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email letters@now toronto.com Bitter taste on privatization

i read your article on the garbage debate (NOW, May 19-25) and sensed a little bitterness toward our mayor. I, for one, am very proud of the citizens of Toronto for electing Rob Ford and feel he is doing a wonderful job. I savour every defeat of the socialist councillors and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. You see, this is just a start. First Ford, then a majority for the federal Conservatives, and in October a landslide victory for the PCs in Ontario. I have never been prouder to be a Canadian. Mike Holt Toronto

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Sun TV fries my synapses

it’s a good thing sun tv isn’t being carried free by Bell any more (NOW, May 12-18). We must start culling junk information. The number of pundits in the press, on the internet and television has proliferated. If it’s exhausting today, how much more so in a 100 or 1,000 years if humans will still be born with the same number of brain neurons and synapses? How will we cope as the number of historic events and significant books and films to be educated about multiplies? Or are they limited, as the basic number of ideas and plots is finite? Jacob Mendlovic Toronto

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wayne roberts’s open-pit poli tics (NOW, May 1925) is well stated. How can an in telligent government not defend its most valuable resources of pure water, clean air and local food? The Boston hedge fund pushing the plan for a megaquarry north of Toronto has very deep pockets and is pre pared to keep throw ing money at this fight until it wins. The fund can see that our lax laws do not protect our val uable resources. A loss to all On tarians for gen erations to come. coalminecanary

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your naming names feature on selling out was beyond lame (NOW, May 19-25). You criticize artists for trying to make a decent living, arts organizations for attempting to be creative and stay relevant in an atmosphere of entertainment overload and business people for doing business. Like it or not, we live in a consumer society. Deal with it. J. Cowan Toronto

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May 26 DEaling with EMotions using Plant EssEncEs How do we deal with emotions around stress, insomnia, weight, sex, menopause, fear? Since the findings of Dr. Bach in the 1920’s, we know that plants and trees have a tremendous effect on people’s emotional states. Learn how essences can support you in your everyday life. Bach Flower Essences as well as Canadian Forest Tree Essences will be discussed. Daniel Tigner is co-founder of Canadian Forest Tree Essences, author of 2 books on the subject and a tree/plant photographer. JunE 2 tRaDitional hoME MEDicinE cabinEt Many common household items have been used as folklore remedies throughout the ages in different parts of the world. In Toronto, we have access to a world of historical medicines at our finger tips. Come hear Naturopathic Doctor, Millie Lytle speak about the contents of the traditional home medicine cabinet, which of these still stand out as effective home remedies and which to add as we look to the future. Millie Lytle N.D. is a Naturopathic Doctor with a Master’s in Public Health. She is concerned with alternative medicine’s role in community, population and global health. JunE 9 FooDs that REDucE wRinklEs, gRay haiR, anD cEllulitE Many of us use anti-wrinkle creams religiously, yet we still manage to sprout a new wrinkle every year. There is a growing movement of women who are using principles from the raw food lifestyle to reverse their wrinkles, gray hair, and cellulite without spending an arm and a leg on products. Learn about the truth behind why we develop wrinkles and grays, testimonials from real women, and how you too can reduce your signs of aging on a budget. Yafa Sakkejha is a raw food educator and a Retreat Leader at the House of Verona, a natural retreat in Blue Mountain. JunE 16 aDvancED concEPts in thE Raw FooD liFEstylE This lecture is not for beginners to the raw food lifestyle. Let’s say you already know everything about green smoothies, juicers, sprouting, and the trouble with agave -- but you are craving to know what else is out there. Come and learn a summary of the most cutting edge ideas and studies from gurus like David Wolfe, Gabriel Cousens, and Brian Clement. Yafa Sakkejha is a raw food educator and a Retreat Leader at the House of Verona, a natural retreat in Blue Mountain. JunE 23 coFFEE thE Right way: a connoissEuR anD EDucational EvEnt Come enjoy a coffee tasting and learn about the many different types of roasts and what to look for in a great cup of coffee. Following the connoisseur session, learn about sustainability and the various co-operatives that can be involved in coffee production to ensure fairness and promote social values helping communities and leading the way in fair trade. (Every participant in the event will go home with a coffee sample compliments of Planet Bean.) Presented by Bill Barrett, a worker owner of Planet Bean, a fair trade certified and organic coffee roastery. Bill has two decades of experience working in the social justice and ecology movements. JunE 30 how anti-inFlaMMatoRy suPPlEMEnts anD DiEt can balancE youR hoRMonEs Inflammation is the underlying issue to most of our health issues today. Hormones are the messengers that create hormone or havoc depending on the stimulus we give them. Toxins in our diet and stress in our lifestyle can often throw off the delicate balance and send us into a health crisis. Learn how to empower your body with the right nutrients to reduce inflammation and create hormone harmony. Julie Daniluk is in the midst of publishing her first book called Meals That Heal Inflammation. She is also co-host of the cooking show, “Healthy Gourmet” on OWN network. juliedaniluk.com.

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At the same time, Pride Toronto’s co-chair was quoted as saying that the elimination of financial support from City Hall would result in the insolvency of Pride Toronto, forcing it to “shut its doors forever.” Well, which is it? Maybe the reality is that if Mayor Ford gets his way, Pride will just have to figure out a way of surviving, albeit on a smaller scale, until such time as a less homophobic administration emerges at City Hall. David Fine Toronto More on Pride funding in News NOW welcomes reader mail. Address letters to: NOW, Letters to the Editor, 189 Church, Toronto, ON M5B 1Y7. Send e-mail to letters@nowtoronto.com and faxes to 416-364-1166. All correspondence must include your name, address and daytime phone number. Letters may be edited for length.

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Scot Free, hot as a fire stick, at the Toronto International Circus Festival Saturday, May 21, at Harbourfront Centre.

What happens to queer activist and artist Alvaro Orozco will tell us a lot about how Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney and, by association, the federal government are going to handle power. Will they be kinder and gentler, edging closer to the Bill Davis centre, or are we in pit bull territory? Orozco was denied refugee status in 2007 after Immigration and Refugee Board judge Deborah Lamont ordered him back to Nicaragua, declaring that he “did not look gay enough.” Terrified of his father, who’d said he’d kill any gay son of his, Orozco remained in Canada undocumented, where he found true community. He was picked up on May 13 as he was getting off the subway

and hauled into detention. Though Nicaragua’s human rights record regarding gays has improved in the past few years, Orozco is now well known as a gay man in his country of birth and very vulnerable if he returns. At demonstrations Friday, May 20, and Tuesday, May 24, hundreds of activists passionately expressed their desire for Orozco to be released and kept here until his “humanitarian and compassionate grounds” application can been heard. In his capacity as minister, Kenney has the power to overturn decisions made by the Refugee Board and to keep Orozco in Canada. At Friday’s action, Trinity-Spadina MP Olivia Chow said via

Skype that she’s pressing Kenney to let Orozco stay. Keep in mind that Kenney voted against gay marriage and “accidentally” left mention of gay rights out of the official citizenship handbook (since put back in). In the Orozco matter, the minister can thumb his nose at the queer community, indicating that with a Tory majority he’ll veer to the right – and be cruel. Or he can signal that the Tories will seek the centre – and longterm control of government – and assure us that the term “compassionate Conservative” is not an oxymoron. Write your MP, sign the petition at change.org/petitions/let-alvaro-stay-in-canada. susanc@nowtoronto.com

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Doors Open, the annual celebration of great T.O. architecture, has something special for transit geeks this year: a tour of the TTC’s McCowan Carhouse (1720 Ellesmere), the circa-1985 facility designed by TTC staff to maintain the planet’s first Intermediate Capacity Transit System, the Scarborough RT. Tour details: Saturday (May 28), noon-5 pm.

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Greenpeace confronts the world’s most controversial oil rig – the 53,000 tonne Leiv Eiriksson – in the freezing seas 320 kilometres off the coast of Greenland Monday, May 24. The Danish navy is escorting the rig to drilling sites in the treacherous waters of the Davis Strait, an area known as Iceberg Alley east of Baffin Island. Greenpeace is calling for the Harper government to disclose specific measures discussed with Greenland in the event of a spill in Canadian coastal waters. Rig operators say normal drilling is expected to discharge some 9,000 tonnes of toxic chemicals into the water.

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Ontario elementary schools that have at least one full- or part-time teacher-librarian, according to a study released last week by People for Education – an 80 per cent drop since 1997. The teachers union blames changes to school funding instituted by the former Conservative government.

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Bikes and trikes

When we checked in with P.J. Harvey 18 years ago, she’d just ditched her band, her manager and her boyfriend and emerged as a soul diva. Since then, she’s continued to reinvent herself, most recently – after a four-year hiatus – on her disc Let England Shake, released last February. This time around, she’s folkified her style, has turned to social commentary, specifically on the subject of war, and has become once again the critical darling she was in the 90s. (Page 34 of the issue) Travel back in time with NOW’s online archives. See all the articles, the photos – even the ads – on every page of every issue, as originally printed. Just use the cool new searchable viewer online at nowtoronto.com/archive

Rumours of the demise of Bike Month, the annual celebration of cycling culture, are greatly exaggerated. The city may not be stepping up to officially endorse the festivities, but a slew of pedal-powered events are happening, kicking off with Bike To Work Day Monday (May 30). Our complete listings start on page 33.

Letting the sun in The Toronto District School Board signs a landmark deal to outfit 450 schools with solar panels that, when completed, will generate enough power to meet the equivalent of the annual electricity needs of 6,000 households.

Cool affordable housing Canadian upstart sustainbleTO + Building snags top international prize out of 65 submissions in a competition to design a passive low-cost, lowenergy house for New Orleans.

The killing (at least for now) of the Fort York Pedestrian and Cycle Bridge may save the city a few mil, but it’s the Stanley Park and west downtown neighbourhoods that will be paying the price for that decision for years to come. More than just a link to historic Fort York, the bridge was conceived as a signature portal for downtown west that would lay the groundwork for an expansion of Stanley Park. As well, it would link the Trinity Bellwoods Park-Stanley Park chain of green spaces north of the rail corridor with the Fort York-June Callwood ParkCoronation Park-Martin Goodman Trail chain in the south. Recent condo development at the foot of the proposed bridge near Stafford and Wellington has begun to lift the stink the neighbourhood was mostly known for from the slaughterhouse nearby on Niagara.

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CSIS moles Mubin Shaikh, the spy who dropped the dime on the Toronto 18 – and was paid a fee in the six figures – turns up on the U.S. terror watch list thanks to info provided by his former employer. That would be Canada’s spy agency.

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artsy-fartsy-hating fordists can't ignore value of the arts economy By ENZO DiMATTEO

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number of PeoPle emPloyed in the arts in toronto – roughly equivalent to the number who work in the auto sector in ontario. Surprise. Michael Thompson’s economic agenda includes the arts.

The man wiTh The culTure plan it went largely unnoticed in the histrionics around the garbage privatization debate, but council passed a new cultural plan last week. This remarkable occurrence registered barely a “meh” on the news Richter scale. Who could conceive of a plan to nurture human capital in Rob Ford’s throw-the-trash-out-withthe-trash Toronto? Ironic, given his efforts around graffiti eradication and threats to cut funding to Pride. In terms of boosting funding for cultural pursuits, the Ford administration has been eager to cut and run. The axing of funding for the Fort York bridge so that it won’t be built in time for bicentennial celebrations for the War of 1812 is but one example. But by most accounts, Creative Capital Gains: An Action Plan For Toronto has been well received, including by the arts community. Karen Kain was among those consulted. As were prosperity guru Richard Florida and Jeff Melanson, director of the National Ballet School, who’s soon to depart for a new gig running the Banff Centre. Some 13 public consultations were held, involving more than 500 people from the arts community. Thirtythree recommendations were drafted, aimed at “ensuring a supply of affordable, sustainable cultural space” and “supporting the development of creative clusters.” The biggie among these: raising the target to $25 per capita for arts and culture funding (from the current $18). The mayor committed to as

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much during the election campaign. But it was the previous council under David Miller that actually drafted a culture plan for the city back in 2003 and called for the city to commit to the $25 per capita funding, a move reaffirmed by council back in August 2010. It’s a modest proposal, really, given the fact that the amount we currently spend on the arts is lower than Chicago ($26) and Montreal ($32) and far behind cities we like to compare ourselves to, namely New York ($74) and San Francisco ($87). Nothing’s carved in stone on the money front, mind you. Finding an extra $15 or $20 million in the current budget will be tough for a regime whose politics have been less than artfully expressed. But Beautiful City, the people who brought us the billboard tax for funding for the arts, were enthusiastic enough about council’s adoption of the culture plan to send a screen grab of the unanimous vote in an email to supporters. So maybe there’s reason for optimism. That Michael Thompson, chair of the Economic Development Committee, is spearheading the call to boost arts funding may have something to do with that sense of hopefulness. Next to Ford, he’s probably the most powerful person around the council horseshoe. Besides chairing Economic Development and sitting on Ford’s executive, Thompson occupies seats on Build Toronto and Invest Toronto and serves as vice-chair of the Police Services Board. Ford is keeping the councillor from Scarborough Centre very busy. That’s partly because Thompson’s capable and partly to keep him from entertaining any big ideas. He’s the guy, after all, whom rightwingers were talking about as a possible mayoral candidate before there was a Ford Nation. 3 enzom@nowtoronto.com

$91 million amount provided by the private sector in 2009 for city-funded cultural orgs – five and a half times that of municipal support.

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Susan Gapka (left) and Don Collymore The alarm was sounded and gay activists turned out to back Pride in funding fiasco at City Hall.

Pride survives

City exec huffs and puffs but votes to fund gay fest after vicious debate By BEN SPURR for a while there it was looking grim for Pride Toronto. But after a marathon Executive Committee ses sion filled with rancour and political theatre, the festival’s funding seems secure for at least another year. In an extraordinary bureaucratic twist, Pride’s fate came down to a de bate not over the merits of the event itself, which brings the city millions of dollars every year, but over the pa rade participation of Queers Against Israeli Apartheid and Mideast poli tics itself. QuAIA, in a supremely dextrous move, pledged two months ago not to participate in Pride this year, but that didn’t end the matter. The ques

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tion was referred to the city manager, who tabled a report Tuesday conclud ing that the term “Israeli apartheid” does not violate Toronto’s antidis crimination policy. In the end, after the grandstanding and the huffing and puffing, the committee unanimously endorsed the report. For nearly eight hours, a parade of speakers representing Jewish and proPalestinian groups went before the committee, and the meeting quickly descended into the type of unproductive and toxic quarrel fam iliar to undergrad students. Israel was characterized alternately as the only democracy in the Middle East

If there’s anything more depressing than an interminable debate over Israel and Palestine, it’s an interminable debate over Israel and Palestine with potentially lethal consequences for a positive event like Pride.

and the region’s most repressive oc cupying power. The spectre of the Holocaust was raised again and again, and the names of Goebbels, Desmond Tutu, Ahmadinejad and Martin Luther King were tossed about like confetti. If there’s anything more depress ing than an interminable debate over Israel and Palestine, it’s an intermin able debate over Israel and Palestine with potentially lethal consequences for an overwhelmingly positive event like Pride. For a while, it ap peared the gay fest would be derailed unless City Hall could come to agree ment over the nature of the state of Israel. Some on the committee seemed to encourage the hijacking of Pride’s future by the IsraelPalestine issue. Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti – who insisted that QuAIA’s noshow promise was not good enough and demanded that Pride commit to turfing the group if it made an ap pearance – egged on Israel’s defend ers. He forfeited his own speaking time so they could describe the vir tues of the Jewish state, and ham mered QuAIA’s supporters, asking questions like “What is the status of gay rights in the countries surround ing Israel?” Councillor James Pasternak also joined in, asking one speaker, “How many Palestinian lives are saved in Israeli hospitals each year?” The speaker didn’t know, of course, but it’s probably a lot. At one point, Deputy Mayor Doug Holyday begged speakers and coun cillors to stick with the matter at hand, but to no avail. “The report be fore us is dealing with the city man ager’s opinion on a matter. We’re far, far away from that report,” he said. “It’s an absolute shame that this fo rum has been used in this way.” For his part, Mammoliti gave the packed committee room every indi cation that he was going to reject the city manager’s report. “The more this discussion goes on, the more I feel like I’ve been doing the right thing,”

he said at one point to loud applause from the proIsrael contingent. But hours later, he endorsed the city manger’s determination that “Is raeli apartheid” was not discrimina tory. Then, minutes after voting for the report, Mammoliti unaccount ably declared that he completely dis agreed with it. “I personally feel that ‘Israeli apartheid’ is a very dangerous statement and is discriminatory. QuAIA better stay away. This council lor will defend the Jewish commun ity, and I will do it in an aggressive way.” Still, Pride cochair Francisco Alva rez somewhat generously lauded the dustup. “In the end it was a really good debate. We’re pleased that we’re not going to be singled out.”’ To Councillor Kristyn WongTam, the whole affair seemed a setup job by Mammoliti. “Why we’re not talk ing about the city’s antidiscrimina tion policy, and whether or not Pride is in compliance I have no idea.” Pride Toronto stuck to its position that it could not guarantee that QuAIA would not appear at Pride events, referring to its complaints process set up to deal with any ele ment of the festivities that some might find offensive. Alvarez did confirm that QuAIA has not regis tered to march in the parade. Tim McCaskell of QuAIA, missing an opportunity to douse the flames by reaffirming the org’s planned ab sence, instead screened a fourmin ute video about the importance of keeping Pride political. Still, he wel comed the meeting’s final decision. “With the city manager’s report, we won the right to march in the pa rade,” he said. Explaining QuAIA’s tactical retreat, he said, “It would have been a hollow victory if there were no parade to march in.” The decision now goes to council as part of a broader report on events funding, but the executive says Pride cash will be withheld until after the event to ensure that QuAIA keeps its word. 3 news@nowtoronto.com

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ANIMAL CRACKERS Controversial ex-prez makes a new run for Humane Society board By SAIRA PEESKER

the drama has only taken a catnap at the Toronto Humane Society, but with new board elections next week, expect the fur to fly again. More than a year after an Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals raid uncovered squalid conditions at the River Street shelter and forced a housecleaning of the administration, two high-profile former directors are seeking re-elec-

tion. It’s a highly charged move in an organization still recovering from the fallout of a much-publicized takeover back in November 2009, and many current board supporters are not taking kindly to it All the more so because one of the board hopefuls is Tim Trow, the THS president in charge when inspectors found rampant disease, overcrowd-

ing, feces-caked animals and a mummified cat inside the allegedly understaffed facility. Trow, along with the head veterinarian and three other managers, was charged with animal cruelty. Charges were later dropped due to problems with the search warrants and raid, and were never addressed in court. In the May 31 election for five seats

on the 15-member board, Trow, a retired lawyer, is part of a five-person slate looking for a three-year term. It includes a former vice-president and a former THS spokesperson fired after the new board was elected. But Trow is going one further: he’s also put forward a motion to have three current board members not up for re-election – the president, vicepresident and current board chair– replaced by people affiliated with his team. If successful, his faction would gain a majority on the board. Much of the Trow group’s platform focuses on reviving policies that ended when he resigned, such as taking in stray animals. The organization hasn’t been authorized to do this since it split from Toronto Animal

Services in 2001 but was doing it anyway while Trow was president. The practice was above board, he says, because he received a letter from the city solicitor saying the shelter should be able to accept such animals. The current board disagrees. Since the raid, all strays go through Toronto Animal Services, the city pound, which can then turn them over to the THS for care and adoption. (A THS rep says TAS hands over about 20 cats and one dog weekly.) Trow complains that TAS too often euthanizes. “The whole point of the Toronto Humane Society is to take in frightened animals that are hard for people to handle, sick animals that people can’t afford to pay the medical bills for, older animals,” he tells NOW, say-

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ing he knows he’s entering a volatile situation, “but I have to because of the animals. It’s always because of the animals.” Trow’s running mate, former THS spokesperson Ian McConachie, says he wants the THS to be “an organization that does not [turn away] animals in need and gives every one of them an opportunity to find a new loving forever home.” But several long-time THS volunteers interviewed for this story were not hopeful about the shelter’s future if Trow returns. Board VP Marcie Laking warns that if Trow wins, “staff members will quit, donations will drop, and the momentum we’ve built up will come to a standstill. If Tim Trow cared about the animals, he would leave the THS alone.”

Says Patricia Hope, who volunteered in the kitten nursery from 2003 to 08, when she says she was asked not to return after she raised concerns about neglect, “The immediate result would be an incredible demoralization of the staff and volunteers. There would be a lot of personnel turnover.” Christine Hansen, a volunteer s i n c e 2005, concurs. “The building has gone from being overrun, with so many animals sick, to all of the animals looking healthy,” she says. “It’s almost pristine now, and very quiet.”

Changes boasted by the THS include a hugely increased adoption rate, more frequent cleaning of cages and better relationships with other animal welfare organizations. “It’s like night and day,” says Linda Jacobson, a senior THS veterinarian who started volunteering at the organization a week after the raid. “When I arrived here, it was in a shocking state. There were over 1,000 cats in a building that had capacity for 350, and animals that had been in small cages for two or three years.” “I hope the majority of people will understand that a shelter cannot operate properly if it takes in more animals than it can humanely care for,” she says. But the way Trow tells things, it’s as if the two were working at completely different shelters. All animals at the THS, he says, were reasonably cared for. Cages were cleaned at the end of each day, and no animals died inhumanely. “These people can have their own opi n ion s ,” said Trow, his voice notably agitated. “But t h e y ’ r e wrong.” Yes, it’s a challenge taking in all the animals that need protection, he says, “but that’s why people give you money.” 3

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Strip clubs are places for girls to dance through their daddy issues By ASHLEY BOTTING a month ago, i was a straight, feminist woman who had never been to a strip club. I didn’t have to go to one to know I hated them. Then I found myself at three dif ferent ones over the course of a few weeks. My opinion hasn’t changed. There is nothing totally fun and fas cinating about these places. The first one was for a bachelor party. My friend Paul is going to be a father, so my friends thought we should celebrate by staring at some hairless versions of his baby’s even tual exit point. I decided I’d spend the evening with my arms crossed, reminding everyone that every strip per is someone’s daughter.

I didn’t know what do with those crossed arms when “Christa” was giving me the lap dance my friends surreptitiously bought for me. I knew I wasn’t allowed to touch her, so I put my hands behind my head while she rubbed her ample breasts on my face and had her way with my breasts. I blushed and giggled, then reminded myself I was supposed to be having a terrible time. When she was done, we chatted. I wanted to ask questions that would humanize her and give her a voice, but managed only to blurt out, “Are they real?!” She shook her mysterious mammaries, answering, “Nine grand. I paid for them as a call girl, but I

hated the idea of someone taking a 50 per cent cut of my earnings, so now I’m doing this.” The other girls, she said, resent her for being the hottest. I could have af firmed that she does, in fact, have the best tits but I was too busy respecting her. She said she’s still a call girl from time to time and likes her cokedout clients best because they can’t keep it up, “so, y’know… less work.” Then she showed me a BlackBerry pic of her prewaxed vulva. “I didn’t have a dad,” she told me. “He left when I was little, but most of the girls in here had dads who were mean to them, so I think I’m better off. Don’t you?” I nodded. I was drunkenly dragged to the sec ond club by a bunch of persuasive straight males and one lesbian. Twenty minutes in, purely for research, I was lying faceup on the lip of the stage with a toonie in my mouth: I needed to get the full spectator understanding to properly abhor it. I was one of about 10 people onstage doing the same – most

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Six years after the Mesh Conference began, Toronto has grown into a boomtown for start-ups and international web businesses. In many ways, Mesh, a yearly Canadian web conference, helped make the city into the thriving app capital (cAPPital?) it is today. But another view, one that I’ll elaborate here, takes the opposite perspective. As the city explodes with innovative new companies, Mesh seems to be on a different trajectory. It may see more attendees, having switched to larger venues this year, but the conference doesn’t match the growth or energy of our vibrant tech scene. So as an exercise in constructive criticism, here are a few suggestions to help Mesh live up to its name as Canada’s web conference.

Toronto’s web scene is diverse, the Of the four keynote speakers, two are world’s tech scene even more so. More local and two are based in New York. than half of Silicon Valley start-ups For anyone paying attention, and were founded or co-founded by people Mesh attendees most likely are, born outside the United States. the local presenters are But I don’t really see them very familiar faces. represented at Mesh. Ron Deibert, a That’s because there security expert at are too many executhe Munk Centre’s tives, professionals Citizen Lab, is talkand managers and ing about somenot enough grassthing called cyberroots. space and the subjective government’s role in it. He’s been at it for a on subjects good while now. Glancing down the topics Mark Surman, who’s covered by the conference, to done an amazing job as be blunt, makes me a bit Plus the logo looks chair of the Mozilla Foundasnoozy. What can be said like a ball of yarn. tion for the past three about Groupon that hasn’t years, similarly has 20-some already been said? Likewise years experience in technology. for digital activism in Egypt or leverElsewhere down the list, I see David aging LinkedIn. Eaves, an open data advocate based in I’m searching for a topic to get more Vancouver, and Michael Geist, a copyexercised about, a panel where differright reform hero from Ottawa. Both ent opinions can collide. For example,

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at SXSWi, one of my favourite panels was on HTML5 versus Flash. In the past year, that’s been one of the web’s never-ending, unanswerable questions. Where are those debates at Mesh? Outside of a few that caught my eye, the presentations feel a bit too safe.

Me$h Money I won’t harp on this too much, but $639 plus HST is steep, especially with few marquee names on the bill.

Picking on Panels “Mesh isn’t your typical pitch-us-aspeaker type of event (sorry, PR folks),” say the organizers. But maybe it should be. All my gripes with the presentations, and perhaps the conference as a whole, come down to curation. A more dynamic process of picking panelists, speakers and keynotes might give us

more dynamic presentations, instead of tired subjects and the same names year after year. A public-facing panel-pitching and voting tool – a process not without its faults, too – might be the way to go. Another route could be to partner with a more on-the-scene organization. An upstart company like, say, Sprouter, might have a fresher take on who’s doing something new and exciting. Fundamentally, Mesh needs more entrepreneurs presenting, risk-takers who gamble on new technology and have strong viewpoints on how to make it. Mesh has been a success thus far, but it hasn’t exactly been inspiring. Here’s hoping for more of both in the future.

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Thursday, May 26

Benefits

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 wine, beer and food from 29 top local chefs. 6-9 pm. $100. St Lawrence Market North, 92 Front W. foodshare.net.

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dealing WiTh emoTions using PlanT essenCes Lecture. 7-8:30 pm. Free. Big Carrot,

348 Danforth. 416-466-2129. JaaP Blonk Performance and talk by the international sound artist. 7:30 pm. $35, adv $25. 918 Bathurst Centre. tnsow.com. visiBle minoriTy? invisiBle hisTory? Forum on teaching and learning Asian heritage. 5-7 pm. Free. Toronto District School Board, 5050 Yonge. Pre-register leqin@ccnctoronto.ca.

Friday, May 27

Benefits

rherBie day (Herbie Fund and SickKids Hospital) Live Citytv broadcast with entertainment. 11 am-7 pm. Donation. SickKids Atrium and front lawn, 555 University. 416-813-7812. more Than JusT a yardage sale (Textile Museum of Canada) Sale of fine fabrics, beads, buttons, patterns and more. 11 am-6 pm. Free. Textile Museum parking lot, 55 Centre. textilemuseum.ca. one nighT sTand: Take a sTand For Children’s menTal healTh (Hincks-Dellcrest Cen-

tre) DJ dancing, hors d’oeuvres, swag bags and more. 8 pm. $100. Steam Whistle Brewing,

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Tin Pan norTh Festival celebrating the craft of songwriting with performances by Andy Kim, Danny Wells, Lynn Chater and others plus a day-long songwriters seminar. Various venues and prices. nsaitoronto.com. May 26 to 28 Wings & Wheels heriTage FesTival Modern and vintage airplanes and vehicles, flights in a vintage Tiger Moth, kids’ zone, seminars and more. $8-$34. Downsview Park and Airport, 65 Carl Hall. 416-4994647, wingsandwheelsfestival.com. May 28 and 29 WorldWide shorT Film FesTival Short films from around the world, a symposium, panels and more. $10-$20, passes $50-$170. Bloor Cinema (506 Bloor W), Royal Ontario Museum (100 Queen’s Park), Varsity Cinemas (55 Bloor W) and other venues. shorterisbetter.com. May 31 to Jun 5

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Far from the Tree. 6:30-8:30 pm. Free. OISE Peace Lounge, 252 Bloor W. deborah@ catalystcentre.ca.

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aBsTraCT exPressionisT neW york The exhibition opens with a party with DJ Egyptrixx and a preview of the show. 9 pm-midnight. $25. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648. ranime norTh Voice actors including Kumiko Watanabe and Christopher Ayres, music by the Fool, panel discussions and more. Today 6 pm-2 am; tomorrow 10 am-2 am; May 29, 10 am-6 pm. $35-$40. Toronto Congress Centre, 650 Dixon. animenorth.com. rBollyWood in The square Movie, Indian food and Bollywood-themed fun. 7 pm. Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca. The CloThing shoW Local designers, vintage, accessories, eco-friendly clothing and more. Today 5-9 pm; tomorrow 11 am-9 pm; May 29, 11 am-6 pm. $10, adv $8. Queen Elizabeth Bldg, Exhibition Place. theclothingshow.com. doors oPen ToronTo kiCk-oFF Official launch for the weekend of free access to historic and culturally significant buildings. 4:308:30 pm. Free. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. toronto.ca/doorsopen. Joe higgins Discussion with the Irish Sociaist Party MP. 7-10 pm. $5. Imperial Pub, 54 Dundas E. 416-452-8446. kink 201 All-genders workshop. 7-9:30 pm. $33. Good for Her, 175 Harbord. Pre-register 416-588-0900.

mission arT Performances, installations,

radio broadcasts, artist talks and the Radio Without Boundaries Conference. Talks $10-$15, installations free, conference $75-$150. Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. deepwireless.ca. To May 31 doC noW Documentary media festival showcasing film, photography and new media by graduating students from Ryerson’s MFA program. docnow.ca. To Jun 25

inside ouT lgBT Film and video FesTival

continuing ConTaCT Photography festival featuring exhibitions, public installations, workshops, portfolio reviews and more. Most shows free. Various venues. contactphoto.com. To May 31

deeP Wireless FesTival oF radio & Transrom ConneCTing Singles evening with a talk on monsters by filmmaker Kaspar Saxena. 7-9:30 pm. $50, adv $45. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000.

Saturday, May 28

Benefits

donaTe a Can ConCerT (Second Harvest) Per-

formances by Tonight’s the Night and dance group Legendary Boys United. Noon-4 pm. Free w/ food donation. Mel Lastman Square, 5100 Yonge. donateacanproject.com. earTh run (David Suzuki Fdn) 5K run/walk along the lakeshore. 9:30 am. $25. Coronation Park, Lakeshore and Strachan. earthrun.com. gamBaro JaPan (Japan disaster relief) Variety show featuring Sensui Kozakura, Rojitas and others. 7 pm. $30. Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, 6 Garamond. 416-441-2345. a ToasT To Freedom (Amensty Int’l) Mark AI’s 50th anniversary with wine and cheese tastings, live music and door prizes. 8-11 pm. $30/ couple. Art of Cheese, 925 Kingston. info@ theartofcheese.ca. yard sale For The Cure (Canadian Breast Cancer Fdn) Fundraising yard sales take place on front lawns across the city. For location, go to cbcf.org/yardsale_map/index3.asp.

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Carlos Celdran: iF These Walls Could Talk

The Philippine-based performance artist presents his walking tour show about Intramuros.

Celebrating queer culture on film with screenings, panels, performances, parties and more. $8-$13, galas $17-$28. TIFF Bell Lightbox (350 King W) and Buddies in Bad Times Theatre (12 Alexander). 416-9671528, insideout.ca. To May 29 neW Wave ComPosers FesTival Esprit Orchestra music festival with performances, round tables and more. Various venues and prices, some events free. espritorchestra.com. To May 30

Today 3 pm; tomorrow 6 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-9734000. rdesiFesT South Asian concerts, artisans, a food market and kids’ activities. 11 am-11 pm. Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca. doors oPen ToronTo Self-guided architectural tours of more than 150 buildings across the city. Today and tomorrow. Free. See website for details. toronto.ca/doorsopen. an evening WiTh The mysTiC Sadhguru shares his wisdom on finding true bliss and freedom in our modern world. 5-8 pm. $25$100. Metro Convention Centre, 222 Bremner. ishafoundation.org. gloBal Warning Canadian Elite Mixed Martial Arts event with Shigeki Osawa vs Tim Wadsworth. 7-11 pm. $49.95. International Centre, 6900 Airport Rd. ticketbreak.ca. heriTage Tour LEAF tour of the city’s most impressive heritage trees. 10:30 am-12:30 pm. $5 sugg. SW corner Bloor and Avenue. Preregister yourleaf.org/node/315.

iT sTarTs WiTh The dJ musiC indusTry ConFerenCe Industry leaders Diamond D and

Mark Ronson offer insights into developing an artist career. Doors open at noon. $10. Rogers Communication Centre/Ryerson, 80 Gould, 2nd flr. stylusgroup.ca. musiC roW norTh Day of music business education and critique with Frank Myers, Danny Wells, Lynn Chater, Brian Allen and others. 9:30 am-5 pm. $50. Trebas Instit, 2340

Dundas W. Pre-register nsaitoronto.com.

queen WesT neighBourhood Walking Tour Walk led by Betty Ann Jordan. Noon-

2:30 pm. $25. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.

soCialisT ParTy oF onTario Founding/organizing ConFerenCe Keynote talk by Irish

Socialist Party MP Joe Higgins, policy debate and elections. 9 am-5 pm. $35. Bond Place Hotel, 65 Dundas E. 416-452-8446.

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Educational seminars, shelter tours, face painting and an info booth. Today and tomorrow noon-6 pm. Free. Toronto Humane Society, 11 River. torontohumanesociety.com. ToronTo roller derBy Chicks Ahoy! vs Death Track Dolls. 6:30 pm. $18, adv $12. Downsview Park Hangar, 75 Carl Hall. torontorollerderby. com. WesTend sTories Evening of storytelling for all ages. Free. River Trading Company, 1418 Queen W. 647-295-5900.

Workers rising: From WisConsin To onTario Marxism Conference public forum on

workers’ resistance with Allen Ruff and others. 7-9 pm. Free. Ryerson Student Centre, 55 Gould. marxismconference.ca.

Sunday, May 29

Benefits

anoTher sPring: a PoeTry maTsuri (Second Harvest Japan) Launch with readings, haikuon-demand and custom haikus written for you by a master poet. 2 pm. Free, haiku $2. Pineapple, 2 Kensington. 416-407-0266. rgreaT sTrides Walk (Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Fdn) Walk for the cure and family activities. 8:30 am-2 pm. $25 min pledges. Toronto Zoo, Meadowvale N of 401. 416-392-5929. quesT (Canadian Hearing Soc) Smartphonebased scavenger hunt. 9 am. Donation. Withrow Park, Logan S of Danfiorth. chs.ca/quest. rWalk For dog guides (Lions Club of Canada) A 5K walk, dog contests, pet massages, a silent auction and more. 11 am. Donation. Pawsways, 245 Queens Quay W. Pre-register walkfordogguides.com. Walk WiTh israel (United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto) 8K walk along the waterfront. 10 am. Pledges. Coronation Park, Exhibition Place. Pre-register walkwithisrael.com.

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Thabir Abdullah compare Canada’s 19th-century struggle for democracy with today’s Arab Spring. 7:30 pm. $10. Fort York, Garrison off Fleet. Pre-register 416-392-6907 ext 221.

eliot Cowan: nature, heart anD wiSDoM in the ShaManiC traDition Lecture by the shaman and author. 8 pm. $20. OISE Auditorium, 252 Bloor W. Pre-register psmontario.eventbrite.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.

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ada) Bring your lunch to mark Hunger Awareness Day. Noon-1 pm. Free (food/cash donation appreciated). David Pecaut Square, Metro Hall, 55 John. hungerawarenessday.ca. relay For StronG KiDS (YMCA Strong Kids Campaign) Marathon walk. 7 pm. Pledges. Queen Elizabeth Bldg, Exhibition Place. ymcarelay.ca.

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art Battle 14 Live competitive painting, audience voting and an acution. 7:30 pm. $15. Great Hall, 1087 Queen W. artbattleto.com.

the neeDle anD the DaMaGe Done – Death, DruGS anD roCK anD roll Forensic toxicolo-

gists examine the link between rock stars, drugs and early death. 1-3 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca. PaleStine: a PeoPle in reSiStanCe Theresa Wolfwood reports on the daily struggles of people in Palestine. 7-9 pm. Pwyc. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org. PoSt CarBon toronto MeetuP Discussion on promoting energy efficiency. 7-9:30 pm. $2 or pwyc. Metro Hall, rm 314, 55 John. meetup. com/postcarbontorontomeetup. SCottiSh Country DanCinG in the ParK Class and dancing to live music by Scottish Accent. 7-9 pm. Free. Edwards Gardens, Lawrence and Leslie (if poor weather – St Bonaventure School, 1340 Leslie). 416-406-6368. water: the ForuM Forum on power generation, watershed management and more. 11 am-6 pm. Free. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000.

