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jOURNEY Get your soft-rock fix at Molson Amphitheatre with Journey, Foreigner and Night Ranger. Doors 6 pm. $29.50$89.50. TM. HANSEL AND GRETEL Grimm, Brecht and Freud mix on Ward’s Island. 8 pm. $10-$15. shadowlandtheatre.ca.

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of new Canadian dance features works by Marie-Josée Chartier, Keiko Ninomiya, Michael Caldwell and others. To Aug 14 at the Betty Oliphant. $10-$28, passes available. 416504-7529. LABOUR WALKS Conversation tour exploring history of African-Canadian-led Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. 6:30 pm. Free. In front of Union Station. catalystcentre.ca.

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The pop queen and pink-coiffed rapper hit the Air Canada Centre. Doors 6 pm. $29.50-$175. TM. ALL cAPS! ISLAND FESTIVAL With DD/MM/YYYY, Julie Doiron, the Wooden Sky and others. Artscape Gibraltar Point. 4 pm. $12-$15, pass $20-$40. wavelengthtoronto.com. And Aug 14.

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the brothers ford want to close libraries to save money (NOW, July 28-August 3), but they should be looking at Toronto pubic libraries for their moneymaking potential. Why not expand services, adding gift shops, coffee concessions and drive-thru windows? Are a few food crumbs and coffee stains too high a price to pay for a fullservice, city-wide library system? Furthermore, if subway stations are now open for corporate sponsorship and naming rights, why not libraries? While we’re at it, let’s add police stations and fire halls. New cruisers and emergency vehicles are high-ticket items, so why not add corporate logos to the entire fleet? And why should the mayor wear a drab suit? How about a jumpsuit with corporate logos [to be] worn on special occasions (like the chain of office). It might even make him look a little cooler, like a Nascar driver (or at least a member of the pit crew). Wm Malcolm Toronto

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toronto city councillor doug Ford should listen to the advice of citizens and take a few minutes to visit a library in his ward. I strongly urge him to sign out the book Public Relations For Dummies 101. When he’s done, he should pass it on to his brother, Mayor Rob Ford. Mandatory reading for the brothers Ford, given their recent public displays of ignorance. Roland Kiehne President, CAW Local 112 Toronto

Welfare rating

i just read paul weinberg’s article Poverty Pariah (NOW, July 21-27) and had to respond. Twelve years ago, I participated in a panel discussion with John Baird on the welfare system while he served in the Harris government. I advised him that a major problem with welfare was that many people were using their money to buy drugs. (As a former user, I can attest to this.) I told him there should be more rigorous screening of how welfare money is spent, and if clients are

using their money only to support their habit, that they should be made to seek rehab or dropped for good. I also told Baird that welfare rates needed to be increased and people should be encouraged to find work and not have any money they make deducted from their welfare cheques. Most of what I told Baird went right over his head, and now we have the Harris legacy at Queen’s Park and City Hall. God help us all. George F. Jenner Toronto

Google+ and minuses

i have mixed feelings about google+ and its potential, along with all other Google services that will no doubt be integrated into Google+ one day (NOW, July 21-27). Part of me thinks it’s a convenient way to organize myself, be productive and connect with others. Another part of me wonders about the implications of having one’s entire life detailed and tracked on a web server somewhere. Eliah Holiday Toronto

Cover anxiety

while i sympathize with letterwriter MH regarding how difficult it must be to overcome alcoholism (NOW, July 21-27), it’s a little overboard to suggest that NOW’s cover featuring beer is in any way insensitive. One could easily say the same for last week’s cover of a stacked burger for eating disorder sufferers, or the fact that there are pubs and bars on almost every downtown street. Look hard enough and there will always be something to offend or upset. I hope that strategies for coping continued on page 11 œ

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on sleepover at city hall (now Daily, July 29). The Fords and their posse have already drawn up the plans to spin the whole meeting on budget cuts in their favour. The mayor was daydreaming about pounding back some beers at the cottage the whole time. If you’d asked him what the last deputant talked about, he’d have had no clue. While Rob Ford may have his imaginary Ford Nation, the army he’s really building is one of citizens from all walks of life, even from the suburbs he claims to be representing. Rick Mason

Sensational Sherbourne

like sugar beach, sherbourne Common looks amazing (NOW Daily, July 26)! Though it seems more like an artistic environment for adults than a really fun park for kids, the kids there for the opening on Tuesday, July 26, seemed to be having fun. Everything Waterfront Toronto has done in the neighbourhood thus far, from the boardwalk to the lights to the benches, looks world-class. Brett Ruffell

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enzo dimatteo has reached a new low. He mentions Anders Breivik and the massacre in Oslo in the same article as Mayor Ford allegedly giving the finger to a motorist (NOW, July 28-August 3). He’s nothing more than a shameless opportunist. Awful! Hooventood

Touched by Jack Layton

i was blown away by wayne Roberts’s lovely tribute to Jack Layton (NOW, July 28-August 3). Like so many Canadians, I was stunned to receive Jack’s “personal note” in my email the other day, which immediately impelled me to tune in to CBC and tearfully witness his very dignified and moving address to our nation, disclosing his present brave battle with cancer. Like so many others, I am praying for his full recovery and return to public life. Mary C. Kelly

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tricky tunnel made me laugh out loud when the writer mentioned waterfront residents’ complaints about noise from the Island Airport (NOW, July 21-27). I live directly beside the takeoff/landing path of the helicopters that land atop Sick Kid’s hospital. I don’t complain, because I’m sure they’re necessary, but those don’t have a forced curfew; if they need to land at 3 am, they do it and often wake up a lot of people in the process. Porter flights at least can’t land after a certain time. I’ve learned to live with this. The Aug 4th.pdf 1 11-08-01 people who live on Queens Quay can

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Jarvis bike lane brushoff

letter-writer don beelik was of fended at getting a robo-reply on the Jarvis bike lanes (NOW, July 14-20) from the same mayor who boasted last year that he would personally reply to all residents’ calls. Beelik is lucky; I didn’t even get the form letter on my questions about the Jarvis bike lanes removal. The mayor reasons that gridlock is somehow caused by bicycles on Jarvis. That argument holds no water. How is vehicle traffic impaired while simply passing bicycle riders that are not blocking them? But, of course, this is not about reason; reason has been euthanized. Geoff Rytell Toronto

Floating Flotilla myths

l et ter w riter l eo steiner couldn’t be more wrong (NOW, July 141:27 PM 20). The Flotilla II to Gaza could not

have been more timely. The level of abject poverty among the Palestinians of Gaza has tripled since the imposition of the blockade in 2007 on an already impoverished and traumatized civilian population. At present, 61 per cent of households in Gaza do not have enough food, and the allocation of potable water is far below the World Health Organization minimum standard. The World Food Programme, the Food and Agricultural Organization and UN Development Programme all report dire conditions of malnutrition and untreated health problems. There is ample will to help, so ending the blockade is crucial. Miriam Garfinkle, Judy Deutsch and 60 others Toronto NOW welcomes reader mail. Address letters to: NOW, Letters to the Editor, 189 Church, Toronto, ON M5B 1Y7. Send e-mail to letters@nowtoronto.com and faxes to 416-364-1166. All correspondence must include your name, address and daytime phone number. Letters may be edited for length.

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[Frontlines] Benjamin Boles on being glued to Rob Ford

Is it time to rethink celebrating “Simcoe Day”? The guy after whom we named the August 1 long weekend, John Graves Simcoe, is credited with helping abolish slavery in Upper Canada. But like most of this province’s early rulers, he wasn’t exactly a democrat or advocate of social mobility for the underclasses.

The marathon citizen filibuster Thursday night may not have had much of a chance of changing Rob Ford’s opinions, but the absurdist political theatre did succeed in transforming the mindset of a great number of Torontonians who until now were far from engaged in the political process. Despite doing everything he could to limit the public’s input while maintaining the illusion of consultation, Ford badly miscalculated just how passionate Torontonians are about their city, and grossly overestimated the loyalty of Ford Nation. Though its effect on the decisionmaking process may be negligible, you can’t deny that something changed dramatically by the end of that joke of a meeting. My Twitter feed is usually dominated by musicians, promoters, DJs and nightlife people rather than by municipal politics junkies and activists, and yet all anyone was talking about that night was the circus at City Hall. Folks who’ve never paid attention to a city council meeting in their lives were glued to their TVs, computers or smartphones – all of them flabbergasted to find out just how insane things have become. People who may have been vaguely sympathetic to Ford’s braying about gov-

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As a public space, Frank Stollery Parkette at the nexus of Yonge and Davenport looks a bit untidy tucked under the glistening new condo towers rising above Yorkville. Pigeon droppings are an issue, laying waste to the trees and flowers planted only last year. The good news: the plants are under warranty. The bad: the space – part of an ancient aboriginal trail that Heritage Toronto has commemorated with panels installed in June – deserves better.

ernment waste were offended to watch him ignore deputation after deputation. They were astounded as Giorgio Mammoliti acted like an attack dog to sweet old ladies staying up way past their bedtime to plead politely for compassionate government. If Ford had hoped to expose his critics as a bunch of professional protesters and union goons, his plan backfired badly. Instead, what Toronto learned was not only that city services are essential to our health and well-being, but the people who provide them are more articulate, thoughtful and likeable than the thugs on city council who want to ignore them.

My Twitter feed is usually dominated by DJs, not political junkies. Tuesday’s meeting was the kind of spectacle that was impossible to turn away from, and the last thing Ford wanted was for the city to watch this process closely. He may very well have provided the spark for a whole new wave of opposition among people who previously wouldn’t have paid much attention, and for that we should be thankful. benjaminb@nowtoronto.com

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Barometer ART SPEAK Doug Ford’s “Who-the-fuck-is Maragaret-Atwood-anyway?” spiel last week during talk of possible library closures inspired howls from library lovers everywhere – and a series of mock Atwood book covers by Sidra Mahmood. For Ford’s blind assassination of the celebrated Canadian author, we offer for your viewing pleasure a reworking of her international bestseller. Behold The Timbit Assassin.

ANTI-NDP BAFFLEGAB The conservative press, led by the Globe, fills the summertime news void with a (Tory-planted?) assault on acting NDP leader Nycole Turmel’s supposed sovereignist allegiance.

TAHRIR SQUARE REMEMBRANCES Toronto stages its own occupation of City Hall as deputants line up for a marathon meeting of council’s executive to denounce the mayor’s proposed services cuts. More at nowtoronto.com.

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Rumours to the contrary, no, Margaret Atwood is not running for mayor. This despite last week’s wildfire draft movement in support of her delicious sparring with “Twin FordMayor(s)’’ over saving the city’s library system. Doug Ford wouldn’t know her if she walked by, but for decades we’ve been awed by her savage wit and wisdom. This article from way back has her ruminating on inequality (page 32 of the issue). Check out this sagacious sample: “Power is just like electricity; it can light the room or it can electrocute you.’’ Take note, Ford twins. Travel back in time with NOW’s online archive. nowtoronto.com/archive

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No more blue skyiNg Sherbourne Common may well be the last piece of artistic and publicly funded development on the waterfront

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efore the week that was in city politics came to be defined by the mother of all public meetings – also known as the day Rob Ford play ed chicken with Toronto on service cuts – there was another defining, albeit less noticed, moment. That was the opening of Sherbourne Common. A strange juxtaposition, perhaps. But for those looking for sy mbols in the current state of city politics, the timing of Sherbourne’s official unveiling on Tuesday , July 26 – while Ford & Co engaged in thinking-small meanderings at City Hall – couldn’t have been more apropos. The city was ablaze in 31°C heat, but at the foot of Lower Sherbourne the wind was blowing at a steady clip and the clouds were racing overhead. The light in the afternoon sky was a shutterbug’s dream, so crisp that y ou might mistake the view for a digital rendering.

Under David Miller, waterfront development took off. A few of the gems include (from left) the George Brown expansion, the Simcoe Wave Deck, River City (currently under construction), Sugar Beach and the Water’s Edge promenade.

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Kids tried out the funky new play structures. But it was Light Showers, Jill Anholt’s 9-metre-high sculptures, which anchor the park and double as giant filters for Sherbourne’s built-in water treatment facility , that stole the show. The structures are meant to “visibly express the surrounding community ’s aspirations to sustainability ,” according to the artist. But they represent much more – a fanciful and functional vision of the waterfront whose future is headed into troubled waters. To thank for that we have an administration at City Hall eager to cut ties with Waterfront Toronto and sell off any leverage it has over waterfront growth to department store developers. Take a good, long look. Sherbourne Common is likely the last piece of artistic and publicly funded development that’ll be planned for the water’s edge with the participation of the city for y ears to come. You’ll notice I said “publicly funded.” No doubt there’ll be endless opportunities in Ford’s privatized Toronto for the 80ssty le concrete madness that has largely killed the waterfront west of Jarvis. But waterfront dreaming isn’t dead y et. Some things are bigger than Rob Ford. Plans for a park on the West Donlands site, for example, will move ahead because that’s where the ath-

letes’ village for the 2015 Pan Am Games is slated to be built. The Queens Quay streetcar corridor is also a good candidate for completion because private development along the street will require reliable transportation. The bad news is that the day s of bold, forward-thinking innovation are kaput – or on hiatus until a new may or and council dedicated to city building are elected. Politicos of all stripes on hand for the ribbon-cutting ceremony at Sherbourne’s opening sang the park’s praises. Reps from all three levels of government, which together fund Waterfront Toronto projects, lauded Waterfront Toronto’s work. Among them was Scarborough Councillor Norm Kelly , the Parks and Environment Committee chair. Kelly called Sherbourne “a fantastic public space” and said the park “will be a great asset” to the city . Were the nice words for the cameras? On the other side of Queens Quay , meanwhile, construction cranes continue work on the new George Brown campus that forms part of the East Bay front precinct. Next to that is the already completed Corus building, the Water’s Edge promenade and Sugar Beach. Here, too, the Ford admin’s waterfront wanderings have shaken confidence in plans for mixed-use development. Sherbourne is one of many pro-

jects gestated under former may or David Miller, whose commitment to Waterfront Toronto – Ford has y et to attend a meeting of the board – helped spur development on vacated industrial wasteland. And herein lies a tale of two cities: the Toronto left over from the Miller era and the one Ford has set out to, well, destroy . All along the waterfront and throughout the metropolis, in fact, work begun in the Miller era continues, from the revamp of Regent Park to the ongoing construction of condo towers in the core and the reimagining of neighbourhoods across the city , including the waterfront. Ford, on the other hand, has pulled the plug on a plan to build a stacked ice rink and mused about selling off valuable city -owned land assets and deep-sixing the Lawrence Heights redevelopment. His attitude toward arm’s-length agencies charged with managing land assets is ambivalent at best. Ford hasn’t actually set out to build any thing. His is a starkly different vision of the role of local government than his predecessor’s. Miller saw Toronto as a city -state. And as may or of the sixth-largest government in the country , he leveraged what political power he could to get things done to improve life for its citizens. This is especially true on the waterfront, where before Miller came along development was mired in red

tape and largely going nowhere. Ford, on the other hand, is all about shrinking the size of government and with it the quality of life of the majority of Torontonians. It can’t even be called addition by subtraction, since whatever savings his moves have made for taxpay ers have gone to higher service fees, for example. Ford believes the responsibility of cities begins and ends with the elementary , like picking up garbage and fixing potholes. That philosophy , if y ou want to call it that, extends to economic development, strangely enough. As a self-described businessman, y ou’d think the may or would have an interest in urban investment and growth. But consultants KPMG’s Core Services Review has proposed cuts to the economic development department – y es, the folks responsible for promoting investment in Toronto – even though a small fraction of its work, about 4 per cent, is discretionary . Is this the happy place the may or promised during the campaign, where every one has fun? On Wednesday (August 3), Ford was to take PM Stephen Harper on a tour of the Union Station revitalization, another waterfront project pushed by Miller – and opposed by Ford when he was councillor. 3 enzom@nowtoronto.com

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In debt denial

Critics accuse Obama of trading away the future of everyone who isn’t rich After bargaining chaos, U.S. President Barack Obama negotiated a deal this week with Republicans to raise the debt ceiling in exchange for austerity measures. Liberal and progressive commentators are not celebrating. Below, seven deadly debt darts aimed squarely at the president.

BIG DEAL BUT NO NEW DEAL “What precisely will Obama fight for now that the debt deal has tied his hands? He says he wants to extend tax cuts for middle-class families and make sure the jobless get unemployment benefits. Fine, but the new deal won’t let him. The deal he just signed makes it impossible for the president to launch any major jobs program – no [Roosevelt era] WPA or Civilian Conservation Corps, no lending program to cash-starved states, no new help for distressed homeowners. Nada. The radical right has not only captured the budget; it has also captured the American mind.” ROBERT REICH, secretary of labour under Bill Clinton

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• Raise the debt ceiling by $400 billion to avoid default • $900 billion in cuts over 10 years • No tax increases for the wealthy • Two more debt-ceiling rises possible through 2013 • Special joint committee established to identify cuts and possible new revenue streams • If consensus isn’t reached by end of December, an automatic across-the-board $1.5 trillion in spending cuts begins

BARTERING AWAY OPTIONS “Don’t blame it all on the Republican ‘mad dogs’. It was President Obama who surrendered. He managed to give the Republicans more than they expected and leave the Democrats with less than the Republicans offered. Unlike presidents Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Bush II, who routinely got debt ceilings raised without conditions. Mr. Obama has no cards left. Interest rates cannot be driven any lower by the Federal Reserve. He didn’t get even a renewal of the extension of unemployment benefits.” RALPH NADER, attorney, activist, former presidential candidate “It is unconscionable that this agreement would place the entire burden on working families and the most vulnerable in our country. This extremely unfair agreement does not ask the wealthiest people or large profitable corporations to contribute one penny. This is not only grossly unfair, it is bad economic policy.” BERNIE SANDERS, U.S. Senator, Independent, Vermont

UNTOUCHABLE WAR “Obama’s $400 billion in Pentagon ‘cuts’ are not cuts at all – unless you consider an obese person who continues eating at the same level but reduces his dreams of ever grander future repasts to be on a diet. The ‘cuts’ in the White House proposal will only be from projected future Pentagon growth rates. Our war-makers are carrying on as if trillion-dollar wars were an American birthright. Few have asked the obvious question: isn’t it time to lower America’s war ceiling?” TOM ENGELHARDT, The Nation Institute

DEFAULTING ON BOLD ACTION “Here is what we should do to avoid default: increase the debt ceiling with no strings attached. Here is how to get out of debt: End the war; save $1 trillion over 10 years. Repeal tax cuts to the wealthy; save another trillion. Medicare for all: end the $400 billion yearly subsidies for the health insurance industry. Why should our country go into debt, borrowing money from banks when we have the constitutional power to create money and invest in jobs? We can have another New Deal where we put millions to work. The Democratic party is running away from its traditional role of protecting the poor, the elderly and the working class. To whom do these groups now turn?” DENNIS KUCINICH, U.S. Congressman, Ohio

PARTICIPATING IN DELUSION “What we’ve witnessed throughout the Western world is a kind of inverse miracle of intellectual failure. Given a crisis that should have been relatively easy to solve, what we actually got was an obsession with problems we didn’t have. We’ve obsessed over the deficit in the face of near-record low interest rates, obsessed over inflation in the face of stagnant wages and counted on the confidence fairy to make job-destroying policies somehow job-creating. Got that 30s feeling, all the way.” PAUL KRUGMAN, economist, Princeton University

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“Cuts are forced on us by this misguided view that large deficits are a cause, rather than an effect, of the downturn. Almost one in five dollars in consumers’ wallets came from one government program or another. The public sector has already seen deep cuts, and that trend will worsen. The American economy is heading into dark waters, but the coming ‘austerity recession’ won’t only be a result of the tireless efforts of a small band of conservative ideologues; it will also be a consequence of a crippling intellectual crisis among our elites.” JOSHUA HOLLAND, Editor, AlterNet

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ine Frid’s 2010 play, Homegrown, about one of the Toronto 18. But SummerWorks, a juried festival, is known not “I can’t be afraid of what happens doonly for its edginess but for ing this show, especially after this its high quality and ability past year when I spoke out [about beto seed productions that go ing detained during the G20] regardon to success elsewhere. less of consequences. If you only creWorks from past seasons ate art that the government has like Montparnasse (about scared you into creating, the result is artists and their models in fear art.” 1920s Paris) and If We Were TOMMY TAYLOR, playwright/perBirds (about women victims former, You Should Have Stayed Home of war) have gone on to Dora nominations. The fact that supporters threw in a third of the lost grant’s value in July (a ticket price increase from $10 to $15 will make up the rest of the shortfall in the fest’s $300,000 budget) demonstrates the strength of audience loyalty. But artistic producer Michael Rubenfeld knows this won’t be so easy to reproduce next year if the company is in crisis again. “There’s donor fatigue and then there’s staff fatigue,” says Rubenfeld, who makes about $20,000 a year. Without any money for a development staffer, the job of drumming up cash has fallen into his lap and that of the fest’s general manager. “As the festival continues to grow, its value has increased in the minds of presenters across this country and internationally. It seems like tax dollars were at work doing what they were supposed to,” he says, adding that he’s hopeful the grant will be reDialogue on self-censorship takes centre stage as feds cut grant to edgy SummerWorks By SAIRA PEESKER instated next year. after a whirlwind month that motivated, and worry that theatre At Heritage Canada, communicashook the boundary-pushing festival THE QUESTION groups will start avoiding touchy tions manager Jillian Lum will say Have the recent to its roots, SummerWorks starts content to keep the money flowing. only that “last year the Department cuts to arts spending August 4 as planned, thanks to an And the emergency fundraising that of Canadian Heritage received over influenced what you outpouring of theatregoer genrescued SummerWorks 2011? Could it 10,000 funding requests for local create? erosity. boomerang and become the new events. The total demand far exceeds Festival organizers were stunned norm, with the feds leaving the arts available funding, and therefore in late June when Heritage Canada, field to tapped-out donors? choices must be made. This year we “Part of me is terrified that a show I’ve worked after a five year partnership, suddenCertainly, the shadow of last year’s are proud to support new projects in on for two years might be shut down because ly pulled $48,000 worth of funding disturbing events hangs in the ether. Toronto like Canada’s Walk of Fame.” someone considers offensive what I find for the 2011 season, 20 per cent of That’s when a rep in the PM’s office, This is far from impressive for NDP worth exploring onstage.” SummerWorks’ budget. and later Stephen Harper himself, Heritage critic Tyrone Benskin, forKEVIN MICHAEL SHEA, playwright, Hero The government may deny it, but asserted that the festival was using merly artistic director of Montreal’s & Leander some in the arts community can’t public money to glorify terrorism. Black Theatre Workshop. “The Walk help thinking the cut was politically Those comments referred to Catherof Fame [which celebrates those at the top of their field] is wonderful, but it’s getting there that’s the issue,” he says. While Benskin won’t speculate on whether ideology fuelled the SummerWorks pullback, he does call for vigilance on all Tory arts decisions and warns that with The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health is the government in cutting mode, more looking for people concerned about their drinking festivals will be out to participate in a study to evaluate self-directed of pocket. interventions for drinkers. “The Conservatives showed their cards with

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“Government subsidies for farming, mining and forestry are accepted as necessary. But grants for the arts are often viewed as handouts. The arts offer the opportunity for dialogue and debate. I don’t know which possibility is more alarming: that the PMO understands this or that it doesn’t.” PHILIP McKEE, co-creator, Brothers

Harper’s state ment about how real Can adians don’t care about the arts,” he says. “We heard re cently from Jim Flaherty and Tony Clement that arts organizations shouldn’t feel entitled to grants. I don’t know any arts organization that feels entitled to funding. That shows you how much they un derstand the arts community.” Some find it hard to separate the government’s 2010 comments from the pulling of the grant, especially considering SummerWorks’ stature. “For many it seems like one coinci dence too many,” says Jini Stolk, ex ecutive director of Creative Trust, which helps arts groups improve their business and financial skills. Arts organizations “will rethink, if not what they do, certainly how they express what they do,” she tells NOW. “The [loss of the grant] is not going to stop artists from ex

“I’m seeing a political trend against community. The root of community is empathy – the ability to care about someone unlike ourselves. I’m starting to see my career in terms of building empathy, of creating work that celebrates differing points of view.” CHRISTOPHER STANTON, playwright/director, Elora Gorge

ment grants are handed out directly rather than through an arm’slength agency such as the Arts Council, the appearance of censorship can be hard to shake. “This whole relation ship between art and politicians is so filled with nuances.” And so it is. On the subject of his opposition to Queers Against Israeli Apartheid’s participation in the Pride parade, Councillor Giorgio Mammo liti recently ruminated that the city shouldn’t be in the business of fund ing arts events with a political mes sage. As if on cue, SummerWorks – which gets $30,000 in annual oper ating support from the Toronto Arts Council – is tackling one of the big gest thorns in the city’s side in recent “I want to be able to answer like an years: last year’s G20 economist – to speak in clear, scientific summit, demon jargon, tracing the intricate pattern of strations and police lines that lead from the creation of a overkill. In the high piece of art to the scores of market ly anticipated play benefits it produces down the line. I’ve You Should Have put it on my list of things to do. In the Stayed Home, writer meantime, it’s business as usual in the Tommy Taylor de rehearsal hall.” picts his experience CLAIRE CALNAN, co-director, Combat as a detainee in the squalid makeshift prison where hun pressing themselves, but it could dreds of protesters were held. have a constraining effect. Obvious It’s sure to outrage the police force ly, the community is very concerned and its staunchest supporters at City at what really looks like political Hall. interference in the free expression of But considering the festival’s rai ideas.” son d’être, promoting plays that are While she’s not keen to comment courageous in content or style, Sum on the reason the festival lost its fed merWorks wouldn’t have it any other eral funding, Toronto Arts Council way. “To make a shift would com exec director Claire Hopkinson says pletely go against the festival’s rea she’s thankful for the discussion sons for existing,” Rubenfeld says. “It that’s resulted. would make no sense.” 3 news@nowtoronto.com “Censorship is by far the worst See SummerWorks previews, page 48. scenario in a freespeech society,” she says, noting that when govern

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“The cuts haven’t threatened what I feel I can create, but they threaten to rob me of an audience my work can speak to. Without a festival like SummerWorks, I, like other emerging artists, would be left without a voice.” MUMBI TINDYEBWA OTU, co-creator and director, dancing to a white boy song “As things become bleaker both financially and politically, we find a strange freedom and euphoria in forging ahead. Knowing that things won’t change tomorrow allows us to focus more deeply on what we really want to make, no compromises. The harder it gets, the more you want to make art for art’s sake.” KARIN RANDOJA, co-consulting director, Origami Airplane Quotes compiled by Jon Kaplan

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enDeavour suMMer Mixer (Endeavour)

Guest speakers and an opportunity to meet other professionals in the non-profit sector. 7 pm. $20-$30. ING Direct Centre, 221 Yonge, 2nd floor. endeavourvolunteer.ca. Queer Beer Festival (519 Community Centre) Comedian Maggie Cassella, Ace of Base, DJs, queer bands, beer, food and more. 4-10 pm. $33.50-$48.50. Exhibition Place, Bandshell Park, 210 Princes’ Blvd. queerbeerfestival.ca. top ten event (Stephen Lewis Fdn) Celebrities Lisa Ray, Rex Harrington and others tell their stories about success. 8 pm. $40-$60. Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles W. toptenevent.eventbrite.com.

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alBreCht Durer i Lecture by art historian Francis Broun. 1 & 6:30 pm. $25, stu/firsttimers $10. Women’s Art Assoc, 23 Prince Arthur. 647-343-1411. 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.

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post-production. 7 pm. $15. NFB Mediatheque, 150 John. Pre-register transitiontoronto.ning.com. living Without religion Discussion on living a positive life free of guilt, fear and shame. 7 pm. Free. Centre for Inquiry, 216 Beverley. cficanada.ca/ontario/events.

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rFilipinos Making Waves Entertainment,

arts and food from the Philippines. Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. filipinosmakingwaves.com. Aug 6 and 7 rJerkFest Jerk food festival with live music, dance, a kids’ zone and more. Free (VIP garden $25). Centennial Park, Renforth and Rathburn (at the base of the ski hills). jerkfestival.ca. Aug 6 and 7 Queer West arts Festival Queer cultural festival featuring music, parties, spoken word, a bicycle gallery tour, the Queer West Film Fest and more. Free-$5. Various westend venues. queerwest.org. Aug 8 to 14 rrastaFest Rastafari arts and culture festival with visual art, films and more leading up to a concert (Sat) with Mighty Diamonds, Orthodox Issachar and others. Free. York Woods Library (1785 Finch W) and Downsview Park (35 Carl Hall). rastafest.com. Aug 8 to 12 suMMerWorks Juried theatre festival with more than 40 plays, plus concerts and workshops. $15, passes $40-$110. Various venues. summerworks.ca. Aug 4 to 14 rtaste oF the DanForth Festival of Greek culture with food tasting, music and entertainment. Free. Danforth from Broadview to Jones. tasteofthedanforth.com. Aug 5 to 7 toronto Festival oF Beer Celebration of Canada’s craft brewing history with tastings, seminars and more. Bandshell Park, Exhibition Place. beerfestival.ca. Aug 5 to 7 register yiddishvinkl@yahoo.ca. Dusk DanCes Outdoor performances of works by Karen Kaeja, Throwdown Collective, Michael Caldwell and others. To Aug 7, daily at 7 pm. Pwyc. Withrow Park, S of Danforth btwn Logan and Carlaw. duskdances.ca.

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What’s ClassiCal? Live music by Quartango, John Kameel Farah and others, plus dance, lectures and film. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com. Aug 5 to 7

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formances, visual art and African 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 others. Rexall Centre, 1 Shoreham (York U campus). blackcreekfestival.com. To Aug 30

atoM egoyan The filmmaker talks about his work. 7:30 pm. Free. Drake, 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042. the exploDing universe: a party in the sky Astronomy talk by René Breton and

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festival with Canadian and international films and performances by the Darcys, Lynn Miles and others. $15. Amsterdam Brewery, 21 Bathurst. openrooffestival.com. To Sep 1 sounD travels Festival of sound art with indoor and outdoor performances, installations, a symposium and more. Concerts $10$15, symposium $35-$70, intensive $175. Artscape Wychwood Barns (601 Christie) and other venues. soundtravels.ca. To Sep 3 toronto suMMer MusiC Festival International classical music festival. $16.50 and up. Edward Johnson Bldg (80 Queen’s Park), Koerner Hall (273 Bloor W). torontosummermusic.com. To Aug 13

Physical Labs, rm MP 102, 60 St George. astro.utoronto.ca. rgreat lakes outreaCh Interactive program on the importance of the North American Great Lakes. 2 pm. Free. Albert Campbell Library, 496 Birchmount. 416-396-8890.

tain and crew use in sailing. 2 pm. Free. Rexdale Library, 2243 Kipling. 416-394-5200. suMMerWorks opening party The theatre festival opens with a party featuring live music and more. 4 pm. Free. MOCCA courtyard, 952 Queen W. summerworks.ca. telling it like it is Newcomer youth 16 to 24 learn to use digital media to tell their personal stories. 4 pm. Free. York Woods Library, 1785 Finch W. 416-395-5980. runveiling the Myths A maze-like installation launches a human trafficking awareness campaign. 11 am-10 pm. Free. YongeDundas Square. unveilingthemyths.com.

