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The BlackBerry riots Don’t block RIM’s messaging service in London By nowtoronto.com editor JOSHUA ERRETT In Iran, it was the Facebook revolution. In Tunisia, the Wikileaks revolution. In Egypt, it was called a Twitter revolution. In London, it’s the BlackBerry riots. Whatever technology is used to spur civil unrest is usually lauded by the Western world as an agent of change. The very same technology gets con-

demned by governments that find themselves the target of protest. During the Arab Spring, for instance, phones were jammed and internet service was blocked to stop Twitter and Facebook. In the UK this week, the same scenario is playing out. BlackBerry Messenger, or BBM, is being used to organize

protests and avoid police – only no one is congratulating BlackBerry for connecting the uprising there. Right on cue, Tottenham MP David Lammy has demanded BlackBerry suspend its messaging service to keep protesters from communicating. “[BBM] is one of reasons why unsophisticated criminals are outfoxing

an otherwise sophisticated police force,” he said. His voice is echoed by a Twitter campaign with the same goals. #blockbbm was trending on that service during day two of the riots – the irony of a Twitterled push to censor technology apparently lost on tweeters. These demands for censorship are as troubling as whatever nefarious BlackBerry messages are flying around London. When a cause is worth supporting, like democracy in Egypt, many call for the protection of technology, open lines of communication and the spread of information. But when protests are deemed unworthy of support, when anger spills over into violence, the reaction is to clamp down on technology and kill the messaging, BBM or otherwise. It does not work that way. MPs in Britain could make a good case for shutting down BBM, just as Hosni Mubarak’s government could have done in Egypt earlier this year. “We feel for those impacted by the riots in London. We have engaged with the authorities to assist in any way we can,” tweeted RIM’s UK branch this week, which resulted in its corporate blog getting hacked. And what if BBM is closed? Protesters would likely move to Twitter or Facebook. Would those then be shut, too? Not likely, since those two networks are being used in the cleanup of London. What kind of democracy cuts the lines of communication when it doesn’t like what’s being communicated?

Like Twitter during the Egypt uprising, Research In Motion should keep its BBM network open and free of government interference, regardless of what else happens in Britain . Jonathan Akwue, the blogger who discovered the BBM phenomenon in London this week, probably said it best: “Calls for the use of BBM to be curbed are, in my opinion misguided. As others have pointed out, social networks don’t cause riots – people do.” joshuae@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/joshuaerrett

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Thursday, August 11

Benefits

ArtCyCle 2011 (Bikes Without Borders) An

evening of art, live music by Tonella, Nate Gerber and others, plus a silent auction. 8 pm. $10-$12. London Tap House, 250 Adelaide W. guestlistapp.com/events/61770. We CAre With UnderWeAr (Women in Haiti) Underwear art for sale, plus singer Jaffa and a documentary screening. 7-9:30 pm. Donations of cash or new underwear. Toronto Women’s Bookstore, 73 Harbord. wecare123@uniserve. com.

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AlbreCht dUrer ii Art history lecture with art historian Francis Broun. 1 & 6:30 pm. $25, stu/ first-timers $10. Women’s Art Assoc, 23 Prince Arthur. 647-343-1411. Art SAveS toronto: A CreAtive reSponSe pArty! Artists and arts supporters are invited

to present proposals on building a creative response to current arts issues. 5-11:30 pm. Free. MOCCA Courtyard, 952 Queen W. plancast.com/p/6s21/art-saves-torontocreative-response-party. blACk bird liberAtion CinemA Screening of three documentaries about indigenous struggles. 6:30 pm. Free (donations welcome). Sylvester’s Cafe at GSU/U of T, 16 Bancroft. wccctoronto.wordpress.com. book: bUrning QUeStionS This panel discussion on the future of the book and book industry looks at issues of digitization, access, cultural shifts in reading and more. 6:30-8:30 pm.

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rAll CApS! iSlAnd FeStivAl All-ages music

and art festival with Evening Hymns, Rich Aucoin, Jenn Castle, More or Les and others, a barbecue and camping. Gibraltar Point, Toronto Island. wavelengthtoronto.com. Aug 13 to 14 biCyCle Film FeStivAl Bike-themed films, art, parties and music. $10-$15, passes $20$30. Royal Cinema (608 College) for screenings, plus other venues. bicyclefilmfestival. com/toronto. Aug 11 to 13 rConSCioUS Food FeStivAl Outdoor fest to celebrate local food and sustainability includes food and drink samples, a Kids Zone, live music, workshops and more. $20, adv $15; children free. Fort York, 100 Garrison. consciousfoodfestival.ca. Aug 13 to 14 rCUltUreShoCk Community arts festival with performances by Wes Maestro Williams, Jaek Delarge, Babyboyz Dance Crew and others, plus family activities. Free. Weston Collegiate, 100 Pine. urbanartstoronto. org. Aug 12 to 13 FortUne Cooking Food FeStivAl This exploration of Pan-Asian cuisine and culture features a music workshop, an iron chef competition and more. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com. Aug 12 to 14 leAther pride Leather and fetish festival with pride celebrations, seminars, enter$10. Design Exchange, 234 Bay. Pre-register eventbrite.com/event/1831057743. ChineSe gong-FU teA Ceremony Learn about tea culture and history. 1 pm. Free. Downsview Library, 2793 Keele. 416-395-5720.

rCloSe enCoUnterS oF the reptile kind

Learn about Ontario’s native reptiles. Thu & Frid, 11 am & 1:30 pm. Free w/ admission. Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills. 416696-1000.

festival with Canadian and international films and performances by the Darcys, Lynn Miles, Liam Titcomb and others. $15. Amsterdam Brewery, 21 Bathurst. openrooffestival.com. To Sep 1 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 west-end venues. queerwest.org. To Aug 14 rrAStAFeSt Rastafari arts and culture festival with visual art, film screenings and more

leading up to the big concert (Sat) with Mighty Diamonds, Orthodox Issachar, House of David Gang and others. Free. York Woods Public Library (1785 Finch W) and Downsview Park (35 Carl Hall). rastafest. com. To Aug 12 SoUnd trAvelS Festival of sound art with a soundwalk, indoor and outdoor performances, installations, a symposium and more. Concerts $10-$15, symposium $35-$70, intensive $175. Artscape Wychwood Barns and other venues. soundtravels.ca. To Sep 3 SUmmerWorkS theAtre FeStivAl Juried theatre festival with more than 40 plays, concerts, workshops and more. $15, passes $40-$110. Various venues. summerworks. ca. To Aug 14

ConAn o’brien CAn’t Stop Outdoor film screening. Dusk. $15. Amsterdam Brewery, 21 Bathurst. openrooffestival.com. rCSi: live! A live-action stage performance lets audience members become witnesses, suspects and CSI recruits. To Sep 5 various times. Free w/ admission. Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills. 416-696-1000. FreSh From the Field A Farmers Feed Cities event with local food advocate Brad Long, ex-

pert winemakers, food and more. 6:30 pm. Free admission. Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview. evergreen.ca. godleSS Documentary screening and a Q&A with the director and producer. 7 pm. Free. Centre for Inquiry, 216 Beverley. cficanada.ca/ ontario/events. heAlth mAtterS in pArkdAle Parkdale Health Coalition town hall to raise awareness of health care issues in Parkdale. 7 pm. Free. May

tainment, the Mr Leatherman contest and more. torontoleatherpride.ca. Aug 11 to 14

continuing open rooF FeStivAl Outdoor film and music

Robinson Auditorium, 20 West Lodge. 416441-2502.

rinternAtionAl tAoiSt tAi Chi AWAreneSS dAy Demos, lectures on the health benefits of

tai chi, a dragon dance and parade. 10 am-3 pm. Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. taoist.org. lAboUr WAlkS: Union StAtion Kellie Scanlan and Denise Hampton lead a walking tour of the area’s labour history. 6:30 pm. Free. Meet in front of the ticket booths at Union Station. catalystcentre.ca. nAhr el-bAred tAlkS bACk Screening of the documentary about Palestinians losing their homes in a refugee camp in Lebanon. 7:309:30 pm. Pwyc donation. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org. poWer oF Women Speakers include Ellen DeGeneres, Suzanne Somers and Loretta Laroche. 9 am-5pm. $229 and up. Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front W. powerofwomen.com. Sex And pleASUre 101 Introductory workshop on anatomy, toys and more for all genders. 7-9:30 pm. $33. Good for Her, 175 Harbord. Pre-register 416-588-0900. So yoU think yoU CAn Write... A plAy?! Fourweek playwriting workshop with Nina Lee Aquino. To Aug 28. Pwyc. Kapisanan Philippine Centre, 167 Augusta. Pre-register 416-9790600, kapisanancentre.com.

Friday, August 12

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ConneCting City Folk With their Food SoUrCe Full-day trip to Michael Schmidt’s raw milk farm. 9 am-8 pm. $99. Pre-register at fieldtriptoronto.ca/farms.html#michael. 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. FridAy night rideS With CyClopS Bike rides with performances by Cycling Oriented Puppet Squad. 6:30 to 8 pm. Free. Various locations. clayandpapertheatre.org.

hAUnted kenSington, ChinAtoWn & grAnge Discover the Chinese Hungry Ghost

Festival and which stores and cafes are haunted. 6:30-9 pm. $25, srs/stu $18, child $15. Red pole w/ black cat, 350 Spadina. Pre-register 416-923-6813.

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24443fortuneCookingNOW:Layout 1 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. Mock casino & cabaret cruise Cabaret performance, a Cajun dinner and more aboard the River Gambler. 7:30 pm. $70. Pier 29, 261 Queens Quay E. harlequincruises.com. university of toronto Ghost tour Guided walking tour. Fridays 7 pm. $10. E side of Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. Pre-register richard@muddyyorktours.com. rWhat Lies beneath? Geophysics of forensic science Demonstration of the high-tech

tools used to investigate what’s underground. 1 & 3:30 pm. Free w/ admission. Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills. 416-696-1000.

Saturday, August 13

Benefits

city chase 2 (Right to Play) Duos compete in

an urban race. 10 am. $150 team. Queen & Bay. Pre-register 905-510-9309 or visit mitsubishicitychase.com. Descant charity GaraGe saLe (Descant Arts & Letters Foundation) Antiques, books, DVDs, books, stage props and more on sale to help promote Canadian writers and literacy. 10 am-4 pm (rain date Aug 14). Free. 245 Markham. info@descant.ca. foLLoW the yeLLoW brick roaD (Yellow Brick House Emergency Shelter) Music, food, a silent auction and more. 7 pm. Donation. Markham Train Station, 214 Main N (Markham). 905-940-3333. LinDa’s WaLk (St Clare Inn) Walk to help homeless women rebuild their lives. 8 am-1 pm. Pledges. 1300 Leslie. 416-690-0330.

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bioDynaMics basics Introductory workshop

on principles, methods and processes. 10 am12:30 pm. $15. Carrville Community Garden, 9100 Bathurst (Thornhill). Pre-register ccg2011organizers@gmail.com. birchcLiff viLLaGe farMers Market Fridays to Oct 7. 3-7 pm. St Nicholas Church, 1512 Kingston. marketsbythebluffs.com.

rbLoorcourt arts anD crafts street fair

Family-friendly event with vendors, entertainment, wrestling, a kids’ zone and more. 11 am10 pm. Free. Bloor W between Dovercourt and Shaw. bloorcourt.com/arts-and-crafts-fair. Drop-in Diy bike repair Bring your bike and they’ll provide the space and tools. Pwyc plus parts (sugg $7/hr). Evergreen at the Brick Works, 550 Bayview. ebw.evergreen.ca. recuaDorian nationaL Day Ecuadorian music by Villamarka, entertainment and food. 10 am-11 pm. Free. Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen W. 647-221-0252, aeocanada.ca. fooD froM sMaLL spaces fair Urban backyard, balcony and rooftop food-growing event with a green roof tour, live music, displays and more. 2-5 pm. Free. Eastminster United Church, 310 Danforth. martina@ecospark.ca. rinDia Day Cultural events include music, dance and arts. 11 am. Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca. rkiDs’ crafts Historically based crafts for kids of all ages. Saturdays & Sundays. Noon4:30 pm. Free w/ admission. Mackenzie House, 82 Bond. 416-392-6915. LapbanD coffee Group Meetup for those who’ve had lapband surgery and those who’d like to know more about it. 11 am. Free. Timothy’s Coffee, 425 Bloor E. meetup.com/ Lapband-Coffee-Groups-Toronto-GTA. Latin MoonLiGht boat cruise Dance tutorial, show and open dance floor aboard the Trillium ferry. 7:30 pm boarding time. $45-$90. Ferry Docks, 9 Queens Quay W. 416-857-0796, dancelifepromotions.com. rLatinfest Celebrate Latino culture in Canada with live music, food, a puppet show, crafts and activities for kids, dance and rides. 1-9 pm. $31.50-$43.14. Canada’s Wonderland, 9580 Jane, Vaughan. tlntv.com. Learn about coMpostinG Hands-on workshop. 4-6 pm. Free. Dufferin Grove Park, 875 Dufferin, S of Bloor. Pre-register gardens@ dufferinpark.ca. return to oz Outdoor screening of the 1985 pseudo-sequel to Victor Fleming’s classic. 9 pm. Free. Cawthra Square Park, next to 519 Church. the519.org. toronto cat rescue aDopt-a-thon Cats and kittens, fee includes first set of vaccinations, spay/neuter and six weeks pet insurance. Pet microchipping clinic also on site. Today & tomorrow. $175 (adoption fee). Pet Cuisine, 127 Front E. 416-538-8592, torontocatrescue.ca.

Who’s afraiD of coMMunisM? the 21st-century capitaList crisis anD the coMMunist soLution Public teach-in presented by the Proletarian Revolutionary Action Committee.

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2-4 pm. Free. Parkdale Library Meeting Room, 1303 Queen W. practoronto.wordpress.com.

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Everyone with the last name “Wong” is invited. 1:45 pm. Free. Queen’s Park, main lawn. wongsconvention2011@wongs.ca.

WorkinG With the peopLe for the peopLe

Workshop with activists to learn to mobilize the community and organize around stopping service cuts and privatization, plus performances by members of the hip-hop community, a dinner and more. Noon-midnight. Donations accepted. CUPE Local 4400, 1482 Bathurst. torontostopthecuts.com. Workshop With tony buff Interactive workshop with the Falcon/Raging Stallion superstar. 3-6 pm. Free. Black Eagle, 457 Church. 416-413-1219.

Sunday, August 14

Benefits

suMMerfest iii (Friends of We Care) Live

music by Mispent Youth and other bands, a barbecue, a silent auction and more. Noon-5 pm. Free. Metalworks Institute, 3611 Mavis, Mississauga. summerfest3@gmail.com.

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cast iron chef: charLottes, GruMbLes anD fooLs Learn how to make summer desserts in a historic hearth kitchen. 1-4 pm. $20. Todmorden Mills, Pottery E of Bayview. Pre-register 416-392-2819.

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Heritage walk. 12:15 pm. Free. Castle Frank subway. heritagetoronto.org. eDibLe tree tour LEAF-led tour of our urban forest. 10:30 am-noon. $5 sugg donation. Ben Nobleman Park (across from Eglinton West subway). Pre-register yourleaf.org. entertainMent District Guided ROM walk. 2 pm. Free. King and Simcoe. rom.on.ca. GLaDstone ruMMaGe saLe 10 am-1:30 pm. Free. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416531-4635.

Lorne broWn: sinGer of oLD sonGs, teLLer of oLD taLes The storyteller/balladeer performs at this Ulyssean Society lecture. 2 pm. Free. Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil. 416-4101982, ulyssean.on.ca. Lost 1st chinatoWn fooDie WaLk Tour of Chinatown and dim sum lunch. 10 am-1:30 pm. $45, stu/srs $40, child $30. Old City Hall (front steps), 60 Queen W. 416-923-6813.

Fortune Cooking Food Festival Aug 12–14 FREE A sizzling full-course menu of Pan-Asian culture!

Love, intiMacy anD coMMunication Workshop Exercises and group sharing to explore

ways of increasing intimacy in various areas of our lives. 2-4:30 pm. $5-$10 donation. RSVP for location. Pre-register eric@ericnagler.com. rsuMMer in the 1850s kitchen Cooking workshop with tasting, tours and hands-on activities. Noon-5 pm. Free w/ admission. Gibson House, 5172 Yonge. 416-225-0146. sunDay scene Tour the current exhibitions with Carlos Granados-Ocon and Caoimhe Morgan-Feir. 2 pm. Free. Power Plant, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949. tony buff sounDinG DeMo The Falcon/ Raging Stallion superstar demonstrates the kinky art of sounding. Free. Black Eagle, 457 Church. 416-413-1219, Check for details blackeagletoronto.com.

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Events

DraWinG froM the MoDeL Life drawing ses-

sion, no instruction. 6:30-9 pm. $5. Ralph Thornton Centre, 765 Queen E. 416-392-6810.

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reD state: an eveninG With kevin sMith

Screening of Smith’s new thriller followed by a Q&A with the director. 7:30 pm. $50-$85. Toronto Underground Cinema, 186 Spadina. coopersdell.com/redstateca/. rshakespeare is inn! Week-long drama camp for youth 13 to 17. 10 am-12:30 pm. $150. Montgomery’s Inn, 4709 Dundas W. Preregister 416-209-2026.

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Tuesday, August 16

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concert for africa faMine reLief (Inter-

national Red Cross/Red Crescent) David Celia and other artists perform to support the Horn of Africa Relief Fund. 8 pm. Monarchs Pub, Delta Hotel, 33 Gerrard W. 416-585-4352.

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ARTS FIGHTBACK PLUS DESSERT With everything supposedly on the cutting table, artists and their supporters are organizing Art Saves Toronto: A Creative Response Party, a brainstorming strategy session on protecting the creative sector. The idea is to bring pie – or any other dessert – and a proposal. Come party, mix and plot to head off further chops to arts funding. Today (Thursday, August 11), 5 pm. Free. MOCCA Courtyard, 952 Queen West. plancast.com/p/6s21/art-savestoronto-creative-response-party.

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seum of Ceramic Art, 111 Queen’s Park. 416586-8080. rTHE EDIBLE HIKE Learn about edible wild leaves, flowers, berries and seeds growing in High Park. 1 pm. $2. High Park Nature Centre, 430 Parkside. 416-392-1748 ext 2. GIvING GREAT HEAD Women-only workshop. 7-9:30 pm. $33. Good for Her, 175 Harbord. Pre-register 416-588-0900.

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child $15. Royal Ontario Museum steps, 100 Queen’s Park. Pre-register 416-923-6813. INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCING Dance in the park every Tue. 7:30 pm. Free. Sir Winston Churchill Park, Spadina and St Clair. ofda.ca. KILL SHAKESPEARE Meet the creators of a graphic novel. 6 pm. Free. Cedarbrae Library, 545 Markham. 416-396-8850.

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Outdoor film screening. At dusk. Free. YongeDundas Square. ydsquare.ca. PUB STUMPERS Trivia night. 7:30 pm. Free. Stout Irish Pub, 221 Carlton. 647-344-7676. 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. Pre-register 416-535-8501 ext 2189. TRUE TALES International celebration of story-

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RELIEF FOR SOMALIA The images are terrible of the hungry and exhausted fleeing drought in Somalia and other countries in the Horn of Africa. Give the International Red Cross/Red Crescent a boost and attend telling. 7 pm. Free. Drake, 1150 Queen W. 416531-5042.

Wednesday, August 17

Benefits

ALUCINE’S SUMMER PARTY (Alucine Film +

Media Arts Festival) Silent auction and raffle, music and more. 8 pm. $10. Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas W. alucinefestival.com.

Events

BLOODY YORK CRIME AND PUNISHMENT TOUR

Guided walking tour. Thursdays & Saturdays 7 pm. $10. E side of Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. Pre-register richard@muddyyorktours.com. FEMINIST BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP The group will discuss Lisa Moore’s February. 2 pm. Free. Northern District Library, 40 Orchard View. 416-393-7610.

