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Beaches Intl Jazz Festival focuses on big band, swing, Dixieland and more, w/ Tanika Charles, Dr Draw, Sambacana and others. Queen east of Woodbine. 7-11 pm. To Jul 24.

Free. beachesjazz.com.

STOP THe MeGA-QUArrY Protest presses for a full enviro assessment and supports the farmers of Melancthon Township. Noon. Free. 77 Wellesley West. ndact.com.

challenging jazz-rockers hit the Molson Amphitheatre. 7 pm. $24.50-$129.50. TM. THe SAdieS Indie Fridays see the twang-rockers bring their explosive live show to YongeDundas Square, with Jack Marks. 8 pm. Free. cAPTAin AMericA Superhero movies haven’t done too well at the box office. This one, opening today, could change all that.

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+SiA The Aussie pop-jazz singer brings her We Are Born LP to the Phoenix, with hotly tipped Oh Land. Doors 8 pm. $24.50.

RT, SS, TM. lAneWAY bike TOUr Check out secret corners of Riverdale and Queen E. 1 pm. NE corner Withrow Park. Free. info@ graemeparry.com. +reArvieW MirrOr Eastern bloc artists express their postWall sensibilities at the Power Plant, to Sep 5. Free. 416-9734949.

Drake headlines a sizzling show at the Molson Amphitheatre, Jul 31

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THiS Wide niGHT Two women who met in prison try to maintain their friendship when they’re on their own. To Jul 31.

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both ellie kirzner’s and fathima Cader’s articles on allowing Muslim prayer in Toronto schools miss the point (NOW, July 14-20).

In the case of Valley Park Middle School and Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute, the Toronto District School Board provided a “reasonable accommodation” to Muslim students so they could attend localmosques on school time. In both cases, this rea sonable accommodation was abused by a number of the Muslim students not returning to school after Friday prayers.

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let’s not crow too much about the lack of real gravy found by KPMG at City Hall (NOW, July 14-20). When he talks about the “gravy train,” Rob Ford mainly means the city staff he regards as a bunch of overpaid, underworked parasites. His “nation” has always understood that.

Ford has brought the brutal approach of the Wisconsin Republicans to City Hall. His goal is a union-free city government, with almost every service contracted out, reduced to the bone or eliminated.

His supporters think this will lower their taxes so they can pay down their maxed-out credit cards and keep their over-mortgaged houses. They are mistaken. Any savings at City Hall will be vacuumed up by the same people who have sucked up all the economic gains of the past few decades – rich people like Ford.

Lee Zaslofsky Toronto

Pride stereotypes

quite an incendiary letters column last week (NOW, July 14-20). J. Rockov tells us that none of his or her gay friends would be caught dead at the Pride parade. I would reply that there are certainly those who feel no pride in being gay, which is unfortunate for them, and also that none of my leprechaun friends would be caught dead at the St. Patrick’s Day parade, which they consider a sordid display of Irish stereotypes.

David Palter Toronto

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tion if you start running (NOW, July 14-20). Ha! I heard them all and more.

Jimmy crack corn and I don’t care.

For those who want to start running, some invaluable advice I got from a 1970s running book is to move for 20 minutes. If you can only run for one minute, walk the remaining 19 and build up from there, It’s easy. And once you’re running, replace your shoes as soon as you can feel that they’re getting worn out. Delaying new shoes and “running through the pain” means trouble. But most of all don’t get “addicted” to getting up at 5 am and pounding the pavement for your physical and mental well-being.

Instead, ensure a better future for you and yours by sucking back loads of booze, smokes, weed, crack and crystal meth.

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Go west, cult film fans

to letter-writer sean stanley: we at the Revue Cinema feel your pain about the Bloor’s plans to become a documentary theatre (NOW, July 14-20). That’s why we’re taking over where the Bloor left off. Give us your twisted, your weird, your creatively oppressed yearning to be free.

You need not be eaten by the dusty, pseudo-intellectual RRSP-savvy living dead. Come over to the west side.

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Queer mapping misses

while we applaud any effort made to teach Torontonians about queer history, we were puzzled to see the reference to the Lesbian and Gay Archives of Toronto at the end of Mapping Queer Toronto (NOW, June 30-July 6); as far as we know, this organization does not exist. (We are the

Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, or CLGA.) The fact that we were not included in the list of current organizations is somewhat disheartening, given that we have been active for nearly 40 years and our general manager was asked to assist with research.

Also, The Albany bar and the club seem to have been confused. The Albany bar operated for about five years at 90 King East, while the Albany Club is at 91 King East.

The original address of the Body Politic should be 65 Kendal Avenue, not 4 Kensington.

Also, Remington’s was founded in 1993, so it was definitely not targeted in the 1981 bathhouse raids.

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The first skeeters to test positive for the West Nile virus this year were confirmed by Toronto Public Health last week, almost a month earlier than last year’s first detection. Public Health monitors 43 mosquito traps across the city and sends larvae for testing each week. There have been no deaths in Toronto related to WNV since 2005, and only one human case since 2010.

In 2002, 163 cases were reported, including 11 deaths.

[Frontlines] Joshua Errett on weird laws and rogue cops There’s much to envy about Vancouver: nearby mountain ranges, the Pacific Ocean, the fact that a rogue police officer can’t ruin your life on a whim.

British Columbia’s criminal justice system has what’s called a charge approval process. Most of Canada has this. Ontario does not. It makes all the difference in the world, and explains much of the bad behaviour of our police department.

The very first step after an arrest is deciding whether to lay a criminal charge. In Toronto, the police make that call. An officer can arrest and charge you on his or her lonesome – unheard of powers in most of the Western world.

Everywhere else, a Crown attorney decides, based on a synopsis provided by the arresting officer, on a charge. A much more considered process.

“To me, British Columbia has it right,” writes Anna Stuffco of Toronto’s Robichaud’s Criminal Defence Litigation in her firm’s blog. “There, charges are not laid by police, but by government lawyers. This is what ultimately leads to

a more transparent system of justice.”

To be charged with a crime in Toronto, all that’s necessary is an allegation. And once a criminal charge is laid, it’s very difficult to make it go away.

Everywhere else, if a Crown decides there is no reasonable prospect of conviction, the charge dissolves and no further action is taken.

Back here, since the threshold for charges exists in a police officer’s mind, the courts are rammed with all kinds of cases.

The first time anyone critically examines charges is in court – a very expensive vetting system.

In BC, charges aren’t laid by police, but by government lawyers.

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Worth seeing: Bruce Mau’s Looking Up, a series of photographs of light, clouds and sky taken on Mau’s flights above the globe. The installation, part of last month’s Luminato fest, reopens at Pearson Monday (July 25).

While it’s easy to forget, police officers are mammals just like the rest of us.

They get angry, confused, vengeful and a range of other emotions.

Allowing these emotional beings to charge whomever they please with crimes, without an intelligible procedure or consultation with the law, is unconscionable.

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Now that regs banning a “fixed link” to the Island Airport are allowing a tunnel, will a bridge be built instead?

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Port Authority’s plan for an underground passage to the Island Airport may mean more flights – and little relief for waterfront residents

By ENZO DiMATTEO Perhaps a pedestrian tunnel to the Island Airport – sorry, the Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport (BBTCA) – isn’t such a bad idea after all.

“It probably stops a bridge being built, and that’s a good thing,” says local Councillor Adam Vaughan, who opposes any expansion of the airport but now seems resigned to the idea of a tunnel. But about that bridge...

The 24-to-13 vote at council last week clearing the way for a pedestrian tunnel is being touted as a winwin for the city and Toronto Port Authority – a change, since the city is usually getting stiffed by the TPA. Under the so-called Master Agreement, the city gets to build a water main to the Island water treatment plant (needed to feed downtown development) for half the $22 million it would cost otherwise.

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wall for a more direct route for its tunnel to the airport, as well as a three-year lease on some valuable waterfront real estate at the Canada Malting Site for a temporary parking lot at the bargain-basement rate of $3 per square foot.

More parking is welcome. Certainly, residents could do with a little less hacking from the exhaust of cabs queuing along Eireann Quay for fares at Billy Bishop – and without the sight of cab drivers relieving themselves in the nearby schoolyard.

Other parts of the Master Agreement, however, are not so clearly a win for the city or waterfront residents.

There’s the $43 million in so-called “payments in lieu of taxes” the TPA owes the city. The TPA doesn’t seem anxious to settle that account, agreeing only to keep talking.

Nor is the TPA willing to return to

the city the 30-metre easement it owns underneath Little Norway Park.

TPA president and CEO Geoff Wilson is noncommittal on the Little Norway front. “We’re not talking about that with the city,” Wilson says.

“I don’t think that concern is a broad concern.”

Well, not exactly. The fate of Little Norway should parking become an issue in the future is a lingering concern.

The Canada Malting site has been slated for redevelopment (that much is known), so the TPA can’t use it for parking forever. Build Toronto is trying to sell investors on a mixed-use commercial hub with some low-rise residential. Other possibilities floated for the site include a hotel.

But even if parking for Island Airport users could be accommodated underground in whatever is built on the Canada Malting site, it seems

more likely that development of the site will only add to the traffic challenges in the area.

Waterfront residents add that the agreement between the city and TPA doesn’t address greenhouse gases in airplane emissions or noise issues.

The TPA plans to erect sound barriers that reportedly do nothing for residents who live more than five floors up, but that’s another issue.

Tunnel opponents are betting that the $65 million needed to build the tunnel, a very conservative estimate according to Vancouver consultants brought in to assess the plan, can’t possibly be raised without jacking sky-high the $20 airport fee passengers now pay to fly out of BBTCA. Wilson says there is no plan to raise that fee, but P3s being what they are, there’s no guarantee it won’t go up.

Think Highway 407.

The airport will have to attract far

more than the 1 million or so passengers it’s drawing annually to raise the capital for the tunnel through airport fees alone. And the only way passenger numbers can go up is by lifting the current cap on the number of flights or the curfew on flights, or both.

That would require changes to the Tripartite Agreement between the city, feds and TPA – not an overwhelming obstacle in the current political climate. But that still might not get the TPA to the $65 million mark.

There’s no room to grow the airport by adding a runway. The economic potential of BBTCA is finite. Investors weren’t exactly flocking to put their money on Porter, the main airline on the island, when it made an initial public offering last year. That bid was eventually pulled by Porter.

The feds could always drop a bag of money on the TPA’s doorstep to get the tunnel built – not an inconceivable prospect given the millions past federal governments have spent propping up the Island Airport’s operations.

But Vaughan is entertaining other theories before that one.

Now that the federal regulation banning a “fixed link” between the mainland and BBTCA is slated to be changed by the feds to allow a tunnel, the bridge scenario does enter the realm of the possible, if, say, tunnel costs prove prohibitive.

Seems a stretch to think a bridge may still be in the TPA’s blue-skying.

But stoking Vaughan’s fears is the proposed relocation of the TPA’s circa-1938 administrative building on the airport lands. The Authority has offered to contribute $250,000 toward dismantling the building, a national historic site, and reassembling it elsewhere. Discussions are under way for possible relocation to Downsview Park. Vaughan says removing the building does away with the only physical obstacle to a bridge to the airport.

Wilson argues that a bridge would only drive more traffic and congestion to the airport, and that’s the last thing the TPA wants.

But what if a willing partner can’t be found for a tunnel?

Says Vaughan: “The awkward twist of fate in all of this is that whatever you do to improve the neighbourhood supports the airport.”

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City’s local food buying policy is full of loopholes and weasel words By WAYNE ROBERTS the july 12 city council motion on buying local food for city institu­ tions should be nominated for an international award honouring un­ enforceable gibberish.

That doesn’t mean it wasn’t greet­ ed as a victory by local food activists, who tried to save a little face and find a ray of hope to carry on.

Council voted almost unanimous­ ly to advise all companies bidding on food contracts that “it is a policy ob­ jective of the City to increase the per­ centage of food grown locally when all factors, including costs, quality and availability are equal.”

Let me count the loopholes and weasel words: “a policy objective” in­ stead of the policy; “increase the per­ centage” (now probably about 5) in­ stead of setting a specific target to reach over time; “food” instead of food and beverage; local when “all factors including costs, quality and availability are equal,” as defined and decided by no one in particular.

Very large trainloads of imported gravy can be driven through this.

This motion is the result of almost four years of efforts – some of them mine, as a city employee – to put To­ ronto at the forefront of world cities striving to reduce global warming emissions by, among many other things, purchasing local and sustain­ able food.

There is no shame in aiming high and making mistakes along the way.

On the contrary, one point of going first is to offer lessons for other juris­ dictions – especially given that cli­ mate and enviro protection are glo­ bal responsibilities.

Food is taken for granted until it isn’t there, just like electricity. And the reasons for particular food choices are normally all over the map unless there’s a specific matter of an acute nature, such as a dietary requirement or allergy, or a general

reason of deeply held values, such as environmental sustainability.

It is this latter big­picture ration­ ale that Toronto was expressing in 2001 when council unanimously ad­ opted a food charter committing the city to act as a model in matters re­ lated to job­ and health­rich local and sustainable food purchasing. In the same vein, in 2007 City Hall identi­ fied food purchases as a way to re­ duce global warming emissions and

The city can’t identify why we should pay more for local food. It needs to be guided by a higher value, like climate change. as part of Toronto’s reputation as a world­class city, a claim evidently forsaken now that the gravy train has been identified as the big picture du jour.

Without a wider concept, no one can identify the value of paying more for local or local­and­sustainable food. That’s an insurmountable prob­ lem, because there is no such thing as local or local­and­sustainable food that is not more expensive than non­ local, non­sustainable food. Only long­distance foods and long­dis­ tance food corporations get massive government subsidies and take the shortcuts in quality and working conditions that deliver lower price.

So a city, like an individual, needs to be guided by another value – pre­ venting the world’s climate from be­ ing destroyed, for example – that’s worth the extra cost per pound. Un­ willingness to pay more or wait for the right season are absolute deal­

breakers with local and local­and­ sustainable food, and there’s no way to avoid that truth.

Big­picture values are one thing, ideologies another. There’s no room for ideology in food purchasing. Lo­ cal food sounds good until you con­ sider bread, for example. Bread­qual­ ity grains can grow only in the hot and dry western prairie summer. Lo­ cal sounds good in terms of energy use until you know the size and ef­ ficiency of the delivery truck or how many farm inputs and pesticides have been used, since they account for about 21 per cent of energy used in food, compared to less than 15 for transportation.

It’s also important to know that claims to being local can­ not be verified. Ontario milk and eggs, for example, may well be from Quebec. Live­ stock may have been slaugh­ tered in Ontario but fed im­ ported feed, almost inevitably from imported GE seeds, and born and raised in Alberta or the U.S. Attention to detail rather than ideology means that deep competency is required in food matters. The Toronto Environmental Alliance, which took the lead in promo­ ting the citizen side of the lo­

cal food campaign, had no previous expertise in food matters and actual­ ly refused to identify food as a major issue during the recent municipal election.

Yet it pressed the city to adopt a 50 per cent local demand in 2008 – lala land at a time when U of T was edging toward local­sustainable by 5 per cent a year, paving the way for the negative report on city progress that precipitated this year’s fiasco.

Competency turns out to be the sleeper issue in these affairs. As well, the cost­cutting mantra that has in­ creasingly monopolized public dis­ course across North America since the 1980s – most recently flying the flag of “respect for taxpayers” – has devalued government competence, especially the kind Canadian histor­ ian Herschel Hardin identified dec­ ades ago. This public sector skill built broadcasters, community col­ leges, medical insurance and public health de­ partments that were the envy of the

world. The inept governments of to­ day steer rather than row, and haven’t the foggiest idea what’s going on or how to get to where we want to go.

The entire back­to­basics and “core service” ideology is about minimal competence, not the resilient and re­ dundant skill set that my pilot friend Walt Palmer tells me of: a superior pilot uses his superior judgment to avoid having to exercise his superior skill. Those pushing “respect for tax­ payers” have no respect for resilient capacity or resilient food systems. 3 news@nowtoronto.com

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POVERTY PARIAH Pocketbook politics put a crimp in bid to up cruel welfare rates By PAUL WEINBERG

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ocap heads to allan gardens this weekend for another of the org’s legendary mass feed-ins to press for an increase in social assistance rates.

Not that it, or any other anti-poverty group, has had much luck. Assistance levels have been allowed to fall stunningly behind over the years: single people currently receive $592 a month, a living wage when Lester Pearson was prime minister. Singles on the Ontario Disability Support Program get $1,042.

Problem is, don’t look for a discussion on rates in the upcoming election; the Liberals have neatly tucked the issue away in their social assistance review process. Struck last November, the review is being led by two highly respected figures: Frances Lankin, past president and CEO of United Way Toronto, and Munir Sheikh, former chief statistician for the feds, the civil servant who quit on principle over the long-form census affair.

But call it the Hudak factor: the Libs have crafted the review so that the final report isn’t due until June 2012, missing the election fracas by a country mile. And while Lankin has stated publicly that tinkering won’t

fix the system and that “fundamental reform [is] required,” many in the policy community are unimpressed by the timing.

“The [Liberal] political arm,” says U of T policy analyst Ernie Lightman, “has basically taken a step back because of the election and has left it to the bureaucrats. They’ll come up with some recommendations, but they’ll be very incremental.”

Incremental is not what poverty experts think is in order, but the seemingly entrenched government position on keeping rates low has generated a wide debate over tactics on the anti-poverty front.

“Social assistance is a bad brand,” says John Stapleton, a policy analyst and former senior civil servant in the Ministry of Community and Social Services. He points out that until the Harris Tory regime, welfare rates for singles steadily rose, from $491 in 1989 to $663 in 1993 under the Bob Rae NDP government. If subsequent governments had pegged rates to inflation, the welfare rate today would be $932 a month.

Stapleton is pessimistic that politicians of any stripe will ever increase payments again. “Through good

times and bad, social assistance has been reduced relentlessly for the last 18 years, and the question is, can you do something outside of social assistance to adjust poverty?”

Sure enough, poverty activists are trying to finesse their way around this brick wall – but they aren’t all on one page.

Some, like Stapleton and Gail Nyberg, executive director of the Daily Bread Food Bank (where Stapleton is on the board), are pushing what they perceive as a more saleable option: a shelter benefit for all low-income people, even those who are working.

They advocate a monthly $103 housing benefit for low-income tenants via the tax system. It would cost a little over $200 million and target 66,000 families or 129,000 individuals across the province.

“The NDP is interested, the Liberals seem to be interested and even, to my surprise, the PCs wanted to know lots about it. I can’t tell you if it will be in their platforms, but we will be out there lobbying,” Nyberg says.

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Sherbourne a no-go for bikeS the avenue being touted as the northsouth alternative to Jarvis will require some radical rethinking to make separated bike lane plans a reality. the hazards and obstacles are many.

Bloor Bottleneck The top of Sherbourne at Bloor is a traffic nightmare. Cars lining up to make rights and lefts onto Bloor and dropping off or picking up passengers at the subway station block the bike lane going north, making navigation of this section hazardous for every­ one. Prohibiting cars from turning onto Bloor may be part of the answer, but that would mean pushing car traf­ fic through Rosedale, and weren’t they the folks who opposed bike lanes on Jarvis?

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Solving that one could blow the entire bike budget.

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transit complications Regular bus service on Sherbourne presents another challenge. Right now, buses block bike lanes when they have to pick up pas­ sengers. Bus bays would alleviate the problem, but that would mean putting bus stops much further apart, where road width would accommodate bays.

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paign seeks to increase the monthly food portion of the social assistance cheque by $100.

Nyberg, albeit in the poverty food biz, has concluded that the food supplement issue just won’t fly. That campaign, she says, after a little more than two years has failed to make an impression on the Liberal government. “I have not heard one government member address the issue of poverty and hunger,” says Nyberg.

The foods vs shelter divide, says Peter Clutterbuck, a consultant with the Social Planning Network of Ontario, represents quite different political evaluations. While supportive of a housing benefit in theory, he believes it would take too many months to implement.

Faster to establish, he says, would be an additional $1,200 yearly for food purchases added to the social assistance cheques of Ontario’s 580,000 welfare recipients and the 391,443 on disability. “We think that morally, in terms of no longer tolerating hunger in our wealthy society, and economically, in terms of health care cost savings, introducing the supplement now is the only responsible policy decision.”

What complicates the prospects of both wings of the movement is that they face a reinvigorated Ontario Conservative party. Stapleton notes

that the PC platform contains echoes of the Mike Harris years, like reinstitution of the lifetime ban for welfare fraud (undefined).

However, Sylvia Jones, speaking for the Conservative Party, says her party supports the social assistance review and is “studying” the proposal for a housing benefit.

At the moment, it appears that none of the three major political parties is vying for the poverty reduction crown, though the NDP is most likely to buck that trend. NDP MPP Michael Prue has been deeply immersed in the poverty file and has endorsed the Put Food In The Budget campaign. But he ruefully acknowledges the public opinion shortfall.

“I have asked hundreds of questions in the last 10 years on this topic [at Queen’s Park] and have never once been quoted in a newspaper. Nobody has been interested. The NDP is standing back and asking, ‘Do we run on a patform when there is no public interest?’”

Before the recession took the wind out of Liberal sails, they had established a new child benefit program, and all three parties had endorsed a poverty reduction strategy. Nevertheless, the Ministry of Community and Social Services’, Charlotte Wilkinson says, “we know that there is more to do – which is why our government launched the largest review in 20 years.”

Yes, but it’s late – and besides, will they be around to heed the results?3

Foreign Policy

Flotilla Finale Canuck protester deported in final chapter of protest saga By JESSE ROSENFELD the saga of the activists on the Canadian boat to Gaza headed into its final chapter on Tuesday, July 19, when one of the boat’s guiding spirits, Montreal’s Stephan Corriveau, was taken into Israeli custody.

Corriveau – who is currently being deported home – along with others on Canadian vessel The Tahrir, had his mission short-circuited by the Greek coast guard on July 4. But he later joined other internationals whose boats had been seized on the French craft Dignité/Al Karama.

The Al Karama had better luck than the others for a while, departing from a French port on Corsica and nearing the Gaza coast, where Israeli naval commandos easily boarded and commandeered the craft in international waters.

It was pulled into the Israeli port of Ashdod, where those aboard with Israeli citizenship were processed and quickly released, while international activists, including Corriveau, were detained by border police.

Interestingly, the ship wasn’t carrying an ounce of aid and set sail mainly as a challenge to the block-

ade, a fact duly noted by Israeli officials.

“It was never about aid,” Mark Regev, the Israeli government press office spokesperson tells me on the phone from Tel Aviv. He almost sounds as if agrees with the activist position that the problem in Gaza is not humanitarian but political, until

“It was never about aid,’’ says an Israeli official. The activists agree — it was all about breaking the blockade. he adds, “If the activists are interested in Gaza’s freedom, then why is their ally and supporter the authoritarian Hamas?”

(Freedom flotilla activists maintain that they support no particular political faction in Gaza.)

“The simple fact is, the flotilla activists have no international legiti-

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macy,” Regev says. He contends that pressure to prevent Freedom Flotilla boats from reaching their destination has come from the UN, North American and European governments and was not an Israeli initiative.

Corriveau would likely agree with Regev’s assessment of Western nations’ willingness to assist Israel in its blockade. He was certainly ready to point out what he sees as Canada’s ready collusion when he and I spent two weeks together on the island of Crete preparing for the The Tahrir to set sail. When it was clear that Greece would prevent the departure of all flotilla vessels, he optimistically remarked, “I think it’s mission accomplished even if the game is not finished.

His activist game has been a long one, dating from South African antiapartheid work to anti-sexual-repression fights with the Catholic Church. But “Palestine,” he told me as we headed to the then secret location of The Tahrir in the tourist town of Agios Nikolaos, “is my first love.” 3 news@nowtoronto.com

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As soon as Google+ was introduced, it was clear it was going to kill something.

Whether it would be killing Facebook or simply “killing it,” Google+ was going to shake up social networking.

Unsurprisingly, it has done that in less than a month on the market.

But the social web is only the beginning of what this plus-sized network could one day do. It has the potential to change everything from email to phone calls, from business to politics.

When Google’s vice-president of engineering, Vic Gundotra, introduced Google+, he focused solely on the service’s Facebook-like characteristics.

“The subtlety and substance of realworld interactions are lost in the rigidness of our online tools. In this basic, human way, online sharing is awkward.

Even broken. And we aim to fix it.”

Lofty goals, but this is just a modest account of what Google+ can do.

If the search giant integrates all its other services into its new network, it will double as a business and recruiting tool.

The first casualty of Google+, then, might be LinkedIn. Many companies already use Google’s enterprise products – including this magazine. But when/if Gmail, Gchat, Calendar, Tasks, Docs, Analytics and Apps (for starters) get embedded in Google+, it will become the ultimate collaboration, communication and productivity tool. I predict it will be ubiquitous in offices.

Google profiles will then take over LinkedIn profiles. Think resumés submitted and vetted via Google+.

Add Google’s Checkout, its online

shopping network, to Google+ (that’s Checkout+Google+) and I see no reason why a vibrant, valuable marketplace wouldn’t emerge.

More online commerce wouldn’t be far behind: banking, billing, rent, invoicing and anything else having to do with money all in one place.

And consider Google Voice, the internet-powered free phone service.

Attach that to Google+’s many mobile platforms and phone calls will be forever changed.

Integrated into Google+’s iPhone app, launched this week and made largely in Google’s outpost in the thrilling tech city of Kitchener-Waterloo, Google Voice is poised to put a large dent in telecoms alone.

Optimistically, Google+ is one of those aspirational products that could change the world for the better. I could write a multi-volume book on all the problems it could one day solve just

with its current products.

But it’s also alarming to think about how much more dominant this all would make the already-dominant California company. With a finger in almost every sector of online business, Google could move even closer to absolute power. And absolute power corrupts absolutely, as they say.

So the test then becomes not whether Google+ can achieve all this, but whether people should trust it to.

Because if Google+ does become a hub for all the company’s many useful services, it will be not just a business tool or a social network, but a place where you could conceivably live your entire life. joshuae@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/joshuaerrett

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print makes them the only green-lit chicken pick.

By the way, turkey burgers are 36 per cent more carbon intensive than chicken.

Of all the meats, lamb burgers have the highest carbon footprint – according to EWG, 50 per cent higher than beef. These grass-grazing ruminants produce the same amount of methane as cows but provide less edible meat per animal.

Fish burgers are definitely low-carbon but high-risk when it comes to making a sustainable pick. Look for those made of wild Alaskan salmon rather than the farmed kind. Blue Horizon Wild sells some Marine Stewardship Cou nc i l-approved wild salmon burgers, but they discontinued their MSC tuna burger. Best to stay away from tuna or other fish burgers unless you cross-check the source at Seachoice.org.

So where do soy burgers fit in?

There’s no denying the smaller water footprint of soybeans proper compared to all types of meat: only 818 litres for a pound of soybeans.

But that doesn’t include the pesticides sprayed, GMO seeds used or heavy processing and air-polluting hexane involved in making soybeans into soy protein isolate. Soy proces-

sors are some of the biggest hexane emitters on the continent. That includes the Dupont venture Solae, which supplies soy protein to Yves, Gardenburger and others.

If you like the taste of fake meat, stick to soy burgers made with organic tofu, not processed soy protein (plus, going organic guarantees your soy is GMO-free). Ontario-made SoL Cuisine Almond Grain burgers are made with organic soybeans, almonds and green lentils. In terms of restos, Fresh restaurants offer up tofu/almond/ grain/veg burgers, though they’re not organic. Urban Herbavore has a delish vegan burger made with a roasted vegetable patty and tempeh (fermented whole soybeans) “bacon.”

At the top of the green food chain are organic bean and/or nut burgers like organic Sunshine Burgers. Keep in mind that even burgers labelled “bean” or “vegetable” often contain soy protein. Live Food Bar has a great chickpea burger (cooked) and a raw beet burger on a sunflower patty.

That’s about as guilt-free as a burger gets.

Not all veggie burgers are light on the planet – so check the label before firing up the barbie.

What’s the greener burger, soy or grass-fed meat?

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Let’s break down our options. First, your conventional burger. A lot of water and energy goes into growing the grain to feed the cow to process the beef. One pound of meat, four quarter-pound patties, involves 6,810 litres of water and roughly 27 pounds of carbon dioxide, according to the Environmental Working Group.

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Benefits

Strike Out hunger (Daily Bread) Fundraising

bowlathon. 6:30 pm. $300/team of 6. Bowlerama West, 5429 Dundas W. dailybread.ca.

Events

rClOSe enCOunterS OF the reptile kind

Learn about Ontario’s native reptiles. Today and tomorrow 11 am and 1:30 pm. Free w/ admission. Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills. 416-696-1000.

COnSult thiS, kpmg! Rally and public deputations on cuts to city services. Noon. Free. Bay Adelaide Centre, 333 Bay. tostopthecuts@ gmail.com.

hOw tO make a viral videO hit with little Or nO mOney Workshop (part 2) on film pro-

duction. 7 pm. $15. NFB Mediatheque, 150 John. Pre-register transitiontoronto.ning.com. rmy kidS’ CBC dayS Performances, crafts and activities for kids with the Doodlebops and others. Today and tomorrow 10 am-2 pm.

Free. CBC Atrium, 250 Front W. cbc.ca/kidscbc. painted natiOn Screening of Cyrus Sundar Singh’s documentary about street art in India and a Q&A with Singh. 7 pm. Free. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. rom.on.ca. pOmpeii and herCulaneum Art history lecture with Francis Broun. 1 & 6:30 pm. $25, stu/ first-timers $10. Women’s Art Association, 23 Prince Arthur. 647-343-1411.

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Festivals this week

rBig On BlOOr Street festival with musi-

cians, dance, theatre, buskers, storytelling, an alternative art fair and more. Free. Bloor from Dufferin to Lansdowne. bigonbloor. com.

Jul 23 and 24 ShinSedai Cinema FeStival New generation Japanese film festival with J-horror, docs, features and more. $12, passes $50-$105.

Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, 6 Garamond. shinsedai-toronto.com.

Jul 21 to 25 rtirgan FeStival Iranian art, cuisine, activities and entertainment by Silk Road Dance Co, Golden Puppet Theatre and others. Most events free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000.

Jul 21 to 24 tOrOntO BurleSque FeStival Performances by local and international talent.

Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen W) and Mod Club (722 College). $30-$40. torontoburlesque.com.

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raFriCan artS & Culture FeStival An Africheese sampling and a brewery tour. 7 pm. $30. Black Creek Pioneer Village, 1000 Murray Ross. 416-667-6284.

StOp the mega quarry/Open-pit limeStOne mine nOw! Demonstrate to support the farmers of Dufferin County and demand a full environmental assessment. Noon. Free. Ministry of the Environment, 77 Wellesley W. beatondanny@yahoo.ca, pals@becon.org.

the ten lawS OF lOve and pOwer: theOry and praCtiCe OF SOCial Change Workshop.

5:30-7 pm. $30. MaRS Discovery Centre, 101 College. Pre-register bit.ly/pshnne. rwaterFrOnt night market Asian food, live entertainment, children’s arts and crafts and more. Today 6 pm-midnight; tomorrow 5 pm-midnight; Jul 23, 5 pm-midnight; Jul 24, 5-10 pm. Free. T&T Supermarket, 222

Les Ballets Persans perform at the Tirgan Festival. can savannah, performances, visual art and vendors. Free w/ admission. Toronto Zoo, Meadowvale N of 401. 416-392-5929.

To Sep 5 BlaCkCreek Summer muSiC FeStival Concerts

by Alan Jackson, Barry Manilow, and the London Symphony Orchestra. Rexall Centre, 1 Shoreham (York University campus). blackcreekfestival.com.

To Aug 30 rJ’adOre FeStival Music by Medicine Man, eLman and others, art, fashion, family walks, food and more. Various prices and venues, Cherry. waterfrontnightmarket.com.

Friday, July 22

Benefits

pOetry tO Save a City, pOemS FOr rOB FOrd

(7 Directions & the African Reparations Fund) Poetry by NoubeSe Philip, Kumari Giles, Truth Is, Zainab Amadahy, Sonny Be, Sedina Fiati and others plus an open mic. 9 pm. $10 or pwyc.

Blue Moon, 725 Queen E. 416-463-8868.

Events

danCing under the StarS Dance in the park

to music by a local DJ. 8 pm. Free. Mimico Square, Amos Waites Park, 2445 Lake Shore W. 416-252-0152.

Friday night rideS with CyClOpS Bike ride with performances by Cycling Oriented Pup-

some events free. jadorefestival.com.

To Jul 30 Open rOOF FeStival Outdoor film and music festival with performances by the Darcys, Liam Titcomb and others. $15. Amsterdam Brewery, 21 Bathurst. openrooffestival.com.

To Sep 1 SOund travelS Indoor and outdoor sound art concerts, installations, a symposium and more. Concerts $10-$15, symposium $35$70, intensive $175. Artscape Wychwood Barns and other venues. soundtravels.ca.

To Sep 3 SummerliCiOuS Restaurants throughout the city offer special three-course prix-fixe menus. Lunch $15-$25, dinner $25-$45. toronto.ca/special_events.

To Jul 24 CrtOrOntO CariBBean Carnival Celebration of all things Caribbean, with calypso and soca music, costume competitions, concerts and the parade. Various prices, many events free. torontocaribbeancarnival.com.

To Aug 1 tOrOntO Summer muSiC FeStival Classical music festival with performances by Kirill Gerstein, Vienna Piano Trio and others plus masterclasses. $16.50 and up, passes $50$400. Edward Johnson Bldg (80 Queen’s Park), Koerner Hall (273 Bloor W). torontosummermusic.com.

To Aug 13 pet Squad. 6:30 pm. Free. Various locations. clayandpapertheatre.org/cyclops/category/ group-rides. rlive lOCal marketplaCe An outdoor stage, movie screening, art, kids’ activities, food and more. 6 pm. Free. Scadding Court Community Centre, 707 Dundas W. scaddingcourt.org.

C tOrOntO CariBBean Carnival gala

Masquerade models, music, dancing and more. Liberty Grand, 25 British Columbia. torontocaribbeancarnival.com.