Friday, August 5

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Women-only workshop. 7-9:30 pm. $33. Good for Her, 175 Harbord. Pre-register 416588-0900. Distillery art Market Outdoor market of artists, craftspeople and food artisans plus Artscape studio tours. Fri to Sun and holiday Mondays to Oct 16. 11 am-6 pm. Free. Distillery District, 55 Mill. torontoartscape.on.ca. an evening oF Bhakti Learn the ancient teachings of the yoga of love with chants and a vegetarian dinner. 7-9:30 pm. $15. Govinda’s Hall at the Hare Krishna Centre, 243 Avenue Rd. govindas.ca. rextreMe Wake series Daredevil wake boarders and water skiers perform. 3:30, 5:30 & 7:30 pm. Free. Ontario Place, 955 Lake Shore W. 416-314-9900.

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Urban ecology walk. 6:30 pm. Free. Queens Quay and Spadina. 416-593-2656. FRiday night RideS With CyCloPS Bike rides with performances by Cycling Oriented Puppet 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. SailoRS Wanted: leaRning the RoPeS Kids six to 12 learn how to make the knots needed on a tall ship. 2 pm. Free. Amesbury Park Library, 1565 Lawrence W. 416-395-5420.

Saturday, August 6

Benefits

rCoMMunity FaiR and JuMBo yaRd Sale

(Gower Park Place) Crafts, a kids’ play area, food, community info and a yard sale. 9 am-2 pm (rain or shine). Free. Courtyard, 10 Gower. 416-288-8140.

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Canada vS uSa RugBy MatCh The National

Senior Men’s Rugby Team plays the USA Eagles. 2 pm. $19.75 and up. BMO Field, Exhibition Place. 1-855-985-5000.

Nagasaki commemoration. 6:30 pm. Free. Church of the Holy Trinity, beside the Eaton Centre. myspace.com/hiroshimaday. rFRaMe By FRaMe All-ages pixillation workshop. Weekends through Aug. Noon-5 pm. Free. NFB Mediatheque, 150 John. 416973-3012. in the FootStePS oF ChaRleS diCKenS Guided walk of places where Dickens ate and slept while visiting in 1842. 3 pm. $25, stu/ srs $18, chld $15 (includes snacks). St Lawrence Market middle door, 93 Front E. Preregister 416-923-6813. rthe Kid hoP PRoJeCt A rhythm and rhyme workshop with Lefspek for kids zero to 10 and their parents is part of the J’adore Festival. 2 pm. Hotshot, 181 Augusta. hotshot.ca. rKidS’ CRaFtS Historically based crafts for kids of all ages. Today and tomorrow noon4:30 pm. Free w/ admission. Mackenzie House, 82 Bond. 416-392-6915. Mount denniS Heritage Toronto walking tour. 1:30 pm. Free. NW corner Eglinton and Weston. heritagetoronto.org. Phoenix PoetRy WoRKShoP Poetry meeting and workshop. 2:30-4:30 pm. College/ Shaw Library, 766 College. 416-393-7668. rPuPPy and Kitten WeeKend Meet vets, trainers and groomers. Today and tomorrow 11 am-5 pm. Free. PawsWays, 245 Queens Quay W. pawsway.ca.

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Walking tour to sample food from local restaurants and the sights around them. 1-3:30 pm. $40. Details at 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

Wine-tastings and panel discussion with wine experts including Norman Hardie and Christopher Waters. 1 pm. $60. Café Taste, 1330 Queen W. 416-536-7748. rSuMMeR viCtoRian extRavaganzaS Entertainment with the Scene Change youth players and more. Wknds through Aug. Noon-5 pm. Free w/ admission. Scarborough

Museum, 1007 Brimley. 416-338-8807. 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. toRonto SalSa PRaCtiCe No lesson, beginners to pros, no partner required. 3:30-5:30 or 5:30-8 pm. $5. Trinity-St. Paul’s Church, 427 Bloor W. torontosalsapractice.com.

What it taKeS to MaKe it in today’S MuSiC BuSineSS Seminar and panel with JAZZ.

FM91 hosts and music industry reps. Today and tomorrow 10 am-4 pm. Free. Long & McQuade, 925 Bloor W. jazz.fm.

Sunday, August 7

Benefits

yaRd Sale FundRaiSeR (Shameless Magazine) A yard sale, bake sale, on-site hair-cutting and more. 10 am-4 pm. Free. 862 College. shamelessmag.com.

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and a nature preserve to learn about edible flowers and herbs. 1:30 pm. $5, stu/srs $3, child $2. Todmorden Mills, Pottery E of Bayview. 416-396-2819. rBlaCK-Footed FeRRet day Learn about these amazing and endangered creatures. 9 am-7:30 pm. Free w/ admission. Toronto Zoo, Meadowvale N of 401. 416-392-5929.

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Workshop with Bravo!FACT’s Judy Gladstone. 1-3 pm. $10. NFB Mediatheque, 150 John. Pre-register 416-973-3012, meetup. com/screenwriters-240.

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Multimedia presentation on some of the planet’s most amazing creatures. 1:30, 3:30 & 5:30 pm. Free. Ontario Place, 955 Lake Shore W. 416-314-9900.

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Conservation Centre, 1749 Meadowvale. Pre-register 416-444-8419 ext 243. Running FRee! Running group for families who have a loved one with a mental health or addiction issue. Every Tue to Aug 30. 6 pm. Free. CAMH, rm 2029, 33 Russell. Preregister 416-535-8501 ext 2189. rSailoRS Wanted: Sea ShantieS Kids six to 12 learn songs that sailors use for work and play. 2 pm. Free. Burrows Hall Library, 1081 Progress. 416-396-8740. toRonto in the 20th CentuRy Guided walking tour. 7 pm. $10. E side of Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. Pre-register richard@muddyyorktours.com. tRue taleS International celebration of storytelling. 7 pm. Free. Drake, 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042.

Tour Graffiti Alley; laneway homes and more. Free. Pizza Pizza, Queen and Bathurst. info@graemeparry.com. natuRe’S Beauty ShoW Toronto Japanese Garden Club flower show and bonsai demos. Noon-4:30 pm. $5, childfren fre. Momji Senior Centre, 3555 Kingston. 416-444-3702. 99 MRKt Local food, craft and art market. 11 am-5 pm. Free. 99 Sudbury. 99sudbury. ca/99-mrkt. PaRKdale Guided ROM walk. 2 pm. Free. Parkdale Library, 1303 Queen W. rom.on.ca. 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 Leah Turner. 2 pm. Free. Power Plant, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949.

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Discussion on topics in the realm of atheism. 5 pm. Free. Jester on Yonge Tap and Grill, 1427 Yonge. cficanada.ca/ontario/events.

10,000 taSteS, 10 Billion ReaSonS (Farm Sanctuary/Toronto Vegetarian Assoc/We Animals/Snooters Farm Animal Sanctuary) Vegan food sampling, a lunch-hour concert and celebrity appearances (noon-6 pm, Yonge-Dundas Square, free) and a presentation by Farm Sanctuary co-founder Gene Bauer (7:30 pm, Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle, $26). empathy-unlimited. org/10billionreasons.

WinCheSteR StReet and the neCRoPoliS Heritage Toronto walk. 1:30 pm. Free. NE corner of Parliament and Winchester. heritagetoronto.org.

Monday, August 8

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clips with critic Adam Nayman. 7 pm. $12, stu $6. Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina. 416924-6211 ext 606. dRaWing FRoM the Model Life drawing session, no instruction. 6:30-9 pm. $5. Ralph Thornton Centre, 765 Queen E. 416-392-6810. Good for Her, 175 Harbord. Pre-register 416588-0900. RaStaFaRi, Reggae FilM & video Screenings of films and videos on Rastafarians and a Q&A. Today and tomorrow 6 pm. Free. York Woods Library, 1785 Finch W. 416-395-5980. 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.

diSCoveR WaRd 37 Ride Leisurely ride along the quiet streets of Scarborough. 6:30 pm. Free. Thompson Memorial Park, Brimley N of Lawrence. 416-288-0293. rKidS’ SCavengeR hunt Kids six to 12 explore the historic grounds of the Legislative Assembly through an outdoor scavenger hunt every Wed to Aug 31. 10:30-11 am. Free. Queen’s Park. Pre-register 416-325-7500. Milne holloW and the don RiveR Natural history walking tour. 7 pm. Free. Picnic benches by parking lot S side of Lawrence just E of DVP off ramp. Pre-register yourleaf.org. RoM and itS neighBouRS Guided ROM walk. 6 pm. Free. ROM’s Michael Lee-Chin Crystal, Boor and University. rom.on.ca. rRouge PaRK guided WalKS Explore the park’s trails Wednesdays and weekends. Free. rougepark.com/hike.

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Wilhelm Sasnal is a Polish painter and filmmaker whose work is featured in the current exhibition. We are pleased to present a screening of his work that includes the 35mm feature film Swineherd (2008, 86min) preceded by a selection of his short Super-8 films (1998 – 2003, 27min).

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Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 Symbolically speak-

ing, there is a Holy Grail hidden close to you, and you know it, but you haven’t been able to find it. The Grail is a golden chalice filled with medicine that could open what needs opening in you. Luckily, you will soon come into possession (symbolically speaking) of a big, thick magical wand that can give you a new advantage. Here’s what I conclude: use your wizard stick to locate the cup of wonder so you can take a big sip.

TAurus Apr 20 | May 20 Much of the

work you’re doing right now is invisible to the naked eye, maybe even to your own naked eye. You’re learning a lot while you sleep, drawing sustenance from hidden reservoirs even when you’re awake, and steadily improving yourself through the arts of creative forgetting and undoing. Continue this subtle artistry, Taurus. Be cagey. Be discreet. Don’t underestimate how important silence and even secrecy may be for you right now. The healing transformations unfolding in almost total darkness should not be exposed or revealed prematurely; they should be protected with vigilance.

GeMini May 21 | Jun 20 Either Way I’m

Celebrating. That’s the title of a poetry comic book by Sommer Browning, and I suggest that you consider it as a worthy title for your life in the coming days. The adventure you’re in the midst of could evolve in several possible directions, each with a different rhythm and tone, each with a distinct lesson and climax. But regardless of what path you end up taking, I’m almost positive you will have good reasons to throw yourself a party at the end. Having said that, though, I also advise you to decide which version of the story you prefer, then make it your strong intention to materialize it.

CAnCer Jun 21 | Jul 22 During the skunk

mating season, two robust members of the species made the crawl space beneath my house their trysting place. The result was spectacular. Siren-like squalls rose from their ecstasy, spiralling up into my kitchen accompanied by plumes of a stench that I imagined the Italian poet Dante, in his book The Inferno, might have identified as native to the ninth level of hell. Being as instinctively empathic as I am, I naturally appreciated how much delight the creatures were enjoying. At the same time, I wished they would take their revelry elsewhere. So I called on the Humane Society, an animal rescue group, to flush them out without harming them. If anything resembling this scenario takes place in your sphere, Cancerian – if someone’s pursuit of happiness cramps your style – I suggest you adopt my gentle but firm approach.

Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 Astronomer Sir Fred

Hoyle rejected the prevailing scientific theory that life on this planet emerged by accident from a primordial soup. The chance of that happening was as likely as “a tornado sweeping through a junkyard [and assembling] a Boeing 747 from the materials therein.” I do think that something less amazing but still semi-miraculous is in the works for you, Leo. What do you imagine it might be? I’m getting a vision of a windy thunderstorm blowing through a junkyard in such a way as to assemble an impressionistic sculpture of you wearing a crown of flowers and X-ray specs as you ride confidently on the back of a lion.

VirGo Aug 23 | sep 22 In the 1939 film

The Wizard Of Oz, the yellow brick road symbolizes a path leading to all of life’s answers, to a place where fantasies can be fulfilled. Dorothy and her companions follow that road in the belief it will take them to the all-powerful Wizard of Oz in the Emerald City. While I don’t mind you playing with the idea that you may eventually find your own personal yellow brick road, for the immediate future I urge you to adopt the attitude Elton John articulated in his song Goodbye Yellow Brick Road: “Oh I’ve finally decided my future lies beyond the yellow brick road.” It’s time to add more nuts-and-bolts pragmatism to your pursuit of happiness.

LibrA sep 23 | oct 22 Some readers get

enraged about the “crafty optimism” I advocate in my book Pronoia Is The Antidote For Paranoia. Given what they regard as the miserable state of the world, they feel it’s a sin to look for reasons to be cheerful. One especially dour critic said that after reading a few pages of the book, he took it out in his backyard, doused it with gasoline and incinerated it. You may face similar opposition in your attempts to foment redemption, smoke out hope and rally the troops, Libra. I urge you to be extra fierce in your devotion to peace, love and understanding.

sCorpio oct 23 | nov 21 Of all the adversaries I will ever face, my ego is the supreme challenge. It tries to trick me into thinking its interests are exactly the same as my own. It periodically strives to bamboozle me into believing that I should be motivated by pride, competitiveness, selfishness or judgmental evaluations of other people. When I’m not vigilant, it lulls me into adopting narrow perspectives and subjective theories that are rife with delusions about the nature of reality. Don’t get me wrong: I still love my ego. Indeed, being on good terms with it is my only hope for keeping it from manipulating me. I bring this up, Scorpio, because it’s prime time for you to come to a riper understanding of your own ego so you can work out a tougher, more no-nonsense agreement with it. sAGiTTArius nov 22 | Dec 21 Sagittar-

ian author Derrick Jensen wrote the book A Language Older Than Words. He weaves together the tale of his abusive childhood with an angry analysis of the damage human beings have done to the earth and each other. It’s a wrenching text, but in the end it offers redemp-

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tion. A review by Publisher’s Weekly says that “Jensen’s book accomplishes the rare feat of both breaking and mending the reader’s heart.” I invite you to pursue a similar possibility, Sagittarius. Summon the courage to allow your heart to be broken by a blessed catharsis that will ultimately heal your heart so it’s even stronger and smarter than it was before the breaking.

CApriCorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 Right now

you may be feeling especially squeezed by one of the apparent contradictions in your life. But I’m here to tell you that it’s not as contradictory as you think. Its seemingly paradoxical elements are in righteous harmony with each other at a higher level of understanding. Can you rise to that higher level so as to see what has been hidden from your view? I believe you can. For best results, let go of any temptation you might have to act as if you’re oppressively defined by your past.

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AquArius Jan 20 | Feb 18 Psychologist and priest David Rickey counsels people who are about to be married. “You are perfectly mismatched,” he likes to tell them. “As much as you think you have chosen each other because of beauty or shared interests, the deeper reason is that unconsciously you know the other person is going to push your buttons. And the purpose of relationships is for you to discover and work on your buttons.” I share Rickey’s views and offer them to you just in time to make maximum use of their wisdom. You see, Aquarius, you’re in a phase when you have extraordinary power to learn from and adjust to the challenges that come from having your buttons pushed by those you care about.

pisCes Feb 19 | Mar 20 In his song Crazy, British singer Seal repeats the following line numerous times for emphasis: “We’re never going to survive unless we get a little crazy.” I recommend it as a mantra for you to rely on in the coming days. Your emotional health will depend on your ability to laugh at yourself, play along with absurdity and cultivate a grateful reverence for cosmic riddles. Being a little crazy will not only keep you robustly sane; it will also allow you to enjoy and capitalize on the divine comedy life presents you with. Homework: Imagine you have time-travelled to one of your favourite places in the year 2020. What do you see? Tell me at Freewillastrology.com.

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DESIGN JUNCTION

After months of they-like-us, theyreally-like-us hype and antsy anticipation, 2011’s three big international retail arrivals are finally firming up their opening dates. J.Crew (jcrew.com) is first out of the gate, launching at Yorkdale (3401 Dufferin, yorkdale.com) August 18. Just in time for TIFF, Intermix (intermixonline.com) debuts at Bloor and Avenue Road in the first week of September. And after teasing us with its Jonathan+Olivia shop-in-shop and a series of pop-ups, the first full-scale Canadian Topshop (topshop.com) location is unveiled at The Bay (thebay. com) in Yorkdale on October 5.

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The Junction neighbourhood, centred around the intersection of Keele and Dundas West, is developing a pretty distinct design identity with its growing number of salvaged and vintage furniture shops (SMASH, Mrs. Huizenga, Forever Interiors) and contemporary style destinations (Mjölk, Russet & Empire, Opticianado, Narwhal). See the evolution for yourself on Friday (August 5), when all those stores and more open from 7 to 11 pm for the first Junction Design Crawl ( junctiondesigncrawl.com).

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The end-of-season deals are continuing at some of our favourite boutiques. Spring merch, including printed scarves, dresses, tunics and canvas totes are now reduced 30 per cent at Virginia Johnson (132 Ossington, 416516-3366, virginiajohnson.com). At Robber (863 Queen West, 647-3510724, robberstore.wordpress.com), the 25 to 60 per cent discount picks include F-Troupe sneakers and Dace womenswear. Eco-friendly fashion fans can find green women’s and men’s buys marked down 25 to 60 per cent at Thieves (1156 Queen West, 647-4354880, thieves.ca), while bra boosters enjoy 40 to 70 per cent markdowns at Secrets from your Sister (560 Bloor West, 416-538-1234; and 2501 Yonge, 416-482-8007, secretsfromyoursister. com). And for the boys, Theodore 1922’s (497 Bloor West, 416-850-0175, theodore1922.com) menswear from Eton, Sand, J. Lindberg, Dirk Bikkembergs and more is half-price. 3

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wewant… want… WE SURE CAN! The arrival of more varied Ontario produce options at your local grocer must mean canning season is upon us. Another clue? Toronto style writer Sarah B. Hood is launching her home preserving and pickling opus We Sure Can! ($24.95, Arsenal Pulp Press) at the Leslieville Farmers’ Market (Jonathan Ashbridge Park, Queen East between Greenwood and Coxwell, leslievillemarket.com) Sunday (August 7) from 9 am to 2 pm. The book includes how-to tips and innovative recipes like lilac jelly, carrot-rhubarb jam and pickled sour cherries.

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Organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario in collaboration with the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris. All artwork is by General Idea. © 2011 General Idea, active 1969–1994. Above(clockwise): Baby Makes 3, 1984–1989. Chromogenic print, 76.2 x 63.5 cm. Collection General Idea, Toronto/New York. | Process of Elimination, 1991. Acrylic, enamel and copperleaf on canvas, 259 x 259.2 cm. Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. Gift of Don and Sandra Simpson, 2001. | P is for Poodle, 1983–1989. Lacquer on vinyl, 200 x 160 cm. Image courtesy of Galerie Frédéric Giroux, Paris. | Mondo Kane Kama Sutra, 1984. Set of 10, fluorescent acrylic on canvas, each 243.8 x 304.8 cm x 10 cm. Image courtesy of Galerie Frédéric Giroux, Paris. | Felix Partz Presents V.B. Gown #3 at Toronto City Hall, c. 1975–1977. Silver print, 25.4 x 20.3 cm. | AIDS (Installation view), 1988. Acrylic on canvas, 243.7 x 243.7 cm. Collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. Gift of Robert and Lynn Simpson, 1997. Image by Carlo Catenazzi.

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rive a good 45 minutes after we’ve ordered. But what spectacular plates. A pair of tortilla-wrapped enchiladas ($8.50) stuffed with shredded chipotlebraised beef brisket, melted mozzarella and pickled shallots swim in a pool of smoky grilled tomato and guajillo pepper sauce, a crumble of Hewitt Dairy feta and a runny egg to

finish. Another runny egg joins a link of spicy chorizo from the Portuguese butcher down the block over a terrific hash of diced new potatoes, fennel and watercress doused with jalapeño salsa verde ($9.50). Perfectly à point spears of grilled asparagus in a mole sauce ($10) ride a bed of fresh La Tortilleria tortillas impressively dressed with vegan refried beans, meaty oyster mushrooms, lime-pickled red onions, raw radish ’n’ jalapeño and a last-minute drizzle of crema-fresca-style yogurt. But it’s chef Gawalko’s towering torta ($11) that really brings down the

house, a skyscraping burger-like sandwich stacked with slow-roasted pork belly, crunchy chicharrones crackling, avocado, coleslaw and the inevitable runny egg on a Brazilian bun, the whole thing so tall it needs a chopstick to hold it together. Wash it down with mugs of minty house-made lemonade ($2.50) and you won’t need dinner. Calleros plans to make some muchneeded improvements to his quirky café. Some nibbles to make the wait go down faster and dessert might help. And just think what they could do with a four-burner stove! 3 stevend@nowtoronto.com

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Contemporary French ORTOLAN LE CANARD MORT 1211 Bloor W, at Margueretta, 647ñ 896 Queen E, at Logan, 416-625-2653, 348-4500, littledrunkbird.com. Although they don’t serve the illegal roasted French bird drowned in Armagnac that gives this Bloordale bistro its name, owner/chefs Damon Clements and Daniel Usher’s unusually short contemporary card is just as extraordinary. Low tax-inclusive prices, only 26 seats and a no-reservations policy mean the chances of snagging one of them is nigh on impossible come prime time. Good news: they’re now air-conditioned! Best: starters like rabbit rillettes spread on chewy Thuet baguette; grilled spring onions with garlicky Catalan almond-chili sauce; red radish and kohlrabi salad in lemony cumin-yogurt dressing; mains like house-made gnocchi in mascarpone cream, wild mushrooms and shaved parmigiano; sliced skirt steak in spicy harissa with wilted celery; lavender panna cotta with stewed strawberries; rhubarb spritzers. Complete dinners for $45 per person, including tax, tip and a glass of wine. Average main $16. Open Tuesday to Saturday 5 to 10:30 pm. Closed Sunday, Monday, holidays. No reservations. Licensed. Access:

lecanardmort.ca. Sister to Le Rossignol, this Leslieville gastropub plays it safe – a mostly rustic French card, well-trained service, and prices that make dinner out Tuesday the sensible thing to do. Microbrews and cocktails galore, kid-friendly and weekend brunch, too? Take that, Joy Bistro and Lady Marmalade! Best: crisply deep-fried sweetbreads splashed with hot sauce and dipped in blue cheese aioli à la Buffalo chicken wings; retro escargots vol-au-vents; Perth County pork chops with caramelized shallots, al dente green beans and Dijon mashed potatoes; lobster pot pie thick with baby veg in béchamel; mac & cheese finished with freshly shaved truffle. Complete dinners for $45 per person, including tax, tip and a beer cocktail. Average main $18. Open Monday and Tuesday 5 pm to midnight, Wednesday and Thursday 11 am to midnight, Friday 11 am to 2 am, Saturday 9 am to 2 am, Sunday 9 am to midnight. Brunch Saturday and Sunday till 3 pm. Licensed. Access: one step at door, wash-

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326 Adelaide W, at Peter, 647-352-5773, khaosanroad.ca. Cousin to Regent Park’s Sukhothai, Jeff and Nuit Regular’s boho Bangkok trat brings regional Thai cuisine to the heart of condoland. And while the digs have moved upmarket, the food’s as fiery as ever. True heat-lovers ask for everything “Thai spicy” with extra hot sauce on the side. Reservations essential for dinner Thursday through Sunday. Best: ketchup-free takes on pad thai, a monochromatic stir-fry of rice noodles, bean sprouts, scrambled egg and either chicken, beef or pressed tofu spiked with roasted chilies; Khao Soi, linguini-like noodles topped with chicken or beef in bright coconut gravy; vegan Pad Kee Mao with raw green chilies; purposefully bland tapioca; Thai Buckets — whisky, Red Bull and coke sold by the pail. Complete dinners for $30 per person (lunches $20), including tax, tip and a beer. Average main $13/$10. Open Monday to Saturday for lunch 11:30 am to 2:30 pm, dinner 5 to 10 pm. Closed Sunday, some holidays. Licensed. Access: five steps at door, washrooms on same floor. Rating: NNN✺ 3

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Chef Paul Boehmer of the eponymous Ossington boîte finally launched his Bohemian Gastro Pub (571 Queen West, at Portland) last Saturday, July 30. Located in the old Oh Boy burger bistro, the new resto is a partnership with chef de cuisine Christopher Scott of College Street’s L.A.B. Aldo and Marcello Barone’s Bar One at Queen and Shaw has called it a day after a successful 11-year run, an eternity on the hip west-side strip. And long-running second-storey dim sum spot Cha Liu on Yonge north of Eglinton has been shuttered due to lease issues.

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After being shuttered for two months, the Rose Café – now rebranded Rose’s Vietnamese Sandwiches (601 Gerrard East, at Broadview, 416-406-9906) – has finally relaunched around the corner from its original digs in Chinatown East. Why the move? “The property taxes were just too much,” says the perpetually effervescent Rose Psam. “So I sold the building and got something a little smaller.” Regulars should be advised that the prices for Rose’s exemplary banh mi sandwiches are now slightly higher.

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Opening a new restaurant these days is no easy matter, what with all the mandatory blogs, tweets and Facebook page updates involved. And then there’s the food. Barely a month old, Brittany Peglar and Colin Reed’s everyday brunch spot Hammersmith’s (807 Gerrard East, at Logan, 416-792-9043, hammersmiths. wordpress.com) has got the first part down, having already been profiled in every media outlet in town. Shame that the same attention to creating a buzz hasn’t been paid to some of the grub. We’ve come to the one-time Logan Grill expecting “Ontario asparagus, eggs and miso butter” and “cured salmon, sweet pea, fennel and pine nuts” but find eggs, more eggs and a chicken salad sandwich ($10) instead. Which came first? we wonder. No one bothers to ask how we’d like either our steak or eggs ($13 with bacon hash), the latter arriving sunny side up with sad broken yolks, the latter well done on the outside and blood-rare within. An omelette stuffed with tasty mushrooms ($9 with salad) appears to have been made with Egg Beaters, but they turn out to be freerange and naturally fluorescent yellow. But a side of unusually meaty sausage ($6) from Leslieville’s Sausage Partners deserves to be a main, and exDrake pastry sous chef Peglar’s phe-

What used to cost $1.75 – shredded deep-fried tofu on flaky French buns dressed with raw carrot strips, fresh coriander sprigs and optional hellaciously hot Thai bird chilies – is now an exorbitant 2 bucks! “Tell everybody that everything else is the same,” insists Psam.

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When New York Subway closed for renovations last spring, some – okay, yours truly – doubted the storefront take-away at Queen and Portland would ever reopen, such was the state of the building. But the terrific Indian burrito joint is scheduled to reopen in late August. Look for a much-improved space and a new early-morning bacon SD ’n’ egg breakfast card.

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Rating: NNNNN Yeah, I know. Me and my 5N reviews for Gillian Welch. I can’t help it. The Nashville-based folk musician and her partner David Rawlings are at the top of their game, which their sold-out Phoenix show reflected. Impeccable musicianship. Soft harmonies. Easygoing, witty banter. Moving renditions of The Harrow & The Harvest songs as well as older favourites like No One Knows My Name, I Want To Sing That Rock And Roll and Look At Miss Ohio. On a bare stage (not even an amp to be seen), Welch sang her slow, melancholy melodies while strumming chords alongside Rawlings’s exceptional acoustic guitar picking. For Six White Horses, he switched to banjo while she percussively slapped her thighs and – say what? – danced a jig. The chilling Tennessee made jaws drop. A left-field cover of Jefferson Airplane’s White Rabbit ended the second encore and brought the venue’s disco ball to life.

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Rating: NNNN When promoters bring obscure disco DJ pioneers to town for the first time, you never know what to expect. Sometimes DJs make too much of an effort to modernize their sound and miss the mark, or just throw down a predictable mix of the same club classics you hear all the time. But once in a while you get someone who’s secure enough to just do what he or she does best, which is exactly what Italo-disco veteran Beppe Loda brought to the table at this dark, sweaty loft party. Italo-disco has enjoyed a resurgence in the past decade for its quirky electronic minimalism, but what you learn from hearing a DJ like Loda is that

those cold, synth-based records sound even better when mixed up with soulful American underground classics and trippy percussion-fuelled worldbeat funk jams. He may have looked old enough to be the grandfather of many on the dance floor, but Loda’s local debut after almost four decades of mixing records proved that he’s much more than a historical curiosity. BENJAMIN BOLES

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Rating: NNNN It’s hard to picture the Reused, Repurposed, Re-Imagined, Reclaimed & Reframed Trash Art & Music Festival happening anywhere in Toronto other than Kensington Market, and it was a great example of just how delightfully weird this city can be. A giant garbage sculpture of a phoenix loomed above the makeshift stage, and the dusty parking lot felt more like the Burning Man festival than the middle of a major city, but with more of a punk than a hippy vibe,

thanks to Brooklyn duo Japanther’s high-octane headlining set. Considering that they’re just two dudes, it’s always impressive how thick a wall of sound they make. And while the outdoor setting meant they weren’t nearly as brutally loud as they are in a club, the lower volume highlighted the melodic pop aspects of the band that often get overlooked. The lineup of talent over the rest of the day was extraordinarily eclectic, which made for a mixed audience who nevertheless shared the kind of communitybuilding spirit the event aimed to BB inspire.

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ultimately Lil Wayne, Stevie Wonder, Nas and J. Cole showed up to help Toronto’s biggest rapper elevate his hometown hero status. Celebrity guests aside, Drake was charismatic but delivered an uneven performance. His five-piece band kept the music continuous, playing loudly as he stoked the crowd with T-dot shout-outs and hits. His music is often about a particular emotion, but his transitions between slow-burners and bangers were awkward – as when an overwrought violin solo ushered in a snoozy soft rock segment that ended with a Santana-esque bass guitar solo. However, whenever a guest star appeared, the pacing issues became distant memories. Nas made it look effortless, but the mood turned from raucous to reverential when Stevie Wonder took over. Many in the young crowd were at a loss for the soul legend’s call-and-response commands but knew exactly what to do when Lil Wayne bounded onstage in a frantic KEVIN RITCHIE fury. NOW AUGUST 4-10 2011

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Theatre (100A Ossington), from tonight (Thursday, August 4) to August 13. $10. RT, SS. Opening party in the Art Bar/ MOCCA Courtyard (952 Queen West), tonight (Thursday, August 4), from 6 pm. Free. summerworks.ca.