HOw TO SURvIvE MIDDLE MANAGEMENT IN PYRAMID-AGE EGYPT Society for the Study of

Egyptian Antiquities lecture with the ROM’s Deirdre Keleher. 7 pm. $5. 5 Bancroft, rm 142. 647-520-4339, thessea.org. 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. rROUGE PARK GUIDED wALKS Explore the park’s trails Wednesdays and weekends. Free. rougepark.com/hike. SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN Outdoor film screening. 8:30 pm. Free. David Pecaut Square (behind Metro Hall), 55 John. tiff.net.

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a Fighting Against Famine benefit concert with a lineup of local musical talents including David Celia, Brian Blain, Laura Fernandez, Tony Springer and more. Tuesday (August 16), 8 pm. Donations, $10 sugg. Monarch’s Pub, Delta Hotel, 33 Gerrard West. 416-585-4352. wHAT IN TARNATION Post Carbon Toronto presents Gordon Laxer leading a discussion on whether Canada’s economy is devolving into a petrostate. 7-9 pm. Pwyc. City Hall, 100 Queen W, Committee Room 2. 647-9904917, meetup.com/PostCarbonTorontoMeetup. YOUNG vOICES: wORDSPLATTER Workshop for youth with writer Gary Barwin. 1:30 pm. Free. Yorkville Library, 22 Yorkville. Pre-register ksparling@torontopubliclibrary.ca.

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by Santee Smith, Jenn Goodwin and others. To Aug 21, 7 pm. Pwyc. Earlscourt Park, St Clair W at Caledonia. duskdances.ca. GROw, COOK AND RELISH! Learn to prepare the Korean specialty kimchi with chef Jimmy Im. 6:30 pm. Free. St Lawrence Market Kitchen, 95 Front E, 2nd floor. Pre-register 416-535-0240. HANS HOLBEIN Art history lecture with art historian Francis Broun. 1 & 6:30 pm. $25, stu/ first-timers $10. Women’s Art Assoc, 23 Prince Arthur. 647-343-1411. TORONTO FILM SCHOOL STUDIO TOUR Learn about programs in film production, acting and writing. 6-8 pm. Free. 10 Dundas E, 7th floor. 905-669-0550, yorkvilleu.ca. UKE SCHOOL Learn to play ukulele with David Newland. 7 pm. Free. Bloor/Gladstone Library, 1101 Bloor W. Pre-register 416-396-7674. 3

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Acadia’s attitude The food’s great, but service and ambience aren’t on the menu By STEVEN DAVEY ACADIA (50C Clinton, at College, 416-7926002, acadiarestaurant.com) Open for dinner Wednesday to Sunday 5:30 pm to close. Closed Tuesday, some holidays. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms in basement. Rating: NNN

dinner at acadia, the brandspanking new boîte in the former Langolino across from the Diplomatico on College, certainly isn’t much fun. Intellectually stimulating, a veritable smorgasbord for the senses, some of the most imaginative plates in town – no question. But a good time Acadia ain’t. The no-fun policy starts at the door, where the welcome borders on disdain. A peek in the door warrants a bark of “We’re not open yet” and the suggestion that we cool our heels on the empty patio. That’s “empty” as in devoid of tables and chairs, not free of customers. And they call this the hospitality industry. Once admitted, we’re shown to a table next to one of the 42-seat resto’s large front windows. Our tattooed

server, who likely wasn’t born when the Ohio Players LP being played in the background was first released, hands us Acadia’s short Southern U.S.-inspired card and brusquely advises us that it’s best if each of us orders a starter, a main and maybe a side. Ya think? Hell, we might even spring for dessert. But first, co-owner/chef Matt Blondin’s amuse. Or, as we call it chez nous, the pickle platter, an upright assortment of cider-brined new potatoes, green beans, okra and hardboiled quail eggs tossed with boiled red-skinned peanuts. And though we’ve requested it as a side, a warm round of cornbread ($5) arrives with it, tickled with flowering thyme, and disappears as fast as it’s spread with confited sweet potato butter. A scallop all the way from Nova Scotia’s Northumberland Strait comes properly seared ’n’ quartered and festooned with lemon-pickled watermelon rind, Parmesan tuiles and crisp chicken crackling (aka skin), an artistic squiggle of arugula purée completing it ($13). Wonder-

fully textured Chesapeake Bay crabmeat finds its way into tempura-battered squash blossoms paired with a cherry tomato chow-chow and an incongruous blob of whipped buttermilk – crab cakes by way of the Dairy Queen ($12). When’s the last time (if ever) you saw chlorophyll on a menu? But here it is, the green foam under a slab of red grouper smothered in a N’Awlinsstyle étouffée of prawns, andouille sausage and mushy red peas ($20). (Tastes like parsley, btw.) And locavores will be relieved to learn that dry Nagano pork cheeks over sorghum salad dressed with fresh sarsaparilla and tobacco-infused leeks ($21) are sourced in Quebec and not Japan. By comparison, Blondin (former Colbourne Lane chef de cuisine, and hence the fiddly bits) keeps it relatively simple with his roasted green tomato and polenta tartelette finished with “assorted” lettuces and a shower of freshly shaved parmigiano ($16), by far the most straightforward main of the evening. A belated side of collard greens

laced with pancetta, cream and licorice ($4) shows up just slightly before a sliver of retro sugar pie ($8). Heaped with boozy bourbon-soaked raisins and something called “caramelized dairy” that looks like ice cream and tastes like air, the pie’s as close to comfort food as Blondin gets.

As we make our exit, we can’t help but notice the raucous crowd on the patio across the way. Yeah, the Dip’s pizza is just this side of edible. But the next time we’re in the nabe and feeling peckish, we know which side of the fence we’ll be on. 3 stevend@nowtoronto.com

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Online rumours suggesting the imminent closure of Crêpes à GoGo (18 Yorkville, at Yonge, 416-922-6765, crepesagogo.com) are slightly askew. “I’m not going anywhere!” insists the French flapjack shack’s Véronique Perez. She is, however, about to launch a sister café dedicated to the popular Parisian pancake later this month on the southwest corner of Spadina and Bloor, next door to none other than Greg’s Ice Cream (750 Spadina, at Bloor, 416-962-4734, gregsicecream. com). Roasted marshmallow ice cream on a crepe sounds like a match made in foodie heaven. “People are always asking me when I’ll come back to the Annex,” says Perez, who opened the first long-gone Go Go almost 10 years ago at Bloor and Bedford before relocating to the current Yorkville digs. “So when the space came up, I took it.

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Good things come to those who wait, like the Toronto designer investment buys featured in our fall womenswear preview. 1. Lately, designers’ sense of colour has been blocked into graphic stripes, but we’re craving something a bit less regimented for fall. Juma’s (jumastudio.com) signature autumn fabric is a multicolour-on-black knit cut into tops and dresses, including this maxi ($250) available September 1 at Pho Pa (702 Queen West, 416-943-1887, phopa.ca). 2. Abel Munoz, he of the towering booties and skyhigh platform sandals, is lowering our expectations for the height of his footwear with the fall addition of some sharp leather oxfords ($580). Pick up a pair at George C (21 Hazelton, 416-962-1991, georgec. ca) starting the third week of August.

4. Carpetbags are making a comeback, and our favourite textured tote is Virginia Johnson’s chain-stitched carryall ($350). Next week it arrives in bear and snowshoe prints or this hennainspired motif at her west-end boutique (132 Ossington, 416-516-3366, virginiajohnson.com). 5. Danier’s new collection includes pieces created with UK-based knitwear phenom Mark Fast and Toronto jersey junkies Stephen Wong and Kirk Pickersgill of Greta Constantine. Their biggest collaboration surprise, though, is stylist George Antonopoulos’s Object line, which features these coveted grey suede trousers ($349) in stores (Eaton Centre, 218 Yonge, 416-598-1159, and others, danier.com) September 8. 3 DAvID HAWE

3. Christie Smythe and Andrea Lenczner of Smythe have designed the hybrid topper of the season, an A-line, double-breasted pea jacket ($795) that mixes in trench coat storm flaps, dropped epaulets and a

zipper up the back to add extra swing to its shape. Find it at Holt Renfrew (50 Bloor West, 416-922-2333, holtrenfrew.com) by the end of September.

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The week’s news, views and sales First For Fall If you’ve already caught the autumn shopping bug, Shopgirls (1342 Queen West, 416-534-7467, shopgirls.ca) is a great spot to get a head start on your fall wardrobe. Fresh August buys include basics by The Paddock, knits from Covet, and Stacey Zhang separates. Nella Bella bags, Yoga Jeans and pieces from Eve Gravel, Bodybag, Presse, Snoflake and Chromozone round out the new arrivals.

Mad Men goes Banana Mad Men’s style influence keeps growing with the arrival of a clothing collection inspired by the AMC series at Banana Republic stores (80 Bloor

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West, 416-515-0018, and others, bananarepublic.com) today (Thursday, August 11). The show’s costume designer, Janie Bryant, collaborated with Banana’s design team on 65 men’s and women’s pieces, including tailored suits and classic accessories like pocket squares and tie bars for guys and silk blouses, fitted trench coats and leopard-print pumps for women.

Zoe at Holts Speaking of bananas, stylist-turneddesigner Rachel Zoe (rachelzoe.com) is making an appearance at Holt Renfrew (50 Bloor West, 416-922-2333, holtrenfrew.com) on Monday (August 15) to launch her fall collection. Slip into your wobbliest platforms and

head down to the store between 2 and 3:30 pm for a fan meet-and-greet and to shop her footwear, handbags and women’s clothing.

sweet deals Hats, bags, purses and jewellery are all reduced by up to 35 per cent until Saturday (August 13) at Gwendolyne Hats (401 Richmond, #433, 416-351-1219, gwendolynehatsforlife.blogspot.com).

Lenscrafters (Eaton Centre, 220 Yonge, 416-581-1621, and others, lenscrafters.ca), offers half off the price of prescription lenses with frame purchase until September 12. And at designer Annie Thompson’s Studio (1 Wiltshire, #205, 416-703-4445, anniethompson.ca), there’s a three-forone sale on existing stock today and tomorrow (Thursday and Friday, August 11 and 12).

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There’s barely 100 square feet of selling space in designer Sara Duke’s (pictured) Bloordale boutique-cum-studio, and that’s just the way she likes it. “I enjoy interacting with my customers,” she says, hanging out behind the cash in one of her signature dresses, a full khaki cotton piece that Duke has cinched with a leather belt. “There are only two racks, but most people seem to be able to find something on one of them.” It’s easy to see why. Duke refreshes stock weekly, using easy-to-wear-and-care-for fabrics in classic shapes to create separates that don’t break the bank. A piece called Your Favourite Shirt comes in light, invincible polyester, and a blouse Duke says is great for the office bares the perfect amount of work cleavage and is loose enough to let you enjoy a big lunch. Sara Duke Factory Store picks: Many fabrics are sourced from old tailor shops, including the yellow-flecked navy cotton used to make a dress shirt, $52; Duke’s khaki dress is $88; a striped burgundy skirt has been designed to catch the wind without completely flipping up, $54. Look for: Army surplus bags, Impossible Speed T-shirts and great basics by Thursday. Hours: Wednesday to Saturday noon to 8 pm, Sunday noon to 6 pm. 3

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thinks we shouldn’t just automatically dismiss the voices that speak to us in the privacy of our own heads. Some of them may actually have wise counsel, or at least interesting evidence about the state of our inner world. Besides, says Dossey, “it is vital for our mental health to keep the channels open, because when the voices of the gods are shut out, the devils often take up residence.” This would be good advice for you to observe in the coming days, Aries. Don’t let the nagging, blustering, or unhinged murmurs in your head drown out the still, small voice of lucid intuition. (Dossey’s book is The Extraordinary Healing Power Of Ordinary Things: Fourteen Natural Steps.)

TAurus Apr 20 | May 20 What are you going to do to attract or induce the phenomena I name in the list below? At least three of them could come your way in

the days ahead: 1. a “limitation” that leads to more freedom; 2. an imaginative surrender that empowers you to make a seemingly impossible breakthrough; 3. a healthy shock to the system that tenderizes your emotions; 4. a tough task that clarifies and fine-tunes your ambition; 5. a seemingly lost chance that leads to a fresh promise through the vigorous intervention of your creative willpower.

GeMini May 21 | Jun 20 Thirteen will be your lucky number for the foreseeable future. In fact, a host of things for which the average person has an irrational aversion could be helpful to you. For that matter, influences that you yourself may have considered in the past to be unsympathetic or uncongenial could very well be on your side, and may even conspire to enlighten and delight you. At least temporarily, I urge you to shed your superstitions, suspend your iffy biases and dismiss your outworn fears.

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CAnCer Jun 21 | Jul 22 Anne Cushman wrote a book called Enlightenment For Idiots. It wasn’t a how-to book, but rather a novel about a spiritual truth-seeker wandering through India. As far as I know, no one has written an actual instructional manual with the theme she named in her title. If anyone could do it, though, it would be you right now. Lately, you’ve been getting smarter by doing the most ordinary things. You’ve been drawing lifeenhancing lessons from events that others might regard as inconsequential or unsophisticated. I suspect that this trend will continue in the coming days. Through the power of simplicity and directness, you will succeed at tasks that might have defeated you if you had allowed yourself to get lost in complicated theories and overly thought-out approaches. Congrats! Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 For 34 years, a diligent Californian named Scott Weaver worked on creating a scale model of San Francisco

using toothpicks. Meanwhile, Eric Miklos, of New Brunswick, Canada, was assembling a 40-foot-long chain of bottle caps. And in 2006, a team of artists constructed a 67-foot-tall gingerbread house, the world’s largest, inside the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota. These are not the kinds of stupendous feats I advise you to get started on in the coming weeks, Leo. The astrological omens suggest that you’ll attract blessings into your life if you launch deeply meaningful masterpieces, not trivial or silly ones.

VirGo Aug 23 | sep 22 Storyteller Clarissa

Pinkola Estes loves life’s natural rhythms just as they are. She says we can avoid a lot of suffering if we understand how those rhythms work. “The cycles are birth, light and energy and then depletion, decline and death,” she told Radiance magazine. In other words, everything thrives and fades, thrives and fades. After each phase of dissipation, new vitality incubates and blooms again. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, Virgo, you are currently going through a period of dwindling and dismantling. The light is dimmer than usual and the juice is sparser. But already, in the secret depths, a new dispensation is stirring.

LibrA sep 23 | oct 22 Where do you want

to be at this time next year? What do you want to be doing? I encourage you to fantasize and scheme about these questions and be alert for clues about possible prospects. Here’s my reasoning, Libra: Some foreshadowings of your future life may soon float into view, including a far-off whisper or a glimpse of the horizon that will awaken some of your dormant yearnings. Don’t make the mistake of thinking these visions must be acted upon instantly. Instead, ruminate leisurely on them, regarding them as the early hints of potential long-range developments.

sCorpio oct 23 | nov 21 Let’s say, hypo-

thetically speaking, that you can’t get The Most Beautiful Thing. It’s out of reach forever. You simply don’t have the connections or wherewithal to bring it into your life. Could you accept that disappointment with a full heart and move on? Would you be able to forgive life for not providing you with your number-one heart’s desire, and then make your way into the future with no hard feelings? If so, Scorpio, I bet you would be well-primed to cultivate a relationship with The Second Most Beautiful Thing.

sAGiTTArius nov 22 | Dec 21 What images would be most helpful for you to fill your imagination up with? What scenes would heal and activate your subconscious mind, inspiring you in just the right ways? I invite you to make a list of at least five of these, and then visualize them often in the coming days. Here are a few possibilities to get you warmed up: peach trees filled with ripe fruit; the planet Jupiter as seen through a powerful telescope; a magnificent suspension bridge at dawn or dusk; a large chorus animatedly singing a song you love; the blissful face of a person you love. CApriCorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 Scientists have proved beyond a doubt that heavenly bodies cannot possibly exert forces that affect events on Earth, right? Well, no. Actually, according to research reported in the December 24, 2009 edition of the science journal Nature, it turns out that the gravitational tug of the sun and moon sends significant tremors through California’s San Andreas Fault and could potentially trigger full-blown earthquakes. Speaking as a poet, not a scientist, I speculate that those two luminaries, the sun and moon, may also generate a lurching but medicinal effect on you sometime soon. Are you ready for a healing jolt? It will relieve the tension that’s been building up between two of your “tectonic plates.” AquArius Jan 20 | Feb 18 “Follow your

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dreams,” read the headline on some random blog I stumbled upon, “except for the one in which you’re giving a speech in your underwear.” In the comments section, someone named Mystic Fool had posted a dissenting view: “I would much rather have a dream of giving a speech in my underwear than of being naked and drunk and inarticulate at a cocktail party, trying to hide behind the furniture.” Mystic Fool’s attitude would serve you well in the coming week, Aquarius. Expressing yourself in a public way, even if you don’t feel fully prepared, will actually be a pretty good course of action – especially as compared to keeping silent and hiding.

pisCes Feb 19| Mar 20 Some substances

that seem to be rock-solid are in fact fluids that move verrrryyy slowly. Bitumen is one example. It’s a form of petroleum also known as pitch. In a famous experiment, an Australian researcher set up an apparatus that allowed a blob of pitch to gradually drip into a container below it. Since the experiment began in 1927, eight drops have fallen. I like to think you’re engaged in a similar long-term process, Pisces. And from what I can tell, a new drop is about to drip.

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The Sheepdogs R. JEANETTE MARTIN

When: August 7, 2011 Where: Festival of Beer

the scene

BEIRUT with OWEN PALLETT ET LES MOUCHES at

the Phoenix, Thursday, August 4. Rating: NNN Worldy pop pied pipers Beirut lured an audience heavy on couples to the Phoenix for a two-night stand with promises of waltzy melodies, horny harmonies and cabaret romanticism. Dressed in matching grey dress shirts, the five multi-instrumental players and their ukulele-strumming front man, Zach Condon, played a selection of songs spanning three albums and four EPs. Beirut’s music is full of melancholic romance that is at its most viscerally arousing when Condon and brass players Kelly Pratt and Ben Lanz unite in harmony with various combinations of trumpet, French horn, tuba and trombone. The audience clearly connected with the plaintive emotion in Condon’s voice, cheering wildly after each song, but there’s an odd disconnect between this group of straitlaced-looking dudes and their impassioned music. Beirut’s arrangements are full of vibrancy, but live they can come off as mannered

Shows that rocked Toronto last week

and too rehearsed. Despite a computer meltdown toward the end of his opening set, Owen Pallett seemed newly invigorated by the presence of his old Les Mouches bandmates, playing cuts from his Heartland album, a new song with a wild drum solo and a charming cover KEVIN RITCHIE of Caribou’s Odessa.

JOAN OF ARC at the Garrison, Friday, August 5. Rating: NNN As much as Joan of Arc probably hate this, the Chicago band will always be closely associated with the early days of emo, even if that has more to do with frontman Tim Kinsella’s early 90s work with Cap’n Jazz than it does with his more recent endeavours. Keep in mind that we’re not talking about the pop-punk-and-silly-haircuts version of emo that exploded in suburban North America in the 00s, but a more experimental and sensitive math-rock tangent of the hardcore scene that has largely faded into a distant memory. In earlier incarnations, it often felt as if Joan of Arc were actively working against that association, but in this

version band members seem much more comfortable with their past. The intricate, intentionally awkward rhythms and interlocking guitar riffs were there in full force, as was the anguished folk-punk crooning, but it all felt a little bit too much like a nostalgia show for aging indie nerds. They might still have the chops, but there wasn’t nearly enough intensity to truly conBENJAMIN BOLES nect with the room.

THE TWELVES at the Hoxton,

Saturday, August 6. Rating: NNN Playing the opening night of a highly anticipated new club has got to be a bit strange for a touring act. Sure, you can pretty much guarantee a packed house, but you can also expect the sound system to need some serious tweaking, along with other little glitches like malfunctioning A/C and chaos at the door. Thankfully, Brazilian DJ/production duo the Twelves have a strong enough fan base that a good chunk of the crowd at the Hoxton’s opening were definitely there to dance and not just to be seen in the new hot spot.

Unfortunately, due to visa problems, only one of the Twelves actually made it into the country, which left João Miguel representing their sound on his own. This wasn’t a huge problem, since their appeal is more about the remixes and exclusives they drop into their sets than it is about their technical interplay behind the decks. Though definitely a fun party mix, it wasn’t exactly mind-blowing. That discofied electro-rock sound is effective, but it’s rapidly approaching its BB best-before date.