Saturday, July 23

Benefits

Fit-a-thOn (Dr. Roz’s Healing Place) Fitness endurance challenge to raise funds for women and children fleeing abuse. 9 am-4

pm. $45, stu $15; or $250 in pledges. YongeDundas Square. 416-264-0823 ext 234. thrill OF the grill (Broadview Community Youth Group) Local chefs take to the grills to create the best Danforth slider burger. Noon-3 pm. $5 to sample all entries and vote for your favourite. Jackman Avenue. thedanforth.ca.

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CaBBagetOwn’S mediCal heritage Heritage

Toronto walking tour. 1:30 pm. Free. Parliament and Winchester. heritagetoronto.org. rCanada grOOmS Professional dog grooming competition. Today 11 am-5 pm; tomorrow 11 am-3 pm. Free. PawsWays, 245 Queens Quay W. pawsway.ca.

Culinary/Cultural neighBOurhOOd tOur

Walking tour to sample food from local restaurants and see the sights around them.

1-3:30 pm. $40. harbourfrontcentre.com. 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. rJunCtiOn Farm FeSt Hands-on activities including beekeeping and vermiculture plus farm arnimals. 11 am-5 pm. Free. Junction Platform (Dundas btwn Pacific and Medland), Police Station grounds (209 Mavety). junctionfarmfest@gmail.com.

C kaiSO 365 CalypSO mOnarCh FinalS

Caribbean Carnival Toronto presents a calypso song competition, with guest Alex D Great. Chinese Cultural Centre, 5183 Sheppard E. torontocaribbeancarnival.com.

OutdOOr theatre wOrkShOp One-day intensive on approach and techniques with Shadowland Theatre. 11 am-6 pm. $60.

Ward’s Island Association, 18 Wyandot, Toronto Islands. shadowlandtheatre.ca. paleStinian FOOd JuStiCe Interactive presentation and photo exhibit, live music and more. 6:30 pm. $7-$10. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. emmaheathengel@hotmail.com.

rraiSe the rateS SOlidarity FeaSt – united we eat, divided we Starve! Ontario Coalition Against Poverty event to protest cuts to the Special Diet Allowance, with food, music, kids games and a planning session. Noon. Free.

Allan Gardens, Carlton and Jarvis. ocap.ca.

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Events

BaBy poinT: 10,000 yeaRs of hisToRy Herit-

Distillery District. Free. Distillery District gates, 55 Mill. info@graemeparry.com.

99 mRkT Local food, craft and art market. 11 am-5 pm. Free. 99 Sudbury. 99sudbury.ca/99-mrkt.

poison gas cReek (oR Toxic ToRonTo’s WoRsT losT cReek) Lost rivers walk. 6:30

pm. Free. Avenue and Davenport. 416-5932656. puppeTRy WoRkshop Caitlin Black talks about the use of puppets in political street art. Noon-3 pm. Pwyc. Coronation Park, Lake Shore W and Bathurst. Pre-register anita.krajnc@gmail.com. rsummeR in The 1850s kiTchen Cooking workshop with tasting, tours and hands-on activities. Noon-5 pm. Free w/ admission.

Gibson House, 5172 Yonge. 416-225-0146. sunday scene Tour the current exhibitions with Erin Canning and Marino Imperio. 2 pm. Free. Power Plant, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949.

TV siTcoms aRe no Bull! Interactive workshop for screenwriters with Sheldon Bull. 1-3 pm. $15. NFB Mediatheque Atelier Room, 150 John. meetup.com/screenwriters-240/ events/24009021. ryouTh day Young artists 14 to 24 showcase their music, dance, art and photography.

11:30 am-10 pm. Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. youthdaytoronto.com.

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Art auction fundraiser for poor children and orphans in northern Thailand, with live music, prizes and more. 8 pm. $10, adv $8. Loose Moose, 146 Front W. 416-977-8840. leaside aRena fundRaiseR (Leaside Arena Expansion Project) Live music, a buffet dinner and more. 6 pm. $25. Leaside Gardens William Lee Room, 1073 Millwood. leasidearena.com.

The luVli ladies’ shoW (The Olive Branch of Hope) Breast cancer awareness fundraiser with 50s-inspired fashions and more. 10 am-5 pm. $50, adv $40. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. paWs on The shoRe (ORA Animal Rescue) Group dog hike and raffle. 10 am-1 pm. Free.

Marie Curtis Park, Lake Shore W and Brown’s Line. ora-animalrescue.org.

laneWay Bike TouR – coRkToWn To caBBageToWn Tour the changing alleys of the

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age Toronto walking tour. 2 pm. Free. SW corner of Jane and Baby Point/Annette. heritagetoronto.org. rBRazilfesT Celebrate all things Brazilian with music, dance, food and more. Earlscourt Park, 1369 St Clair W. brazilfest.ca. el conTRaTo Focus on Food film screening and discussion. 1-3 pm. Free. Noor Cultural Centre, 123 Wynford. noorculturalcentre.ca. fighT! BRand WResTling Wrestling. Noon.

Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. 416-923-8137. hisToRic gaRden TouRs Tour the restored gardens. 1:30 & 3 pm. Free w/ admission.

Spadina Museum, 285 Spadina. 416-3926910.

$

guided tours, historical displays and more. 10 am-4 pm. Free. Roncesvalles and Wright. roncesvallesvillage.ca.

Russian Tea Room Cultural event featuring Russian songs by Beryozka soloists and a bake sale. 1 pm. Free. Federation of Russian Canadians, 6 Denison. 416-504-8404.

C soca and dance WoRkshop Learn to dance calypso, Soca and more. 2 pm. Free.

Dufferin/St. Clair Library, 1625 Dufferin.

Pre-register 416-393-7712. summeR Weekend maRkeT Jewellery, vintage clothing, mini-massages, tarot card readings and more, 10 am-6 pm. Free. 1273 Queen W, at Elm Grove. madeyoulook.ca. rVicToRian exTRaVaganza Entertainment with the Scene Change youth players and more. Noon-5 pm. Free w/ admission. Scarborough Museum, 1007 Brimley. 416-338-8807.

The Wiggles Birthday tour with the Wiggles, Captain Feathersword, Dorothy the Dinosaur and others. Today 11 am & 2:30 pm; tomorrow 12:30 & 4 pm. $25-$85. Ricoh Coliseum, Exhibition Place. ticketmaster.ca.

The WondeRs of WaRden Woods Heritage Toronto walking tour. 10 am. Free. NW entrance to Warden Woods Park, SW corner of St Clair E and Warden. heritagetoronto.org.

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Hear poems for rob ford

There’s no shortage of people trying to send the right message to our mayor, but Poetry To Save A City, Poems For Rob Ford will have special potency. Pay $10 (or pay what you can) and hear words from the brilliant Truth Is..., NourbeSe Philip, Sonny Be and more Friday (July 22) at Blue Moon. Proceeds go to 7 Directions and the African Reparations Fund, which support grassroots initiatives that address the practical needs of communities by reclaiming indigenous African knowledges.

725 Queen East, 9 pm. 416-463-8868.

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July 21-24 FREE The waterfront comes alive with Iranian culture!

HIGHLIGHTS

Pardis: Hamid Motebassem and Salar Aghili New take on Persian music by a 20 member orchestra

Golden Puppet Theatre

Witness the magic of master puppeteer Vida Ghahremani

Les Ballets Persans Ballet, Iranian Style

ract, dance, sing! Learn improv, puppetry, dancing and more at this kids’ camp. To Jul 28, 9 am-1 pm. $250. Ryerson Theatre School, 44/46 Gerrard E. Pre-register 416-979-5118. rcamp LuLa Week-long world arts camp for kids six to 12 with music, storytelling, Latin dance and more. 8:30 am-4 pm. $250. Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas W. Pre-register lula.ca. drawing from tHe modeL Life drawing session, no instruction. 6:30-9 pm. $5. Ralph Thornton Centre, 765 Queen E. 416-392-6810.

Luis bunueL Film school-style presentation by critic Adam Nayman. 7 pm. $12, stu $6.

Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina. 416-924-6211 ext 606. u of t HistoricaL waLking tours Guided tours of the St George campus happen weekdays at 2:30 pm through Aug. Free. Nona Macdonald Visitors Centre, 25 King’s College Circle.

416-978-5000. wHy sHouLd i care? toronto Ranked Ballot Initiative of Toronto discussion on voting reform with Dave Meslin and Amanda Klein. 7 pm. Free. Paupers, 539 Bloor W. Pre-register wsicjuly2011.eventbrite.com.

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tHe Happiness project: in tHe House fundraiser (Happiness Project at Nuit Blanche

2011) Performances by Charles Spearin, Sexy Merlin, Circle Research and DJ Kyle Marshall. 7 pm. $30. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.

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ing, music and an auction. 7:30 pm. $15. Great Hall, 1087 Queen W. artbattleto.com. cuban revoLution day Celebrate the revolution with live music, poetry from Charlie Bobus and Arnold H Itwaru and more. 6:30 pm-midnight. Pwyc. Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil. torontoforumoncuba.weebly.com. rfairy Hike Explore the world of fairies and gnomes in the High Park woodlands. 1 pm. $2.

High Park Nature Centre, 430 Parkside. 416392-1748 ext 2. internationaL foLk dancing Dance in the park every Tue. 7:30 pm. Free. Sir Winston Churchill Park, Spadina and St Clair. ofda.ca.

ancthon Township near the headwaters of seven major rivers. Antiquarry protesters warn of the destruction of agricultural land, ecological contamination and the threat to urban food security. Now’s your chance to tell the ministry of the environment that the least they can do is order a full enviro assessment.

Rally today (Thursday, July 21) at noon. Free. Ministry of the Environment, 77 Wellesley W. ndact.com.

feast to raise tHe rates

OCAP’s keeping the pressure on the province to raise social assistance rates by 55 per cent and stop limiting the subsidy for those on special diets. On Saturday (July 23), the org hosts a Solidarity Barbecue and strategy meeting featuring music, free food and discussion.

Noon. Free. Allan Gardens, Carlton and Jarvis. ocap.ca.

Truth Is... speaks out to Rob Ford on July 22.

rmad science wet and wiLd water worksHop Workshop for kids six and up. 2 pm. Free.

Pape Danforth Library, 701 Pape. Pre-register 416-393-7727. rmeet rutH oHi The children’s author/illustrator shows demonstrates how to make a picture book. 2 pm. Free. Barbara Frum Library, 20 Covington. 416-395-5440. running free! Running group for families who have a loved one with a mental health or addiction issue. 6 pm. Free. CAMH, rm 2029, 33 Russell. Register 416-535-8501 ext 2189.

Wednesday, July 27 C caLypso stars sHowcase Caribbean

Carnival Toronto presents soca artists including Garth Burgess and Moko Jumbies.

Free. Harbourfront Centre West Jet Stage, 235 Queens Quay W. torontocaribbeancarnival.com. entertainment district Guided ROM walk. 6 pm. Free. King and Simcoe. rom.on.ca.

HanseL and greteL Community rehearsals of the upcoming Shadowland Theatre production. 7 pm. Free. Ward’s Island Assoc, 18 Wyandot. shadowlandtheatre.ca. rkids’ scavenger Hunt Kids six to 12 explore the historic grounds of the Legislative Assembly through an outdoor scavenger hunt.

10:30-11 am. Free. Queen’s Park. Pre-register 416-325-7500. nortH by nortHeast Urban ecology walk of old CNR Rail right-of-way. 6:30 pm. Free. Main subway. 416-593-2656. rpLay soccer Community soccer event.

Noon-3 pm. Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. playsoccer.ca.

upcoming Thursday, July 28

Benefits

words (Literature for Life) Spoken word with

Dwayne Morgan, Jwyze and Roots Kizzy plus music by Andria Symaniw, and a DJ set by k-os.

8:30 am-2 pm. $25, adv $20. C Lounge, 456 Wellington. literatureforlife.org.

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craft beer festivaL Beer sampling, barbecue nibbles and entertainment. 7 pm. $35, U of T stu $30. Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle. 416978-8849, uofttix.ca.

C king and queen competition and sHow

Toronto Caribbean Carnival presents the annual event with costumed masqueraders competing for the crowns. 7 pm. $38, adv $30, stands $100. Lamport Stadium, 1151 King W. torontocaribbeancarnival.com.

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Breeze through summer in doily-like blouses, filigree prints and lace-inspired cut-outs.

1. Ark & Co. lace top ($72, Bicyclette Boutique, 880 Queen West, 416-5328048, shopbicyclette.ca).

Roncie’s favourite vintage shopkeeper Catherine Huizenga has opened a second Mrs. Huizenga location in the Junction and filled it with her signature eclectic, priced-to-move mix of housewares, clothing and furniture.

The double storefront sets itself apart from Mrs. H’s original outlet with the addition of larger and designer pieces sourced in collaboration with Clayton Williams and Bonnie Meacham, the

duo behind the biannual Clothing Show.

Standout home accents include free-form glass ashtrays, retro bar accessories including colourful goblets and chrome ice buckets, and sets of kitchen tins for flour, tea and sugar.

Furniture ranges from a perfectly worn gold side table to a 1925 Wassily chair wrapped with thick leather straps.

There are also salvaged doors and mantel pieces along with a collection of textiles, printed fibreglass curtains and floral frocks.

Mrs. Huizenga picks: A metal patio chair still sports its original white powder coat of paint, $85; picnic with a set of pastel Melmac plates, $45; 1970s floral and crystal brooches cover a miniature dress form, $10 to $45.

Look for: A Junction shop crawl on August 5 when Mrs. Huizenga and other retailers open their doors from 7 to 11 pm to highlight the neighbourhood’s design chops.

Hours: Wednesday to Friday 11 am to 6 pm, Saturday 11 am to 7 pm, Sunday noon to 6 pm.

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2. This Ilk coral lace-and-chain earrings ($34, Shopgirls, 1342 Queen West, 416-534-7467, shopgirls.ca).

3. Vintage 1950s straw hat ($125, Magwood, 1418 Dundas West, 416818-3975, magwood.ca).

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4. Town Shoes laser-cut clogs ($74.99, 95 Bloor, 416-928-5062, and others, townshoes.com).

5. Lace-print swim briefs ($30, American Apparel, 338 Yonge, 416-977-8005, and others, americanapparel.net).

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1102, patagonia.com) offers 50 per cent off select spring 2011 products.

sPArks The week’s news, views PHiliP The Philip Sparks Sample Sale runs today (Thursday, July 21) through Sunand sales

Anti-Hero

The boys at Anti-Hero (113 Yorkville, 416-924-6121, antihero.ca) are currently serving up a summer shirt sale, but it’s not just their selection of designer button-ups from John Varvatos, Dirk Bikkemberg and D&G that are getting the 50-per-cent-off treatment.

Spring suits, knits, T-shirts and outerwear are also half off.

ewAnikA The in-house line of womenswear is 25 to 40 per cent off at Ewanika (1083 Bathurst, 416-927-9699, ewanika.ca), along with Dieppa Restrepo shoes, knits from Lars Andersson, Hope accessories and Jensen-Conroy jewellery.

FAsHion Crimes

As part of Frugal Fashion Week (frugalfashionweek. com), Fashion Crimes (322 Queen West, 416-5929001, fashioncrimes. ca) hosts a huge sale Saturday (July 23), keeping the store open until 10 pm to maximize your penny-pinching time.

day (July 24) at the Burroughes Building (639 Queen West, philipsparks. com) from noon to 6 pm. Look for menswear, womenswear, footwear and accessories marked down by at least 75 per cent off.

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For the first time, Preloved (preloved. ca) hosts a sample and warehouse sale in the summer. The discounts debut at Oz Studios (134 Ossington) on Wednesday (July 27) and continue until July 30, noon to 8 pm.

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The Summer Upholstery Sale, where all sectionals, sofas, chairs and ottomans are 20 per cent off, runs until August 14 at Style Garage (938 Queen West, 416534-4343, stylegarage.com).

In the seven years leading up to the opening of his new Junction store, Opticianado, Jordan Paul collected over 500 pairs of vintage specs, from cat-eye models in fragile 1950s Bakelite to 1980s colour-blocked styles.

What makes his retro lineup extra noteworthy, though, is that they’re all dead stock – not a single set of eyes has ever peeped through these frames. In addition to the period pieces, Paul sells new options from boutique lines Yellows Plus, Andy Wolf and Toronto-based Eyenigma. Vintage tortoiseshell glasses with flip-down shades, $260, 2919 Dundas West, 416-604-2020, AS opticianado.com.

DAVID HAWe

You might be in the middle of enjoying summer heat and the barely-there clothing that makes it bearable, but retailers are already making room for fall merch with some super sales. Here’s where to score the best deals of the season.

UPC

Designer apparel buys from Fifth Avenue Shoe Repair, 3.1 Philip Lim, Melissa, Rad by Rad Hourani and more are up to 85 per cent off during sale month at UPC Boutique (128½ Cumberland, 416-929-9209, upcboutique.com). 3

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JonAtHAn + oliviA Designer collections are up to 70 per cent off, and Topshop pieces are all 50 per cent off during Jonathan + Olivia’s (49 Ossington, 416-849-5956, jonathanandolivia.com) summer sale, on now.

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Toronto label NADA (nadadesigns.com) is, sadly, closing down and hosts its final sale, featuring samples, overstock, studio equipment and fabric, at 51 Bulwer until July 31.

PAtAgoniA Starting today (Thursday, July 21), Patagonia (500 King West, 416-861-

TORONTO 500 King Street West (416) 861-1102 *Sale limited to stock on hand. Sale prices apply only to Patagonia merchandise beginning July 21 and continue as long as stock lasts. New for fall items, Frisbee Whirl, mugs, water bottles, DVDs, books, gift cards, gift bags, Carry Y’All Bags, repairs, and shipping are excluded. Discount not available online at patagonia.com/ca. Offer valid in Patagonia Toronto store only. Not valid with other offers. PHOTO: Andrew Burr ©2011 Patagonia, Inc. ®

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in a cake store. Every delicious kind of cake you could imagine was there: carrot cake, Check out our Automobiles strawberry cheesecake, gooey butter cake, rich chocolate with four layers of cherSectioncake in NOW Classifieds. ries and whipped cream, birthday cakes that must have been baked in paradise.

Sadly, there was a problem: You weren’t allowed to buy anything, even though you had enough money. A big sign on the wall said, simply, “Absolutely no cakes available for Aries.” What do you think my dream means? More importantly, what are you going to do about the situation? I suggest that in my next dream, you get a friend to buy a cake for you. Either that, or go to a different cake store. One way or another, the astrological omens say it’s high time for you get the cake you want.

Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 As I ponder your im-

mediate future, I’m reminded of a scene from the animated TV show The Simpsons.

Here’s the situation: While visiting the home of a colleague, the superintendent of schools is surprised to witness an anomalous outbreak of spectacular light. “Aurora Borealis?” he exclaims. “At this time of year?

At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localized entirely within your kitchen?”

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VirGo Aug 23 | sep 22 My astrological colleague Antero Alli praises the value of anxiety. He says that when you feel that unsettling emotion, it’s because you’re experiencing more uncertainty than you like to – and that can be a good thing. It could mean you’re about to experience the fertility that comes from wading into the unknown. An outbreak of novelty may be imminent, giving you the chance to welcome interesting surprises into your life. In fact, says Alli, the anxiety that comes from unpredictable mysteries may herald the arrival of an influx of creativity.

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Justout fill in theCareers freaking blanks within Check our Section whatever you’ve got to fill them with – with this week’s Classifieds. your best guesses, with borrowed mojo, with any miscellaneous material you have at hand. I realize you may be tempted to wait around for a supposedly more ideal moment. But I’m here to tell you that this is as ideal as it gets. So please express the hell out of yourself in the empty spaces, my dear; create yourself anew in the void – however improvisational or inexact it might feel.

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LibrA sep 23 | oct 22 “The I Ching coun-

sels that if we are associating with others who are not our true peers,” says astrologer Caroline Casey, “our real allies cannot find us.” Please apply this test to yourself, Libra. If, after taking inventory, you find that your circle is largely composed of cohorts and comrades who match your levels of vitality and intelligence, that will be excellent news; it will signal an opportunity to begin working on an upgraded version of your social life that will increase your access to synergy and symbiosis even further. But if your survey reveals that you’re hanging out too much with people whose energy doesn’t match yours, it will be time for a metamorphosis.

GeMini May 21 | Jun 20 “Do you know

how to resolve an unresolvable paradox?” asked a Facebook friend named Pi. He answered his own question: “You figure out the ‘error’ in the initial premise or assumption.” And that’s my prescription for you this week, Gemini. Do not be tempted to bang your out headour against the wallSection so as to in Check Careers shake loose a non-existent answer to the this week’s Classifieds. wrong question. Instead, stop yourself in the middle of your angst and think: “What would be a more productive way to formulate the riddle I need to untangle?”

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sCorpio oct 23 | nov 21 There’s a lot of

graffiti scrawled in a variety of languages on St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City. A fairly recent arrival is a plea, in English, to resuscitate a defunct American TV sitcom. “God, Bring back Arrested Development,” the guerrilla prayer reads. According to my reading of the astrological omens, Scorpio, now would be a good time for you to be equally cheeky in promoting one of your pet causes. Consider the possibility of taking your case to a higher authority. To fight for what’s right, you may have to make your mark in a place whose sphere of influence is bigger than yours.

An innovative jobseeker named Travis Broyles put an ad on Craigslist in Atlanta. Among the tasks he said he would perform for money were the following: draw your face on a balloon; email you a list of 250 things he likes about you; build you a cardboard car and make vroom-vroom sounds while you drive it; change his political leanings; rename your Pokémon; or provide you with star treatment for a month, hiding in the bushes like a paparazzo and taking candid photos of you. I recommend that you come up with your own version of a list like this, Cancerian.

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tear your gaze away from them more than usual in the coming week. A change in your brain chemistry needs to happen, and one good way to accomplish it will be to feast your eyes on vast panoramas and expansive natural scenes. Doing so will invigorate your thinking about the design and contours of your own destiny, and that would be in sweet alignment with the astrological omens. So catch regular views of the big picture, Sagittarius. Treat clouds and birds and stars as if they were restorative messages from the wide-open future. Gaze lovingly at the big sky.

CApriCorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 A Facebook

friend posted a quote by seminal psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud: “Being entirely honest with oneself is a worthwhile exercise.” In response, another Facebooker named Dean Robinson disagreed: “Oh, I say let yourself have a little denial, and touch base with reality on a need-to-know basis.”

Another respondent named Paulie Cerra took that sentiment one step further: “Reality and I have an understanding. I don’t mess with it and it doesn’t mess with me.”

Which of those three approaches are you inclined to pursue, Capricorn? In light of the current astrological omens, I suggest you try the first one for at least the next two weeks.

AquArius Jan 20 | Feb 18 You really need to tell your stories. It’s not just a good idea; it’s downright urgent. There’s a backlog of unexpressed narratives clogging up your depths. It’s like you have become too big of a secret to the world. The unvented pressure is building up, threatening to implode. So please find a graceful way to share the narratives that are smoldering inside you – with the emphasis on the word “graceful.” I don’t want your tales to suddenly erupt like a volcano all over everything at the wrong time and place. You need a receptive audience and the proper setting. pisCes Feb 19 | Mar 20 Piscean actor Javier Bardem said this to Parade magazine: “I don’t know if I’ll get to heaven. I’m a bad boy. Heaven must be nice, but is it too boring? Maybe you can get an apartment there and then go to hell for the weekends.” I caution all you other Pisceans against pursuing this line of thought in the coming weeks. You may imagine that you can get away with sneaking away to hell for just a couple of days a week, but I don’t share that optimism. My advice is to rack your brains to drum up as much adventure as possible in safety zones and sanctuaries where you know for sure you’ll stay healthy and sane.

Homework: Don’t get back to where you once belonged. Go forward to where you’ve got to belong in the future. Testify at Freewillastrology.com.

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Though you won’t find it on the regular menu, this not-so well-kept secret’s called the Tower of Babel ($14.99) for good reason. This almost architectural colossus consists of the Priest’s Double Double cheeseburger topped with his portobello Option, NOW’s #1 under- $10 burger and runner-up veggie burger respectively. But here’s the trick that really brings down the house: instead of hamburger buns, the TOB comes wedged between three grilled cheese sandwiches. And some good news – they’ve finally figured out how to properly cook french fries. Amen!

Monday to Wednesday 11:30 am to 9:30 pm, Thursday and Friday 11:30 am to 10:30 pm, Saturday noon to 10:30 pm.

Closed Sunday, some holidays. Unlicensed. Cash only. Access: barrier-free, no washrooms.

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699 st Clair W, at Christie, 416-6589666, thestockyards.ca.

Most come to Tom Davis’s uptown barbecue shack for some of the best smoked ribs and chicken in town. Who knew his roughly ground smash-griddled burgers would turn into a major attraction on their own? Davis takes aim at the Priest’s Double Double – and just misses – with his mustard-seared Animal cheeseburger ($7.50) but hits the bull’s eye with his Butter burger ($9), a beefy 6-ounce patty topped with butter lettuce, a whack of skinny onion rings and a sizable pat of bone-marrow-laced compound butter.

Tuesday to Saturday 9 am to 9 pm. Brunch Saturday and Sunday 9 am to 3 pm, dinner Sunday 4:45 to 8 pm. Closed Monday, holidays. Unlicensed. Access: steep ramp at door, washrooms on same floor.

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3.Woody’s Burgers

Who doesn’t love hamburgers? We certainly do, having eaten our way across the GTA in search of the 50 best out there. From cheap ’n’ cheerful to pricey and over-the-top, outrageously meaty to virtuously vegan, we infiltrate the cult of the Burger’s Priest, ask Hey Meatball!’s Rodney Bowers for DIY burger tips and Graham Duncan for advice on the perfect backyard tipple. Hungry NOW?

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3795 Lake shore W, at brown’s Line, 416-546-2093, woodysburgers.com.

Rising from the ashes of Freshwood Grill, this west-side take-away prides itself on doing everything naturally, from its handpressed 7-ounce beef patties stuffed with processed cheddar ($6.35) to its freshly made salsa and grilled jalapeño toppings.

Even the wood they’re grilled over is allCanadian hardwood. Lots of alterna-burgers, too – tandoori chicken, bison – and they’ll sell them to you raw to cook at home on the barbie. It’s a shame that Woody’s halfway to Hamilton, cuz downtown, these guys would give Stockyards and the Priest a run for their money.

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4.Golden Star

7123 Yonge, at Doncaster, 905-889-6891.

Growing up in Thornhill, we scorned this classic burger joint just north of the city’s limits as an after-dinner dining destination. We cool cats would commandeer somebody or other’s mother’s station wagon and hightail it to the then one-andonly Harvey’s in Richmond Hill. What fools we. Instead, we could have been chowing down on the nearly 50-year-old resto’s classic All-Star Burger Deluxe ($7.10), 6 extremely juicy ounces of never-frozen medium-grind Nortown steak loaded with processed cheddar, beefy bacon and house-made barbecue sauce, the lot “run through the garden.” Who said you can never go home again (editor’s note: Thomas Wolfe and the Shangri-las)?

Daily 10 am to 11 pm. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms on same floor.

482 Parliament, at Carlton, 647-3445103, thegourmetburgerco.com.

Of all the recent would-be burger franchises, only John Ward’s mini-chain has the goods to go all the way. His secret weapon? The Aussie burger ($8.50), 6 ounces of aged lean never-frozen houseground Canadian beef topped with enough bacon, lettuce, tomato, Hellman’s mayo, gooey cheddar, grilled pineapple, honey-poached beets and a runny fried egg to sink a battleship. What other burger includes all four food groups?

Sunday to Thursday 11 am to 10 pm, Friday and Saturday 11 am to 11 pm. Closed some holidays. Unlicensed. Access: bump at door, no washrooms, counter seating.

5.W BurGer Bar

10 College, at Yonge, 416-961-2227, wburgerbar.com.

Before I visited this handsome midtown burger bar, I’d always assumed the W in its name stood for wannabee, all flash and no substance. Colour me wrong. Instead, I encounter an impossibly moist and medium-rare (ish) 6-ounce hand-formed patty of hormone-free beef cooked smash-style on a flat-top and served on a toasted house-baked whole wheat bun stacked with ripe tomato and leaf lettuce ($6.99), a complimentary plate of celery ‘n’ carrot sticks with blue cheese dip on the side. Upgrades of good local cheddar ($1.50) and meaty bacon ($1.25) only intensify the taste.

Monday to Wednesday 11:30 am to 11 pm, Thursday and Saturday 11:30 am to 2 am, Sunday noon to 11 pm. Licensed. Access: two steps at foor, washrooms in basement.

176 Baldwin, at Kensington, 416-596-8691.

This hectic butcher shop in Kensington Market has always been known for its stellar house-made hot dogs, but who knew its snack counter also flipped a burger of equal repute? Go for the basic Texas burger ($2.50) – 6 ounces of specially ground beef on a surprisingly good bun generously topped upside-down with chopped lettuce, diced onion, dill pickle and tangy tzatziki – or the double ($3.75) if you’re really hungry.

Monday to Saturday 8:30 am to 6 pm.

Closed Sunday, holidays. Unlicensed. Access: barrier-free, no washrooms.

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Frankly, we can’t see the fuss. Sure, the Bacon Cheeseburger’s ($8.49) a handful, and all extra toppings – grilled onions ‘n’ mushrooms, jalapeño peppers, A-1 steak sauce – are on the house. But the processed cheese on them doesn’t melt and the bacon’s strictly run-of-the-mill. Good thing a regular order of fries ($3.49) is large enough to feed a family of four and bottomless refills of sugary soda pop are free.

Daily 11 am to 10 pm. Unlicensed. Access: barrier-free.

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8.ChuCk and Co.

672 St Clair W, at Christie, 416-5333500, chuckandco.com.

We were ready to dismiss this newish chain after sampling its miserable Masala turkey burger ($7) at its Liberty Village location. However, one look at the swanky uptown outpost’s Bacon Cheddar Burger ($8) and our intial reaction’s out the window – one bite and we’re converts. Where else will you come across 4 ridiculously succulent ounces of freshly ground chuck topped with smoky bacon, gooey cheddar and all the fixin’s on a fancy-pants ciabatta bun?

Monday to Thursday noon to 9 pm, Friday noon to 10 pm, Saturday 9 am to 10 pm, Sunday 9 am to 3 pm. Brunch weekends till 3 pm. Licensed. Access: barrier-free.

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233 Eglinton W, at Oriole Pkwy, 416-487-1974.

As the Golden Star is to Thornhill, this family-style fast food joint is to Forest Hill.

Like the Star’s All-Star, the Shack burger of choice is the Homemade Banquet Burger ($5.25), 6 significant ounces of never-frozen beef dressed with processed cheddar, regulation bacon and a truckload of lettuce, tomato and sweetly caramelized onion. Still up from the night before? Have a burger for breakfast!

Monday 8 am to midnight, Tuesday to Thursday 8 am to 1:30 am, Friday and Saturday 8 am to 3 am, Sunday 9 am to midnight. Closed some holidays. Unlicensed.

Access: one step at door, washrooms on same floor.

354 Queen W, at Spadina, 416-792-7792, burgershoppe.com.

Yes, it’s a shame that this landmark luncheonette is no longer the legendary Stem.

But credit owner Saeed Mohamed for keeping much of the original resto’s decor, Formica-clad booths ‘n’ all. The food, however, is a marked improvement on that served at the former greasy spoon, particularly the BQM Banquetburger ($9), 4 ounces of never-frozen naturally raised AAA Ontario chuck, finished with processed Canadian cheddar and thick meaty bacon.

Sunday to Thursday 11 am to 10 pm, Friday and Saturday 11 am to midnight. Licensed.

Access: barrier-free, booth and counter seating, washrooms in basement.

12.aCme BurGer Company

542 Church, at Wellesley W, 647-3524089, theacmeburgercompany.com.

Despite the generic handle, this import from Rob Fordland (aka Etobicoke) is the only burger chain in town that serves halal meat. Not that you can taste the difference. Housed in the old Zelda’s, the chic new room will shock those used to the intentionally trashy decor of old. The namesake burger’s gone upmarket as well, now 8 ounces of certified Angus beef ($6.49) upgraded with “real” cheddar cheese and bacon (75 cents each). Still, we miss the drag queen bingo.

Sunday to Wednesday 11 am to midnight, Thursday to Friday 11 am to 4 am. Licensed. Access: slight bump at door, washrooms on same floor.

11.GrindhouSe

365 King W, at Peter, 416-977-3010, grindhouse.ca.

We have to give points to this tourist strip resto-lounge for creating one of the juciest patties around, the Signature ($7), 5 plump ounces of grass-fed, hormone-free and locally sourced beef. We’ll even thumbs-up their smoked artisanal Jarlsberg upgrade ($1.75). But we’ll take those points away for a bun that literally falls apart within 15 seconds, no matter if it is made with whole wheat flour spiked with Steam Whistle Pilsner.

Sunday to Wednesday 11 am to midnight, Thursday to Saturday 11 am to 3 am.

Closed holidays. Licensed. Access: five steps at door, washrooms on same floor.

14.hero CertiFied BurGer

77 Wellesley East, at Church, 416-972-9665, heroburgers.com.

When Lettieri first launched this “certified” chain (now with 22 locations and counting) seven years ago in Hazleton Lanes, we failed to jump on board, finding their heavily hyped product undersized and overpriced. And did we mention tastechallenged? Since then, their namesake burgers ($6.99) have gained more heft – when they say 8 ounces, you get a postgrill 6 1/2 as opposed to the previous 4 – flavour and swankier, mostly free toppings. Optional gluten-free bun (79 cents), too. Who says old dogs don’t learn new tricks?

Sunday to Wednesday 11 am to 11 pm, Thursday to Saturday 11 am to 3 am. Unlicensed. Access: barrier-free, steep ramp at door, washrooms on same floor.

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800 Warden, at Sherry, 416-755-5757, fiveguys.ca.

The arrival of this American burger chain has been regarded in some quarters as

1056 Gerrard E, at Jones, 416-778-0111, greatburger.ca.

Ted Koutsogiannopoulos knows burgers.