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Prayer For the PeDallerS Everyone on two wheels needs a little grace in this car-crazed city – so bring your bike to Trinity-St. Paul’s United Church for a special blessing and participate in a spiritual kickoff to Bike Month. Ministers will be on hand giving thanks for the simple beauty of the bicycle and seeking protection for all who ride, Sunday (May 29), 12:30 to 2 pm. Free. 427 Bloor West. trinitystpauls.ca.

City PlanninG’S DownSiDe Have planners given our city a boost or just messed things up entirely? Come hear architect and urban planner John van Nostrand, a Jane Jacobs Award winner and specialist in alt housing for the poor and the transformation of underutilized spaces. His talk, Planning – And Unplanning – For The Future Of Toronto, hosted by the Centre for City Ecology, explores the history and dilemmas of controlling growth. Wednesday (June 1), 6 pm. Free. Urbanspace Gallery, 401 Richmond West. Pre-register. cce-presents-john-van-nostrand. eventbrite.com.

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pm. Free admission. Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. brewerymarket.com. Fruit tree GraFtinG Urban Orchardist workshop. 1:15-4 pm. $25. Ben Nobleman Park Community Orchard (across from Eglinton West subway). Pre-register growingforgreen@ gmail.com. Square Party Worldwide Short Film Festival launch with music and a video. 8-11 pm. Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca.

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treeS that holD our hiStory Time for a little urban forest action. Join LEAF on its Heritage Tree Tour and meet some of the awe-inspiring leafy specimens that make Toronto special. Arborist Philip van Wassenaer leads the trek through Queen’s Park and Philosopher’s Walk pointing out the biodiversity value of the old and stately trees. City staffer Peter Simon will demonstrate new technologies aimed at helping newbie plants reach their towering maturity. Saturday (May 28), 10:30 am to 12:30 pm. $5 suggested donation. Bloor and Avenue, SE corner. Register at yourleaf.org. whiSKy, wharF & winDMill Guided ROM

7:30 pm. $20-$125. Royal Conservatory of Music, 273 Bloor W. 416-408-2824.

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Arts Council and Playwrights Guild of Canada workshop. 5:30-7 pm. Free. Playwrights Guild, 215 Spadina. Pre-register margo@ torontoartscouncil.org. inJureD worKerS’ Day rally Ontario Network of Injured Workers rally and vigil to support workers’ rights. 11 am (vigil starts 4 pm May 31). Free. Ontario Legislature, Queen’s Park. injuredworkersonline.org.

PlanninG – anD unPlanninG – For the Future oF toronto Lecture by urban planner/ architect John van Nostrand. 6 pm. Free. Urbanspace Gallery, 401 Richmond W. Register cce-presents-john-van-nostrand.eventbrite. com.

trenDS in CoStuMe Jewellery FroM ViCtorian DayS to the PreSent Lecture and trunk show with vintage jewellery collector Carole Tanenbaum. 6:30-8:30 pm. $50. Textile Museum of Canada, 55 Centre. 416-599-5321.

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You’re invited to our 9th Annual comedy and music cabaret. It will be an evening to remember with a wonderful silent auction, fabulous food, delightful entertainment and of course great company! Event Reception: 6:00 pm Show: 7:30 pm St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts Jane Mallett Theatre 27 Front Street E.

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Owner Lorenzo Sibio (left) presents the Mozzarella Di Bufala Campana tasting plate, prepped by Arvin Cruz Salva.

Lotsa mozza at Obika BCE eatery’s signature ingredient is as authentic as it comes By STEVEN DAVEY At first bite, the breezy space across from the rebooted Marché seems a bit corporate. There must be at least a dozen servers on the floor, all in head-to-toe black, the 16-outlet international’s logo splashed fetchingly across their chests. Centre stage, a fake olive tree worthy of the Rainforest Café turns out to be the real thing. The service is genuine, too. We’re expecting chaos but encounter a well-oiled machine that feels like its been up and running for months. Our knowledgeable guide informs us that the entire staff was drilled on the intricacies of cheese for three weeks leading up to the launch. She gets us started with a doublebarrelled amuse de fromage, one a shot glass of smooth Bufala Classica and cherry tomatoes on a skewer, the

OBIKA (30 Yonge, at Front, 416-546-1062, obika.ca) Complete dinners for $40 per person (lunches $30), including all tax, tip and a glass of vino. Average main $15. Open Monday to Thursday 7 am to 11 pm, Friday 7 am to midnight, Saturday 11 am to midnight. Closed Sunday. Licensed. Access: barrier-free. Rating: NNN

if you’re vegan, lactose-intolerant or just don’t care for cheese, Obika might not be the resto for you. But, if you’re mad for mozzarella – especially pricey European Unionprotected Mozzarella di Bufala Campana DOP flown in directly from the mother country – the two-week-old Italian franchise in the atrium of the BCE is your kind of place. Day two lunch, and the 100-seat casual trat is already packed to the rafters.

second creamy Burrata dressed with fresh arugula and black olive tapenade. “But what about the carbon footprint?” asks the Literary Device as we’re about to begin Obika’s threecourse degustazione di Mozzarelle. “Couldn’t they use local mozzarella instead?” By the time he’s polished off the lot – one ball each of incredibly rich Classica, buttery Burrata and smoky Bufala Affumicata ($34, and enough for two people) sided with tissue-thin slices of DOP prosciutto, Parma ham and mortadella (an additional $12) and a whole lotta cherry tomatoes ’n’ arugula – he’s ready to pilot the next plane. Mozzarella becomes cheesy sushi when wrapped around ham, cured bresaola and wild smoked salmon (I

Rotoli, $24). You can also add it to your grilled artichoke and pumpkinseed crostini salad ($6.50) and find it in the Obiclub ($12), a pressed tripledecker take on a BLT drizzled with garlic basil pesto. The bread – love those knotted caraway nodini in the bread basket! – and pastries like cannoli ($4.50) and blueberry jam tarts ($3.99) are locally sourced. Oddly, one of the few items on Obika’s extensive card that’s not officially certified is the entry-level Margherita pizza ($14), although that’s not what they call it. Sure, it comes with DOP mozzarell’, fresh basil and San Marzano tomato sauce, and its thin, blistered crust is appropriately floppy. But unlike Pizza Libretto and Queen Margherita Pizza, Obika hasn’t ponied up the membership to the Vera Pizza Napoletana, the EU-sanctioned watchdog that says what is and isn’t a Margherita. Ain’t bureaucracy grand? 3 stevend@nowtoronto.com

Under an actual olive tree (left), Obika serves up mozzarella in pastas such as Schiaffoni di Gragnano.

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Bleu’s a blast OLD BLEU CAFE (73 Queen East, at Church, 416-861-0819, oldbleucafe. com) Complete lunches for $8 per person, including tax, tip and a pop. Average main $5.50. Open Monday to Friday 7 am to 6 pm, Saturday and Sunday 8:30 am to 4 pm. Lunch daily from 11 am. Closed holidays. Unlicensed. Access: Small bump at door, no washrooms. Rating: NNN

The kids in production have been raving about a new café just down the street from NOW headquarters. Open only a month, Old Bleu Café is something of an anomaly for the nabe: the lunch specials are not only dirt cheap, but damned tasty, too. Mondays, transplanted Parisian restaurateur and self-taught chef Gong Zan Shen makes baseballsized pork meatballs kissed with garlic and five-spice powder. Tuesdays, he puts an Asian-French spin on jerk chicken – jerk-ish, more like – sided with buttery rice ’n’ beans, while Wednesdays he takes the trouble to debone chicken thighs before sweating them Thai-style in lemon grass (all $5.50). Optional sides include purple cabbage coleslaw, stir-fried bell peppers with onion, and penne salad. Where else but multiculti Hogtown could a Chinese-born chef trained in France make Italian torSD tellini? Shades of Susur Lee.

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245 Augusta, at Baldwin, 416-977-0056. Small Chilean café with trellised deck out front specializing in meal-sized South American turnovers stuffed with meat or veggies, hard-boiled egg and raisins (all $3.99). Send them into orbit with a healthy splash of the house’s killer hot sauce. Complete meals for $16 per person, including tax, tip and an imported beer. Average main $6. Open Sunday 11 am to close, Monday to Saturday 9 am to 8 pm. Licensed. Access: four steps at door, washrooms in basement. Rating: NNNNNz

Agave y Aguacate

214 Augusta, at Baldwin, 647-208-3091, agaveyaguacate.blogspot.com. Located in a Latin American food court, this staggeringly authentic Mexican street food – made-from-scratch shredded steak salad with raw chopped jalapeños in lime juice dressing ($4.50), say – although inexpensive, comes at a considerable cost: long, slow-moving lineups. Complete takeout dinners for $15 (lunches $10), including tax, tip and an iced hibiscus tea. Average main $5. Open Sunday 11 am to 6:30 pm, Tuesday to Saturday same hours. Unlicensed. Cash only. Access: three steps at door, no washrooms. Rating: NNNNN

Hibiscus

238 Augusta, at Nassau, 416-364-6183.

Although its official launch is still at least a week away, BHCO – aka Black Hoof & Company (923 Dundas West, at Gore Vale, 416-7927511, theblackhoof.com) – held its first soft opening Tuesday, May 17. Unlike the preceding Hoof Café, the

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maple syrup and dairy-free Earl Grey, black sesame or chocolate almond gelato ($8.65). Complete meals for $12 per person, including tax, tip and an organic coffee. Average main $7. Open Daily 11 am to 6 pm. Unlicensed. Access: three steps at door, washroom on same floor. Rating: NNNNz

Akram’s Shoppe

191 Baldwin, at Kensington, 647-3513116, akramsshoppe.com. Looking for a Middle Eastern cafeteria famous for its made-to-order fava, soy and mung bean falafels in new career? whole wheat pita dressed with tahini,

tomato, parsley, purple cabbage, sweetly pickled turnip, tart pomegranate jam and slow-burn hot sauce ($2.99). Complete meals for $7 per person, including tax and a bottle of water. Average main $5. Open Daily 11:30 am to 11 pm. Unlicensed. Access: seven steps to counter, washroom barrier-free. Rating: NNNN

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285 Augusta, at Oxford, 416-913-7487. Veggie-friendly Mission-style burritos like sugary-sweet yam with melted cheddar, crunchy diced tomato, bell pepper, guacamole, rice ‘n’ beans and a hint of jalapeño ($7 small/$8.50 large). Also: 529 Bloor W, at Albany, 416-792-4244; 112 Dundas W, at Bay, 416-340-0340. Com-

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plete meals for $10 per person, including tax, tip and a juice. Average main $7. Open Sunday to Wednesday 11 am to 9 pm, Thursday to Saturday 11 am to 10 pm. Closed some holidays. Unlicensed. Access: barrier-free, one step to washroom. Rating: NNNN

Amadeu’s

184 Augusta, at Denison Square, 416591-1245. Old-school Portuguese resto with a wraparound awning-covered deck and seafood card, notably grilled sardines sided with deep-fried potato chips and pickled pimento ‘n’ tomato salads ($11). Complete meals for $40 per person ($20 at lunch, $15 in the pub), including tax, tip and a glass of wine. Average main $12. Open Daily 11:30 am to 11 pm, bar till 2 am. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms in basement. Rating: NNNz

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64 Oxford, at Augusta, 416-927-1231, fressenrestaurant.com. DIY vegan grilled tofu sandwiches and salads like baby spinach or red lentil ’n’ quinoa in cranberry vinaigrette, dressed with shiitake mushrooms, grape tomatoes and broccoli (both $8.50) Also: 967 College, at Dovercourt, 416-515-8885. Complete meals for $15, including tax, tip and a lemonade. Average main $9. Open Daily 9 am to 7 pm. U nlicensed. Access: four steps at door, no washrooms. Rating: NNN

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Heinz mustard spokesperson Roger Mooking has left Nyood (1096 Queen West, at Dovercourt, 416466-1888, nyood.ca). His old chef de cuisine, Daniel Duckett, moved up to replace him a month ago. Why the split? “I was walking along a path that made a turn, so I turned to stay on it,” says Mooking cryptically. “I’ve learned not to turn right if the road Sd turns left.”

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Check out our Automobiles Section in NOW Classifieds. Craft Fat Burger 269 Augusta, at Nassau, 416-551-6550. It might not be the most original name, but this no-frills fast food joint offers consid erable value – five bucks gets you a neverfrozen freshly ground triple-A chuck burgerwith a side of okay fries and a pop. Barbecued corn, too. Complete meals for $10 per person, including tax, tip and a soda pop. Average main $7. Open Daily 11 am to 10 pm. Unlicensed. Cash only. Access: short ramp at door, washrooms in basement. Rating: NNNz 3

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Spandex shorts not your style? We’re peddling fashionconscious gear that will have you riding pretty. Flip the collar and cuffs on this J.Lindeberg blazer ($695, Theodore 1922, 497 Bloor West, 416-8500175, jlindeberg.com) to reveal sewn-in reflective strips. Elastic side panels also help with riding comfort.

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Harem pants are surprisingly practical for cycling. Modrobes’ Eucalyptex pair ($49.99, 620 Queen West, 647-726-0164, modrobes.com) has range-of-motion room in the seat but tapers at the ankle so hems don’t get snagged.

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Suiting label Strellson collaborated with Bianchi on a Rolling Style collection that includes suiting, shirts and this beaut of a bike ($1,800, The Bay, 176 Yonge, 416-861-9111, strellson.com).

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Italian bike outfit Abici makes cycling caps ($60, Curbside Cycle, 412 Bloor West, 416-920-4933, curbside.on.ca) in water-resistant merino wool.

A classic K-Way windbreaker ($49, Style Exchange, Eaton Centre, 220 Yonge, 647-352-3727, stylexchange. com) packs easily in a pannier and keeps you very visible in fluorescent yellow.

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CITY EVENTS Toronto Group Commute and Launch Event Monday May 30, 7am-9:30am Commuters from around the city meet to ride together from start points and converge at Yonge and Bloor for 7:30am. City start points are staffed with ride coordinators and a Police escort. Riders will receive a free Bike Month t-shirt as well as complimentary breakfast at City Hall (while supplies last). City Start Points 7am Bloor and High Park 7am Yonge and Lawrence 7am Danforth and Woodbine 7:30am Bloor and Yonge 8am Arrive at City Hall Community Start Points 6:30am Humber River Waterfront Trail Bridge 7am Wilson Ave. and Avenue Rd. (at Cricket Club) 7am Don Mills and Lawrence. 7:15am Wychwood Barns 7:20am Bloor St. and Brunswick Ave. 7:20am Danforth Ave. and Chester Ave. 7:30am Kew Gardens (south end) 7:30am Dundas St. E. and Kingston Rd.

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May 26, 2011 32 Spokes at Environment Day. Advocate for cycling in Ward 32 and get involved with ‘32 spokes’. 4pm. Ted Reeve Arena, 175 Main St. 416-294-4188. May 27, 2011 A night of Comedy. Ride to Conquer Cancer Benefit. 7pm. $20-30. Adv ticks at thefunny@comedyrecords.ca. The Supermarket, 268 Augusta Ave. 416-768-0400. www.comedyrecords.ca. May 28,2011 Eco-Wheels Show. Check out the latest in ecofriendly transportation, workshops and more. 10am. The Distillery District, 55 Mill St. 416-4206906. www.eco-wheelsshow.com Ashbridge Breakfast Kick-off. Bike riding tips, bike safety, light refreshments followed by group rides. 10:30am. Ashbridge’s Bay Park. www.tbn.ca.

cake breakfast and a bicycle safety check. 10am. Evergreen Bike Works, 550 Bayview Ave. 416-596-1495 ex. 310, www. ebw.evergreen.ca. Bike the New Finch Hydro Corridor. The route will be on or alongside the new Finch Hydro Corridor Trail. Preride snacks. Meet at park on NW corner of Yonge St and Hendon Ave. 416-7813848. Bikes and Books. Bike repair for the novice. Learn about basic bike maintenance, instruction on bike safety and security. 8 locations across the city. Toronto Public Library and Toronto Cyclists Union. 416394-5210, www.torontopubliclibrary.ca. BikeSauce Coffee House. Visit BikeSauce’ new location. Tea, coffee and baked treats available throughout the day! BikeSauce, 235 Broadview. 647-724-7880, www.bikesauce.org. Maintaining your Bicycle Workshop. Learn how to maintain and tune bicycles. Registration required, space limited. 2pm. Lillian H. Smith Library, 239 College St. 416-393-7746, cycling@culturelink.net. Sweets for Cycles! Bike Pirates annual Donate a bike in exchange for sweets. 12pm. Bike Pirates. 1292 Bloor St. W. 647-269-1017, www. bikepirates.com. Urbent Event. Learn about recumbent bikes and recumbent trikes and test ride them. 10am. Urbane Cyclist, 180 John St. 416-979-9733, www.urbanecyclist.ca.

May 29, 2011 Toronto Criterium 2011. An annual fast pace race on a closed course through the St. Lawrence neighbourhood. 9am. St. Lawrence Neighbourhood, 9295 Front St. E. 416-652-0800, www.zmcyclefitness.com. Bike 4 Betty. 2/15/30/75/100km rides supporting cancer care services at Trillium Health Centre. 6:30am. Memorial Park, Port Credit. 905848-7575, support, register, donate @ www.bikeJune 1, 2011 4betty.com. BFBA Kick-off. Come celebrate the launch of the Bike Blessing. Ministers blessing bikes and ridBicycle Friendly Business Awards. Nominate a cycle ers. 12:30pm. Trinity St. Paul 427 Bloor St. W., 416-922-8435 ex21, www.trinitystpauls.ca. friendly business/organization. 3pm-6pm. Sweet Pete’s GoGreenGODutchGoBike! Annual bike ride with Bike Shop, 517 Bloor St W. 416-338-5086 the Consulate General of the Kingdom of the NethJune 3, 2011 erlands in Toronto. 9:30am. $10. Old Mill TTC stop. BIXI Info Session. Come out to learn about Toronto’s 1-877-388-2443, www.gogreengodutchgobike. com. newest bike share program. 8am-11am. Union Station, Bike Day Commuter Hour. Celebrate Bike Month 65 Front St. 1-877-412-2494. with Urbane Cyclist. Drop by on your way home for special souvenir and treats. 4:30pm. Urbane Cyc2011 Bicycle Friendly Business Awards will be hosted list, 180 John St. 416-979-9733, www.urbanecycin partner with Tour D’Afrique. Make sure to get your list.ca. nominations in. Show your support for businesses May 30, 2011 Janet Bike Girl Open Studio. Come and visit to and organizations that are cycling friendly! see a variety of bike stencil artwork. 11am. 401 The Awards night will happen at the Gladstone Hotel Richmond St W. Studio S-26, basement. 416on Monday, September 26th at 7:30pm. 971-4273, janetbikegirl@yahoo.ca. www.toronto.ca/cycling/bfba/index.htm 416-338-5086. Toronto Bicycling Network Bike Month 2011 Rides. Join the TBN for a series of bike rides throughout the City of Toronto. www.tbn.ca for more details. Throughout the month of June. Dandyhorse Magazine Launch Party. Dandyhorse’s 6th issue will be celebrated at the Gladstone hotel. 8pm. $3-10. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen St. W. 416-531-4635, http://dandyhorse- June 5, 2011 magazine.com/. Becel Heart & Stroke Ride For Heart. South Etobicoke bike to work day ride. Ride Raise funds for heart and stroke research meets at Humber Bridge and joins the group com- while riding the DVP and Gardiner Expressmute at High Park. 6:30am. http://www.lake- way. 6am. 416-489-7111 ex.374, www. rideforheart.ca. shoreforum.ca Bike wash, youth-lead workshop and east-end June 1, 2011 Hart House Bike Month Breakfast. Breakfast @ ride. Bike wash, workshops, bike ride through Sammy’s Student Exchange on the Arbor Room Moss Park, Regent Park and surrounding neighPatio. Live entertainment by CIUT. 7:30am. Hart bourhoods. 10am. Charlie’s Bike Shop, 242.5 House, 7 Hart House Circle. 416-978-7585, Queen St. E. 416-871-8786, www.cpin.ca. Celebrate Bike Month byacross joining cyclists across http://www.harthouse.ca/student-engagement/ ebrate Bike Month byby joining cyclists across Dignitas Race for Dignity. Participants raise Bike Month by joining cyclists ate Bike Month joining cyclists across Celebrate Bike Month by joining cyclists across bike-month-breakfast. funds by committing to ride on a stationary bike. Toronto in the Annual Group Commute. nto in the Annual Group Commute. Celebrate Bike Month by joining cyclists across Toronto in the Annual GroupCommute. 12pm. Yonge-Dundas Square. 416-260-3100 onto inBike the Annual Group June 1-June 30, 2011 Toronto inCommute. theacross Annual Group Commute. ebrate Month by joining cyclists Celebrate Bike Month by joining cyclists across Romance theAnnual Wheel. Bike themedCommute. art show. ex.110, www.racefordignity.com. Toronto in ofthe Group in the Group Commute. in Annual the Annual Group Commute. Opening reception party June 3. Jet Fuel Coffee June 10-September 11, 2011 thToronto byToronto joining cyclists across Shop, 519 Parliament St. 416-968-9982. Scenic Friday Night Rides. A variety of summer Annual Group Commute. evening group rides with special performances by June 2, 2011 Breakfast for Bikers. Giving thanks to bicycle the Cycling Oriented puppet Squad (Cyclops). commuters. Enjoy a free breakfast. 7am. Rose- 6:30pm. 416-708-3332, http://www.clayandCelebrate Bike Month by joining cyclists across dale United Church, 159 Roxborough Dr. 416- papertheatre.org/cyclops/category/group-rides/ Toronto ingo the Annual Group Commute. mation and events go to www.toronto.ca/cycling For more information and events go go to to www.toronto.ca/cycling nformation and events to www.toronto.ca/cycling For more information and events www.toronto.ca/cycling 924-0725 ex.21. rmation and events go to www.toronto.ca/cycling June 11, 2011 For more information and events go to www.toronto.ca/cycling information and events go to www.toronto.ca/cycling ore information and events go to www.toronto.ca/cycling Bike Drinks. Toronto Cyclists Union Monthly So- Annual Back Alley Bike Wash. Get your bike cial at the Victory Café. 6:30pm. Victory Café, washed, tires pumped, and chain lubed for a vents go to www.toronto.ca/cycling small donation. All proceeds go to running the 581 Markham St. www.bikeunion.to. workspace. 2pm. Bike Pirates, 1292 Bloor St. W. June 4, 2011 For more information and events go to www.toronto.ca/cycling Bike Breakfast@EBW. Cyclists enjoy a free pan- 647-269-1017, www.bikepirates.com.

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East York History Bike Ride. A cycling tour of Ward 29’s historic sites. 1pm. Playter Gardens. Corner of Danforth and Cambridge Ave’s. 647-367-2417, www.29bikes.ca. Fun & Safe Cycling in Toronto (Mandarin Session). A fun, informative, and interactive workshop to learn how to ride a bicycle safely in Toronto. 2pm. Lillian H. Smith Library, 239 College St. 416-588-6288 ex. 229, cycling@culturelink.net. Toronto Island Tour of Trees. Guided Cycling and walking tour of trees of the Toronto Island. www.toronto.ca/ parks/treefestival or 311 for more info. ArtBike. Bicycle Decoration Community Workshops. Some materials provided. 1pm. Field house at Dufferin Grove Park, 875 Dufferin St. 416-708-3332, www. clayandpapertheatre.org/ cyclops. Toronto Mountain Bike Fest. Rides, skill lessons, rides, trail maintenance workshops and more. 10am. http://www.to-mtbfest.com. June 12, 2011 Bike with Mike. Join Mike Layton to learn about the Trintiy-Spadina (Ward19) community through this interactive bike ride. 11am. Christie Pits Park. 416-392-4009. Councillor_layton@ toronto.ca. Ride the New Leaside Rail/Trail. Discover the new Leaside Rail/trail by bike and talk with Councillor Jaye Robinson. 1pm. Leslie St. and Lawrence Ave. 416-781-3848. Zareinu Moveathon. All day fundraiser for children with disabilities including bike races, rides, food, and more. Downsview Park, 35 Carl Hall Rd. 416-661-1800, www.moveathon.org. June 14, 2011 Toronto Bicycling Networks Tour de Dufflet. Participate in the Tour de Dufflets with the TBN and enjoy some baked goods. 10:30am. $5. Dufflet Pastries Inc., 2638 Yonge St. 416-6919415, www.tbn.ca. June 17, 2011 Bike Pirates: Third Friday Event. A community bike ride to visit Toronto’s west-end community gardens. Ride ends at Bike Pirates for a low key social. 7pm. Bike Pirates, 1292 Bloor St W. 647269-1017, www.bikepirates.com. Friday Night Ice Cream Ride. Enjoy some ice cream and check out the Taste of Little Italy festival on this bike ride. 6:30pm. Riverdale Park. 416691-9415, www.tbn.ca. June 18, 2011 ArtBike. Bicycle Decoration Community Workshops. Some materials provided. 1pm. Field house at Dufferin Grove Park, 875 Dufferin St. 416-708-3332, www.clayandpapertheatre.org/ cyclops. Tour de Forts. Bicycling is a unique and exciting way to view Toronto’s historic Forts. 1pm. Old Mill Subway Station. 416-392-6907 ex.100, www. fortyork.ca.

Bells on Bloor 2011. The annual bike ride from High Park to Queens Park. All are welcome. 12pm. Main entrance of High Park, 1873 Bloor St. www.takethetooker.ca June 19, 2011 Bike 2 CAP AIDS. A bike race in support of employment, community and care programs for AIDS-effected youth. Register online. 10am. High Park, 1873 Bloor St. 416-532-2437, http://www.capaids.org/events.html. June 23, 2011 3M: Mary’s Meander Modified. A bike ride through the Lower Don, Martin Goodman trail, small parks paralleling the Garrison Creek. 10:30am. Taddle Creek Park. 416-691-9415, www.tbn.ca. Ward 22 Cycling Consultation Workshop. Discussing solutions to specific issues revolved around cycling and the general state of cycling. 6pm. Northern District Library, 40 Orchard View Blvd. 647-205-0658, www.bikeunion.to/ward22. June 24, 2011 Bike-In Movie Night. Bike-themed movies under the Pavilions in the heart of Toronto’s Don Valley Ravine System. 7pm. Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview Ave. 416-596-1495ex.310, www.ebw. evergreen.ca. June 25, 2011 Cycle for Sight. A fundraiser supporting the Foundation Fighting Blindness, Canada’s leading charity funding vision research. 8am. Downsview TTC parking lot. 416-360-4200, www.cycleforsight.ca. MEC Bikefest 2011. Dozens of informative clinics, kids activities, demos, bike swap and more. 11am. Distillery District, 55 Mill St. 416-3402667. www.mec.ca/bikefest. June 26, 2011 Family Bicycle Parade. Come meet your neighbours, decorate bicycles and play bike games. 2pm. Connaught Circle. 416-653-9019, junostewart@hotmail.com. North York Bicycle Ride. A group ride through North York’s quiet residential streets and park trails. 1pm. Eglinton West Subway Station. 416781-3848. Zareinu Charity Bike Ride. 50/100/162.5km rides to raise funds for Zareinu, a school and treatment centre for kids with special needs. 6:30am. Registration required. 416-661-1800 x228, www. moveathon.com. Bike Rodeo Festival. Teaching children safety skills, bike art and decorating, ages 8-13. 1pm. Wychwood Barns Park, 601 Christie St. 416-3927460. May 24- June 30, 2011 Tour de Dufflet 2011. Eat cake and ride a bike. Tour the three Dufflet Pastries locations and enjoy souvenirs and refreshments. $5. 416-536-2775, www.tourdedufflet.blogspot.com. July 2-9, 2011 The Great Waterfront Trail Adventure. The Great Waterfront Trail Adventure is an annual tour that travels the whole 720 km route over eight sensational days. 7am. 416-943-8080, http://www. waterfronttrail.org/gwta_web/index.htm. August 10, 2011 Discover Ward 37. A leisurely ride along the quite streets of Scarborough. 6:30pm. Thompson Park, at Brimley Ave & Lawrence Ave. 416-288-0293, lucy. perri@hotmail.com. August 10-13, 2011 International Bicycle Film Festival. Enjoy bike shorts and films at this annual event. The Royal Cinema, 608 College St. www.bicyclefilmfestival. com/toronto. September 18, 2011 Gianni Giro Bike-a-thon. A fundraising cycling event in support of the Krembil Neuroscience Centre at Toronto Western Hospital. 9am. Etienne Brule Park. www.giannigiro.com.

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Friday, May 27 rCRITICAL MASS RIDE Group bike ride through the downtown. Last Fri of every month. 6:30 pm. Free. Bloor and Spadina. cmtoronto.ca.

Saturday, May 28 DROP-IN DIY BIKE REPAIR Bring your bike and they’ll provide the space and tools. Pwyc plus parts (sugg $7/ hr). Evergreen at the Brick Works, 550 Bayview. ebw. evergreen.ca.

DON MILLS GROUP BICYCLE COMMUTE Group

ride form Don Mills Centre to City Hall. 7-9 am. Free. Meet at Lawrence E and Don Mills. 647-274-9082.

Wednesday, June 1 WEDNESDAY EASY ROLLER EVENING RIDE 20-

60K ride at a relaxed pace on quiet streets and bike paths. 6:30 pm. Free. Riverdale Park behind Bridgepoint Health, Broadview N of Danforth. 416-691-9415.

Tuesday, June 7 TUESDAY LEISURE WHEELER RIDE 20-60K ride at a leisurely pace for novice and senior riders. 10:30 am-1 pm. Free. Taddle Creek Park, N of St George subway. 416-691-9415.

Tuesday, June 7 KELSO MOUNTAIN BIKE RACE SERIES Races

every Tuesday till Aug 30. Sign up for individual races or the series (14 races and ﬁnal event). Registration 5:30 to 6:30 at Sunset Day Lodge. $70 series, individual events $13. Trail pass required for all competititors ($6.25). 401 to Hwy 25 north to Campbellville, west to

Saturday, June 11 TORONTO MOUNTAIN BIKE FESTIVAL Grass-

roots celebration of the Don Trails June 11. Epic rides (50 & 70K), discovery rides (5-10K), skills sessions, trail maintenance sessions, BBQ and after party. to-mtbfest.com.

Sunday, June 19 SUNDAY MORNING EASY ROLLER RIDE 20-60K

ride at a relaxed pace on quiet streets and bike paths. 10 am. Free. Grenadier Restaurant, High Park. 416-691-9415.

Thursday, July 7 INSIDE RIDE (support for children and families

with cancer benefit) Indoor/outdoor cycling celebration. 11 am-1 pm. Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. Pre-register igtoronto.theinsideride. com.

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The week’s news, views and sales CYCLE SITTER No matter what you spend at the bike shop and how bomb-proof your lock, it’s hard not to be paranoid about the fate of your wheels when you leave them alone. So kudos to the Toronto Cyclist Union (bikeunion.to) for launching a pilot bike valet service this spring. Look for their big orange tent at summer festivals like the Eco Wheels Show (eco-wheelsshow.com), MEC Bikefest and Open Roof Films (openrooffilms.com). More info online at bikevalet.ca.

BOWERY BIKES

The Drake General Store now carries dapper rides by New York City’s Bowery Lane Bicycles (bowerylanebicycles.com). The steel-frame city cycles are instantly recognizable for their cork handles and the branded wooden crate that sits on their rear rack. Men’s and women’s models are available at all three DGS locations (1144 Queen West, 416-531-5042 ext 101; 1011 Yonge, 416-966-0553; 82A Bathurst, 416-703-6518, drakegeneralstore.myshopify.com).

CAR CUTS

Mari Cla Ro (457 Roncesvalles, 416533-9161, mariclaro.ca) makes cyclefriendly messengers out of reclaimed materials, but you’ve always had to select styles from ready-made mashups of recycled car upholstery, inner tubes and seat belt straps. Now the Immortal Car art project allows you to customize a bag with fabrics and findings from the store’s stockpile of rusty Jeeps, Caddys and Volvos, or even to salvage components from your own junkyard-destined drive. Contact the store for more info and pricing.

MORE BIKE STORE BYTES

Just in time for cycling season, Duke’s has reopened its 5,000-square-foot storefront at 625 Queen West (416504-6138, dukescycle.ca). Further west, Blacksmith Cycle (1101 Queen West, blacksmithcycle.wordpress. com about) is bringing custom wheels and a coffee shop to Queen and Dovercourt. Out east, repair spot BikeSauce (bikesauce.org) is relocating to 235 Broadview, just south of AS Dundas, on June 4.

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Monday, May 30

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Toronto-based Orontas’s BikeCare lineup may look like a collection of designer skin care products, but in fact they’re meant for maintaining your two-wheeler. Cycle upkeep selections include a chain lubricant, degreaser, all-purpose lube and waterproof grease that are all sustainable, nontoxic and biodegradable. Prices range from $13 to $15. Find them at Mountain Equipment Co-op (400 King West, 416-340-2667), Hello Vélo (262 Carlaw, #101, 416-901-3999), Sporting Life (2454 AS Yonge, 416-485-4440) and other bicycle shops around town.

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about style,” says the store’s Adam Freeman. “But they’re totally functional, too.” Useful features include wheelpowered lights, leather fender flaps and a more upright seating position. The Public line from San Francisco features models that are lighter in weight and price, but Cycle Couture’s ultimate designer bikes are by Denmark’s Herskind + Herskind. Their allblack frames are accented by fenders made from marine-grade bamboo. Freeman says 90 per cent of his shoppers worry about theft when they splurge on the store’s fanciest cycles, but he’s happy to throw in a free pre-

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ALBION HILLS Rolling hills and forest, good for riders at all levels. 40K of single- and doubletrack trails. Helmets mandatory. $6.50, srs $5.50. 16500 Hwy 50, 8K north of Bolton. 905880-4855, trca.on.ca. DON VALLEY TRAILS Beginner to expert trails in the Crothers’ Woods from the Brick Works in the south to Thornhill park in the north run approximately 10K. Access from Bayview and Pottery Rd. DUNDAS VALLEY CONSERVATION AREA 40K of trails along the Niagara Escarpment open 8 am to sunset daily. 650 Governors (Dundas). 905-627-1233, conservationhamilton.ca. ETOBICOKE CREEK 10K of trails run south from airport along Centennial Park Ravine and Markland Woods. Burnhamthrope to Ponytrail, north to Rathburn, follow to the end. ontariotrails.on.ca. GANARASKA FOREST Over 100K of trails an hour from T.O.’s east end. Single track trails, logging roads and lots of hills. Day pass required. 905-885-8173, grca.on.ca. HARDWOOD HILLS Mountain bike centre with more than 80K of beginner and expert trails through forests and along obstacles, bridges, etc. Rentals, bike repairs, bike camps, parts shop and bike wash stand. Opens weekdays 9 am to 5 pm, Wed till 9 pm, weekends/holidays 8:30 am to 6 pm. $12.50, stu $10.75, under 12 yrs $8.25, special evening rates. 402 Old Barrie Rd, Oro. 1-705-487-3775, hardwoodhills.ca. HUMBER VALLEY 20K+ trails for beginners to experts run through Thackeray Park. Can be accessed from Kipling at Steeles. out-there. com. KELSO CONSERVATION AREA Trails follow the Niagara Escarpment. $6.25, srs $5.25. Trail guide available online. 401 to Hwy 25 north to Campbellville, west to Tremaine and south to Kelso. Kelso trail reports at 905-878-5011. conservationhalton.on.ca. TAYLOR CREEK Similar to the Don Valley trail system, but some variations on this 10K beginner-to-expert set of trails. Enter at Don Mills, Haldon or Dawes. out-there.com. 3

resource index ADVOCACY FOR RESPECT FOR CYCLISTS Activist group works on legal defense, direct action, lobbying and education. respect.to. ALWAYSMAD.COM Mountain biking site for the street, dirt, free-ride and trails set. alwaysmad.com. BICYCLES CROSSING BORDERS This volunteeroperated NGO works to empower Cubans by setting up bike shops and training local men and women in bicycle technology, helping them to find employment. BCB ships bicycles, parts and tools regularly to Cuba. Financial support, donations of bicycles, tool and parts welcome. BikesToCuba.org. BICYCYLE FILM FESTIVAL International bikethemed short film festival. Dates and details tba. bicyclefilmfestival.com. BICYCLE FRIENDLY BUSINESS AWARDS Recognizes organizations and businesses that support and promote cycling. For nominations, call 416-338-5086, toronto.ca/cycling/bfba. BICYCLE LOCKER PROGRAM Secure bike lockers are located at City Hall, Exhibition Place, OISE, Metro Hall, Toronto Island Ferry Docks, U of T Schools, St Lawrence Market, Scarborough Civic Centre, Long Branch and Guildwood GO stations, Etobicoke Civic Centre, Downsview, Kennedy and Finch subway stations. $10 per month. Print an application from the website and send by mail, fax or apply online. toronto. ca/cycling/locker.htm. BIKE CHAIN U of T student-run bicycle repair facility. Tue to Fri 11 am to 5 pm. International Student Centre, 33 St George, basement. 416978-6849, bikechain.utoronto.ca. BIKES AND TRANSIT.COM Website that provides info on taking your bike on the subway, train, bus, highway coach or ferry for some big, and not so big, days of cycling in and around the GTA and the Golden Horseshoe. bikesandtransit.com. BICYCLE SAFETY HOTLINE 416-392-1311, toronto.ca/cycling. BIKE MONTH May 26 to July 2. toronto.ca/ cycling/bikemonth/index.htm. BIKEWAY NETWORK System of numbered routes created to help cyclists. Routes are signed and symbols are marked on the City of Toronto cycling map. toronto.ca/cycling/ network/bikeway-design.htm. BIXI Public bike taxi system accessible to everyone, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Take a bike from one station, leave it at another

when you get to your destination. Memberships available or pay per use with a credit card. 1-877-412-2494, toronto.bixi.com. BMX FORUM Online global BMX community. bmx-forum.com BMX BIKE PARKS Dirt jump parks can be found at Clarkson Park (Winston Churchill Blvd south of Bromsgrove), Meadowvale Sports Park (Meadowvale Blvd west of Mississauga Rd, north of Derry Rd), and Plum Tree Park (Tenth Line north of Aquitaine Ave). Mississauga. 905-615-4100, mississauga.ca. BUG The Bicycle User Group Network encourages cyclists in workplaces, neighbourhoods, communities and schools to join together to improve conditions for cyclists. Also organizes group rides. 416-338-5091, toronto.ca/bug. CANADIAN CYCLIST ONLINE Website offering daily cycling news, forums, product reviews, classified ads and more. canadiancyclist.com. CAN-BIKE Cycling committee-sponsored lowcost training and safety program. Courses for all levels: Adult Learn to Ride, Teen Can-Bike, kids’ courses, instructor workshops and more. 416-338-4386, toronto.ca/cycling/canbike. CBN-COMMUNITY BICYCLE NETWORK Nonprofit organization supports communitybased sustainable transport initiatives. (See Wenches With Wrenches, ToolWorks, CBN Recycles and more.) 761 Queen W. Thu-Fri noon to 6 pm, Sat 10 am to 6 pm. 416-5042918, communitybicyclenetwork.org. CBN-RECYCLES Recycled bikes for sale. We take bike donations, fix them up, sell most and give some away through community partners. 761 Queen W. communitybicyclenetwork.org/ recycle. CHICO RACING Ontario’s mountain bike-racing event site includes info about 24-Hour Summer Solstice race June 25-26 (Albion Hills Conservation Area), 24-Hour Hot August Nights Aug 27-28 (Albion Hills) and Ontario Cup Races all summer long. chicoracing.com. CITY OF TORONTO BIKE PLAN Objectives and recommendations for cycling in Toronto and making a more bicycle-friendly city. toronto. ca/cycling/bikeplan. CRITICAL MASS Cyclists take over the streets the last Friday of each month. Meet at Bloor and Spadina at 6 pm. cmtoronto.ca. CYCLECANADA Online cycling information service provided by organizers of cross-Canada cycling tours. cyclecanada.com. CYCLING AMBASSADORS Teams of cycling experts encourage cycling and deliver safety messages through seminars. toronto.ca/ cycling/ratsa.

