesque performances by Two Dames Productions, Red Herring and Regina Dentata. Mar 13 at 9:30 pm. $10. 3030 Dundas West, 647-400-2621, aplatinumproduction@live.com. Puppet Allsorts: The Spider Prince (Toronto Puppetry Collective). Arm’s Length Productions perform an all-ages puppet show. Mar 16 at 3 pm. $15. Metropolis Factory, 50 Edwin. puppetallsorts.com.

Continuing American Idiot by Billie Joe Armstrong and

Green Day (Mirvish). Three lifelong friends must choose between their dreams and the safety of suburbia in this musical based on the Green Day album. Runs to Mar 16, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 6:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm, Sun 1 pm. $45-$120. Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260 King W. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. 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

dance listings Opening Alegria Brasiliera: A Celebration Of Brazilian Culture Lula Lounge presents

performance by Capoeira Camara and Dance Migration plus live music. Mar 13 at 9:30 pm. $15. 1585 Dundas W. 416-588-0307, lula.ca.

Bollywood Dance Canada: The Competition

Broken Dance presents a team compettion plus exhibition acts performing hip-hop, bhangra and more. Mar 15, 4:30 to 9 pm. $25. Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, 6 Garamond. desiticket.ca.

Celtic Crossroads

Rose Theatre presents traditional Irish music and percussive dance. Mar 14 at 8 pm. $58$68. 1 Theatre Lane, Brampton. 905-874-2800, rosetheatre.ca.

CoexisDance Series 60 pre-

sents dance improvisers performing with AIM Toronto musicians. Mar 15 at 8 pm. $10. Array Space, 155

Raes Calvert and Linda A. Carson explore Where The Wild Things Are. (See review in Scenes at nowtoronto.com/stage.)

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 May 11, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm. $44-$84. Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. NNN (GS) Disney On Ice: Let’s Party! (Feld Entertainment). Mickey and Minnie Mouse celebrate with various other characters in this family ice show. Runs to Mar 16, Thu-Fri and Sun noon & 4 pm, Sat 11 am & 3 pm. $28-$93. Rogers Centre, 1 Blue Jays Way. disneyonice.com. I’ll Be Back Before Midnight by Peter Colley (Drayton Entertainment). A city couple rents a haunted farmhouse in this comedy. Runs to Mar 30, see website for schedule. $25-$42. St Jacobs Country Playhouse, 40 Benjamin E, Waterloo. draytonentertainment.com. In Spirit by Tara Beagan (Native Earth Performing Arts/Panamerican Routes Festival). A native community struggles with a young girl’s disappearance (see review, page 59). Runs to Mar 16, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat SatSun 2 pm. $20. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E, Aki Studio Theatre. nativeearth.ca/inspirit. NNNN (JK) A Life Beyond Doubt by Carol Libman (Tomorrow’s Eve Theatre). Characters from age 14 to 70 interact in this play that explores themes of life, loss and the power of memory. Runs to Mar 15, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $15-$25, mat pwyc. Sterling Studio Theatre, 163 Sterling, unit 5. 1-800-838-3006 ext 1, tomorrowseve.bpt.me. Lungs by Duncan Macmillan (Tarragon Theatre). A man and a woman discuss the ethics of having a child in today’s world (see review, page 58). Runs to Mar 30, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $21-$53, rush $13. 30 Bridgman, Extra Space. 416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com. NNNN (JK) Magic @ The Cage (Abracadabaret). Magicians, mind readers and mystery entertainers perform weekly magic and comedy. Runs to

Jun 29, Sun and Tue 7 pm. $15-$20. The Cage 292, 292 College, Crimson Lounge. 416-9951736, abracadabaret.com/cage. Marion Bridge by Daniel MacIvor (The Village Players). Three Cape Breton sisters are reunited by a family crisis. Runs to Mar 22, see website for schedule. $20, stu/srs $16. Bloor West Village Playhouse, 2190 Bloor W. 416767-7702, 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 (see review, page 60). Runs to Apr 6, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat SatSun 2:30 pm. $27-$53, rush $13. 30 Bridgman. 416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com. NNN (GS) The Miller And His Wife (Puppetmongers). This puppet-play adaptation of two folk stories looks at power, bullying and trickery. Runs to Mar 15, Fri-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Thu-Sat 2 pm. $20. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson, Backspace. 416-504-7529, puppetmongers.com. New Ideas Festival (Alumnae Theatre). The annual showcase of new writing, works-inprogress and experimental theatre and staged readings. Runs to Mar 30, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2:30 pm, Sat readings at noon. $15, Sat readings pwyc, festival pass $40. 70 Berkeley, Studio. 416-364-4170, alumnaetheatre.com. The Seagull by Anton Chekhov (The Chekhov Collective). Unrequited love, dreams, family feuds and devotion to art are part of this drama set in 1893 Russia (see re-

Directions In Indian Dance alanidhi Fine Arts and Harbourfront ñKNew NextSteps present new trends in Indian dance through performances and symposia. Performers include Shila Mehta, Preeti Vasudevan, Nova Dance, and Janak Khendry Dance. Mar 13-16, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $20-$35. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000,

Dancers move to the (poetic) muse in Eunoia.

The Vagina Monolgues Meets The F Word

(360 Productions). Jennifer Phillips combines excerpts from Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues with excerpts from her play, The F Word, in celebration of International Women’s Day. Runs to Mar 16, Fri-Sun 7:30 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $16-$26 (totix.ca). Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, facebook.com/TheFWordProduction. The Wanderers by Kawa Ada (Cahoots Theatre Company). The war back home continues to fracture life for an Afghan-Canadian family (see review, page 59). 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. NN (GS) Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (Presentation House Theatre). A boy embarks on imaginary travels with animals in this adaptation of the iconic children’s book. Runs to Mar 30, see website for schedule. $15$29. Young People’s Theatre, 165 Front E, Studio. 416-862-2222, youngpeoplestheatre.ca. The Winslow Boy by Terence Rattigan (Scarborough Players). A man fights to clear his son’s name after the boy is expelled from naval college. Runs to Mar 22, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20. Scarborough Village Theatre, 3600 Kingston. t heatrescarborough.com. 3

harbourfrontcentre.com/nextsteps. Onegin The National Ballet of Canada presents John Cranko’s adaptation of Pushkin’s poem. Opens Mar 19 and runs to Mar 23, Wed-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Thu and SatSun 2 pm. $25-$244. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-3459595, national.ballet.ca.

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Walnut. coexisdance.wordpress.com. Dance Is... Silhouettes Dance Company presents a showcase. Mar 14-16, Fri-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20, stu $12. Betty Oliphant Theatre, 404 Jarvis. silhouettesdanceco.com. Eunoia Harbourfront World Stage and Fujiwara Dance Inventions present work by Denise Fujiwara inspired by the poetry of Christian Bök. Opens Mar 19 and runs to Mar 22, Wed-Sat 8 pm. $39. Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com.

view, page 59). Runs to Mar 23, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $tba. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley, Upstairs. 416-368-3110, canadianstage.com. NNNN (Jordan Bimm) 6 Essential Questions by Priscila Uppal (Factory Theatre). A woman reconnects with the mother who abandoned her 20 years before (see review, page 58). Runs to Mar 30, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $27-$42, mat pwyc. 125 Bathurst. 416-504-9971, factorytheatre.ca. NNN (JK) Twist And Shout: The British Invasion by Alex Mustakas (Drayton Entertainment). This musical tribute celebrates the tunes of the Beatles, the Kinks and others. Runs to Mar 30, see website for schedule. $25-$42. Dunfield Theatre Cambridge, 46 Grand S, Cambridge. 1-855-372-9866, draytonentertainment.com. Uptown Abbey (Mysteriously Yours... Dinner Theatre). Trouble follows an English lord and his American wife in this interactive dinnertheatre mystery. Runs to Apr 5, Fri-Sat 8 pm, see website for other dates. $40-$85. 2026 Yonge. 416-486-7469, mysteriouslyyours.com.

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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 May 11, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm. $44-$84. Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. NNN (GS) Choreographic Works Ryerson Theatre School presents new works choreographed and performed by students. Runs to Mar 15, Mon-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $18, stu/srs $14. Ryerson Theatre, 43 Gerrard E. 416-979-5118, ryersontheatre.ca. Swan Lake The National Ballet of Canada presents James Kudelka’s choreography of Tchaikovsky’s classic ballet. Runs to Mar 16, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $25$184. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-345-9595, national.ballet.ca. 3

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Thursday, March 13 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents headliner Trixx w/ Keven Soldo and host Slim ñ Bloodworth. To Mar 16, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:45 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10-$15. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

PRINCESS POLLY AND THE WORLD’S SMALLEST NINJA Second City presents an all-ages sketch

revue. To Mar 16, Thu-Fri and Sun at noon. $14, family 4-pack $45. 51 Mercer. 416-3430011, secondcity.com. SIXTEEN SCANDALS Second City presents its spring revue about our unhealthy fascination with political train wrecks, media fiascos and red-carpet meltdowns. Tue-Thu 8 pm, Fri 7:30 pm, Sat-Sun 7:30 & 10 pm. $25-$29. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com. SKULE NITE 1T4 U of T Engineering Society presents an engineering musical and sketch comedy revue. To Mar 15, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $16-$20. Hart House Theatre, 7 Hart House Circle. 416-978-8849, uofttix.ca. T.O. SKETCHFEST CABARET SERIES Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival presents troupes and members of the T.O. comedy community perform sketches based on a theme, judged by the audience. To Mar 16, Thu-Sun 8:30 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. torontosketchfest.com.

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T.O. SKETCHFEST @ COMEDY BAR Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival presents Two ñ Weird Ladies, Kaboom Hooray and Rulers of

the Universe (8 pm). Fratwurst, the Rocket Scientists and the Birch Street Crooners(10 pm). $15, 4-show pass $50. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. torontosketchfest.com. T.O. SKETCHFEST @ LOT Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival presents the Templeton Philharmonic and the National Theatre of the World (8 pm). Ladybusiness, Bitches Leave and She Said What (10 pm). $15, 4-show pass $50. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. torontosketchfest.com. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Damonde Tschritter. To Mar 16, Thu-Sun 8 pm (and FriSat 10:30 pm). $13-$22. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

Friday, March 14 Absolute Comedy See Thu 13. THE BONG-A-LONG SHOW The Underground

Comedy Club presents Joshua Elijah, Anthony Ciardulli, Nigel Grinstead Ben Bankas, Robby Hoffman, Eric Andrews, Zabrina Chevannes and hosts Sandra Battaglini & Phil Luzi. 9:30 pm. $15. 670 Queen E. 416-732-7761.

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FunnyMan Inc presents the monthly show. Doors 8 pm. $15-$20. Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts, 10268 Yonge. funnyman.ca.

Princess Polly And The World’s Smallest Ninja See Thu 13. Sixteen Scandals See Thu 13. Skule Nite 1T4 See Thu 13. TEXAS COMEDY MASSACRE 2 Fox & Fiddle pre-

sents stand-up w/ K Trevor Wilson, Sam Feldman, Joel Buxton, host Xerxes Cortez and others. 8:30 pm. Pwyc. 27 Wellesley E. 416580-4153, texascomedymassacre2.com. T.O. Sketchfest Cabaret Series See Thu 13. T.O. SKETCHFEST @ COMEDY BAR Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival presents Ladystache, the Majors and Alley of Nightmares (8 pm).

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Super stand-up Trixx headlines at Absolute Comedy through March 16.

Kaboom Hooray, David Dineen Porter and Charles (10 pm). Rapp Battlez (11:59 pm). $15, 4-show pass $50. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. torontosketchfest.com. T.O. SKETCHFEST @ LOT Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival presents Shock T’s and Hot Thespian Action (8 pm). The National Theatre of the World (10 pm). $15, 4-show pass $50. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. torontosketchfest.com. 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 13.

Saturday, March 15 Absolute Comedy See Thu 13. RED ROCKET COMEDY presents a weekly show

w/ host Joel West and guests. 8 pm. Free. Red Rocket Coffee, 1364 Danforth. 416-4060880, redrocketcoffee.com. Sixteen Scandals See Thu 13. Skule Nite 1T4 See Thu 13. T.O. Sketchfest Cabaret Series See Thu 13. T.O. SKETCHFEST @ COMEDY BAR Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival presents Shock T’s, the Reception and Charles (8 pm). Tony Ho and Alley of Nightmares (10 pm). $15, 4-show pass $50. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. torontosketchfest.com. T.O. SKETCHFEST @ LOT Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival presents Vest of Friends and Hot Thespian Action (8 pm). David Dineen Porter and Falcon Powder (10 pm). $15, 4-show pass $50. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. torontosketchfest.com. Yuk Yuk’s Downtown See Thu 13.

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Angell’s current show features nine established and up-and-coming artists who work primarily in digital media. Occasionally termed post-internet art to underline the fact that we live in a digital age, the genre’s aims are as broad and diverse as the technology employed in its making. This is the era of the hyper-real, of copies that do not refer to an original, and no one expresses this better than Rafael Ochoa. Using software to sim ulate the textures of Old Masters, his two paintings here land somewhere between Mannerism and pop sur realism. In Red, his female figure is smiling and fully rendered but oddly lifeless. Her hair’s fullness recalls recent advances in Pixar animation, but that perfection has a distancing effect

that is part of its interest. Ochoa’s infinitely detailed simulacra are copies without sources, pastiches of elements perfectly assembled in a digi tal vacuum. The artifice is chilling. Other artists use digital technology to produce objects and artifacts that are distinctly analog. Aamna Muzaffar uses a variety of digital processes to create three-dimensional assemblage sculptures that appear to be handmade. Tobias Williams mines thousands of internet images

Rafael Ochoa makes a statement by simulating Old Master textures.

to create semi-abstract landscapes that barely hint at their digital origins. Artists are using current technology to interrogate older modernist practice. Mitchell Chan converts Sol LeWitt’s famous conceptual drawing

Sunday, March 16 Absolute Comedy See Thu 13. MAD LAUGHS AND A SONG Madison Avenue

Pub presents a weekly open mic comedy show and karaoke contest with prizes. 8 pm. Free. 14 Madison. 416-927-1722, madisonavenuepub.com.

Princess Polly And The World’s Smallest Ninja See Thu 13. Sixteen Scandals See Thu 13. T.O. Sketchfest Cabaret Series See Thu 13. T.O. SKETCHFEST @ COMEDY BAR Toronto

Sketch Comedy Festival presents the Weaker Vessels, Interrobang and Parker & Seville (8 pm). Sunday Night Live with the Sketchersons (10 pm). $15, 4-show pass $50. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. torontosketchfest.com. Yuk Yuk’s Downtown See Thu 13.

directions into simple code, suggest ing that any number of LeWitt drawings can be mechanically generated from the same code. Is it the same? A faux Ikea manual, cleverly titled LeWitt, hints at the possibility of massproduced, computer-generated con ceptualism. Napoleon Brousseau’s complex self-portrait is at the bleeding edge in this show, technologically speaking. By downloading an augmented reality ap, viewers can see additional layers in his work, hinting at the blurring between digital and real that we can expect in the next decade. Geoffrey Pugen, now considered a digital art pioneer, contributes his bird lady video, a subtly shifting portrait of a blinking bird-beaked woman in the style of grand manner portraiture. A decade old, it has proved prescient. The perennial themes of art are still at large in the new digital wilderness. 3 art@nowtoronto.com

this week in the museums ñ

Justina M. Barnicke CounterIntelli-

Art Gallery of Mississauga Form, Colour, Line; HyunRyoung Kim, to Apr 18. 300 City Centre (Mississauga). 905-896-5088. Art Gallery of Ontario Light My Fire: Five Propositions About Portraits, Part 2, to Apr 30. Brian Jungen and Duane Linklater, to Jun 15. Elevated: Contemporary Art In The AGO Tower, to Oct 12. $19.50, srs $16, stu $11, free Wed 6-8:30 pm (special exhibits excluded). 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648. Bata Shoe Museum Out Of The Box: The Rise Of Sneaker Culture, to Mar 30. $14, srs

$12, stu $8. 327 Bloor W. 416-979-7799. Design Exchange This Is Not A Toy, to May 18 ($16, stu/srs $13). Emerging Designer Competition, to May 19. $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 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.

gence, to Mar 16, film screening 7-8 pm Mar 13. 7 Hart House. 416-978-8398. McMichael Canadian Art Collection 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). 905-893-1121. MOCCA Misled By Nature: Contemporary Art And The Baroque, to Apr 6. 952 Queen W. 416395-0067. Oakville Galleries The Talking Cure; Olia Mishchenko, to May 11. Gairloch Gdns, 1306 Lakeshore E; Centennial Sq, 120 Navy

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Monday, March 17 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 18 THE FIRESTARTER Fox & Fiddle presents weekly pros and random lotto spots w/ host Kyle Andrews. 8:30 pm. Free. 280 Bloor W. 416966-4369. 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. SIXTEEN SCANDALS See Thu 13. 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. SPOOKEY RUBEN’S DIZZY PLAYGROUND LIVE!

present a live music and comedy variety show w/ Anvil singer/guitarist Lips, Rae Matthews, Jef Vegas and others. 9 pm. $10. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. 416-596-1908, spookeyruben.net. 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.

