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play about a compulsive gambler returns to the Factory in a revised version. 2 pm. To Jun 5. Pwyc-$45. 416-5049971. +conTAcT The mammoth festival featuring the world’s best photographers takes over galleries through May 31. scotiabankcontactphoto.com.

two plays, one about modern poet e.e. cummings, the other a look at Toronto culture. $28$65. 8 pm. To Jun 18. Young Centre. 416-866-8666.

National Theatre of the World begins a week of plays improvised from playwrights’ original opening lines. Tonight’s writer is Judith Thompson, who talks with the cast and NOW’s Glenn Sumi afterwards. 8 pm. $15-$20. Theatre Passe Muraille. 416-504-7529.

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ToronTo criTeriuM Toronto’s tour-de-force bicycle race hits the St Lawrence neighbourhood. 9 am. Free. Front and Jarvis. 416-652-0800.

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WATer: The ForuM Energy industry leaders and public policy makers share their vision of the future. 11 am-6 pm. Free. Royal Ontario Museum. 416-586-8000.

MAyA Angelou Poet and activist talks about her life.

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lines, but not the kind of explicit soliciting for prostitution that you feature.

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Elizabeth Piccolo Toronto

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now is still putting down the residents of Scarborough for their opposition to a wind farm off the Bluffs (NOW, May 12-18).

The Helimax Study, commissioned to find potential wind farm locations on the Great Lakes, chose 64 sites that were shallow enough and near access to existing power lines.

Why is the Lake Ontario coastline from Hamilton to Toronto not considered good potential for wind sites?

My fear is not that Scarborough residents were trying to protect their property values, but that Toronto was trying put wind turbines in the worst spot.

Jerzy Dymny Toronto

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wayne roberts is right to applaud “persistent people” who “do their homework,” but he should have done his in Stimulus Gap (NOW, May 12-18).

With respect to corporate tax rates, Roberts draws tax conclusions from a study, then throws in some good old spin, misleading readers to believe that the cited study looked specifically at income taxes on the rich, when it didn’t.

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Tivoli iPal Cockburn a contradiction

bruce cockburn opposing the long gun registry isn’t selling out (NOW, May 12-18). I believe the left should be as armed as the right.

Cockburn supporting Canada’s involvement in Afghanistan – now, that’s selling out.

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rob ford a sellout? is that obligatory? Anyway, I’m not sure how Bruce Cockburn’s position on the long gun registry makes him a sellout. I don’t agree with him, but isn’t selling out compromising your art for filthy lucre? Has anyone thought to ask him? Maybe it has to do with rural identities, farms in crisis, etc.

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what’s up with naming bruce Cockburn a sellout? Where exactly does it say that a singer/writer has to be stupid?

Cockburn is just smarter than the rest of our blinded leftist performers out there and can tell a good government program from a wasteful one. Is $2.2 billion wasteful enough for our political left? How many extra hospital beds and lives truly saved would that translate into?

Matt S.

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don mckellar gets props for being in indie movies, so why are indie video games different? Jim Guthrie’s Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery was independently produced, and Guthrie wasn’t hired to do music for the game; he was a creative collaborator from day one.

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i don’t see why you’ve listed Peter Munk as a sellout. He’s simply acting like a soulless, cynical businessman. No, the real sellout here is the University of Toronto, which clearly has no ethical screening process in place to help [determine] who it will take money from and the conditions under which it will accept donations.

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Randomly grabbing at statistics to support an ideology is not an adult way to manage an economy.

Alan Morrson Toronto

Making privatization sense

your articles about privatizing Toronto’s garbage collection are great (NOW, May 12-18) and make a lot of sense. I just want to thank NOW for its efforts in trying to prevent the disaster of private garbage collection from happening.

R.S. Toronto

Only the Richmond/Adelaide separated lanes make sense. Other streets where lanes are contemplated already have bike lanes.

We have tremendous problems with road repairs, and there’s a big backlog of bike facilities approved but not yet implemented.

It’s also possible that granting us a system of bike lanes that’s more connected and European may be a smokescreen for hacking other cycling programs Transit City-style.

Hamish Wilson Toronto

Bike lanes separate realities

new york offers an example of how a right-leaning City Hall can quickly develop better biking. But we should be looking at the trashing of Transit City far more than the Toronto Cyclists Union seems to be in the plan for separated bike lanes (NOW, May 12-18).

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MUSIC Art of Time Ensemble – The Songbook 5 featuring Sarah Slean May 24–25 | Singer–songwriter Sarah Slean performs rich and innovative new arrangements of songs by other renowned contemporary musicians.

LECTURE International Lecture Series May 25 Iñigo Manglano–Ovalle, whose works Phantom Truck + Always After are currently on view at The Power Plant, discusses his internationally renowned practice.

VISUAL ARTS York Quay Centre Spring Exhibitions Through June 12 | FREE Showcasing six spring exhibitions including OH, CANADA – A LAMENT Joanne Tod’s portrait series documents all the Canadian soldiers who have died during the Afghanistan mission.

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as a ward 9 resident, i read ford Brand Faces York Centre Test (NOW, May 12-18). Enzo DiMatteo wrote, “The race should have been in the bag. Even the local parish priest was bucking for Ford’s candidate. Augimeri’s personal popularity in the ward she’s represented since 85, however, proved resilient enough to withstand the assault.”

With respect, you are mistaken.

The numbers tell the story. Overall, people voted for change in Ward 9.

Augimeri tallied 5,452 votes. All other candidates got 6,846 votes Jeff Green Toronto

Gotta recognize metal

Is bin Laden really dead?

VISUAL ARTS The Power Plant Spring Exhibitions Through May 29 Featuring two exhibitions by internationally acclaimed artists Thomas Hirschhorn and Inigo Manglano–Ovalle, and one group show by Canadian and American artists.

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there’s not one planner in toronto (or any other city in North America) with the required skill set to design and implement a functional biking system here. One just has to take a walk through parts of the downtown waterfront neighbourhood to understand this city’s dysfunctional design when it comes to the streetscape and other elements that make up our hard-surfaced public open space.

Harry Pasternak Toronto

i must say now overall does a great job representing Toronto. From Dan Savage to upcoming shows and where to grab tickets, the paper is pretty impressive.

But a large part of Toronto is being ignored: the metal scene. It’s awesome and diverse.

The metal community is thriving and expanding. A page toward the back advertises Inertia shows, but do promoters really care about anything but overdone bands to cash in on the 300 or so people who’ll actually go see them?

Bands like the Contortionist, Dawn Valley and Structures, to name three, are playing killer shows. I definitely would like to see this movement that is so underground at least be recognized.

Anna Kaiye Toronto

LITERARY ARTS Authors at Harbourfront Centre May 25 Readings by Howard Norman, Kyran Pittman and Emma Ruby–Sachs. readings.org

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to letter-writer antagoniste (NOW May 12-18), who asserts that there is no evidence that Osama bin Laden was responsible for 9/11 and that bin Laden’s confession video is fake: Do you believe that bin Laden was actually killed? Do you believe he ever existed? Do you believe the World Trade Center even existed?

How about the city of New York?

I think you will find that everything outside of Toronto is a hallucination. Only we are real. And I’m not so sure about you.

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The security consultant, citizen journalist, tech expert and G20 arrestee wins bail after almost a year behind bars on six G20-related charges, including possession of explosives and “intimidation of a justice system participant.” The full story’s at nowtoronto.com.

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What Start of the half-marathon When Sunday, May 15, 8 am Where Mel Lastman Square

Joe Pantalone, the left’s little big man, resurfaces after his mayoral bid hangover as a member of the Waterfront Toronto board. If anyone can talk some sense into Mayor Rob on this blowing-off-thewaterfront business, it’s Citizen Joe.

Toronto Rock

The Toronto Rock defeat the Washington Stealth 8-7 to win the National Lacrosse League championship at the ACC. We are the champions – in Canada’s national sport.

Ward 9 byelection City clerk Ulli Watkiss left out Rob Ford in her reasons for deciding not to appeal a court decision declaring the results of the Ward 9 council race invalid. It’s the mayor who has most to gain from replacing sitting councillor Maria Augimeri with a trained seal who’ll do his bidding, no questions asked.

But what confidence can the public have in the clerk’s ability to run a flawless rematch second time round?

After all, it was that department that was cited in court for the so-called “voting

Spotted The AvenDale condo development on Avenue just south of Upper Canada College, designed by Diamond + Schmitt Architects (units begin at a cool $700K) – just a giant portrait of a tree right now – is the first domino to fall on the strip of Modernist apartment blocks.

Cityscape

Does beauty have a place in the civic dialogue in Rob Ford’s Toronto?

Apparently not. A plan for an iconic bike and pedestrian bridge connecting North Stanley Park and historic Fort York is expected to get the axe at council this week, its $22 million price tag deemed too high by the mayor’s cost-cutting trolls on the Public Works Committee. Samantha Sannella, CEO of the Design Exchange, has weighed in, calling the proposed bridge “a great and valuable asset to the city and a responsible investment.”

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Canada is now the third-largest foreign direct investor in Syria, due to a $1.2 billion Suncor/Petro Canada gas project, a fact pumped prominently by dictator Hafez Assad, in this ad on syria-oil.com.

Frock Ford

It’s finally here: the winner of our Frock Ford contest revealed – the runner-up and honourable mentions, too – on page 35.

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The not-so-mysterious smell of crap sweeps across the city two mornings running and the best Environment Canada can come up with is to blame the spring thaw. Try the lake.

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Facebook protest groups call on the public to boycott the Food Network’s Top Chef Canada Monday night, after a preview on CBC Radio reveals horse meat (too tender for some) is on the menu.

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My stubborn post-election depression took me to see Thor this weekend. Okay, I admit I love superheroes.

But this isn’t just a guilty pleasure.

I’m on a quest to decipher the electorate’s psyche through the heart of Thor.

All that mythic content in the hands of a Shakespeare master (director Kenneth Branagh) – c’mon, the film’s surely going to shed light on the unconscious masculine archetypes shaping popular politics. And sure enough, buried in this paramilitary fantasy, I fall knee-deep into politics and power.

Mythic god-beings have issues.

They’re all about unlocking the inner secrets we all carry. These guys bring theirs out into the open. On the surface, this particular story is about youth crime and punishment and the sibling rivalries that can tear worlds apart. Incarceration and zealous security come into play. Ouch.

But this is a hero’s journey. A menacing, out-of-control youth moves from errant son to wise leader. And Thor’s compassion and intellect grows to even include his enemies. Wow. I’m starting to be in a better mood. There’s a modern message here about peace and wakefulness amid the horrors of war.

But then the psychological sleight of hand hits me. Odin, Thor’s wise father, has nothing to learn. The larger-thanlife Odin has two sons obsessed with measuring up. How did he neglect their self-esteem? Hint: Odin doesn’t discuss, he issues commands. And when disobeyed, he is punishing. But

Underneath Thor’s storyline is our acceptance of tyranny.

none of this casts even a hint of a shadow across Anthony Hopkins’s benevolent-patrician masculinity. No accountability. Sound familiar?

All the darkness sits psychically with the youth. And they must pay a huge price for their shadow conflict.

The collateral damage is mythic disconnection and loss, but none of this reflects on Papa. “Father knows best” may feel old, but the 50s are alive and still stirring wistfully in our psyches.

Underneath Thor’s peace-loving storyline, the unconscious offers up the acceptance of tyranny. What’s the magic that can fight that fire?

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ON THE COVER NOW caught up with Tracy Wright as she was set to open as a rock star casualty in The Book Of Rejection, courtesy of the Augusta Theatre Company.

Fiercely independent and with an off-kilter vibe, Wright went on to play an array of edgy roles. But she always seemed to embrace her musician characters with a particular passion – here and in Bruce McDonald’s 1991 film, Highway 61, and 2010’s Trigger. It was her final screen performance – Wright died last June, leaving a gaping hole in Toronto’s arts landscape.

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Fordists fudge the facts in headlong rush to privatize trash pickup By ENZO DiMATTEO on the morning of the great garbage privatization debate Tuesday, May 17, the mayor, that’s Rob Ford, was taking credit for delivering on a slew of campaign promises, including those not of his doing – like bringing Mixed Martial Arts to the city. That was the province’s doing.

But Ford was riding one of those patented truthiness waves of his, doing his own version of that Don Cherry “pinkos” routine. I can’t remember when I’ve laughed so hard.

You just knew the “socialists” card would be played on this one, as in the garbage debate being between those on council who have respect for taxpayers and the aforementioned reds who support “big spending.”

Robbie boy’s tight new vest suit (flattering) must have been blocking blood flow to the brain. Had he forgotten that $100 million raise for cops last week, an 11.5 per cent increase over four years?

There was much to kick around at council’s garbage debate, like that staff report from the Works Committee with enough holes in it to drive a garbage truck through.

In the end, though, short-term politics trumped prudence, the mushy middle caved (again), and the Fordists got their way. Council voted 32 to 13 to privatize curbside pickup for 165,000 households west of Yonge to the Humber.

This one isn’t over yet, though.

Council will get to vote on the final bid recommended for approval by staff, probably by next summer.

Council, but not the mayor, also voted to require the winning bidder to guarantee waste diversion rates.

But in a decision that may come back to haunt us, council also narrowly passed a motion tabled by Councillor Josh Matlow to remove Progressive Waste Solutions from the bidding process. That motion, ostensibly passed in the interest of “transparency” after the city’s former head of Solid Waste Management jumped to Progressive on May 6, may end up

scribe staff’s estimated cost efficiencies from contracting out.

For example, staff’s comparison of the costs of garbage pickup in District 1, which is already privatized, to that of District 2, the one set to be privatized, is apples to oranges.

The two areas have completely different characteristics. District 1 is mostly single-family homes, while District 2 has far more multi-residential properties and is nearly twice as densely populated, its more challenging traffic and roadway conditions making pickup more time-consuming.

The city’s report advocating privatization also assumes that lower hourly wage rates paid by private contractors compared to unionized employees will translate into savings. What it fails to factor in is the 13 to 18 per cent bump-up contractors add to labour costs, the normal industry profit margin, in their contracts.

When the city report isn’t blurring the bottom line with inapt comparisons, it’s fudging the numbers outright. It puts Toronto significantly higher in the waste collection cost-per-tonne rankings than does the Ontario Benchmarking Initiative.

The real financial costs and perils of privatization won’t really be felt for years to come, when, if all goes according to Fordo, all waste management is contracted out and the city is out of the garbage collection game entirely. That’s when its real consequences will be exposed.

Instead of managing a precious resource – yes, folks, garbage collection generates millions in revenue for To-

“ City staff is forecasting savings of $8 million a year under private garbage pickup, but that dubious calculation is based on a number of seriously flawed and grossly inadequate assumptions. ”

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costing us one big fat lawsuit.

But what’s a few million dollars more?

City staff is forecasting savings on the order of $8 million a year under its privatization plan. But that dubious calculation is based on a number of faulty assumptions – too many to mention here but itemized in a detailed audit conducted for the Toronto Civic Employees Union Local 416

by Rosen & Associates Ltd. That document calls the financial analysis councillors relied on in Tuesday’s decision “seriously flawed and grossly inadequate.” “Fictional” is another word used in the audit to de-

ronto – the city’s role will be reduced to managing disputes between waste companies with contracts to haul our garbage.

It’s a given that waste diversion programs will suffer.

That’s been the experience of other jurisdictions, and that’s been the outcome here in District 1, the area of the city currently contracted out to a private company, where recycling rates are 6 per cent lower than in districts that handle curbside pickup in-house.

Years from now, we may be spending more to clean up the mess left by privatization. It won’t be long before we’re talking incineration and other junk science. That’s not fear-mongering.

That’s just the way the wind blows when governments relinquish control. Ask any of the municipalities that voted to bring collection back in-house after failed experiments with contracting out.

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KINGS OF THE TRASH HEAP The dirt on the movers and shakers in the big garbage biz.

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TURTLE ISLAND RECYCLING CORPORATION

The skinny Won bidding war to scoop Windsor’s privatization contract last year, but stirred controversy when the company didn’t come clean on violations of the Environmental Protection Act in bid documents. Workers recently approached CUPE about organizing a union. Turtle owns a majority interest in EIL Environmental, a hazardous waste disposal operation in Edmonton bought in 2007 with financing

by Whitecastle Private Equity Partners Fund LP. Odds Already has contract for Etobicoke curbside pickup, but lost the York contract after amalgamation when a city review found bringing pickup back in-house is cheaper.

PROGRESSIVE WASTE SOLUTIONS LTD.

The skinny The U.S.-based waste disposal company, the third-largest on the continent, operates in six provinces and a dozen U.S. states. Has been busy cornering the private garbage market, acquiring BFI in Canada as well as Waste Services, Inc. and IESI. As a condition of approval for the takeover of Waste Services Inc., Progressive was forced by the federal Competition Bureau last year to divest some commercial operations valued at $18.5 million.

Nearly half the company’s employees in Canada are unionized. Company director Douglas Knight was appointed president of St. Joseph Media Inc., owner of Toronto Life, in 2006.

Odds Council has disqualified the company from the bidding – in the interest of “transparency” – because of the recent hiring of Geoff Rathbone, former head of waste management for the city. Can you say lawsuit?

MILLER WASTE SYSTEMS INC.

The skinny Part of the Miller Group of companies that got its start in construction and road paving, Miller cracked the municipal waste stream with a contract for waste disposal in Markham back in the 1960s.

Has some 400 collection vehicles and contracts for curbside pickup in Peel and Halton regions. Miller also provides municipal waste services in York, Richmond Hill, Pickering, Ajax and Vaughan, as well as Manitoba and the Maritimes.

Odds Operates the largest waste transfer facility in the GTA, a 94,000-square-foot plant on 5 hectares in Markham, as well as a recycling plant and yard waste compost facility on 14 hectares north of Toronto.

WASTE MANAGEMENT REPUBLIC OF CANADA SERVICES, INC. The skinny The Canadian subsidiary of Houston, Texas-based Waste Management Inc., it’s the biggest in North America, operating in nine provinces and managing 18 landfill sites, 20 recycling facilities and six methane-to-gas plants. The bad news: WMC’s U.S. parent was accused of violating anti-trust laws in the late 80s for colluding with other waste haulers to split up contracts in Florida. The company locked out 900 unionized employees at its biggest plant in California for a month in 2007 during a contract dispute.

Odds Owns the contract for recycling and waste disposal services for the Bank of Canada.

The skinny A merger in 2008 with Allied Waste Industries made Republic the second-largest private garbage firm in North America. Along with main rival Waste Management Inc., it controls half the waste management business in the U.S. Has a history of run-ins with the EPA, though, including a $1 million fine for contraventions of the Clean Water Act. The Canuck arm of the company has a contractual history with the city: was signed in 2001 to haul waste to Republic’s Carlton Farms landfill in Michigan when capacity at Keele Valley was running out.

Odds Toronto got tangled in a court case with Republic in 2006 when the company advised that it would no longer accept our biosolids, about 20 truckloads a day, at its Michigan ENZO DIMATTEO landfill.

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Giant kiwi and blueberry make the scene at Proud of Toronto’s International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia at City Hall, Monday, May 16, 6:43 pm.

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PRIDE POWER PLAY

QUEER RECEPTION Mayor a no-show at Pride rally to secure funding at City Hall By BEN SPURR rob ford did not attend the rally against homophobia at City Hall’s rotunda Monday evening, May 16, but if he was anywhere near the building he would have heard a very

loud and very clear message: don’t cut funding to Pride Toronto.

The non-profit group that stages Pride Week every year receives about a quarter of its budget from the city.

The very real possibility that Ford allies will cut its funding at a May 24 Executive Committee meeting has sent a chill through the network of groups that provide support services

to the queer community.

The fear is that if a lucrative, highprofile event like Pride is on the chopping block, then nothing Toronto’s queer community holds dear is

untouchable for this administration.

“Let me be very clear about this,” Pride Toronto co-chair Francisco Alvarez told the hundreds of supporters gathered at City Hall. “If the city does not provide support this year, it’s almost certain that Toronto will lose the opportunity to host World Pride in 2014, and it is certain that Pride Toronto will become insolvent and shut its doors forever.”

To Doug Elliott, a lawyer and queer activist who grew up in Toronto 40 years ago when homosexuality could easily land you behind bars, gutting funding for Pride would be an unconscionable return to the dark ages of intolerance.

“This is nothing but a deliberate attempt to destroy Pride Toronto,” he said in an impassioned speech. “Well, I have news for our enemies. You cannot destroy Pride. We won’t let you.”

For two hours, speaker after speaker took to the podium to declare that Pride is much more than just a parade. It’s a symbol, a flashy, campy, often half-naked beacon declaring to queer youth across the country that they have a home.

Videographer and activist Lali Mohamed said that discovering Pride when he was growing up in isolation in Etobicoke showed him there was a place where he could be himself.

A group of students struggling against the Toronto Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board to create a Gay-Straight Alliance at St. Joseph’s High School took the stage to a continued on page 29 œ

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Leading the anti side are a host of environmental and justice organiza­ tions including the David Suzuki Foundation (anxious about threat­ ened species of birds and fish), the Council of Canadians (worried about future water scarcity), the National Farmers Union (con­ cerned about dis­ appearing prime agri­ cultural lands) and local councillors of all political stripes (wor­ ried sick about the im­ pact of noise and car­ cinogenic dust from continual dynamite explosions and heavy trucking).

An area that calls itself the Hills of the Headwaters, best known for Shelburne’s country fiddling jamboree, does not greet the blast from this kind of rock­busting enter­ prise as an eco­ or agri­tourism oppor­ tunity. To see the complex ways the issue could play out, consider that Con­ servative Dufferin­ Caledon MPP Sylvia Jones is currently assisting those seeking more ex­ ploration of the quarry’s con­ sequences.

Leading the pro side is the High­ land Companies, which presents itself on the web as an “investment vehicle for a group of private inves­ tors based in Canada and the United

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In a world facIng the crIses of peak water, It’s folly to lose 600 mIllIon lItres a day of clean h20 to seepage In a gravel pIt.

Open-pit politics “Eat my dust” could well be the legacy of obsolete laws unearthed in mega-quarry fight By WAYNE ROBERTS the ontario election is still six months away, but the surprise candi­ date for most polarizing issue – likely to turn the political contest into an emotional cliffhanger similar to the one that won protection for Tema­ gami years ago – has already stepped forward.

The development of a 6­billion­ tonne gravel “mega­quarry,” the sec­ ond­largest in North America, in quiet farm and cottage country some

States.” It wants to create “a diversi­ fied portfolio of sustainable local businesses,” its website says.

Most references to the private in­ vestors lead back to the Boston­based Baupost Group, which manages assets for the 40 families that control

100 kilometres north of Toronto in Shelburne has set the stage for a face­ off between the Liberal government and a potent alliance of urban envi­ ronmentalists and rural residents.

The go­ahead decision for the pro­ ject now rests with the province, which lends the conflict between lo­ cal citizens and absentee gravel pit owners all the elements of a David­ and­Goliath Hollywood blockbuster, as well as raising a hornet’s nest of

political issues.

Last month, as I joined a throng of quarry protesters at Queen’s Park setting off to walk to the site, I couldn’t help thinking of the project as the kind of land grab that happens in corrupt foreign­ controlled colonies.

it. The company is a hedge fund.

Although the anti­mega­quarry group numbers its predictable share of cottagers and weekend recreation­ ists who cherish the area for its namesake hills, the issue is more “not in my back 40” than “not in my backyard,” less about the tranquility of the countryside than the vitality of one of the most fertile veggie­ growing areas in Ontario.

Dave Vander Zaag, who grows po­ tatoes on a large farm across the road from the proposed dig, says he can’t imagine how he’ll be able to carry on.

The area is blessed with rich soil and abundant water very close to the sur­ face. The water table is really an under water lake, he says, and since water runs downhill, his and all farms in the region would see their livelihood drained into a gravel pit blasted 60 metres below the water table, the literal equivalent of Nia­ continued on page 27 œ

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gara Falls in terms of sheer drop.

There are two competing sets of resources in this contested terrain: one for agriculture and one for aggre­ gate. The bracing pre­election issue is which shall prevail.

In this conflict, agriculture and countryside are up against provin­ cial laws that have caught them be­ tween the rock of aggregate and the hard place of obsolete legislation.

Since 1969, according to a review of Ontario laws by planner Mark Dorfman posted on the Gravel Watch Ontario website, the province has deemed that aggregate must be sourced “close to market,” a stand­ alone piece of stupidity that would be laughed out of court if applied to uranium, computers, steel or coal, let alone food.

Consequently, gravel can’t be brought in from regions unsuitable for agriculture – approximately 95 per cent of Ontario’s land mass – nor can recycled slag or crushed rock from mines and mills across the province be used.

But cheap gravel – about $8 a tonne – underpins the road, highway, pave­ ment, concrete and sprawl develop­ ment industries, stakeholders the Ministry of Natural Resources is charged with serving with barely a nod to citizen engagement.

As an incentive for the production of nearby gravel, negligible royalties, about a dime a tonne, come to the people of the province.

Worse, no reused, recycled or alter­ native aggregate – an industry rich in employment possibilities and envi­ ronmental benefits – can gain a mar­ ket share.

Although regional critics of the mega­quarry focus on the natural and cultural heritage that would dis­ appear if the mine is established, On­ tario’s future is more at stake than its past.

In a world where crises of peak wa­ ter will soon dwarf problems of peak gravel, and where plentiful water can secure a rich farm­based economy, it is folly to lose 600 million litres a day of clean water to seepage into a gravel pit.

Prices for rainfall­reliant staple grains are already climbing due to reduced yields as a consequence of global warming. Faced with a trend line of global dryness, it is folly to risk a prime area for potatoes and other nutritious vegetables that can substitute for grains and serve the mass urban markets of southern On­ tario.

“Eat my dust” will never be the slo­ gan of the aggregate industry, but it could well be the legacy of obsolete laws that have been revealed as a re­ sult of this dust­up.

Let’s watch how the Liberals cope with what could be a lethal embar­ rassment.

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The Liberal party collapsed, and an antiquated electoral system awarded a majority to an antiquated

ideology. But more importantly, the Liberal party collapsed.

To say the wings fell off the LPC would be generous. Better to say the wings fell off, the pilot gave his final battle cry of “Government, Or Something!” and ejected before the whole mess. It was mostly to this, and not Layton’s victory, that I drank (and drank and drank) on election night.

More choice usually means a healthier electoral system. (I won’t call it democracy.) Usually. But despite a few exceptional members who prove the rule, the Liberals – their uncompromisingly tepid platform, their irrepressibly somnambulant leader, their hodge-podge right-wing-but-with-taxes ideology – weren’t much of an option.

There’s a long-brewing political backlash, of which Harper and Ford are symptoms, and to weather the storm we’ll need more than political parties. We’ll need neighbours.

Mine did not disappoint. As the

election heated up, I watched friends who didn’t consider themselves political become just that.

This was the real strength of Layton’s surge. And as results sank in, some friends were already passing through the stages of grief into a fertile despair.

“We need something new,” declared one friend calmly, turning away from the TV in the corner of the bar. Not new leaders, not new candidates, but new politics or something beyond. “I’ll admit it, I’ve been having some pretty radical thoughts,” seethed another the next day.

These aren’t kids. These aren’t anarchists. These people run businesses. And they don’t drink Orange Crush.

I like the idea of more than two parties. Especially if one proves to be different. The danger facing the NDP may be the assumption that their growing base just wants Liberal promises from an NDP government.

People love an underdog, so Layton will need a new trick to continue the surge – and actually expand beyond Quebec – the next time around.

That may include making federal politics about, you know, things.

Let’s play Liberal Or NDP. Guess whether Layton or Ignatieff re-emphasized these priorities on electionnight: “Improve health care... strengthen retirement... help families... grow our economy.”

Though Layton did toss climate change and First Nations in with the rhetorical laundry, it was strange to feel inspired by a third-party surge yet left cold by the words of its eloquent leader.

Absent was recognition of what makes the surge so exciting: the economic crisis faced across the industrialized world. “Grow our economy?”

Our economy is the problem.

The free advice now offered the NDP is to hammer Harper on economic “mismanagement.”

Well, thank you, but the economic system is hostile to dignity, sovereignty and sustainability, and the left needs to dream bigger than riding the brakes harder.

But there is hope, evidenced by a Clean Train Coalition party at the Gladstone Monday, May 16. In the crowd were a number of lefty politicians, all with grassroots cred and some newly elected: Councillor Gord Perks, MPP Cheri DiNovo, new (again) MP Peggy Nash, new MPs Andrew Cash and Mike Sullivan. To be surrounded by reps who are community activists was heartening.

Activists are needed. Our best hope, amidst the sturm und drang (und drang, und drang), is an institutional left that doesn’t just siphon popular energy toward set changes in sterile operas, but widens the stage, using its influence for grassroots struggle.

Don’t become entranced, like the Grits, by the mirage of the centre. As Yeats said, it cannot hold – but as for “Mere anarchy... loosed upon the world”? Well, it’s worth a try.

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standing ovation. They said that marching in this year’s parade was vital to their cause.

“Pride offers us visibility like no other opportunity,” said Irene Miller of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG). “Huge numbers of people come to our booth during Pride Week to talk and ask questions

or take our contact information for ‘someone they know.’

“Bullying still happens. Coming out is still hard,” she said. “LGBTQ youth need to see role models. Par­ ents of LGBTQ youth also need to see role models.”

Toronto’s queer advocates are so concerned that funding will be cut for programs like the Hassle Free Cli­ nic, the 519 Community Centre and HIV/AIDS prevention initiatives that they’ve launched Proud of Toronto, a campaign that hopes to head the Ford administration off at the pass

by holding rallies like this one.

“There are public consultations going on across the city, and they’re going to look at what is [a core ser­ vice] and what the city should be funding,” said Doug Kerr of Proud of Toronto. “We’re really concerned that LGBTQ services and HIV/AIDS groups are not going to be considered core services. That’s why we have to do this now.”

Kerr said he had no idea why the city would consider cutting funding to an event that brings in $100 mil­ lion in tourist revenue every year.

In attendance at the rally were pro­Pride councillors like Kristyn Wong­Tam, Gord Perks, Mike Layton and Adam Vaughan, as well as Ana Bailão.

The motion that will go before the executive next week ostensibly hinges on whether or not Pride will sufficiently conform to the city’s anti­discrimination policies.

Last year’s inclusion of Queers Against Israeli Apartheid led Pride’s opponents to claim that the parade was promoting hate speech against Jews, but that argument has largely

been rendered moot by a city staff report that found the term “Israeli apartheid” does not violate anti­dis­ crimination policies and a promise from QuAIA not to march this year.

Still, that might not be enough to dissuade Ford from filing Pride under “gravy” and effectively shutting down the event.

On Tuesday, May 17, a rainbow flag was raised over City Hall to mark the International Day Against Homopho­ bia and Transphobia. Toronto’s LGBTQ groups are hoping it’s more than an empty gesture.

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When you’re addicted to the planet Why don’t green cleaners like Ecover list all their ingredients?

Sometimes you have to put on waders and trek through a swamp to get a good answer in life. Other times the answer is quick ’n’ dirty, as it is today.

Why don’t most green cleaners, or any cleaning products for that matter, divulge all or any of their ingredients? Simple: no one’s holding a squirt gun to their head.

We now have mandatory ingredient lists on cosmetics (not the case just five years ago), but there’s still no sign of compulsory content listing on dish detergent or toilet bowl cleaners. It’s an outrage, really, considering all the lung-irritating, skininflaming, hormone-disrupting, water-pol-luting and cancer-linked cleaning chemicals on the market.

You’d think green cleaners would take the high road and automatically share their earth-friendly contents with the health- and planet-conscious crowd. And the vast majority do tell us more about what’s in their products than conventional cleaners do, but they don’t necessarily tell us everything.

Case in point, one reader contacted me to say Ecover’s ingredient list on its packaging isn’t entirely the same as what’s disclosed online. Turns out the online list reveals the use of a formaldehyde-releasing synthetic antimicrobial preservative called 2-bromo-2-nitropropane-1,3-diol.

Ecover apologized for the inconsistency, saying the package lists active ingredients only and that they’re working on harmonizing the two.

When I approached Ecover about the ingredient, the company argued that apples also release formaldehyde as they decompose and that 2-bromo is readily biodegradable and skin-safe.

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Pink Solution says it removed the ingredients list from its label seven years ago after its recipe was copied, but it will share the list with customers who request it.

More commonly, when you see lists of ingredients on green cleaners, some will be referred to in a pretty murky fashion: think “coconut-based detergent” or “vegetable surfactant.”

Some claim the formulas are proprietary, while others, like Eco-Max, tell all if you call in. At least if a product, like theirs, has third-party certification by a seal like EcoLogo (that Environmental Choice maple leaf stamp), you know someone out there is screening the ingredients to make sure they’re greener than at least 80 per cent of cleaners on the market.

Then there are those whose labelling is comically misleading. Take Eco Mist, which, with a straight face, says its product is made of “corn, grass, potatoes, sugarcane.” If those items were in there, it would look more like a slurry than a clear spritz.

So I’m wishing upon a star for full transparency in the future. If enough of us bug Health Canada and our MPs, maybe the feds will revise their cleaning product standards to one day mandate full ingredient lists.

In the meantime, Seventh Generation and others now come clean about the fact that they use, say, sodium lauryl sulfate (an irritant that we’ve realized over the years is way less dodgy than it’s cousin sodium laureth sulfate), and people still buy their products in record numbers.

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Netflix is a remarkable solution to getting stonewalled at Queen Video when DVDs are out of stock, and, at $7.99 per month it’s cheaper than a trip to many Toronto coffee shops.

But Netflix has limited titles – “limited” being a very kind way to describe the problem. Quality also depends on the speed of your internet connection, and there are hiccups no matter what.

Still, the movie streaming service accounts for the largest downstream traffic in North America. Despite the shortcomings, there’s an appetite for streaming media.

Streaming music may yet have similar problems. It’s only now that the major players – Google, Apple and Amazon, for starters – are getting into the field. (Google Music is in beta, iCloud is Apple’s rumoured storage/ streaming service, and Amazon Cloud Player is open only to Americans.)