CYCLING AND TRANSIT WORKING GROUP Makes policy recommendations to the T.O. Cycling Committee on the development and delivery of policies and programs to integrate cycling and transit. toronto.ca/cycling/committee/ cycling_transit.htm. CYCLISTS’ YELLOW PAGES ONLINE Informative directory compiled by the Adventure Cycling Association contains info for bicycle travellers and tour planning. adventurecycling.org. CYCLOMETER Toronto Cycling Committee newsletter includes updates on cycling issues. toronto.ca/cycling/cyclometer. DANDYHORSE Toronto on two wheels magazine includes pedal stories, art, illustrations, comics and more. 22 Close, suite 1205. 416822-7910, dandyhorse.com. FIXED GEAR GALLERY Huge online index of fixed-gear bicycles from around the world. fixedgeargallery.com. GAY WEST BICYCLE CLUB Gay and lesbian bicycle club plans monthly rides and social events. 416-879-7954, queerwest.org/bikeclub.php. HIGH PARK BICYCLE CLUB Recreational cycling club organizes weekend trips, evening rides, Sunday road and mountain biking and more. torontohpbc.ca. ICEBIKE Cyclists braving winter conditions for transport or competition meet, learn bike handling techniques, share safety and apparel tips. icebike.org. JOYRIDE 150 Indoor bike park offering BMX courses, after-school programs, conditioning, spin classes, road rides and more. 150 Bullock, Markham. 905-294-1313, joyride150.com. MARTIN’S BIKE LANE DIARY Photo blog and more about cycling in Toronto. Links to films and other blogs. bikelanediary.blogspot.com. MYBIKELANE.COM Website that includes T.O. pictures of motorists who have parked in bike lanes. toronto.mybikelane.com ONTARIO CYCLING ASOCIATION Host for many affiliated clubs promoting competitive cycling. Issues racing licences and memberships for road, track, cyclocross, BMX and moutain biking for domestic use and overseas. 416-4267349, ontariocycling.org. ONTARIO’S WORST MUNICIPAL ROADS Submit your worst, read facts and analysis on roads when trip-planning. caasco.com/community/ worst-roads. PEDALING.COM Self-guided road bike routes and mountain bike trails, including maps and trail descriptions. pedaling.com. PEDAL MAGAZINE Bike reviews, new products, events and everything cyclists want to read.

260 Spadina, suite 200. 416-977-2100, pedalmag.com. RACK IT AND ROCKET TTC buses have racks for bikes on many routes. Two bikes allowed, no extra charge. Routes that are included can be found on the TTC Maps page. www3.ttc.ca/ Riding_the_TTC/Bicycles.jsp. RECUMBENT CYCLING ONTARIO Informal club dedicated to the design, constructionand use of recumbent bicycles and tricycles. Workshops and rides. hpv.on.ca. ROAD AND PARK TRAILS PROBLEMS Report problems with road surfaces or park trails by calling 311. toronto.ca/cycling/contacts.htm. TAKETHETOOKER.CA Group dedicated to creating a continuous bike lane along Bloor and Danforth in honour of late activist Tooker Gomberg. takethetooker.ca. TOOLWORKS Drop-in DIY bike repair space with tools, equipment and mechanical advice. $12/ hour, more for mechanic. 761 Queen W. communitybicyclenetwork.org/toolworks. TORONTO BICYCLING MEET-UP GROUP Get together with other cycling enthusiasts for weekend ride planning, gear talk, training tips and fun. meetup.com/TorontoBikeMeetup. TORONTO BMX Website with updates on BMX Jam comps and parks. torontobmx.ca. TORONTO CYCLING COMMITTEE Advises the city on design, development and delivery of bicycle policies, programs and facilities to promote and enhance cycling and the Toronto Bike Plan. toronto.ca/cycling/committee. TORONTO CYCLISTS UNION Member-driven cycling advocacy group offers the Toronto Cyclists Handbook in 17 languages, a Newcomer Cycling Outreach program and more. bikeunion.to. TORONTO-NIAGARA BIKE TRAIN Bike racks on VIA Rail and GO Transit trains allow cyclists to take their bikes around Ontario. biketrain.ca. VELOHOSPITALITY.COM Bike-friendly accomodation information and services in Canada for touring cyclists. velohospitality.com. WENCHES WITH WRENCHES CBN bike repair workshops run by and for women in a friendly environment. Tools provided, courses begin early April. $20-$40 sliding scale. 761 Queen W. communitybicyclenetwork.org/wenches. WEST END BIKE CLUB Volunteer-run drop-in bike repair and recycling club. Open Thursdays during summer months 6:30 to 8:30 pm. Lower level parking garage (P2) near pillar SH at Dufferin Mall, 900 Dufferin. 416-855-6625. WIZARD OF WHEELS Mountain bike events in Ontario. List of events, clinics and services. wowmtb.com. 3

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TAurus Apr 20 | May 20 I’m going to bring up a sore subject only because I think you’re finally ready to make it much less of a sore subject. The truth as I see it, Taurus, is that a part of you got petrified way back when. A formerly fluid and flexible part of your psyche got turned to

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stone, metaphorically speaking, losing much of its usefulness and creating distortions throughout the rest of you. Now, after all this time, you have circled back to a phase when you have the power to at least partially un-petrify this lost function. To get the process started, I suggest you turn your attention to it in such a way that you feel like laughing and crying at the same time.

GeMini May 21 | Jun 20 Poet Gerard

Manley Hopkins coined the verb “to selve,” which is what a person does in the process of creating his or her distinctive presence in the world. Writing this column is an ongoing opportunity for me to selve, for example, because each time I conjure up a new horoscope I exercise the idiosyncratic combination of skills, attitudes, training and knowledge that is special to me. According to my reading of the omens, Gemini, you are in a phase when you have a sacred duty to selve with extra intensity and alacrity. In fact, I suggest you be ruthless in seeking out experiences that give you a chance to tap into, cultivate and express your most unique qualities.

CAnCer Jun 21 | Jul 22 Here comes your ninth loss of innocence, Cancerian. Or is it your tenth? As you will soon prove once again, you manage to make every time feel like the first time. When the moment arrives and the sweet purity ebbs away, the twinge that shudders through you will have the same primal intensity you’ve experienced before. But here’s the redemption: Like most of the previous transitions, this one will lead to a surprising blessing you couldn’t have gotten any other way. When your innocence is reborn – as it will be, sooner or later – it will be wiser and wilder than ever before. Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 There’s a small chance

that the following scenario will soon come to pass: you’ll be invited to become part of a situation that promises to give you special privileges or inside information, but after you join you’ll find out that your participation would require you to compromise your principles. But there’s a far greater chance – over 80 per cent – that the following scenario will take place: you’ll be invited to join your fortunes to a group or circle or tribe or situation that won’t ask you to dilute your integrity or betray your values at all. In fact, it’s likely to activate a dormant part of your potential. The moral of the story, Leo: be very discerning.

VirGo Aug 23 | sep 22 Right now you

have more power than you realize – more power to understand confusing situations, more power to influence people you’ve assumed are resistant to change, and more power to overcome your apparent disadvantages. In fact, the only factor that could prevent you from accomplishing way more than what you thought possible is a lack of confidence. Please note, Virgo: I’m not urging you to cultivate a foolishly arrogant faith in your ego. Rather, I’m cluing you in to the fact that there are hidden forces at work you can call on to help you – wisdom that has been dormant, love that has been neglected, and allies who have been mum.

LibrA sep 23 | oct 22 According to the Guinness Book Of World Records, the longest love letter in history was written by an Indian man named Harish Kondakkuli. The gushing 143-page message took him over three months to complete. Oddly, it was addressed to an imaginary woman, since there was no one in his life he was actually in love with. I encourage you to consider the possibility of exceeding his achievement in the coming weeks, 38

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is a website where people can anonymously reveal their deep, dark feelings. I came across one entry that I think would be perfect for you to use as your own in the coming weeks. “I don’t want to cover up my scar,” it read. “It’s a good conversation starter and it makes me look bad-ass. But thank you anyway!” To further inspire what I hope will be your fearless effort to claim the power inherent in your wounds, I also offer this spur from musician and author Henry Rollins: “Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.”

sAGiTTArius nov 22 | Dec 21 In her irreverent platinum-selling song Monster, Sagittarian rapper Nicki Minaj offers up a poetic sequence never before heard in the history of the planet: “Pull up in the monster... with a bad b-tch that came from Sri Lanka / yeah I’m in that Tonka, color of Willy Wonka.” I hope that you will soon come up with an equally revolutionary innovation in your own chosen field, Sagittarius. All the cosmic forces will be conspiring in the coming weeks to help you to do the equivalent of rhyming “Tonka” and “Sri Lanka” with “Willy Wonka.” Please cooperate! (The NSFW video is here: http://bit.ly/MinajMonster.)

CApriCorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 Time is the enemy of romantic love, said Andrew Marvell in his 17th-century poem To His Coy Mistress. Medieval author Andreas Capellanus had a different idea, identifying marriage as the enemy of romantic love. In Richard Wagner’s opera Tristan And Isolde, Tristan rails against the daylight, calling it the enemy of romantic love. And in their book Immediacy And Reflection In Kierkegaard’s Thought, the editors theorize that “capitalism, which makes a fetish out of sex... is the enemy of romantic love.” While all of those statements may be true, they’re only mildly relevant for you right now. The most dangerous enemy of romantic love – or any other kind of love, for that matter – is this: not listening well. Overcome that enemy, Capricorn. AquArius Jan 20 | Feb 18 In an age

when bee populations have dropped dramatically, some gardeners have found they need to pollinate their tomato plants manually. One woman I know tickles each swollen bulb of seeds with a toothbrush. Another uses a camel-hair brush. Metaphorically speaking, Aquarius, I suspect you will have to try something similar in the coming weeks: making an intervention to facilitate a fertilizing process that doesn’t quite seem to be happening naturally.

pisCes Feb 19 | Mar 20 In the coming week, your psyche may sometimes have an odd tingling sensation that resembles what happens when you hit your funny bone. Is it painful? Is it pleasurable? Maybe some of both, with the net effect being a command to wake up and play harder, love stronger and notice more beauty. If you respond to that mandate with even a moderate amount of passion, I suspect you’ll get a surprising reward: at least one of the secret laws of your own nature will reveal itself to you, rising up clear and raw in a sweet waking vision. Homework: What name would you choose for yourself if you couldn’t have the one you do now? Write: Freewillastrology.com

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3-D ANIMATION 3-D animators use software like Maya to create some of the most popular animated images around, primarily for films, the internet and games. As with all animation, 3-D animators require a strong art portfolio and strict attention to detail. In Ontario, get 3-D animation training at Sheridan, Boréal, Fanshawe, Seneca, St. Clair, humber, Loyalist and Algonquin colleges. Some schools offer specialization in 3-D, while others have individual courses within a general animation program. Tuition ranges from $2,214 to $8,423 annually.

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and zinc Roe Designs (to name but a few) doing imaginative and memorable work for television, film and games. There’s also an incredibly strong experimental and art film community here, and many animators straddle both worlds, while others eschew the commercial world altogether. People interested in animation should check out the Toronto Animated Image Society (tais.ca). This awe-inspiring facility in Liberty Village hosts workshops and lectures and is home to a full working studio for its members’ use.

Canada, along with the U.S. and Japan, is a leader in game development, which gives graduates of Canadian programs a great shot at a career. While you need a good portfolio to be admitted to these programs – including George Brown’s postgraduate programs in game design and development – simply enjoying games can lead you to this career option. All those hours spent playing Call Of Duty can pay off after all. While most schools offering comprehensive animation programs include courses in game animation, George Brown, Centennial and Seneca have programs specifically aimed at game art and animation. Tuition ranges from $3,020 to $12,231 annually.

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2-D The most traditional form – think The Simpsons, Family Guy, Disney films and most of the cartoons, animated commercials and, until recently, video games you’ve ever enjoyed – 2-D remains the most popular form of animation. A number of techniques fall under the umbrella of 2-D, including stop-motion, cel/hand-drawn and paint-onglass. While 3-D relies on the creation of models that are later manipulated, 2-D is a series of images photographed one frame at a time to create a moving picture. In Ontario, schools offering 2-D animation programs include Algonquin, Boréal, Cambrian, Centennial, Durham, Georgian, Loyalist, Seneca, Sheridan and St. Clair. Tuition ranges from $2,812 to $8,423 annually.

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What they say about the job I started off as an illustrator and photographer and fell into animation by accident. I was doing art direction on a spot for MuchMusic, and the creative director saw my portfolio and hired me to do some station IDs. So I figured out animation on the fly. The serendipitous accidents that happened made Cuppa Coffee unique. This company now runs at about 250 people, and it’s satisfying to see other arts and crafts artisans finding a home for their skills. What’s most stressful is finding consistently good series to work on. We’re lucky to be in a position to be picky-and-choosy. I don’t interview too many prospective employees any more, but when I do I always ask what they like to eat. People who’ve travelled a lot and have eclectic tastes also have eclectic thoughts in terms of design and art. ADAM SHAHEEN president and executive producer of Cuppa Coffee Studio, best known for stop-motion animation It’s my job to make sure all the visuals are taken care of for everything we work on, including a range of iPhone games

called Tickle Tap Apps. They’re educational and fun little games for toddlers. The artwork is very simple but bold and colourful. Sometimes you’ll forget your colouring books, but you always have your phone. I always wanted to be a cartoonist or a comic book artist, but as I grew older, I realized I didn’t have much of a sense of humour, so that wouldn’t really work. I came to visit my aunt in Canada from Bangladesh when I was 12 and took a one-week course that was great and set me on my way. LARA SALAM animator and illustrator for zinc Roe Design, specializing in games and websites for kids. She has a bachelor of applied arts degree from Sheridan College.

der and it looks alive, it’s extremely rewarding. I went to a a multimedia satellite division of Centennial College. BARRY A. SANDERS computer animator at Nelvana. He graduated from the Parsons School of Design and attended Centennial College.

about visual solutions to bring to them. Most of the people we work with are freelancers, and they all have varied backgrounds. They’ve done printmaking and silkscreened

As a kid, I drew hockey games, airplanes, PT boats, obsessively drawing the same things over and over. I do animation using a technique called paint-on-glass, which is making a painting, taking a shot of it with a digital still camera and then changing the picture a little bit and doing this process again and again. I make up the story and everything; I’m a one-person operation. When you finish an animated film – at least with drawing – you have all this artwork left over, and I wondered what to do with it. I thought about flip books and put together my own flip book publishing business. Over the years, I sold about 90,000 of them! You have to have a lot of patience to be an animator. Every technique is laborious. It’s also physically challenging. A lot of times you’re standing or sitting in the same position, so your neck and shoulders seize. PATRICK JENKINS independent animator and filmmaker. He studied art at York University. His most recent film is Labyrinth.

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My notebooks in high school and elementary school were littered with drawings. There wasn’t a safe surface in the house. Computer animation takes place entirely in the computer. It’s an amalgam rock posters, or of stop-motion and hand-drawn, someone else was into old-school where we work with virtual video, so when they’re working on puppets. I deal with characideas, they bring all that with ters that have already them. been created, posing them We don’t really do CG. We’re out like stop-motion pupmore traditional – drawing, stoppets, but I can control motion, sticking stuff under a them like a 2-D or handcamera. Five years ago, I drawn animator would. would’ve said that everything’s Because all the chargoing Pixar-style, and it is, but acters are predefined there’s also a reawakening and computer models, I reimagining of older techSteve Angel and I founded Head Gear never have to worry niques. The cheapness of techin 1997. When we started, it was a very nology has made it more popuabout what they’ll look different shop, but we grew our wings. like from frame to lar. It’s made things more Learning to animate at animation frame. I can concendemocratic. school can be amazing, but it’s also so trate on the pure analyJULIAN GREY co-founder of Head focused that some of the kids coming sis of how the motion Gear, a film and animation studio out have no flexibility. When we get a works. When you spend whose clients include Sesame call from an agency and they’re at the hours and hours trying to Workshop, MTV, Dairy Farmers of very beginning stage with a script and bring this character to life Canada and the YMCA. He studTO_TRC_NOW_Magazine_02-2011 2/17/11 4:43 PM Page 1 a vague idea, we can be open-minded and you run the test renied Art at Concordia University.

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. Rating: NNNNN Adorable: from the moment she stepped out from behind a black curtain that later dropped to reveal her powerhouse band, the singer born Adele Adkins endearingly combined sweetness, audacity and cheek. Between her killer singing voice and her banter – she confessed her nervousness at playing her first arena (the ACC’s 5,200-capacity version) and a crush on Abel Tesfaye from hometown upstarts the Weeknd – Adele could do no wrong during her 90-minute performance. She opened with Hometown Glory from 2008’s 19 and returned to that album to close the main set with Bob Dylan’s Make You Feel My Love. But the lion’s share of the show was devoted to new album 21. Telling stories that revealed tidbits of her writing process, she paced the show perfectly, alternating slow songs with those that had the crowd – primarily 20- to 40-something women – up and dancing. By the time she ended the night with a singalong take on Rolling In The Deep, Adele had proved that her talent can easily fill an arena. JOANNE HUFFA

ARCTIC MONKEYS at Kool Haus, Saturday, May 21. Rating: NNN The Arctic Monkeys are a highly talented live band who often bring more energy and creativity to their performances than they capture on record. Onstage, they squeezed new urgency out of their more

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restrained recent work and drastically reworked many of their older anthems to the point where they were barely recognizable. However, even their diehard fans could be overheard admitting that the UK pop punkers have never matched the glory of their first album, Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not. So while we were impressed that they managed to sell their newer material to us live, sometimes we wished they’d just stick to their old hits. Lead Monkey Alex Turner is still a gifted songwriter, but he needs to start working with producers who better channel the band’s live strengths if they’re ever going to regain the buzz they once generated. You can only milk a great album for so long, no matter how BENJAMIN BOLES good you are onstage.

WOLF + LAMB and SOUL CLAP at Footwork, May 22. ñSunday,

Rating: NNNN You’d think Footwork’s sixth-anniversary party would have featured the kind of pounding tech house the club’s best known for, but instead we got something very different. Sure, it was still house music banging out of the sound system, but much slower, deeper and more disco-influenced than what you’d hear on a normal night. And judging from the impressive turnout and sweaty dance floor action, this could very well be a sign of where things are going in the party scene. Brooklyn’s Wolf + Lamb and Boston’s Soul Clap are up-and-coming duos turning a lot of heads in the dance music world lately, and

they’re getting attention from the indie scene for their quirky, sensual vibes. While they’re clearly influenced by classic underground disco and 80s club sounds, they mix in enough modern touches to avoid the retro trap. With all four of them in the booth, it felt less like a “DJ concert” than a genuine party – always a good thing. When there’s still a significant lineup outside in the rain long after BB last call, you know they’ve tapped into something.

CRYSTAL STILTS at Sneaky Dee’s, Sunday, May 22. Rating: NNN Brooklyn’s Crystal Stilts wrapped up a North American tour in support of their well-received sophomore long-player, In Love With Oblivion, at Sneaky Dee’s on Sunday night with a performance that was proficient but listless. On their records, singer Brad Hargett’s reverberating baritone adds much to the group’s spooky melodies and grungy 60s psych pop, but onstage he comes off as introverted and was overwhelmed in the mix. Newer songs like Through The Floor, Shake The Shackles and the driving pop gem Love Is A Wave sounded great technically, and the crowd crammed around the small upstairs stage greeted them with appreciative applause. But aside from some unhinged Velvets-style guitar strumming throughout, there wasn’t enough muscle or spontaneity in their live sound to match the epic and beautifully textured soundscapes that make In Love With Oblivion such a satisfyKEVIN RITCHIE ing listen.

= Critics’ Pick NNNNN = Freakin’ transcendental NNNN = Roof-raising NNN = Some kicks NN = Tedious N = Two hours of my life I’ll never get back

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Philly weirdo rockers Man Man have toned down their chaotic carnival craziness on their third album, Life Fantastic (Anti-), thanks in part to their decision to work with an outside producer for the first time. But listen closely to the material, which has a newfound restraint thanks to Mike Mogis, who sat behind the mixing console, and you find some of their darkest work yet. “I think it’s our most deceptive record. It seems like a beautifully decorated cake, but there’s glass in the batter,” a sleepy Honus Honus (aka Ryan Kattner) explains from a hotel in Idaho. “At first glance it’s really polished, but underneath that there’s the same kind of demented evil that’s been in all our records. It’s just putting a nice suit on it instead of dirt and mud.” The record’s definitely getting fewer Tom Waits comparisons this time around, and the critics are putting the emphasis on Kattner’s songwriting more than the unorthodox sounds they used to notice first. But now, instead of fielding questions about their stage wear (which often includes war paint and matching outfits) or their toy instruments and junk percussion, Kattner’s having to talk about the dark period of his life that fuelled this newest batch of songs. Of course, baring his soul in the press release about living in poverty on other people’s couches and several friends dying probably didn’t help. “This album has a bit more directness than in the past, and I feel like it would have been a disservice to discuss it abstractly. Unfortunately, I have

to air all my grievances now because our press release was so open.” This isn’t to say that the dark and sometimes disturbing lyrics are meant to be taken completely literally. It’s not like he’s actually making lampshades out of human skin. “If I were everything I’m talking about in the songs, I’d be in prison right now. “It’s not an emo record, and it’s not my confessional album. I want people to be able to affix their own meanings to songs, not have them just be about me having a rough time. That’s boring. “That’s the magic of music, its transformative quality. You can have one person airing out their garbage, and someone else will take that garbage and decorate their house with it.” Kattner won’t be seeing much of his own house for a while, since in August Mister Heavenly, his “doom-wop” side project with Islands’ Nick Thorburn and Modest Mouse’s Joe Plummer, releases its first album and hits the road again. For better or worse, though, the project is now best known for nerd hero Michael Cera playing bass in the live version of the band. “Mike is a friend of ours and he’d never been on tour before, and we needed a bass player. He’s a great musician, so we asked him, and now all of a sudden it’s Mike’s band.” “Mister Heavenly was actually inspired by Lee’s Palace. I always wondered about the original Mr. Lee, and I was fascinated by the idea of having a band called Mr. and Mrs. Lee. I was going to assume the role of Mrs. Lee, but then we settled on Mister Heavenly instead. “And in another weird connection, Mike also plays bass at Lee’s Palace in that Scott Pilgrim movie.” benjaminb@nowtoronto.com

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Eerily intense studio perfectionist brings an eso teric approach to her guitar playing By KEVIN RITCHIE ANNA CALVI at El Mocambo (464 Spa dina), Friday (May 27), doors 9 pm. $12. HS, RT, SS, TM.

There’s an unmistakable sense of con viction in Anna Calvi’s voice when she talks about performing live. Though she’s softspoken, the 28yearold Brit makes it clear how she earned her reputation as an eerily intense musi cian. Onstage, she’s been known to stare audience members in the eye as she methodically strums her Fender Tele caster in a circular motion. It’s not en tirely surprising, then, when she says

her parents are therapists with a keen interest in hypnotherapy. “When I’m playing the guitar, I like to imagine it’s other things than the guitar – I like to imagine it’s a string section or it’s a piano,” she says over the phone from London, UK. “You get more than one rhythm and a succes sion of notes happening at the same time. That’s just my way of recreating an orchestral string section sound.” She calls herself a perfectionist in the studio, and over the twoanda half year period she spent writing and recording her selftitled debut album (Domino), she played every instrument and sang every vocal part. The results

have won her praise from Brian Eno, Nick Cave and discerning UK music rags Mojo and NME. Like her classical influences – Ravel, Messiaen and Debussy – Calvi’s music requires some work on the listener’s part. It’s full of twists and turns, ex tended intros, reverberating twang and haunting melodic phrases. “I like the idea of creating whole worlds for the songs to inhabit,” she says. “It’s about focusing on detail. Everything that happens musically happens for a reason – even if the lis tener isn’t aware of it. I like the idea of there being subliminal messages in my music.” In March, she suffered a hand injury and postponed her debut North Amer ican tour. Now that she’s on the mend, Toronto finally has a chance to meet her piercing gaze. “If you’re giving everything and singing really loudly from the depths of your body – even though you’re being extremely powerful – you’re vulner able because you’re completely expos

ing yourself,” she explains. “What’s great about really amazing sing ers is that they have that juxta position of real strength and real ability. “Playing is such a nat ural thing to do. It gives me fearless ness,” she says. 3

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clubs&concerts this week

Man Man, shilpa Ray & heR happy hookeRs

KOOL HAUS ALL AGES

Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), tonight (Thursday, May 26) See preview, page 45.

ON SALE NOW

GoRdon liGhtfoot

ADAM CAROLLA

tickets

Massey Hall (178 Victoria), tonight (Thursday, May 26), Friday and Saturday Canadian folk hero three-night stand.

tin pan noRth festival

Various venues, tonight (Thursday, May 26) to Saturday (May 28) See T.O. Notes, page 59.

FRIDAY JULY 15

QUEEN ELIZABETH THEATRE

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fRiendly fiRes, wise blood

Guvernment (132 Queens Quay East), Friday (May 27) Jazzy drum ’n’ bass icon. ParTy rOCK

WEDNESDAY JUNE 1

Once known mainly for delightfully knuckleheaded hard rock anthems, Andrew W.K. these days seems to have turned his career into some kind of big perfor-

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MORGAN CAMERON ROSS THE RIVOLI

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THE OPERA HOUSE TUESDAY JUNE 21

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MEAGHAN SMITH

DaviD Morales, DJ JaMal Maison Mercer 10 pm. WT. June 3. lenka Lee’s Palace doors 8 pm, $13.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. June 15. NWe are Wolves, Parlovr, reD Mass, o voiDs, Dance laurie Dance NXNE Horseshoe 9 pm, one-

day wristband $25, festival wristband $50. June 15.

Nevan DanDo & Juliana HatfielD NXNE Lee’s Palace one-day wristband $25, festival wristband $50. June 16. NMen WitHout Hats NXNE The Great Hall one-day wristband $25, festival wristband $50. nxne.com. June 16. NfuckeD uP NXNE: NOW Magazine Showcase Wrongbar one-day wristband $25, festival wristband $50. nxne.com. June 16.

NolD WorlD vultures, no Joy, Ps i love you, suuns, royal Bangs, tHe luyas NXNE Horseshoe 9

pm, one-day wristband $25, festival wristband $50. June 16.

NtHe Dirty Mags, tHe Pack aD, off!, c’Mon, Black lungs, tHe Darcys NXNE Horseshoe 9 pm, one-day wristband $25, festival wristband $50. June 17.

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mance art piece. As far as we know, this isn’t one of his “motivational seminars” or pseudo-classical piano concerts, but anything could happen. At Sound Academy (11 Polson), tonight (Thursday, May 26), doors 8 pm. $19.50. TM.

Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Sunday (May 29) See preview, page 58. Phoenix (410 Sherbourne), Monday (May 30), and DJ set afterparty at Wrongbar (1279 Queen West) UK dance rock band with big hooks.

biG fReedia

The Garrison (1197 Dundas West), Wednesday (June 1) See preview, page 49.

CuRRen$y, tRadeMaRk, younG Roddy, fiend, CoRneR boy p

Opera House (735 Queen East), Wednesday (June 1) Underground hip-hop label tour.

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NXNE Lee’s Palace one-day wristband $25, festival wristband $50. June 17.

HE IS WE

w/ M.A.N.D.Y., Adam Beyer, Adam K, Camilo Franco and many more Sound Academy (11 Polson), Saturday (May 28) Touring house music mega-party.

toRtuRed soul, felix & Gani, GadJet, MoRGan shiM Roni size, MC Messinian, MaRCus visionaRy, Mutt

Andrew W.K.

ALL AGES

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the Radio dept

Revival (783 College), Friday (May 27) Kick-ass live soulful house trio.

ANNEX WRECKROOM

Phoenix (410 Sherbourne), Saturday (May 28) Promising new folk rock singer.

anna Calvi, CuCkoo Chaos

El Mocambo (464 Spadina), Friday (May 27) See preview, page 46.

THIS SUNDAY

hot

lissie, ash koley

Sirius Showcase Horseshoe one-day wristband $25, festival wristband $50. June 18.

NtWin sHaDoW, WilD notHing, guarDs

NXNE Lee’s Palace oneday wristband $25, festival wristband $50. June 18.

Jeff tHe BrotHerHooD, tHe strangeBoys, WHite fence Wrongbar $13.50. RT, SS, TW. June 21.

forgotten reBels, Delinquents Lee’s Palace doors 9 pm, $15. HS, RT, SS, TM. June 24.

noBunny, tHe PoW WoWs, act casual Parts & Labour all ages, $8. RT,

SS. June 26. sHaD Toronto Jazz Festival Metro Hall David Pecaut Square 5:30 pm, free. July 1.

lee fielDs & tHe exPressions

Toronto Jazz Festival Horseshoe 10 pm, $25. TM. tojazz.com. July 2. ciBo Matto Lee’s Palace doors 9 pm, $20. HS, RT, SS, TM. July 16.

JoHn fogerty, tHe levon HelM BanD BlackCreek Summer Music

Festival Rexall Centre 8 pm, $56.50-$101.75. blackcreekfestival.com. July 16.

Pink Martini, cHris Botti, Jesse cook BlackCreek Summer Music

Festival Rexall Centre

8 pm, $50.75-$101.75. blackcreekfestival.com. July 20. HanDsoMe furs Horseshoe doors 8:30 pm, $15 adv. August 1.

tHe Pains of Being Pure at

Heart, cast sPells Opera House doors 8 pm, $16.50 adv. HS, RT, SS, TM. August 2.

foo figHters, DougHBoys, fuckeD uP Air Canada Centre doors 6 pm, $39.50-$59.50. TM. August 9. aMon aMartH Phoenix Concert Theatre $tba. August 12. kMfDM Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 8:30 pm, $25. HS, RT, SS, TM. August 16. Matt costa The Great Hall doors 8 pm, $20. RT, SS, TW. August 26. Justin toWnes earle Horseshoe doors 9 pm, $15.50 adv. August 26. Pearl JaM Air Canada Centre 7:30 pm, $tba. September 11 and 12. toro y Moi Opera House doors 8 pm, $20. HS, RT, SS, TM. September 18.

Cheap thRill$ Great GiGs for $5 or less MR soMethinG soMethinG The Toronto afrobeat-pop fusion band are always good for a funky high-energy live show (even when using bicycles to power their equipment). They play C’est What (67 Front East), Saturday (May 28). Free.

switChed on DJs Pammm and Jaime Sin pay tribute to their favourite 90s indie rock and related new music at Camp 4 (11 73 Dundas West) tonight (Thursday, May 26). Free.

no no zeRo Grimy Toronto garage punks No No Zero headline a rowdy show at the Silver Dollar (486 Spadina) tonight (Thursday, May 26). $5.

Folk/BlueS/countRy/WoRld

clubs&concerts

cAmeron HouSe Sheesham & Lotus, the Good Right Arm Stringband 9 pm.

Gordon Lightfoot 8 pm. ñ monArcHS puB Delta Blues Thursdays Jack de

Adieux Artists of the COC Ensemble Studio noon. gAllery 345 Mark Laver & Chris Donnelly (romantic art songs arranged for saxophone and piano) 8 pm. gAllery 918 Jaap Blonk (sound performance artist) 7:30 pm. gAte 403 Gabriel Palatchi Latin Jazz Duo 5 to 8 pm. gAte 403 Cyndi Carleton Jazz & Swing Band 9 pm. glenn gould Studio Time’s Arrow Via Salzburg 8 pm. rex Kevin Quain 6:30 pm. rex Kirk MacDonald Quartet 9:30 pm. roy tHomSon HAll Tan Dun Water & Paper Concertos Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Wang Beibei, Chenchu Rong, Xinru Zhang (percussion) 8 pm.

moonSHine cAfé Tin Pan North Songwriters

dance muSic/dJ/lounge

cAmeron HouSe Corin Raymond 6 pm. cAmeron HouSe Greg Cockerill (folk rock/ American/roots) 10 pm.

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Thursday, May 26 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

Annex Wreckroom Every Time I Die, the

Chariot, the Fucking Hotlights doors 7 pm, all ages. Bovine Sex cluB The Worshyp, A Faster Now, My Hollow, Devilz by Defenition. cAdillAc lounge Scott McCord & the Bonafide Truth 9 pm.

dAkotA tAvern

CD release Snailhouse. ñ drAke Hotel underground Pierson Ross, Craig Stickland doors 8 pm.

drAke Hotel lounge Jesse Labelle doors 10 pm.

eton HouSe The Adrienne Roberts Memorial

Fundraiser & The Caleb Roberts Trust Fund Drunk on Sunday, the Midburns, IV League (rock) 7:30 pm. glAdStone Hotel melody BAr CD release Ed Roman 8 pm. HArlem Follow Your Instinct Movement Band, DJ Musiklee Inzane (soul/R&B) 9 pm. Holy oAk cAfe Ryan Driver, Thom Gill & Ronley Teper (pop) 10 pm. HorSeSHoe Johnny Flynn, the Sussex Wit w/ Caitlin Rose doors 8:30 pm.

kApiSAnAn pHilippine centre The Colour Connection, the Basement Scene, Glass Freeway, Checkmate Sergei doors 7 pm, all ages.

lee’S pAlAce Man Man, ñ Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers doors 8:30 pm. See preview, page 45.

mitzi’S SiSter The

Peter James Project, the Accents.

operA HouSe Seether doors 7 pm, all ages.

tHe pAinted lAdy

Picturesound (R&R) 9 pm.

rAncHo relAxo

Thursday Thursday Joel Sweet, Dead Jack Pine, Osterby Head, Left Foot Yellow (rock) 9 pm. Silver dollAr No No Zero, Promisii, Pow Wows 9 pm. SneAky dee’S Living with Lions (pop/rock). Sound AcAdemy Andrew W.K. doors 8 pm. trAnzAc mAin HAll CD release Sam Broverman 8 pm.

cHinA HouSe John MacLeod Quartet. four SeASonS centre for tHe performing ArtS ricHArd BrAdSHAW AmpHitHeAtre Les

c’eSt WHAt Tin Pan North Songwriters Festival

David Leask, Don Suitor, David McLachlan, Debra Alexander 7:30 pm. c’eSt WHAt Tin Pan North Songwriters Festival Patrick Ballantyne, Shaun Devlin, Christine Tier, Dean Stacey 9:30 pm. free timeS cAfe The Roof Hoppers, Sorry Cousins. grAffiti’S The Turnarounds w/ Allistar Christl & Terra Hazelton, Cleave Anderson 5 pm. HugH’S room Steve Bell (singer/songwriter) 8:30 pm.

mASSey HAll

Keyzer Band (blues) 9 pm.