SHEEPDOGS at Toronto’s

Festival of Beer, Sunday, ñ� August 7.

Rating: NNNN The CNE Bandshell during a boozy afternoon at Beer Fest isn’t usually the first stop for buzz bands coming through Toronto. But that’s just part of the strange career trajectory these days for Saskatoon’s Sheepdogs, the hirsute foursome of 70s-loving rockers who have rocketed to fame thanks to winning the cover of Rolling Stone magazine and a major label deal to go with it.

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As the Sheepdogs launched into opener Who?, its opening riff the prelude to an hour’s worth of CSNY, Zepplin and Allman Brothers-influenced groove rock, it was hard not recall Stillwater, the fictitious band from Almost Famous. They were a bearded bunch getting the cover of RS and on the cusp something big. But egos wreaked havoc. Sheepdogs look far more grounded. Frontman Ewan Currie, flanked by bandana-wearing guitarist Leot Hanson and bassist Ryan Gullen, avoided classic rock stage antics even though you could feel the beer-festers practically begging for a “How the hell are ya, Toronto?” The skies opened up midway through the set, but that didn’t dampen spirits. The wet gathering grew more vocal with each harmonic Sheepdogs concoction of blues, rock and boogie. Could this have been one of those “I was there” moments? At a fairground stage, during a suds-soaked beer festival? As the Sheepdogs are proving, big things can happen when JASON KELLER you least expect them. NOW AUGUST 11-17 2011

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Iceage

Are these Danish rockers brats, or just shy teenagers? By RICHARD TRAPUNSKI ICEAGE with METZ and NOTHING at Parts & Labour (1566 Queen West), Wednesday (August 17). $10. RT, SS, TW.

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The members of Iceage are either rebellious, enigmatic, violent punk bullies or just a group of bored, introverted teenagers from Denmark. Most likely they’re both. “We don’t try to be mysterious,” says 19-year-old lead singer/guitarist Elias Bender Rønnenfelt over the phone from the band’s tour van, on their way to Minneapolis. “But a lot of

people think we are.” That reputation likely stems from the images on their website of fans bloodied from moshing, videos that employ aggressive occult imagery and a sound that galvanizes the cold, angular groove of no wave and post-punk with the raw, primal urgency of early hardcore. But it’s also likely related to their media-shyness. You know it’s going to be rough going when a band’s own publicist warns you that you might not want to do an interview. Young

Rønnenfelt’s answers are terse and direct to the point of insolence. But that’s a good fit with their heavily hyped debut, New Brigade (What’s Your Rupture?), an album packed so densely that it barely lets you catch your breath. Iceage’s intense concerts, similarly, rarely pass the 20-minute mark. “We could play longer sets if we wanted to,” says Rønnenfelt. “But that would be boring.” Spoken like a true teenager. 3 music@nowtoronto.com

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ALL CAPS! Island Festival Quirky all-ages event connects artists and musicians By Joanne Huffa

EVENING HYMNS in collaboration with SCOTT CUDMORE, JENNIFER CASTLE, MORE OR LES and others as part of the ALL CAPS! ISLAND FESTIVAL at Artscape Gibraltar Point (Toronto Island), from Saturday (August 13), 4 pm, through Sunday (August 14). $12-$25. RT, SS.

It’s been six years since the first ALL CAPS! Island Festival debuted on Toronto Island, featuring a diverse array of bands in the idyllic country-withinthe-city setting. While the fest’s primary focus is still to bring independent music to an all-ages audience, there’s a bigger emphasis this year on art and environment. “We’re working with Whippersnapper Gallery,” says Ryan McLaren, codirector of Wavelength, the music series that presents ALL CAPS! “They actually approached us earlier with the idea of doing something collaborative with art and music, and it made sense to do it at the Island Festival.” It’s also the first year that attendees have been allowed to camp out overnight on the Island, a privilege usually restricted to Girl Guides and Boy Scouts. “As far as I can tell, it’s the first Toronto music festival to have camping,” says McLaren. The communal experience of camping out lends itself to an inclusive festival that this year features performances by DD/MM/YYYY, the Wooden Sky, Julie Doiron, Steamboat and More or Les. Some will play traditional sets while others have created collabora-

tive works with visual artists under the same is true of Jennifer Castle, who umbrella title Land Lake Land. will be making something entirely new Jonas Bonnetta will be doing double with photographer and video artist duty on Saturday, playing an early set Yuula Benivolski. With Wooden Sky with his band, Evening Hymns, then slated for a collaboration with painter/ hooking up with video director Scott installation artist Joshua Barndt and Cudmore to present Speaking In Whippersnapper curator Adrian Tongues, a work-in-progress that comDiLena and DD/MM/YYYY with urban bines film, music and the great outinterventionists Felix Kalmenson and doors. Sasha Foster, it’s safe to say this won’t “We’re making a 3-D film,” says be a typical festival of bands playing Cudmore over the phone, a hint of inabbreviated sets of their hits. Even credulousness in his voice. “Yeah, it’s a bands unconnected to an artist are go3-D film with a live score played by ing off the beaten path. Jonas, along with the field recordings “Dog Bus is a band from Waterloo,” we did for the film and also the sounds McLaren says, describing the one band that will naturally occur outside during on the roster that Toronto music fans the performance. We want the end relikely won’t recognize. “It’s a 19-yearsult to resemble a dream state.” old rapper and his 13-year-old brother. Unfortunately, due to lighting and They rap about robots and about monother production constraints, only keys in New York City.” 3 music@nowtoronto.com those fortunate enough to have snagged a coveted camping pass will be able to see this ambitious work, although the pair plan to continue working on it and show it sometime in the future. Jonas Bonetta Bonnetta, who recently scored a documentary film about Estonian poet and philosopher Jaan Kaplinski, sounds keen to break away from the self-imposed limitations of his band. “The music that accompanies the film is more abstract than the threeminute songs I write for Evening Hymns, although the new album has a six-minute piece for strings on it.” Just as Bonnetta takes a step away from the familiar for the Jennifer Castle Island show, McLaren says the NOW August 11-17 2011

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w/ Jennifer Castle, Bruce Peninsula Lower Ossington Theatre (100A Ossington), tonight (Thursday, August 11) Forward-thinking roots music.

HONEY JAM ARTIST SHOWCASE

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w/ Alanna Clarke, Giselle, Jenny Laws, Reece, Sarah Taylor, Victoria Sol and more. Mod Club (722 College), tonight (Thursday, August 11) Sixteenth annual all-girl urban showcase.

SUMMERWORKS MUSIC SERIES

w/ Ruby Coast, Miracle Fortress Lower Ossington Theatre (100A Ossington), Friday (August 12) High-quality Canadian indie pop.

AMON AMARTH

Phoenix (410 Sherbourne), Friday (August 12) Swedish melodic death metal.

BRITNEY SPEARS, NICKI MINAJ, JESSIE & THE TOY BOYS, NERVO

Air Canada Centre (40 Bay), Saturday (August 13) Over-the-top pop extravaganza.

ADDISON GROOVE, XI, MYMANHENRI

THE ALL CAPS! ISLAND FESTIVAL

Drake Hotel (1150 Queen West), tonight (Thursday, August 11) Chicago juke via the UK.

w/ Julie Doiron, Jennifer Castle, Evening Hymns, DD/MM/YYYY, the Wooden Sky and more. Arscape Gibraltar Point (443 Lakeshore, Toronto Island), Saturday and Sunday (August 13 and 14) See preview, page 33.

SUMMERWORKS MUSIC SERIES

w/ Powers, Green Go Lower Ossington Theatre (100A Ossington), Saturday (August 13) High-energy electro-pop double bill.

MEMORY TAPES

Wrongbar (1279 Queen West), Saturday (August 13) See preview, page 40.

STIFF LITTLE FINGERS, THE LUCKY ONES

Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), Tuesday (August 16) Influential Irish pop-punk pioneers.

KMFDM, ARMY OF THE UNIVERSE, HUMAN FACTORS LAB Phoenix (410 Sherbourne), Tuesday (August 16) 80s German industrial music legends.

ICEAGE, METZ, NOTHING

Parts & Labour (1566 Queen West), Wednesday (August 17) See preview, page 32.

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GILLES PETERSON, DJ GENERAL ECLECTIC, LUIS DENIZ JAZZ QUARTET Havana Cultura Mod Club 9 pm. ha-

doors 5 pm, all ages, $18. RT, SS, TM, UE. September 24.

AMOS LEE Queen Elizabeth Theatre $tba. TM. October 27.

THE RADIO DEPT Mod Club doors 7 pm,

vana-cultura.ca. August 20.

WIZ KHALIFA Sound Academy doors 8

pm, all ages, $39.50-$59.50. PDR, RT, SS, TM. September 26.

DURAN DURAN, NEON TREES Air

Canada Centre doors 6:30 pm, all ages, $42.50-$119.50. TM. October 27.

THE BOXER REBELLION Opera House

GRACE POTTER & THE NOCTURNALS Opera House doors 8 pm, $18.50. RT,

DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979 Sound

SS, TW. September 29.

Academy doors 8 pm, all ages, $36. PDR, RT, SS, TW. October 27 and 28.

JOHN MAUS Drake Hotel. September 30.

THE SLACKERS 20th Anniversary Ska

BERES HAMMOND, WAYNE WONDER Redemption Reggae Festival Sound Academy $45-$50. PDR. August 20.

REEMA MAJOR, KARL WOLF Reema Day Canada’s Wonderland 4 to 9 pm, $31.86. reemamajorsummerbling.com. August 23. SEBASTIAN, MILANO The Hoxton. Sep-

THE NAKED & FAMOUS Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 8 pm, $20. HS, RT, SS, TM. October 6.

MS. LAURYN HILL, NAS, DJ PREMIER, AZ & PETE ROCK Molson Amphi-

DREAM THEATRE, TRIVIUM Massey

HARRY CONNICK JR OneXOne Celebra-

NATALIE MACMASTER & DONNELL LEAHY Two Fiddles, Two Pianos Hugh’s

tember 8.

theatre doors 5:30 pm, $25-$99. TM. September 8. tion Gala Four Seasons Hotel 6:30 pm. onexone.org. September 9.

THE TEDDYBEARS Wrongbar $18. RT, SS, TM. September 9.

LUPE FIASCO, KARDINAL OFFISHALL, MELANIE FIONA AND OTHERS OneXOne Celebration Benefit

Hall doors 7 pm, $42.50-$69.50. RTH, TM. October 6.

Room 8:30 pm, $47.50-$52.50. October 7.

ZOLA JESUS Mod Club doors 7 pm, $14.

HS, RT, SS, TM. October 14.

HOT CHELLE RAE, THE NEW CITIES

Opera House doors 8 pm, all ages, $15. RT, SS, TW. October 16.

Concert Kool Haus 9 pm. onexone.org. September 10.

OFWGKTA (ODD FUTURE WOLF GANG KILL THEM ALL) Golf Wang Tour

JIMMY RANKIN AND THE HEARBROKEN Sound Academy doors 7 pm, $25.

MURS, TABI BONNEY, SKI BEATZ

TM. September 15.

Wrongbar. October 20.

VIVIAN GIRLS, WIDOWSPEAK Parts

HERBIE HANCOCK Massey Hall 8 pm.

& Labour. September 16.

RTH. October 22.

THE SHINS Phoenix Concert Theatre doors

BLACK ANGELS, DEAD MEADOW

8 pm, $30. HS, RT, SS, TM. September 22.

AFTER THE BURIAL, VEIL OF MAYA, MISERY SIGNALS, WITHIN THE RUINS, STRUCTURES Mod Club

Sound Academy $29.50. October 18.

Lee’s Palace doors 8 pm, $23.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. October 24.

OBITS Rivoli doors 8 pm, $13. RT, SS. October 25.

Celebration Opera House doors 8:30 pm, all ages, $22.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. October 28.

THE CIVIL WARS Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 8 pm, $18.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. November 1. SBTRKT The Hoxton $tba. TM. November 3. BOBBY LONG Drake Hotel doors 7 pm, $18.50. RT, SS, TW. November 3.

SEA & CAKE Lee’s Palace doors 9 pm, $16.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. November 5.

YAEL NAIM The Great Hall doors

8 pm, all ages, $25. SS, TM. November 7.

WU LYF Horseshoe doors 9 pm, $12. HS, RT, SS, TM. November 12.

$15. HS, RT, SS, TM. November 17.

doors 9 pm, $17. HS, RT, SS, TM. November 19.

FEIST Massey Hall doors 7 pm, $35-$55.

RTH, TM. December 1.

AUSTRA, TASSEOMANCY Phoenix

Concert Theatre. December 1.

BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME, ANIMALS AS LEADERS, TESSERACT Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 7 pm, all

ages, $24.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. December 7.

WYNTON MARSALIS AND THE JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA Massey Hall 8 pm. RTH. February 23.

Lower Ossington Theatre Canadian-Cuban

Friendship Association Toronto

The Mod Club The Painted Lady

STUDIOS 134 Ossington Avenue

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Thursday, August 11 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

AlleycAtz Graffitti Park 9:30 pm.

AmsterDAm Brewery Open Roof Festival Movie Series Locomotive 8 7:30 pm. AQuilA uPstAirs Mhairi Holmer (acoustic rock). Bovine sex cluB The Rough Boys, Money Pie, Life Bitter Soul, the Joint, DJ Boom Boom Club. cloAk & DAgger PuB The Soul Motivators (soul/funk) 10 pm. el mocAmBo Les Frauleins, epic Vaseline, elk, serb superb 9 pm. glADstone hotel meloDy BAr Indie Love Radio Tiny Danza, Sky Shaver, Lauren Best & Alan Boivin 8 pm. grAFFiti’s Frank Nevada 4 to 6 pm, Cedar Strippers, the Dreggs evening. horseshoe Bicycle Film Fest The Meligrove Band, Octoberman, SPIN-Evalyn Parry, Christien Summers 8 pm. lower ossington theAtre SummerWorks Music Series Jennifer Castle, Bruce Peninsula 10:30 pm. moD cluB Honey Jam Artist Showcase Alanna Clarke, Giselle, Jenny Laws, Reece, Sarah Taylor, Victoria Sol and others doors 7 pm. nAthAn PhilliPs sQuAre Tasty Thursdays Mookie & the Loyalists (punk rock) noon. the ossington CD release Akumu, Diplacer, S:Cage, DJ Jonah K, DJ Niko. the PAinteD lADy Stormalongs (alt rock) 9 pm. the Piston The Greater Goods Co (local band showcase) 9 pm.

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PlAceBo sPAce William Hooker Trio, Pon De Replay w/ Colin Fisher, Aaron Lumley ñ 9 pm, all ages. rivoli The Balconies, the Coppertone, & Teeth 9 pm. ñHands silver DollAr Armen at the Bazaar, Heartbeat Hotel, Gay, Still Life Still ñ (tech-pop) doors 9 pm. sounD AcADemy Classic Rock Thursdays Unplugged Paul James 8 pm. southsiDe Johnny’s Skip Tracer (rock/top 40) 9:30 pm. suPermArket HeartstringsTV/ MusiCounts Persian Rugs, Maylee Todd, Robyn Dell’Unto doors 7 pm. toronto women’s Bookstore We Care With Underwear Benefit For Women In Haiti Jaffa 7 to 9:30 pm. trAnzAc southern cross Erica Mah, Darcy McCord (indie) 10 pm.

Folk/BluES/countRy/WoRlD

AsPettA cAFFe Open MIc Nite 7 to 11 pm. cAstro’s lounge Jerry Leger & the Situation (country/folk/rock) 9 pm.

centre islAnD outDoor lAgoon theAtre SP

Simms & Maya’s Caravan Of Song 7 pm. c’est whAt Jesse Labelle 9 pm. clinton’s Wind Broken Stones (indie folk rock). the DAnny Acoustic Open Stage Sebastian Agnello 9:30 pm. DAve’s... on st clAir Open Mic Uncle Herb Dale & Fran McCann 9:30 pm.

eArl BAles PArk BArry zukermAn AmPhitheAtre Family Fun Summer Festival Mystic

lower ossington theAtre SummerWorks Music Series Ruby Coast, Miracle ñ Fortress 10:30 pm.

emmet rAy BAr Box Full of Cash (blues/coun-

mississAugA civic centre celeBrAtion sQuAre Matt Dusk 7:30 to 9:30 pm. mitzi’s sister Queen West Arts Festival:

Drums 8 pm. try) 9 pm.

Free times cAFe Josh Garb & Zach Salsberg. hugh’s room Firefly Cabaret Lori Cullen,

Jazz/claSSical/ExPERimEntal

Alterna-Queer Stage Criztal-Jay, Green Splat Band, Mark Cassidy, People You Know Band 8 pm.5 moD cluB Redlight King 8:30 pm, all ages. PArts & lABour Mares of Thrace, Vilipend, Enabler, Godstopper (metal/hardcore) 9 pm. Phoenix concert theAtre Amon Amarth 8 pm, all ages. rivoli StillRappin Showcase Dusty Solo, All Natural Crew, D-Mic, J-Rod doors 9 pm. scADDing court community centre Night Market The WildCore, Fade Chromatic. silver DollAr The North, Littlefoot Longfoot, Shotgun Wedding, Erika Werry 9:30 pm. southsiDe Johnny’s Angelfire 10 pm.

8 pm.

Folk/BluES/countRy/WoRlD

Heather Bambrick, Tyler Yarema, Red Hot Ramble, Kellylee Evans, the Maisies 8:30 pm. the locAl Colleen Hodgson, Steve Koch. lou DAwg’s Call In Sick Friday Mike C 9:30 pm. monArchs PuB The Gary Kendall Band (blues) 9 pm. only cAFé Jes Kahili (singer/songwriter). toronto BotAnicAl gArDen Gardens Of Song Jane Bunnett (Cuban) 7 to 8:30 pm. trAnzAc southern cross Songs by Bert 6 pm. trAnzAc southern cross Houndstooth (bluegrass/old-time) 7:30 pm.

De sotos Open Mic/Jazz Jam Double A Jazz

centre islAnD outDoor lAgoon theAtre SP

eDwArD Johnson BuilDing wAlter hAll

the DAnny EP release Mena Hardy (country/

5:30 to 8 pm.

Toronto Summer Music Festival: Beethoven – The Romantic Icon The Gryphon Trio (chamber music) 7:30 pm. gAte 403 Alex Samaras Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. gAte 403 Kevin Laliberté Trio 9 pm. mercer union The Sound Of Art Paddy Johnson, Paul Slocum, Lewis Kaye (sound art) 9 pm. rePosADo The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz). rex Sophia Perlman 6:30 pm. rex Scott Suttie Band 9:30 pm. somewhere there stuDio Architects Matt Fong, Josh Doerksen, Steve Sladkowski, Sarah Walterhouse, Taylor Moran and others 8 pm. wychwooD theAtre Sound Travels: Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium Concerts 8 pm.

BAr 460 Oi !Night (punk/oi) 10 pm. coBrA lounge Emergency Alex Kenji, Jed Harper.

DrAke hotel unDergrounD Addison Groove, XI, Mymanhenri doors 10 pm. ñ gooDhAnDy’s Ladyplus Parties DJ Todd

Klinck doors 8 pm.5

hArlem unDergrounD Graffiti Is Art DJ Carl

Allen (ol skool/hip-hop/soul/R&B) 8 pm. holy oAk cAFe Gold Standard DJ Mama Knows, Max Mohenu (soul/R&B/rocksteady) 10 pm. insomniA DJ Ron Jon (funk/soul/house). nocturne Deep Down Sounds DJs Subhuman, Johnny Ak, thepharmacist and others 10 pm. rivoli seconD Floor DJ the Dirty Frenchman, Plan B (hip-hop/dancehall/bmore) 10 pm. xs nightcluB Get Wild Thursdays DJ Couture 10 pm.