Until the heavy hitters come to the plate, here’s a survey of what’s out there right now.

Rdio (rdio.com) Rdio is said to be the most formidable challenger to iTunes. It’s all-you-canstream. Plus sync music to your phone and, if you need, buy MP3s for the Apple-like price of 99 cents. Great functionality on the mobile and desktop apps. It doubles as a social network, too, if you care about that.

Mobile: Impressively so. Yes. Cost: $4.99/month for web-only access, $9.99 if you want mobile.

Grooveshark (grooveshark.com) Grooveshark has been around since 2007 and has the humongous catalogue and traffic to prove it; 60 million songs streamed per month. Probably the easiest way to play music, create playlists and share songs on the web.

Mobile: This is the hole in the service.

It’s currently in a cat fight with Apple and Google, so there’s no iPhone or Android access. For what it’s worth, it’s available on Nokias and BlackBerries.

Cost: Free, though there’s a subscription service that gets you a desktop client and (some) mobile access.

mSpot (mspot.com) This takes your existing media and puts it into a cloud. So you can play your iTunes off any computer or phone anywhere. It won’t change the world, but it eliminates the problem of transporting music between iTunes libraries. But with mSpot, unlike the others, you have to own the music in the first place. (There’s also a mobile movie rental service here.)

Mobile: Yup, and an amazing Google Chrome app.

Cost: 5 gigs free, then $3.99/month for 40 gigs.

There are, of course, all kinds of other music streaming sites elsewhere – like Spotify, a revolutionary company in Europe with more than 100 million users, and MOG, another slick U.S.-only site that serves up songs for free.

But with Google and others lacing up, there’s very obviously going to be a longer sprint toward cloud-based music streaming. Best to wait till the dust settles before placing bets on any of these.

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Thursday, May 19

Benefits

Ability And beyond GAlA dinner (March of

Dimes) Performances by Adrian Anantawan and Jennifer Valentyne, dinner and a silent auction. 5:30 pm. $250. Fairmont Royal York, 100 Front W. marchofdimes.ca/gala.

Ain’t too Proud to beG (Joyland) Conversations with authors Natalee Caple, Andrew Pyper, Chris Eaton and Carl Wilson, a presentation on ebook etiquette, launchings and more. 8 pm. Pwyc. Supermarket, 268 Augusta.

416-840-0501.

ConGo ClAssrooms For A briGhter Future

(school construction in the Democratic Republic of Congo) Performances by Glenn Lewis, Ivana Santilli, Ayah and others. 8 pm. $20 adv. Revival, 783 College. great-apes.com. seA shePherd FundrAiser (Sea Shepherd Toronto) Social gathering and merchandise sale.

8-11 pm. Free. Disgraceland, 965 Bloor W. 647-347-5263.

Events

diAbetes And AlternAtive mediCines Can-

York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca. to LGBT Film And Video Festival kicks off with a party featuring performances by Ill Nana and DJ Deko-ze. 10 pm. $10. OCAD Great Hall, 100 McCaul. insideout.ca.

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sion with sociololgy prof Rania Tfaily and Matthew Behrens of Camapign to Stop Secret Trials in Canada. 7:15 pm. Free. Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil. tasc@web.ca.

PowerinG the Future Discussion on how to solve our energy crisis with CBC host Bob McDonald. 7 pm. $10. Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview. ebw.evergreen.ca.

PursuinG God with u2 Six-week program for adult spiritual formation on aspects of God in the music of U2. To Jun 18. Victoria Pk United Church, 1 Stamford Sq N. 416-755-0772. rAise the rAtes Ontario Coalition Against Poverty educational meeting and discussion on raising welfare rates and restoring the special diet allowance. 6-9 pm. Free. St Luke’s, 353 Sherbourne. 416-925-6939.

CselF imAGe PerFormAnCe Panel discussion with photographers Johanna Householder, Suzy Lake and Chris Ironside. 7-9 pm. Free. U of T Art Centre, 15 King’s College Circle. utac. utoronto.ca.

soCiAlism 2011: their Crisis, our solutions!

Socialist Action international educational conference with talks, panels and more. Today and tomorrow 7-10 pm; May 21, 10 am-10 pm; May 22, 11 am-5 pm. $30, adv $20, $5/session or pwyc. OISE, 252 Bloor W (Thu only), Fri-Sun Woodsworth College Residence, 321 Bloor W. socialistaction-canada.blogspot.com.

women’s humAn riGhts eduCAtion institute Intensive institute on non-discrimination

and equality in the era of globalization. To May 20. Free. OISE, rm 2-225, 252 Bloor W. Preregister learnwhr.org.

CAttle-horse drivers trAil And First Community GArdens (1934) Walk exploring old

stockyards and a community garden. 6:30 pm.

Free. Dundas and Runnymede. 416-593-2656. deFendinG the indeFensible Screening of Observe And Report defended by Will Sloan and Andrew Parker. 7 pm. $10. Toronto Underground Cinema, 186 Spadina (basement). indefensiblemovieseries@gmail.com. dyinG with diGnity Lecture and Q&A with Wanda Morris on end of life choices. 7-9 pm. $5. Centre for Inquiry Ontario, 216 Beverley. cficanada.ca/ontario/events.

inside out lGbt Film And video FestivAl Celebrating queer culture on film with screenings, panels, performances, parties and more. $8-$13, galas $17-$28. TIFF Bell Lightbox (350 King W), Buddies in Bad Times Theatre (12 Alexander). 416-9671528, insideout.ca.

May 19 to 29

rtoronto internAtionAl CirCus FestivAl Acrobatics, comedy, daredevil stunts,

music, stilt walkers, balloon sculptures and more . 11 am to 5 pm daily. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-9734000, harbourfrontcentre.com.

May 21 to 23 toronto-romAniAn Film FestivAl Docs, shorts and features by contemporary Romanian directors. $15, stu $10; passes $45$105, stu $45-$65. Innis Town Hall (2 Sussex), Bloor Cinema (506 Bloor W). torofilmfestival.com.

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Most free. Various venues. contactphoto. com.

To May 31

deeP wireless FestivAl oF rAdio & trAnsmission Art Performances, installations,

radio broadcasts, artist talks and a conference. Talks $10-$15, installations free, conference $75-$150. Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. deepwireless.ca.

To May 31 new wAve ComPosers FestivAl Esprit Orchestra music festival with performances and panels. Various prices, some events free. Various venues. espritorchestra.com.

To May 30 roCk.PAPer.sistAhz Festival celebrating the work of black women artists through storytelling, spoken word, music, theatre and visual art. Pwyc-$25. Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. bcurrent.ca.

To May 20

ContACt Toronto’s photography festival mAGiC squAres: the PAtterned imAGinAtion oF muslim AFriCA in ContemPorAry Culture

Discussion with artists Jamelie Hassan, Tim Whiten, Alia Toor and Hamid Kachmar. 7:30-9 pm. $25, stu $20. Textile Museum of Canada, 55 Centre. magicsquares.eventbrite.com.

Saturday, May 21

Benefits

An AFternoon & eveninG For the Children oF bAzou (Ecole St Albert Le Grand in Bazou,

Cameroon) Children’s entertainers Soli & Rob, Alistair Ant (3-5 pm, $25 sugg), and evening performances by Njacko Backo, Ken Whiteley, Hannah Burge & Paco Luviano and others (8 pm-1 am, $25 sugg). Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. bluebird (Daily Bread Food Bank) Exhibition of edible and non-edible food-related art by local artists. 7 pm. Bring a non-perishable food donation. 918 Bathurst Centre, 918 Bathurst. bluebirdto.com. rhooPs For hoPe (ProAction Cops & Kids) Adult and youth basketball games, with ce-

lebrities including TV’s Brad Pattison, singer Kim Davis, JRDN and others. Noon. $20. St Michael’s College School, 1515 Bathurst. 416558-4752, kidsoftomorrow2@gmail.com.

Events

ArtisAns At the distillery Spring craft show.

To May 23, 11 am-6 pm. Free. Distillery District, 55 Mill. artisansatthedistillery.com.

CAFe skePtique Open discussion on critical thinking. 5-7 pm. Free. Free Times Cafe, 320 College. cficanada.ca.

CFiGure & Ground: dynAmiC lAndsCAPe

Talk on the exhibition by CONTACT artistic director Bonnie Rubenstein. 1-2 pm. Free.

MOCCA, 952 Queen W. 416-395-0067. rkids’ world oF enerGy FestivAl Interactive workshops, activities and performances focusing on renewable energy, climate change and the science of energy. Today and tomorrow 10 am-4 pm. Free. Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview. evergreen.ca. rkobbler jAy & Friends Performances by Kobbler Jay and Barney, an Earth Ranger presentation, slam jam, stilt walkers and more.

Various times. Free. Ontario Place, 955 Lake Shore W. ontarioplace.com. monsters oF hiP-hoP toronto Dance convention with performances by Luther Brown, Tabitha & Napoleon Dumo, Jaquel Knight and others. To May 22. $35 and up. Westin Harbour Castle, 1 Harbour Sq. Pre-register monsterdance.com.

rPArks CAnAdA CentenniAl CelebrAtion

Outdoor street fest with a visitor centre, kids’ zone, films, a critters corner, roving performers and much more. 11 am-7 pm. Free. CN Tower grounds, Front W off Bremner. pc.gc.ca. sAilinG Club oPen house Discover community sailing and learn about sailing albacores, lasers and catamarans. Today and tomorrow 1-3 pm. Free. Westwood Sailing Club, 12 Regatta (just E of Cherry Beach). 416-461-2870. tArot & kAbbAlAh Workshop. 1-3 pm. $10.

Rosicrucian Regional Cultural Centre, 835 Broadview. Pre-register 416-463-8544. rwest AsiAn homelAnds FestivAl Day of music, dance, cooking, storytelling and more.

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kAFkA in the Court: hAssAn diAb vs CAnAdA’s unjust extrAdition lAw Panel discus-

dyinG For A home: FiGhtinG For our soCiAl ProGrAms Lecture by street nurse Cathy

348 Danforth. 416-466-2129.

GArdeninG is For the birds Presentation on designing gardens with year-round songbird interest. 7-8 pm. Free. Bloor/Gladstone Library, 1101 Bloor W. 416-393-7674. how to look At PAintinGs Talk by artist/art history prof Judy Singer. 7 pm. Free. North

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Food AddiCtions, overeAtinG And mood swinGs Lecture. 7-8:30 pm. Free. Big Carrot,

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adian Diabetes Assn seminar. 6:30-8:30 pm.

Free. Toronto Rehab Main Lecture Theatre, 347 Rumsey. Pre-register 416-408-7145.

Crowe. 7 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

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Wholesome Beginnings Workshop to create healthy, well-balanced baby food. 10 am-2 pm. $45. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. Pre-register 416-973-4093.

Sunday, May 22

Benefits

rPunch Buggy For sick kids (Hospital for Sick Children) Volkswagen Beetle owners from across the province bring their Bugs to the square to raise money for SickKids. 9 am-5 pm.

Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca.

Events

rBarney & Friends Performances by Barney,

an Earth Ranger presentation, slam jam and more. Various times. Free. Ontario Place, 955 Lake Shore W. ontarioplace.com. contemPorary art Bus tour Visit current exhibitions at MOCCA, the Blackwood Gallery, Art Gallery of York U, Koffler Gallery off-site and Blackwood Gallery off-site. Noon-5 pm.

Free. MOCCA, 952 Queen W. Pre-register 7362100 ext 44021. larry eisenstein and eric Farache Q&A with the artists moderated by NOW art writer David Jager and Mark Laliberte. 2-4 pm. Free.

Loop, 1174 Queen W. 416-516-2581.

Parkdale Guided ROM walk. 2 pm. Free. Parkdale Library, 1303 Queen W. rom.on.ca. rediscovering Brooks Bush Walk exploring 19th-century gang areas and hideouts east of the Don River. 2 pm. Free. Chester subway.

416-593-2656.

Monday, May 23 children’s health and survival in industrial-railWay environment in the Portlands Walk exploring the Portlands during

the Great Depression. 2 pm. Free. Carlaw and Queen. 416-593-2656.

Pal-sac Social writing club. 7 pm. Naco Gallery, 1665 Dundas W. pal-sac.com. rPan PiPer steel drum Band Performances

by Pan Piper and Barney, a meet-and-greet with Sir Topham Hatt & Pingu, and more. Various times. Free. Ontario Place, 955 Lake Shore W. ontarioplace.com.

Quiz/trivia night Meet Mondays to play for prizes. 8:30 pm. $10/team (up to 6 players).

Pour Boy, 666 Manning. 647-343-7969. rvictoria day on the WaterFront Piratethemed activities, live music, outdoor programs, dog trick demos, arts and craft, and more. 11 am. Free. Queen’s Quay Terminal, 207 Queens Quay W. waterfrontbia.com. rWorld turtle day Learn about Ontario’s turtles and turtle conservation around the world. 9 am-6 pm. Free w/ admission. Toronto Zoo, Meadowvale N of 401. 416-392-5929.

Tuesday, May 24 Budget alert! make your voice heard One Toronto info session on the public consultation process. 7-9 pm. Free. Labour Council (15 Gervais), Birchwood Bluffs Neighbourhood Centre (93 Birchmount). Pre-register 416-3510095 ext 251. community cannery Workshop on pickling local asparagus and fiddleheads. 6-9 pm. $50.

Parkdale Community Church, 201 Cowan. Preregister westendfood.coop. dialectical naturalism Four-week workshop on Marx and the roots of the ecological crisis we face today. 7-9 pm. $100. Foundation for Social Economics, 283 College. Pre-register

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Jeff Melanson, arts advisor to mayor Rob Ford and soon to be president of the Banff Centre, discusses the challenges facing the arts in Canada. 7 pm. Free. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, 111 Queen’s Park. Pre-register 416531-1483.

it doesn’t have to hurt: the risks oF unmanaged Paediatric Pain Café Scientifique

discussion with anesthesiologist Fiona Campbell and SickKids patient Stephanie Clayton.

5:30-7 pm. Free. Duke of York Pub, 39 Prince Arthur. Pre-register sobia.khan@sickkids.ca. toronto in the 20th century Guided walking tour. Tuesdays 7 pm. $10. E side of Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. Preregister richard@muddyyorktours.com.

Where is syria going? Talk by Marxist.com editor and British Labor Party socialist member Fred Weston. 6:30 pm. Free. OISE, rm 5230, 252 Bloor W. 416-461-0304.

Wednesday, May 25

Queen’s Park circle: Politics, ProFs and Pundits Guided ROM walk. 6 pm. Free. Legis-

lature Bldg, 111 Wellesley W. rom.on.ca. ruBaiyat oF omar khayyam Presentation on how the poem came to be written and what it went on to become. 7:30-9:30 pm. $12. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org. teen literary salon Author Kelley Armstrong leads a discussion on her novel The Gathering.

6:30 pm. $35 (includes book). Mabel’s Fables, 662 Mt Pleasant. Pre-register smallprinttoronto.org. toronto BaBel Practice a new language and meet people from around the globe. 7:30 pmmidnight. Free. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. torontobabel.com. trivia night Come out and play. 8 pm. $2.

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kama reading series (World Literacy Canada) Alissa York, Gregor Robinson, Kate Taylor and Steven Heighton. 6:30 pm. $60. Park Hyatt Toronto, 4 Avenue. 416-977-0008, worldlit.ca.

monia mazigh: What is haPPening in the middle east? (Science for Peace) The academic and wife of Maher Arar speaks on whether Canada is a bystander or a player. 7 pm. $60 (includes dinner). Hot House Café, 35 Church. metta.spencer.name/sfp. village PeoPle: disco (Gerry & Nancy Pencer Brain Trust) A performance by the Village People supports brain tumour research and care. 7:30 pm. $400. Liberty Grand, 25 British Columbia. pencerbraintrust.com/disco.

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g-sPots and Female ejaculation All-genders

workshop. 7-9:30 pm. $33. Good for Her, 175 Harbord. Pre-register 416-588-0900.

hoW to make money: advice From line knitWear Seminar for fashion entrepreneurs on how to land key accounts. 6 pm. $60. Toronto Fashion Incubator, 285 Manitoba. Preregister fashionincubator.com.

the imagined city: a literary voyage into toronto’s ravines and Wild Places Author

Amy Lavender Harris traces the interwoven heritage of writers and works engaging imaginatively with the city. 6:30 pm. Free. High Park Library, 228 Roncesvalles. 416-393-7671. international Folk dancing Enjoy dances from different countries, all levels welcome.

7:30-10 pm. $7. Koffler Centre School of the Arts, 4588 Bathurst. 416-638-1881 ext 4364. maya angelou Unique Lives & Experiences lecture by the author and poet. $38-$85. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe. 416-872-4255. mothiversary Evening of storytelling featuring Shawn Micallef and others. Doors 7 pm. $10. Polish Combatants Hall, 206 Beverley. chbooks.com. rPolice community Fair Police Week celebration with live music, all-ages bingo, a Leafs interactive play area, equipment display and barbecue. 4-8 pm. Free. Woodbine Park, Queen and Kingston. 416-691-1113.

Private WorshiP in ancient egyPt Soc for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities lecture. 7-9 pm. $35. U of T, 4 Bancroft. thessea.org.

Prostate cancer survivor Forum Panel discussion. 7:30-9:30 pm. Free. Toronto Botanical

Bartending comPetition (Daily Bread Food Bank) Competitors mix killer cocktails. 6:30 pm. $10. Jack Astor’s, 133 John. 416-595-9100. reciPe For change (FoodShare) Evening of food, wine and beer featuring 29 top local chefs. 6-9 pm. $100. St Lawrence Market North, 92 Front W. foodshare.net.

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People are hungry all year round, so why do we tend to think about the Daily Bread Food Bank only on Thanksgiving and Christmas? Give it your attention as spring sets in when the cool Bluebird art event unfolds at the 918 Bathurst Centre (918 Bathurst) on Saturday (May 21) from 7 pm to midnight. Check out edible and non-edible food-related art designed to make the connection between creativity and what goes into our mouths. Bring a

The evolving role of the arts in Canada – a weighty subject in budgetcutting Harperland – is the focus of a talk at the Gardiner Museum (111 Queen’s Park) by the mayor’s arts adviser, Jeff Melanson, who’s leaving his post for a new position with the Banff Centre in Alberta. Tuesday (May 24), 7 pm. Free. Pre-register 416-531-1483.

Science for Peace hosts a dinner and conversation with academic Monia Mazigh, the wife of rendition detainee Maher Arar, on Wednesday (May 25) at 7 pm. Up for discussion: Canada as bystander or player in the Middle East. Hot House Café (35 Church). $60 (includes dinner). metta. spencer.name/sfp.

a catalytic conversation on sustaining activism Talk by Not Far from the Tree’s Laura Reinsborough. 6:30-8:30 pm. Free. OISE Peace Lounge, 252 Bloor W. deborah@catalystcentre.ca.

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Free. Centre for Inquiry Ontario, 216 Beverley. cficanada.ca. the secrets oF chinese oPera Lecture and Q&A with Beijing Opera master Hu Zhi Feng.

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Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 Today I received

this email: “Dear Chosen One: My name is Boopsky, also known as ‘The Impossible.’ I rule a small kingdom that exists in a secret place – an island with abundant riches and rhinoceros playgrounds. To make a long story short, you have won our ‘naked’ lottery. Please come visit us to claim your prizes. We will carve a statue of you out of butter and strawberry jam. Your funny ways of walking and talking will be imitated by all of our citizens. Then you will be caressed as a monarch on a pile of TVs and sung songs to by our reincarnation chorus. Can’t wait to see you be so happy!” I suspect you may soon receive an invitation as puzzling as this one, Aries – an apparent blessing that carries mixed messages or odd undertones. My suggestion is to hold off on accepting it until you find out more about it. Meanwhile, make sure it doesn’t distract you from taking advantage of a less flashy but more practical opportunity.

TAurus Apr 20 | May 20 In order to

capture the spirit of the landscapes he painted, French artist Claude Monet used to work outside in all kinds of weather. When I look at masterpieces like Snow At Argenteuil or The Magpie, Snow Effect, Outskirts Of Honfleur, I like to imagine he was so engrossed in his work that he barely registered the bitter chill. I bet you’ll be able to achieve a similar intensity of focus in the coming week, Taurus.

You could be so thoroughly absorbed in an act of creation or a ritual of transition or an attempt at transformation that you will be virtually exempt from any discomfort or inconvenience that might be involved.

Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 Last year a group of wealthy Germans asked their government to require them to pay higher taxes. “We have more money than we need,” said the 44 multi-millionaires.

They wanted to help alleviate the ravages of poverty and unemployment. I urge you to make a comparable move, Leo. In what part of your life do you have more abundance than most people? Are there practical ways you could express your gratitude for the extravagant blessings life has given you? I think you’ll find that raising your levels of generosity will ultimately lead to your receiving more love.

(Here’s more on the story about rich Germans: tinyurl.com/RichHelp.)

VirGo Aug 23 | sep 22 “I don’t know what I’m looking for,” sings Brendan Benson in his bouncy pop song What I’m Looking For, “but I know that I just want to look some more.” I suspect those words could come out of your mouth these days, Virgo. I worry that you’ve become so enamoured of the endless quest that you’ve lost sight of what the object of the quest is. You almost seem to prefer the glamour of the restless runaround – as painful as it sometimes is. That probably means you’re at least somewhat out of touch with the evolution of your primal desires. Check back in with the raw, throbbing source, please.

in the United States, your chocolate almost certainly contains insect parts. The Food and Drug Administration understands that the mechanisms involved in making chocolate usually suck small passers-by into the works, which is why it allows manufacturers to include up to 60 bug fragments per 100 grams of chocolate. A lot of basically positive influences have a similar principle at work: Unpalatable ingredients get mixed in with the tasty stuff, but not in such abundance that they taint the experience. This week, Capricorn, you may be unusually tuned in to the unpalatable side of some good things in your life. Don’t overreact.

AquArius Jan 20 | Feb 18 I went to a

writer Arthur C. Clarke. So in other words, if you were able to time-travel back to medieval England with a laptop computer and a solar-powered battery charger, the natives might regard you as a wizard with supernatural powers. I think there will soon be a similar principle at work in your life, Pisces: You will get a vivid glimpse of amazing things you could accomplish in the future. They may seem fantastic and impossible to the person you are right now – tantamount to magic. Be alert for expanded states of awareness that reveal who you could ultimately become.

pisCes Feb 19 | Mar 20 “Any sufficiently

Homework: Talk about the things you’d do if you lived for a week without consuming any internet, TV, videos, radio, films, newspapers or magazines.

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literary event in which young poets read their work. One poet, Shelby Hinte, began her segment by talking about what inspires her. “I like to write about women who are more interesting than me,” she said. I was full of admiration for that perspective. It suggests she’s cultivating the abundant curiosity and humility that I think are essential to the creative process. As you slip deeper into an extra-fertile phase of your personal cycle, Aquarius, I urge you to adopt a similar voracity for influences that surprise and fascinate and educate you. advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” said science fiction

LibrA sep 23 | oct 22 When it’s flood season, the Amazon River rises as much as 60 feet. At that time, the adjoining forests earn their name – várzea, a Portuguese word meaning “flooded forests.” The river’s fish wander far and wide, venturing into the expanded territory to eat fruit from the trees. In the coming weeks, Libra, I imagine you’ll be like those fish: taking advantage of the opportunities provided by a natural windfall.

GeMini May 21 | Jun 20 What’s going to happen for you in the coming week will be the metaphorical equivalent of gaining the ability to see infrared light with your naked eye or to detect the ultrasonic sounds that only dogs can hear. With this virtual superpower at your disposal, you just may be able to figure out how people’s unspoken feelings have been covertly affecting your destiny. You will intuit lucid inklings about the probable future that will help you adjust your decisions. You might even tune in to certain secrets that your own unconscious mind has been hiding from you.

sCorpio oct 23 | nov 21 Provocative new influences are headed your way from a distance. Meanwhile, familiar influences that are close at hand are about to burst forth with fresh offerings. It’s likely that both the faraway and nearby phenomena will arrive on the scene at around the same time and with similar intensity. Try not to get into a situation where they will compete with or oppose each other.

Your best bet will be to put them both into play in ways that allow them to complement each other.

CAnCer Jun 21 | Jul 22 Devilish laugh-

sAGiTTArius nov 22 | Dec 21 Are you

ter revels in chaos, says Loyola University philosophy professor John Clark. “It’s an assault on excessive order, authority and seriousness.” Angelic laughter, on the other hand, “expresses delight in the wondrousness of life and in the mystery of the order and fitness of things.” I’d like to suggest, Cancerian, that the time is ripe for you to revel equally in the devilish and the angelic varieties of laughter.

So get out there and seek funny experiences that dissolve your fixations and celebrate your life’s crazy beauty.

The healing that results could be spectacular.

CApriCorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 If you live

desperate for more companionship?

Have your night dreams been crammed with soulful exchanges? Are you prowling around like a lusty panther, fantasizing about every candidate who’s even remotely appealing?

If so, I have some advice from the poet Rumi: “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” In other words, Sagittarius: To foster the search for intimate connection, identify the patterns within yourself that are interfering with it. By the way, this is good counsel even if you’re only moderately hungry for closer connection.

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quick! name the seven deadly sins! Okay, you don’t know the whole list. I’ll just tell you it includes envy, one of those persistent human failings that’s really hard to avoid in the wall-to-wall advertising age. An entire industry taps the best minds to generate lust for others’ finer attributes and possessions, so it’s no wonder we live in a culture of chronic coveting. Wanna avoid the envy trap? Here are some tools.

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“Envy represents something we feel we should be recognized for or have accomplished but have not. What has the person you envy done that you have not had the time or courage to do? What is keeping you from playing a bigger game? Envy is often paired with shame and regret. We should stop wasting energy feeling badly.”

MARCIA REYNOLDS, master certified coach, Phoenix “ People usually feel envy in response to someone in their immediate social group. The emotion increases attention to the advantaged other. It also deepens our search for information about the other; we remember more about people we envy. This is so we can deduce how to get that advantage for ourselves. Envy typically creates one of two behavioural responses: either a moving-up type of motivation where people try to improve themselves, or a destructive response that could include sabotaging the envied.”

SARAH HILL, professor of social and evolutionary psychology, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth “Anybody who has the courage to face their envy is already doing well.

Envy is the deepest and darkest secret, because people are ashamed to feel it and rarely reveal it. Envy grows not toward people who are at a distance but toward those closest to us whose lives we can compare with our own. It’s based on the feeling that something you should be able to get has been earned by someone else. It can make you feel like a bad person. What you want is to find a way to shift to admiration. Admiration is an expansive experience that includes others, whereas envy is isolating. Rejoice in the joys of others and they will include you in their happiness.”

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Shows that rocked Toronto last week NEIL YOUNG at Massey Hall, Tuesday, May 10.

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Rating: NNNN There was a lonely quality to Neil Young’s Tuesday-night set at Massey Hall, the first in a two-night run filmed by Jonathan Demme.

Adoring fans relentlessly yelled out, “We love you, Neil!” and “Welcome home!” all evening, but the great man, alone in an arc of pianos and small amps, seemed untouched by the feedback. He was too busy creating his own.

Playing half a dozen songs from last year’s excellent Le Noise, Young summoned glorious squeals and thunderous overtones from a handful of guitars and a pedal board. The din helped distract from Love And War’s overly sentimental lyrics and added heft to the 1969 classic Down By The River, whose chorus vocals he thrillingly drowned out. Hitchhiker, another highlight, evoked Sabbath in its heaviness.

Tender moments also abounded. Helpless was all soft acoustic strumming and plaintive harmonica, while the fragile I Believe In You, delivered from a worn grand piano, transcended in spite of the CARLA GILLIS obnoxious wolf whistles that cut through it.

HERE WE GO MAGIC with AROARA at the Horse-

shoe, Wednesday, May 11. Rating: NNN Here We Go Magic started as Luke Temple’s singer/songwriter project, but it’s since evolved into something much bigger. At least it has in a live setting, where his now five-piece band has developed the kind of chemistry that elevates a well-written song into an experience all its own. It’s no longer one voice, but five voices… often quite literally.

These songs eschew verse-chorus-verse structures in favour of a more repetitive, hypnotic groove, where all the individual elements – bass, synth, drums and guitars – interlock and swirl around each other in ways that don’t seem like they should work but nearly always do.

Considering that its two members are married, opening act AroarA should also have benefited from chemistry, but it sounds like the new project from Apostle of Hustle’s Andrew Whiteman and his wife, Ariel, needs some time to figure itself out. The songs’ alternating gothic blues and folk rock strayed all over the map, but the set did at least fill the somewhat sparse Wednesday night RICHARD TRAPUNSKI crowd with members of Broken Social Scene.

ñ12TUNE-YARDS at the Horseshoe, Thursday, May

. Rating: NNNN This might sound completely cheeseball, but tUnE-yArDs’ sold-out Horseshoe gig felt like a genuinely cathartic spiritual experience.

From the moment Merrill Garbus looped her first syncopated floor tom and snare beat and started singing over top of it, the crowd continually erupted in spontaneous unprovoked hooting and hollering every time she hit a particularly spine-tingling high note or let out one of her primal guttural growls. It felt more like an ecstatic gospel revival meeting than a hipster-approved experimental pop concert.

Garbus herself seemed overwhelmed by the deafening roar of applause each song garnered, at one point choking back tears while thanking former Sister Suvi bandmate Patrick Gregoire (whose new

project, Pat Jordache, opened up the night) and his parents for nurturing her early career when she lived in Montreal. His family wouldn’t have been the oldest in the room, since the audience spanned a wide range of ages and archetypes, with just as many hippies as hipsters. You know you’re onto something special when music this strange and unfamiliar captures the hearts of such a BENJAMIN BOLES diverse group of listeners.

ñJAMES BLAKE at Lee’s Palace, Saturday, May 14.

Rating: NNNN For every listener put off by James Blake’s tendency to stretch a single lyric into an epic electronic piano ballad, there’s someone else who sees that as an effective bridging of pop and experimental influences. (See NOW’s disc review of his debut album for an example of the former.) To be fair to the haters, Blake’s starkly minimalist, futuristic torch songs do require patience to properly appreciate, which makes his ability to silence a sold-out rock club on a Saturday night all the more remarkable.

What you notice first are how incidental the electronic touches and dubstep influences are. Mostly it’s just Blake playing keys and singing, though he favours synth sounds over piano patches and uses looping pedals and vocoders to fake some harmonies. But both his guitarist and drummer deserve kudos for doing amazing imitations of computer music using their instruments. Live music is so BB much more entertaining when made by hand.

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Rating: NNNN It’s always disconcerting how hype transforms people into sheep – and the livestock were out in droves for Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, bleating “Golf Wang” as tension mounted prior to the hip-hop group hitting the stage.

Minutes after the clock struck 10, frontman Tyler, the Creator, in his

trademark neon green balaclava, and Left Brain, rocking a Calgary Flames jersey, ran out to one of their ominous, synth-heavy beats and got down to business.

“Li’l mama passed out here in the front. I hope she a’ight,” Tyler said midway through. Not long after, the 20year-old asked the lighting guy for all reds and, bathed in a murderous light, launched into Yonkers, doing the same kind of contorted movements seen in the song’s video.

It was a relentless experience. Some left battered and bruised. As for Tyler, who dove from the rafters shortly before the show disintegrated, he finished minus his shoes and hat, which were stolen by the rabid crowd.

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Chang-a-Lang finally have something to rally around. After years of winning over influential allies with their fun, energetic shows and a 2009 EP, the local garage-pop trio now have a fulllength album, No Clean Rock And Roll.

As the title suggests, it’s gritty, lo-fi, punk-inspired anthems that reliably land somewhere between the Ramones, Weezer and Sloan.

Chang-a-Lang spent two wintry days in a converted barn near Uxbridge banging out the 10 tracks live off the floor. Recorded and mixed by Chris Levoir (singer/guitarist for the Mark Inside), it’s out on vinyl and digitally on his Vampire Dance imprint.

“The decision to do vinyl was as much for us as for everyone else,” laughs bassist Jeanette Dowling.

“These songs are a labour of love, and we think there’s just something special about holding a record in your hand and putting the needle down. We wanted that for them.”

Another ally of the band, Scott Pilgrim author Bryan Lee O’Malley, helped hook them up with high-profile gigs opening for Art Brut and, more recently, the Go! Team at the Opera House. But Dowling confides that they’ll be happier playing their release show in the cozier confines of the Garrison.

“We don’t like playing big stages.

We like being close to each other and to the crowd. We like our shows to get sweaty and disgusting.”

At the Garrison (1197 Dundas West), Friday (May 20), 10 pm. $6. JORDAN BIMM NOW may 19-25 2011

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National Parks Project Live

The centennial anniversary of Parks Canada brings together an all-star cast of musicians and directors for an innovative collaborative project By CARLA GILLIS

Old Man Luedecke (left), Tony Dekker, Daniela Gesundheit at Cape Breton Highlands

NATIONAL PARKS PROJECT LIVE with ANDREW WHITEMAN, SOPHIE TRUDEAU, CASEY MECIJA , PAUL AUCOIN, BRY WEBB and others at the Royal Cinema (608 College), tonight (Thursday, May 19), 9:30 pm. $15. 416-536-5252.

The concept is brilliant: let’s celebrate the centennial anniversary of Parks Canada by sending 39 Canadian musicians and 13 Canadian directors into the national parks for five days to make music and films inspired by their surroundings. While the resulting short films and soundtracks are stirring, it’s the process behind their creation that fascinates us most.

Here’s what some of the musicians had to say about their time in the wilderness.

BRY WEBB, of the Constantines Gwaii Haanas, British Columbia We flew into Skidegate, a Haida community in the Queen Charlotte Islands, and travelled to the park via Hecate Strait in a large sailboat in pretty heavy weather.

Sarah Harmer has experience sailing and handled the waves with aplomb, whereas Jim Guthrie and I broke our desperate focus on the horizon just long enough to laugh at each other’s pale, sick faces.