Festival Brian Gladstone, John Di Battista, Lenore Elaine, Karl Widmeyer 7:30 pm. moonSHine cAfé Tin Pan North Songwriters Festival Lisa McCallum, Peter Light, Andrew Mech, Juri Pill 9:30 pm. See T.O. Notes, page 59. nAco gAllery cAfe Charms Jessica Moore, Gabe Levine (folk/backyard songs) 8:30 pm. trAne Studio Tin Pan North Festival Anne Lindsay, Zac Wrixon, Joe Hash, Ian Rome 7:30 pm. trAne Studio Tin Pan North Songwriters Festival Liam Titcomb, Barbara Lynn Doran, Pierre Mongeon, Don Campbell 9:30 pm. See T.O. Notes, page 59. trAnzAc SoutHern croSS Allie MacDonald (folk) 10 pm.

Jazz/claSSical/exPeRimental

BoAt Richard Pinhas, CCMC, Roman Pilates

cAmp 4 Switched On DJs Jaime Sin, Pammm (indie rock) 10 pm. goodHAndy’S Ladyplus.com Party DJ T Klinck doors 8 pm.5 mArgret Rag DJ 4est (cunt rock/electro/ punk/80s & 90s) 10 pm. rivoli The Beat Lounge DJ Exile, the Get By doors 9 pm. velvet underground DJ Ozaze (industrial/ goth) 10 pm.

Friday, May 27 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

Air cAnAdA centre Kid Rock, the Trews doors

6:30 pm.

AlleycAtz Music Video Launch Dahlia Fernandes, Groove-Opoli w/ DJ Divsa doors 10 pm.

9 pm.

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Bounce

Big Freedia

Ass-obsessed New Orleans MC branches out from bounce By KEVIN RITCHIE

If 2010 was the year Big Freedia blew up, 2011 is the year the queen diva of bounce music branches out. An extensive profile in the New York Times and rave reviews for her cathartic, ass-centric club shows have helped the hardworking New Orleans MC grow a fan base across North America. “Clubs usually have all of these guidelines and restrictions,” she says. “They don’t want people on the stage because somebody might get hurt and all that. I have to connect to my fans and to my people. All of those guidelines go out the door when I get on the stage.” As Freedia embarks on a North American jaunt to support a new EP and her first vinyl single, Azz Everywhere, she’s also pitching reality shows to networks and recruiting collaborators for her debut full-length (including indie duo Matt & Kim), which will broaden her sound beyond rapid-fire bounce beats into house, techno and pop. Expect something “really controversial,” she says. Meanwhile, the growing attention has forced Freedia to readjust her routine in New Orleans. She performs five nights a week instead of six – the clubs feel the pinch when she’s on the road – and devotes less time to her interior decorating business. “I have a lot of different stuff coming at me that can probably make me get mainstream faster,” she says. “I’m just trying to take it one day at a time and not get my hands tied up into too much.” At The Garrison (1197 Dundas West), Wednesday (June 1), 9 pm. $10 advance/$15 door. SS. music@nowtoronto.com

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wednesday june 15 @ the phoenix $ 29.50

advance • athens, ga • southern rock gods

drive-by

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saturday june 4 great hall - $20.00 advance

tues june 14 @ mod club $17.50 advance

the

• 8:00pm doors • 19+

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monday may 30 @ the phoenix

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thursday june 9 the phoenix

jaga boys $ 20.00 advance • 8:00pm doors • 19+

jazzist

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• 8:00pm • hamilton on • domino

junior caribou (dJ set) & miracle fortress

sun september 18 opera house

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Sneaky Dee’s - $26.00 adv • all-agES • 6pm

touche amore & the menzingers

with special guest

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tuesday

august 2 lee’s palace

$ 35.50

advance • 8:00pm • 19+

monday august 1 horseshoe tavern

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friday july 29

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Sunday june 26

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Funk rock extravaganza!

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july 2

shoeless mondays

Lee’S paLace

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Saturday june 11 - $13.50 adv

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monday may 30 | $13.50 adv

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$15.00 advance • 8:30pm

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nq arbuckLe

Sat may 28 | $7.00 @ door

the horSeShoe

Mad ones & roMeo Liquor store

warpeD 45s

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90’s alt rock

$18.50 advance

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Friday june 3 | $ 10 @ door

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Sunday june 5 | $ 5.00

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Sunday

drake underground | $20.00 advance

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tueSday june 14

With yellow osTrich

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july 16

the drake

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$12.00 advance

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@ the garriSon | $10.00 adv

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Annex Wreckroom La Dispute, Defeater,

Native, Former Thieves (hardcore punk) doors 6 pm, all ages. BAr 460 Schizoid, Warlock Moon, Fuck the Government (digital hardcore/black metal/ grindcore) 9 pm. Bovine Sex cluB Careers in Science, Stuck on Planet Earth, Bad Teen Ensemble, DJ Vania. cAdillAc lounge The Millwinders (rockabilly).

dAkotA tAvern catl 10 pm. ñ drAke Hotel underground Strange Song

Tour Nadia Kazmi, City & the Sea, Marla Zinger and others doors 7:30 pm. el mocAmBo Anna Calvi, Cuckoo Chaos doors 9 pm. See preview, page 46. el mocAmBo upStAirS Trevor Gordon & the Nighthounds 11 pm. tHe gArriSon Album Release Davey Parker Radio Sound, Broken Bricks, Revolvers, the Speaking Tongues. HArd rock cAfe The Red Revue The Johnnys doors 9:30 pm. HArlem Lisa Michelle (acoustic pop/soul) 7:30 pm. HorSeSHoe The Elastocitizens, the Snipes, Ninja Funk Orchestra 11 pm.

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HugH’S room The Last Waltz: Hogtown

Roots All-Stars The Sean Cotton Band, Treasa Levasseur, Corin Raymond, David Baxter, Marshall Dane, Danile Sky, Brad Hart and others 8:30 pm. kingSton rd united cHurcH Mad Mile Tour Kirsten Jones 7 pm. lee’S pAlAce Portugal the Man, Telekinesis doors 9 pm. mitzi’S SiSter Mike Andrechuk Party The Punching Nuns, Miracle Whip. operA HouSe Big K.R.I.T, Smoke DZA doors 8:30 pm, all ages. p.k. creek Paris Black. revivAl Tortured Soul, Felix & Gani, GaDJet, Morgan Shim (funk) doors 9:30 pm. rivoli Pop With Brains #31: EP release and benefit for CAMH Secrettes, Kidstreet, Digits, Shoot the Image, the FranDiscos doors 9 pm. Silver dollAr Entire Cities, Dress Rehearsal, Little City, the Barettas 9 pm. SneAky dee’S Striker. velvet underground The Barracudas, Barreracudas, Mother’s Children (UK garage/ powerpop) 8 pm.

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Folk/BluEs/Country/WorlD

AlliAnce frAnçAiSe doWntoWn Au Cabaret Du Temps Qui Passe Josette Noreau, Danièle Vallée, Sandra Kelly 7:30 pm. ASpettA cAffe Sarah Factor, Melanie Lilla, Fade Chromatic 7 pm to midnight. cAmeron HouSe David Celia (folk/rock) 6 pm. cAmeron HouSe Kayla Howran 10 pm. cAmeron HouSe BAck room Christina Maria (alt pop). c’eSt WHAt Tin Pan North Songwriters Festival Greg Wyard, Stu Gogarty, James Pounder, Danny Sylvestre 7:30 pm. c’eSt WHAt Tin Pan North Songwriters Festival Tia McGraff & Tommy Parham, Mally Krock, Linda M, Clive Vanderburgh 9:30 pm. dAkotA tAvern Allen & Alexander (singer/ songwriters). drAke Hotel Peirson Ross, Kevin Fox (folk/ pop) doors 8 pm. free timeS cAfe The Ten O’Clock People. HigHWAy 61 SoutHern BArBeQue Dylan Wickens & the Little Naturals (blues) 8 pm.

lulA lounge Salsa Dance Party Cafe Cubano, DJ Jimmy Suave 8 pm.

mASSey HAll

ñGordon Lightfoot 8 pm.

moonSHine cAfé Tin Pan North Songwriters

Festival David Bradstreet, Chase Stevens, Randy Smart, David Lavkulik 7:30 pm. moonSHine cAfé Tin Pan North Songwriters Festival Danny Wells, Steve Rivers, Terry Maxwell, Gerald Flemming 9:30 pm. royAl cinemA PBS-TV Network taping Justin Hines (singer/songwriter) 8 pm. St JoHn’S lutHerAn cHurcH LOFT Music Volume 5: Every Voice Empowered (all-female compilation) 6 to 11 pm. trAne Studio Tin Pan North Songwriters Festival Kerry & Lynn Chater, John Cheesman, Jennifer Noble, Maddy Rodriguez 7:30 pm. trAne Studio Tin Pan North Songwriters Festival Frank Myers, Dan McVeigh, Karla Crawford, Heather Longstaffe 9:30 pm. WincHeSter kitcHen & BAr Gabriel Palatchi Band (tango/rock/funk/Arabic/Afro-Cuban/ Latin jazz) 10 pm.

Jazz/ClassiCal/ExpErimEntal

ArtS & letterS cluB Who’s Who In Valhalla: Tunes & Tales of Norse Misbehaviour Ensemble Polaris 8 pm. ArtScApe WycHWood BArnS nAiSA SpAce

Deep Wireless Festival Of Radio & Transmission Art The Electrostatic Bell Choir noon to 3 pm. gAllery 345 Brian Dickinson & Ted Quinlin (piano, guitar) 8 pm. gAte 403 Denielle Bassels Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. gAte 403 Mikko Hilden: Les Petit Nouveau 9 pm. glAdStone Hotel melody BAr Cadence (vocal jazz quartet) 7 to 10 pm. glenn gould Studio Time’s Arrow Via Salzburg 8 pm. old mill inn Fridays To Sing About Gillian Margot, Stu Harrison, Jordan O’Connor 7:30 pm. QuoteS Fridays At Five Canadian Jazz Quartet & Brigham Phillips (trumpet/trombone) 5 to 8 pm. rex Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm. rex The Maisies 6:30 pm. rex Tyler Hornby Quartet 9:45 pm. SomeWHere tHere Studio Leftover Daylight Series Isaiah Ceccarelli, Aaron Lumley, Nicole Rampersaud, Josh Cole, David French, Hugh Marsh and others 8 pm. trAnzAc The Foolish Things (jazz) 5 pm. WycHWood tHeAtre Deep Wireless Festival Of Radio & Transmission Art Deep Wireless Ensemble & Philosophie Zoologique 1 pm. WycHWood tHeAtre Deep Wireless Festival Of Radio & Transmission Art Deep Wireless Ensemble, Bacterial Orchestra 8 pm.

DanCE musiC/DJ/loungE

GEORGE CASEY

BundA lounge Uptown Fridays DJ T-Ace, DJ Fresh (Caribbean/hip-hop/reggae). college Street BAr Bangers & Mash DJ cDoc, Spankbox, Loc.Nes, Illicit Pulse (house/UK/ remixes/rock/breaks) 10 pm. diSgrAcelAnd A Fistful of Metal DJ Miss Barbrafisch (extreme metal) 9:30 pm. douBle douBle lAnd Double Birthday Party Ital, Psychic Reality, Max Gross, Grand AM. drAke Hotel underground Itzsoweezee DJ Drastik, Tom Wrecks doors 11 pm. emmet rAy BAr DJs Step ‘N’ Groove (funk/ soul) 10 pm. fAceS nigHtcluB lift pAtio Beat Bros, Jason Myles, UMAR, Stewart Thomson. fly Dance Camp Megahits! DJ Mark Falco 10 pm.5 footWork Carlo Lio doors 10 pm. glAdStone Hotel Goin’ Steady! (50s & 60s dance party) 10 pm. goodHAndy’S Gender Fuck Ball: Goodhandy’s 5th Anniversary.5 guvernment Projek Full Cycle Roni Size, MC Messinian, Marcus Visionary, Mutt. HenHouSe Super Friday DJ iLLarious, DJ Product Placement 10 pm. inSomniA Funkn’ Fresh Fridays Uncle Bobby (house/breaks). JAngBAng Magnificent 7s DJs Son of S.O.U.L., Jun Dazai & General Eclectic. levAck Block BAck room DJ Jerk Chicken (old skool) 10 pm. levAck Block DJ Rad McCool (hip-hop) 10 pm. mod cluB Thomas Gold doors 10 pm. nAco gAllery cAfe Night Crawlers DJs Nikk Red, murr, Leather DATA (electronic music) 10 pm.5 tHe pAinted lAdy DJ Frank ‘Mr Phantastik’ Johnson & Honey B Hind (old school hip-hop/ reggae/80s) 10 pm.

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COULTON

STYLUS AWARDS

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may 26 - june 1 2011 NOW

pArtS & lABour Spin The Bottle DJs Rachel &

Colette (hip-hop) 10 pm. Sleeping giAnt Savvy Records release party Myles Smith, Shit La Merde, Discrete, Brandon Sek, Orange Jews (house/ techno) 10 pm. tHe SociAl Faktory Demi. SupermArket Circle Research DJs Gil & Nik 10 pm. tAttoo rock pArlour Play Fridays DJ Dwight (alterna/retro/electro) 10 pm. velvet underground DJ Hanna (retro 80s) 11:30 pm. Woo’S lounge Heart.Of.The.City DJs J-Class & Kariz (hip-hop/R&B/reggae/old school) doors 10:30 pm. WrongBAr Can I Kick It?: Agile’s Bday and Stylus Awards event DJ Tony Touch.

Saturday, May 28 pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul

ASpettA cAffe Kate Todd, Lady James, Ukulele

Gaga, Kate Sloan, AHI, Ciaran O’Shea, Katrina Melony, James Kavan Cleary, Watered Down (soul/R&B/rock/acoustic) 2 pm to midnight. BAr 460 Sluts on 45, Corgasm, Society Ills, the B.C.A.S.A. (Bill Cosby Anarchist Society Of America) (punk rock). Bovine Sex cluB Seas, Farewell Cool Reason, Sparrows, Albatros, DJ Ian Blurton. BreAd & circuS Colonel Bruce Hampton, Freeman Dre & the Kitchen Party (posteverything) doors 9 pm. cAdillAc lounge Danny Marks Band. dAkotA tAvern Hot Wax Meltdown ‘Ladies Got Soul’ 10 pm. dc muSic tHeAtre Music Sensi Fest 2011 Nexus, Anythings Fine and others (indoor and outdoor festival) all ages. dominion on Queen Ronnie Hayward (rockabilly) 3 to 7 pm. el mocAmBo Mad Ones, oOooooh Baby Gimme Mores, Survived the Zombies 9 pm. tHe greAt HAll The Ruby Spirit, the Wilderness, Bella Clava. HArd luck BAr Black Lungs, Class Assassins. HorSeSHoe Dodger, the Salads, Lo Fi, Treble Waarriors (alt rock) 9:30 pm. lAScAux Thames, Toddler Baby, Rodeo Tape Party, Pity Sex 9:30 pm. lee’S pAlAce CD Release The Shanks, Mass Assembly, Voodoo Bunny, CJ Sleez 9:30 pm. lolA Awakening, Trevor Jones 8 pm. mel lAStmAn SQuAre Donate A Can Project: Benefit For Second Harvest Tonight’s the Night, Organized Sound, Scott Ramirez, Norman Wong noon to 4 pm. mitzi’S SiSter The Cool Mothers. mod cluB Jonathan Coulton doors 7 pm. mod cluB UK Underground DJ MRK, Echo & the Best, Milhouse Brown, DJ Lexx (indie/ dance/electro/dubstep/rock). operA HouSe Brett Dennen, Dawes 8 pm, all ages. pHoenix concert tHeAtre Lissie, Ash Koley doors 8 pm, all ages. tHe poor Alex Killah Priest, DJ M1, HustleManee, Kingkade, JSavy, MistaSmallz an others (hip-hop) doors 8:30 pm, all ages. rex Danny Marks noon. Silver dollAr Supper Club Blues Bill Bourne, String Bone, Michael Burton (rock/folk/country) 7 pm. Silver dollAr Late Night Live: Indie Machine The Elwins, Beekeepers Society, Cheyenne Silver Point 10:30 pm. WincHeSter kitcHen & BAr Run With the Kittens (rockabilly eclectic punk/surf psychedelic folk punk) 10 pm.

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Folk/BluEs/Country/WorlD

cAdillAc lounge Mary & Micky (country)

3:30 pm.

cAmeron HouSe Lil Jimmy’s Chicken Pickers 6 pm.

cAmeron HouSe The Strumbellas (folk) 10 pm. cAmeron HouSe BAck room Faye Blais. dominion on Queen Wicked Grin 9:30 pm. eton HouSe Tin Pan North Songwriters

Festival Gala Kerry & Lynn Chater, Andy Kim, Sylvia Tyson, Wendell Ferguson 7:30 pm. See T.O. Note, page 59. eton HouSe Tin Pan North Songwriters Festival Frank Myers, Danny Wells, Brett Jones, Thomas Wade 9:30 pm. See T.O. Note, page 59. free timeS cAfe The Max Woolaver Band. glAdStone Hotel melody BAr Country Sat-

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Forest City Lovers with Evening Hymns, Snowblink

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Your Skin, The Vandelles, The Young Things Little Foot Long Foot The Garrison, Wed 15

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Joey Cape & the bad loud

clubs&concerts œcontinued from page 52

urdays Joanne Mackell & Tru Grit 7 to 10 pm. HUGH’S ROOM Dave Young & Terry Promane Octet 8:30 pm. LITTLE TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH Aradhna (Indian classical melody w/folk and post rock) doors 7:30 pm. LOFT 404 Create The Most Joy Indie Music Festival The Mash Potangos, SabaBass, the Lovers w/ Kristin Lindell, Aleyah E Lennon (blues/ rock/tango/jazz) 6 pm. LOU DAWG’S Every Note Counts: Sick Kids Fundraiser Eric Mattei, Lonely Commotions, the McDales, Monique Barry, L.A. Turcotte (acoustic) 9:30 pm. LULA LOUNGE Salsa Saturday Salsotika, DJ Gio 10 pm.

MASSEY HALL Gordon Lightfoot 8 pm. ñ RIVOLI Domesticated Tour Micah Barnes, Arianna Gillis 7:30 pm.

ST SIMON-THE-APOSTLE ANGLICAN CHURCH

VIVA! Common Thread Chorus, Cassava Latin Rhythms 1:30 & 7:30 pm. YONGE-DUNDAS SQUARE DesiFest Taz & Stereo Nation, the Bilz & Kashif, Roach Killa, Navin Kundra, Parichay, Avalla, Anita Lerche, Indy Sagu, Prita Chhabra, Kat Eyez, Rebecca Nazz and others (South Asian performers) 10 am to 10 pm.

JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL

ARTSCAPE WYCHWOOD BARNS NAISA SPACE

Wednesday, June 15 Chuck Ragan the L MOCAMBO Kevin Seconds, plus

Dave Hause, Cory Branan

Doors 8pm, $15, 19+

Tickets: tinyurl.com/NXNE-JoeyCape

Deep Wireless Festival Of Radio & Transmission Art The Electrostatic Bell Choir noon to 3 pm. BOILER HOUSE Lester McLean, Michael Occhipinti, Louis Simão 7 to 10 pm. C’EST WHAT Mr Something Something (Afro-funk) 9 pm. CHALKERS PUB Lorne Lofsky Trio w/ Kieran Overs & Barry Romberg 6 to 9 pm. GALLERY 345 The STREGA Trio 8 pm. GATE 403 Bill Heffernan 5 to 8 pm. GATE 403 Toz (Antonio G Piretti) noon to 3 pm. GATE 403 Donné Roberts Band 9 pm. GLENN GOULD STUDIO And Still We Sing... Esperanza Y Luz Nathaniel Dett Chorale (classical) 8 pm. HARLEM Cecillia Monte (jazz/bossa nova) 7:30 pm. MUSIC GALLERY From Eye To Ear Eve Egoyan & Quartetto Graphica doors 7 pm. OLD MILL INN Piano Masters Dave Restivo & Shirantha Beddage Duo 7:30 pm. REX Sara Dell 7 pm. REX Swing Shift Big Band 3:30 pm. REX Joel Haynes Quartet 9:45 pm. REX Rich Brown’s Rinse The Algorithm 12:30 am. ROY THOMSON HALL Tan Dun Water & Paper Concertos Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Wang Beibei, Chenchu Rong, Xinru Zhang (percussion) 8 pm. SOMEWHERE THERE STUDIO Isaiah Ceccarelli & Kyle Brenders (percussion, woodwinds) 8 pm. WYCHWOOD THEATRE Deep Wireless Festival Of Radio & Transmission Art Philosophie Zoologique 8 pm.

art brut

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mod club

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DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE

ANNEX WRECKROOM See You Saturdays! Lexx

DREAM POP

The Radio Dept. Reclusive band’s glacial pace drives their label nuts, despite great results By RICHARD TRAPUNSKI THE RADIO DEPT. with NIGHTBOX at the Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Sunday (May 29). $15. HS, RT, SS, TM.

It’s no surprise that Radio Dept.’s last Toronto show sold out. Considering the band’s reputation for reclusiveness, many in attendance probably thought it would be their only chance to see them live. Less than four months later, following a successful North American tour, their first ever, the elusive, stage-shy dream-pop trio is already returning for a mini-tour centred around an appearance at Washington’s Sasquatch Festival. So why has the Swedish band suddenly changed its tune? “The boring answer: we couldn’t afford touring before,” says key member Martin Larsson over the phone from Stockholm. “But when we toured North America last year, every show sold out. That’s made us think that maybe we could tour there some more.” It’s in character that it’s taken the band this long to warm up to the idea of regular touring. Stubbornly committed to their own snail-like pace, the Radio Dept. have never seemed interested in playing by music industry rules. Take their latest album. Only their third official LP, Clinging To A Scheme was first pegged for release in 2008, but it took until 2010 to finally drop.

“At the time, (singer-guitarist) Johan (Duncanson) and I lived four hours apart,” recounts Larsson. “We’d take breaks that lasted two weeks at a time, and each time we’d write, like, seven new songs. And those always felt better than the last songs, so we’d discard the stuff we’d already recorded and start over.” Their label, Labrador, sent delay notice after delay notice, frustration palpable behind a veneer of forced optimism. They called the band “indie as fuck,” a term that may have seemed playfully endearing at the time, but there was also a very real undercurrent of annoyance. “It’s been a bit of a struggle,” admits the soft-spoken Larsson. “You need a label to achieve a lot of things, but we’ve always just wanted to do things our own way.” Nearly unanimous acclaim for Clinging To A Scheme’s warm, wistful blisspop has propelled the band to a new state of visibility, and for once they haven’t been too shy to capitalize on it. Already the band has put out a careerspanning singles compilation called Passive Aggressive and will soon rerelease all three of their LPs on vinyl. They’ve even started work on the next album, but this time around they’re keeping their mouths shut about the release date. “We’re not making that mistake again.” 3 music@nowtoronto.com

Deci, Rick Toxic (high-energy) 10 pm.

CLINTON’S Shake, Rattle & Roll Bangs & Blush

(Motown/Britpop).

DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Lipstick, Cherry DJs Pat Lok, Pammm (electro ñ house/nu disco/Italo/punk funk/new wave) doors 11 pm.

Deerhoof

EMBASSY BAR Pressure Drop Iron Will, Mor-

with

the dodos

Thursday, June 16 plus GAuTlT air Phoenix concert Teatre Doors 7pm, $20, 19+ Tickets: tinyurl.com/NXNE-Deerhoof-Dodos

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ningside 116, Guv’nor General, Chuck Boom (ska/rocksteady/regggae/soul/funk). EMMET RAY BAR DJ Clancon (soul) 10 pm. FLY DJ Stefane Lippe, DJ Jamal 10 pm.5 FOMO Studio+ Justin Shaw LSW, Roland Gonzales (deep house) 10 pm. FOOTWORK Audiofly. FOX & FIRKIN Uptown Anthems DJ NV (hiphop/funk/soul/Motown/mashups) 10 pm. THE GARRISON Turning Point (tropical rhythms). GUVERNMENT Steve Aoki. HENHOUSE Trash (queer dance party) 10 pm.5 HOLY OAK CAFE Born to RUN DMC DJs Mizz Brown, Paul G (hip-hop dance party) 10 pm. LEVACK BLOCK BACK ROOM DJs Dougie Boom & Teezdale 10 pm. LEVACK BLOCK DJ Jerk Chicken (old skool) 10 pm.

NACO GALLERY CAFE Tapette DJ Phil V (gay French dance party) 10:30 pm.5 NOCTURNE Graf’ On Girlz Patrick Merners Twisted Music, Hellaluya DJ set. THE PAINTED LADY DJ Salazar (funk/soul/hiphop/r&R) 10 pm. PARTS & LABOUR Religious Material DJ Scott Cudmore (soul/funk/R&B/rnr) 10 pm. LA PERLA Rosso Corsa DJs Meati, Meech, Poupon, Wenzell, Giorgio Verzani 7:30 pm. RED BULL 381 PROJECTS Hot Sauce For The Cure: Fundraiser for the Ride To Conquer Cancer DJs Shingo, MissRuckus, urbansteve, carlovega (tech house/dubstep/minimal/leftfield) 9 pm. SNEAKY DEE’S Shake A Tail (60s pop) 11 pm. THE SOCIAL Faktory Scuba. SOUND ACADEMY Space Ibiza Festival M.A.N.D.Y., Adam Beyer, Camilo Franco, Adam K doors 10 pm. SUPERMARKET Do Right Saturdays! DJs John Kong & MC Abdominal. SUTRA The Bridge DJ Triplet (ol’ skool hip-hop). TATTOO ROCK PARLOUR MAIN ROOM Tattoo Saturdays DJ Trevor (dance rock) 10 pm. VELVET UNDERGROUND Panic DJ Lazarus 10 pm.

Jacques Renault doors 10 pm. ñWRONGBAR

Sunday, May 29

POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL

ANNEX WRECKROOM The Horror Nights Tour

Aiden, Eyes Set to Kill, Vampires Everywhere!, Get Scared, Dr Acula doors 6 pm, all ages. ASPETTA CAFFE Kensington Market Pedestrian Sunday No Fixed Address, Lickkle More (rock/ reggae) 2 to 6 pm. DC MUSIC THEATRE Free For All Sundays No King For Countrymen and others doors 3 pm, all ages. HORSESHOE The Radio Dept doors 8 pm. See preview, page 58. LEE’S PALACE Glasvegas, Magneta Lane doors 8 pm. MOD CLUB Damned at Birth. PARTS & LABOUR Play Guitar, Beekeepers Society, Rattail, the Elwins (indie rock) 9 pm. 751 Steve Rock (punk/post punk/new wave dance 1965-85). SOMEWHERE THERE STUDIO Elfin Saddle, Coin Fisher, Quilt, Andrew Weathers 8

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pm, all ages.

FOLK/BLuES/COuNtRY/WORLD

CAmeron house Jay Pollock 6 pm. CAmeron house Kevin Quain & the Mad Bas-

tards 9 pm. Clinton’s Home And Native Sound Series Joyful Sinners, Fabiano Credidio, Russell Leon Band doors 7:30 pm. dAkotA tAvern The Beauties 10 pm. Free times CAFe Michael Reinhart, Chris Maclean 7:30 pm. gAte 403 Cross Eyed Cat (Chicago blues) 9 pm. glAdstone hotel melody bAr Bluegrass Sundays Marc Roy & Houndstooth 5 to 8 pm. holy oAk CAFe Black Walls & Bernice (folk) 9 pm. the loCAl Chris Coole (banjo) 5 pm. the loCAl Jack Marks Lost Wages 10 pm. lou dAwg’s LouDawg’s Blues Brunch Mark Bird Stafford & Darran Poole noon to 3 pm. lulA lounge Sunday Brunch Luis Mario Ochoa Cuarteto (Cuban son) 12:30 & 2:30 pm. mAgpie CAFe Jay McCarrol (indie/folk) 10 pm. nACo gAllery CAFe The Howling Speck Grant Curle & Ansgar Shroer 8:30 pm. pogue mAhone Cape Breton Ceilidh Sandy MacIntyre & Steeped in Tradition (Celtic) 4 to 8 pm. somewhere there studio Alaniaris (rebetiko) 5 pm. spirits Kim Jarrett, Richard Weisdorf (folk rock) 9 pm. trAne studio CityFolk 7 pm. trAnzAC mAin hAll Chris Langan Weekend all day from 11 am. trAnzAC southern Cross Michael Mucci, Muskox 7:30 pm. trAnzAC mAin hAll Bent by Elephants, Ivy Mairi, the Cry Break, Duncan Links 8 pm.

JAzz/CLASSiCAL/ExPERiMENtAL

de sotos Double A Jazz w/ Brendan Cassidy 11 am to 2 pm.

emmet rAy bAr Adam Teixeira Trio (jazz) 9 pm. gAte 403 Brownman Akoustic Jazz Trio 5 to

8 pm.

T.O. Music nOTes Tin Pan North

You may not have heard of all 51 songwriters participating in this year’s Tin Pan North, but Saturday’s gala on the Danforth features five number-one pop and country hit writers: Andy Kim, Sylvia Tyson, Frank Myers, Brett Jones and Danny Wells. Festival coordinator Dan McVeigh of the Toronto chapter of the Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI) references the organization’s motto: “‘It all begins with a song’: without the songwriter there’d be nothing on the radio,” he says. Tin Pan North got its start in 1999 as a small showcase in the library of Lester B. Pearson Catholic School in Brampton and has expanded over the years to include bigger names and various venues (as far flung as Oakville, the Annex and downtown). The in-theround format of the concerts of-

fers listeners an opportunity to take in veteran songwriters and up-andcomers in the same set.

A few highlights:

Sylvia Tyson Famous for Ian & Sylvia and now a member of Quartette, Tyson had a pop hit with You Were On My Mind and helped pave the way for country rock with Great Speckled Bird. Andy Kim The Montrealer behind Sugar, Sugar and Rock Me Gently, Kim recently released Happen Again, his first album in over 20 years. Liam Titcomb Titcomb grew up around folk music – he’s Brent’s son – and was signed to Sony at 15. Now in his early 20s, he’s been writing in the UK and touring around North America. Lisa McCallum Oakville’s McCallum is a NSAI Toronto success story now based in Nashville. Tin Pan North 2011 at Moonshine Café (137 Kerr, Oakville), Trane Studio (964 Bathurst) and C’est What (67 Front East), Thursday and Friday (May 26 and 27), and at Eton House (710 Danforth) Saturday (May 28), 7:30 and 9:30 pm. $10-$20 (passes $30). 905-453-6104, tickets.ticketwindow.ca or at the door. Full schedule at sArAh greene nsaitoronto.com.

heliConiAn hAll Heliconian Choir & Orchestra 2 pm.

heliConiAn hAll A Night At The Opera

Penthelia Singers 7:30 pm. hugh’s room Countermeasure A Cappella 8:30 pm. pAn on the dAnForth Lara Solnicki & Adrean Farrugia 7 to 10 pm. rex Peripheral Vision (jazz improv) 7 pm. rex Nick Teehan 9:30 pm. somewhere there studio Isaiah Ceccarelli & Kyle Brenders (percussion, woodwinds) 8 pm. toronto Centre For the Arts Masterworks On Canvas Live Orchestra Toronto, Noru Gogovita (clarinet) 3 pm. trAnzAC southern Cross Steve Ward (improv jazz) 10:30 pm.

DANCE MuSiC/DJ/LOuNGE

bovine sex Club DJ Rob. insomniA Retro Lounge Night Smashley, DJ

Doctor G.

the ossington Unlimited Sundays Hajah Bug & Mantis.

river gAmbler BeatsAhoy! 15 Mark Oliver,

Manzone & Strong, the Junkies, Robb G, Evan G, Jonathan Rosa and others boarding at noon, departure 12:30 pm. tAttoo roCk pArlour Trash Palace Sundays DJ 4 Korners (electro/mashup/rock) 10:30 pm. velvet underground DJ Hanna (retro 80s) 10 pm.

CAmeron house Simon Walls 10 pm. dAkotA tAvern The Rattlesnake Choir (roots)

10 pm.

mAssey hAll Ray Lamontagne & the

Pariah Dogs, Brandi Carlile, the Secret ñ Sisters 7 pm.

old niCk M Factor Mondays Allen & Alex-

ander, Michelle Connolly (singer/songwriters) 7 pm. trAnzAC southern Cross This Is Awesome 7 pm.

JAzz/CLASSiCAL/ExPERiMENtAL

dominion on Queen Prud’homme 6:30 to

9:30 pm.

gAte 403 Allison Au Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. gAte 403 Zaynab Wilson Jazz Band 9 pm. rex Juno Party: Celebrating John MacLeod &

Rex Hotel Orchestra Juno win 2011 John Macleod’s Rex Hotel Orchestra party 6:30 pm, performance 9:30 pm. trinity st. pAul’s ChurCh Symphony Winds Associates of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra 7:30 pm.

DANCE MuSiC/DJ/LOuNGE

bovine sex Club Moody Mondays Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

goodhAndy’s T-Girls Go Wild DJ Cesar doors

8 pm.5

nACo gAllery CAFe Dirty Thirties (1930s images & music) 9 pm.5

Monday, May 30

the piston Junk Shop DJs Jorge & Jared (pre

POP/ROCK/HiP-HOP/SOuL

Queen elizAbeth theAtre 2011 Stylus Awards

Black Anvil, Panzerfaust, HOD.

751 Metal Monday DJ Lush 10 pm. wrongbAr

Annex wreCkroom Marduk, Aura Noir,

to post punk/new wave/garage/indie) 10 pm.

And SpinFest 7 pm.

drAke hotel underground Wildbirds & Peacedrums, Yellow Ostrich doors 8 pm. ñFriendly Fires (DJ set). ñ eton house The Adrienne Roberts Memorial

Fundraiser & The Caleb Roberts Trust Fund Destructo, the Screamin’ Sarahs, East of Burden 7:30 pm. grAFFiti’s Kevin Quain’s Gutbucket Lounge 5 to 8 pm. horseshoe Shoeless Monday The Vibes, Impulse, the Infinity Intention 9:15 pm. lee’s pAlACe This Will Destroy You, John LaMonica doors 8 pm. mitzi’s sister Big City Hicks, Alun Piggins. phoenix ConCert theAtre Friendly Fires, Wise Blood (rock) doors 8 pm.

FOLK/BLuES/COuNtRY/WORLD CAmeron house Betty Stew 7 pm.

Tuesday, May 31 POP/ROCK/HiP-HOP/SOuL

Annex wreCkroom Pull Me From The Gal-

lows Tour The Human Abstract, Let Live, No Bragging Rights, Scale the Summit, This or the Apocalypse, Across the Sun, TOTA doors 5:30 pm. CAdillAC lounge The Rattles (Beatles tribute). dAkotA tAvern The Sure Things, the Magnificent 7’s 10 pm. dominion on Queen Wayne Nakamura’s Django Jam 8:30 pm. drAke hotel underground Elvis Monday...

On Tuesday doors 9 pm.

glAdstone hotel melody bAr Black Magic

Marker, Ethel & the Mermaids, Adapter 45 8 pm. horseshoe Dave Bookman’s Nu Music Nites Wild Domestic, Saidah, Papermaps, Prince Caspian, Love Inks 8:30 pm. kool hAus The Script doors 8 pm, all ages. mod Club Sondre Lerche, Nightlands, Kishi Bashi doors 7:30 pm. the pAinted lAdy Monsters Of The Deep Scott & Misty (acoustic compilation of Monster songs) 9 pm. phoenix ConCert theAtre The Maine & Au-

rivoli CD release Morgan Cameron Ross, Gavin Slate doors 8 pm. supermArket Wednesdays Go Pop! Jon Bryant, the Box Tiger, Steve Gleason 9 pm. yonge-dundAs sQuAre Lunchtime Live! Elvis Bossa Nova! 12:30-1:30 pm.

FOLK/BLuES/COuNtRY/WORLD

CAmeron house Michelle Rumball 6 pm. CAmeron house Friendly Rich 10 pm. CAmeron house bACk room Miles Jones. C’est whAt Stacey Kaniuk (funky pop) 9 pm. hugh’s room Discoveries Jon Bryant, Shawn Clarke, Bianca Josie & Barbara Lica 8:30 pm.

lulA lounge Benefit for David ‘Soulfingaz’

Williams Humber College scholarship fund Rinse the Algorithm ‘Purple Time’ (jazz/funk) 8 pm. trAnzAC southern Cross Geordie’s Meeting 5:15 pm. trAnzAC southern Cross David Prentice & Aaron Lumley 7 pm. trAnzAC tiki room Toronto Folk Singers 8 pm. trAnzAC southern Cross Drumheller 10 pm.