Simms & Maya’s Caravan Of Song 7 pm.

rock.

gAge PArk Brampton Global Jazz & Blues Festival Downchild Blues Band 10 pm.

highwAy 61 southern BArBeQue Dylan Wickens & the Little Naturals 8 pm.

hugh’s room Fathead 8:30 pm. the locAl Al Richer. lou DAwg’s It’s Gotta Groove Friday Jeff Eager 9:30 pm.

lulA lounge Brazilian Forró Dance Party

Carla Dias & Sintonia Carioca, Aline Morales, Forró Nite 10 pm. mel lAstmAn sQuAre Cultura 2011 Suzie Vinnick (folk/blues) 7:30 pm. trAne stuDio Tin Canyon: Art, Storytelling & Bluegrass Show Jaron Freeman Fox, Charles James & Tim Posgate 8 pm. trAnzAc southern cross The Foolish Things (folk) 5 pm. weston collegiAte institute UrbanArts CultureShock Festival (drum cafe and local performers) 6 to 9 pm. yonge-DunDAs sQuAre Indie Fridays New Country Rehab (alt/country) 8 pm.

Jazz/claSSical/ExPERimEntal

AQuilA uPstAirs The Gypsy Rebels (jazz/

rock).

ceno Chris Gale and Neil Hendry 7:30 pm. Four seAsons centre For the PerForming Arts Broadway And Beyond Colm Wilkinson 8 pm.

gAllery 918 Swing, Bliss & Intimacy Doug Wamble & Mboya Nicholson 7:30 pm.

gAte 403 John Mason Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. gAte 403 Patrick Tevlin’s New Orleans

Rhythm 9 pm.

Friday, August 12

hArlem unDergrounD Chris Weatherstone

PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

olD mill inn home smith BAr Reg Schwager

AlleycAtz Ascencion (R&B/funk) 9:30 pm. AsPettA cAFFe Ciaran O’Shea, GMF, Jon Berrie 7 to 11 pm.

Bovine sex cluB Teenage X, the Ward, Hellbros, DJ Vania.

cADillAc lounge The Rattles (Beatles tribute). Dc music theAtre Indie Night Showcase

Maingate, A State Between Worlds, Beyond the Cage, Skepsis. DorA keogh The Swamp Yankees (rock & roll/country) 9:30 pm. DrAke hotel unDergrounD Matte Black, Lucian Thomas, Terrance Cross doors 8pm. el mocAmBo Ascott Royals, Mishima, Secret Broadcast, Love Banshee 9 pm. the gArrison Parlovr, Young Rival, Topanga, Uncle Bad Touch. glADstone hotel meloDy BAr Melodius (New Orleans R&B) 8 to 10 pm. grAFFiti’s Rocking For Sick Kids Paul Martin (classic covers). guvernment I Octane & Ruff Kutt Band, Colin Levy, Sample King, Terminal DG. hArlem Carolyn T (R&B/soul/jazz/Motown/ Latin) 7:30 pm. holy oAk cAFe Bourbon Sour (rock) 10 pm. horseshoe Stereokid, Two Crown King, My Son the Hurricane, Little Black Dress (alt ska punk/rock) 9:30 pm. kAPisAnAn PhiliPPine centre Soundz Of The Youth Writers Society, the Grapefruit Colour, Simon & S.W.A.G., the Runner ups doors 7 pm, all ages. lee’s PAlAce Kid City, Noistar.

August 11-17 2011 NOW

Dominion on Queen John T Davis (organist)

DancE muSic/DJ/loungE

Trio 8 pm.

Trio 7:30 pm. rePosADo The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz). rex Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm. rex Sultans of String 6:30 pm. rex Jane Fair Quintet 9:45 pm. rose theAtre Brampton Global Jazz & Blues Festival: From Mardi Gras To Mambo Dr. John w/ Jane Bunnett, Sarah Morrow, Hilario Duran 7:30 pm. trinity st. PAul’s church Jeff Mangum (Neutral Milk Hotel frontman) doors 6:30 pm, all ages. wAterFAlls Jim Heineman Trio (jazz) 6:30 to 10:30 pm. wychwooD theAtre Sound Travels Festival Of Sound Art: Places For Our Ears To Go Jonty Harrison, David Berezan, Nick Storring 8 pm.

ñ ñ

DancE muSic/DJ/loungE

Annex wreckroom 90s Party Fawn BC, Caff (alt rock/pop/hip-hop) 10 pm.

cAstro’s lounge DJ ‘I Hate You’ Rob (soul/ funk/R&B/punk rock/rockabilly) 10 pm.

clinton’s Fuck It Dance Party Bangs & Blush

(Motown/Britpop).

DrAke hotel lounge DJ Your Boy Brian doors

10 pm.

eton house Singles Dance DJ Phil (top 40/ rock/dance) 9 pm. Fly Britfruit: The Ultimate Britney Spears Party DJs Shane Percy, Aural, Derrick Barry and the G’Fruit B-Boys 10 pm.5 Footwork Luv This City doors 10 pm. Fox & FiDDle wellesley DJ Shaq-T (salsa/ merengue/reggaeton/house/dance).

Goodhandy’s Queer Idol Finale DJ Todd Klinck doors 9 pm.5 hot Box Cafe Big Spliff (ital reggae). InsomnIa Funkn’ Fresh Fridays Mary Jane Baker, Maddi Quickstep (house/breaks). LI’Ly The Frandiscos & Bassline Jack (house/ electro) 10 pm. maIson merCer Michael Woods, Jed Harper, Dzeko & Torres. naCo GaLLery Cafe Prick The Kicks DJ Gay & DJ Anna O (post punk/new wave/disco house) 10 pm. 99 sudBury Speakeasy Fridays DJ Medicineman, Foxtrot Holmes (electro swing/swing-hop) 9 pm. noCturne DJs the Pharmacist, Symbolium, Eddie Santini, Cassandria Daiva, Ninjon, Will Caliente 10 pm. the ossInGton 95 Live DJ Brett Leonhardt (hip-hop/dance hits). the PaInted Lady DJ Chocolate, Patrick Roots, Honey B Hind (reggae/ska/dance hall) 10 pm. La PerLa HER: Mac-HER-ena Edition DJs Riviera, Auntie Dionne, OMGBLOG.com doors 10 pm. the PIston Soulskank (soul/funk/dancehall/ ska) 10 pm. suPermarket Rollin’ & Scratchin’ R$S DJ Crew. unLovaBLe Dirty Talk DJs Diana, Pammm, Jaime Sin (Italo/disco house/indie dance/ space junk) 10 pm. voGue suPPer CLuB The Social Network Omar Lunan, Sweet Touch Foundtion, DJ Smartiez 8 pm. WayLaBar Anthem DJ Craig Dominic (R&B/ hip-hop/dancecall).5 xs nIGhtCLuB Summer Session Fridays DJ Couture (top 40/house/hip-hop) 10 pm.

Saturday, August 13 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

aIr Canada Centre Femme Fatale Tour

Britney Spears, Nicki Minaj, Jessie & the Toy Boys, Nervo doors 6 pm. aLLeyCatz Ascencion (R&B/funk) 9:30 pm. artsCaPe GIBraLtar PoInt The ALL CAPS! Island Festival Julie Doiron, the Wooden Sky, Monogrenade, Steamboat, Rich Aucoin, Muskox, Dog Bus, Evening Hymns, Moon King, Jennifer Castle, DD/MM/YYYY, More or Les doors 4 pm. See preview, page 33. asPetta Caffe Chris Lago, Michelle Mondesir, Ciaran O’Shea, Hello Pluto, Sandy Consulo, Mike Nagoda, Post Thrills 2 to 11 pm. BovIne sex CLuB Skullfist, Stinger, Midnight Malice, DJ Ian Blurton. CadILLaC LounGe Christian D & the Hangovers, Ninety Pounds of Ugly (hillbilly rock & roll) 10 pm. Centre IsLand shoPsy’s PatIo Reggae In Paradise Fredlocks & the Ultra Flex Crew, Xixgon Sound 4 to 9 pm. the danny EP release Mena Hardy (country/ rock) 0 pm. domInIon on Queen Ronnie Hayward Trio (beatnik hillbilly ) 3 to 7 pm. doWnsvIeW Park Rastafest Horace Martin, Mighty Diamonds, Orthodox Issachar, Tonya P, Courtney Stone, Barbara Dan, Charlie Bobus, Ras Indio and others 1 to 9:30 pm. eL moCamBo Unbound, Crashing Cars, London Swagger, the Nancy Boys 8:30 pm. eton house Radar/My Favorite Headache (rock n roll) 9 pm. the GarrIson A Northern Chorus, Snailhouse, Blackburn.

ñ harBourfront Centre redPath suGar staGe Fortune Cooking Food Festival The Wickalows (electronic/pop) 7:30 pm.

hard LuCk Bar Bicycle Film Festival DNC After

Party: Let’s Get Cranked The Deadly Nightshades, DJ Mama 10 pm. kaPIsanan PhILIPPIne Centre A Minor Threat! (hardcore/punk) doors 7 pm, all ages. Lee’s PaLaCe CD release Young Running, TNG, Poor Young Things, Glass Amp. LoWer ossInGton theatre SummerWorks Music Series Powers, Green Go 10:30 pm. moLson amPhItheatre Hillsong United, Royal 7 pm. the PIston Bloorcourt Street Festival 2 pm. rIvoLI Showtime! Ashley Martinez, Ellis Dea, Revo Clik, New Breed MC, Diaz, Adam Bomb 9 pm. sound aCademy SausageFest ‘11 Public Enemy, the Sheepdogs, the Reason, the Salads noon. southsIde Johnny’s The Remnants (rock/ top 40) 10 pm.

sPortster’s Nicola Vaughan 10 pm. Weston CoLLeGIate InstItute UrbanArts

rock/alternative) 10 pm.

dIsGraCeLand Everyone’s A DJ DJ Matt Blair

drake hoteL LounGe DJ DB Cooper doors

Folk/BlueS/countRy/WoRld

Bailey 10 pm.5

CultureShock Festival Wes ‘Maestro’ Williams, Michie Mee, Cabbie Richards and others 1 to 7 pm. WronGBar Memory Tapes doors 8 pm. See preview, page 40. the yankee Lady All White Boat Cruise Marc Joseph Band boarding at 9:30 pm.

aQuILa uPstaIrs Little Birdie, Orit Shimoni

w/ Les Hoffman, Dave McManus (folk/rock). arts market Mark Cassidy & Frank Ryan (singer/songwriters) noon to 5:30 pm. Canada’s WonderLand TLN Latinfest Carolina la O, MDO (salsa/tropical, pop/rock) 1 to 9 pm. Centre IsLand outdoor LaGoon theatre SP Simms & Maya’s Caravan Of Song 7 pm. C’est What Ghost Cousin 8 pm. eL moCamBo uPstaIrs Serving Charity benefit Tiger Suit, Rakattak (global fusion/electronica/Indian fusion) 9 pm. eton house Tribute To Johnny Cash Box Full of Cash 4 to 7 pm. free tImes Cafe Chad Doucette. GLadstone hoteL meLody Bar Leon Knight & the Neon Lights (country/roots) 7 to 10 pm. GraffItI’s John Borra Band (alt country) 4 to 7 pm. GraffItI’s Russell Lean Band evening.

harBourfront Centre redPath suGar staGe Fortune Cooking Food Festival: Kollab-

(16 novice DJs playing 20 min sets) 9 pm.

drake hoteL underGround Broken English Shit La Merde doors 11 pm.

10 pm.

emPIre LounGe Riddims. fLy Our City Beats! DJ Mark Falco, DJ Kevin footWork Lee Burridge doors 10 pm. ñ harLem DJ BlackCat (R&B/reggae/house/

hip-hop/soca/old&new school) 11 pm. hoLy oak Cafe DJ Johnny Fishcakes (soul/ funk) 10 pm. hot Box Cafe Wild Style (dubstep/hip-hop/ reggae). InsomnIa Sense Saturdays DJ Charles (deep house). kInG and Brant Ultimate Block Party DJ Tom Wrecks 8 pm. naCo GaLLery Cafe Queer West Arts Festival DJ Home Rekha 10 pm.5 99 sudBury Summer Heat 2: The Heat Goes On Thugfucker, Basic Soul Unit, Members.Only, Mike Gibbs, Lee-Lee Mishii Vs Mike Lambert, Martin Freekas 3 pm to 3 am. the ossInGton Lucky Bitches Summer Ho Down (glam party). the PaInted Lady Medallions Summer Meds Dance Party 10 pm.

PhoenIx ConCert theatre Leather Ball 17 DJ

Blackcat (R&B/reggae/house/hip-hop/soca/ old&new school) doors 6:30 pm.5 the red LIGht Strictly Business HajahBug, Mantis, DJ Numeric (classic hip-hop/R&B) 10 pm. sneaky dee’s Shake A Tail (60s pop/soul) 11 pm. suPermarket Do Right Saturdays! DJ John Kong, MC Abs.

Sunday, August 14

Folk/BlueS/countRy/WoRld

aQuILa Blues Brunch Ken Yoshioka noon to 2

PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

artsCaPe GIBraLtar PoInt The ALL

ñCAPS! Island Festival Julie Doiron, the Wooden Sky, Monogrenade, Steamboat, Rich

Aucoin, More or Les, Evening Hymns, Moon King, Muskox, Dog Bus, Jenn Castle, DD/MM/ YYYY doors 4 pm. See preview, page 33. asPetta Caffe Ellen & the Ocean, Olivia Pileggi, Ben De Boer, the Memberz 2 to 8 pm. BovIne sex CLuB In Medias Res, Sunreel, School for Band Aids, DJ Candy-O. CadILLaC LounGe Rock & Roll Brunch 10:30 am to 3:30 pm. domInIon on Queen Rockabilly Brunch Alistair Crystal 11 am to 2:30 pm. GraffItI’s Ian Philp & John Sanderson 4-7 pm. hard LuCk Bar Totimoshi, Eyeswithoutaface, Triamazikamno. horseshoe DNTEL, One Am Radio, Geotic doors 8 pm. metaLWorks Summerfest III: Benefit for

Friends Of We Care MISPENT Youth, Android Meme, Ashley Sloggett, Colin White, Dusty Boytchuk, Morning Thieves, Selyne Maia and others noon to 5 pm. moLson amPhItheatre Kiss 92.5 Wham Bam Ke$ha, LMFAO, Spank Rock all ages. orBIt room Horshack (rock/blues) 10:30 pm. veLvet underGround Get On Your Knees And Suck My Massive Throbbing Rock Show 5 to 11 pm.

pm, Sunday Junction Jam The New Mynah Birds & Jay Pennell (mostly blues) 3:30 to 7:30 pm, Open Mic The McDales (country) 8:30 pm. arts market Mark Cassidy & Frank Ryan (singer/songwriters) noon to 5:30 pm. Cameron house The Cameron Brothers Band 10 pm. Castro’s LounGe The Little Stevies (folk/pop). Centre IsLand outdoor LaGoon theatre SP Simms & Maya’s Caravan Of Song 7 pm. CLoak & daGGer PuB Black Rapids Gold (folk/ bluegrass) 9 pm. Gate 403 Dennis Gaumond Blues Duo 9 pm.

harBourfront Centre WestJet staGe

Fortune Cooking Food Festival Emm Gryner (singer/songwriter) 4 pm.

harBourfront Centre redPath suGar staGe Fortune Cooking Food Festival: Kollab-

oration Showcase Ally Chan, Kevin Lam, Aron John, Pat Semeon, I Rock With the One 5 pm.

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oration Showcase Ally Chan, Kevin Lam, Aron John, Pat Semeon, I Rock With the One 5 pm.

harBourfront Centre redPath suGar staGe Fortune Cooking Food Festival Yakudo (traditional Japanese drummers) 5:30 pm.

harLem SoJay (singer/songwriter) 11 pm. hIGhWay 61 southern BarBeQue 24th St Wailers 8 pm.

the LoCaL The Pinecones. Lou daWG’s Acoustic Country Showcase Sara Giguere 10 pm.

LuLa LounGe Salsa Saturday Cafe Cubano, DJ

Jimmy Suave. onLy Café Oakville Collective w/ the Gardeners (singer/songwriter showcase) 8 pm. reBas Café Open Mic Saturday 1 to 4 pm. trane studIo The Mbira Queen Of Zimbabwe Mbira Stella Chiweshe 8 pm. tranzaC southern Cross Jamzac (folk) 3 pm. tranzaC southern Cross Scott B Sympathy (folk) 6:30 pm. vILLaGe of yorkvILLe Park Summer Music In The Park Cascabel Duo (Latin jazz) 2 to 5 pm.

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lee’s palace

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wed september 28 @ the phoenix

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portugal Mates of

the Man state thursday october 6

the phoenix • $20.00 advance • 8:00pm doors

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mod club • $16.50 advance

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wednesday november 23

$ 22.50

20th anniversary ska celebration

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friday october 28 @ opera house

civil

Andrew JAckson JihAd & into it over it

tuesday october 11

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tHurS august 11 / $15.00 bicycle film fest

Friday august 12 / $10.00

band ocTobeRMaN

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Saturday august 13

mon august 15 / no cover

meligrove

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The heels Noble Thiefs private party Psycho Mad sally

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HigHway 61 SoutHern BarBeque Sean Pinching 1 pm.

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operA House 735 Queen E. 416-466-0313. orBit room 580A College. 416-535-0613. tHe ossinGton 61 Ossington. 416-850-0161. tHe pAinted lAdy 218 Ossington. 647-213-5239. pArts & lABour 1566 Queen W. 416-588-7750. lA perlA 783 Queen W. 416-366-2855. pHoenix ConCert tHeAtre 410 Sherbourne. 416-323-1251. tHe piston 937 Bloor W. 416-532-3989. plACeBo spACe 1409 Bloor W. reBAs CAfé 3289 Dundas W. 416-626-7372. tHe red liGHt 1185 Dundas W. 416-533-6667. remArks BAr & Grill 1026 Coxwell. 416-429-9889. reposAdo 136 Ossington. 416-532-6474. rex 194 Queen W. 416-598-2475. rivoli 332 Queen W. 416-596-1908. rose tHeAtre 1 Theatre Lane (Brampton). 905-874-2800. sCAddinG Court Community Centre 707 Dundas W. 416-392-0335. silver dollAr 486 Spadina. 416-763-9139. sneAky dee’s 431 College. 416-603-3090. somewHere tHere studio 227 Sterling, unit 112. sound ACAdemy 11 Polson. 416-461-3625. soutHside JoHnny’s 3653 Lake Shore W. 416-521-6302. spirits 642 Church. 416-967-0001. sportster’s 1430 Danforth. 416-778-0258. supermArket 268 Augusta. 416-840-0501. tAttoo roCk pArlour 567 Queen W. 416-703-5488. ten feet tAll 1381 Danforth. 416-778-7333. terri o’s sports BAr 185 Danforth. toronto BotAniCAl GArden 777 Lawrence E. 416-397-1340. toronto musiC GArden 475 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. toronto women’s Bookstore 73 Harbord. 416-922-8744. trAne studio 964 Bathurst. 416-913-8197. trAnzAC 292 Brunswick. 416-923-8137. trinity st. pAul’s CHurCH 427 Bloor W. 416-922-8435. unlovABle 1415 Dundas W. 416-532-6669. velvet underGround 510 Queen W. 416-504-6688. villAGe of yorkville pArk Cumberland and Bellair. voGue supper CluB 42 Mowat. wAterfAlls 303 Augusta. 416-927-9666. wAylABAr 996 Queen E. 416-901-5570. weston ColleGiAte institute 100 Pine. 416-394-3250. wronGBAr 1279 Queen W. 416-516-8677. wyCHwood tHeAtre 601 Christie. xs niGHtCluB 261 Richmond W. tHe yAnkee lAdy 539 Queens Quay W. 416-868-0000. yonGe-dundAs squAre Yonge & Dundas. zipperz/CellBloCk 72 Carlton. 416-921-0066.