After that, the trip was all highs. At one point, we were surrounded by 10 humpback whales breaching in pairs just 10 feet off the side of the boat. I heard a whale trumpet through an underwater microphone. We played music around a campfire at an original village site, and I spooned Jim in a longhouse. We met a strange old Quebecois hippie who made us a feast of seaweed, massive shrimp and crabs from his own traps.

CHRISTINE FELLOWS, solo artist Bruce Peninsula, Ontario The crew was amazing. We could stop literally anywhere, any time to collaborate, record and write.

It was such a weird and wonderful way to experience nature. We camped the entire time, and it was (Weakerthans’) John Samson’s first time, so that was pretty hilarious.

He’d insisted on bringing a pair of corduroy pants that got wet the second day and stayed wet for the rest of the trip.

I was wary about the documentary “reality television” aspect of the project and, although it wasn’t ideal and felt a bit unnatural at times, we were too

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movie review THE NATIONAL PARKS PROJECT (various directors) Rating: NNN To celebrate the centenary of Parks Canada, Joel McConvey, Geoff Morrison and Ryan Noth assembled 13 filmmakers and 39 musicians to interpret the country’s national parks in a series of beautifully photographed shorts. Imagine North Of Superior without the uncomfortable patriotism.

As with any omnibus project, tone and content vary wildly from one segment to the next, and at just over two hours, The National Parks Project does drag a little; it might fare better as a series of individual HD shorts than as a continuous feature film.

Fortunately, the best bits are waiting at the end. Daniel Cockburn offers a playfully creepy take on Ontario’s Bruce Peninsula (“the place you don’t remember”) scored by John Samson, Christine Fellows and Sandro Perri; Hubert Davis brings Kathleen Edwards, Sam Roberts and Matt Mays to Manitoba’s Wapusk National Park; and Kevin McMahon takes an impressionistic trip along the Nahanni River in the Northwest Territories, scored by Olga Goreas, NW Jace Lasek and Shad.

Kathleen Edwards at Wapusk National Park

Triple parked NATIONAL PARKS PROJECT produced by Joel McConvey, Geoff Morrison and Ryan Noth. A FilmCAN/Primitive Entertainment release. 127 minutes. Opens Friday (May 20). For venues and times, see Movies, page 72.

The idea was simple enough. Gather 13 filmmakers, match each with three musicians and send the quartets into Canada’s national parks to make a short film. At least it sounded simple enough when Joel McConvey, Geoff Morrison and Ryan Noth hatched it on Toronto Island.

“It was that great mix of frustration and idealism that everyone talks about,” McConvey says when the four of us sit down for a coffee on College. “Like, ‘No one cares about Canadian film.’ Perhaps in doing this next thing we can make them care, you know? Can we change this? Can we engage people?”

The result is The National Parks Project, a meditative anthology film supplemented by a TV documentary series, a soundtrack album and an elaborate website. It’s almost exactly what they imagined making five years ago.

“We did set out with a master plan,” Noth says. “We wanted to make a series of short films, we wanted to put out a soundtrack, we wanted to make an interactive piece, we wanted to document the whole thing. Literally, those were our four goals.”

The National Parks Project starts a week-long theatrical run at the Royal on Friday, with special guests and Q&As scheduled for every screening.

Tonight (Thursday, May 19) is given over to a massive soundtrack release party, with more than a dozen of the project’s musicians assembling to perform beneath Noth’s live mix of clips from the feature and accompanying documentary.

The project will likely confound traditionalists hoping for a stately celebration of Canada’s glorious landscape. “It’s not the Heritage Moment thing,” McConvey says. Quite the opposite, in fact.

“It was almost amusing when we’d watch the footage for the TV show,” he says. “So many directors had one or two things they would always do: they were looking for the layers in a place, or they were trying to avoid clichés.”

“They were trying to avoid postcards,” says Morrison.

McConvey laughs. “You’d have all these art filmmakers who’d say, ‘I can’t shoot this. It’s too beautiful.’”

busy to pay much attention to the cameras. One night we had an exhilarating session on a rocky Georgian Bay beach under the stars, filming and recording together – a truly collective, ecstatic freak-out involving choreographed headlamps and a Shakespeare hymn sing, with the hollow coral rocks clattering underneath it all.

SOPHIE TRUDEAU, Godspeed You! Black Emperor Prince Edward Island National Park I love camping, so I felt comfortable on the beach right away. And the food! Our chef made the best seafood chowder I’ve ever eaten. I’d played with (Quest for Fire’s) Chad Ross before and always enjoyed his style, so that was an easy fit. And I worked with Dale Morningstar on a record a long, long time ago.

We knew we were to write music for a short film inspired by the surroundings, but not that we were meant to be part of the film itself. That came as a surprise and was a little frustrating, because it left us with less time to write. We played whenever we could, mostly at night. We had to work with what we had; there were no second takes or over-thinking parts or arrangements.

TONY DEKKER, Great Lake Swimmers Cape Breton Highlands, Nova Scotia We started by hiking up Franey NORMAN WILNER Mountain, which was breath taking, and some musical ideas came together right away. It was great to learn about the Acadian and boreal forests, and waking up to a family of moose moving through our campsite was magical. We camped between a mountain and an ocean beach, which was inspiring on many levels.

We tried different configurations to weave the environment into the music – incorporating pieces of driftwood and rocks into our instruments to respond to the crashing waves.

The scope and depth of the project is phenomenal. It’s one of the best things I’ve ever been part of. It sort of changed the way I think about music.

The National Parks Project producers Ryan Hear from Jennifer Castle, Matt Mays and Laura Noth (left), Geoff Morrison and Joel McConvey Barrett at nowtoronto.com/music.

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Jennifer Castle Toronto folk outsider follows her feelings to create a gorgeous stoner country album By BENJAMIN BOLES

JENNIFER CASTLE with TEX MESSAGE and CARL DIDUR at the Horseshoe (370 Queen West), tonight (Thursday, May 19). Doors 9 pm. $10. HS.

You don’t get a sense from Jennifer Castle that she’s particularly ambitious when it comes to making her way in the music industry, which might explain why, despite years of critical praise, she’s only recently getting time in the spotlight.

The Toronto-based musician is happy enough to simply perform her songs for people, and seems to care about little beyond that. And though she sees her amazing new album, Castlemusic (Flemish Eye), as just a part of her larger body of work, something about it has captured more attention this time around.

Suggest to her that naming it after her former pseudonym and recording under her own name for the first time are signs of a new approach and you won’t get any explicit confirmation.

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something about following her feelings and intuition. Even the increasingly country feel of her ambient folk songs doesn’t get any real explanation.

“Well, I think I’ve become a better singer, and maybe those country vocalists are just really good singers?” Castle suggests over beer at the Beaver. “It’s actually surprising to me that those influences weren’t more evident before.”

At times, her quivering vibrato evokes Dolly Parton through a haze of hash smoke, if only Nashville had more of a taste for minimalism and sonic experimentation. You only begin to get a clearer picture of where Castle’s coming from when she talks about her affection for the blues.

“I’ve always dug blues music, ever since I started playing guitar. I like that blues musicians will just play the same kinds of songs over and over again.

They’re not hung up [about the fact that they] ruminate on the same things all the time. It’s, like, this is where you’re at for your time on the

earth, and it sounds like this. Over and over.”

That single-minded focus on a form led her to develop a unique musical vocabulary that’s finally clicking with a larger audience. She’s not exactly endlessly rewriting the same song, but she has carved out a niche that won’t let you confuse her with anyone else. Just don’t expect her to define what that is or even what her songs are about.

“Sometimes other people say something about a song that is exactly what I was thinking, but I don’t even know entirely what I’m getting at most of the time. They end up meaning something to me later.”

So how does she know when she’s got something to write about? Give yourself a prize if you guessed something about a vague intuition.

“I get this funny feeling when it’s time to write a song. If I’m in a bad mood and I can’t pay attention to a lot of stuff and need time to myself, that’s how I know.”

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w/ Andrew Whiteman, Andre Ethier, Casey Mecija, Don Kerr, Jim Guthrie and more Royal Cinema (608 College), tonight (Thursday, May 19) See preview, page 42.

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Sound Academy (11 Polson), Friday (May 20) Reunited Boston new wave legends.

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Kool Haus (132 Queens Quay East) and free afternoon show at Sugar Beach (25 Dockside), Saturday (May 21) UK power-pop band plays two shows in one day.

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Phoenix (410 Sherbourne), Sunday (May 22) See preview, page 45.

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Sneaky Dee’s (431 College), Sunday (May 22) NYC shoegazer garage rock hotshots.

froNt liNe AsseMbly, coNjure oNe, cyANotic, AccucrAck Mod Club (722 College), Monday (May 23) Canadian industrial dance music legends.

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El Mocambo (464 Spadina), Tuesday (May 24) Pastoral UK indie folkers with a knack for hooks.

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Wrongbar (1279 Queen West), Wednesday (May 25) Obnoxiously aggressive face-melting LA dubstep.

Slakah the Beatchild (pictured), rapper Kardinal Offishall, R&B singers Ivana Santilli and Glenn Lewis, young pop star Justin Nozuka and many more. See nowtoronto.com/daily/music for interviews with some of the artists involved.

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Thursday, May 19 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

AlleycAtz Project Sound 9:30 pm.

AquilA Ray Whimsey (acoustic rock).

Bovine Sex cluB Random Killing, Terminals, DJ Cactus.

cAdillAc lounge Givins Shaw Moms & Pops

Parent Band: A Night Without The Kids For The Kids Monique Barry, Ambrose Pottie, Neil Clark, Jim Creegan, Paul Comeau, Don Baker and others 7 pm. cBc BroAdcASt centre George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight Sloan 1 pm. clinton’S Robert Desmond Band, Johnny Extasy, Sexy Mathematics, Modicity doors 8 pm. crocodile rock Sonic Playground 10 pm. dominion on queen Bossa Tres 9 pm. the gArriSon The Mark Inside, Sports: The Band, the Hoa Hoas, the Auras (rock) 9 pm. glAdStone hotel melody BAr Blocks Recording Club 8 pm. hArd luck BAr StolenOwners. lee’S PAlAce Austra, Trust doors 9 pm.

See cover story, page 46. live toronto Lucenzo, DJ Couture (top 40/ house/mashups/hip-hop) 10 pm. lulA lounge Small World Music Socalled 10 pm. mod cluB Cancer Bats, Three Inches of Blood, Barn Burner doors 7 pm, all ages. not my dog The Joyful Sinners (soul/blues/ roots) 9:30 pm. only cAfé Eyeswide.

PArtS & lABour Bloodhouse (post-punk) 10 pm. revivAl Congo Classrooms For A Brighter Future benefit Glenn Lewis, Kardinal Offishall, Slakah the Beatchild, Ivana Santilli, Justin Nozuka and others doors 8 pm. rivoli Ultimate Showcase Bear with Me, Ben Scriver, Brandon Wilson, Mike Vieira, Karma Kreeps, Greg Janssen, Scotty Stiles, the Train Electrio, Dusty Wallace, Vitus Wight 7 pm. royAl cinemA The National Parks Project Live Soundtrack Release Andrew Whiteman, Casey Mecija, Andre Ethier, Ohad Benchitrit, Don Kerr, Jim Guthrie, Bry Webb, Sophie Trudeau and others 9:30 pm. See preview, page 42 SouthSide Johnny’S Skip Tracer (rock/top 40) 9:30 pm. underdown PuB Jeff Barnes & Noah Zacharin (roots) 9 pm. velvet underground CD release Burning Candy, Dylan Goes Electric, JJ’s Friend 8:30 pm. wincheSter kitchen & BAr Jumple 10 pm.

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ASPettA cAffe Open Mic Night 7 to 10 pm. cAmeron houSe Corin Raymond 6 pm. cAmeron houSe Greg Cockerill (folk rock/

American/roots) 10 pm. cAm’S PlAce Gabe Salem (guitar, vocal) 9 pm. c’eSt whAt Adrienne Pierce & Kinnie Star 10 pm. dAkotA tAvern Jeremy Fisher & Sean McCann 7 to 10 pm. dAkotA tAvern Greg Cockerill (folk rock/ American/roots) 10 pm. dAve’S... on St clAir Uncle Herb’s Open Mic 8:30 pm. free timeS cAfe Rodney Brown & Doug Gori. grAffiti’S The Turnarounds w/ Allistar Christl & Terra Hazelton, Cleave Anderson 5 pm.

horSeShoe CD release Jennifer Castle, Tex Message, Carl Didur (indie folk) 11 ñ pm. See preview, page 43. hugh’S room CD release Genticorum 8:30 pm. the locAl Daiva Paskauskas. lolA Brian Cober Double Slide 9 pm. lou dAwg’S Call In Sick Friday Mike C (acous-

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Dominic Mancuso, Louis Simão, Roberto Occhipinti 8 pm. mAgPie cAfe Jamboree The Sure Things (country/bluegrass) 10 pm. monArchS PuB Toronto Blues Society 26th Anniversary Party Jerome Godboo & Mike ‘Shrimp Daddy’ Reid. the PAinted lAdy Joanne Mackell (country/ roots/soul) 9 pm. the PiSton CD release Cindy Doire, Colin Cripps, Andrea Ramolo, Paul Reddick, Sara Fitzpatrick and Rob Fenton, Steve Brockley Band (jazz/folk/blues) 9 pm. the wilSon 96 Leon Knight & the Neon Lights (country/roots) 9 pm.

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Blu riStorAnte & lounge Acoustic & Jazz Sentiments @ Blu Terrance Gowen (piano, vocals) 9 pm. chAlkerS PuB Ian Tamblyn 8 to 11 pm. chinA houSe Brian Dickinson Quartet w/ Mike Murley. de SotoS Double A Jazz 8 pm. dominion on queen John T Davis (organist) 5:30 to 8 pm. four SeASonS centre for the Performing ArtS richArd BrAdShAw AmPhitheAtre

Good Vibes The Rudolph Family Chamber Players noon. gAllery 345 VT011 Ig Henneman Sextet plays Kindred Spirits 8 pm. gAte 403 Rusty Water & the Broken Troubadour 5 to 8 pm. gAte 403 String Theory Collective 9 pm. mitzi’S SiSter Great Canadian Burlesque w/ Mysterion. old mill inn home Smith BAr Joe Sealy (solo piano) 7:30 pm. rePoSAdo The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz). rex Kevin Quain 6:30 pm. rex Sinal Aberto (Latin jazz) 9:30 pm.

Somewhere there Studio c_LR Allison Cameron, Germaine Liu, Rampersaud 8 pm. ten feet tAll Jazz Jam Brendan Davis Trio 8 pm. trAne Studio Chiva, Ruben ‘Beny’ Esguera 8 pm.

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Geronimo, the Gentlemen, the Future Collective 10 pm. goodhAndy’S Ladyplus.com Party DJ T Klinck doors 8 pm.5 nAco gAllery cAfe Medicine 9 pm. nocturne Psychoactive Soundscapes 4 Nigel Best, Johnny AK. DMaC, Maddi Qwikstep (electro/dubstep/breaks/jungle) 10 pm. the oSSington More Times (hip-hop/soul/ R&B). velvet underground DJ Ozaze (industrial/ goth) 11:30 pm.

Friday, May 20 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

AlleycAtz Ascencion (R&B/soul/funk).

AquilA Lucas Stagg (acoustic rock).

ASPettA cAffe Michael Redden, Melanie Lilla,

Soft Daze, Gabriel Nicolau (acoustic pop/ indie) 7 pm to midnight.

BAr itAliA Shugga (funk) 9:30 pm.

Bovine Sex cluB Playdeaf, Crooked Valentine, Harm, DJ Vania. cAdillAc lounge KC & the Moonshine Band, the Classy Chassis. c’eSt whAt The Provincial Archive (pop-folk) 9:30 pm. dominion on queen Tony, Jeff and Hank 8:30 pm. drAke hotel underground FIRExFIRE, In Plain View (pop/rock) doors 8 pm. eton houSe Emma Street Band (rock) 9 pm. the gArriSon Chang-A-Lang. See preview, page 41. glAdStone hotel melody BAr Tim Bastemeyer 8 to 10 pm. grAffiti’S Rockin’ For Sick Kids Paul Martin (classic covers) 5 to 7 pm. the hideout Ari Shine.

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Congratulate Lykke Li on near-unanimous critical praise for her new album and be prepared for seconds of uncomfortable silence.

When it came out in March, Wounded Rhymes (LL/Warner) was celebrated in the press for its visceral atmosphere and noted as a step up from her 2008 debut, Youth Novels.

She could not care less.

“The important thing is what I feel about it,” says the forthright Swedish musician born Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson, fighting jet lag in Los Angeles.

“My decision to release the album meant that I did love it, so for me that is it. That is all I need.”

That spirit of independence guided the recording process, which was undertaken partially in L.A.’s secluded desert hills.

Zachrisson had spent so much time surrounded by other people while touring her first album that being alone was a relief.

“I felt like I had to come back to

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the Unknown Culprits, Fallen Heirs 10 pm. kool hAuS Big Sean, Airplane Boys, AGame doors 9 pm, all ages. lee’S PAlAce The Daft Punk Tribute, Donlands & Mortimer doors 9 pm. lolA Wild Currents (folk rock) 8 pm. mitzi’S SiSter The John Holmes Book Club, No Talent Jones, Kevin Martins. monArchS PuB Wild T & the Spirit (R&B) 7 pm. oPerA houSe Norma Jean, After the Burial, Motionless in White, For the Fallen Dreams, Stray from the Path doors 7 pm, all ages. revivAl Hip-Hop Karaoke: Round 52 Abdominal & More or Les, DJ Numeric, Ted Dancin’ doors 10 pm. rivoli Oh My Darling & Jack Marks (country/ roots) doors 9 pm.

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some kind of privacy, and I think I can only find my own voice in a private space,” she says.

Once again, that voice will probably find its way into a variety of hip-hop songs in 2011. With Drake leading the charge, sampling Lykke Li became a “thing” a couple of years ago. Her spare aesthetic lent itself naturally to being chopped up.

The musician says she’s usually pleased to hear herself repurposed by rappers, while conceding that it’s not the most creative idea any more.

“I like it when they do it more than I like a house, electronic thing. But I think sometimes people are a bit lazy, too. It would be interesting to hear more inventive takes on it.”

Zachrisson counts rapper/producer Tyler, the Creator’s remix of her single I Follow Rivers as one such instance, though she knows absolutely nothing about him or his group, Odd Future.

“I loved that one,” she says. “That was really cool. I mean, that’s the kind of music I would put on when I’m DJing. I just love his verse on that, and his interpretation. He picked up on the darkness of it. I like that.”

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atie stelmanis has a spine-tingling voice, a musical tendency toward moody melancholia, an abrasive theatrical flair and early training in opera.

You read that right – opera training.

Doesn’t sound much like the frontwoman for one of the biggest buzz bands to come out of Toronto this year.

But the talented and intense performer, who came of age in T.O.’s punk rock and alternative queer scenes, leads Austra, the wildly hyped industrial dance-pop group signed to prestigious international indie Domino Records.

Their debut album, Feel It Break (Paperbag), laden with gliding pop melodies and deep, dark dance beats, is out this week. A tour is booked until November, including opening dates with of-the-moment synth-pop band Cold Cave, and the band recently received a gushingly poetic fan letter from heavy metal group Slipknot.

Weirdly, given that she was once an awkward, esoteric indie artist, the sometimes stridently idealistic Stelmanis always thought she’d find fame.

“I remember releasing my first music ever as a solo artist and just expecting to be famous,” she says, sipping a glass of red wine at the Crooked Star on Ossington. “I was like, ‘I’m just, like, so good! I’m going to be famous instantly!’

“It didn’t happen. All I had to do was go on one tour and play to nobody in all these different cities and be like, ‘Ohh-

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hh! It’s a lot harder than you think.’”

Nowadays she’s more pragmatic.

Dressed in a blue poncho and purple lipstick after a daylong band photo shoot, she says being open to refocusing the sound she developed as a solo artist and deeply trusting Austra drummer Maya Postepski and bassist Dorian Wolf were key to her transition from indie curiosity to leader of a band on the brink of stardom.

Last summer, she and Postepski scrapped live band recordings of songs she’d written as a solo artist and rearranged them for the dance floor with electronic instrumentation and samples. They christened the band Austra (after her middle name) to reflect Postepski and Wolf’s important roles in the new sound.

Stelmanis and Postepski are the true core, and they connect in interesting ways. They both have a classical background: Stelmanis studied opera and sang in the Canadian Opera Company’s children’s choir; Postepski went to the University of Toronto for classical percussion. They share an all-or-nothing attitude, too.

But what keeps them together and sometimes drives them apart – they’ve had ups and downs and at least one major blowout – is a profound sense of sadness.

“Katie and I are both melancholic

people,” says Postepski. “We were born under that star. We revel in sadness. I feel good when I get my heart broken and I write good songs.

“It’s fucked up, maybe?” she adds, grinning. “It’s not so healthy, but it’s the truth.”

Stelmanis wrote many of the songs on Feel It Break three years ago, so the band’s primary challenge was giving the album continuity. Older songs like The Villain and Lose It became weightier as Stelmanis and Postepski (who is also one-half of synth-pop duo Trust) programmed darker-sounding drums and synth lines to match newer material like demented disco number Spellwork and the visceral, throbbing lead single, Beat And The Pulse.

“We write music now with the intention of playing it live,” says Stelmanis.

“In the past, I didn’t really think about that at all. It felt like the music I was writing was very cerebral, the kind of thing you’d just want to listen to in your headphones. Now I have much more focus on drum and bass and things you can feel physically.”

Once the songs were rearranged, the next challenge was finding someone in Canada who understood how to mix electronic music. Though Toronto’s electronic scene has grown in recent years thanks to artists like Egyptrixx and Crystal Castles, engineers with expertise in bizarre, throbbing noises are hard to come by.

Fortunately for Austra, Canadianborn studio engineer Damian Taylor, who spent a decade in London working with Björk, UNKLE and the Prodigy, re-

AuStRA PhotogRAPheD excLuSiveLy foR NoW MAgAziNe oN the SKy yARD At the DRAKe hoteL

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Austra’s Romy Lightman (left), Dorian Wolf, Sari Lightman, Maya Postepski, Katie Stelmanis and Ryan Wonsiak

turned to Canada last year and set up a studio in Montreal (see sidebar).

Taylor first heard Stelmanis’s music when his friend Morgan Lebus, the Domino A&R rep who signed Austra, played it for him a year ago. He thought it had potential but was missing something.

But when he heard the rearranged versions months later, he became obsessed.

Austra now had that ineffable “x factor,”

“ I REMEMBER RELEASING MY FIRST MUSIC EVER AS A SOLO ARTIST AND JUST EXPECTING TO BE FAMOUS. I WAS LIKE, ‘I’M JUST, LIKE, SO GOOD! I’M GOING TO BE FAMOUS INSTANTLY! ” KATIE STELMANIS

Read the review of Austra’s new disc, Feel It Break,on page 59.

which he suggests might have to do with Stelmanis maturing as a musician and as a woman. “It felt like the material had more drive and urgency,” he says. “It felt like something was at stake.”

Taylor was not only an invaluable resource, but also the first mixer to encourage the trio to be as opinionated as possible. After working in London for a decade, he was more attuned to caustic British studio banter than to Canadian politeness.

“I’d be mixing away and I’d turn around to Katie and go, ‘Is that okay? Is that working for you? Do you like it?’

And she’d be like, ‘Oh yeah. Yeah. Umm hmm. That sounds nice.’

“I literally wound up yelling at her. I was going like, ‘Katie, for fuck sake. I don’t want ‘It sounds nice.’ I want ‘I fucking love it!’ Or, ‘No, I hate it! You’re fucking ruining my career!’”

Austra’s origins – and a key moment in Stelmanis’s career – can be traced back to a Second Cup in North York. In 2004, she and Emma McKenna were looking for a female drummer for a riot grrrl punk band and rang up a then-17-yearold Postepski after hearing about her from a mutual friend.

When Postepski showed up at the coffee shop for their first meeting, she seemed like a huge nerd. At the time, she shopped at Club Monaco and mainly listened to classical music and Tiesto. The girls waiting for her had bleached-blond hair, dressed in tattered jean skirts and black tank tops and name-checked Sleater Kinney.

“I was very intimidated by them and thought they were kind of rude, actually.

But then I got to know them,” Postepski remembers. “If you’d told me seven years ago that Katie and I would still be in a band, I would have laughed.”

They formed the punk group Galaxy, but after two years, the stress of DIY touring wore on the trio and they split.

Stelmanis wanted to pursue a solo career, released her debut, Join Us, on Blocks Recording Club in 2008 and recruited Postepski to drum.

When the third member of Austra’s studio band, ex-Spiral Beach bassist Dorian Wolf, joined in December 2009, he grounded Stelmanis’s lofty vocals and continued on page 49 œ

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icy synths with a thumping, vintage bass sound.

Postepski and Stelmanis say Wolf’s cheerful demeanour nicely balances their intense female energy, but he considers himself the “left-field” member on account of his rock ’n’ roll background. He writes his own bass parts and is teaching himself the software program Logic to experiment with weird sounds.

“Talking and emailing with [Katie], you get the impression that she’s such a businesswoman,” he says. “She’s very clear, very concise and direct. I think that’s why she’s really taken to writing pop music so well.”

Taylor agrees that Stelmanis’s business smarts are an essential element of Autra’s success “Katie works incredibly hard on every aspect of the band, not just the music,” he says. “She’s always on the hustle, figuring out what the band’s next step is.”

Austra will spend the rest of 2011 on tour with keyboardist Ryan Wonsiak and twin sister backup singers Sari and Romy Lightman, who bring a party vibe to the stage with their high-energy dance moves.

The idea is to make Austra tighter, poppier and even more exciting to watch live.

But the darkness will remain, and not because Stelmanis is perpetually bummed.

“I’m a pretty easygoing person,” she insists, “but everyone has a darkness. I never listen to sad music and intense music to get sad or to get to a place like that. It actually makes me happy. It makes me feel good.

It’s like a warm blanket. It’s more positive or optimistic than anything else.”

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TAYLOR MADE

For Austra ringleader Katie Stelmanis, DAMIAN TAYLOR was the first engineer who understood the needs of an electronic act. “All the engineers I’ve worked with previously specialized in rock and punk music,” says Stelmanis. “It was like night and day working with Damian. He would spend half a day just getting the bass drum to sound a certain way. He mixed it to sound good on a sound system.”

These days, the 33-year-old, Halifaxborn musician, programmer and mixer is Björk’s go-to geek. Over the past six years, he’s become the Icelandic pop star’s resident tech expert – in the studio as the engineer for her 2007 album, Volta, and her forthcoming multimedia Biophilia project, and onstage playing the Reactable as the musical director of her band.

“My duties one day might be driving a van, and the next I might be programming crazy software systems and the next day mixing a record,” he says.

Late in his decade-long stint as a freelancer in London, UK, Taylor had a sudden revelation during a day off from the Icelandic pop star’s 2007 world tour. He was visiting a friend in the coastal town of Gibsons, BC, when he realized he’d had enough of London’s confined living spaces and decided to move to BC with his wife and young daughter.

Eventually, though, he tired of isolated

forest life and relocated to Montreal, where, in a warehouse space in Mile End, he’s built a 1,000-square-foot studio with the acoustic accuracy of a $2,000-a-day London mix room. There, he hopes to work with up-and-coming Canadian acts like Austra in addition to his A-list clientele, which includes the Prodigy, UNKLE and Arcade Fire.

“I want to be involved in the next evolution of Canadian music right across the board,” he says.

Taylor, who came of age on electronic acts like Jeff Mills and labels Warp Records and Mo Wax, seeks to remedy what he sees as a rut in left-field Canadian music.

“In terms of the mass music that’s getting out to Canada, it’s quite a breadand-butter, meat-and-peas kind of sound,” he says. “Part of what I loved about England was that you could get these really bizarre records onto the charts.”

Right now, Taylor is working madly to finish Björk’s Biophilia – which involves mobile apps and bespoke instruments that harness the Earth’s gravitational pull – in time for its June premiere at the Manchester International Festival.

“There’s a lot of crazy shit we’ve been doing on this next record,” he says. “The whole project is pretty massive.”

Taylor won’t, however, be onstage or in the audience. He’ll be attending a more important premiere: his second child is due at around the same time.

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HigHway 61 SoutHern BarBeque Dylan

Wickens & the Little Naturals (blues) 8 pm.

HugH’S room Big Rude Jake 8:30 pm.

LamBadina Showcase Fridays & Open Mic: Canadian Headliners.

LoLa Danny Blu Jam (blues) 3 pm.

Lou dawg’S It’s Gotta Groove Friday Jeff Eager (acoustic) 10 pm.

LuLa Lounge The New Canadian Songbook Samba Squad, Luanda Jones 10 pm.

PJ o’BrienS iriSH PuB Leighton & Kipping (traditional Celtic/East Coast & contemporary) 9:30 pm.

Jazz/ClassiCal/ExpErimEntal

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Deep Wireless Festival Of Radio & Transmission Art The Electrostatic Bell Choir noon to 3 pm.

BLu riStorante & Lounge Acoustic & Jazz Sentiments @ Blu John Campbell (piano) 7:30 pm. gate 403 Reide Kaiser: Doc Barrister’s Harlem Rhythm 5 to 8pm. gate 403 The Cafe Ole Latin Jazz Band 9 pm. oLd miLL inn Fridays To Sing About Shelley O’Brien, Laura Bates, Ken McDonald 7:30 pm. quoteS Fridays At Five Shawn Nykwist (saxophone) 5 to 8 pm. rePoSado The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz). rex Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm. rex The Maisies 6:30 pm. rex Justin Bacchus 9:45 pm.

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Bunda Lounge Uptown Fridays DJ T-Ace, DJ Fresh (Caribbean/hip-hop/reggae). cLinton’S Girl & Boy 90s Dance Party (90s pop/dance/rock/hip-hop) 10 pm.

drake HoteL underground Purplectricity

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PartS & LaBour Strangeways DJs Scott Wade & Mark Pesci (new wave/punk) 10 pm. tHe PiSton Hi-Topp DJ Keith’s Sweats (pop/ rock/hip-hop/soul) 10 pm. riVoLi PooL Lounge DJ Stu (rock/old school/ Brit/electro/classics/retro).

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VeLVet underground DJ Misty 10 pm. wicked Torture Garden Kick Off Party DJ Allan TG, DJ Davide’ Cdb, DJ Paul Savage doors 10 pm. woo’S Lounge Heart.Of.The.City DJs J-Class & Kariz (hip-hop/R&B/reggae/old school) doors 10:30 pm. wrongBar Unite For Japan Billy NewtonDavis, Decklyn Dubs, Fineprint, Violca Riviera, John La Magna, Sidenote, Spydabrown, Terence Kissner 10 pm.

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3:30 pm.

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(blues).

cameron HouSe Cameron Family Singers 6 pm.

cameron HouSe Rambunctious (horn band party music) 10 pm.

cam’S PLace Emily and the Blue Callers Trio 9 pm.

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aLLeycatz Soular (R&B/soul/funk). aSPetta caFFe Kate Todd, Kate Sloan, AHI,

Ciaran O.Shea, Katrina Meloday, Ryan Casselman, Kavan Cleary, Watered Down (acoustic pop/sou/R&B/indie/rock) 2 pm to midnight.

BoVine Sex cLuB Heavy Metal for Girls, the Bare Minimum, Orphan Choir, DJ Ian Blurton. cadiLLac Lounge Front room The Rattles (Beatles tribute).

T.O. Music nOTes NXNE gets Fucked Up

The performer list for 2011’s NXNE Festival (June 13-19) grew a whole bunch this week with the addition of some big Canadian names.

Toronto’s Fucked Up are now part of the June 16 free show at YongeDundas Square, alongside previously announced punk rock icons the Descendents and hardcore supergroup OFF! For those who prefer a more intimate, indoor setting, they also headline the NOW showcase later that night at Wrongbar.

Another newly announced act is recent Astralwerks signee Diamond Rings, who’s enjoying a whole new c’eSt wHat Alysha Brillinger (soulful singer/ songwriter) 8 pm.

dominion on queen Ronnie Hayward (rockabilly) 3 to 7 pm.

duFFy’S taVern The Loop. eton HouSe Hurricane Cove (rock) 9 pm. tHe garriSon Coliseum. graFFiti’S Dodge Fiasco (rock) 4 to 7 pm. graFFiti’S Mark Martre evening.

HugH’S room Interpretations Of Love Robert

Chambers 7:30 pm. kooL HauS Arctic Monkeys doors 8 pm, all ages.

Lee’S PaLace Palace of the End, Smile, Synergist, the Noble Rogues.

LoLa Gammage 8 pm. mitzi’S SiSter The Hook Up, Light Bulb Alley, the Boojies, Will Crum. mod cLuB UK Underground DJ MRK, Echo & the Best, Milhouse Brown, DJ Lexx (indie/ dance/electro/dubstep/rock). onLy caFé Clang (rock) 9 pm.

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level of attention after touring with Swedish pop princess Robyn.

And if you’re pissed off about missing the opening set by Montreal’s Grimes at Lykke Li’s sold-out Phoenix show on Sunday (May 22), you can now catch her ethereal weirdo pop at the fest.

Also coming in from Montreal are husband-and-wife duo Handsome Furs, who’ll preview material from their upcoming Sound Kapital album.

That’s just a fraction of the talent on board this year. Check out nxne.com for complete listings, conference details, ticket and venue info and more. rancHo reLaxo Christian D & the Hang-

overs, Alistair Christl and the Colliders, Brandon Barraclough 9 pm. reViVaL CD release party Dirty Maria 9 pm. rex Danny Marks noon.

SiLVer doLLar Medallions, the Archives, Julia Set Generator, the Noble Thieves 9 pm.

Sneaky dee’S The Donkeys.

Sound academy CAKE doors 8 pm.

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SPortSter’S Nicola Vaughan 10 pm.

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Dance-punk NXNE vets “use their instruments just as much as weapons to weave a sinister groove that dares listeners to keep from dancing” - SPIN

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Brooklyn, NY

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Guitar, bass, drums and strangely sweet vocals making melodic noise” – CBC Radio 3

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LeVack BLock DJ Jerk Chicken (old skool) 10

pm.