Wednesday, March 19 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Pro-Am Night w/ headliner Slim Bloodworth, Adrian Sawyer, Dylan Beeson, Helder Brum, Neil Griffin, Rose Giles, Sean McKiernan and host Pierre Brault. 8:30 pm. $6. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

CADILLAC COMEDY Cadillac Lounge presents

Jennifer McAuliffe, Rob Bebenek, Pete Zedlacher, Troupe Name Pending, Plum Thunder, New Becky, Touch My Stereotype, host Troy Stark and others. 8:30 pm. Pwyc. 1296 Queen W. 416-536-7717, cadillaclounge.com. CHUCKLE CO. PRESENTS a weekly show. 9:30 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. chuckleco.com. ELEPHANT EMPIRE Comedy Bar presents the sketch troupe w/ Hannah Spear, Andrew Gardner, Matt Lemche and Peter Stevens, performing fast-paced sketch and a one-act play. To Mar 26, Wednesdays 8 pm. $8. 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, comedybar.ca. FINAL FRONTIER Bad Dog Theatre Epic Wednesdays presents improv inspired by the Star Trek universe. 8 pm. $12, stu $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, baddogtheatre.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/ illusionist Rob Testa, Mandy Goodhandy and others. 9 pm. Free. 120 Church. club120.ca. PEOPLE CITY Bad Dog Repertory Players present unscripted shows that give an improvised glimpse into 1970s Toronto. To Apr 2, Wednesdays 9:30 pm. $12, stu $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. baddogtheatre.com. SIREN’S COMEDY Celt’s Pub presents open-mic stand-up w/ host Chris Roberts and headliner Justin Laite. 8:30 pm. Free. 2872 Dundas W. 416-767-3339. SIXTEEN SCANDALS See Thu 13. SPIRITS COMEDY Spirits Bar & Grill presents one of T.O.’s longest-running weekly comedy nights. 9 pm. Free. 642 Church. 416-967-0001. STAGE TIME WITH WAYNE JONES White Rhino Comedy presents comedy and music with host Jones. 9 pm. Pwyc. Baltic Avenue, 875 Bloor W. whiterhinocomedy.com. TOP SHELF COMEDY presents The Spotlight, a weekly night of top comics. 9 pm. $5. WAYLA Bar, 996 Queen E. 416-901-5570. TORONTO COMEDY CAVERN presents a weekly show w/ host Adam Jamal. 8:30 pm. Free. Cavern Bar, 76 Church. 416-971-4440. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Byron Bertram. To Mar 23, Wed-Sun 8 pm (and Fri-Sat 10:30 pm). $13-$22. 224 Richmond W. 416967-6425, yukyuks.com. 3

MUST-SEE SHOWS ARTICSÓK GALLERY Nahúm Flores, Mar 15-

Apr 26. 1697 St Clair W. 416-651-5020. BAU-XI PHOTO Joshua Jensen-Nagle, Mar 15-29, reception 2-4 pm Mar 15. 324 Dundas W. 416-977-0400. COBALT GALLERY Painting/drawing/ceramics: Chris Evitts, to Mar 30. 870A Kingston Rd. 416-694-0156. GALLERY 50 Gallery launch group show, Mar 15-30, reception 3-6 pm Mar 15. 50 Gladstone. GALLERYWEST Photos: Taimaz Moslemian and Mani Mazinani, to Mar 30. 1172 Queen W. 416-913-7116. GLADSTONE HOTEL Textiles: Hard Twist 2014 – This Is Personal, to Apr 27. Illustration: If Walls Could Talk, to Mar 30. 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. JAPAN FOUNDATION Prints: The Many Faces Of Danjuro IX, to Apr 30, talk 6:30 pm (RSVP) Mar 18. 131 Bloor W. 416-966-1600. KATZMAN CONTEMPORARY Fail Again, Fake Better York U grad student symposium, 5-7 pm Mar 13. Painting/installation: Allyson Clay, Kika Thorne and Sean Martindale, to Mar 22. 86 Miller. 416-504-9515. KOFFLER GALLERY Video: Sigalit Landau, to Apr 6. 180 Shaw. 647-925-0643.

(Oakville). 905-844-4402. POWER PLANT Mike Nelson, to May 19. 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). The Forbidden City: Inside The Court Of China’s Emperors, to Sep 1 ($21, stu/srs $19). $16, stu/srs $14.50; Fri 4:308:30 pm $10, stu/srs $9. 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000. RYERSON IMAGE CENTRE Mary Anderson; Black Star Subject: Canada; Robert Burley, Phil Bergerson and Elisa Julia Gilmour, to Apr 13. 33 Gould. 416-979-5164. SPADINA MUSEUM Dressing For Downton, to

MERCER UNION Bridget Moser, Michael Vickers and Nikki Woolsey, to Mar 22, Moser performance 7 pm Mar 13, artists’ talk 2:30 pm Mar 15. 1286 Bloor W. 416536-1519. NICHOLAS METIVIER Painting: Shelley Adler, to Mar 22. 451 King W. 416-205-9000. NO FOUNDATION Sculpture: Romas Astrauskas, to Apr 13. Samantha Lynn Fickel, to Mar 16. 1082 Queen W. 416-993-6510. OPEN STUDIO GALLERY O.W.N. (Object Work Notation); The Print Process – Drypoint group shows, to Mar 29. 401 Richmond W #104. 416-504-8238. PREFIX Video: Sylvia Safdie, to Mar 29. 401 Richmond W #124. 416-591-0357. STEPHEN BULGER Photos: Sarah Anne Johnson, to Mar 29. 1026 Queen W. 416504-0575. TRINITY SQUARE VIDEO Heather Cassils, to Mar 15. 401 Richmond W #376. 416-593-1332. TWIST GALLERY Painting: Merge (York U grads), to Mar 29. 1100 Queen W. 416588-2222. VTAPE The Curatorial Incubator: An Architecture Of Performance, to Apr 5. 401 Richmond W #452. 416-351-1317.

Apr 13 ($25-$30). 285 Spadina Rd. 416-3926910. TEXTILE MUSEUM OF CANADA Heather Goodchild and Jérôme Havre, to Apr 13. From Geisha To Diva: 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. VARLEY ART GALLERY Colour, In Theory, to May 4. $5, stu/srs $4. 216 Main (Unionville). 905477-9511.

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Liberating literature Pages’ Unbound festival takes the written word out of the box By SUSAN G. COLE PAGES FESTIVAL + CONFERENCE: UNBOUND today through Saturday (March 13 to 15) at the Randolph Theatre (736 Bathurst) and Tranzac Club (292 Brunswick). $15, all-events pass $50, students half-price. pagesfestival.com.

In the digital age, books are no longer safely tucked away in their own niche. That’s the message behind the inaugural Pages Festival and Conference, a series of creatively curated events that, like the This Is Not A Reading Series that inspired it, looks at the many ways artists relate to the written word. Here are some of the key happenings.

REMEMBERING DAVEY THE PUNK Stringband guy Bob Bossin’s dad led a very a colourful life as one of the city’s most notorious bookies in the 30s and 40s. Bossin launches his memoir, Davey The Punk (Porcupine’s Quill), via an onstage interview with his college pal Bob Rae. Stringband reunites for the event with a special assist by Rae at the piano. Thursday (March 13), 8 pm, Randolph Jo-Anne McArthur joins Artists And The Book panel.

ATOM EGOYAN: SCREENWRITING SECRETS The Oscar-nominated director talks about writing screenplays, adapting works for the screen and directing the scripts of other writers with Pages artistic director Marc Glassman. Friday (March 14), 7 pm, Randolph

ARTISTS AND THE BOOK: A CRAZY LOVE AFFAIR Visual artists reflect on the power of the book in this panel discussion featuring photographer Jo-Anne McArthur, subject of the film The Ghosts In Our Machine and author of We Animals (Lantern Books); Carol Condé and Karl Beveridge, soon to release a mammoth online catalogue of their work; and Derek Sullivan who, among other things, has created a four-part sculptural installation celebrating the iconic riverside book stalls of Paris. Friday (March 14), 9 pm, Randolph

SOUNDING OFF What musicians inspire your best work? This is one of the questions preoccupying a trio of accomplished writers hosted by Dalton Higgins, author of Far From Over: The Music And Life Of Drake (ECW). Panelists include Misha Bower of Bruce Peninsula, whose short story collection Music For Uninvited Guests (Cringles) is available as an audio book; Stuart Berman, author of This Book Is Broken: A Broken Social Scene History (Anansi); and Vivek Shraya

READINGS THIS WEEK Thursday, March 13

Saturday, March 15

CLAIRE CAMERON/KAREN RUSSELL/HELEN WALSH Cameron reads from The Bear, Rus-

THE ART OF THE GRAPHIC NOVEL Evening with graphic novelist Seth, cultural commentator Jeet Heer and writer/illustrator Michael De Forge. 9 pm. $15. Randolph Academy Theatre, 736 Bathurst. pagesfestival.com .

sell from Vampires In The Lemon Grove and Walsh from The Lemon Grove. 7:30 pm. $10, stu/yth under 25 free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. ifoa.org. CAROL DAMIOLI Launching her book Portrait In Black And Gold. 6 pm. Free. College Street United Church, 452 College. inanna.ca. ZINE FAIR Zines and self-published materials. 11 am-5 pm. Free. OCAD U, 100 McCaul. zinesforlunch.blogspot.ca.

THE MANY TALES OF SUSANNA MOODIE Multimedia presentation on the influñ ence of Moodie in the work of Charles Pachter,

Friday, March 14

Carol Shields, Margaret Atwood and Willow Dawson. 7 pm. $15. Randolph Academy, 736 Bathurst. pagesfestival.com. SMASHMOUTH! Spoken word open mic featuring slam poet Ian Keteku. 8 pm. Free. Lazy Daisy’s, 1515 Gerrard E. lazydaisyscafe.ca.

SOUNDING OFF Authors Stuart Berman,

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Vivek Shraya and Misha Bower discuss the influence music has on their work with host Dalton Higgins. 10 pm. $15. Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick. pagesfestival.com.

SUZANNE ALYSSA ANDREW/NIKI KOULOURIS/ MOLLY PEACOCK/SHEILA STEWART Poetry and an open mic. 6 pm. Free. Pauper’s Pub, 539 Bloor W. plasticinepoetry.com.

(God Loves Hair, Arsenal Pulp). Friday (March 14), 10 pm, Tranzac Club

URBAN NARRATIVES Visuals dominate this event celebrating Toronto’s essential influence on all kinds of artists. Coach House author Shawn Micallef’s slide show cruises T.O. neighbourhoods; NFB producer Gerry Flahive examines the impact of giant buildings here and elsewhere; and Track Toronto member Chloe Doesburg presents songs about Toronto, some going back 150 years. Saturday (March 15), 3 pm, Randolph

THE MANY TALES OF SUSANNA MOODIE This panel, hosted by me, features artists inspired by 19th century writer Moodie, including Charles Pachter, illustrator of Margaret Atwood’s poetry collection The Journals Of Susanna Moodie; and Xenophile Media’s Alex Mayhew and Conor Holler, who alongside illustrator Willow Dawson give a sneak preview of Moodie’s masterpiece Roughing It In The Bush, adapted by the late Carol Shields and now presented as chapters in an interactive graphic novel. Saturday (March 15), 7 pm, Randolph

AN EVENING WITH SETH AND FRIENDS The graphic novel is turning into the most powerful literary hybrid all over the world. Seth, Fiona Smyth and Michael DeForge present their work onscreen and discuss the intimate details of their craft at an event hosted by Jeet Heer, author of In Love With Art: Françoise Mouly’s Adventures In Comics (Coach House). Saturday (March 15), 9 pm, Randolph susanc@nowtoronto.com | @susangcole

Tuesday, March 18 JACK LAYTON BOOK CLUB Street nurse Cathy Crowe leads a discussion on Layton and Michael Shapcott’s book Homelessness: How To End The National Crisis. 5:30 pm. Free. Ryerson U Library, 350 Victoria, 3rd floor Archives. msiemiatycki@ politics.ryerson.ca. MAUREEN JENNINGS Reading from her Victorian mystery novels set in Toronto. 6:30 pm. Free. Deer Park Library, 40 St Clair E. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

Wednesday, March 19 TERRI FAVRO/STAN ROGAL/DOUG SMITH

Sci fi/fantasy/horror readings. 8-11 pm. Free (donations appreciated). Round Venue, 152A Augusta. chiseries.webs. com. JJ VIRGIN The nutrition and fitness expert signs copies of her new book, The Virgin Diet Cookbook. 7 pm. Free. Indigo Manulife, 55 Bloor W. chapters.indigo.ca. books@nowtoronto.com

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Audio clips from interviews with BEN WHEATLEY and AARON PAUL • Q&A with BRUCE McDONALD • Friday column • and more FABLE

Grand vision THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (Wes

Anderson). 100 minutes. Opens Friday (March 14). For venues and times, see Movies, page 69. Rating: NNNN

Director Interview

BEN WHEATLEY

KATHRYN GAITENS

Field of nightmares

Master of intimate genre flicks defies categorization in trippy new picture By NORMAN WILNER

A FIELD IN ENGLAND directed by Ben Wheatley, written by Wheatley and Amy Jump, with Reece Shearsmith, Julian Barratt, Ryan Pope and Michael Smiley. A filmswelike release. 91 minutes. Opens Friday (March 14) at the Royal. See Indie & Rep Film, page 77.

Ben Wheatley’s A Field In England contains one of the most disturbing shots I’ve seen in years. There’s nothing graphic or upsetting in it – it’s just Reece Shearsmith emerging from a tent – but it goes on and on and on, increasing in intensity and power until I literally could not bear to look at the screen. “My nightmares were like that as a kid,” says the director, chilling in his distributor’s office the day after the film’s Toronto Film Festival premiere. “I used to have a recurring nightmare that was looking at a piece of bark and just getting closer and closer to a tree – and that shouldn’t be uncanny. But I think a lot of David Lynch’s stuff is like that. Why is Eraserhead scary? It shouldn’t be. It’s silly. But it’s terrifying.” That description could just as easily be applied to A Field In England. Set in 1648, with the English Civil War raging in the background, it follows a handful of men (including

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Shearsmith’s character) as they dig for a hidden treasure at the behest of a mad nobleman (Michael Smiley). Bonds are forged, superstitions shared, and a great deal of madness erupts thanks to a nearby mushroom circle. This marks a real departure for Wheatley, who’s broken out as the director of the intimate genre experiments Down Terrace, Kill List and Sightseers. “It’s different in that it’s not a recognizable genre,” he says. “It’s hard to

quantif y what it is. There’s no elevator pitch for it, it’s not something you can get behind as easily as you can with Sightseers.” Part of that is the decision by Wheatley and screenwriter Amy Jump to deny the viewer as much expo-

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A FIELD IN ENGLAND (Ben Wheatley) Rating: NNNN After Kill List, Sightseers and his contribution to The ABCs Of Death, British maverick Ben Wheatley returns with his oddest work to date – and that’s really saying something. It’s 1648, and a cowardly servant (Reece Shearsmith) finds himself among a ragged group of English Civil War deserters commanded by a maniac (Michael Smiley) bent on finding the treasure he’s convinced is hidden somewhere in the eponymous location. Digging ensues, and also madness, divination, social disease and shovels to the face. Shot in widescreen black-and-white by Laurie Rose and edited by Wheatley and screenwriter Amy Jump, it’s alternately beautiful to behold and utterly assaultive. And though it’s being sold as a psychedelic picture, please do not take any Michael Smiley takes aim in A Field In England. mood-altering substances beforehand. Your head might NW explode.

sition as possible. The movie starts, and we’re plunged into madness. “Good cinema is a mixture of those two positions of sensation and plot,” he says. “In some there’s more plot, and in some there’s more sensation. And it goes to this very day, doesn’t it? Transformers is a sensation movie with not so much plot. Those big blockbuster movies are more abstract than A Field In England could ever hope to be. Like, what is the story in those movies? When you strip them down, you just go, ‘What the fuck is that? A car that turns into a thing?’” The nightmarishness of A Field In England is compounded by its hallucinogenic quality as the characters slip into deliriums both religious and pharmacological. “I was talking to someone about it the other day,” Wheatley says, “[who said movie] ‘trip’ sequences or hallucinations could be really eggy and bad. They just end up as slightly crappy surrealist imagery re-appropriated. We were thinking about making you feel like you might feel in your brain – not showing you what you would see, but making you feel it physiologically.” 3

Wes Anderson doesn’t make movies so much as meticulously construct them down to the very last element. It’s just how he works. I would have said his control-freak genius reached its apotheosis with Fantastic Mr. Fox, a stop-motion project that let him literally build an entire world with which to tell his story. But now he’s gone and made The Grand Budapest Hotel, a live-action movie that somehow feels even more personally designed. A story within a story – several stories, actually – the film recounts the entirely fictional tale of Monsieur Gustave (Ralph Fiennes), the unflappable concierge of the eponymous mountaintop manse in the European country of Zubrowka, and his training of young lobby boy Zero (Tony Revolori) in the ways of service and life. It is a tale filled with intrigue, love, war, murder, betrayal and a fairly novel prison break, and if I were to say anything further about what Anderson does with Willem Dafoe as a sort of human bulldog, you wouldn’t believe me. Anderson doesn’t even nod toward realism, as he did in Moonrise Kingdom two years ago; he simply builds this magnificent playhouse, populates it with actors he knows and trusts – among them Adrien Brody, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Jeff Goldblum and Edward Norton – and runs riot. And when moments of genuine emotion pierce that perfectly constructed artifice, they hit as powerfully as ever. That’s just how he works. NORMAN WILNER See an expanded version of this review at nowtoronto.com/movies.