The SummerWorks Music Series has established itself as more than just an afterthought to the theatre festival, and this year’s is better than ever. Over the next two weeks, a ton of established local acts will perform at the Lower Ossington Theatre, while upand-comers like upbeat soul-garagerocker Patti Cake play the free kickoff party tonight in the MOCCA Courtyard. Even though Patti Cake’s been together less than a year, lead singer/ songwriter Kritty Uranowski appears to have few doubts about their ability to stand out from the pack of 60s girlgroup-influenced rock bands. “I’m not too worried about sounding derivative, because I’ve got a voice that’s actually suited to [the genre],” she says, chuckling. “I see a lot of girls doing this, but I can actually sing. Okay, that’s kind of rude and I didn’t mean it like that, but it’s true.” Yeah, that sounds cocky, but take a listen to Patti Cake’s self-released EP, The Prime Minister Of Cool Chicks, and tell her she’s wrong. Uranowski’s big, soulful pipes immediately grab your attention, and the Motown and country influences breathe new life into the punked-up Phil Spector formula. They’ve also got oodles of sunny, bouncy energy, though much of the material had much mellower, darker beginnings. “I went through a horrible breakup,

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made a fort out of my bed, wrote all these depressing country ballads and then sped them up and turned them into pop songs.” At the other end of the spectrum, Toronto electro-dancehall duo Bonjay (Saturday, August 6) are a familiar name locally and recently caught critics’ attention overseas while writing their full-length debut in Berlin. The UK music press seems especially receptive to their cross-genre approach. “Someone called us ‘The xx meets Major Lazer,’ which is ridiculous but gives you an idea of how hungry the UK press is for something new,” says beatsmith Ian Swain (aka DJ Pho). “It helps that a lot of arty but accessible musicians from Toronto are making waves over there right now. We saw names like Austra, Egyptrixx, Azari & III, the Weeknd and Crystal Castles everywhere,” adds

vocalist Alanna Stuart. “Even though we only released a single on a small label, being from here has piqued some interest.” Removing themselves from Toronto to write has proved particularly productive – they’re returning with about 30 rough sketches to sift through. Stuart says that forcing herself to bang out ideas without over-thinking them has allowed the duo to better explore their possibilities. “I had always feared that working quickly was a less artistic method. But what I’ve learned is that when I go back and listen to my ideas, my gut tells me which ones are special. Frequently, things that were confounding before turn crystal-clear with time.” 3

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MONTREAL – If there was any doubt that Osheaga is Canada’s biggest music festival, it was shattered on its first night. The six-year-old event has had its attention-grabbing headliners in the past, but this year’s expensive coup, Detroit rap juggernaut Eminem (Rating: nnnn), overshadowed all of them, bringing out a record-shattering 38,000 fans on Friday night, many of whom made the pilgrimage from all over the country (yes, even Toronto). Eminem’s career-spanning set suited the big-ticket atmosphere, but it made the other acts feel a bit like glorified openers. Janelle Monáe’s (nnnn) all-encompassing bizarro-funk performance – which included everything from choreography to costumes – should have been a scene-stealer, but for many festival-goers she was just filling time before the headliner. Osheaga may have blown its budget on the first day; Saturday’s so-called headliners, Elvis Costello & the Imposters (nn), managed to drive crowds away in droves. Watching Costello play bona fide rock classics to such a sparse group just felt awkward. But that left the field wide open for lower-billed performers to shine, and many of them seized the opportunity. Ratatat’s (nnnn) organically played set of electro-pop, for instance, would have been an epic side-stage dance

party if there’d been room to move. Saturday also saw the return of recently reunited Toronto duo Death from Above 1979 (nnnn) to Canadian soil, and they made up for five years of lost time with a non-stop blast of lowend punk and roll fury. The last weekend of July is a busy one for entertainment in Montreal, but Montreal Electronic Groove (MEG) has managed to sidestep that problem by positioning itself as a loosely affiliated Osheaga after-fest. A high-profile MEG late-night DJ set by LCD Soundsystem principals James Murphy and Pat Mahoney brought out a dedicated group of disco lovers to L’Olympia late Saturday night. That left many groggy on Sunday, and daytime programming seemed to reflect that. Cypress Hill (nnn) spent their afternoon set (starting at 4:20, naturally) leading a festival-wide smokeout, while Beirut’s (nnn) lugubrious Balkan-tinged indie pop acted as a soundtrack to the hot sun. Closing out the festival in technicolour grandeur, the Flaming Lips (nnnn) used every psychedelic weapon in their arsenal – confetti cannons, laser hands, costumes and trippy LED displays – for a front-to-back retelling of their 1999 classic, The Soft Bulletin. The album’s mortality-obsessed subject matter isn’t the aptest material for a celebration, but the band turned it into a brightly lit ode to living every moment like it’s your last. And for Osheaga, it was. 3

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Despite critical adulation, Kanye West collaborations and commercial success, Justin Vernon is still in love with small-town life By CARLA GILLIS BON IVER with the ROSEBUDS at Sound Academy (11 Polson), Monday (August 8), doors 8 pm. $35-$45. Sold out.

when i reach justin vernon, the musician behind bon Iver, he’s wandering around his small hometown of Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Specifically, he’s dropped off his car at the detail shop and is now awaiting its return. “I’m trying to make this 2003 Honda CR-V situation happen for another few years,” he explains. “It’s been with me for a long time. My mom sold it to me in 2005, and I’ve driven it across many countries. I can’t really give up on it.” Kind of like his relationship with Eau Claire, where he still lives despite his experimental folk project’s great success. “That’s exactly right,” Vernon laughs. “Don’t speak too much truth around me.” He’s joking, of course, though the remark’s worth considering. Truth actually seems to be exactly what the acclaimed singer/songwriter with the haunting, soulful falsetto is after. In conversation, he’s humble, candid and thoughtful. He gives out his cellphone number to the press, and his publicist doesn’t micro-manage his interviews. When I admit to being a big fan, he says, “I appreciate that. I’ve become close friends with people whose music fucking rearranged my life. Music is fucking special and it’s a gift to all of us, and I don’t think I feel somehow more important than you.” But back to Eau Claire. Place is the major theme in Vernon’s music, evident more than ever on his self-titled sophomore masterpiece out on Jagjaguwar. Including first single Calgary, seven of its 10 songs are named for cities, mostly fictional but real-sounding: Hinnom, TX; Lisbon, OH; Minnesota, WI; Michicant. But no city inspires him more than his hometown. “When I first started writing songs, I was like, ‘I love the hills and the lakes,’” he says. “Eau Claire is my perspective and context always. I’m 30 now, and there are definitely times when I’m like, ‘What in the fuck am I still doing here?’ I’m the only one in my family who even lives here any more. But at the

same time, I love it. It’s simple. It doesn’t require anything from me.” Since Bon Iver’s debut album, For Emma, Forever Ago, was released in 2007, each passing year has required more and more of Vernon. That sparse solo album, famously written in a wintry cabin in the aftermath of a band and relationship breakup and while Vernon was battling mononucleosis, landed him on the Jagjaguwar and 4AD rosters as well as the bestof lists of major critics and countless fans. Its follow-up EP, Blood Bank, features the mesmerizing Auto-Tune experiment Woods that captured the attention of Kanye West. Vernon lent his vocals (and samples of Woods) to the hip-hop star’s chart-smashing My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy album from last year. It all means Vernon’s in an entirely different league this time around – fielding interviews with the New York Times, appearing on late-night talk shows and selling out concerts on his North American tour, even when the venues are as large as Sound Academy, which he hits on Monday (August 8), and on his fall European tour. Both see Toronto-based alt-country star Kathleen Edwards – his girlfriend, whose new album he produced (see sidebar) – in some of the opening slots. And yet the new album reveals an artist doing anything but

Music is fucking special and it’s a gift to all of us, and I don’t think I feel somehow more important than you – Justin Vernon repeating a winning formula or hesitating to take chances. Self-produced in a studio built by Vernon and his brother just outside of Eau Claire – 3 miles from the house he grew up in and 10 minutes from the bar where his parents met – it’s bold, ambitious and provocatively synth- and horn-steeped but keeps intact the fragile emotion, impressionistic lyrics and wounded falsetto that made us fall so hard for him in the first place. The album grew from the song Perth, which he immediately knew would be the opening track “because that weird artiscontinued on page 36 œ

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tic click happened where I went, ‘Well, you just wrote the first song on your new record.’ There’s no way around it. I was like, ‘Well, shit, I guess I’m making kind of a heavy metal record.’” While the new release is decidedly not a heavy metal record in the typical sense, it is heavy. Much of that comes from the sheer number of participating musicians – 16, including Polaris Prize-nominated saxophonist Colin Stetson. (Nine back him up on the tour, including his regular bandmates Michael Noyce, Sean Carey and Matthew McCaughan.) Vernon’s involvement with the 25-plus-member Gayngs and six-member Volcano Choir, plus his numerous collaborations, hinted at large-scale aspirations, yet the album’s elegant density still comes as a marked departure from the debut. To Vernon, though, it’s a natural next step. “My whole life, I’ve been fortunate enough to be part of very large bands,” Vernon explains. “My high school band had nine people. My high school jazz band had 28 people. There’s a power that happens with large ensembles of music. “Seeing how Kanye was allowing all these people he liked to do things, seeing how Ryan Olson of Gayngs does that – that [sense of collaboration] resounds with me. Not only does it inspire me, but it also makes sense to me. It’s what I’ve always wanted to do. I’m so grateful for the opportunity to make this record, and for having the time, money and space to do it.” Also changed is his songwriting style. He took a non-traditional approach after

discovering he could no longer make acoustic-guitar-centric/verse-chorusverse songs work for him. Instead, he often took a single sound – he uses the example of an improvised saxophone pass caught on tape while Stetson was figuring out a part – and built it into a song in the studio in a “constructionalist” way that gives it a “mystery and notso-obvious feel.” The approach works entirely by feel and instinct and, Vernon admits, requires lots of editing and reworking. What hasn’t changed, however, is his ability to channel his fears into sonic beauty the way he did with For Emma, Forever Ago, when he was lonely, sick and isolated. “The success was scary in a way,” says Vernon, “coming from where I came from and seeing how the record took off and not really feeling like I had a choice in the matter. Not that I was bummed. I enjoyed the success and that I was able to be a musician finally. But there was kind of a general anxiety. “And so I used this record to dig down in the earth and really centre myself. Even when I wasn’t at home, when I was on the road, I’d have these snippets of ideas. I noticed how when I listened to them, they made me feel better. They made me feel closer to home, closer to the earth. Safer. They really became a companion to me, honestly. “I made the record I always wanted to make. I couldn’t be prouder.” 3 music@nowtoronto.com

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Working with Vernon leads to love for Kathleen Edwards Before Kathleen Edwards met co-producer Justin Vernon, she knew she wanted to take a different approach for her fourth album. “I wanted to do something with a far less ‘Canadian singer/songwriter’ angle,” says the Torontobased musician over the phone from her parents’ farm in Perth, Ontario. “I wanted it to reflect more of the records I really like.” Recently, those include ones by the Long Winters, David Bazan’s Curse Your Branches and the National’s High Violet – all much closer to indie rock than the alt-country Edwards is known for. Ever fearless, she contacted the Long Winters’ John Roderick and embarked on songwriting sessions with him in Seattle. “I wanted to collaborate in a way I’d never done before and just try new things. Eventually, that led me to Justin.” Vernon had openly cited her music as an influence on his own, and the two hit it off so well that they began dating during the recording sessions. Describing his sound as “a cloudy orchestra,” Edwards says you can definitely hear his influence on her record, which he also played on. So what did she learn from her time in his newly built Wisconsin studio, April Base? “That I’m in love with him!” she says, with a laugh. “But also just… I’ve had the lux-

ury of recording with exceptional gear and exceptional sound engineers who can get the purist sound out of a guitar amp. Working with Justin was different. His approach is much more about the actual sound that’s happening rather than the process of capturing it. And then he gets inside that sound and fucks with it, and it starts to become whatever he probably had in mind from the start. “Mostly, though, nothing was precious. Nothing was like, ‘It has to be this way.’ Recording with him was revelatory and the most amazing experience of my life.” The as-yet-untitled album comes out on Maple/Universal in January 2012. A 7-inch featuring one album song plus Wapusk, which she wrote for the film/soundtrack National Parks Project and was the first song she and Vernon ever recorded together, comes out in early September. CARLA GILLIS

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clubs&concerts SUMMERWORKS OPENING PARTY w/ Light Fires, the Elwins, Patti Cake, Choir! Choir! Choir!, Raoul and the Big Time, Modern Superstitions Mocca Courtyard (952 Queen West), tonight (Thursday, August 4) See preview, page 30.

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w/ Steven McKay, Hooded Fang Lower Ossington Theatre (100A Ossington), Friday (August 5) See preview, page 30.

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Mod Club (722 College), Friday (August 5) Eclectic disco-inspired dance tunes.

SUMMERWORKS MUSIC SERIES w/ Lioness, Bonjay Lower Ossington Theatre (100A Ossington), Saturday (August 6) See preview, page 30.

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w/ House League, Great Bloomers Lower Ossington Theatre (100A Ossington), Wednesday (August 10) See preview, page 30.

Sound Academy (11 Polson), Wednesday (August 10) Southern rap veteran.

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The Garrison (1197 Dundas West), Tuesday (August 9) Fuzzy guitar rock brats.

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Phoenix (410 Sherbourne), tonight (Thursday, August 4) See Owen Pallett preview, page 44. Echo Beach (909 Lake Shore West), Friday (August 5) Cheerful summertime pop music.

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Hoxton (69 Bathurst), Saturday (August 6) Brazilian DJ duo play new club opening.

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The Bovine Sex Club (542 Queen West), Monday (August 8) See preview, page 40.

BON IVER, THE ROSEBUDS Sound Academy (11 Polson), Monday (August 8) See cover story, page 34.

Thursday, August 4 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL

FOO FIGHTERS, DOUGHBOYS, FUCKED UP

ALLEYCATZ Lady Kane. AMSTERDAM BREWERY Open Roof

Air Canada Centre (40 Bay), Tuesday (August 9) See preview, page 40.

Lia Ices

One of the best songs on Grown Unknown, Lia Ices’s second album, is the gripping Daphne, which features NOW cover boy Justin Vernon (see story, page 47). And as lovely as Vernon’s yearning vocal turn is, even more of the song’s appeal comes from Ices’s otherworldly voice, spacious arrangements and fascinating verses. It’ll be exciting to see how the Brooklynite pulls it off live. At the Rivoli (332 Queen West), Tuesday (August 9), 8 pm. $12-$15. RT, SS.

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PAUL BRADY Hugh’s Room 8:30 pm, $47.50-$50. September 25.

Jam Artist Showcase Mod Club doors 7 pm, $20-$25. PDR. honeyjam.com. August 11.

YUCK Horseshoe doors 8 pm, $13.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. September 25.

THE BIG SOUND, MAYLEE TODD & PEGWEE POWER, DJS JOHN KONG, NASTY NAV, PAUL E LOPES, CIRCLE RESEARCH Do Right! Summer Session The

DRAG THE RIVER Hard Luck Bar doors 9

LEE BURRIDGE Footwork. August 20. DJS STARTING FROM SCRATCH, DJ WRISPECT, BONJAY, DJ P-PLUS, PAUL E LOPES Skratch Bastid First Annual BBQ Steam Whistle Brewing 3 to 10 pm, $15. PDR, RT, SS. skratchbasttid.com/bastidsbbq. August 20.

EMPIRE OF THE SUN, MIAMI HORROR Walking On A Dream Tour Echo Beach

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doors 7 pm, all ages, $39.50. RT, SS, TM. September 13.

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LAURA MARLING The Great Hall doors 8

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RAMBLIN’ JACK ELLIOTT Hugh’s Room 8:30 pm, $37.50-$42.50. September 24. THE THRONE (KANYE WEST & JAYZ) Watch The Throne Tour Air Canada Centre $tba. September 24.

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pm, $13.50. RT, SS. October 1.

THE DRUMS Mod Club 7:30 pm, $16. RT, SS, TW. October 1.

JONATHAN RICHMAN W/ TOMMY LARKINS Revival. doors 8:30 pm, $20. TW.

October 5 and 6.

COBRA SKULLS Hard Luck Bar doors 8:30

pm, $13.50. RT, SS. October 8.

THE AGGROLITES Lee’s Palace doors 9 pm, $16.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. October 15. NEON INDIAN Lee’s Palace doors 8 pm, $15. HS, RT, SS, TM. October 18.

THRICE Phoenix Concert Theatre doors

6:30 pm, all ages, $tba. RT, SS, TM. October 20.

FOUR YEAR STRONG, GALLOWS, TITLE FIGHT, THE SWELLERS, SHARKS The AP Tour Phoenix Concert The-

atre doors 6 pm, all ages, $18.50. RT, SS, TW. October 21.

COLOUR REVOLT, EMPIRES The Gar-

rison doors 8 pm, $12.50. RT, SS, TM, UE. October 24.

MIYAVI Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 8 pm, all ages, $40.75. RT, SS, TM. October 30.

Festival Movie Series Wilderness of Manitoba 7:30 pm. ANNEX WRECKROOM Die Mannequin, Halter Stone, Crooked Valentine, Modified 7 pm, all ages. BOVINE SEX CLUB The Real Deal, the Waffle Stompers, Staylefish. BREAD & CIRCUS Break Bread Ess, Junia T, Nizam, Sarah Jordan, Chattrisse, Identity Crisis 9 pm. CADILLAC LOUNGE Brian Lee & the Blues Power Band. CAMERON HOUSE Fedora Upside Down 10 pm. CAMERON HOUSE BACK ROOM Rosie Burgess Trio. C’EST WHAT ACM Checklist (alt rock) 9 pm. CLINTON’S Toast, Juice, BF Soul, Philthy T’s Streetmeat w/ Large Live n’ Direct (funk/ soul/jam band). ECHO BEACH Through The Decades: 1990s Rearview Mirror (Pearl Jam tribute) 7:30, 9 and 10:30 pm. EL MOCAMBO EP release Old Major, the Mip Power Trio, Nadia Bashalani 9 pm.

ELEVEN SUPERIOR PRESENTATION CENTRE Mimico By The Lake Summer Music Kitchen Party Andrea Henry 7 to 10 pm.

LONEY DEAR Drake Hotel doors 8 pm, $13.50. RT, SS. November 5. BLUE SCHOLARS, BAMBU Wrongbar

doors 8 pm, $15. PDR, RT, SS, TM, UE. November 7.

LYKKE LI, FIRST

AID KIT Sound Academy doors 8 pm, $30$40. HS, RT, SS, TM. November 15. THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT, MONA Phoenix Con-

cert Theatre doors 8 pm, $24.50. RT, SS, TW. November 15.

TORI AMOS Massey Hall doors 7 pm, $59.50-$89.50. RTH, TM. December 8.

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BANDSHELL Queer Beer Festival Ace of Base, Hunter Valentine, Lucas Silveira 4-10 pm.5 GRAFFITI’S Keith Rich & the Po’ Boys 5 to 7 pm. HOLY OAK CAFE Lisa Bozikovic (pop) 10 pm. HORSESHOE Bootleg Glory, the Stables, Stone Sparrows, Patrick Dorie (folk rock) 9 pm. LEE’S PALACE Random Family, Tonella, Ralf Wiggum 9 pm. LULA LOUNGE The Arsenals (ska/ reggae) 10 pm. MOCCA COURTYARD SummerWorks Opening Party Light Fires, the Elwins, Patti Cake, Choir! Choir! Choir!, Raoul and the Big Time, Modern Superstitions 4 pm to 1 am. See preview, page 30.

NATHAN PHILLIPS SQUARE

Tasty Thursdays Bent by Elephants noon to 2 pm.

ONTARIO PLACE SOAK

CITY STAGE Electric Blonde Band (funk rock)

11:30 am.

OPERA HOUSE Christina Perri, Honeyhoney 7:45 pm.

PHOENIX CONCERT THEATRE Beirut, Owen Pallett et Les Mouches doors 8 ñ pm. See preview, page 44. THE PISTON The Black Fever, Youth Season

9 pm.

REVIVAL You, Me, Baxter & Phil, Atom & the

Volumes doors 8 pm. SILVER DOLLAR Hut, Odonis Odonis, Dope Body, Hume. SOMEWHERE THERE STUDIO Architects: Josh Doerksen, Matt Fong, Taylor Moran, Steve Sladkowski, Sarah Walterhouse, Claire Whitehead (improv indie rock) 8 pm. SOUND ACADEMY Classic Rock Thursdays Northern Pikes 8 pm. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY’S Skip Tracer (rock/top 40) 9:30 pm.

FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD

ALLEYCATZ Summer Salsa New R Band (salsa)

9:30 pm.

AQUILA UPSTAIRS Suitcase Sam (blues). ASPETTA CAFFE Open Mic Nite 7 pm. CAMERON HOUSE

REX Sophia Perlman 6:30 pm. REX David Hutchison 9:30 pm.

DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE

(bluegrass/folk) 10 pm. THE DANNY Acoustic Open Mike. THE DANNY Acoustic Open Stage Seb Agnello (singer/songwriter) 9 pm. DAVE’S... ON ST CLAIR Open Mic Uncle Herb Dale & Fran McCann 9:30 pm. GLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR Eugene Smith (blues) 8 pm. GRAFFITI’S Blair Harvey (folk/pop) 8 pm. GROSSMAN’S Summer Open Jam Series The Cowboy Buddha 9 pm. LOU DAWG’S Call In Sick Friday Mike C (acoustic) 9:30 pm. LA PERLA Cafe Con Pan. TORONTO BOTANICAL GARDEN Gardens Of Song Samba Squad (global percussion groove) 7 to 8:30 pm. TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Songs By Bert 6 pm. TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Bluegrass Night Houndstooth (bluegrass/oldtime) 7:30 pm. WHITE SWAN Jam Section 8 7 pm.

JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL

ARTSCAPE WYCHWOOD BARNS CHRISTIE STUDIO Chamber Music In The Barns

Bella Clava, the Box Tiger 9 pm.

ETON HOUSE Playback (R&R dance) 9 pm. EXHIBITION PLACE Festival Of Beer Drag-

DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Songs Beiñonette, the Midway State, Candy Coatrut (DJ set) (dance party) doors 10 pm. ñ ed Killahz, House of David Gang, Hot Kid 4 to GOODHANDY’S Ladyplus Parties DJ Todd

Klinck doors 8 pm.5 INSOMNIA DJ Ron Jon (funk/soul/house). RIVOLI SECOND FLOOR DJs the Dirty Frenchman, Plan B (hip-hop/dancehall/b-more/ bass) 10 pm. RIVOLI Praxis 1 Noah Pred, Minisystem, Syncratic, Eric Downer 10 pm. XS NIGHTCLUB Get Wild Thursdays DJ Couture 10 pm.

Friday, August 5 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL

ALLEYCATZ Lady Kane. BAR 460 Abriosis, Age of Kali, Astral Enslave-

ment (death metal). BOVINE SEX CLUB The Atom Age, Kether, Ceasefire, DJ Vania. CADILLAC LOUNGE Heads Up Lincoln. DRAKE HOTEL Tomboyfriend, Dance Movie, the Holiday Crowd 8 pm. DRAKE HOTEL LOUNGE DJ Your Boy Brian doors 10 pm. ECHO BEACH Sloan, Modern Superstitions, Whale Tooth doors 7 pm.

ñ Doug Paisley 6 pm. ñ CASTRO’S LOUNGE Jerry Leger & the Situation (country/folk/rock) 9 pm. CENTRE ISLAND OUTDOOR LAGOON THEATRE SP ñ Simms & Maya’s Caravan Of Song 7 pm. CLOAK & DAGGER PUB Darin Yorston

EL MOCAMBO CD release party 5th Projekt,

10 pm.

THE GARRISON Joan of Arc, Ryan Masters doors 9 pm. ñ GRAFFITI’S Rocking For SickKids Hospital Paul

Martin (classic covers) 5 to 7 pm. GRAFFITI’S The Stone Sparrows, Amorak. HARLEM Carolyn T (R&B/soul/jazz/Motown/ latin) 7:30 pm. HOLY OAK CAFE Black Tongue Emergency & the Quiet Revolution (rock) 10 pm. HORSESHOE CD release Tiny Danza, Lincoln Blanche, BenHur, Inner City Grooves (alt rock n roll) 9:30 pm. LEE’S PALACE Mother Leeds, Buddy Black, Maladies of Adam Stokes, Infinity Intention (indie rock) 10:30 pm. LOWER OSSINGTON THEATRE SummerWorks Music Series Steven McKay, Hooded Fang 10:30 pm. See preview, page 30. PARTS & LABOUR Steamboat.

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PASSION LOUNGE Paris Black (rock/reggae) 10 pm.

SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY’S Freedom Train (rock/ R&B) 10 pm.

TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS

John Kameel Farah, I Have Eaten The City, Dirtyboots 10 pm. XS NIGHTCLUB World Domination 2: Rap Battle Dirtbag Dan, Mad Child, Marvwon, Pat Stay, Kid Twist, Eurgh, 360, Thesaurus and others (hip-hop) 7 pm. YONGE-DUNDAS SQUARE Indie Fridays Kae Sun (reggae) 8-10 pm.

FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/ WORLD AQUILA UPSTAIRS The Fraser

Melvin Blues Band. ASPETTA CAFFE Boxes of Boom, Sabrina Fallah, James Black 7 to 11 pm. ASPETTA CAFFE Aimie Page, Olivia Pileggi, Benjamin Theodore, Ellen & the Ocean, Orrorin, Spencer Vader, Blair Harvey (blues/country/folk rock) 2 to 10 pm. BLUE GOOSE TAVERN Cross Eyed Cat (Chicago blues) 9 pm. CAMERON HOUSE David Celia (folk/rock) 6 pm.

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SLOAN It’s a Friday night (August 5) of bouncy, hook-heavy summer tunes at Echo Beach (909 Lake Shore West), featuring a headlining set by East Coast power pop heroes Sloan alongside promising young up-and-comers Modern Superstitions and cheerful hip-swinging local rockers Whale Tooth. 7 pm. Free.

RONNIE HAYWARD TRIO Rockabilly Hall of Famer Ronnie Hayward continues his Saturday afternoon (August 6) residency at the Dominion on Queen (500 Queen East). His “hobo country” vibes are always a good time, and the best part is that the show is completely free. 3 to 7 pm. gers, Must Stash Hat, the Cowgirl Choir, Eyes for Gertrude (bluegrass/country) 9:30 pm.

JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL

BENARES HISTORIC HOUSE On The Verandah

Abeena Samm (singer/songwriter) 7:30 pm.

CENO Rhonda Stakich and Neil Hendry 7:30

pm.

DOMINION ON QUEEN Steve Farugia Jazz Quartet 8:30 pm.

GATE 403 Mike Field Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. HARBOURFRONT CENTRE WESTJET STAGE

What’s Classical? An Evening Of Tango Art of Time Ensemble, Quartango 8 to 11 pm. HARLEM UNDERGROUND Chris Weatherstone Trio 8 pm. LULA LOUNGE Donne Roberts (world music). OLD MILL INN HOME SMITH BAR Brian Barlow Trio 7:30 pm. OPTICIANADO Arnold Faber (vibraphone jazz) 7 to 11 pm. REPOSADO The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz). REX Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm. REX Sultans of String 6:30 pm. REX The Heavyweights 9:45 pm. SOMEWHERE THERE STUDIO Leftover Daylight Series Ancient Egypt, Holger Schoorl, Evan Cartwright, Rosano Coutinho, Alexei Orechin, Minae Omi 8 pm. TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS The Foolish Things (jazz) 5 pm.

GOODHANDY’S Ladyplus Parties DJ Todd Klinck doors 8 pm.5 HOT BOX CAFE Big Spliff (ital reggae). INSOMNIA Funkn’ Fresh Fridays Scorched Earth (house/breaks). LULA LOUNGE Ladies Night DJ Gio, DJ Kruz (salsa/bachata/reggaeton/top 40) doors 9 pm. MANA BAR Unity Fridays: European Nights DJ T-Ace (hip-hop/reggae/dancehall/mashup). MOD CLUB Arcade Classixx doors 10 pm.

MOTEL J’adore Festival Andrew Awesome, DJ Fondants 10 pm. THE PAINTED LADY DJ Frank ‘Mr Phantastik’ Johnson (old-school hip-hop/reggae/80s) 10 pm. LA PERLA Eclectic City DJ Noloves. THE PISTON Neat Neat Neat 10 pm. REVIVAL Hip-hop Vs House DJs Jason Palma, Starting from Scratch. RIVOLI Droppin Knowledge 88 Days of Fortune, Jake Bluez, Jelly, P. Harris & Switch B, Fundament, DJ James Redi (hip-hop showcase) doors 9:30 pm. SMILING BUDDHA Seven Inch Samurai DJs Natto Rocker, Ginger Sting, Duchess of Dice, King Magic Sparky, Tako, Way of the Curl, Michael Balazo (mod/soul/ska/rnr/funk) 9:30 pm. SUPERMARKET Market Fresh DJ Yo Ev (dance party) 10 pm. VOGUE SUPPER CLUB The Social Network Omar Lunan, Sweet Touch Foundtion, DJ Smartiez 8 pm.

Kristi Helberg, John Corban, Carol

GREAT BEER LIVES HERE Gimbel, Pemi Paull, Jean-Christophe Lizotte 7:30 pm. DE SOTOS Open Mic/Jazz Jam Double A Jazz 8 pm. DOMINION ON QUEEN John T Davis (organist) 5:30 to 8 pm.

EDWARD JOHNSON BUILDING WALTER HALL Toronto Summer Music Festival Ki-

era Duffy, Nicholas Phan and Roger Vignoles (soprano, tenor, piano) 7:30 pm. GATE 403 Jeffrey Hewer Jazz Trio 5 to 8 pm. GATE 403 Snake Oil Johnson Ken Kawashima & Bob Vespaziani 9 pm. HARLEM UNDERGROUND Carl Bray (jazz) 8 pm. ONLY CAFÉ In-Between Sounds Lorde Awesome, Roman Pilates (experimental) 8 pm. REPOSADO The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz).

CENTRE ISLAND OUTDOOR LAGOON THEATRE SP Simms &

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

THE DANNY Midnight Jewel

ANNEX WRECKROOM The Friday Annex Shake-

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.

CASTRO’S LOUNGE I Hate You Rob DJ ‘I Hate

Saturday, August 6

Maya’s Caravan Of Song 7 pm.

9:30 pm.

FREE TIMES CAFE Jack Walker. GATE 403 Joanna Moon (fla-

menco-Latino/Quebec edge quartet) 9 pm.

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

HUGH’S ROOM Grainne w/

Band, the Rucksack Willies & the Joyful Sinners 8:30 pm. LOU DAWG’S It’s Gotta Groove Friday Jeff Eager 9:30 pm. MEL LASTMAN SQUARE Cultura 2011 Sarv Ensemble (Persian music) 7:30 pm. SILVER DOLLAR Unseen Stran-

DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE down 10 pm.

You’ Rob (soul/funk/R&B/punk rock/rockabilly) 10 pm. CLINTON’S Girl & Boy 90s Dance Party. DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Never Forgive Action DJ Serious, DJ Numeric, Ted Dancin’ doors 11 pm. FLY Rocket! DJ Sumation 10 pm.5 THE FLYING BEAVER PUBARET Retro Fridays DJ Carol. FOOTWORK D-Unity The Junkies, Ticky Ty, Chris Ink. FOX & FIDDLE WELLESLEY DJ Shaq-T (salsa/ merengue/reggaeton/house/dance). GLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR Freedubstar (psychedelic dub) 8 pm.

POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL

ALLEYCATZ Lady Kane. BOVINE SEX CLUB Jucifer, Teethmarks, Solus, DJ Ian Blurton.