Naco GaLLery cafe Alimaña: Good Latin Shit DJ NoLoves, 10 pm.5

opera House Torture Garden Toronto DJs

Allen TG, David TG, Paul Savage doors 10 pm.

THe ossiNGToN Friendship DJ Hi Mom (post

hip-hop/cold punk/disco dance).

THe paiNTed Lady DJ Salazar (funk/soul/hiphop) 10 pm. parTs & LaBour Bitchcraft DJs Blonde & Redhead (hip-hop) 10 pm.

THe pisToN Whos Army 10 pm.

THe red LiGHT Strictly Business DJ Serious, DJ Numeric (classic hip-hop) 10 pm. riVoLi Footprints doors 10 pm. sNeaky dee’s Shake A Tail (60s pop & soul) 11 pm.

THe sociaL Faktory Space Dimension Controller. supermarkeT Do Right Saturdays! DJs Fase, John Kong, MC Abdminal. suTra The Bridge DJ Triplet (ol’ skool hip-hop).

TaTToo rock parLour maiN room Tattoo Saturdays DJ Trevor (dance rock) 10 pm.

TaTToo rock parLour LouNGe DJ Stu (retro 80s & 90s) 10 pm.

VeLVeT uNderGrouNd DJ Joe (alt rock) 11 pm.

WroNGBar Sinden.

Heavyweights Brass Band 9 pm.

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THe paiNTed Lady Amanda Cottreau (indie/ acoustic) 9 pm. poGue maHoNe Cape Breton Ceilidh Sandy MacIntyre & Steeped in Tradition (Celtic) 4 to 8 pm. reLisH Open Jam Relish Stew 9:30 pm. spiriTs Kim Jarrett, Richard Weisdorf (folk rock) 9 pm. sTouT irisH puB Celtic Session Traditional Irish Music & Dance 3 to 6 pm. supermarkeT Freefall Sundays Open Mic 8 pm. uNderdoWN puB Open Mic With Porter 9:30 pm.

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BoViNe sex cLuB DJ Robb. drake HoTeL uNderGrouNd May Day Long Weekend Skratch Bastid, DJ Vajra doors 11 pm. empress of caNada cruise sHip Sailing For Sick Kids 4Korners, Kid C & Scott Boogie, Kariz & Kid Kut, P-Plus, ISC Nation, Mr Phantastik boarding 1 pm, sailing 1:30 to 5:30 pm. fooTWork The Modern Love Affair Wolf + Lamb vs. Soul Clap doors 10 pm.

GuVerNmeNT A-Trak, Steve Lawler, Armin Van Buuren, Dirty South.

HeNHouse Blackwhite DJs Marvin Antonio, Scott Kaija (post punk soul) 10 pm. iNsomNia DJ LK (old school hip-hop/disco/ funk). mod cLuB Rave-O-Lution.

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VeLVeT uNderGrouNd DJ Hanna (retro 80s) 10 pm.

Monday, May 23 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

dakoTa TaVerN The Rattlesnake Choir (roots)

10 pm.

THe fouNTaiN Badly Bent Bluegrass 9 pm. free Times cafe Open Stage.

HiGHWay 61 souTHerN BarBeQue Chris Chambers (blues) 7 pm.

HuGH’s room Raul Malo 8:30 pm.

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HorsesHoe Merzbow 8:30 pm.

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SAM ROBERTS BAND Collider (Universal)

ñKATE BUSH

Director’s Cut (Fish People/EMI) Rating: NNNN Fiddling with a beloved creation is generally regarded as taboo for an artist, but Kate Bush gets a pass for a few reasons.

Firstly, well, she’s Kate Bush, so it’s exciting that she’s releasing anything at all. (Director’s Cut is her third album in nearly two decades.) More interestingly, this collection of 11 reworked songs from The Sensual World and The Red Shoes reminds us that the best artists aren’t afraid to stare themselves in the face.

The most obvious difference is Director’s Cut’s greatest strength.

Bush is older, so her voice is lower. But instead of downplaying this glaring fact,

Pop/Rock

DAMON & NAOMI False Beats And True

Hearts (20-20-20) Rating: NNN Since the turn of the century, Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang have found their groove, releasing well-received records every few years. Their eighth doesn’t disappoint, nor does it make any departures from the gentle, emotional and dreamlike work they’ve made since their 1992 debut, More Sad Hits.

While Yang’s bass, Krukowski’s drums and their understated, resonant vocals will always be the bedrock of the D&N sound, this is the fourth release to feature Ghost’s Michio Kurihara’s sinuous electric guitar. His playing adds an extra layer of texture and provides welcome dissonance to otherwise peaceful arrangements that also include piano and horns.

The lyrics are dense with vivid imagery that could be autobiographical but may just attest to the duo’s ability to create intimate moments for their listeners to enjoy.

Top track: Shadow Boxing Damon & Naomi play the Horseshoe on May 25.

JOANNE HUFFA

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she keeps her vocals front and centre in these pared-back versions, remaining an immensely compelling, nuanced and occasionally utterly bonkers singer.

She’s mostly replaced digital production with earthier analog sounds, though there are a few dramatic departures. She’s dispersed the crescendoing emotion of This Woman’s Work over a twinkling ambience, and digitized vocals bluntly emphasize Deeper Understanding’s tech-age prescience. That the songs retain their vibrancy and ambition with this new energy – more focused, less stridently theatrical – is a testament to her songwriting and enduring appeal.

Top track: Never Be Mine KEVIN RITCHIE

THE CARS Move Like This (Universal)

Rating: NNN Ric Ocasek is impressive for many reasons.

Not only is he the ugliest guy ever to marry a supermodel, but through the years, while rebuilding his career as a topcalibre producer, he also commendably avoided lucrative offers to take his Cars on nostalgic cash-ins, waiting until the reunion made sense and the songs were in place to justify the outing. The New Cars showed that some of his bandmates weren’t as patient.

Songs like Too Late, Keep On Knocking and Sad Song sound more like successors to their platinum-selling Heartbeat City than Door To Door ever did. Crisp keyboard lines and Elliot Easton’s simple guitar riffs flourish under Ocasek’s streamlined pop production. As with most Cars records, there are a few clunkers, and the absence of bassist/vocalist Benjamin Orr doesn’t go unmissed. Move Like This doesn’t so much rebuild the Cars’ old engine as take the classic model for a cruise in the country.

Top track: Sad Song The Cars pull into Sound Academy Friday (May 20).

JASON KELLER

Rating: NNN It’s kind of strange that this is the first album credited to the Sam Roberts Band; it actually sounds less like his live band than any of his previous recordings under his own name. Bringing in members of Califone and Antibalas alongside producer Brian Deck, Roberts dresses up his meatand-potatoes pop/rock with horns, synths and percussion, presumably in an effort to sound more contemporary and edgy. The good news for diehard Roberts fans is that the extra ornamentation is just that: essentially we get exactly what we expect from him, with some weirdness layered on top.

The downside is that all the extras sound added after the fact and for the most part bring nothing to the songs. He’d have been better off accepting that he’s a rock singer and focusing on great guitar riffs. Often he’s trying too hard to be cool, and it’s unconvincing. When it does work, the band sounds surprisingly like Broken Social Scene, but with more cowbell. Luckily, you really don’t notice the embellishments much, so fans don’t have to worry about getting distracted.

Top track: Longitude The Sam Roberts Band plays Massey Hall June 3 and 4.

BENJAMIN BOLES

FLEET FOXES Helplessness Blues (Sub Pop) Rating: NN At some point the fallacy that sentimental, meaningful music can only come from flannel-clad bearded men who record in dewy log cabin studios has to dissipate.

Consider the bands that Fleet Foxes brainchild Robin Pecknold is consistently compared to: CSNY and the Beach Boys.

Though the former enjoyed dressing up like rustic cowboys for photo shoots, all their peak-era music was laid down in L.A. studios. Did, say, Billy Joel need a mountain retreat to write a sad song? Lately we seem to require superficial proof of authenticity, which is why the Seattle band’s second album feels like its going through the motions on our behalf.

To be fair, Pecknold is furthering what he started on his universally loved 2008 debut. But that’s also the problem. This indie folk conversation is going nowhere new, and changing that is up to Pecknold since he and his band are carrying the torch. His guttural howl on The Shrine/An Argument is the only moment when Helplessness Blues snaps out of its preciousness and hints that this genre can be more than a soundtrack to brunch.

Top track: The Shrine/An Argument Fleet Foxes play Massey Hall July 14.

JK SNAILHOUSE Sentimental Gentleman

(White Whale/Forward) Rating: NNN Mike Feuerstack has quietly worked away

= Critics’ Pick NNNNN = Stratospheric NNNN = Sizzling NNN = Swell NN = Slack N = Sucks

at his Snailhouse project in Ottawa and Montreal for nearly two decades. On his sixth album, the singer/songwriter and Wooden Sky guitarist continues to display his knack for making subtly complex, softhued indie rock with a steady hand.

That control is his downfall, though.

The guitar work is tasteful and intricate, the gentle arrangements pleasant and considered, and the lyrics full of thought.

But those lyrics in particular are also a little too self-consciously witty and declarative to reveal whatever visceral emotion might be burning beneath. The album is refined to a fault.

That said, Sentimental Gentleman undeniably features some finely crafted tunes, all delivered in Feuerstack’s downto-earth alto. Third-last song Every Day stands out as the most immediate; six albums in, his plea that someday his time is going to come strikes a nerve.

Top track: Every Day Snailhouse plays the Dakota May 26.

CARLA GILLIS

PEARL JAM Vs. (Sony/Epic) Rating: NNN

Pearl Jam’s second record was easily the most-anticipated release of 1993. Nobody knew what to expect, since back then there were no such things as preview samples, leaked tracks or any of the buzzbuilding efforts bands make today to hype an album. Everyone wanted another Ten, but Eddie Vedder had, quickly and somewhat unreasonably, become disenchanted with the spotlight, and the band was thoroughly unhappy with the grunge tag.

Nevertheless, they delivered what would turn out to be their second-best album.

To mark PJ’s 20th anniversary, both Vs. and its successful follow-up, Vitalogy, are getting the “remastered and expanded” treatment, and in this case there’s a Vedder acoustic demo called Hold On that probably could have been a standout track if fleshed out with the band; Cready Stomp, a Mike McCready guitar throwdown no one ever needed to hear; and a quaint Victoria Williams cover called Crazy Mary. Hardcore PJ heads will skip this pedestrian CD and go for the deluxe vinyl package released on Record Store Day. Top track: Animal JK

ñLOW

C’mon (Sub Pop) Rating: NNNN Recorded in a church in Low’s hometown of Duluth, Minnesota, the indie rock trio’s ninth studio album is a return to what they do best: glimmering, ghostly pop songs founded on Mimi Parker and Alan Sparhawk’s quiet, unmistakable vocal harmonies.

Years of crafting gloomy melodies left the band struggling with the extremes of their sound on their last few albums, sometimes to fantastic results. There was The Great Destroyer’s unexpectedly storming rock, followed by the minimalism of 2007’s Drums And Guns.

The less experimental C’mon is confident and warm, suggesting that the band let the reverberant setting dictate the tone. Fans of earlier albums might find tracks like Especially Me pleasantly familiar. It’s as if Low are declaring, “We’re still here. We’re still Low. Get used to it.”

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Feel It Break (Domino/ Paper Bag) Rating: NNNN When Katie Stelmanis’s first single as Austra leaked last summer, many saw Beat And The Pulse as a huge leap forward for the quirky opera-trained singer/songwriter. All of a sudden the power of her eerie voice was matched by equally arresting production and a new focus on rhythm that we hoped was a sign of what to expect from the full album. After a long wait, we’re pleased to say that it easily lives up to early high expectations.

The dark electronic production and soaring vocals are often compared to acts like Fever Ray and Zola Jesus, but Austra is far from a carbon copy of their goth-dance sensibilities. Stelmanis brings a more musical sensibility to the formula, even if it’s still miles away from mainstream pop. At times you can tell that this material was written over a long period, but there’s enough sonic consistency for it to work beautifully as a complete album. An extremely strong debut.

Top track: Shoot The Water Austra play tonight (Thursday, May 19) at Lee’s Palace.

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Roots/Folk

RATTLESNAKE CHOIR Walkin’ The Wire

(Cousin Jeb) Rating: NNN Dakota regulars are lucky to have these local veterans in their corner. Rattlesnake Choir evolved naturally over a series of bar gigs, and their second album maintains the easy feel of 2008’s Live Music.

The quintet is gentler than the name implies. Percussionist Sam Ferrara opts for cheese grater, slinky and saw over drum kit, and the album is full of violin, acoustic guitar, upright bass, piano and accordion.

Though Ferrara sings Wastin’ My Time and violinist Miranda Mulholland takes the lead on the Jenny Whiteley cover Halls Of Folsom, John Borra’s rootsy writing and vocals remain front and centre.

Borra (who has played with Ron Sexsmith, Kyp Harness and Change of Heart) is endearingly Canadian-sounding on opener Heart Full Of Love, and a lot like Bob Dylan on Sailor Bill. Instrumental interludes, including Flight Of The Bumble Bee, help the album breathe.

Top track: Heart Full Of Love Rattlesnake Choir have an ongoing Monday residency at the Dakota. SARAH GREENE

Hip-hop

SOCALLED Sleepover (Dare to Care)

Rating: NNN On his fifth album, Montreal artist/producer Socalled mutates his klezmer hip-hop into something more ambitious and farther-reaching. Sleepover is an ear-pleasing hodgepodge of dance, folk, gospel, disco, and, yes, rapping over accordions.

The list of guest musicians is nothing to laugh at: original female MC Roxanne Shanté, horn player and James Brown BFF Fred Wesley, calypso luminary the Mighty Sparrow, Feist songwriter Gonzales, Def Jux hip-hop veteran C-Rayz Walz, Godspeed violinist Sophie Trudeau, to name a few.

An oddly captivating if utterly disconnected album, it wouldn’t be out of place alongside Gorillaz, RJD2 and Moby.

Top track: Work With What You Got Socalled plays Lula Lounge on May 19.

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more online nowtoronto.com/stage Audio clips from interview with PARIS/TORONTO PROJECT’S ALBAN RICHARD AND EMMANUELLE VO-DINH • Reviews of TO LIFE! and THE ALEPH • and more Fully searchable listings with venue maps nowtoronto.com/stage/listings Alban Richard and Emmanuelle Vo-Dinh bring their savoir faire to the local scene.

THEATRE REVIEW

Post perfection THE POST OFFICE by Rabindranath Tagore, translated by Julie Mehta, directed by John Van Burek (Pleiades). At Berkeley Street Theatre (26 Berkeley). To June 4. $35, stu/srs discounts. 416-3683110. See Continuing, page 63. Rating:

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DANCE PREVIEW

April in Paris, May in T.O. Two Parisian choreographers move to a different groove at Toronto Dance Theatre By GLENN SUMI THE PARIS/TORONTO PROJECT choreography by Alban Richard and Emmanuelle Vo-Dinh. Presented by Toronto Dance Theatre at the Winchester Street Theatre (80 Winchester). Opens tonight (Thursday, May 19) and runs to May 28, Wednesday-Saturday 8 pm, matinee Sunday 2 pm. $26, stu/srs $20, matinee pwyc. 416967-1365.

according to two choreographers from the City of Light, people in Hogtown have no reason to be stressed out.

“In Paris, the streets are narrow and the city’s overcrowded, so you’re always dealing with other people invading your space,” says Alban Richard. “There’s this violent energy you can feel in the way people look at each other.”

“And Toronto is huge,” adds Emmanuelle Vo-Dinh. “I was in Sears at the Eaton Centre and there was no one there. All this space to go from this point to that point.”

It makes sense for two of Paris’s most innovative dance artists to talk in terms of space and energy. Those are two things that obviously inform their work, which we stress-free (ha!) locals can see as part of Toronto Dance

Theatre’s Paris/Toronto Project.

Like TDT’s successful Berlin/Toronto Project in 2009, the program is a win-win for everyone. Local audiences get to see work by indie artists who might not have the means to tour, and both the TDT dancers and the guest choreographers get to step out of their comfort zones.

Richard and Vo-Dinh admit they have a similar process – he’s even danced in her 13-year-old company, Sui Generis. But their aesthetic is different.

Vo - D i n h’s 40 -minute abstract piece is about texture and spi r a l l i n g shapes, while Richard has created a 25-minute work inspired by excerpts from the films The Piano, Repulsion and A Wo-man Under The Influence.

Oh – and the two have divided the TDT dancers by gender.

“It was just easier, because we knew we didn’t have much time, and choosing dancers takes a while,” says Richard, who choreographs for an allmale group for the first time.

Considering that the film sequences he’s chosen all feature women – including Repulsion’s Catherine Deneuve battling her haunted walls

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– he’s doubly excited by the challenge.

“The dancers are going to have to embody the movement of these women, which is strong and violent,” he says.

Vo-Dinh, meanwhile, says her piece is like a whirlpool. Her movement isn’t about merely mimicking spiral shapes, however.

“We have this expression in French, ‘états de corps,’” she says. “It’s not a question of moving your arm or leg here, but of being very aware of the way you feel so we can get an idea of something textural.”

Language, of course, has been a bit of an issue in communicating – not just spoken but choreographic language.

“In my company,” says Richard, referring to his 11-year-old ensemble, l’Abrupt, “when we say a word like ‘pushing,’ it means something inside the dancers’ bodies. But ‘pushing’ in the bodies of Emmanuelle’s dancers isn’t the same thing.”

The two agree that they’ve tried to make the TDT dancers give up their old habits.

“In a way, they’re all naked,” says Vo-Dinh. “I was working on a solo section with one dancer and was trying to get her to give up something she already knew how to do well. She was struggling but kept at it and said it felt nice to do something different.” 3 glenns@nowtoronto.com

dance listings Opening MONSTERS OF HIPHOP DANCE CONVENTION

presents workshops, seminars, performances and more. May 21-22, see website for details. $35 and up. Westin Harbour Castle, 1 Harbour Square. monstersofhiphop.com.

OLDER & RECKLESS III: OLD & YOUNG AND RECKLESS TOGETHER MOonhORsE Dance Theatre

presents works by David Earle, Marie-Josée Chartier, Karen Kaeja and others. May 19-20 at 8 pm. $20, stu/srs $18. Dancemakers Centre for Creation, 55 Mill. 416-504-6429 ext 30.

PARIS/TORONTO PROJECT Toronto Dance Theatre presents new works by French choreographers Emmanuelle Vo-Dinh and Alban Richard (see story, this page). Opens May 19 and runs to May 28, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $26, stu/srs $20, mat pwyc. Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester. 416967-1365, tdt.org.

TURNING 30! Canadian Children’s Dance Theatre and Harbourfront NextSteps present a celebration of CCDT’s 30th anniversary featuring remounts of past works and premieres

by Carol Anderson and Susie Burpee. May 1920. $22.50-$38. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, ccdt.org.

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Continuing THE ATOMIC WEIGHT OF HAPPINESS Stand Up Dance presents a bicycle-powered theatre/ dance mashup by Meagan O’Shea plus guest opening acts. Runs to May 29, Fri-Sun 8 pm. $10-$25. Hub 14, 14 Markham. 416-504-6429 ext 18, standupdance.com.

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Simplicity results in excellent theatre in The Post Office, Indian writer Rabindranath Tagore’s tale of a boy who, though he never strays from the house in which he lies ill, affects the life of his entire town.

Sitting at his window and watched over by his concerned adoptive father (Sugith Varughese), Amal (Mina James) talks with a curd seller (Patricia Marceau), a flower girl (Jennifer Villaverde), a watchman (Dylan Scott Smith) and others.

He never loses his curiosity about life, his sense of experiencing through his imagination the wider world he cannot see. The hope of a letter from the king buoys him as his body weakens.

Director John Van Burek’s well-paced production is as elegant and unfussy as the text itself. James never makes Amal saccharine, but believably shows the boy’s compassionate openness as well as his pain and fatigue.

Sam Moses stands out as an old man who encourages his imaginative journeys, while Marceau’s several characters are all distinct and strong. Scott does some of his best work as the cranky watchman and a royal healer who makes a magical entrance, resplendent in courtly robes.

Villaverde brings a note of innocent sweetness to the story, and Errol Sitahal rounds out the cast as a conservative physician.

The actors are only part of the joy of this experience, which is enriched by Debashis Sinha’s live music, Hari Krishnan’s choreography, Teresa Przybylski’s set and Milan Shahani’s costumes, all beautifully lit by Robert Thomson.

Capturing the play’s joy and sadness, this Pleaides Theatre production is a red-letJON KAPLAN ter winner.

TheaTre review

On the borderline

Solo remains funny and thoughtful By JORDAN BIMM FRONTERAS AMERICANAS by Guillermo Verdecchia, directed by Jim Warren (Soul­ pepper). At Young Centre for the Perform­ ing Arts (55 Mill). In rep to June 12. $28­ $65, 416­866­8666. See Continuing, page 62. Rating: NNN

this updated remount of guillermo Verdecchia’s 1992 autobiographical solo show about the lingering effects of colonialism in the Americas remains funny, thought-provoking and politically relevant. Through stories, studies and skits, Verdecchia focuses on the hidden power of national borders to both order society and cast as “other” certain people who attempt to pass through them.

Directly addressing the audience in a style that melds a university lecture with stand-up, Verdecchia commands the large stage, assisted by a near-constant flow of projected graphics, animation and movie clips. To add variety to his stand-and-

deliver approach, he sometimes becomes an over-the-top José Jiménezlike Mexican stereotype, which he plays for laughs but also uses to point out the prevalence of these characters in the media.

Verdecchia is ruthlessly self-referential, engaging with the audience and playfully criticizing the affluent “culture vultures” who flock to the Distillery District. Other funny bits include his deconstruction of the term “Hispanic,” nicely revealing the absurdity at its root, and a critical analysis of a bad made-for-TV drug cartel flick.

Woven through these pieces is Verdecchia’s personal story of being born in Argentina, emigrating to Canada and making his first trip back in his 20s. His experiences leave him questioning the concept of “home” and envisioning borders not simply as lines on a map or groups of guards checking passports, but as a liminal, extended space from which some people can never quite escape.

At two hours, the show feels a little long for a solo affair, but Verdecchia’s affable demeanour, humour and important message shine through. stage@nowtoronto.com

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Theatre listings are comprehensive and appear alphabetically by title. Opening plays begin this week, Previewing shows preview this week, One-Nighters are one-offs, and Continuing shows have already opened. Reviews are by Glenn Sumi (GS) and Jon Kaplan (JK).

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paris/toronto project world premieres by french choreographers alban richard & emmanuelle vo-dinh

May 19 to 22 & 25 to 28, 2011 toronto dance theatre presents the paris/toronto project may 19 to 21 and 25 to 28, 2011 8 pm; may 22, 2 pm pwyc winchester street theatre, 80 winchester street, toronto student/senior/cada member $20, general $26. online at tdt.org or call 416-967-1365.

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All listings are free. Send to: stage@nowtoronto.com, fax to 416-364-1166 or mail to Theatre, NOW Magazine, 189 Church, Toronto M5B 1Y7. Include title, author, producer, brief synopsis, times, range of ticket prices (include stu/srs discounts and PWYC days), venue name and address and box office/info phone number. Listings may be edited for space. Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm.

Opening BirdBath by Leonard Melfi (3 dimes down/

Vitus Productions). Two down-and-out New Yorkers seek a connection on a cold night.

Opens May 19 and runs to May 29, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 7 pm, mat Sat 2:30 pm. $20. Pia Bouman Studio Theatre, 6 Noble. 647-344-1483, birdbathplay.com. heartBreak house by Bernard Shaw (Shaw Festival). Debates and deceptions play out at a British dinner party on the eve of World War I. Previews to May 24. Opens May 25 and runs in rep to Oct 7. $24-$106. Festival Theatre, Niagara-on-the-Lake. shawfest.com.

LittLe WomeN adapted by Rochelle Douris (Upper Canada Repertory Co). This musical based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott is performed by youth aged 7 to 17. May 24-25 at 7 pm. $25, stu $20. George Ignatieff Theatre, 15 Devonshire. shakespearerocks.com. mama’s CouNtry reCord CoLLeCtioN by Thom Currie (Port Stanley Festival Theatre).

Father and daughter sort through old vinyl in this musical. Opens May 25 and runs to Jun 11, see website for schedule. $25-$28. 302 Bridge.

1-855-782-4353, portstanleytheatre.ca.

La roNde by Arthur Schnitzler (red light district). Ten unconnected people meet and hook up in a series of vignettes about sex in the city.

Opens May 19 and runs to Jun 4, Wed-Sat 7:30 pm. $20-$25, stu $15. Wicked, 1032 Queen W.

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atre of the World). Improvised plays will be created and performed based on two pages written by playwrights Daniel MacIvor, Judith Thompson, Woody Harrelson, Morris Panych, Hannah Moscovitch and others (see Q&A, page 64). Opens May 24 and runs to May 29, Tue-Sat 8 pm, plus Thu-Fri 9:30 pm, mats SatSun and Wed 2 pm. $20, stu $15. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. 416-504-7529, thenationaltheatreoftheworld.com.

toroNto iNterNatioNaL CirCus FestivaL

(Zero Gravity Circus/Harbourfront Centre).

This all-ages weekend features aerial acrobatics, stunts, cabaret acts, comedy, music and clowns, plus workshops and interactive kids’ programs. May 21-23, 11 am to 5 pm daily.

Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, tocircusfestival.com. yiChud (seCLusioN) by Julie Tepperman (Convergence Theatre/TPM). An Orthodox Jewish couple are alone together for the first time following their arranged marriage.

Opens May 21 and runs to May 29, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm. $30-$45, Wed mat $20. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. 416-504-7529, passemuraille.on.ca.

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doN’t Look doWN by Robin Cleland (Robin Cleland & Kristie Vinet). A hard-drinking man deals with his demons following his wife’s funeral. Previews May 25. Opens May 26 and runs to Jun 4, Mon-Sat 8 pm, mats Wed 1:30 pm, Sat 2 pm. $25-$35. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416-368-3110, canadianstage.com/alsoatberkeley.

One-Nighters the mommiad by Sky Gilbert (The Cabaret

Company). Gilbert performs a solo evening of drag poetry about the mother/son relationship. May 20 at 8 pm. Pwyc. Tallulah’s Cabaret at Buddies, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555. tWeLFth Night by William Shakespeare (Shakespeare Toronto). Love and mistaken identities make up this classic comedy. May 19 at 8 pm. $28, stu/srs $20. Bathurst Street Theatre, 736 Bathurst. shakespearetoronto.com.

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aesop’s improvised FaBLes (Bad Dog Theatre Company). Classic fables are transformed by audience input in this family show. Runs to May 28, Sat 4 pm. $10. 918 Bathurst Centre, Bathurst at Barton. baddogtheatre.com. the aLeph by Jorge Luis Borges (Soulpepper).

Diego Matamoros performs this adaptation of Borges’s short story. Runs to Jun 18, see website for schedule. $25-$35. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-8668666, soulpepper.ca. aNgeLiNa BaLLeriNa the musiCaL by Susan DiLallo and Ben Morss (Vital Theatre/Hit Entertainment). Angelina and her friends dance to get a lead role in this all-ages show. Runs to May 29, Sat 1:30 pm, Sun 11 am. $30-$50.

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Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. lowerossingtontheatre.com. aNythiNg goes by Cole Porter, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse (Civic Light Opera Company). A stowaway and a nightclub singer get in trouble aboard an ocean liner in this musical. Runs to Jun 4, Wed 7 pm, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mats Sun (and Jun 4) at 2 pm. $25. Fairview Library Theatre, 35 Fairview Mall. 416-7551717, civiclightoperacompany.com. ariadNe auF Naxos by Richard Strauss (Canadian Opera Company). Strauss manages to parody grand opera and to write a luscious-sounding classical piece at the same time. Featuring a fine troupe of singing actors under director Neil Armfield, this is one of the season’s finest opera productions. Andrew Davis’s conducting ravishes the ear.

Runs to May 29: May 21 and 27 at 7:30 pm, May 29 at 2 pm. $62-$281. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231, coc.ca. NNNN (JK) BiLLy eLLiot the musiCaL by Lee Hall and Elton John (Mirvish). One of the best new musicals of the millennium, Billy Elliot is based on the 2000 film about a working-class boy whose dreams of becoming a ballet dancer are set against the grim reality of his 1984 northern England mining community. The characters are richly detailed, the conflicts believable and complex, and the dialogue raw, crudely funny and uncompromising. The songs, while not exactly hummable, serve the story and characters, and the performances (four boys alternate in the demanding lead role) grounded and deeply felt. Bring tissues. Runs to Sep 3, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 1:30 pm. $36-$130. Canon Theatre, 244 Victoria.

416-872-1212, mirvish.com. NNNNN (GS) CaLeNdar girLs by Tim Firth (Mirvish/Manitoba Theatre Centre). When one member of a British Women’s Institute group loses her husband, her friends create a fundraising calendar featuring nude photos of themselves. The script veers toward sentimentality and often paints two-dimensional characters, but the performers – including Fiona Reid, Fiona Highet and Barbara Gordon – do their best to make us care about the women. Runs to May 28, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm. $30-$94. Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260 King W. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. NNN (JK) CiNdereLLa (La CeNereNtoLa) by Gioacchino Rossini (Canadian Opera Company). Rossini’s operatic, tune-filled version of the story has no fairy-tale magic but retains its happy ending. Elisabeth DeShong could use more personality in the title role, but her voice is gloriously acrobatic. And she has a prince of a tenor in Lawrence Brownlee, whose honeyed voice makes you wish Rossini had written more solos for the role. Runs to May 25: May 19 and 25 at 7:30 pm, May 22 at 2 pm. $62-$281. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231, coc.ca. NNN (JK) douBLe BiLL (Soulpepper). The Academy presents (re)Birth: E.E. Cummings In Song and Lab Series creation Window On Toronto (see review, page 63). Runs to Jun 18, see website for schedule. $28-$65. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416866-8666, soulpepper.ca. NNNN/NNN (JK) FestivaL oF ideas aNd CreatioN (Canadian Stage). This development festival features talks, workshops and readings and workshop performances of cross-disciplinary works by Weyni Mengesha, Jordan Tannahill, Moynan King, Yvonne Ng and others. Runs to May 21, see website for details/schedule.

Most events free. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. canadianstage.com/festival.

Forests by Wajdi Mouawad (Tarragon Theatre). Mouawad’s epic play follows a morose 16-year-old (Vivien Endicott-Douglas) and a paleontologist (RH Thomson) as they dig into the former’s family tree to unravel the truth about her dead mother. With a huge cast of characters and lots of globe- and time-travelling, it’s an exhausting experience, made easier by some fine performances and director Richard Rose’s sharp staging. Runs to May 29, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $23-$46, rush $10. 30 Bridgman. 416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com. NNN (GS) FroNteras ameriCaNas by Guillermo Verdecchia (Soulpepper). Verdecchia perform his solo show about seeking his identity (see review, page 61). Runs to Jun 12, see website for schedule. $28-$65. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. NNN (Jordan Bimm) ghost stories by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman (Mirvish/Lyric Hammersmith/Phil McIntyre Entertainments). Live theatre is less effective than film at conveying horror, so this series of staged stories about paranormal activity is a bit of a non-starter. The creators know that anticipating something is more fright-inducing than showing it, and that hu-

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mour goes a long way in easing the tension.

Alas, when the big reveals come, they’re usually either silly or stupid. Runs to May 29, Tue-Fri 7:30 pm, Sat 5 & 8:30 pm, Sun 3 pm. $25-$79. Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge. 416872-1212, mirvish.com. NN (GS) IsmeNe by Jeremy Menekseoglu (Socratic Theatre Collective). Oedipus’s daughter rebels against the mechanics of tragedy. Runs to May 21, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $15, stu/srs $10. Marshall McLuhan Catholic Secondary School, 1107 Avenue Rd. socratictheatre.com.

The LIoN KINg by Elton John and Tim Rice (Mirvish). This touring production of the groundbreaking musical about love, death and the circle of life on the African veldt isn’t quite as majestic as the homegrown version that played here in the early 2000s. But it’s still pretty amazing, especially the sets and costumes. The original songs, and the pacing in the long first act, however, are tougher to sit through. Runs to Jun 12, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 1 and 6:30 pm (no show May 24 & 31; see website for other times/exceptions). $20$130. Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King W. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. NNN (GS) orfeo ed eurIdIce by Christoph Willibald Gluck (Canadian Opera Company). Rob-

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ert Carsen’s minimal but by no means stark production and Harry Bicket’s conducting make Gluck’s 250-year-old opera absolutely riveting musical theatre. The design, especially the lighting, works on an emotionally suggestive level, and the singers are superb, especially countertenor Lawrence Zazzo, who’ll wrench your heart as Orfeo with his powerful, plangent voice. Not to be missed. Runs to May 28: May 20, 24 and 26 at 7:30 pm, May 28 at 4:30 pm. $62-$281, rush $22. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416363-8231, coc.ca. NNNNN (GS) PINKaLIcIous, The musIcaL by Elizabeth Kann, Victoria Kann and John Gregor (Vital Theatre).

A girl eats too many cupcakes in this family musical. Runs to May 29, Sat 11 am, Sun 1:30 pm. $29.50-$39.50. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. vitaltheatre.ca.

The PosT offIce by Rabindranath Tagore (Pleiades Theatre). A sick boy watches and interacts with the world from his bedroom window in India (see review, page 60).

Runs to Jun 4, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats May 28 and Jun 4 at 2 pm. $35, stu $12, srs $16-$30.

Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416368-3110, pleiadestheatre.org. NNNN (JK)

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Two times the fun Soulpepper’s Double Bill shows off the acting and musical skills of its academy By JON KAPLAN douBLe BILL: re(BIrTh): e.e. cumand WINdoW oN

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At the Young Centre (55 Mill). Runs in rep to June 18. $28-$65. 416-866-8666; soulpepper.ca. See Continuing, page 62.