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BEHIND ENEMY’S LINES Director of Oscar-nominated pic finds double trouble in Toronto By JOHN SEMLEY ENEMY directed by Denis Ville-

neuve, written by Javier Gullón from the novel by José Saramago, with Jake Gyllenhaal, Mélanie Laurent and Sarah Gadon. An eOne release. 90 minutes. Opens Friday (March 14). For venues and times, see Movies, page 69.

REVIEW ENEMY (Denis Villeneuve) Rating: NNNN Enemy, which captures Toronto with a wary outsider’s eye, is the best Hogtown movie since David Cronenberg’s Crash. Like that film, Enemy establishes T.O. as a glass-andsteel cocoon where people are so alienated from themselves (and each other) that they don’t even know who they are. It’s a place where a frumpy history prof (Jake Gyllenhaal) and a motorcycle-riding wannabe actor (also Gyllenhaal) are entirely interchangeable. The lurid pleasures of director Denis Villeneuve’s identitycrisis mindfuck – a recurring tarantula motif, intimations of a members-only sex club in a condo basement and a strange cameo by Isabella Rossellini as an overbearing mother force-feeding her kid blueberries – are entirely trifling. But they’re executed with such giddy, nasty aplomb that it’s impossible not to savour them. And Gyllenhaal is terrific. JS Twice.

On the eve of Enemy’s premiere at TIFF 2013, director Denis Villeneuve doesn’t seem particularly worried. “The reception for Enemy? I don’t care,” he says. “No matter what other people think, it was important for me. I will stand for that movie, even if I stand alone.” Turns out Villeneuve wasn’t standing alone. Enemy drew praise at TIFF for its weirdness, using Toronto as a nightmarish metropolis plagued by heavy smog and skyscraper-size tarantulas, and for Jake Gyllenhaal’s dual performances (as a frazzled history prof and his cocky doppelgänger, a wannabe actor). It also took five prizes at the Canadian Screen Awards, including best director. Had it been in theatres in time, it would have for sure made NOW’s list of the 25 best Toronto films. And unlike Villeneuve’s other movies – the Montreal massacre film Poly tec h n ique, the Oscar-nominated family saga Incendies, last year’s highfalutin potboiler Prisoners – Enemy feels like the QueJake Gyllenhaal is becois writer/ terrific playing two director is roles in Enemy. finally having

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some fun. Where Prisoners, which also starred Gyllenhaal (playing a tattooed, compulsively blinking detective), was orderly to the point of grim joylessness, Enemy is a freewheeling mindfuck. “In order to be able to do something more controlled and classic with Prisoners, I needed to make something wild with Enemy,” Villeneuve explains. “For me, it’s a directing laboratory. And an acting laboratory. I wanted to be alone with one actor, and spend a lot of time with him.” Gyllenhaal appears in almost every frame, sometimes twice. Enemy’s a rousing psychological horror movie about the fear of losing a grip on your perceived uniqueness – a theme that unfolds nicely among Toronto’s anonymous apartment blocks and glassy suburban condos. But it’s also a showpiece for Gyllenhaal, an exceptionally talented actor who’s often overlooked for serious roles due to his boyish good looks. “He struggles with showing his true, powerful side as an artist,” Villeneuve says of his new muse. “He’s by far one of the best actors I’ve ever worked with. I think I’m a better director when I work with him.” Apart from Gyllenhaal, Enemy’s other star is Toronto itself. Forget the sunny tableaux of Sarah Polley’s Take This Waltz; Enemy makes Hogtown looks as cold, steely and inhumane as in David Cronenberg’s Crash, which Villeneuve calls “the best movie about Toronto ever made.” “People said to me, ‘You don’t use it as New York or Chicago?’ No, no! It’s Toronto! I wanted to show a funky side of Toronto.” 3 movies@nowtoronto.com | @johnsemley3000

When the Veronica Mars movie opens on March 14, it will be exactly one year and one day since Rob Thomas and Kristen Bell launched their Kickstarter campaign to crowd-fund a feature spinoff of their beloved TV show. The pitch was for $2 million; they wound up raising $5.7 million. When I find Thomas, he’s in Austin waiting on Bell to premiere their project at SXSW – and maybe do a few hours of press. So, you’ve been busy? The crazy thing was, the script wasn’t even written when we launched the Kickstarter because we didn’t know what the scope would be. Had we [stopped] at $2 million, it would have been like an Agatha Christie murder in a country manor, much smaller in scope. So I couldn’t really start writing until I had at least an idea of what the budget would be. What was the crowd-funding experience like? I was so naive about it. I thought I’d write a little update every couple of days and the money would roll in – and instead, [the campaign] occupied 12 hours a day, and the writing would be another six, seven or eight hours. I was barely sleeping. It’s been an exhausting but great year. I’m proud of the movie, proud of not having given up.

Getting all those backer updates, feeling a part of it, being able to say it’s their movie and having some connection to the film – I think they liked it. And I think we did a good job of servicing the backers. I wish T-shirts had gone out a couple months quicker, and I wish there weren’t still another thousand posters we need to have signed, but by and large I think the experience has been pretty good NORMAN WILNER for them.

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Rob Thomas’s Veronica Mars movie started as the definition of fan service. Its very existence is the result of a Kickstarter campaign aimed directly at followers of the 2004-07 television series starring Kristen Bell as a wisecracking teen detective. But it’s a proper feature, telling a self-conIf the film’s a hit, what happens tained story in cinematic fashion. next? Are there plans for more Nine years after leaving her Mars? hometown of Neptune, California, to Certainly given our price point, if the study law, Veronica’s called back by movie does well enough, I think old boyfriend Logan (Jason Dohring) there’s a chance that Warner Bros. when he’s accused of murdering his would be happy to make more. Krisrock-star girlfriend. Naturally, no ten and I have both said that we’re sooner does Veronica arrive than she game. falls back into her old habits, Would you use Kickstarter for the uncovering conspiracies and rubbing next one, or just have it funded by Neptune’s power base the wrong the studio? way. Even if Warner Bros. gave us the Thomas and co-writer Diane money we needed, I Ruggerio take a season’s worth of would be tempted to story and fit it into a fun, fast-paced still go back to Kicktwo hours, with appearances by starter and just say, virtually every character who “Our goal is one dolsurvived the series. lar. We’ll make the But the heart of the movie, movie if we get as it was on the show, is the one dollar.” scrappy, supportive And see how relationship between many people Bell’s Veronica and her sign up, bewry, watchful dad, played cause I hope by the wonderful Enrico and believe Colantoni. the 90,000 I’d watch a whole people who Kristen Bell widens movie of those two signed up [beher focus in NW eating pizza. Veronica Mars. fore] would sign up again.

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Wedded bliss THE HUSBAND (Bruce McDonald). 80 minutes. Opens Friday (March 14). For venues and times, see Movies, page 69. Rating: NNNN

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AARON PAUL

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He’s still breaking bad Actor puts the pedal to the metal in auto actioner By RADHEYAN SIMONPILLAI NEED FOR SPEED directed by Scott Waugh,

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NEED FOR SPEED (Scott Waugh) Rating: NN Need For Speed dazzles with money shots of obscenely expensive cars as they tear down highways and kiss the sky. Showing his affinity for real stunt Aaron Paul was being positioned to work, director Scott Waugh play the bad guy in Need For Speed, pulls back on the CGI and but Steven Spielberg kiboshed that gets dangerously close to idea. The head of DreamWorks Stuthe twisted metal. Too bad dios insisted instead that he play lead the movie stalls whenever character Tobey, the heroic ex-con it gets out of the driver’s driven by vengeance as he races seat. across states. Breaking Bad’s Aaron Like so many of us, Spielberg is a Paul plays a wrongfully Breaking Bad fan. imprisoned ex-con pursuing “When I first sat down with Spielvengeance as he leads berg, Breaking Bad is all we could talk police and bounty hunters about,” says Paul, who played emo on a coast-to-coast chase to meth dealer Jesse Pinkman on the TV a rarified race, where he phenomenon. “He was watching seawill get retribution son three at that time.” (apparently by winning). Paul is the picture of chill during Paul’s attempt to our interview in a Toronto hotel, channel Steve McQueen is dressed in a T-shirt and jeans while muffled in a movie in which slouched on a couch alongside his plot and character are a Need For Speed director, former hindrance. The story, which stuntman Scott Waugh. Paul bites his makes very little sense, lip when anticipating questions and sticks to the basic occasionally bounces up directions mapped while answering. Get him out by the video excited and he reaches Don’t try this yourself, kids. game it’s that recognizable based on: deep bass in his drive voice, as if his lungs recklessly were subwoofers fast and only a few hunfurious dred watts below and earn James Earl Jones. bonus Paul might points for seem an unlikely every police choice to play a cruiser that stoic, Steve McQueenspins out in a like action hero. But he RS blaze. didn’t need much convinwritten by George Gatins from a story by George and John Gatins, with Aaron Paul, Dominic Cooper and Imogen Poots. A Walt Disney Studios release. 131 minutes. Opens Friday (March 14). For venues and times, see Movies, page 69.

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cing to get behind the wheel. A bit of a muscle car fiend, he owns a 1965 Shelby Cobra, though he rarely puts it to good use when idling in L.A. traffic. In Need For Speed, he hits 120 mph and performs drifts, 360s and reverse 180s. The Gran Torino, customized Mustang and Agera he drives in the film are a far cry from Jesse Pinkman’s 1986 Toyota Tercel. Like Paul’s meeting with Spielberg, our conversation naturally gravitates back to Breaking Bad. The show delayed Paul’s arrival on the set of Need For Speed, leaving Waugh scrambling to shoot whatever scenes he could without his star. “I was supposed to be on the set two weeks prior, but Breaking Bad just kept going over,” Paul recalls. “The episodes were so big, and we were just trying to get it right because this was the end of an era. Scotty was like, ‘Hey, buddy, where you at? We got to get you here.’ “The final day of shooting Breaking Bad was very emotional, with hugging and crying. The crew got matching tattoos. Then I got on a plane and started work on Need For Speed at 6 am the next day.” Paul’s departure from the show was rushed, but the Breaking Bad phenomenon isn’t over. While audiences are still discovering it thanks to Netflix and binge watching, Paul has reunited with Bryan Cranston and the rest of the crew on the awards circuit. The show racked up a few Golden Globes and is now headed for its victory lap at the Emmys. “It’s like the longest goodbye in television history,” he says. 3 movies@nowtoronto.com | @freshandfrowsy

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Writer, producer and ex-Deadly Snake Maxwell McCabe-Lokos plays Henry: slight, wiry, bug-eyed and balding, onscreen for what feels like 100 per cent of The Husband’s run time. His wife (Sarah Allen) is in prison for sleeping with one of her students, leaving Hank to raise their infant son and suffer the daily indignities of being, as he puts it, “that guy whose wife fucked a 14-year-old.” He’s not doing well. Sleepwalking through his job at an ad agency,

exiling himself from his spoiled marriage bed to pass out on the couch, barely tending to his kid, Hank’s a rat king of anxiety. He stalks his wife’s pint-sized lover (Dylan Authors), offering him a PS3 as a gesture of mock-goodwill. And, in what might be the most uncomfortably funny attempted child rape scene this side of Todd Solondz’s Happiness, he makes advances to his teenage babysitter in a bid for cosmic score-settling. His motivations, and his jittery mental states, are intentionally left unclear. This obliqueness begins to frustrate as the film nears its too neat conclusion, but McCabe-Lokos’s tragicomic performance carries The Husband through its vacillating moods. See Q&A with director Bruce McDonald at nowtoronto.com/movies. It’s a film that feels, often at the same time, manic, depressive, sinister and absurd – a movie as neurotic as McCabeLokos’s broken man. JOHN SEMLEY

Aidan Quinn and Taylor Schilling cuddle up in Stay.

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Stay sprawls STAY (Wiebke von Carolsfeld). 99 minutes. Opens Friday (March 14). For venues and times, see Movies, page 69. Rating: NNN

This adaptation of Aislinn Hunter’s novel is highly attuned to the inner lives of its protagonists, all of them forced to confront anxieties over parenthood and genetic determinism in the course of the story. But Stay belabours trivial plot points, is overburdened with incident and deploys more characters than it can possibly develop. It lacks momentum – not necessarily a problem in literature but something that can sap a movie’s energy. Dermot (Aidan Quinn) is an archaeology professor who, fleeing scandal, adopts a quiet life on Ireland’s west coast. Abby (Taylor Schilling), his younger Canadian girlfriend,

moves in with him. Beer, crisps and Abby’s presence are all Dermot wants, but Abby’s less content with stasis. She gets pregnant, but he’s against kids; a rift opens up. Abby spends most of Stay in Montreal, where she reconnects with her dad (Michael Ironside) and comes to terms with her errant mother’s legacy. Dermot stays home, where his sulking is interrupted by another young pregnant woman, a pot-addled teenager, and the discovery of artifacts in some local mud. Writer/director Wiebke von Carolsfeld (Marion Bridge) could have distanced herself from her busy source material to focus on what flies cinematically. Still, much in Stay resonates emotionally, and that may finally trump its narrative unevenness. JOSÉ TEODORO

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Tyler Perry’s The Single Moms Club (D: Tyler Perry, 110 min) The prolific Tyler Perry’s latest rom-com stars Nia Long, Amy Smart and others as single moms who bond at their children’s school. Opens Friday (March 14). No press screening – see review March 17 at nowtoronto.com/movies.

Another week, another Tyler Perry movie.

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womanizing Texas electrician who became an unlikely AIDS activist in the mid1980s 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, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, SilverCity Mississauga

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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, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, SilverCity Yonge, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

ABOUT LAST NIGHT (Steve Pink) stars motormouth Kevin Hart in an update of the 1986 rom-com, an adaptation of David Mamet’s provocative play Sexual PerversAUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (John ity In Chicago. This will likely be the only Wells) stars an awesome Meryl occasion you read the names Mamet and Streep as the drug-addled matriarch of a Hart in the same sentence. That’s too bad family that’s gathered after the patriarch since the comedian has never been fundisappears. This adaptation of Tracy nier. Hart is well matched with the excelLetts’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play has its lent Regina Hall as an on-and-off couple flaws – the family rot borders on parody, fucking and screaming on the sidelines the music is awful, and it’s still too stagy while their adorable friends (Michael Ealy – but it’s extremely entertaining. 121 min. and Joy Bryant) work through the growing NNNN (SGC) pains of a yearlong romance. In Hart’s preCarlton Cinema, Interchange 30, SilverCity vious outings, filmmakers seem satisfied Mississauga with throwing him BETTIE PAGE REVEALS in scrappy, conALL (Mark Mori) tells trived scenarios so EXPANDED REVIEWS the story of the pin-up model that he could nowtoronto.com who was a seven-year sensafreestyle his way tion in the 50s as one of the through scenes. first females to strip for the Here he’s working with real material camera. Director Mori uses interviews thanks to the two degrees of separation with the 70-year-old icon as voice-over for from Mamet’s play. His comedic talents clips and pics. Photographers and admirget structure and purpose, and he has ers paint a portrait of someone who loved room to put his own stamp on Mamet’s her work – until she gave it up and disacidic dialogue. This may be wateredappeared. The film gets off to a rocky start down Mamet, but for Hart it’s 80 proof. 98 claiming Page was a true original; there’s min. NNN (RS) not much innovation in the images she 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Mississauga, created. Page herself was something else, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney however: open, fun-loving, creative and Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Rainbow weirdly wholesome. As a child she was Market Square, Rainbow Woodbine, sexually abused; after leaving the busiSilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, ness she found Jesus, later struggled with SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24 mental illness and was hospitalized for 10 ALAN PARTRIDGE (Declan Lowney) is the years. Too bad Mori has no visuals of the culmination of 20 years of work by Steve older Page. But watch carefully and there’s Coogan as the character of Partridge, a a ton of fascinating detail, including adblowhard sportscaster who briefly bemissions about the not-so-nice aspects of came a chat-show host and now brays his modelling. In her later years, Page had no inanities as a DJ at Radio Norwich. Coogan agenda – and no internal editor. 101 min. and his collaborators have rightly concludNNNN (SGC) ed that spending 90 minutes with ParCarlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre tridge on a good day would be an exBLUE JASMINE (Woody Allen) won an tremely unpleasant affair, so they’ve put Oscar for Cate Blanchett as the him in a siege picture – a very clever noemotionally unhinged wife of a corporate tion, because he’s the last person with sleazebag (Alec Baldwin) who moves to whom you’d want to be trapped in a room. San Francisco to live with her sister (Sally It doesn’t quite work as well as it should, Hawkins) when he’s busted. 98 min. NNNN though. Lowney’s direction is too pedes(SGC) trian for the material, embracing neither Interchange 30, Mt Pleasant the action clichés nor the absurdity of seeing Partridge Die Harding his way through THE BOOK THIEF (Brian Percival) reframes his radio station. Coogan holds it together, the Second World War as a coming-of-age utterly debasing himself and getting story about a young German girl (Monlaughs out of the smallest gulps and shifts sieur Lazhar’s Sophie Nélisse). Director in posture. It’s a great performance in Percival has helmed a lot of Downton service of a horrible character, deserving Abbey episodes, and it shows in film’s odd of a better film. 90 min. NNN (NW) propriety. A movie about the Holocaust Yonge & Dundas 24 can’t be afraid of confronting its own message. 131 min. NN (NW)