BREAD & CIRCUS Ralf Wiggum. CADILLAC LOUNGE Cadillac Ranch Matinee. CENTRE ISLAND SHOPSY’S PATIO Reggae In

Paradise Memberz (Jakki James, Carl Henry, Rapper Robbert), the Professor 4 to 9 pm. THE DANNY Leggat Brothers 9:30 pm. DOMINION ON QUEEN Ronnie Hayward Trio (beatnik hillbilly ) 3 to 7 pm.

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Duffy’s Tavern Sons of Ishmael, Career Suicide. eCHO BeaCH Platinum Blonde doors 7 pm. el MOCaMBO Kidd Rasta 9 pm. eTOn HOuse Drunk on Sunday (rock n roll) 3

to 7 pm.

eTOn HOuse Taxi (top 40/pop) 8:30 pm. exHiBiTiOn PlaCe Festival Of Beer Danny

Michel y Los Hombres Malos, Colleen and Paul, King Roller, Kidd Rasta and the Peacemakers, Prince Perry and the Gladstones. THe GarrisOn Cherry Bomb Angel Hair & Unicorn Spit, Lovely Killbots, People You Know, DJs Denise Benson, Cozmic Cat, DJ Secret Agent 9 pm.5 GraffiTi’s Dany Laj’n the Looks 4 to 7 pm. HarleM James King Trio (soul/jazz) 7:30 pm. HOrsesHOe Good Rats Radio, Prince Perry, Before the Flood, the Harmonauts (alt rock/ ska) 9:30 pm. HOTsHOT J’adore Festival: The Kid Hop Project Lefspek (rhythm and rhyme workshop for kids) 2 to 3:30 pm. lee’s PalaCe Reggae fundraiser Blazing Fire Band, King Saleh, King Ujah, Progress. lOwer OssinGTOn THeaTre SummerWorks Music Series Lioness, Bonjay 10:30 pm. See preview, page 30. MiTzi’s sisTer Skaface, Down By the Riverside, the Saints Are Coming, DJ Skip. MOD CluB Machine Gun Kelly (rap/hip-hop) doors 7 pm, all ages. OPera HOuse Raps Of The Titans 3 Army Pharaohs, Slaine, Sean Strange, Sabac Red, Riviera Regime and others (hip-hop) 9 pm. rivOli Mr Something Something (Afrofunk) 9:30 pm. silver DOllar Spookey Rueben, Crimes in Paris, 10,000 Watt Head. sOuTHsiDe JOHnny’s Animal House (rock) 10 pm. sPOrTsTer’s Nicola Vaughan (pop rock) 10 pm. xs niGHTCluB World Domination 2: Rap Battle Dirtbag Dan, Mad Child, Marvwon, Pat Stay, Kid Twist, Eurgh, 360, Thesaurus and others (hip-hop) 7 pm.

ñ ñ

Folk/Blues/Country/World

aquila The Crossroads Blues Band (blues). asPeTTa Caffe Ben de Boer, Luke Vajsar, Zu-

viri, Moon River Rebels, Dan Guiry (rock/alt rock/Latin rock/salsa/folk rock) 2 to 7 pm. axis Gallery & Grill Box Full of Cash (blues/ country) 9 pm. BeiT zaTOun Benefit Concert for Medical Aid for Palestinians Leon Rosselson 7:30 pm. CaMerOn HOuse Rattlesnake Choir 6 pm. CenTre islanD OuTDOOr laGOOn THeaTre SP Simms & Maya’s Caravan Of Song 7 pm. DOMiniOn On queen Paul Reddick (blues) 9:30 pm. free TiMes Cafe James Black. GaTe 403 Margot Roi Jazz Band noon to 3 pm.

HarBOurfrOnT CenTre reDPaTH suGar sTaGe What’s Classical? Now & Then: Music

From The Middle East Bassam Bishara 2 pm.

HarBOurfrOnT CenTre reDPaTH suGar sTaGe What’s Classical? Now & Then: Music

From The Middle East Doula, Maryem Toller & Roula Said 4 pm. HiGHway 61 sOuTHern BarBeque Mike ‘Shrimp Daddy’ Reid (blues) 8 pm. lOu DawG’s Don Campbell (acoustic blues/ rock) 9:30 pm. lula lOunGe Salsa Saturday Moda Eterna, DJ Jimmy Suave. MaGiC Oven queen e Shisha, Belly Dancing & Cocktails Waleed Kush (percussion) 9 pm. MOnarCHs PuB Midsummer Blues Bash CD release Kenny ‘Blues Boss’ Wayne 7 to 10 pm. OlD niCk Kim Jarrett, Jennifer Brewer (folk/ rock) 9 pm. reBas Café Open Mic Saturday. rex The Homeless (blues) 3:30 pm. rex KC Roberts & the Live Revolution 9:45 pm. silver DOllar Supper Club Blues The New Ambassadors 7 pm. TranzaC sOuTHern CrOss Jamzac (folk) 3 pm. TranzaC Main Hall Fundraising Dance For HLH Disease 5 pm. TranzaC sOuTHern CrOss Matthew de Zoete 9:30 pm. villaGe Of yOrkville Park Summer Music In The Park Christopher Plock Duo 2 to 5 pm. yOnGe-DunDas square Filipinos Making Waves Festival Passion, LeeJay Abucayan, Jesse Barrera, Mitchel Grey Band, Kierra Folsom and others noon to 11 pm.

Jazz/ClassiCal/experimental

arTsCaPe wyCHwOOD Barns Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art: Breakfast – A Morning Ritual Rob Piilonen, Samuel Morgenstein, Matt Miller (flute/percussion) 9 am-noon. CenO Sophia Perlman and Neil Hendry 7:30 pm. eCHO BeaCH Toronto Concert Orchestra 4 pm. eDwarD JOHnsOn BuilDinG walTer Hall

Toronto Summer Music Festival: Romantic Pleasures Nash Ensemble, Michael McMahon, Nathalie Paulin 7:30 pm. feaTHers PuB Replay Jazz Trio 8 pm. GaTe 403 Luca Stagg & Tanya Philip w/ Chris Bennett 5 to 8 pm. GaTe 403 Hilden Group 9 pm.

HarBOurfrOnT CenTre wesTJeT sTaGe

What’s Classical? Joe Trio 8 pm.

HarBOurfrOnT CenTre COMMuniTy TenT One What’s Classical? Young Artists Perform-

ance Academy 1, 3, 6 & 7:30 pm.

CenTre reDPaTH suGar sTaGe John Kameel Farah 6:30 & 9 pm. ñHarBOurfrOnT HarBOurfrOnT CenTre wesTJeT sTaGe What’s Classical? Sarah Slean 9:30 pm. ñ HarleM unDerGrOunD Carl Bray (jazz) 8 pm. MaJlis MulTiDisCiPlinary arTs arT GarDen

soundspoetic #4 Tova Kardonne, Illogik and others 8 pm. OlD Mill inn HOMe sMiTH Bar Alastair Kay Trio 7:30 pm.

rex Laura Marks (vocal jazz) noon. rex Laura Hubert Band (jazzy pop) 7 pm. sOMewHere THere sTuDiO Mani Mazinani,

Brandon Valdivia, Aaron Lumley 8 pm. Ten feeT Tall Jazz Cabaret Jordana Talsky 8 pm.

danCe musiC/dJ/lounge

annex wreCkrOOM See You Saturdays Djs

Lexx Decibel, Rick Toxic 10 pm. ClinTOn’s Shake, Rattle & Roll Bangs & Blush (Motown/Britpop). Drake HOTel unDerGrOunD My Favorite Robot, Mike Mind doors 11 pm. Drake HOTel lOunGe Jeff Hayward doors 10 pm. eMPire lOunGe Riddims. fly Montreal Madness DJ Stefane Lippe, DJ Jamal, DJ Danny White 10 pm.5 THe flyinG Beaver PuBareT DJ Garrick 9 pm. fOOTwOrk Luv This City Claude Von Stroke, Jamie Kidd, Talal & Zoi, Poupon (house/techno) doors 10 pm. GlaDsTOne HOTel MelODy Bar Scotty Campbell & His Wardenaires 7 pm. GOODHanDy’s Fetish Party DJ Jimi LaMort doors 9 pm.5 HOly Oak Cafe Get It Got It Good 10 pm.5 HOT BOx Cafe Wild Style (dubstep/hip-hop/ reggae).

8:30 pm. aquila Blues Brunch Ken Yoshioka & James Thomson (blues) noon to 2 pm. aquila Sunday Junction Jam The New Mynah Birds & Chris Staig (mostly blues) 3:30 to 7:30 pm. CaMerOn HOuse The Cameron Brothers Band 10 pm. CaMerOn HOuse Jack Marks 6 pm. CasTrO’s lOunGe Carlos Lopes 4 pm. CenTre islanD OuTDOOr laGOOn THeaTre SP Simms & Maya’s Caravan Of Song 7 pm. ClinTOn’s Home & Native Sound Series Shawn Clarke, Henry Taylor Band, Inoke Errati, Lucky Stabb doors 7:30 pm.

ClOak & DaGGer PuB Yes, Please (folk/pop)

9 pm.

Duffy’s Tavern Ken Yoshioka (blues) 9:30 pm. eTOn HOuse Box Full of Cash 3 to 7 pm. free TiMes Cafe Heidi Lang. HarBOurfrOnT CenTre reDPaTH suGar sTaGe What’s Classical? Now & Then: Music

From South Asia-Classical India 3 Samidha Joglekar, Ravi Naimpally, George Koller 1:30 pm.

HarBOurfrOnT CenTre reDPaTH suGar sTaGe What’s Classical? Now & Then: Music

From South Asia-East/West Fusion George Koller, Ravi Naimpally, Samidha Joglekar, Pat Murray, Sundar Viswanathan 3:30 pm. HiGHway 61 sOuTHern BarBeque Sean Pinching 1 pm. œ continued on page 44

pop punk

Doughboys Canadian alt-rock veterans bury the hatchet and reunite to open up for Foo Fighters By JASON KELLER

house).

THe PainTeD laDy DJ Salazar (funk/soul)

10 pm.

la Perla UK Knights DJ Anzola (garage/UK/ funky/house).

THe PisTOn Standards DJs Davy Love & Linda Noelle 10 pm.

THe reD liGHT Doing The Same Ghetto Gold

Matt (electro/boogie/jheri curl funk/gfunk/ rap/R&B) 4 to 8 pm. revival Five Years Of Lazy Days Ian Pooley & Fred Everything doors 10 pm. 751 Motown Party 3rd Year Anniversary Fawn BC, Caff, Brett Millius, Reverend Throwdown (alt rock/pop/hip-hop). sneaky Dee’s Shake A Tail (60s pop/soul) 11 pm. suPerMarkeT Do Right Saturdays! DJ John Kong, MC Abs. Tequila BOOkwOrM 4WRD DJ Catalist, DJ Stuart, DJ Dialect (broken beat/boogie ) 10 pm.

Sunday, August 7 pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul

CanaDa’s wOnDerlanD Summer

Rush Snoop Dogg, Stevie B, Pitbull, Tinie Tempah, Emily Osment, Lil Jon, Danny Fernandes, Classified, Mia Martina, Dev, Tyler Medeiros, Alyssa Reid and others 3 pm, all ages. DOMiniOn On queen Rockabilly Brunch Alistair Crystal 11 am to 2:30 pm. eTOn HOuse Raging Butanes (R&B) 6 to 10 pm. exHiBiTiOn PlaCe Festival Of Beer The Trews, the Sheepdogs, Dirty Mags, Shade, the Robinsons (acoustic rock) 1 to 7 pm. THe GarrisOn O’Brother, the Archives, Waterbodies doors 7 pm. GraffiTi’s Blackmetal Brunch. HarBOurfrOnT CenTre What Is Classical? Steven Page 8 pm. HOly Oak Cafe Team Building Exercise (pop) 9 pm. lee’s PalaCe Mewithoutyou, the Seedy Seeds, Lifestory Monologue doors 8 pm. lOwer OssinGTOn THeaTre SummerWorks Music Series: Musical Works In Concert. OrBiT rOOM Horshack (rock/blues) 10:30 pm.

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while tAsting the DAnforth, stop in At

Folk/Blues/Country/World

DOuGHBOys with HOlleraDO at the Bovine Sex Club (542 Queen West), Monday (August 8). And with fOO fiGHTers and fuCkeD uP at the Air Canada Centre (40 Bay), Tuesday (August 9), 7 pm. $39.50-$59.50. TM.

It’s probably no coincidence that the man responsible for reuniting the Doughboys is the same guy who moderated an industry seminar in L.A. last year called Putting The Band Back Together. That would be veteran Toronto promoter Elliott Lefko. He wanted to see the Doughboys onstage again after 14 years apart and knew that an offer to open for Foo Fighters couldn’t be refused. “[Lefko] knew we were friends with Dave [Grohl] and that it was good match,” says Doughboys main man John Kastner. “He came up with the idea, called us and kept pushing for it to happen.” Kastner says opening a dialogue with the other members of the Montreal melodic-rock pioneers wasn’t difficult. Friendships have mended since the band dissolved in 97. You’d think that convincing guitarist Jon Cummins would be the toughest part. Everyone who saw the band’s ill-fated appearance on Much-

Music’s Jammin’ In Jamaica spring break special, during which Cummins had an on-camera meltdown, knew he wouldn’t be around much longer. “When he left the band it was a bit tense,” recalls Kastner. “But not long after, we slowly started hanging out again. It’s amazing what can happen when everyone gets out of the van or bus.” Cummins exited after recording Turn Me On, the band’s second major-label album and final release before calling it quits. The record just before it, Crush, saw them reach considerable commercial heights after nearly a decade in the underground punk and club circuit and after releasing what many consider their best work, including the 1989 classic Home Again. “As we sold more records and signed big record deals, there was more money involved, more voices, more pressure, more people who weren’t in the band involved in the decision-making. That’s what broke it all up.” The 2011 Doughboys also include former bassist Paul Newman and drummer Jon Bond Head. We have to ask, is this a one-off or a rebirth? “We’re just going to see how these shows go and take it from there.” music@nowtoronto.com

Lower Ossington Theatre Canadian-Cuban

Friendship Association Toronto

The Mod Club The Painted Lady

STUDIOS 134 Ossington Avenue

NOW august 4-10 2011

fri september 2 & sat september 3 lee’s palace • $20.00 advance • 9:00pm doors

sat september 24

hamburg • 80s industrial legends

@ horseshoe tavern

peter bjorn & john the watchmen $25.00

advance • 9:00pm doors

tuesday august 16

performing “silent radar” in it’s entirety

friday september 30 the phoenix • $ 27.50 advance

james

blake thursday

october 6

lee’s palace •

$ 17.50 advance

tues september 27 mod club • $16.50 advance

the phoenix

tues september 27

girls horrors london uk goth shoegaze

wed september 28

7:30pm doors • all-ages • $17.50 advance

tuesday

october 4 the phoenix

@ the phoenix

$ 15.00 advance • 8pm doors • san francisco

$18.50 advance

ra ra mates of

adv • 8:30pm drs • 19+

fri september 16 @ opera house

lee’s palace • $20.00 advance

the

$25.00

8:00pm doors • 19+

the real Mckenzies

saturday october 15 / lee’s palace • $16.50 advance ska & soul

the aggrolites lemonheads

riot state naked & famous zola hollerado monday october 17 / lee’s palace • $ 20.00 advance perform

thursday october 6

the phoenix •

$ 20.00

advance • 8:00pm doors

w i t h wye oak

friday october 7 @ sound academy

it’s a shame about ray

saturday october 15 @ opera house $ 15.00

advance • all-ages • 8:00pm doors

tickets $25.50 advance Ga & $35.50 advance ViP

friday october 14 @ the mod club

$14.00

advance • early show 7:00pm

jesus sunday october 16 phoenix • $ 17.50 adv - 8:00pm doors

dum saturday october 15 dum sound academy

w/ Marketa Irglova of tHE sWELL sEasON

$ 27.00

advance Ga • $ 37 advance VIP • 8pm doors • all-ages

tuesday november 15 sound academy

lykke

with

first aid kit

$ 30.00 adv ga (all-ages)

$ 40.00 advance vip (19+) • doors 8:00pm

august 4-10 2011 NOW

with wildlife

monday october 24 @ lee’s palace

$ 23.50 advance •

the

8:00pm doors austin texas psych rock & roll

+ the Pack ad

tuesday october 18 opera house $ 16.50 advance •

8:00pm doors

black portugal

the man

girls

angels

tues november 1

wednesday october 19 @ sound academy

with

crocodiles

@ the phoenix

dead meadow

boyce avenue civil wars the slackers $ 23.50

advance • all-ages • 7:00pm doors

$ 18.50 advance • 8:00pm doors

the

friday october 28 @ opera house $

22.50 advance • 8:30pm doors • all-ages

2 0 t h a n n i v e r s a r y s k a c e l e b r at i o n

advance ticketS @ ticketmaster.ca or 1-855-985-5000 • HorSeSHoe Front Bar • SoundScapeS • rotate tHiS tHurS august 18 @ annex Wreckroom / all-ageS • punk • $16.00 adv

tHurSday august 4 / $5.00

bootleg glory the stables stone sparroW patrick dorie Sat august 6 / $7.00

The cAsuAlTies secreT chiefs 3 LincoLn BLanche MAle Bonding fri august 5 / $10.00

tiny danZa

(Cd releaSe @ 10:50pm)

good rats radio Benhur inner city grooves PrinCe Perry Before the fLood the harmonauts The Nix DicksoNs alt rock & ska

tueSday august 9

mon august 8 / no cover shoeless mondays

singapore

Willing To oppose in MediA res 1977 The ArTful VAndelAys The higher Keys cherry chapsTick Wed august 10 / $6.00

Oceanship cai.RO Central nervous system cd release @ 10:00pm

Friday august 12 /

$10.00

tHurS august 11 / $15.00

bicycle film fest

meLigrove

band ocToBerMAn

Friday august 19 /

$10.00

dnteL the poStal ServiCe

The BAlconies • dirTy MAgs giVe us The dAggers + more

tHurS august 18 / $7.00

Sat august 20 / $10.00

monSteR tRuCK indian handcRaFts

replAceMenTs TriBuTe nighT featuring

amos the

transparent the fast romantics Parcs & rec • evyLyn

tueS august 23 / no Cover thurS august 25 / $15.00

SuRPRiSe me

Quiet Cool mR. daViS sandman VipeR FReeman dRe & Command the Kitchen paRty Canon Blue spOOKey Reuben Friday august 26 / $15.50 advance • Bloodshot recs

justin townes earLe with

with

friday septembeR 2 @ the horSeShoe / $10.50 advance

london uk Sub pop grunge punk!

tueS september 13 @ lee’S palace / $18.50 advance

ex-mr. Bungle & FaitH no more

tueSday september 13

weeDeaTer jiM jones With

Sat september 17 lee’S palaCe — $ 12.00 advance

karkwa 2010 polariS prize Winner W/ baRR bROtheRs

Sun september 18

horSeShoe - $11.50 advance little ricHard meets mc5 meets SpringSteen

ReVue

saViORs + bisOn bc metal

Kid cOngO pOweRs

Sat septembeR 17 @ the horSeShoe / $13.50 advance

neKroMAnTix staRFucKeR With

the bRains

tueS septembeR 20 @ lee’S palaCe / $13.50 advance

Wed september 21

tHe HorSeSHoe / $15.50 advance

Brooklyn ny • tHrill jockey

tHurS september 22

$13.50

advance

lee’S palace / $15.00 advance

ShoVelS & RoPe

artist bookings: craig@horseshoetavern.com or 416-598-0720

horseshoetavern.com 370 Queen St. WeSt / Spadina 416-598-4226 • 1947 to 2010

lee’S palace / $16.50 advance

Saturday

Reggae fundRaiSeR $

20.00 at the door

Sun october 2 @ HorSeSHoe / $12.00 adv

bob logg iii Friday october 14

monday august 8

horSeShoe / $12.00 advance

neW zealand • yep roC Sunday

october 30

lee’S palace $16.00

advance - 7pm doors

Saturday

novemBer 13

lee’S palace $16.50

advance - 9pm doors

$13.50 advance • ireland

montreal • flemiSh eye

sTephen Kellog & The sixers jon mclaughlin

sea & cake m83 Fri november 18 @ lee’S palace / $20 adv

friday august 5 / $7.00

mother Leeds Buddy BLack august 6 maLadies of adam stokes BLazing fire Band infinity intention

king saLeh king ujah Progress

london uk • fat poSSum reCordS

mon september 26

tHurS august 4 / $ 6.00

random Family tonella ralF Wiggum Sun september 25 tHe HorSeSHoe /

liturgy samiam yuck

tHe HorSeSHoe / $10.00 advance

Ken Reaume

tHurSday august 11 / $6.00

sad guRu AposTles of sin holy toledo friday august 12 / $7.00

Sunday august 7 / $ 15 adv

me without you

Seedy SeedS lifesTory/Monologue tueSday august 9

naked &

famous winteR sold glOVes out!

Sat august 13 / $7.00

lia ices kidcity august 9 scattered trees noistar peRsOnal and the pizzas two gallants matt sChofield Saint stiFF alVia acTive chilD these united states jaPandroids liTTle oRgan thieves fingers get nuns drag the river Cobra skulls joe Obits keviN DeviNe lally leespalace.com Friday august 5 / tHe garriSon • $12.50 adv

joAn of Arc Ryan masteRs W/

tueSday

audio blood night featuring

lee’s palace • $ 17.50 advance

liAM tunegod is An cLosed finn yards braids astronaut

sTereoKid SPin two crown king chrisTieN summers My son The Saturday august 13 hurricAne liTTle BlAcK dRess private party Sun august 14 / $11.50 adv

tHurSday september 1

tHe garriSon

$12.00 adv - aStralWerkS

tueS august 23 @ partS & laBour / $11.50 adv

tueSday

august 9

the rivoli

$12.00 advance - 8pm doors

with

allie hugheS

WitH san sebastian & hot kid

Sat august 20 @ tHe drake / $11.50 adv

Fri september 9 @ tHe drake / $15.00 adv

Sun september 11 @ HorSeSHoe / $9.50 adv

pluS gueStS

tueSday august 16 $ 29.50

Wed sept 14 @ tHe garriSon | $12.00 adv

Sat september 17 @ drake / $10.00 adv

tHurS sept 22 @ Sneaky dee’S / $12 adv

Sat october 1 @ Hard luck / $13.50 adv

Sat october 8 @ Hard luck / $13.50 adv

Sat nOVembeR 12

advance

young running tng (CD release) Poor young things glass amp

Sat august 20 / $ 10.00 rue morgue pre-party

the drake / $10.00 adv - 8pm doors

with nothington

tueS october 25 @ rivoli | $13.00 adv

tHurS october 27 @ tHe drake | $13.50 adv

(fugazi)

artiSt bookingS: 416-598-0720 or ben@leespalace.com

529 bloor Street WeSt / bathurSt

NOW august 4-10 2011

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pers Association (improv jazz) 10:30 pm.

Blues Band 9 pm.

DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE

HIGHWAY 61 SOUTHERN BARBEQUE Chris

Candy-O.

THE PAINTED LADY Open Mic Mondays 9 pm. TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Open Stage 10 PM.

BOVINE SEX CLUB School For Band Aids DJ CASTRO’S LOUNGE Superfly Sunday DJ Eric (old

& Darran Poole noon to 3 pm.

school funk/disco/R&B) 10 pm.

REBAS CAFÉ Darin Parise (bluegrass banjo) 1 to

EMPRESS OF CANADA CRUISE SHIP Northern

4 pm. REX Dr Nick & the Rollercoasters (blues) 3:30 pm. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY’S Rebecca Matiesen & Phoenix Band 9:30 pm. SPIRITS Kim Jarrett (folk rock) 9 pm. SUPERMARKET Freefall Sundays Open Mic/Jam 8 pm. TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS William & Polly 3 pm. TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS The Spanish Waiter-Mike Hopkins 7:30 pm. VILLAGE OF YORKVILLE PARK Summer Music In The Park Plakaso (flamenco) 2 to 5 pm. YONGE-DUNDAS SQUARE Filipinos Making Waves Festival Passion, LeeJay Abucayan, Jesse Barrera, Mitchel Grey Band, Kierra Folsom and others noon to 11 pm.

JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL

AMADEUS CD Release Party Rick Donaldson & the Jazz Cats 6:30 pm. DE SOTOS Sunday Brunch Double A Jazz w/ Ken Foster 11 am to 2 pm. GATE 403 Melissa Lauren Jazz Band noon to 3 pm. GATE 403 Jessica Ackerley Jazz Duo 5 to 8 pm. GATE 403 Gypsy Flame 9 pm. HOT BOX CAFE Tigorangutan (jazz). MEL LASTMAN SQUARE Sunday Serenades Bob Cary Orchestra 7:30 to 9 pm. REMARKS BAR & GRILL David Hutchison Trio 6 to 9 pm. REX Excelsior Dixieland Jazz noon. REX Richard Whiteman 7 pm. REX Bud Powell Tribute Brian DeLima (piano) 9:30 pm. TORONTO MUSIC GARDEN Summer Music In The Garden: Reed Blowout! Kornel Wolak & Joseph Macerollo (clarinet, accordion) 4 pm. TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Monk’s Music (jazz) 5 pm. TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS The Woodchop-

Lights Undercover, Jed Harper, Adam Kyron, Rob Friday, Crunch, Brent Hayward noon. INSOMNIA DJ LK (old-school hip-hop/disco/ funk). THE OSSINGTON Unlimited Sundays Hajah Bug & Mantis (hip-hop).

Monday, August 8 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL

BOVINE SEX CLUB The Doughboys, Hol-

lerado. ñ CAMERON HOUSE Luke Nicholson (alt pop) 10 pm.

DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Elvis Monday (rock) doors 9 pm.

DRAKE HOTEL LOUNGE Late Night Mondays Ride the Tiger (rock) doors 10 pm. EL MOCAMBO Patrick Stump, Wynter Gordon, John West doors 7 pm. GRAFFITI’S Kevin Quain’s Gutbucket Saloon 5 to 8 pm. HARLEM Open Jam CarolynT (R&B/soul/jazz/ pop/funk) 8 pm. HARLEM UNDERGROUND Daniel Gagnon (pop/ folk/rock) 8 pm. HORSESHOE Shoeless Monday Willing to Oppose, the Artful Vandelays, the Higher Key 9 pm. LEE’S PALACE God Is an Astronaut (instrumental post rock) doors 8 pm. ORBIT ROOM The Lion’s Den (reggae). SOUND ACADEMY Bon Iver, the Rosebuds doors 8 pm, all ages. See cover story, page 34. TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS This Is Awesome 7 pm.

ñ ñ

FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD

CAMERON HOUSE FRONT ROOM Betty Stew

6 pm.

CASTRO’S LOUNGE Smoky Folk (bluegrass) 9 pm. FREE TIMES CAFE Open Stage Jeff Kahl. GATE 403 Dance With The Blues Jorge Gavidia

Chambers (blues) 7 pm.

JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL

CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY Julian Knight, Jan Plecash (viola, piano) 12:15 pm. CLOAK & DAGGER PUB Camp Combo (jazz/ pop) 9 pm. GATE 403 Denis Schingh (solo piano) 5 to 8 pm. REX Ernesto Cervini Trio 6:30 pm. REX Michael Skinner Quartet 9:30 pm.

DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE

INSOMNIA DJs Topher, Oranj (rock). THE PISTON Junk Shop DJs Jorge & Jared (pre-

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

Tuesday, August 9 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL

AIR CANADA CENTRE Foo Fighters,

Doughboys, Fucked Up doors 6 pm. See preview, page 40. ALLEYCATZ Swing Tuesdays Carlo Berardinucci & the Double A Jazz Swing Band 8 pm. BOVINE SEX CLUB Foo-Fighters After Party. CADILLAC LOUNGE Duece Springsteen. CAMERON HOUSE Friendly Rich 10 pm. DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Polaris Record Salon Hey Rosetta! (Q&A and listening session) doors 7 pm.

ñ THE GARRISON DOM doors 8:30 pm. ñ GRAFFITI’S Marcus Walker 7 to 10 pm.

HARLEM UNDERGROUND John Campbell 8:30 pm.

HORSESHOE Nu Music Nites The Nix Dicksons, Singapore, In Medias Res, ñ 1977, Cherry Chapstick 8:30 pm. THE INNER GARDEN Matt York, Chris Assaad,

Brian Macmillan, Layah Jane (soul) 8 pm, all ages. LEE’S PALACE Naked and Famous, Winter Gloves doors 8 pm. MOLSON AMPHITHEATRE Journey, Foreigner, Night Ranger doors 6 pm. THE PISTON The Dead Tuesdays, Mercy Flight 10 pm.

RIVOLI Lia Ices doors 8 pm. ñ SOUND ACADEMY Summer Slaughter Tour The

Black Dahlia Murder, Within the Ruins, White Chapel, Darkest Hour, Six Feet Under, Powerglove, Dying Fetus, As Blood Runs Black, Oceano, Fleshgod Apocalypse 3 pm, all ages.

FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD

CAMERON HOUSE Jadea Kelly 6 pm. CASTRO’S LOUNGE Quiet Revolutions (singer/

songwriter jam) 10 pm. C’EST WHAT Tra La La Tuesday Meredith Shaw & Hearts Club Band 9 pm. CLOAK & DAGGER PUB Slocan Ramblers (bluegrass) 10 pm. DOUBLE DEUCE SALOON Open Mic. DRAKE HOTEL LOUNGE Memphis Tuesdays Samantha & the Haggard (country) doors 10 pm. DRAKE HOTEL The Little Stevies (folk/pop).

EARL BALES PARK BARRY ZUKERMAN AMPHITHEATRE Tuesday Night Live! Dan David Band

7 pm.

FREE TIMES CAFE Max Marshal, the Dregs, the Cedar Strippers.

HOLY OAK CAFE The Cedar Strippers (bluegrass) 9 pm.

LIBERTY BISTRO Kim Jarrett (folk rock) 8 pm. MONARCHS PUB Acoustic Open Stage Nonie Crete 8 pm.

OPERA HOUSE Filipinos Making Waves Festival Legaci 7 pm.

SUPERMARKET Balto, c_RL doors 8:30 pm.

JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL

DOMINION ON QUEEN Django Jam 8:30 pm. GATE 403 Donné Roberts Band 5 to 8 pm. GATE 403 Richard Whiteman Jazz Band 9 pm. ONLY CAFÉ Acoustic Roots (singer/songwriter showcase) 8 pm.

PALAIS ROYALE Moonlight Serenade: A Red

Carpet Affair Benefit Concert For Epilepsy Glenn Miller Orchestra (big band) doors 7:30 pm. RESERVOIR LOUNGE Melissa Lauren Quartet 7 to 9 pm. REX Chris Donnelly Trio 6:30 pm. REX Rex Jazz Jam Johnny Griffith & RJ Satchithananthan 9:30 pm.

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ART POP

Owen Pallett OWEN PALLETT ET LES MOUCHES opening for BEIRUT at the Phoenix (410 Sherbourne), tonight (Thursday, August 4), $32.50 adv. HS, RT, SS, TM.