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soulpepper’s double bill is made up two very different productions – re(Birth): E.E. Cummings In Song and Window On Toronto – that show off the considerable acting and musi­ cal skills of the company’s Academy.

Performing with guest artists, the Academy’s group of seven (Ins Choi, Tatjana Cornij, Ken MacKenzie, Gre­ gory Prest, Karen Rae, Jason Patrick Rothery and Brendan Wall) start off with musical settings of cummings’s poetry under the guidance of music director and fellow performer Mike Ross.

It’s an intimate, inventive show, full of surprises, that brings the audi­ ence into a world of whimsy and sim­ ple insights into human nature. The

cast – including Abena Malika and Trish Lindström – plays dozens of instruments, the usual sort as well as reception bells, toy pianos, penny­ whistles and squeaky­toy frogs.

The instrumentation echoes the childlike quality of some of the ma­ terial, which ranges from anthems to ballads and jazz­inspired numbers, from full­voiced choral work to mel­ ancholy solos.

If re(Birth) is a series of lightly drawn pastels, Window On Toronto is a vibrant, paint­smeared canvas. The Academy artists, here joined by An­ dre Sills and Lindström, appear at or whiz past the window of a hot dog stand at Nathan Phillips Square. Each actor plays several dozen characters, quick sketches of people who hang around the square.

Again, the performances are sharp, but here the pace is tiring. The best material is often the surreal mo­ ments when figures emerge magical­ ly from the side of the window or float by wearing dreamlike masks.3 jonkap@nowtoronto.com

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ThE RaILway ChILdREN by Edith Nesbit (Mirvish). This adaptation of Nesbit’s treasured children’s book focuses on three siblings who are uprooted from their comfy Edwardian London home to a working-class town after their father’s disappearance. There’s a placid, facile idea about hope at the heart of the material. Much like the theatre constructed around the tracks, it seems like the whole production has been adapted to allow for the show’s much-touted (and tooted) live train.

Alas, the show remains track bound. Runs to Jun 26, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm (no shows May 29, Jun 12, 25; see website for other times/exceptions). $25$140. Roundhouse Theatre, 255 Bremner Blvd. mirvish.com. NN (Naomi Skwarna) RoCk.PaPER.SISTahz (bcurrent). The arts festival features spoken word, theatre, music, staged readings, dance and more. Runs to May 20, see website for schedule. $10-$25, pass $59.99. Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. 416-533-1500, bcurrent.ca.

ThE ShaPE of a GIRL by Joan MacLeod (Green Thumb Theatre). A teen is torn between loyalty to a bullying friend and the safety of others in this drama. Runs to May 19, Thu 10:30 am. $15-$20. Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People, 165 Front E. 416-862-2222, lktyp.ca.

SUddENLy MoMMy! by Anne Marie Scheffler (Perfectly Norma Productions). Scheffler performs her solo comedy about motherhood.

Runs to May 22, Mon-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20-$25. Theatre Centre, 1087 Queen W. 416538-0988, suddenlymommy.com.

ThEaTRE oNTaRIo fESTIvaL (The Curtain Club).

Companies from all over Ontario present Suds, Balconville, Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? and Trying. Runs to May 21, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $25.

Richmond Hill Centre, 10268 Yonge. 905-7878811, tofestival2011.ca.

To LIfE by Avery Saltzman and Tim French (Harold Green Jewish Theatre). The Jewish life cycle is portrayed through songs of the Jewish musical theatre canon in this revue. Runs to May 29, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm. $42.50-$79.50. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-366-7723, hgjewishtheatre.com.

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ronto Youth Theatre). Overachievers vie for the championship in this musical. Runs to May 28, Wed-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 3:30 pm. $22-$37. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. putnamcounty.eventbrite.com. zadIE’S ShoES by Adam Pettle (Factory Theatre). Pettle’s script about a Jewish man who gambles away money meant for his wife’s operation gets a fine remount, equally funny and moving. The characters are wellrounded with distinct voices, and the actors – particularly Joe Cobden, William MacDonald and Lisa Ryder – breathe lots of life into them.

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NatioNal theatre of the World

Matt Baram (left), Naomi Snieckus and Ron Pederson get ready for lots of drama.

Improvisers, The Script Tease Project Having mastered the art of improvised plays in Impromptu Splendor, the National Theatre of the World’s Matt Baram, Ron Pederson and Naomi Snieckus take things a step further by commissioning the first two pages of original scripts by some of North America’s best-known writers. On opening night, Tuesday (May 24), they’ll create a play on the spot from the first lines of Governor General’s Award-winning Judith Thompson.

I’ll interview them all afterwards onstage at Passe Muraille, and discuss how they’ll deal with other playwrights in the week-long run, like Daniel MacIvor, Brad Fraser, Morris Panych, Hannah Moscovitch and others. See Listings, page 62.

What are your own personal favourite opening lines from plays?

Naomi Snieckus: “Last summer we visited a farming community in Clinton, Ontario” – from The Farm Show. It opens up soooo many possibilities.

Ron Pederson: The opening parable the priest gives in John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt gave me goosebumps.

Matt Baram: “In sooth, I know not why I am so bloated.” That’s from Shakespeare’s less popular play, The Caterer Of Venice.

Any thoughts about pairing writers up with production/design details?

Pederson: We’ve asked the playwrights to devise the set, costumes and pick music for the plays. We’re at their mercy. I’m not sure what we were thinking.

Snieckus: I know we’d better wear nice underwear for Brad Fraser’s play.

Any special pre-show warm-up exercise or tradition?

Pederson: Three fingers of bourbon are usually enough get my acting juices flowing.

Baram: We usually blame each other for putting one another through the embarrassment of having to improvise a one-act play in front of a group of strangers. Then we touch each other inappropriately and say “Merde.”

The list of playwrights is pretty white. Where are the Andrew Moodies, Trey Anthonys and Marjorie Chans?

Pederson: I wish we were doing 100 of these plays to have accommodated our long, ethnically diverse wish list.

Baram: We’ve been corresponding with the playwrights via email and phone. Hannah Moscovitch told us she’s South Asian. Is there something we should know?

Snieckus: So you’re telling me Brad Fraser is white. Okay… news to me.

There’s a lot of history at Theatre Passe Muraille. Have you encountered any ghosts yet?

Baram: Yes, at the bar. But it turned out to be the spiritual embodiment of Paul Thompson’s Birkenstocks.

How do you know when an improvised play’s ended?

Baram: We usually have a group of ladies from the Hadassah Bazaar stand up and yell, “Stop already, our WheelTrans is here!”

What subject should I definitely avoid when I interview you and Thompson after the May 24 show?

Pederson: Our torrid, heartbreaking romance in 1997.

Snieckus: I think you’ll know when you GLENN SUMI ask it.

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THE VEST SHOW IN TOWN Comedy Bar presents a monthly show w/ Vest of Friends. 7 pm. Pwyc. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

WHEEL OF IMPROV John Candy Box Theatre presents competitive improv. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270.

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All listings are free. Send to: stage@nowtoronto.com, fax 416-​364-​1166 or mail to Comedy,​NOW​Magazine,​189​Church,​ Toronto​M5B​1Y7. Include title, producer, comics, brief synopsis, days and times, range of ticket prices, venue name and address and box office/ info phone number/website. Listings may be edited for space. Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm.

Thursday, May 19 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Daniel Tirado,

Dave Merheje and host Andrew Chapman. To May 22, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:45 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10-$15. 2335 Yonge. 416-4867700, absolutecomedy.ca.

CARLA COLLINS The Flying Beaver Pubaret presents the actor/comic in a live show.

To May 20, Thu-Fri 8 pm. $20-$25. 488 Parliament. 647-347-6567, brownpapertickets.com.

GAME PLAYA THURSDAYS John Candy Box Theatre presents The Young And The Guestlist, an improvised puppet soap opera, followed by longform improv by Rob Norman’s Game Of The Scene class. 8:45 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416340-7270.

HOT BOX COMEDY Hot Box Cafe presents a weekly show w/ host Jillian Thomas. 7:15 pm. $5. 191A Baldwin. hotboxcafe.ca.

JUDAH FRIEDLANDER NBA Comics and the Comedy Addict present the actor/ comic at NBA’s 2nd Anniversary Show, also with Rick and Chuck, Rob Mailloux, David Andrew Brent and Matt O’Brien. 11 pm. $25.

Second City, 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, nbacomics.com.

THIS PARTY’S A RIOT! Second City SC’s latest sketch revue doesn’t consistently live up to that title, but there are plenty of laughs. Highlights include savage takes on greedy baby boomers, pretentious yoga instructors and an awkward threesome, with Adam Cawley and Kris Siddiqi standing out amongst the hardworking cast. The writing needs sharpening, but the ballsy, improv-based finale – if it works – will generate lots of post-show buzz.

Wed-Sat 8 pm (plus Sat late show 10:30 pm), Sun 7 pm. $24-$29, stu $15. 51 Mercer. 416343-0011, secondcity.com. NNN (GS) YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Adam Richmond. To May 22, Wed-Sun 8 pm (and Fri-Sat 10:30 pm). $12-$22. 224 Richmond W. 416967-6425, yukyuks.com.

YUK YUK’S VAUGHAN presents Double Feature Night w/ two new comics. 8 pm. $13. 70 Interchange Way. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

YUK YUK’S WEST presents Double Feature Night w/ two new comics. 8 pm. $13. 5165 Dixie, Mississauga. yukyuks.com.

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Friday, May 20 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 19.

CARLA COLLINS See Thu 19.

COMEDY ON THE DANFORTH Timothy’s World

News Café presents improv with Angry Kitten (Dave Pearce, Jennine Profeta, Gord Oxley). 9 pm. Pwyc. 320 Danforth. 416-461-2668, comedyonthedanforth.com.

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Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts presents the Video On Trial comics in a live stand-up show. 7:30 pm. $25. 10268 Yonge. 905-787-8811, rhcentre.ca.

GONG THE SHOW The Polecats present the one-year anniversary and last show. 10:30 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

SLACKSTOCK VIII Black Swan presents standup, sketch and improv with David Andrew Brent and Daniel Stolfi, Falcon Powder, and Action Slacks. 8:30 pm. Pwyc. 154 Danforth.

416-469-0537.

THIS PARTY’S A RIOT! See Thu 19.

TOKE & JOKE Village Vapor Lounge presents a weekly show w/ host Dred Lee. 7:30 pm. $5.

66 Wellesley E. 416-972-9500.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 19.

YUK YUK’S VAUGHAN presents Rob Ross. To May 21, Fri 9 pm, Sat 7:30 & 9:45 pm. $20. 70 Interchange Way. yukyuks.com.

YUK YUK’S WEST presents Lawrence Morgenstern. To May 21, Fri-Sat 9 pm. $20. 5165 Dixie, Mississauga. yukyuks.com.

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Saturday, May 21 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 19.

THE ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY COMPLETELY MADE UP SHOW Second City presents interactive,

family-friendly improv and sketch. 11 am. $12.

51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com.

IMPATIENT THEATRE CO presents Bassprov, an improvised play. 10:30 pm. $10. The Bat, improv in the dark. 11:59 pm. Free. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-238-7337, impatient.ca.

SAM & MAX: NEVER TOO YOUNG FOR PROFANITY – PART 2 Sam Feldman and Max Olson

present Nathan Macintosh, John Hastings, Anto Chan, Marco Bernardi, Ben Miner and others. 8 pm. $10. John Candy Box Theatre, 70 Peter. sam.and.max.comedy@gmail.com.

THEATRESPORTS Bad Dog Theatre presents its flagship show, featuring fast and furious improv matches. 8 pm. $12, stu $10. Comedy Bar, 647-898-5324. baddogtheatre.com.

THIS PARTY’S A RIOT! See Thu 19.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 19.

YUK YUK’S VAUGHAN See Fri 20.

YUK YUK’S WEST See Fri 20.

Sunday, May 22 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 19.

THE BENCH John Candy Box Theatre presents

upcoming improvisers picked by the Second City. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270.

SOUNDS LIKE A SONG Hard Rock Cafe presents a weekly singing and improv show. 8 pm.

Free. 279 Yonge. 416-362-3636.

SUDDENLY SUNDAY Pantages Martini Bar presents a show w/ hosts Melissa Story and Jeff Clark. 9 pm. Free. 200 Victoria. 416-362-1777.

SUNDAY NIGHT LIVE The Sketchersons present a sketch show w/ guest hosts and musical acts. 9:30 pm. $8. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. thesketchersons.com.

THIS PARTY’S A RIOT! See Thu 19.

XXX EROTIC COMEDY NIGHT Zanzibar Tavern presents a show w/ host Fast Eddie Bizarria.

8:30 pm. Free. 359 Yonge. 647-831-4975.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 19.

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Monday, May 23 ALT.COMEDY LOUNGE Rivoli presents Nathan Macintosh, Jean Paul, Ian Lynch, ñ Nick Beaton, Diana Love, Keesha Brownie, MC

Andrew Johnston and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com.

BEST. MONDAY. EVER. Second City presents a weekly show featuring sketch, songs and improvisation. 8 pm. $12. 51 Mercer. 416-3430011, secondcity.com.

DIRTY BINGO Zelda’s presents a game with adult prizes w/ hosts Gloria Hole and Lena Over. 8:30 pm. Free. 692 Yonge. zeldas.ca.

THE FAMOUS & HEINOUS SHOW Pour Boy Pub presents a weekly open mic. 10:30 pm. Free.

666 Manning. pourboy.ca.

IMPERIAL COMEDY Imperial Pub presents weekly Pro/Am comics w/ host Eric Bud. 9:30 pm. Pwyc. 54 Dundas E. imperialcomedy.com.

FAT KAT$ COMEDY Nola Belle and Joey Harlem present a show w/ host Harlem. 9 pm. Free.

Axis Gastropub, 585 Bloor W. 416-539-9009.

IMPATIENT THEATRE CO presents improv by its students. 7 pm. Free. Harold Night. 8 pm. $5.

The Incubator. 9:30 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-238-7337, impatient.ca.

IMPROV ALL-STARS Second City presents a fastpaced improvised show. 8 pm. $20. 51 Mercer.

416-343-0011, secondcity.com.

IMPROV NIGHT IN CANADA John Candy Box Theatre presents the ultimate improv faceoff. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270.

SKETCHCOMEDYLOUNGE Rivoli presents The Headline Series w/ Fratwurst, Grade 8 Dance, the Lusty Mannequins, Newsdesk with Ron Sparks, MC Sandra Battaglini and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. 332 Queen W. sketchcomedylounge.com.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents the Humber School of Comedy at 7:30 pm, and stand-up Amateur Night at 9:30 pm. $4. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

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Wednesday, May 25 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Pro-Am Night w/

Doug Funk, Tom Calnan, Eli Jakeman, Rick Jones, Rob Browne, Rose Giles and host Steve Burr. 8:30 pm. $6. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

THE CARNEGIE HALL SHOW The National Theatre of the World presents a weekly variety show. 9 pm. Pwyc. Bread & Circus, 299 Augusta. thecarnegiehallshow.com.

CORKTOWN COMEDY Betty’s presents an open mic w/ Steve Adams, Dwayne Hill, Brian Kyle, Brian Coughlin and others. 9 pm. Free. 240 King E. 416-988-2675, corktowncomedy.com.

DJ DEMERS presents a weekly show w/ guests.

9 pm. $5. Underground Comedy Club, 670 Queen E. djdemers.com.

THE DOOR PRIZE SHOW Zelda’s presents a weekly talent contest w/ host Vicki Licks. 8:30 pm. Pwyc. 692 Yonge, upstairs. zeldas.ca.

QUANTUM QOMEDY SHOWQASE The Wilson 96 presents Adam Downey, James Hartnett, Mike Webster, Rhiannon Archer, Nathan Macintosh, Matt O’Brien, Steph Tolev and Phil Moorehead.

9 pm. Free. 615 College. 416-516-3237. 517_Post Office Print Ad-NOW-sm.indd 1 517_Post file name: file size SIREN’S COMEDY Celt’s Pub presents open mic Office Print Ad-NOW-sm stand-up w/ Adam Groslouis and Dylan Gott. colours: trim: 3.833" x 5.542" 4C 8:30 pm. Free. 2872 Dundas W. 416-767-3339.

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224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

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MONDAY NIGHT IMPROV JAM

Black Swan Comedy presents an open jam w/ Ralph MacLeod. 8 pm.

Pwyc. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd fl. 416903-5388, blackswancomedy.com.

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JOKES Fox & Fiddle presents weekly comedy w/ hosts Evan Desmarais and Chris Robinson. 8 pm. Pwyc. 27 Wellesley E. wellesleyfox.com. $#*! MY MAYOR SAYS

Second City presents current-events comedy about T.O. 8 pm. $12. 51 Mercer. secondcity.com.

THE SOAPS The National Theatre of the World presents a weekly improvised soap opera w/ Matt Baram and others. 9 pm. Pwyc.

Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. thenationaltheatreoftheworld.com.

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art

Works by Suzy Lake, including Extended Breathing Against The Branches, feature the artist herself.

CONTACT REVIEW

Battle axed GIORGIO BARRERA at the Consulate General of Italy (136 Beverley), to July 17. 416-977-1566. Rating: NNNN

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wander through the consulate garden without reading the text and you’d never guess that Milan-based photographer Giorgio Barrera’s apparently placid landscapes represent sites of conflict.

Battlefields 1848-1867 revisits the Italian wars of independence, a struggle most of us don’t know much about, fought by a confusing array of small kingdoms, the nationalist forces of Garibaldi, the papacy and

the Austrian empire, among others.

The installation’s location testifies to the nationalist victory.

The 16 big (about 5-by-7-foot) unpopulated photos show farms, country roads, old stone walls, wooded hillsides and riverbanks, junk-strewn seaports. Barrera avoids the memorials that must be lurking somewhere outside the frame, instead choosing places healed over by nature or where daily life continues – fields under cultivation, walls getting rebuilt, suburban buildings encroaching.

Text describes what happened there then, but Barrera lets the images tell you what’s going on now.

It’s a quiet meditation on time and FRAN SCHECHTER history.

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Suzy Lake makes waves

Groundbreaking veteran artist probes the meaning of femininity By DAVID JAGER SUZY LAKE at U of T Art Centre (15 King’s College Circle), to

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June 25, panel w/ Lake, tonight (Thursday, May 19), 7 pm.

416-978-1838. Rating: NNNN

In Giorgio Barrera’s depictions of battlefields, the history of war gives way to landscapes healed by nature.

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cre a p ato lay r o by f S WA CO J D RC I M HE O D/ UA IN W CE AD ND IES

for the last 40 years, suzy lake’s groundbreaking photography, video and performance have delved into the tricky and politically charged terrain of feminine identity.

Using her body as the crux of her practice, she poses the question “What does it mean to be a woman, to have a woman’s body and to be viewed as feminine?”

Political Poetics, an exhaustive and beautifully presented retrospective, spans her career from the 70s to the present. Lake puts herself through a series of rigorous transformations and symbolic ordeals, from being used as a marionette in some photos to appearing as Gustav Aschenbach, the male protagonist in Thomas Mann’s Death In Venice in others.

Lake’s daring, provocative and witty strategies for portraying femininity can be seen as direct predecessors of Cindy Sherman’s work.

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STARRING: Terry Tweed, RH Thomson, Jan Alexandra Smith, Liisa Repo-Martell, Alon Nashman, Brandon McGibbon, Sophie Goulet, David Fox, Vivien Endicott-Douglas, Matthew Edison, Dmitry Chepovetsky DIRECTOR: Richard Rose | SET & COSTUME DESIGN: Karyn McCallum | LIGHTING DESIGN: Kimberly Purtell SOUND DESIGN: Thomas Ryder Payne | STAGE MANAGER: Stéfanie Séguin

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MUST-SEE SHOWS

CALISON MILNE GALLERY Photos: Artifact group show, to May 29. 49 Ossington, 2nd fl.

416-203-6266.

CAMOMO (A MUSEUM OF MY OWN) Photos: Eric Weiner, to Jun 3. 218 Sorauren. 416-8803482.

ARTSCAPE WYCHWOOD BARNS Sound installation (Deep Wireless festival): Darsha Hewitt, May 20-29 Fri-Sat. Deep Wireless sound art festival, to May 31. 601 Christie. 416-3927834.

A SPACE GALLERY Video: Chen Chieh-jen, to May 28. 401 Richmond W #110. 416-9799633.

BARBARA EDWARDS CONTEMPORARY Painting: Ray Mead, to Jun 18. 1069 Bathurst. 647348-5110.

BEIT ZATOUN Photos: Elle Flander and Tamira Sawatzky, to Jun 2. 612 Markham. 647-7269500.

Jun 12. 15 Mill, bldg 37. 416-603-2626.

CKOFFLER OFFSITE Installation: Stephen Cruise, to Aug 28, bus tour from MOCCA May 22 (see AGYU) . Sheppard Plaza, 4400 Bathurst. 416-636-1880.

CKWT CONTEMPORARY Photos/video: Caitlin Cronenberg and David Frankovich, to May 28. 624 Richmond W. 416-646-2706.

CLONSDALE GALLERY Photos: Process Masters group show; Osheen Harruthoonyan, to Jun 5. 410 Spadina Rd. 416-487-8733.

CMcLUHAN PROGRAM IN CULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY Installation: Robert Bean, to Jun 25.

39A Queen’s Park E. 416-978-7026.

CMONTE CLARK GALLERY Photos: Chris Ger-

gley, to Jun 12. 55 Mill, bldg 2. 416-703-1700.

NARWHAL ART PROJECTS Painting: Alvaro Ilizarbe (Freegums), to Jun 12. 680 Queen W. 647-346-5317.

CNICHOLAS METIVIER Photos: Edward Burtynsky, to May 28. 451 King W. 416-2059000.

COLGA KORPER Photos: Lynne Cohen, to Jun 1. 17 Morrow. 416-538-8220.

ONSITE @ OCADU Book/multimedia: Marian Bantjes, to Jun 5. 100 McCaul.

416-977-6000.

CPAUL PETRO Photos: Suzy Lake and Su Rynard, to Jun 4. 980 Queen W. 416-9797874.

CRICHARD JOHNSON PHOTOGRAPHY Photos: Richard Johnson, to May 31. 971 O’Connor.

416-755-7742.

SHOW & TELL GALLERY Painting/sculpture: Maya Hayuk and Jen Stark, to Jun 12. 1161 Dundas W. 647-347-3316.

CTORONTO IMAGE WORKS Photos: Dianne Davis, to Jun 4. 80 Spadina. 416-703-1999.

CWARC Photos/video/new media: Tori Foster, to Jun 4. 401 Richmond W #122. 416-9770097.

CYORKDALE SUBWAY Photos: Debra Friedman, to May 31. Ticket Area, 1 Yorkdale. scotiabankcontactphoto.com.

XPACE Ulysses Castellanos, auction 8 pm May 20 ($20). 58 Ossington. 416-849-2864.

GALLERY @ GALLERY 345 Photos: Alejandro Cartagena, to May 29 ñ (Sat or by appt). 345 Sorauren. 647-477-2487.

CCONSULATE GENERAL OF ITALY Photos: Giorgio Barrera, to Jun 17. 136 Beverley. ñ 416-977-1566. ñ� CCONTACT GALLERY Photos: Lucas Blalock CCIRCUIT

and Jessica Eaton, to May 31. 80 Spadina #310. 416-539-9595.

CGALLERY ARCTURUS Photos: Ayokah, Brian O’Dea and James LaTrobe, to Jun 11. 80 Gerrard E. 416-977-1077.

GENDAI GALLERY Comics: Michael Niroll Yahgulanaas and Joanne Hui, to Jun 25. Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, 6 Garamond. 647200-6161.

CGENERAL HARDWARE CONTEMPORARY

Photos: Tim Maslen and Jennifer Mehra, to Jun 4. 1520 Queen W. 416-516-6876.

GLADSTONE HOTEL Painting: Natasha Kudashkina, May 25-Jun 4. C Photos: Martie Giefert and Isabel M Martinez, to May 31. Textiles: Kathryn Walter, to Jun 26. C Photos: Bruce Zinger, to May 22. C Photos: Exposed 2011 group show, to May 22. 1214 Queen W. 416531-4635.

INDEXG GALLERY Mixed media: Christopher Doyle, to May 29. C Photos: Sai Kit Ng, to Jun 5. 50 Gladstone. 416-535-6957.

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MORE ONLINE

Complete art listings at nowtoronto.com/art/listings

THIS WEEK IN THE MUSEUMS ART GALLERY OF MISSISSAUGA Picture House:

The Art Of Bollywood; Amin Rehman, to Jun 10.

300 City Centre (Mississauga). 905-896-5088.

ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO Jon Sasaki, to Jun 5 (free, Young Gallery). David Blackwood, to Jun 12. Paterson Ewen, to Jun 19. Brian Jungen, to Aug 7. C Abel Boulineau, to Aug 21. The JUNO Tour Of Canadian Art, to Aug 31. Inuit Modern, to Oct 16. Lucy Tasseor Tutsweetok, to Apr 1, 2012. $18, srs $15, stu $10, free Wed 6-8:30 pm. 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648.

ART GALLERY OF YORK UNIVERSITY Humberto Vélez, to Jun 26, bus tour from MOCCA noon5 pm May 22 (RSVP scarte@yorku.ca. 416736-2100 ext 44021). 4700 Keele, Accolade E bldg. 416-736-5169.

BATA SHOE MUSEUM Art In Shoes – Shoes In Art;The Roaring 20s: Heels, Hemlines And High Spirits, ongoing. $14, srs $12, stu $8. 327 Bloor W. 416-979-7799.

BLACKWOOD GALLERY The Good Host; Gordon Monahan, to May 22, bus tour from MOCCA May 22 (see AGYU). Offsite at MOCCA, Metro Hall and Queen W btwn Dufferin and Shaw. U of T Mississauga, 3359 Mississauga N. 905828-3789.

BURLINGTON ART CENTRE Leszek Wyczolkowski, to Jun 14. 1333 Lakeshore (Burlington).

905-632-7796.

CCAMPBELL HOUSE MUSEUM Mac McArthur, to May 31. 160 Queen W. 416-597-0227.

DESIGN EXCHANGE Sears High School Competition, to May 30 (free). Diana, The Life Of A Royal Icon, to Jun 10. C Guy Tillim, to Jun 14. $10, stu/srs $8. 234 Bay. 416-363-6121.

DORIS McCARTHY GALLERY Purloined Stories, to May 21. 1265 Military Trail. 416-287-7007.

GARDINER MUSEUM OF CERAMIC ART Betty Woodman, to Jun 5. Mary McKenzie, to Jul 10. $12, stu $6, srs $8; Fri 4-9 pm half-price, 30 and under free. 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080.

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JUSTINA M. BARNICKE It Takes Everyone To Know No One, to May 21. 7 Hart House. 416978-8398.

McMICHAEL CANADIAN ART George McLean, to May 22. Ivan Eyre, to Aug 14. $15, stu/srs $12.

10365 Islington (Kleinburg). 905-893-1121.

CMOCCA Dynamic Landscape group show, Fred Herzog, to Jun 5. Elle Flanders and Tamira Sawatzky, to Aug 31. 952 Queen W. 416-395-0067.

MUSEUM OF INUIT ART Sculpture/prints/drawing from the collection, ongoing. $6, stu/srs $5. 207 Queens Quay W. 416-603-7591.

THE POWER PLANT To What Earth Does This Sweet Cold Belong?; Thomas Hirschhorn and Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, to May 29, Manglano-Ovalle tallk 7 pm May 25 (Studio Theatre, $12). C Kevin Schmidt, to Sep 5. $6, stu/srs $3, Wed 5-8 pm free. 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949.

ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM Rachel Kalpana James, to May 22. C (Institute for Contemporary Culture): Edward Burtynsky, to Jul 3.

Mark Nowaczynski, to Jul 17. Jane Ash Poitras, to Sep 1. Water: The Exhibition, to Sep 5 ($31, stu/srs $28). Riotous Colour, Daring Patterns: Fashions + Textiles, to Oct 16. The Archaeology Of Godin Tepe, Iran, to Jan 31, 2012. $22, stu/srs $19; half-price Fri 4:30-9:30 pm; free Wed 4:30-5:30 pm. 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000.

TEXTILE MUSEUM OF CANADA C Peter Wilkins, to Jun 12. Silk Oasis On The Silk Road: Bukhara, to Sep 25. Magic Squares: The Patterned Imagination Of Muslim Africa In Contemporary Culture, to Nov 20, reception/artist panel 5-9 pm May 20. $15, srs $10, stu $6; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre. 416-599-5321.

CUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ART CENTRE Chris Curreri, to May 31. Suzy Lake, to Jun 25, talk 7-9 pm May 19. 15 King’s College Circle. 416978-1838.

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THE WATER MAN’S DAUGHTER by Emma Ruby-Sachs (Emblem), 320 pages, $22.99 paper. Rating: NNN the debut novel by torontoborn, New York City-based Emma Ruby-Sachs has many of the elements of a good novel.

The story, set in postapartheid South Africa, tears right along. The prose is good – sometimes powerful – and you want to root for the characters.

But the narrative has a fatal flaw.

Phiri Township’s residents are fighting back against the new water system, and the foreign company delivering it, which is more costly, ironically, than the one delivered under apartheid. The resisters are led by the charismatic young Nomsulwa and her unpredictable cousin Mira.

When a Canadian employee of the offending water company is murdered during his stay in the area, police chief Zembe Afrika tries to solve the murder using her long-time connection to Nomsulwa, whom she’s been secretly protecting.

In return, Afrika insists that Nomsulwa act as guide for the dead man’s daughter, Claire, who’s heading to South Africa to find out more about what happened to her father.

Ruby-Sachs obviously knows what she’s writing about, vividly evoking her location, and offers tons of detail – sometimes more than we need – about water systems. And both Nomsulwa and Afrika are great characters, Afrika coping with sexism and corporate corruption, Nomsulwa recovering from the loss of her own father and terrified that her movement will be compromised by her cousin’s ill-considered strategies.

But at a basic level, the relationship between Claire and Nomsulwa doesn’t make sense. The South African is drawn to the young Canadian yet can’t ignore the fact that she’s the privileged daughter of the Devil. That should create more conflict than the author offers.

And a late reveal makes everything that has happened between them impossible to believe. Strange that an editor wouldn’t have pressed Ruby-Sachs on this.

As it is, The Water Man’s Daughter has great energy and shows a ton of SUSAN G. COLE 3 promise.

Okay, the Writers’ Trust has just announced a new $60,000 non-fiction prize, but generally speaking, if you’re not writing novels you’re just not sexy. That’s changing, thanks to the Creative Nonfiction Collective, who have raised the profile of reality-based literature and are organizing Stranger Than Fiction, a cool event featuring some of the best writers around. Rosemary Sullivan, Don Gillmor and others read at Harbord House (150 Harbord) on Wednesday (May 25), 8:30 pm, at what’s billed as a Reading Cabaret. Pay attention to veteran journalist Marni Jackson, whose Home Free SGC expertly captures the stresses of the sandwich generation.

READINGS THIS WEEK Wednesday, May 25

Thursday, May 19

TERRY FALLIS 7-8 pm. Free. Beaches Library, 2161 Queen E. 416-393-7703.

KAMA READING SERIES Alissa York, Gregor Robinson, Kate Taylor and Steven Heighton.

6:30 pm. $60 (World Literacy benefit). Park Hyatt Toronto, 4 Avenue. 416-977-0008.

DAVID MILLER Talking about his book. 6 pm. $5. Riverdale Public Library, 370 Broadview. riverdalehistoricalsociety.com.

AIN’T TOO PROUD TO BEG Natalee

Caple, Andrew Pyper and more. 8 ñ pm. Pwyc (Joyland benefit). Supermarket, 268 Augusta. 416-840-0501.

TONY FITZJOHN 7 pm. Free. Indigo Manulife, 55 Bloor W. 416-925-3536.

DANY LAFERRIÈRE WITH DAVID HOMEL

Reading. 7 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

NAZNEEN SHEIKH 7 pm. Free. Northern District Library, 40 Orchard View. 416-393-7610.

HOWARD NORMAN/KYRAN PITTMAN/EMMA RUBY-SACHS Reading. 7:30 pm. $10, stu free.

Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000.

PETER ROBINSON Talking about his book.

7 pm. Free. S Walter Stewart Library, 170 Memorial Park. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

STRANGER THAN FICTION Conference and cabaret of readings, with Wayne Grady, Marni Jackson, Merilyn Simonds and others.

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David Layton, Alicia Elliott and others. 6 pm.

Free. Ben McNally, 366 Bay. 416-361-0032.

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MICHAEL WINTER Reading short stories. Free.

Sneaky Dee’s, 431 College. 416-603-3090.

INSOMNIAC SPRING LAUNCH Poetry. 7 pm. Free.

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Audio clips from interview with SAM WORTHINGTON • Bonus Q&As with EVA MENDES and NAOMIE HARRIS • Friday column • and more Le Tigre’s Kathleen Hanna (clockwise from bottom left), Johanna Fateman and JD Samson rock the big screen in the documentary Who Took The Bomp?

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Queer-view mirrors What’s smokin’ hot – and what’s not – at the 21st edition of Inside Out INSIDE OUT TORONTO LGBT FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL at TIFF Bell Lightbox and Buddies in Bad Times, from today (Thursday, May 19) to May 29. $6-$13, galas $22-$28 (including after-party). 416-599-8433, insideout.ca. See Indie & Rep Film, page 79.

LOOSE CANNONS (Ferzan Ozpetek, Italy).

(including the boyfriend), prompting all sorts of comic reactions.

The last reel adds complexity to the characters, and the final scene, a bold experiment, works beautifully to link GLENN SUMI past and present.

BLOOMINGTON (Fernanda Cardoso, U.S.).

83 minutes. Friday (May 20), 9:30 pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox 2. Rating: NN

I’m all for cheesy melodrama, and teacher/student liaisons are a rich area for that kind of thing. But then bring it on, please – don’t back away.