Before launching this east-side clone of GBC, BQM and BSB, the long-time restaurateur ran Tasty Burger at Queen and Parliament. Some pedigree. And while they aren’t the most extravagant Whoppers in town, they’re certainly among the most delish, the Classic a 5-ounce mix of Cumbrae’s naturally raised brisket and chuck on a Brick Street Bakery bun gussied up with bacon and cheddar ($7.45). Don’t do carbs? Wrap them in lettuce leaves!

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Monday to Friday 11 am to 10 pm, Saturday noon to 11 pm, Sunday and holidays noon to 9 pm. Unlicensed. Access: two steps at door, washrooms on same floor.

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16.Lakeview

1132 Dundas W, at Ossington, 416-8508886, thelakeviewrestaurant.ca.

This art deco diner has a lot to admire – lovingly restored decor complete with vintage booths, a Wurlitzer jukebox stocked with 50 years of hit singles and a front door that never closes. However, we don’t see the point of lining up for bacon ‘n’ eggs at three o’clock in the morning. But we would make an exception for the retro resto’s Standard Burger ($9.50), 6 ounces of Donato Harvest Farm’s naturally raised beef on a Fred’s sesame seed bun coupled with both an Asian slaw and very good fries.

24/7. Licensed. Access: two steps at door, washrooms on same floor.

269 Augusta, at Nassau, 416-551-6550.

The former Craft Fat Burger’s combo has just about everything you could ask for – quality toppings, eggy sesame seed buns, excellent skinny hand-cut fries, a can of pop and archetypically gruff service behind the counter – and it’s only $5.99, up a buck since we reviewed them last summer. Shame their patties are now as moist as a mouthful of dry shredded wheat.

Bring back the Fat! Daily 11 am to 10 pm. Unlicensed. Access: short ramp at door, washrooms in basement.

18.Big Smoke Burger

573 King W, at Portland, 416-596-6660, bigsmokeburger.com.

No longer Craft Burger, the rebranded Smoke prides itself on its “handcrafted” product. Yet BSB’s Signature ($7.25), 5 ounces of organic Beretta Farms AAA

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19.Fran’S

20 College, at Yonge, 416-923-9867, fransrestaurant.com.

No survey of Toronto’s burger scene is complete without a mention of this historic resto’s namesake Franburger ($8.99).

It might not be the tastiest – we doubt it would make our Top 100 on flavour alone – but it’s certainly one of the most culturally significant, having been on the menu since the joint opened its doors in 1940.

Yes, the patty’s commercial and the fries are frozen, but Fran – who was a man – claims to have invented the Banquet Burger ($11.99), reason alone to make our list.

24/7. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms in basement. Booth seating.

9471 Yonge, at Observatory Ln, 905884-8776, harveys.ca.

How the mighty have fallen! Back in the day – oh, 40 years ago – this ubiquitous cross-country chain with nearly 300 locations was the undisputed king of the local burger scene. Today, he’s a shadow of his former past, his Double Bacon Cheeseburger ($6.69) now a pair of vaguely rubbery pucks of unidentified cow layered with processed cheese and commercial bacon on a spongy bun dressed with a heap o’ toppings. A beautiful thing, we think not.

Daily 10:30 am to 11 pm. Unlicensed. Access: barrier-free.

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7 1.Queen & Beaver PuBlic House

35 Elm, at Yonge, 647-347-2712, queenandbeaverpub.ca.

Simply listed on the UK-style gastro-pub’s menu as “burger & chips ($17),” chef Andrew Carter’s aproximation of a Big Mac is so much more than that. A better description might be 6 juicy ounces of roughly hand-chopped top sirloin cap laced with fatty bone marrow served on an eggy house-baked bun dressed with fabulously thick house-smoked porkbelly bacon and strong blue Stilton cheese. Round it out with house-pickled asparagus, chunky sea-salted fries and the tastiest Indospiced ketchup in the GTA. Lunch Monday to Friday 11:30 am to 3 pm, dinner Monday to Saturday 3 to 11 pm, Sunday 3 to 10 pm. Brunch Saturday and Sunday 10 am to 3 pm, breakfast both days from 9 am in footie season. Bar till close. Licensed. Access: five steps at door, washrooms on second floor.

eggy Fred’s Bread bun. Next the garnishes – sharp aged cheddar, house-smoked bacon cure in maple syrup and Jack Daniel’s, grainy Guinness-sozzled mustard, roasted garlic mayo and Vitiello’s own ketchup. (“There’s lots of shit going on in there, but it’s predominantly cumin.”)

Combine the two, throw in a side of perfectly executed sea-salted russet frites dusted with chives and rosemary at no extra cost and get the perfect burger combo.

Dinner nightly 6 to 10:30 pm, late-night menu till midnight Thursday to Saturday.

Licensed. Access: three steps at door, washrooms in basement.

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2. HarBord room

89 Harbord, at Spadina, 416-962-8989, theharbordroom.com.

Accompanied by what the card of their ever-hot boîte refers to as “a little salad” – a respectable heap of arugula and radish in a cold-pressed soy bean vinaigrette goosed with fresh tarragon – chefs Cory Vitiello and Curt Martin’s much-lauded house burger ($15) is much more impressive than it might initially seem. First there’s the burger itself, 8 jus-squirting ounces of house-ground brisket on an

with balsamic-caramelized onions and pungent Stilton. Side with crunchy cornichons and exceptional pommes frites and reach hamburger heaven.

Lunch Monday to Friday 11:30 am to 2:30 pm, for dinner Monday to Saturday 5 to 11 pm. Closed Sunday, holidays. Licensed.

Access: barrier-free.

3.nota Bene

180 Queen W, at Simcoe, 416-977-6400, notabenerestaurant.com.

We might not be fans of this rather anonymous and pricey dining room, but we’ll gladly hit its adjacent Manhattanstyle saloon for David Lee’s cheeseburger ($19). Named for the ex-Splendido owner/ chef’s wife, the Jennifer finds 8 ounces of naturally raised Cumbrae brisket and chuck on a grilled Epi Breads bun dripping

111 Queen E, at Mutual, 416-863-6006, georgeonqueen.com.

It’s not all $200 multi-course tasting menus at chef Lorenzo Loseto’s chic downtown supper club. At lunch on the lovely garden terrace, his deeply flavourful 5-ounce Ollife veal burger studded with foie gras ($19 with salad) arrives layered with aged cheddar, ripe avocado and local field tomato on grilled house-made flatbread – so luxuriantly so, the whole thing’s held together with an upright bamboo skewer.

Lunch Monday to Friday noon to 2 pm, dinner Tuesday to Saturday 5:30 to 10:30 pm. Closed Sunday, holidays. Licensed.

Access: four steps at door, washrooms on same floor.

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601 King W, at Portland, 416-504-7867, susur.com.

Susur Lee’s come along way from the Peter Pan – backward tasting menus, anyone? – but he’s always kept true to the experimentation of his 80s Queen West culinary roots. Who else would have the audacity to deconstruct cheeseburgers by stuffing spring rolls with ground Angus sirloin and aged cheddar, then serve them wrapped in lettuce à la Peking Duck? Finish with smoky chipotle mayo, seeded ripe tomato and baby coriander leaves and reinvent an American classic.

Dinner Monday to Saturday 5:30 to 11:30 pm, bar till close. Closed Sunday, holidays.

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6.School

70 Fraser, at Liberty, 416-588-0005, schooltoronto.com.

Come patio weather, Brad Moore’s insanely popular Liberty Village lunch ’n’ brunch spot triples in capacity, making it that much easier to get your hands on the exXacutti chef’s house cheeseburger ($14 with chili-peppered frites), 7 ounces of pink-centred organic beef finished with aged cheddar, lettuce, tomato, red onion and peppercorn-studded brandy sauce.

Monday and Tuesday 8 am to 4 pm, Wednesday and Friday 8 am to 11 pm, Saturday and Sunday 9:30 am to 11 pm. Brunch till 4 pm, dinner from 5 pm. Closed some holidays. Licensed. Access: barrier-free.

with soup, salad or fries) packs this spectacular a punch. Blame 6 ounces of expertly grilled Rowe Farms brisket on a big Doughheads bun optionally spread with house-made ketchup and pickled asparagus. At dinner, he drowns the beast ($15.95 with fries and salad) in veal jus before layering it with artisan cheese and a whole lotta house-cured pancetta-like bacon (both $2.25 add-ons at lunch). Sweet!

Lunch Tuesday to Friday 11 am to 4 pm, for dinner Sunday, Tuesday to Thursday 6 to 10 pm, Friday and Saturday 6 to 11 pm.

Brunch Saturday and Sunday 10 am to 4 pm. Closed Monday, holidays. Licensed.

Access: two steps at door, washrooms in basement.

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488 Wellington W, at Portland, 416-9791990, marbenrestaurant.com.

Talk about locavore! Named for owner Simon Benstead’s dad John, not only does chef Carl Heinrich’s haute barnyard burger ($17 with fries and mustardy slaw) spotlight 6 ounces of braised beef ribs from Bradford’s Dingo Farms, local aged white cheddar and house-made Branston pickle, but its side of ketchup comes courtesy of one H.J. Heinz of Leamington, Ontario.

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268 Howland, at Dupont, 416-944-1606, fannychadwicks.com.

Once you learn that Fanny chef Joel McDonald has worked under both Susur Lee and Lorenzo Loseto, it’s no surprise his seemingly simple burger ($11.95 at lunch

96 Tecumseth, at Whitaker, 647-3526000, thebeastrestaurant.com.

Located on a leafy side steet in the storefront that was once Susur Lee’s iconic Lotus, Scott and Rachelle Vivian’s low-key neighbourhood bistro celebrates the animal in all of us. Take their cheeseburger ($16), 6 glorious ounces of grilled Cum-

brae chuck on a house-baked English muffin decked out with house-smoked peameal bacon, aged Quebec cheddar, house-made mayo and a runny fried free-range egg, sided with organic greens and the couple’s creative take on tater tots. Woof!

Dinner Wednesday to Saturday 6 to 11 pm.

Brunch Sunday 10 am to 3 pm. Closed Monday, Tuesday, holidays. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washroom on same floor.

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10.Weezie’s

354 King E, at Power, 416-777-9339.

For someone with no prior restaurant experience, Constance Guitard has created what most chefs dream of but few ever achieve – a cozy 30-seat neighbourhood bistro that’s booked solid virtually every night of the week. Foodies flock for the self-taught cook’s retro burger ($15), 8 grilled-to-order ounces of secret-grind triple A sirloin – we’re guessing garlic – on an appropriate bun loaded with aged cheddar, lettuce and tomato, a mess o’ fabulous frites dusted with freshly snipped taragon and chives on the side. Sometimes, simple is better.

Tuesday to Saturday 5:30 to 10 pm. Closed Sunday, Monday, holidays. Licensed. Access: two steps at door, washrooms in basement.

25 Dockside, at Queens Quay E, 647344-1562, atgurbantavern.ca.

Who says dining near the lake means tacky tourist traps and prefab pub grub?

This self-described gastro-pub at the foot of Jarvis next to Sugar Beach proves the exception to the rule, especially executive chef Sera Antheunis’s spectacularly plated 8-ounce naturally raised local Angus burger ($15 with sweet potato fries) piled so dramatically with pulled stout-braised short ribs, blue cheese, house-smoked bacon and frazzled onion rings that she has to stick a chopstick through it to stop it from falling over.

Monday and Tuesday 11 am to 11 pm, Wednesday and Thursday 11 am to midnight, Friday 11 am to 1 am, Saturday 10:30 am to 1 am, Sunday 10:30 am to 10 pm. Licensed.

Access: barrier-free.

always of this calibre, 8 ounces of customgrind Cumbrae chuck on a correctly retro Silverstein egg bun topped with cheddar, bacon, thickly sliced field tomato and leaf lettuce ($13.95 lunch/$17.95 dinner) with creamy coleslaw and hand-cut fries and served on vintage Fiestaware. And don’t forget the super house-made corn relish.

But remember, as the card warns, if you’re hoping to catch an early curtain at one of the several theatres nearby, “please allow 20 minutes for well-done.”

Breakfast and lunch Monday to Friday 7:30 am to 2:30 pm; dinner Tuesday to Saturday 5 to 9 pm. Brunch Saturday and Sunday 8 am to 2:30 pm. Licensed. Access: barrier-free, booth seating, washrooms in basement.

lettuce – grown nearby, no doubt – all on a properly pliable house-baked bun. Side them with Maldon-salted frites fried in duck fat. Who knew eco-consciousness could be so delish?

Lunch Monday to Friday 11:30 am to 3 pm, dinner Monday to Wednesday 5 to 10 pm, Thursday to Saturday 5 to 11 pm. Brunch Saturday and Sunday 11 am to 3 pm. Licensed. Access: four steps at door, washrooms in basement.

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249 Victoria, at Yonge-Dundas Sq, 416364-7517, thesenator.com.

Burgers have been on the menu of this lovingly original luncheonette since it opened back in 1929. True, they weren’t

2448 Bloor W, at Jane, 416-763-2222, thinkglobaleatlocal.ca.

Executive chef Kevin McKenna’s comfort food carte is widely trumpeted as one of the most locally sourced lineups out there. Witness his Earth burger ($17), 6 grilled ounces of house-ground Wellington County rib-eye piled with melted Ewenity Dairy cheese curds, sweet roasted red pepper relish and a leaf of Boston

143 Danforth, at Broadview, 416-463-3086, allens.to.

Urban myth has it that the house burger at this long-running saloon is so special, only regulars know to order it because it’s not on the menu. But there it is in clear sight on the card right next to the Ulster fry-up – 4 hand-formed ounces of grilled-to-order grass-fed Angus sirloin garnished with stinky blue cheese ($11.70), though it’s suggested, if you want more, that you “enquire of staff re permutations and combinations.”

Daily 11:30 am to midnight. Licensed. Access: barrier-free, washrooms in basement.

373 Queen W, at Peter, 416-593-0917, thepeterpanbistro.com.

If this venerable and influential diner goes down in history for only one thing in its eventful, more than 30-year run, the Pan will be forever known as the resto where Susur Lee flipped his very first burger. And what a burger it be ($13 lunch or brunch/$14.95 dinner) – 8 ounces of freshly ground beef on a house-baked bun tiered with lettuce, tomato and onion, sided with hand-cut Yukon fries and mixed organic greens in honey mustard dressing. For anyone still pining for Bemmelmans on Bloor, here’s the next best thing.

Lunch Monday to Saturday noon to 4 pm, dinner Monday to Wednesday 4 to 10:30 pm, Thursday 4 to 11 pm, Friday and Saturday 4 pm to noon; brunch Sunday noon to 4 pm, dinner to 10 pm. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms in basement.

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Burger’s Priest owner/chef Shant Mardirosian’s Double Double Burger tops the outrageous list.

1636 Queen E, at Coxwell, 647-346-0617, theburgerspriest.com.

Yes, Shant Mardirosian’s signature Double Double cheeseburger ($7.99) is a mess and deliciously so. Here’s why: two 3-ounce patties of roughly ground beef – what cut, he’s not sayin’ – fried smash-style on a griddle, flipped then dressed with sweetly caramelized onions and unapologetically American processed cheese. Cover with a lid to seal in the flavours, serve on an absorbent Wonderbread bun as tradition dictates and induce drooling. The truly righteous know to order them fried in Heinz mustard à la Jarge (jarzsh). And while he considers relish a sacrilege, he will add it to your burger for a price – $500 an ounce. “Think I’m kidding? Try me!” Coming soon to Leaside?

Monday to Wednesday 11:30 am to 9:30 pm, Thursday and Friday 11:30 am to 10:30 pm, Saturday noon to 10:30 pm. Closed Sunday, some holidays. Unlicensed. Cash only. Access: barrier-free, no washrooms.

2.Dangerous Dan’s

714 Queen E, at Broadview, 416-4637310, dangerousdansdiner.com.

Weighing in at a hefty 20 ounces, this easy-going east-side dive’s multi-tired Coronary burger ($15.25) isn’t for the faint of heart. Blow out a valve with two substantial 8-ounce patties, four slices of bacon, two of processed cheddar and, since life is short anyway, a greasy fried egg on the proverbial sesame seed bun. Includes chunky fries in gravy, a can of pop and a defibrillator. Don’t forget an Elvis milk shake (chocolate and peanut butter, $3.33) and a deep-fried Mars bar with whipped cream ($5.30) for dessert. Too lazy to get off your ass? Dan’s delivers!

Tuesday to Thursday 11 am to 10 pm, Friday and Saturday 11 am to midnight, Sunday noon to 10 pm. Closed Monday, holidays. Licensed. Access: barrier-free.

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5 Roncesvalles, at Queen W, 647-3520202, cardinalrulerestaurant.com.

Marta Kusel and Katie James’s retro westside diner is known for its solid lineup of burgers, particularly their tasty take on teriyaki pork. But it’s at weekend brunch that the gals blow the figurative roof off, tuning their basic Burger de Boeuf – 6 ounces of juicy Grace Meats chuck draped with sharp Oka cheese ($9) – into a Wallop burger ($12) with the addition of bacon, a runny fried egg and a potato ‘n’ leek latke.

How typically Roncey!

Tuesday to Friday 11 am to close. Brunch Saturday and Sunday 10 am to 4 pm, dinner both nights to close. Closed Monday, holidays. Licensed. Cash only. Access: one step at door, washrooms in basement.

5.Bellwood

756 Queen W, at Niagara, 416-504-8855.

When this Greece-y spoon slash sports bar says its eponymous burger ($6.95) weighs 16 ounces, they’re talking about the whole shebang – patty, toppings, et al.

Still, it’s a good inch-thick 10-ounces of ground beef, generously topped with lettuce, tomato and Spanish onion on an over-sized sesame seed bun. So what if fries are reconstituted, undercooked and swimming in industrial-grade gravy? One of these suckers and it’s adios, hangover.

Daily 8 am to 2 am, full menu from 11 am.

Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms in basement.

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6.Burger King

267 College, at Spadina, 416-591-9999, burgerking.ca.

On TV, the King’s Quad Stack ($6.29) looks humongous. In real life, it’s little more than four basic, proudly veggie-free cheeseburgers stacked on top of each other. Those who prefer quality over quantity should stick with the triple Angry Whopper ($7.79), a trio of 3-ounce patties of unknown origin – cow, we presume – layered with processed Jack, stringy bacon, deep-fried onions, barbecue sauce and pickled jalapeños.

Sunday to Wednesday 7 am to midnight, Thursday to Saturday 7 am to 2 am. Unlicensed. Access: barrier-free.

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“I’d like a Hangover, please” isn’t the kind of thing most people say when ordering at a fast food joint. But that’s just what you can do when you opt for this newly launched operation’s Great Canadian Hangover ($15). You get three 6-ounce never-frozen patties, three slices of processed Velveetastyle cheddar, two slices of peameal bacon, fried mushrooms ‘n’ onions, romaine lettuce, field tomato and – damn the cholesterol count – a fried egg. Be foolish enough to order one and they’ll take your picture with it and post the incriminating evidence on their Facebook page.

Monday to Thursday 11 am to 10 pm, Friday 11 am to 4 am, Saturday noon to 4 am. Closed Sunday, holidays. Unlicensed. Access: 10 steps at door, washrooms on same floor.

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7.MCdonald’s

160 Spadina, at Queen W, 416-703-7401, mcdonalds.ca.

It’s said that the Mickey Dee logo is the most recognizable on the planet, its topof-the-line Big Mac the most popular burger. Not one to miss a passing trend – spicy Thai chicken salad, anyone? – Ronald’s now jumped on the bigger-isbetter bandwagon. Case in point: the Double Big Mac ($5.39), four all-beef patties, lettuce, special sauce and a slice of processed cheese on that famous sesame seed bun. In other words, 700 calories, 40 grams of fat (17 of them saturated) and a whopping 1,520 milligrams of sodium.

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The Vibe: rough ‘n’ tumble retro greasy spoon on the wrong side of the tracks The Clientele: cash-strapped seniors, John Travolta in Hairspray drag, motorcycle gangs, juvenile delinquents The Burger: Even if you think of this 80-year-old diner’s cheeseburger as a good cheese, lettuce and tomato sandwich that somehow managed to slip a 2-ounce beef patty of no particular distinction onto a bun from Weston Bakery down the road, it’s still one of the best meal deals in town. Go ahead – order two!

Big spenders will have enough left over to splurge on sides of frozen fries with appropriately canned gravy ($1.35), laudable vanilla ice cream milkshakes ($1.50) and slices of just-like-mom’s house-made apple pie ($1.25) with filling straight out of the tin. As it should be.

The Damage: $1.35 Monday to Friday 10 am to 6 pm, Saturday noon to 5 pm. Closed Sunday, holidays. Unlicensed. Cash only.

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The Vibe: swellegant Bay Street bunker with lush patio at the foot of the modernist Mies van der Rohe-designed TD Tower The Clientele: Bay Street power brokers, former prime ministers, TV cooking show hosts The Burger: Now that short-lived M:Brgr and its laughable $100 burger – publicity stunt or what? – has slunk back to Montreal with its tail between its legs, Top Chef Canada’s Mark McEwan’s landmark burger reclaims its crown as Hogtown’s most expensive.

Here’s what the burghers get with their burger: 8 hand-chopped ounces of medium-rare Prime USDA strip loin spiked with truffle oil on an Ace Bakery bun, garnished with intensely meaty king mushrooms and melted Brie de Meaux cheese and sided with a stack of tempura-battered onion rings, garlicky aioli and textbook frites. For the price of 21.21 cheeseburgers at Gale’s, it’s almost worth it.

The Damage: $35 Monday to Friday 11:30 am to 11 pm, dinner Saturday 5 to 11 pm, bar nightly to close. Closed Sunday. Licensed. Access: barrier-free.

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Rodney Bowers has a beef with burgers.

“They have to be beef, right?” says the outspoken former owner/chef of Rosebud, the Citizen and the soon-to-come Hey Meatball! “As long as it comes from a good cow, you can’t beat chuck. But if I want to make a fancy burger, I go with untrimmed sirloin.”

Bowers is also particular about the grind of his burger and prefers to do it himself.

“I like it coarse and I grind my meat twice,” says Bowers. “The second time creates what I call a ‘glue’ that binds the meat together so it doesn’t need any egg or bread crumbs. Just straight meat, salt and pepper.”

What about fat content?

“Twenty to 25 per cent fat works for me,” laughs the beefy Bowers. “Thirty per cent if I’m feeling decadent.”

Any special techniques?

“I like my patty as thin as possible. The more meat that hits the cooking surface, the better the caramelization and flavour. I hate thick patties.

They’re like meatloaf! And I only cook them on a grill over wood or charcoal, or on the stove with a hot pan and a little oil.

Any favourite toppings?

“My grandmother used to put chopped onions in the pan with her burger while it was cooking. When the patty was done, she’d let it sit for a few minutes so that all the juices came together. While that was happening, she’d steam the bun on top of the onions.”

Rodney Bowers’s Hey Meatball! sandwich shop opens later this summer at College and Crawford. His latest TV series, The Delinquent Gourmet, airs Saturdays at 10:30 pm on the Food Network.

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Any resto can put a frozen Yves patty on a bun and call it a veggie burger.

Here’s where they make their own from scratch.

208 Queen W, at Duncan, 416-598-4719, queenmothercafe.ca.

Also known as the QM burger, this Queen West original’s Cosmic Burger ($9.95) has been on the menu since the quirky café first opened its doors back in 1978. Hell, apart from soup, it was the only thing on the menu. Little has changed: same nutty patty of high-protein grains and mushrooms offset with melted white cheddar, tomato, lettuce and Ranch-style dressing and stuffed into a whole wheat pita.

Monday to Saturday 11:30 am to 1 am. Brunch Sunday 11:30 am to 4:30 pm, dinner till midnight. Licensed.

Access: barrier-free, washrooms in basement.

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1.Mitzi’s sister

1554 Queen W, at Fuller, 416-532-2570, mitzis.ca.

Most veggie patties have no flavour at all; they’re there to provide texture and little else, their flavour coming from the toppings. But this Parkdale watering hole’s Harvest Veggie Burger ($11.95 with salad) borders on the – dare we say it? – meaty, a massive 8-ounce puck of grains, nuts, mushrooms and feta cheese dressed with tomato and caramelized onion on a whole wheat mini-pita spread with spicy mayo.

Weekdays 4 pm to 2 am, weekends 10 am to 2 am.

Brunch Saturday and Sunday till 3 pm. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms in basement.

1056 Gerrard E, at Jones, 416-778-0111, greatburger.ca.

Though it’s easy to dismiss this recently launched take-away as a Gourmet Burger Company clone, its house-made veggie quarter-pounders with optional feta ($7.50) set it apart from the crowd. The considerable mash of grilled millet, garbanzo and kidney beans on a Brick Street Bakery bun comes with all the fixin’s, including pickled jalapeños. Make sure to ask for it well-done. Without a crust, it’s mush.

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1636 Queen E, at Coxwell, 647-346-0617, theburgerspriest.com.

Start with two deep-fried panko-crusted portobello mushroom caps glued together with melted processed cheese, serve them dressed with fried onions, lettuce and tomato on an optional gluten-free bun ($7.99) and understand why there’s almost always a lineup. Or add several rashers of decidedly meaty bacon and turn your virtuous Option into a Religious Hypocrite ($8.99).

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5.LicK’s

1960 Queen E, at Kenilworth, 416-691-2305, lickshomeburgers.com.

Straight out of the freezer they’re nothing to get excited about. But throw a Nature Burger ($6.20 tax inclusive) on a crusty kaiser and run it through the garden – lettuce, tomato, onion – and slather it in mayo-like Guk sauce and behold the veggie Whopper of your dreams.

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6.UtoPiA

586 College, at Clinton, 416-534-7751, utopiacafe.ca.

The tasty veggie burgers ($9) at this very laid-back resto-lounge and backyard patio get points for the convincing patty (“so good we’ll fool you into believing it’s beef”), whole wheat kaiser and upscale toppings but lose a few for being cooked on the same grill as the regular burgers, much like every other non-vegetarian restaurant in town. No wonder they taste like meat!

Monday to Thursday 11:30 am to midnight, Friday 11:30 to 1 am, Saturday noon to 1 am, Sunday noon to midnight. Licensed. Access: two steps at door, washrooms in basement.

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Rating: NNNN Few bands are as well suited to Massey Hall as Seattle’s Fleet Foxes. Their impeccable harmonies, skilful playing and attention to dynamics – they’d probably sound okay in a concrete bunker – were pristine in the venerable concert hall. That didn’t go unnoticed by the band, who first headlined it in 2009. Upon taking the stage, singer Robin Pecknold expressed his gratitude by saying that the way the room is arranged feels “like a hug.”

The good vibes carried on throughout the 90-minute set. The band even responded with good-natured sarcasm to some audience members’ inane between-song comments. Pecknold led the six-piece through songs from both albums, with the set weighted in favour of this year’s Helplessness Blues.

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Rating: NNN Since kick-starting the Detroit garage rock scene in the 90s, Mick Collins has earned the right to do pretty much whatever he wants. He and his Dirtbombs exercised that right at the Horseshoe, spending the first half of their set reprising Party Store, their 2011 out-of-nowhere album of classic techno covers.

Hearing those retro-futuristic synthetic songs recreated on rock instruments was an interesting novelty, but their repetitive groove-based structures became taxing, especially on tunes that plodded past the eightminute mark. And while the guitarists

looked to be having fun adding droney psychedelic noise-rock in the spaces between the dance beats (a rare genre splice that probably hasn’t been done before), the two drummers seemed increasingly bored.

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Their sound is based on the maracatu de baque virado style, but by giving it contemporary context – bits of sampling, for example – the locals prove they’re not strict traditionalists.

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After late-afternoon house music sets by BC’s Rachel Sehl and local DJ trio Tripzone, Koen and Cee Cee Cox, Terrence Kissner closed out the party just after sunset with deep atmospheric techno. Too bad Torro Torro cancelled their moombahton set. It would’ve been a great opportunity to test the emerging sound on an unfamiliar audience. Then again, the music is secondary at Promise, which means it’s a good time no matter BB who’s playing.

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The Garrison (1197 Dundas West), Friday (July 22) Experimental Montreal pop.

STEELY DAN, THE MILES HIGH BIG BAND, EMBASSY BRATS, SAM YAHEL Molson Amphitheatre (909 Lakeshore West), Friday (July 22) Jazz-rock icons.

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Art Department Toronto electronic duo Art Department have been making huge waves around the world with their melancholy neoclassic house sound but haven’t played in town for some time, making this club gig and boat cruise feel like a triumphant homecoming.

At Footwork (425 Adelaide West), Saturday (July 23), 10 pm. And on the Stella Borealis (Pier 25, Yonge and Queens Quay), Sunday (July 24), noon. $45, PDR, RT, SS.

w/ Dentata, Tropics, Boars, the Soupcans Steelworkers Hall (25 Cecil), Friday (July 22) One band in each corner.

HEAVY T.O.

w/ Anthrax, Megadeth,

Motörhead, Rob Zombie, Mastodon, Slayer, Testament and many more Downsview Park (35 Carl Hall), Saturday and Sunday (July 23 and 24) See preview, page 54.

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The Garrison (1197 Dundas West), Saturday (July 23) See preview, page 52.

CASS McCOMBS, LOWER DENS, JENNIFER CASTLE

Rivoli (332 Queen West), Saturday (July 23) Reclusive folk outsider.

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THIS WEEK IN THE CLUBS How to find a listing

Music listings appear by day, then by genre, then alphabetically by venue. Event names are in italics.

Mod Club (722 College), Sunday (July 24) See T.O. Notes, page 52.

= Critics’ pick (highly recommended) ñ 5= Queer night

SIA, OH LANG, XIMENA SARINANA

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Phoenix (410 Sherbourne), Sunday (July 24) See preview, page 54.

SONNY & THE SUNSETS

El Mocambo (464 Spadina), Tuesday (July 19) Bouncy garage-rock pop.

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Phoenix (410 Sherbourne), Monday (July 25) See preview, page 48.

IN THE HOUSE FUNDRAISER w/ the Happiness Project (Charles Spearin) Gladstone Hotel Ballroom (1214 Queen West), Tuesday (July 26) Experimental jazz-rock.

C = Toronto Caribbean Carnival event

All listings are free. Send to: music@nowtoronto.com, fax to 416-364-1166 or mail to Music, NOW Magazine, 189 Church, Toronto M5B 1Y7. Include artist(s), genre of music, event name (if any), venue name and address, time, ticket price and phone number or website.

Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm. Weekly events must confirm their listing once a month.

Thursday, July 21 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL

AMSTERDAM BREWERY Open Roof Festival Movie Series Running Red Lights 7:30 pm.

ANNEX WRECKROOM Subduction The Gentlemen, the Future Collective, Geronimo, Mallon (dubstup/electro/dnb) doors 10 pm.

BAR ITALIA Music For The Soul Chicken & Waffles (rock) 9:30 pm.

BOVINE SEX CLUB Voodoo Bunny, Social Cyanide, Raggedy Angry, DJ Cactus.

CADILLAC LOUNGE Shattervox.

CLINTON’S Dave Borins, Holy Toledo, the Short & Curlies doors 8:30 pm.

CLOAK & DAGGER PUB Nathan Dell Vandenberg’s Maybe Not (pop/folk) 10 pm.

DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Roxanne Potvin, Tundra Fun doors 8 pm.

THE GARRISON Lindy.

GLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR Betty Burke & Lisa Bozikovic 8:30 pm.

HORSESHOE BirthdayBoys, Lovely Killbots, Huddle, Skirt Chasers 9 pm.

LEE’S PALACE Olee Initiative Benefit Evenings & Weekends, Graydon James, Rob Lamothe.

MITZI’S SISTER Toronto Burlesque Festival doors 8 pm.

PAUPER’S PUB Mike Barnes (rock).

THE PISTON Robyn Dell’Unto (folk/pop) 9 pm.

RANCHO RELAXO Nomadic Sound Division, Fuss, Spectre Hearts, Bon Chapeau doors 9 pm.

SNEAKY DEE’S The Vibrators.

SOUND ACADEMY The Tea Party, Bleeker Ridge doors 7 pm.

SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY’S Skip Tracer (rock/top 40) 9:30 pm.

SUPERMARKET Combo Royale, Tia Brazda & her Madmen, Anna Atkinson 9 pm.

WHITE SWAN Jam Section 8 (eclectic) 7 pm.

WINCHESTER KITCHEN & BAR Jumple 10 pm.

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ALLEYCATZ Summer Salsa New R Band (salsa)

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SNOOP DOGG, STEVIE B, PITBULL, TINIE TEMPAH, GARY CLARK JR Rivoli doors 8 pm, $20.75. RT, SS, ages, $32-$47.50. RT, SS, TM. September 14.

EMILY OSMENT, LIL JON, DANNY FERNANDES, TW. August 19.

THE PLANET SMASHERS Opera House doors CLASSIFIED, MIA MARTINA, DEV, TYLER ME7:30 pm, all ages, $17.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. K-OS Canadian National Exhibition Bandshell DEIROS, ALYSSA REID AND OTHERS Summer

Rush Canada’s Wonderland 3 pm, all ages, $25.99-$45.99. canadaswonderland.com.

August 7.

Park 7:30 pm, free. September 2.

September 16.

MALE BONDING Horseshoe doors 8:30 pm, $10.50. HS, RT, SS. September 2.

OLIVIA TREMOR CONTROL Lee’s Palace doors 9

PATRICK STUMP El Mocambo doors 7 pm, $20.

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BLOODY BEETROOTS DEATH CREW 77 Kool Haus.

WILCO, NICK LOWE Massey Hall doors 6:30 pm,

DOM The Garrison doors 8:30 pm, $12. RT, SS. August 9.

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WARREN HAYNES BAND W/ RON JOHNSON, TERENCE HIGGINS, RON HOLLOWAY & ALECIA CHAKOUR Queen Elizabeth Theatre doors 7 pm, all

KID SISTER Wrongbar. September 24.

PORTISHEAD, THOUGHT FORMS Sound Academy doors 7 pm, all ages, $59.59-$99.50. PDR, RT, SS, TM. October 9 and 10.