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

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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 scene-stealing happy-go-lucky snowman Olaf, the best sidekick since Timon and Pumbaa. 102 min. NNN (GS) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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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 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) Scotiabank Theatre

(Sebastián Lelio) stars Berlin Film festival best actress Paulina García as a smart 50-something Chilean THE HUNGER divorcée yearning for sex GAMES: CATCHand adventure. A central ING FIRE (Francis Lawtheme is how offspring EXPANDED REVIEWS rence) again features a and past relationships nowtoronto.com knockout Jennifer Lawimpinge on new relarence, this time having tionships, but as essential to go back into the arena for another Hunis candid glimpse of middle-aged sexuality ger Games because her last victory has so rare in movies, it takes your breath stirred revolution in the downtrodden disaway. Subtitled. 109 min. NNNN (SGC) tricts. Highly entertaining. 145 min. NNNN Canada Square, Carlton Cinema (SGC) Interchange 30, Scotiabank Theatre THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (Wes Anderson) 100 min. See review, page THE HUSBAND (Bruce McDonald) 80 64. NNNN (NW) min. See review, page 68, and Q&A Opens Mar 14 at Queensway, Varsity with director McDonald at nowtoronto. com/movies. NNNN (JS) GRAVITY (Alfonso Cuarón) plays as both an immediate, nail-biting Opens Mar 14 at TIFF Bell Lightbox thriller and a stunning technological acIN FEAR (Jeremy Lovering) is a horror film complishment, following two astronauts about two people who get lost in rural Ire(Sandra Bullock, George Clooney) stranded land. 85 min. in Earth orbit and cut off from mission Opens Mar 13 at Coliseum Mississauga, control. There are things here you’ve never Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensseen before; this is a great, unprecedented way, SilverCity Fairview, Yonge & Dundas picture. 91 min. NNNNN (NW) 24 Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Yonge & Dundas 24 INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen) plays as comedy, musicTHE GREAT BEAUTY (Paolo Sorrenal and drama all at once, with the tone tino) stars Toni Servillo as 60-somesteered by Oscar Isaac’s soulful interpretathing journalist Jep, who wrote a besttions of traditional folk songs that someselling novel in his 20s but hasn’t written a how manage to reflect precisely what his thing that matters since. Instead, he’s imcharacter, itinerant troubadour Llewyn mersed himself in all things shallow: the Davis, is feeling in the moment. Beautiparty circuit, pseudo-intellectual confabs fully realized and packed with delightful with the rich and famous, meaningless incidents – the recording of Please Mr. sex. Shades of La Dolce Vita. Jep reflects Kennedy is probably the most satisfying on his empty life in a series of spectacular three minutes you’ll spend in a movie thevignettes that come tumbling out of cineatre this year – Inside Llewyn Davis undermatographer Luca Bigazzi and writerstands its characters in a way few movies director Sorrentino’s vivid imagination: do, giving Isaac and co-stars Justin over-the-top bashes, an artist performing Timberlake, John Goodman, Adam Driver beside Roman ruins, a money-grubbing and F. Murray Abraham room to detail doctor injecting botox in public. Garish their performances into something much party sequences collide with serene immore than folk scene clichés. 105 min. ages of Rome’s ancient art; beautiful inNNNN (NW) spirational music meets club bangers. Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre, TIFF Sure, it’s self-indulgent, but Sorrentino is Bell Lightbox the kind of director you want to indulge.

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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

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(Hirokazu Kore-eda) is a languid domestic drama focusing on a successful Tokyo architect (Masaharu Fukuyama) and his wife (Machiko Ono) who learn that their six-year-old son was switched at birth. As they try to figure out the best possible resolution to the dilemma with the couple now parenting their biological child (Lily Franky, Yoko Maki), the impossibility of a perfect solution gives Kore-eda’s movie its structure – concerned, dense with possibility, a little nervous about how to move forward. It ultimately pays off in a series of lovely, understated scenes, but getting there is a little rougher than it ought to be. Subtitled. 120 min. NNNN (NW) TIFF Bell Lightbox

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) Scotiabank Theatre THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: WERTHER LIVE is a life high-def broadcast of the

Met’s new production of the Massenet opera, starring Jonas Kaufmann in the title role. 195 min. Mar 15, 12:55 pm, at Beach Cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus,

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becomes friendly, but that’s hardly a reason to endure the rest of it. 111 min. NN (NW) Kingsway Theatre

NO CLUE (Carl Bessai) is a mashup of murder mystery and comedy starring Corner Gas’s Brent Butt as a Vancouver salesman who pretends to be a detective to help out a damsel in distress (Amy Smart). The convoluted plot seems drawn from any number of TV dramas, and there’s little suspense and few laughs, although Butt and David Koechner (as his slacker buddy) have a great rapport. I’d rather sit through 90 minutes of them riffing. 96 min. NN (GS) Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24 NON-STOP (Jaume Collet-Serra) pits

Mr. Peabody & Sherman explodes on the big screen, especially in 3D. Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge

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. NN (NW) Kingsway Theatre

THE MONUMENTS MEN (George

Clooney) is a Second World War caper picture in which director/co-writer Clooney and a band of charming character actors portray art experts roaming around Europe to retrieve 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. Some subtitles. 118 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Interchange 30, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, Varsity

MOULIN ROUGE – ROYAL WINNIPEG BALLET is a high-def screening of Jorden

Morris’s ballet about love and heartbreak in turn-of-the-century Paris. 143 min. Yonge & Dundas 24

MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN (Rob Minkoff) yanks the 2D, hand-drawn time-travelling cartoon from the 60s into the future. The genius dog and his adopted son now have their very own 3D computer-animated movie, in which they give the histories of Marie Antoinette, King Tut, Leonardo Da Vinci and the Trojan War a zany spin. Their lighthearted, rib-tickling adventures retain the cartoons’ fun and humour, but with more dazzling views and roller-coaster-ride momentum. The duo’s episodic adventures don’t fit well into the feature-

length story involving Peabody’s efforts to stave off a villainous child welfare worker who’s convinced that a dog can’t parent a child. The father-son emotional arc is a clunky and strained framework for the zippy entertainment, but like historical accuracy, it’s very easy to ignore. 92 min. NNN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, 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, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñMUSCLE SHOALS

(Greg Camalier) is about the musically inclined backwater town in Alabama that has seen everyone from Aretha Franklin to the Rolling Stones come through to produce hits. They’re among the many who speak affectionately here about their time with Rick Hall, of FAME Studios, arguably the backbone of the Muscle Shoals music industry. The interviews are woven together like music, composing a film with storytelling rhythms that strikes emotional chords. Soul aficionados will savour every beat. 111 min. NNNN (RS) Kingsway Theatre

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

NEED FOR SPEED (Scott Waugh) 131 min. See interview and review, page 68. NN (RS) Opens Mar 14 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, 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, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale NIGHT TRAIN TO LISBON (Bille August) is a

dreary Euro-pudding that wastes several very talented actors in two stories separated by four decades. Jeremy Irons has a few nice scenes with Martina Gedeck as an optometrist with whom his character

Liam Neeson’s alcoholic, depressive air marshal against a mysterious blackmailer who demands to be paid $150 million or he’ll kill one passenger on their transatlantic flight every 20 minutes. And so we get to watch Neeson sweat and pace nervously for 20 minutes – in real time, more or less – until the first body turns up, in a fairly inventive way. And things just get better from there. ColletSerra, who did a decent enough job with Neeson’s post-Taken thriller Unknown, creates the rare Die Hard knockoff that’s actually worthy of comparison with John McTiernan’s 1988 classic single-location thriller. It’s an inventive, intense picture with surprisingly fleshed-out characters, a truly subversive message about American security theatre and a refreshing sense of play. Yeah, it’s a little easy to figure out who the real villain is, but so what? The mystery of who’s running the game isn’t as entertaining as the game itself. Go ahead, strap yourself in. 106 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, Scotiabank 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) Colossus, Grande - Steeles, SilverCity Mississauga

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(Hany Abu-Assad) finds Paradise Now director 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. This movie takes its time establishing characters and situations, folding in a romantic complication in 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. And as AbuAssad drifts back and forth between straight-up thriller and intimate character study, we’re drawn deeper and deeper into the story. Subtitled. 98 min. NNNN (NW) Varsity

ñPARTICLE FEVER

(Mark Levinson) chronicles the buildup to the maiden operation of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider and the long-belated validation of the now 50-year-old Higgs boson theory. This pop science doc is smart and commendably accessible, but it works too hard to milk suspense from the scientists’ anticipation anxiety. The stakes are clearly enormous, but director Levinson’s manner of convincing us of this leans heavily on strained doc drama conventions. The math involved in determining whether data gathered from the LHC favours supersymmetry or multiverse theories will mean more to experts than laymen, but

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Particle Fever effectively generates appreciation for the tenacity and vision of scientists and the power of dogged curiosity to determine an entire life’s path. 99 min. NNNN (José Teodoro) Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, Carlton Cinema

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, Carlton Cinema, Interchange 30, Kingsway Theatre, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Varsity

Pompeii (Paul W.S. Anderson) is a sword-

and-sandal apocalypse from Resident Evil director Anderson, who’s clearly more concerned with his third-act CG pyrotechnics than with the low-rent mashup of Sparta-

cus 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) Canada Square, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

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(Mike Lerner, Maxim Pozdorovkin) tracks

the trial that ensued when punk art collective Pussy Riot put on a guerrilla performance 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) Kingsway Theatre

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, Interchange 30, SilverCity Mississauga

RoboCop (José Padilha) appropriates the title of a beloved movie property and a couple of key images and builds a joyless new mechanism around them. The original’s subversive humour and ghoulish central concept rattle around inside the new body like a ghost. But you need an artist to coax them out, and Padilha’s just a hired gun. Some subtitles. 110 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale Romeo and Juliet is a high-def broadcast of the recent Broadway production of the Shakespeare tragedy, starring Orlando Bloom, Condola Rashad and Canada’s own Brent Carver. 160 min. Mar 16, 12:55 pm, at Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Queensway, SilverCity Yonge; Mar 16, 12:55 and 9 pm, Mar 18, 1:30 pm, at Yonge & Dundas 24 Saving Mr. Banks (John Lee Hancock) 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 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) Kingsway Theatre

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(Degrassi: The Next Generation’s Annie Clark) who’s left to her own devices for two nights on a small island to qualify as a summer camp counsellor. Not quite as seasoned as she claimed, she spends the first night spooked by a local legend and the next day in genuine danger. Writerdirector Cravit’s feature debut has the misfortune of arriving in the shadow of Katie Aselton’s Black Rock, a tighter and smarter female-centric survival thriller set on an isolated island. But that doesn’t mean Solo 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 just to keep the story going. 83 min. NNN (NW)

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Set in the winter of 1942, the story tracks a handful of Soviet soldiers who find themselves in an extended standoff with the German 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. Subtitled. 131 min. NN (NW) Interchange 30, Yonge & Dundas 24

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first of three religious films hitting the big screen in 2014. With Noah and Exodus opening soon after this retelling of the life of Jesus, the Gospels have as many movies this year as Marvel, so let’s hope for an Avengers-style Biblical alliance next. That kind of camp would be a lot more captivating than this cheap and fawning reiteration of the most familiar story in history. Portuguese actor Diogo Morgado plays Christ with the aura of a rock star, waving his perfectly conditioned hair and cracking a mischievous smile whenever he ticks off a miracle for the fans or demands that people believe in him. No superhero is so

insistent that people believe him. Considering how unconvincing he is, who can blame those who don’t? 139 min. N (RS) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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can) is supposed to be a light, frothy romcom 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. NN (NW) Coliseum Mississauga, Courtney Park 16, Yonge & Dundas 24

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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, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Humber Cinemas, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

awesome hit, bro?” It’s occasionally amusing to watch the cast struggle to emote through all the flexing, though. 102 min. N (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, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

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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

300: Rise of an Empire (Noam Murro) has all the posturing, preening and startstop carnage that Zack Snyder brought to his 2006 adaptation of Frank Miller’s fantastical graphic-novel retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae, further amped up by the technological advances in digital filmmaking. But this time the action sequences are straight out of video game narratives: the camera follows one centred character through a battlefield, his trajectory changing suddenly and sharply as if someone had thumbed a controller. The spastic Athenian boogaloo is like watching 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen) RCM_NOW_contests_1-5bw_Mar13_Galvan__V 14-03-11 2:11 PM Page 1 someone play an Xbox war game while is a stunning adaptation of the constantly shouting “Did you see that

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(Tyler Perry) 110 min. See Also Opening, page 68. Opens Mar 14 at 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Yorkdale, 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 Hori koshi, 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, hand-drawn 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, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Kingsway Theatre, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24

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sese) is another sprawling look at the 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, Kingsway Theatre, Queens way, Scotiabank Theatre, Varsity 3

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300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE 3D (18A) Thu 2:45, 4:40, 5:30, 7:15, 7:30, 8:05, 9:50, 10:20, 10:40 Fri 12:30, 3:00, 5:40, 6:15, 7:20, 8:20, 9:15, 9:55, 10:55 Sat 12:15, 12:30, 3:00, 5:40, 6:15, 7:20, 8:20, 9:15, 9:55, 10:55 Sun 12:15, 2:50, 3:00, 5:25, 6:00, 6:40, 8:00, 9:00, 9:20, 10:35 Mon-Wed 2:50, 3:00, 5:25, 6:00, 6:40, 8:00, 9:00, 9:20, 10:35 AMERICAN HUSTLE (14A) Thu 1:55, 3:00, 5:40, 6:30, 8:45, 9:45 Fri-Sat 3:20, 6:30, 9:45 Sun-Wed 4:10, 7:15, 10:20 DESPICABLE ME (PG) Sat 11:00 ENEMY (18A) Fri 1:10, 3:40, 6:05, 8:30, 10:55 Sat 1:10, 6:05, 8:30, 10:55 Sun 1:50, 5:10, 8:10, 10:30 Mon-Tue 2:30, 5:10, 8:10, 10:30 Wed 2:30, 5:15, 8:10, 10:30 FROZEN (G) Thu 1:35, 4:30 Fri 12:45 Sat 12:40 Sun-Wed 1:30 THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (14A) Fri 12:10, 2:30, 2:40, 4:45, 5:20, 5:45, 7:40, 8:00, 8:45, 10:20, 10:35 Sat 12:10, 1:45, 2:30, 2:40, 4:45, 5:20, 5:45, 7:40, 8:00, 8:45, 10:20, 10:35 Sun 11:35, 1:45, 2:00, 2:30, 4:30, 4:35, 5:30, 7:10, 7:20, 8:30, 9:45, 10:00 Mon-Wed 2:00, 2:45, 4:30, 4:35, 5:45, 7:10, 7:20, 8:30, 9:45, 10:00 THE GREAT BEAUTY (14A) Thu 2:30, 6:00, 9:15 IN FEAR (14A) Thu 7:30 THE LEGO MOVIE 3D (G) Thu 2:25, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20 Fri-Sat 11:50, 2:20, 4:55, 7:30, 10:05 Sun 12:05, 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 Mon-Wed 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 THE LEGO MOVIE (G) Thu 1:10, 3:45, 6:25 Fri 1:20, 3:50 Sat 10:55, 1:20, 3:50 Sun-Wed 1:40, 4:15 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: WERTHER LIVE Sat 12:55 THE MONUMENTS MEN (PG) Thu 12:55, 3:40, 6:35, 9:25 Fri 12:50, 4:20, 9:35 Sat 1:15, 9:35 Sun 1:10, 9:35 Mon-Wed 1:10, 4:00, 9:35 MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN (G) Thu 1:20, 4:00, 6:45 Fri 1:40, 4:10, 6:50 Sat 11:10, 1:40, 4:10, 6:50 Sun 1:05, 3:35, 6:10 Mon-Tue 1:00, 3:35, 6:20 Wed 1:05, 3:35, 6:20 MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN 3D (G) Thu 2:15, 4:50, 7:35, 10:05 Fri-Sat 12:00, 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:20 Sun 11:40, 2:10, 4:45, 7:20, 9:50 Mon-Wed 2:10, 4:45, 7:20, 9:50 NEED FOR SPEED (PG) Fri-Sat 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:15 Sun 12:40, 3:45, 6:50, 10:00 Mon-Tue 12:50, 3:45, 6:50, 10:00 Wed 3:55, 6:50, 10:00 NEED FOR SPEED 3D (PG) Thu 9:15 Fri 1:30, 3:30, 4:35, 7:15, 7:40, 10:45 Sat 12:00, 1:30, 3:30, 4:35, 7:15, 7:40, 10:45 Sun 12:00, 1:20, 3:30, 4:25, 7:00, 7:30, 10:30, 10:35 Mon-Wed 1:20, 3:30, 4:25, 7:00, 7:30, 10:30, 10:35 NO CLUE Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:00, 9:45 NON-STOP (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:00, 4:40, 7:00, 7:25, 10:00, 10:10 Fri 12:20, 2:50, 3:50, 5:30, 6:45, 8:10, 9:45, 10:50 Sat 12:20, 12:45, 2:50, 3:50, 5:30, 6:45, 8:10, 9:45, 10:50 Sun 11:45, 12:45, 2:20, 3:50, 5:00, 6:30, 7:40, 9:30, 10:15 Mon-Tue 2:20, 3:50, 5:00, 6:30, 7:40, 9:30, 10:15 Wed 2:20, 3:50, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 POMPEII (PG) Thu 2:45, 5:45, 8:45 POMPEII 3D (PG) Thu 2:35, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30 Fri 12:35, 3:10, 6:20, 9:10 Sat 3:40, 6:20, 9:10 Sun 12:30, 3:25, 6:30, 9:10 Mon-Wed 1:15, 3:55, 6:30, 9:10 ROBOCOP (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:50, 6:55 Fri-Sat 9:20 Sun 8:40 Mon-Wed 8:50 ROMEO AND JULIET Sun 12:55 ROYAL OPERA HOUSE - THE SLEEPING BEAUTY Wed 7:00 SON OF GOD (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:10, 7:10, 10:25 Fri 12:15, 3:30, 6:40, 9:50 Sat 4:40, 7:45, 11:00 Sun 4:55, 8:20 Mon 1:50, 10:10 Tue 1:50, 4:55, 8:20 Wed 4:05, 10:35 TOOTSIE Mon 7:00 VERONICA MARS (PG) Thu 9:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 7:00 SatSun 4:00, 7:00 THE WIND RISES (PG) Thu 9:10 THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (18A) Thu 3:00, 10:00