Child star Jacquie (Sarah Stouffer) is The festival’s gala opener covers some having a hard time getting over her well-trod ground with style, even if it fame during her first year of university. takes a while to find its footShe can connect only with ing. psych prof Catherine (AlWhen Tommaso lison McAtee), who (Riccardo Scamarhas a history of cio) returns to his sleeping with her southern Italian students. Too home to anbad, when they nounce that he’s finally hit the gay, he expects sack, the sex is to be cut out of so tepid. his family’s The other stupasta business, dents think of which will free him Catherine as a Loose Cannons starts the to stay in Rome with predatory vampire, a fest off with a bang. his boyfriend and purtheme director Fersue his dreams of becomnanda Cardoso ought to ing a novelist. But things don’t have tapped to the max. This go as planned. movie plays it very safe when what it Director Ferzan Ozpetek’s attempts needs is some tension. to mix comedy and drama aren’t alNice performance by newcomer ways successful – he relies too much SUSAN G. COLE Stouffer, however. on a whimsical score – and the film could use a tighter edit. Things pick up MAN AT BATH (Christophe Honoré, at the halfway point during a visit by France). 72 minutes. Subtitled. Friday Tommaso’s gay friends from Rome 110 minutes. Subtitled. Tonight (Thursday, May 19), 8 pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox 1.

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The moody French film Man At Bath features a gimmick that almost pays off. Director Christophe Honoré has cast beefy gay porn star François Sagat as Emmanuel, who’s been dumped – sort of – by the regular-looking Omar (Omar Ben Sellem) before the latter takes a trip to NYC. Emmanuel has lots of sex in Omar’s Gennevilliers apartment, while in Manhattan, Omar follows around real-life actor Chiara Mastroianni and a Montreal student named Dustin (Dustin Segura-Suarez), who turns out to be a bit of an exhibitionist himself.

The French scenes have more nuance and shape than the American ones, and the film works best when Honoré fuses the two worlds for scenes that work on a psychological, if not literal, level.

Sagat, who’s becoming something of an art-house staple (he was in Bruce LaBruce’s L.A. Zombie), is perfectly fine as the objectified lover, but the loose, rambling film is less effective than Honoré’s previous experiments like GS Love Songs and Ma Mère.

MAKING THE BOYS (Crayton Robey, U.S.). 90 minutes. Sunday (May 22), 4:45 pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox 1. Rating:

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Crayton Robey’s must-see doc about Boys In The Band playwright Mart Crowley provides a fascinating look at theatre, glam 60s Hollywood, the gay liberation movement and even the AIDS crisis.

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Making The Boys should kick-start lots of discussion among theatre fans.

Crowley wrote the groundbreaking 1968 play in five weeks, after receiving some psychoanalysis sessions as a birthday gift from Natalie Wood. (He was then her personal assistant.) The play and subsequent film version divided viewers, some of whom opposed its negative portrayals of queers, while others felt empowered by seeing gay characters presented at all.

Robey interviews many theatre types (among them Terrence McNally, Larry Kramer and Cheyenne Jackson), and also looks at the play’s original cast members, many of whom met tragic ends.

Crowley, who never had another hit play, comes across as modest and selfeffacing, even though he’ll forever be GS part of gay history.

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(Kerthy Fix, U.S.). 72 minutes. May 27, 10 pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox 2.

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Sure, this is pure hagiography – not surprising, since Le Tigre produced it – but if ever there was a band deserving of this treatment, it’s these punkfemme electroclash shit-disturbing feministas.

The doc follows leader and riot grrl icon Kathleen Hanna, guitarist Johanna Fateman and butch extraordinaire keyboardist JD Samson as they play around the world and recount their strange adventures. The performance footage is sensational, showcasing their self-designed, colour-coordinated costumes, homemade videos, cool choreography and kick-ass lyrics.

Interested in the cultural manifestation of the women’s movement? You have to see this. Never has radical SGC feminism been so hot.

YOU WILL BE MINE (Sophie Laloy, France).

96 minutes. Subtitled. May 27, 7:30 pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox 2. Rating: NN

The French title for this over-the-top drama is Je Te Mangerais, which translates as I Will Eat You, a double entendre the distributors plainly didn’t think would wash among English-speaking audiences.

Aspiring concert pianist Marie (Judith Davis) is rooming with childhood friend Emma (Isild Le Besco) while attending the conservatory in Lyons. Emma keeps trying to seduce Marie, whose ambivalence only encourages her sad and lonely pursuer.

At first you wonder whether the lesbian connection might bring out Marie’s artistic potential. Unfortunately, the script goes in the other direction.

Emma soon becomes obsessed, and the film turns into a near-hysterical melodrama.

Another entry in the lesbian-as-aforce-of-destruction canon – not really SGC what the world needs.

CODEPENDENT LESBIAN SPACE ALIEN SEEKS SAME (Madeleine Olnek, U.S.). 76 minutes. May 28, 10:15 pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox 2. Rating: NNN

This low-budget sci-fi comedy is absolutely ridiculous and totally charming.

Three extraterrestrials have been excommunicated from their planet because the energy of their love is destroying the ozone layer. Their mission: head to Earth and get their hearts broken. When Zoinx (Susan Ziegler) meets Jane (Lisa Haas), true love threatens the mission.

The effects are not just cheesy, they’re non-existent, and a subplot featuring two male agents investigating UFOs never takes off.

But Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same is a ton of fun, and huggable Haas gives the word “enSGC 3 dearing” new meaning.

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doesn’t hurt. North American audiences may be surprised to see Worthington do nuance.

“It’s a fine line,” he says. “If you withhold too much, you come across as wooden – as I’ve often been described in some movies. Fair enough.

I believe that the best performances are the ones that an audience has to search for. It’s easy when you’re fighting and jumping around – yelling and shit like that. But one of the best performances Anthony Hopkins does is not necessarily Silence Of The Lambs; it’s Remains Of The Day, where it just seeps out. You’re forced to look a bit more. It comes out through the pores.”

Another bonus: for the first time in years, Worthington gets to use his own accent.

“You don’t even think about it, because it’s New York,” he says. “New York is such a melting pot, it allows that. You don’t think of Guillaume being a Frenchman, you don’t think of Keira being English – I think there’s one reference to us flying home, to which all I said to Massy was, ‘Don’t fuckin’ have me explain why I’m from AusAction star gets to act again By NORMAN WILNER tralia.’ I hate that in movies, because while back at home his wife (Keira every movie with an Australian does Knightley) is tempted by a chance that. Even in Proof Of Life, Russell LAST NIGHT written and directed by encounter with an old boyfriend [Crowe] says he spent time with the Massy Tadjendin, with Sam Worthington, (Guillaume Canet).

Australian army and then England.

Keira Knightley, Eva Mendes and “I’ve been every single one of those It’s bullshit.”

Guillaume Canet. An eOne Entertainment people,” says Worthington in a darkWorthington isn’t stopping the acrelease. 90 minutes. Opens Friday (May er-than-usual hotel room during the tion work. Later this year he’ll be seen 20). For venues and times, see Movies, final stretch of the 2010 Toronto Film as an Israeli spy in The Debt, and sepage 72.

Festival. quels to Avatar and Titans are in the you probably know sam worth“I’ve been the guy who’s tried to offing. But he plans to add more ington as the square-jawed star of pull a girl away from andramas like Last Night into such megaplex fare as Terminator other person, I’ve been the mix.

Salvation, Clash Of The Titans and the person that’s lost “Unfortunately, we the one where he plays the big blue love and is pining for live in a society where cat fella. The studios have positioned someone, I’ve been those kinds of movhim as the Action Guy. the complacent guy. ies and those characBut the man who would be king of I think we can all ters get brushed the Na’avi started out as a proper dra- identify: ‘Fuck, I’ve aside because we Bonus Q&A with matic actor, delivering distinctive been that person, I want the boomperformances in Australian films know what I would boom-boom,” he says.

Eva Mendes at nowtoronto.com like Somersault and Macbeth. He gets do.’ That’s a good little “But sometimes I think to be an actor again in Massy Tadjemovie if it does that.” [dramatic films] are good din’s Last Night, which casts him as a The fact that Last Night lets for an actor – and an audimarried man pondering a one-night him stretch his acting muscles after ence.”

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REVIEW LAST NIGHT (Massy Tadjedin) Rating: NN Massy Tadjedin’s low-key debut follows a New York couple contemplating separate infidelities after a fight. He (Sam Worthington) thinks about boffing a flirtatious colleague (Eva Mendes) on an overnight trip to Philadelphia, while she (Keira Knightley) spends the day in the company of an ex-lover (Guillaume Canet).

It’s very nicely shot, and everyone wears lovely clothes, but there’s not a lot going on. Neither of the leads is developed enough to bother caring about, and Tadjedin’s elliptical approach to their crises just diffuses the emotional content even further.

Canet is quietly excellent as a man who knows he’s lost out on the love of his life, but Tadjedin is only interested in his character as he relates to Knightley. Perhaps the movie should have told his NW story instead.

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Sam Worthington and Eva Mendes wonder what happened Last Night.

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Pirates’ curse Aye, matey, this sequel’s a dud By NORMAN WILNER PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES directed by Rob Marshall, written by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, with Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Ian McShane and Geoffrey Rush. A Disney release. 136 minutes. Opens Friday (May 20). For venues and times, see Movies, page 72.

Rating: NN

pirates of the caribbean: on Stranger Tides would have us forget that the first three Pirates movies were the story of Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann, whose truest of loves led them into a mystical world of adventure – and whose story was tied up neatly at the end of the trilogy, freeing Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley to move on.

Sure, Johnny Depp’s Cap’n Jack was involved in most of it, but he was a supporting character – a scene-stealing sidekick there to make mischief, bonk authority figures on the head and plot to steal back his beloved Black Pearl. Put him at the centre and Depp’s eccentricities have nothing to revolve around.

The new film finds Jack swept up in the race to find the fountain of youth. Also on the hunt, for reasons of their own, are the unkillable Captain Barbossa (Geof frey

Rush), Jack’s old flame Angelica (Penélope Cruz), the fearsome pirate Blackbeard (Ian McShane) and a flotilla of Spaniards. Also there are mermaids, because someone realized they’d left those out of the first three movies. Oh, and zombies, sort of.

There are many action scenes.

Swords clash, barrels roll, coal wagons rain fire on cobblestone streets, pirates swing through a forest of coconut trees. It’s all very busy, and it’s been shot in 3-D, which means every stunt looks like a badly processed visual effect even when it isn’t.

I lay most of the blame at the feet of Rob Marshall (Chicago, Nine), who replaces Gore Verbinski at the helm of the series and has absolutely no feel for the material. His primary innovation is cutting the sword fights so rapidly that we can’t follow the action. Say what you will about Verbinski’s trilogy, it was at least elegant; pirate movies demand a stylist, not a journeyman.

I will admit it’s fun to see Depp and Cruz together again. Who’d h a v e thought the co-stars of Blow would end up fencing with each other 10 years later in a big, dumb Disney movie?

And who thought that was a good idea?

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DOCUMENTARY

Naomie Harris and Oliver Litondo deliver simple lessons in The First Grader.

Veg out

FORKS OVER KNIVES (Lee Fulkerson). 96 minutes. Opens Friday (May 20). For venues and times, see Movies, page 72.

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Call me a contrarian, but I came out of Forks Over Knives – a documentary advocating the benefits of vegetarianism – ready to eat a pony out of spite.

Using himself as a guinea pig, director Lee Fulkerson explores the idea that a whole foods, plant-based diet is DRAMA better for Americans’ health than a diet based on animal protein and mass-produced products. Certainly, in a culture dominated by high-fructose THE FIRST GRADER (Justin Chadwick). 103 minutes. Opens Friday (May 20). For venues corn syrup, that’s something to think and times, see Movies, page 72. Rating: NN about.

But Fulkerson quickly dispenses The First Grader was the runner-up for the People’s Choice Award at last year’s Towith the Morgan Spurlock approach to ronto Film Festival, suggesting P.T. Barnum’s apocryphal dictum is as valid now as launch into a one-sided macrobiotics it was a century ago: if you shoot your Inspiring True Story from low angles in a screed that does such a shoddy job glowing bronze light, people will applaud. It’s Pavlovian. of constructing its case – Based on the story of Kenyan Kimani N’gan’ga Maruge, a former questionable statistics, Mau Mau rebel who attended a children’s school at the age of 84 confusing arguments in order to learn to read and write, it’s an obvious triumph-ofand anecdotal evithe-spirit drama, told in the most banal manner imaginable. dence – that you’ll Oliver Litondo’s bruised dignity as the traumatized Maruge end up wonderand Naomie Harris’s empathetic turn as the schoolteacher ing whether he who fights to include him give those characters a bit more has anything at flesh than the noble ciphers director Justin Chadwick (The all of substance Other Boleyn Girl) has in mind. to say. (You may The First Grader feels like it fell through a wormhole from wonder, too, why 1986, when movies like The Color Purple and Cry Freedom imno one in the movposed a condescending colonial perspective on Africa. Then, Bonus Q&A with ie shops for produce filmmakers hadn’t learned that they didn’t need to pander; now Naomie Harris at anywhere but Whole nowtoronto.com a new generation thinks it’s the way to win awards.

Foods.)

NORMAN WILNER It’s also more than a little disingenuous to bring up America’s recent E. coli meat scare without mentioning that spinach proved just as lethal under the Bush-era FDA. But Forks Over Knives is exactly that sort of movie.

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also opening A Beautiful Life

(D: Andrew Lau, 122 min) Andrew Lau is better known as actor Andy Lau from House Of Flying Daggers and the Infernal Affairs movies. But he’s also a director and has helmed this romance about a young autistic man who falls in love with a mute woman.

Opens Friday (May 20). Screened after press time – see review May 23 at nowtoronto.com/movies.

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Paul Feig’s flick about the lead-up to a wedding is as crude, rude and hilarious as its That title says it male counterpart, all, doesn’t it?

Morgan Spurlock’s The Hangover. We film about product dare you not to laugh during the placement in extended food movies will get you arguing – in a poisoning sequence. good way.

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Movie listings are comprehensive and organized alphabetically. Listings include name of film, director’s name in brackets, a review, running time and a rating.

Reviews are by Norman Wilner (NW), Susan G. Cole (SGC), Glenn Sumi (GS), Andrew Dowler (AD) and Radheyan Simonpillai (RS) unless otherwise specified.

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Movie theatres are listed at the end and can be cross-referenced to our film times on page 77.

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THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (George Nolfi) is a nimble, genre-shifting hybrid starring Matt Damon as a New York politician who meets the girl of his dreams (Emily Blunt) only to learn a mysterious team of suits led by John Slattery and Anthony Mackie is bent on keeping him from ever seeing her again.

This smart, resourceful picture demonstrates that even the most ridiculous premise can be made to work if you get the tone right. 106 min. NNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Scotiabank Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24 AFRICAN CATS (Keith Scholey, Alastair

Fothergill) shouldn’t be taken seriously as a nature documentary by anyone over the age of eight. The directors have shaped their footage (all shot on location at Kenya’s Maasai Mara National Reserve) into the modern equivalent of the old Wonderful World Of Disney: the animals aren’t allowed to be animals; they have to be characters in a larger, contrived drama.

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ARTHUR (Jason Winer) remakes the 1981 rom-com, with Russell Brand doing great work as the rich, drunk playboy who falls in love with a working-class woman. Too bad he’s the only one allowed to be funny – Helen Mirren, as Arthur’s live-in nanny, is almost invisible, and love interest Greta Gerwig is merely winsome. 110 min. NN (AD) Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24

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THE BANG BANG CLUB (Steven Silver) asks important questions about photojournalism: Should a photographer try to stop something horrible from happening or just get that great shot? What are the implications of white shooters making hay from black struggles? And what emotional price do photographers in war zones pay?

Silver’s hyperkinetic, tension-filled film about the titular group of journalists capturing the hostilities in 1994 South Africa for Johannesburg’s The Star is extremely vivid. It has a great cast – Ryan Phillippe keeps doing great work, and check out the breakout performance by riveting Taylor Kitsch – but the politics unfold in confusing ways. Be sure you stay for the Club’s

archival photos that run alongside the closing credits. 109 min. NNN (SGC) Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity

BARNEY’S VERSION (Richard J. Lewis) is a radically simplified adaptation of Mordecai Richler’s final novel, looking back at the life and loves of a deteriorating Montreal television producer (Paul Giamatti).

Simultaneously ambitious and pedestrian.

132 min. NNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Regent Theatre BEAT THE WORLD (Robert Adetuyi) is a complete waste of time. It assembles dynamic dancers from around the globe without worrying about their ability to deliver dialogue or even stand still in a convincing fashion. The result is a featurelength squirm session about three dance crews facing off in a Detroit competition, each with its own clichéd set of problems that provides atrociously acted filler between the dance sequences, which writer/ director Adetuyi shoots so haphazardly that it’s impossible to appreciate the artists or the choreography. 89 min. N (NW) Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24 A BEAUTIFUL LIFE (Andrew Lau) 122 min.

See Also Opening, page 71.

Opens May 20 at Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24.

THE BEAVER (Jodie Foster) features a ter-

rific performance by Mel Gibson as Walt, a depressed father who tries to cope by speaking through a beaver puppet. He gets great support from Anton Yelchin as his estranged son, Foster, suitably restrained as Walt’s increasingly exasperated wife, and Jennifer Lawrence, as the high school valedictorian, proving that last year’s Oscar nom was no fluke. As director, Foster finds the right tone, never stooping to melodrama or unnecessary comedy, yet ensuring that The Beaver’s not a total downer. But she can’t do much to make the story’s main conceit believable. Puppet therapy is often used with children but almost never with adults, so the general acceptance of Walt’s relationship with his new best friend, especially in his workplace, is too big of a stretch. 91 min. NNN (SGC) Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

BILL CUNNINGHAM NEW YORK (Richard Press) is a strange example of a documentary where the subject nearly disappears into the background of his own film. Cunningham is a thin, energetic and squeakyvoiced octogenarian photographer best known for cycling across Manhattan and chronicling trends in the New York Times’ style section. He lets director Press sit in on editing sessions and follow him to shoots, but he generally hides behind his nervous smile, remaining a mystery. The man’s instinct for what’s new and hot, however, is dead on – and he’s got a nearencyclopedic memory of fashions he’s seen come down the runway, as various fashionistas attest to in warm-hearted (and often spectacularly outfitted) interviews. Press attempts to add some tension by focusing on Cunningham and his aged neighbours’ impending eviction from their cramped rent-controlled studios at Carnegie Hall, but that doesn’t quite pay off. 84 min. NNN (GS) Grande - Yonge, Kingsway Theatre, Varsity

ñBIUTIFUL

(Alejandro González Iñárritu) tracks small-time criminal and single father Uxbal (Oscar-nominated Javier Bardem), who’s just been informed

ñBRIDESMAIDS

(Paul Feig) is a broad farce built on a solid foundation of human psychology, starring Kristen Wiig as a Milwaukee baker whose life has hit a rough patch and who’s therefore in no state to cope with the impending marriage of best friend Lillian (Maya Rudolph).

Even as the situations grow increasingly cartoonish – producer Judd Apatow clearly pumped up a food-poisoning sequence – Bridesmaids paints a credible portrait of a woman in crisis. Wiig, who co-wrote the screenplay with Annie Mumolo, grounds everything in Annie’s bone-deep insecurity, and gives a nicely considered performance in her first leading role. 124 min.

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CERTIFIED COPY (Abbas Kiarostami) is a psychological puzzler about the murky relationship between an antiques dealer (Juliette Binoche) and an art historian (William Shimell), revealed as they drive through Tuscany. Intriguing but also aggravating, its main virtue is 2010 Cannes acting prizewinner Binoche. Subtitled. 106 min. NNN (SGC) Cumberland 4 THE CONSPIRATOR (Robert Redford) painstakingly dramatizes the trial of Mary Surratt, the only woman indicted in the conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln. Robin Wright plays Southerner Surratt and James McAvoy her untested Yankee attorney. Directed by Redford in a stiff, almost frumpy manner that can best be described as Period Respectability, this is an awfully dull movie about a truly terrible time in American history, when a nation desperate to hold itself together abandoned its own fundamental principles to mete out revenge instead of search for justice. Parallels to the post-9/11 era are obvious – too obvious, really – but The Conspirator never really does anything with them. It’s a film far more interested in costumes and lighting than it is in ideas.

121 min. NN (NW) Varsity EVEN THE RAIN (Icíar Bollaín) recreates the 2000 Cochabamba water wars in Bolivia – when the native population rose up against the sale of public waterworks to foreign corporation – as experienced by a fictional Spanish film crew making a movie about Christopher Columbus’s discovery of the New World. It’s a straightforward drama about privileged First Worlders whose eyes are opened to the harsh realities of globalization when they’re plunged into the middle of a conflict, with the historical parallels made even more obvious by the device of the film shoot.

(Screenwriter Paul Laverty, a frequent collaborator of Ken Loach’s, lays on the historical ironies with a trowel.) But Bollaín’s direction keeps us focused on the human stories playing out within its socially conscious frame, building to a powerful climax. Subtitled. 103 min. NNN (NW) Cumberland 4 FAST FIVE (Justin Lin) is an okay entry in

the Fast And Furious franchise that sends career criminal Dominic (Vin Diesel), his best buddy (Paul Walker) and the buddy’s girl (Jordana Brewster) to beautifully photographed Rio de Janeiro for a train robbery and a big-money heist from the city’s top crime lord. Meanwhile, hardass American cop Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) is closing in. There’s lots of running and gunning between the two big set pieces: the train robbery and the massively destructive climactic chase. This may distract you from noticing how Diesel has morphed

from dangerous and sexy into cozy and soft. 130 min. NNN (AD) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Docks Lakeview Drive-In, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Humber Cinema, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

The FirsT Grader (Justin Chadwick) 103 min. See review, page 71, and interview with Naomie Harris at nowtoronto.com/ movies. NN (NW) Opens May 20 at Cumberland 4.

Forks over kNives (Lee Fulkerson) 96 min. See review, page 71. NN (NW) Opens May 20 at Cumberland 4. haNNa (Joe Wright) is an entertaining actioner starring Saoirse Ronan as a teen trained from birth to assassinate meanie spy operative Cate Blanchett. Blanchett’s brilliantly bad. 111 min. NNN (SGC) Carlton Cinema, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga hoodwiNked Too! hood vs. evil

(Michael D’Isa-Hogan) is faster, funnier, more polished and adult-friendly than the original Hoodwinked’s whodunit riff on Little Red Riding Hood. This time, a wicked witch kidnaps Hansel and Gretel and Granny, with Red, the Wolf and the overcaffeinated squirrel, now secret agents, in hot pursuit. Visual and verbal gags ensue.

Some of them are elaborately developed – look for the false beard joke. Others are barely noticeable throwaways, like a reference to Dental Clown Tech. All are delivered with sharp comic timing. The animation is lively but not spectacular.

The 3-D adds little to the experience. 82 min. NNN (AD) 401 & Morningside, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24

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follows two families coping with matters of morality and vengeance. Christian (William Jøhnk Nielsen), full of fury after his mother dies, turns to revenge as a means of getting control over his life. He begins a friendship with Elias (Markus Rygaard), whose dad (Mikael Persbrandt) is off practising medicine in Africa – gorgeous sequences there – and who is the school bully’s prime target. After he takes care of Elias’s nemesis, Christian looks for bigger fish to fry. Persbrandt is superb as the good doctor trying to resist violence, and Bier expertly ramps up the tension in this intelligent meditation on masculinity, family and accountability. Winner of this year’s Academy Award for best foreignlanguage film. Subtitled. 113 min. NNNN (SGC) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema

adaptation of Charlotte Brönte’s novel about the eponymous orphan-turnedgoverness, but this one is richly atmospheric and bolstered by the always watchable Mia Wasikowska in the lead. There’s lots of smouldering chemistry between Jane and her Byronic employer, Mr. Rochester (Michael Fassbender), but some of their dialogue feels clunky. Adriano Goldman’s camera captures the look and feel of each of the settings, with some candlelit scenes worthy of a La Tour. 118 min. NNN (GS) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre

JumpiNG The Broom (Salim Akil) is a contrived comedy that pits two about-tobe-joined-by-marriage African-American families from different social milieus against each other. Sabrina (Paula Patton) is a moneyed, Ivy League-educated lawyer, while her fiancé, Jason (Laz Alonso), has worked his way up from humble Brooklyn roots to become a Wall Street banker. When Jason’s working-class family, headed by his single mom (Loretta Devine), descend on Sabrina’s folks’ massive estate on Martha’s Vineyard for the wedding, they predictably clash with Sabrina’s controlling mom (Angela Bassett) and dad (Brian Stokes Mitchell). The situation would be more compelling if we

knew something about the central couple, but they’re cardboard characters, given little life by the actors. Thankfully, the maid of honour (Meagan Good) and the reception’s chef (CSI’s Gary Dourdan) sizzle in a couple of sexy scenes, while Tasha Smith and Romeo have a recurring gag as a younger guy-older woman pairing. Best is Devine, who uses her highpitched voice and lots of knowing glances to communicate years of frustration and pain that are only hinted at in the script.

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lasT NiGhT (Massy Tadjedin) 90 min. See interview and review, page 70. NN (NW) Opens May 20 at Grande - Yonge, Scotiabank Theatre.

limiTless (Neil Burger) takes an intriguing sci-fi premise and zigzags to some pretty unexpected places. Bradley Cooper plays a slacking writer who chances upon a trial drug that makes him super-smart. Soon he’s being pursued by all sorts of unsavoury characters. Director Burger has great fun visualizing the effects of the drug, and though the film has some tonal

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The liNcolN lawyer (Brad Furman) is the cinematic equivalent of a decent airplane read; Michael Connelly’s novel about a wheeler-dealer defence attorney pulled into an increasingly nasty assault case gives Matthew McConaughey a role ideally suited to his laid-back, Southernfried vibe. It’s entirely predictable, which becomes a bit of an issue in the second half, but McConaughey works pretty hard to hold our interest. 119 min. NNN (NW) Canada Square, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Kelly Reichardt) tells the story of a small wagon train lost in the badlands of the American West, circa 1845. It’s a film about process – about how long it takes to cross a river, reload a rifle or put out a fire. As the families (Michelle Williams and Will Patton, Shirley Henderson and Neal Huff, Zoe Kazan and Paul Dano) follow their

blustering but clearly incompetent guide (the marvellous Bruce Greenwood) deeper and deeper into an unknowable quagmire, you could draw parallels to the American adventure in Iraq, but only if you wanted to be simplistic about it. Moody and sharply observed, this is one of the finest American films of the last year. 101 min.

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She plays a puffy, hardened ex-porn-star, the obsession of geeky Tobe (Dustin Ingram), who’s prepared to travel any distance to get some face time with her.

When he finally meets her, he’s not at all turned off by the fact that she’s got a mean streak and lives in a trailer. Eventually, the two find a way to connect, which only deepens Monica’s distress. Though the storyline is slim, Cattrall’s obviously committed to the film, as evidenced not only by her physical transformation but by the risks she takes in the performance.

Director Bearden expertly captures the small town Tobe wants to escape. And watch for Brian Dennehy as Tobe’s eccentric grandfather. He’s a gas. 97 min. NNN (SGC)

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(Denis Villeneuve) successfully adapts Wajdi Mouawad’s play Scorched, a multi-layered mystery set both in Canada and somewhere in the Middle East. Villeneuve’s control over the ambitious material, André Turpin’s vivid cinematography, and committed performances make this modern-day Greek tragedy feel timeless. Subtitled. 130 min.

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iNsidious (James Wan) teams the Saw franchise creators – director Wan and screenwriter Leigh Whannell – with Paranormal Activity producer Oren Peli for a story of a family plagued by spooky craziness. More a reworking of Poltergeist than anything else. 92 min. NN (NW) Coliseum Mississauga, Eglinton Town Centre, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24 JaNe eyre (Cary Fukunaga) is yet another

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the metroPolitaN oPera: caPriccio eNcore is an encore live high-def broad-

cast from the Met of the Strauss opera, starring Renée Fleming in the title role.

205 min.

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127 min. See stories and review, page 42.

NNN (NW) Opens May 19 at Royal (see Indie & Rep Film, page 79).

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(Xavier Beauvois) dramatizes, in a subtle and respectful way, the story of Trappist monks who choose not to leave their Algerian monastery as the country tilts toward civil war in 1996, despite the knowledge that the government can no longer protect them. It’s a quiet, implacable film, finding notes of grace in the steady progression toward a dreadful end.

Subtitled. 117 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema

Paul (Greg Mottola) lets Simon Pegg and

Nick Frost – stars of Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz – celebrate their inner geeks as a pair of English sci-fi nerds who stumble across an actual ET on a road trip through America’s most famous alienencounter sites. The movie’s never more than the sum of its references, but if Paul doesn’t amount to anything more than a good time, it’s still a good time, right? 102 min. NNN (NW) Yonge & Dundas 24

Pirates of the cariBBeaN: oN straNger tiDes (Rob Marshall) 137 min. See

review, page 70. NN (NW) Opens May 20 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Docks Lakeview Drive-In, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinema, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity.

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finds documentarian Spurlock investigating the scourge of product placement in movies by making a movie entirely financed by sponsorship. The result is a testament to the power of the Iron Man Slurpee and the willingness of a filmmaker to whore himself out for quick cash. Spurlock tries to insulate himself by admitting he’s prostituting his movie up front, but keeps backing away from the deeper implications of what he’s doing – it’s awfully disingenuous of him to solicit advice on developing his personal brand when he’s been doing that full-time for the last seven years. It’s just the same meta-gag over and over again, as Spurlock sets the terms of a sponsor’s ad buy, delivers on those terms within the movie and waits for the audience’s knowing laughter. But that audience is still watching an ad. 90 min.

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ñPotiche

(François Ozon) is a sly feminist comedy that’s one big gobsmacking pleasure. Catherine Deneuve plays the title role (“potiche” means “trophy wife”), a woman who comes into her own when her reactionary, philan-

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dering husband falls ill and she takes over the family factory. Deneuve is glorious, obviously having a blast in a story that doesn’t shy away from broad humour.

Gérard Depardieu plays her one-time lover, an influential Communist MP, with equal relish. Set in 1977 and gleefully art directed to reflect the period, Potiche grasps that moment when women – to the shock of their more conservative family members – were just beginning to imagine what it might be like to have power. A blast. Subtitled. 103 min. NNNN (SGC) Cumberland 4

Priest 3D (Scott Stewart) is a run-of-the-

mill CGI and wirework actioner with mediocre 3-D. It pits a renegade priest against the gang of vampires who’ve stolen his niece. The alternate universe’s primary functions are to explain our hero’s superpowers and let the graphic artists create some stylized settings. Once the priest and his helpers hit the badlands, the movie looks and plays like a comic book take on a spaghetti western, with motorcycles standing in for horses and scrawny eyeless creatures for bandits. There’s a not-bad climax aboard a speeding train. 87 min.

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(Joe Nussbaum) is a nice surprise, even if you’re not in its target demographic. Various members of a delightfully multicultural yet strangely bullyfree high school must deal with the upcoming prom, including finding the right date, something to wear or a cool alternative. Katie Wech’s script respects its characters (even the adults aren’t caricatures), and she and director Nussbaum have a particular affection for the school’s underdogs. The movie is chaste even by Disney standards: there’s no mention of booze, drugs or sex. But while it’s clearly a slice of middle American wish fulfillment, it never feels condescending. With fine performances by Aimee Teegarden, Thomas McDonell, Nolan Sotillo and Nicholas Braun, I wouldn’t be surprised if it becomes a tween classic. 103 min. NNNN (GS) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Courtney Park 16, Docks Lakeview Drive-In, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre

rio (Carlos Saldanha) is at its best when depicting the spectacular beauty of Rio de Janeiro via artful use of aerial photography, animation and 3-D. Sadly, the movie seldom rises above the mildly amusing. Blu is a blue macaw, raised as a pet, who never learned to fly. The last male of his species, he’s brought to Rio to mate with Jewel, the last known female.

They’re stolen and escape, chained at the ankle. Jesse Eisenberg and Anne Hathaway, who voice Blu and Jewel, are adequately chirpy, but the dialogue offers nothing special. A brisk pace and lively visuals keep things rolling along pleasantly enough. 96 min. NNN (AD) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24 scream 4 (Wes Craven) reassembles sur-

vivors of the self-reflexive series – Neve Campbell’s perpetually threatened Sidney Prescott, Courteney Cox’s pointy journalist-turned-author Gale Weathers and David Arquette’s easily distracted lawman, Dewey Riley – and brings the action back to Woodsboro for the last stop of Sidney’s book tour and the first stop on the ghost-faced killer’s comeback. The story offers the occasional nod to Facebook friends and text messaging, but screenwriter Kevin Williamson and director Craven really just want to make the same movie all over again, with attractive teens getting creepy phone calls (there’s an app for that) and debating what they’d do if they were living in a movie. And this time, the frame of reference is shockingly limited; the only post-Scream film that gets a shout-out is my beloved Shaun Of The Dead, but that just points out how high the bar has been raised for self-aware horror these days. 112 min. NN (NW) Colossus, Grande - Steeles, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Scotiabank Theatre

somethiNg BorroweD (Luke Greenfield) is an appallingly apathetic chick-lit adaptation about a Manhattan singleton (Ginnifer Goodwin) who drunkenly falls into bed with her best friend’s fiancé (Colin Egglesfield), then spends a summer continuing the fling while feeling really bad about it. At least Kate Hudson is perfectly cast as the spoiled, flighty, grasping Bridezilla; whoever convinced her to take the role deserves some sort of award.