ASPETTA CAFFE Open Mic El Faron 7 to 11 pm.

THE CENTRAL Michael Kleniec (world music/ jazz guitar) 7:30 pm.

THE CENTRAL A Mixture of Frailities, Caitlin Burgess, Dennis Clark 9 pm.

CENTRE ISLAND OUTDOOR LAGOON THEATRE SP Simms & Maya’s Caravan Of Song 7 pm.

IRON & WINE W/ MARKETA IRGLOVA Sound Academy doors 8 pm, all ages, $27. HS, RT, SS, TM. October 15.

DAKOTA TAVERN Mark Davis, Sarah Wheeler.

DAVE’S... ON ST CLAIR Uncle Herb’s Open Mic

all ages, $42.50-$48.50. RTH, TM. September 16 and 17.

BORIS, ASOBI SEKSU Lee’s Palace doors 8 pm, $18. HS, RT, SS, TM. October 23.

DOMINION ON QUEEN Alexander Brown’s Latin

SAMIAM Horseshoe doors 8:30 pm, $15.50.

DIR EN GRAY Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 7

pm, $18.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. September 16.

HS, RT, SS, TM. September 21

pm, all ages, $29.50. LN, RT, SS, TM. December 16.

(folk/blues/country) 8:30 pm.

Power Jam 9 pm.

EMMET RAY BAR Box Full of Cash 9 pm.

FREE TIMES CAFE The Orchards.

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HARBOURFRONT CENTRE WESTJET STAGE Tirgan Iranian Festival Paradis International Orchestra, Salar Aghili 8:30 pm.

THE LOCAL Michelle Rumball’s Beauty Saloon.

LOU DAWG’S Call In Sick Friday Mike C 9:30 pm.

LULA LOUNGE Think Pink Fundraiser Muzic Souljah & King’z Tone 12, Michelle Mondesir, Liberty Silver, D’Anise Marie, Alana Bridgewater, Heather Victoria and others (reggae/ R&B/soul) 9 pm.

NATHAN PHILLIPS SQUARE Tasty Thursdays Aline Morales noon to 2 pm.

REXALL CENTRE Blackcreek Summer Music Festival Alan Jackson, Gretchen Wilson, Cowboy Troy, Big & Rich, Two-Foot Fred 7 pm.

TRANZAC MAIN HALL Toronto Bluegrass Party The Slocan Ramblers, the Unseen Strangers, the Free Whiskey String Band 8 pm.

TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Songs By Bert 6 pm, Houndstooth Bluegrass & Oldtime Session 7:30 pm.

TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Dave Clark’s Woodshed Orchestra, Matthew DeZoete 10 pm.

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BLU RISTORANTE & LOUNGE Acoustic & Jazz Sentiments @ Blu Christopher Barton (guitar) 6:30 pm, John Campbell (piano) 9 pm.

DOMINION ON QUEEN John T Davis (organist) 5:30 to 8 pm.

EDO San Murata Trio 7:30 to 10:30 pm.

EDWARD JOHNSON BUILDING WALTER HALL

Toronto Summer Music Festival: Romantic Origins Vienna Piano Trio 7:30 pm.

GATE 403 Noah Sherman Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm.

GATE 403 String Theory Collective 9 pm.

HARLEM UNDERGROUND Carl Bray (jazz) 8 pm.

QUEEN EAST Beaches International Jazz Festival Dr Draw, Blackboard Blues Band, Jake Wilkinson, Dr Nick & the Roller Coasters, God Made Me Funky, Sambacana and others 7 to 11 pm.

REPOSADO The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz).

REX Kevin Quain 6:30 pm.

REX Sean Bray’s Peach Trio 9:30 pm.

RIVOLI Paradise Now: A Night Of Sound And Light And Geometry In Paradise Keith Holding (music & video from 80s Toronto) doors 7 pm.

SOMEWHERE THERE STUDIO Avesta Nakhaei (jazz/improv) 8 pm.

TEN FEET TALL East End Jazz Jam Session 8 pm.

TORONTO BOTANICAL GARDEN Gardens Of Song National Band of the Naval Reserve 7 to 8:30 pm.

TRANE STUDIO Brighter Days Concert Series Sharron McLeod Fauxtet 7:30 pm.

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KOOL HAUS Taking Back Sunday, Thursday, Colour Revolt, We Are the In Crowd doors 6:30 pm, all ages.

LEE’S PALACE CD release Two Crown King, Girls Can’t Hear Us, Magnolious, Scenario (hip-hop).

MITZI’S SISTER Freeman Dre & the Kitchen Party, Shotgun Dolls 11 pm.

MOD CLUB eLmatic ELZHI, Will Sessions doors 7 pm.

MOLSON AMPHITHEATRE Steely Dan, & the Miles High Big Band, the Embassy Brats, Sam Yahel doors 7 pm.

PARTS & LABOUR Dudebox Rufio II (hip-hop) 10 pm.

PAUPER’S PUB Mike Barnes (rock).

RIVOLI Pop With Brains 32 DJs Gramercy Riffs, Opopo & R.A.P.E. Tazer, Dinosaur Dinosaur, Drugs in Japan, the FranDiscos doors 9 pm.

SILVER DOLLAR Cocobeurre, the Taste, Persian Rugs, JF Robitaille 9:30 pm.

SNEAKY DEE’S Disappears, Steve Shelley, Aim Low, Psychiatric Paramount doors 8:30 pm.

SOUND ACADEMY Reel Big Fish & Streetlight Manifesto, Rodeo Ruby Love, New Riot doors 6:30 pm, all ages.

SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY’S Taxi (rock) 10 pm.

STEELWORKERS HALL Four Corners III Dentata, Tropics, Boars, the Soupcans doors 9 pm.

YONGE-DUNDAS SQUARE Indie Fridays The Sadies, Jack Marks 8 to 10 pm.

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THE CENTRAL Infinity Intention (folk) 6 to 9 pm.

CENTRE ISLAND OUTDOOR LAGOON THEATRE SP Simms & Maya’s Caravan Of Song 7 pm.

C’EST WHAT CD release Amanda Rheaume,

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FREE TIMES CAFE Jeff Alan Greenway (piano).

GRAFFITI’S Bill Wood & the Woodies evening.

HARBOURFRONT CENTRE REDPATH SUGAR STAGE Tirgan Iranian Festival King Raam 9 pm.

HARBOURFRONT CENTRE LAKESIDE TERRACE

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HARBOURFRONT CENTRE WESTJET STAGE Tirgan Iranian Festival Shanbehzadeh Ensemble (traditional music from Boushehr) 9:30 pm.

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Tirgan Iranian Festival: Late Night Persian Jazz Rana Farhan 10:30 pm.

HIGHWAY 61 SOUTHERN BARBEQUE Dylan Wickens & the Little Naturals 8 pm.

HORSESHOE The Stanfields, Brett Caswell & the Marquee Rose, Bernadette, Avery Island.

HUGH’S ROOM Tanglefoot Untangled My Sweet Patootie (folk/roots) 8:30 pm.

LEUTY LIFEGUARD STATION Beaches International Jazz Festival Latin Square Conjunto La-ca-lú, Un Poco Latino, La Sonora Habanera 2 to 7 pm.

LOU DAWG’S It’s Gotta Groove Friday Jeff Eager 9:30 pm.

LULA LOUNGE Sexteto Tabalá (Afro-Colombian) 8 pm.

TRANZAC MAIN HALL The Red Revue Brock Stonefish 8 pm.

TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Red Blue Green, Star Lab, Choro Trio 10 pm.

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BEACH BOARDWALK BIG BAND STAGE Beaches International Jazz Festival The George Lake Big Band, Bees Knees Dance, the Big Smoke Big Band, Swing Shift Big Band, the Jazz Mechanics 2 to 7:30 pm.

BLU RISTORANTE & LOUNGE Acoustic & Jazz Sentiments @ Blu John Campbell 7:30 pm.

CENO Anthony Rinaldi & Neil Hendry 7:30 pm.

CHALKERS PUB Youth Jazz In The City 5 pm.

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DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE

BLACK EAGLE Naked Night – TNT Men DJ The Robotic Kid 9:30 pm.5

GOODHANDY’S Ladyplus Parties DJ Todd

Klinck doors 9 pm.5 INSOMNIA DJ Ron Jon (funk/soul/house).

MARGRET Post Punk DJ Darkness Visible (post punk/gothic rock/alternative) 10 pm.

NACO GALLERY CAFE Medicine DJ Ricky 10 pm.5 ORIENTAL TASTE Soulful Sushi Thursdays DJ LT Ruck (nusoul/house/jazz/Afro/Latin grooves).

PARTS & LABOUR Fuck Vancouver DJ Steph Hoff (east coast rap) 10 pm.

RIVOLI UPSTAIRS DJs the Dirty Frenchman, Plan B (hip-hop/dancehall/b-more/bass) 10 pm.

XS NIGHTCLUB Get Wild Thursdays DJ Couture 10 pm.

Friday, July 22 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL

ASPETTA CAFFE Krystal King, James Faulkner,

the IDP, the Moby D.I.C’s (acoustic rock) 7 pm to midnight.

BOVINE SEX CLUB Arson, Swindled, Slander, DJ Vania.

CADILLAC LOUNGE Emerson Street Rhythm Band.

EL MOCAMBO Little City, Seas, Little Tybee, the Maladies of Adam Stokes 9 pm.

THE GARRISON Pat Jordache, Grimes, Gobble Gobble.

GLADSTONE HOTEL BALLROOM Toronto Burlesque Festival doors 8 pm.

GRAFFITI’S Rocking For Sick Kids Hospital Paul Martin (classic covers) 5 to 7 pm.

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GATE 403 Denielle Bassels Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm.

GATE 403 Emily & the Blue Callers 9 pm.

GLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR Zimzum (jazz/funk) 7 pm.

HARLEM UNDERGROUND Chris Weatherstone Trio 8 pm.

MEL LASTMAN SQUARE Cultura 2011 Elizabeth Sheppard 7:30 pm.

OLD MILL INN HOME SMITH BAR Archie Alleyne Trio 7:30 pm.

QUEEN EAST Beaches International Jazz Festival Jake Wilkinson, Erin McCallum, Brian Rose Little Big Band, Johnny Max Band, Fathead and others 7 to 11 pm.

REPOSADO The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz).

REX Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm.

REX Artie Roth Trio 6:30 pm.

REX Bob Brough (saxopohone) 9:45 pm.

REXALL CENTRE BlackCreek Summer Music Festival The Castleton Festival Opera soloists & Orchestra 8 pm.

TRANZAC The Foolish Things (jazz) 5 pm.

WATERFALLS Jim Heineman Trio (jazz) 6:30 to 10:30 pm.

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GILLIAN WELCH

Turns out there was some truth in that ongoing “banjo revolution” joke after all By CARLA GILLIS GILLIAN WELCH at the Phoenix (410 Sherbourne), Monday (July 25), doors 7 pm. $25. RT, SS, TM.

In the eight years Gillian Welch fans have spent waiting for her and musical partner Dave Rawlings to release a new album, folk music has seen a major change. Young, hip musicians have embraced the genre’s acoustic instrumentation, multi-part harmonies and rural imagery, helping to usher in an indie-folk revolution.

“When we started, it was really lonesome in the acoustic world,” says Welch over the phone from Portland.

“Now quite a few reporters I’ve talked to ask, ‘How do you feel about being in the vanguard of the acoustic revolution?’ And I’m like, ‘Wow, were we? I didn’t know.’

“We used to always joke when we’d pull the banjo out in the show that we were at the front of the wave of the banjo revolution. But it was always just a joke! As it turns out, there was a banjo revolution, and we were on the forefront.”

With Fleet Foxes, Mumford & Sons and Bon Iver singing Welch’s praises on places like Twitter, the timing’s perfect for The Harrow & The Harvest (Acony), the duo’s long-awaited, pitch-perfect fifth album. It’s the product of eight

years of relentless effort, though nine of the 10 songs were written in a creative spurt that only began last October.

“We kept writing songs but we didn’t like them enough to put them out. Songs that we like are a really funny balance of something modern, traditional, rock and roll, country, folk, confessional, fictitious. It has to have all these things in it for us to go, ‘Oh yeah, I like that.’ And, for a while, we just weren’t able to do the magic trick.”

In late 2008 the Nashville-based, Grammy-nominated duo took a break to record Rawlings’s solo album, the superb A Friend Of A Friend, which Welch credits with getting their creative juices flowing again.

“It’s not like these songs span the [eight-year] gap, which I would kind of hate,” Welch says. “I’m much more interested in albums that reflect a focused chunk of time. I was always worried that we’d have one song from 2004, one from 2005. That’s not what happened at all.”

So the freshness must also make for some live show fun?

Welch laughs. “It would be an understatement to say Dave and I are excited about playing these songs live.”

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DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE

AMOS WAITES PARK Dancing Under The Stars (DJ dancing) 8 to 10 pm.

ANNEX WRECKROOM Shake The Annex 10 pm.

THE CENTRAL DJ Tyler Johnson 9:30 pm.

CLINTON’S Rule Britannia Bangs & Blush

(Motown/Britpop).

COLLEGE STREET BAR Bangers & Mash DJ cDoc,

Fiction, Loc.Nes, Illicit Pulse 10 pm.

DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Edumacation DJ Fase, DJ Nana doors 11 pm.

DRAKE HOTEL LOUNGE DJ Your Boy Brian doors 10 pm.

EMMET RAY BAR DJ Tophey (ol’ skool/soul) 10 pm.

FLY AX-A-GOGO DJ Alex 10 pm.5 THE FLYING BEAVER PUBARET Retro Fridays DJ Carol.

FOOTWORK Luv This City Addy Rafwat & Chorniy, Iron Mike, DJ Pauze doors 10 pm.

FOX & FIDDLE WELLESLEY DJ Shaq-T (salsa/ merengue/reggaeton/house/dance).

GUVERNMENT Blueberry Bashment – Vibez Session IX Dr Jay, White Bwoy, BassLine, Juk, Lindo P, DJ Zee, Code Blue, DJ Nutty, Jeff Jam and others.

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HARBOURFRONT CENTRE BRIGANTINE ROOM

Tirgan Iranian Festival: Radio Javan House DJ Music DJ Delbar 11:30 pm.

HOLY OAK CAFE Amigo, Amigo (tropical/psych) 10 pm.

HOT BOX CAFE Big Spliff (ital reggae).

INSOMNIA Funkn’ Fresh Friday Xofer & Bachus (house/breaks).

JANGBANG Baby Call Me DJ Dougie Boom DJ Scotty Seewhale (Italo/space disco/Balaeric).

LULA LOUNGE DJ Gio, DJ Kruz (salsa/bachata/ reggaeton/top 40).

MANA BAR Unity Fridays: European Nights DJ T-Ace (hip-hop/reggae/dancehall/mashup).

NACO GALLERY CAFE Artwhores DJ Ullyses Castellanos 10 pm.5 THE PAINTED LADY DJ Frank ‘Mr Phantastik’ Johnson (hip-hop/reggae/80s) 10 pm.

PHOENIX CONCERT THEATRE Projek DJ Hype, Mystical Influence, Everfresh.

THE PISTON Ryan Gavel (soul/rare groove/ funk/reggae) 10 pm.

RADIOLARIA Dirt Crew, Jamie Kidd Vs Mike Gibbs, Nature of Music, Tripzone 10 pm.

SUPERMARKET DJ Dance Party 10 pm.

VOGUE SUPPER CLUB The Social Network Omar Lunan, Sweet Touch Foundtion, DJ Smartiez 8 pm.

CTHE VUE Fahward! The Dance-Fete: The Ultimate Reggae Vs Soca Experience Slingshot Vs DJ Doc. WAYLABAR Anthem DJ Craig Dominic (R&B/ hip-hop/dancecall).5 WOO’S LOUNGE Heart Of The City DJs J-Class, Kariz (hip-hop/R&B/reggae/old school) doors 10:30 pm.

XS NIGHTCLUB Summer Session Fridays DJ Couture (top 40/house/hip-hop) 10 pm.

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Saturday, July 23 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL

ALLEYCATZ Jamesking.

BOVINE SEX CLUB CD release Black Pistol Fire, Army Girls, UnRaveling, DJ Ian Blurton.

CADILLAC LOUNGE Hot Rocks: Mick Jagger

BirthdayCelebration Boccigalupe & the Bad Boys evening.

THE CENTRAL Indie Social 4 to 6 pm.

THE CENTRAL The Away Game 6 to 9 pm.

THE CENTRAL Canadian Indie Movement 9 pm.

CENTRE ISLAND SHOPSY’S PATIO Reggae In

Paradise Fyah Rootz 4 to 9 pm.

C’EST WHAT Lickpenny Loafer Birthday Show (indie pop) 8 pm.

DOMINION ON QUEEN Ronnie Hayward (rockabilly) 3 to 7 pm.

DOWNSVIEW PARK Heavy MTL 2011: Heavy TO Anthrax, Megadeth, Motörhead, Opeth, As I Lay Dying, Children of Bodom, Times of Grace, the Sword, Diamond Head, Underoath, Endast, DevilDriver. See preview, page 54.

DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Miss Late July, the Elwins, Will Currie & the Country French doors 8 pm.

ECHO BEACH Platinum Blonde doors 7 pm.

EL MOCAMBO UPSTAIRS CD release The Noble Rogues, Daylight for Deadeyes, Kilometre, Robotic Lunch 8 pm.

THE GARRISON EMA, Helado Negro doors 9 pm. See preview, page 52.

HARLEM Kinga (soul/jazz) 7:30 pm.

HORSESHOE Tommy Youngsteen & the Million Dollar Band (Petty/Neil Young/ Springsteen tribute with members of Sam Roberts Band, Stars & the Stills) 9:30 pm.

LEE’S PALACE Burning Candy, Deadtime, Alter Kakers, Drop Dead, Pin-Ups. MOD CLUB Toronto Burlesque Festival doors 6 pm.

PARTS & LABOUR Pleasure Leftists, Rituals (post punk) 10 pm.

PAUPER’S PUB Mike Barnes (rock).

RICOH COLISEUM The Wiggles! Big Birthday Tour (family concert) 11 am & 2:30 pm.

SILVER DOLLAR White Mystery, Pkew Pkew Pkew, Spitfist doors 10:30 pm.

SOUND ACADEMY Heavy T.O. Official After-Show Gorguts, Lazarus AD, the Catalyst doors 9 pm, all ages.

SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY’S Kat House (classic rock/ R&B) 10 pm.

SPORTSTER’S Nicola Vaughan 10 pm.

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TRANZAC Al Tuck 10 pm. ñ TRANZAC Girls Rock Camp Toronto Concert 3 to 5 pm, all ages.

FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD

ASPETTA CAFFE Kate Todd, Kurt Singer, Krystal

King, Ukulele Gaga, Michael Apolonia, Ryan Casselman, Fojeba, Rathburn, Sleeping Tom 2 pm to midnight.

CADILLAC LOUNGE Mary & Micky (country) afternoon.

CENTRE ISLAND OUTDOOR LAGOON THEATRE SP Simms & Maya’s Caravan Of Song 7 pm.

THE DANNY The Blues Butcher Band 10 pm.

DOMINION ON QUEEN Bill Durst 9 pm.

FREE TIMES CAFE The Fridge Magnets, Melanie Peterson, Deb Whalen.

GLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR Swamperella (cajun/zydeco) 7 to 10 pm.

GRAFFITI’S Hicks & Dawe 4 to 7 pm.

HARBOURFRONT CENTRE BRIGANTINE ROOM

Tirgan Iranian Festival The Vesal Ensemble (traditional Persian/Kurdish) 1:30 pm.

HARBOURFRONT CENTRE BRIGANTINE ROOM

Tirgan Iranian Festival: Late Night Persian Jazz Rana Farhan 10:30 pm.

HARBOURFRONT CENTRE REDPATH SUGAR STAGE Tirgan Iranian Festival Vahid Monji (Persian pop) 2 pm.

HARBOURFRONT CENTRE REDPATH SUGAR STAGE Tirgan Iranian Festival Baarbad Music 5:30 pm.

HARBOURFRONT CENTRE REDPATH SUGAR STAGE Tirgan Iranian Festival King Raam 9 pm.

HARBOURFRONT CENTRE WESTJET STAGE Tirgan Iranian Festival Shanbehzadeh Ensemble (traditional music from Boushehr) 9:30 pm.

HARBOURFRONT CENTRE LAKESIDE TERRACE

Tirgan Iranian Festival Saman Shahi, Maneli Jamal, Maryam Toumrai 1:30 pm.

HARBOURFRONT CENTRE STUDIO THEATRE Tirgan Iranian Festival Sepideh Raissadat (vocal and setar) 2 pm.

HIGHWAY 61 SOUTHERN BARBEQUE Echo & Twang 8 pm.

LEUTY LIFEGUARD STATION Beaches International Jazz Festival Latin Square La Tipica Hispana, Los Salsomanos, El Swing de Azuris, Son Aché noon to 7 pm.

THE LOCAL Mark Davis, Sarah Wheeler.

LOU DAWG’S Nicole Christian Slide Guitar Duo 9:30 pm.

LULA LOUNGE Yani Borrell and the Clave Kings, DJ Jimmy Suave (Cuban salsa) 10 pm.

MITZI’S SISTER Michelle Bellerose.

MONARCHS PUB Acoustic Open Stage Jory Nash 8 pm.

REBAS CAFÉ Open Mic Saturdays 1 to 4 pm.

REXALL CENTRE BlackCreek Summer Music Fes-

tival – Truth And Soul: A Gospel Event Yolanda Adams, Mary Mary, Donnie McClurkin, the Mighty Clouds of Joy 5 pm.

RIVOLI Cass McCombs, Lower Dens, Jennifer Castle (indie folk) doors 9 pm.

TRANZAC Jamzac (folk) 3 pm.

TRANZAC Joe Hall 6:30 pm.

VILLAGE OF YORKVILLE PARK Summer Music In The Park Raz Hilland Trio 2 to 5 pm.

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JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL

BEACH BOARDWALK BIG BAND STAGE Beaches International Jazz Festival The George Lake Big Band, Bees Knees Dance, the Big Smoke Big Band, Swing Shift Big Band, the Jazz Mechanics noon to 7:30 pm.

BLU RISTORANTE & LOUNGE Acoustic & Jazz Sentiments @ Blu Christopher Barton (guitar/ singer) 7:30 pm.

CENO Myrrhine Faller & Neil Hendry 7:30 pm.

EDWARD JOHNSON BUILDING WALTER HALL

Toronto Summer Music Festival: Forgotten Romantics Vienna Piano Trio, Christopher Costanza, Mark Fewer, Mayumi Seiler 7:30 pm.

GATE 403 Dave Rubel Jazz Band noon to 3 pm.

GATE 403 Tom Duke Jazz Duo 5 to 8 pm.

GATE 403 Maxine Willan Jazz Quartet w/ Saozinha Gonsalvez 9 pm.

HARLEM UNDERGROUND Carl Bray (jazz) 8 pm.

KEW GARDENS Beaches International Jazz Festival The Iroko Project, Marc Jordan & Amy Sky, Pavlo, the Duke Robillard Band, Lisa Haley & the Zydekats 11 am to 6 pm.

OLD MILL INN HOME SMITH BAR The Three Guitars George Grossman, Tony Quarrington, Dave Dunlap 7:30 pm.

QUEEN EAST Beaches International Jazz Festival Tokyo Giants, Sultans of String, Jeanine Mackie, Phusion, Michael Pickett, Paul Reddick, Midnite Blue and others 7 to 11 pm.

REX Elena Kapeleris (swing) 7 pm.

REX Sarah Dell (vocal jazz) noon.

REX Duncan Hopkins 9:45 pm.

TEN FEET TALL Lara Solnicki, Ted Quinlan, Kieran Overs 8 to 11 pm.

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DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE

ANDY POOLHALL Cherry Bomb DJs Cozmic Cat & Denise Benson.5 ANNEX WRECKROOM See You Saturdays DJs Lexx Decibel & Rick Toxic (hot 100/electro/party anthems) 10 pm.

CLINTON’S Shake, Rattle & Roll Bangs & Blush (Motown/Britpop) $5.

DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND The Goods Scott C, Andy Williams doors 11 pm.

DRAKE HOTEL LOUNGE DJ Dougie Boom doors 10 pm.

EMMET RAY BAR DJ Funky Flavours (funk/soul) 10 pm.

CEMPIRE LOUNGE Riddims: Jamaica Day Edition Ron Nelson, Mista Presto, Skimpy & Smooth B. FLY A Mid Summer Nights Dream: An Enchanted Forest Of Fantasy DJ Steven Redant, DJ Shawn Riker, DJ Mike Vieira 10 pm.5 THE FLYING BEAVER PUBARET DJ Garrick 9 pm.

FOOTWORK The Modern Love Affair Art Department, the Kings Arms, Nitin, My Favorite Robot, Jeff Button doors 10 pm.

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THE RED LIGHT Doing The Same Ghetto Gold

Matt (electro/boogie/funk/rap/R&B) 4-8 pm.

SNEAKY DEE’S Shake A Tail (60s pop) 11 pm.

SUPERMARKET Do Right Saturdays! DJs John Kong, MC Abs.

Sunday, July 24 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL

BOVINE SEX CLUB School For Band Aids DJ Candy-O.

THE CENTRAL Peter Kauffman (piano) 9:30 pm.

CLINTON’S Home & Native Sound Series Seed,

New Design, Impulse, the White Ravens doors 7:30 pm.

DAVE’S... ON ST CLAIR John Campbell 6 pm.

DOMINION ON QUEEN Rockabilly Brunch 11 am to 3 pm.

DOWNSVIEW PARK Heavy T.O. Billy Talent, Rob Zombie, Mastodon, Slayer, Baptized in Blood, Testament, Melissa Auf Der Maur, Volbeat, Anvil, Exodus, Dead & Divine, Death Angel. See preview, page 54.

MOD CLUB The Weeknd doors 8 pm.

See T.O. Notes, page 52.

ORBIT ROOM Horshack (rock/blues) 10:30 pm.

THE PAINTED LADY Chris Bottomley’s Power Dub Trio (funk/ska/reggae jam party) 9 pm.

PHOENIX CONCERT THEATRE SIA, Oh Land, Ximena Sariñana doors 8 pm. See preview, page 54.

PORT CREDIT MEMORIAL PARK Sunset Concert Series Little Peter & the Elegants (50s/60s rock & rolll) 6:30 pm.

RICOH COLISEUM The Wiggles! Big Birthday Tour (family concert) 12:30 & 4 pm.

SNEAKY DEE’S Sonny & the Sunsets (garage punk) doors 8 pm.

VILLAGE OF YORKVILLE PARK Summer Music In The Park Kenny V Duo 2 to 5 pm.

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CHEAP THRILL$

11:30 am to 10 pm.

FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD

AQUILA Open Mic 8:30 pm.

ASPETTA CAFFE Dakota Star, Krystal King, Luke Vajsar, Zuviri, Lindsay Jones 2 to 7 pm.

CAMERON HOUSE The Cameron Brothers Band

GREAT GIGS FOR $5 OR LESS

9 pm.

THE CENTRAL Chloe Charles 3 to 6 pm.

CENTRE ISLAND OUTDOOR LAGOON THEATRE SP Simms & Maya’s Caravan Of Song 7 pm.

CLOAK & DAGGER PUB The Free Whiskey String Band (bluegrass) 9 pm.

GLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR The Unseen Strangers 5 to 8 pm.

GRAFFITI’S The Cornered Horses 4 to 7 pm.

GROSSMAN’S Red Moon Collective Summer Jam The Cowboy Buddha 2 to 9 pm.

HARBOURFRONT CENTRE STUDIO THEATRE Tirgan Iranian Festival Sepideh Raissadat (vocal and setar) 1:30 pm.

HARBOURFRONT CENTRE REDPATH SUGAR STAGE Tirgan Iranian Festival Vahid Monji (Persian pop) 5 pm.

HARBOURFRONT CENTRE WESTJET STAGE Tirgan Iranian Festival Iranian National Choir 6 pm.

HIGHWAY 61 SOUTHERN BARBEQUE Sean Pinchin 1 pm.

LEUTY LIFEGUARD STATION Beaches International Jazz Festival Latin Square CaneFire, Miko Sobreira, New Tradition, Salsotika noon to 5 pm.

THE LOCAL Gord Zubrecki Band 10 pm.

THE LOCAL Laura Repo (country) 5 pm.

LOU DAWG’S Blues Brunch Mark Bird Stafford & Darran Poole noon to 3 pm.

NOT MY DOG Cowan House Ramblers.

REBAS CAFÉ HOTCHA (roots) 1 to 4 pm.

ROCKPILE La Musique Circle Open Stage Deirdre Mallehe (singer/songwriters) 7 pm.

ROSE THEATRE GARDEN SQUARE Savannah Festival of Rhythms Jane Bunnett, Roy Cape All Stars, Terry Logan Movement, Amadeo Ventura, Rebel Rhythm 2 to 8 pm.

SPIRITS Kim Jarrett (folk rock) 9 pm.

STOUT IRISH PUB Ceili 3 to 6 pm.

SUPERMARKET Freefall Sunday Open Mic 8 pm.

TRANZAC Michael Laderoute 3 pm.

TRANZAC Marianne Girard 5 pm.

TRANZAC Daniel Easty, Ryan Driver, Chris Banks (indie folk) 7:30 pm.

JAZZ/CLASSICAL/ EXPERIMENTAL

AMADEUS Rick Donaldson &

the Jazz Cats 6:30 to 10:30 pm.

BEACH BOARDWALK BIG BAND STAGE Beaches International Jazz

Festival The George Lake Big Band, Bees Knees Dance, the Big Smoke Big Band, Swing Shift Big Band, the Jazz Mechanics noon to 5:30 pm.

INDIE FRIDAYS The weekly concert series at Yonge-Dundas Square continues Friday (July 22) with local garage-country stalwarts the Sadies alongside respected roots rock songsmith Jack Marks. Best part? All Indie Friday shows are completely free.

SWAMPERELLA Toronto Cajun music fanatics Swamperella are an institution at the Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen West), where you’ll find them Saturday (July 23) banging out two-step, zydeco and Creole stompers for the early evening (7-10 pm) dance floor. Free.

REX Vern Dorge Trio 7 pm.

REX Beverly Taft Quartet 3:30 to 6:30 pm.

REX CD release Robin Jessome 9:30 pm.

TEN FEET TALL Laura Hubert 3:30 pm.

TORONTO MUSIC GARDEN Summer Music In The Garden: Drumming On The Brightside TorQ Percussion Quartet 4 pm.

DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE

grass) 9:30 pm.

MITZI’S SISTER Big City Hicks, Alun Piggins.

THE PAINTED LADY Open Mic Mondays 9 pm.

TRANZAC This is Awesome 7 pm.

TRANZAC Open Stage 10 pm.

JAZZ/CLASSICAL/ EXPERIMENTAL

DOMINION ON QUEEN Prud’homme 6:30 to

GRAFFITI’S Blackmetal Brunch 11 am to 5 pm.

INSOMNIA DJ LK (ol’ skool hip-hop/disco/funk).

THE LOCAL Dan Boniferro noon.

THE OSSINGTON Unlimited Sundays Hajah Bug

9:30 pm.

STELLA BOREALIS Bohemian Yacht Club Department noon to 5 pm. ñArt ULTRA PATIO Ultra Chill Sundays DJs Mike ñTull & Paul E Lopes 3 to 9 pm.

(piano jazz/blues) 5 to 8 pm.

REX Peter Hill Quintet 6:30 pm.

REX John Cheesman Jazz Orchestra 9:30 pm.

& Mantis (hip-hop).

Monday, July 25

POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL THE CENTRAL Jessica Ackerley 6 to 9 pm.

THE CENTRAL Hayoun Lee Project 9 pm.

DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Lost in the Trees

doors 8 pm.

EMMET RAY BAR David French Group 9 pm.

GATE 403 Carol Oya Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm.

GATE 403 Millie Minas Jazz Trio 9 pm.

GRAFFITI’S Kevin Quain’s Gutbucket Lounge

DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE

BOVINE SEX CLUB Moody Mondays Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

GLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR Tweetgasm!

1st Anniversary Party 7 to 11 pm.

INSOMNIA DJs Topher & Orang (rock).

THE PISTON Junk Shop DJs Jorge & Jared (preto post- punk/new wave/garage/indie) 10 pm.

Tuesday, July 26 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL

EMMET RAY BAR

Tyler Emond 9 pm.

ETON HOUSE The A.M. Band (jazz/rhythm & blues) 7 to 11 pm.

ANNEX WRECKROOM Obscura, Stings of Ares, Immersed, Symbionic doors 7 pm, all ages.

GREAT BEER LIVES HERE GUVERNMENT Showtek.

HARBOURFRONT CENTRE BRIGANTINE ROOM Tirgan Iranian Festival: Radio

Javan House DJ Music DJ Delbar 11:30 pm.

HOT BOX CAFE Wild Style (dubstep/ hip-hop/reggae).

INSOMNIA Sense Saturdays DJ Charles (deep house).

LIVE TORONTO Ladies VIP Indulgence DJ Couture (top 40/house/mashups) 10 pm.

NACO GALLERY CAFE Fierté Tapette (French fag dance) 10:30 pm.5 NOCTURNE Nickynutz, Chili Banks, Dreadnaut, Ninjah, DJ Na, Jubal Brown, Talixzen, Le Freak, DJ Blndr, DopeApathy (DnB, raggajungle, hardcore).

THE PAINTED LADY DJ Salazar 10 pm.

PHOENIX CONCERT THEATRE Nero, Pretty Lights, Keys N ñ Krates doors 10 pm.

GATE 403 Joel Lightman (piano) noon to 3 pm.

GATE 403 Nicole Christian Jazz Duo 5 to 8 pm.

GATE 403 Millie Minas Jazz Trio 9 pm.

HOLY OAK CAFE John Russon Quartet 9 pm.

HOT BOX CAFE Tigorangutan (jazz).