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300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE (18A) Thu 1:15, 1:45, 3:45, 4:10, 6:30, 7:05, 9:00, 9:35 Fri-Sun 1:15, 1:45, 3:45, 4:10, 6:15, 7:00, 9:15 Mon-Wed 1:15, 1:45, 3:45, 4:10, 6:15, 7:00, 8:40, 9:15 AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:00, 6:40, 9:15 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:00, 6:40 BETTIE PAGE REVEALS ALL (14A) Fri-Wed 4:05, 9:20 DALLAS BUYERS CLUB (18A) Thu 6:55, 9:25 Fri-Wed 1:35, 4:20, 6:55, 9:40 GLORIA (18A) 9:30 Thu 4:05 HER (14A) Fri-Wed 4:05, 9:25 INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS (14A) Thu 9:10 THE LEGO MOVIE (G) 1:40, 3:55, 6:35 NEBRASKA (PG) Thu 1:35, 4:20 NON-STOP (PG) Thu 1:25 3:50 7:10 9:40 Fri-Wed 1:25, 3:50, 7:10, 9:45 PARTICLE FEVER Fri-Wed 4:15, 9:35 PHILOMENA (PG) Fri-Wed 1:50, 7:05 ROBOCOP (PG) Thu 4:15, 9:30 THE ROOM Fri-Sat 9:00, 9:30, 10:30, 11:45, 12:15 Sun 9:00, 9:30, 10:30 SOLO (14A) Thu 2:00, 7:00 12 YEARS A SLAVE (14A) 1:10, 6:45 THE WIND RISES (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:00, 6:40, 9:20

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300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE (18A) 12:30, 3:30, 7:00, 9:40 Sat, Tue 11:25 late ABOUT LAST NIGHT (14A) Fri-Wed 3:15, 9:25 DALLAS BUYERS CLUB (18A) Thu-Fri, Sun-Mon, Wed 9:20 Sat 11:35 Tue 9:20, 11:35 THE LEGO MOVIE (G) Thu 2:35, 5:00, 7:10 Fri-Wed 12:15, 2:35, 5:00, 7:10 LEPRECHAUN (R) Sat 9:00 MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN (G) 12:25, 2:45, 5:05, 7:15, 9:35 NEED FOR SPEED (PG) Thu 8:00 Fri, Sun-Mon, Wed 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:35 Sat, Tue 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:35, 11:25 NON-STOP (PG) Thu 12:40 3:25 6:50 9:20 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:25, 6:50, 9:30 Sat, Tue 11:35 late PHILOMENA (PG) Thu 3:15 SON OF GOD (PG) Thu 12:20, 3:10, 6:40, 9:25 12 YEARS A SLAVE (14A) 12:20, 6:35

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THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG (PG) Thu 2:40 Fri 12:20, 3:40, 7:00, 10:30 Sat 12:10, 3:40, 7:00, 10:30 Sun 1:40, 5:20, 8:50 Mon-Wed 1:50, 5:20, 8:50 THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (PG) Thu 2:00, 5:45, 9:00 LONE SURVIVOR (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:40, 6:40, 9:30 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: WERTHER LIVE Sat 12:55 THE MONUMENTS MEN (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:50, 7:10, 10:00 Fri-Sat 1:15, 4:20, 7:10, 9:55 Sun 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:55 MonWed 1:40, 4:30, 7:10, 10:10 NEED FOR SPEED (PG) Fri 12:20, 3:20, 6:20, 9:15 Sat 12:10, 3:15, 6:20, 9:15 Sun 12:20, 3:15, 6:20, 9:15 Mon-Wed 3:15, 6:20, 9:15 NEED FOR SPEED 3D (PG) Thu 9:15 Fri 12:50, 1:30, 3:50, 4:30, 7:00, 7:40, 10:10, 10:40 Sat 12:40, 1:30, 3:50, 4:30, 7:00, 7:40, 10:10, 10:40 Sun 12:50, 1:30, 3:50, 4:30, 6:50, 7:30, 9:45, 10:30 Mon-Wed 1:30, 3:50, 4:30, 6:50, 7:30, 9:45, 10:30 NON-STOP (PG) Thu 1:30, 2:00, 4:10, 4:40, 7:00, 7:35, 9:40, 10:20 Fri-Sat 2:15, 4:50, 7:50, 10:30 Sun-Tue 2:10, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Wed 2:10, 4:40, 7:50, 10:00 POMPEII 3D (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:10, 6:50, 9:20 Fri 12:40, 3:10, 5:50, 8:25, 10:50 Sat 12:30, 3:00, 5:50, 8:25, 10:50 Sun 12:20, 2:45, 5:10, 7:45, 10:30 Mon-Wed 2:45, 5:10, 7:45, 10:30 ROBOCOP (PG) Thu 1:45, 5:00, 7:50, 10:30 Fri 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:20 Sat 4:40, 7:20, 10:20 Sun-Wed 2:00, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (18A) Thu 12:40, 4:30, 8:50 Fri-Sat 1:25, 5:40, 9:35 Sun 12:45, 4:50, 8:40 Mon-Tue 1:40, 5:30, 9:20 Wed 1:40, 5:35, 9:20

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THE GREAT BEAUTY (14A) Thu 12:10, 3:10, 6:10, 9:10 Fri 12:10, 3:10, 9:10 Sat-Sun 3:10, 6:10, 9:10 Mon 6:10, 9:10 Tue 12:05, 3:05, 6:10, 9:10 Wed 12:10, 3:10, 6:10, 9:15 THE HUSBAND (14A) Fri 2:15, 7:00 Sat-Sun, Tue-Wed 2:15, 8:30 Mon 8:30 INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS (14A) Thu 12:10 Fri 3:30 Sun 9:20 Tue 4:10 Wed 2:30, 4:00, 6:20, 8:45 LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON (PG) Thu 12:15, 3:00, 6:15, 9:00 Fri 12:15, 4:15, 6:30, 8:45 Sat 12:10, 3:00, 5:50, 9:00 Sun 3:00, 6:00, 9:00 Mon 6:00, 9:00 Tue 12:15, 3:15, 6:00, 9:00 Wed 12:15, 3:00, 6:00, 9:00 THE OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILMS 2014: ANIMATED (G) Thu 5:00 THE OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILMS 2014: LIVE ACTION (14A) Thu 2:30 STAY (14A) Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 12:00, 6:15 Mon 6:15 TIM’S VERMEER (PG) Thu 12:00, 2:00, 7:00, 9:05 Fri 12:30, 2:30, 4:30, 9:05 Sat 3:30, 5:30, 7:35, 9:30 Sun 4:15, 5:30, 7:30, 9:30 Mon 7:00, 9:05 Tue 12:30, 3:00, 4:20, 9:05 Wed 12:30, 4:15, 7:15, 9:10

ABOUT LAST NIGHT (14A) 8:05, 10:30 Fri 2:55 mat, 5:35 Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:00 mat, 5:35 ALAN PARTRIDGE (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 2:35, 4:55, 7:25, 9:40 Fri 2:20, 4:55, 7:15, 9:40 Sat-Sun 12:20, 2:35, 4:55, 7:15, 9:40 AMERICAN HUSTLE (14A) Thu 6:25, 10:15 Fri 3:15, 10:15 Sat-Sun 11:55, 3:15, 10:15 Mon-Wed 10:15 BEIJING LOVE STORY (PG) Thu 6:15, 9:15 Fri-Wed 9:30 BEWAKOOFIYAAN Fri, Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:05, 6:50, 9:35 Sat-Sun 1:15, 4:05, 6:50, 9:35 DONNIE BRASCO Sat 1:00 ENEMY (18A) Fri 3:10, 5:30, 7:55, 10:15 Sat-Sun 12:35, 3:10, 5:30, 7:55, 10:15 Mon-Wed 1:55, 4:15, 7:55, 10:15 FROZEN (G) Fri-Wed 1:30 FROZEN 3D (G) Thu 4:30, 7:00 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:30 Sat-Sun 3:55, 6:30 GRAVITY 3D (PG) 2:10, 4:50, 7:45, 10:05 IN FEAR (14A) Thu 7:30 Fri-Sat, Mon-Tue 9:45 Wed 10:30 THE LEGO MOVIE 3D (G) 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:10 Sat-Sun 12:00 mat THE LEGO MOVIE (G) Thu 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:40 Fri, Mon, Wed 1:35, 4:00 Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:00, 6:30 Tue 1:35, 4:00, 7:00 MEMENTO (14A) Thu 4:15 MOULIN ROUGE – ROYAL WINNIPEG BALLET Fri 1:30, 4:30 Mon 1:30, 4:15 Wed 4:00 MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN (G) 2:00, 4:20, 6:40, 9:00 MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN 3D (G) Thu, Mon-Wed 2:40, 5:00, 7:40, 10:00 Fri 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:00 Sat-Sun 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:00 NO CLUE Thu 1:35, 3:55, 7:25, 9:50 Fri-Wed 9:05 ROMEO AND JULIET Sun 12:55, 9:30 Tue 1:30 ROYAL OPERA HOUSE - THE SLEEPING BEAUTY Wed 7:00 SHAADI KE SIDE EFFECTS (14A) Thu 3:20, 6:20, 9:35 SON OF GOD (PG) Thu, Mon, Wed 7:10, 10:20 Fri 3:50, 7:10, 10:20 Sat-Sun 12:50, 3:50, 7:10, 10:20 Tue 10:20 STALINGRAD: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:35, 10:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:25 Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:55 THAT AWKWARD MOMENT (14A) Thu 9:30 3 DAYS TO KILL (PG) 7:20, 10:25 Fri 1:45 mat, 4:35 Sat-Sun 1:40 mat, 4:30 TOOTSIE Thu, Wed 1:30 Mon 7:00 Tue 4:30 12 YEARS A SLAVE (14A) 3:40, 6:35, 9:45 Sat-Sun 11:55 mat TYLER PERRY’S THE SINGLE MOMS CLUB (PG) 2:35, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 Sat-Sun 12:00 mat VERONICA MARS (PG) Thu 9:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 7:00, 7:05 Sat-Sun 4:00, 7:00, 7:05 THE WIND RISES (PG) Thu-Fri, Mon-Wed 1:35, 4:25, 7:15, 10:05 Sat-Sun 12:15, 3:05, 6:05, 8:55

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AMERICAN HUSTLE (14A) Thu-Sun 12:50, 3:55, 7:00, 10:05 Mon-Wed 12:25, 3:30, 6:45, 9:50 ENEMY (18A) Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:00, 5:15, 7:30, 9:55 THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (14A) Fri-Sun 12:30, 1:30, 3:00, 4:00, 5:30, 6:30, 8:00, 9:30, 10:30 Mon-Wed 12:30, 1:30, 3:15, 4:00, 6:30, 7:30, 9:30, 10:00 THE GREAT BEAUTY (14A) Thu 12:30, 3:45, 7:05, 10:15 FriWed 12:15, 3:25, 6:35, 9:45 HER (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:35 THE MONUMENTS MEN (PG) 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN (G) Thu 12:15, 2:35 Fri-Wed 12:20 MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN 3D (G) Thu 5:05, 7:30, 9:55 Fri-Wed 2:45, 5:00, 7:35, 10:00 OMAR (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:05, 10:10 Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:05, 6:30, 9:10 PHILOMENA (PG) Thu 12:35, 2:55, 5:20, 7:50, 10:10 THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (18A) Thu 1:30, 5:15, 9:00

DALLAS BUYERS CLUB (18A) Thu 1:40, 4:20, 7:00 Fri-Sat 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Sun 12:20, 3:30, 6:20, 9:00 MonWed 4:20, 7:00 FROZEN (G) Thu 1:15 Fri-Sat 12:50 Sun 12:10 FROZEN 3D (G) Thu, Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:20 Fri-Sat 3:15, 6:00 Sun 2:45, 5:20 GLORIA (18A) Thu 1:20, 4:10, 6:40 Fri-Sat 1:20, 4:10, 6:45, 9:10 Sun 12:50, 3:40, 6:15, 8:40 Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:40 NEBRASKA (PG) Thu 1:10, 3:40, 6:25 Fri-Sat 1:10, 3:50, 6:20, 8:50 Sun 12:40, 3:20, 6:10, 8:50 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:30 PHILOMENA (PG) Thu 2:30, 4:50, 7:10 Fri-Sat 12:40, 2:50, 5:00, 7:20, 9:30 Sun 1:00, 3:20, 5:45, 7:55 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:00 POMPEII (PG) Fri-Sat 1:00, 3:40, 6:10, 9:00 Sun 12:30, 3:10, 5:50, 8:20 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:00 ROBOCOP (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:30, 7:15 SON OF GOD (PG) Fri-Sat 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Sun 12:00, 3:00, 6:00, 9:00 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:45 STARTING OVER AGAIN Thu 1:00, 4:00, 6:50 THE WIND RISES (PG) Fri-Sat 8:40 Sun 8:00 THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (18A) Thu 1:30, 5:30 Fri-Sat 12:30, 4:30, 8:30 Sun 12:00, 4:00, 8:00 Mon-Wed 5:30

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300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE 3D (18A) Thu 1:40, 4:20, 6:25, 7:00, 9:00, 9:40 Fri-Sat 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 6:40, 7:45, 9:30, 10:20 Sun 1:30, 4:30, 6:30, 7:10, 9:00, 9:45 Mon-Tue 1:20, 4:30, 6:20, 7:00, 8:50, 9:30 Wed 1:20, 4:20, 6:20, 6:50, 8:50, 9:30 AMERICAN HUSTLE (14A) Thu 12:05, 3:10, 6:15, 9:25 Fri 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:15 Sat 4:00, 7:10, 10:15 Sun 2:55, 6:10, 9:15 Mon-Tue 12:00, 3:05, 6:10, 9:15 Wed 12:00, 3:05 THE LEGO MOVIE 3D (G) Thu 1:20, 4:00, 6:45, 9:10 Fri 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:50 Sat 2:25 Sun-Wed 3:15, 5:50, 8:30 THE LEGO MOVIE (G) Fri 12:00 Sat 12:00, 7:50, 10:15 Sun 12:35 Mon-Wed 12:30 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: WERTHER LIVE Sat 12:55 THE MONUMENTS MEN (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:15, 6:00, 8:50 Fri 12:40, 3:20, 9:40 Sat 9:40 Sun 1:10, 9:30 Mon-Wed 1:10, 4:05, 9:25 MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN (G) Thu 12:50, 3:35 Fri 1:10, 3:40 Sat 12:10, 1:10 Sun 1:20, 4:05 Mon-Tue 12:50, 3:45 Wed 3:45 MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN 3D (G) Thu 12:00, 2:30, 5:05, 7:30, 9:55 Fri 12:20, 2:45, 5:10, 7:35, 10:10 Sat 2:35, 5:05, 7:30, 9:55 Sun 12:05, 2:40, 5:10, 8:00 Mon-Wed 12:00, 2:35, 5:00, 8:00 NEED FOR SPEED (PG) Fri 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:45 Sat 1:00, 4:50, 6:30, 9:45 Sun 12:00, 3:00, 6:00, 8:55 Mon-Wed 12:05, 3:00, 6:00, 8:55 NEED FOR SPEED 3D (PG) Thu 9:15 Fri 1:20, 4:15, 7:20, 10:20 Sat 12:30, 3:30, 7:20, 10:20 Sun 12:45, 3:40, 6:50, 9:45 Mon-Wed 12:40, 3:35, 6:35, 9:30 NON-STOP (PG) Thu 1:55, 4:35, 7:15, 9:50 Fri-Sat 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 10:00 Sun 12:15, 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 Mon-Tue 1:00, 3:55, 6:45, 9:20 Wed 3:55, 6:10, 9:00 POMPEII 3D (PG) Thu 1:05, 3:50, 6:35 ROMEO AND JULIET Sun 12:55 ROYAL OPERA HOUSE - THE SLEEPING BEAUTY Wed 7:00 SON OF GOD (PG) Thu 12:00, 3:00, 6:05 VERONICA MARS (PG) Thu 9:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 7:00 SatSun 4:00, 7:00