JAzz/CLASSiCAL/ExPERiMENtAL

AlleyCAtz Swing Tuesdays Carlo Berardinucci & the Double A Jazz Swing Band 9 pm. blu ristorAnte & lounge Dave Rubel & Carl Walwyn Duo (jazz) 8:30 to 10:30 pm. gAllery 345 CD Launch Mark Kieswetter 8 pm. gAte 403 Julian Fauth Blues Night 9 pm. gAte 403 Scott Kemp Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. rex Elvis Bossa Nova 6:30 pm. rex Rex Jazz Jam Terra Hazelton 9:30 pm.

DANCE MuSiC/DJ/LOuNGE

bovine sex Club Outbred Inlaws, MIP Power

Trio, Apocalypse Jane. goodhAndy’s T-Girls Go Wild DJ Cesar doors 8 pm.5 751 SK8 & Destroy DJ Dan Arget (skater rock party) 10 pm.

Wednesday, June 1 POP/ROCK/HiP-HOP/SOuL

bovine sex Club Darth Virgos. CAdillAC lounge The Neil Young’uns 8:30 pm. the CentrAl Horses Won, Sexy Mathematics, Mark Martyre, Christ Vs Krishna 6 to 9 pm. C’est whAt ACM Checklist (alt rock) 9 pm. the gArrison Big Freedia. See preview, page 49. horseshoe Quintron & Miss Pussycat (party rock) doors 8:30 pm. lee’s pAlACe The Baseball Project, the Order of Good Cheer doors 8 pm.

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venue index Air CAnAdA Centre 40 Bay. 416-815-5500. AlleyCAtz 2409 Yonge. 416-481-6865. AlliAnCe FrAnçAise downtown 24 Spadina Rd. 416-922-2014. Annex wreCkroom 794 Bathurst. 416-5360346. ArrAymusiC studio 60 Atlantic. 416-769-2841. Arts & letters Club 14 Elm. 416-597-0223. ArtsCApe wyChwood bArns 601 Christie. 416-392-7834. AspettA CAFFe 207 Augusta. 416-725-0693. bAr 460 460 Spadina Ave. bAr itAliA 582 College. 416-535-3621. blu ristorAnte & lounge 17 Yorkville. 416-9211471. boAt 158 Augusta. 416-593-9218. boiler house 55 Mill. 416-203-2121. bovine sex Club 542 Queen W. 416-504-4239. breAd & CirCus 299 Augusta. 416-336-3399. bundA lounge 1108 Dundas W. CAdillAC lounge 1296 Queen W. 416-536-7717. CAmeron house 408 Queen W. 416-703-0811. CAmp 4 1173 Dundas W. CAm’s plACe 2655 Yonge. 416-488-3976. the CentrAl 603 Markham. 416-913-4586. C’est whAt 67 Front E. 416-867-9499. ChAlkers pub 247 Marlee. 416-789-2531. ChinA house 925 Eglinton W. 416-781-9121. Clinton’s 693 Bloor W. 416-535-9541. College street bAr 574 College. 416-533-2417. dAkotA tAvern 249 Ossington. 416-850-4579. dAve’s... on st ClAir 730 St Clair W. 416-6573283. dC musiC theAtre 360 Munster. 416-234-0222. de sotos 1079 St Clair W. 416-651-2109. disgrACelAnd 965 Bloor W. 647-868-5263. dominion on Queen 500 Queen E. 416-3686893. dorA keogh 141 Danforth. 416-778-1804. double double lAnd 209 Augusta. drAke hotel 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042. el moCAmbo 464 Spadina. 416-777-1777. embAssy bAr 223 Augusta. 416-591-1132. emmet rAy bAr 924 College. 416-792-4497. eton house 710 Danforth. 416-466-6161. FACes nightClub 224 Richmond W. Fly 8 Gloucester. 416-410-5426. Fomo 270 Adelaide W. 416-408-3666. Footwork 425 Adelaide W. 416-913-3488. Four seAsons Centre For the perForming

mod Club X1 doors 8 pm. ñBell operA house The Jet Life Tour Curren$y, Trademark, Young Roddy, Fiend & Corñ ner Boy P doors 8 pm, all ages.

gustana doors 6 pm, all ages. the piston The Dead Tuesdays, Mercy Flight 10 pm. somewhere there studio Snakes & Ladders Teen Dreams, Nidra, Archaeopteryx, Sex on Vacation, Guy Dallas Vs Hellaluya 8 pm. yellow griFFin Johnny Devil and the Screaming Demons (classic rock/drinking songs) 10 pm. yonge-dundAs sQuAre CityTV Summer In The Square Jackie Evancho 12:30 pm.

Arts 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231. Fox & Firkin 51 Eglinton E. 416-480-0200. Free times CAFe 320 College. 416-967-1078. gAllery 345 345 Sorauren. 416-822-9781. gAllery 918 918 Bathurst. 416-538-0868. the gArrison 1197 Dundas W. gAte 403 403 Roncesvalles. 416-588-2930. glAdstone hotel 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. glenn gould studio 250 Front W. 416-205-5555. goodhAndy’s 120 Church. 416-760-6514. grAFFiti’s 170 Baldwin. 416-506-6699. the greAt hAll 1087 Queen W. 416-826-3330. grinder 126 Main. 416-901-0290. grossmAn’s 379 Spadina. 416-977-7000. guvernment 132 Queens Quay E. 416-869-0045. hArd luCk bAr 812 Dundas W. hArd roCk CAFe 279 Yonge. 416-362-3636. hArlem 67 Richmond E. 416-368-1920. heliConiAn hAll 35 Hazelton. 416-922-3618. henhouse 1532 Dundas W. 416-534-5939. highwAy 61 southern bArbeQue 1620 Bayview. 416-489-7427. holy oAk CAFe 1241 Bloor W. 647-345-2803. horseshoe 370 Queen W. 416-598-4753. hugh’s room 2261 Dundas W. 416-531-6604. insomniA 563 Bloor W. 416-588-3907. JAne mAllett theAtre 27 Front E. 416-366-7723. JAngbAng 430.5 College. 416-961-8424. kApisAnAn philippine Centre 167 Augusta. 416-979-0600. kingston rd united ChurCh 975 Kingston. 416-699-6091. kool hAus 132 Queens Quay E. 416-869-0045. lAmbAdinA 875 Bloor W. 416-888-4607. lAsCAux 89 Niagara. 647-889-5585. lee’s pAlACe 529 Bloor W. 416-532-1598. levACk bloCk 88 Ossington. 416-916-0571. little trinity AngliCAn ChurCh 425 King E. 416-367-0272. the loCAl 396 Roncesvalles. 416-535-6225. loFt 404 263 Adelaide W. 416-999-4590. lolA 40 Kensington. 416-348-8645. lou dAwg’s 589 King W. 647-347-3294. lulA lounge 1585 Dundas W. 416-588-0307. mAd beAn 519 Eglinton W. 647-235-2456. mAgpie CAFe 831 Dundas W. 416-916-6499. mArgret 2952 Dundas W. 416-762-3373. mAssey hAll 178 Victoria. 416-872-4255. mel lAstmAn sQuAre 5100 Yonge. 416-3957582.

hugh’s room Steve Poltz (troubadour)

8:30 pm.

silver dollAr High Lonesome Wednesday: Big City Bluegrass Crazy Strings 9 pm.

slACk’s CD Release Tour O’Mally. trAnzAC southern Cross David Woodhead’s Confabulation (alt folk) 7:30 pm.

trAnzAC southern Cross Abigail Lapell

Homecoming Show The Cry Break 10 pm. underdown pub Rita’s Parlour Rita Di Ghent (blues/jazz) 8 pm.

JAzz/CLASSiCAL/ExPERiMENtAL

Four seAsons Centre For the perForming Arts riChArd brAdshAw AmphitheAtre

Bach Solo Suites Rachel Mercer (cello) noon. gAte 403 Kathryn Elizabeth Merriam Jazz Trio 5 to 8 pm. gAte 403 Kurt Nielsen & Richard Whiteman Jazz Band 9 pm. glAdstone hotel melody bAr Viva Cabaret Yura 7:30 to 9:30 pm. JAne mAllett theAtre La Vie En Rouge Louise Pitre 8 pm. nAwlin’s Jim Heineman Trio 7 to 10 pm. rex Griffith/Hiltz Trio 6:30 pm. rex Buddy Aquilina 9:30 pm. roy thomson hAll Rachmaninoff Paganini Rhapsody Toronto Symphony Orchestra 8 pm.

royAl ConservAtory oF musiC koerner hAll Ali’s Journey: Evening Of Jazz To Benefit

Sunnybrook Hospital Sanctuary For Young Adults With Cancer David Warrack & the Canada Pops Orchestra, Kellylee Evans, Amanda Martinez, Shakura S’Aida, Era Chorna, Sophie Berkal-Sarbit, John Alcorn 7:30 pm. somewhere there studio Jack Vorvis, Jonnie Bakan, Michael Kaler, Alan Bloor, Avesta Nakhaei, Ken Aldcroft, Jay Hay 8 pm.

DANCE MuSiC/DJ/LOuNGE

glAdstone hotel Granny Boots: Queereoke With The Trigger Festival 9:30 pm.5 goodhAndy’s T-Girls Go Wild DJ Cesar doors 8 pm.5 henhouse Snakepit At The Henhouse DJ Max Mohenu (queer dance party) 10 pm.5 reposAdo Sol Wednesdays Spy Vs Sly Vs Spy. 751 Mad Punk DJ Justin 10 pm. sneAky dee’s What’s Poppin’ (80s/90s hiphop party). 3

mezzettA 681 St Clair W. 416-658-5687. milAgro on Queen 783 Queen W. 416-366-2855. mitzi’s sister 1554 Queen W. 416-532-2570. mod Club 722 College. 416-588-4663. monArChs pub 33 Gerrard W. 416-585-4352. moonshine CAFé 137 Kerr (Oakville). 905-8442655. musiC gAllery 197 John. 416-204-1080. nACo gAllery CAFe 1665 Dundas W. 647-3476499. noCturne 550 Queen W. 416-504-2178. not my dog 1510 Queen W. 416-532-2397. old mill inn 21 Old Mill Rd. 416-236-2641. old niCk 123 Danforth. 416-461-5546. operA house 735 Queen E. 416-466-0313. orbit room 580A College. 416-535-0613. the ossington 61 Ossington. 416-850-0161. the pAinted lAdy 218 Ossington. 647-213-5239. pAn on the dAnForth 516 Danforth. 416-4668158. pArts & lAbour 1566 Queen W. 416-588-7750. pAuper’s pub 539 Bloor W. 416-530-1331. the peACoCk 365 King W. lA perlA 783 Queen W. 416-366-2855. phoenix ConCert theAtre 410 Sherbourne. 416-323-1251. the piston 937 Bloor W. 416-532-3989. p.k. Creek 255 Dundas W (Mississauga). 905-3061999. pogue mAhone 777 Bay. 416-598-3339. the poor Alex 772A Dundas W. 416-324-9863. Queen elizAbeth theAtre 190 Princes’ Blvd. 416-263-3293. Quotes 220 King W. 416-979-7717. rAnCho relAxo 300 College. 416-920-0366. rebAs CAFé 3289 Dundas W. 416-626-7372. red bull 381 proJeCts 381 Queen W, 2nd fl. 416-593-1629. relish 2152 Danforth. 416-425-4664. reposAdo 136 Ossington. 416-532-6474. revivAl 783 College. 416-535-7888. rex 194 Queen W. 416-598-2475. river gAmbler 261 Queen Quay E, Pier 29. rivoli 332 Queen W. 416-596-1908. roy thomson hAll 60 Simcoe. 416-872-4255. royAl CinemA 608 College. 416-536-5252. royAl ConservAtory oF musiC 273 Bloor W. 416-408-0208. 751 751 Queen W. 647-436-6681. silver dollAr 486 Spadina. 416-763-9139.

sky lounge 2680 Skymark (Mississauga). 905625-9896. slACk’s 562 Church. 416-928-2151. sleeping giAnt 789 Dundas W. 647-345-4425. sneAky dee’s 431 College. 416-603-3090. the soCiAl 1100 Queen W. 416-532-4474. somewhere there studio 227 Sterling, unit 112. sound ACAdemy 11 Polson. 416-461-3625. southside Johnny’s 3653 Lake Shore W. 416521-6302. spirits 642 Church. 416-967-0001. sportster’s 1430 Danforth. 416-778-0258. st george the mArtyr AngliCAn ChurCh 197 John. 416-598-4366. st John’s lutherAn ChurCh 264 Concord. st pAul’s AngliCAn ChurCh 227 Bloor E. 416961-8116. st simon-the-Apostle AngliCAn ChurCh 525 Bloor E. 416-923-8714. stout irish pub 221 Carlton. 647-344-7676. supermArket 268 Augusta. 416-840-0501. sutrA 612 College. 416-537-8755. tAttoo roCk pArlour 567 Queen W. 416-7035488. ten Feet tAll 1381 Danforth. 416-778-7333. terri o’s sports bAr 185 Danforth. toronto Centre For the Arts 5040 Yonge. 416-733-9388. toronto Congress Centre 650 Dixon. 416-2455000. trAne studio 964 Bathurst. 416-913-8197. trAnzAC 292 Brunswick. 416-923-8137. trinity st. pAul’s ChurCh 427 Bloor W. 416-9228435. t.s.t’s lAunCh pAd 46 Hyde. underdown pub 263 Gerrard E. 416-927-0815. underground gArAge 365 King W. 416-3400365. velvet underground 510 Queen W. 416-5046688. the wilson 96 615 College. 416-516-3237. winChester kitChen & bAr 51A Winchester. 416-323-0051. wise guys 2301 Danforth. 416-694-2005. woo’s lounge 10 Dundas E, 4th floor. 416-9779966. wrongbAr 1279 Queen W. 416-516-8677. wyChwood theAtre 601 Christie. yellow griFFin 2202 Bloor W. 416-763-3365. yonge-dundAs sQuAre

NOW may 26- june 1 2011

disc of the week FIRES ñFRIENDLYNNNN

Pala (XL) Rating: Friendly Fires used to sound like a UK version of the Rapture’s early 00s dance rock, which made for some fun live shows but seemed about five years too late to be very exciting. On their sophomore album, though, they’ve dropped the post-punk guitar riffs and embraced full-on pop with such enthusiasm that even Backstreet Boys references start making sense. It’s often bad news when an energetic young band “matures,” but in this case cleaning up their sound reveals them to be far better songwriters and musicians than we knew.

Pop/Rock

ñLADY GAGA

Born This Way (Universal) Rating: NNNN With her second full-length, Lady Gaga establishes herself as pop’s most ambitious songwriter, dispensing with the tired innuendo and formulaic filler that marred her 2008 debut, The Fame, to recast herself as an empowering force for her legions of “little monsters.” Opener Marry The Night’s driving melody, multiple bridges, choruses and dance breakdowns immediately let us know we’re in for a balls-to-the-wall fusion of wailing 80s power balladry and European club music. Collaborators like producer Robert “Mutt” Lange, E Street’s Clarence Clemons and Queen’s Brian May drop in to fill out the hard-edged dance beats with ostentatious instrumental flourishes that rival her wailing vocals. Closing track The Edge Of Glory essentially turns into a duet with Clemons’s saxophone. That’s the kind of album this is. It’s an engrossingly visceral and adventurous production that beats you into submission with its sheer audacity. You have to admire the way Gaga fearlessly throws herself into, say, a disco mariachi arrangement on Americano, but she should be careful: her frequently righteous tone and overindulgence in clunky Catholic metaphors threaten to mire her memorable melodies in schlocky self-help proselytizing. Top track: Marry The Night KEVIN RITCHIE

Pala is a party record aiming directly at the pleasure centres – not at all a shallow pursuit. Album opener Live Those Days Tonight counters the romanticization of a past they’re too young to have experienced by pledging to rave just as hard now, and it doesn’t sound like an empty threat. Pure joy isn’t easy to capture in song without coming across as a bit goofy, but these guys succeed by acting like they don’t give a shit how they’re perceived, as long as it feels good. Top track: Blue Cassette Friendly Fires play live at the Phoenix and a DJ set afterparty at Wrongbar Monday (May 30). BENJAMIN BOLES

debut such a winner. Allan has a powerful voice, but it goes to waste under drowning synths and self-indulgent production by U2’s Flood, who seems determined to drain the pop element out the band and turn them into a narcissistic mess. At least Allan can’t be accused of playing it safe – there are two songs where he attempts to write from a gay perspective, and even duets with his mom – but such gambits can’t conceal the album’s glaring lack of memorable tunes. Top track: The World Is Yours Glasvegas roll into Lee’s Palace on Sunday (May 29). JASON KELLER

MY MORNING JACKET Circuital (ATO) Rating: NNN My Morning Jacket’s sixth LP comes accompanied by a back-to-basics narrative, recorded as it was in a church gym in Louisville. That should likely excite “oldschool” MMJ fans put off by some of the more audacious genre experiments on 2008’s mixed-bag Evil Urges, but it’s hazardous for a band that’s never seemed interested in retreating to its rustic country-rock origins. Jim James is the type of ambitious, restless songwriter who always reaches a bit past his grasp. Though this outing focuses more on the smooth, laid-back side of their sound, Circuital is still the work of a band that refuses to stand still. Nowhere is that more obvious than on Holdin’ On To Black Metal, a song that, with its gaudy horns and backup vocals, exemplifies the band’s over-ambition. Much more satisfying is Wonderful (The Way I Feel), an understated acoustic number that showcases James’s limber, soulful vocals. My Morning Jacket can do epics, but sometimes it’s nice to see them scale it back. Top track: Wonderful (The Way I Feel) My Morning Jacket play July 11 at the Kool Haus. RICHARD TRAPUNSKI

GLASVEGAS Euphoric Heartbreak (Col-

umbia) Rating: NN Glasvegas frontman James Allan sings with a heavy Scottish brogue that makes the lyrics on Euphoric Heartbreak a challenge to understand. That’s not to say we don’t get the overall message after 11 moaning tunes: pain and lots of it. There’s even a song called Pain Pain Never Again, a meandering soundscape opener that delivers heftily on the second word in the disc’s titl but too often neglects the first. The album’s first proper song, The World Is Yours, contains the kind of compelling hook that made their 2008

MAY 26 - JUNE 1 2011 NOW

ñSTEVIE NICKS

In Your Dreams (Warner) Rating: NNNN Upon hearing that the great black magic enchantress Steve Nicks has written a song inspired by milquetoast teen vampire franchise Twilight, you had to figure her new disc, In Your Dreams, didn’t

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

stand a chance. Why would an OG (original goth) like Nicks take her cues from something so toothless? It turns out the track in question, Moonlight (A Vampire’s Dream), plods along at times but isn’t nearly as offensive as it might have been. In fact, you could say the same about all of the surprising In Your Dreams, which, despite being overlong at an hour-plus, might be Nicks’s best record since The Wild Heart. Co-written with long-time songwriting partner (and former Eurhythmics main main) David Stewart and co-produced by Glen Ballard (of Alanis fame), the disc has a handful of top-rank Nicks tracks, including the mourning observations on New Orleans, an intimate tune called For What It’s Worth and Secret Love, a propulsive track she penned during the Mac’s mid-70s heyday. Lindsey Buckingham appears on the quiet Soldier’s Angel, and he and Nicks interlock in a unique way that tells us these two, at least musically, are bound together for life. Top track: Secret Love JK

Folk/Country

JENNY ALLEN Blanket (independent) Rating: NNN Washboard-toting folk festival regular Jenny Allen returns to her solo career with a third album after years of recording and touring with Calgary-based trio the Fates. Allen’s first album, 1991’s Something To Say, was produced by Canadian folk icon Valdy, and she has opened for Taj Mahal and Shawn Colvin. Blanket sees Allen collaborating with producer/multi-instrumentalist John Ellis (Be Good Tanyas, Jane Siberry) and Dirty Laundry tour-mate Leslie Alexander on backup vocals, as well as rhythm section Pat Steward and Rob Becker. Allen’s voice is versatile – smooth and soft one song, poppy and tough the next. The overall mood of heartbreak and aging can get tiring – be prepared for too many conversational breakup songs. That said, nostalgia feels good on title track Blanket, and Allen nails a funny country attack on barflies on Face The Music. Quiet In Here’s a singalong slow dance, and closer A Simple Word offers satisfying blues. Top track: Blanket Jenny Allen plays a slew of Toronto shows: at the Dakota (May 27), the Old Nick (May 30), Not My Dog (May 31) and Slacks Bar (June 2). SARAH GREENE WARPED 45S Matador Sunset (Pheromone) Rating: NNN Local roots rockers the Warped 45s make the kind of no-frills country that always gets an audience in Toronto, no matter what’s going on in the rest of the world. It’s not the most imaginative formula, but they’ve always done a lot with it and enjoy a ton of critical respect. Given their previous releases, we expected Matador Sunset to be another great album, so we can’t help feeling a bit disappointed that this one is just good. Warped 45s are still working with producer John Critchley, but this time there’s a vaguely glossy quality that doesn’t quite fit the tunes. The performances sound clean and concise, sometimes to the point of lifelessness, and while there are lots of strong moments and a few great songs, somehow a big part of their personality is missing. To be fair, had they not raised our expectations so high with their earlier work, we’d be more impressed with this record. Top track: Grime Of Earthly Glory The Warped 45s play the Horseshoe June 3. BB

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more online nowtoronto.com/stage Audio clips from interview with LA LA LA HUMAN STEPS’ EDOUARD LOCK • Review of Broadway’s THE BOOK OF MORMON • and more Fully searchable listings with venue maps nowtoronto.com/stage/listings

dance listings Opening AVATAR (9) DanceWorks CoWorks and

Harbourfront NextSteps present a contemporary kathak dance solo by Bageshree Vaze. May 27-28 at 8 pm. $22, stu/srs $18. Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com. COEXISDANCE SERIES #36 presents dance improvisers performing with AIM Toronto musicians. May 28 at 8 pm. $10. Arraymusic Studio, 60 Atlantic. coexisdance.wordpress.com. LA FILLE MAL GARDEE Stepanova Ballet Academy presents Jean Dauberval’s comic ballet with original choreography by Tatiana Stepanova. May 28-29, Sat 7 pm, Sun 2 pm. $30. Cardinal Carter Academy, 36 Greenfield. 905-731-3808, stepanovaacademy.com. A LITTLE MORE KRIMA Maxine Heppner Across Oceans presents music, dance, film and photos. May 31 at 7 pm. $20-$25. Annex Live, 296 Brunswick. acrossoceans.org.

Edouard Lock says dance shouldn’t be simpliﬁed to create a narrative.

UNTITLED La La La Human Steps and Canadian Stage present a fusion of two ñ operas into a single story by choreographer

Edouard Lock (see story, this page). Opens May 26 and runs to Jun 1, Mon-Sat 8 pm, mat Wed 1:30 pm. $22-$109. Bluma Appel Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-368-3110, canadianstage.com.

Continuing

THE ATOMIC WEIGHT OF HAPPINESS Stand Up Dance presents a bicycle-powered theatre/ dance mashup by Meagan O’Shea. Runs to May 29, Fri-Sun 8 pm. $10-$25. Hub 14, 14 Markham. 416-504-6429 ext 18, standupdance.com. PARIS/TORONTO PROJECT Toronto Dance Theatre presents new works by French choreographers Emmanuelle Vo-Dinh and Alban Richard. Runs to May 28, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $26, stu/srs $20, mat pwyc. Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester. 416-967-1365, tdt.org. 3

Diego Matamoros flirts with autobiography in The Aleph.

DANCE PREVIEW

This show’s a Lock

La La La Human Steps’ Edouard Lock looks back on three decades By GLENN SUMI UNTITLED choreography by Edouard Lock, presented by Canadian Stage and La La La Human Steps at the Bluma Appel (27 Front East). Opens tonight (Thursday, May 26) and runs to June 1, ThursdaySaturday and Monday-Tuesday 8 pm, matinee Wednesday 1:30 pm. $22-$99. 416-368-3110.

the man behind la la la human Steps modestly jokes about the acclaimed company’s 30-year milestone. “It’s not so much for geology, but it’s pretty good for biology,” says Edouard Lock before a performance in Ottawa. “For a rock it’s a second, but for a living thing it’s pretty good.” “Pretty good” is an understatement. In three decades, the charismatic Quebec choreographer and his troupe have changed the face of modern dance, giving it a sexy, edgy profile that attracts both dance lovers and those more likely to see a live band. His latest untitled work has been touring Europe for the past few months to lots of buzz, and, talking to its articulate creator, you can see why. Just as his last piece, Amjad, was a psychologically dark deconstruction of the Swan Lake story, the new work puts a different spin on two opera

= Critics’ Pick

classics – Purcell’s Dido And Aeneas and Gluck’s Orfeo Ed Euridice. “Both operas concern interesting myths, and they’ve been around for so long, they’ve been integrated culturally into our memories,” says Lock. “I like working with memory. I like the idea of an audience coming into the theatre with a preconceived notion of what they’re about to see and some personal attachments to the themes.” Not that the dance is going to be a recreation of either story. Composer Gavin Bryers has deconstructed the two scores to create something original. “And the work deals with – how to put it? – a phase in the romantic cycle that isn’t often addressed,” Lock goes on. “It’s not the beginning or ‘magic’ phase, but the end, the ‘memory’ phase. It’s about dissolution.” Lock says he hopes his process has got a bit more streamlined over the years, but he still maintains certain ideas he had from the beginning. “I don’t believe dance is particularly good at narrative, and I don’t think it should be simplified in order to create or carry a narrative,” he says. “And even with all the third-party communications around, like the internet, there’s nothing like two groups of strangers assembled in one room ob-

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serving each other. Whatever happens in the room, you will utterly believe it. There’s no artifice or amplification.” Many performing arts companies are allowing their works to be broadcast in movie theatres or captured in 3-D. Lock says he’d consider it for the company but knows it wouldn’t be the same as the real thing. “You can’t really duplicate the theatrical experience,” he says. “But you can try to create something new. The theatre remains the ultimate way of seeing a three-dimensional moving person. It’s hard to duplicate it any other way than to sit in a seat and watch.” Lock’s diplomatic enough not to single out any special memories from three decades of work, but he does mention collaborating with rock star Frank Zappa on the shows that went into Zappa’s final Yellow Shark album. “Working with Zappa just prior to his passing away was a special moment,” he recalls. “We got to see a great artist close up as he was dealing with difficult problems and with his family around. That was a great project.” 3 glenns@nowtoronto.com

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THEATRE REVIEW

A taste of Borges

Short story comes partly to life onstage By GLENN SUMI THE ALEPH by Diego Matamoros and Daniel Brooks from a story by Jorge Luis Borges, directed by Brooks (Soulpepper). At the Young Centre for the Performing Arts (55 Mill). Limited run. $25-$35. 416-866-8666. See Continuing, page 62. Rating: NNN

argentine master jorge luis Borges’s fantastical, philosophical works don’t lend themselves to theatrical adaptation; their playfulness is slippery and tricky to translate into any other medium. But he’s a mesmerizing storyteller, and that’s what performer/co-writer Diego Matamoros captures in this adaptation of one of Borges’s most famous tales. Matamoros, like Borges, flirts with autobiography, opening the show with a playful, gossipy anecdote about a star-studded production of Hamlet (Clooney as Claudius, Streep as Gertrude) and then slyly passing around a picture of himself as a young actor fresh out of theatre school. Then he launches into a story about a visit to his diplomat father in Buenos Aires,

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where he becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman. Eventually, Matamoros gets around to the central image of the story, the aleph, a point in space that contains every experience, image and memory, a nifty metaphor for the artist’s craft or perhaps for the process of aging. It’s no surprise that this section, taken almost verbatim from Borges, is the production’s strongest. That’s not to say that the rest doesn’t work. Matamoros charms throughout with his chatty, meandering stories, one of which involves Colm Feore. Director/co-writer Daniel Brooks helps immensely, using Kevin Lamotte’s lighting and Michael Levine’s sets to highlight significant images or phrases. One scene, performed on a humble office chair, becomes a miniplay in itself. But overall The Aleph feels like a sleight-of-hand affair, something to admire for its craft and technical polish, but not its heart. 3 glenns@nowtoronto.com

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Opening ...ANd StockiNgS For the LAdieS by Attila Clemann (The Gesamtkunstwerk ñ Project). A Canadian airman helps Jewish

refugees in post-WWII Germany in this solo show. Opens Jun 1 and runs to Jun 5, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mats Thu 1:30 pm, Sat-Sun 2 pm. $26, stu/srs $20. Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman, Extra Space. 416-531-1827. the ANgeL cApoNe by David Copelin (Stagecraft Company). This play looks at the 1920s Chicago theatre and bootlegging scene. May 26-29, Thu and Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 2 pm. $18, stu/srs $15. Holy Blossom Temple, 1950 Bathurst. 416-789-3291 ext 511, holyblossom.org. ANy oNe oF US: WordS From priSoN (V-Day Toronto). True stories of female prison inmates are adapted for the stage. May 28-29, Sat 9 pm, Sun 7 pm. $21, stu $16. Workman Theatre, 651 Dufferin. ticketbreak.com. BreAkiNg ANd eNteriNg by Vin Morreale Jr (Lakeside Players). A mysterious woman foils a thief’s plans in this comedy. Opens May 27 and runs to Jul 10, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $25-$55.95. Port Mansion Theatre and Restaurant, 12 Lakeport, St Catharines. 905-9340575 ext 226, portmansion.com. cAmeLot by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe (Stratford Festival). King Arthur’s wife betrays him with his most trusted knight in this musical. Previews to May 30. Opens May 31 and runs in rep to Oct 30. $50-$106, stu/srs $25-$66. Festival Theatre, Stratford. 1-800567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca.

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cANdidA by Bernard Shaw (Shaw Festival). A

woman must choose between her preacher husband and her poet lover. Previews to May 27. Opens May 28 and runs in rep to Oct 30. $24-$106. Royal George Theatre, Niagara-onthe-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. cAt oN A hot tiN rooF by Tennessee Williams (Shaw Festival). An unhappy marriage and a looming inheritance create tensions at a Southern patriarch’s birthday dinner. Opens May 26 and runs in rep to Oct 23. $24-$106. Royal George Theatre, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. doN’t Look doWN by Robin Cleland (Robin Cleland & Kristie Vinet). A hard-drinking man deals with his demons after his wife’s funeral. 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. 416-3683110, canadianstage.com/alsoatberkeley. drAmA At iNiSh – A comedy by Lennox Robinson (Shaw Festival). A company performing serious plays changes the mood of an Irish town used to light comedies. Previews to May 26. Opens May 27 and runs in rep to Oct 1. $24-$106. Court House Theatre, Niagara-onthe-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. the grApeS oF WrAth by John Steinbeck, adapted by Frank Galati (Stratford Festival). Ruined by the Depression, an Oklahoma farming family travels to California to seek a new life. Previews to May 31. Opens Jun 1 and runs in rep to Oct 29. $50-$106, stu/srs $25-$66. Avon Theatre, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. iF theSe WALLS coULd tALk by Carlos Celdran (Kapisanan Centre/Harbourfront Centre Hot Spot). The performance artist/tour guide presents his walking-tour piece about Manila. May 28-29 at 3 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, kapisanancentre.com. the merry WiveS oF WiNdSor by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). Two married women turn the tables on their would-be seducer in this comedy. Previews to May 29. Opens May 30 and runs in rep to Oct 14. $50$106, stu/srs $25-$66. Festival Theatre, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. my FAir LAdy by Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner (Shaw Festival). This musical is based on Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. Previews to May 27. Opens May 28 and runs in rep to Oct 30. $24-$106. Festival Theatre, Niagara-onthe-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. oNce UpoN A mAttreSS by Mary Rodgers, Jay Thompson, Marshall Barer, Dean Fuller (Art Smart). A queen tries to thwart her son’s plans to marry. Opens May 27 and runs to Jun 5, see website for schedule. $15, srs $10, stu $5. Hill Park Secondary School, 465 East 16th, Hamilton. theatreancaster.com/artsmart.html. the oUtSiderS adapted by Rochelle Douris (Upper Canada Repertory Company). This musical is based on the novel by SE Hinton

about rival gangs in the 60s. May 26-27 at 7 pm. $25, stu $20. George Ignatieff Theatre, 15 Devonshire. shakespearerocks.com. preSeNt LAUghter by Noel Coward (East Side Players). An actor deals with various people vying for his attention in this comedy. Opens May 26 and runs to Jun 11, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20, stu $15. Papermill Theatre, 67 Pottery. 416-425-0917, eastsideplayers.ca. Sexy LAUNdry by Michele Riml (Laughoutloud Association). Empty nesters look for the old spark during a weekend at a swanky hotel. Opens May 31 and runs to Jun 25, see website for schedule. $34. Orillia Opera House, 20 Mississaga W, Orillia. orilliaoperahouse.ca. SWimmer (68) by Ker Wells (Hopscotch Collective). Wells performs a multimedia show inspired by the 1968 film The Swimmer. Opens May 26 and runs to Jun 4, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20, stu/srs $15. Glen Morris Theatre, 4 Glen Morris. 416-978-7986.

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by Kelly Aija Zemnickis (Green with Envy). Two strangers facing major life changes are stuck in an airport together. May 31-Jun 1 at 8 pm. $15. Alumnae Theatre, 70 Berkeley. 416-8398810, greenwithenvyproductions.ca. tightrope by 2boys.tv (Stephen Lawson and Aaron Pollard) (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre). This theatrical song cycle looks at societal amnesia and cultures threatened by suppression of memory. Previews May 26. Opens May 27 and runs to Jun 5, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $19-$33, Sun pwyc. 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com.

Previewing BiLLy BiShop goeS to WAr by Eric Peterand John Gray (Soulpepper Theatre ñson Company). Soulpepper remounts its hit production about the famous WWI fighter pilot. Previews Jun 1. Opens Jun 3 and runs to Jun

21, see website for schedule. $45-$65, stu $28, rush $22 (stu $5). Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca.

chocoLAte WomAN dreAmS the miLky WAy (The Chocolate Woman Collective). ñ This collective creation looks at feminine

strength from an indigenous perspective. Previews May 31-Jun 1. Opens Jun 2 and runs to Jun 19, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20, stu/srs $10. Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse, 79A St. George. 647-717-6129, totix.ca. JeSUS chriSt SUperStAr by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber (Stratford Festival). Judas makes a choice between Jesus and the Roman rulers in this musical. Previews to Jun 2. Opens Jun 3 and runs in rep to Oct 29. $50-$106, stu/ srs $25-$66. Avon Theatre, Stratford. 1-800567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. richArd iii by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). A ruthless man marries and murders his way to the English throne. Previews to Jun 1. Opens Jun 2 and runs in rep to Sep 25. $50$106, stu/srs $25-$66. Tom Patterson Theatre, Stratford. stratfordfestival.ca.

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LeS AdieUx (Free Concert Series in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre). Graduating artists of the COC Ensemble Studio perform arias and ensembles. May 26 at noon. Free. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. coc.ca. pULLyUpULLUS by Tololwa Mollel (Foundry Theatre Company). A rabbit and hippo work together in this reading of a play inspired by African folk tales. May 30 at 7 pm. Pwyc. Detour Bar, 193.5 Baldwin. firstdrafttoronto@ gmail.com. red cArpet dreAmiNg FUNdrAiSiNg ShoW

(Cindy Ashton). Ashton performs showstoppers from Broadway in this benefit for the Canadian Centre for Abuse Awareness. May 27 at 6:30 pm. $50, youth $25. St Paul’s Anglican Church, 227 Bloor E. cindyashtonentertainer.com/tour-dates/torontoshow. the SoNNet ShoW: A Night oF 14 (Humber River Shakespeare Company). Five original 14-minute plays, based on a 14-line sonnet, are performed. May 27 at 7 pm. $30. Montgomery’s Inn, 4709 Dundas W. 416-209-2026, humberrivershakespeare.ca. LA vie eN roUge (Jane Mallett Theatre). Louise Pitre performs a musical cabaret. Jun 1 at 8 pm. $60-$75. 27 Front E. 416-3667723, stlc.com. vivA cABAret (YURA). This tribute show features divas from ballet, opera, Broadway and film. Jun 1 at 8 pm. Free. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635, rushow.ru.

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Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. 416-642-8973, 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 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) BirdBAth by Leonard Melfi (3 dimes down/ Vitus Productions). Two down-and-out New Yorkers seek a connection on a cold night. Runs to May 29, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 7 pm, mat Sat 2:30 pm. $20. Pia Bouman School, 6 Noble. 647-344-1483, birdbathplay.com. 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) doUBLe BiLL (Soulpepper). The Academy shows off its musical and dramatic skills in these two self-created shows. In re(Birth), they inventively set the verse of e.e. cummings to music, while in Window On Toronto – fun, but a tad long – they play dozens of characters who whiz by the window of a hot-dog wagon in Nathan Phillips Square. Runs to Jun 18, see website for schedule. $28-$65. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-8668666, soulpepper.ca. NNNN (JK) FemALe imperSoNAtor ShoWS (Zelda’s). Divas from Broadway and film perform weekly. Fri-Sat 9 pm. Free. 692 Yonge. zeldas.ca. 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). In this remount of his clever and self-referential 1992 solo show, Verdecchia mixes lecture and stand-up formats to tell his personal story of emigrating from Argentina to Canada to comment on the lingering effects of colonialism in the Americas and Latin American stereotypes in the media. The show feels a little long, but Verdecchia’s affable demeanour, humour and important message shine through. Runs to Jun 12, see website for schedule. $28-$65. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-8668666, 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 humour goes a long way in easing the tension. But when the big reveals come, they’re usually

Company). Classic fables are transformed by audience suggestions in this family show. Runs to May 28, Sat 4 pm. $10. 918 Bathurst Centre, 918 Bathurst. baddogtheatre.com. the ALeph by Jorge Luis Borges (Soulpepper). Diego Matamoros performs this adaptation of Borges’s short story (see review, page 61). Runs to Jun 18, see website for schedule. $25$35. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. NNN (GS) ANgeLiNA BALLeriNA the mUSicAL by Susan DiLallo and Ben Morss (Vital Theatre/Hit Entertainment). Angelina and her friends try for a lead role in this all-ages show. Runs to May 29, Sat 1:30 pm, Sun 11 am. $29.50-$49.50.