among the bursting trumpets, accordions and bajo sexto. The perfect swaying example is Fallen, in which Caughthran quietly croons a love song behind a breezy mariachi arrangement. Most of the album is quite festive, though, and often, as on Map Of The World, has the punk energy that made the Bronx such a badass group. But if they decide to never go back to punk and instead play out their careers as a topnotch mariachi band, it would be hard to argue against the decision. Top track: Fallen JASON KELLER

disc of the week

THE WAR ON DRUGS Slave Ambient

Hip-hop

JAY-Z AND KANYE WEST Watch The

respected producers, it’s a dense, grimy Throne (Def Jam/Universal). Rating: and often angry album with flashes of sweeping grandeur and tenderness. The NNNN best tracks are the most pointed, beWhen Jay-Z and Kanye West announced cause they go beyond techplans to record a joint album, nical style and really delve they promised to bring back into each rapper’s head. On that old-fashioned collaboraNew Day they pen letters tive spirit at a time when to their unborn sons; the hip-hop can feel devoid of dreamy Made In America spontaneity thanks to an tells parallel “come up” MC’s ability to email in a stories; and uncomfortably verse. These two have a hisvisceral opener No Church tory of bringing out the best In The Wild – with its filthy in each other, and Watch The Phil Manzanera guitar Throne is no exception. It’s a grandiose sample and mournful Frank Ocean chorshowcase of each man’s ability to craft metaphor and narratives full of hyperbole, us – cuts to the heart of Watch The Throne’s power dynamic. humility, politics and punchlines. Top track: New Day KEVIN RITCHIE Co-produced by West and a roster of

Pop/Rock

FOOL’S GOLD Leave No Trace (Iamsound)

(Secretly Canadian) Rating: NNN It’s not often you come across a band that inspires comparisons to both Tom Petty and Neu!, but on Slave Ambient the War on Drugs come up with a synthesis of classic Americana and ambient groove and somehow make it sound natural. Little Dire Straits-inspired guitar licks pop up here and there, often hidden behind droning synths and unchanging, motorik drumbeats. Like former War on Drugs guitarist Kurt Vile, Adam Granduciel tends to drawl like a less engaged Springsteen or an especially stoned Dylan, and he has a knack for melodies that would sound at home on classic rock radio if not for their avant-garde context. Songs often ruminate on one or two chords for minutes at a time, while little bits of instrumental texture quietly snowball in the background. It’s easy to get lost in the pleasant, euphoric drone, but at 47 minutes the album is more of a marathon than a sprint. Top track: Baby Missiles The War on Drugs play the Drake on August 24. RICHARD TRAPUNSKI

THE HUMAN LEAGUE Credo (EMI)

Rating: NN Legend has it Philip Oakey originally hated Rating: NN the Human League’s biggest hit, Don’t You The self-titled 2009 debut by Los Angeles’s Want Me, and it was only put on the alFool’s Gold was an improbably successful bum and released as a single because the distillation of African and Western pop label insisted. Listening to the pioneering with vocals delivered mostly in Hebrew. It synth-pop band’s ninth studio album, you sounded both familiar and alien and was can’t help but wish there were still some an intriguing riff on ideas about otherness major label hard-asses willing to strongand cultural appropriation. If only they arm the band into putting their best foot hadn’t decided to discard so much of what forward instead of letting Oakey indulge originally made them interesting for this his misplaced art-rock pretensions. follow-up recording. The lack of memorable choruses and On Leave No Trace, the band has been melodies is made all the more frustrating pared down to five members from the by the surprisingly decent production. much larger collective that made their While Credo occasionally falters into debut so rhythmically and tonally rich. dated computer-pop nostalgia, much of it They’ve also focused more on ideas borsuccessfully marries modern dance music rowed from 80s UK pop, which would be elements with their classic sound. But fine if they had better hooks. The most when those beats are buried under monosurprising letdown, though, is vocalist tone chanting of cheeseball lyrics, no Luke Top’s decision to sing mainly in Engamount of creative synthesizer-tweaking lish, which only serves to highlight his is going to save it. shortcomings as a lyricist and emphasize Top track: Electric Shock an unfortunate nasal quality that didn’t The Human League 050811.ai 10:59 PM play the Guvernment seem nearly Ad_Now_1-5 as annoying in Hebrew. 1 8/4/11 September 18. BB Top track: Street Clothes BENJAMIN BOLES

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Hip-hop

RODRIGO Y GABRIELA Live In France

(ATO/Rubyworks) Rating: NNN Mexican acoustic instrumental guitar duo Rodrigo Sanchez and Gabriela Quintero play to raving French audiences on this live recording from their 2010 European tour featuring tributes to Carlos Santana, Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd (from 2009’s 11:11) as well as solo songs by both musicians. Playing a ridiculously fast fusion of rock, metal, Latin and jazz, Rodrigo’s fingers meticulously pick off melodies while Gabriela pushes him along with complex rhythms on both the strings and the body of her guitar. The audience acts as a third member of the band, thumping, clapping, hollering and, in an extended version of Tamacun (off Rod & Gab’s 2006 self-titled disc) singing, and the duo know how to make the most of that dynamic, throwing in pauses and false endings throughout. Though impressive, the virtuosic guitar Olympics can get exhausting on record. The magic of Rod & Gab might be best experienced in person, where you can watch their fingers fly. Top track: Hanuman SARAH GREENE

World

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(ATO/ Maple Music) Rating: Given the quality and rate of release of these mariachi records, it’s possible we may never hear the punk rock Bronx ever again. This is the second straight mariachi release from the L.A.-based hardcore and punk unit, and it’s just as good as the first. To be clear, this isn’t an attempt at humour, irony or the incorporation of mariachi sounds into hard rock. This is straight mariachi with frontman Matt Caughthran dialing down his vocals to the point where he could join Los Lobos. It’s possible mariachi purists might balk at his throaty rock singing style even though he’s mostly a low-key presence

on a yacht – your choice. His power pipes are front and centre on this introductory EP just released by überhip Australian dance label Future Classic (Moon Holiday, Flume) and almost overshadow his catchy, synth-heavy production, but not quite. The title track features a cool tropical pulse behind Glenn’s soaring R&B vocals, but it’s the slow-burning Bside, Overtime, a fiery, downtrodden slow jam exploding with heart and soul, that ends up stealing the show. Also, keep an eye out for his excellent live show featuring a full band and backup singers. Top track: Overtime JORDAN BIMM

Electronic

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New Life (Future Classic) Rating: Toronto-based singer and producer Jeremy Glenn makes smooth, retro-sounding songs that are ready to blast at the club or

WU-TANG CLAN Legendary Weapons (Wu-Tang Corp) Rating: NN It wouldn’t be a shock to find out that Wu-Tang has a franchising system in place where a nominal fee will grant you affiliate status with the Shaolin clan. How else to explain the small nation of questionable associates, protegés, posses, side-project rappers, R&B singers, spinoff groups and spinoffs of spinoffs (Wikipedia lists an astounding 118 all together) to emerge and dilute the East Coast collective’s venerable band over the last decade and a half? Their latest offers more presence from the clan than “Wu-Tang & Friends”-style records like The Sting and The Swarm, by Wu-Tang Killa Bees. Seven of the original nine core members show up here, as well as notable New York rappers AZ, MOP and Sean Price, but ultimately the project suffers from uninspired production and lyrics. The occasional bright spot (Ghostface’s blistering verse on Meteor Hammer) is always counterbalanced by a low point (Trife Diesel’s middling turn on Laced Cheeba). Top track: Meteor Hammer JASON RICHARDS LIL WAYNE Sorry 4 The Wait (Young Money) Rating: NNN Lil Wayne has made you wait. He’s sorry. These are the two most substantial themes running throughout the latest offering from the hip-hop superstar, who spent a good chunk of the last decade churning out gold mixtape after mixtape of smoke-addled absurdity. Sorry 4 The Wait, a free download that precedes Weezy’s highly anticipated Car ter 4 album, finds the formerly voracious rapper – who once said, “Feed me rappers or feed me beats” – in a more subdued place. He expresses his prowess and lavish life with the lyrical wit fans have come to expect, handling beats by Kreayshawn, Big Sean and YC with ease. But some of the hunger and electricity he displayed in his pre-prison era seems to have diminished. This is something to tide people over until his next record, not an artistic statement by any means. Top track: Racks JR

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Hannah Mosc With the sizzling Little One, Canada’s most in-demand playwright returns to the festival that launched her career. By GLENN SUMI Photo by DAVID HAWE

SUMMERWORKS: A FESTIVAL OF PLAYS, READINGS, PERFORMANCE AND MUSIC 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 nowtoronto.com/summerworks or summerworks.ca. 416-504-7529, in person at Theatre Passe Muraille’s Arts Box Office (16 Ryerson) or artsboxoffice.ca. SEE COMPLETE LISTINGS, UPDATED REVIEWS, UPDATES AND TWEETS AT

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LITTLE ONE by Hannah Moscovitch, directed by Natasha Mytnowych, with Michelle Monteith and Joe Cobden. Passe Muraille Mainspace. August 11 at 10:30 pm, August 13 at 8 pm, August 14 at 3 pm.

hannah moscovitch has shown up early for our interview, and when I spot her in the NOW Lounge she’s busy tapping away at her MacBook. “I lug it around everywhere,” she says, politely snapping the computer shut after shaking my hand. No napkin note-taking? “Sometimes, but mostly I want it on here,” she says, touching the white case protectively. “Safer.” Backed up on an external hard drive? “Oh, yes, backed up… neurotically,” she says with a giggle. Type A behaviour like this is about what I’d expect from Canada’s most in-demand playwright. That little laptop contains multitudes. Besides her big-buzz SummerWorks show, Little One, Moscovitch has half a dozen commissioned scripts at various stages of completion. (A spreadsheet on her computer tells her when she should be working on what.) Everyone from indie companies Volcano and Halifax’s 2b theatre to the larger Prairie Theatre Exchange, Tarragon and, south of the border, the tony Manhattan Theatre Club wants a new Moscovitch play in their season. She also just found out she’s adapting AnnMarie MacDonald’s beloved novel Fall On Your Knees for the National Arts Centre. “That one’s pretty cool,” she admits. “I said to them, ‘You know I’ve never adapted anything before, right? I don’t know how to do this!’ Even with Manhattan Theatre Club I spent a lot of time trying to talk them out of the commission. I want to make sure they’re sure they want me to do it.” Humility or false modesty? Moscovitch’s clear blue eyes – which have the same spacey, not-quite-of-this-world quality as actor Zooey Deschanel’s – are hard to read. But her soft-spoken demeanour (at times I have to move closer to hear what she’s saying) seems genuine. As do her choice words. “I think you always feel like you want to puke and die,” she says when I ask if she’s more confident now, having a number of hit plays behind her. Not what you’d expect of someone who’s been dubbed the country’s next great playwright. Little One marks her return to the festival that launched her career with

back-to-back hits Essay (2005) and The Russian Play (2006), both of which later received multiple remounts. “No question – I couldn’t have been a playwright if not for SummerWorks,” she says. “I wanted to write, and there was almost no other way of doing it.” The two-hander looks at the relationship between adopted siblings Aaron (Joe Cobden) and Claire (Michelle Monteith), who recount a lifechanging moment in their childhood. It touches on mental illness, mail-order brides and taboo sexuality. Unlike many of her scripts, there’s a bit of autobiography in here. It’s set in Ottawa, where Moscovitch grew up, and was inspired by the real-life story of a friend of her family who adopted a troubled girl. She did a lot of research into how psychopathy or extreme trauma manifests itself in children. Deciding how much to reveal about the character’s background, however, proved a challenge. “I had an idea [of Claire’s history], and we flirted with making it more explicit, but that kept wrecking it,” she explains. “Any time you’re trying to shape something that has any ambiguity, you’re working to see where the line is.”

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Foster sibs Aaron and Claire (Joe Cobden and Michelle Monteith) talk about their love for each other, but there’s a snag: Claire’s a dangerous, unpredictable and untrustworthy child with psychological problems. Hannah Moscovitch’s wryly funny, scary, nuanced script is gripping from its first minutes, though the intentional ambiguities at the end are more puzzling than suggestive. Still, you couldn’t ask for a better production; Cobden and Monteith have honed their respective energies with laser sharpness. He relies on a nervousness that suits Aaron’s frequent half-sentences, while she does much with silences and quiet moments of amoral honesty, interrupted by frightening, volcanic outbursts. Natasha Mytnowych directs with precision and makes great use of the theatre’s various levels and designer Kimberly Purtell’s evocative lighting, while supporting actor Kaylie Lau helps establish atmosphere with her piano playing. The result: a haunting theatrical hour about the unpredictable possibilities of love. JON KAPLAN

Michelle Monteith

Moscovitch is used to successfully negotiating that line – between tragedy and comedy, or good and questionable taste. In East Of Berlin, she gave voice to the irreverent son of a Nazi war criminal; in Essay, written when she was a student at U of T and working part-time at an upscale Toronto restaurant, she dealt head-on with rampant sexism and political correctness. “I want to claw my way toward audiences,” she says, lowering her head and pawing the table like a big cat sneaking up on its prey. “I want to ask the audience questions. I get excited by the idea of a character being forced to confront a hostile audience. There’s something so fascinating about watching those dynamics play out.” Her interest in social and political issues comes from her left-leaning parents – an economics professor father and a social worker/ labour researcher mom. The two helped found Ottawa’s Great Canadian Theatre Company. “Dinner conversations included questions like ‘Can you be a Christian and a feminist?’” she laughs. Her new plays tackle some compelling subjects. The Children’s Republic, a co-production between Tarragon and the Harold Green Jewish Theatre, focuses on the life and work of Janusz Korczak, the Polish-Jewish physician and advocate of children’s rights, who died in a Nazi death camp. Her play for 2b theatre concerns Dr. Marie Stopes, who dispensed frank advice about birth control to women from the colonies in 1920s London, England. Moscovitch read a book of Stopes’s letters while she was a student at the National Theatre School. “I’d never read anything before where women in the 1920s talked so vulgarly about sex, infanticide and their husbands’ sexual proclivities.” Given the government’s recent rescinding of SummerWorks’ Heritage grant, plays that push buttons – politically or sexually – may be putting their authors and others at some risk. Is she concerned? “It’s terrifying that there’s a threat hanging over more political work,” says Moscovitch. “I keep seeing ‘left-wing’ and ‘artist’ used interchangeably, and there’s all this talk about ‘handouts to artists’ and ‘welfare for artists.’ “There’s this implication that we don’t work for what we get, which is so not true. I’m getting a little Michael Moore about it. I’d love someone to switch places with me for one week. Please, just live my life, with my spreadsheets, and see if I don’t work hard.” 3

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performers moving incessantly around Nancy Perrin’s impressively detailed set, and while a strong sense of intimacy does develop between the brothers, it doesn’t build to a significant enough revelation. NS

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 nowtoronto.com/summerworks or summerworks.ca. 416-504-7529, in person at Theatre Passe Muraille’s Arts Box Office (16 Ryerson) or artsboxoffice.ca.

ZuGZwANG by Michael Atlin. August 13 at 10 pm, August 14 at noon. Rating: NNN Michael Atlin’s unlikely but charming comedy looks at several geeky, socially maladjusted chess players making moves on and off the chessboard during a community tournament. Some initial scenes need better shaping, and the whole piece could benefit from more confident direction than that provided by Frankie Hall, but Atlin’s overcompensating characters are very sympathetic, and some of their heated exchanges damn funny. Andy Trithardt almost steals the show as an overly perky arbiter. GS

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BROTHERS by Jeremy James and Philip

McKee. August 12 at 7:30 pm, August 14 at 10 pm. Rating: NN Instead of letting you watch paint dry, creator/performers Jeremy James and Philip McKee get dressed, prepare a meal, set a table and select songs on iTunes, all while occasionally carrying on philosophical discussions that have only a tenuous link to The Brothers Karamazov, the work’s apparent inspiration. The experiment, performed with confidence, comes alive in its sudden bursts of movement, evoking power struggles or, in one case, a Christ-like image via a few humble chairs. GlENN Sumi

HERO & lEANDER by Wade

Bogert-O’Brien, Scott Christian and Kevin Michael Shea. August 12 at 2:30 pm, August 13 at 5 pm. Rating: NNNN The classical myth about the young couple whose regular nocturnal hookups incurred the wrath of gods Venus and Neptune gets a very contemporary musical comedy update that shows lots of remount/expansion potential. Although the production takes a while to find the right tone, it makes a splash once Kimberly Persona’s vampy Venus (clad in fishnets or leopard prints) begins belting out her numbers, and when the clear-voiced Kaitlin Torrance sings her affecting power ballad. Scott Christian’s music and Wade Bogert-O’Brien’s lyrics are catchy and occasionally quite clever, and the climax is surprisingly touching. GS

NKKAmi by Colleen Guyo, Becky Lim

Daunt, Alysiagh Thompson, Alexandra Vella, Jessica Carpino, Caitlin Gove and Meagan Gove. August 6-9. Rating: NN Through effective movement, song and storytelling, an energetic group of young performers bring to life the disturbing tale of two siblings torn apart during the civil war in Sierra Leone. Akinyemi (Carlivia Braithwaite) becomes a rebel child soldier, while Mariatu (Kristen Watson) is raped and disfigured. Some of the symbols can be repetitive, but the creative ensemble shows lots of theatrical imagination. The cast (Watson is a performer to watch) and musicians are committed and focused, generating lots of passion from the timely topic and ending on a note of hope and healing. GS

wish the script itself were a little more detailed. Looking for a missing person, Philistine (Amber Borotsik) finds herself consulting an overworked clerk, Charon (Keith Wyatt), who eventually reveals the mystery of the building they’re in and prompts flashbacks to Philistine’s relationship with George (Cole Humeny). There are echoes of other works here – including the Orpheus myth – but Carnew gives us too little about the central couple to make us care about their reunion. Still, Rose’s direction is superb, and with designer Snezana Pesic he evokes everything from the sensation of floating to being caught in a bloody river, Matthew Waddell’s Michael Nyman-influenced sound design adding momentum and energy to the proceedings. GS

OuT AT SEA by Slawomir Mrozek. August 12 at 5 pm, August 14 at 7:30 pm. Rating: NNN While the premise sounds like the set-up for a hokey joke (three hungry men and a raft!), Aleksandar Lukac’s economical production of Slawomir Mrozek’s absurdist political parable builds some sharp comedic moments thanks to distinct, spot-on performances by Andre Sills, Gordon Bolan and a hilariously feckless John Fitzgerald Jay, whose cursory struggle with a fish is the funniest thing I’ve seen all SummerWorks. Still, the play itself doesn’t allow for much ambiguity, and the crypto-Christian subtext exhausts itself without saying anything too surprising. NAOmi SKwARNA

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Jane Esau. August 11 at 5 pm, August 12 at 10 pm, August 13 at 2:30 pm. Rating: NNN There’s a lot of emotional drive in Leah Jane Esau’s drama about two brothers contending with each other after the death of their father, but there’s so much exposition that the play is over just when it seems we might be getting somewhere. Amanda Lockitch’s direction keeps the

Factory studio (125 Bathurst)

DANFORTH by Adam Hunter Collier.