TIGER BLOOD * MILHOUSE BROWN upstairs Loft Dj GIO

CLASSIXX The Jackals

2 6 11 18 44

AUGUST 4-10 2011 NOW

AUGUST

TIM ROBBINS MGK HONEY JAM CRASH PARRALEL

Owen Pallett has rekindled a creative flame with his old bandmates. Earlier this year, the Toronto-based violinist reunited with drummer Rob Gordon and guitarist Matt Smith from early Blocks Recording Club act Les Mouches to perform and record under his solo moniker. The trio had considered reforming over the years, but it never felt quite right. “We would sit around and talk about the music that excited us. We were all on the same page at the time, and now we’re really not,” says Pallett. “If I look back to that Les Mouches stuff, it’s weird to me because it was equal parts influenced by the Carpenters and by [noise rock band] U.S. Maple.” Les Mouches amicably split in 2004 after two years. An ill-fated studio session and aborted tour combined with the growing success of Pallett’s solo project, Final Fantasy, made dissolution the easiest option.

When organizers of Reverberations, a London festival dedicated to composer Steve Reich, invited him to perform his 2010 album, Heartland, in its entirety, he knew he’d need more than a violin and loop pedal to pull it off. His live guitarist, Thomas Gill, had quit to focus on solo work, so the timing was right to hit up Gordon and Smith. They played a small warm-up show for friends in April, but this week’s Beirut concerts mark the first public hometown appearances of the new Owen Pallett configuration. Pallett is simultaneously working on the score for an unannounced film project and another album. He’s also hoping to stage a proper solo show to perform new songs sometime soon. At the moment, the lineup is billed as Owen Pallett et Les Mouches, but the Artist Formerly Known as Final Fantasy says that may change – or not. “I’m not sure how we’re going to bill it,” he muses. “I’ve got to put the audience first and not confuse people with weird band names.” music@nowtoronto.com

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royAl ConservAtory of musiC koerner hAll Toronto Summer Music Festival: Roman-

tic Heroes National Youth Orchestra of Canada 7:30 pm. somewhere there studio Square Nipples Chris Palmer, Mike Lynn, Michelangelo Iaffaldano 8 pm. trAnzAC southern Cross Peripheral Vision (jazz improv) 7:30 pm.

DANCE MuSIC/DJ/LOuNGE

GoodhAndy’s Ladyplus Parties DJ Cesar doors 8 pm.5 insomniA DJ Shannon (rock). motel Big Lebowski Tuesdays DJ Knox Harrington (live screening with sound) 9 to 11 pm.

Wednesday, August 10 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOuL

AquilA Olivia & Lisette (R&B). BoAt Tape release The Soupcans, Tonka & Puma, Connoisseurs of Porn, Forget ñ the Times 9 pm.

CAdillAC lounGe The Neil Young’uns. Clinton’s The Elwins, Young Feathers, Little

City, Begrave Band, Odessa Steps Sequence (pop/folk/rock). GrAffiti’s John Borra & Sam Ferrrara 7 to 10 pm. horseshoe Nate Daniels Band 9:30 pm. lower ossinGton theAtre SummerWorks Music Series House League, Great Bloomers 10:30 pm. See preview, page 30. phoenix ConCert theAtre The Family Vacation Tour Atmosphere, Evidence, Blueprint, DJ Babu & Prof doors 8 pm. the piston Sam Cash 9 pm. rivoli Bruno Capinan, LAL, Maracatu Maraberto 9 pm. sound ACAdemy Bun B (hip-hop) doors 8 pm. supermArket Wednesdays Go Pop! The Tudors, Scotty James, Recovery Child 9 pm.

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FOLK/BLuES/COuNTRY/WORLD

CAmeron house Joshua Cockerill 6 pm.

venue index

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Air CAnAdA Centre 40 Bay. 416-815-5500. AlleyCAtz 2409 Yonge. 416-481-6865. AmAdeus 184 Augusta. 416-591-1245. AmsterdAm Brewery 21 Bathurst. 416-504-6882. Annex wreCkroom 794 Bathurst. 416-536-0346. AquilA 347 Keele. 416-761-7474. ArtsCApe wyChwood BArns 601 Christie. 416-392-7834. AspettA CAffe 207 Augusta. 416-725-0693. Axis GAllery & Grill 3048 Dundas W. 416-604-3333. BAr 460 460 Spadina Ave. Beit zAtoun 612 Markham. 647-726-9500. BenAres historiC house 1507 Clarkson N (Mississauga). 905-6154860. Blue Goose tAvern 1 Blue Goose. 416-255-2442. BoAt 158 Augusta. 416-593-9218. Bovine sex CluB 542 Queen W. 416-504-4239. BreAd & CirCus 299 Augusta. 416-336-3399. CAdillAC lounGe 1296 Queen W. 416-536-7717. CAmeron house 408 Queen W. 416-703-0811. CAnAdA’s wonderlAnd 9580 Jane (Vaughan). 905-832-8131. CAstro’s lounGe 2116 Queen E. 416-699-8272. Ceno 137 Avenue Rd. 647-352-8822. Centre islAnd Toronto Islands. C’est whAt 67 Front E. 416-867-9499. ChAlkers puB 247 Marlee. 416-789-2531. ChurCh of the holy trinity 10 Trinity Square. 416-598-4521. Clinton’s 693 Bloor W. 416-535-9541. CloAk & dAGGer puB 394 College. 647-436-0228. the dAnny 2183 Danforth. 416-686-1705. dAve’s... on st ClAir 730 St Clair W. 416-657-3283. de sotos 1079 St Clair W. 416-651-2109. dominion on queen 500 Queen E. 416-368-6893. douBle deuCe sAloon 1168 Queen W. 416-537-1313. drAke hotel 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042. duffy’s tAvern 1238 Bloor W. 416-628-0330. eArl BAles pArk 4169 Bathurst. 416-395-7873. eCho BeACh 909 Lakeshore W. edwArd Johnson BuildinG 80 Queen’s Park. 416-978-3744. el moCAmBo 464 Spadina. 416-777-1777. eleven superior presentAtion Centre 2398 Lake Shore W. empire lounGe 50 Cumberland. 416-840-8440. empress of CAnAdA Cruise ship Pier 29, 261 Queens Quay W. eton house 710 Danforth. 416-466-6161. exhiBition plACe 210 Princes’ Blvd. feAthers puB 962 Kingston Rd. 416-694-0443. fly 8 Gloucester. 416-410-5426. the flyinG BeAver puBAret 488 Parliament. 647-347-6567. footwork 425 Adelaide W. 416-913-3488. fox & fiddle wellesley 27 Wellesley E. 416-944-9369. free times CAfe 320 College. 416-967-1078. the GArrison 1197 Dundas W. GAte 403 403 Roncesvalles. 416-588-2930. GlAdstone hotel 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. GoodhAndy’s 120 Church. 416-760-6514. GrAffiti’s 170 Baldwin. 416-506-6699. GrossmAn’s 379 Spadina. 416-977-7000. hArBourfront Centre 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. hArlem 67 Richmond E. 416-368-1920. hArlem underGround 745 Queen W. 416-366-4743. hiGhwAy 61 southern BArBeque 1620 Bayview. 416-489-7427. holy oAk CAfe 1241 Bloor W. 647-345-2803. horseshoe 370 Queen W. 416-598-4753. hot Box CAfe 191A Baldwin. 416-203-6990. hotshot 181 Augusta. 416-979-7574. the hoxton 69 Bathurst. huGh’s room 2261 Dundas W. 416-531-6604.

CAmeron house The Strumbellas (folk) 10 pm. CloAk & dAGGer puB Steve Gleason (folk) 10 pm. free times CAfe Carmen Freeman. hiGhwAy 61 southern BArBeque Skiffle Twins 7 pm.

the pAinted lAdy The Dregs w/ Derek Harrri-

son, Darren Eadens, Max Marshall (indie/ powerpop/folk/rock/roots) 9 pm. reposAdo Sol Wednesdays Spy Vs Sly Vs Spy. rex Darryl Orr Quartet 6:30 pm. silver dollAr High Lonesome Wednesday: Big City Bluegrass Crazy Strings doors 9 pm. terri o’s sports BAr Gary 17’s Acoustic Open Stage Steve Morrison 8 pm. trAnzAC southern Cross Comhaltas Irish Slow Session 7:30 pm. trAnzAC southern Cross David Woodhead’s Confabulation (alt folk) 7:30 pm.

JAzz/CLASSICAL/ExPERIMENTAL

ChAlkers puB Girls’ Night Out Jazz Lisa Particelli (jazz) 8 pm. dominion on queen Corktown Uke Jam 8 pm. edwArd Johnson BuildinG wAlter hAll

Toronto Summer Music Festival: Beethoven – The Romantic Icon The Gryphon Trio (chamber music) 7:30 pm. GAte 403 Doughwan Moon Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. GAte 403 Sean Bellaviti Jazz Band 9 pm. nAthAn phillips squAre Fresh Wednesdays Beverly Taft & Tony Quarrington (jazz) noon to 2 pm. nAwlins JAzz BAr Jim Heineman Trio (jazz) 7 to 10 pm. only CAfé Jazz Response Unit (jazz trio). rex Mandy Lagan 9:30 pm. somewhere there studio Starfires 8 pm. wyChwood theAtre Sound Travels: Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium Concerts 8 pm.

DANCE MuSIC/DJ/LOuNGE

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of his indie world beat ideas. Alleviating some of the preciousness he’s been accused of, The Rip Tide is Condon’s most cheerful recording to date. The songs are all quite pretty and carefully assembled, the products of obvious care in the recording process. Unfortunately, it all feels a bit too manicured and restrained. As easy as it is to hit repeat when the disc ends, trying to remember standout moments is another story. It’s a solid album, but too conservative to make many converts. Top track: Payne’s Bay Beirut play the Phoenix tonight (Thursday, August 4). BENJAMIN BOLES

disc of the week

Folk/Roots CREOLE CHOIR OF CUBA ñTHE NNNN

Tande-La! (Real World) Rating: Few groups are capable of sounding as celebratory as the Creole Choir of Cuba, who combine a raw, urgent tone with technically impressive harmonic intricacy. This could all have to do with the fact that their musicianship is hereditary, passed down for generations from 18thcentury escapees from enslavement in

Pop/Rock

JOLIE HOLLAND AND THE GRAND CHANDELIERS Pint Of Blood (Anti-) Rating: NNN

Former Be Good Tanyas member Jolie Holland collaborates again with multiinstrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily on her fourth album, which was loosely inspired by Neil Young’s Zuma. Recorded in various New York studios, it has a live, intimate feel despite its overdubs. Devoid of the narrative scope heard on 2008’s The Living And The Dead, it still showcases Holland’s beautiful, brokensounding voice and a subtler, simpler songwriting direction. Like Lucinda Williams, she successfully captures personal dramas, and her shaky backup vocals in the chorus of Remember are especially emotive. Piano blues ballad Tender Mirror and June are gentle, while Wreckage has a Buddy Holly vibe with guitars and handclaps. Also included are Be Good Tanyas hit Little Birds, deconstructed and reimagined with a hint of Afrobeat, and a beautiful cover of Townes Van Zandt’s Rex’s Blues featuring Holland on violin. Top track: Remember SARAH GREENE

KELLY ROWLAND Here I Am (Universal Motown) Rating: N Destiny’s middle child, Kelly Rowland, sexes it up on her third solo album, an un-

Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Their debut album offers a Caribbean analogue of American gospel music, recorded cleanly, with a simple production style that relies almost entirely on a cappella vocals: cries, solos, grunts, chants. It’s a cathartic, joyful listen, even if you don’t have a clue what they’re saying. Top track: Edem Chanté JASON RICHARDS

surprising pop effort that fails to find a distinctive voice for the singer. Rowland has found success as a dance diva of late, but save for a pair of big shiny club jams courtesy of producers David Guetta and RedOne, Here I Am concerns itself with the kind of bland, radio-friendly R&B pop that equates sex appeal with self-confidence. That said, the most interesting song is also the sexiest: producer Jim Jonsin’s spacious, slinky R&B jam Motivation, a welcome reprieve from pulverizing, vaguely hooky fare like Turn It Up and Work It Man. Rowland is a forceful but unambitious singer, and her producers compensate by mixing her voice as high as possible. The effect is mind-numbingly obvious: just because she’s loud does not mean she’s assertive, sexy or confident. Top track: Motivation KEVIN RITCHIE

BEIRUT The Rip Tide (Pompeii) Rating: NNN The Rip Tide is Beirut’s most accessible album to date, which is its greatest strength and greatest weakness. The fact that main man Zach Condon isn’t as focused this time on cramming in references to Balkan folk music makes it feel more authentic and less contrived but at the same time a little less interesting. While the ornate arrangements are just as lovely as ever, they also sound more conventionally poppy, which may put off fans more enamoured

SCOTT NOLAN Montgomery Eldorado

(Transistor 66) Rating: NNN On his fourth album, Winnipeg-based Scott Nolan sings affable roots rock with a heavy dose of harmonica, blues and country. It’s standard touring, drinking and lovesick fare, but what sets Nolan apart is his ability to casually deliver confessional one-liners in his odd but effective Canadian drawl. It’s humorous and warm rather than a bummer. Drummer/backup vocalist Joanna Miller sets the stage for low-key dancing, while horns, electric guitar, keyboards and a guest appearance by the Holmes Brothers shake things up. Nolan’s writing is strongest on You Rock We Roll (a tribute to his friend Ernie Blackburn) and Trial Separation, which is just about as lighthearted as a breakup song can be. The looser, bluesy material near the end has meandering lyrics and is perhaps better suited to Nolan’s live show. Top track: You Rock We Roll Scott Nolan plays the Cameron House August 17. SG

Hype, the second tier of L.A. shock rap group Odd Future (Tyler, the Creator and Frank Ocean being its first). The two come out swinging with BlackenedWhite, the follow-up to last year’s YelloWhite, released on Mississippi-based Fat Possum, of all labels. The beats, handled by Left Brain, fall in line with the Odd Future formula: dystopian synth melodies and electronic drums. If you know the collective’s creeptastic MO, then expect the expected: confessional emo-rap tempered with misogyny, violence, guns, drugs, sex and.... Sorry, I just fell asleep for a few minutes. There’s the occasional clever turn of phrase, but MellowHype’s brand of vulgarity is subtler and less arresting than Tyler’s. Top track: 64 JR

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FOO FIGHTERS Back And Forth (RCA/

Spitfire Pictures) Rating: NN One of the strangest member changes in the history of rock happens midway through this 140-minute Foo Fighters documentary. The band is playing the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards on the

roof at Radio City Music Hall when, in between songs, guitarist Pat Smear both announces his departure and introduces his replacement. As Smear awkwardly waves goodbye, Franz Stahl jumps out, straps on, and the band plays the next song like they just fixed a broken guitar string. This bizarre moment reflects the complexity of Dave Grohl’s character. He’s the gum-chewing nice guy of rock who navigated his against-all-odds post-Nirvana solo project into a Wembley Stadiumfilling superpower. But he’s also ruthless with band members, keeping them in fear of being dumped while dictating every aspect and direction of the group. Unfortunately, director James Moll isn’t brave enough to take on Grohl’s conflicts and instead opts for a celluloid fan letter, spending a questionable amount of time on the seemingly perfect experience of recording their new album. Foo Fighters play the Air Canada Centre on Tuesday (August 9). JASON KELLER

THE WEATHER STATION All Of It Was

Mine (Youth Club) Rating: NNN There are often false starts when making an album, and folk musician Tamara Lindeman, aka the Weather Station, encountered a few when she set out to record her sophomore effort. In the end, she discovered simple was best, despite the fact that that approach is a far cry from her orchestrated debut’s. Produced by Welland’s Daniel Romano, All Of It Was Mine is intimate and calm, with well-phrased lyrics, smart chord progressions and brief songs whose trailedoff endings leave behind an intriguing sense of incompleteness. Mostly, they feature just fingerpicked guitars, occasional harmonies and banjo, and Lindeman’s drifting, pretty, sometimes listless vocals. Things start strong with the title track and Came So Easy but begin to sag and slow in the face of such austerity. However the Joni Mitchelly Know It To See It has welcome curveballs that’ll make you glance up at your iTunes to see if you’ve accidentally jumped to a different artist. More of that, please! Top track: Know It To See It The Weather Station releases her new album at CSI Annex August 19. CARLA GILLIS

Hip-hop

MELLOWHYPE BlackenedWhite (Fat Possum) Rating: NN Hodgy Beats and Left Brain are Mellow-

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

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SUMMERWORKS PREVIEW Canada’s largest juried theatre fest made headlines after the feds cut their funding weeks before opening (see story, news section), but the shows will, as they say, go on. Here are some of the cool works and artists that could be the hottest tickets. Tommy Taylor

SUMMERWORKS: A FESTIVAL OF PLAYS, READINGS, WORKSHOPS, PERFORMANCE AND MUSIC at Factory Theatre (125 Bathurst), Theatre Passe Muraille (16 Ryerson), the Theatre Centre (1087 Queen West), Lower Ossington Theatre (100A Ossington) and various bring-your-ownvenues. From today (Thursday, August 4) to August 14, various times. $15, music series $10, passes $40-$110. Tickets on sale at the venue one hour before performance; advance tickets (up to half the house) sold until 10 am the day before performance. See complete listings at nowtoronto.com/summerworks or summerworks.ca. 416-504-7529, in person at Theatre Passe Muraille’s Arts Box Office (16 Ryerson) or artsboxoffice.ca.

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Hero worship

POLITICAL DRAMA

Reliving a G20 nightmare tommy taylor’s experience at last summer’s G20 convinced him that the event was about much more than cop cars being set on fire. In downtown Toronto with friends to see what was happening, Taylor was one of the hundreds of people arrested and sent to the Eastern Avenue detention centre, where he spent a day and a half jailed with 40 others in a 10-by-20 cage, sometimes screaming for water. “Most of the news I read after the G20 was about smashed windows and burning cars,” says the theatre artist, whose detention ironically kept him from several days of rehearsal for a SummerWorks 2010 show, Kayak. “In fact, the importance of the

event is what happened to people, not things. It’s the first time I’ve been on the other side of this kind of news story, and I know the lies that the authorities have been telling.” Taylor turned his weekend-long experience into an 11,000-word Facebook piece that quickly went viral. Thus far, his tale has been read in 21 countries and translated into seven languages. With the help of Praxis Theatre and director Michael Wheeler, he’s putting it onstage in what he calls “mostly a one-man show. “I’ve been careful that it not be a lecture or theatre piece that draws conclusions for the audience. I just want to tell a story. The best theatre

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involves storytelling – in this case sometimes scary, but also at times funny and inspiring.” The title, You Should Have Stayed Home, comes from the reactions of a number of friends. “I wanted to address the feelings I’d had about the G20 and what happened to me; it’s important to counter the attitude of some people that any citizens involved in the events of the weekend got what they deserved. “In North America we’re often distanced from the fact that people’s rights can be put in jeopardy. The weekend showed me that that’s not so. We can’t take our rights for granted; they come with responsibilities, sometimes the responsibility to speak out.” From tonight (Thursday, August 4) at JON KAPLAN the Theatre Centre.

hero and leander (hero’s a woman, by the way) are the classical world’s version of Juliet and Romeo. Separated not by family hatred but rather by the strait called the Hellespont, they meet nightly until Leander, swimming again to his beloved, drowns in a storm. Playwright and director Kevin Michael Shea was turned on to the story five years ago by a friend, actor and lyricist Wade Bogert-O’Brien. Working with composer Scott Christian, they’ve come up with a musical, Hero & Leander, that blends the ancient world with contemporary Toronto culture. “What struck me was the mix of sex, love and commitment that we face in our everyday lives, and how I could use the original myth to address those sometimes contradictory ideas,” says Shea, who recently worked on Cendrillon in the Fringe. “I have a soft spot for romantic comedies,” he admits, “and it’s a form I can use to look at Hero and Leander. But the play also includes two largerthan-life gods, Venus and Neptune, who represent sexually outrageous archetypes.” Add Ganymede, the male cupbearer to the gods who supplies them with liquor and occasional sexual favours and who loves Neptune, and the stage is full of various sorts of lust and love. “When I was researching the story, I read Christopher Marlowe’s unfinished poetic version. It has a homoerotic note, with Neptune mistaking Leander for

Ganymede and bringing him to the seabed to ravish him.” The pastiche score includes a power ballad for Hero and a brassy musical theatre number for Venus (“the kind of song that Patti LuPone would sing”). And why the contemporary setting, with the lovers talking on cellphones and meeting all the wrong people while waiting on line at a crowded restaurant? “My life is about going to brunch and late-night phone conversations,” laughs Shea. “I couldn’t leave that out of anything I write.” From tonight (Thursday, August 4) at JK Factory Mainspace.

Kevin Michael Shea

summerworkspreview Kristina Nicoll

Hit and myth kristina nicoll read the first page of Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice and went “Ah.” She knew she’d found the play to pitch to SummerWorks. “The choice of a play shouldn’t be about ego or showing off,” says the rookie director, a talented actor who’s

currently assistant artistic director at the Tarragon. “The heart knows in stinctively what’s going to work.” Nicoll’s choice is a fascinating one. Ruhl (The Clean House, Melancholy Play) looks at the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice from the viewpoint of the dead bride, confined to an under

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world with her deceased father, the manipulative lord of the dead and a chorus of stones. “At its core, the play is about Eury dice losing her father; she leaves her own wedding because he’s not there. Ruhl focuses on the emptiness in side people. She warns us not to try to fill that emptiness from some outside source, but rather from within. “It’s a quest tale, with the heroine going to the underworld; the play be comes a metaphor for looking at fears and yearnings that we don’t want to face.” Nicoll admires Ruhl’s writing style, which draws on irony, theatrical sur prises and “cleverness without pre tentiousness.” But don’t forget that Orpheus makes the journey, too, to find his new bride in the world of the dead. As in the original Greek tale, he’s a musi cian. At first, the couple find it diffi cult to share their feelings, since she communicates through words and he through music. “Over the course of the play, he be comes more adept at communicating verbally, which allows her to see and love him for who he is rather than who she’d like him to be. “Ultimately, Ruhl’s telling of the myth is a romance rather than a tra gedy, and love triumphs over death. When we lose people, that doesn’t mean we stop loving them.” From tonight (Thursday, August 4) at Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace. JK

movement-based drama

The first rule of fight club playwright adam underwood’s Fringe hit Tyumen, Then (rave re views and a Patron’s Pick) solidified his status as a writer to watch. But even before the Fringe bump he was scooped up by veterans Claire Calnan and Allison Cummings to help orga nize and shape the script for their in terdisciplinary danceinfused Sum merWorks show, Combat. “This time I’m not the only writer,” Underwood points out. “Combat is a much more collaborative creation, and a lot of the text and choreogra phy is being generated right in re hearsal. Everyone’s job title over laps.” The dreamlike think piece medi tates on why we fight. But exploring “combat” writ large means investigat ing conflicts large and small. As a re sult, the show offers up twin story lines that weave together a largescale international conflict and the more familiar micronegotiations in a mundane office. “It looks at various ways of fight ing and the ways people seek their goals through different forms of combat,” says Underwood. “Claire and Allison were both really interest ed in using a hybrid of theatre and dance to explore differences in

scale. I hope these two stories serve as interesting mirrors for each other.” Making the shift from sole writer to dramaturge was relatively easy for Underwood, who first trained as an actor at Vancouver’s Studio 58 before switching his focus to writing and re locating to Toronto three years ago. Still, multiple choreographers, direc tors, actors and writers all in the same room together trying to create a coherent piece of theatre presented unexpected challenges. “We knew our process would in

some ways reflect our subject mat ter,” he laughs. “For instance, there’ve been mo ments when we’ve just looked at each other dumbfounded because the art istic languages we’re speaking are different. Sometimes we didn’t even realize we were all agreeing on the same thing! It’s been totally wild.” Underwood says that another sin gleauthored play is in the works. He just needs to enjoy a little postSum merWorks downtime first. From tonight (Thursday, August 4) at JORDAN BIMM the Theatre Centre.

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Adam Underwood

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for an uncomfortable dinner. WHY: After a series of intense, realistic roles in Ruined and Kim’s Convenience, Sills gets a chance to tackle a surreal, absurdist script that’s sure to be larger than life in the hands of director Aleksandar Lukac. WHO: Lois Fine WHAT: Writer, Freda And Jem’s Best Of The Week, a play about dyke moms and the politics within queer families. WHY: Fine, who impressed audiences as a writer/actor in Body And Soul, reunites with director Judith Thompson in a script filled with first-hand experience and observations. Won’t hurt that the always watchable Diane Flacks and Kathryn Haggis are in the cast. Michelle Polak

WHO: Matthew MacKenzie WHAT: Writer, The Particulars and In General, a linked pair of darkly comic looks at crises big and small. WHY: The author of festival hits Sia (Fringe) and Me Happy (SummerWorks 2010, with Amy Lee Lavoie) tackles the plight of African Pygmies and that of a man who, Poe-like, hears scratching in his wall. Look for MacKenzie’s incisive dialogue and well-drawn characters in these two short scripts. WHO: Kate Lushington WHAT: Director, Morning Glory, vignettes about women with special needs in Ontario prisons. WHY: Always a political artist, Lushington has been a pioneering theatre creator since the 70s. She’s sure to evoke strong performances from a cast that includes Soo Garay, Jajube Mandiela and Tanisha Taitt. WHO: Nicky Guadagni WHAT: Performer, Hooked, a portrait of four fascinating 20th-century women, three of them writers: Elizabeth Smart, Unity Mitford, Jane Bowles and Carson McCullers. WHY: One of the group of artists who helped define Canadian theatre in the

WHO: Michelle Polak WHAT: Actor, ‘I’, David Hersh’s play about a writer who goes to Paris to meet her literary idol. WHY: Polak brings intelligence, soul and a strong physical presence to every production she’s in (like Aluna’s La Comunión and For Sale). She’s never less than focused, which should help in this absurdist piece about creation and multiple personalities. WHO: Richard Sanger WHAT: Writer (with Mark Migotti), Hannah’s Turn, a look at the affair between philosopher Martin Heidegger and political theorist Hannah Arendt, which began when she was his student. WHY: Don’t expect dry philosophical ruminations here, and not just because the couple’s relationship was a stormy one; she was Jewish, he joined the Nazi party. Sanger, author of Not Spain and Two Words For Snow, is a poet who knows how to distill emotion and drama in his scripts.

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Nicky Guadagni

70s, Guadagni is a dynamic performer too rarely seen on Toronto stages. Here she offers dramatic monologues featuring a quartet of diverse women. And she knows McCullers’s sensibility well, having starred in a Tarragon production of The Member Of The Wedding.

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Theatre listings are comprehensive and appear alphabetically by title. Opening plays begin this week, Previewing shows preview this week, One-Nighters are one-offs, and Continuing shows have already opened. Reviews are by Glenn Sumi (GS) and Jon Kaplan (JK). The rating system is as follows: NNNNN Standing ovation NNNN Sustained applause NNN Recommended, memorable scenes NN Seriously flawed N Get out the hook

WHO: Michelle Monteith WHAT: Actor, Little One, a play about two adopted dysfunctional siblings (Monteith and Joe Cobden) in late 1990s Ottawa. WHY: After her riveting Dora-nominated turn in Buddies’ Blasted (which landed her on NOW’s cover), Monteith, who’s so good at expressing conflicting emotions, reunites with playwright Hannah Moscovitch and director Natasha Mytnowych, the same team who created the awardwinning The Russian Play at SummerWorks several seasons ago.

ñ= Critics’ pick (highly recommended) How to place a listing

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

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Q&A AMARANTA WHO: Jonathan Seinen WHAT: Co-creator/director, Still Life, a show about gay-bashing inspired by the 2009 murder of Toronto’s Christopher Skinner. WHY: Seinen is used to working on collective creations about social issues, having scored a big coup last season with Highway 63: The Fort Mac Show, which dealt with the Alberta tar sands with sharp drama, some humour and brutal truths. Bullying and bashing is as prevalent as ever in North America, so count on this piece to hit home in a big way. WHO: Monica Dottor WHAT: Creator/director (with Steven McCarthy), Malaria Lullabye, an aerial dance piece about a woman hallucinating in a foreign country; and performer, The Trolley Car, dealing with a love triangle in Germanoccupied Paris. WHY: An accomplished choreographer, dancer and actor, Dottor gets to show off all her skills in a pair of media-contrasted productions. How high will she fly? WHO: Small Wooden Shoe WHAT: Creators/performers, Perhaps In A Hundred Years, a sci-fi tale about three friends stuck in outer space. WHY: The always creative indie company (Dedicated To The Revolutions) revive their first Toronto production, a 2005 work again featuring Jacob Zimmer, Ame Henderson and Chad Dembski, working with dramaturge Kilby Smith-McGregor. Can they recreate the sense of innocence and hope they brought to the premiere? JON KAPLAN/GLENN SUMI

LEYVA PLAYWRIGHT, THE INTRUDER

In her first English play, transplanted Mexican playwright and puppeteer Amaranta Leyva introduces us to Catalina, a clever, deeply skeptical little girl who relentlessly probes the secrets her mother’s boyfriend is hiding. Originally presented as part of Alameda’s De Colores Festival in 2009, The Intruder combines politics, autobiography and even puppets to question the way adults and children coexist. When did you first start developing The Intruder? The Intruder as a character came alive one afternoon as I watched my stepfather sleep. There was so much I didn’t know about his past – exactly how he left his country, how it felt coming to a new one. The man who had been in my life since I was a child seemed like a complete stranger. I started writing the relationship between Catalina and the Intruder [her mother’s boyfriend, Delfor] as a way of looking for answers in my own relationship with my stepfather.

The play deals with the dictatorship in Argentina. What inspired you to place a divorce narrative in the context of political oppression? Reality. I remember myself as a 10-year-old dealing with my parents’ separation. It coincided with the new friends I was making: boys and girls who had come to Mexico as exiles. The search for “home” became the thing that connected us, and that’s what happens between Catalina and Delfor.

Anderson and John Millard (Festival Players of Prince Edward County). A country boy sells his soul to the devil in this comical reworking of the Faust legend. Opens Aug 4 and runs to Aug 27, see website for schedule. $15-$30. Rosehall Run Vineyard, Wellington. festivalplayers.ca. BILLY BISHOP GOES TO WAR by John Gray (Thousand Islands Playhouse). The famous WWI fighter pilot looks back on his life in this musical. Opens Aug 5 and runs to Sep 3, TueSun 8 pm, mats Fri-Sat 2:30 pm. $16-$32. Firehall Theatre, Gananoque. 1-866-382-7020, 1000islandsplayhouse.com. THE CAVAN BLAZERS by Robert Winslow (4th Line Theatre). Violence erupts between Catholic and Protestant settlers in mid-19th cen-

tury Ontario. Opens Aug 6 and runs to Aug 27, Tue-Sat 6 pm (and Aug 22). $26-$30, opening night $40. Winslow Farm, 779 Zion Line, Millbrook. 1-800-814-0055, 4thlinetheatre.on.ca. EARLY AUGUST by Kate Lynch (Blyth Festival). Actors from the city adjust to rural life during summer theatre season in this comedy. Previews to Aug 4. Opens Aug 5 and runs to Aug 27, see website for schedule. $28-$32, previews $22-$26, stu $15. Blyth Memorial Hall, 431 Queen, Blyth. blythfestival.com. THE FOURPOSTER by Jan de Hartog (Classic Theatre Festival). This play follows a couple through the joys and challenges of 35 years of marriage. Previews Aug 5-6. Opens Aug 6 and runs to Aug 28, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mats Wed, SatSun 2 pm. $21-$30. Mason Theatre, 13 Victoria, Perth. 1-877-283-1283, classictheatre.ca.