Director Greenfield’s last feature, the boymeets-hooker comedy The Girl Next Door, was so much more intelligent and entertaining than its log line suggested, and I’d hoped he’d work similar magic here. But there’s just nothing to go on; every single character is so selfish and blinkered that we wind up hating them long before they realize they’re supposed to hate themselves. 110 min. N (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale soul surfer (Sean McNamara) turns the true story of Bethany Hamilton – a Hawaii teen who lost an arm to a shark and dedicated herself to getting back on her board – into a rote sainthood narrative, pitting AnnaSophia Robb’s blond, blue-eyed Bethany against a series of dark-haired or outright swarthy characters who dare to stand in her way. The storytelling choices grow more questionable as the movie goes on. 106 min. NN (NW) Kennedy Commons 20, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24 source coDe (Duncan Jones) casts Jake Gyllenhaal as a soldier whose consciousness is injected into a “quantum rendering” of a terrorist attack, with eight minutes to figure out who planted the bomb in order to stop a second, larger strike. Watchable, but not nearly as clever as it thinks it is. 93 min. NNN (NW) Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Courtney Park 16, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yonge, Varsity the straNge case of aNgelica (Manoel de Oliveira) is a haunting reverie of a film, a quiet meditation on art, love and the passage of time. Intense young Portuguese photographer Isaac (Ricardo Trêpa) is hired by a wealthy family to photograph the dead body of a beautiful woman named Angelica (Pilar López de Ayala), who then enters his dreams. Before long, Isaac begins losing sleep and becomes obsessed with photographing labourers and their old-fashioned equipment. His anti-social behaviour worries his landlady and the other residents of his rooming house, whose conversation ranges from quantum physics to a very symbolic caged continued on page 76 œ

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bird. It’s beautifully shot, and Maria João Pires’s Chopin-playing gives a lyrical undertow to the imagery. It’s not entirely clear what de Oliveira – who was 101 years old (!) when he made this – is commenting on: the lasting power of the imagination? The value of old-fashioned artistic techniques? And what does Isaac’s Jewishness have to do with anything?

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THOR (Kenneth Branagh) takes a potentially ridiculous comic-book character – the beefy but well-spoken God of Thunder, son of Odin and sworn defender of our Earthly realm – and slots him nicely into the ongoing cinematic version of the Marvel Comics universe. That’s all thanks to a light-hearted script that finds the angry young god (Chris Hemsworth) exiled from heavenly Asgard and forced to knock around New Mexico with skeptical mortals Natalie Portman, Kat Dennings and Stellan Skarsgård. Branagh’s direction plays up the inherent humour and humanity, only letting the flashy CG take over in the last reel. The post-production 3-D adds nothing; try to see it flat. 113 min.

NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Docks Lakeview Drive-In, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale TYLER PERRY’S MADEA’S BIG HAPPY FAMILY (Tyler Perry) finds writer/director/

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excuse for a romantic comedy, with the very wooden Jason Lewis and the considerably more expressive Carly Pope as Toronto downtowners whose ability to multi-task extends to juggling a trio of lovers apiece – including a married man, in Pope’s case – until they embark on a longterm flirtation with each other. Director Sonoda made the cutting comedies Ham & Cheese and Coopers’ Camera with Jason Jones and Mike Beaver; now, somehow, he’s ended up in charge of this calculated dud, which forces winning actors like Pope, Kristen Hager and Kris Holden-Reid to gum their way through co-star Liam Card’s tedious script. 94 min. N (NW) Yonge & Dundas 24

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Perry isn’t the subtlest of directors, but he knows how to mix up tears and laughs, and his Christian message isn’t too heavyhanded. Madea’s verbal and physical smackdowns go on a touch too long, but she’s always fun to watch. And Devine lends the film grace, dignity and spirit.

106 min. NNN (GS) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Yorkdale

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rence) is sabotaged by a timid approach to the sex, violence and strong emotion at the heart of the story. Freshly orphaned and homeless in the 1930s, Jacob (Robert Pattinson) gets work with a travelling circus whose cruel owner (Christoph Waltz) hopes that his new elephant act will stave off bankruptcy. Meanwhile Jacob and the owner’s young wife (Reese Witherspoon) are falling for each other. Pattinson makes cow eyes at Witherspoon, but they both save their best moments for scenes with Rosie the elephant. 121 min. NN (AD) Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, Varsity

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(Andy DeEmmony) features Om Puri, reprising his role as George, a Pakistani immigrant living in Manchester, who decides to take his roots-hating son for a vacation in the old country. A crowd-pleaser with a great performance from Puri. 103 min. NNNN (SGC) Carlton Cinema

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(Tom McCarthy) grows in stature while you watch, starting out as a lightweight dramedy about a struggling lawyer and wrestling coach (Paul Giamatti) and slowly accruing detail and emotional heft. Writer-director McCarthy lets the story develop naturalistically, which means the first half risks feeling aimless while Giamatti and his costars establish their characters. Stick with them – it’s worth it. 105 min. NNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24

YOUR HIGHNESS (David Gordon Green)

does for 80s sword-and-sorcery fare like Deathstalker and The Sword And The Sorcerer what Hobo With A Shotgun does for the Troma oeuvre and MacGruber for the Cannon canon: it takes the piss out of it with irreverent good humour. And there’s definitely something perversely entertaining about watching James Franco – and Natalie Portman! – running around waving swords and delivering some fairly twisted medieval dialogue.

101 min. NNN (NW) Interchange 30, Yonge & Dundas 24 3

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4:00, 6:30, 9:10 Wed 1:15, 4:00, 6:30 PRIEST 3D (14A) Thu 12:00, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:45 Fri, SunTue 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:45 Sat 12:15, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:45 Wed 2:10, 5:00, 7:45, 10:35 PROM (PG) Thu 12:55, 4:00, 6:45, 9:25 Fri-Wed 6:15, 9:05 RIO 3D (G) Thu 1:35, 4:05, 7:05, 9:25 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:55, 6:45, 9:15 SOMETHING BORROWED (PG) Thu 1:25, 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 THOR (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:55, 7:50, 10:30 Fri, Sun-Tue 1:50, 4:55, 7:50, 10:40 Sat 1:50, 4:55, 7:50, 10:50 Wed 1:50, 4:55, 7:50, 10:45 THOR 3D (PG) Thu 12:40, 1:10, 3:30, 4:10, 6:30, 7:10, 9:30, 10:00 Fri-Tue 12:10, 3:10, 6:20, 9:20 Wed 12:10 WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (PG) Thu 12:25, 3:20, 6:25, 9:20 Fri, Sun-Tue 12:25, 3:25, 6:25, 9:25 Sat 4:05, 6:55, 9:45 Wed 4:05, 7:25

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WOODBINE CENTRE, 500 REXDALE BLVD, 416-213-1998 BRIDESMAIDS (14A) 1:15, 4:00, 6:50, 9:25 FAST FIVE (PG) 12:55, 3:50, 6:45, 9:35 THE HANGOVER PART II (18A) Wed 10:00 HOODWINKED TOO! HOOD VS. EVIL (G) Fri-Wed 1:10, 3:40 HOODWINKED TOO! HOOD VS. EVIL 3D (G) Thu 12:50, 3:40 JUMPING THE BROOM (PG) Thu 1:00 3:45 6:50 9:25 FriWed 1:00, 3:45, 6:55, 9:30 PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES (PG) Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:55, 7:00, 9:55 PRIEST (14A) 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 9:40 RIO (G) 12:40, 2:50, 5:00, 7:10, 9:20 Wed no 9:20 SOMETHING BORROWED (PG) Thu 1:10, 3:55, 6:55, 9:30 Fri-Wed 7:00, 9:25 THOR 3D (PG) 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 9:45 TYLER PERRY’S MADEA’S BIG HAPPY FAMILY (PG) Thu 7:00, 9:15

East End BEACH CINEMAS (AA) 1651 QUEEN ST E, 416-699-5971

BRIDESMAIDS (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 7:20, 10:20 Fri, SunMon 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Sat 12:45, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 FAST FIVE (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 7:10, 10:10 Fri, Sun-Mon 12:45, 3:45, 7:10, 10:10 Sat 3:45, 7:10, 10:10 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: CAPRICCIO ENCORE Sat 1:00 PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES 3D (PG) Fri-Mon 12:00, 3:20, 6:40, 10:00 Tue-Wed 6:40, 10:00 PRIEST (14A) Fri-Mon 1:45, 4:40, 7:30, 10:30 Tue-Wed 7:30, 10:30 PRIEST 3D (14A) Thu 7:40, 10:00 RIO (G) Thu 7:30 Fri-Mon 1:30, 4:10, 6:50 Tue-Wed 6:50 SOMETHING BORROWED (PG) Thu 6:50, 9:40 Fri-Wed 9:20 THOR 3D (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Mon 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (PG) Thu 10:00

North York EMPIRE THEATRES AT EMPRESS WALK (ET) 5095 YONGE ST, 416-223-9550

AFRICAN CATS Thu 2:00, 4:35, 6:50, 9:00 ARTHUR (PG) Thu 7:15, 9:50 THE LINCOLN LAWYER (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:20 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:00, 6:45 PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES (PG) Fri-Sat 1:20, 2:00, 2:50, 4:30, 5:15, 6:00, 7:45, 8:30, 9:10, 11:00, 11:40, 11:59 Sun-Wed 1:20, 2:00, 2:50, 4:30, 5:15, 6:00, 7:45, 8:30, 9:10, 10:50 PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES 3D (PG) Thu 12:01 Fri-Tue 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Wed 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 PRIEST (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:20, 6:40, 9:10 Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:10, 6:40, 9:20, 11:25 Sun-Wed 1:30, 4:10, 6:40, 9:20 continued on page 78 œ

SCOTIABANK THEATRE (CE) 259 RICHMOND ST W, 416-368-5600

THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (PG) Thu 2:10, 4:45, 7:50 HANNA (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:45, 6:50, 9:30 Fri-Sun 2:20, 5:10, 8:20, 11:10 Mon-Tue 12:20, 3:10, 6:15, 9:10 Wed 12:20, 3:10, 6:10, 9:00 LAST NIGHT (PG) Fri-Sun 1:45, 4:10, 6:50, 9:40 Mon-Tue 1:00, 3:45, 6:50, 9:30 Wed 1:00, 4:10, 7:10, 9:40 LIMITLESS (14A) Thu 2:15, 4:50, 7:40, 10:20 Fri-Sun 2:00, 5:00, 7:50, 10:45 Mon-Tue 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:20 Wed 12:40, 3:45, 6:20, 9:30 MEMPHIS Wed 7:00 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: CAPRICCIO ENCORE Sat 1:00 PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES (PG) Fri-Sun 12:00, 3:20, 6:40, 10:00 Mon-Wed 2:00, 5:30, 8:45 PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES 3D (PG) Thu 12:01 Fri-Sun 11:30, 12:30, 1:00, 2:45, 3:50, 4:20,

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Priest 3D (14A) Thu 3:00, 5:10, 7:30, 10:00 Fri-Sat 2:30, 5:00, 7:25, 9:40, 11:50 Sun-Wed 2:30, 5:00, 7:25, 9:40 Prom (PG) Thu 2:10, 4:50 rio (G) Thu 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 10:10 Fri 1:00, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50, 11:55 Sat 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50, 11:55 Sun-Wed 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 source coDe (PG) Thu 2:05, 4:45, 7:10, 9:20 Fri-Sat 9:30, 11:30 Sun-Wed 9:30 thor (PG) Thu 2:15, 5:00, 7:50, 10:30 Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 thor 3D (PG) Thu 1:30, 3:20, 4:10, 6:00, 7:00, 8:50, 9:40 Fri-Sat 12:30, 3:10, 5:50, 8:40, 11:20 Sun-Tue 12:30, 3:10, 5:50, 8:40 Wed 3:10, 5:50, 8:40

Grande - YonGe (Ce) 4861 YonGe ST, 416-590-9974

the Bang Bang cluB (14A) Thu 4:15, 7:05, 9:55 Fri 4:15, 7:25, 10:15 Sat-Sun 1:25, 4:15, 7:25, 10:15 Mon 1:25, 4:15, 6:55, 9:55 Tue-Wed 4:15, 6:55, 9:55 Bill cunningham new York (PG) 4:10, 6:40, 9:20 SatMon 1:10 mat BriDesmaiDs (14A) Thu 4:20, 7:15, 10:00 Fri 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Sat-Sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Mon 1:20, 4:20, 7:00, 10:00 Tue-Wed 4:20, 7:00, 10:00 Fast Five (PG) Thu 3:30, 4:00, 6:30, 7:10, 9:40, 10:00 Fri 4:00, 7:10, 10:10 Sat 1:00, 4:15, 7:10, 10:10 Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:10 Mon 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Tue 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Wed 4:00, 7:00, 9:55 the hangover Part ii (18A) Wed 10:00, 10:15 hanna (PG) Thu 3:55, 6:55, 9:45 Fri-Sat 4:25, 7:15, 10:05 Sun 12:40, 4:25, 7:15, 10:05 Mon 12:40, 4:25, 7:05, 9:45 Tue 4:25, 7:05, 9:45 Wed 4:25, 9:45 hooDwinkeD too! hooD vs. evil 3D (G) Thu-Fri, Tue 3:45, 6:10, 9:00 Sat-Mon 1:15, 3:45, 6:10, 9:00 Wed 3:45, 6:10 last night (PG) 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Sat-Mon 12:30 mat limitless (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:30, 9:55 Fri-Sat 4:30, 7:30, 10:00 Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:00 Mon 1:30, 4:30, 7:15, 9:50 Tue 4:30, 7:15, 9:50 Wed 4:30, 7:15 memPhis Wed 7:00 the metroPolitan oPera: caPriccio encore Sat 1:00 Pom wonDerFul Presents: the greatest movie ever solD Thu 4:05, 6:40, 9:15 something BorroweD (PG) Thu-Fri 3:50, 7:00, 9:50 Sat-Sun 12:50, 3:50, 7:00, 9:50 Mon 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 Tue-Wed 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 water For elePhants (PG) Thu 3:40 6:20 9:30 Fri-Wed 3:40, 6:20, 9:40 Sat-Mon 12:20 mat

SilverCiTY FairvieW (Ce)

FairvieW Mall, 1800 Sheppard ave e, 416-644-7746 BriDesmaiDs (14A) Thu 12:20, 3:30, 6:50, 9:50 Fri-Tue 12:20, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Wed 3:45, 6:30, 9:45 Fast Five (PG) Thu 12:10, 12:40, 3:10, 4:10, 6:30, 7:10, 9:40, 10:05 Fri-Tue 1:10, 4:10, 7:30, 10:45 Wed 1:00, 4:10, 7:35, 10:45 the hangover Part ii (18A) Wed 10:10, 10:40 JumPing the Broom (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:20, 7:05, 9:55 Pirates oF the cariBBean: on stranger tiDes (PG) Fri-Sun, Tue 12:30, 3:50, 7:10, 9:15, 10:30 Mon 1:20, 4:40, 8:00, 9:15 Wed 4:30, 7:50 Pirates oF the cariBBean: on stranger tiDes 3D (PG) Fri-Sun, Tue 12:00, 1:00, 3:20, 4:20, 6:40, 7:40, 10:00, 11:00 Mon, Wed 12:00, 12:30, 3:20, 3:50, 6:40, 7:10, 10:00, 10:30 Priest 3D (14A) Thu 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:20, 10:10 Fri-Tue 12:40, 3:10, 6:20, 9:00 Wed 12:40, 3:10, 6:20, 9:30 rio (G) Fri-Wed 12:10, 3:40, 6:50 rio 3D (G) Thu 12:30, 3:00, 6:20 something BorroweD (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:40, 6:40, 9:30 Fri-Sun, Tue 12:50, 4:00, 7:00, 9:45 Mon 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:45 Wed 12:50, 4:00, 7:00 thor 3D (PG) Thu 1:00, 1:30, 4:00, 4:30, 7:00, 7:20, 10:00, 10:15 Fri-Sun, Tue 1:20, 4:30, 7:20, 10:15 Mon 1:30, 4:25, 7:20, 10:15 Wed 1:10, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20

SilverCiTY Yorkdale (Ce) 3401 duFFerin ST, 416-787-4432

BriDesmaiDs (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:10 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:40, 6:50, 9:50 Fast Five (PG) Thu 12:00, 12:40, 3:10, 3:50, 6:15, 7:00, 9:30, 10:10 Fri-Wed 12:15, 3:45, 7:00, 10:10 the hangover Part ii (18A) Wed 10:00 JumPing the Broom (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:30, 6:30, 9:40 Fri-Tue 1:00, 4:00, 6:45, 9:45 Wed 1:00, 4:00, 6:45

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Pirates oF the cariBBean: on stranger tiDes (PG) 12:30, 3:50, 7:10, 9:30, 10:30 Wed no 9:30 Pirates oF the cariBBean: on stranger tiDes 3D (PG) Thu 12:01 Fri-Wed 12:00, 3:20, 6:40, 10:00 Priest 3D (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:20, 7:00, 9:30, 10:00 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 rio (G) Fri-Wed 12:10, 3:00, 6:10 rio 3D (G) Thu 12:10, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30 something BorroweD (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:40, 6:50, 9:50 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:30, 6:30, 9:40 thor 3D (PG) Thu 12:20 1:30 3:20 4:30 6:20 7:20 9:20 10:15 Fri-Wed 12:20, 1:15, 3:10, 4:15, 6:20, 7:20, 9:20, 10:20 tYler PerrY’s maDea’s Big haPPY FamilY (PG) Thu 12:15, 3:45, 6:40, 9:45

Scarborough 401 & MorninGSide (Ce) 785 Milner ave, SCarborouGh, 416-281-2226

BriDesmaiDs (14A) Thu 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Fri-Mon 1:00, 4:00, 7:30, 10:30 Tue-Wed 4:00, 7:30, 10:20 Fast Five (PG) Thu 3:30, 4:20, 6:15, 7:10, 9:00, 10:10 FriMon 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 10:25 Tue-Wed 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 the hangover Part ii (18A) Wed 10:00, 10:30 hooDwinkeD too! hooD vs. evil (G) Thu 4:05 Fri-Mon 12:10, 2:45 Tue-Wed 3:50 JumPing the Broom (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:15, 9:50 Fri-Mon 12:20, 3:00, 6:15, 9:00 Tue-Wed 3:25, 6:15, 9:00 Pirates oF the cariBBean: on stranger tiDes (PG) Fri-Mon 12:00, 3:15, 6:30, 9:45 Tue 3:15, 6:30, 9:40 Wed 3:15, 6:30, 9:30 Pirates oF the cariBBean: on stranger tiDes 3D (PG) Thu 12:01 Fri-Mon 12:30, 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 Tue-Wed 3:40, 7:00, 10:10 Priest (14A) Thu 6:15, 8:50 Fri-Mon 6:05, 8:50 Tue-Wed 6:10, 8:50 Priest 3D (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:40, 9:45 Fri-Mon 2:00, 5:00, 7:50, 10:05 Tue 5:00, 7:50, 10:00 Wed 5:00, 7:35, 9:45 Prom (PG) Thu 9:35 rio (G) Thu 4:50, 7:20 Fri-Mon 1:50, 4:30, 6:50 Tue-Wed 4:30, 6:50 something BorroweD (PG) Thu 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 FriMon 1:15, 4:10, 7:10, 9:55 Tue 4:10, 7:10, 9:50 Wed 4:10, 7:10 thor (PG) Thu 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 Fri-Mon 12:45, 3:30, 6:40, 9:30 Tue 3:30, 6:40, 9:30 Wed 3:30, 6:40, 9:15 thor 3D (PG) Thu 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Fri-Mon 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:35 Tue 4:40, 7:40, 10:20 Wed 4:40, 7:40, 10:25 tYler PerrY’s maDea’s Big haPPY FamilY (PG) Thu 3:45, 6:30, 9:10 Fri-Tue 9:15

ColiSeuM SCarborouGh (Ce) SCarborouGh ToWn CenTre, 416-290-5217

Fast Five (PG) 12:30, 1:25, 3:30, 4:25, 6:30, 7:25, 9:30, 10:25 JumPing the Broom (PG) 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 the metroPolitan oPera: caPriccio encore Sat 1:00 Priest (14A) 12:35, 3:35, 6:35, 9:35 Priest 3D (14A) 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 rio 3D (G) 12:55, 3:25, 6:20, 9:00 something BorroweD (PG) 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 thor (PG) 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 thor 3D (PG) 1:00, 1:30, 4:00, 4:30, 7:00, 7:30, 10:00, 10:30 tYler PerrY’s maDea’s Big haPPY FamilY (PG) ThuFri, Sun-Wed 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 Sat 4:05, 7:05, 10:05

eGlinTon ToWn CenTre (Ce) 1901 eGlinTon ave e, 416-752-4494

BriDesmaiDs (14A) Thu 4:00, 7:00, 9:55 Fri-Mon 1:20, 4:40, 7:45, 10:45 Tue-Wed 4:40, 7:45, 10:45 Fast Five (PG) Thu 3:30, 4:10, 6:30, 7:15, 9:30, 10:10 FriMon 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 11:00 Tue-Wed 4:50, 7:50, 11:00 the hangover Part ii (18A) Wed 10:00, 10:20, 10:40 hooDwinkeD too! hooD vs. evil (G) Thu 4:20, 6:45 Fri-Mon 1:10, 4:00, 7:00 Tue 4:00, 7:00 Wed 3:35, 6:35 insiDious (14A) Thu 4:45, 7:35, 10:00 Fri-Tue 9:40 JumPing the Broom (PG) Thu 4:50, 7:40, 10:15 Fri-Mon 2:10, 5:00, 8:00, 10:40 Tue 5:00, 8:00, 10:40 Wed 4:30, 7:30 limitless (14A) Thu 9:10 Pirates oF the cariBBean: on stranger tiDes (PG) Fri-Mon 12:30, 2:20, 3:50, 6:10, 7:10, 9:30, 10:30 Tue-Wed 3:00, 3:50, 6:10, 7:10, 9:30, 10:30 Pirates oF the cariBBean: on stranger tiDes 3D (PG) Thu 12:01 Fri-Mon 12:00, 1:00, 3:20, 4:20, 6:40, 7:40, 10:00, 10:50 Tue-Wed 3:20, 4:20, 6:40, 7:40, 10:00, 10:50 Priest (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:50, 10:20 Fri-Mon 1:30, 4:15, 6:50, 9:50 Tue-Wed 4:15, 6:50, 9:50 Priest 3D (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:20, 9:40 Fri-Mon 2:00, 4:45, 7:15, 10:15 Tue-Wed 4:45, 7:15, 10:15 Prom (PG) Thu 3:45, 6:40, 9:15 Fri-Mon 1:40, 4:30, 7:30, 10:10 Tue 4:30, 7:30, 10:10 Wed 4:00, 7:00 rio (G) Fri-Mon 12:50, 3:45, 6:30, 9:10 Tue-Wed 3:45, 6:30, 9:10

rio 3D (G) Thu 3:40, 6:20, 9:00 something BorroweD (PG) Thu 4:05, 7:05, 9:45 FriMon 12:40, 3:40, 6:45, 9:45 Tue-Wed 3:40, 6:45, 9:45 thor (PG) Thu 3:25, 6:10, 9:05 Fri-Mon 12:10, 3:30, 6:20, 9:20 Tue-Wed 3:30, 6:20, 9:20 thor 3D (PG) Thu 3:50, 4:40, 6:50, 7:30, 9:50, 10:25 FriMon 1:15, 4:10, 7:20, 10:20 Tue-Wed 4:10, 7:20, 10:20 water For elePhants (PG) Thu 4:15, 7:10, 10:05 Fri-Mon 12:20, 3:10, 6:00, 9:00 Tue-Wed 3:10, 6:00, 9:00

kennedY CoMMonS 20 (aMC) kennedY rd & 401, 416-335-5323

the aDJustment Bureau (PG) Thu 5:00, 10:05 aFrican cats Thu, Tue-Wed 2:50, 5:05, 7:15, 9:30 FriMon 10:10, 12:35, 2:50, 5:05, 7:15, 9:30 arthur (PG) Thu 2:30, 7:30 the Bang Bang cluB (14A) Thu, Tue 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Fri-Mon 9:50, 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Wed 2:45, 5:15, 7:45 Beat the worlD Thu 2:55, 5:10, 7:25, 9:40 a BeautiFul liFe Fri-Sun 10:30, 11:30, 1:30, 2:30, 4:25, 5:30, 7:30, 8:30, 10:30, 11:30 Mon 10:30, 11:30, 1:30, 2:30, 4:25, 5:30, 7:30, 8:30, 10:30 Tue-Wed 1:30, 2:30, 4:25, 5:30, 7:30, 8:30, 10:30, 11:30 BriDesmaiDs (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 1:30, 3:30, 4:30, 6:30, 7:30, 9:30, 10:30 Fri-Sun 10:45, 12:30, 1:30, 3:30, 4:30, 6:30, 7:30, 9:30, 10:30, 12:15 Mon 10:45, 12:30, 1:30, 3:30, 4:30, 6:30, 7:30, 9:30, 10:30 the hangover Part ii (18A) Wed 10:00, 10:30, 11:00 hanna (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 2:05, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 FriMon 11:20, 2:05, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 hooDwinkeD too! hooD vs. evil 3D (G) Thu 2:25, 4:45, 7:00, 9:15 hoP (G) Thu 1:50, 4:15 insiDious (14A) Thu, Tue 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 Fri-Mon 9:45, 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 Wed 2:50, 5:20, 7:50 Jane eYre (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 1:30, 4:15, 7:05, 9:55 FriMon 10:40, 1:30, 4:15, 7:05, 9:55 limitless (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 2:00, 4:35, 7:10, 9:45 FriMon 11:25, 2:00, 4:35, 7:10, 9:45 the lincoln lawYer (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Fri-Mon 11:00, 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 love u... mr. kalakaar! (PG) Thu 2:10, 5:30, 9:00 Pirates oF the cariBBean: on stranger tiDes (PG) Fri-Mon 10:15, 1:30, 4:45, 8:00, 11:15 Tue-Wed 1:30, 4:45, 8:00, 11:15 Pirates oF the cariBBean: on stranger tiDes 3D (PG) Thu 12:01 Fri-Sun 9:30, 11:00, 12:30, 2:10, 3:45, 5:45, 7:00, 9:00, 10:15, 12:15 Mon 9:30, 11:00, 12:30, 2:10, 3:45, 5:45, 7:00, 9:00, 10:15 Tue-Wed 2:10, 3:45, 5:45, 7:00, 9:00, 10:15 Prom (PG) Thu 7:15, 9:50 scream 4 (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 2:25, 5:05, 7:45, 10:25 Fri-Mon 11:35, 2:25, 5:05, 7:45, 10:25 soul surFer (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 1:55, 4:25, 7:10, 9:45 Fri-Mon 11:25, 1:55, 4:25, 7:10, 9:45 source coDe (PG) Thu, Tue 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:00 Fri-Mon 10:00, 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:00 Wed 3:00, 5:20, 7:40 water For elePhants (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 1:35, 4:20, 7:05, 9:50 Fri-Mon 10:55, 1:35, 4:20, 7:05, 9:50 win win (14A) Thu 2:20, 4:55, 7:35 Fri-Mon 11:40, 2:20, 4:55, 7:35, 10:10 Tue-Wed 2:20, 4:55, 7:35, 10:10

GTA Regions Mississauga

ColiSeuM MiSSiSSauGa (Ce) Square one, 309 raThburn rd W, 905-275-3456

Fast Five (PG) Thu 12:10, 12:50, 3:20, 4:20, 6:40, 7:30, 9:45, 10:30 Fri, Sun-Mon 12:10, 1:10, 3:10, 4:10, 6:30, 7:30, 9:50, 10:40 Sat 12:10, 1:10, 3:10, 4:25, 6:30, 7:30, 9:50, 10:40 TueWed 12:10, 1:10, 3:10, 4:10, 6:30, 7:30, 9:50, 10:30 insiDious (14A) Thu 12:30, 3:10, 6:50, 9:50 JumPing the Broom (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:50, 7:20, 10:15 Fri-Mon 12:50, 4:00, 7:00, 10:10 Tue-Wed 12:50, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 the metroPolitan oPera: caPriccio encore Sat 1:00 Pirates oF the cariBBean: on stranger tiDes (PG) Fri-Mon 1:00, 2:30, 4:20, 6:00, 7:40, 9:20, 11:15 Tue 1:15, 2:00, 4:30, 5:15, 8:00, 8:45 Wed 2:00, 4:30, 5:15, 8:00, 8:45 Pirates oF the cariBBean: on stranger tiDes 3D (PG) Thu 12:01 Fri-Mon 12:00, 12:30, 3:20, 3:50, 6:40, 7:10, 10:00, 10:30 Tue-Wed 12:45, 2:45, 4:00, 6:00, 7:15, 9:20, 10:30 Pirates oF the cariBBean: on stranger tiDes: an imaX 3D eXPerience (PG) Thu 12:01 Fri-Mon 11:00, 2:00, 5:00, 8:00, 11:00 Tue-Wed 12:15, 3:30, 6:45, 10:00 Priest (14A) Thu 1:10, 3:40, 6:30, 9:30 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:30, 3:40, 6:50, 9:40 Sat 4:10, 6:50, 9:40 Priest 3D (14A) Thu 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:50, 10:20 Fri-Mon 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:50, 10:50 Tue-Wed 12:30, 4:40, 7:40, 10:15

Prom (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:10, 7:15, 10:10 rio (G) Fri-Mon 11:45, 3:00, 6:10, 9:00 Tue 12:00, 3:00, 6:10, 9:00 Wed 3:45, 6:10, 9:00 rio 3D (G) Thu 12:00, 3:00, 6:10, 9:00 source coDe (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:50, 8:00, 10:25 thor (PG) Thu 12:20, 3:30, 6:20, 9:20 Fri-Mon 1:20, 4:30, 7:20, 10:20 Tue-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 thor 3D (PG) Thu 1:00, 1:30, 4:00, 4:30, 7:00, 7:40, 10:00, 10:30 Fri-Mon 12:20, 3:30, 6:20, 9:30 Tue-Wed 12:20, 3:20, 6:20, 9:30

CourTneY park 16 (aMC)

110 CourTneY park e aT huronTario, 888-262-4386 BriDesmaiDs (14A) Thu 1:55, 2:35, 4:55, 5:35, 7:40, 8:20, 10:40 Fri-Sat, Mon 11:00, 11:45, 1:55, 2:35, 4:55, 5:35, 7:40, 8:20, 10:40, 11:15 Sun 11:00, 1:55, 2:35, 4:55, 5:35, 7:40, 8:20, 10:40, 11:15 Tue 1:55, 2:35, 4:55, 5:35, 7:40, 8:20, 10:40, 11:15 Wed 1:20, 2:35, 4:00, 5:35, 7:00, 8:20, 11:15 Fast Five (PG) Thu 1:40, 2:10, 2:40, 4:30, 5:00, 5:30, 7:15, 8:00, 8:30, 11:00 Fri-Sun 10:50, 11:20, 1:45, 2:30, 4:10, 4:45, 5:30, 7:00, 7:45, 8:30, 10:00, 10:40, 11:30 Mon 10:50, 11:20, 1:45, 2:30, 4:10, 4:45, 5:30, 7:00, 7:45, 8:30, 10:00, 10:40 Tue 1:45, 2:30, 4:10, 4:45, 5:30, 7:00, 7:45, 8:30, 10:00, 10:40 Wed 1:45, 2:30, 4:10, 4:45, 5:30, 7:00, 7:45, 8:30 the hangover Part ii (18A) Wed 10:00, 12:15 hooDwinkeD too! hooD vs. evil (G) Fri-Mon 10:00, 12:05, 2:10 Tue-Wed 2:10 hooDwinkeD too! hooD vs. evil 3D (G) Thu 3:05, 7:35 JumPing the Broom (PG) Thu, Tue 2:00, 4:35, 7:25, 10:05 Fri-Mon 11:25, 2:00, 4:35, 7:25, 10:05 Wed 2:00, 4:35, 7:25 kung Fu PanDa 2 (PG) Wed 12:15 kung Fu PanDa 2 3D (PG) Wed 12:15 limitless (14A) Thu 12:30, 5:25, 10:25 Pirates oF the cariBBean: on stranger tiDes (PG) Thu 12:05, 12:10 Fri-Sun 10:45, 11:30, 2:00, 2:45, 5:00, 6:00, 8:15, 9:00, 11:30 Mon 10:45, 11:30, 2:00, 2:45, 5:00, 6:00, 8:15, 9:00 Tue 2:00, 2:45, 5:00, 6:00, 8:15, 9:00 Wed 2:00, 2:45, 5:00, 6:00, 8:15, 9:00, 11:30 Pirates oF the cariBBean: on stranger tiDes 3D (PG) Thu 12:02, 12:03 Fri-Mon 12:45, 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 TueWed 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 Pirates oF the cariBBean: on stranger tiDes: an imaX 3D eXPerience (PG) Thu 12:01 Fri-Mon 10:00, 1:15, 4:15, 7:30, 10:45 Tue-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:30, 10:45 Priest (14A) Thu 1:05, 3:15, 5:40, 7:50, 10:10 Fri-Mon 11:50, 2:10, 4:20, 6:30, 8:40, 11:00 Tue-Wed 2:10, 4:20, 6:30, 8:40, 11:00 Priest 3D (14A) Thu 12:35, 2:45, 5:05, 7:20, 9:35 Fri-Mon 10:40, 1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40, 9:50 Tue-Wed 1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40, 9:50 Prom (PG) Thu 3:00, 7:55 rio (G) Thu 2:15, 4:50, 7:05, 9:30 Fri-Mon 11:40, 2:15, 4:50, 7:05 Tue-Wed 2:15, 4:50, 7:05 something BorroweD (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 2:20, 4:45, 7:10, 9:45 Fri-Mon 11:35, 2:20, 4:45, 7:10, 9:45 source coDe (PG) Thu 12:50, 5:10, 9:40 thor (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 6:45 Fri-Mon 11:15, 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Tue-Wed 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 thor 3D (PG) Thu 2:05, 4:45, 7:45 Fri-Mon 12:05, 2:45, 5:30, 8:15, 11:00 Tue-Wed 2:45, 5:30, 8:15, 11:00 thor: an imaX 3D eXPerience (PG) Thu 2:30, 5:15, 8:15 water For elePhants (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Fri-Wed 9:30