August 12 at 5:30 pm, August 13 at 3 pm, August 14 at 8 pm. Rating: NN This neighbourhood comedy focuses on the aspirations of a group of teens and 20-somethings living in Toronto’s Greek Danforth community. While Adam Hunter Collier’s story is a bit of a mess and needs shaping (a clearer arc and less abrupt conclusion should be the first fixes), his running gags and quirky characters like George (Lex Tan), a shy but sweet Greek waiter, and Kostas D (Christian Mattia Orue), his bold but clueless younger cousin, are easy to relate to and great fun to watch. A little elbow grease could make the cute and funny world of Danforth a winner. JORDAN Bimm

FREDA & JEm: BEST OF THE wEEK by Lois Fine. August 11 at 5:30 pm, August 12 at 8 pm. Rating: NNN Lesbian couple Freda (Diane Flacks) and Jem (Kathryn Haggis) tell their two teenagers that they’re separating, and a series of flashbacks (and a few flash-forwards) fill us in on the forces that lead to the decision. Lois Fine’s script doesn’t shy away from painful truths, often delivered with humour. It’s especially powerful in detailing Jem’s education as a butch dyke, and in capturing the complicated emotions coursing through children Sam (Sadie Rose Epstein-Fine) and TeeJay

(Nick Eddie). Freda’s character, though, is less sharply defined, and some scenes could use expanding But the acting is all strong, and Judith Thompson directs with sensitivity. Beth Kates’s set and Lorraine Segato’s music add layers of meaning, although Segato’s onstage playing occasionally distracts. GS

THE iNTRuDER by Amaranta Leyva. August 13 at 5:30 pm, August 14 at 12:30 pm. Rating: NN Amaranta Leyva’s script concerns Catalina (Michelle Arvizu), a young Mexican girl who resorts to playing with her dolls to deal with her parents’ divorce, her new home and her mother’s subsequent relationship with an Argentine with a

mysterious past. There’s lots of potential here, but Leyva’s writing lacks subtlety – the plot is simplistically linear and predictable, the characters one-note and Arvizu’s central performance shrill and lacking nuance. There’s also not much sense of place. Marilo Nunez supplies some good directorial touches, however, including effective use of shadow and Andjelija Djuric’s expressive puppets. GS

liTTlE CRiCKETS by Douglas Campbell. August 12 at 10:30 pm, August 14 at 3 pm. Rating: NNN Douglas Campbell’s fascinating drama about two Romanian sisters who take up with a mysterious American in Paris unfolds with mixed results in Byron Laviolette’s hyper-theatrical production. Halfmasked in whiteface, conflicted, ambitious sisters Christina (a wintry Nicole St. Martin) and Rodica (Shaina Silver-Baird) are increasingly compelling as the plot progresses. While there are some strong moments

by Matthew MacKenzie. Factory Studio. August 11 at 10:30 pm, August 12 at 3 pm, August 13 at 8 pm. Rating: NNNN Matthew MacKenzie’s thoughtful play looks at two troubled but very human characters: a cheerful but overworked youth minister in Africa named Lily (Elizabeth Saunders), whose sermon recounting the horrific tale of a colleague’s loss of faith is peppered with unintentionally funny asides, and Gordon (Simon Bracken), a robotic young man who has experienced his own loss but is obsessed with catching an animal whose scratching keeps him up at night. MacKenzie’s sharp and richly detailed social satire gets a fine staging by director Alex McCooeye, and both actors bring out layers of subtext in their bravura monologues. GS

by Jason Carnew. August 11 at 10 pm, August 13 at 7:30 pm, August 14 at 5 pm. Rating: NNNN For sheer beauty and inventiveness, it’s hard to fault director Eric Rose’s production of Jason Carnew’s play, although I August 11-17 2011 NOW

by Amiel Gladstone. Factory Studio. August 13 at 12:30 pm, August 14 at 10 pm. Rating: NNNN The wife of a butcher is drawn to his glamorous but possibly sinister female cousin in this richly suggestive work set in German-occupied Paris. Amiel Gladstone’s script plays cleverly with chronology (and with its vivid central philosophical metaphor), while director Ruth Madoc-Jones and a fine cast (Monica Dottor, Rosa Laborde, Matthew Tapscott) make every word and movement count. Dana Osborne’s designs (costumes, set, subtle but effective makeup) and Thomas Ryder Payne’s richly atmospheric score make this a must-see. GS

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by Hannah Moscovitch. August 11 at 10:30 pm, August 13 at 8 pm, August 14 at 3 pm. Rating: NNNN See review and cover story, page 44.

ñSTITCH

by Cliff Cardinal. August 11 at 8 pm, August 13 at 10:30 pm, NNNN August 14 at 5:30 pm. Rating: Cara Gee brings formidable power to Cliff Cardinal’s engaging multi-character monologue about Kylie Grandview, a porn star on the brink of supernova. Jovanni Sy’s strong direction evokes a labyrinthine sense of space on the mostly bare stage, with Kylie saucily instructing us to mouse-click through her progressively more harrowing circumstances. While the climax feels slightly overwrought, Gee’s brave performance (a personified yeast infection is one recurring character) and Cardinal’s unflinching voice make Stitch a perfect storm of exciting theatre, everything coming together just NS so.

LONG DARK NIGHT by Mark Shyzer. NN August 12 and 14 at 5:30 pm. Rating: Trench-coated detective Skip Tracer (John McNeill) is hired by Femme Fatale (Sonia Lindner, whose character’s name defines her function) to find her missing husband in this musical film noir. Director Mark Shyzer’s script (he also wrote the music with Jeff MacLean) is occasionally funny in an intentionally camp and groan-worthy way, and a few songs contribute to the tone. But the cast is uneven – Julianna Ozorio as nightclub owner Tuesday Mae is the company’s best singer – and the pacing often slow. The most memorable work is by Jessica Moss as Tracer’s Girl Friday, a wannabe detective with a crush on her boss. JK

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by Mark Migotti and Richard Sanger. August 12 at 7 pm, August 13 at 4:30 pm. Rating: NNNN Three stellar performances anchor Mark Migotti and Richard Sanger’s intellectual speculation about Hannah “the banality of evil” Arendt’s relationship with philosopher and Nazi sympathizer Martin Heidegger (Richard Clarkin). Severn Thompson is particularly watchable as the unsentimental Arendt at two different stages in life, beautifully articulating both youthful curiosity and middleaged toughness – the latter poignantly played out in scenes with a young, passionate student (a commanding Leora Morris). While the bright, eloquent dialogue occasionally sounds a little too scripted, resonant ideas and dynamic direction make Hannah’s a turn worth NS taking.

EURYDICE by Sarah Ruhl. Passe Muraille Mainspace. August 12 at 10:30 pm, August 13 at 12:30

pm. Rating: NNNN Sarah Ruhl’s version of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth tells the tale from the viewpoint of Eurydice (Caitlin B. Driscoll), caught in the underworld after her death but still yearning for her beloved musician bridegroom (Justin Rutledge, who can summon the Hallelujah Chorus with a wave of his hand). Kristina Nicoll’s elegant, touching staging demonstrates the couple’s affection from the start, while making the underworld lord (Jesse Aaron Dwyre) a mesmerizing figure in his various incarnations as seducer, spoiled brat and towering deity. Eurydice’s father (Hardee T. Lineham) becomes an important teacher in her journey back to Orpheus. The production, full of life and love, captures the play’s poetry and unexpected humour, which includes a chorus of stones (Moira Dunphy, Elley-Ray Hennessy and Elliott Loran) who try unsuccessfully to keep out of the action. JK

and Linnea Swan), who are required to don and doff wigs, show that humans are basically animals (d’uh) and occasionally GS squeal like clowns.

KASPAR AND THE SEA OF HOUSES by Felicia Zeller. August 13 at 2 pm, August 14 at 4:30 pm. Rating: NNN Subtly referencing the much-mythologized Kaspar Hauser, Birgit Schreyer Duarte’s translation of Felicia Zeller’s social drama imagines a trio of female Children’s Aid workers as overburdened laundresses, their cases symbolized by tiny garments piled atop ironing boards. The underlying narrative of welfare workers on the verge of breakdown is powerful, and the staging is sometimes elegant. But the production is hampered by an affected performance style, automaton-like delivery fine in theory but NS exhausting in practice.

THIRD FLOOR by Jason Hall. August 11 and 13 at 7 pm, August 14 at 2 pm. Rating:

SHUDDER by Susanna Hood. August 11

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and 12 at 4:30 pm, August 14 at 7 pm. Rating: NN If you have nothing to say, throw a bunch of production money at it and at least make it look and sound intriguing. Susanna Hood’s overwrought work, loosely inspired by artist Francis Bacon’s disturbing canvases, is a repetitive and self-indulgent exercise that could easily be half as long. Whatever striking images appear come less from the clumsy choreography than from the lighting (Rebecca Picherack) and sound design (Nilan Perera), and from the committed trio of performers (Dan Wild, Alanna Kraaljeveld

NN Call it faint praise, but Jung-Hye Kim’s white corridor set is the most arresting thing about Jason Hall’s airless condo thriller. Kaitlyn Riordan and Kristian Bruun play neighbours whose bantering relationship takes an insidious turn when their playful harassment of a neighbour goes too far. Director Ashlie Corcoran elicits some nice moments between the appealing Riordan and Bruun, but long, frequent scene breaks kill any tension in Hall’s script, which mostly trades in quipping conversation that strains both credulity and patience. NS

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EXIT, PURSUED BY A BEAR by bekky

O’Neil. August 12 at 3 pm, August 13 at 5:30 pm. Rating: NN A Vancouver performance artist (the engaging Adriana Disman) and a Shakespeare-loving homeless man (David Schaap) bond in a father/daughter relationship, their lives linked by a bear that pursues the artist and has long been part of her life. Director bekky O’Neil’s script is slowmoving and doesn’t always capture the

emotions between the two human figures, but the bear puppet (worked by Anders Yates and Leah Fay Goldstein) is entrancing, especially in the show’s best scene, a tender dance of bear and artist. Some of the other puppetry (shadow and other sorts) is clumsily performed, though its design (by O’Neil and Keith Del Principe) is attractive. The production puts Ronley Teper’s five-member band Lipliners to good use. JON KAPLAN

“I” by David Hersh. Au-

gust 11 at 5:30 pm, August 13 at 3 pm, August 14 at 10 pm. Rating: NNN

A woman moves to Paris to write the world’s greatest play and finds herself mentored by her idol, “I.” David Hersh’s often linguistically inventive, sometimes overwritten play begins slowly, but it develops momentum as well as a large chorus of actors and musicians that fills the stage, leading to a whirlwind climax that’s both an homage to and a rewrite of a masterful absurdist playwright’s work. The key actors – Emmanuelle Zeesman as the young writer, David Macniven as her initially shy hero who becomes a controlling monster and Michelle Polak as a dour concierge – are fine, and playwright Hersh directs to get maximum use of his large cast. JK

by Monica Dottor with Steven McCarthy. August 11 and 14 at 8 pm, August 13 at 10:30 pm. Rating: NNNN A woman (Allison Bradbury) travels to an African country and, attacked by a swarm of mosquitoes, falls into a fever dream filled with fantastic creatures. Creator/choreographer Monica Dottor and collaborator Steven McCarthy, adapting a Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman story into a dance/theatre piece, blend humour, terror, aerial dance, poultry and a bit of Swan Lake into an engaging production filled with inventive choreography. The result is often funny, sometimes haunting. The show is made even more delightful by ingenious costumes (the mosquitoes, who double as flight attendants, have tutus, goggles and propellers atop round usherette hats) and a production design (including projections) by the wizard team of Beth Kates and Ben Chaisson. JK continued on page 48 œ

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by Nika Mistruzzi and Aurora Stewart de Peña. Passe Muraille Mainspace. August 12 at 8 pm, August 14 at 12:30 pm. Rating: NNNN Eight dictators drawn from various historical periods compete in a game show to see who’s the strongest and most domineering. Aurora Stewart de Peña and Nika Mistruzzi’s wonderfully outrageous script breaks the fourth wall and also casts eight women as the macho men, all with physical ailments and various paranoias. They include Pope Pius XII (Lauren Bride), Chairman Mao (Cara Gee), Pol Pot (Rebecca Applebaum) and Idi Amin (an over-the-top Meghan Swaby), who engage in silly contests involving insults, seducing women and capturing ammo. But there’s also the occasional note of chilling historical fact about the millions of deaths these men brought about. The result, filled with balloons, pop tunes and lunacy, is often inspired, and the most polished work I’ve seen by Birdtown and SwanNOW August 11-17 2011

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LIZARDBOY – A ONE MAN SHOW by Victor E. Gómez. August 11 and 13 at 7 pm, August 14 at 9:30 pm. Rating: NN Nine-year-old Hector Fernando, a rambunctious, talkative Colombian boy with a rich fantasy life, re-enacts his adventures as superhero Lizardboy (he likes to climb walls) and his relationships with family and friends. Victor E. Gómez’s script is sometimes vivid in its depiction of childhood imagination and the tensions within a family and community. The writing also plays subtly with the theme of machismo, and there’s a sense of the 1980s world outside, too, with mentions of guerrillas and disappeared children. As a performer, though, the playwright is better at capturing the figures that surround Hector; his portrayal of the young central character is forced and not always believable, except in Hector’s few introspective moments. JK MORNING GLORY by Karin Bolette

Sonne. August 12 at 9:30 pm, August 13 at 2 pm. Rating: NNN Sara, a woman who’s been jailed several times – she sarcastically calls herself “a guest of Her Majesty’s justice system” – shares with the audience her memories of fellow special-needs inmates.

Karin Bolette Sonne’s often wellobserved script, shaped by director Kate Lushington, has some strong episodes and a fine ensemble cast: Soo Garay, Jonelle Gunderson, Jajube Mandiela, Erin McMurtry and Tanisha Taitt. Garay and McMurtry stand out as various women joined by powerful emotional bonds. Projections of Sonne’s paintings of life behind bars are another production highlight. The show would have more theatrical kick if the final two scenes were reversed; in the present script, the last scene, despite the pain it reveals, feels anticlimactic. JK

OH, RYAN by Shawn DeSouza-Coelho. August 11 at 9:30 pm, August 12 at 7 pm, August 13 at 11:30 am, August 13 at 4:30 pm. Rating: NNN Ryan, left by Tara, the woman he loves, looks metaphorically to the heavens for a way to keep believing in life. A blend of magic, faith, transformation and connections, this solo show (which involves some gentle audience participation) is a poetic musing on the links between people. Charming playwright/performer

Shawn DeSouza-Coelho fully engages his viewers, though the writing loses something in the final 10 minutes. Co-directors Chai Lavie and Emma Dines give the show a winning warmth, while Lavie’s sound and Raha Javanfar’s lighting contribute to its subtly involving atmosphere. JK

STILL LIFE by the company. August 11 at

4:30 pm, August 13 at 9:30 pm, August 14 at 2 pm. Rating: NNN In this collective creation, a gay-bashing brings four people together in a timeshifting, tangled web that involves partners, exes and friends. Director Jonathan Seinen and his cast (Cole J. Alvis, Andrew Aquino, Indrit Kasapi and Alisha Stranges) effectively set up the alternating affection and tension among the characters. Some scenes stand out for their emotional truth, in part because the production has a sense of improvised dialogue; the stopand-start of everyday speech gives the episodes a realistic feel. But there’s real drama, too, in scenes like a partly lit

ñHOOKED

by Carolyn Smart. Passe Muraille Backspace. August 12 at 4:30 pm, August 14 at 11:30 am. Rating: NNNN Nicky Guadagni portrays four women drawn from Carolyn Smart’s book of poetic monologues: three writers (Elizabeth Smart, Jane Bowles and Carson McCullers) and, the wild card, Unity Valkyrie Mitford, an upper-class Brit who adored Hitler. The arresting actor makes fine use of the imagistically sharp and often humorous text. A read of the short program notes will give viewers useful background on the quartet. But Guadagni defines each character both vocally and physically, changing from rubber boots and bathrobe for one woman to pearls and white gloves for another. Under Layne Coleman’s direction, this is a production to savour for its language and performance; Guagadni invites us to lean in and listen closely to what each woman has to say. JK

bathhouse encounter that relies for its theatricality on Michelle Ramsay’s fine lighting design. If there’s a problem in the writing, it’s that Stranges’s character, a lesbian friend of two of the men, works well as a framing device but isn’t as well integrated into the story proper. JK

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STRANGE MARY STRANGE by Evan Tsitsias. Passe Muraille Backspace. August

12 at 2 pm, August 13 at 4:30 pm, August 14 at 7 pm. Rating: NNNN Mary Strange (Sarah McVie) confronts her troubled past through two sides of her earlier self, one sexually aggressive (Emma Mackenzie Hillier) and the other an innocent child (Catherine Rainville). Living in a world of secrets, escapist fantasies and rituals meant to cover the horror just out of sight, Mary has discovered at an early age what it’s like to scratch a sexual itch. Evan Tsitsias’s script is occasionally overwritten, and some viewers might find the theme of child sexuality disturbing. But Tsitsias and co-director Esther Jun stage a gripping, sometimes harrowing, production with a trio of first-class performers. The movement devised by Trevor Coop is another vital part of the show. This is a play that lingers after the lights come up. JK

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COMBAT by Adam Underwood with the company. August 11 at 7:30 pm, August 12 and 14 at 5 pm. Rating: NNN This interesting but unfocused exploration of human conflict pairs a storyline about negotiations in a war zone with action in a hyper-competitive Western call centre. In the much more developed call

NNNN = Sustained applause

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centre plot, Dylan Smith nicely channels the jacked-up agro salesmen of Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross, but the rest of the ensemble work doesn’t click as a coherent whole. Robert Perrault’s adrenaline-pumping sound design is great, but the military-inspired choreography – especially a lengthy sequence where the actors play with toy soldiers and model artillery – lands off target. JB

DANCING TO A WHITE BOY SONG by Motion. August 11 at 5 pm, August 12 at 10 pm, August 13 at noon. Rating: NNN Weaving together storylines and energetic bursts of movement and song, three actors explore the range of challenges faced by African immigrants in Canada. From teasing in a grade school classroom to bureaucratic hassles and family conflicts, a collection of cultural assumptions, doubts and systemic biases comes into focus through simple yet evocative (and often funny) scenes. A standout performance by Simeon Taole – an up-and-coming bona fide triple threat – makes this show one to catch. JB NN = Seriously flawed

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/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ELORA GORGE by Christopher Stanton. August 13 at 7:30 pm, August 14 at noon. Rating: NNN Playwright Christopher Stanton is great at setting up mysterious circumstances but needs to master the art of wrapping them up. As in a good episode of the The X-Files, the supernatural is never far off in this well-paced, character-filled jolt-fest about an inexplicable death that grips a small Ontario town just as a oncecelebrated resident returns from selfimposed exile. Strong acting, creative blocking, creepy costumes and inventive light and shadow tricks keeps things riveting nearly all the way through. Too bad the ending is less interesting than Stanton’s rich set-up and spooky mythology. JB ORIGAMI AIRPLANE by Opus Syndrome.