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Gibbs and Webbs. Elegant, truthful and crowd-pleasing, Our Town seems to regret the loss of an outdated society. But I’m not sure what we can learn from it now. Runs to Jun 18, see website for schedule. $45-$65, stu $28; rush $5-$22. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. NNN (Naomi Skwarna) PiNKaLicious, The MusicaL by Elizabeth Kann, Victoria Kann and John Gregor (Vital Theatre). A girl turns pink after eating too many cupcakes. Runs to May 29, Sat 11 am, Sun 1:30 pm. $30-$40. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. 416-642-8973, vitaltheatre.ca. The PosT office by Rabindranath Tagore (Pleiades Theatre). Tagore’s simple tale of a sick boy who sits by his window and, in talking to those in his community, changes their lives, gets an elegant, magical production directed by John Van Burek. As the boy, Mina James anchors the play with her unfussy performance, and the production values help make the show a mesmerizing one. 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. 416-368-3110, pleiadestheatre.org. NNNN (JK) 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

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either silly or stupid. Runs to May 29, Thu-Fri 7:30 pm, Sat 5 & 8:30 pm, Sun 3 pm. $25-$79. Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. NN (GS) 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). $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). Robert 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 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. 416-363-8231, coc.ca. NNNNN (GS) our TowN by Thornton Wilder (Soulpepper). Set in the quaint, turn-of-the-century town of Grover’s Corners, Wilder’s much-celebrated play paints a moving portrait of a middle class community, focusing on the neighbourly

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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) ...LA RONDE... by Arthur Schnitzler (red light district). Ten people meet and hook up in a series of vignettes about sex in the city (see review, page 63). Runs to Jun 4, Wed-Sat 7:30 pm. $20-$25, stu $15. Wicked, 1032 Queen W. theredlightdistrict.ca. NNN (Naomi Skwarna) THE SCRIPT-TEASE PROjECT (National Theatre of the World). Improvised plays will be created and performed based on two pages written by playwrights Brad Fraser, Hannah Moscovitch, Woody Harrelson, Morris Panych, John Patrick Shanley and others. Runs to May 29, Tue-Sat 8 pm, plus Thu-Fri 9:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm. $20, stu $15. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. 416-504-7529, thenationaltheatreoftheworld.com. TANGLED WEB: MURDER BY DETECTION (Mysteriously Yours... Dinner Theatre). Famous sleuths battle for the Detective of the Century Award. Runs to Jun 25, Fri-Sat 8 pm (dinner 6:30 pm; see website for other shows). $40$83. 2026 Yonge. mysteriouslyyours.com. 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 (see review, page 65). Runs to May 29, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2 pm. $42.50-$79.50. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-366-7723, hgjewishtheatre.com. NNN (Susan G Cole)

TRANSCENDENTAL MIRROR: THE ULTIMATE VARIETY SHOW (Waterfalls). This weekly show of-

fers art, improv, dance, theatre, comedy and more. Every Thu 9 pm. $5. 303 Augusta. ultimatevarietyshow.blogspot.com. TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE by Mitch Albom and Jeffrey Hatcher (Stage West). A man reunites with his former professor, who is battling ALS. Runs to Jul 3, Wed-Sat 6:30 pm, Sun 5 pm, mat Wed and Sun 11 am. $46-$80 (incl buffet). 5400 Dixie, Mississauga. stagewest.com.

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BEE by William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin (Toronto Youth Theatre). Overachievers vie for the championship in this musical comedy. Runs to May 28, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 3:30 pm. $22-$37. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. 416-915-6747, putnamcounty. eventbrite.com. YICHUD (SECLUSION) by Julie Tepperman (Convergence Theatre/TPM). TPM remounts this production from Feb 2010. “Yichud” is Hebrew for “seclusion,” and the moment post-ceremony when the bride and groom are alone together for the first time. The play itself presents a series of private moments between family members, all unfolding during the many phases of the wedding. The piece is complex and soulful, and Michael Rubenfeld as the bad-boy brother of the groom is sensational. Runs to May 29, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $30-$45. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. 416-504-7529, passemuraille.on.ca. NNNN (Susan G Cole) 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. A surefire winner. Runs to Jun 5, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $15-$45, Sun pwyc. 125 Bathurst. 416-504-9971, factorytheatre.ca. NNNN (GS)

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HAIRSPRAY (Drayton Entertainment). A quirky

60s teen becomes popular and looks to change the world in this musical. Runs to Jun 4, see website for schedule. $42, stu $21.50. St Jacobs Country Playhouse, 40 Benjamin E, Waterloo. 1-888-449-4463, draytonentertainment.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. Runs in rep to Oct 7. $24-$106. Festival Theatre, Niagara-on-the-Lake. shawfest.com. MAMA’S COUNTRY RECORD COLLECTION by Thom Currie (Port Stanley Festival Theatre). A father and daughter sort through old vinyl in this musical. Runs to Jun 11, see website for schedule. $25-$28. 6-302 Bridge, Port Stanley. 1-855-782-4353, portstanleytheatre.ca. 3

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Thursday, May 26 THE BOOM SHOW: CHAPTER 36 Supermarket presents comedy w/ Adam McFawn, Chris Locke, Brian Barlow and others. 9 pm. $10. 268 Augusta. boomcomedy.com. GAME PLAYA THURSDAYS John Candy Box Theatre presents The Young And The Guestlist, an improvised puppet soap opera and longform improv by Rob Norman’s Game Of The Scene class. 8:45 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270. 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)

TRAGEDY + TIME = CHRIS LOCKE & MICHAEL BALAZO Bread & Circus presents comedy also

featuring Mae Martin and host Ennis Esmer. 8 pm. $7. 299 Augusta. breadandcircus.ca. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Wade McElwain. To May 28, Thu-Sat 8 pm (and Fri-Sat 10:30 pm). $12-$22. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

COMEDY ON THE DANFORTH Timothy’s World News Café presents improv w/ Athletic Robot (Jorge Moreira, Rhonda Riche and Jeff Rosenthal). 9 pm. Pwyc. 320 Danforth. 416-4612668, comedyonthedanforth.com. THE GOD-AWFUL COMEDY SHOW Centre for Inquiry presents atheist-friendly comedy w/ JP Hodgkinson. 8:30 pm. $10. 216 Beverley. 416971-5676. KNOCKOUT COMEDY NIGHT TKO’s Pub presents Debra DiGiovanni, Winston Spear, Kevin MacDonald, Desiree Lavoy, Ali Hassan, host Scott McCrickard and others. 10 pm. Free. 1600 Danforth. 416-466-1965.

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Ali Hassan, Melik Angus, Nicholas Reynoldson, Patrick Haye, Daniel Woodrow and host Kenny Robinson. 8:30 pm. $20. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com. SUDDENLY SUNDAY Pantages Martini Bar presents 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 26. XXX EROTIC COMEDY NIGHT Zanzibar Tavern presents a show w/ host Fast Eddie Bizarria. 8:30 pm. Free. 359 Yonge. 647-831-4975.

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NUBIAN DISCIPLES ALL BLACK COMEDY REVUE Yuk Yuk’s Downtown presents ñ the monthly show w/ Chris Robinson, DeLoe,

sketch inspired by 50s variety shows w/ host Ben Johnson. 9 pm. Pwyc. John Candy Box Theatre, 70 Peter. 416-340-7270.

ty Scott and Barry Taylor to raise funds for The Ride To Conquer Cancer. 7 pm. $25. Supermarket, 268 Augusta. comedyrecords.ca. THIS PARTY’S A RIOT! See Thu 26. 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 26. YUK YUK’S VAUGHAN presents Jeff McEnery. To May 28, Fri 9 pm, Sat 7:30 & 9:45 pm. $20. 70 Interchange Way. yukyuks.com. YUK YUK’S WEST presents Chuck Byrn. To May 28, Fri-Sat 9 pm. $20. 5165 Dixie, Mississauga. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

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Saturday, May 28 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. BYE BYE LIVER: THE TORONTO DRINKING PLAY

The Pub Theatre Company presents sketch comedy about drinking culture. 9 pm. $15. Hard Rock Cafe, 279 Yonge. byebyeliver.com.

SH’LONG 2: A SH’LONG DAY’S jOURNEY INTO NIGHT Black Swan presents short ñ and long form improv w/ Richard Darby, Rob-

ert Hawke, Jordan Kennedy, Marsha Mason, Gord Oxley and others. 8 pm. Pwyc. 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. 416-469-0537. THEATRESPORTS Bad Dog Theatre presents fast and furious improv matches. 8 pm. $12, stu $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 647-898-5324. baddogtheatre.com. THIS PARTY’S A RIOT! See Thu 26. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 26. YUK YUK’S VAUGHAN See Fri 27. YUK YUK’S WEST See Fri 27.

Sunday, May 29 THE BENCH John Candy Box Theatre presents

upcoming improvisers picked by the Second City. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270. CHAPPY HOUR Comedy Bar presents a variety talk show w/ host Andrew Chapman. 8 pm. Free. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. COMEDY AT ARCHIE’S Archibald’s Pub presents a weekly show w/ host Liam Kelly. 8 pm. Free. 8950 Yonge, Richmond Hill. 905-889-0235. LAUGH SABBATH presents Hour Of Power! w/ Sara Hennessey, Chris Locke, Scott Thompson, Georgea Brooks-Hancock, Mae Martin, Desiree Lavoy, Bryan O’Gorman, host Nick Flanagan and others. Doors 8:30 pm. $5. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. laughsabbath.com.

Monday, May 30 ALT.COMEDY LOUNGE Rivoli presents Mark Forward, Dave Merheje, David Heti, Pardis Parker, Joseph Ianni, Ryan Long, Darryl Orr, Michael Balazo, MC Debra DiGiovanni and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com. BEST. MONDAY. EVER. Second City presents a weekly show featuring sketch, songs and improv. 8 pm. $12. 51 Mercer. secondcity.com. CHEAP LAUGHS MONDAY PJ O’Briens Irish Pub presents a show w/ Russell Roy and guests. 8 pm. Free. 39 Colborne. 416-815-7562. COMEDY CABARET Robin Crossman and Chris MacLean present stand-up w/ Jeff Elliott, Bobby Mair, Brian Kyle, Steve Scholtz, Natalie Norman, Danny Freedman and others. 7:30 pm. Free. Charlotte Room, 19 Charlotte. 416598-2882, comedycabaret.com. THE FAMOUS & HEINOUS SHOW Pour Boy Pub presents a weekly open mic. 10:30 pm. Free. 666 Manning. 647-343-7969, pourboy.ca. IMPERIAL COMEDY Imperial Pub presents weekly Pro/Am comics w/ host Eric Bud. 9:30 pm. Pwyc. 54 Dundas E. imperialcomedy.com. MONDAY NIGHT IMPROV jAM Black Swan Comedy presents an open jam w/ Ralph MacLeod. 8 pm. Pwyc. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd fl. 416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com. SAVED BY THE jOKES Fox & Fiddle presents weekly comedy w/ hosts Evan Desmarais and Chris Robinson. 8 pm. Pwyc. 27 Wellesley E. wellesleyfox.com. THE SOAPS The National Theatre of the World presents a weekly improvised soap opera w/ Matt Baram, Lisa Brooke and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. thenationaltheatreoftheworld.com. WHEEL OF IMPROV John Candy Box Theatre presents competitive improv. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270.

Tuesday, May 31 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, up and coming improv teams. 9:30 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416238-7337, impatient.ca.

IMPROV ALL-STARS Second City presents a fast-

paced, improvised weekly show. 8 pm. $20. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com. STANDING ON THE DANFORTH Eton House presents Fraser Young, Rachelle Elie, Ron Sparks, Dave Kemp, Roy Daye, Adam Susser, Adrian Sawyer and host Jo-Anna Downey. 9 pm. Free. 710 Danforth. 416-466-6161. SUPERFUNNY Supermarket presents an open mic w/ hosts Trevor John and AJ Sando. 8 pm. $5. 268 Augusta. 416-840-0501. 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.

Wednesday, June 1 THE CARNEGIE HALL SHOW The National Theatre of the World presents a weekly ñ variety show. 9 pm. Pwyc. Bread & Circus, 299 Augusta. thecarnegiehallshow.com.

COMEDY AT THE OSSINGTON presents Stacey

McGunnigle, Marco Bernardi, Nick Flanagan, Rhiannon Archer, Zach and Zach, hosts Sara Hennessey, Steph Kaliner, Jeremy Mersereau and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. The Ossington, 61

Ossington. 416-850-0161.

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. IMPATIENT THEATRE CO presents improv by its students. 6:30 pm. Free. House Party, scenes by ITC teams. 8 pm. $10. Real Autobiographies, improv based on the bios of public figures/ celebrities. 10 pm. Free. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-238-7337, impatient.ca. QUANTUM QOMEDY SHOWQASE The Wilson 96 presents Makesi Arthur, Sarah Grange, Tim Gilbert, host Mack Lawrenz and others. 8:30 pm. Free. 615 College. 416-516-3237. SIREN’S COMEDY Celt’s Pub presents open mic stand-up w/ Matt White and James Kersley. 8:30 pm. Free. 2872 Dundas W. 416-767-3339. SPIRITS OPEN MIC presents Nick Beaton, Jon Kane, Cleve Jones, Martha O’Neill, Clifford Myers, Max Olsen and host Jo-Anna Downey. 9 pm. Free. Spirits Bar & Grill, 642 Church. 416-967-0001. THIS PARTY’S A RIOT! See Thu 26. 3

BUDDIES IN BAD TIMES THEATRE PRESENTS THE WORLD PREMIERE OF

To Life’s cast – Gabi Epstein (left), Shawn Wright, Patrick Cook and Charlotte Moore – sing over 70 songs.

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A high drag spectacle in memory of our forgotten.

Fun To Life fetes Jewish musicals By SUSAN G. COLE Tim French (Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company). At the Jane Mallett (27 Front East). To May 29. $42.50-$79.50. 416-3667723, hgjewishtheatre.com. See Continuing, page 64. Rating: NNN

the cabaret-style show to life isn’t really about Jewish musicals and doesn’t just troll the canon for great material written by Jewish composers. It honours some of Broadway’s most memorable performers and revives some fine songs that, because they come from shows that failed, aren’t so well known. The show begins with Spamalot’s irreverent You Won’t Succeed On Broadway (If You Don’t Have Any Jews), but then the skilled quartet of singer/actors focuses on recalling Fanny Bryce, Eddie Cantor, Sophie Tucker and Al Jolson. This section could use some context. What is it about the Jewish experience and/or Jewish values that fuelled the creativity of these major artists? What did these performers have in common? Over 35 songs are referenced in the first half alone, but

some between-song patter could have given the first act more coherence. As it is, Charlotte Moore triumphs with a kick-ass performance of Tucker’s Some Of These Days, and Gabi Epstein almost manages to make you forget Streisand when evoking Bryce. To Life is strongest when the cast sings in close harmony as an ensemble, which doesn’t happen until a little too late in the first act. But once they’re belting out those Jolson hits, the show starts hitting all the right notes. Credit the creators for unearthing some great material, including The Bar Mitzvah Of Eliot Green, from Jule Styne and Don Black’s 1978 dud The Bar Mitzvah Boy, and New Words, from Maury Yeston’s otherwise forgettable One, Two, Three, Four, Five. This show demands a ton of stamina from its cast. Patrick Cook flags a little toward the end, but that’s a small cavil. Shawn Wright – even when he doesn’t sing a word, as in An Old Man – has a great presence. He and Moore stand out because their acting is as good as their voices. Which is what great cabaret requires. 3 susanc@nowtoronto.com

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Now and then High-tech and old-school shows are hits at Contact

Tech’s tricks GEOFFREY PUGEN at Angell Gallery

(12 Ossington), to June 11. 416530- 0444. Rating: NNNN

technology and its effect on the ”authenticity” of perception are reduced to a neat visual paradox in Geoffrey Pugen’s latest photographic venture, Long Divisions. His images, though seeming like fractals, appear eerily real. Of course, they very well could be. Pugen’s gambit has always involved exploring the paradoxical relationship between technology and perception. Especially cheeky is his inclusion of the work Green Screen, the standard filming background used in every digitally created sci-fi blockbuster of the last 20 or so years. Blue Room, a possible reference to Plato’s Allegory Of The Cave, invites the viewer into the imaginary space of a spectacle just beyond our reach,

represented only by eerie blue light and enticing wisps of smoke. Especially elegant is the use of golden unicorns as a symbol of the elusiveness of visual reality and of something that can be envisioned but DAVID JAGER never seen in the flesh.

Primitive pics ABEL BOULINEAU at the Art Gallery

of Ontario (317 Dundas West), to August 21. 416-979-6648. $18, srs $15, stu $10, free Wednesday 6-8:30 pm. Rating: NNNN

where i was born… takes its title from an inscription on the back of a photo in this collection of small sepia snapshots taken in rural France between 1897 and 1916. An astute intern researched the date of birth on the small-town streetscape and discovered it was that of Abel Boulineau, an academic painter not previously known to have made photographs. While the Lumière brothers used

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compelling story about the children of Russian immigrants living in Brooklyn, VACLAV & LENA by Haley Tanner New York. (Knopf), 388 pages, $29.95 cloth. RatVaclav and Lena, aged 10 and nine ing: NNNN respectively, are best friends despite their differences. He’s super-schoolfor a debut novelist, haley tansmart and verbal; she can’t master Enner sure knows a lot about love, glish and is painfully shy. Vaclav’s trauma and the profound human mother, Rasia, is an attentive parent need for nurturing and connection. even if his father, Oleg Page doesn’t 24196-AuthorsNOWad.qxd:May26 4/29/11 4:21 PM 1 do Her new book, Vaclav & Lena, is a much. Lena, on the other hand, is in

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WEDNESDAY JUNE 1 7:30PM York Quay Centre Harbourfront Centre 235 Queens Quay West Toronto

JENNIFER EGAN (USA) A Visit From the Goon Squad JEN SOOKFONG LEE (Canada) The Better Mother HALEY TANNER (USA) Vaclav & Lena

$10/FREE for members, students & youth Box Office/Info: 416-973-4000 readings.org

Geoffrey Pugen’s Blue Room (left) joins Long Divisions, Abel Boulineau’s turn-of-the-19th-century Aix-les-Bains is at the AGO.

newfangled movie cameras to envision the wonders of the future, Boulineau, like tourists today, sought romantic images of pre-industrial life: milkmaids, washerwomen, country markets, an itinerant hat-maker, a

MUST-SEE SHOWS C indicates Contact event

ART HOP Pedestrian Sunday gallery crawl,

noon-6 pm May 29. Kensington Market. CBIRCH LIBRALATO Photos: James Nizam and Lee Goreas, to Jun 4. 129 Tecumseth. 416-365-3003. CHRISTOPHER CUTTS Eldon Garnet, to Jun 18. 21 Morrow. 416-532-5566.

GALLERY @ GALLERY 345 Cartagena, to May ñPhotos: Alejandro 29 (Sat 11 am-5 pm or by appt). 345 SorauCCIRCUIT

ren. 647-477-2487.

GENERAL OF ITALY Photos: Giorgio Barrera, to Jul 17. 136 ñ Beverley. 416-977-1566. CCONSULATE

CTHE DEPARTMENT Photos: Chantal James, to May 28. 1389 Dundas W. 416-720-8273.

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the care of her stripper aunt, Trina, who pays her little attention. The children share a dream of becoming a magic act: he’ll wave the wand and she’ll be his able assistant. And they tell each other everything. Or so Vaclav thinks – until Lena is suddenly removed from her home and disappears from his life. Tanner expertly portrays Brooklyn’s Russian immigrant community – including its gangster element. You can smell the borscht cooking in the kitchen, see the trash-strewn apartment where Lena lives, hear the cadence of the characters’ speech, thanks to the fractured English Tanner renders so skilfully. Lena’s behaviour – the petty theft, the gorging on food – hints that something’s not quite right, though Tanner knows when to withhold information and when to let it leak out. But it’s the writer’s skill in conveying emotion that makes this story work so well. Lena’s fear of Vaclav’s formidable mother, an unforgettable character, is wholly believable, and we can empathize with his pain when the popular girls at school discover Lena and she half-dumps him. By painting such a vivid portrait of a childhood friendship and using such an intense emotional palette, the author completely hooks us on her characters. Who cares if the endSUSAN G. COLE ing’s a bit too tidy? Tanner appears at the Harbourfront Reading Series on Wednesday (June 1). Write Books at susanc@nowtoronto.com.

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simple pottery studio. Primitive photographic tech makes for interesting effects like a ghostly dog that wouldn’t stand still and panoramas constructed from three prints. Though not as quirky as Jacques

Chris Boyne, Susan Kordalweski, to Jun 4. 401 Richmond W #120. 416-979-3941. CGALLERY TPW Photos/video: Eric Gottesman, to Jun 11, screening of Renzo Martens’s Episode III: Enjoy Poverty 7 pm (at Cinecycle) May 28. 56 Ossington. 416-645-1066. GENDAI GALLERY Comics: Michael Niroll Yahgulanaas and Joanne Hui, to Jun 25. Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, 6 Garamond. 647200-6161. CJAPAN FOUNDATION Photos: Haruo Nakano, to Jun 30 (Mon-Fri and some Sats). 131 Bloor W. 416-966-1600. CLAUSBERG CONTEMPORARY Photos: Lluîs Barba, to Jun 5. 326 Dundas W. 416-516-4440. MKG127 Installation: Laurel Woodcock, May 28-Jun 25, reception 2-5 pm May 28. 127 Ossington. 647-435-7682. RED HEAD GALLERY Installation: Paula A Bras-

Henri Lartigue’s work of the same era, Boulineau’s charming gelatin-silver prints let us a peer through the artist’s eyes into a vanished world. FRAN SCHECHTER art@nowtoronto.com

well, May 28-Jun 18, reception 2-5 pm May 28. 401 Richmond W. 416-504-5654. OCADU ONSITE Marian Bantjes, to Jun 5. 100 McCaul. 416-977-6000. CSTEPHEN BULGER Photos: Robert Bourdeau, to Jun 11. 1026 Queen W. 416-5040575. TRINITY SQUARE VIDEO Left, Right, Centre, to Jun 12. 401 Richmond W. 416-593-1332. URBANSPACE Toronto Bound (Mapping Toronto) group show, to Jun 4. 401 Richmond W, unit 117. 416-595-5900. WHIPPERSNAPPER GALLERY Fix-Em-Up Free Market: Tongue & Groove Collective, to Jun 12. 594B Dundas W. 647-856-2445. CYORKDALE SUBWAY Photos: Debra Friedman, to May 31. Ticket Area, 1 Yorkdale. scotiabankcontactphoto.com.

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Alongside Haley Tanner, two more excellent writers hit the stage at Harbourfront on Wednesday (June 1), including Jen Sookfong Lee, who checks in with The Better Mother (Knopf, $29.95, see my review next week). But watch out for Jennifer Egan, whose 2010 Pulitzer Prize-winning A Visit From The Goon Squad – now in paper (Anchor, $16.95) – is a true groundbreaker. That’s because its stories are set inside the entertainment industry and yet cover some heavy issues, and also because Egan toys with form in fascinating ways, especially in SGC the last two chapters. This is a great slate.

READINGS THIS WEEK Thursday, May 26 CAMILLA GIBB/KATHY FRIEDMAN/DAVID BROCK/DAVE MILLER Reading. 7:30 pm.

ñ Free. Magpie, 831 Dundas W. 416-916-6499.

THE REVOLUTION STARTS AT HOME Launch with

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Jessica Yee and Juliet November. 7-10 pm. Free. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. PETER ROBINSON 12:30 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. 416-395-5577. PUBLIC LENDING RIGHT 25TH ANNIVERSARY 7 pm. Free (ticket needed). Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca/appelsalon. YING-YING CHANG Launching her memoir with a reading. 7 pm. Free. Indigo Manulife, 55 Bloor W. indigo.ca.

Friday, May 27 MARGARET LAURENCE: A WRITER’S LIFE Lecture by writer Graeme Gibson. 7 pm. Free (ticket required). Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca/appelsalon.

Saturday, May 28 JOHANNA SKIBSRUD 2 pm. Free. North

York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

Monday, May 30 BEN NUTTALL-SMITH 6-8 pm. Free. Type Books, 883 Queen W. 416-366-8973. DANDYHORSE LAUNCH 8 pm. $3-$10. Gladstone, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.

Tuesday, May 31 GRIFFIN PRIZE SHORTLIST READING Dionne Brand, Suzanne Buffam, John Steffler and others. 7:30 pm. $12.50, stu/srs $7.50. Koerner Hall, 273 Bloor W. 416-408-0208.

Wednesday, June 1 DAVID BATEMAN/DEBRA ANDERSON/JAMES

LONEY/TL COWAN Reading. 7-9 pm. Free. St Anne’s Church, 270 Gladstone. farzanadoctor @rogers.com. JULIE BERRY/CLAIRE CALDWELL/ELISABETH DE MARIAFFI Reading. 8 pm. Pwyc. Press Club, 850 Dundas W. 416-364-7183.

FAWZIA KOOFI 6-9 pm. Free. Taj Banquet Hall, 4611-4619 Steeles W. Reserve info@afghanistan-canada-solidarity.org.

JEN SOOKFONG LEE/JENNIFER EGAN/ HALEY TANNER Reading. 7:30 pm. $10, stu ñ free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, readings.org.

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THE HANGOVER PART II THE HANGOVER PART II directed by Todd

Phillips, written by Craig Mazin, Scot Armstrong and Phillips, with Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis and Ken Jeong. A Warner Bros release. 102 minutes. Opens today (Thursday, May 26). For venues and times, see Movies, page 75.

zach galifianakis shouldn’t be anyone’s idea of a movie star. But The Hangover changed all that; suddenly, the cult comic and occasional actor was the MVP of the most successful R-rated comedy in recorded history. Last week he was on the cover of Entertainment freakin’ Weekly, along with castmates Bradley Cooper and Ed Helms, as part of the publicity push for The Hangover Part II. “I was so used to this underground happiness,” he laughs, “and then you get above ground a little bit, and… yeah.” It’s a little weird listening to Galifianakis think his way through his answers. He chooses his words carefully, speaking almost haltingly before fixing on a response and picking up speed. His rhythms are entirely unlike the snippy speech patterns of his

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Hangover character, the sociopathic Alan – and also very different from those of the Zach Galifianakis who resentfully interviews superstars on FunnyOrDie.com’s Between Two Ferns. I’ve been a fan of his for nearly a decade now, and when The Hangover broke, I was sort of amazed that a mass audience would embrace the eccentric, confrontational persona he’d spent years refining in his standup act. (If you’ve never seen him live, go watch Zach Galifianakis Berates An Audience Member on YouTube.) But as surprised as I might have been, he was a lot more surprised to see himself blow up. “I never was against it whatsoever,” he says during a press day for The Hangover Part II. “I just was never expecting it.” But this is what happens when you become famous: everyone wants a piece of you. And if they have a piece of you, they exploit it to the fullest: Little Fish, Strange Pond, a 2009 movie in which Galifianakis plays a teeny, tiny role, can be released on DVD with a new name – Frenemy – and cover art that suggests he’s the star. “I know!” he says, giggling when I mention the title. “I’m in it for, like, nine minutes or something. It’s dishonest, the packaging of that movie, and I just can’t believe people do that. Don’t you think you turn more people off by doing that than just releasing it as it was originally? But I guess that’s the way it is – you know, you’re looking for a job and you do it, and they do

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THE HANGOVER PART II (Todd Phillips) Rating: NNN How do you make a sequel to what should have been an unrepeatable phenomenon? You repeat it, exactly, all over again. It’s not just a cynical gimmick. The Hangover Part II gets considerable mileage out of following precisely the same structure as the first film, with the traumatized trio of Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis wheeling through a waking nightmare as they race to reconstruct a disastrous night and find a missing friend. This time they’re in Bangkok, so the stakes are higher and weirder. It's a substantially darker movie, in which director Todd Phillips slowly nudges the absurd farce of The Hangover to an angrier, meaner place. The comedy’s still sharp, especially when Ken Jeong’s over-the-top gangster, Mr. Chow, is in the house. The writers haven’t tried to make our heroes any more likeable than they were the first time around. Cooper’s Phil is still a swaggering dolt, Galifianakis’s Alan remains a borderline sociopath, and Helms’s Stu is an affable doofus with a hidden reservoir of rage. And yet somehow we end up rooting for these idiots to solve their mysteries and stay alive, just so we can see what NW happens next. the old switcheroo on you.” Galifianakis is a little more selective about the jobs he takes these days. After The Hangover hit, he found a fine showcase for his awkward, quick-to-anger stage persona in Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck’s psych-ward dramedy It’s Kind Of A Funny Story, which played at last year’s Toronto Film Festival. Next, he

reunited with Hangover director Todd Phillips for Due Date, which stuffed him into a car with Robert Downey Jr. “Todd is a real filmmaker,” Galifianakis says. “I’ve stressed to him, ‘What are you doing? Why are you wasting your time with these Hangover movies?’ I don’t mean that, I’m saying that tongue-in-cheek. Com-

edy’s hard to do. It’s harder to do, I think, than musicals or straight dramatic things. [But] he doesn’t think those sets would be fun – and what we do try to do on these movies is make each other laugh. Todd and I have kind of very similar senses of humour when it comes to saying the wrong things.” You can feel it in their collaborations – particularly the original Hangover, where Phillips used the actor’s teddy-bear physicality as a contrast to his spiky, self-interested character. If you read him on the page, Alan comes off as a loathsome, destructive moron, but in the film he’s somehow lovable. “He doesn’t have to make that much sense,” Galifianakis admits, “and that is a very convenient thing. Now, having said that, you do see him in more dire straits in the second one – he notices the consequences of his actions.” I ask Galifianakis about getting into the head of a dull-witted, dangerous man-child with an unhealthy fixation on the Jonas Brothers and he sort of snuffles a laugh. “Listen, I Zen out,” he says. “I just try to be as loose as I can and think, ‘Well, if I’ – meaning me as a person – ‘were in this situation and I was an idiot, more so than I am now, what would I do? What would this character do?’ I mean, somebody’s gonna cry eventually… and to see a grown man with a beard cry and get upset is inherently funny to me.” That said, Galifianakis – just like Bradley Cooper, in a separate interview – is quick to point to Ed Helms as the sequel’s most valuable player. “I saw the movie for the first time, like, 10 days ago,” he says, “and when I saw Ed’s stuff I was covering my eyes – and I was there when we were filming it, by the way,” he laughs. “Ed just dug deep.” If The Hangover Part II does similar business to the original – and a lot of people seem to think it will – don’t expect Galifianakis to make any drastic changes. He still spends as much time as he can on his farm in North Carolina to keep from being sucked into the whole movie star thing. “As a comic, I think it could be poison to be so into it,” he says. “but you’re forced to get into it a little bit. I don’t know. No one ever asked me a question in my life. Now all of a sudden people are asking me questions. It’s bizarre. I’m not complaining, I’m just... I think I’m still shell-shocked.” As a fan, I have to tell him I’m kind of happy he’s become so well-known – even if it’s making his life a little harder in the short term. “Well, thank you,” he says. “I’ll try to make some happiness out of it.” NORMAN WILNER 3 normw@nowtoronto.com

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super8All we know about J.J. Abrams’s mysterious new project is that it

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X-Men:FirstClass The X-Men franchise started out strong with Bryan Singer’s X-Men and X2, only to falter with Brett Ratner’s XMen: The Last Stand and that dopey Wolverine Origins movie. Now Fox relaunches the series with an origin story set in the 1960s, when Professor X (James McAvoy) and Magneto (Michael Fassbender) were BFFs trying to help mutantkind live peacefully with humans. Geek expectations couldn’t be higher.

draws heavily on the suburban-innocence vibe of Steven Spielberg productions like Poltergeist, E.T. and The Goonies and follows a group of young filmmakers who witness a trail derailment and then discover something really strange in their footage. The trailer promises a sense of wonder – and thrills – that movies haven’t delivered in a while. That’s enough to pique our interest. The Challenger

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Word out of Cannes is that Terrence Malick’s Palme d'Or winner is about nothing less than the entirety of existence, with a stop in the 20th century so Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain can give birth to a child who will grow up to be Sean Penn. Malick’s fans – and cinephiles in general – are already booking their tickets. The underdog

subMarineThis eccentric tale of

an English teen (Craig Roberts) trying to lose his virginity and keep his family together – not necessarily in that order – is the buzzy directorial debut of British comic and actor Richard Ayoade, best known here as the nervous Moss on The IT Crowd. It’s been a film-festival hit ever since it launched at TIFF last September.

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This flick has been getting the strongest reviews for a Woody Allen movie since Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Allen’s decision to cast Wedding Crashers stars Owen Wilson and Rachel McAdams as an American couple wandering the City of Light could attract a younger crowd than usual. Not that they’ll get any of his jokes.

list of the best Pixar movies, but it’s the one closest to director John Lasseter’s heart – and it sells a lot of toys. So Disney was only too happy to green-light a sequel that expands the movie’s world by sending speed racer Lightning McQueen and sidekick Mater – voiced once again by Owen Wilson and Larry The Cable Guy – on a world tour.

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leQuattroVolte A minimalist drama about the transmigration of a human soul through three other forms of existence, Michelangelo Frammartino’s Le Quattro Volte is sure to be one of the oddest movies to play art houses this summer. And that’s saying something. likely Winner It’d be foolish to bet against a bunch of resentful mutants – so we’re picking X-Men: First Class to take first place.

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One of the year’s few superhero movies that hasn’t sprung from a Marvel Comic, Green Lantern stars Ryan Reynolds as a fearless test pilot who’s launched into an intergalactic adventure when a dying alien chooses him to carry on his mission as defender of this space sector. It looks busy as hell, with the entire Green Lantern Corps crammed into the frame. But from the buzz at Comic-Con, that’s exactly what the fanboys want. likely Winner: No disrespect to the combined marquee value of Pitt and Penn, but Tree Of Life’s cerebral themes might have people thinking twice about buying a ticket, whereas the marketing push behind Super 8 has positioned it as the must-see movie of early summer.

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walking through her good-girl role in The Green Hornet, Cameron Diaz turns to the dark side as a destructive junior high teacher who arrives at a new school and proceeds to wreak havoc on the lives of co-workers Jason Segel and Justin Timberlake (see Stars of summer sidebar, page 73). Director Jake Kasdan did fine work on the ensemble comedies Zero Effect, Orange County and Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, so we’re encouraged. The underdog

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Burns and Jim Brown’s docu-fiction hybrid puzzled as many audience members as it enthralled at Hot Docs earlier this month, but that should work in its favour as far as building word of mouth. likely Winner No Pixar movie has ever stumbled at the box office. Look for Cars 2 to leave everything else in the dust.

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Mr.popper’spenGuinsWho wouldn’t want to watch Jim Carrey try

to wrangle half a dozen flightless seabirds? The popular 1930s children’s book gets a big-screen update in this adaptation by Mean Girls director Mark Waters. The underdog

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mer dazzled TIFF last year as an elderly family man whose decision to come out of the closet after the death of his wife leads his adult son (Ewan McGregor) to re-evaluate their relationship. Everyone who missed it at the festival has been waiting 10 months to catch up with it. likely Winner If Green Lantern hews so closely to the comic-book origins that it scares away a mass audience, Mr. Popper’s Penguins could take the weekend on the strength of kids’ sales. NOW may 26 - june 1 2011

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There aren’t too many people who’d call Michael Bay’s giant-robot demolition derbies great cinema – hell, even Bay himself came out against Revenge Of The Fallen earlier this year – but that won’t stop Transformers: Dark Of The Moon from stomping the competition flat. Plus, this one’s in 3-D, so the action will be even more disorienting!

Zookeeper casts Kevin James as, well, a zookeeper who’s startled to learn that his beloved animals not only can speak (with the voices of Adam Sandler, Cher, Nick Nolte and Sylvester Stallone) but also want to help him win back his ex (Leslie Bibb). Picture a live-action version of Madagascar, but with James falling down a lot.

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ZOOKEEPER

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Andrew W. Walker, Jessica Paré and director Wyeth Clarkson hope you’ll be feeling patriotic enough come Canada Day weekend to check out their new northern western, The Mountie … but if you’d rather catch an import, Janus Metz Pedersen’s Armadillo offers a different angle on the war in Afghanistan through the eyes of Danish soldiers on a terrifying six-month tour of duty.

As documentaries go, Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop and Cave Of Forgotten Dreams couldn’t be more different – the former’s a high-energy celebration of the deposed talk show host’s 2010 concert tour, and the other’s a contemplative archaeological expedition by Werner Herzog, shot in 3-D. But their distributors are positioning them both as alternatives to the chaos of summer movies.