HANSEL AND GRETEL – A CASE STUDY (Shadowland Theatre). This processional ñ cabaret performance takes a darkly humor-

ous look at the Grimm Brothers’ fairy tale. Opens Aug 9 and runs to Aug 14, Tue-Sat 8 pm. $15, child $10 (plus ferry cost). Ward’s Island, starts at Ferry docks. 416-203-0946, shadowlandtheatre.ca. HOSANNA by Michel Tremblay (Stratford Festival). A transvestite and her partner confront insecurities and illusions about identity. Previews to Aug 9. Opens Aug 10 and runs in rep to Sep 24. $25-$70. Studio Theatre, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. A LITTLE HAPPINESS by Ramona Baillie (MNX Productions). A woman must confront her past when a new therapist takes over her treatment. Opens Aug 10 and runs to Aug 14, Wed-Sun 8 pm, mat Sun 2 pm. $25, mat $15. Alumnae Theatre, 70 Berkeley. ticketweb.ca. 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. SEXY LAUNDRY by Michele Riml (Stirling Festival Theatre). Empty nesters look for the old

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spark during a romantic trip. Opens Aug 10 and runs to Aug 20, Thu-Sat 8 pm, see website for more times. $29. 41 West Front, Stirling. 1-877-312-1162, stirlingfestivaltheatre.com. SUMMERWORKS (SummerWorks). The annual juried festival returns with works by Alameda Theatre Co, lemonTree theatre, Birdtown and Swanville, Small Wooden Shoe, SNAFU Dance and others, plus live music and more. See page 48 for previews, and visit nowtoronto.com/summerworks for listings and reviews. Opens Aug 4 and runs to Aug 14. $15, passes $40-$110. Various venues. 416504-7529, summerworks.ca. TILL IT HURTS by Doug Bowie (Globus Theatre). A determined telemarketer and a cantankerous professor clash in this comedy. Opens Aug 10 and runs to Aug 20, Tue-Sat 8 pm, see website for mats. $26.50, stu $20. Lakeview Arts Barn, 2300 Pigeon Lake, Bobcaygeon. 1-800304-7897, globustheatre.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-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. TOTEM by Robert Lepage (Cirque du Soleil). Music, dance, acrobatics and design are used to trace the journey of the human species. Opens Aug 10 and runs to Oct 2, TueSat 8 pm (opening night 7:30 pm), mats Sun 1 & 5 pm, Fri-Sat 4 pm (no show Sep 6). $74-$249,

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Thursday, August 4 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Mike Storck, Barry

Taylor and Mark Bennett. To Aug 7, 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 family-friendly

improv and sketch. Thu-Sat 1 pm. $12. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com. COMEDY THURSDAYS The Starving Artist presents a weekly showcase w/ host Natasha Henderson. 9 pm. Free. 584 Lansdowne. 647342-5058, starvingartistbar.com.

DREAMS REALLY DO COME TRUE! (AND OTHER LIES) Second City presents previews of its up-

coming sketch revue. Opens Aug 30. Wed-Fri 8 pm, Sat 8 & 10:30 pm, Sun 7 pm. $29, stu $15. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com. GAME PLAYA THURSDAYS John Candy Box Theatre presents longform improv. 8:45 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270. HOT BOX COMEDY Hot Box Cafe presents a weekly show w/ host Jillian Thomas. 7:15 pm. $5. 191A Baldwin. hotboxcafe.ca. LAUGHING LIKE CRAZY Mood Disorders Association of Ontario presents a showcase by

Friends, enemies and past lovers celebrate the secret agent’s retirement. Aug 5 at 8 pm (dinner from 6:30 pm). $40-$51 (show only). 2026 Yonge. 416-486-7469, mysteriouslyyours.com. PETER FETCHER: 52 MINUTES by Jordan Tannahill (Suburban Beast). A teen is shot and left to die on the road while trying to cross the Berlin Wall in 1972 in this workshop production. Aug 7 at 2 pm. Pwyc. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. suburbanbeast.ca. SUMMERWORKS OPENING PARTY (SummerWorks). The theatre fest opens with a party featuring live bands, theatre, food and more. Aug 4, from 4 pm till late. Free. Edward Day Gallery, 952 Queen W, and MOCCA courtyard. summerworks.ca. UNSPOKEN (Nina Kaye). Vignettes show various characters connected through themes in the poetry of WB Yeats in this play reading. Aug 7 at 2 pm. Free (donations welcome). Ralph Thornton Centre, 765 Queen E, 3rd floor. 416-392-6810.

stu/srs $67-$235, children under 12 $54-$208. Grand Chapiteau, Port Lands, Commissioners at Cherry. cirquedusoleil.com.

Previewing HOMECOMING by Harold Pinter (Stratford Festival). A man and his AmerñTHE ican wife return to his all-male family in Lon-

don for a tense reunion. Previews to Aug 10. Opens Aug 11 and runs in rep to Oct 30. $50$106, stu/srs $25-$66. Avon Theatre, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. THE MISANTHROPE by Molière (Stratford Festival). A man scorns social conventions but falls

Continuing BEST OF FRINGE UPTOWN (Fringe Toronto). Encore performances of Kim’s Conñ venience, ELLAmentary and Remember,

Maggy?. Runs to Aug 5, shows performed in rep, nightly at 7 and 9 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. 416-866-8666, 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 raw, crudely funny and uncompromising. The songs, while not exactly hummable, serve the story and characters, and the performances (four boys alternate in the 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)

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for a superficial socialite in this manners comedy. Previews to Aug 11. Opens Aug 12 and runs in rep to Oct 29. $50-$106, stu/srs $25$66. Festival Theatre, Stratford. 1-800-5671600, stratfordfestival.ca.

members of its comedy workshop program. 7 pm. Free. Northern District Library, 40 Orchard View, room 200. mooddisorders.on.ca. PILOT WEEK Comedy Bar and Insight Productions present a search for Canada’s next original comedy program, featuring half-hour TV comedies performed live. To Aug 7, Thu-Sun 8 pm. Free. 945 Bloor W. pilotweek.ca. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Tim Nasiopoulos. To Aug 6, Thu 8 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:30 pm. $12-$20. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com. YUK YUK’S VAUGHAN presents Double Feature Night w/ Bryan O’Gorman and John Hastings. 8 pm. $12. 70 Interchange Way. yukyuks.com. YUK YUK’S WEST presents Double Feature Night w/ Ted Morris and Adam Christie. 8 pm. $12. 5165 Dixie, Mississauga. yukyuks.com.

Friday, August 5 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 4. THE ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY COMPLETELY MADE UP SHOW See Thu 4. DREAMS REALLY DO COME TRUE! (AND OTHER LIES) See Thu 4. NAKED FRIDAYS presents music, improv and

sketch w/ host Ben Johnson. 9 pm. Pwyc. John Candy Box Theatre, 70 Peter. 416-340-7270. PILOT WEEK See Thu 4. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 4. YUK YUK’S VAUGHAN presents Bryan Hatt w/ Orson Payne and Dan Guiry. To Aug 6, Fri-Sat 9 pm. $20. 70 Interchange Way. yukyuks.com. YUK YUK’S WEST presents Jay Brown w/ Karen O’Keefe and Ron Josol. To Aug 6, Fri-Sat 9 pm. $20. 5165 Dixie, Mississauga. yukyuks.com.

Saturday, August 6 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 4. THE ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY COMPLETELY MADE UP SHOW See Thu 4.

game show with a focus on audience suggestions, w/ host Josh Murray. 10:30 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. BITCH SALAD: BIG BUSINESS Buddies in Bad Times Theatre presents Andrew Johnston and Sara Hennessey in a co-feature edition. 8:30 pm. $10. 12 Alexander. femaledogsalad@gmail.com.

DREAMS REALLY DO COME TRUE! (AND OTHER LIES) See Thu 4. PILOT WEEK See Thu 4. SPILLIN’ THE BEANS COMEDY Full of Beans Cof-

fee presents a show w/ host Rene Payes. 7 pm. Pwyc. 1348 Dundas W. fullofbeans.ca. THEATRESPORTS Bad Dog Theatre presents fast and furious improv matches. 8 pm. $12, stu $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, baddogtheatre.com. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 4. YUK YUK’S VAUGHAN See Fri 5. YUK YUK’S WEST See Fri 5.

Sunday, August 7 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 4. THE ATHEIST SHOW Yuk Yuk’s Downtown

presents Cal Post, Rob Pue, Hunter Collins, the Atheist Boys Choir of Toronto and host Bryan O’Gorman. 8 pm. $13. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com. THE BENCH John Candy Box Theatre presents upcoming improvisers picked by the Second City. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270.

SUNDAY NIGHT LIVE The Sketchersons present a new sketch show every week w/ guest hosts. 9:30 pm. $8. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. thesketchersons.com. XXX EROTIC COMEDY NIGHT Zanzibar Tavern presents a show w/ host Fast Eddie Bizarria. 8:30 pm. Free. 359 Yonge. 647-831-4975.

Monday, August 8 ALT.COMEDY LOUNGE Rivoli presents Jon Steinberg, Bob Kerr, Mike Storck, Terry ñ Clement, Rob Mailloux, Matt O’Brien, Dred

DREAMS REALLY DO COME TRUE! (AND OTHER LIES) See Thu 4. LAUGH SABBATH presents Pure Gold! w/

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Chris Locke, Adam Christie, Bob Kerr, Pat Thornton, Deborah Robinson, Hunter Collins, Parker & Seville, Tom Henry, host Tim Gilbert and others. Doors 8:30 pm. $5. 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. PILOT WEEK See Thu 4. SILVER CITY STANDUP presents weekly comedy w/ host Kirk Hicks. 9 pm. Pwyc. Silver City, 780 Danforth. 416-461-1504.

Lee, Ryan Maglunob, MC John Hastings and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com. BEANS & WIENERS COMEDY NIGHT Gladstone Hotel presents up-and-coming comics. 8 pm. Free. 1214 Queen W. gladstonehotel.com. BEST. MONDAY. EVER. Second City presents weekly sketch, songs and improvisation. 8 pm. $12. 51 Mercer. secondcity.com. CHEAP LAUGHS MONDAY PJ O’Briens Irish Pub presents a show w/ Russell Roy and guests. 8 pm. Free. 39 Colborne. 416-815-7562. DIRTY BINGO Zelda’s presents a weekly game with adult prizes w/ hosts Gloria Hole and Lena Over. 8:30 pm. Free. 692 Yonge. zeldas.ca. THE FAMOUS & HEINOUS SHOW Pour Boy Pub

THE GLASS MENAGERIE by Tennessee Williams (Soulpepper). Ted Dykstra’s moving ñ production begins and ends with Tom Wing-

field (Stuart Hughes), recalling the past long after having abandoned his St. Louis family. Nancy Palk shines as the formerly genteel Amanda, and Gemma James-Smith admirably transcends any idea of Laura as a tragic pixie. The impassioned performances and sensitive direction produce an unflinching view of Tennessee Williams’s wounded family. Runs to Sep 10, see website for schedule. $45-$65, rush $5-$22. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. NNNN (Naomi Skwarna) THE KREUTZER SONATA adapted by Ted Dykstra (Soulpepper). In this one-act adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s controversial 1889 novella, Ted Dykstra plays a Russian aristocrat who doubts his wife’s fidelity. Dykstra shows lots of skill recounting the dark and disturbing tale, but since he spends most of his time on a wingback chair, the static storytelling approach gets tedious. Runs to Aug 11, see website for schedule. $25-$35, rush $5-$22. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-8668666, 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 men end the wars gets an outdoor staging. Runs to Aug 6, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $10, stu/srs $8. Philosopher’s Walk, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-978-8849, canopytheatre.ca. THE PEDALER’S WAGER (Clay & Paper Theatre). The theatre and CYCLOPS troupes present a production featuring puppets and bicycles. presents a weekly open mic. 10:30 pm. Free. 666 Manning. 647-343-7969, pourboy.ca. IMPERIAL COMEDY STAND-UP COMPETITION Imperial Pub presents a weekly show with cash prizes w/ host Eric Bud. 9:30 pm. $5. 54 Dundas E. imperialcomedy.com. LAUGHABLE AT UNLOVABLE presents stand-up comedy and free pin ball w/ Nick Flanagan, Bryan O’Gorman, Hunter Collins, Eric Andrews host Steph Tolev and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. Unlovable, 1415-B Dundas W. 416-532-6669. MONDAY NIGHT IMPROV JAM Black Swan Comedy presents an open jam w/ Ralph MacLeod and guests the Infamous Water Cannons. 8 pm. Pwyc. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. 416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com. SAVED BY THE JOKES Fox & Fiddle presents hosts Evan Desmarais and Chris Robinson. 8 pm. Pwyc. 27 Wellesley E. wellesleyfox.com. WHEEL OF IMPROV John Candy Box Theatre presents an interactive improv show. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270.

Tuesday, August 9 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. Late Night Menu, new and developing acts. 10:30 pm. Free. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-238-7337, 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.

Wednesday, August 10 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Pro-Am Night w/

Mark Bennett, Alex Kolanko, Derek Langston, Georgea Brooks-Hancock, Magdalena, Kris Bonaparte and host Mike Dambra. 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.

DREAMS REALLY DO COME TRUE! (AND OTHER LIES) See Thu 4. IMPATIENT THEATRE CO presents improv by its

students. 7 pm. Free. 10th Anniversary show. 8 pm. $10. Munchausen, rapid-fire improv based on true stories. 10 pm. Free. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-238-7337, impatient.ca. STUDENTS ROCK THE NITE John Candy Box Theatre presents improv by Second City Training Centre students. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416340-7270. THE WORKSHOP WORKSHOP Black Swan Comedy presents a show by Bruce Hunter’s students. 8 pm. Pwyc. Black Swan, 154 Danforth. 416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com. 3

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Bring your bike. Runs to Aug 14, Wed-Sun 7 pm, mat Fri 2 pm (weekend mobile matinees at 2 pm; see website for details). Pwyc ($10 sugg). Dufferin Grove Park, Dufferin S of Bloor. clayandpapertheatre.org/cyclops. THE RAILWAY CHILDREN by Edith Nesbit (Mirvish). This adaptation of Nesbit’s treasured children’s book focuses on three siblings who are uprooted from their comfy Edwardian London home to a working-class town after their father’s disappearance. There’s a placid, facile idea about hope at the heart of the material. It seems like the whole production has been adapted to allow for the show’s muchtouted (and tooted) live train. Alas, the show remains track bound. Runs to Aug 14, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mats Wed, Sat-Sun 2 pm. $25-$99. Roundhouse Theatre, 255 Bremner Blvd. mirvish.com. NN (Naomi Skwarna) SOLT 2011 OPERA WORKSHOP SERIES (Summer Opera Lyric Theatre). This series features workshop productions of Mozart’s Idomeneo, Verdi’s La Traviata and Aaron Copland’s The Tender Land. Runs to Aug 7, see website for schedule. $26, stu/srs $22. Robert Gill Theatre, 214 College. 416-978-7986, solt.ca. THE WINTER’S TALE by William Shakespeare (Canadian Stage Dream in High Park). This generally 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 and Parkside. canadianstage.com/dream. NNN (Jordan Bimm) WISHFUL DRINKING by Carrie Fisher (Mirvish). Writer/performer Fisher’s autobiographical solo show covers her Hollywood genealogy, substance abuse and recovery, and both script and performance are often entertaining. Too bad she didn’t have a dramaturge to help her edit the material. Runs to Aug 21, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm. $35-$99. Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260 King W. 416872-1212, mirvish.com. NNN (GS)

Out of Town THE ADMIRABLE CRICHTON by JM Barrie (Shaw Festival). Barrie’s thoughtful and ñ sometimes romantic play looks at the con-

trasting social hierarchies in the worlds of civilized London and a deserted tropical island. The Shaw ensemble, headed by Steven Sutcliffe as the conservative, subservient butler who becomes the leader on the island, captures the script’s comedy and irony, while director Morris Panych gives the story a musical vaudeville frame. Runs in rep to Oct 29. $24$106. Festival Theatre, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. NNNN (JK) 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. Runs to Aug 6, Tue-Sat 8 pm, see website for mats. $26.50, stu $20. Lakeview Arts Barn, 2300 Pigeon Lake, Bobcaygeon. globustheatre.com. CAMELOT by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe (Stratford Festival). King Arthur’s wife

betrays him with his most trusted knight in this musical. Runs in rep to Oct 30. $50-$106, stu/srs $25-$66. Festival Theatre, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. CANDIDA by Bernard Shaw (Shaw Festival). A woman must choose between her preacher husband and her poet lover. Runs in rep to Oct 30. $24-$106. Royal George Theatre, Niagaraon-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF by Tennessee Williams (Shaw Festival). A bad marriage and a looming inheritance create tensions at a Southern patriarch’s birthday dinner. Runs in rep to Oct 23. $24-$106. Royal George Theatre, Niagara-on-the-Lake. shawfest.com. THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck, adapted by Frank Galati (Stratford Festival). Ruined by the Depression, an Oklahoma farming family travels to California to seek a new life. Runs in rep to Oct 29. $50-$106, stu/srs $25-$66. Avon Theatre, Stratford. 1-800-5671600, stratfordfestival.ca. HEARTBREAK HOUSE by Bernard Shaw (Shaw Festival). Debates and deceptions play out at a British dinner party on the eve of World War I. Runs in rep to Oct 7. $24-$106. Festival Theatre, Niagara-on-the-Lake. shawfest.com. HOMETOWN by Jean Marc Dalpé, Mieko Ouchi, Mansel Robinson, Martha Ross, Peter Smith, Des Walsh and David Archibald (Blyth Festival). Six short plays look at whether ‘hometown’ is a place or state of mind. Runs to Aug 7, see website for schedule. $28-$32, stu $15. Blyth Memorial Hall, 431 Queen, Blyth. 1-877862-5984, blythfestival.com.

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. Runs to Aug 13, see website for schedule. $42, stu $22. Huron Country Playhouse, 70689 B Line, Grand Bend. 1-888-4494463, draytonentertainment.com. JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice (Stratford Festival). The crucifixion – sound like something you’d make a musical out of? In director Des McAnuff’s hands, the radical and risky rock musical becomes a thrilling show. Paul Nolan finds the inner core of Jesus, hitting all the high notes in the Webber/Rice score as the man not quite ready to do God’s bidding. As Judas, Josh Young, also an exceptional singer, manages to gain our sympathies. Chilina Kennedy’s Mary Magdalene is superb, and great support from Brent Carver as Pontius Pilate and Bruce Dow as Herod. Runs in rep to Nov 6. $50-$106, stu/srs $25-$66. Avon Theatre, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival. ca. NNNN (Susan G Cole) THE LITTLE YEARS by John Mighton (Stratford Festival). Growing up in the 50s, a woman’s interest in science is dismissed by her family. (See review at nowtoronto.com/ stage.) Runs in rep to Sep 24. $25-$70. Studio Theatre, Stratford. stratfordfestival.ca. NNNNN (JK) MACBETH by William Shakespeare (Driftwood Theatre Bard’s Bus Tour). The classic tragedy is presented in a touring production. Aug 4-12, Tue-Sun 7:30 pm. Pwyc ($15 adv reserve).

Kingston, Bloomfield, Belleville, Cobourg, Whitby, Greenwood, Bowanville and Streetsville, see website for location details (tour ends in Toronto Aug 13-14). 905-576-2396, driftwoodtheatre.com. MY FAIR LADY by Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner (Shaw Festival). This musical is based on Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. Runs in rep to Oct 30. $24-$106. Festival Theatre, Niagaraon-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. ON THE ROCKS by Bernard Shaw, adapted by Michael Healey (Shaw Festival). Shaw’s political drama about a prime minister’s controversial speech gets a modern update. Runs in rep to Oct 8. $24-$106. Court House Theatre, Niagara-on-the-Lake. shawfest.com. RICHARD III by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). A ruthless Duke marries and murders his way to the English throne. Runs in rep to Sep 25. $50-$106, stu/ srs $25-$66. Tom Patterson Theatre, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. SIR JOHN, EH? THE MUSICAL by Jim Garrard and Grant Heckman (Macdonald Festival). While shooting a video in a graveyard, an indie band meets the ghost of Canada’s first prime minister. Runs to Aug 14, see website for schedule. $30, stu/srs $25, child $20. St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 130 Clergy E, Kingston. macdonaldfestival.ca. TITUS ANDRONICUS by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). A Roman general sacrifices a captive’s son, setting off a cycle of revenge. Runs in rep to Sep 24. $50-$106, stu/srs $25$66. Tom Patterson Theatre, Stratford. 1-800567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. TWELFTH NIGHT by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). The classic comedy about love and mistaken identity gets a staging. Runs in rep to Oct 28. $50-$106, stu/srs $25$66. Festival Theatre, Stratford. 1-800-5671600, stratfordfestival.ca. 3

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the cover of claire dewitt and The City Of The Dead, with its blurb about a detective who uses prophetic dreams, mind-expanding drugs and the I Ching to solve mysteries, almost made me toss it onto my giveaway pile. Lucky thing I didn’t, because novelist Sara Gran’s first book of a new series is

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one of the most original I’ve read. The setting is New Orleans one year after Hurricane Katrina. The kids and dealers are back on the street corners, and it’s business as usual. Audacious private investigator Claire DeWitt – a detective since she was a teen – is summoned back to the city she once called home, now filled with the smells of plaster dust and mould, to solve the case of a

Readers are snapping up Kenneth J. Harvey’s Reinventing The Rose ($22.99, Dundurn) so quickly it’s gone into its second printing after only two weeks on the shelf. Not surprising. A pregnant painter’s gynecologist boyfriend wants to legally compel her to terminate the embryo as “return of property.” As the trial nears, she begins to see things: a little girl nearly frozen to death, then other children appearing and disappearing around her home. Part psychological thriller, part political conflict – pro-life and prochoice activists go head to head – Reinventing The SUSAN G. COLE Rose is a potent page-turner.

has paintings in the exhibit, and Cameron co-owner Herb Tookey. For those who were there, This Is Paradise serves as a class reunion (MOCCA had to turn people away from the opening), jogging memories of sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll just before the AIDS epidemic changed everything. Stronger work includes paintings by Joanne Tod, who inserts a sense of moral ambiguity into seemingly ordinary scenes, exuberant cityscapes by Brian Burnett and Sybil Goldstein, and powerful drawings by

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that engulfed the city. In a clever move, she’s inserted a book within the book, that being fictional French detective Jacques Silette’s handbook Détection, a talisman that flows like a lifeline through the story and whose philosophy of patience and observation guides Claire in her quest. The people of New Orleans were largely abandoned after the hurricane. Gran gives a spellbinding ac-

Barbara Cole’s Tomorrow, 1984 holds up today.

John Scott, Stephen Andrews and Sandra Meigs. Tim Jocelyn’s pieced textiles could be the work of a homoerotic Matisse. Videos of bands at the Cameron and performances by the irrepressible Tanya Mars, General Idea and Tom Dean display the jumpy editing and unfocused photography of the pre-digital era. Portrait photos by Isaac Applebaum and others document scene personalities. Absent amidst the nostalgia is any analysis of why representational painting resurfaced after decades of abstraction and conceptualism, or any re-evaluation of the artists’ place

in Canadian art. Explanatory text concentrates on who posed for what rather than providing background about artists’ intent and careers. (The National Gallery offers more informative tags for its section, which Johnson selected from its collection.) And some work has an unformed, student quality. As a director does for a play or an editor for a book, a curator should bring a dispassionate perspective to an art show. Maybe someone with more objective distance would have brought a more critical eye to this material. 3

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to Aug 7. Kathleen Munn, to Aug 28. Libby Hague, to Sep 11 (free). Inuit Modern, to Oct 16. Robert Motherwell, to Dec 11. General Idea, to Jan 1. $18, srs $15, stu $10, free Wed 6-8:30 pm. 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648. DESIGN EXCHANGE Out Of Sorts: Print Culture, 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. 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. MOCCA This Is Paradise, to Aug 21. Elle Flanders and Tamira Sawatzky, to Aug 31. 952 Queen W. 416-395-0067. POWER PLANT Rearview Mirror: New Art From Central And Eastern Europe, to Sep 5. 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949. ROM Edward Burtynsky, to Aug 21. Jane Ash Poitras, to Sep 1. Water: The Exhibition, to Sep 5 ($31, stu/srs $28). 24, stu/srs $21; half-price Fri 4:30-8:30 pm; free Wed 3:30-5:30 pm. 100 Queen’s Park. 416-5868000. TEXTILE MUSEUM OF CANADA Magic Squares: The Patterned Imagination Of Muslim Africa, to Nov 20. Cold Comfort: Souvenirs Of Canada, to Sep 18. Silk Oasis On The Silk Road: Bukhara, to Sep 25. $15, srs $10, stu $6; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre. 416-5995321. 3

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GEORGES BENAY Signing copies of his new novel, Nomad On The Run. 1-4 pm. Free. Chapters, 2225 Bloor W. chapters.indigo. ca. LORRAINE CARPENTER Launch for The Dears: Lost In The Plot. 7 pm. Free. Wilson 96, 615 College. invisiblepublishing.com.

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prominent district attorney who went missing during the storm. Like all great detectives, Claire has strong anarchistic tendencies that work fine in corruption-ridden New Orleans. The city is drowning, but so is Claire – in the unsolved disappearance of her best friend 20 years earlier and the recent loss of her mentor, Constance, to a random shooting. Gran’s story is as deep as the waters

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GENERAL HARDWARE CONTEMPORARY Summer group show, to Aug 31. 1520 Queen W. 416-516-6876. HANG MAN Painting: Lisa Ng, to Aug 21, reception 7-9 pm Aug 4. 756 Queen E. 416465-0302. JESSICA BRADLEY ART + PROJECTS Photos: Pascal Grandmaison, Kristan Horton and Jed Lind, to Aug 27. 1450 Dundas W. 416537-3125. KATHARINE MULHERIN Installation: Jess Riva Cooper, Aug 5-28, reception 6-9 pm Aug 5. 1082/1086 Queen W. 416-993-6510. LOOP GALLERY Painting: Heather Carey and Ian McLean, to Aug 14. 1273 Dundas W. 416516-2581. MONTE CLARK GALLERY Photos: Greg Girard, to Aug 21. 55 Mill, bldg 2. 416-703-1700.

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Cole, to Aug 13. 980 Queen W. 416-9797874. SHOW & TELL GALLERY Painting/collage: James Marshall (Dalek) and Greg Lamarche, to Aug 31. 1161 Dundas W. 647347-3316. STEPHEN BULGER Photos: George S Zimbel, to Sep 17. 1026 Queen W. 416-504-0575. TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX Fellini: Spectacular Obsessions, to Sep 18 ($9.25-$12). Installation: Srinivas Krishna, to Aug 14. 350 King W. 416-599-8433. WHIPPERSNAPPER GALLERY Free City Paper: JP King, Aug 6-Sep 4. Take Me With You: Art Of The Lost & Found group show, to Aug 31. 594B Dundas W. 647856-2445. YYZ Installation: Shannon Gerard, David Court and Josh Thorpe, ongoing. 401 Richmond W. 416-598-4546.

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Dominic sees Double Actor gets to play Saddam Hussein’s psychotic son and the soldier hired to impersonate him By NORMAN WILNER THE DEVIL’S DOUBLE directed by Lee Tamahori, written by Michael Thomas from the book by Latif Yahia, with Dominic Cooper, Ludivine Sagnier, Raad Rawi and Mem Ferda. A Maple Pictures release. 108 minutes. Opens Friday (August 5). For venues and times, see Movies, page 58.

dominic cooper is awfully charming. Sharply dressed in tailored jacket and jeans, he’s taller and lankier than he seems on film, but the broad smile is exactly the same. Even after a long day of press (longer than planned thanks to a cancelled flight the day before that meant coming to town on a 6:25 am plane), the actor, whose credits include The History Boys, Mamma Mia! and this summer’s superhero blockbuster, Captain America: The First Avenger, is as bright-eyed and animated in person as he is onscreen. The point of his new film, The Devil’s Double, is that you won’t recognize him. Cooper plays two very different people: Uday Hussein, Saddam’s psychotic elder son, and Latif Yahia, the Iraqi soldier conscripted to impersonate him in public around the time of the first Gulf War. “I found that extraordinary about his story,” Cooper says of Yahia, who wrote the book on which the film is

based. “This ordinary guy suddenly has to be a world-class actor for the sake of his own life and the benefit of his family. “ Using a motion-control system similar to the one David Cronenberg employed in Dead Ringers, director Lee Tamahori could shoot Cooper as Uday, then repeat exactly the same shot with Cooper as Latif, seamlessly blending the footage in post-production. On screen, the effect is remarkably convincing – and belies the immense effort required to pull it off. “It was chaos,” Cooper admits. “I would do Uday first, the more dyna-

mic of the two – the guy who’s in charge of the scene – and then I’d run off, get changed and do Latif, backwards and forwards and backwards and forwards. They would be sticking things to the walls so my eye line was right, and I’d have an earpiece as Latif, listening to Uday so I could respond and react to that. And guessing or remembering whereabouts I’d moved in the room at the time. It was madness. A lot going on, a lot to think about.” Preparing for the dual role was almost as challenging, since Cooper was faced with portraying both a

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REVIEW THE DEVIL’S DOUBLE (Lee Tamahori) Rating: NNN The Devil’s Double takes the true story of Latif Yahia, an Iraqi soldier forced to become the public double of Uday Hussein during the first Gulf War, and turns it into an ungainly parable about a good man resisting the trappings of power. In an impressive dual turn, Dominic Cooper plays Latif as a decent man conscripted into a loathsome role and Uday as an unhinged tornado of rage, as likely to throw someone off a building as buy him a drink. What’s weird is the growing sense that director Lee Tamahori is actually on Uday’s side, heaping on the debauchery to get off on it all. That disconnect ultimately brings the movie up short, as does a clumsy subplot involving sleepy-eyed Ludivine NW Sagnier as a member of Uday’s harem.

vilified psychopath and the man who perhaps knew him best but became his traumatized victim. “I met [Latif] and I asked him about Uday, but I didn’t want to pry too much,” he says. “I saw scars that were both mental and physical, and I didn’t think it was necessary to reopen them. The hard thing for me was making sure I understood where that rage and venom and hatred in Uday came from. The man was truly sick, and I despised him. But I needed to understand [him].” 3

Ludivine Sagnier and Dominic Cooper wrestle with sex, money and power in The Devil’s Double.

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El Bulli’s star chef, Ferran Adrià, is no bully.