KEW GARDENS Beaches International Jazz Festival Lucian Gray, the Boxcar Boys, the Lionel Young Band, Rockit 88, Red Baraat 11 am to 6 pm.

MEL LASTMAN SQUARE Sunday Serenades Toronto All-Star Big Band 7:30 to 9 pm.

NACO GALLERY CAFE Michelle Bellerose 8 pm.

REX Excelsior Dixieland Jazz noon.

DRAKE HOTEL LOUNGE Late Night Mondays Boot Knives doors 10 pm.

HARD LUCK BAR Lazarus AD, Hallows Die, Into Exile doors 8 pm, all ages.

HARLEM Open Jam Night CarolynT (R&B/soul/ jazz/pop/funk) 8 pm to midnight.

HARLEM UNDERGROUND Daniel Gagnon (pop/ folk/rock) 8 pm.

HORSESHOE Australian Artists Rock Out Graveyard Train, Kim Churchill, Eli Wolfe doors 8:30 pm.

ORBIT ROOM The Lion’s Den (reggae).

PHOENIX CONCERT THEATRE Gillian Welch doors 7 pm. See preview, page 48.

SNEAKY DEE’S Stray from the Path, Let Live, Barebones.

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FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD

CLOAK & DAGGER PUB These Boots (folk) 9 pm.

FREE TIMES CAFE Open Stage Jack Connolly.

HIGHWAY 61 SOUTHERN BARBEQUE Chris Chambers (blues) 7 pm.

THE LOCAL The Hamstrung Stringband (blue-

BAR 460 The Band Before Time.

C’EST WHAT Alyson McNamara 9 pm.

HOLY OAK CAFE Yeah, You’re Right (funk) 9 pm.

HORSESHOE Nu Music Nites Young Buffalo,

Illustrious, Great Big Humoungus, Joel Battle, 20 Amp Soundchild 8:30 pm.

PARTS & LABOUR Useless Eaters, the Pow Wows (garage punk) 10 pm.

THE PISTON The Dead Tuesdays, Mercy Flight 10 pm.

SNEAKY DEE’S This Century.

FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD

CADILLAC LOUNGE Draw the Outs (country/ roots) 8:30 pm.

THE CENTRAL Singer Songwriter Open Stage 9:30 pm.

CLOAK & DAGGER PUB Slocan Ramblers (bluegrass) 10 pm.

DOUBLE DEUCE SALOON Open Mic. DRAKE HOTEL LOUNGE Memphis Tuesdays The

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NOISE FOLK

EMA

Ex-Gowns vocalist reinvents folk music for the 21st century By BENJAMIN BOLES EMA with HELADO NEGRO at the Garrison (1197 Dundas West), Saturday (July 23), doors 9 pm. $10. HS, RT, SS, TM.

ANDY ARES PARATROUPE CALVERA July 23 / 11

early show before UK-UNDERGROUND

Considering how much guitar feedback, digital noise and ghostly futuristic textures dominate ex-Gowns vocalist EMA’s (aka Erika M. Anderson) striking debut solo album, Past Life Martyred Saints (Souterrain Transmissions), it’s surprising to discover how passionate she is about folk music.

“I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what folk music is and what it represents,” Anderson says as her tour van heads toward Wisconsin.

“If most music today is being made on a computer, than folk music should have electronic and digital aspects. I hate it when music tries to sound old, because it never works and it doesn’t seem like an honest reflection of the times. It’s silly to me. Digital recording is rad. I mean, I understand why records from the 70s sound fantastic, but why should that be what we’re trying to make now?”

While she does use the occasional acoustic guitar and her harmonies evoke roots music in places, her work comes across more like a hypermodern update of NYC art rock like the Velvet Underground or Patti Smith.

Her lyrics are heart-wrenching and often gory, and her vocals seem to draw from a deep well of sorrow.

THE OSSINGTON

Nevertheless, she’s cheerful and downto-earth, laughing easily about the choppy cellphone connection. (She even tries calling me back when bad reception interrupts the interview – rare for an interviewee.)

Could it be that the mainstream attention she’s garnering as a solo artist is a source of happiness and comfort?

“With Gowns, there was some selfsabotage as far as success goes,” Anderson admits, choosing her words carefully.

“It’s cool to stay true to your art, but at some point I felt we’d outgrown the types of shows we were playing but weren’t ready to take steps toward changing that, like hooking up with a booking agent or publicist. I still don’t feel mainstream yet, though. I’m in the back of this van, and I’ll probably sleep on a floor tonight.” benjaminb@nowtoronto.com

DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND clubs&concerts ñ GLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR œcontinued from page 49

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THE WEEKND SELL OUT

By traditional music industry standards, Toronto experimental R&B act the Weeknd are doing everything wrong – and yet everything’s going so right.

They (or is it just one guy?) refuse to do press, but that hasn’t stopped the whole world from begging them for interviews over the past six months.

They don’t have an official release or even a label, yet they’ve made it onto the Polaris Prize short list (the first free album to do so). They’re booked to play their debut gig July 31 at the Molson Amphitheatre opening for Drake and Rick Ross (!), but then announced a last-minute headlining show at the Mod Club Sunday (July 24), which sold out immediately despite the fact that you could only buy tickets in person at a shoe store.

With this much mystery and hype, there’s a real chance that the group’s official unveiling will disappoint. But that won’t stop fans from lining up outside the club all day for a chance to get in. Easily the most anticipated first show by BENJAMIN BOLES a Toronto act. Ever.

An Evening With Emm Gryner doors 8 pm.

Caribbean Diaspora (reggae) 7 to 10 pm.

HORSESHOE Jesse Malin & the St Marks Social, the Biters doors 8:30 pm.

THE LOCAL Make Out Wednesdays The Ron Leary Quintet.

NATHAN PHILLIPS SQUARE Fresh Wednesdays I-Sax (reggae) noon to 2 pm.

THE PISTON Dwayne Gretzky, Meligrove Band, DJs Paul & Josh 9 pm.

SUPERMARKET Wednesdays Go Pop! Alanna Clark, Flowerchild, Adam Jesin 9 pm.

FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD

THE CENTRAL Suburban Smith 9:30 pm.

CLOAK & DAGGER PUB Alex Bien (folk/pop) 10 pm.

FREE TIMES CAFE Phillip Nozuka.

GRAFFITI’S Kitgut Oldtime Stringband 7 pm.

GROSSMAN’S Rockin’ Blues Jam Ernest Lee & Cotton Traffic 9 pm.

HARBOURFRONT CENTRE REDPATH SUGAR STAGE Tirgan Iranian Festival: Calypso Stars

Showcase Gareth Burgess, D Farmer’s Rhythm Section, the Calypso All Stars House Band 7:30 to 10 pm.

HIGHWAY 61 SOUTHERN BARBEQUE The Legendary Doc McClean 7 pm.

HUGH’S ROOM CD Release Coco Love Alcorn 8:30 pm.

THE PAINTED LADY Jay Aymar, Meanwood (acoustic/folk/roots) 9 pm.

REPOSADO Sol Wednesdays Spy Vs Sly Vs Spy. SILVER DOLLAR High Lonesome Wednesday: Big City Bluegrass Crazy Strings doors 9 pm.

TERRI O’S SPORTS BAR Gary 17s Acoustic Open Stage Savvy Dees (eclectic) 10 pm.

TRANZAC MAIN HALL To The Beat Of My Art Concert & Art Gala Benefit for Art Starts 7 pm.

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DOMINION ON QUEEN Corktown Uke Jam 8 pm.

EMMET RAY BAR D-Boom Ambient Groove 9 pm.

GATE 403 Tim Collins 5 to 8 pm.

GATE 403 Snake Oil Johnson Ken Kawashima & Bob Vespaziani 9 pm.

NAWLINS JAZZ BAR Jim Heineman Trio 7 pm.

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Could Atlanta’s Mastodon emerge as one of the new kings of metal?

PoP

Sia

Graves’ disease diagnosis might make this sia’s last world tour By Kevin riTchie sia with oh land and ximena sari­ nana at the Phoenix (410 Sherbourne), Sunday (July 24), 8 pm. $24.50. RT, SS, TM.

Heavy Metal

Heavy T.O.

Giant Montreal metal festival expands to Toronto By Jason Keller megadeth, anthrax, opeth, motor­ head, children of bodom, as i lay dying, the sword, times of grace, underoath, diamond head, devil­ driver and endast on Saturday (July 24), and rob zombie, billy talent, slayer, mastodon, testament, baptized in blood, anvil, melissa auf der maur, volbeat, exodus, death angel and dead and divine on Sunday (July 24) as part of heavy t.o. at Downsview Park (35 Carl Hall), 1 pm. $72.50, weekend pass $135-$275. LN, RT, SS, TM, heavyto.com.

Metal is a genre whose rulers have remained unchanged for decades.

Compare headliners for a metal festival in 1987 with the inaugural Heavy T.O. event and you won’t find many differences.

Megadeth, Anthrax, Motörhead and Slayer, all slated to play the weekend festival, have reigned supreme since the 80s, and their iron-clad grip on metal’s top tier isn’t likely to loosen any time soon. Replace Motörhead with Metallica and you’d have what’s commonly referred to as thrash metal’s “big four.”

But just as we might ask who will fill stadiums when the Springsteens and U2s finally retire, it’s unclear who will

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be metal’s next true headliners.

Which bands will draw thousands to day-long outdoor festivals in 2025 and lead the genre into a new era?

Scanning south on the Heavy T.O. lineup, a few names jump out, including Mastodon, who draw inspiration from beyond metal’s confines.

The heady Atlanta four-piece built their fan base through an angular mix of hardcore, death and sludge and conceptually complex lyrics that still push the right headbanging buttons thanks to mammoth guitars and Troy Sanders’s Ozzy-like voice.

Months away from releasing their fifth record, The Hunter, they’re prepping to rock Russia.

Billy Talent, second from the top on the second day, are a curious case.

They easily fit the heavy category, but their shrill punk leanings will never be accepted by pure metalheads. Still, the locals already fill arenas and are unquestionably Canada’s most popular heavy band.

(Nickelback don’t meet the weigh-in requirements.)

Also to be watched are spaced-out Austin stoners the Sword, leading practitioners in the growing doommetal sub-genre, and fearless former Smashing Pumpkins and Hole bassist Melissa Auf der Maur, the single female presence over the two testosterone-filled days.

As for the headliners, including horror hound Rob Zombie, they might be time-tested and perhaps overly familiar, but they also consistently deliver a true heavy metal experience.

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Sia Furler had been performing live for nearly two decades when, during her North American tour to support her fifth album, We Are Born (Monkey Puzzle), her hair started falling out, she began losing weight and shaking like she had Parkinson’s disease. Doctors diagnosed panic disorder and prescribed Xanax.

“It was crazy. I was starting to think, like, ‘Fuck, am I in withdrawal because I had a couple of drinks last night?’” the Australian pop star says over the phone from her Los Angeles home.

“Nobody knew what was wrong, but I knew something was so wrong with me.”

Last August, Furler collapsed five songs into a Vancouver concert.

Promoters told the crowd it was heat exhaustion.

“It was mortifying, because that’s never happened to me,” she says. “They were telling me it was a panic attack, and I just felt like a huge fucking loser.”

She later found out she was suffering from Graves’ disease, a serious autoimmune disorder. She spent eight months resting, underwent radiation on her thyroid, gained 40 pounds and began to re-evaluate her place in the music business.

“It certainly has had an influence on how I feel about my life,” she says. “I’m 35. What do I want in life?”

That’s why Furler is billing her summer tour as her last one indefinitely.

She’ll continue to record – she’s working on two solo albums, including one produced by the Strokes guitarist Nick Valensi – but has shifted her primary focus to writing songs for other pop stars in an effort to remain more grounded.

Her work on Christina Aguilera’s 2010 Bionic album opened doors in L.A., and she’s since penned cuts for Adam Lambert, Rihanna, Beyoncé and B-52s singer Kate Pierson, and has confirmed tracks on forthcoming releases

by David Guetta, Flo Rida and Leona Lewis.

“There are all these kids who are hungry for them, so writing songs for them allows me to stay at home and relax,” she says. “I can’t believe I couldn’t slip into this earlier. But, you know, the universe provides.” 3 music@nowtoronto.com

Sebastianesque Heart In Your Heartbreak and the Smashing Pumpkinsish opener Belong – and singer Kip Berman’s breathy vocal style and heartfelt lyrics add a softer, introspective edge.

Better, though, would be less aping and more originality.

Top track: Heart In Your Heartbreak The Pains of Being Pure at Heart play Sonic Boom on August 1 and the Opera House August 2.

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Black Up (Sub Pop) Rating: Will the cultivated mystery around Shabazz Palaces work out as well for them as it has for the Weeknd? Since they’ve avoided doing any press, and don’t give away any info in the liner notes, all we know for sure is that Shabazz is a project helmed by Ishmael “Butterfly” Butler of 90s jazz hip-hop legends Digable Planets, who’s been trying (unsuccessfully) to rebrand himself as Palaceer Lazaro, and that they’re signed to Sub Pop, a label best known for grunge. However, if you take those clues to mean this is a retro album of backpacker beats and complaints about the current state of hip-hop,

Pop/Rock

GARDENS & VILLA (Secretly Canadian)

you’d be missing out on one of the weirdest rap albums of the year.

Yes, there are some jazz and soul influences here and a few earnest lyrics, but this is way more dark, futuristic and cutting-edge than you’d guess. There aren’t any singalong choruses, the beats are more avant-garde than trunk-rattling, and much of the album feels more like a series of experiments with the form than an attempt at chart hits. All of that could have gone terribly wrong, but the results are as engaging as they are bewildering. Grimy, weird and delightfully daring.

Top track: Free Press And Curl BENJAMIN BOLES

were a little less self-conscious about their style and more comfortable with being just a good pop band, they’d have a great album in them.

Top track: Thorn Castles Gardens & Villa play the Drake Hotel on August 2.

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Rating: NNN You can’t help but wonder if there would be lot more excitement about Santa Barbara’s Gardens & Villa had they released their debut album a couple of years ago, THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART before everyone got bored with chillwave Belong (Slumberland) Rating: NNN and dreamy lo-fi revisions of 80s pop. It’s The Pains of Being Pure at Heart’s second hard to shake the feeling that they’re album perfects that loud/quiet balance chasing trends that have passed their popularized by 90s college rock purveyors best-before date, even if they’ve got more like My Bloody Valentine, Ride and Teenskills than many of the bands that beat age Fanclub. No surprise, then, to discover them to the punch. it was produced by Flood and mixed by It’s not that they’re a carbon copy of Alan Moulder, the team behind Nine Inch anyone in particular, more that every Nails, U2, PJ Harvey, Depeche Mode, the element sounds like a reference to someKillers and so many others. thing that was hip last summer, which The slick production values and mighty obscures the band’s own personality. arena-filling guitar and drum sounds will Don’t discount them too quickly, though. jolt fans of the New York City band’s While they don’t come across as comcharming lo-fi debut. But the songwriting Ad_Now_1-5 150711.ai 1 7/15/11 8:49 –PM pletely genuine, there are strong hooks here is strong particularly the Belle & and sounds throughout the album. If they

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JOSS STONE Mirror Mirror (Stone’d/Surfdog) Rating: NN Joss Stone was the trailblazer for that parade of soulful British women – Amy Winehouse, Adele, etc – who went on to eclipse her in popularity. While Stone can still compete on a vocal level, her recorded material once again comes up short.

Produced and co-written by Dave Stewart (Eurythmics), Mirror Mirror is more low-key than the average modern R&B album, with Stone’s voice (wisely) pushed high in the mix. Judicious use of acoustic guitar, pedal steel and piano on about half the album creates a minimalist foundation that works in Stone’s favour.

The other half, where Stewart makes everything sound as glossy and slick as possible, doesn’t work so well.

Dated production could be overlooked if the songs were better, but there’s a serious lack of hooks for a pop album. And since Stone’s voice is the focal point, there’s no escaping the leaden lyrics.

Stone can sing; too bad she chooses to sing this.

Top track: Somehow JOANNE HUFFA

large part of its charm.

Top track: She Plays Yoyo With My Mind Sonny & the Sunsets play Sneaky Dee’s on Sunday (July 24).

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SUBLIME WITH ROME Yours Truly

(Fueled by Ramen) Rating: NN Sublime’s Bradley Nowell died of a drug overdose in 1996 just months before the breakthrough success of the band’s selftitled album, robbing him of the chance to hear countless acoustic versions of Santeria performed by dreadlocked white boys on front porches.

Fifteen years later, his former bandmates Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh have rubbed salt in the wound by replacing the singer/guitarist with a 23-year-old sound-alike (the titular Rome Ramirez) and releasing an album that capitalizes on the band’s position in the frat-rock pantheon – something Nowell never got to enjoy.

It’d be one thing if the new trio built on the band’s legacy. Instead, Yours Truly regurgitates Sublime’s 90s ska-punk blueprint and gussies it up with a new layer of radio-ready sheen. Only the dubstep-influenced iTunes bonus track Safe And Sound suggests where the band could go if they wanted to push their boundaries. It’s terrible, sure, but at least it’s not a retread.

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CASS McCOMBS Wit’s End (Domino) Rating: NNN California songwriter Cass McCombs traverses darker terrain on his fifth album than on 2009’s country-tinged Catacombs. The slow collection sometimes draws from medieval folk music and makes for a good listen late at night, alone on a dark road. On opener County Line, McCombs’s soulful falsetto yearns for a place and perhaps a person over organ and quiet electric guitar.

Despite the album title, there’s an undercurrent of humour in these songs of loneliness, betrayal and death. On Buried Alive, for instance, McCombs moves from sleight-of-hand to the soul in one inventive rhyme. Ambitious waltz Memory’s Stain opens with a classical piano figure and weaves in bass clarinet, harpsichord and castanets. Saturday Song could be a strange Beach Boys outtake, while the drums on mystic UK folk song Hermit’s Cave resemble whips.

A difficult but rewarding experience.

Top track: County Line Cass McCombs plays the Rivoli Saturday (July 23).

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LIL B I’m Gay (BasedWorld) Rating: NNN COCO LOVE ALCORN Play (independent)

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Hit After Hit (Fat Possum) Rating: Like many of his San Francisco peers, the absurdly prolific Sonny Smith writes songs quicker than he can record them. It’s easy to mistrust his music as tossed off – especially considering his laconic, stonedsounding vocals – but when the melodies are as endearing and addictive as these, it’s hard to care about that.

Hit After Hit lives up to its title, offering 11 stick-in-your-head tracks that could probably have torn up the AM charts 40 years ago. Unmistakable oldies throwbacks, they’re filled with naive “ohs” and “ahs” and nearly all clock in at less than three minutes.

The songs sound awfully simplistic, but nuances lurk beneath, from the tribal drum intro to Home And Exile to the sloppy Kinksish solo in I Wanna Do It. It’s the kind of warm summer record you put on without much thought, and that’s a

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Rating: NNN Soulful singer Coco Love Alcorn recently became a mom and relocated to Markdale (near Owen Sound) with her family. Play celebrates these changes and also marks the formerly Vancouver-based songwriter’s first time recording at home.

Most surprising is the fact that this album full of gospel and Motown backup vocals, Casio, guitar and handclaps came mostly out of one woman, with guests contributing sax and guitar in only a few spots. Love, babies, biking and joy are prominent themes that work best when simple melodies and grooves carry their meaning (the a cappella No Limit, over beats on Best Part Of My Day). The lyrics get overly self-explanatory in weaker material near the album’s end.

It’s a gently uplifting, playful album that holds as much appeal for a younger crowd, like Alcorn’s baby Ellie, as an older one. Apparently the singer has songs set aside for an all-out kids’ record.

Top track: Best Part Of My Day Coco Love Alcorn plays Hugh’s Room Wednesday (July 27).

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Lil B is a Berkeley, California, rapper who receives fellatio from women based on the fact that he looks like J.K. Rowling. He also looks like Jesus, Ellen DeGeneres and Justin Bieber – all of which nets him even more oral sex.

That makes no sense, clearly, and that’s the absurdist genius of the man they call the BasedGod. He’s established that nonsensical persona over his 1,000-plus mixtape songs since 2009. I’m Gay, his debut solo album, continues to play with words, albeit in a much saner way.

Here he raps for hip-hop’s more progressive wing – notably giving shout-outs to queers in the title, which earned him death threats. More than that, I’m Gay is a rebuke to the purists who complain he can’t rap and that his out-there freestyles are basic and unintelligible.

Lil B proves them wrong, but in showcasing his more traditional rhyme skills – which are immense – he betrays the futuristic style that made him popular. Who wants to hear him rap on 90s-era soul samples when his latest free mixtape has him looking like Bill Bellamy over New Orleans bounce music?

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more online nowtoronto.com/stage Interview with THIS WIDE NIGHT’S ASTRID VAN WIEREN • Review of NEXT TO NORMAL • Scenes on eco-friendly A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, THE PEDALER’S WAGER and more Fully searchable listings with venue maps nowtoronto.com/stage/listings THEATRE REVIEW

Nancy Palk (left) and Gemma James-Smith will linger in your memory.

Carried away

Solo show is funny but needs editing By GLENN SUMI WISHFUL DRINKING written and performed by Carrie Fisher (Mirvish). At the Royal Alexandra (260 King West). To August 21. $35-$99. 416-872-1212. See Continuing, page 58. Rating: NNN

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Tennessee Williams’s bittersweet play gets a fine production By NAOMI SKWARNA THE GLASS MENAGERIE by Tennes-

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like the prized glass unicorn in the title menagerie, Ted Dykstra’s moving production of Tennessee Williams’s 1944 play never shatters; instead, it breaks apart quietly with little fuss. Nothing much to cry over, but that didn’t stop me from weeping into my program.

It begins and ends with Tom Wingfield (Stuart Hughes), as a kind of ironic illusionist, recalling the past long after abandoning his St. Louis family. Focusing on a short but in-

tense winter in the Wingfield home, Tom, his overbearing mother, Amanda (Nancy Palk), and physically disabled sister, Laura (Gemma JamesSmith), endure day-to-day grievances as they anticipate a visit from Jim (Jeff Lillico), the gentleman caller they hope will provide a future for the pathologically timid Laura.

Palk shines as the formerly genteel Southern belle Amanda, vacillating between flirtatious charm and an impulsive cruelty that emerges in its bitterest form in her failure to secure Jim for her vulnerable daughter.

As narrator, Hughes’s Tom seems incongruous, like a Sam Shepard stud inexplicably stuck playing house with his mother and sister. He softens in his interactions with James-Smith, who transcends any

theatre listings How to find a listing

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Opening THE BIG VOICE – GOD OR MERMAN? by Steve

Schalchlin and Jim Brochu (Globus Theatre).

Two men go from a life of religious service to showbiz in this musical comedy. Opens Jul 27 and runs to Aug 6, Tue-Sat 8 pm, see website for mats. $26.50, stu $20. Lakeview Arts Barn, 2300 Pigeon Lake, Bobcaygeon. 1-800-3047897, globustheatre.com.

DUMP GUYS by Simon Joynes (Port Stanley Festival Theatre). A bowler looks to the internet to solve money troubles. Opens Jul 27 and

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idea of Laura as a tragic pixie, emotional independence burning through her shyness.

Under Dykstra’s active direction, each member of the family moves fitfully around the tea-coloured tenement, the world shining through their window in the form of Lorenzo Savoini’s gorgeous, melancholic lighting. Sex, too, comes through the window in the music wafting from the dance hall across the alley, or in the hinted-at experiences Tom has when he goes to the movies every night.

The Glass Menagerie is filtered through Tom’s memory, but this unflinching and impassioned production speaks long after his has faded.

carrie fisher knows how to squeeze every ironic drop out of an anecdote, but there’s no reason why her autobiographical solo show, Wishful Drinking, needs to clock in at two and a half hours.

Sure, filmdom’s Princess Leia has lived through a lot, what with her celebrity parents (Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher), up-and-down film and literary career and years of substance abuse before her life-saving recovery involving medication and electroconvulsive treatment.

But she clearly needs an editor or dramaturge.

Her chatty tone works well sometimes, as in an early bit about her extended family tree, called Hollywood Inbreeding, presented as a lecture complete with audience quiz. This section’s gossipy and fun and incidentally helps fill in her history for those

who know her only from her Star Wars movies.

A section on her two marriages to singer/songwriter Paul Simon is also amusing, especially when she points out unflattering lyrics about her.

Yet many of her stories ramble on without purpose. The show’s adapted from her book of the same name, and neither Fisher nor director Tony Taccone has found a way to illustrate things. Most of the time, she simply recounts her tales while sitting on a sofa or chair in David Korins’s paraphernalia-filled den of a set – not very theatrical.

Oddly for a show with a title about giving up drinking, there’s not much confession; Fisher doesn’t even give us the “rock-bottom” scene that’s the staple of most recovery memoirs.

But whether she’s recounting a surreal incident from the Star Wars set or one of her many relationship mistakes, Fisher comes across much as she does in her film work: as a wise, funny survivor.

And that’s enough to pass the time.

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runs to Aug 13, see website for schedule. $25$28. 6-302 Bridge, Port Stanley. 1-855-7824353, portstanleytheatre.ca.

DYING CITY by Christopher Shinn (en(LIVE)n Productions). A therapist confronts her late husband’s identical twin when he comes to talk about his brother. Jul 21-24, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2 pm. $17-$20. Jare’s Place Bed & Breakfast, 47 Bain. enliven.productions@ gmail.com.

HAMELIN by Juan Mayorga (NewTeatro). A judge’s efforts to help a troubled youth put a strain on his family life in this play performed in English and Spanish. Jul 21-24, Thu-Sun 7 pm. $22, stu/srs $17. Theatre Centre, 1087 Queen W. 416-538-0988, newteatro.com.

HOW THE OTHER HALF LOVES by Alan Ayckbourn (Drayton Entertainment). To mislead their spouses, cheating lovers implicate an innocent couple. Opens Jul 27 and runs to Aug 13, see website for schedule,. $42, stu $22.

Drayton Festival Theatre, 33 Wellington S, Drayton. draytonentertainment.com.

ITALIAN FUNERALS & OTHER FESTIVE OCCASIONS

by John Miranda (Drayton Entertainment). A young man clings to memories as he loses his mother to dementia. Opens Jul 27 and runs to

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Aug 6, see website for schedule. $42, stu $22.

Playhouse II, 70689 B Line, Grand Bend. 1-888449-4463, draytonentertainment.com.

LEND ME A TENOR by Ken Ludwig (Thousand Islands Playhouse). An office boy impersonates a famous tenor in this musical comedy.

Opens Jul 22 and runs to Aug 27, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 2:30 pm. $16-$32.

Springer Theatre, Gananoque. 1-866-3827020, 1000islandsplayhouse.com.

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM by William Shakespeare (Frolick/Feed Your City). The classic comedy is presented outdoors to benefit local and ethical food projects. Opens Jul 21 and runs to Jul 31, Thu-Sat 6 pm, mat Jul 31 at 2 pm (pwyc). $35, stu $20, kids under 10 free.

Carrot Common Green Roof, 348 Danforth. frolick.ca.

MURDER AT THE BEST WESTERN by Ron Clark and Sam Bobrick (Drayton Entertainment). A love triangle and murder plot unfold at a hotel in this suspense comedy. Opens Jul 21 and runs to Aug 7, see website for schedule. $42, previews $36, stu $22. St Jacobs Country Playhouse, 40 Benjamin E, Waterloo. 1-888-4494463, draytonentertainment.com.

OFFICE HOURS by Norm Foster (Lakeside Play-

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ers). Interrelated stories play out in six different offices in this comedy. Opens Jul 22 and runs to Sep 4, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $25$55.95. Port Mansion Theatre and Restaurant, 12 Lakeport, St Catharines. portmansion.com.

ONE MAN SHOW by Evan O’Donnell (Docket Theatre). A man stages a play to say goodbye to the world before he kills himself. Jul 21-23 at 8 pm. $15, stu $10. Papermill Theatre, 67 Pottery. dockettheatre.com.

POINT NO POINT by Noah Davis (Chainsaw Theatre Co-Op). A relationship is thrown into turmoil when a buried trauma resurfaces.

Opens Jul 21 and runs to Jul 31, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $22. Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman, Extra Space. 416-531-1827, chainsawtheatre.com.

RHINESTONE COWGIRL: A TRIBUTE TO DOLLY PARTON by Leisa Way (Theatre Collingwood).

Way stars in this musical tribute show. Opens Jul 25 and runs to Jul 30, Mon-Tue and ThuSat 8 pm, Wed 2 pm. $18-$35. Gayety Theatre, Collingwood. theatrecollingwood.com.

THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW by Richard O’Brien (Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts).

This rock musical is based on the 70s film.

Opens Jul 26 and runs to Jul 30, Tue-Thu and

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YOUNG CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS DISTILLERY HISTORIC DISTRICT

“DYKSTRA IS SIMPLY EXTRAORDINARY. . . A TOUR DE FORCE ONE-MAN SHOW . . . YOU WON’T SEE MUCH BETTER WORK ANYWHERE THIS SUMMER” – toronto star

Laura Anne Harris displayed perfect Pitch Blond.

War Of The Clowns emerged victorious at the Fringe.

FRINGE WRAP-UP The 2011 Fringe, which closed Sunday (July 17), proved the hottest on record, and not just because the temperature got up into the 30s.

This is the first festival we can remember without any rain; audiences waiting on line didn’t have to worry about finding shelter in theatre lobbies, and none of the outdoor site-specific shows lost a performance.

The heat extended to the crowds and the box office, with ticket sales over 57,000, up 7 per cent from last year. That meant a return to companies, who get all the box office, of just under $410,000.

Some tickets were hard to get from the beginIns Choi’s Kim’s Convenience broke records – and hearts.

ning of the festival. Ins Choi’s Kim’s Convenience, winner of this year’s New Play Contest and featured on NOW’s July 7 cover, was a sellout from its first performance; it ran in the festival’s largest venue, the Bathurst Street Theatre. Tickets for its added Patron’s Pick performance on the Fringe’s last day sold out in 25 minutes – a festival record.

Here’s NOW’s list of this year’s Fringe highlights.

Outstanding new plays

Kim’s Convenience; Swoon!; War Of The Clowns

Outstanding productions

The Giant’s Garden; Mary’s Wedding; The Godot Cycle; Horse; Kim’s Convenience; La Duchesse De Langeais; Mickey & Judy; Peter ’N Chris Save The World!; Pitch Blond; Romeo & Juliet… A Puppet Epic!; Sex, Religion & Other Hang-Ups; Swoon!; Tiki Bikini Beach Paradise Party A-Go-Go; The Travelling Salesman And His Magical Suitcase Of Desires!; War Of The Clowns

Outstanding performances

Christel Bartelse (Chaotica); James Gangl (Sex, Religion & Other HangUps); Lynne Griffin (Brother Andre’s Heart); Laura Anne Harris (Pitch Blond);

Sat 8 pm, Fri 11:59 pm. $22. Bathurst Street Theatre, 736 Bathurst. randolphacademy.com.

SELKIEMAId (Little Red Theatre). A magical seal meets a special child in this play for ages four to 12. Opens Jul 23 and runs to Jul 29, Sat 2 pm, Mon-Tue and Thu-Fri 1:30 pm, see website for other times. $11, child $9. Palmerston Library Theatre, 560 Palmerston. 416533-8848, littleredtheatre.on.ca.

SEMA: ThE KENyA PrOJEcT by Nathan Carroll (Red Sandcastle Theatre). Carroll uses music, photos and storytelling to portray his experiences of working on a farm in East Africa. Jul 21-22 at 7 pm. Pwyc. 922 Queen E. redsandcastletheatre.com.

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ThINKS I’M FUNNy (Buddies in Bad Times).

The cabaret diva debuts her new show interpreting classic pop songs. Jul 23-24 at 8 pm. $20. 12 Alexander. buddiesinbadtimes.com.

SPENT by Michele Smith, Dean Gilmour, Ravi Jain and Adam Paolozza (Why Not Theatre/TheatreRUN). The absurd comedy about the financial crisis returns to raise funds for its run in Scotland and for SummerWorks (Jul 22 show). Opens Jul 21 and runs to Jul 29, Wed-Sat 8 pm. $20. Young Centre for the Per-

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SwEENEy TOdd, ThE dEMON BArBEr OF FLEET STrEET by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh

Wheeler (No Strings Theatre). The wrath of a wrongfully convicted barber has brutal consequences in this musical. Opens Jul 27 and runs to Jul 30, Wed-Sat 7:30 pm, mats Fri-Sat 1:30 pm. $25-$27, stu/srs $20-$22. Al Green Theatre, 750 Spadina. 416-912-9809, nostringstheatre.com.

ThIS wIdE NIGhT by Chloe Moss (Mermaid Parade). On her release from prison, a woman seeks out her former cellmate but finds the friendship has changed. Previews to Jul 21. Opens Jul 22 and runs to Jul 31, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sun (and Jul 30) 2 pm. $25-$50, stu/srs $20, mat pwyc. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. 416-504-7529, thiswidenight.com.

TIrGAN IrANIAN FESTIvAL (Harbourfront Centre). This cultural festival features the Silk Road Dance, Les Ballets Persans, Golden Puppet Theatre and more. Jul 21-24, see website for schedule. Free. 235 Queens Quay W. 416973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com.

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James Gangl explored Sex, Religion & Other Hang-Ups.

Ryan Kelly, Dale Miller and Christian Bellsmith (Living With Henry); Michael Hughes (Mickey & Judy); Adam Lazarus (Tyumen, Then); Michael MacLennan, Laura Caswell and Paula Wolfson (The Giant’s Garden)

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Outstanding ensembles

Awake; Bloom; Breaking News; Horse; Kim’s Convenience; La Duchesse De Langeais; Mister Baxter; MonaRita; She Said What Happened; Swoon!; Tiki Bikini Beach Paradise Party A-Go-Go; The Travelling Salesman And His Magical Suitcase Of Desires!; War Of The Clowns

Outstanding direction

Leora Morris (Horse); Natalie Feheregyhazi (La Duchesse De Langeais;); Sue Miner (War Of The Clowns) JON KAPLAN/GLENN SUMI

Next Week/July 28

Hot Summer Guide August Sizzling movies, stage, music and events through Labour Day.

cUrE AT ThE SEx cLINIc (Harvey Markowitz). A

rich golfer struggles with his game and marriage in this farce. Opens Jul 21 and runs to Jul 23, Thu-Sat 8 pm. Free. Solar Stage Theatre, 4950 Yonge. 416-368-8031.