CONAN O’BRIEN CAN’T STOP AND CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS

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LARRY CROWNE Tom Hanks co-wrote, directed and stars in this small-scale dramedy about a laid-off Wal-Mart employee who enrols in community college to better himself – and winds up attracted to newbie teacher Julia Roberts. You know how people are always complaining that they don’t make movies for grown-ups any more? Here’s one.

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LIKELY WINNER The Transformers movie is pitched to people under 30; Larry Crowne is aimed squarely at moviegoers 40 and over. Optimus Prime will own the weekend, but Tom Hanks will be happy to place second.

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HORRIBLE BOSSES Horrible Bosses finds vulnerable employees Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day plotting revenge upon Jennifer Aniston, Colin Farrell and Kevin Spacey in what looks like a gender-neutral spin on 9 To 5.

LIKELY WINNER Check the stats: movies where Kevin James falls down (Hitch, Paul Blart, Mall Cop, Grown Ups) make a lot of money. Movies where James stays upright (The Dilemma) do not. So it looks like Zookeeper will make a lot of money.

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HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 Eight films and 10 years after Chris Columbus launched the screen adventures of J.K. Rowling’s boy wizard, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2 wraps it all up, and millions will line up to see it how it all ends – even though they read the book four years ago. THE CHALLENGER No one would dare program another blockbuster wannabe against Harry Frickin’ Potter. THE UNDERDOG

A BETTER LIFE Chris Weitz’s illegal-immigrant drama is being positioned as an adult alternative to Pottermania… but the Harry Potter movies have been pretty mature for a while now. LIKELY WINNER The Boy Who Lived will be The Boy Who Kicks Box-Office Ass this week.

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CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER

The success of Thor earlier this month bodes well for the next cinematic expansion of the Marvel Universe, which casts Chris Evans as the Second World War superhero and sends him off to battle his Nazi arch-enemy, the Red Skull (Hugo Weaving).

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COWBOYS & ALIENS Harrison Ford, Daniel Craig, Olivia Wilde and Iron Man director Jon Favreau seem set to conquer the box office with the fanboy-targeted Cowboys & Aliens, which is being pitched as Independence Day in the Old West...

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CRAZY STUPID LOVE … but just as audiences start looking for a break from explosions, Crazy Stupid Love offers a potential rom-com dream team in Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone (see Stars of summer sidebar, page 73), Marisa Tomei and Julianne Moore.

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Project nim

James Marsh’s documentary got big buzz at Hot Docs, and the strangerthan-fiction tale of Nim, the chimpanzee raised in a New York brownstone by well-meaning but ultimately incompetent academics, should garner great reviews.

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the devil’s douBle Dominic Cooper – best known as Amanda Seyfried’s fiancé in Mamma Mia! – gets the (dual) role of a lifetime as Uday Hussein and the Iraqi officer who was ordered to impersonate him. Sounds… interesting.

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rise oF the Planet oF the aPes It may have the summer’s most awkward title (it’s not the planet that’s rising, but the super-intelligent apes who aim to conquer our existing planet, thanks to the brainenhancing experiments of brash young scientist James Franco), but a decade after Tim Burton’s atrocious remake, audiences might be ready to see where the franchise is going this time.

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the smurFs 3d The Smurfs aims to give the 80s cartoon characters an Alvin And The Chipmunks update by bringing them to contemporary New York City to pester human couple Neil Patrick Harris and Jayma Mays. Yeah. A Smurfs movie. It’s come to that.

likely Winner No one’s expecting quality from a Smurfs movie, but this sort of thing appeals to family audiences. Also, the support for another Planet Of The Apes movie may not be as big as 20th Century Fox expects. We’re not proud, but we’re betting on the little blue guys.

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Friends With BeneFits Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis pack some serious credibility after their respective turns in The Social Network and Black Swan. In this rom-com, they play two people trying to keep their relationship strictly sexual. (Hey, if Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman can do it, why not?) likely Winner What, are you kidding? With the power of a massive ad campaign behind it, Captain America will ride roughshod over everything in its path.

likely Winner A draw. Harrison Ford doesn’t pull in the action crowds these days unless he’s playing Indiana Jones, but Cowboys & Aliens could be the package he needs to get back on top. On the other hand, audiences are already going nuts for the Crazy Stupid Love trailer. NOW may 26 - june 1 2011

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THE HELP

With a cast that includes Emma Stone, Octavia Spencer, Viola Davis and Bryce Dallas Howard, Tate Taylor’s Civil Rightsera drama looks set to own the midsummer window that favours female-friendly titles like The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants, Mamma Mia! and Julie & Julia. THE CHALLENGER

30 MINUTES OR LESS If The Help is courting the distaff audience, 30 Minutes Or Less is one for the guys, with Danny McBride and Nick Swardson playing a pair of idiot criminal masterminds who strap a bomb to a pizza-delivery guy (Jesse Eisenberg) and order him to rob a bank. It’s a comedy.

GLEE LIVE! 3D! The concert film aims to pack the megaplexes with Gleeks eager to relive the cast’s recent North American concert tour. Concert movies do huge business these days – just ask Justin Bieber and Michael Jackson’s estate.

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LIKELY WINNER God help us, the Glee movie could take the week. People keep buying the CDs and DVDs. What’s stopping them from cramming theatres to sing along with their imaginary friends in New Directions? THE FAVOURITE

CONAN THE BARBARIAN

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engrossing...high-grade!” - Dennis Harvey, VARIETY

“Captivating...

replete with nail-biting suspense.”

“Tantalizing!

Oh to live the exquisite life!” - Stephen Holden, THE NEW YORK TIMES

“Guaranteed to satisfy the Francophile and the fashionista in one fell swoop!”

Jason Momoa takes time out from busting heads on Game Of Thrones to don loincloth and broadsword for a new take on Conan The Barbarian. Director Marcus Nispel demonstrated an enthusiasm for boneheaded testosterone action in Pathfinder, so at least fans know what they’re getting into.

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“Elegantly constructed ...clever... magniﬁcent.” - Lisa Nesselson, SCREEN DAILY

- Rene Rodriguez, MIAMI HERALD

THE CHALLENGER

ONE DAY

Lone Scherfig’s One Day drops in on the lives of two attractive young people (played by Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess) on the same date every year for two decades. Author David Nicholls adapted his own book for the screen, which should entice his fans to check it out – and bring dates. THE UNDERDOG

FRIGHT NIGHT No one’s taking Disney’s Fright Night remake seriously – and yeah, it does sound kind of dopey. But the casting of Colin Farrell as a suburban vampire, Star Trek’s Anton Yelchin as his horrorsavvy neighbour and Doctor Who’s David Tennant as the stage magician the kid enlists to battle the bloodsucker next door keeps us from counting it out completely.

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Two young actors get to punch above their weight The one-Two punch Justin Timberlake proved he had a sense of humour with his SNL Dick In A Box sketch. Crossing over to movies, however, was a little tougher – that is, until his scene-stealing turn as Napster founder Sean Parker in last year’s The Social Network, a performance that generated awards-level buzz. This summer JT capitalizes on his big-screen cred with two high-profile comedies. In Bad Teacher, he plays a studly teacher opposite his reallife ex, Cameron Diaz, and in Friends With Benefits he and Mila Kunis try to add sex to their characters’ friendship. That Mouseketeer has come a long way. The new (female) conTender After the hugely positive response to Easy A last fall, NOW cover girl Emma Stone is being positioned by Hollywood as the next big female hope. She turns up in key roles in two late-summer releases. In Crazy Stupid Love (opening July 29), she leads ladies’ man Ryan Gosling to reconsider his promiscuous ways; two weeks later, in The Help (August 12), she plays the college-student hero of Kathryn Stockett’s novel about genteel race relations in 1962 Mississippi. Since films targeting women do particularly well in early August, this looks like a deliberate move to connect Stone to that audience, expanding her fan base beyond the under-30 crowd. It could pay off. Sandra Bullock’s all serious now that she has her Oscar, Reese Witherspoon isn’t getting any younger, and Something Borrowed proved that Kate Hudson’s pretty much over as far as rom-coms go. This Stone’s on a roll.

“I’m gonna clobber those Hangover II losers at the box office.”

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Kung Fu Panda 2 is everything a big cartoon film sequel should be – and more By NORMAN WILNER Kung Fu Panda 2 directed by Jen-

nifer Yuh Nelson, written by Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger, with the voices of Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Gary Oldman and Dustin Hoffman. A Paramount Pictures release. 90 minutes. Opens today (May 26). For venues and times, see Movies, page 75. Rating: nnnn

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and then I saw Kung Fu Panda 2. The sequel chalks up another win for the studio’s unlikely martial arts property, which reimagines 1970s Hong Kong action movies in a computer-generated world of talking animals where each species fights using its eponymous style. It’s ridiculous and ingenious at the same time. The first film was your basic hero’s journey: kung-fu groupie Po, voiced by Jack Black, becomes the prophesied Dragon Warrior and is ultimately accepted by his heroes, the Furious Five.

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KFP2 sends everyone to a distant city to stop peacock warlord Shen (Gary Oldman), who threatens all of China – and who provides an unexpected connection to Po’s shrouded past. It seems there’s a chance that the kindly goose who raised our panda hero may not be his biological father. The story evolves organically from elements within the series, and the new characters are allowed to be as threedimensional and emotionally credible as our old friends. As an example of sequelbuilding, it’s everything the new Pirates Of The Caribbean isn’t. Once again, the animation is exquisite and the fight choreography inventive and resourceful. A gag with Po and the Five stuffed into a dragon costume, inconspicuously clobbering a market full of Shen’s henchmen, is so clever I can’t believe no one’s ever tried something like it in live action – though it’s possible the reference is so obscure I just didn’t catch it. The voice work is also terrific, with Angelina Jolie and Dustin Hoffman returning as Tigress and Master Shifu to provide bone-dry reactions to Po’s demented enthusiasm. Oldman is menacing as the prideful Shen, and actual kung-fu legend Michelle Yeoh turns in a lovely cameo as a fortunetelling goat. But the movie belongs to Black, whose ability to switch between extreme awe and dopey glee is perfectly suited to the evolving hero. Four more of these? If they maintain this level of quality and left-field inspiration, bring ’em on. 3 normw@nowtoronto.com

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Dull game BoBBy Fischer against the World (Liz Garbus). 93 minutes. Opens Friday (May 27). For venues and times, see Movies, page 75. Rating: nn Genius, champion, madman – whatever you call Bobby Fischer, it only captures one facet of his curious personality. The American-born chess master eludes classification once again in Bobby Fischer Against The World, which examines his rise and fall through the prism of his legendary 1972 faceoff in Iceland with Soviet champion Boris Spassky. Director Liz Garbus (The Farm) hangs her analysis on the pop thesis that Fischer was somehow driven mad by chess, avoiding the flip side of that theory, which suggests that the rigidity of the game appeals to people seeking stability. (The famously obsessive Fischer certainly displays Asperger’slike symptoms in the archival footage Garbus relies upon.) But there are few things duller than watching people watch other people playing chess, and Garbus never finds a way to bring the sport to cinematic life. norMan Wilner

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Dead end THE COLLAPSED (Justin McConnell). 80 minutes. Opens Friday (May 27). For venues and times, see Movies, page 75. Rating: NN Viewing an unexplained global catastrophe through the experience of a handful of survivors is a great dynamic for a thriller. Think of Michael Haneke’s Time Of The Wolf or John Hillcoat’s The Road – or the first half of Night Of The Living Dead, actually. Justin McConnell’s The Collapsed would like to be in the company of such films, but it just doesn’t deliver on its own premise. The apocalypse is already in progress as the traumatized Weaver clan – father (John Fantasia), mother (Lise Moule) and grown children Aaron (Steve Vieira) and Rebecca (Anna Ross) – make their way out of the devastated city toward a smaller town in hopes of finding another relative still alive. McConnell creates a nice sense of desolation in the opening moments, but once the Weavers get out into the countryside and have to start talking to one another, the movie bogs down in a series of starkly photographed but dramatically inert scenes. The characters aren’t defined strongly enough to grip us, and the -actors aren’t exactly electrifying either. When the end finally comes, it’s more of a relief for us than it is for the WeaNORMAN WILNER vers.

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Familiar Eye THE INVISIBLE EYE (Diego Lerman). 95 minutes. Subtitled. Opens tonight (Thursday, May 26) at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. See Times, page 79. Rating: NNN A study of one woman’s psychological deterioration in the shadow of Argentina’s dictatorial government circa 1982, The Invisible Eye is an allegorical drama anchored by a strong performance by Julieta Zylberberg as Maria, a young schoolteacher obsessed with one of her teenage pupils. When Maria talks her headmaster (Osmar Núñez) into letting her spy on the boys – ostensibly to stamp out forbidden smoking – it opens the door to subtle but increasingly inappropriate abuses of power, sending Maria down

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a rabbit hole of self-destruction while outside the walls of her school the country shakes itself apart. The personal and political parallels couldn’t be more obvious – and that’s a bit of a problem, because The Invisible Eye might have benefited from more subtlety. On the other hand, if Diego Lerman had toned down the central metaphor of Martin Kohan’s novel Moral Sciences, his movie might feel even more like a Latin American riff on Michael Haneke’s 2001 drama The Piano Teacher, in which Isabelle Huppert plays an unstable music instructor who abuses her authority to get closer to a student. The similarities become harder and harder to shake as the movie goes on – and as good as Zylberberg may be as the toxically repressed Maria, she can’t obliterate the memory of Huppert’s NORMAN WILNER ferocious star turn.

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Day tripper BEAUTY DAY (Jay Cheel). 90 min-

utes. Opens Friday (May 27). For venues and times, see Movies, page 75. Rating: NNNN

Years before YouTube or the Jackass phenomenon, Ralph Zavadil began videotaping his own silly and stupid antics for a Niagara-region cable access show. Dressed up as his shaggyhaired alter ego, Cap’n Video, Zavadil snorted raw eggs, tobogganed off a roof, set his face on fire for an instant shave – you get the picture. He soon became a local cult figure and, after he broke his neck jumping from a ladder

into a pool, a momentary international celebrity. Director Jay Cheel checks in with him nearly two decades later, trying to find out what motivated him – there’s the suggestion that a childhood bout with cancer was a factor – and how his one shot at fame in the U.S. fell through. Zavadil, still athletic and charismatic, isn’t the most introspective person, but his philosophy of having fun while you can is infectious and inspiring. Cheel tells the story brilliantly, interweaving archival footage and finding surprising emotional beats around Zavadil’s friends, family and fans that add texture and complexity to the GLENN SUMI man. Oscar winner Marion Cotillard (front) tells a few Little White Lies.

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Laurent docs but also 2009’s Valentino: The Last Emperor. Still, more info as to why the man’s fashions were so innovative (Wiki does it better) or why his life was meaningful might have made this portrait more worthwhile. Instead, the film offers little more than the selective recollections of Pierre Bergé, Saint Laurent’s life and business partner. Bergé elliptically talks about the designer’s work, substance abuse and depression as asides while cataloguing their luxurious homes and ridiculously vast art collection. The latter takes on increasing significance because the film pivots around an auction of these very same objects. It all feels like a detached tour of Saint Laurent’s mausoleum, where we browse artifacts that reveal very little about their owner besides his blatant void-filling self-indulgence. They may have auctioned for millions, but Bergé says it best when he describes these objects as soulless. He could be speaking about the film, too. RADHEYAN SIMONPILLAI

Those uninitiated to the world of haute couture and prêt-à-porter will be left scratching their heads at Pierre Thoretton’s overly deterministic requiem for late designer Yves Saint Laurent. L’Amour Fou assumes familiarity with the couturier’s bio and the fashion world, maybe rightly so, since it follows not only two previous Saint

Designer Yves Saint Laurent (left) gets the documentary treatment in L'Amour Fou.

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Little charm LITTLE WHITE LIES (Guillaume Canet). 154 minutes. Subtitled. Opens Friday (May 27). For venues and times, see Movies, page 75. Rating: NN In his gripping 2006 thriller Tell No One, the actor Guillaume Canet demonstrated a strong directorial sensibility and a knack for infusing American moviemaking flavour into French cinema. It was an art house movie that moved like a Hollywood thriller. His new feature is inspired by another key American genre – the ensemble drama minted by John Sayles’s Return Of The Secaucus Seven and Lawrence Kasdan’s The Big Chill. It’s not as good a fit. Little White Lies follows a close-knit group of Paris friends in their 30s and 40s on their annual seaside vacation.

This trip is tinged with tragedy – one of their number has just been hospitalized after a bad motorcycle accident – but everyone’s decided to soldier on and enjoy the time away, ignoring their unspoken pain. The first half of the film is pleasant enough, as the cast (including François Cluzet, Marion Cotillard, Laurent Lafitte and Benoît Magimel) establish their characters against a series of gorgeous locations. But as the movie rolls on, it becomes clear that it’s gotten away from Canet in the editing room. Subplots shift around awkwardly, the pacing slackens, and the movie seems to lose its sense of who the characters are, indicting them as narcissistic petit bourgeoisie and then deciding they’re just lovable scamps. What starts out as a charming diversion turns into a bloated exercise in NORMAN WILNER empty charm.

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cai 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) Regent Theatre

A BEAUTIFUL LIFE (Andrew Lau) is a melodrama that will leave you crying – if not from emotions, then from sheer boredom. The film follows Dong (Liu Ye), a low-income Beijing cop who supports a socially handicapped brother (his ailment’s never made clear) and the latter’s doting mute girlfriend. Dong falls for Ms. Li (Shu Qi), a foxy, alcoholic real estate agent from Hong Kong who has financial troubles of her own. Their relationship, after a few bumps, endures tragedy. To get the tears

flowing, Infernal Affairs director Lau throws in some soft-focus shots, slowmotion montages and even a few brokenheart ditties. The romance is shaped into an allegory for Hong Kong-China relations, but that’s just a ploy to give audiences a discussion point about a movie that really has nothing new to say. Subtitled. 122 min. NN (RS) Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24

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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

The raunchy but warm-hearted ﬂick about an outof-control maid of honour did great second-weekend box ofﬁce through good word of mouth. If you haven’t seen it yet, what are you waiting for?

This creature feature inspired by old 1970s Hong Kong action movies is everything a big cartoon sequel should be – and more. Jack Black’s voice work is perfectly suited to the hero, Po.

Catherine Deneuve plays a French wife in 1977 who takes over her husband’s business and ﬁnds her true calling. Naturally, La Deneuve looks fantastic in retro fashions – even in a track suit.

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(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) Interchange 30

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. 89 min. NNN (NW) Canada Square, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre

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) Interchange 30 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) Canada Square, Interchange 30, Kingsway Theatre, Varsity

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Bill CuNNiNGham New york (Richard Press) focuses on the eccentric octogenarian style photographer for the New York Times, sitting in on editing sessions and following him as he cycles to shoots and attends gala events in his signature utilitarian uniform. Fashionistas will adore this – the styles are terrific – but, oddly, the man himself remains a mystery. 84 min. NNN (GS) Grande - Yonge, Varsity

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(Alejandro González Iñárritu) tracks small-time criminal and single father Uxbal (Oscar-nominated Javier Bardem), who’s just been informed that he’s dying. Super-intense, it’s not for everyone, just those who want to experience a terrific filmmaker and superb performer at the height of their powers. Subtitled. 147 min. NNNN (SGC) Carlton Cinema

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Garbus) 93 min. See review, page 73. NN (NW) Opens May 27 at TIFF Bell Lightbox.

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live broadcast from the acclaimed Russian company of the comic ballet about a man in love with a life-sized mechanical doll. 115 min. May 29, 11 am, at Coliseum Scarborough, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Queensway, Silvercity Yonge

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(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. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge,

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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) Canada Square, Cumberland 4 the Collapsed (Justin McConnell) 80 min. See review, page 74. NN (NW) Opens May 27 at Carlton Cinema. the CoNspirator (Robert Redford) painstakingly dramatizes the trial of Mary Surratt (Robin Wright), the only woman indicted in the conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln. (James McAvoy plays her 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 terrible time in American history. 121 min. NN (NW) Varsity fast five (Justin Lin) is an okay actioner

that picks up where previous series entry, Fast And Furious, left off, sending career criminals Dominic, Brian and Mia to beautifully shot Rio de Janeiro for a train robbery and a big-money heist from Rio’s top crime lord. Two big set pieces are fun, and in between there’s lots of running and gunning. They almost distract you from noticing how bland Vin Diesel has become. 130 min. NNN (AD) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Docks Lakeview Drive-In, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

the first Grader (Justin Chadwick) was the runner-up for the People’s Choice Award at TIFF last year, which suggests that P.T. Barnum’s apocryphal dictum is as valid now as it was a century ago. Based

Keira Knightley wonders what might have been in Last Night. on the story of Kenya’s Kimani N’gan’ga Maruge, a former Mau Mau rebel who attended a children’s school at the age of 84 in order to learn to read and write, it’s a groaningly obvious inspirational drama, told in the most condescending, triumphant manner imaginable. The First Grader feels like it fell through a wormhole from 1986, when movies like The Color Purple and Cry Freedom imposed a condescending colonial perspective on Africa. Back then, filmmakers hadn’t learned they didn’t need to pander; now it’s the way to an award. Some subtitles. 103 min. NN (NW) Cumberland 4

forks over kNives (Lee Fulkerson) is an advocacy documentary dedicated to the argument that a “whole foods, plantbased diet” is better for your health than a diet based on animal protein and highfructose corn syrup. It’s basically macrobiotics all over again, but director Fulkerson does such a shoddy job of making his case – using questionable statistics and throwing every conceivable argument at

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the screen in the hope that something will stick – that you’ll end up wondering whether he has anything of substance to say. You may also wonder why the only place we see people shop for produce is Whole Foods. 96 min. NN (NW) Cumberland 4

the haNGover part ii (Todd Phillips) 102

min. See cover story interview and review, page 68, and interview with Bradley Cooper at nowtoronto.com/movies. NNN (NW) Opens May 26 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Docks Lakeview Drive-In, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24.

haNNa (Joe Wright) is an entertaining actioner starring Saoirse Ronan as a teen trained from birth to assassinate meanie

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spy operative Cate Blanchett. Blanchett’s brilliantly bad. 111 min. NNN (SGC) Carlton Cinema, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga

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(Michael D’Isa-Hogan) is faster, funnier, more polished and adult-friendly than the original Hoodwinked’s riff on Little Red Riding Hood. This time, a wicked witch kidnaps Hansel and Gretel and Granny. Red, the Wolf and the over-caffeinated squirrel pursue. The animation and jokes are lively, but the 3-D adds little. 82 min. NNN (AD) 401 & Morningside, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Susanne Bier) follows two families coping with matters of morality and vengeance. Mikael Persbrandt gives a superb performance as a doctor who has to decide whether to treat a brutal warlord. Winner of the 2011 Oscar for best foreign-language film.

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Subtitled. 113 min. NNNN (SGC) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema

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cessfully 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. NNNN (GS) Mt Pleasant

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) Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24

THE INVISIBLE EYE (Diego Lerman) 95 min.

See review, page 74. NNN (NW) Opens May 26 at TIFF Bell Lightbox.

JANE EYRE (Cary Fukunaga) is yet another 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. The situation would be more compelling if we knew something about the central couple, but they’re cardboard characters, given little life by actors Paula Patton and Laz Alonso. Several cute minor characters help pass the time, and Loretta Devine as the groom’s mom steals the pic with her knowing glances. 108 min. NN (GS) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Mississauga,

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JUST GO WITH IT (Dennis Dugan) finds Adam Sandler turning his lazy attentions to a remake of the 1969 farce Cactus Flower, playing a plastic surgeon who recruits his assistant (Jennifer Aniston) and her children as his fake family when his latest fling (Brooklyn Decker) proves to be more than a one-night stand. It’s a sloppy, unnecessarily cruel series of blandly photographed arguments and misunderstandings, with one dumb idea clunking artlessly against the next. 116 min. N (NW) Interchange 30 KUNG FU PANDA 2 (Jennifer Yuh

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Nelson) 90 min. See review, page 73. (NW) Opens May 26 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24.

L’AMOUR FOU (Pierre Thoretton) 98 min.

See review, page 74. NN (RS) Opens May 27 at Cumberland 4.

LAST NIGHT (Massy Tadjedin) 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 emotionally – neither of the leads is developed enough to bother caring about, and writer/director 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; perhaps Tadjedin should have told his story instead. 90 min. NN (NW) 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 problems, Cooper holds his own with charisma, charm and (of course) natural intelligence. 97 min. NNN (GS) Carlton Cinema, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Mt Pleasant, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre

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, Kingsway Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24 LITTLE WHITE LIES (Guillaume Canet) 154

min. See review, page 74. NN (NW) Opens May 27 at Varsity.

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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) Canada Square

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celebrates Parks Canada’s centenary by sending 13 quartets, each made up of a filmmaker and three musicians, to interpret our 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, it does drag on a little; the experience might fare better as a series of individual HD shorts than a continuous feature film. 127 min. NNN (NW) Regent Theatre continued on page 78 œ

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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. NNNNN (NW) TIFF Bell Lightbox

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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) Carlton Cinema

Pirates Of the Caribbean: On stranGer tides (Rob Marshall) finds Johnny

Depp’s Cap’n Jack Sparrow swept up in the race to find the fountain of youth alongside the unkillable Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), Jack’s old flame Angelica (Penélope Cruz), the fearsome pirate Blackbeard (Ian McShane) and a flotilla of Spaniards. 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 the 3-D makes

every stunt look like a badly processed visual effect even when it isn’t. Replacing Gore Verbinski at the helm of the series, director Marshall (Chicago, Nine) has absolutely no feel for the material; his primary innovation is cutting the swordfights so rapidly we can’t follow the action. Pirate movies demand a stylist, not a journeyman. 137 min. nn (NW) 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 fi-

nanced 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. nn (NW) Carlton Cinema

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(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, philandering 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, Grande - Yonge

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. nn (AD) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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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 deal 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, and she and director Nussbaum have real affection for the school’s underdogs. This could become a tween classic. 103 min. nnnn (GS) Interchange 30

riO (Carlos Saldanha) moves along briskly and brings out the beauty of Rio de Janeiro with a happy combination of aerial photography, animation and 3-D. But the story and voice acting are no more than adequate. 96 min. nnn (AD) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24 sCreaM 4 (Wes Craven) reassembles

survivors of the self-reflexive series so screenwriter Kevin Williamson and director Craven can make the same movie all over again. This time, though, the frame of reference is shockingly limited, as are the scares. 112 min. nn (NW)

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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. 110 min. n (NW) Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Docks Lakeview Drive-In, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale 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, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Scotiabank Theatre 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, 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 Water fOr elePhants (Francis Lawrence) has a timid approach to sex, violence and strong emotion, which sabotages this tale of a young man who joins the circus and falls for the cruel owner’s wife. Robert Pattinson makes cow eyes at Reese Witherspoon, but they both save their best moments for the scenes with Rosie the elephant. 121 min. nn (AD) Canada Square, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, SilverCity fransMississauga

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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

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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 3

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AFRICAN CATS Fri-Wed 12:45 THE BANG BANG CLUB (14A) Thu 3:00, 7:15 Fri-Wed 5:00 HANNA (PG) 9:20 JANE EYRE (PG) Thu 5:00 Fri-Wed 2:45 THE LINCOLN LAWYER (14A) Fri-Wed 7:00 SOURCE CODE (PG) Thu 1:15

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1025 THE QUEENSWAY, QEW & ISLINGTON, 416-503-0424 THE BOLSHOI BALLET: COPPELIA - LIVE Sun 11:00 BRIDESMAIDS (14A) Thu 12:20, 1:05, 3:35, 4:10, 6:50, 7:30, 9:50, 10:20 Fri-Tue 12:05, 12:50, 3:10, 4:10, 6:15, 7:25, 9:25, 10:35 Wed 12:05, 3:10, 4:10, 6:15, 7:25, 9:25, 10:35 FAST FIVE (PG) Thu 12:05, 3:30, 6:55, 10:05 Fri, Sun-Wed 12:30, 3:30, 6:35, 9:55 Sat 1:45, 4:40, 7:45, 10:50 THE HANGOVER PART II (18A) Thu 12:10, 1:00, 1:40, 2:45, 3:40, 4:30, 5:30, 6:30, 7:20, 8:10, 9:15, 10:10, 10:45 Fri

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) 1:05, 4:00, 7:15, 9:45 HOODWINKED TOO! HOOD VS. EVIL (G) Thu 1:10, 3:40 JUMPING THE BROOM (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:45, 6:55, 9:30 Fri-Wed 7:20, 9:40 KUNG FU PANDA 2 3D (PG) 12:40, 2:55, 5:00, 7:10, 9:20 PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES (PG) 12:45, 3:55, 7:00, 9:55 PRIEST (14A) Thu 1:20 4:20 7:20 9:40 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:20, 6:55, 9:30 RIO (G) Fri-Wed 12:35, 2:45, 4:55 SOMETHING BORROWED (PG) Thu 7:00, 9:25 THOR (PG) Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:05, 7:05, 9:50

East End BEACH CINEMAS (AA) 1651 QUEEN ST E, 416-699-5971

BRIDESMAIDS (14A) Thu 7:00, 10:10 Fri, Mon-Wed 7:20, 10:20 Sat-Sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 FAST FIVE (PG) 9:10 Sat-Sun 12:30 mat THE HANGOVER PART II (18A) Thu 7:10, 9:50 Fri, MonWed 7:00, 9:40 Sat-Sun 1:10, 4:00, 7:00, 9:40 KUNG FU PANDA 2 3D (PG) Thu 6:30, 9:00 Fri, Mon-Wed 7:10, 9:30 Sat-Sun 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES 3D (PG) 6:40, 10:00 Sat-Sun 12:00, 3:20 mat PRIEST (14A) Thu 6:50, 9:15 continued on page 80 œ

SCOTIABANK THEATRE (CE) 259 RICHMOND ST W, 416-368-5600

HANNA (PG) Thu 12:20, 3:10, 6:15, 9:10 Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 12:50, 3:40, 6:40, 9:30 Mon 12:50, 3:40, 6:20, 9:30 HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER’S STONE (PG) Sat 10:30 Mon 7:30 LAST NIGHT (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:50, 6:50, 9:30 Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 LIMITLESS (14A) Thu 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:20 Fri-Wed 12:20, 3:10, 6:30, 9:20 PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES (PG) Thu 2:00 5:30 8:45 Fri-Wed 2:15, 5:30, 9:00 PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES 3D (PG) Thu 12:45, 1:20, 2:30, 4:00, 4:45, 6:00, 7:15, 8:00,

NOW MAY 26 - JUNE 1 2011

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Rio (G) 6:30 Sat-Sun 3:30 mat ThoR (PG) Thu 7:30 10:20 Fri-Wed 7:30, 10:10 Sat-Sun 1:50 mat, 4:40

North York EmpirE ThEaTrES aT EmprESS Walk (ET) 5095 YoNgE ST, 416-223-9550

The LincoLn LawyeR (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:00, 6:45 Fri-Wed 9:50 PiRaTes of The caRibbean: on sTRangeR Tides (PG) 1:20, 2:00, 2:50, 4:30, 5:15, 6:00, 7:45, 8:30, 9:10 Thu 10:50 Fri-Sat 11:00, 11:40 late PiRaTes of The caRibbean: on sTRangeR Tides 3d (PG) 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 PRiesT (14A) 1:30, 4:10, 6:40, 9:20 Fri-Sat 11:25 late PRiesT 3d (14A) 2:30, 5:00, 7:25, 9:40 Fri-Sat 11:50 late Rio (G) 2:20, 4:50, 7:20 Thu 9:50 souRce code (PG) Thu 9:30 Fri-Sat 1:10, 4:00, 6:45, 9:00, 11:10 Sun-Wed 1:10, 4:00, 6:45, 9:00 ThoR (PG) 1:40, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 ThoR 3d (PG) 3:10, 5:50, 8:40 Fri-Sat 11:20 late

graNdE - YoNgE (CE) 4861 YoNgE ST, 416-590-9974

biLL cunningham new yoRk (PG) Thu 3:45, 7:05, 9:45 bRidesmaids (14A) Thu 4:20, 7:00, 10:00 Fri 3:30, 6:40, 10:00 Sat-Sun 12:20, 3:30, 6:40, 10:00 mon-Wed 3:30, 6:40, 9:40 fasT five (PG) Thu 4:05, 6:55, 9:55 Fri 4:00, 7:10, 10:30 Sat-Sun 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 10:30 mon-Wed 4:00, 7:10, 10:10 The hangoveR PaRT ii (18A) Thu 3:50, 4:30, 6:40, 7:20, 9:20, 10:00 Fri 4:10, 5:00, 6:50, 7:40, 9:40, 10:20 Sat-Sun 11:50, 1:30, 2:20, 4:10, 5:00, 6:50, 7:40, 9:40, 10:20 monWed 4:10, 5:00, 6:50, 7:40, 9:30, 10:15 kung fu Panda 2 (PG) Thu 4:00 6:30 9:00 Fri-Wed 3:50, 6:30, 9:00 Sat-Sun 1:10 mat kung fu Panda 2 3d (PG) Thu 4:40 7:10 9:40 Fri-Wed 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 Sat-Sun 11:45, 2:10 mat LasT nighT (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:35, 9:10 Fri 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 Sat-Sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 mon-Wed 4:30, 7:30, 10:00 PoTiche (14A) 4:15, 6:45, 9:15 Sat-Sun 1:45 mat someThing boRRowed (PG) Thu 4:10, 6:50, 9:50 Fri 3:40, 7:00, 10:10 Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:40, 7:00, 10:10 monWed 3:40, 7:00, 9:50 waTeR foR eLePhanTs (PG) Thu 3:40 6:20 9:30 Fri-Wed 3:20, 6:20, 9:30 Sat-Sun 12:10 mat

SilvErCiTY FairviEW (CE)

FairviEW mall, 1800 ShEppard avE E, 416-644-7746 bRidesmaids (14A) Thu 12:50, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Sat, mon-Tue 12:45, 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 Sun 12:45, 3:30, 6:50, 10:00 Wed 3:50, 6:50, 10:00 fasT five (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Fri-Sat, Tue 1:15, 4:15, 7:20, 10:40 Sun-mon 1:15, 4:15, 7:20, 10:30 Wed 12:45, 4:20, 7:20, 10:30 The hangoveR PaRT ii (18A) Thu 12:10, 2:45, 5:20, 6:50, 8:00, 9:40, 10:40 Fri-Sun, Tue 11:40, 2:15, 4:45, 7:00, 7:30, 9:40, 10:20 mon, Wed 11:45, 2:15, 4:45, 7:00, 7:30, 9:40, 10:20 kung fu Panda 2 (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:40 Fri-Sun, Tue 11:30, 2:00, 4:30 mon 11:45, 2:00, 4:30 Wed 12:00, 2:10, 4:30 kung fu Panda 2 3d (PG) Thu 12:20 2:50 5:15 7:45 10:10 Fri-Wed 12:15, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 PiRaTes of The caRibbean: on sTRangeR Tides (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:50, 7:15, 10:30 Fri-Sun, Tue 11:50, 3:10, 6:30, 9:50 mon 11:55, 3:10, 6:30, 9:50 Wed 4:10, 7:40, 10:40 PiRaTes of The caRibbean: on sTRangeR Tides 3d (PG) Thu 12:00, 3:20, 6:40, 10:00 Fri-Sat, mon-Wed 12:30, 3:50, 7:10, 10:30 Sun 12:30, 3:40, 7:10, 10:30 PRiesT 3d (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:00, 6:20, 9:20 someThing boRRowed (PG) Fri-Sat, mon-Tue 12:00, 3:25, 6:20, 9:20 Sun 3:50, 6:20, 9:20 The sound of music Sun 12:30 ThoR 3d (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:30, 10:20 Fri-Tue 1:00, 4:00, 6:40, 9:30 Wed 1:15, 4:00, 6:40, 9:30

SilvErCiTY YorkdalE (CE) 3401 duFFEriN ST, 416-787-4432

bRidesmaids (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:45, 6:45, 9:50 Fri-Wed 12:20, 3:30, 6:40, 10:00

May 26 - june 1 2011 NOW

fasT five (PG) Thu 12:20, 3:40, 7:00, 10:10 Fri-Sun 12:45, 4:10, 7:45, 10:40 mon-Wed 12:45, 4:10, 7:15, 10:25 The hangoveR PaRT ii (18A) Thu 2:00, 4:45, 6:50, 7:30, 9:30, 10:15 Fri-Sun 11:40, 1:10, 2:15, 4:00, 4:50, 6:50, 7:30, 9:40, 10:20 mon-Wed 1:10, 2:15, 4:00, 4:50, 6:50, 7:30, 9:40, 10:20 haRRy PoTTeR and The PhiLosoPheR’s sTone (PG) Sat 10:30 mon 7:00 JumPing The bRoom (PG) Fri-Wed 10:10 kung fu Panda 2 (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:15 Fri-Sun 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40 mon-Wed 12:10, 3:00, 6:15 kung fu Panda 2 3d (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Fri-Sun 11:30, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 mon-Wed 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 PiRaTes of The caRibbean: on sTRangeR Tides (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:50, 7:10, 10:30 Fri-Sun 11:50, 3:10, 6:30, 9:50 mon-Wed 12:00, 3:10, 6:30, 9:50 PiRaTes of The caRibbean: on sTRangeR Tides 3d (PG) Thu 12:00, 3:20, 6:40, 10:00 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:50, 7:10, 10:30 PRiesT 3d (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 9:40 Fri-Sun, TueWed 3:40, 6:20, 9:20 mon 3:40, 10:10 Rio (G) Thu 12:10, 3:30 Rio 3d (G) Fri-Wed 1:00 someThing boRRowed (PG) Thu 6:20, 9:20 ThoR 3d (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:20, 10:20 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 Sat 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 10:15