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Well done EL BULLI – COOKING IN PROGRESS (Gereon Wetzel). 108 minutes. Subtitled. Opens Friday (August 5) at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. See Times, page 63. Rating: NNN

In this unique documentary, star chef Ferran Adrià and his team invent new dishes for his famous El Bulli restaurant near Roses, Catalonia, watched by Gereon Wetzel and crew’s completely neutral camera. Forget about anything you’ve seen on the Food Network. El Bulli – Cooking In Progress features no bellowing ego-trippers strutting their stuff, so the film lacks drama and personalities. Adrià’s chefs work almost as silently as scientists in a lab, dreaming up concoctions like ice vinaigrette or cocktails made with oil, then giving them to a patient Adrià to test out. The master passes judgment with an almost Buddha-like calm; he’s the anti-Gordon Ramsay. The team’s tasting menu – 40 dishes in all – flashes by at the end in a series of spectacular images. If you’re fantasizing about a trip to El Bulli, the restaurant has closed since this doc was shot, so foodies who didn’t go previously will never know its brilliance. SUSAN G. COLE NOW AUGUST 4-10 2011

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Twee of life The FuTure (Miranda July). 91 minutes.

Miranda July’s The Future illustrates the dangers of an artist becoming too sure of herself. The story of a selfinvolved couple who decide to adopt a cat in a month’s time and immediately freak out about the impending loss of freedom, it’s a headlong plunge into twee self-indulgence. As Sophie (July) and Jason (Hamish Linklater) spin into separate crises, July throws every one of her stock tropes – awkwardness, furtive sexuality, wideeyed stares into the middle distance – at the screen. It’s insufferably precious in a way that July managed to avoid in her 2005 debut, Me And You And Everyone We Know; that film viewed its dislocated characters with a tenderness and compassion absent here. This movie feels far more mechanical, overstuffed with stilted gestures and artificial profundities that become more stultifying as they pile up. I’m fully aware that I’m not necessarily supposed to like these people, but I should at least be interested in them as the subjects of a drama. It says something when the device of having the cat narrate the action is actually one of the least obnoxious NormaN WilNer things in the film.

A wild and seductive crime thriller, Viva Riva! is a promising early step for Congolese pulp cinema. Patsha Bay turns in a playful performance as the titular Riva, a cocksure bandit returned home from Angola to the fuel-deprived Congo with a truckload of stolen gasoline. He runs into some familiar genre archetypes, like the silk-clad local crime boss (Diplome Amekindra) and his fiery-haired moll (an exquisite Manie Malone), whom

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Rise and fall The Help (D: Tate Taylor, 137 min) This adaptation of Kathryn Stockett’s bestseller about black maids who struggle for independence in 1962 Mississippi stars Viola Davis, Emma Stone and Allison Janney. Could be a contender come awards time. Opens Wednesday (August 10). See review in next week’s issue.

riSe oF The PlaNeT oF The aPeS (Rupert Wyatt). 105 minutes. Opens Friday (August 5). For venues and times, see Movies, page 58. Rating NN If Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes does one thing right, it demonstrates how perfectly the original Planet Of The Apes works as Cold War cinema. Everything about Franklin J. Schaffner’s solemn sci-fi parable was grounded in the terrors of nuclear war – and the result was an airtight concept. Take away the threat of World War III and the whole thing collapses. Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes ignores the continuity of both the original series and Tim Burton’s woeful 2001 remake to spin a dopey new story of a genius Alzheimer’s researcher

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Riva plans to steal next. There’s also Riva’s spurned associate (Hoji Fortuna), who prances around looking like a parody of a pimp but cuts a menacing figure nonetheless. Throw in a crooked military officer, some resourceful whores and a priest praying to get a piece of the action and you’ve got the idea: Guy Ritchie-style mayhem set to the rhythms of African tribal beats. The plotting is often clumsy and the implausible action gets out of hand; it seems newbie director Djo Tunda Wa Munga has been watching too much Scarface. However, he keeps things interesting with slick cinematography, sex that alternates between comic and tastefully sensual, and violence that reaches new levels of horrifying. raDheYaN SimoNPillai

Viva Riva! traffics in some genre clichés but gets the job done.

also opening (D: David Dobkin, 112 min) What would the summer be without another raunchy guy-based comedy? The Change-Up stars Ryan Reynolds (hoping his summer improves after The Green Lantern’s poor showing at the box office) and Jason Bateman as friends who envy each other’s lives – until they actually swap places. Leslie Mann, Alan Arkin and hottie-du-jour Olivia Wilde also star. Opens Friday (August 5). Screened after press time – see review August 5 at nowtoronto. com/movies.

Congo coup ViVa riVa! (Djo Tunda Wa Munga). 96 minutes. Subtitled. Opens Friday (August 5) at the Royal. See Indie & Rep film, page 66. Rating: NNN

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(James Franco) who winds up raising super-intelligent chimp Caesar (performed through the magic of motion capture by King Kong’s Andy Serkis) who’ll grow up to lead a rebellion of similarly enhanced primates. Writers Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver clearly spent more time squeezing in nods to the previous Apes films than they did establishing clear motivations for Caesar’s actions, or the reasons behind the simian rebellion. Stuff just happens, in one scene after another, because the effects guys had a great idea for a shot. But none of it is anchored in anything that makes sense, and if there’s one thing a movie about a rebellion of

super-intelligent apes desperately needs, it’s internal logic. The computer-generated characters have their moments, although the tech still isn’t all the way there. In a couple of scenes, I could swear I saw Serkis’s actual face leaking through his digital avatar’s, as though the animators had stopped trying to make Caesar’s facial expressions measure up. And other shots of CG apes rampaging lack the appropriate gravity, both emotional and physical. NormaN WilNer

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CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER

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CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE.

The Ofﬁce’s Steve Carell perfects the charming haplessness he showed in the 40-Year-Old Virgin in this smart, grown-up romantic comedy about modern relationships.

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A housing district is attacked by extraterrestrials in this feature that boasts some of the most ingeniously simple creature designs ever. Great breakthrough performance by John Boyega.

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(Mike Cahill) maps the interlocked destinies of a young woman (Brit Marling, who co-wrote the script with director Cahill) and an older man (William Mapother) whose lives go horribly wrong on the night scientists discover a duplicate Earth. Four years later, they meet again and embark on a complicated relationship. Cahill’s unhurried pacing gives us room to get to know his characters, grounding them in a convincingly mundane reality that anchors the story’s more fantastical elements. And Marling and Mapother are more than up to the challenge of carrying the movie, creating achingly real portraits of people enduring lives they never expected to live. 91 min. NNNN (NW) Varsity

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(Joe Cornish) plays like the rabid love child of John Carpenter’s Assault On Precinct 13 and Stephen Herek’s Critters. Director Cornish’s tremendously assured debut takes place over one night in a low-rent South London housing district under siege from an invasion of extraterrestrial beasties, with a bunch of local thugs, an off-duty nurse (Venus’s Jodie Whittaker) and a pot dealer (Nick Frost) banding together to fend off the threat. It’s got some of the most endearing practical effects I’ve seen in a decade, including a terrific creature design that’s no less effective for being ingeniously simple, and a breakout performance by charismatic young actor John Boyega as an impulsive but principled gangster. It may not have Johnny Depp or giant robots, but it’s got everything a summer movie needs. Trust. 88 min. NNNN (NW) Yonge & Dundas 24

BAD TEACHER (Jake Kasdan) stars Cameron 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. 92 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24

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BEATS, RHYMES & LIFE: THE TRAVELS OF A TRIBE CALLED QUEST (Michael Rapaport)

often feels like an E! celebrity profile about a successful band that just can’t keep it together. There’s nothing new about the bickering between lead rappers

Q-Tip and Phife or their breakup-andreunion cycle. It does help that these lyricists are our key narrators, so at least they add wit and humour to their brief history. What was and still is groundbreaking is Tribe’s music: conscious rhymes spit over remixed jazz samples. In the film’s first half, Rapaport delivers a sweet trip back to the days when hip-hop heads rocked boom boxes instead of iPhones and blasted Tribe and De La Soul’s backpack raps instead of the Auto-Tuned tracks dominating clubs today. But when the music stops and the personal conflicts get in the way, this doc plays the same old song. 95 min. NNN (RS) Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24

BEGINNERS (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) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre

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. It’s as though he’s just realized that the people who mow his lawn have inner lives, too. Some subtitles. 98 min. NN (NW) Cumberland 4 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

ñBRIDESMAIDS

(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, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24

AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER ñCAPTAIN

(Joe Johnston) starts out as a rip-roaring adventure yarn and a sturdy, entertaining origin story for Marvel’s all-American hero, with an appealing lead performance from Chris Evans, nimble and inventive Second World War action sequences and genuine spectacle. Then we get to the last act, where – having reunited Cap with his best pal Bucky (Sebastian Stan) and assembled howling commandos to take down Hydra strongholds all over Occupied Europe – the script compresses what feels like months of story into a couple of reels. That’s because Cap’s due in the 21st century for next summer’s Avengers movie. The impact of Cap and Red Skull’s final face-off is diminished by the fact that so much – including the death of a key character – has been rushed to get there. At least the 3-D is decent this time. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

CARS 2 (John Lasseter) is bigger, shinier and far, far busier than the first film, but it’s all for naught. The elaborate spy parody focuses on tow truck Mater (redneck comic Larry the Cable Guy) who’s mistaken for an American agent and caught up in an espionage caper. The animation is up to Pixar’s high standards, but the story is a mess. 120 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñCAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS

(Werner Herzog) is a hypnotic 3-D documentary that presents the 33,000-year-old paintings discovered in the Chauvet Pont d’Arc cave as though we were standing 4 feet away from 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. 95 min. NNNN (NW) Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, TIFF Bell Lightbox

THE CHANGE-UP (David Dobkin) 112 min. See Also Opening, page 56. Opens Aug 5 at 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Docks Lakeview Drive-In, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity.

The Change-Up’s Ryan Reynolds asks, “Who’s your daddy?”

the various acts – everything from contortion to aerial work and lion taming – 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 the family’s near-

ñCIRCO

(Aaron Schock) is an intimate and moving portrait of the Ponces, a long-standing circus family that travels the small towns of Mexico and faces a faltering economy and dissent from within. Director Schock gets great footage from

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illiterate 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. 75 min. NNNN (GS) Cumberland 4

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(Rodman Flender) is an 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. Flender crams in so much backstage detail you’ll be swept up in the whirlwind of manic action. 89 min. NNNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema

COWBOYS & ALIENS (Jon Favreau) has explosions and horse-riding and fighting and monsters aplenty, but it’s utterly insubstantial. A couple of early moments suggest the confident, clever genre pastiche that might have been, but mostly this is a mess – moving at once too quickly and too slowly, rushing through its plot points and then bogging down in dialogue scenes, and further muddled by inconsistent character development and a story that makes very little sense. (On the bright side, at least it’s not in 3-D.) I refuse to believe the guy who gave us the loose, self-aware Iron Man movies would make something this lame on purpose. More likely, he was never able to reconcile the tonally diverse contributions of the movie’s six credited screenwriters. Daniel Craig single-handed-

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ñCrazy, Stupid, Love.

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(Glenn Ficarra, John Requa) is the grown-up romantic comedy we’ve been waiting for. Directors Ficarra and Requa do for the genre what their I Love You Phillip Morris did for the caper picture, revitalizing a well-worn formula with intelligence, charm and clever storytelling. Steve Carell’s newly separated family man and Ryan Gosling’s firmly single player are at the centre or a series of relationships. Carell fleshes out his 40-Year-Old Virgin haplessness nicely, but it’s Gosling’s blossoming romance with savvy young lawyer Emma Stone that gives the movie its best moments. 118 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

the deviL’S doubLe (Lee Tamahori) 108 min. See interview and review, page 55. NNN (NW) Opens Aug 5 at Varsity. the Story of pauL WatSoN ñeCo-pirate:

(Trish Dolman) tracks the Canuck activist who’s a hero to some and an asshole to others. This doc will make them all happy. Dolman presents both sides of the controversial eco-activist. Watson, an influential early member of Greenpeace, pursued his obsession with saving the earth with a vengeance and then was turfed from the organization. He isn’t exactly a team player. Now head of his own Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, he considers Greenpeace a bunch of wusses and protest an exercise in passivism. Real activists, he says, stop the bad guys. Using archival footage of early Greenpeace actions, interviews with Watson’s former colleagues at the org and family members, and some gorgeous cinematography, Dolman creates a complex portrait of someone who’s both egotist and altruist. 90 min. NNNN (SGC) TIFF Bell Lightbox

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frieNdS With beNefitS (Will Gluck) stars Mila Kunis as a driven corporate recruiter and Justin Timberlake as the up-andcoming L.A. graphic designer she brings to Manhattan. They become friends and soon figure out that their complementary “emotional damage” allows them to get naked without getting emotional – until Kunis starts to develop feelings and Timberlake retreats, at which point Friends With Benefits becomes exactly like every other romantic comedy you’ve ever seen. It’s not laugh-out-loud funny, but it does have some clever dialogue and moments of perceptive observation. In other words, it’s a lot better than No Strings Attached, and really, that’s all you can ask of a movie like this. 104 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney

Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity

the future (Miranda July) 91 min. See review, page 56. NN (NW) Opens Aug 5 at Yonge & Dundas 24.

greeN LaNterN (Martin Campbell) lets

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) Interchange 30, 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, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24 potter aNd the deathLy haLLoWS part 2 ñharry

(David Yates) 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, 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), only to see their clockwork plan go sideways almost immediately. 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, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

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ñIN A BETTER WORLD

(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

LARRY CROWNE (Tom Hanks) is a lazy, sit-

commy 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, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre

LIFE IN A DAY (Kevin Macdonald) emerges from over 4,500 hours of footage shot by hundreds of people around the world on a single day. Great idea, but what’s the point? Oscar winner Macdonald (One Day In September) doesn’t seem to have one. At first the film looks like it will compare waking, eating, working, sleeping and everything in between. But then it turns into birth, growing up, marriage, babies, death and everything in between. There are many detours. Some of them, like the section where people are asked what’s in their pockets, or another that asks about personal fears, would make excellent shorts but feel out of place here. There’s a dynamite sequence featuring the stampede at Duisburg, Germany’s Love Parade, but it only makes you wish for more news of the day. In the end, Macdonald can’t find his story. 90 min. NN (SGC) Yonge & Dundas 24

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) Interchange 30, Kingsway Theatre

THE NAMES OF LOVE (Michel Leclerc) is a

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 farleft-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. NNN (RS) Carlton Cinema

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America’s most prestigious daily, where advertising revenue is tanking. A new generation of newshounds gets its information online, and the future looks dim. Unfortunately, there’s very little new and exciting here, except for the presence of idiosyncratic media writer David Carr. 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) Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24

(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) Carlton Cinema, Mt Pleasant

The Devil’s Double

(James Marsh) finds the director of the Oscar-winning Man On A Wire coming up with another stranger-than-fiction tale of New York in the 1970s, charting the odyssey of Nim Chimpsky, a chimpanzee raised among humans – and taught sign language – as part of a Columbia University linguistics experiment. As Marsh reveals, it was a venture undermined at almost every turn by stunning arrogance and incompetence. And that’s just the beginning of this astonishing, heart-wrenching story, recounted in one of the year’s best documentaries. 99 min. NNNNN (NW) Cumberland 4, Varsity

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LIFE, ABOVE ALL (Oliver Schmitz) tracks Chanda, a teen caring for her mother, who’s dying of AIDS in a South African town. Great performances give this drama a strong emotional charge. Subtitled. 102 min. NNN (SGC) Regent Theatre

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MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (Woody Allen) casts

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, Varsity

MONTE CARLO (Thomas Bezucha) stars

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. Although loosely based on a novel (Jules Bass’s Headhunters) that could’ve 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) Eglinton Town Centre, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24

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ñwINNIe The pooh

(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) Canada Square, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Humber Cinema, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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The SmurfS IN 3D (Raja Gosnell) is a dull

and largely unfunny attempt to capture the joy of Peyo’s comics and the 1980s animated series. Despite some decent 3-D visuals, the film is actually more of a drag when the Smurfs are on screen. Neil Patrick Harris and Jayma Mays are wasted as put-upon parents-to-be, who have to protect the pun-filled blue annoyances from the evil wizard Gargamel (Hank Azaria). Azaria gives the only funny performance in the film, acting as the one thing that might keep weary parents awake. 103 min. NN (AP) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Wayne Wang) celebrates the friendships between two pairs of women: Snow Flower and Lily in 19th century China and Nina and Sophia in contemporary Shanghai. From childhood onward, their bond sustains them through various trials until the inevitable falling-out. Li Bingbing and Gianna Jun, who play both sets of friends,

easily hold our interest despite the overall subdued tone. 102 min. NNN (AD) Carlton Cinema, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20

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(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 of small-town kids in 1979 Ohio who stumble upon a military conspiracy while shooting a Super 8 movie about zombies. Nostalgic and novel in equal amounts. 112 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20

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(Michael Bay) is, against all odds and the evidence of Bay’s first two kicks at the can, a giant-robot punch-up that’s visually inventive, spatially coherent and occasionally even funny. It’s still way too long. Bay remains distressingly indifferent to the body count, and the plot is kind of ridiculous, with Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) 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, Canada Square, Coli-

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(Michael Winterbottom) is exclusively aimed at people who can’t wait to see Steve Coogan and Rob 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

(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) Docks Lakeview Drive-In, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24

Zookeeper (Frank Coraci) stars Kevin

James as a Boston zookeeper who discovers that his animals not only talk, but keep perfects the intuitive approach to a watchful eye on his love life. Rosario cinema Malick has been developing for Dawson turns up as a comely veterinarian nearly four decades, and it affected me who becomes part of his plan to win back more profoundly than any of his earlier his ex (Leslie Bibb). Dawson and James films. It’s beautiful in its inelegance and have one lovely scene that made me wish I confusion, embracing the awe of adoleswere watching them in a proper movie. cence and the loss of innocence in the 104 min. N (NW) purest sense of those terms. It’s a rhap401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Colisody on the mystery of simply being alive. seum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 138 min. NNNNN (NW) Cumberland 4, Grande - Yonge, InterVIVa rIVa! (Djo Tunda Wa Munga) 96 min. 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Humber Cinema, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, See review, page 56. NNN (RS) bow Woodbine, SilverCity Mississauga, 24448FreeFlicksAudienceChoice:Layout 7/29/11 PM Page 1 Kingsway Theatre, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Opens Aug 51at Royal (see Indie2:57 & Rep Film, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24 3 Varsity page 66).

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CUMBERLAND 4 (AA) 159 CUMBERLAND AVE, 416-646-0444

A BETTER LIFE (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:15, 9:45 CIRCO Thu 1:30, 4:10, 7:00, 9:00 PAGE ONE: A YEAR INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES 1:50, 4:45, 7:30, 10:00 PROJECT NIM Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:20, 7:15, 9:40 THE TREE OF LIFE (PG) Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 THE TRIP 1:20, 4:00, 6:45, 9:20

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YONGE & DUNDAS 24 (AMC) 10 DUNDAS ST E, 416-335-5323

ATTACK THE BLOCK (14A) Thu 11:40, 12:15, 1:15, 1:45, 2:45, 3:30, 4:00, 5:00, 6:00, 6:30, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 8:30, 9:00, 9:30, 10:30, 11:00 Fri-Sun 11:00, 11:30, 12:05, 1:15, 1:45, 2:30, 3:30, 4:00, 6:00, 6:30, 7:00, 8:00, 8:45, 9:30, 10:30, 11:00 Mon-Tue 11:45, 12:05, 1:15, 1:45, 2:30, 3:30, 4:00, 6:00, 6:30, 7:00, 8:00, 8:45, 9:30, 10:30, 11:00 Wed 12:05, 1:15, 2:30, 3:30, 4:00, 6:00, 6:30, 7:00, 8:00, 8:45, 9:30, 10:30, 11:00 BAD TEACHER (14A) Thu 1:05, 3:20, 5:35, 7:50, 10:10 FriSun 10:55, 1:05, 3:20, 5:35, 7:50, 10:10 BEATS, RHYMES & LIFE: THE TRAVELS OF A TRIBE CALLED QUEST (14A) 11:40, 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:45 BRIDESMAIDS (14A) Thu 12:20, 3:15, 6:25, 9:25 Fri-Sun 11:20, 4:35, 9:55 Mon-Wed 4:35, 9:55 CARS 2 (G) 1:20, 3:40, 6:00 Fri-Sun 10:50 mat CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (PG) Thu 11:45, 12:30, 1:30, 2:30, 3:15, 4:15, 5:15, 6:15, 7:15, 8:15, 8:45, 9:15, 10:15, 11:00 Fri-Sun 11:00, 11:45, 12:30, 1:30, 2:30, 3:15, 4:15, 5:15, 6:15, 7:15, 8:15, 8:45, 9:15, 9:45, 10:15, 11:00 Mon-Wed 11:45, 12:30, 1:30, 2:30, 3:15, 4:15, 5:15, 6:15, 7:15, 8:15, 8:45, 9:15, 9:45, 10:15, 11:00 THE FUTURE Fri-Mon, Wed 11:55, 2:25, 4:40, 7:00, 9:20 Tue 4:40, 7:00, 9:20 GREEN LANTERN (PG) Thu 4:50, 10:40 Fri-Sun 11:10, 1:40, 4:10, 6:50, 9:25 Mon-Tue 1:40, 4:10, 6:50, 9:25 THE HANGOVER PART II (18A) Thu 4:35, 7:10, 9:35 Fri-Wed 2:05, 7:20 THE HELP (PG) Tue 12:01 Wed 11:45, 12:05, 3:00, 4:00, 6:15, 7:15, 9:30, 10:30 HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 11:40, 12:35, 1:20, 1:55, 2:55, 3:40, 4:20, 5:20, 6:10, 6:45, 7:45, 8:40, 9:25, 10:20, 11:00 Fri-Sun 10:55, 11:35, 12:35, 1:20, 1:55, 2:55, 3:40, 4:20, 5:20, 6:10, 6:45, 7:45, 8:40, 9:25, 10:20, 11:00 LIFE IN A DAY 11:55, 2:20, 4:40, 7:05, 9:30 MONTE CARLO (G) Thu 11:45, 2:00 PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES (PG) Thu 1:50, 7:35 THE SMURFS 3D (G) 11:45, 2:30, 5:00, 7:35, 10:10 THE SMURFS (G) Thu 12:30, 1:45, 3:15, 4:15, 5:45, 8:35, 11:00 Fri-Sun 11:15, 12:30, 1:45, 3:15, 4:15, 5:45, 6:50, 8:35, 9:15, 11:00 Mon-Wed 12:30, 1:45, 3:15, 4:15, 5:45, 6:50, 8:35, 9:15, 11:00 SUNNY (14A) 1:50, 4:35, 7:25, 10:20 Fri-Sun 11:00 mat WINNIE THE POOH (G) Thu-Sun 1:15, 3:10, 4:55, 6:40 Mon, Wed 11:40, 1:25, 3:10, 4:55, 6:40 Tue 4:55, 6:40 X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (PG) Thu 11:40 Fri-Tue 11:40, 2:40, 5:40, 8:40 ZINDAGI NA MILEGI DOBARA (PG) 2:50, 6:10, 9:35 Fri-Sun 11:25 mat ZOOKEEPER (G) Thu, Mon 11:40, 2:05, 4:35, 6:55, 9:25 Fri-Sun 11:30, 2:05, 4:35, 6:55, 9:25

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COWBOYS & ALIENS Thu 12:45, 1:25, 3:40, 4:35, 6:45, 7:35, 9:45, 10:35 Fri-Wed 1:30, 2:15, 4:15, 5:00, 7:15, 7:55, 10:15, 11:00 CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (PG) Thu 12:55 3:55 7:05 10:10 FriWed 12:55, 3:55, 7:05, 10:05 FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (14A) 12:10, 2:40, 5:20, 8:05, 10:55 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (PG) Thu 12:10 3:15 6:20 9:25 Fri-Wed 12:00, 3:10, 6:20, 9:30 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2: 3D (PG) Thu 1:00, 2:00, 4:10, 5:15, 7:20, 8:30, 10:30 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 THE HELP (PG) Wed 12:05, 3:30, 6:50, 10:25 HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A) 12:30, 2:55, 5:45, 8:20, 10:40 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: DON PASQUALE ENCORE Wed 6:30 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (PG) Thu 8:15, 10:35 Fri-Wed 6:40, 9:15 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES 12:25, 2:10, 3:00, 4:40, 5:40, 7:10, 8:15, 9:55, 10:50 Sat-Sun 11:45 mat THE SMURFS 3D (G) Thu 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 Sat-Sun 11:50, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 THE SMURFS (G) Thu 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10 Fri-Wed 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D (PG) Thu 12:35 4:15 7:45 11:00 Fri-Wed 12:35, 4:10, 7:40, 11:00 WINNIE THE POOH (G) Thu 12:25, 2:20, 4:25, 6:25 Fri-Wed 12:20, 2:25, 4:30 ZOOKEEPER (G) Thu 12:05, 2:35, 10:25 Fri-Tue 12:05, 2:35, 5:05, 7:50, 10:25

RAINBOW WOODBINE (I)

WOODBINE CENTRE, 500 REXDALE BLVD, 416-213-1998 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG) 12:55, 3:55, 6:55, 9:40 THE CHANGE-UP (14A) Fri-Wed 12:50, 4:10, 7:00, 9:15 COWBOYS & ALIENS 1:10, 3:45, 7:05, 9:30 CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (PG) 1:05, 4:05, 6:45, 9:20 FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (14A) 1:15, 4:00, 6:50, 9:25 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2: 3D (PG) 1:00, 3:50, 6:45, 9:45 HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A) Thu 12:45, 7:10 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:40, 7:10, 9:30 THE SMURFS (G) 12:35, 2:50, 5:05, 7:20, 9:35 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON (PG) Thu 3:40, 9:30 ZOOKEEPER (G) Thu 12:30, 2:40, 4:50, 7:00, 9:15

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

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER 3D (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 COWBOYS & ALIENS Thu 1:10 4:20 7:10 10:20 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:20, 10:20 FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:40, 6:40, 9:20 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2: 3D (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A) Thu 1:40 4:00 6:30 9:00 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 THE SMURFS (G) Thu 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 Fri-Wed 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00

North York EMPIRE THEATRES AT EMPRESS WALK (ET) 5095 YONGE ST, 416-223-9550

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG) Thu 1:05, 3:50, 6:40, 8:30, 9:30 Fri-Sat 12:50, 3:40, 7:30, 9:25, 11:00, 11:55 Sun 12:50, 3:40, 7:30, 9:25, 11:00 Mon-Wed 1:00, 3:40, 7:30, 9:25, 10:45 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER 3D (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:40, 7:30, 10:30 Fri-Wed 4:30, 10:10 CARS 2 (G) Thu 3:10, 5:45 COWBOYS & ALIENS Thu 1:30, 2:45, 4:10, 5:20, 7:00, 8:15, 9:45, 11:00 Fri-Sun 1:30, 2:10, 4:15, 5:10, 7:00, 8:00, 9:50, 10:40 Mon-Wed 1:30, 2:10, 4:15, 5:10, 7:00, 8:00, 9:50, 10:35 CRIME Fri-Sat 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:20, 11:50 Sun 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 Mon-Wed 1:05, 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:20, 7:15, 8:45, 10:15 Fri-Sun 1:50, 4:50, continued on page 64 œ

NOW

AUGUST 4-10 2011

6:10, 9:40 Fri-Tue 2:15, 6:10, 10:15 Wed 2:15, 10:15 WINNIE THE POOH (G) 12:05 ZOOKEEPER (G) Thu 12:30, 3:30

Scarborough œcontinued from page 63

6:30, 7:50, 10:50 Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:50, 6:30, 7:50, 10:40 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2: 3D (PG) Thu 2:00, 5:00, 8:00, 10:50 Fri-Sat 1:05, 7:10, 11:55 Sun 1:05, 7:10 Mon-Wed 1:10, 7:10 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Fri-Sat 1:20, 2:20, 4:00, 5:00, 6:50, 7:40, 9:35, 10:30, 11:59 Sun 1:20, 2:20, 4:00, 5:00, 6:50, 7:40, 9:35, 10:30 Mon-Wed 1:20, 2:20, 4:00, 5:00, 6:50, 7:40, 9:30, 10:30 THE SMURFS 3D (G) Thu 1:20, 4:30, 6:50, 9:15 Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:15, 9:40 THE SMURFS (G) Thu 3:00, 5:30 Fri-Sun 1:10, 4:10 MonWed 1:15, 4:10 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:15, 7:45

GRANDE - YONGE (CE) 4861 YONGE ST, 416-590-9974

BAD TEACHER (14A) Thu 7:00, 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 THE CHANGE-UP (14A) Fri-Wed 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:20 CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (PG) Thu 1:20 4:30 7:30 10:20 FriWed 1:20, 4:15, 7:10, 10:25 FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (14A) 1:30, 4:40, 7:50, 10:30 THE HELP (PG) Wed 12:00, 3:15, 6:30, 9:45 HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A) Thu 2:30 5:10 7:40 10:10 Fri-Wed 2:20, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: DON PASQUALE ENCORE Wed 6:30 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (PG) Thu 1:40 4:20 7:10 9:50 Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:50 SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN (PG) 12:30, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 THE TREE OF LIFE (PG) Thu 12:15 3:25 6:30 9:40 Fri-Wed 12:00, 3:15, 6:30, 9:45 THE TRIP 12:40, 3:30, 6:20, 9:20 Wed no 3:30, 6:20, 9:20 WINNIE THE POOH (G) Thu 1:00, 3:00

SILVERCITY FAIRVIEW (CE)

FAIRVIEW MALL, 1800 SHEPPARD AVE E, 416-644-7746 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG) Thu 12:10, 3:20, 6:30, 9:40 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER 3D (PG) Thu 12:50 4:20 7:20 10:20 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:50, 7:00, 10:20 THE CHANGE-UP (14A) Fri-Tue 1:30, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Wed 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 COWBOYS & ALIENS Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:40, 6:30, 9:30 FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (14A) Thu 12:30 4:00 6:40 9:50 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:10, 6:40, 9:40 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (PG) Thu 12:00, 3:10, 6:20, 9:30 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2: 3D (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 10:15 Fri-Wed 12:25, 3:20, 6:20, 9:20 HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A) Thu 2:15, 4:50, 7:30, 10:00 FriWed 1:55, 4:20, 7:40, 10:30 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 THE SMURFS 3D (G) Thu 12:10, 3:20, 6:45, 9:20 Fri-Wed 12:05, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D (PG) Thu 12:05 3:30 6:50 10:30 Fri-Wed 12:15, 3:30, 6:50, 10:10 WINNIE THE POOH (G) Thu 12:20 Fri-Wed 12:00

SILVERCITY YORKDALE (CE) 3401 DUFFERIN ST, 416-787-4432

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG) Thu 12:10, 3:20, 6:30, 9:30 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER 3D (PG) Thu 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 10:15 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 THE CHANGE-UP (14A) Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 9:45 COWBOYS & ALIENS Thu 1:20 4:20 7:20 10:30 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:15, 7:20, 10:30 CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:50, 6:45, 9:45 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:40, 7:40, 10:20 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (PG) Thu 6:20, 9:20 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2: 3D (PG) Thu 12:20, 3:40, 7:00, 10:10 Fri-Wed 12:10, 3:15, 6:20, 9:30 HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A) Thu 2:00 4:30 7:15 9:50 Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:45, 7:40, 10:20 THE SMURFS 3D (G) 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D (PG) Thu 2:15,