TOrONTO BUrLESqUE FESTIvAL (Skin Tight Outta Sight Rebel Burlesque/Great Canadian Burlesque). This year’s festival runs Jul 21-23.

The Meet & Greet Teaser: Mena von Fleisch, Scarlett LaFlamme, Sauci Calla Horra and others. Jul 21, doors 9 pm. $10. Mitzi’s Sister, 1554 Queen W. Opening gala: Trixie Little and the Evil Hate Monkey, Ruby Joule, Dew Lily and others. Jul 22, doors 8 pm. $30-$35. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. The Burlesque Ball: live music, striptease, performance art and aerials with Jett Adore, Coco Framboise, Tanya Cheex and others. Jul 23, doors 6 pm. $35-$40. Mod Club, 722 College. torontoburlesque.com. whAT GOES ArOUNd? (Children’s Peace Theatre). Local performance artists and youth explore themes related to human conflict in this outdoor show. Jul 21-23, Thu-Fri 1 pm, gala Sat 5 pm (followed by reception). $15$25, stu/srs/child $5-$15. 305 Dawes, Amphitheatre. 416-752-1550, peacetheatre.org.

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SummerWorks Festival Interviews and previews of the stage and music fest.

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BLOOD BROTHERS by Willy Russell (Drayton Entertainment). Separated at birth, twins with opposite backgrounds fall for the same girl in this musical. Previews Jul 27. Opens Jul 28 and runs to Aug 13, see website for schedule. $42, previews $35.50, stu $21.50. King’s Wharf Theatre, 97 Jury, Penetanguishene. 1-888449-4463, draytonentertainment.com.

THE HOMECOMING by Harold Pinter (Stratford Festival). A man and his American wife return to his all-male family in London for a tense reunion. Previews Jul 26-Aug 10. Opens Aug 11 and runs in rep to Oct 30. $50-$106, stu/srs $25-$66. Avon Theatre, Stratford. 1-800-5671600, stratfordfestival.ca.

HOSANNA by Michel Tremblay (Stratford Festival). A transvestite and her partner confront insecurities and illusions about identity. Previews Jul 26-Aug 9. Opens Aug 10 and runs in rep to Sep 24. $25-$70. Studio Theatre, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca.

HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, Willie

Gilbert and Frank Loesser (Drayton Entertainment). A man schemes his way to the top, then faces being exposed as a fraud in this musical. Previews Jul 27. Opens Jul 28 and runs to Aug 13, see website for schedule. $42, previews $36, stu $22. Huron Country Playhouse, 70689 B Line, Grand Bend. 1-888-449-4463, draytonentertainment.com.

MARIA SEVERA by Jay Turvey and Paul Sportelli (Shaw Festival). A woman becomes a star and popularizes fado, Portuguese music of the street, in this musical. Previews to Aug 4.

Opens Aug 5 and runs in rep to Sep 23. $24$106. Court House Theatre, Niagara-on-theLake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com.

ROPE’S END by Douglas Bowie (Blyth Festival).

An unhappy man looks to reunite with a childhood sweetheart in this romantic comedy.

Previews Jul 27-28. Opens Jul 29 and runs to Aug 27, see website for schedule. $28-$32, previews $22-$26, stu $15. Blyth Memorial Hall, 431 Queen, Blyth. blythfestival.com.

TOPDOG/UNDERDOG by Suzan-Lori Parks (Shaw Festival). Abandoned by their parents, two brothers learn to survive as hustlers while trying to overcome their past. Previews to Aug 5. Opens Aug 6 and runs in rep to Aug 27. $24-$50. Studio Theatre, Niagara-on-theLake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com.

One-nighters

SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT THE OPERA (Westben

Arts Festival Theatre). Soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian and pianist Serouj Kradjian perform.

Jul 24 at 2 pm. $42-$44. Westben Barn, Campbellford. 1-877-883-5777, westben.ca.

SURVIVAL OF THE FIERCEST by Shawn Hitchins (Run Ginger Run). Hitchins performs his musical cabaret about urban survival. Jul 27 at 8 pm. Pwyc. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, shawnhitchins.com.

THEATRE REVIEW

Talky Tolstoy Sit-and-deliver approach mars play By JORDAN BIMM THE KREUTZER SONATA by Leo Tolstoy (Soulpepper). At the Young Centre for the Performing Arts (55 Mill). To August 11. $25-$35. 416-866-8666. See Continuing, this page. Rating: NNN

soulpepper’s ted dykstra has adapted this fiery one-act solo show from Leo Tolstoy’s controversial 1889 novella. He’s also directed, and plays the only character, a jealous Moscow aristocrat named Pozdnyshev who recounts an agonizing buildup of suspicion over his wife’s fidelity. So if you’re a big Dykstra fan, this show is for you.

Continuing BEST OF FRINGE UPTOWN (Fringe Toronto).

Encore performances of ELLAmentary; ñ Hypnogogic Logic By Uncalled For; Living With Henry; Kim’s Convenience; Love, Virtually; The Soaps; Mickey & Judy; Pitch Blond; Remember, Maggy?; The Travelling Salesman & His Magical Suitcase Of Desires; and Tiki Bikini Beach Paradise Party A-Go-Go. Runs to Aug 5, shows performed in rep, nightly at 7 and 9 pm, mats Jul 29-30 at 4 pm. See website for details. $15.

Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge. tocentre.com.

BILLY BISHOP GOES TO WAR by Eric Peterson and John Gray (Soulpepper Theatre Company). Soulpepper remounts its hit production. This revival of Gray and Peterson’s chronicle of the life of the Owen Sound boy turned First World War flying ace simply soars. The two artists’ age (they first performed it three decades ago in their early 30s) adds poignancy to the show, and they know how to savour each word and note for maximum resonance. Ted Dykstra and a fine design give the production the intimacy, clarity and emotional heft it deserves. Don’t miss it.

Runs to Aug 4, see website for schedule. $45$65, stu $28, rush $22 (stu $5). Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-8668666, soulpepper.ca. NNNNN (GS) 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

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Tolstoy’s rich and visceral description of Pozdnyshev’s thickening madness – his story makes the provocative argument that sexuality causes more harm than good – begs for more show and less tell in a theatrical production. This sit-and-

deliver approach unintentionally drifts into books-on-tape territory.

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level and touches on ideas, themes and feelings that will be familiar to anyone who’s ever dealt with infidelity.

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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 7 pm, Wed-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) BLUE MAN GROUP (Mirvish). The multimedia theatrical troupe presents its latest creation. Runs to Jul 30, Mon-Sat 8 pm, mats Thu and Sat-Sun 2 pm. $40-$99. Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King W. mirvish.com.

THE CHERRY ORCHARD by Anton Chekhov (Guildwood Festival Theatre). Chekhov’s play about an aristocratic family in financial trouble is presented outdoors. Runs to Jul 31, Wed-Sun 8 pm, mat Sun 2 pm. $20, kids under 12 free. Guild Inn Gardens, 201 Guildwood Pkwy. 416-392-1421, guildfestivaltheatre.ca.

THE COMEDY OF ERRORS by William Shakespeare (Humber River Shakespeare Co). The classic comedy is staged outdoors. Pwyc. Jul 21-22, Thu-Fri 7 pm, at Thornlodge Park (Mississauga); Jul 23, 7 pm, at Etienne Brulé Park (Bloor W at Riverside); Jul 24, 2 pm, at Montgomery’s Inn (4709 Dundas W); Jul 27-29, Wed-Fri 7 pm, at Old Mill Inn (21 Old Mill Rd).

416-209-2026, humberrivershakespeare.ca.

THE GLASS MENAGERIE by Tennessee Williams (Soulpepper). A broken family struggles to fulfill their dreams (see review, page 56). Runs to Sep 10, see website for schedule. $45-$65, rush $5-$22. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-8668666, soulpepper.ca. NNNN (Naomi Skwarna) JENNY’S HOUSE OF JOY by Norm Foster (Scarborough Players). A Wild West brothel is the scene for catfights, comedy and a lesson

about friendship. Runs to Jul 23, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $17. Scarborough Village Theatre, 3600 Kingston. theatrescarborough.com.

THE KREUTZER SONATA adapted by Ted Dykstra (Soulpepper). Dykstra performs his version of Tolstoy’s novella inspired by Beethoven (see review, this page). Runs to Aug 11, see website for schedule. $25-$35, rush $5-$22. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416866-8666, soulpepper.ca. NNN (Jordan Bimm) LYSISTRATA – THE SEX STRIKE adapted by Germaine Greer (Canopy Theatre/Hart House Theatre). Aristophanes’s Greek comedy about women who withhold sex until the men end the wars gets an outdoor staging. Runs to Aug 6, Wed-Sat 8 pm. $10, stu/srs $8, Wed pwyc.

Philosopher’s Walk, 80 Queen’s Park. 416978-8849, canopytheatre.ca.

MACBETH by William Shakespeare (Driftwood Theatre Bard’s Bus Tour). The classic tragedy is presented in a touring production. Pwyc ($15 adv reserve). Jul 21-24, Thu-Sun 7:30 pm, in Waterloo, Windham Centre, Dundas and Port Perry, see website for location details. Jul 2728, Wed-Thu 7:30 pm, at Withrow Park, 725 Logan. (Tour continues to Aug 14.). 905-5762396, driftwoodtheatre.com.

MARAT/SADE by Peter Weiss (Soup Can Theatre). In this play within a play, the Marquis de Sade stages a drama about the French Revolution inside a mental institution. Runs to Jul 24, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $15. Alumnae Theatre, 70 Berkeley. maratsade.ca.

NEXT TO NORMAL by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey (Dancap Productions). A woman struggles with bipolar disorder and the effect of her illness on her family in this musical. Runs to Jul 31, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm. $34-$129. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-644-

3665, dancaptickets.com.

THE PEDALER’S WAGER (Clay & Paper Theatre).

The theatre and CYCLOPS troupes present a production featuring puppets and bicycles.

Runs to Aug 14, Wed-Sun 7 pm, mat Fri 2 pm (weekend mobile matinees at 2 pm; see website for details). Pwyc ($10 suggested). Dufferin Grove Park, Dufferin S of Bloor. clayandpapertheatre.org/cyclops.

REP 21 SUMMER SERIES (Canadore College).

Graduates of Canadore’s theatre arts program present Macbeth, The Donnellys and The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie in rep. Runs to Jul 23, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $20, stu $15.

Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. 416-5047529, rep21.ca.

THE 39 STEPS adapted by Patrick Barlow (Rose Theatre). This comedy whodunit is based on the novel by John Buchan and the 1935 Alfred Hitchcock film. Runs to Jul 30, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 2 pm. $27. 1 Theatre Lane, Brampton.

905-874-2800, rosetheatre.ca.

THE WINTER’S TALE by William Shakespeare (Canadian Stage Dream in High Park). This mostly faithful rendition of one of the Bard’s lesser-known comedies is hampered by a bland set and odd costume choices. However, a strong dramatic performance by David Jansen (Leontes), and funny comic turns by John Blackwood (Autolycus) salvage an otherwise ho-hum production. Runs to Sep 4, Tue-Sun 8 pm. Pwyc ($20 sugg); under 14 free. High Park Amphitheatre, Bloor W & Parkside. canadianstage.com/dream. NNN (Jordan Bimm) WISHFUL DRINKING by Carrie Fisher (Mirvish).

Fisher recalls the true tale of her life in Hollywood in this solo show (see review, page 56).

Runs to Aug 21, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm. $35-$99. Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260 King W. 416-872-1212, mirvish. com. NNN (GS) 3

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TIRGAN IRANIAN FESTIVAL Harbourfront Centre presents an arts and culture festival with dance by Kurdish House Dance Group, Silk Road Dance Company, Ida Saki and more.

Jul 21-24, see website for schedule. Most events free. 235 Queens Quay W. 416-9734000, harbourfrontcentre.com.

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Thursday, July 21 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Trent McClellan,

Jamie O’Connor, David Andrew Brent and host Scott White. To Jul 24, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:45 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10-$15. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

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

family-friendly improv and sketch. Thu-Sat 1 pm. $12. 51 Mercer. secondcity.com.

ASIANSPLOITATION ALL GROW UP Asiansploitation presents a new sketch comedy revue. To Jul 23, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $15 (uofttix.ca). George Ignatieff Theatre, 15 Devonshire. 416-9788849, asiansploitation.com.

GAME PLAYA THURSDAYS John Candy Box Theatre presents The Young And The Guestlist, an improvised puppet soap opera, followed by longform improv by the Game Of The Scene class. 8:45 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270.

HELDER BRUM AND FRIENDS Bread & Circus presents Bob Banks, Rhiannon Archer, Brian Barlow, Dom Pare, Alison Jutzi, Pat Thornton, host Brum and others. 10 pm.

Pwyc. 299 Augusta. helderbrum.com.

THIS PARTY’S A RIOT! Second City’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. The writing needs sharpening, but the ballsy, improv-based finale – if it works – will generate lots of postshow buzz. To Jul 24, Thu-Fri 8 pm, Sat 8 & 10:30 pm, Sun 7 pm. $24-$29, stu $15. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com. NNN (GS) YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Ari Shaffir.

To Jul 23, Thu-Sat 8 pm (and Fri-Sat 10:30 pm). $12-$20. 224 Richmond W. yukyuks.com.

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

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

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THE COMEDY CABARET Robin Crossman and

UP SHOW See Thu 21.

ASIANSPLOITATION ALL GROW UP See Thu 21.

BYE BYE LIVER: THE TORONTO DRINKING PLAY

The Pub Theatre Co presents interactive sketch comedy about drinking. 9 pm. $15.

Hard Rock Cafe, 279 Yonge. byebyeliver.com.

JESSICA KIRSON See Fri 22.

SHAKEN & STIRRED III MisngLnk and Green with Envy Productions present stand-up and improv w/ Bruce Hunter, Danny Freedman, Candace Lovett, Natalie Norman, hosts 2-Man No-Show and others. 8 pm. $5.

Black Swan, 154 Danforth. 416-469-0537.

SPILLIN’ THE BEANS COMEDY Full of Beans Coffee presents a show w/ host Rene Payes. 7 pm.

Pwyc. 1348 Dundas W. fullofbeans.ca.

THEATRESPORTS Bad Dog Theatre presents fast improv matches. 8 pm. $12, stu $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. baddogtheatre.com.

THIS PARTY’S A RIOT! See Thu 21.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 21.

YUK YUK’S VAUGHAN See Fri 22.

YUK YUK’S WEST See Fri 22.

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Sunday, July 24 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 21.

THE BENCH John Candy Box Theatre presents

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

CABBAGETOWN COMEDY SHOWCASE The Flying Beaver Pubaret presents Ian Lynch, Julia Bruce, Joy Acharjee, Julia Hladkowicz, Richard Ryder and host Johnny Hastings.

7 pm. $10. 488 Parliament. pubaret.com.

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stand-up comic/writer/Chappelle show cocreator. Two shows: 7:30 & 9:30 pm. $10-$15.

Rivoli, 332 Queen W. laughsabbath.com.

LEGENDS OF ZELDA’S presents weekly improv w/ the Eleventh Commandment and guests. 8 pm. $5. Zelda’s, 692 Yonge. zeldas.ca.

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 weekly sketch show w/ guest hosts & musical acts. 9:30 pm. $8. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. thesketchersons.com.

THIS PARTY’S A RIOT! See Thu 21.

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

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

Chris MacLean present stand-up w/ Dylan Mandlsohn, Natalie Norman, Kirk Hicks, Rene Armando Payes, Michael Harrison, Jonathon Schabl and Abraham Sualim. 9 pm. Pwyc.

Charlotte Room, 19 Charlotte. 416-402-5521, thecomedycabaret.com.

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

666 Manning. 647-343-7969, pourboy.ca.

FOLK WITH BENEFITS The Annex Live presents a comedic folk show with Chelsea Manders and Alison Jutzi. 7 pm. Pwyc. 296 Brunswick. folkwithbenefits.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 VEST SHOW IN TOWN Comedy Bar presents a variety show w/ Vest of Friends. 7 pm.

Pwyc. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

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Tuesday, July 26 THE COMEDY JUNGLE Supermarket presents Jay Hardy and Trevor Osborne. 8 pm. $5. 268 Augusta. 416-840-0501.

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

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

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

The Incubator. 9:30 pm. $5. Late Night Menu, new and developing acts. 10:30 pm. Free.

Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. impatient.ca.

IMPROV ALL-STARS Second City presents a fastpaced, completely improvised weekly show. 8 pm. $20. 51 Mercer. secondcity.com.

IMPROV NIGHT IN CANADA John Candy Box Theatre presents the ultimate improv faceoff.

9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270.

STANDING ON THE DANFORTH Eton House presents Sandra Battaglini, Rob Pue, Kate Davis, Alex Pavone, Lindy Zucker,

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Monty Scott, Julia Hladkowicz, Bobby Knauff and host Jo-Anna Downey. 9 pm. Free. 710 Danforth. 416-466-6161.

Wednesday, July 27 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Pro-Am Night w/

Scott White, Matt Lyons, Chris Brazeau, Steve Patrick Adams, Dan Ramos, Marty Simsovic, Tom Hills and host Mike Storck. 8:30 pm. $6.

2335 Yonge. absolutecomedy.ca.

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

DJ DEMERS presents a weekly show w/ guests.

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

IMPATIENT THEATRE CO presents improv by its students. 7 pm. Free. House Party, scenes by ITC teams. 8 pm. $10. Munchausen, rapid-fire improv based on true stories. 10 pm. Free.

Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. impatient.ca.

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SIREN’S COMEDY Celt’s Pub presents stand-up w/ Sarah Donaldson and host Ben Redman.

8:30 pm. Free. 2872 Dundas W. 416-767-3339.

SPIRITS OPEN MIC presents Fraser Young, Cal Post, Camille Cote, Pat MacDonald, Carolyn Taylor, Darren Pyle, Andre Arruda, Todd Graham, James Madge and host Jo-Anna Downey. 9 pm. Free. Spirits Bar & Grill, 642 Church. 416-967-0001.

STUDENTS ROCK THE NITE John Candy Box Theatre presents Second City Training Centre students. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Kevin Herod. To Jul 30, Wed-Sat 8 pm (& FriSat 10:30 pm). $12-$20. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

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LEE FIELDS Toronto Jazz fest highlight and deep funk veteran peforms at the Horseshoe 4:58

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

son presents atheist-friendly comedy. 8:30 pm. $10. Centre for Inquiry, 216 Beverley. cfiontario.org.

JESSICA KIRSON The Flying Beaver Pubaret presents the comic in a live show. To Jul 23, Fri-Sat 8 pm. $20-$25. 488 Parliament. pubaret.com.

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

SAVED BY THE GRIND Second City presents urban stand-up and sketch with host Keith Pedro and others. 11 pm. $20. 51 Mercer. 416343-0011, secondcity.com.

THIS PARTY’S A RIOT! See Thu 21.

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 21.

YUK YUK’S VAUGHAN presents Richard Lett. To Jul 23, Fri-Sat 9 pm. $20. 70 Interchange Way. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

YUK YUK’S WEST presents Chris Quigley. To Jul 23, Fri-Sat 9 pm. $20. 5165 Dixie, Mississauga.

416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

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Anetta Mona Chisa and Lucia Tkácová’s Manifesto Of The Futurist Woman (Let’s Conclude) takes Rearview Mirror to the lighter side.

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Eastern Europeans flex new muscle By DAVID JAGER REARVIEW MIRROR: NEW ART FROM CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE at the Power Plant (231 Queens Quay West), to September 5. 416-973-4949. Rating: NNN

grey, monolithic, ideological and dourly repressive: these are qualities that still come to mind when thinking about Eastern bloc countries and their culture, even 22 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. In Rearview Mirror, curator Christopher Eamon attempts to dispel these persistent tropes by introducing the work of 22 of the region’s young contemporary artists.

Artists emerging from the shadow of the former Soviet Union can’t help but be preoccupied with what they missed, which is why much of the work here feels like a delayed echo from the middle of the last century.

Its imbued, however, with a subtle new sense of mischief.

Anetta Mona Chisa and Lucia Tkácová have been stealing trivial objects (screwdrivers, a computer

mouse, scissors and ballpoint pens) from the world’s top commercial galleries. This archive is an elegant sendup of the neurotic collector’s impulse and Europe’s legacy of art theft.

Their strained and ironic relationship with art’s ideological history is further reflected in their video performed in full futurist uniform, a reference to French artist Valentine de Saint-Point, who wrote the Manifesto Of The Futurist Woman in 1912.

Equally cheeky is Ciprian Muresan’s animated recreation of Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí’s iconic razor-meets-eyeball scene from the 1929 film Un Chien Andalou, using characters from Shrek. This gleeful cognitive dissonance links early film innovation with its monstrous commercialized offspring.

Anna Molska’s loopy video, Peers, also teeters on the edge of parody. She swings languidly in a hammock, breasts exposed, surrounded by budgies, and utters an occasional flat profundity. You ask “What is she thinking?” in a good way.

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The Commons, Jul 21-Sep 11, reception 6 pm Jul 21 (bus from Gladstone 7-9 pm). 300 City Centre (Mississauga). 905-896-5088.

ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO Abel Boulineau, to Aug 21. Abstract Expressionist New York, to Sep 4 ($25, stu $16.50, Wed after 7 pm $10). Brian Jungen, to Aug 7.

Kathleen Munn, to Aug 28. Libby Hague, to Sep 11 (free). Inuit Modern, to Oct 16. Robert Motherwell, to Dec 11. Lucy Tasseor Tutsweetok, to Apr 1, 2012. $18, srs $15, stu $10, free Wed 6-8:30 pm. 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648.

BATA SHOE MUSEUM Art In Shoes – Shoes In Art; The Roaring 20s: Heels, Hemlines And High Spirits, ongoing. $14, srs $12, stu $8.

327 Bloor W. 416-979-7799.

BURLINGTON ART CENTRE Tactile: From The Collection Of Ann Mortimer, to Jul 24. Nora Hutchinson, to Aug 9. Steve Hudak and Steve Mazza, to Aug 28. Sunmi Jung, to Sep 18. 1333 Lakeshore (Burlington). 905-6327796.

CAMPBELL HOUSE MUSEUM Pat Dumas-Hudecki, to Aug 31. 160 Queen W. 416-5970227.

DESIGN EXCHANGE Out Of Sorts: Print Culture And Book Design, to Aug 21 (free). Play > Nation, to Oct 10. $10, stu/srs $8. 234 Bay. 416-363-6121.

GARDINER MUSEUM OF CERAMIC ART Jun Kaneko, to Sep 18. Lesley McInally, to Sep 19 (free). Creamware, to Dec 4. $12, stu $6, srs $8; Fri 4-9 pm half-price, 30 and under free.

111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080.

JUSTINA M. BARNICKE Kevin Schmidt, to Aug 20. 7 Hart House. 416-978-8398.

McMICHAEL CANADIAN ART COLLECTION Ivan Eyre, to Aug 14. Marc-Aurèle Fortin, to Sep 11. Steeling The Gaze: Portraits By Aboriginal Artists, to Sep 11. $15, stu/srs $12.

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

MOCCA This Is Paradise, to Aug 21. Elle Flanders and Tamira Sawatzky, to Aug 31. 952 Queen W. 416-395-0067.

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

OAKVILLE GALLERIES Sobey Art Award Ontario Long List, to Sep 3. Centennial, 120 Navy; Gairloch, 1306 Lakeshore W (Oakville).

905-844-4402.

ONTARIO SCIENCE CENTRE Super Cells: The Wonder Of Stem Cells, to Oct 2. $20, stu/srs $16. 770 Don Mills. 416-696-1000.

THE POWER PLANT Kevin Schmidt, to Sep 5.

Rearview Mirror: New Art From Central And Eastern Europe, to Sep 5. 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949.

ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM Edward Burtynsky, to Aug 21. C Nation Cheong, to Aug 1. Jane Ash Poitras, to Sep 1.

Water: The Exhibition, to Sep 5 ($31, stu/srs $28). Riotous Colour, Daring Patterns: Fashions + Textiles 18th To 21st Centuries, to Oct 16. $24, stu/srs $21; half-price Fri 4:30-8:30 pm; free Wed 3:30-5:30 pm. 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000.

TEXTILE MUSEUM OF CANADA Cold Comfort: New And Improved Souvenirs Of Canada, to Sep 18. Silk Oasis On The Silk Road: Bukhara, to Sep 25. Magic Squares: The Patterned Imagination Of Muslim Africa In Contemporary Culture, to Nov 20. $15, srs $10, stu $6; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre. 416-599-5321.

VARLEY ART GALLERY Cul-de-sac, to Aug 28. $5, stu/srs $4. 216 Main (Unionville). 905477-9511.

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The sculptures of Anna Ostoya, who turns pieces of furniture into bland conceptual works, are imbued with that same comic futility. Her beige obelisk topped with a fluttering plastic bag is both funny and sad, a testament to past ideological monuments and the equally weighty ortho-

doxies of conceptual art.

These artists breathe new life into old tropes, but you can’t help but feel a monochromatic pall lingering over the whole show. It’s as if the sheer weight of their past still leaves them feeling exhausted and flat.

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MUST-SEE SHOWS C indicates Caribbean Carnival Toronto event BAU-XI PHOTO Adam Makarenko, to Jul 23.

324 Dundas W. 416-977-0400.

C CITY HALL ROTUNDA Photos: Jenny Baboolal, to Jul 22. 100 Queen W. 416-3380338.

ENGINE GALLERY Painting: Jeffrey Wang, to Aug 7. 37 Mill, bldg 37. 416-531-9905.

FEMINIST ART GALLERY Installation/video: Alison SM Kobayshi, to Jul 27, closing screening/artist’s talk 8 pm Jul 27 (Sat-Sun). 25 Seaforth.

401 RICHMOND W Open Screening Under The Stars (BYO experimental films/DVDs/ videos), 9 pm Jul 23 (pwyc). courtyard (rain location CineCycle, 129 Spadina). pdome. org.

FLY GALLERY Paradise Lost group show, to Jul 31. 1172 Queen W. 416-539-8577.

GALLERY TPW The Normal Condition Of Any Communication group show, to Jul 30. 56 Ossington. 416-645-1066.

C GLADSTONE HOTEL The Art Of Carnival, to Jul 31, reception 7-10 pm Jul 21. Being She: The Culture Of Women’s Health And Health Care Through The Lens Of Wholeness, to Aug 1. Textiles: Kerry Croghan, to Nov 1. Painting: Sophie Moisson, to Jul 25.

1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.

HARBOURFRONT CENTRE Visions Of Eternity; Persianissimo: Iranian Poster Design (Tirgan Iranian Festival), Jul 22-24. Azure Magazine AZ Awards; DodoLab: Ideas Of Canada; Bring To Mind; First Hand group shows; installation/photos Lorène Bourgeois, Bozica Radjenovic and Chao-Liang Shen, to Sep 25.

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C HOTSHOT Supafrik African art/design

pop-up shop, to Jul 30. 181 Augusta. 416979-7574, supafrik.com.

JAPANESE CANADIAN CULTURAL CENTRE Artsu Matsuri: Japanese Canadian artists, to Jul 24, artists’ talks 7 pm Jul 21. 6 Garamond. 647200-6161.

LABSPACE STUDIO Moments Intercepted group show, Jul 22-24, reception 7 pm-1 am Jul 22. [Present] Moments Intercepted, Jul 22-25. 2A Pape. 416-836-1516.

LOOP GALLERY Painting: Heather Carey and Ian McLean, Jul 23-Aug 14, reception 2-5 pm Jul 23. 1273 Dundas W. 416-516-2581.

MKG127 Chopped & Screwed group show, to Jul 30. 127 Ossington. 647-435-7682.

MONTE CLARK GALLERY Photos: Greg Girard, Jul 21-Aug 21, reception 6-8 pm Jul 21. 55 Mill, bldg 2. 416-703-1700.

O’BORN CONTEMPORARY Photos: Dominic Nahr, to Jul 30. 131 Ossington. 416-4139555.

SHOW & TELL GALLERY Painting/collage: James Marshall (Dalek) and Greg Lamarche, Jul 22-Aug 31, reception 7-11 pm Jul 22. 1161 Dundas W. 647-347-3316.

STEPHEN BULGER Photos: George S Zimbel, Jul 21-Sep 17, reception 5-9 pm Jul 21, artist’s talk 2 pm (RSVP) Jul 23. 1026 Queen W. 416504-0575.

SUBWAY INSTALLATION Underground Tarot: Critical Art Ensemble, to Jul 24. Screens in stations. mcluhan100.ca.

TORONTO IMAGE WORKS Photos: Richard Marazzi, Jul 21-Sep 3. 80 Spadina. 416-7031999.

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THE CHAIRS ARE WHERE THE PEOPLE GO: HOW TO LIVE, WORK, AND PLAY IN THE CITY by Misha Glouberman with Sheila Heti (Faber and Faber), 175 pages, $14.50 paper. Rating: NNN

ostensibly, the chairs are where The People Go is about everything that Trampoline Hall host, conference facilitator and character-abouttown Misha Glouberman has learned.

It’s a collection of essays – spoken over coffee to transcriber and former Trampoline Hall collaborator, author Sheila Heti – about teaching improv classes, going to parties, negotiating neighbourhood politics and falling in love.

Glouberman comes across as opin-

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ionated, even smug, in a jolting first chapter about how anonymity is necessary for sanity on the subway. If the book were merely a collection of such quips about city life, it wouldn’t be very satisfying.

Fortunately, it’s not. He candidly explains how personal experiences have shaped his philosophy, painting a nuanced self-portrait as a Harvard grad haunted by insecurity yet energized by the process of introducing people to novel situations and observing how they interact.

He makes his living organizing a smorgasbord of unlikely activities, described in painstaking detail: charades courses, un-conferences where participants choose what they want to discuss, improv for non-actors and experimental music sessions for non-musicians. He’s interested in mistakes, miscommunications and play, and these apparently silly social experiments have afforded him rare insight into psychology, group behaviour, conflict resolution, performance and art.

The constant cycling through different aspects of his life can be dizzying and redundant, but it’s full of geeky but endearing bits: his interest in self-help books, his knowledge of computer programming, his experiences quitting smoking.

I particularly like his description of what improvisers do when he tells them to find an ending. SARAH GREENE Glouberman launches The Chairs Are Where The People go on Wednesday (July 27) at the Garrison.

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Sunday, July 24 PLASTICINE POETRY Jeanette Lynes, James Dewar, Nyla Matuk, David Harry Bateman and Heather Wood, plus an open mic. 6 pm. Free. Pauper’s Pub, 539 Bloor W. pauperspub.com.

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KEN GREENBERG The city planner and con-

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5:30 pm. Free. CSI Annex, 720 Bathurst.

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Marchand discusses Graham Greene’s The Quiet American. 6:45 pm. Revue Cinema, 400 Roncesvalles. revuecinema.ca.

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Into the head of an eco-egotist Eco-Pirate director Trish Dolman says she began to grasp Paul Watson’s complexities once she started shooting By SUSAN G. COLE ECO-PIRATE: THE STORY OF PAUL WATSON directed by Trish Dolman. 110 minutes. An eOne release. Opens Friday (July 22) at TIFF Bell Lightbox. For times, see page 70.

many documentary filmmakers go into a project with an idea and, once shooting gets under way, find themselves changing direction.

Trish Dolman had a classic change of heart while making her doc about controversial eco-activist Paul Watson.

“When I first had the idea in 2002, he was ramming driftnet fishing boats,” she says on the phone from her home base in Vancouver. “I thought, ‘Wow, I’ve never heard of people doing that, and that would be great to do a film about because he’s so radical.’”

Once she got deeper into the project, he began looking less like a hero.

“When I was younger I was more naive. Initially I had a lot of admiration for Paul, but I realized that for a

lot of people, he’s an unlikeable character.

“What drew me to him was that he elicited such a strong response. Some people were fervent supporters, others detested him.”

Using archival footage of early eco-actions, Dolman goes the distance to capture the history of Greenpeace, which Watson helped found in 1973. She also talks to Greenpeace’s co-founders, who eventually threw Watson out of the organization when he refused to maintain discipline during protests.

He famously grabbed a cable pulling seals into a boat and was repeatedly dumped into the icy water – see that in one of the film’s more memorable clips.

But Dolman also tried to find out more about Watson’s emotional life and his family background, which wasn’t easy.

“I wanted to get to a personal place with Watson where no other filmmaker has gone. He’s very mediasavvy and aware of the camera and

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hubris is a terrible thing. it blinds us to our shortcomings and leads us to make terrible decisions based on a gut feeling that, despite all available evidence, everything will work out for the best.

In fairness, sometimes things do turn out for the best. But more often than not, they give us stories like Nim Chimpsky’s.

Project Nim charts the astonishing, heart-wrenching odyssey of a chimpanzee raised among humans as part of an experiment in the 1970s at Columbia University. A linguistics professor named Herbert Terrace wanted to actually communicate, in language, with another species.

To that end, an infant primate – named for the eminent language theorist Noam Chomsky – was placed in the home of one of Terrace’s grad students to live with her and her family in a brownstone on the Upper West Side. He’d be encouraged to identify with his human housemates

– to wear clothes, to use a toilet, to “speak” in sign language – with the ultimate goal of being able to report back to Terrace from the other side of the DNA divide.

It made a great story for the papers, but the cuddly infant soon became an emotionally volatile adolescent. Kids are difficult on their best day; a kid who can climb up the walls, grab your head and rip your face open with his teeth is something else entirely. Professor Terrace didn’t think about that. He didn’t think about much of anything other than how he could use Nim as a sexual lubricant with his more fetching grad students. (Hey, man, it was the 70s.)

Terrace wasn’t the only human whose stunning arrogance and incompetence affected Nim’s life, but he’s the one who got the ball rolling – and it would be terribly unfair of me to reveal what happens when Nim leaves Columbia’s care. James Marsh interviews nearly everyone with whom Nim interacted, using archival footage and the occasional

stylized recreation to create a fluid narrative.