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300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE (18A) Thu 1:00, 3:40, 7:30, 9:50 Fri-Tue 1:00, 3:40, 7:30, 9:45 Wed 3:40, 7:30, 9:45 THE LEGO MOVIE (G) Thu 12:15, 2:40, 5:00, 7:20 Fri-Tue 12:15, 2:40, 5:00, 7:00 Wed 5:00, 7:00 THE MONUMENTS MEN (PG) Thu 9:40 MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN (G) Thu 12:00, 2:15, 4:40, 7:10, 9:30 Fri-Sun, Tue 12:00, 2:15, 4:40, 7:10, 9:15 Mon, Wed 4:40, 7:10, 9:15 NEED FOR SPEED (PG) Fri-Sun, Tue 12:30, 3:20, 7:20, 10:00 Mon, Wed 3:20, 7:20, 10:00 NON-STOP (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:30, 7:00, 9:20 3 DAYS TO KILL (PG) Fri-Wed 9:25

KINGSWAY THEATRE (I) 3030 BLOOR ST W, 416-232-1939

BETTIE PAGE REVEALS ALL (14A) Fri-Wed 7:05 THE BOOK THIEF (PG) Fri, Sun, Tue 11:00 CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (14A) Fri, Sun, Tue 11:00 DALLAS BUYERS CLUB (18A) Thu 5:05, 9:20 Fri-Wed 1:10, 7:05 INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS (14A) Thu 2:45 Fri-Wed 8:45 MONEY FOR NOTHING: INSIDE THE FEDERAL RESERVE Sat, Mon, Wed 11:00 Thu 2:10 MUSCLE SHOALS (PG) Thu 4:00 Sat, Mon, Wed 3:10 NEBRASKA (PG) Thu 5:50 Fri-Wed 5:00 NIGHT TRAIN TO LISBON (14A) Thu 12:00 Fri, Sun, Tue 3:10 PHILOMENA (PG) Thu 1:05 Fri-Wed 3:10 PUSSY RIOT: A PUNK PRAYER (14A) Thu 7:50 SAVING MR. BANKS (PG) Thu, Sat, Mon, Wed 11:00 SEX AFTER KIDS (18A) Thu 9:20 12 YEARS A SLAVE (14A) Thu 7:10 Fri-Wed 4:50 THE WIND RISES (PG) Fri-Wed 1:10 THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (18A) Fri-Wed 8:55

1025 THE QUEENSWAY, QEW & ISLINGTON, 416-503-0424

RAINBOW WOODBINE (I)

WOODBINE CENTRE, 500 REXDALE BLVD, 416-213-1998 300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE (18A) Thu 1:00 4:10 6:55 9:40 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:00, 9:40 ABOUT LAST NIGHT (14A) Thu 4:15, 9:45 Fri-Wed 9:25 THE LEGO MOVIE (G) Thu 1:10, 3:55, 7:00 Fri-Wed 1:25, 4:05, 6:50 MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN (G) Thu 12:30, 1:15, 2:45, 4:00, 5:00, 6:45, 7:15, 9:15, 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:05, 1:30, 4:15, 6:55, 7:15, 9:15 NEED FOR SPEED (PG) Thu 9:20 Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:55, 6:45, 9:35 NON-STOP (PG) Thu 1:05 4:05 7:05 9:35 Fri-Wed 1:15, 3:50, 7:05, 9:30 POMPEII (PG) Thu 1:25, 7:10 SON OF GOD (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:45, 6:35, 9:25 Fri-Wed 3:45, 9:20 TYLER PERRY’S THE SINGLE MOMS CLUB (PG) Fri-Tue 1:20, 4:00, 7:10, 9:45 Wed 4:00, 7:10, 9:45

East End BEACH CINEMAS (AA) 1651 QUEEN ST E, 416-699-1327

300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE 3D (18A) Thu 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:15, 7:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 7:30, 10:00 AMERICAN HUSTLE (14A) Thu 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 FriSun 6:30, 9:45 Mon-Wed 6:30, 9:50 continued on page 76 œ

259 RICHMOND ST W, 416-368-5600

300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE – AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (18A) Thu 2:15, 4:50, 7:25, 9:55 Fri-Sat 12:20, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Sun 12:10, 2:25, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 Mon-Wed 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE 3D (18A) Thu 12:25, 1:00, 1:30, 2:50, 3:30, 4:00, 5:25, 6:05, 6:30, 8:05, 8:45, 10:30 Fri 12:30, 1:00, 1:40, 3:00, 3:30, 4:10, 5:25, 6:00, 6:35, 8:10, 8:45, 9:25, 10:50 Sat 1:00, 1:40, 3:30, 4:10, 5:25, 6:00, 6:35, 8:10, 8:45, 9:25, 10:50 Sun 12:35, 1:00, 1:50, 3:00, 3:30, 4:20, 5:30, 5:50, 6:35, 7:55, 8:25, 9:00, 10:20 MonTue 1:20, 2:00, 3:00, 3:30, 4:20, 5:30, 5:50, 6:35, 7:55, 8:25, 9:00, 10:20 Wed 1:20, 2:00, 3:00, 3:30, 4:20, 5:25, 5:50, 6:35, 8:25, 9:00, 10:20 HER (14A) Thu 12:25, 3:15, 7:15, 10:10 Fri-Sat 1:10, 4:00, 6:50, 9:45 Sun 1:10, 4:00, 7:20, 10:10 Mon-Wed 1:25, 4:15, 7:20, 10:10 THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG 3D (PG) Thu 6:20, 9:50

NOW MARCH 13-19 2014

movie times œcontinued from page 75

The LEGO Movie 3D (G) Thu 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 The LEGO Movie (G) Thu 12:00 Fri-Sun 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:45, 10:15 Mon-Wed 6:40, 9:15 The Metropolitan Opera: Werther Live Sat 12:55 Mr. Peabody & Sherman (G) Thu 3:30, 6:30 Fri, Sun 12:15, 3:15 Mr. Peabody & Sherman 3D (G) Thu-Sun 11:30, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Mon-Wed 7:00, 9:30 Need for Speed 3D (PG) 7:15, 10:10 Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:30 mat Non-Stop (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:15, 10:15 Fri-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 6:45, 9:15 Mon-Wed 6:50, 9:40 Son of God (PG) Thu 12:15, 9:00

North York Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk (CE) 5095 Yonge St., 416-847-0087

300: Rise of an Empire – An IMAX 3D Experience (18A) Thu 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:15 Fri-Sat 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:30 Sun 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 Mon-Wed 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 300: Rise of an Empire 3D (18A) Thu 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:45 Fri 2:00, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 Sat 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 Sun 1:50, 4:20, 7:05, 9:40 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:05, 9:40 American Hustle (14A) Thu 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 10:05 Fri-Wed 9:30 Enemy (18A) Fri-Sat 1:00, 3:30, 7:00, 9:50 Sun 1:30, 3:50, 7:00, 9:50 Mon-Wed 3:50, 7:00, 9:50 Frozen (G) Thu 12:45 The Great Beauty (14A) Thu 12:10, 3:20, 6:35, 10:00 Fri-Sat 12:40, 3:50, 7:05, 10:15 Sun 12:30, 3:40, 6:50, 9:55 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:50, 9:55 The LEGO Movie 3D (G) Thu, Sun-Wed 3:45, 6:45, 9:25 Fri-Sat 2:20, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 The LEGO Movie (G) Thu, Sun 1:15 Fri-Sat 11:50 The Metropolitan Opera: Werther Live Sat 12:55 Mr. Peabody & Sherman (G) Thu 12:30, 3:00, 5:30 Fri-Sat 12:30, 3:00, 5:40 Sun 12:40, 3:10, 5:30 Mon-Tue 3:30, 6:10 Wed 3:30 Mr. Peabody & Sherman 3D (G) Thu, Sun 1:00, 3:30, 6:30, 9:10 Fri-Sat 12:00, 2:30, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:30, 9:10 Need for Speed 3D (PG) Thu 9:15 Fri-Sat 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Sun 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:05 Mon-Wed 4:10, 7:10, 10:05 Non-Stop (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Fri-Sat 2:10, 4:50, 7:45, 10:25 Sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 Pompeii 3D (PG) Thu 3:40, 6:30 Romeo and Juliet Sun 12:55 Royal Opera House - The Sleeping Beauty Wed 7:00 Son of God (PG) Thu 12:20, 3:25, 6:40, 9:50 The Wolf of Wall Street (18A) Thu 8:00 Fri 12:50, 4:55, 8:50 Sat 4:55, 8:50 Sun 8:50 Mon-Tue 4:50, 8:50 Wed 4:50

SilverCity Fairview (CE)

Fairview Mall, 1800 Sheppard Ave E, 416-644-7746 300: Rise of an Empire 3D (18A) Thu 2:10, 4:50, 6:40, 7:30, 9:10, 10:00 Fri 2:00, 4:35, 7:10, 7:50, 9:40, 10:20 Sat 11:30, 2:00, 4:35, 7:10, 7:50, 9:40, 10:20 Sun-Wed 1:25, 4:00, 6:30, 7:15, 9:10, 9:50 About Last Night (14A) Thu 9:00 Despicable Me (PG) Sat 11:00 Frozen (G) Thu 1:20, 4:00 Fri 1:50, 4:40 Sat 11:20, 1:50, 4:40 Sun-Wed 1:30, 4:10 In Fear (14A) Thu 7:30 The LEGO Movie 3D (G) Thu 4:20, 6:50, 9:35 Fri-Sat 4:50, 7:20, 10:00 Sun-Wed 4:15, 6:50, 9:30 The LEGO Movie (G) Thu, Sun-Wed 1:40 Fri 2:10 Sat 11:40, 2:05 The Metropolitan Opera: Werther Live Sat 12:55 Mr. Peabody & Sherman (G) Thu 1:10, 3:45, 6:20 Fri 1:40, 4:15, 6:50 Sat 11:10, 1:40, 4:15, 6:50 Sun-Tue 1:10, 3:45, 6:25 Wed 3:45, 6:25 Mr. Peabody & Sherman 3D (G) Thu 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Fri 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:10 Sat 11:50, 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:10 Sun-Wed 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 Need for Speed (PG) Fri 12:55, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 Sat 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 Sun-Tue 12:45, 3:40, 6:40, 9:45 Wed 3:50, 6:40, 9:45 Need for Speed 3D (PG) Thu 9:15 Fri-Sat 1:20, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Sun-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 Non-Stop (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:20, 7:00, 9:45 Sun-Tue 1:00, 3:50, 6:35, 9:20 Wed 1:10, 3:50, 6:35, 9:20 Pompeii 3D (PG) Thu 1:30, 3:55, 9:45 RoboCop (PG) Thu 1:05, 3:50, 6:45 Fri-Sat 9:30 Sun-Wed 9:00 Son of God (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:05, 7:10, 10:10 Fri 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:15 Sat 4:25, 7:25, 10:25 Sun-Wed 12:55, 3:55, 7:05, 10:05

SilverCity Yorkdale (CE)

7:50, 10:20 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:35, 5:10, 7:50, 10:20 Sat 12:00, 2:35, 5:10, 7:50, 10:20 Need for Speed 3D (PG) Thu 9:15 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:15, 4:20, 7:25, 10:30 Sat 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:45 Non-Stop (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:45, 10:25 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:55, 4:40, 7:20, 10:10 Sat 11:45, 2:25, 5:15, 7:55, 10:40 Pompeii 3D (PG) Thu 2:10, 4:50, 7:35 Fri, Sun-Wed 10:00 Sat 10:30 RoboCop (PG) Thu 3:10, 6:20 Son of God (PG) Thu 12:00, 3:10, 6:20, 10:20 Fri, SunWed 12:30, 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 Sat 12:20, 3:40, 7:00, 10:20 3 Days to Kill (PG) Thu 9:00 Tyler Perry’s The Single Moms Club (PG) Fri, SunWed 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:05 Sat 11:30, 2:10, 4:55, 7:45, 10:35 Veronica Mars (PG) Thu 9:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 7:00 SatSun 4:00, 7:00

Scarborough 401 & Morningside (CE) 785 Milner Ave, Scarborough, 416-281-2226

300: Rise of an Empire 3D (18A) Thu 12:10, 2:50, 5:20, 7:00, 7:50, 9:30, 10:20 Fri 12:15, 2:50, 5:20, 6:50, 7:55, 9:30, 10:25 Sat 2:50, 5:20, 6:50, 7:55, 9:30, 10:25 Sun 2:35, 5:00, 6:30, 7:35, 9:00, 10:00 Mon, Wed 5:45, 7:30, 8:25 Tue 5:20, 6:50, 7:55, 9:30, 10:25 About Last Night (14A) Thu 12:20, 5:30, 8:00, 10:20 Fri-Sat, Tue 8:00, 10:25 Sun 7:40, 10:00 Mon, Wed 8:25 Despicable Me (PG) Sat 11:00 Frozen (G) Thu-Sun 2:00, 4:30 Mon, Wed 6:00 Tue 4:30 The LEGO Movie 3D (G) Thu 12:05, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Fri-Sat 12:05, 2:30, 5:05, 7:30, 10:00 Sun 2:30, 5:05, 7:30, 9:55 Mon, Wed 5:40, 8:05 Tue 5:05, 7:30, 10:00 The LEGO Movie (G) Thu 1:15, 3:00, 4:00 Fri, Sun 1:15, 4:00 Sat 11:15, 1:15, 4:00 Mon, Wed 5:00 Tue 4:15 The Monuments Men (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:10, 6:55, 9:50 Mr. Peabody & Sherman (G) Thu 12:45, 2:45, 3:45, 6:45 Fri-Sun 12:45, 3:45, 6:40 Mon, Wed 5:50 Tue 4:25, 6:40 Mr. Peabody & Sherman 3D (G) Thu 12:00, 2:15, 4:45, 7:20, 9:55 Fri 12:00, 2:20, 4:45, 7:10, 9:55 Sat 11:35, 2:20, 4:45, 7:10, 9:55 Sun 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:30 Mon, Wed 5:10, 7:40 Tue 4:45, 7:10, 9:55 Need for Speed 3D (PG) Fri 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:20 Sat 11:45, 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:20 Sun 1:00, 4:05, 7:00, 9:55 Mon, Wed 5:15, 8:10 Tue 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Non-Stop (PG) Thu 12:00, 5:10, 7:40, 10:15 Fri-Sat 12:00, 2:40, 5:10, 7:50, 10:20 Sun 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 Mon, Wed 5:20, 7:50 Tue 5:10, 7:50, 10:20 Ride Along (14A) Thu 9:15 RoboCop (PG) Thu 7:05, 10:05 Fri-Sat, Tue 9:15 Sun 9:05 Mon, Wed 8:15 Son of God (PG) Thu-Sun 12:30, 3:30, 6:35, 9:40 Mon, Wed 5:00, 8:00 Tue 4:35, 6:35, 9:40 3 Days to Kill (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:10 Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:20, 7:00, 9:45 Sun 1:30, 4:20, 7:05, 9:45 Mon, Wed 5:30, 8:20 Tue 4:20, 7:00, 9:45 Tyler Perry’s The Single Moms Club (PG) Fri 2:10, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 Sat 11:25, 2:10, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 Sun 1:40, 4:15, 6:50, 9:35 Mon, Wed 5:25, 7:55 Tue 5:00, 7:40, 10:15

1571 Sandhurst Circle, 416-299-3456

Bewakoofiyaan Fri, Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Sat-Sun 12:30, 6:30, 9:30 Gulaab Gang Thu 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 6:15 Sat-Sun 3:15, 9:30 Nimirnthu Nil (PG) 4:00, 7:15, 10:30 Sat-Sun 1:00 mat Queen (14A) Thu-Fri, Mon-Wed 3:15, 9:30 Sat-Sun 12:30, 6:15 Shaadi Ke Side Effects (14A) Thu 6:15 Sat-Sun 3:30