AUGUST 4-10 2011 NOW

401 & MORNINGSIDE (CE) 785 MILNER AVE, SCARBOROUGH, 416-281-2226

BAD TEACHER (14A) Thu-Tue 9:00 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:30, 7:25, 10:20 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER 3D (PG) Thu 12:40 3:40 6:45 9:50 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:30, 6:55, 9:50 CARS 2 (G) Thu 12:20, 3:15 THE CHANGE-UP (14A) Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:45, 7:05, 10:00 COWBOYS & ALIENS Thu 1:45 4:45 7:40 10:25 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:40, 7:40, 10:25 CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:30, 6:35, 10:00 Fri-Tue 12:30, 3:15, 6:20, 9:15 Wed 12:30, 3:10, 6:20, 9:15 FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (14A) Thu 1:10 3:50 7:55 10:35 Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:50, 7:50, 10:35 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (PG) Thu 6:25, 9:40 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2: 3D (PG) Thu 1:00 4:00 7:10 10:10 Fri-Wed 12:50, 4:15, 7:15, 10:10 THE HELP (PG) Wed 12:15, 3:20, 6:30, 9:45 HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A) Thu 2:00 5:00 8:05 10:40 FriWed 2:15, 5:00, 8:00, 10:30 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:30, 7:25, 10:20 THE SMURFS 3D (G) Thu 1:30, 4:15, 6:55, 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:00, 6:45, 9:25 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON (PG) Thu 2:45, 6:05, 9:15 Fri-Tue 2:45, 6:10, 9:40 Wed 2:45, 6:10, 9:35 ZOOKEEPER (G) Thu 12:30 3:00 6:15 Fri-Wed 12:25, 3:00, 6:30

COLISEUM SCARBOROUGH (CE) SCARBOROUGH TOWN CENTRE, 416-290-5217

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER 3D (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 9:20, 10:10 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 CARS 2 3D (G) Thu 12:40, 3:40, 6:45 THE CHANGE-UP (14A) Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:45, 6:55, 9:45 COWBOYS & ALIENS Thu 1:00, 1:30, 4:00, 4:30, 7:00, 7:30, 10:00, 10:30 Fri-Wed 12:40, 1:10, 3:40, 4:10, 6:40, 7:10, 9:40, 10:10 CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:40 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 DEIVA THIRUMAGAL (PG) 2:00, 6:05, 9:55 FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:50 HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A) Thu 12:45, 3:45, 6:55, 9:45 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Fri-Wed 1:00, 1:30, 4:00, 4:30, 7:00, 7:30, 10:00, 10:30 THE SMURFS 3D (G) Thu 12:55 3:55 6:40 9:30 Fri-Wed 12:55, 3:55, 6:50, 9:30 THE SMURFS (G) 12:20, 3:20, 6:10, 9:00 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D (PG) Thu 12:15, 3:35, 7:05, 10:25 Fri-Tue 12:15, 3:25, 6:45, 10:05 Wed 12:15, 3:25, 10:05

EGLINTON TOWN CENTRE (CE) 1901 EGLINTON AVE E, 416-752-4494

BAD TEACHER (14A) Thu 9:20 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG) 6:40, 9:45 Thu 12:20, 3:30 mat CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER 3D (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:30 Fri-Tue 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 10:25 Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 CARS 2 (G) Thu 1:20, 4:15, 7:00, 9:55 Fri-Tue 1:45, 4:45, 7:25, 10:15 Wed 1:45, 4:45, 7:25, 10:05 THE CHANGE-UP (14A) Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:40, 10:40 COWBOYS & ALIENS Thu 12:10, 1:10, 3:20, 4:20, 4:50, 6:30, 7:30, 8:10, 9:40, 10:40 Fri-Wed 12:20, 1:10, 3:15, 4:10, 6:10, 7:35, 9:10, 10:35 CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (PG) Thu 12:50 3:40 6:50 10:00 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:00, 6:50, 9:50 FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:40, 10:25 Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:50, 7:45, 10:45 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (PG) Thu 12:00, 3:10, 6:20, 9:30 Fri-Tue 3:10, 6:20, 9:30 Wed 3:10, 10:30 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2: 3D (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:50, 7:10, 10:10 Fri-Tue 12:50, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Wed 12:50, 3:50, 7:00, 9:45 THE HELP (PG) Wed 12:15, 3:35, 7:05, 10:15 HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:40, 7:25, 10:20 FriWed 1:20, 4:15, 6:45, 9:40 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: DON PASQUALE ENCORE Wed 6:30 MONTE CARLO (G) Thu 7:05, 10:05 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Fri-Wed 12:40, 1:40, 3:30, 4:30, 6:15, 7:15, 9:20, 10:20 THE SMURFS 3D (G) Thu 1:30, 4:45, 7:15, 9:50 Fri-Wed 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 THE SMURFS (G) Thu 12:30, 3:45, 6:15, 9:10 Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:40, 6:30, 9:15 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D (PG) Thu 12:05,

3:25, 6:45, 10:15 Fri-Tue 12:30, 3:45, 7:10, 10:30 Wed 12:30, 3:45, 7:10, 10:25 WINNIE THE POOH (G) Thu 12:45, 3:00, 5:00 Fri-Wed 12:10 ZOOKEEPER (G) Thu 1:15, 4:00, 6:35 Fri-Tue 12:45, 3:20

KENNEDY COMMONS 20 (AMC) KENNEDY RD & 401, 416-335-5323

BAD TEACHER (14A) Thu 12:55, 3:15, 5:35, 7:55, 10:15 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:25 Sat-Sun 10:55, 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:25 BEATS, RHYMES & LIFE: THE TRAVELS OF A TRIBE CALLED QUEST (14A) 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:15 Sat-Sun 11:45 mat BRIDESMAIDS (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:15, 7:05, 10:00 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:55, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Sat-Sun 11:00, 1:55, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 CARS 2 3D (G) 2:00, 4:30 Sat-Sun 11:30 mat CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS 3D (G) 2:25, 4:45, 7:05, 9:25 Sat-Sun 11:40 mat THE HANGOVER PART II (18A) Thu-Tue 7:35, 10:10 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (PG) Thu 1:35, 2:35, 4:40, 5:40, 7:45, 8:45 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:45, 3:00, 4:45, 6:00, 7:45, 9:00, 10:45 Sat-Sun 10:45, 12:00, 1:45, 3:00, 4:45, 6:00, 7:45, 9:00, 10:45 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, 10:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 12:35, 2:20, 3:35, 5:20, 6:35, 7:10, 8:20, 9:35, 10:10 Sat-Sun 11:20, 12:35, 2:20, 3:35, 5:20, 6:35, 7:10, 8:20, 9:35, 10:10 THE HELP (PG) Wed 12:30, 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 LARRY CROWNE (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:35 Fri-Wed 4:10, 9:55 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:00, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:05, 7:00, 9:20 Sat-Sun 11:05, 1:50, 4:05, 7:00, 9:20 MONTE CARLO (G) 2:25, 5:00 Sat-Sun 11:50 mat PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES (PG) 2:10, 5:20, 8:30 Sat-Sun 11:10 mat SINGHAM (PG) 2:05, 5:25, 9:00 Sat-Sun 10:50 mat SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN (PG) Thu 1:40 4:30 7:20 10:10 Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05 Sat-Sun 10:50 mat SUPER 8 (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:10, 7:10, 9:55 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:30, 7:05 Sat-Sun 10:55, 1:30, 7:05 THE TREE OF LIFE (PG) 12:50, 4:00, 7:15, 10:20 WINNIE THE POOH (G) 1:10, 3:10, 5:10, 7:10, 9:05 Sat-Sun 11:05 mat X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (PG) 1:40, 4:35, 7:40, 10:35 Sat-Sun 10:45 mat ZINDAGI NA MILEGI DOBARA (PG) 2:20, 5:45, 9:15 Sat-Sun 11:00 mat ZOOKEEPER (G) 2:15, 4:55, 7:25, 9:50 Sat-Sun 11:35 mat

GTA Regions Mississauga

COLISEUM MISSISSAUGA (CE) SQUARE ONE, 309 RATHBURN RD W, 905-275-3456

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG) Thu 12:10, 12:40, 3:10, 3:50, 6:20, 7:00, 9:30, 10:10 Fri-Tue 12:10, 3:10, 6:20, 9:30 Wed 4:40, 7:40, 10:45 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER 3D (PG) Thu-Tue 1:20, 4:40, 7:40, 10:45 Wed 12:10, 3:10, 6:20, 9:30 CARS 2 (G) Thu 12:50, 4:00, 6:50, 9:50 COWBOYS & ALIENS Thu 12:25 1:30 3:25 4:30 6:40 7:30 9:40 10:25 Fri-Wed 12:25, 1:30, 3:25, 4:30, 6:35, 7:30, 9:50, 10:25 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS - PART 2: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) 12:30, 3:30, 6:45, 9:45 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (PG) 12:00, 3:00, 6:10, 9:20 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2: 3D (PG) Thu 1:00 4:10 7:20 10:30 Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:10, 7:30, 10:30 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Fri-Wed 12:50, 1:40, 3:50, 4:45, 7:00, 7:45, 9:40, 10:35 THE SMURFS 3D (G) Thu 1:10, 4:20, 7:15, 10:00 Fri-Wed 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:35, 10:10 THE SMURFS (G) Thu 12:20, 3:20, 6:15 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:00, 6:40 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON (PG) Thu 9:00 Fri-Wed 9:15 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D (PG) 12:15, 3:45, 7:10, 10:40 Wed no 7:10 ZOOKEEPER (G) 12:45, 3:40, 6:30, 9:10

COURTNEY PARK 16 (AMC)

110 COURTNEY PARK E AT HURONTARIO, 888-262-4386 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG) Thu 11:35, 1:15, 2:30, 4:05, 5:30, 7:10, 8:30, 10:05 Fri-Sat 11:45, 2:30, 5:30, 8:30, 11:30 Sun-Wed 11:45, 2:30, 5:30, 8:30 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER 3D (PG) 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:40 Fri-Sun 11:00 mat CARS 2 (G) Thu 2:00, 4:30, 7:05, 9:35 THE CHANGE-UP (14A) Fri-Wed 11:50, 2:40, 5:20, 8:05, 10:45 COWBOYS & ALIENS Thu 11:55, 1:55, 2:55, 4:50, 5:45, 7:30, 8:30, 10:20, 11:00 Fri-Sat 11:05, 11:55, 1:55, 2:55, 4:50,

5:45, 7:30, 8:30, 10:20, 11:20 Sun 11:05, 1:55, 2:55, 4:50, 5:45, 7:30, 8:30, 10:20 Mon-Wed 11:55, 1:55, 2:55, 4:50, 5:45, 7:30, 8:30, 10:20 CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:15, 7:05, 9:55 Fri-Sun 11:15, 2:00, 4:50, 8:00, 10:55 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:50, 8:00, 10:55 FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (14A) Thu 11:50 2:35 5:25 8:00 10:30 Fri-Wed 11:45, 2:35, 5:25, 8:00, 10:30 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS - PART 2: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 11:30, 2:30, 5:30, 8:25 Fri-Sat 11:30, 2:30, 5:25, 8:25, 11:25 Sun-Wed 11:30, 2:30, 5:25, 8:25 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (PG) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Sat 10:05 mat HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2: 3D (PG) 1:45, 4:45, 7:40, 10:45 Fri-Sun 10:45 mat THE HELP (PG) Wed 1:00, 4:10, 7:25, 10:40 HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A) Thu 2:05, 4:55, 7:45, 10:25 FriSun 11:20, 2:05, 4:55, 7:45, 10:25 Mon-Wed 11:30, 2:05, 4:55, 7:45, 10:25 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Fri, Sun 11:25, 12:15, 2:05, 2:45, 4:55, 5:30, 7:30, 8:15, 10:10, 11:00 Sat 10:00, 11:25, 12:15, 2:05, 2:45, 4:55, 5:30, 7:30, 8:15, 10:10, 11:00 Mon-Wed 11:35, 12:15, 2:05, 2:45, 4:55, 5:30, 7:30, 8:15, 10:10, 11:00 THE SMURFS 3D (G) Thu 12:55, 3:15, 5:35, 8:15, 10:50 FriSun 10:45, 1:15, 3:40, 6:00, 8:25, 10:50 Mon-Wed 1:15, 3:40, 6:00, 8:25, 10:50 THE SMURFS (G) 11:30, 2:00, 4:35, 7:15, 9:45 Sat only 10:00 2:00 4:35 7:15 9:45 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D (PG) 11:50, 3:20, 7:00, 10:35 ZOOKEEPER (G) Thu 2:10, 4:40, 7:20, 10:10

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BRIDESMAIDS (14A) Thu 7:10, 10:00 Fri-Tue 6:40, 9:30 Wed 6:40, 9:40 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG) Thu 12:20, 3:20, 6:20, 9:20 Fri-Tue 12:15, 3:30, 6:50, 9:50 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER 3D (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:30, 9:50, 10:30 Fri-Tue 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 9:20, 10:20 Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 9:30, 10:20 CARS 2 3D (G) Thu 1:00 3:40 6:50 Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:50, 6:45 THE CHANGE-UP (14A) Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:20 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 10:10 THE HELP (PG) Wed 12:15, 3:30, 6:50, 10:15 HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:35, 7:40, 10:10 Fri-Tue 1:40, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: DON PASQUALE ENCORE Wed 6:30 MONTE CARLO (G) Thu 1:10, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Fri-Tue 12:45, 3:40, 6:20, 9:00 Wed 12:45, 3:40, 10:00 THE SMURFS 3D (G) Thu 1:30, 4:10, 7:00, 9:40 Fri-Wed 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 THE SMURFS (G) Thu 12:30, 3:10, 6:15, 9:00 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:00, 6:30, 9:10 WINNIE THE POOH (G) Thu 12:40 2:45 4:45 Fri-Wed 12:30, 2:45, 4:40 ZOOKEEPER (G) Thu 12:50, 3:30, 6:30, 9:10

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BAD TEACHER (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:20, 7:25, 10:20 Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:35, 7:05, 10:05 BRIDESMAIDS (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:15, 10:05 Fri-Wed 12:05, 3:00, 6:05, 9:30 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG) Thu 12:10 3:10 6:10 9:15 Fri-Wed 12:15, 3:15, 6:15, 9:15 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER 3D (PG) Thu 12:40, 1:25, 3:50, 4:35, 7:00, 7:35, 10:00, 10:45 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 CARS 2 (G) Thu 12:45 3:40 6:55 9:35 Fri-Wed 12:35, 3:35, 6:35, 9:35 COWBOYS & ALIENS Thu 12:35 1:20 3:45 4:30 7:00 7:40 10:00 10:45 Fri-Wed 12:45, 1:20, 3:45, 4:20, 6:50, 7:25, 9:50, 10:20 FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (14A) Thu 12:50, 2:00, 3:45, 4:50, 6:50, 7:50, 9:40, 10:30 Fri-Tue 12:40, 1:30, 3:40, 4:30, 6:40, 7:35, 9:40, 10:30 Wed 12:40, 1:30, 3:40, 4:30, 7:35, 10:15, 10:45 THE HANGOVER PART II (18A) Thu 1:40, 4:40, 8:00, 10:35 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS - PART 2: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) 12:30, 3:30, 6:45, 9:45 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (PG) Thu 12:05 3:00 6:20 9:30 Fri-Wed 12:20, 3:25, 6:20, 9:20 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2: 3D (PG) Thu 1:00 4:00 7:10 10:15 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A) Thu 1:50 4:45 7:45 10:25 Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:25 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: DON PASQUALE ENCORE Wed 6:30 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Fri-Wed 1:00, 1:40, 4:00, 4:40, 7:00, 7:40, 10:00, 10:40 THE SMURFS 3D (G) 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 THE SMURFS (G) Thu 12:55, 3:35, 6:15, 8:50 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:20, 6:00, 8:40 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D (PG) Thu 12:25 3:55 7:20 10:40 Fri-Wed 12:25, 3:55, 7:20, 10:45 ZOOKEEPER (G) Thu 12:15, 3:15, 6:30, 9:00 Fri-Wed 12:10, 3:10, 6:10, 9:10

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30 INTERCHANGE WAY, HWY 400 & HWY 7, 416-335-5323 THE CHANGE-UP (14A) 2:15, 3:30, 4:15, 5:00, 6:15, 7:00, 7:45, 8:15, 9:00, 9:45, 10:30 Sat-Sun 11:30, 12:45, 1:30 mat CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (PG) Thu 3:00 4:20 6:30 7:10 9:20 10:10 Fri-Wed 3:40, 4:30, 6:30, 7:20, 9:20, 10:10 Sat-Sun 12:50, 1:40 mat GREEN LANTERN (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:45, 7:25, 10:05 Fri-Wed 4:05, 10:05 THE HANGOVER PART II (18A) 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 SatSun 11:50 mat THE HELP (PG) Wed 3:25, 6:35, 9:55 KUNG FU PANDA 2 3D (PG) Thu 2:20 4:40 7:05 9:25 FriWed 2:05, 4:35, 7:05, 9:30 Sat-Sun 11:40 mat LARRY CROWNE (PG) Thu 2:15, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (PG) Thu 2:40, 5:00, 7:20, 9:45 Fri, MonWed 2:25, 4:50, 7:10, 9:35 Sat-Sun 12:05, 2:25, 4:50, 7:10, 9:35 MONTE CARLO (G) Thu 2:05 4:40 7:15 9:55 Fri-Wed 2:10, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 Sat-Sun 11:35 mat MR. POPPER’S PENGUINS (G) Thu 2:00, 4:30, 6:55, 9:30 PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES (PG) Thu 3:05, 6:15, 9:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 6:55 Sat-Sun 12:55, 6:55 SUPER 8 (PG) Thu 4:15, 7:00, 10:15 THE TREE OF LIFE (PG) Thu 3:20, 6:30, 9:40 Fri, Mon-Tue 3:25, 6:35, 9:55 Sat-Sun 12:15, 3:25, 6:35, 9:55 WINNIE THE POOH (G) Thu 3:40, 5:40, 7:40, 9:40 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:10, 6:10 Sat-Sun 11:55, 2:00, 4:10, 6:10 X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (PG) Thu 4:00, 7:05, 10:05 Fri, MonWed 3:45, 6:50, 10:00 Sat-Sun 12:40, 3:45, 6:50, 10:00

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PROMENADE MALL, HWY 7 & BATHURST, 905-764-3247 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER 3D (PG) Thu-Tue 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 9:25 COWBOYS & ALIENS 1:15, 4:15, 7:10, 9:35 CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (PG) Thu-Sun, Tue-Wed 1:10, 4:05, 7:00, 9:30 Mon 4:05, 7:00, 9:30 FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (14A) 1:20, 4:10, 6:55, 9:15 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2: 3D (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:35, 6:35, 9:10 THE HELP (PG) Wed 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:30 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Fri-Wed 1:25, 4:20, 7:05, 9:25 THE SMURFS (G) Thu 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:15, 9:20 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:30

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dvd reviews Great animation and set pieces make this trip to Rio a blast.

Rio: Party Edition (Fox, 2011)

D: Carlos Saldanha, w/ Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway. Rating: NNN; DVD package: NNNN

The best thing about Rio is the city. Even without the advantages of 3-D and the big screen, the top-level animation, bird’seye aerial views and spectacular set pieces make the most of the beauty of Rio de Janeiro and its celebrated carnival. Blue (voiced by Jesse Eisenberg), a geeky pet blue macaw from Milwaukee, is the last male of his kind. He’s brought to Rio to mate with freespirited Jewel (Anne Hathaway), the last female. They’re stolen by smug-

Last Night (eOne,

2010) D: Massy Tadjedin, w/ Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington. Rating: NNN; Bluray package: NN

Here’s something you don’t see every day: a movie about adultery that doesn’t assume a moral stance or take sides. Joanna and Michael Reed (Keira Knightley and Sam Worthington), married four years, spend one night apart. Michael goes on a business trip with colleague Laura (Eva Mendes), and Joanna bumps into Alex (Guillaume Canet), an old flame. Writer/director Massy Tadjedin maintains a degree of tension by making sex anything but a foregone conclusion. She’s interested in why these people might want to step outside their marriage and how they feel about that. She also works to make sure we see Laura and Alex as characters with their own desires and doubts. All this is accomplished with sidelong glances and private moments delivered by a cast who know how to play upbeat, articulate people and still work the silences and subtext. The 15-minute making-of doc is subtitled in French, except for Canet’s remarks (French without subtitles). Knightley and the rest make a few interesting remarks on the movie and their characters. EXTRAS Making-of doc. Widescreen. English, French audio. English subtitles.

glers and escape, chained together, but Blue can’t fly. Eisenberg and Hathaway are pleasantly chirpy, though neither has anything particularly funny to say. Jemaine Clement brings hammy gusto to villainous cockatoo Nigel. Highlights of the generous extras package include animators filming themselves as reference for dancing birds, and a pair of music and song docs, one of which features Sérgio Mendes and some stellar percussion. EXTRAS Three making-of docs, samba lessons, more. Widescreen. English, French, Spanish audio. English, Spanish subtitles.

Winter In Wartime

(Sony, 2008) D: Martin Koolhoven, w/ Martijn Lakemeier, Jamie Campbell Bower. Rating: NNN; Blu-ray package: NN In January 1945, in a small Nazi-occupied Dutch village, 14-year-old Michiel becomes the resistance contact for a downed and injured British pilot. The problem is, Michiel’s not in the resistance, and his only resistance connections have been arrested or killed. Michiel (well played by Martijn Lakemeier) is in the grip of puberty. He’s sullen, secretive, resentful of his father, the mayor, for trying to accommodate the invaders, and desperate to be seen as a man. He’s completely out of his depth and as likely to bring on tragedy as avert it. Michiel’s inner conflicts lend depth and considerable suspense to a movie that works to catch the feel of life under the German occupation and avoid the thriller conventions. Apart from some remarks by source novel author Jan Terlouw, who lived through the Nazi occupation, the making-of doc offers only a standard look at the production. EXTRAS Making-of doc. Widescreen. Dutch, French audio. English subtitles.

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off: Bueller… Bueller… Edition (Paramount, 1986)

D: John Hughes, w/ Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck. Rating: NNN; Blu-ray package: NNN

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I’ve always thought of Ferris Bueller as a sociopath. He has the earmarks: studied charm, highly manipulative, no conscience, grandiose sense of self-worth, poor impulse control, out for short-term gratification. This scrapes some of the charm off the movie, which celebrates its 25th anniversary with this release, but leaves enough energy and humour to make it a pleasant evening on the couch. High school senior Ferris (Matthew Broderick), his best friend (Alan Ruck) and his girlfriend (Mia Sara) ditch school for an innocuous day on the town, highlighted by a kick-ass version of Twist And Shout (the movie’s finest moment). Meanwhile, gimlet-eyed principal Ed Rooney (Jeffrey Jones) and Ferris’s venomous sister (Jennifer Grey) make their separate moves to bring our hero down. Jones’s and Grey’s are merely the most prominent of the fine comic performances that surround Broderick and Ruck (who are remarkably convincing as lifelong buddies). Edie McClurg, Charlie Sheen, Jonathan Schmock and Ben Stein all have memorable moments and get a chance to speak in the extensive extras package, which dates largely from 2005. For sheer entertainment value, Stein’s interview is the best. First, he makes sure you know what a highly accomplished guy he is; then he works to convince you that droning, “Bueller… Bueller…” marked the happiest day of his life. EXTRAS Retrospective and contemporary making-of docs, cast interviews with each other, Ben Stein interview, more. Widescreen. English, French, Spanish audio. English, French, Spanish, Portuguese subtitles.

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pm. Il Posto (1961) D: Ermanno Olmi. 6:30 pm. SAt 6 – Annie (1982) D: John Huston. 2 pm. Under The Sun Of Rome (1947) D: Renato Castellani. 4:45 pm. City Of Women (1980) D: Federico Fellini. 7 pm. The Swimmer (1968) D: Frank Perry. 10 pm. Bubba Ho Tep (2002) D: Don Coscarelli. 11 pm. SuN 7 – The Young Lions (1958) D: Edward Dmytryk. 1 pm. Raj Kapoor X 2: Ram Teri Ganga Mailli (1985). 4:30 pm. Bobby (1973). 8:15 pm. MON 8 – I Vitelloni (1953) D: Federico Fellini. 6:30 pm. Lawrence Of Arabia (1962) D: David Lean. 6:45 pm. Diner (1982) D: Barry Levinson. 9 pm. tuE 9 – The Young Lions. 6:30 pm. wED 10 – Rome, Open City (1945) D: Roberto Rossellini. 6:30 pm. Bitter Rice (1949) D: Guiseppe De Santis. 9 pm.

Thrilling doc wings it GHOST BIRD (Scott Crocker) Rating: NNN Ghost Bird is surprisingly thrilling, especially for a movie about birdwatching, possibly the most mundane activity urbanites can imagine. Scott Crocker’s doc comprehensively covers the media hoopla and subsequent conspiracy surrounding the sighting of an ivory-billed woodpecker, a creature presumed extinct for almost a century. Brinkley, a depressed Arkansas town, takes sudden flight – economically speaking – after governing bodies prematurely

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confirm evidence of the bird’s return. But it all comes crashing down when experts challenge the myth the bird-tourist industry’s built around. Crocker insightfully tallies up the economic, environmental and social ramifications. Conservation efforts are thwarted when funding gets rerouted toward the hunt for the phantom fowl. Brinkley becomes a woodpecker souvenir shop. Somehow even Bush’s war on terror plays a hand in the affair. And its message about inflated values makes Ghost Bird a perfect recession-era doc. Opens Friday (August 5) at the Projection Booth. RADHEYAN SIMONPILLAI

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Hey, everybody: two things…. First: Last week, the GOP officially “denounced” me. The nation is at peace, Americans are going back to work, and the climate situation is completely under control – so, hey, why not go after the gay dude who writes that smutty sex column and gives Rick Santorum fits? Second: Last week, a Savage Love reader denounced me for failing to devote any recent column inches to my readers’ titillating anecdotes. As I hate disappointing a reader, I invited folks to send in their dirty/sexy vacation stories. Here’s the best of the bunch.

I wAs 15 And on vAcAtIon In cAPe cod.

Beaches never did anything for me, so I excused myself to go back to the hotel. On my way, I ran into another teenager, a girl. I struck up a conversation and was surprised to hear her answer in a British accent. Like me, she was bored as hell. I invited her to my hotel room to get high. I make my move, which she goes along with. We’re both naked when I get an awful idea that would make any sane and sober girl run screaming for the hills. Being young and ripped, I vocalize it without considering the outcome: “What if you pretend to be Hermione Granger?” This

was about the time of the fourth movie release, and I had a big crush on Emma Watson. As soon as the words left my lips, I knew I wasn’t getting laid that day. But I got laid that day. The Wander Years

seven yeArs Ago we went to A

wedding. Upon arrival, my girlfriend and I found ourselves in the quaintest, daintiest, lace-doiliest B&B we’d ever seen. The wedding was a wonderful affair held in a historic building. By the time the two of us returned to the B&B, we were drunk, happy and horny. If I’d been reading Savage Love back then, I would’ve known that we were breaking all the anal sex rules: it had been a first-date activity for us, we never took it slow, and we never used lots of lube. It had always worked before. This time, however, was different. With her on all fours on the lace doily bedspread, I pulled back and noticed what could not be described as santorum (no lube, just fecal matter). We immediately headed for the shower with her exclaiming loudly how much she “hates when there’s shit!” We got clean. The sheets were a different story. I can’t remember whether we left them there or stole them, but I do remember the chilly farewell we received from the lady who ran the place. It occurred to me then just how unsoundproofed the walls of a 150-year-old clapboard house probably are. That Comes From There?

I wAs 19. he wAs older And mArrIed.

We were both in Utah for a folk dancing event. He and his wife were non-monogamous – in the open way, not in the (sometimes creepy) Mormon way. His wife wasn’t interested in playing with me, so he and I fucked in the back of his truck while she folk danced at the folk festival I’d travelled to frickin’ Utah to attend. The next day, he drove me the hour back to their house in Salt Lake City so we could fuck some more. The next time we ran into each other was at yet another folk festival. We found an unused second-floor room in one of the buildings and used a piano to barricade the door. We left the window open for ventilation and so that our vocalizations could rain down on the heads of the innocent Seattleites going about their folk festival business. Frickin’ Utah

I’m A bI mAle, 25, And Into bondAge.

Four years ago I responded to the personal ad of a reasonably attractive French guy with an unreasonably amazing dungeon. I sent pictures and said I’d love to spend a weekend in his dungeon if I ever made it over. He offered to pay for a plane ticket if I would spend a week in his dungeon. After doing Christmas and NYE with the family, I headed to Paris for the last week of my winter break. Within 48 hours, I was begging him to let me out. He agreed to let me go if I still wanted out in two hours. But the

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About 10 yeArs Ago, when I wAs 15,

my very lenient parents took two of my girlfriends and me to one of those allinclusive resorts in Mexico. We partied and drank with some nice Mexican boys we met on the beach. On our final night, we all downed a bunch of flaming shots. Long story short: I ended up falling through a second-storey window and cutting my head pretty badly, one of my girlfriends and I got into a drunken fist fight (I still have no idea about what), and then I lost my virginity on the beach to one of those nice Mexican boys. I woke up the next morning with a hangover, drunken shits and a pussy full of sand. The plane ride back was miserable… but, oh, what a memory. Good Times

In the ProvIncetown dunes, my bF

and I met another couple with the same first names as ours. They invited us to their campsite later that night. That’s when I learned four is the tangle threshold – four bodies can literally get so tangled, you have to stop to undo yourselves. They had a little propane lamp, and as we were leaving we could see their shadows from outside the tent – meaning we had just done a four-way shadow show for everyone in the campsite. Rob #2

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bondage was “only real now” that I wanted out, he said in his sexy French accent, and he told me – while slowly stroking my dick – that I was beautiful and brave and strong and that I could get through the week. Which is what I did. On my last night in Paris, he took me to an expensive restaurant, ordered a bottle of champagne and toasted my bravery and strength. Best Week Ever

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– or “holiday,” as we say in the UK – so here goes: My boyfriend and I both love hiking, so off we went to the Lake District, one of the prettiest walking regions in the country. The highest mountain in England, Scafell Pike, is there, so of course we had to climb it, just like pretty much every other tourist. What most of them don’t do is attempt the two-hour ridge traverse to reach the top of the secondhighest mountain in England, Scafell. We did. Whereas Scafell Pike had been so crowded there was no space for us to sit and have lunch, Scafell was deserted. I’ve always had a kink for outdoor sex, and it seems he has a fetish for mountain scenery, because we had possibly the best sex we’ve ever had on top of that mountain, enjoying spectacular views of the gorgeous English countryside. There is nothing like being fucked while staring out at the landscape that inspired the poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge! Climber Loves Impulsive Fell Fucking

Thanks for sharing, vacationers. Your regularly scheduled sex advice returns next week. Now go Google “santorum,” everybody. Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger. com/savage. mail@savagelove.net

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