Where his Oscar-winning Man On Wire was a playful work, Project Nim is marked by the stoic outrage of Errol Morris’s recent documentaries The Fog Of War and Standard Operating Procedure.

It’s an astonishing story, and one of the year’s best documentaries.

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Nim finds himself in a hairy situation.

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wife, Ivonne (who literally ran away with him when she was 15), wants their children – who can juggle and contort their bodies, yet barely read – to live in a real home.

Naturally, Schock gets great footage of the acts themselves, letting us admire the performers’ hard work and acrobatic prowess. But he also ponders the possible end of their way of life and what will happen to Tino’s children down the road.

Bursting with colour and life, the film looks great, and a jaunty original soundtrack by Calexico adds rhythm and texture to the memorable images

Family circus circo (Aaron Schock). 75 minutes.

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The world of the circus is full of rich metaphors about running away, walking tightropes and defying death.

Aaron Schock makes great use of them in Circo, his intimate and moving portrait of a family-run Mexican circus.

Tino Ponce is a 40-something animal tamer, who, like his father, grew up under the big top. Now he oversees Circo Mexico, which tours to tiny villages, setting up the equipment (much of it still to be paid off) and entertaining the locals. But the economy’s faltering, and the business (run by Tino’s controlling dad) is in jeopardy. Tino’s siblings have left to lead “normal” lives, and his

A family withstands change within their travelling circus.

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Captain ameriCa: the First avenger (D: Joe Johnston, 125 min) This adaptation of the Marvel comic stars Chris Evans as a scrawny WWII soldier who undergoes a series of experiments to become a nationalistic military weapon. Superhero movies haven’t shown much muscle at the summer box office, but Paramount is hoping its $140 million investment is the exception.

Both movies open Friday (July 22).

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A BETTER LIFE (Chris Weitz) is an unapologetically melodramatic look at Los Angeles’s immigrant culture, as seen through the eyes of middle-aged, undocumented Mexican Carlos Galindo (Demián Bichir), who works as a landscaper so that his American-born teenage son Luis (José Julián) might have, well, a better life.

Finally able to afford his own truck, Carlos immediately loses it to a shifty worker, sending father and son through the underworld of immigrant culture to find the thief and retrieve the vehicle. I had the feeling I was supposed to marvel at the authenticity with which director Weitz constructs his mawkish Bicycle Thieves update, but instead I kept noticing how utterly one-dimensional all the characters are, and how insistent Weitz is on pointing out his hero’s noble and heroic nature.

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BAD TEACHER (Jake Kasdan) stars Cam-

eron Diaz as a high-functioning sociopath teaching seventh grade at a dinky Illinois school and chasing the new substitute teacher (Justin Timberlake). Jason Segel walks off with the picture as an affable, unassuming gym teacher who’s hip to Diaz’s game but attracted to her anyway.

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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) Carlton Cinema

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(Paul Feig) is a broad farce starring Kristen Wiig as a Milwaukee baker whose emotional equilibrium is in no state to cope with the impending marriage of best friend Lillian (Maya Rudolph). Even as the situations grow increasingly cartoonish, Bridesmaids paints a credible portrait of a woman in crisis, with Wiig giving a nicely considered performance in her first leading role. 124 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24 œ

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about an unassuming suburban couple (played by Maria Bello and Michael Sheen) who learn their son (Kyle Gallner) has gone on a shooting spree at his school. Bello and Sheen shine in this actor’s showcase. The problem’s in the script, which is mired in predictable plot points. 100 min. NNN (NW) Carlton Cinema

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(Mike Mills) is a terribly tender drama about graphic artist Oliver (Ewan McGregor), who’s still getting over the death of his father, Hal (Christopher Plummer). Grief is making it hard for Oliver to connect emotionally with anything but his dog. And even the arrival of a smart and sexy actor (Mélanie Laurent) can’t get him charged up. Flashbacks in which Hal, who’s come out of the closet since his wife passed away, shows a lust for life, gay politics and creativity even as he’s dying contrast cleverly with present-day scenes in which Oliver struggles in his heavy funk. McGregor and Laurent are terrific, but the real marvel here is Plummer, who plunges gleefully into the role of gay rogue. You’ve never seen him like this. 105 min. NNNN (SGC) Grande - Yonge, Varsity

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Sanping, Huang Jianxin) is a blatantly biased and utterly boring propaganda flick that chronicles the formation of the Chinese Communist Party. Beginning with the 1911 revolution that overthrew the Qing Dynasty, the film features scatterings of inconsequential battles, sensational assassination attempts, political uprisings and soapbox speeches from a wide assortment of key figures who are impossible to keep track of. It all feels like someone used pages ripped out of the encyclopedia as a screenplay. 124 min. N (RS) Kennedy Commons 20

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(Werner Herzog) is a hypnotic 3-D documentary that presents the incredible walls of the Chauvet Pont d’Arc cave as though we were standing 4 feet away from them, the better to see the 33,000-year-old cave paintings discovered there two decades ago. The stereoscopic presentation is less a gimmick than an observational tool; we see how the images wrap around the stone, curling around stalactites and recesses, and imagine the effort it took to create them. Experts explain the historical value of the cave, but director Herzog’s contemplative narration is all we really need. That, and some closing footage of mutant albino crocodiles. Some subtitles.

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(Rodman Flender) is the most purely entertaining documentary you’ll see all year – as well as a surprisingly acute study of a celebrity in free fall. Charting the live concert tour O’Brien launched after walking away from The Tonight Show, director Flender builds a portrait of an irrepressible performer and compulsive glad-hander terrified of alienating his fan base to the point of never refusing anyone a photo or autograph, even when he’s clearly on the verge of collapse. O’Brien is totally honest whether onstage or off-, copping to fits of rage over losing his dream job and engaging in endless passive-aggressive sniping with his staff. But it’s not all misery; the shows themselves are tremendous fun, and Flender crams in so much backstage detail you’ll be swept up in the whirlwind of manic action. 89 min. NNNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Scotiabank Theatre

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her attorney.) Directed by Redford in a stiff, almost frumpy manner that can best be described as Period Respectability, this is a dull movie about a terrible time in American history. 121 min. NN (NW) Regent Theatre

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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) Interchange 30

thE firSt GradEr (Justin Chadwick) is based on the true 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.

Some subtitles. 103 min. NN (NW) Carlton Cinema forkS ovEr kNivES (Lee Fulkerson) is an advocacy documentary dedicated to the argument that a “whole foods, plantbased diet” is better than a diet based on animal protein and high-fructose corn syrup. It’s basically macrobiotics all over again, but director Fulkerson does such a shoddy job of making his case that you’ll end up wondering whether he has anything of substance to say. 96 min. NN (NW) Interchange 30 friENdS With BENEfitS (Will Gluck) 104 min. See Also Opening, page 64.

Opens Jul 22 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity.

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Ryan Reynolds play the roguish rookie Hal Jordan, a test pilot recruited into the universe-policing Green Lantern Corps.

There’s enough story for a trilogy here, and without a singular vision to drive it, Green Lantern quickly deteriorates into a jumble of storylines, characters, exposition and explosions. 114 min. NN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Interchange 30, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24

thE haNGovEr Part ii (Todd Phillips) repeats the original all over again, as the traumatized trio of Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis try to reconstruct a disastrous night and find a missing friend. This time they’re in Bangkok, so the stakes are higher and weirder. The movie’s substantially darker, but the comedy’s still sharp. 102 min. NNN (NW) Colossus, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24 haNNa (Joe Wright) is an entertaining actioner starring Saoirse Ronan as a teen trained from birth to assassinate meanie spy operative Cate Blanchett. Blanchett’s brilliantly bad. 111 min. NNN (SGC) Carlton Cinema harry PottEr aNd thE dEathly Part 2 ñhalloWS (David Yates)

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serves not just as the second half of the Deathly Hallows story, but as the climax to the entire Harry Potter saga – and it delivers, with Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma Watson) working their way back to Hogwarts for a final battle with the forces of the evil Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes). There’s spectacle, with dragons and death traps and angry trolls and a full-on assault on Hogwarts, and the answers to various mysteries are revealed, but mostly there’s proper drama, as Radcliffe finally shows us the man Harry’s been forced to become. It’s a real performance, layered and even moving. The post-production 3-D conversion adds nothing; see it in 2-D if you can. 130 min. NNNN (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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(Seth Gordon) casts Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day as put-upon wage slaves who decide to murder their repugnant employers (Kevin Spacey, Colin Farrell and Jennifer Aniston), swapping the killings in order to avoid suspicion. After setting up that clockwork premise, the movie takes obscene pleasure in having everything go sideways almost immediately, sending the characters off into increasingly insane situations. It’s a devilishly smart farce disguised as a really, really dumb one, with Sudeikis and Day turning their Going The Distance buddy act into a perpetual joke machine. 97 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Docks Lakeview Drive-In, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, 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.

Subtitled. 113 min. NNNN (SGC) Regent Theatre

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following their blustering but clearly incompetent guide (the marvellous Bruce Greenwood) deeper and deeper into an unknowable quagmire. Moody and sharply observed, this is one of the finest American films of the last year. 101 min.

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the metropoLitaN opera: tosca eNcore is an encore presentation of last

fall’s high-def broadcast of the Puccini opera starring Finnish soprano Karita Mattila in the title role. 166 min.

Jul 27, 6:30 pm, at Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga

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Owen Wilson and Rachel McAdams as an engaged couple vacationing in Paris, where at midnight, a vintage cab picks up a wandering Wilson and takes him back in time to meet the great artists of the 20s.

It’s a pleasurable narrative hook, but the message that life is best lived in the present tense is too banal to make us care.

94 min. NN (SGC) Canada Square, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yonge, Varsity

Helena Bonham Carter lights up the last instalment of the Harry Potter series. 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. 118 min.

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Judy moody aNd the Not Bummer summer (John Schultz) is as manic as kids on a sugar rush and just as exhausting for adults. Jordana Beatty stars as the titular preteen on a slapstick mission to salvage her summer while her best friend’s away.

Though Beatty’s as expressive, wild and colourful as Judy’s bedroom decor, the role doesn’t give her much to work with.

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Nelson) chalks up another win for DreamWorks’ unlikely martial arts franchise, with Po (voiced once again by Jack Black) and the Furious Five trekking to a distant city in order to stop a warlord (Gary Oldman) who threatens all of China.

The fight choreography is exceptional, the animation exquisite and the voice cast in fine form. 90 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Interchange 30, Kingsway Theatre, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24

Larry crowNe (Tom Hanks) is a lazy, sitcommy construction that takes a potentially rich idea – a middle-aged Californian becomes a casualty of the Great Recession and goes back to school to reinvent himself – and does absolutely nothing with it.

Instead, we get a millionaire’s view of “regular people” as adorably scrappy bags of quirk – most likely thanks to co-writer Nia Vardalos, whose simplistic sense of character and TV-scale plotting seem to override every directorial flourish that star and co-writer Hanks brought to That Thing You Do! His generosity with actors, attention to subtle detail, sense of time and place are entirely absent. There’s nothing here that Dan Harmon’s Community doesn’t do faster, funnier and with far more intelligence every Thursday night. 98 min. NN (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Courtney Park 16, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Mississauga the Last mouNtaiN (Bill Haney) 95 min.

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Life, aBove aLL (Oliver Schmitz) comes

from Allan Stratton’s source novel, written for young adults, and screenwriter Dennis Foon is an accomplished author of stage plays for young audiences, but viewers of all ages will be moved by this powerful film. Chanda and her two younger siblings live with their mother, who’s dying of AIDS, in a South African town. The 13-year-old can’t even utter the name of the disease in her community. The stigma is too great, the collective fear overwhelming. First-time actors Khomotso Manyaka and Keaobaka Makanyane are superb as Chanda and her best friend Esther, and as the deeply conflicted neighbour, veteran Harriet Manamela is a knockout. The framing device involving a choir doesn’t work, and the film can get didactic. But it’s got a strong emotional charge. Subtitled. 102 min. NNN (SGC) Canada Square, Cumberland 4

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) Interchange 30 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) Mt Pleasant Loose caNNoNs (Ferzan Ozpetek) covers some well-trod ground with style, even if it takes a while to find its footing. The closeted younger son (Riccardo Scamarcio) of an Italian family’s pasta empire finds his career and relationship plans disrupted. Director Ozpetek’s attempts to mix comedy and drama aren’t always successful, but the film gains in complexity in the second half. Subtitled. 110 min.

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the monotonous Selena Gomez as a Texan teen who impersonates a Paris Hilton-like socialite, landing her and her friends a dream vacation in Monte Carlo’s famous Hotel de Paris. Loosely based on a novel (Jules Bass’s Headhunters) that could have become a classic screwball comedy, Monte Carlo instead offers generic tween fare with zero laughs, little charm and actors who don’t do much more than make cute faces. 109 min. N (RS) Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

the mouNtie (S. Wyeth Clarkson) is a meticulously made Canadian feature about a lawman with a past trying to clean up a tiny town in late 19th-century Yukon. There’s a good cast, beautiful music and a gorgeous look. But it’s missing the central requirement of a great movie – a decent script. 83 min. NN (SGC) Carlton Cinema mr. popper’s peNguiNs (Mark Waters) is

a positively pleasant adaptation of Richard and Florence Atwater’s slender picture book about a New Yorker who winds up with half a dozen flightless waterfowl in his Park Avenue penthouse.

Jim Carrey’s scenes with his alliteratively inclined assistant Pippi (Ophelia Lovibond) border on the joyful. The penguins are fun, too. 94 min. NNN (NW) Canada Square, Eglinton Town Centre, Interchange 30, Kingsway Theatre

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frequently earnest and cloying rom-com that still proves the French often do Hollywood genre film better than the Americans. Sara Forestier stars as the sexually radical Baya Benmahmoud, the daughter of a French hippie mother and Algerian refugee father. Quick to call anyone a fascist who steers slightly away from her far-left-leaning politics, Baya takes it upon herself to sleep with the enemy. Apparently she’s discovered a way to convert racists and Muslim extremists before they climax. She’s the cartoonish antidote to Arthur Martin (Jacques Gamblin), whose typical French name and square looks disguise the fact that his mother’s a Holocaust survivor. Their liaison opens the door to debates on contemporary relationships between the French, Algerians and Jews. While the film lightly satirizes obsessive nonconformists like Baya, it ends up being just as resolutely unconventional, using direct address and other gimmicks to distinguish itself as something other than a rom-com. Subtitled. 99 min.

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Brydon reprise the slightly exaggerated versions of themselves they played in director Winterbottom’s Tristram Shandy: A Cock And Bull Story. The insecure, status-chasing Coogan invites oblivious git Brydon on a weeklong tour of restaurants in the north of England. You could describe it as Sideways with the alcoholism replaced by duelling Michael Caine impressions, but that doesn’t really do justice to what Coogan and Brydon achieve here. The Trip is transcendent, the comedy of the year. 107 min. nnnnn (NW) Cumberland 4, Grande - Yonge

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ica’s most prestigious daily, where advertising revenue is tanking. A new generation of newshounds gets its information online, and the future looks dim, all of which would be interesting were the Times on the verge of collapse – better still for the movie if it had died during filming. But as neither is the case, the film lacks tension. It does have a great character in the person of David Carr, a one-time crack addict and now Times media columnist who’s made a personal crusade of promoting traditional print journalism wherever he goes. But, ironically, this documentary suffers from the same syndrome that afflicts many news dailies that lag behind their online competitors: it’s already stale. 88 min. nn (SGC) Cumberland 4

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. 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. 137 min. nn (NW) Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(François Ozon) stars Catherine Deneuve as a woman who, in the late 70s, comes into her own when her reactionary, philandering husband falls ill and she takes over the family factory. One big gobsmacking pleasure. Subtitled. 103 min. nnnn (SGC) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre

neiro 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) Kingsway Theatre

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(Wayne Wang) is an unabashed hymn to deep friendship between two pairs of women, Snow Flower and Lily in 19th century China and Nina and Sophia in contemporary Shanghai, linked by the fans that the former used to communicate, now in possession of the latter. From childhood onward, their bond sustains them through various trials until the inevitable falling-out. A focus on Nina, who lies in a coma, Sophia’s memories and Nina’s historical novel leaves too little room for scenes of women’s life in traditional China, but Li Bingbing and Gianna Jun, who play both sets of friends, easily hold our interest despite an overall subdued tone. 102 min. nnn (AD) Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Varsity

submarIne (Richard Ayoade) is a meticulously constructed coming-of-age tale about a maladjusted teenager (Craig Roberts) bent on bedding a surly schoolmate (Yasmin Paige) and keeping his mother (Sally Hawkins) from leaving his father (Noah Taylor). Ayoade juggles laughs and poignancy very well, but the momentum flags midway through. 94 min. nnn (NW) Yonge & Dundas 24

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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) Kingsway Theatre

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ThOr (Kenneth Branagh) slots the comicbook God of Thunder nicely into the ongoing cinematic version of the Marvel Comics universe, thanks to a light-hearted script that finds the angry young god (Chris Hemsworth) forced to knock around New Mexico with skeptical mortals Natalie Portman, Kat Dennings and Stellan Skarsgård. The post-production 3-D adds nothing; try to see it flat. 113 min. nnn (NW) Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24

(J.J. Abrams) finds writer/ director Abrams building a rousing new movie out of the suburban adventure genre claimed by Steven Spielberg in the late 70s and early 80s. It follows a bunch TransfOrmers: dark Of The mOOn of small-town kids in 1979 Ohio who (Michael Bay) is, against all odds and the stumble upon a military conspiracy while evidence of Bay’s first two kicks at the shooting a Super 8 movie about zombies. can, a giant-robot punch-up that’s visually Nostalgic and novel in equal amounts. 112 PrOjeCT nIm (James Marsh) 99 min. inventive, spatially coherent and occasionmin. nnnn (NW) See review, page 64. nnnnn (NW) ally even funny. It’s still way too long. Bay Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Opens Jul 22 at Varsity. remains distressingly indifferent to the Mississauga, Courtney Park 16, Interchange body count, and the plot is kind of ridicurIO (Carlos Saldanha) moves along briskly 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rain- 1 lous, with Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) 24391NOWFreeflicksAmalAD:Layout 1 7/15/11 4:32 PM Page and brings out the beauty of Rio de Jabow Market Square, Scotiabank Theatre

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and his new girlfriend (Rosie HuntingtonWhiteley, replacing Megan Fox) trying to save the Earth from the mother of all Decepticon schemes. But the action sequences are impressively assembled – the multi-stage free fall through a teetering skyscraper is genuine thrilling – and John Turturro, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Ken Jeong and the invaluable Alan Tudyk get to goof around in the margins of the frame, making this the first Transformers movie that gets laughs on purpose. Fair is fair: this one’s not bad. 157 min. nnn (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Docks Lakeview Drive-In, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

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(Terrence Malick) perfects the intuitive approach to cinema Malick has been developing for nearly four decades, and it affected me more profoundly than any of his earlier films. It’s beautiful in its inelegance and confusion, embracing the awe of adolescence and the loss of innocence in the purest sense of those terms. It’s a rhapsody on the mystery of simply being alive.

138 min. nnnnn (NW) Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Varsity

The Tree (Julie Bertuccelli) follows a

family struggling in the aftermath of Dad’s fatal heart attack. Mum (Charlotte Gainsbourg) sinks into a profound depression until her eight-year-old daughter (Morgana Davies) convinces her that Dad’s presence still emanates from the fig tree outside their house in the outback.

Sounds hokey, but ironically, The Tree needs even more contrivance. As the fig tree threatens to bring down the house – literally – director Bertuccelli has a chance to create a powerful sense of menace. Instead, she sticks with scenes of sad people interspersed with static shots of Oz’s arid landscape. Gainsbourg lends a nice twitchy touch to her role and Davies is riveting as the young girl – she’s a star in the making. But except for a rockin’ sequence in which a cyclone hits, The Tree never branches out into much of anything.

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(Stephen Anderson, Don Hall) works as a lovely update of Disney’s 1977 feature The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh, adding a tender undercurrent of nostalgia for the adults in the audience, subtly encouraging us to remember how it felt to discover Milne’s stories for the first time. Jim Cummings does his best approximations of Sterling Holloway and Paul Winchell as Pooh and Tigger, respectively, while Craig Ferguson gives the supercilious Owl a brittle edge, and Pixar animator Bud Luckey channels a particularly weary Scott Glenn as Eeyore. Anderson and Hall’s defiantly hand-drawn production finds a way to draw out the delicacy and sweetness at the heart of Milne’s text while subtly bringing the characters into a contemporary plane. I never thought I’d see a Pooh movie that addresses Eeyore’s depressive tendencies head on, but this one does, and it’s hysterical. 73 min. nnnn (NW) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Matthew Vaughn) is a proper origin story for the mutant characters that strikes the same balance of gravitas and knowing camp that powered Bryan Singer’s first two X-films. Having toyed with costumed heroes in last year’s Kick-Ass, director Vaughn gets to play on a much larger scale here, and he’s pretty good at it. Some subtitles. nnnn (NW) Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Interchange 30, Kingsway Theatre, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24

ZOOkeePer (Frank Coraci) stars Kevin

James as a Boston zookeeper who discovers that his animals not only talk, but keep a watchful eye on his love life. When his shallow, manipulative ex (Leslie Bibb) reenters his life, they decide to help him win her over by unleashing his inner alpha male. Rosario Dawson is in there, too, as a comely veterinarian who becomes part of his plan to win back his ex. She’s swell, in an effortless sort of way that nicely matches James’s easy appeal, and they have one lovely scene together at a wedding reception – far away from any animals, digital or otherwise – that made me wish I were watching them in a proper movie instead of one where Adam Sandler voices a monkey with a Yiddish accent.

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BAD TEACHER (14A) Fri-Sat 9:15 Sun, Tue 7:00 THE CONSPIRATOR (PG) Thu 7:00 IN A BETTER WORLD Fri-Sat, Wed 7:00 Sun 4:30

SILVERCITY YONGE (CE) 2300 YONGE ST, 416-544-1236

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG) Fri-Wed 12:10, 3:20, 6:30, 9:00, 9:40 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER 3D (PG) Fri-Wed 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20 FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (14A) Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (PG) 12:30, 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 Thu 12:00, 3:10 mat, 6:20, 9:30 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2: 3D (PG) Thu 1:00, 1:30, 4:10, 4:40, 7:20, 7:50, 9:00, 10:30 Fri-Tue 12:00, 1:00, 3:10, 4:10, 6:20, 7:20, 9:30, 10:30 Wed 12:00, 1:00, 3:10, 4:10, 6:25, 7:20, 9:45, 10:30 HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:50, 7:40, 10:20 FriTue 1:10, 3:50, 6:45, 9:50 Wed 3:50, 6:45, 9:50 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:30, 6:30, 9:40 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D (PG) Thu 12:10, 3:35, 7:10, 10:40 Fri-Tue 2:00, 6:25, 9:55 Wed 2:00, 9:55 WINNIE THE POOH (G) 12:20, 2:20, 4:30, 7:00 ZOOKEEPER (G) Thu 1:10, 4:00, 6:40, 9:50

Metro

West End HUMBER CINEMA (I) 2442 BLOOR ST. WEST, 416-232-1939

QUEENSWAY (CE)

1025 THE QUEENSWAY, QEW & ISLINGTON, 416-503-0424 BAD TEACHER (14A) Thu 11:10, 1:40, 4:05, 6:25, 8:45, 11:10 Fri-Wed 1:15, 3:30, 6:00, 8:20, 10:40 BRIDESMAIDS (14A) Thu 11:25, 2:15, 5:10, 8:05, 10:55 Fri-

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

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER 3D (PG) Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 CARS 2 (G) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 9:30 FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (14A) Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:00, 6:50, 9:30 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (PG) 12:10, 3:20, 6:30, 9:40 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2: 3D (PG) 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A) Thu 2:00, 5:00, 7:50, 10:20 FriWed 1:00, 4:15, 6:40, 9:10

70

JULY 21-27 2011 NOW

TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON (PG) Fri-Wed 12:20, 3:40, 7:10, 10:40 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D (PG) Thu 12:20, 3:45, 7:15, 10:40 ZOOKEEPER (G) Thu 1:40, 4:10, 6:40, 9:10

Scarborough

North York

785 MILNER AVE, SCARBOROUGH, 416-281-2226

EMPIRE THEATRES AT EMPRESS WALK (ET) 5095 YONGE ST, 416-223-9550

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG) 12:50, 2:15, 3:45, 5:45, 6:30, 8:45, 9:30 Fri-Sat 11:50 late CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER 3D (PG) Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 CARS 2 (G) Thu 12:10, 2:45, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 Fri-Sun 12:10, 2:45, 5:10, 7:40 Mon-Wed 2:45, 5:10, 7:40 GREEN LANTERN (PG) Thu 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:15 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (PG) 1:00, 2:30, 4:00, 5:30, 7:00, 8:30, 10:00 Fri-Sat 11:30 late HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2: 3D (PG) Thu, Sun 12:00, 2:00, 3:00, 5:00, 6:00, 8:00, 9:00, 11:00 Fri-Sat 12:00, 2:00, 3:00, 5:00, 6:00, 8:00, 9:00, 11:00, 11:59 Mon-Wed 2:00, 3:00, 5:00, 6:00, 8:00, 9:00, 11:00 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:40, 8:15 Fri-Wed 10:10 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D (PG) Thu 12:20, 3:45, 10:35 Fri-Sun 12:15, 3:30, 7:15, 10:45 Mon-Wed 3:30, 7:15, 10:45 ZOOKEEPER (G) Thu 1:30, 2:20, 4:15, 5:20, 6:45, 7:50, 9:15, 10:20 Fri-Sat 1:10, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15, 11:45 Sun-Wed 1:10, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15

GRANDE - YONGE (CE) 4861 YONGE ST, 416-590-9974

BAD TEACHER (14A) 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:30 Thu 12:20 mat BEGINNERS (14A) Thu 9:45 BRIDESMAIDS (14A) 1:15, 4:10, 7:20, 10:15 CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS (G) 1:10, 4:00, 6:50, 10:00 FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (14A) Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:30, 7:30, 10:10 HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A) 2:30, 5:10, 7:40, 10:20 Thu 12:00 mat LARRY CROWNE (PG) Thu 6:20, 9:20 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: TOSCA ENCORE Wed 6:30 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (PG) 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 MONTE CARLO (G) Thu 12:40, 3:30 SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN (PG) 12:30, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 THE TREE OF LIFE (PG) Thu 12:10, 3:20, 6:30, 9:40 Fri-Tue 12:15, 3:25, 6:30, 9:40 Wed 12:15, 3:25 THE TRIP Thu 1:20, 4:30, 7:30, 10:10 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:30, 6:20, 9:20 WINNIE THE POOH (G) Thu 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00 Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00, 9:00

SILVERCITY FAIRVIEW (CE)

FAIRVIEW MALL, 1800 SHEPPARD AVE E, 416-644-7746 BAD TEACHER (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:00, 7:30, 10:10 Fri-Wed 9:20 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG) Fri-Wed 12:10, 3:20, 6:30, 9:40 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER 3D (PG) Fri-Wed 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20 CARS 2 3D (G) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 9:45 FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (14A) Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (PG) 12:30, 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 Thu 9:00 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2: 3D (PG) 12:00, 1:00, 3:10, 4:10, 6:20, 7:20, 9:30, 10:30 HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:50, 7:40, 10:15 FriSat, Mon-Tue 12:40, 3:50, 6:40, 9:50 Sun 4:20, 6:40, 9:50 Wed 3:50, 6:40, 9:50 SPARTACUS Sun 12:30 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D (PG) Thu 12:10 3:30 7:00 10:25 Fri-Wed 12:05, 3:30, 7:05, 10:25 WINNIE THE POOH (G) Thu 12:20 2:30 4:30 7:00 Fri-Wed 12:20, 2:10, 4:25, 7:00 ZOOKEEPER (G) Thu 12:40, 3:20, 6:35, 9:15

SILVERCITY YORKDALE (CE) 3401 DUFFERIN ST, 416-787-4432

BAD TEACHER (14A) Thu 11:40, 2:30, 5:20, 7:50, 10:40 Fri-Wed 9:15 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG) Fri-Wed 12:10, 3:20, 6:30, 9:40 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER 3D (PG) Fri-Wed 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20 CARS 2 3D (G) Thu 12:45, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (14A) Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 9:00, 10:30 Fri-Wed 12:00, 3:10, 6:20, 9:30 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2: 3D (PG) Thu 11:00, 12:10, 2:00, 3:20, 5:00, 6:30, 8:00, 9:40, 11:00 Fri-Wed 12:30, 1:00, 3:40, 4:10, 6:50, 7:20, 10:00, 10:30 HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A) Thu 11:30, 2:10, 4:45, 7:40, 10:20 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:40, 10:10 MONTE CARLO (G) Thu 11:50 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON (PG) Thu 2:45, 6:20, 10:00 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D (PG) Thu 12:00, 3:40, 10:50 Fri-Wed 2:30, 6:15, 9:50 WINNIE THE POOH (G) Thu 11:15, 1:10, 3:10, 5:10, 7:00 Fri-Wed 12:40, 2:40, 4:45, 7:00 ZOOKEEPER (G) Thu 1:20 4:00 6:40 9:30 Fri-Wed 12:20, 3:30, 6:40, 9:45

401 & MORNINGSIDE (CE) BAD TEACHER (14A) Thu 2:00, 5:00, 7:55, 10:40 Fri-Wed 9:15 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG) Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:45, 7:35, 10:35 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER 3D (PG) Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 CARS 2 (G) Thu 12:40, 3:15, 7:00, 9:40 Fri-Wed 12:20, 3:20, 6:50, 9:30 FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (14A) Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:15, 7:50, 10:30 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (PG) Thu 12:30, 2:15, 3:30, 6:00, 6:50, 9:00, 10:00 FriMon, Wed 1:00, 2:50, 4:00, 6:05, 7:20, 9:05, 10:25 Tue 11:45, 1:00, 2:50, 4:00, 6:05, 7:20, 9:05, 10:25 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2: 3D (PG) Thu 11:45, 12:50, 3:00, 4:00, 6:30, 7:10, 9:30, 10:20 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:30, 6:40, 9:45 HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:45, 7:45, 10:35 FriWed 2:00, 5:00, 8:00, 10:40 KUNG FU PANDA 2 (PG) Thu 1:05, 3:50 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON (PG) Thu 6:15, 9:45 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D (PG) Thu 12:00 3:40 7:25 10:30 Fri-Wed 12:00, 3:10, 6:30, 10:00 WINNIE THE POOH (G) Thu 12:15 2:30 4:30 7:35 Fri-Wed 12:10, 2:15, 4:30, 7:10 ZOOKEEPER (G) Thu 1:20, 4:15, 6:40, 9:15 Fri-Wed 1:15, 3:40, 6:15, 8:50

COLISEUM SCARBOROUGH (CE) SCARBOROUGH TOWN CENTRE, 416-290-5217

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG) Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER 3D (PG) Thu 12:01 Fri-Wed 1:00, 1:30, 4:00, 4:30, 7:00, 7:30, 10:00, 10:30 CARS 2 3D (G) Thu 12:25, 3:25, 6:45, 9:20 Fri-Wed 1:05, 4:05, 6:55, 9:35 DEIVA THIRUMAGAL (G) Thu 12:20, 3:30, 6:40, 9:55 FriWed 2:00, 6:05, 9:55 FOREVER AND A DAY Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:25, 10:15 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:40, 6:50, 9:50 GREEN LANTERN 3D (PG) Thu 9:25 HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A) Thu 12:35, 1:05, 3:35, 4:05, 6:35, 7:05, 9:35, 10:05 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 6:40, 7:10, 9:40, 10:10 KUNG FU PANDA 2 (PG) Fri-Wed 12:55, 3:55 KUNG FU PANDA 2 3D (PG) Thu 12:55, 3:50, 6:55 MONTE CARLO (G) 12:45, 3:45 Thu 6:30, 9:15 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON (PG) Thu 2:15, 6:15, 10:00 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D (PG) Thu 12:15 3:40 7:10 10:30 Fri-Wed 12:15, 3:35, 7:05, 10:25 WINNIE THE POOH (G) Thu 12:40 2:40 4:40 7:00 9:10 Fri-Wed 12:40, 2:40, 4:40, 7:05, 9:10 X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (PG) Thu 12:50, 4:00, 7:15, 10:25 FriWed 6:35, 9:45 ZOOKEEPER (G) Thu 12:30, 3:55, 6:50, 9:50 Fri-Wed 12:20, 3:20, 6:20, 9:00

EGLINTON TOWN CENTRE (CE) 1901 EGLINTON AVE E, 416-752-4494

BAD TEACHER (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:30, 6:55, 9:40 Fri-Tue 12:45, 3:20, 6:30, 9:10 Wed 12:45, 3:20, 10:20 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG) Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER 3D (PG) Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:30, 7:40, 10:45 CARS 2 (G) Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 Sun 1:40, 4:20, 7:20 CARS 2 3D (G) Thu 1:40, 4:45, 7:40, 10:15 DEIVA THIRUMAGAL (G) Thu 12:15, 3:45, 7:15, 10:45 FriWed 12:10, 3:35, 6:55, 10:25 FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (14A) Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:00, 7:10, 10:00 GREEN LANTERN (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:20, 7:25, 10:10 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (PG) Thu 12:00, 12:30, 2:00, 3:10, 3:40, 5:10, 6:20, 6:50, 8:30, 9:30, 10:00 Fri-Sun 12:00, 1:00, 1:45, 3:10, 4:10, 5:00, 6:20, 7:30, 8:15, 9:30, 10:40 Mon-Wed 12:00, 1:45, 3:10, 5:00, 6:20, 8:15, 9:30 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2: 3D (PG) Thu 1:00, 1:30, 4:10, 4:40, 7:20, 7:50, 10:30, 11:00 Fri, Mon-Wed 12:30, 2:30, 3:40, 5:40, 7:00, 9:00, 10:10 Sat 12:25, 2:30, 3:35, 5:40, 6:55, 9:00, 10:05 Sun 12:30, 3:40, 5:40, 7:00, 9:00, 10:10 HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A) Thu 4:50, 7:45, 10:40 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:45, 7:45, 10:30 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: TOSCA ENCORE Wed 6:30 MONTE CARLO (G) Thu 12:20, 3:20, 6:15, 9:10 Fri-Sun 1:50, 4:40, 7:25, 10:20 MR. POPPER’S PENGUINS (G) Thu 1:45, 4:15 SPARTACUS Sun 12:30 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON (PG) Thu 12:10, 3:30, 7:00, 10:20 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D (PG) Thu 12:40, 4:00, 7:30, 10:50 Fri-Wed 12:20, 3:45, 7:15, 10:35 WINNIE THE POOH (G) Thu 12:50, 3:00, 5:00, 7:10, 9:20 Fri-Wed 1:15, 3:15, 5:20, 7:35, 9:40 X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (PG) Thu 6:40, 9:50 ZOOKEEPER (G) Thu 1:20, 3:50, 6:30, 9:15 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:30, 6:40, 9:20