GTA Regions Mississauga

300: Rise of an Empire 3D (18A) Thu 2:10, 4:45, 7:05, 7:30, 9:50, 10:10 Fri-Sat 12:25, 3:00, 5:35, 7:20, 8:10, 9:55, 10:40 Sun-Wed 2:10, 4:45, 6:20, 7:20, 9:15, 10:10 About Last Night (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 Fri 1:20, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 Sat 4:25, 7:00, 9:45 Sun 4:15, 7:05, 9:45 Mon-Tue 1:20, 4:15, 7:05, 9:45 Wed 1:20, 4:15, 10:40 Despicable Me (PG) Sat 11:00 Enemy (18A) Fri 12:30, 2:55, 5:25, 7:55, 10:20 Sat 11:30, 2:00, 5:25, 7:55, 10:20 Sun-Wed 2:45, 5:15, 7:40, 10:15 Frozen (G) Thu 1:15, 4:05 The LEGO Movie 3D (G) Thu 1:45, 4:25, 6:50, 9:40 Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:05, 6:45, 9:30 Sun-Wed 1:30, 4:05, 6:45, 9:20 The LEGO Movie (G) Thu 1:00, 3:45 Fri-Sat 2:15, 4:50 SunWed 1:05, 3:45 The Metropolitan Opera: Werther Live Sat 12:55 Mr. Peabody & Sherman (G) Thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:00 Fri 12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 8:05 Sat 11:15, 12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 8:05 Sun 12:40, 3:15, 5:45, 8:05 Mon-Wed 1:15, 3:55, 6:25 Mr. Peabody & Sherman 3D (G) Thu 1:35, 4:10, 6:35, 9:20 Fri-Sat 12:00, 2:30, 5:05, 7:30, 10:10 Sun 1:15, 3:55, 6:30, 9:25 Mon-Wed 2:15, 4:55, 7:25, 9:50 Need for Speed (PG) Fri-Sat 12:50, 4:00, 7:05, 10:15 Sun 12:45, 3:50, 6:55, 9:55 Mon-Wed 12:55, 3:50, 6:55, 9:55 Need for Speed 3D (PG) Thu 9:15 Fri-Sat 1:35, 4:35, 7:40, 10:45 Sun-Wed 1:00, 4:25, 7:30, 10:30 Non-Stop (PG) Thu 2:15, 4:50, 7:20, 9:55 Fri 1:00, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15 Sat 2:20, 5:00, 7:45, 10:25 Sun-Wed 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 10:05 Pompeii 3D (PG) Thu 6:20 Ride Along (14A) Thu 9:30 RoboCop (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:15, 7:15, 10:05 Fri-Sat 10:30 Sun 10:25 Mon-Wed 9:25 Romeo and Juliet Sun 12:55 Royal Opera House - The Sleeping Beauty Wed 7:00 Son of God (PG) Thu 12:55, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20 Fri-Sat 12:05, 3:30, 6:50, 10:05 Sun-Wed 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20 Starting Over Again Thu 1:20, 4:35, 7:45, 10:30 Tyler Perry’s The Single Moms Club (PG) 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Sat 11:05 mat The Wind Rises (PG) Thu 1:05, 3:55, 7:25, 10:25

Coliseum Mississauga (CE)

Scarborough Town Centre, 416-290-5217

Eglinton Town Centre (CE)

300: Rise of an Empire 3D (18A) Thu 1:15, 4:20, 7:30, 7:40, 10:15, 10:30 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:20, 5:00, 7:00, 7:40, 9:40, 10:25 Sat 12:00, 2:40, 5:20, 7:15, 8:00, 10:00, 10:40 About Last Night (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:35, 7:15, 10:00 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:25, 4:00, 9:55 Sat 1:25, 10:00 Sun 1:25, 9:55 Despicable Me (PG) Sat 11:00 Frozen (G) Thu 2:00, 4:40 The LEGO Movie 3D (G) Thu 1:10, 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 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 12:30 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:10 Mr. Peabody & Sherman (G) Thu 12:45, 3:25, 6:15 FriWed 1:40, 4:20, 7:05 Mr. Peabody & Sherman 3D (G) Thu 12:00, 2:40, 5:15,

300: Rise of an Empire 3D (18A) Thu 11:50, 1:45, 2:25, 4:20, 5:00, 6:55, 7:35, 9:25, 10:10 Fri-Sat 11:50, 12:25, 2:25, 3:00, 5:00, 5:30, 7:35, 8:10, 10:10, 10:45 Sun 12:15, 2:10, 2:50, 4:45, 5:25, 7:20, 8:00, 9:55, 10:30 Mon-Wed 4:25, 5:30, 6:55, 8:00, 9:30, 10:30 About Last Night (14A) Thu 1:55, 4:25, 6:55, 9:50 Fri 9:15 Sat 9:30 Sun 10:15 Mon-Wed 10:00 Despicable Me (PG) Sat 11:00 Frozen (G) Thu 1:30 Fri-Sat 1:40 Sun 12:00, 2:30 Frozen 3D (G) Thu 4:05, 6:35 Fri-Sat 4:10, 6:40 Sun 5:05, 7:35 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:20 In Fear (14A) Thu 7:30

March 13-19 2014 NOW

Woodside Cinemas (I)

Coliseum Scarborough (CE)

3401 Dufferin St, 416-787-2052

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (PG) Thu 9:40 The LEGO Movie 3D (G) Thu 11:55, 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:10 Fri 11:55, 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:20 Sat 11:35, 2:05, 4:50, 7:25, 10:00 Sun 11:50, 2:20, 4:55, 7:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:55, 7:25, 9:55 The LEGO Movie (G) Thu 1:50, 4:25, 7:00 Fri 1:55, 4:30, 7:05 Sat 11:00, 1:30, 4:05, 6:45 Sun 1:40, 4:15, 6:45 MonWed 4:15, 6:45 The Metropolitan Opera: Werther Live Sat 12:55 The Monuments Men (PG) Thu-Fri 1:00, 3:50, 9:35 Sat 1:05, 9:35 Sun 1:10, 9:35 Mon-Wed 4:10, 9:35 Mr. Peabody & Sherman (G) Thu 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Fri-Sun 11:45, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 Mr. Peabody & Sherman 3D (G) Thu 11:45, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 Fri 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:10 Sat 11:15, 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:45, 10:10 Sun 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05 Mon-Wed 5:15, 7:40, 10:05 Need for Speed (PG) Fri 12:50, 3:55, 7:00, 10:00 Sat 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:15 Sun 12:20, 3:25, 6:30, 9:35 Mon-Wed 6:00, 9:10 Need for Speed 3D (PG) Thu 9:15 Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:35, 7:40, 10:40 Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:05, 10:10 Non-Stop (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 6:45, 9:40 Fri 12:10, 2:50, 5:25, 8:00, 10:40 Sat 12:15, 2:50, 5:25, 8:05, 10:40 Sun 1:55, 4:35, 7:10, 9:50 Mon 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 Tue-Wed 4:20, 7:00, 9:50 Pompeii 3D (PG) Thu 11:55, 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 Fri 12:05, 2:45, 5:20, 7:55, 10:35 Sat 12:05, 2:45, 5:20, 8:00, 10:35 Sun 11:55, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20 Mon-Wed 5:10, 7:45, 10:20 Ride Along (14A) Thu 9:10 RoboCop (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:40, 7:30 Fri 9:40 Sat-Wed 9:20 Shaadi Ke Side Effects (14A) Thu 12:30, 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 Son of God (PG) Thu 12:45, 4:00, 7:10, 10:25 Fri 12:35, 3:45, 6:55, 10:15 Sat 12:45, 3:55, 7:05, 10:25 Sun 12:10, 3:30, 6:40, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:10, 10:20 3 Days to Kill (PG) Thu 1:10, 3:55, 6:40, 10:20 Fri 1:20, 4:05, 6:50, 9:50 Sat 11:45, 2:30, 5:15, 8:00, 10:45 Sun 1:20, 4:05, 6:55, 9:50 Mon 4:05, 9:50 Tue-Wed 4:05, 6:50, 9:40 Tootsie Mon 7:00 Tyler Perry’s The Single Moms Club (PG) Fri 1:50, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05 Sat 12:00, 4:55, 7:30, 10:20 Sun 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:25 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:45, 10:25 Veronica Mars (PG) Thu 9:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 7:00 SatSun 4:00, 7:00 The Wolf of Wall Street (18A) Thu 5:20 Fri, Sun 12:30, 4:40, 8:40 Sat 2:35, 6:25, 10:30 Mon-Wed 4:40, 8:40

1901 Eglinton Ave E, 416-752-4494

Square One, 309 Rathburn Rd W, 905-275-3456

300: Rise of an Empire – An IMAX 3D Experience (18A) Thu-Fri 12:25, 3:00, 5:35, 8:10, 10:45 Sat 12:05, 3:00, 5:35, 8:10, 10:45 Sun-Tue 2:00, 4:45, 7:35, 10:10 Wed 2:00, 4:45, 7:35, 10:25 300: Rise of an Empire 3D (18A) Thu 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 Fri 2:15, 5:00, 7:35, 10:10 Sat 11:10, 2:00, 5:00, 7:35, 10:10 Sun 12:30, 3:30, 6:55, 9:40 Mon-Tue 1:00, 3:30, 6:55, 9:40 Wed 1:15, 3:55, 6:55, 9:40 About Last Night (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 10:00 Fri-Sat 6:45, 9:25 Sun, Tue 6:40, 9:25 Mon 9:25 Wed 10:30 American Hustle (14A) Thu 9:45 Despicable Me (PG) Sat 11:00 Enemy (18A) 2:30, 5:05, 7:30, 10:00 Fri, Sun 12:10 mat Sat 11:40, 2:20 mat Sat only 11:40 2:20 5:05 7:30 10:00 Frozen (G) Thu-Fri, Sun 12:45, 3:50, 6:50 Sat 12:25, 3:50, 6:50 Mon-Wed 1:10, 3:50, 6:50 Gravity (PG) Fri, Mon-Wed 1:35, 4:25, 9:35 Sat 9:35 Sun 1:35, 9:35 Gravity 3D (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:15, 6:45 In Fear (14A) Thu 7:30 The LEGO Movie 3D (G) Thu 12:20, 2:50, 5:25, 8:05, 10:40 Fri 12:20, 2:50, 5:25, 8:05, 10:35 Sat 11:50, 2:40, 5:25, 8:05, 10:35 Sun 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Mon-Wed 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 The LEGO Movie (G) Thu 1:40, 4:10, 7:10 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:25, 4:10 Sat 1:05, 4:10 The Metropolitan Opera: Werther Live Sat 12:55 Mr. Peabody & Sherman (G) Thu 12:00, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40 Fri 12:00, 2:25, 4:50, 7:20 Sat 11:20, 2:10, 4:50, 7:20 Sun 1:00, 3:45, 6:30 Mon-Tue 1:20, 3:45, 6:30 Wed 3:45, 6:30 Mr. Peabody & Sherman 3D (G) Thu 12:30, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 Fri 12:30, 2:55, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 Sat 12:15, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 Sun 12:00, 2:25, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 MonWed 2:15, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 Need for Speed (PG) Fri 1:05, 4:05, 7:15, 10:15 Sat 12:35, 3:45, 7:10, 10:15 Sun 12:35, 3:35, 6:45, 9:45 Mon-Wed 3:00, 6:35, 9:45 Need for Speed 3D (PG) Thu 9:15 Fri 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:45 Sat 1:15, 4:30, 7:45, 10:45 Sun-Tue 1:05, 4:05, 7:15, 10:15 Wed 1:05, 4:05, 7:15, 10:20 Non-Stop (PG) Thu 12:05, 1:10, 2:40, 4:00, 5:15, 7:00, 8:00, 9:30, 10:45 Fri 12:05, 2:40, 5:15, 8:00, 9:55, 10:40 Sat 11:30, 2:30, 5:15, 8:00, 9:55, 10:40 Sun-Wed 1:45, 4:35, 7:25, 9:15, 10:05 Pompeii 3D (PG) Thu 2:15, 5:00, 7:50, 10:30 RoboCop (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:40, 6:40 Fri-Sat 9:45 SunWed 9:30 Royal Opera House - The Sleeping Beauty Wed 7:00 That Awkward Moment (14A) Thu 9:55 Tootsie Mon 7:00 Tyler Perry’s The Single Moms Club (PG) Fri 1:15, 4:15, 7:05, 10:25 Sat 12:45, 4:40, 7:25, 10:25 Sun-Tue 1:15, 4:15, 7:05, 9:55 Wed 4:15, 7:05, 9:55

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Courtney Park 16 (CE)

110 Courtney Park E at Hurontario, 416-335-5323 300: Rise of an Empire – An IMAX 3D Experience (18A) Thu 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Fri 3:00, 5:25, 7:50, 10:30 Sat 12:35, 3:00, 5:25, 7:50, 10:30 Sun 12:35, 3:00, 5:25, 7:50, 10:15 Mon-Wed 3:00, 5:25, 7:50, 10:15 300: Rise of an Empire 3D (18A) Thu 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Fri-Sat 1:35, 4:15, 7:05, 9:45 Sun-Wed 1:35, 4:15, 7:05, 9:30 About Last Night (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:20, 6:55, 9:20 FriWed 2:25, 7:40 Enemy (18A) Fri 1:15, 2:55, 5:10, 7:25, 9:55 Sat 12:40, 2:55, 5:10, 7:25, 9:55 Sun 12:40, 2:55, 5:10, 7:25, 9:40 Mon-Tue 1:15, 2:55, 5:10, 7:25, 9:40 Wed 2:55, 5:10, 7:25, 9:40 Gulaab Gang Thu 12:55, 4:00, 7:05, 10:10 Fri 3:30, 6:45, 10:05 Sat 12:25, 3:30, 6:45, 10:05 Sun 12:25, 4:05, 7:10, 10:15 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:45, 9:50 The LEGO Movie 3D (G) Thu 12:45, 3:10, 5:35, 8:00, 10:25 Fri-Sat 4:30, 7:00, 9:40 Sun-Wed 4:30, 7:00, 9:25 The LEGO Movie (G) Thu 12:00, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15 Fri, MonWed 2:00 Sat-Sun 11:55, 2:00 The Monuments Men (PG) Thu 1:35, 4:25, 7:20, 10:05 Fri-Sat 4:55, 10:20 Sun-Wed 4:55, 10:05 Mr. & Mrs. 420 Fri-Sat 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 10:25 Sun-Tue 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 10:10 Wed 4:20, 7:10, 10:10 Mr. Peabody & Sherman (G) Thu 1:10, 3:30, 5:50, 8:10 Fri-Wed 1:05, 3:25, 5:45, 8:05 Mr. Peabody & Sherman 3D (G) Thu 12:20, 2:40, 5:05, 7:25, 9:45 Fri-Sat 1:50, 4:25, 6:55, 9:30 Sun-Wed 1:50, 4:25, 6:55, 9:15 Need for Speed (PG) Fri-Sat 1:00, 3:55, 6:50, 10:00 SunWed 1:00, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 Need for Speed 3D (PG) Thu 9:15 Fri-Sat 1:45, 4:40, 7:35, 10:45 Sun-Wed 1:45, 4:40, 7:35, 10:30 Non-Stop (PG) Thu 12:00, 2:35, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Fri 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:15 Sat 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:15 Sun 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Pompeii (PG) Fri-Sat 10:40 Sun-Wed 10:25 Pompeii 3D (PG) Thu 1:25, 4:05, 6:35 Ride Along (14A) Thu 10:30 RoboCop (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:35, 7:35, 10:20 Romeo and Juliet Sun 12:55 Shaadi Ke Side Effects (14A) Thu 12:10, 3:15, 6:20, 9:25 Fri 1:00, 4:05, 7:15, 10:35 Sat 12:30, 4:05, 7:15, 10:35 Sun 12:30, 4:05, 7:15, 10:20 Mon-Wed 1:00, 4:05, 7:15, 10:20 Son of God (PG) Thu 12:00, 3:05, 6:10, 9:15 Fri 3:20, 6:30, 9:50 Sat 12:15, 3:20, 6:30, 9:50 Sun 12:15, 3:20, 6:30, 9:35 Mon-Wed 3:20, 6:30, 9:35 That Awkward Moment (14A) Thu 9:40 3 Days to Kill (PG) Thu 1:05, 4:15, 7:10, 9:50 Fri-Sat 1:10, 3:50, 6:40, 9:35 Sun 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 Mon-Wed 1:10, 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 Tyler Perry’s The Single Moms Club (PG) Fri-Sat 1:55, 4:45, 7:20, 10:10 Sun-Wed 1:55, 4:45, 7:20, 9:55 The Wolf of Wall Street (18A) Thu 1:40, 5:25, 9:10

SilverCity Mississauga (CE) Hwy 5, east of Hwy 403, 905-569-3373

About Last Night (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:20 FriSat 2:30, 5:00, 7:40, 10:10 Sun 2:30, 5:00, 7:40, 10:00 Mon-Wed 5:20, 7:40 August: Osage County (14A) Thu 1:25, 4:05, 6:55, 10:00 Fri-Sat 1:25, 4:25, 7:10, 10:00 Sun 1:25, 4:25, 7:05, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:35, 7:15 Dallas Buyers Club (18A) Thu-Sat 1:00, 3:45, 6:40, 9:35 Sun 1:00, 3:45, 6:40, 9:25 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:20 Enemy (18A) Fri-Sat 2:20, 4:45, 7:35, 10:05 Sun 2:20, 4:45, 7:35, 10:00 Mon-Wed 5:15, 8:00 Labor Day (PG) Thu 10:05 The Monuments Men (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:20, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Sat 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:50 Sun 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Mon-Wed 4:55, 7:55 No Clue Thu 2:20, 5:00, 7:35, 9:55 Fri-Sun 9:30 Mon-Wed 7:00 The Nut Job (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:25, 6:45 Fri-Sun 2:00, 4:10, 6:30 Mon-Wed 4:50 Ride Along (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:50, 7:45, 10:30 Fri-Sat 2:10, 4:55, 7:45, 10:30 Sun 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:15 Mon-Wed 5:05, 7:45 3 Days to Kill (PG) Thu 1:35, 4:30, 7:30, 10:25 Fri-Sat 1:45, 4:35, 7:25, 10:20 Sun 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:50 12 Years a Slave (14A) Thu-Sat 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Sun 1:15, 4:10, 7:10, 10:05 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:30 The Wind Rises (PG) Thu-Sun 1:05, 4:00, 6:50, 9:45 MonWed 4:45, 7:25