August 12 at 7:30 pm, August 14 at 2:30 pm. Rating: NN There might be a big idea informing this unfocused (and admittedly “unfinished”) show devised by a group of National Theatre School students, but it’s lost in the shuffle. Taking the form of a symbolic squabbling “family” that represents some vague idea of “multiculturalism,” the ensemble spend the play bickering, bandying racial slurs and waxing prophetic over inane ideas. Everyone in the group demonstrates talent, but exactly what their talents are being marshalled for is unclear. This show needs a major rethink/rewrite starting with a coherent story or frame. Constant outbursts of forced, raucous laughter are grating and annoying. JB

THE SAFE WORD by Nicolas Billon. August 11 at 10 pm, August 13 at 2:30 pm, August 14 at 10 pm. Rating: NNN Nicolas Billon’s romantic comedy sees a young and eligible financial analyst (Daniel Brière) move into a shared house with a feisty dry-witted Byron scholar (Samantha Espie) and a gay Ukrainian chess enthusiast (Randy Read). Brière and Espie have palpable chemistry even as their characters’ combative yet flirty relationship gets off on the wrong foot. Billon’s characters are well formed and enjoyable to watch, but a few monologues where they describe their awkward teenage years drift into cheesy territory and could easily be cut. JB

ñWHITE RABBIT, RED RABBIT

by Nassim Soleimanpour. August 13 at 5 pm, August 14 at 7:30 pm. Rating: NNNN The star of this fascinating piece of experimental theatre never sets foot on stage. In fact, writer Nassim Soleimanpour isn’t legally allowed to leave his native Iran. Each night a different actor performs a cold reading of his playful yet moving work (the script arrives in a sealed envelope at the start of the show). What follows is a unique exploration of the role of author, death and suicide, and how ideas – far removed in time and space from their originators – can have potent agency in the present. The off-the-cuff performance, which includes lots of audience participation, makes for an unpredictable and unforgettable theatre experience. JB

YOU SHOULD HAVE STAYED HOME by Tommy Taylor. August 12 at midnight, August 13 at 10 pm. Rating: NNN In this hard-hitting solo piece, noted director Tommy Taylor recounts his reallife arrest and detainment during last summer’s G-20 summit. Adapted from his

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by Noah Haidle. St. Mary Catholic School (20 Portugal Square, room 219). August 11 at 7 pm, August 13 at 3 pm. Rating: NNNNN The characters in Noah Haidle’s Mr. Marmalade reside in an astonishing world all their own: the head of four-year-old Lucy (a wonderfully ingenuous Amy Keating). Director Mitchell Cushman makes witty use of the sprawling, site-specific classroom set (complete with toy ovens and rolling cubbyhole units), Jon Grosz’s design merging seamlessly with the detritus of last year’s arts and crafts. But nothing tops David Storch as Lucy’s imaginary friend, the menacing, drug-addled Mr. Marmalade, standing in for all the darkness she’s absorbing in the world around her. Hilarious and chilling in equal measure. NS

now-famous Facebook post about the harrowing experience (he and his girlfriend were arrested without charge and packed in cages for 24 hours), Taylor simply delivers his memoir while seated at a desk, occasionally consulting notes. The most theatrical moment comes halfway in when a large ensemble fills the fenced-in area around Taylor, evoking the claustrophobic horror of the chicken coop conditions. The adaptation could go further – with more parts acted than recounted – but as it stands, this chilling tale of systemic incompetence and injustice on the part of authorities documents a sad but important moment in Canadian history. JB

Site-Specific ShowS PERHAPS IN A HUNDRED YEARS by

Jacob Zimmer, Ame Henderson, Chad Dembski, Kilby Smith-McGregor. Hub 14 (14 Markham). August 11 at 9 pm, August 12 and 13 at 7 pm, August 14 at 3 pm. Rating: NNN Long-time collaborators Jacob Zimmer, Ame Henderson and

Chad Dembski (Dedicated to the Revolutions) remount their first piece in the same venue where it debuted six summers ago. It’s an experimental interdisciplinary meditation on isolation (the three are ostensibly lost in space), friendship and ways of thinking about the future. The trio’s understated, ultra-casual style is still refreshing and thoughtprovoking. They pass the time lip-synching, performing scripted interviews, running around the room, smoking or sometimes simply waiting out the clock. To the uninitiated, this can seem monotonous, but that’s partly the point. Friends and fans of the company will especially appreciate this theatrical time capsule. JB

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by Sean O’Neill, Liz Peterson, Ame Henderson. Hub 14 (14 Markham). August 11 at 7 pm, August 12 at 9 pm, August 13 and 14 at 5 pm. Rating: NNNN This casual, fun yet cerebral experiment in media and performance begins with Liz Peterson standing behind a large screen with her face projected onto the front via a live video feed. Peterson tells quirky stories about her family to the camera, her affable-and-awkward conversational style instantly likeable. Eventually emerging from behind the screen, Peterson weaves together autobiography, dance, comedy and singing (her singalong to The Phantom Of The Opera is hilarious) into a deeply moving personal collage. One of the most effective moments finds her dancing a digital duet, attempting to mimic the increasingly accelerating moves of a prerecorded projected doppelgänger (Ame Henderson). JB

Set beneath an illuminated willow tree amid the earthworks of old Fort York, this odd display of group movement is slow going but at times visually striking. Dressed like 19th-century high-society ladies, nine ghostly figures appear in black gowns with deathly chalk-white faces. Moving like integrated clockwork, the group sit, drink tea and engage in a kind of musical chairs before their precise order begins to fracture. You need patience to enjoy Ingrid Hansen’s mostly slowmo and repetitive choreography. Flashes of interesting action do occur – including well-performed sequential group movements – but at 75 minutes, things get a little tedious. JB 3 stage@nowtoronto.com

Ingrid Hansen. Fort York National Historic Site (250 Fort York Blvd). August 13 at 9:30 pm. Rating: NNN

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Opening Bedtime StorieS by Norm Foster (Port Stanley Festival Theatre). Six vignettes look at human nature in this comedy. Opens Aug 17 and runs to Sep 10, see website for schedule. $25-$28. 6-302 Bridge, Port Stanley. 1-855-782-4353, portstanleytheatre.ca. Blue Suede ShoeS: memorieS of the KiNg by Colin Stewart and Chris McHarge (Drayton Entertainment). This musical tribute features the songs of Elvis Presley. Opens Aug 17 and runs to Sep 3, see website for schedule. $42, stu $22. Playhouse II, 70689 B Line, Grand Bend. draytonentertainment.com. ChurCh girl by Angela Barrow-Dunlap (Profile Entertainment). A pastor’s daughter is se-

duced by the material world and her secret life is revealed in this musical stage play. Aug 12-13 at 8 pm, mat Sat 3 pm. $38-$98. Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Front E. 416250-8500, profileent.ca.

Colm WilKiNSoN iN CoNCert: BroadWay aNd BeyoNd (Dancap Productions). The Dub-

lin tenor/actor presents an evening of songs and stories from his work on stages around the world. Aug 12-13 at 8 pm. $52-$150. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-644-3665, dancaptickets.com. ‘da KiNK iN my hair by trey anthony (Trey Anthony Studios). Eight women tell their stories in a Caribbean hair salon in Toronto. Previews Aug 11-14. Opens Aug 13 and runs to Aug 21, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2 pm. $37-$67, previews $30, opening VIP $99. Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. 416973-4000, treyanthonystudios.com. eduCatiNg rita by Willy Russell (Barefoot Productions). A housewife enrolls in university to escape her humdrum life. Opens Aug 11 and runs to Aug 20, Thu-Sat 7 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $38. Hockley Valley Resort, 793522 Mono 3rd Line, Orangeville. 1-866-462-5539, hockley.com. exit the KiNg by Eugene Ionesco (Soulpepper). An aging king with a crumbling kingdom gets more bad news in this absurdist play. Previews to Aug 15. Opens Aug 16 and runs to Sep 9, see website for schedule. $45-$65, stu $28, rush $5-$22. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. the homeComiNg by Harold Pinter (Stratford Festival). A man and his American wife return to his all-male family in London for a tense reunion. Opens Aug 11 and runs in rep to Oct 30. $50-$106, stu/srs $25$66. Avon Theatre, Stratford. 1-800-5671600, stratfordfestival.ca. maCBeth by William Shakespeare (Driftwood Theatre Bard’s Bus Tour). The classic tragedy about power and murder is presented in this touring production. Aug 13-14 at 7:30 pm. Pwyc ($15 adv reserve). Withrow Park, 725 Logan. 905-576-2396, driftwoodtheatre.com.

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the miSaNthrope by Molière (Stratford Festi-

val). A man scorns social conventions but falls 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. reNt by Jonathan Larson (The Loft Arts Space). New York artists struggle to make ends meet in the shadow of the AIDS epidemic in this musical. Opens Aug 11 and runs to Aug 14, Thu and Sat-Sun 8 pm. Runs to Aug 21, Thu-Fri and Sun 8 pm. $20. 125 Anne S, Barrie. 705792-2877, tickets@movingart.ca.

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ductions). This dance-theatre piece about four couples at a night club features the music of Frank Sinatra. Previews Aug 16-17. Opens Aug 18 and runs to Aug 28, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm. $42-$135. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-644-3665, dancaptickets.com. guyS aNd dollS by Frank Loesser, Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows (Drayton Entertainment). A wager leads to romance in this musical comedy. Previews Aug 17-20. Opens Aug 21 and runs to Sep 3, see website for schedule. $42, previews $36, stu $22. Huron Country Playhouse, 70689 B Line, Grand Bend. 1-888-4494463, draytonentertainment.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. Previews Aug 17. Opens Aug 18 and runs to Sep 3, see website for schedule. $42, previews $36, stu $22. Drayton Festival Theatre, 33 Wellington S, Drayton. draytonentertainment.com. WheN the raiN StopS falliNg by Andrew Bovell (Shaw Festival). A family history unfolds across continents and generations in this drama. Previews Aug 11-25. Opens Aug 26 and runs in rep to Sep 17. $24-$50. Studio Theatre, Niagara-on-the-Lake. shawfest.com.

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The burlesque troupe performs a revue based on turn-of-the-century Parisian cabarets. Aug 14 at 9 pm. $15-$30. Revival, 783 College. eventbrite.com/event/646813637. tiN CaNyoN by Andrew Foerster (Trane Studio). Illustrator Rewfoe weaves a Mississippi bluegrass tale in this fusion of art, live music and storytelling. Aug 12 at 8 pm. $10-$12. 964 Bathurst. tincanyon.eventbrite.com.

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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 serve the story and characters, and the performances (four boys alternate in the demanding lead role) grounded and deeply felt. Bring tissues. Runs to Sep 3, Tue 7 pm, WedSat 7:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 1:30 pm. $36-$130. Canon Theatre, 244 Victoria. 416872-1212, mirvish.com. NNNNN (GS) the glaSS meNagerie by Tennessee Williams (Soulpepper). Ted Dykstra’s moving production begins and ends with Tom Wingfield (Stuart Hughes), recalling the past long after having abandoned his St. Louis family. 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)

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. Runs to Aug 14, Tue-Sat 8 pm. $15, child $10. Ward’s Island, starts at Ferry docks. 416-2030946, shadowlandtheatre.ca. the Kreutzer SoNata adapted by Ted Dykstra (Soulpepper). In this adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s 1889 novella, Ted Dykstra plays a Russian aristocrat recounting how he became insanely suspicious of his wife’s fidelity. Dykstra shows lots of skill recounting the dark and disturbing tale, but 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. 416866-8666, soulpepper.ca. NNN (Jordan Bimm) a little happiNeSS by Ramona Baillie (MNX Productions). A woman must confront her past when a new therapist takes over her treatment. Runs to Aug 14, Thu-Sun 8 pm, mat Sun 2 pm. $25, mat $15. Alumnae Theatre, 70 Berkeley. ticketweb.ca. the pedaler’S Wager (Clay & Paper Theatre). The theatre and CYCLOPS troupes present a production featuring puppets and bicycles. 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 suggested). 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 facile idea about hope at the heart of the material. Alas, the show remains track bound. Runs to Aug 14, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2 pm. $25-$99. Roundhouse Theatre, 255 Bremner Blvd. mirvish.com. NN (Naomi Skwarna) SummerWorKS (SummerWorks). The annual juried festival returns with works by Alameda Theatre Company, Birdtown and Swanville, lemonTree theatre, SNAFU Dance and others, plus music and more. See reviews, starting on page 46, and check nowtoronto. com/summerworks for complete listings and

reviews. Runs to Aug 14. $15, passes $40$110. Various venues, Bathurst and Queen W area. 416-504-7529, summerworks.ca. totem by Robert Lepage (Cirque du Soleil). Music, dance, acrobatics and design are used to trace the journey of the human species from amphibians to its desire to fly. Runs to Oct 9, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sun 1 & 5 pm, Fri-Sat 4 pm (no show Sep 6). $74-$249, stu/srs $67-$235, children under 12 $54-$208. Grand Chapiteau, Port Lands, Commissioners at Cherry. cirquedusoleil.com. 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. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. NNN (GS)

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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 Ballad of Weedy peetStraW by Peter Anderson and John Millard (Festival Players of Prince Edward County). A country boy sells his soul to the devil in this reworking of the Faust legend. Runs to Aug 27, see website for schedule. $15-$30. Rosehall Run Vineyard, Wellington. 1-866-584-1991, festivalplayers.ca. Billy BiShop goeS to War by John Gray (Thousand Islands Playhouse). The WWI fighter pilot looks back on his life in this musical. Runs to Sep 3, Tue-Sun 8 pm, mats Fri-Sat 2:30 pm. $16-$32. Firehall Theatre, Gananoque. 1-866-382-7020, 1000islandsplayhouse.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 ñ 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 CAVAN BLAZERS by Robert Winslow (4th Line Theatre). Violence erupts between Catholic and Protestant settlers in mid-19th century Ontario. Runs to Aug 27, Tue-Sat 6 pm (and Aug 22). $26-$30, preview $20, 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. Runs to Aug 27, see website for schedule. $28-$32, stu $15. Blyth Memorial Hall, 431 Queen, Blyth. 1-877-862-5984, blythfestival.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. HOSANNA by Michel Tremblay (Stratford Festival). A transvestite and her partner confront insecurities and illusions about identity. Runs in rep to Sep 24. $25-$70. Studio Theatre, Stratford. stratfordfestival.ca. JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber (Stratford Festival). The crucifixion – sound like something you’d make a musical out of? In director Des McAnuff’s hands, the radical, risky rock musical becomes a thrilling show. Paul Nolan finds the inner core of Jesus, hitting all the high notes in the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim 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 as Mary Magdalene is superb. 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). Mighton’s nuanced script focuses on Kate, a young woman unable to follow her dream of a science career, a loss that has a subtle impact on her family over four decades. Director Chris Abraham’s excellent production highlights the play’s emotions and fascinating ideas, with standout performances by Bethany Jillard and Irene Poole as Kate at different points in her life. Runs in rep to Sep 24. $25-$70. Studio Theatre. 1-800-5671600, stratfordfestival.ca. NNNNN (JK) 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. Runs in rep to Sep 23. $24-$106. Court House Theatre, Niagaraon-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.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. 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. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. 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. Runs in rep to Aug 27. $24-$50. Studio Theatre, Niagara-onthe-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. 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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Thursday, August 11 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Mark Bennett,

Andrew Searles and host Mike Dambra. To Aug 14, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:45 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10-$15. 2335 Yonge. 416-4867700, absolutecomedy.ca.

THE ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY COMPLETELY MADE UP SHOW Second City presents inter-

active, family-friendly improv and sketch. Thu-Sat 1 pm. $12. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com. COMEDY AT THE SWAN Black Swan Comedy presents a comedy night. 8 pm. Pwyc. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. 416-9035388, blackswancomedy.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 upcoming sketch revue about the things we tell ourselves to get through life. 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 The Young And The Guestlist, an improvised puppet soap opera, followed by longform improv by the Game Of The Scene class. 8:45 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270. HOT BOX COMEDY Hot Box Cafe presents a weekly show w/ host Jillian Thomas. 7:15 pm. $5. 191A Baldwin. hotboxcafe.ca. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Jeff McEnery. To Aug 14, Thu and Sat-Sun 8 pm (and Sat 10:30 pm), Fri 9 pm. $12-$20. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

Friday, August 12 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 11. THE ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY COMPLETELY MADE UP SHOW See Thu 11. DREAMS REALLY DO COME TRUE! (AND OTHER LIES) See Thu 11. NAKED FRIDAYS presents music, improv and

sketch inspired by 50s variety shows w/ host Ben Johnson. 9 pm. Pwyc. John Candy Box Theatre, 70 Peter. 416-340-7270. TOKE & JOKE Village Vapor Lounge presents a weekly show w/ host Dred Lee. 7:30 pm. $5. 66 Wellesley E. 416-972-9500. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 11.

Saturday, August 13 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 11. THE ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY COMPLETELY MADE UP SHOW See Thu 11. BLACK SWAN COMEDY presents an Improv

Drop-In workshop w/ Ralph MacLeod. 6 pm. $5. Comedy At The Swan. 8 pm. Pwyc. The Ladder, competitive entertainment. 10 pm. $10. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. 416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com.

DREAMS REALLY DO COME TRUE! (AND OTHER LIES) See Thu 11. MARTY TOPPS HOUSE PARTY SHOW Isaac

Winter presents a comedy/variety show and dance party w/ Steph Tolev, JUMPLE, Jon McCurley, hosts Marty Topps and DJ T-Bot, and others. Doors 10 pm. $5-$10. Bread & Circus, 299 Augusta. martytopps.ca. SPILLIN’ THE BEANS COMEDY Full of Beans Coffee presents a show w/ host Rene Payes. 7 pm. Pwyc. 1348 Dundas W. fullofbeans.ca. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 11.

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

Laurie Elliott, Winston Spear, Harry Doupe, Roastmaster Ron Sparks and others. 8 pm. $10. 1150 Queen W, Underground. 416-5315042, thedrakehotel.ca.

DREAMS REALLY DO COME TRUE! (AND OTHER LIES) See Thu 11. LAUGH SABBATH presents The Win $100

Show w/ Tim Gilbert, Aaron Eves, Bob Kerr, host Adam Christie 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. PLUM THUNDER Comedy Bar presents the sketch troupe w/ guests Fratwurst. 7:30 pm. $5. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. SILVER CITY STANDUP presents weekly comedy w/ host Kirk Hicks. 9 pm. Pwyc. Silver City, 780 Danforth. 416-461-1504. SUDDENLY SUNDAY Pantages Martini Bar presents a weekly comedy night w/ hosts Melissa Story and Jeff Clark plus musical guests. 9 pm. Free. 200 Victoria. 416-362-1777. 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. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 11.

Monday, August 15 ALT.COMEDY LOUNGE Rivoli presents Debra DiGiovanni, Gilson Lubin, Arthur ñ Simeon, Julia Hladkowicz, Dylan Mandlsohn,

MC Ali Hassan and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com. BEST. MONDAY. EVER. Second City presents a weekly show featuring sketch, songs and improvisation. 8 pm. $12. 51 Mercer. 416-3430011, secondcity.com. 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 presents a weekly open mic. 10:30 pm. Free. 666 Manning. 647-343-7969, pourboy.ca. HARD TIMES AT THE HARD LUCK Impulsive Entertainment presents sketch troupe She Said What?, Julie Kim, improv from Carmine & Jen, host Fraser Young and others. 9 pm. $5. Hard Luck Bar, 812 Dundas W. hardluckbar.com.

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Toronto Comedy Brawl presents amateur comedians competing for $1,000. Eight comics per night, guest hosts and closing acts. To Aug 23, Mon-Wed 8 pm. $5. Crown & Tiger, 414 College. torontocomedybrawl.com. WHEEL OF IMPROV John Candy Box Theatre presents an interactive improv show. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270.

Tuesday, August 16 FAT KAT$ COMEDY Nola Belle and Joey Harlem present a show w/ host Harlem. 9 pm. Free. Axis Gastropub, 585 Bloor W. 416-539-9009. IMPATIENT THEATRE CO presents improv by its students. 7 pm. Free. Harold Night. 8 pm. $5. The Incubator, up and coming improv teams. 9:30 pm. $5. Late Night Menu, new and developing acts. 10:30 pm. Free. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-238-7337, impatient.ca. IMPROV NIGHT IN CANADA John Candy Box Theatre presents the ultimate improv faceoff. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270. SKETCHCOMEDYLOUNGE Rivoli presents The Headline Series w/ Cory!, Cheap Smokes, Newsdesk with Ron Sparks, MC Allyson Smith and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. 332 Queen W. sketchcomedylounge.com. TIG NOTARO Comedy Bar presents the comedian from The Sarah Silverman Program in a live stand-up show. 8 pm. $15. 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, comedybar.ca.

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

Wednesday, August 17 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Pro-Am Night w/

Mike Dambra, Adrian Sawyer, Dan Fidele, Will Norris, Sarah Donaldson, Travis Albers, Shelly Colman and host Lamont Ferguson. 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. CORKTOWN COMEDY Betty’s presents an open mic w/ Becky Bays, Dave Healey, Byron Collins, host Brian Coughlin and others. 9 pm. Free. 240 King E. 416-988-2675, corktowncomedy.com. DJ DEMERS presents a weekly show w/ guests. 9 pm. $5. Underground Comedy Club, 670 Queen E. djdemers.com.

DREAMS REALLY DO COME TRUE! (AND OTHER LIES) See Thu 11. IMPATIENT THEATRE CO presents Munchausen,

rapid-fire improv based on true stories. 10 pm. Free. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-2387337, 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.

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YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Graham Chittenden. To Aug 21, Wed-Thu and Sat-Sun 8 pm (& Sat 10:30 pm), Fri 9 pm. $12-$20. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com. 3

dance listings Opening COME FLY AWAY Dancap Productions presents a dance-theatre piece by Twyla Tharp about four couples at a night club, featuring the music of Frank Sinatra. Previews Aug 16-17. Opens Aug 18 and runs to Aug 28, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm. $42-$135. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-6443665, dancaptickets.com.

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CANADA – BAKER SERIES princess productions presents contemporary dance curated by Peggy Baker, with Heidi Strauss & Darryl Tracy, Marie-Josée Chartier, Jung-Ah Chung and Keiko Ninomiya. Aug 11-13, Thu 7 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 4 pm. $28, stu/srs $24, mainstage passes $70-$125, stu/srs $65$115. Betty Oliphant Theatre, 404 Jarvis. 416-504-7529, princessproductions.ca.

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ADA – KUDELKA SERIES princess productions presents contemporary dance curated by James Kudelka, with MOVE: the company and Fila 13 Productions. Aug 12-14, Fri 7 pm, Sat 9 pm, Sun 4 pm. $28, stu/srs $24, mainstage passes $70-$125, stu/srs $65-$115. Betty Oliphant Theatre, 404 Jarvis. 416504-7529, princessproductions.ca.