KENNEDY COMMONS 20 (AMC) KENNEDY RD & 401, 416-335-5323

BAD TEACHER (14A) 12:55, 2:30, 3:15, 4:50, 5:35, 7:10, 7:55,

9:30, 10:15 Fri-Sun 10:40, 12:10 mat BEGINNING OF THE GREAT REVIVAL Thu 1:35, 4:35, 7:35, 10:30 BRIDESMAIDS (14A) 1:30, 4:15, 7:05, 10:00 Fri-Sun 10:40 mat DELHI BELLY (14A) 2:15, 5:30, 9:00 Fri-Sun 11:00 mat THE HANGOVER PART II (18A) 2:25, 5:00, 7:35, 10:10 FriSun 11:50 mat HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (PG) 1:35, 2:35, 4:40, 5:40, 7:45, 8:45, 10:50 Fri-Sun 11:30 mat HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2: 3D (PG) Thu 12:50, 1:20, 1:55, 3:10, 3:55, 4:25, 5:00, 6:15, 7:00, 7:30, 8:05, 9:20, 10:05, 10:35, 11:05 Fri 10:50, 12:05, 12:50, 1:20, 1:55, 3:10, 3:55, 4:25, 5:00, 6:15, 7:00, 7:30, 8:05, 9:20, 10:05, 10:35, 11:00 Sat-Sun 10:50, 12:50, 1:20, 1:55, 3:55, 4:25, 5:00, 6:15, 7:00, 7:30, 8:05, 9:20, 10:05, 10:35, 11:00 Mon, Wed 12:50, 1:20, 1:55, 3:10, 3:55, 4:25, 5:00, 7:00, 7:30, 8:05, 10:05, 10:35, 11:00 Tue 12:50, 1:20, 1:55, 3:10, 3:55, 4:25, 5:00, 6:15, 7:00, 7:30, 8:05, 9:20, 10:05, 10:35, 11:00 LARRY CROWNE (PG) 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:35 Fri-Sun 11:30 mat THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO FROM THE SYNDEY OPERA HOUSE Sat-Sun 2:00 Wed 6:30 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (PG) Thu 12:35, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:45 Fri-Sun 10:30, 12:45, 3:00, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 Mon-Wed 12:45, 3:00, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES (PG) 2:10, 5:20, 8:30 Fri-Sun 11:10 mat SINGHAM 2:05, 5:25, 9:00 Fri-Sun 10:45 mat SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN (PG) 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Fri-Sun 10:50 mat SUPER 8 (PG) 1:30, 4:10, 7:10, 9:55 Fri-Sun 10:55 mat THOR (PG) 2:15, 4:55, 7:50, 10:35 Fri-Sun 11:25 mat THE TREE OF LIFE (PG) 12:50, 4:00, 7:15, 10:20 ZINDAGI NA MILEGI DOBARA (PG) 2:20, 5:45, 9:15 Fri-Sun 11:00 mat

GTA Regions Mississauga COLISEUM MISSISSAUGA (CE) SQUARE ONE, 309 RATHBURN RD W, 905-275-3456

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG) Fri-Wed 12:10, 12:40, 3:10, 3:50, 6:20, 7:00, 9:30, 10:10 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER 3D (PG) Thu 12:01 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:30, 7:40, 10:50 CARS 2 3D (G) Thu 12:20, 3:30, 6:45, 9:40 Fri-Sat, MonWed 12:50, 4:00, 6:50, 9:50 Sun 4:15, 6:50, 9:50 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS - PART 2: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 10:00, 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:30, 6:45, 9:45 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (PG) Thu 11:30, 12:00, 12:30, 2:40, 3:10, 3:40, 6:20, 6:50, 7:15, 9:30, 9:55, 10:30 Fri-Tue 12:00, 1:40, 2:20, 3:00, 4:50, 5:30, 6:10, 8:00, 8:40, 9:20 Wed 1:40, 2:20, 4:10, 4:50, 5:30, 7:20, 8:00, 8:40, 10:30 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2: 3D (PG) Thu 10:45, 1:20, 2:00, 4:30, 5:10, 7:45, 8:30, 11:00 Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:30 PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES (PG) Thu 12:10, 4:10, 7:20, 10:45 SPARTACUS Sun 12:30 SUPER 8 (PG) Thu 12:40, 7:30 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:50, 4:20, 7:50, 10:40 Fri-Wed 2:00, 6:30, 10:00 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D (PG) Thu 11:45, 3:00, 6:40, 10:10 Fri-Wed 12:15, 3:45, 7:10, 10:40 X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (PG) Thu 1:10 4:40 7:40 10:50 FriWed 1:30, 4:40, 7:50, 11:00 ZOOKEEPER (G) Thu 1:30, 4:15, 7:10, 9:50 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:20, 7:30, 10:20

COURTNEY PARK 16 (AMC)

110 COURTNEY PARK E AT HURONTARIO, 888-262-4386 BAD TEACHER (14A) 11:45, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 BRIDESMAIDS (14A) Thu 10:55, 1:55, 4:25, 7:25, 10:20 FriWed 9:30 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG) Fri-Sat 10:45, 12:05, 1:45, 3:05, 4:45, 6:05, 8:05, 9:05, 11:20, 12:00 Sun 10:45, 12:05, 1:45, 3:05, 4:45, 6:05, 7:55, 9:05, 10:55 Mon-Wed 12:05, 1:45, 3:05, 4:45, 6:05, 7:55, 9:05, 10:55 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER 3D (PG) 1:15, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 Fri-Sun 10:15 mat CARS 2 (G) Thu 12:45, 3:30, 6:15, 9:05 Fri-Wed 11:45, 2:30, 5:15, 8:00, 10:30 FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (14A) Fri-Sat 11:55, 2:55, 5:45, 8:45, 11:45 Sun-Wed 11:55, 2:55, 5:45, 8:25, 11:00 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS - PART 2: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 11:15, 2:00, 5:00, 8:00, 11:00 Fri-Sat 11:30, 2:30, 5:30, 8:30, 11:30 Sun 11:30, 2:30, 5:30, 8:30 Mon-Wed 11:30, 2:30, 5:30, 8:00, 10:55 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (PG) Thu 11:55, 1:00, 3:00, 4:00, 6:00, 7:00, 9:00, 10:00 Fri-Sun 10:00, 11:00, 1:00, 2:00, 4:00, 5:00, 7:00, 8:00, 10:00, 11:00 Mon-Wed 1:00, 2:00, 4:00, 5:00, 7:00, 8:30, 10:00 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2: 3D (PG) Thu 10:45, 12:30, 1:40, 3:30, 4:30, 6:30, 7:30, 9:30, 10:30 Fri-Sun 10:30, 12:15, 1:30, 3:15, 4:30, 6:15, 7:30, 9:30, 10:45 Mon-Wed 12:15, 1:30, 3:15, 4:30, 6:15, 7:30, 9:30, 10:45 HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A) Thu-Sun 11:20, 2:00, 4:55, 7:45,

10:25 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:55, 7:45, 10:25 LARRY CROWNE (PG) Thu 6:50, 9:25 THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO FROM THE SYNDEY OPERA HOUSE Sat-Sun 2:00 Wed 6:30 MONTE CARLO (G) Thu 11:05, 1:45, 4:15 SUPER 8 (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:10, 6:45, 9:35 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON (PG) Thu 11:50, 3:20, 6:40, 10:15 Fri-Wed 12:40, 4:05, 7:25, 11:00 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D (PG) Thu 12:10, 1:10, 3:40, 4:40, 7:10, 8:10, 10:45 Fri, Mon-Tue 11:50, 3:20, 6:40, 10:15 Sat-Sun 10:15, 6:40, 10:15 Wed 11:50, 3:00, 10:30 WINNIE THE POOH (G) Thu-Sun 11:00, 1:05, 3:00, 5:05, 7:00 Mon-Wed 1:05, 3:00, 5:05, 7:00 X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (PG) Thu 9:15 ZOOKEEPER (G) Thu 12:55, 3:45, 6:30, 9:20 Fri-Wed 11:55, 2:45, 5:20, 7:55, 10:35

SILVERCITY MISSISSAUGA (CE) HWY 5, EAST OF HWY 403, 905-569-3373

BRIDESMAIDS (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:00, 7:30, 10:20 Fri-Tue 12:50, 3:40, 7:10, 10:20 Wed 12:50, 3:40, 10:20 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG) Fri-Wed 12:00, 3:10, 6:20, 9:10 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER 3D (PG) Fri-Wed 12:40, 1:20, 3:50, 4:20, 7:00, 7:30, 9:50, 10:30 CARS 2 (G) Thu 12:50, 3:40 CARS 2 3D (G) Thu 1:30 4:15 7:20 10:00 Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 DEIVA THIRUMAGAL (G) Thu 12:15, 3:30, 6:50, 10:15 FriWed 1:00, 5:00, 8:50 HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:45, 7:10, 7:50, 9:40, 10:30 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:10, 7:30, 10:10 LARRY CROWNE (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:30, 7:40, 10:05 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: TOSCA ENCORE Wed 6:30 MONTE CARLO (G) Thu 12:40, 3:10, 6:20, 9:15 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:00, 6:40, 9:25 THE TREE OF LIFE (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:20, 6:30, 9:50 WINNIE THE POOH (G) Thu 1:00 3:00 5:00 7:00 9:00 Fri-Wed 12:15, 2:45, 4:45, 6:50, 9:00 ZOOKEEPER (G) Thu 1:20, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20

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BAD TEACHER (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:50, 7:55, 10:50 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:30, 10:20 BRIDESMAIDS (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:10, 7:10, 10:05 Fri-Tue 1:10, 4:15, 7:15, 10:05 Wed 1:10, 4:00, 10:05 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG) Fri-Wed 12:10, 3:10, 6:10, 9:15 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER 3D (PG) Thu 12:01 Fri-Wed 12:40, 1:20, 3:50, 4:30, 7:00, 7:40, 10:00, 10:50 CARS 2 3D (G) Thu 10:30, 1:15, 3:55, 6:45, 9:20 Fri-Wed 12:20, 3:40, 6:55, 9:35 FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (14A) Fri-Tue 12:45, 2:00, 3:45, 4:50, 6:50, 7:40, 9:40, 10:30 Wed 12:45, 2:00, 3:45, 4:50, 6:50, 7:40, 10:20, 10:50 GREEN LANTERN (PG) Thu 7:40, 10:20 THE HANGOVER PART II (18A) Thu 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:45, 11:10 Fri-Wed 1:40, 5:00, 8:00, 10:45 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS - PART 2: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 10:00, 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:30, 6:45, 9:45 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (PG) Thu 12:00 12:30 3:10 3:40 6:20 6:50 9:30 9:55 FriWed 12:00, 1:30, 3:00, 4:40, 6:20, 7:50, 9:30, 11:00 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2: 3D (PG) Thu 11:00, 11:15, 1:10, 2:00, 2:10, 4:15, 5:00, 5:20, 7:20, 8:00, 8:30, 10:30, 11:00, 11:30 Fri-Wed 12:50, 2:15, 4:00, 5:30, 7:10, 8:45, 10:15 HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A) Thu 12:45, 1:40, 3:45, 4:30, 6:55, 7:30, 9:40, 10:15 Fri-Wed 1:00, 1:50, 4:10, 4:45, 7:05, 7:45, 9:50, 10:35 KUNG FU PANDA 2 (PG) Thu 11:50, 2:20, 7:35 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: TOSCA ENCORE Wed 6:30 PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES (PG) Thu 12:15, 3:30, 6:35, 9:45 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON (PG) Thu 11:40 3:10 6:40 10:10 Fri-Wed 12:00, 3:20, 6:40, 10:10 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D (PG) Thu 12:20, 1:00, 3:50, 4:30, 7:20, 8:20, 10:40 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:55, 7:20, 10:40 X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (PG) Thu 4:40, 9:50 ZOOKEEPER (G) Thu 10:45, 12:40, 1:30, 3:20, 4:00, 6:30, 9:10 Fri-Wed 12:15, 3:15, 6:30, 9:00

Mon-Wed 2:40, 5:00, 7:20, 9:45 Sat-Sun 12:20, 2:40, 5:00, 7:20, 9:45 MONTE CARLO (G) Thu 2:05, 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 Fri, MonWed 4:40, 7:15, 9:55 Sat-Sun 1:55, 4:40, 7:15, 9:55 MR. POPPER’S PENGUINS (G) Thu 2:25, 4:45, 7:25, 9:50 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:05, 4:30, 6:55, 9:30 Sat-Sun 11:40, 2:05, 4:30, 6:55, 9:30 PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES (PG) 3:05, 6:15, 9:30 Sat-Sun 11:55 mat SUPER 8 (PG) Thu 2:30, 5:00, 7:40, 10:10 Fri, Tue 2:15, 7:00, 10:15 Sat-Sun 11:30, 7:00, 10:15 Mon, Wed 2:15, 10:15 THOR (PG) 4:05, 7:00, 9:50 Sat-Sun 1:15 mat THOR 3D (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:15, 10:05 THE TREE OF LIFE (PG) Thu 3:45 6:30 9:45 Fri-Wed 3:20, 6:30, 9:40 Sat-Sun 12:10 mat WINNIE THE POOH (G) Thu 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:40, 5:40, 7:40, 9:40 Sat-Sun 11:35, 1:40, 3:40, 5:40, 7:40, 9:40 X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (PG) 4:00, 7:05, 10:05 Sat-Sun 12:55 mat

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PROMENADE MALL, HWY 7 & BATHURST, 905-764-3247 BAD TEACHER (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:10, 9:35 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER 3D (PG) Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 9:25 FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (14A) Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:35 Mon 4:10, 7:00, 9:35 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2: 3D (PG) Thu 12:45 3:45 6:45 9:40 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:35, 6:35, 9:20 HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A) 12:50, 2:55, 5:10, 7:15, 9:30 LARRY CROWNE (PG) Thu 9:00 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON (PG) Fri-Wed 8:30 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D (PG) Thu 12:25, 3:25, 6:30, 9:25 WINNIE THE POOH (G) Thu 12:00, 1:45, 3:30, 5:15, 7:00 Fri-Wed 1:15, 3:00, 4:45, 6:30 ZOOKEEPER (G) Thu 12:30 2:45 4:55 7:05 9:20 Fri-Wed 12:30, 2:45, 4:55, 7:05, 9:15

West GRANDE - STEELES (CE) HWY 410 & STEELES, 905-455-1590 BAD TEACHER (14A) Thu 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:15 Fri-Wed 9:20 BRIDESMAIDS (14A) Thu 9:15 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG) Fri-Wed 12:15, 3:20, 6:30, 9:40 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER 3D (PG) Fri-Wed 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20 CARS 2 (G) Thu 1:15 4:00 7:00 9:40 Fri-Wed 1:15, 3:50, 7:05, 9:45 FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (14A) Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (PG) 12:00, 12:30, 3:10, 3:40, 6:20, 6:50, 9:30, 10:00 Wed no 12:00, 3:10 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2: 3D (PG) 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:30 HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A) Thu 1:30 4:20 7:30 10:05 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:25, 9:55 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON (PG) Thu 2:30, 6:25, 9:50 Fri-Wed 12:05, 3:25, 6:45, 10:05 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D (PG) Thu 12:10, 3:30, 6:55, 10:25 WINNIE THE POOH (G) Thu 12:20 2:15 4:30 7:10 Fri-Wed 12:40, 2:35, 4:30, 7:00 ZOOKEEPER (G) Thu 12:50, 3:50, 6:40, 9:25 3

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30 INTERCHANGE WAY, HWY 400 & HWY 7, 416-335-5323 DELHI BELLY (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:00 FAST FIVE (PG) Thu 4:10, 7:00, 9:45 Fri-Wed 7:10, 10:10 FORKS OVER KNIVES Thu 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 GREEN LANTERN (PG) Fri-Wed 2:05, 4:45, 7:25, 10:05 JUDY MOODY AND THE NOT BUMMER SUMMER (G) Thu 2:30, 4:55, 7:30, 9:50 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:10, 4:35 Sat-Sun 11:45, 2:10, 4:35 KUNG FU PANDA 2 3D (PG) 2:20, 4:40, 7:05, 9:25 Sat-Sun 11:55 mat LARRY CROWNE (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:30, 7:05, 9:40 Fri, MonWed 2:15, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 Sat-Sun 11:50, 2:15, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 LIMITLESS (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:45, 7:25, 10:00 THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO FROM THE SYNDEY OPERA HOUSE Sat-Sun 2:00 Wed 6:00 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (PG) Thu 3:00, 5:20, 7:45, 10:05 Fri,

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mentary, producer Jerome Zeitman, writer Alan Sharp and vehicle designer Dean Jeffries interviews. English audio. No subtitles.

Dinocroc Vs. Supergator (Shout Factory, 2010) D: Jim Wynorski (as Jay Andrews), w/ Corey Landis, Amy Rasimas. Rating: NN; DVD package: none

Chhabi Biswas loses it all in The Music Room.

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eOne, 1958) D: Satyajit Ray, w/ Chhabi Biswas, Padmadevi. Rating: NNNN; DVD package: NNNNN

Satyajit Ray’s moving tale of the decline of a feudal lord in 1920s Bengal unfolds with an austerity and elegiac tone that gives weight to small details and invites us to contemplate both the man’s state of mind and the drama of social change playing in the background.

Huzur Biswambhar Roy (Chhabi Biswas) mopes in his decaying palace.

He’s blown much of a dwindling family fortune on lavish musical recitals. News that his despised neighbour, a rich commoner with cultural pretensions, is hosting a recital

Limitless (Alliance, 2011) D: Neil Burger, w/ Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro. Rating: NNN; DVD package: NNN

In his solid nuts-and-bolts commentary, director Neil Burger refers to Limitless as “the classic Faustian bargain.” Not quite. Limitless weasels past the part where the guy who sells his soul for worldly success has to deal with the consequences when the Devil shows up to collect. That kills the potential for a strong ending, but it doesn’t keep Limitless from being an entertaining ride, well endowed with a lively story and interesting visual ideas.

Flat broke, failing novelist Eddie Morra (Bradley Cooper) stumbles into a limited supply of a powerful mindenhancing drug. He whips off his novel in four days, gets progressively smarter and before long is living the high life and cutting a major deal for superfinancier Carl Van Loon (Robert De Niro). The drug has a downside, though: quitting can leave you stupid or dead. Eddie also has two murders, a Russian loan shark and a mystery stalker to deal with.

Cooper moves easily between normal, enhanced and crashing Eddie and makes each of them believable, sympathetic and clearly the same guy. At the same time, Burger keeps finding visual evocations of Eddie’s inner state that give the movie

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prompts him to spend the last of his money on one final soirée.

With little dialogue, Biswas sympathetically portrays a man heedlessly committed to his aristocratic station though he’s lost his joy in living.

Even if you’re not familiar with Indian classical music, there’s no mystery about the emotions it cues on the soundtrack.

Indian musical forms are explained in the extras, and the film itself is thoroughly discussed in interviews, essays and a very good feature-length doc on Ray’s career.

EXTRAS Feature-length doc on Ray, director Mira Nair interview, Ray biographer interview, archival TV panel with Ray, essay booklet. Traditional frame. B&w. Bengali audio.

English subtitles. boundless energy and a unique look.

Van Loon isn’t a big part, but it’s pivotal, and De Niro makes him memorable with an approach that’s far from the Gordon Gekko Wall Street bully stereotype. His final scene with Cooper is itself worth the price of a rental.

EXTRAS Commentary, making-of doc, alternate ending. Widescreen. English, French audio. English, French, Spanish subtitles.

Damnation Alley (Shout Factory, 1977) D: Jack Smight, w/ George Peppard, Jan-Michael Vincent. Rating: NNN; DVD package: NNN

Nuclear war turns the U.S. to desert. In the aftermath, four military guys in California jump in a battle wagon and head for Albany, where there might be other survivors. Encounters on the way include giant scorpions, killer cockroaches, rape-minded yokels, violent storms and a massive flood.

By far the best of the generally effective old-school effects is the irradiated sky with its bursts of flame, strange lightning and cloud formations.

It’s beautiful, and conveys a disturbing sense of the world gone wrong.

The extras have a resigned and slightly defensive tone. The producers think they blew it. True, but it’s still modest fun for genre fans.

EXTRAS Producer Paul Maslansky com-

They can’t all be Sharktopus, but they can at least try. This tale of giant mutant lizards on the loose in Hawaii, pursued by a hardboiled hunter (Rib Hillis), a plucky government agent (Corey Landis) and a long-legged, shortshorted conservation officer (Amy Rasimas), lacks humour, intentional or otherwise, and anything you might call thrills.

The youthful actors skilfully convey that they’re delighted to be working yet appalled at the project.

The CG is mostly competent, but the lizards need to be bigger. You can’t have a decent giant reptile rampage without some serious urban renewal.

Ask Godzilla.

Director Jim Wynorski and executive producer Roger Corman, long-time work buddies, provide an amiable commentary of production stories, lowbudget filmmaking tips and trips down memory lane.

EXTRAS Commentary. Widescreen.

English audio. English, Spanish subtitles.

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Noon. Documentary Program: Never Happen Here: The Whitehorse 9/11 Story D: Max Fraser, Ausländer D: Taryn Snell, and others. 4 pm. Skew (2011) D: Sevé Schelenz. 7 pm.

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Enviro-bully Massey THE LAST MOUNTAIN (Bill Haney) Rating: NNN The Last Mountain aims to do for mountaintop-removal mining what Josh Fox’s GasLand did for hydraulic fracturing, exposing the horrific environmental damage wrought by rapacious corporations in America today. And when it sticks to that point, it’s pretty powerful. But it’s prone to distraction.

Director Bill Haney’s appropriately outraged enviro-doc charts Massey Energy’s destruction of West Virginia’s Coal River Mountain through the dangerous and toxic process of mountaintop removal.

Explosives are detonated in the topsoil of a mountain to expose the layer of coal below it. Once that layer is removed, another level of soil is blown out to get to the next layer of coal, and so on.

The process releases toxins into the air and surrounding water table; area residents inhale silicone dioxide, cancer clusters appear in communities, and heavy metals contaminate streams and rivers.

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Wed 27 – La Dolce Vita (1960) D: Federico Fellini. 6:30 pm. The Sound Of Music (1965) D:

Robert Kennedy Jr. gets a little too much attention in The Last Mountain.

Air Act (how’s that for an Orwellian name?), which enabled corporate polluters on a massive scale.

Haney tracks private citizens’ fight against Massey Energy. They eventually enlist crusading environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in their cause, at which point the movie is sidetracked by the Kennedy mythology.

When the focus goes back to the locals, The Last Mountain is compelling and chilling in equal measures, but the Kennedy material works against its primary interest.

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thu 21 – Zatoichi, The Blind Samurai Film Fest.

7 pm. The 3D Film Festival. 9 pm. sat 23 – Metropolis (1927) D: Fritz Lang. 7 pm. suN 24 – Jane Jacobs. 5 pm. Who Censored Bugs Bunny? 7 pm. moN 25 – The Anarchist, Hallucinatory, Surrealist Film Fest. 7 pm. What I Learned With LSD (2010). D: Reg Hartt. 9 pm. tue 26 – Alice In The Wall: Alice In Wonderland, accompanied by Pink Floyd’s The Wall album. 7 pm. Oz Darkside: The Wizard Of Oz (1939) D: Victor Fleming, accompanied by Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon album. 8:30 pm.

Wed 27 – The Rite Of Dr. Caligari: The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari (1920) D: Robert Wiene, accompanied by Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite Of Spring.

7 pm. Kid Dracula: Nosferatu (1922) D: FW Murnau, accompanied by Radiohead’s Kid A and OK Computer albums. 9 pm.

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thu 21 – The Activist Within (2011) D: Rachel Lack. 7 pm. Q&A with filmmakers to follow screening. The Greatest Movie Ever Sold (2011) D: Morgan Spurlock. 9:15 pm. fri 22 – Woody Allen X 2: Midnight In Paris (2011). 7 pm. Annie Hall (1977). 9 pm. sat 23 – Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011) D: Jennifer Yuh. 2 pm. Midnight In Paris. 4:15 & 7 pm.

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thu 21 – Fright Night (1985) D: Tom Holland.

9:30 pm. fri 22 – Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008) D: Darren Lynn Bousman. 9:30 pm. sat 23 – Deep Red (1975) D: Dario Argento.

7:30 pm. Demons (1985) D: Lamberto Bava.

9:30 pm. suN 24-Wed 27 – Check website for schedule.

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The CN Tower presents The Ultimate Wave Tahiti 3D. Continuous screenings daily 10 am to 8 pm. 301 Front W. 416868-6937, cntower.ca. thu 21-Wed 27 – 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 21 – Open Roof Festival presents Kick-Ass (2010) D: Matthew Vaughan. Local band Running Red Lights open at 7:30 pm, screening at dusk. $15. Amsterdam Brewery, 21 Bathurst. openrooffilms.com.

The Institute for Contemporary Culture at the ROM presents Painted Nation (2006) D: Cyrus Sundar Singh, about street art in India, and short film The Bioscopewallah D: Prashant Kadam. 7 pm. Free. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. rom.on.ca.

Junction BIA presents an outdoor screening of Murder, My Sweet (1944) D: Edward Dmytryk.

At dusk. Free. Junction Train Platform, Dundas W and Pacific. 416-767-9068. fri 22 – Trash Palace presents 16mm Fridays: Hot Rods To Hell (1967) D: John Brahm. 9:30 pm (doors 8:30 pm) $5 adv only, at Eyesore Cinema (801 Queen W, 2nd flr). Screening location revealed w/ ticket purchase. trashpalace.ca.

Downsview Park’s Movies Under The Stars presents MegaMind (2010) D: Tom McGrath.

Screening at dusk (approximately 9 pm). Free.

Bring a blanket or chair. Indoor rain location. downsviewpark.ca.

Cultura presents an outdoor screening of The Blind Side (2009) D: John Lee Hancock. 9 pm.

Free. Mel Lastman Square, 5100 Yonge. cultura2011.com. suN 24 – Movies In The Park presents Rango (2011) D: Gore Verbinski. Screening at dusk.

Donations welcome, funds received support children’s charities. Riverdale Park East, 550 Broadview. moviesinthepark.wordpress.com. moN 25 – Short & Sweet, a weekly short film evening, presents new work by Nikolaus von Uthmann, Aoife McArdle, James Lancett and others. 8 pm. Free. No One Writes to the Colonel, 460 College. shortandsweet.tv.

Toronto Film Society presents From Page To Screen double bill: The Horse’s Mouth (1958) D: Ronald Neame, and The Wrong Box (1966) D: Bryan Forbes. 7:30 pm. $15. Carlton Cinema, 20 Carlton. torontofilmsociety.com. tue 26 – Yonge-Dundas Square presents Dancing In The Dark outdoor film screening: West Side Story (1961) D: Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise. At dusk. Free. ydsquare.ca.

Harbourfront Centre presents Free Flicks outdoors: Amal (2007) D: Richie Mehta. 9 pm.

Free. WestJet Stage, 235 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com.

Wed 27 – TIFF and the Entertainment District BIA present an outdoor screening of The Sound Of Music (1965) D: Robert Wise. 9 pm. Free. Metro Hall, David Pecaut Square. tiff.net.

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you probAbly get this question every

day. I’m a man who loves it when my girlfriend fucks me with a strap-on.

Another great thing: my girlfriend ejaculates frequently and plentifully when we have sex, and she has done so when she’s pegging me. Which leads to my question: what are the possible issues from getting female ejaculate in your ass? I am thinking about modifying a toy in a way that might enable her to squirt up my ass.

It probably won’t work, but I am going to try. Because if it does work….

Oh My Fucking God I get questions about female ejaculation every day – where does that shit come from? How the hell can I/my girlfriend learn to do that shit? Is that shit really piss? – but you’re the first person to ask me about modifying a sex toy so as to enable a woman to come in a man’s ass. (You’re going to want to patent that thing if it works, OMFG.) Allow me to quickly dispense with the usual questions: it comes shooting out of a woman’s urethra; practice, practice, practice; that shit isn’t piss. How do we know it’s not piss? Science!

In 2007, a crack team of sex researchers in Vienna “collected” lady ejaculate from two lady ejaculators – not a huge sample, admittedly, but two lady ejaculators are better then none – and rushed their lady ejaculate to the lab, where it was “evaluated biochemically.” They published the results of their study in the Journal Of Sexual Medi-

cine (The Female Prostate Revisited: Perineal Ultrasound And Biochemical Studies of Female Ejaculate, JSM, September 2007). They concluded that lady ejaculate isn’t piss, it’s come: “The fluids emitted were clearly different than urine voided prior to sexual activity,” they wrote. “The values show that the source of fluid expulsion during orgasm is not urine, but is rather similar to male ejaculate.”

As lady ejaculate is chemically similar to gentleman ejaculate, OMFG, the risks of a lady ejaculating in your ass would presumably be similar to the risks of a gentleman ejaculating in your ass: You would be at risk of acquiring any sexually transmitted infection she might have. But if your lady ejaculator is disease-free, OMFG, then letting her come in your ass is a risk-free, if not uick-free, activity.

i’m A 24-yeAr-old femAle living in

London, where I have just finished a degree in circus arts. I’m in a relationship with a great guy. The problem is that while I have had long- and shortterm relationships before, he hasn’t, and he can be very emotionally needy.

For example, he can’t/won’t sleep without me in the bed. We’ve been together for 10 months, and he often tells me that I’m everything in his life.

I’ve told him that under no circumstances is this normal, and I’ve confirmed my right to have a life outside of him. The real crux of the situation is this: I worked on and off as a stripper

in a high-end club for two years. I haven’t done it while with him because of the physical demands of my degree. Now I’m done and broke and want to return to this work. This is an issue for him, as you can imagine. I won’t compromise. The job was great for me and allowed me such sexual (and financial!) liberation. I didn’t orgasm for the first time until after I took control of my own sexuality via stripping.

I don’t know how to handle this issue: He knew this about me when we met and says he hoped it wouldn’t carry on.

I feel upset that he hasn’t accepted the whole of me, and I guess part of me wonders if I’m in the wrong relationship. I love this man, but I feel trapped.

Clown College Graduate Inexperience might explain extreme emotional neediness, CCG, but it’s no excuse. Your boyfriend’s clingy, manipulative shtick – he just can’t sleep alone, you’re his everything, if you go back to a job you loved before you loved him, well, he’ll be vewy sad – looks to me like controlling, emotionally abusive behaviour in pathetic sadclown drag.

But you like him, CCG, so let’s give him the benefit of the doubt, shall we? Tell your boyfriend you’re going back to your old job and he has a choice to make: Get over it or get over you.

If he sucks it up and makes an effort to change, he was just an insecure little douchebag and, hey, you helped him

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get over it! If he doubles down on the whining and clinging, then he’s a controlling dick and you’re well rid of him.

A quick comment on monogAmy:

I agree with you that we tend to assume that all the other couples we know are in monogamous relationships, when in reality many are not.

Recently, my mom told me that she wouldn’t mind if my father had an affair. Sex has become harder for her since menopause, and she doesn’t consider it the be-all and end-all of a marriage.

I’ve been married for a year, with several years of dating before that, and sex and arousal can be difficult for me and I have a lower libido than my husband. I’m not complaining – my husband is a wonderful lover and has been good about taking things at the right pace for me. And when the sex works, it’s amazing. One thing that really takes the pressure off me, though, is that we agreed long before marriage that faithfulness for us meant honesty, not exclusivity. My husband knows that if he wants to fool around, he can – so long as he’s safe and honest (with me and with her). The same goes for me.

Does my marriage, or my parents’ marriage, count as monogamous? We look monogamous and probably will always look that way – and at the moment, we all are. But we’ve agreed that strict monogamy isn’t a requirement. Since I doubt that we’re alone in this attitude, you can add this group of “theoretical nonmonogamists” to the list of people who get wrongly classed by your critics as totally monogamous out of a lack of imagination and knowledge about other people’s lives.

Invisible In Canada I’m convinced that there are a lot more PTBMCs out there than people realize – that’s “perceived to be monogamous couple,” a married/partnered couple with an understanding about when outside sexual contact is permissible.

But for most of these couples – for you, IIC, for your parents, for me and my husband – the term “nonmonogamous” isn’t a good fit.

Tell an AMC – ”actually monogamous couple” – that you’re nonmonogamous, and they’ll assume you’re a couple of huge sluts, i.e., that you’re actively seeking outside sex partners or that you’re swingers. There’s nothing wrong with seeking outside sex partners (in moderation!) or swinging (ditto!), but that’s not what you’re doing, IIC, it’s not what your dad has permission to do, and it’s not what my husband and I are doing. So if we – you, me, your mom – tell an AMC we’re “nonmonogamous,” we have to spend the next 15 minutes qualifying that statement.

And that requires us to disclose more details about our actual sex lives than (1) we wanna say and (2) they wanna hear.

So I’ve got a new word to describe relationships like yours, mine and your mom’s, IIC: “monogamish.” We’re mostly monogamous, not swingers, not actively looking. Monogamish.

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