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300: Rise of an Empire – An IMAX 3D Experience (18A) Thu 12:00, 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Mon-Wed 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 300: Rise of an Empire 3D (18A) Thu 12:25, 3:00, 5:35, 6:40, 8:10, 9:15, 10:45 Fri-Sun 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 6:40, 7:30, 9:15, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:50, 6:45, 7:15, 9:10, 9:40 About Last Night (14A) Thu 12:15, 2:40, 5:15, 7:55, 10:25 Fri-Sat 12:45, 3:10, 5:35, 8:15, 10:35 Sun 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:30 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 American Hustle (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:50, 9:50 Fri, Sun 12:40, 3:45, 6:50, 9:45 Sat 1:25, 4:35, 7:35, 10:35 Mon-Tue 3:35, 6:35, 9:30 Wed 3:35, 10:25 Despicable Me (PG) Sat 11:00 Enemy (18A) Fri-Sun 1:10, 3:25, 5:40, 8:10, 10:20 Mon-Tue 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:15 Wed 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:20 Frozen (G) Thu 12:35 Fri 12:00 Sat 11:35 Sun 12:05 Frozen 3D (G) Thu 3:10, 5:45, 8:15 Fri-Sun 2:35, 4:55, 7:25 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:15 Gravity 3D (PG) Thu 12:05, 2:15, 4:35, 6:55 Fri-Sat 12:55, 5:45, 8:00, 10:20 Sun 12:55, 5:45, 8:05, 10:20 Mon-Wed 4:05, 6:25, 9:15 The Great Beauty (14A) Thu 12:45, 3:55, 7:10, 10:20 In Fear (14A) Thu 7:30 The LEGO Movie 3D (G) Thu 12:05, 12:40, 2:35, 5:10, 7:35, 10:05 Fri-Sun 12:10, 2:40, 3:15, 5:10, 7:40, 10:05 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:30, 9:00 The LEGO Movie (G) Thu 1:30, 4:10, 6:45 Fri, Sun 1:30,

4:10 Sat 11:10, 1:30, 4:10 Mon-Wed 4:20 The Metropolitan Opera: Werther Live Sat 12:55 Mr. Peabody & Sherman (G) Thu 12:00, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40 Fri, Sun 12:00, 2:25, 4:50, 7:20, 9:40 Sat 11:50, 2:25, 4:50, 7:20, 9:40 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:10, 8:50 Mr. Peabody & Sherman 3D (G) Thu 12:30, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 Fri-Sat 12:25, 2:55, 3:30, 5:20, 7:50, 10:10 Sun 12:25, 2:55, 5:20, 7:50, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:40, 9:20 Need for Speed (PG) Fri-Sat 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Sun 1:15, 4:15, 7:05, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:50, 9:45 Need for Speed 3D (PG) Thu 9:15 Fri-Sat 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:45 Sun 1:45, 4:45, 7:35, 10:30 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:20, 10:15 Non-Stop (PG) Thu 12:20, 1:40, 2:50, 4:20, 5:25, 7:00, 8:00, 9:45, 10:40 Fri, Sun 12:20, 1:40, 2:45, 4:25, 5:15, 7:00, 7:55, 9:35, 10:25 Sat 12:20, 2:45, 4:25, 5:15, 7:00, 7:55, 9:35, 10:25 Mon-Wed 4:35, 5:05, 7:05, 7:35, 9:35, 10:05 The Nut Job (PG) Thu 12:10, 2:20, 4:30 Pompeii 3D (PG) Thu 3:15, 5:40, 8:05, 10:35 Fri-Sat 1:00, 5:55, 8:20 Sun 1:25, 3:55, 6:35 Mon-Wed 4:15, 6:55 Ride Along (14A) Thu 10:45 RoboCop (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:00, 7:05, 9:55 Fri-Sat 10:45 Sun 9:20 Mon-Wed 9:25 Royal Opera House - The Sleeping Beauty Wed 7:00 Son of God (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:25, 7:25, 10:30 Fri-Sun 12:35, 3:40, 6:45, 9:55 Mon-Wed 3:45, 7:00, 10:00 3 Days to Kill (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Fri-Sat 1:20, 4:00, 6:55, 9:30 Sun 1:20, 4:00, 6:55, 9:25 Mon-Wed 3:55, 6:45, 9:35 Tyler Perry’s The Single Moms Club (PG) Fri-Sat 12:15, 2:50, 5:25, 8:05, 10:40 Sun 1:35, 4:20, 7:05, 9:50 MonWed 4:40, 7:10, 9:50 The Wind Rises (PG) Thu 9:25 The Wolf of Wall Street (18A) Thu 1:00, 5:00, 9:00 Fri-Sun 9:50 Mon-Wed 8:45

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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 Bewakoofiyaan Fri 6:50, 9:30 Sat 3:30, 6:50, 9:30 Sun 2:00, 4:40, 7:30 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:20 Blue Jasmine (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:05, 7:45 Fri 5:05, 7:15, 9:30 Sat 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 4:00, 7:15, 10:00 Sun 4:00, 7:15 Endless Love (PG) Fri 5:10, 7:40, 9:55 Sat 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 9:55 Sun 2:40, 5:10, 7:45 Mon-Wed 5:10, 7:40 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 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 Hunger Games: Catching Fire (PG) Thu 7:00 Last Vegas (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:55, 7:40 Fri 4:30, 7:35, 9:40 Sat 2:30, 5:05, 7:35, 9:40 Sun 2:25, 4:55, 7:35 The Monuments Men (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:30 Fri 4:45, 7:30, 10:00 Sat 2:15, 4:45, 7:10, 10:00 Sun 2:15, 4:45, 7:30 Philomena (PG) 5:00, 7:25 Fri 9:45 Sat 2:55 mat, 9:45 Sun 2:55 mat Ride Along (14A) 4:55, 7:25 Fri 9:50 Sat 2:25 mat, 9:50 Sun 2:25 mat Shaadi Ke Side Effects (14A) Thu 6:30 Stalingrad (14A) Thu 6:50 12 Years a Slave (14A) 7:00 Fri 9:50 Sat 4:10, 9:50 Sun 4:10 Winter’s Tale (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:05, 7:30 Fri 4:40, 7:05, 9:45 Sat 2:10, 4:40, 7:05, 9:45 Sun 2:30, 5:15, 7:40

Rainbow Promenade (I)

Promenade Mall, Hwy 7 & Bathurst, 416-494-9371 300: Rise of an Empire (18A) 1:10, 4:05, 7:10, 9:35 Dallas Buyers Club (18A) Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 3:50, 9:20 Mon 9:20 The LEGO Movie (G) 1:20, 7:00 Thu 3:55 mat Mon only 3:50 7:00 Mr. Peabody & Sherman (G) Thu 12:45, 1:15, 2:55, 4:10, 5:05, 6:45, 7:15, 9:00, 9:30 Fri-Wed 12:55, 1:15, 4:10, 6:45, 7:15, 9:30 Need for Speed (PG) Thu 9:25 Fri-Wed 1:05, 3:55, 6:50, 9:35 Non-Stop (PG) 1:00, 4:00, 7:05, 9:40 Philomena (PG) Thu 1:15, 6:55 12 Years a Slave (14A) 3:45, 9:15

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300: Rise of an Empire (18A) Fri-Sun 12:00, 2:30, 5:05, 7:50, 10:25 Mon, Wed 7:55, 10:20 Tue 5:05, 7:50, 10:15 300: Rise of an Empire 3D (18A) Thu 12:00, 2:30, 5:05, 7:05, 7:50, 9:45, 10:25 Fri-Sun 7:05, 10:00 Mon, Wed 7:10, 9:50 Tue 7:40, 10:05 American Hustle (14A) Thu-Sun 6:45, 10:00 Mon, Wed 7:00, 10:05 Tue 6:50, 9:55 Frozen (G) Thu-Sun 12:45, 3:30 Tue 4:15 The LEGO Movie 3D (G) Thu-Sun 3:45, 6:55, 9:30 Mon, Wed 6:55, 9:30 Tue 4:35, 7:00, 9:50 The LEGO Movie (G) Thu-Sun 12:55 The Monuments Men (PG) Thu-Sun 1:15, 4:30, 7:25, 10:15 Mon, Wed 7:05, 9:55 Tue 4:45, 7:45, 10:30 Mr. Peabody & Sherman (G) Thu-Sun 12:30, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45 Mon, Wed 7:40 Tue 4:05, 6:45 Mr. Peabody & Sherman 3D (G) Thu-Sun 12:00, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 10:05 Mon, Wed 7:20, 9:40 Tue 4:50, 7:15, 9:40 Need for Speed 3D (PG) Fri-Sun 1:10, 4:10, 7:40, 10:35 Mon, Wed 7:15, 10:10 Tue 4:20, 7:30, 10:30 Non-Stop (PG) Thu 1:55, 4:35, 7:10, 10:20 Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Mon, Wed 7:45, 10:15 Tue 4:25, 7:20, 10:20 The Nut Job (PG) Thu-Sun 1:00, 4:00 Tue 4:40 RoboCop (PG) Thu-Sun 10:10 Mon, Wed 10:00 Tue 10:05 Son of God (PG) Thu 12:25, 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 Fri-Sun 12:25, 3:40, 6:50, 9:55 Mon, Wed 7:00, 10:05 Tue 4:00, 7:05, 10:10 Starting Over Again Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 3

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ernism Of Julius Shulman (2008) D: Eric Bricker. 6:30 pm. Mock-Ups In Close-Up: Architectural Models In Film (2013) D: Gabu Heindl and Drehil Robnik. 9:15 pm. fri 14 – Particle Fever. 3:30 pm. Liv & Ingmar (2012) D: Dheeraj Akolkar. 6 pm. Awesome: I Fuckin’ Shot That (2006) D: Adam Yauch. 9:30 pm. sat 15 – Royal Opera House: Turandot (2013) D: Andree Serban. 1:30 pm. Particle Fever. 5:30 pm. Liv & Ingmar. 8 pm. sun 16 – Liv & Ingmar. 1 & 6:15 pm. Particle Fever. 3:30 & 8:45 pm. mon 17 – Double Bill: Liv & Ingmar. 6:30 pm. Cries & Whispers (1973) D: Ingmar Bergman. 8:45 pm. Tue 18 – Liv & Ingmar. 7 pm. Particle Fever. 9:15 pm. Wed 19 – Liv & Ingmar. 9 pm.

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LIV & INGMAR

In addition to being perfectly matched artistic collaborators, Liv Ullmann and Ingmar Bergman were also romantic partners for a time. That relationship is the focus of Dheeraj Akolkar’s documentary. Through on-camera interviews with Ullmann and readings from her autobiography, Changing, Akolkar creates a sort of reconstructed memoir, illustrating her recollections with footage from Bergman’s films. It’s an intriguing device, and I’ll admit it took me a little while to accept it. Bergman never appeared opposite Ullmann in any of his films, so seeing him represented by Max von Sydow and Erland Josephson at different points in the narrative is a little jarring. (It also has the side effect of reducing those magnifi-

cent actors to mere stand-ins for the absent auteur.) But once the doc moves into its midsection, the method starts to make sense. Bergman’s stark compositions and unrelenting intensity make Ullmann’s stories of decades-old arguments feel immediate and potent. Her relationship with Bergman was always contentious: during the shoot of Shame, she says, the director kept her and von Sydow stuck in a boat for hours in freezing weather because he was annoyed with her about something. The romance lasted about five years, but the documentary spans four decades, ending with a lovely story Ullmann tells about visiting Bergman on the day he died. Liv & Ingmar may not constitute the final word on their collaboration, but it certainly feels definitive. Opens Friday (March 14) at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema. Norman Wilner

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Liv & Ingmar looks at Ullmann and Bergman’s contentious relationship.

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sent a confederation of southern martial arts schools in a meeting with their northern counterparts for the purpose of sharing skills. This is our introduction to the seldom seen arts of Ba Gua Zhang, Xing Yi and Ba Ji and where Ip meets and falls for northern Ba Gua fighter Gong Er (Zhang Ziyi). But the Japanese invasion keeps them apart and costs Ip his wealth, home and family. He emigrates to Hong Kong to teach martial arts for a living.

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Dying man can’t divorce I have a slowly terminal disease and

don’t have more than five or six years left. I haven’t told my wife, which brings me to my problem. We had lived together for seven years when she cheated on me the first time. We worked things out, got back together but continued to live separately. Then I cheated on her. We got back together again but continued living apart. After a year of therapy, we got married, but again we kept our households separate. Fast-forward one eviction and three years of living in a studio driving each other crazy, and she cheated on me again – this time in our house. I moved out instantly. A few months and a terminal diagnosis later, I don’t have the will to file the divorce paperwork. We’ve talked a few times about trying to figure out how to fix us, but I don’t know if I can ride this messed-up roller coaster any more. On the other hand, I don’t want to waste the rest of my life being a divorced 40-something, but I still feel idiotic trying to fix our fucked-up relationship. She reads your column every week, so if you publish this, I’ll have to talk to her about my illness. Then at least that won’t be an issue. What should I do about us? Doubting The Marital Future Again You and the wife have a resilient connection, DTMFA. Some intangible something or other has pulled you toward each other despite infidelities on both sides. And reading between the lines – and ignoring the acronym your sign-off creates – it doesn’t sound like being alone or your terminal illness are the only reasons you’re hesitating to file those divorce papers. It sounds to me like you love your wife, DTMFA, and it sounds like she loves you. Imperfectly. And maybe your semi-imminent death is putting those infidelities in their semi-proper perspective. I’m thinking the real reason you haven’t filed those divorce papers yet is this: on some level you now recognize that your actual, existing, loving-but-flawed marital relationship should be given more weight than the marital ideal that you’ve both fallen short of, i.e., a flawlessly executed monogamous commitment. I’m sorry about your diagnosis, DTMFA, I hope your remaining years are rich and rewarding, and it would be a shame if you had to face them alone. Maybe if you two changed your expectations of each other – if perfect sexual exclusivity wasn’t one of them – you two would be less disappointed in each other. Good luck.

been helpful. Is there any hope? Sincerely Longing In Midwest There are lots of people involved in the organized kink scene who do BDSM without the sex, SLIM. For some, the BDSM is the sex. Bondage, D/s, spanking, etc, is all they require to get off. But you’ll also find plenty of folks like you in the organized kink scene – that is, men and women who wanna do BDSM while remaining vanilla/technically faithful to their non-kinky partners at home. Here’s the hard part, SLIM: Doing this on the down low – getting involved in the organized kink scene without your husband’s knowledge – is going to be impossible. You don’t mention having your husband’s okay to outsource your kinks, and I can only assume that you haven’t talked about it with him. You need to. Because the more involved you get in that scene, the more potential play partners you’ll have to choose from. The more play partners you have to choose from, the safer you’re going to be – and the less likely you are to be manipulated into going further than you want to. A guy who knows that (1) he’s your only outlet for BDSM play, (2) you had a hard enough time finding him, and (3) you’re hiding him from your husband is a guy with too much power over you. That’s a guy who could, after one or two sessions, make upgrading to full sex a condition of your continuing to see him.

our fantasies pretty much since we first started dating, we’ve recently been talking about which fantasies we’d like to try in real life. One in particular is posing a bit of difficulty. She really enjoys receiving facials, which I’ve known since pretty much the second time we had sex. She’s even more turned on by the idea of multiple men coming on her face, a revelation that came much later since she didn’t want me to think she was a freak or a bad feminist. (She isn’t!) The thing is, the idea also turns me on, which I was reluctant to tell her since I didn’t want her to think I was a creep or a misogynist. (I’m not!) But figuring out how to find a man (or men) to aid in this kink is a little tricky. Assuming there was no intercourse or oral sex – the only contact with other men would be their come on her face – what are the risks of contracting something? No matter how good the aim, there’s the possibility of her eyes and mouth inadvertently becoming a part of the show. Imperfect Come Is No Good

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Gonorrhea, syphilis and chlamydia: you can get all three in your eyes. A person can contract all three orally as well, ICING, but the mucous membranes in the eyes are more delicate, and the risk is both greater and grosser. As your girlfriend probably doesn’t want to wear swimming goggles and keep her mouth tightly closed during her big fantasy facial scene – it’s hard to get swept up in the moment wearing goggles – you’re gonna want to do this with strangers who are willing to test or with guys you already know and trust. Neither option is 100 per cent risk-free, ICING, but nothing worth doing is 100 per cent risk- free.

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