Scarborough 401 & morNiNgSidE (CE) 785 milNEr avE, SCarborough, 416-281-2226

bRidesmaids (14A) Thu 4:10, 7:40, 10:20 Fri-Sat 1:20, 4:20, 7:40, 10:40 Sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:40, 10:25 mon-Wed 4:20, 7:40, 10:25 fasT five (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:10, 10:10 Fri-Sat 4:00, 7:20, 10:20 Sun-Wed 4:00, 7:20, 10:10 The hangoveR PaRT ii (18A) Thu 3:30, 4:30, 6:40, 7:30, 9:15, 10:05 Fri-Sat 12:40, 1:10, 1:50, 3:20, 4:10, 4:45, 6:30, 7:10, 7:50, 9:20, 10:00, 10:30 Sun 12:40, 1:10, 1:50, 3:20, 4:10, 4:45, 6:30, 7:10, 7:50, 9:20, 9:55, 10:20 mon-Wed 3:25, 4:10, 5:00, 6:30, 7:10, 7:50, 9:20, 9:55, 10:20 hoodwinked Too! hood vs. eviL (G) Thu 3:50 JumPing The bRoom (PG) Thu 3:20, 6:10, 9:00 Fri-Sun 12:50, 6:10 mon-Wed 6:10 kung fu Panda 2 (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:20, 8:45 Fri-Sun 1:30, 3:50, 6:45, 9:05 mon-Wed 3:50, 6:45, 9:05 kung fu Panda 2 3d (PG) Thu 4:55, 7:20, 9:40 Fri-Sun 12:15, 2:40, 5:00, 7:30, 9:45 mon-Wed 4:45, 7:30, 9:45 PiRaTes of The caRibbean: on sTRangeR Tides (PG) Thu 3:15, 6:30, 9:30 Fri-Sun 12:00, 3:10, 6:20, 9:30 monWed 3:15, 6:20, 9:30 PiRaTes of The caRibbean: on sTRangeR Tides 3d (PG) Thu 3:40, 7:00, 10:15 Fri-Sat 12:30, 3:40, 7:00, 10:10 Sun 12:30, 3:40, 7:00, 10:05 mon-Wed 3:40, 7:00, 10:05 PRiesT (14A) Thu 6:50, 9:50 Fri-Wed 3:30, 8:50 Rio (G) Fri-Sun 1:00 ThoR 3d (PG) Thu 4:45, 7:45, 10:20 Fri-Sat 1:40, 4:30, 8:00, 10:35 Sun 1:40, 4:30, 8:00, 10:30 mon-Wed 4:30, 8:00, 10:30

ColiSEum SCarborough (CE) SCarborough ToWN CENTrE, 416-290-5217

The boLshoi baLLeT: coPPeLia - Live Sun 11:00 fasT five (PG) Thu 12:35, 1:25, 3:35, 4:25, 6:35, 7:25, 9:35, 10:25, 12:00 Fri-Wed 1:35, 4:35, 7:35, 9:35, 10:25 in The name of Love Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 JumPing The bRoom (PG) Thu-Sat, mon-Wed 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 Sun 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 kung fu Panda 2 (PG) Thu 1:35, 4:35, 7:00, 9:25 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:00, 6:00, 8:30 kung fu Panda 2 3d (PG) Thu 12:30 1:00 2:50 4:00 5:10 6:30 7:35 8:50 10:05 Fri-Wed 12:00, 1:00, 2:30, 3:30, 5:00, 6:40, 7:25, 9:10, 10:00 PRiesT 3d (14A) Thu 1:20 4:20 7:20 10:20 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:15, 10:20 Rio 3d (G) Thu 12:55 3:25 6:20 9:00 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:15, 6:20, 9:00 someThing boRRowed (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Fri-Wed 12:35, 3:35, 6:35 ThoR (PG) Thu 12:40 3:40 6:40 9:40 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:40, 6:45, 9:40 ThoR 3d (PG) 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30

EgliNToN ToWN CENTrE (CE) 1901 EgliNToN avE E, 416-752-4494

bRidesmaids (14A) Thu 4:40, 7:45, 10:45 Fri-Sun 11:50, 3:10, 6:45, 10:10 mon-Wed 3:10, 6:45, 10:10 fasT five (PG) Thu 4:50, 7:50, 11:00 Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:45, 7:45, 10:50 mon-Wed 4:45, 7:45, 10:35 The hangoveR PaRT ii (18A) Thu 4:00, 4:30, 5:00, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 9:40, 10:10, 10:40 Fri-Sun 12:00, 1:20, 2:00, 2:40, 4:00, 4:40, 5:20, 6:40, 7:20, 8:00, 9:20, 10:00, 10:40 mon-Wed 4:00, 4:40, 5:20, 6:40, 7:20, 8:00, 9:20, 10:00, 10:30

haRRy PoTTeR and The PhiLosoPheR’s sTone (PG) Sat 10:30 mon 7:00 hoodwinked Too! hood vs. eviL (G) Fri-Sun 12:40 JumPing The bRoom (PG) Fri-Wed 9:15 kung fu Panda 2 (PG) Thu 3:10, 6:00, 9:00 Fri-Sun 12:10, 1:10, 2:45, 3:45, 5:15, 6:30, 7:50, 9:10 mon-Wed 3:45, 5:15, 6:30, 7:50, 9:10 kung fu Panda 2 3d (PG) Thu 4:15, 6:50, 9:50 Fri-Sun 11:30, 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 mon-Wed 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 PiRaTes of The caRibbean: on sTRangeR Tides (PG) Thu 3:00, 3:50, 6:10, 7:10, 9:30, 10:30 Fri-Sun 12:20, 2:10, 3:40, 5:30, 7:00, 9:00, 10:20 mon-Wed 3:40, 5:30, 7:00, 9:00, 10:20 PiRaTes of The caRibbean: on sTRangeR Tides 3d (PG) Thu 3:20, 4:20, 6:40, 7:40, 10:00, 10:50 Fri-Sun 11:40, 1:00, 3:00, 4:20, 6:20, 7:40, 9:40, 11:00 mon-Wed 3:00, 4:20, 6:20, 7:40, 9:40, 10:40 PRiesT (14A) Thu 4:45, 7:15, 10:15 Fri-Sun 1:45, 4:10, 7:15, 9:30 mon-Wed 4:10, 7:15, 9:30 Rio (G) Thu 3:45, 6:30, 9:10 Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:20, 6:10 monWed 3:20, 6:10 someThing boRRowed (PG) Thu 3:40, 6:45, 9:45 FriWed 10:15 The sound of music Sun 12:30 ThoR (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:20, 9:20 Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 3:30, 6:50, 9:50 mon 3:30, 9:50 ThoR 3d (PG) Thu 4:10, 7:20, 10:20 Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:15, 7:30, 10:30 Sun 4:15, 7:30, 10:30 mon-Wed 4:15, 7:30, 10:25

kENNEdY CommoNS 20 (amC) kENNEdY rd & 401, 416-335-5323

afRican caTs Thu 2:50, 5:05, 7:15, 9:30 Fri-Sun 10:10, 12:35, 2:50, 5:05, 7:15, 9:30 mon-Wed 12:35, 2:50, 5:05, 7:15, 9:30 a beauTifuL Life Thu 1:30, 2:30, 4:25, 5:30, 7:30, 8:30, 10:30 Fri-Sat 11:30, 1:35, 2:30, 4:25, 5:30, 7:30, 8:30, 10:30, 11:30 Sun 11:30, 1:35, 2:30, 4:25, 5:30, 7:30, 8:30, 10:30 mon-Wed 1:35, 2:30, 4:25, 5:30, 7:30, 8:30, 10:30 bRidesmaids (14A) Thu 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 mon-Wed 12:30, 1:30, 3:30, 4:30, 6:30, 7:30, 9:30, 10:30 The hangoveR PaRT ii (18A) Thu 1:15, 2:00, 2:45, 3:30, 4:00, 4:45, 5:30, 6:00, 6:30, 7:15, 8:00, 8:45, 9:15, 10:00, 10:45, 11:20 Fri-Sat 10:30, 11:15, 12:00, 12:45, 1:15, 2:00, 2:45, 3:30, 4:00, 4:45, 5:30, 6:00, 6:30, 7:15, 8:00, 8:45, 9:15, 10:00, 10:45, 11:30 Sun 10:30, 11:15, 12:00, 12:45, 1:15, 2:00, 2:45, 3:30, 4:00, 4:45, 5:30, 6:00, 6:30, 7:15, 8:00, 8:45, 9:15, 10:00, 10:45 mon-Wed 12:45, 1:15, 2:00, 2:45, 3:30, 4:00, 4:45, 5:30, 6:00, 6:30, 7:15, 8:00, 8:45, 9:15, 10:00, 10:45 hanna (PG) Thu 2:05, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Fri-Sun 11:20, 2:05, 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 mon-Wed 2:05, 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 insidious (14A) 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 Fri-Sun 12:20 mat Jane eyRe (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:15, 7:05, 9:55 LimiTLess (14A) 2:00, 4:35, 7:10, 9:45 Fri-Sun 11:25 mat The LincoLn LawyeR (14A) 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Fri-Sun 11:00 mat PiRaTes of The caRibbean: on sTRangeR Tides (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:45, 8:00, 11:15 Fri-Sat 10:15, 1:30, 4:45, 8:00, 11:15 Sun 10:15, 1:30, 4:45, 8:00 mon-Wed 1:30, 4:45, 8:00 PiRaTes of The caRibbean: on sTRangeR Tides 3d (PG) Thu 2:10, 3:45, 5:45, 7:00, 9:00, 10:15 Fri-Sun 11:00, 12:30, 2:10, 3:45, 5:45, 7:00, 9:00, 10:15 mon-Wed 12:30, 2:10, 3:45, 5:45, 7:00, 9:00, 10:15 souRce code (PG) Thu 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:00 Fri-Sun 10:00, 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:00 mon-Wed 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:00 waTeR foR eLePhanTs (PG) 1:35, 4:20, 7:05, 9:50 Fri-Sun 10:55 mat win win (14A) 2:20, 4:55, 7:35, 10:10 Fri-Sun 11:40 mat

GTA Regions mississauga

ColiSEum miSSiSSauga (CE) SquarE oNE, 309 raThburN rd W, 905-275-3456

The boLshoi baLLeT: coPPeLia - Live Sun 11:00 fasT five (PG) Thu, Sun-Wed 12:10, 1:10, 3:10, 4:10, 6:30, 7:30, 9:50, 10:30 Fri-Sat 12:10, 1:10, 3:10, 4:10, 6:30, 7:30, 9:50, 10:40 haRRy PoTTeR and The PhiLosoPheR’s sTone (PG) Sat 10:30 mon 7:00 JumPing The bRoom (PG) Thu 12:50 3:50 7:00 10:10 Fri-Wed 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 10:10 PiRaTes of The caRibbean: on sTRangeR Tides (PG) Thu 1:15, 2:00, 4:30, 5:15, 8:00, 8:45 Fri, mon-Tue 1:40, 2:30, 5:00, 6:00, 8:30, 9:20 Sat 11:00, 12:00, 2:30, 3:20, 6:00, 6:40, 9:20, 10:00 Sun 11:00, 1:40, 2:30, 5:00, 6:00, 8:30, 9:20 Wed 1:40, 4:20, 5:00, 7:40, 8:30 PiRaTes of The caRibbean: on sTRangeR Tides 3d (PG) Thu 12:45, 2:45, 4:00, 6:00, 7:15, 9:20, 10:30 Fri

12:00, 1:00, 3:20, 4:20, 6:40, 7:40, 10:00, 11:00 Sat 1:00, 1:40, 4:20, 5:00, 7:40, 8:30, 11:00 Sun-Tue 12:00, 1:00, 3:20, 4:20, 6:40, 7:40, 10:00 Wed 12:00, 2:30, 3:20, 6:00, 6:40, 9:20, 10:00 PiRaTes of The caRibbean: on sTRangeR Tides: an imaX 3d eXPeRience (PG) Thu 12:15, 3:30, 6:45, 10:00 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 PRiesT (14A) Thu 1:30, 3:40, 6:50, 9:40 Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 12:40, 3:40, 6:50, 9:40 mon 1:50, 4:45, 10:20 PRiesT 3d (14A) Thu 12:30, 4:40, 7:40, 10:15 Fri-Sat 1:50, 4:45, 7:50, 10:50 Sun 4:45, 7:50, 10:20 mon 12:40, 3:40, 6:50, 9:40 Tue-Wed 1:50, 4:45, 7:50, 10:20 Rio (G) Thu 12:00, 3:00, 6:10, 9:00 Fri, mon-Tue 12:15, 3:00, 6:10, 9:00 Sat-Sun 11:15, 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:45 Wed 3:35, 6:10, 9:00 The sound of music Sun 12:30 ThoR (PG) Thu 1:20 4:20 7:20 10:20 12:00 Fri-Wed 12:20, 3:30, 6:20, 9:30, 12:00 ThoR 3d (PG) Thu 12:20, 3:20, 6:20, 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 10:30

CourTNEY park 16 (amC)

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THu 19-MAy 29 – Celebration of queer film,

diverse voices and deeply human stories on screen. $10-$28, stu/srs $8-$17 (under 18 $6, but most screenings are restricted to age 18 or older); 8-ticket pass $91. THu 26 – Straight, Not Narrow short films: The Samaritan (2010) D: Magnus Monk, Drowning (2009) D: Craig Boreham, and others. 5 pm. Renée (2011) D: Eric Drath. 5:15 pm. Another Movie Of Love (2010) D: Edwin Oyarce. Spanish w/ s-t. 7:15 pm. So Hard To Forget (2010) D: Malu De Martino. Portuguese w/ s-t. 7:30 pm. Buffering (2011) D: Christian Martin and Darren Flaxstone. 9:45 pm. Naughty Girls (Need Love Too) short films: Double Fault (2010) D: Elina Fessa, Slip Away (2010) D: TM Scorzafava, and others. 10 pm. All screenings at TBL. FRI 27 – Leading Ladies (2010) D: Daniel Beahm and Erika Randall Beahm. 5 pm. Brief Encounters short films: Breach Of Etiquette (2010) D: Mark Levine, Watch Over Me (2010) D: Mysh Rozanov, and others. 5:15 pm. Off Beat (2011) D: Jan Gassmann. Swiss German w/ s-t. 7:15 pm. You Will Be Mine (2008) D: Sophie Laloy. French w/ s-t. 7:30 pm. Four More Years (2010) D: Tova Magnusson. Swedish w/ s-t. 9:45 pm. Who Took The Bomp? Le Tigre On Tour (2010) D: Kerthy Fix. 10 pm. All screenings at TBL. SAT 28 – Dykes Planning Tykes: Queering The Family Tree (2011) D: Nancy Nicol and Mary Daniel. Noon (TBL). World’s Best Shorts: Slow Burn (2011) D: Christine Chew, Loop Planes (2010) D: Robin Wiley, and others. 2:30 pm (TBL). Lip Service (2010) D: John McKay and Harry Bradbeer. 2 pm (TBL). Cameroon: Coming Out Of The Nkuta (2009) D: Céline Metzger. French w/ s-t. 2:30 pm (BB). Art And Soul: Generations (2010) D: Barbara Hammer, Sum Of The Parts: What Can Be Named (2010) D: Deanna Bowen, and Difficult Love (2010) D: Zanele Muholi and Peter Goldsmid. 4:30 pm (BB). Queer Video Mentorship Project short films: Im-pass (2011) D: Jacub Fernandes, Sarah (2011) D: Ciiku Thuo, and others. 5 pm (TBL). Florent: Queen Of The Meat Market (2010) D: David Sigal. 5:30 pm (TBL). Offside (2006) D: Jafar Panahi. Persian w/ s-t. 7 pm (BB). Black Field (2010) Vardis Marinakis. Greek w/ s-t. 7:15 pm (TBL). The Evening Dress (2009) D: Myriam Aziza. French w/ s-t. 7:45 pm (TBL). Absent (2011) D: Marco Berger. Spanish w/ s-t. 10 pm (TBL). Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same (2011) D: Madeleine Olnek. 10:15 pm (TBL). SuN 29 – Surprise screening to be announced later (check website). Noon. Lip Service (Episodes 4-6) (2010) D: Harry Bradbeer. 1:30 pm. Mary Lou (2010) D: Eytan Fox. Hebrew w/ s-t. 4:15 pm. Christopher And His Kind (2011) D: Geoffrey Sax. 5:15 pm. Closing Gala: The Night Watch (2011) D: Richard Laxton. 7:30 pm. All screenings at TBL.

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Shorts walk tall sex and stars sizzle at short film fest WORLDWIDE SHORT FILM FESTIVAL from Tuesday (May 31)

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the canadian film centre’s Worldwide Short Film Festival re turns with some 275 short films in 33 different programs. As always, sex is a frequent topic for short filmmakers – partly be cause a little sizzle always sells, and partly because the intensity of a phy sical encounter lends itself to a limit ed running time. The One Night Stand program (Wednesday, June 1, 7 pm, ROM; June 4, 12:30 pm, ROM) of fers a mix of perspectives: Tom Mer ilion stages a relationship as a dance piece in Flatbed; Charlotte Sullivan and Peter Stebbings have an extreme ly awkward encounter in a medical clinic in The Appointment, and Alex Epstein’s You Are So Undead stars Being Human’s Meaghan Rath as a clubber who’s just gone all the way… sort of. Sexual identity is at the heart of the terrific documentary short I Am A Girl!, in which Dutch documentar ian Susan Koenen introduces us to

By NORMAN WILNER

teenage Joppe, who was born male but has identified as female since she was old enough to understand gen der. It screens in the Golden Girls pro gram (Wednesday, June 1, 3:15 pm, Var sity; June 3, 8:30 pm, Varsity), which also includes Jenn E. Norton’s strange, touching memento mori, Wee Requi em. This year’s Scene Not Herd (June 3, 9:30 pm, Bloor) program is a knock out, featuring some terrific music vid eos. Buck 65’s delightfully crazed Zombie Delight imagines an undead hiphopocalypse; The National’s Con versation 16 casts Kristen Schaal as the U.S. president and John Slattery as her lovelorn Secret Service agent; Scis sor Sister’s Invisible Light spins a glossy Eurohorror collage straight out of the fevered mind of Jess Franco. (There’s a Michel Gondry video for Living Sisters’ How Are You Doing? in there, too.) There are famous faces aplenty in the two Celebrity Shorts programs. In the first set (June 2, 7 pm, ROM; June 5, 7:15 pm, Varsity), Harry Potter costars Tom Felton and Imelda Staunton square off in a hospital ward in White Other, Gérard Depardieu mourns his wife in Winter Frog, and Stephen Fry recalls his school days in Bunce, a

TuE 31-JuN 5 – Canadian Film Centre presents short films from around the world. $10 per screening, opening gala $20; passes $50-$170. TuE 31 – Opening Gala – Award Winners From Around The World: Lipsett Diaries (2010) D: Theodore Ushev, Na Wéwé (2010) D: Ivan Goldschmidt, and others. 7 pm (BC). WED 1 – Choose Your Own Adventure: Scenes From The Suburbs (2011) D: Spike Jonze, The Bridge (2010) D: Juliette Soubrier, and others. 1 pm (CV). Golden Girls: Teamwork (2010) D: Seo Yun Hong, Cookie (2011) D: Enuka Okuma, and others. 3:15 pm (CV). York University Retrospective: Hogtown Blues (2004) D: Hugh Gibson, Benediction (2005) D: Tess Girard, and others. 4:15 pm (ROM). The Hipster: Little Horses (2011) D: Levi Abrino, Fathermotherchild (2010) D: Daniel Karl Krause, and others. 6:15 pm (CV). One Night Stand: Baby (2010) D: Daniel Mulloy, I Still Love Them (2010) D: Marie-Pierre Grenier, and others. 7 pm (ROM). No Place Like Home: We Will Not Die (2010) D: Amal Kateb, Nowhere Elsewhere (2010) D: Annick Blanc, and others. 8:30 pm (CV). Out There (sci-fi): Dissonance (2010) D: Anne Leclercq, Peaceforce (2010) D: Peter Gornstein, and others. 9:15 pm (ROM).

SAT 28 – Tracey German presents her docu-

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THu 26 – Escape From New York (1981) D:

John Carpenter. 7 pm. A Clockwork Orange (1971) D: Stanley Kubrick. 9:15 pm. FRI 27 – Limitless (2011) D: Neil Burger. 4:30 & 9:30 pm. Of Gods And Men (2010) D: Xavier Beauvois. 7 pm. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) D: Jim Sharman. Screening with live shadow cast performance. 11:45 pm.

mentary Iggstock (2011), about a DIY music festival in Ontario in 1981. 4 pm. Pwyc ($8 sugg). iggstock.com. Of Gods And Men. 7 pm. Limitless. 9:30 pm. SuN 29 – Vacation From America D: Biniyam Worku. Ethiopian w/ s-t. 4 pm. $15. Of Gods And Men. 6:45 pm. Limitless. 9:15 pm. MON 30 – Of Gods And Men. 4:30 & 7 pm. Limitless. 9:30 pm. TuE 31 – Worldwide Short Film Festival. See listings, this page. Limitless. 9:30 pm. WED 1 – Of Gods And Men. 7 pm. True Grit (2010) Ethan and Joel Coen. 9:30 pm.

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Oscar winner Colin Firth adds class to Steve, part of Celebrity Shorts.

light comic memoir in which he ap pears as his own headmaster. The second program (June 3, 7 pm, Bloor) features Colin Firth and Keira Knightley as uneasy neighbours in Steve, written and directed by Knight ley’s partner, the actor Rupert Friend. Rachel Weisz directs Rosemarie De Witt and Joel Edgerton in a homein vasion standoff in The Thief. And Aundre Johnson’s The Third Rule is driven by the unlikely comic pairing of Jason Biggs and Anthony Hopkins as a loser and his life coach, respect ively. The Midnight Mania horror pro gram is once again divided into sub sets of Creepy and Freaky, because there’s just too much ground to cover in one program. Creepy (June 3, mid night, Bloor) favours narratives like Dan Gitsham’s Ella, which stars Buffy

The Vampire Slayer’s beloved An thony Stewart Head as a man deal ing with something terrible on his family’s farm; Freaky prefers the experimental and fullon bizarre, such as Harmony Korine’s obnox ious Umshini Wam (Bring Me My Machine Gun), made in collabora tion with Die Antwoord. Ironically, the creepiest, freakiest short I’ve seen in the whole festival isn’t in either of those programs. Any attempt to discuss Can Evren ol’s To My Mother And Father and its story or describe its aesthetic – in the Slap ’N’ Tickle: Hardgore pro gram (June 2, 11:30 pm, ROM) – would be deeply unfair. But it’s eas ily the most disturbing thing I’ve seen in months, and I’ve seen Some thing Borrowed.

M Cain’s Double Indemnity (1944) D: Billy Wilder, followed by discussion with Jonathan Rosenbaum and Eleanor Wachtel. 7 pm. TuE 31 – Cluny Brown. 6:30 pm. WED 1 – The Free Screen and Pleasure Dome present The Perlin Papers (2006-2010) D: Jenny Perlin, a series of eight short films about espionage during the Cold War era in the U.S. Director in attendance. 7 pm.

THu 26-WED 1 – More than 5,000 NFB films

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THu 26 – Rise Up (2011) D: Alex Hanna. 7 pm.

Of Gods And Men (2010) D: Xavier Beauvois. 9:15 pm. FRI 27 – Jane Eyre (2011) D: Cary Fukunaga. 7 pm. Certified Copy (2010) D: Abbas Kiarostami. 9:20 pm. SAT 28 – Hop (2011) D: Tim Hill. 2 pm. Jane Eyre. 4 & 7 pm. Certified Copy. 9:20 pm. SuN 29 – Hop. 2 pm. Certified Copy. 4 & 9:20 pm. Jane Eyre. 7 pm. MON 30-TuE 31 – Certified Copy. 7 pm. Jane Eyre. 9:15 pm. WED 1 – See website for details.

SAT 28 – My Architect: A Son’s Journey (2003) D: Nathaniel Kahn. 3 pm. Free. ñ ñ MON 30 – DOC Toronto presents Peep Culture D: Sally Blake, about our need to put our lives on TV or the internet. Discussion with producer Jeannette Loakman and film subject Hal Niedzviecki to follow. 7:30 pm. $10. RSVP required, at peepculture.eventbrite.com.

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THu 26-FRI 27 – Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film

THu 26-WED 1 – Continuous screenings Mon to Fri 9 am to 5 pm. Free. THu 26-FRI 27 – Passionate Eye: Monica & David: A Love Story. MON 30-WED 1 – Doc Zone: End Of Men.

And Video Festival. See listings, this page. SAT 28 – Freaky Friday (1976) D: Gary Nelson. 2 pm. Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film And Video Festival. See listings, this page. SuN 29 – Cluny Brown (1946) D: Ernst Lubitsch. 1 pm. Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film And Video Festival. See listings, this page. MON 30 – Books On Film Club presents James

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Of Fire. 11:15 am.

FRI 27 – Mysteries Of Egypt. 10:15 am & 12:20 pm. Ring Of Fire. 11:15 am. Avatar. 7 pm.

SAT 28-SuN 29 – Hubble 3D. 11 am, 1:30 & 4 pm.

Bugs! 12:15, 2:45 & 5:15 pm. Avatar. 7 pm. TuE 31 – Mysteries Of Egypt. 10:15 am. Ring Of Fire. 11:15 am. WED 1 – Ring Of Fire. 9:45 am. Bugs! 10:45 am.

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THu 26 – Tornado Alley. 11 am, 2 & 3 pm.

Under The Sea. Noon. IMAX Hubble. 1 pm.

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Under The Sea. Noon & 8 pm. IMAX Hubble. 1 pm. SAT 28 – Tornado Alley. 11 am, 1, 3 & 9 pm. Under The Sea. Noon, 4 & 8 pm. IMAX Hubble. 2 pm. SuN 29– Tornado Alley. 11 am, 1 & 3 pm. IMAX Under The Sea. Noon & 4 pm. Hubble. 2 pm. MON 30-WED 1 – Tornado Alley. 11 am, 2 & 3 pm. Under The Sea. Noon. IMAX Hubble. 1 pm.

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Thu 26 – Illustrated lecture: The History Of 3D

Motion Pictures. 7 pm. sAT 28 – Illustrated lectures: The Great Movie Serials, 1 pm; Jane Jacobs: The Housewife Whose Ideas Changed The World, 5 pm; Judith Merril, The Mother Of Modern Science Fiction, 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 Making Love With God (films of Wakefield Poole and Peter Berlin). 11 pm. suN 29 – 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, accompanied by the soundtrack of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon album, 7 pm. Kid Dracula: Nosferatu (1922) D: FW Murnau, accompanied by the soundtrack of Radiohead’s Kid A and OK Computer albums. 9 pm. mON 30 – 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 31 – Zechariah Sitchin lectures on DVD. 5 pm. Illustrated lecture: The Death And Life Of Great American Motion Pictures. 7 pm. WED 1 – Illustrated lecture: Reg Hartt’s Metropolis (1926) D: Fritz Lang. 7 pm.

low. 4 pm. $12. The Adjustment Bureau. 7 pm. Hanna. 9:05 pm. mON 30 – The Adjustment Bureau. 1 pm. Hanna. 7 pm. Limitless. 9 pm. TuE 31 – The Book Revue presents Gomorrah (2008) D: Matteo Garrone. Introduced by Geoff Pevere. 6:45 pm. Hanna. 9:45 pm. WED 1 – Eco Spark and Planet in Focus present Our Green Schools, five short environmental films by local students, and Never Lose Sight (2009) D: Sarah McNair Landry. 7 pm. Free. Reserve tickets@ecospark.ca.

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ñCoen. 7 pm. True Grit (2010) Ethan and Joel Coen. 9:20 pm. FRi 27 – Hanna (2011) D: Joe Wright. 7 pm. The Adjustment Bureau (2010) D: George Nolfi. 9 pm. sAT 28 – Rango (2011) D: Gore Verbinski. 1:30 pm. Chemerical (2009) D: Andrew Nisker. Director in attendance. 4 pm. Hanna. 7 pm. Limitless (2011) D: Neil Burger. 9 pm. suN 29 – Rango. 1:30 pm. Teri Degler presents Vision (2009) D: Margarethe von Trotta. Live performance of early medieval music by soprano Kystina Lewicki to fol-

Gnomeo And Juliet (eOne, 2011) D:

Kelly Asbury, w/ James McAvoy, Emily Blunt (voices). Rating: NNN; DVD package: NNN

If, like me, you find garden gnomes inherently funny and have known about their secret lives since childhood, give this a look. Gnomeo And Juliet is fast, funny light entertainment that’s beautifully animated (the garden setting is lush and detailed) and bops along on wellused Elton John tunes. The gnomes’ blockiness and air of angry determination makes them ideal vehicles for the story of feuding families brought to crisis when the son of one side and the daughter of the other fall in love. They’re cutesified, but not so much that they turn into Smurfs. The real problem the movie faces is the ending. Everybody knows that the original Romeo and Juliet die. It’s to their credit that director Kelly Asbury and his army of writers deal with this at all. How they do it is smart, funny and adds a light touch of thematic and

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meta-fictional resonance. Famous voices are everywhere, including Michael Caine, Maggie Smith, Julie Walters, Jason Statham and Hulk Hogan. They’re all well cast – even Dolly Parton – and clearly having fun. The deleted scenes are worth a look, and Asbury’s brief introduction to each provides a glimpse of the animators’ process. EXTRAS Deleted and extended scenes. Widescreen. English, French audio and subtitles.

ñPale Flower

(Criterion/eOne, 1964) D: Masahiro Shinoda, w/ Ryo Ikebe, Mariko Kaga. Rating: NNNN; DVD package: NNNN A yakuza thug just out of prison for murder falls for a rich girl who gambles in one of his gang’s card rooms. But Pale Flower has nothing to do with conventional romance or redemption through love. Muraki, the thug, and Saeko, the girl, are both dead inside, the kind of hardcore nihilists you find in Jim Thompson novels. They gamble

other films Thu 26-WED 1 –

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 26-WED 1 – Casa Loma presents The Pellatt Newsreel (2006) D: Barbra Cooper, a film and permanent exhibit on the history of Casa Loma and Henry Pellatt. Daily screenings 10 am to 4:30 pm. Included w/ admission. 1 Austin Terrace. 416-923-1171, casaloma.org. Thu 26 – The MINT Film Festival presents a screening of The Economics Of Happiness D: Helena Norberg-Hodge, Steven Gorelick and John Page, and short film Home Grown D: Jennifer Renaud. Guest speakers are author/ economist Thomas H Greco and Jane Hayes of Garden Jane. Music by Leh-Lo. 6:30 pm (music/ book signing from 5:30 pm). $12 (adv $10, stu/ srs $8). Rainbow Cinemas Market Square, 80 Front E. mintff.org. FRi 27 – Canadian Labour International Film

608 college. 416-534-5252. theroyal.to

Thu 26 – See website for details. FRi 27 – The Room (2003) D: Tommy Wiseau.

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toronto underground cinema 186 spadina ave, basement. 647-992-4335, torontoundergroundcinema.com

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sent screenings to benefit the Japan Society Earthquake Relief Fund: Karate-Robo Zaborgar (2011) D: Noboru Iguchi. 7 pm. Helldriver (2010) D: Yoshihiro Nishimura. 9 pm.

dvd reviews Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst are a treat to watch in All Good Things.

Both Japanese w/ s-t. rue-morgue.com. sAT 28 – Reel Asian Film Festival presents a screening as part of Asian Heritage Month: Bodyguards & Assasins (2009) D: Teddy Chan Tak Sun. Cantonese & Mandarin w/ s-t. 8 pm. Free. reelasian.com.

Festival presents Using Film As A Tool For Change, a screening as part of the Marxism 2011 conference. Red Dust (2010) D: Karin T Mak, and short films Just Another Cog In The Machine and Wisconsin ‘Budger Repair Bill’ Protest. 9 pm. Free. Ryerson Student Centre, 55 Gould. marxismconference.ca. Desifest presents Bollywood In The Square Movie Night: Golmaal 3 (2010) D: Rohit Shetty. 6 pm. Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. desifest.ca. sAT 28 – Gallery TPW presents Episode III: Enjoy Poverty (2008) D: Renzo Martens, a gonzo art documentary, followed by a discussion with art historian/critic Nikolas Drosos. 7 pm. Free. CineCycle, 129 Spadina (down the lane). gallerytpw.ca. Beit Zatoun presents Ka Bel, A Documentary, about Filipino labour activist Crispin B Beltran. Tagalog w/ s-t. 3 pm. Pwyc. 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org. WED 1 – The Trane Studio Dinner & A Movie night presents a film by Ousmane Sembène. 8 pm. Free. 964 Bathurst. 416-913-8197. Ontario Vipassana Centre presents The Dhamma Brothers (2008) D: Andrew Kukura and Jenny Phillips, about a meditation program in an Alabama prison. 6:30 pm. Free. Runnymede Library, 2178 Bloor W. 416-4619949, torana.dhamma.org. 3

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marriage casualties, while Frank Langella, the father, oozes meanspirited avarice. It’s based on the true story of Robert Durst. You can learn about that and the extent of the filmmakers’ research in the extras. Director Andrew Jarecki, best known for the doc Capturing The Friedmans, even scored Durst himself for a commentary. EXTRAS Director and producers commentary, director and Robert Durst commentary, making-of doc, research doc, director interview, more. Widescreen. English, French audio. French, Spanish subtitles.

2010) D: Andrew Jarecki, w/ Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst. Rating: NNNN; DVD package: NNNNN The misfit son (Ryan Gosling) of a controlling Manhattan real estate billionaire marries a working-class girl (Kirsten Dunst). The marriage disintegrates, and one night she disappears. Some years later, a couple of people close to the husband are murdered, and the miss-ing-wife case is reopened. Apart from being good actors, Gosling and Dunst are immensely likeable, so it’s a treat to watch them go from dewy-eyed lovers to cold-eyed instead of having sex. She’s looking for bigger thrills. Eventually, he shows her the ulti-mate. Director Masahiro Shinoda makes the tale a noir nightmare with inky shadows, blown-out whites and jagged visual rhythms intensified by the work of composer Toru Takemitsu, whose sound design blends silence, effects and discordant music in a way that was new in 1964. Takemitsu’s work gets a good analysis in scholar Peter Grilli’s selected scene commentary, and Shinoda delivers a thoughtful half-hour interview, discussing script, casting and Pale Flower as an allegory of 1960s Japan. EXTRAS Selected scene commentary, director interview, essay booklet. Widescreen, b&w. Japanese audio. English subtitles.

movies go, Bedevilled is more tragedy than fantasy. It’s less in the vein of Jodie Foster’s The Brave One and more like I Spit On Your Grave, though it lacks that film’s extreme violence and has an explicit social agenda at odds with an endorsement of vigilantism. Burnt out and in trouble at work, Seoul bank employee Kim Bok-nam (Seo Yeong-hie) vacations on a remote island where she once summered as a girl. Now only nine people live there, and her childhood friend Hae-won (Ji Seong-won) has become a virtual slave to everyone and is severely abused by her husband, who may be molesting her 10-year-old daughter. Eventually, Hae-won snaps and gets busy with a scythe. Tension is present from the start, but the movie takes its time developing. Director Yang Chul-soo makes sure we understand the island’s social dynamics and everybody’s complicity in Hae-won’s abuse. He also explores Bok-nam’s uneasy friendship with Hae-won, an emphasis that gives the climax a resonance it wouldn’t otherwise have.

Bedevilled (Mongrel, 2010) D: Yang Chul-soo, w/ Seo Yeong-hie, Ji Seong-won. Rating: NNN; DVD package: none. As women’s revenge

Yang knows how to give his movie style when it needs it, but for the most part, deceptively plain visuals and performances lend Bedevilled the plausibility of a newspaper story. However, there is one narrative flaw toward the end: it’s never clear how Bok-nam winds up in a cell or how Hae-won finds her. It looks like a dream sequence, but it isn’t. I’d like to know whether or not Bedevilled is based on a real case. Sadly, there are no extras to tell me. EXTRAS Widescreen. Korean audio. English subtitles.

Coming Tuesday, May 31 Biutiful (Maple, 2010) Javier Bardem got an Oscar nomination playing a small-time gangster who tries to do something good when he learns of his impending death. Drive Angry (eOne, 2011) Nicolas Cage revs up for revenge on the men who killed his daughter and kidnapped his granddaughter. Passion Play (eOne, 2010) Bill Murray is a gangster, Megan Fox an angel and Mickey Rourke the guy who wants to set her free. American Graffiti (Uni-

versal, 1973) George Lucas’s classic look at teens on their last night of cruising for burgers, girls and drag races before adulthood kicks in gets a re-release.

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