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aFrican cats Thu, Tue 3:50, 6:30, 9:00 Fri-Mon 1:10, 3:50, 6:30, 9:00 Wed 3:50, 6:30 the Bang Bang cluB (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 4:30, 7:20, 9:55 Fri-Mon 1:30, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 BriDesmaiDs (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 3:40, 4:20, 6:40, 7:10, 9:30, 10:00 Fri-Mon 12:40, 1:20, 3:40, 4:20, 6:40, 7:20, 9:40, 10:20 the hangover Part ii (18A) Wed 10:00, 10:15, 10:30 hanna (PG) Thu, Tue 4:15, 6:55, 9:40 Fri-Mon 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:10 Wed 4:15, 6:55 hooDwinkeD too! hooD vs. evil 3D (G) Thu, Tue-Wed 3:30, 6:20 Fri-Mon 12:50, 3:30, 6:20 hoP (G) Thu 4:10, 6:45, 9:20 Fri-Mon 1:40, 4:10, 6:45, 9:10 Tue 4:10, 6:45, 9:10 Wed 4:10, 6:45 insiDious (14A) Thu 9:10 Fri-Wed 9:20 the lincoln lawYer (14A) Thu, Tue 4:40, 7:15, 10:00 Fri-Mon 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15 Wed 4:40, 7:15, 10:10 soul surFer (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 3:20, 6:50, 9:30 Fri-Mon 12:30, 3:20, 6:50, 9:30 water For elePhants (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Mon 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00

north ColoSSuS (Ce) hWY 400 & 7, 905-851-1001

BriDesmaiDs (14A) Thu 4:00, 4:30, 7:00, 7:30, 10:00,

10:25 Fri-Mon 12:10, 1:10, 3:10, 4:10, 6:30, 7:20, 9:40, 10:20 Tue 12:30, 1:10, 3:25, 4:10, 6:30, 7:20, 9:45, 10:40 Wed 12:30, 1:10, 3:25, 4:10, 6:30, 7:20, 9:45, 10:25 Fast Five (PG) Thu 3:30, 4:35, 6:35, 7:35, 9:35, 10:40 FriMon 12:20, 1:20, 3:30, 4:30, 6:50, 7:30, 10:00, 10:50 Tue 12:20, 1:20, 3:30, 4:25, 6:50, 7:30, 10:00, 10:50 Wed 12:20, 1:20, 3:30, 4:25, 6:50, 7:30, 10:05, 10:45 the hangover Part ii (18A) Wed 10:00, 10:20, 10:40 hooDwinkeD too! hooD vs. evil 3D (G) Thu 3:50, 6:20 Fri-Mon 11:15, 1:40, 4:15, 6:45 Tue-Wed 1:25, 3:50, 6:15 JumPing the Broom (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:20, 10:30 Fri-Mon 12:45, 3:55, 7:00, 10:25 Tue 12:45, 4:40, 7:35, 10:20 Wed 12:50, 4:40, 7:35 limitless (14A) Thu 3:40, 6:45, 9:40 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:40, 6:55, 9:30 Pirates oF the cariBBean: on stranger tiDes (PG) Fri-Mon 1:00, 4:20, 7:40, 11:15 Tue 1:15, 4:30, 7:45, 11:00 Wed 2:45, 6:00, 9:20 Pirates oF the cariBBean: on stranger tiDes 3D (PG) Thu 12:01 Fri-Mon 12:00, 12:30, 3:20, 3:50, 6:40, 7:10, 10:00, 10:30 Tue 12:45, 2:45, 4:00, 6:00, 7:15, 9:20, 10:30 Wed 12:45, 1:45, 4:00, 5:00, 7:15, 8:15, 10:30 Pirates oF the cariBBean: on stranger tiDes: an imaX 3D eXPerience (PG) Thu 12:01 Fri-Mon 11:00, 2:00, 5:00, 8:00, 11:00 Tue-Wed 12:15, 3:30, 6:45, 10:00 Priest (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:25, 9:50 Fri-Tue 1:30, 4:05, 7:25, 10:05 Wed 1:30, 4:05, 7:25 Priest 3D (14A) Thu 3:50, 6:50, 9:15, 10:20 Fri-Mon 2:10, 4:50, 7:55, 10:45 Tue 1:50, 4:50, 7:55, 10:45 Wed 1:50, 4:50, 7:55, 10:35 rio 3D (G) Thu 3:35, 6:10, 8:40 Fri-Mon 11:30, 1:50, 4:40, 7:05 Tue-Wed 1:40, 4:20, 7:00 scream 4 (14A) Thu 4:50, 7:50, 10:35 something BorroweD (PG) Thu 4:25, 7:25, 10:15 FriWed 12:55, 3:45, 6:35, 10:10 thor (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Fri-Sun 11:45, 3:00, 6:20, 9:10 Mon 11:45, 3:00, 6:20, 11:10 Tue-Wed 12:25, 3:35, 6:40, 9:35 thor 3D (PG) Thu 4:10, 4:55, 7:10, 8:00, 10:10, 11:00 FriSun 12:50, 4:00, 7:15, 10:15, 11:10 Mon 12:50, 4:00, 7:15, 9:40, 10:15 Tue-Wed 1:00, 4:15, 7:10, 8:45, 10:15 tYler PerrY’s maDea’s Big haPPY FamilY (PG) Thu 4:15, 6:55, 9:55 water For elePhants (PG) 9:50 Thu 3:45 mat, 6:40

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30 inTerChanGe WaY, hWY 400 & hWY 7, 416-335-5323 the aDJustment Bureau (PG) 2:15, 4:50, 7:25, 10:10 Sat-Mon 11:35 mat aFrican cats 2:10, 4:25, 6:45, 9:15 Sat-Mon 11:45 mat arthur (PG) 3:45, 6:30, 9:10 Sat-Mon 1:00 mat the Bang Bang cluB (14A) 2:25, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 SatMon 11:40 mat Beat the worlD Thu 3:35, 5:55, 8:15, 10:30 hanna (PG) 3:15, 4:30, 6:00, 7:15, 8:45, 10:00 Sat-Mon 12:35, 1:45 mat hoP (G) 5:30 Thu 2:45 mat insiDious (14A) 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20 Sat-Mon 11:50 mat Just go with it (PG) 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:15 the lincoln lawYer (14A) 4:10, 7:10, 10:05 Sat-Mon 1:20 mat Prom (PG) 2:05, 4:35, 7:05, 9:40 Sat-Mon 11:35 mat scream 4 (14A) 2:10, 4:45, 7:35, 10:30 Sat-Mon 11:30 mat source coDe (PG) 3:30, 5:45, 8:05, 10:20 Sat-Mon 1:00 mat Your highness (18A) Thu 8:00, 10:25 Fri, Tue-Wed 2:45, 5:30, 8:00, 10:25 Sat-Mon 11:55, 2:45, 8:00, 10:25

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proMenade Mall, hWY 7 & baThurST, 905-764-3247 BriDesmaiDs (14A) Thu 1:10 4:15 7:00 9:35 Fri-Wed 1:10, 3:50, 6:45, 9:25 Fast Five (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:00, 6:45, 9:25 the hangover Part ii (18A) Wed 10:00 hooDwinkeD too! hooD vs. evil (G) Thu 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:05, 9:00 Fri-Tue 1:15, 4:05, 6:55, 8:50 Wed 1:15, 4:05, 6:55 Pirates oF the cariBBean: on stranger tiDes (PG) Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:45 Priest (14A) Thu 1:25 4:20 7:15 9:20 Fri-Wed 1:25, 4:20, 6:55, 9:20 something BorroweD (PG) 1:05, 3:50, 6:50, 9:15 thor (PG) Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:10, 7:10, 9:35 thor 3D (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:10, 7:10, 9:30

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BriDesmaiDs (14A) Thu 3:50 6:50 9:50 Fri-Wed 3:30, 6:50, 9:50 Sat-Mon 12:20 mat Fast Five (PG) Thu 3:20, 4:00, 6:25, 7:10, 9:25, 10:15 Fri, Tue-Wed 4:00, 7:00, 10:15 Sat-Mon 12:50, 4:00, 7:00, 10:15 the hangover Part ii (18A) Wed 10:00 hooDwinkeD too! hooD vs. evil (G) Sat-Mon 1:00 Pirates oF the cariBBean: on stranger tiDes (PG) 3:50, 7:10, 10:30 Sat-Mon 12:30 mat Pirates oF the cariBBean: on stranger tiDes 3D (PG) 3:20, 6:40, 10:00 Sat-Mon 12:00 mat Priest (14A) Thu 9:15 Fri, Tue-Wed 4:45, 7:40, 10:10 SatMon 1:15, 4:45, 7:40, 10:10 Priest 3D (14A) Thu 4:50, 7:35, 10:00 rio (G) Thu 3:45, 6:20 Fri, Tue-Wed 3:00, 6:10 Sat-Mon 12:15, 3:00, 6:10 scream 4 (14A) Thu 3:40, 6:45, 9:30 Fri-Wed 9:10 something BorroweD (PG) Thu 4:10, 7:00, 9:55 Fri, Tue 3:10, 6:20, 9:30 Sat-Mon 12:10, 3:10, 6:20, 9:30 Wed 3:10, 6:20 source coDe (PG) Thu 4:40, 7:15, 9:45 Fri-Tue 4:15, 7:20, 9:40 Wed 4:15, 7:20 thor (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:40, 9:35 Fri, Tue-Wed 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 Sat-Mon 12:40, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 thor 3D (PG) Thu 4:30 7:20 10:10 Fri-Wed 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 Sat-Mon 1:30 mat 3

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festivals inside Out tOrOntO lGBt film and videO festival Buddies in Bad times theatre, 12 alexander (BB); tiff Bell liGhtBOx, 350 KinG W (tBl). 416-599-8433, insideOut.ca

Thu 19-MAy 29 – Celebration of queer film

and diverse voices. $10-$28, stu/srs $8-$17 (under 18 $6; most screenings are restricted to age 18 or older); 8-ticket pass $91.

Thu 19 – Opening Gala: Loose Canons (2010) D: Ferzan Ozpetek. Italian w/ s-t. 8 pm (TBL).

FRi 20 – Rules Of Attraction short films: Verona (2010) D: Laurie Lynd, Blokes (2010) D: Marialy Rivas, and others. 5:15 pm. No Gravity (2011) D: Silvia Casalino. 5:30 pm. House Of Boys (2009) D: Jean-Claude Schlim. 7:15 pm. The Real Anne Lister (2010) D: Matthew Hill. 7:30 pm. Bloomington (2010) D: Fernanda Cardoso.

9:30 pm. Man At Bath (2010) D: Christophe Honoré. 10 pm. All screenings at TBL. SAT 21 – Miss Tacuarembó (2010) D: Martin Sastre. Spanish w/ s-t. 2:30 pm. World’s Best Docs short films: Happily Ever After (2009) D: Ricky Mastro, Decoding Alan Turing (2008) D: Christopher Racster, and others. 2:45 pm.

Different From Whom? (2009) D: Umberto Carteni. Italian w/ s-t. 4:45 pm. The Advocate For Fagdom (2011) D: Angélique Bosio. 5 pm.

Sexy Boys short films: Follower (2010) D: Mark Levine, Spring (2010) D: Hong Khaou, and others. 7:15 pm. A Montreal Girl (2010) D: Jeanne Crépeau. French w/ s-t. 7:30 pm. Christopher And His Kind (2011) D: Geofffrey Sax. 9:30 pm. Much More Pussy (2011) D: Emilie Jouvet. 10 pm. All screenings at TBL. SuN 22 – A Family Is A Family Is A Family: A Rosie O’Donnell Celebration (2010) D: Amy Schatz, and short film Hens And Chicks. Free, all-ages. 12:15 pm (TBL). Shahada (2010) D: Burhan Qurbani. German/Turkish w/ s-t. 2:30 pm (TBL). What’s The Name Of The Dame?

(2010) D: Allan Neuwirth. 2:45 pm (TBL). Lost In The Crowd (2010) D: Susi Graf, and short film Out On The Street. 4:30 pm (BB). Making The Boys (2009) D: Crayton Robey. 4:45 pm (TBL). Together (2011) D: Zhao Liang. Mandarin w/ s-t. 5:15 pm (TBL). Harvest (2011) D: Benjamin Cantu. German w/ s-t. 7 pm (TBL).

Transplanetarium short films: I’m Just Anneke (2010) D: Jonathan Skurnik, Poker Face (2011) D: Becky Lane, and others. 7:30 pm (TBL).

Mother Earth (2010) D: Dylan Verrechia. Spanish w/ s-t. 6:30 pm (BB). Animate This! short films: One Square Mile Of Earth (2010) D: Jeff Drew, Yulia (2009) D: Antoine Arditti, and others. 8 pm (BB). Going Down In La-La Land (2011) D: Casper Andreas. 9:15 pm (TBL).

Daphne (2007) D: Clare Beavan. 9:45 pm (TBL).

MON 23 – With Love From Le(z)banon And Pa(lez)tine short films: Time Of Breadth (2009) D: Ali El-Darsa, Le(s)banese (2008) D: Alissar Gazal, and others. Noon. eCupid (2011) D: JC Calciano. 2:30 pm. The Sleeping Beauty Of East Finchley (2010) D: Seamus Rea, and short film Mice Heaven. 3 pm. L’Amour Fou (2010) D: Pierre Thoretton. French w/ s-t. 4:30 pm.

Black Boxes short films: Colonial Gods (2009) D: Dee Rees, Free Man (2011) D: Kathryn Rotondi, and others. 5 pm. We Were Here (2010) D: David Weissman. 7 pm. Eloise’s Lover (2010) D: Jesús Garay. Catalan w/ s-t. 7:15 pm. Working Stiffs short films: Rubdown (2010) D: Dennis Hensley, Go Go Reject (2010) D: Michael J Saul, and others. 9:15 pm. Room In Rome

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The highs and lows RAW OPIUM: PAIN, PLEASURE, PROFITS (Peter Findlay) Rating: NNN If you’re new to the subject, Peter Findlay’s primer on opium, heroin addiction and the war on drugs is a good place to start. It doesn’t go into great detail or bombard you with facts and figures in the manner of, say, Charles Ferguson’s Inside Job, but the broad strokes are accurate and the message is clear.

The movie takes us to Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Pakistan and adds news footage, archival material and various experts to cover opium growing, the economics for the farmers and the impossibility of policing the borders. It touches on local corruption and both American and Russian complicity in sustaining the trade, and it returns repeatedly to the severity, expense and futility of America’s domestic war on drugs.

Interspersed with the big picture are scenes of a Vancouver heroin user who puts a human face on the problem and a doctor who discusses (2010) D: Julio Medem. Various languages w/ s-t. 9:30 pm. All screenings at TBL. TuE 24 – International Male short films: Triple Standard (2010) D: Branden Blinn, Animal Drill (2010) D: Patrick Murphy, and others. 5 pm.

The LuLu Sessions (2011) D: S Casper Wong.

5:15 pm. Gun Hill Road (2011) D: Rashaad Ernesto Green. 7:15 pm. 80 Days (2010) D: Jon Garaño and Jose Mari Goenaga. Basque w/ s-t.

7:30 pm. Centerpiece Gala: Weekend (2011) D: Andrew Haigh. 9:30 pm. Lesbianis Stereotypicus short films: Captivus (2010) D: Simonee Chichester, Chained! (2010) D: Betsy Kalin, and others. 9:45 pm. All screenings at TBL. WED 25 – The Sons Of Tennessee Williams (2010) D: Tim Wolff. 5:15 pm. Against All Odds short films: Thanks For Coming (2009) D: Pearl Tan, Cecilia (2009) D: Emily Ray Reese, and others. 5:30 pm. A Few Days Of Respite (2010) D: Amor Hakkar. French w/ s-t. 7:30 pm. Hogtown Homos short films: Left (2011) D: Keith Cole, A Dragged Out Affair (2010) D: Sonia Hong, and others. 7:15 pm. The Secret Diaries Of Miss Ann Lister (2010) D: James Kent. 9:45 pm. The Guide (2010) D: Zacharias Mavroeidis.

Greek w/ s-t. 10 pm. All screenings at TBL.

fOx theatre

2236 Queen e. 416-691-7330. fOxtheatre.ca

19 – The Adjustment Bureau (2011) Nolfi. 7 pm. West Is West ñD:ThuGeorge (2010) D: Andy DeEmmony. 9:20 pm.

FRi 20-SuN 22– Rango (2011) D: Gore Verbin-

Raw Opium looks at the war on drugs, among other things.

treatment and the harm reduction philosophy at the InSite supervised injection clinic, where the addict enters the detox program.

The movie winds up in Portugal, where harm reduction has been officially embraced. That country has decriminalized drug use, thereby increasing the number of addicts entering treatment and reducing drug deaths and use among teens.

Screens Wednesday (May 25) at the Royal, followed by a panel ANDREW DOWLER discussion.

cinemas BlOOr cinema

506 BlOOr W. 416-516-2330. BlOOrcinema.cOm

Thu 19 – Hobo With A Shotgun (2011) D: Jason

tOrOntO rOmanian film festival

Eisener. 7 pm. Rue Morgue Magazine presents Mother’s Day (1980) D: Charles Kaufman. 9:30 pm. $10. rue-morgue.com.

FRi 20 – Paul (2011) D: Greg Mottola. 4:15 pm.

Toronto Romanian Film Festival. See listings, this page. 7 pm. Biutiful (2010) D: Alejandro González Iñárritu. 9:15 pm.

SAT 21 – Biutiful. 3:30 pm. Rango (2011) D: Gore Verbinski. 6:30 pm. Toronto Romanian Film Festival. See listings, this page.

SuN 22 – Rango. 2:15 pm. Barney’s Version (2010) D: Richard J Lewis. 4:30 pm. Toronto Romanian Film Festival. See listings, this page.

MON 23 – Rango. 4:15 pm. Paul. 6:45 pm.

Biutiful. 9 pm.

TuE 24 – Biutiful. 3:45 pm. Barney’s Version.

6:45 pm. Paul. 9:25 pm.

WED 25 – A Clockwork Orange (1971) D: Stanley Kubrick. 6:45 pm. Chris Alexander’s Film School Confidential: Heavy Metal (1981) D: Gerald Potterton. 9:30 pm. $10.

FRi 20-SuN 22 – $15, stu $10; day pass $45, stu

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BlOOr cinema, 506 BlOOr W (Bc); innis tOWn hall, 2 sussex (it). tOrOfilmfestival.cOm

$30; festival pass $105, stu $65.

FRi 20 – If I Want To Whistle, I Whistle (2010) D: Florin Serban. 7 pm (BC).

SAT 21 – Merry Circus (2009) D: Caludiu Mitcu, and The Shukar Collective Project (2009) D: Matei-Alexandru Mocanu. 12:30 pm. (IT).

Doc.ro, a program of pre-1989 documentary films: Black Buffalo Water (1970) D: Youssouf Aidaby, Roxana Pana and IATC graduates, The Factory (1963) D: Slavomir Popovici, and other short films. 3 pm (IT). Medal Of Honor (2010) D: Calin Peter Netzer. 6 pm (IT). Tuesday, After Christmas (2010) D: Radu Muntean. 9 pm (BC).

SuN 22 – Short films: Nea Victor (2010) D: Hadrian Marcu, Lord (2009) D: Adrian Sitaru, and others. 1:30 pm (IT). Kapitalism: Our Improved Formula (2010) D: Alexandru Solomon. 3:15 pm (IT). Morgen (2010) D: Marian Crisan. 5 pm (IT). Autobiography Of Nicolae Ceausescu (2010) D: Andrei Ujica. 8 pm (BC).

TuE 24 – The Revolt Of Mamie Stover. 6:30 pm.

Student Film Showcase. 7 pm. Inside Out LGBT Film And Video Festival. See listings, this page.

WED 25 – Contact Photography Festival and The Free Screen present Double Tide (2009) D: Sharon Lockhart. 7 pm. Inside Out LGBT Film And Video Festival. See listings, this page.

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SAT 21 – Swiss Family Robinson (1960) D: Ken Annakin. 2 pm. Inside Out LGBT Film And Video Festival. See listings, this page.

SuN 22 – The Revolt Of Mamie Stover (1956) D: Raoul Walsh. 1 pm. Inside Out LGBT Film And Video Festival. See listings, this page.

MON 23 – Inside Out LGBT Film And Video Festival. See listings, this page.

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ski. 2 pm. Hanna (2011) D: Joe Wright. 4:15 & 9:30 pm. Barney’s Version (2010) D: Richard J Lewis. 7 pm.

MON 23 – Rango. 2 pm. Hanna. 4:15 & 9:15 pm. Barney’s Version. 6:45 pm.

TuE 24 – Hanna. 7 pm. Barney’s Version. 9:15 pm.

WED 25 – Hanna. 1:30 pm. Of Gods And Men (2010) D: Xavier Beauvois. 7 pm. Barney’s Version. 9:20 pm.

Graham sPrY theatre

cBc museum, cBc BrOadcast centre, 250 frOnt W, 416-205-5574. cBc.ca

Thu 19-WED 25 – Continuous screenings Mon to Fri 9 am to 5 pm. Free.

Thu 19-FRi 20 – Passionate Eye: Thoroughly

Modern Marriage.

MON 23-WED 25 – Passionate Eye: Monica & David: A Love Story.

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WED 25 – Free Favourites At Four: Up The Yangtze (2007) D: Yung Chang. 4 pm. Free.

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pm. Bugs! 12:15, 2:45 & 5:15 pm. Avatar. 7 pm.

TuE 24 – Mysteries Of Egypt. 10:15 am. Ring Of Fire. 11:15 am.

WED 25 – Mysteries Of Egypt. 10:15 am.

Bugs! 11:15 am.

OntariO science centre

770 dOn mills. 416-696-3127. OntariOsciencecentre.ca

Thu 19 – Tornado Alley. 11 am, 2 & 3 pm.

Under The Sea. Noon. IMAX Hubble. 1 pm.

FRi 20 – Tornado Alley. 11 am, 2, 3 & 9 pm.

Under The Sea. Noon & 8 pm. IMAX Hubble.

1 pm.

SAT 21 – Tornado Alley. 11 am, 1, 3 & 9 pm.

Under The Sea. Noon, 4 & 8 pm. IMAX Hubble. 2 pm.

SuN 22-MON 23 – Tornado Alley. 11 am, 1 & 3 pm. IMAX Under The Sea. Noon & 4 pm.

Hubble. 2 pm.

TuE 24-WED 25 – Tornado Alley. 11 am, 2 & 3 pm. Under The Sea. Noon. IMAX Hubble. 1 pm.

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Thu 19 – Illustrated lecture: The History Of 3D Motion Pictures. 7 pm.

SAT 21 – Illustrated lectures: The Great Movie Serials, 1 pm; Jane Jacobs, 5 pm; Judith Merril, 6 pm. What I Learned With LSD (2010) D: Reg Hartt. 7 pm. The Epic Of Gilgamesh (2010) reading on film by Reg Hartt. 9 pm. Illustrated lecture: The Men Who Made Men Making Love With Men Look Like Gods... (films of Wakefield Poole and Peter Berlin). 11 pm.

SuN 22 – Illustrated lectures: Triumph Of The Will (1935) D: Leni Riefenstahl, 1 pm; The History Of Animated Cartoons, 4 pm. Oz Darkside: The Wizard Of Oz (1939) D: Victor Fleming, with Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon album, 7 pm. Kid Dracula: Nosferatu (1922) D: FW Murnau, with Radiohead’s Kid A and OK Computer albums. 9 pm.

MON 23 – Illustrated lectures: The Subversive Film Festival. 7 pm; From Comic Book Page To The Silver Screen, including a screening of The Phantom. 9 pm.

TuE 24 – Zechariah Sitchin lectures on DVD. 5 pm. Illustrated lecture: The Death And Life Of Great American Motion Pictures. 7 pm.

WED 25 – Illustrated lecture: Reg Hartt’s Metropolis (1926) D: Fritz Lang. 7 pm.

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400 rOncesvalles. 416-531-9959. revuecinema.ca

Thu 19 – The Lincoln Lawyer (2011) Brad Fur-

man. 7 pm. West Is West (2010) D: Andy DeEmmony. 9:15 pm.

FRi 20 – Jane Eyre (2011) D: Cary Fukunaga. 7 pm. Source Code (2011) D: Duncan Jones. 9:25 pm.

SAT 21 – Hop (2011) D: Tim Hill. 2 pm.

Source Code. 4:15 & 9:10 pm. Jane Eyre.

6:45 pm.

SuN 22 – Hop. 2 pm. Jane Eyre. 4:15 & 6:45 pm. Source Code. 9:10 pm.

MON 23 – Hop. 2 pm. Jane Eyre. 4:15 & 9 pm.

Source Code. 7 pm.

TuE 24 – Roads To Perdition film noir lecture by Kevin Courrier (part 5 of 5). 7 pm.

The Big Lebowski (1998) Joel Coen. 9:20 pm.

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9:30 pm. $15. totix.ca.

FRi 20 – The National Parks Project (2011) D: Zacharias Kunuk, Peter Lynch, Sturla Gunnarson and 10 other directors. Full program screening of the film featuring a series of vignettes to celebrate Parks Canada’s centennial year. 8 pm. Q&A w/ filmmakers to follow. 8 pm. $15. nationalparksproject.ca.

SAT 21 – The National Parks Project: Part 1. 7 pm. The National Parks Project: Part 2. 9:30 pm. Q&A w/ directors follow screenings.

SuN 22 – The National Parks Project: Part 1.

4:30 pm. The National Parks Project: Part 2. 7 pm. Q&A w/ directors follow screenings.

MON 23-TuE 24 – The National Parks Project: Part 1. 7 pm. The National Parks Project: Part 2. 9 pm. Q&A w/ directors follow screenings.

WED 25 – Robert Lang presents the Toronto premiere of Raw Opium: Pain, Pleasure, Profits (2010) D: Peter Findlay. Panel discussion to follow. 7 pm. $10, stu $8. rawopium.com.

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FRi 20 – Defending The Indefensible series: Observe And Report (2009) D: Jody Hill. Defended by Will Sloan and Andrew Parker. 7 pm. $10. Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008) D: Darren Lynn Bousman. Film and live shadow cast performance. 9:30 pm.

SAT 21 – The Satanic Rites Of Dracula (1973) D: Alan Gibson. 7 pm. The House Of Exorcism (1974) D: Mario Bava, Alfredo Leone. 9:30 pm.

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The CN Tower presents The Ultimate Wave Tahiti 3D. Continuous screenings daily 10 am to 8 pm. 301 Front W. 416868-6937, cntower.ca.

Thu 19-WED 25 – Casa Loma presents The Pellatt Newsreel (2006) D: Barbra Cooper.

Daily screenings 10 am to 4:30 pm. Included w/ admission. 1 Austin Terrace. casaloma.org.

Thu 19 – Side Space Gallery presents a DVD launch for The Limits Of What We Know D: Amy Bodman. Screening of sequences from the film plus commentary by the crew. 7 pm.

1080 St Clair W. sidespacegallery.com.

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antagonists, deliver convincing portraits of characters in chaos. Adam is level-headed but powerless. Frank leads but has trouble staying on top of things. They’re both motivated by group loyalty but have different ideas of what that means.

The two commentaries tend toward giddy babble but still convey some account of the production.

The first features the director, cowriter and producer. The second reunites the director with some of the cast from the short that launched the feature, also worth a look.

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Voice-over narration and some onscreen titles give Caroline’s story an air of cozy nostalgia that fits poorly with the passably realistic look at the lives of bored, stoned small-town teens that surrounds it, which in turn seems at odds with the eeriness of the town itself. This is a place with a perpetually burning industrial fire, a gas-masked populace, a mysterious rock thrower, an occasional ghost and a serial killer.

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The power keeps failing. People disappear in the shadows. After three days, the city is depopulated. Four survivors find each other in a bar and try to stay alive.

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To make matters worse, they’ve paired Statham’s hired killer, Arthur, with Steve, a guy who wants to be just like him, right down to the stone face. Steve, played by Ben Foster, is the son of Arthur’s mentor, who’s murdered at the start of the movie. He wants to learn Arthur’s skills, so the pair practise and murder people until Steve figures out who killed his dad, which happens late in the movie. Then it’s vengeance time.

Since we know who killed Dad from the start, most of the movie feels like irrelevant filler despite the plentiful action, some of which isn’t bad, notably the brutal fight between Steve and a lethal giant, and our heroes plunging down the side of a 33-storey building.

The brief action scenes doc focuses on Statham and Foster doing their own stunts. This is impressive when they’re going down the building. More impressive is the cameraman falling with them, who doubtless got paid a lot less.

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I Am Number Four (Buena Vista,

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The Boy Friend (WB, 1971) Ken Russell directs Twiggy in a lively, colourful backstage musical set in the 1920s.

Bedevilled (Mongrel, 2010) A Korean woman on vacation discovers her friend enslaved on a remote island.

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By Dan Savage

I suppose you are goIng to call me an

asshole once you have finished reading my letter, but I hope you have some advice for me regardless.

I am a 45-year-old heterosexual male. My last relationship lasted nearly seven years. I am currently single. I am discouraged. One of the reasons for my discouragement: I have to get too far into a relationship before I can determine if it will work out with any particular woman. An awful lot of emotion, time, and effort are required to get that first look into a woman’s panties. And this is where my problem lies. A woman can have the sweetest personality, she can be pretty and hardworking, but if her pussy isn’t bald and her “little man in the boat” doesn’t fit comfortably in my mouth, I am NOT turned on. I require a shaved pussy and a big clit.

I have asked women with whom I’ve become close to go bald. If the answer is no, there is no need to return. I respect a woman’s control over her own body, of course, but I like a big clit. She may or may not be bald, but if the clit isn’t big enough, there’s no sense in returning. I have heard women say they were disappointed to find that a man’s dick was too small or too large, or they didn’t like that it curved to the left or right. Do I have a right to a similar preference? What do I do? Is there a way to ask about these issues before emotion, time and effort are invested? Call Me Asshole Knowing that she could be disqualified due to the size of her clit, which she can do nothing about, or the presence of pubic hair, which she can do something about (but might not want to), is information a woman might want before she invests a lot of emotion, time and effort in you, CMA. Or any emotion, time and effort. But there’s literally no way to ask a woman to show you her clit or to verify either her “baldness” or willing-

ness to go bald in advance of that crucial first date. Even women with 6-inch clits who suffer from neck-down alopecia (credit: www. tinyurl.com/5vle95) are going to run screaming after hearing a request like that.

Don’t get me wrong, CMA: It’s a fine thing to have preferences, to be aware of them and to be able to articulate them. And most people would prefer to be with someone whose preferences roughly jibe with their attributes. But most of us would also like to think – even if it’s not true – that our personalities are so winning that our partners would love us even if, say, our clits were tiny and our pubes towering.

So what do you do? Well, CMA, since being up-front about your very particular, dealbreaking preferences would result in your never seeing another pussy again in your life, I think you keep your mouth shut. You’re just going to have to date and invest the time.

And then if you discover once you get into her pants that her clit is too small or her pussy is too hairy, CMA, just make up a nice, polite, it’s-not-you, it’s-me lie. It wouldn’t be fair to leave her wondering what the hell is wrong with her when in actual fact there’s something wrong with you.

KInKy female here, age 26. for as

long as I’ve been sexually active, I’ve been ridiculously turned on by guys with huge cocks. I love the way they look and feel in my hands and when they’re inside me. This isn’t to say that I’d date a guy purely on cock enormity alone; I wouldn’t. But I’m not sure what to do about my current situation: I’m dating someone now who shares my same values – he’s flamingly liberal and actually enjoys RuPaul’s Drag Race – but we don’t have the greatest sexual chemistry. Some of it’s because he’s pretty vanilla, although he’s GGG, but a lot of it is that his dick is average.

Sadly. Am I wrong to want a guy with the

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lower half of a horse? If so, can I retrain myself to accept, and even want, an average or below-average penis?

Female Phallophiliac You don’t say how long you’ve been dating this guy, FP. If you’ve been fucking him for a while and you still haven’t found a groove, well, it might be best to move on. Liberalism and RuPaul’s Drag Race are nice, but they’re not enough to sustain a long-term romantic relationship.

But if you’ve been dating him a short time, FP, and there’s been some noticeable improvement on the chemistry front, you might want to stick around. Sometimes the chemistry is there and obvious from the start; sometimes chemistry kicks into gear after a few weeks or months. If you dig him – and it sounds like you do – then he’s worth the investment of a little time. As for the little dick, well…

How big is his forearm?

I’m a partnered gay man who

happens to have a small cock. When I was younger, I was often embarrassed, but I have gotten used to it and I can’t change it and I know how to enjoy it now.

Among my friends, small-dick jokes are common. Not directed at me, but generic jokes and comments suggesting that guys with small dicks aren’t real men, or should always bottom or aren’t worth dating. Stuff like that. And it has begun to make me feel much more self-conscious, especially since a couple of the guys I’ve heard making these jokes are intimately familiar with my cock.

They know I’m small. It wasn’t an issue, because they initiated the sex and wanted it more than once. I had a six-month fuckbuddy relationship with one of these guys, and I topped him, so I know he didn’t have an issue with my size.

So my dilemma is this: Is this just some selfesteem issue that I’ve been unaware of and need to deal with? Or should I say something, at least to the two guys I’ve had sex with? They are my closest friends and know that I struggled with my size when I was younger.

Sensitive Matters And Lessons Learned You should definitely say something to the two ingrates you’ve had sex with, SMALL, and to anyone else who makes small-dick jokes in your presence. You don’t have to volunteer to men you haven’t fucked that you happen to have a small dick yourself. Just point out that in any group, there are going to be guys with smaller-than-average endowments and that it’s just not cool to make those guys feel bad or inadequate – particularly when studies show that the partners of men with smaller-than-average dicks report higher levels of sexual satisfaction than people whose partners have larger-thanaverage dicks.

STRAIGHT RIGHTS WATCH: Indiana’s rightwing Republican governor signed a bill into law that strips Planned Parenthood in that state of federal funds. This is going to lead to more abortions in Indiana, not fewer, but facts don’t matter to right-wing shit-piles like Mitch “Social Issues Truce” Daniels. Now would be a good time to make a donation – even if all you can afford is a small, symbolic one – to Planned Parenthood of Indiana. Go to ppin.org and click “Donate Now!” Then do everything you can to defeat the GOP in 2012.

Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage.

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