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CANADA – MORRISON SERIES princess productions presents dance curated by Yvonne Ng in memory of David Morrison, with MACHiNENOiSY and Michael Caldwell. Aug 11-13, Thu 9 pm, Fri 7 pm, Sat 2 pm. $28, stu/srs $24, mainstage passes $70$125, stu/srs $65-$115. Betty Oliphant Theatre, 404 Jarvis. 416-504-7529, princessproductions.ca. D:MIC/FAC LATE NIGHT SERIES: WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET princess productions

presents 10-minute works drawn by lottery as part of the festival, with works by Jasmyn Fyffe, Jannine Saarinen, Robert Stephen and others. Aug 12-13 at 11 pm. $15, stu/srs $10. Betty Oliphant Theatre, 404 Jarvis. 416-504-7529, princessproductions. ca. THE EROS CABARET Rivoli presents music, dance and more with Winston Spear, Jimmy Danger, the Daunting Divas, Jamee Valin and others. Aug 17 at 9 pm. $12-$15. 332 Queen W. 416-553-1352. FORTUNE COOKING FESTIVAL Harbourfront Centre presents a pan-Asian arts and culture festival with dance by Mi Young Kim Dance Company and the Kollaboration 2011 showcase. Aug 12-14, see website for schedule. Free. 235 Queens Quay W. 416973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com. 3

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 Desiree Lavoy, Evany Rosen, Andrew Bush, Michael Balazo, David Dineen-Porter, Darryl Orr, John Hastings, Ennis Esmer and host Nick Flanagan. 8:30 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. 8 pm. Pwyc. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. blackswancomedy.com. SAVED BY THE JOKES Fox & Fiddle presents weekly comedy w/ hosts Evan Desmarais and Chris Robinson. 8 pm. Pwyc. 27 Wellesley E. wellesleyfox.com.

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Haunting Hanoi

Pics of Asian city generate heat By FRAN SCHECHTER GREG GIRARD at Monte Clark Gallery (55 Mill, building 2), to August 21. 416-703-1700. Rating: NNNN

in this very hot summer, greg Girard’s Hanoi Calling takes us to a real tropical metropolis. The Canadian photographer, who’s spent much of his career documenting urban change in Asian cities like Shanghai, Tokyo and Hong Kong, was invited to shoot these images as part of the celebration of Hanoi’s 1,000th anniversary in 2010. The crumbling colonial deco architecture of Girard’s 2007 Phantom Shanghai project communicated a strong sense of loss, but Hanoi doesn’t appear to be undergoing a similar shocking development boom. Girard’s Hanoi feels like a haphazard place, its narrow streets lined with storefronts and motor scooters, its buildings’ upper floors a pile-up of randomly stacked box-shaped rooms. Stuff – laundry, goods for sale, vining plants – hangs everywhere. Cement

balustrades with vase-shaped supports allude to Vietnam’s French colonial heritage. Girard is a master of dusky or nighttime streetscapes, using artificial light for a jolt of expressive colour. Against lilac or brownish-orange skies, the streets pulse with acid green, bright orange and saturated red illumination from cafés, streetlights and motorbikes, imparting a strong sense of tropical haze and palpable heat. The show also offers a few intimate peeks into unpopulated interiors. In a bedroom – the bed covered with a bamboo mat, the walls hung with old photographs – the green paint is poignantly worn off where two heads rested on the wall behind the pillows. In a dingy barbershop, a bright red chair awaits customers. Magenta has published a book version of Hanoi Calling, with many more images of homes, gardens and businesses and a few portraits. While the book gives a broader picture of Hanoi, the big prints in this vibrant show

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MUST-SEE SHOWS ARTSCAPE GIBRALTAR POINT ALL CAPS! Festi-

val: artist/band collaborations, Aug 13-14 ($15, adv $12; wknd $25, adv $20). 443 Lakeshore. wavelengthtoronto.com.

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Khush: Andil Gosine and Joshua Vettivelu, to Sep 1. 34 Isabella. 416-777-2755. CANADIAN SCULPTURE CENTRE Emerging Sculptors group show, to Sep 9, reception 6:30 pm Aug 11. 500 Church. 647-435-5858. THE DEPARTMENT Everyone Agrees That There Are Some Deep Mysteries group show, Aug 11-27, reception 7-10 pm Aug 11. 1389 Dundas W. 416-720-8273. DIAZ CONTEMPORARY Painting/video: Stephen Andrews, Pierre Dorion and Dara Gellman, to Aug 27. 100 Niagara. 416-361-2972.

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STIMMA): Angela Lau, 6-9 pm Aug 13. 100 Garrison. 416-392-6907, stimma.org. GLADSTONE HOTEL Open Eyes Toronto group show, Aug 16-22 (openeyestoronto.com). Painting: Deborah L Young, to Aug 23. Being Scene group show, to Oct 2. Textiles: Kerry Croghan, to Nov 1. 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. INDEXG GALLERY Photos: Lee Ka-Sing, to Aug 28. 50 Gladstone. 416-535-6957. JULIE M. GALLERY Life, Death And Rebirth group show, to Sep 18. 15 Mill, bldg 37. 416-603-2626. LE GALLERY Painting: Mitsuo Kumura and Elicser Elliott, to Aug 14. 1183 Dundas W. 416532-8467. MERCER UNION Sound art performance: Paul Slocum and Lewis Kaye, 9 pm Aug 11. 1286

ders and Tamira Sawatzky, to Aug 31. 952 Queen W. 416-395-0067. Sobey Art Award Ontario Long List, to Sep 3. 120 Navy; 1306 Lakeshore W (Oakville). 905-844-4402. POWER PLANT Kevin Schmidt, to Sep 5. Rearview Mirror: New Art From Central And Eastern Europe, to Sep 5, curatorial interns’ talk 2 pm Aug 14. 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 3:305:30 pm. 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000. TEXTILE MUSEUM OF CANADA Magic Squares: Muslim Africa, to Nov 20. Cold Comfort: Souvenirs Of Canada, to Sep 18. Silk Oasis: Bukhara, to Sep 25. $15, srs $10, stu $6; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre. 416599-5321. 3

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MKG127 Go Figure group show, to Sep 3. 127 Ossington. 647-435-7682.

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launch/video 4 pm Aug 14. The Mary Project, to Aug 28. 1665 Dundas W. 647-347-6499. NARWHAL ART PROJECTS Ceramics: Julie Moon, Aug 11-Sep 4, reception 7-10 pm Aug 11. 680 Queen W. 647-346-5317. RED HEAD Case History: XXXX Collective, to Aug 20. 401 Richmond W. 416-504-5654. TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX Fellini: Spectacular Obsessions, to Sep 18 ($9.25-$12). Installation: Srinivas Krishna, to Aug 14. 350 King W. 416-599-8433. TORONTO IMAGE WORKS Photos: Richard Marazzi, to Sep 3. 80 Spadina. 416-7031999. WHIPPERSNAPPER Free City Paper: JP King, to Sep 4. 594B Dundas W. 647-856-2445.

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Abel Boulineau, to Aug 21. Abstract Expressionist New York, to Sep 4 ($25, stu $16.50, Wed after 7 pm $10). 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 And Book Design, to Aug 21, panel 6:30-8:30 pm Aug 11 (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. McMICHAEL CANADIAN Ivan Eyre, to Aug 14. Marc-Aurèle Fortin, to Sep 11. Steeling The Gaze: Portraits By Aboriginal Artists, to Sep 11. $15, stu/srs $12. 10365 Islington (Kleinburg). 905-893-1121. MOCCA This Is Paradise, to Aug 21. Elle Flan-

independence and are attempting to carry on with their lives. The Good Muslim is a study in estrangement arising from different ideological reactions to the war: Maya becomes a liberal doctor and writer, while Sohail withdraws into his Islamic faith, moving to the family’s roof and building a devout community of followers. The plot jumps back and forth between 1971-2 (immediately after the war) and 1984-5, when Maya returns to Dhaka after years of working as a country doctor to find her brother drastically changed and her mother fighting cancer. This structure lets Anam uncover the seeds of the siblings’ rift, and also provides a fragile bridge between their experiences, opening the possibility of reconciliation, or at least understanding. Anam weaves in stories of women’s abuse during and after the war, including those of Piya, whom Sohail rescues after she’s been captured and raped by Pakistani forces, and Nazia, who endures whipping at the hands of her husband after being accused of having an affair. Though steeped in history (Anam researched the liberation war for her PhD at Harvard), The Good Muslim is a moving, elegantly written family

I’ve said many times that Canadian novelists are too obsessed with the past and ought to get with the urban present, but I’m fine if Wayne Johnston sticks to his period pieces. His fictionalized stories about Joey Smallwood (The Colony Of Unrequited Dreams) and Frederick Cook and Robert Peary (The Navigator Of New York) are gripping portrayals of ambition. His new book, A World Elsewhere ($32, Knopf), goes back to those themes and to the end of the 19th century, when a young Newfoundlander heads to SUSAN G. COLE Princeton and gets caught up in a toxic friendship. story of hope and survival in the face of a series of tragic events. Maya’s relationship with her mother is tender and often humorous, and her attachment to her neglected nephew Zaid is an important if heartbreaking thread in the book. There’s also a love story

subplot involving an old friend named Joy who helps Maya connect with her past and move forward. A good read that lets you come to your own conclusions about faith. SARAH GREENE 3 Write Books at susanc@nowtoronto.com

READINGS THIS WEEK Thursday, August 11 THE BEAUTIFUL & THE DAMNED Poetry and

cabaret with Heather J Wood, Honey Novick, David Bateman, Ian McLachlan and Marcus Walker. 7-10 pm. Pwyc. Zelda’s, 692 Yonge, upstairs. thebeautifulandthedamned13@ gmail.com. A QUEER STORY Reading and writing workshop with Farzana Doctor, Vivek Shraya and Zoe Whittall. 7 pm. Pwyc. Another Story Bookshop, 315 Roncesvalles. 416-4621104, anotherstory.ca.

Sunday, August 14 ASTRIDA NEIMANIS Launching her broadsheet We Are All Bodies Of Water. 4 pm. Free. Naco Gallery Café, 1665 Dundas W. 647-347-6499. CHARLES C SMITH Sunday poetry reading with Smith, plus an open mic. 11:30 am-2:30 pm. Free. Ellington’s Music Café, 805 St. Clair W. e_sundaypoetry@yahoo.ca.

SMASH WORDS Queer poetry with spoken

word artists Phlip Arima, Criztal-Jay, Duncan Armstrong, Melissa Benner and others. 4 pm. Pwyc ($5 min). Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas W. 416-588-0307.

Monday, August 15 DWAYNE MORGAN Spoken word and musical guests. 9 pm. $20 adv. Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas W. 416-588-0307.

Tuesday, August 16 ART BAR POETRY AND MUSIC NIGHT Poetry,

music and an open mic. 8 pm. Free. Clinton’s, 693 Bloor W. artbar.org.

Wednesday, August 17 THE (NOT SO) NICE ITALIAN GIRLS & FRIENDS

Readings by Elisabeth de Mariaffi, Catherine Graham, Koom Kankesan, Giovanna Riccio, KD Miller and Ayelet Tsabai. 7:30 pm. Free. Annex Live, 296 Brunswick. 416-946-8007. 3

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it’s all about who you know when it comes to The Help. Director Tate Taylor was a childhood friend of Kathryn Stockett, author of the bestselling source novel. She sold him

the rights and insisted to big bosses at Disney that Taylor direct. Then there’s Allison Janney’s longtime link to Taylor. Most of us think of Janney as a major star. She played opposite Meryl Streep in The Hours and has multiple Emmys for her role in The West Wing. Yet when it came to The Help, she considers herself lucky to have gotten the role of Charlotte, conflicted mom of journalist Skeeter, who’s documenting the experience of black

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maids. Janney says she didn’t get the part because she’s got such emotional depth as an actor or because her characterizations are so precise. No, she says, it’s because she was a friend of director Taylor. “I owe it to knowing Tate and having done all his small-budget movies for nothing as a favour – because I adore him,” she says on the phone driv ing down an L.A. highway after wrapping the day’s shoot on Struck By Lightning. She has to stop talk-

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ing several times during the interview, fearing she’ll miss a turnoff. “I didn’t assume he’d put me in The Help, but I hoped he’d give me the part. And he really stuck his neck out for me.” Janney was hysterical in the indie pic Away We Go, and got lucky when Juno, in which she played another mom, became a mega-hit. “The smaller-budget movies are where I find the plum roles. The scripts are a little riskier than Hollywood-produced films, and the subject matter’s more challenging.” But she knows The Help could be a blockbuster. Even Oprah tried to muscle her way into the picture but eventually stepped back. “The producers did circle her for a while,” Janney recalls. “She was a big fan of the book, but I think she said she didn’t want it to be too top-heavy. With her in it it would have been about Oprah being in the movie instead of this ensemble cast.” That ensemble enjoyed a powerful bonding experience while making The Help. “We were shooting in Greenwood, Mississippi, and there wasn’t a lot to do. We ate all our meals together. We’d sit on the porch of one of the rented houses, count bugs and watch the armadillos go by. One of my favourite memories is of getting in the back of Tate’s pickup truck and going to the middle of a cotton field to watch a storm roll in.” Janney made a special connection with NOW cover girl Emma Stone (Easy A), who plays Skeeter. “She’s a true actress,” Janney enthuses. “She’s not afraid of making a fool of herself. She doesn’t rely on being beautiful. I mean, she is gorgeous – but it’s all about the work and the craft and going into things head first. I found it really easy to be with her and to feel all the feelings Charlotte has for her daughter.” 3

REVIEW THE HELP (Tate Taylor) Rating: NNN This adaptation of Kathryn Stockett’s mega-selling novel – still perched atop the New York Times bestseller list two years after its release – is anchored by another powerful performance by Viola Davis (Doubt). As Aibileen, one of the maids in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who finds her personal power when she agrees to share her story with upstart journalist Skeeter (Emma Stone), Davis conveys a steely strength and dignity. Octavia Spencer also shines as another house servant who tells all. Stone proves she can handle drama, and Allison Janney as her cancer-ridden, deeply conflicted mother finds just the right tone. But the Junior League matrons exploiting the help – especially Bryce Dallas Howard as Hilly – play their parts to stereotypically shrieking heights. Racism and entitlement come across as much more malevolent when they have a quieter quality.

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HEIST COMEDY

Less is more 30 MINUTES OR LESS (Ruben Fleischer). 82 minutes. Opens Friday (August 12). For venues and times, see Movies, page 56. Rating: NNN 30 Minutes Or Less may be the shabbiest, shruggiest heist movie ever made. If you’re expecting the next Heat, you’ll be sorely disappointed, but it’s enjoyable enough on its own very modest terms. Ruben Fleischer’s follow-up to Zombieland sets up a very simple premise and plays it out precisely as far as it will go, and no further. Danny McBride and Nick Swardson play Grand Rapids thugs who rig a pizza delivery guy (Jesse Eisenberg) with a vest bomb and order him to rob a bank.

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Fleischer abandons the hyper camerawork and self-aware cool of his earlier venture for something looser that focuses on the frantic incompetence of all the characters more than the crime plot itself. Eisenberg (sorry, Oscar Nominee Jesse Eisenberg) is appropriately sweaty and terrified as the unwilling criminal; McBride and Swardson have great, surly chemistry as the idiots who’ve wired him up; and Michael Peña refines his nutbar Observe And Report performance for a role as a bigcity hit man who gets mixed up in the action. But it’s comic Aziz Ansari (Parks And Recreation) who walks off with the picture as Eisenberg’s resentful buddy, just by being Aziz Ansari. NORMAN WILNER Jesse Eisenberg (left) and Aziz Ansari mask their insecurities.

Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

Keep your eye on her Windsor native had a killer time shooting fun horror entry By NORMAN WILNER FINAL DESTINATION 5 directed by Steven Quale, written by Eric Heisserer, with Nicholas D’Agosto, Emma Bell, Jacqueline MacInnes Wood and Tony Todd. A Warner Bros. release. 95 minutes. Opens Friday (August 12). For venues and times, see Movies, page 56.

jacqueline macinnes wood has built a substantial fan following in the last three years on The Bold And The Beautiful. But thanks to the Final Destination 5 trailer that’s been playing in theatres for the past few months, millions of people now know her as Eyeball Girl. In the trailer, Eyeball Girl – actually called Olivia, who has survived a bridge collapse along with several workmates and is now being stalked by Death – has been prepped for laser eye surgery when she finds herself alone, immobilized and at the mercy of a malfunctioning device. And because this is a Final Destination trailer, the audience is encouraged to root for her horrific death. Don’t worry. She’s cool with it. “I knew what I was getting myself into,” says the 24-year-old Windsor native, in Toronto on a Canadian press tour. “The cast, we’re all so competitive – we’re like, ‘My death is better.’ ‘No, my death is better.’ But you know, we like to see people die. It’s a twisted thing: there’s that point when you wanna root for them, but essentially we wanna see them die.” I have to agree. That’s the sort of Jacqueline MacInnes Wood and Nicholas D’Agosto try to outrun Death in FD5.

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REVIEW FINAL DESTINATION 5 (Steven Quale) Rating: NNN After the underwhelming third and fourth instalments, the Final Destination series returns to goofball form, making the franchise’s elaborate deathtraps fun again. This time it’s the survivors of a disastrous bridge collapse who discover that Death doesn’t like being cheated, and are thus trapped one by one in ridiculous, Rube Goldbergian mechanisms involving loose screws, leaky air conditioners, unsupervised factory equipment and – in the film’s biggest set piece – an over-amped surgical laser. Unique among horror films, the FD movies play equally well as comedies, building each sequence with careful set-ups and crowd-pleasing punchlines – and encouraging the audience to actively root for the deaths of everyone on screen. Director Steven Quale invests the production with a little more wit than usual. You’re gonna want to keep an NW eye on the production design.

catharsis horror movies are designed to provide. But even so, there’s a level of squick to Eyeball Girl’s sequence that really gets under your skin. Malcolm McDowell suffered what he described as exquisite pain after scratching his corneas shooting the famous projection-room scene in A Clockwork Orange; did MacInnes Wood have a similar experience? “I shot [the scene] from 6 pm until 9 o’clock in the morning,” she says, “and that speculum was probably in and out of my eye 60, 70 times. You keep numbing the eye, but after a while.... That fear, everything – that’s real. That’s exactly how I was feeling. There were times when I was trying to get to an emotional place – I was in a head vise, too – and the thing popped out of my eye. I didn’t have any scrapes, maybe just one little tiny one, but I could handle it.” A fan of the series since she saw the first film as a kid, MacInnes Wood jumped at the chance to die a grisly death. “I was working on my show and found out they were auditioning,” she says. “So I put it on tape at 6 in the morning – I couldn’t get in [to read] because I was just shooting like crazy – and I found out by lunch that they wanted me.” Once she was on the set, did she ever think of asking the producers to spare her character and kill someone else’s? “I want all of them to die,” she says, laughing. “Because I’m horrible.” 3 normw@nowtoronto.com

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Head ache A GUN TO THE HEAD (Blaine Thurier). 86 minutes. Opens Friday (August 12) at the Projection Booth. See Indie & Rep film, page 66. Rating: N I have the feeling that A Gun To The Head wants to say something profound about kicked habits and romanticizing the past. But writer/director Blaine Thurier’s feature – getting a Toronto run at the Projection Booth nearly two years after its underwhelming debut at TIFF 2009 – misses the mark on almost every level. Trevor (Tygh Runyan) used to be a hood, but he’s gone straight and now hosts dull Vancouver dinner parties with his wife (Marnie Robinson). When one such evening requires a wine run, Trevor gets a call from his cousin and former accomplice (Paul Anthony) that turns his life into a raging sea of criminal madness.

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(D: Kevin Tancharoen, 90 min) Lea Michele, Cory Monteith, Chris Colfer and the other stars from the hit TV show pop out in 3-D in this concert doc shot during their recent stadium tour. Opens Friday (August 12). Screened after press time – see review August 12 at nowtoronto.com/movies.

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Director had to leave out findings for believability By RADHEYAN SIMONPILLAI THE WHISTLEBLOWER directed by Larysa Kondracki, written by Eilis Kirwan and Kondracki, with Rachel Weisz, Vanessa Redgrave, David Strathairn and Monica Bellucci. An eOne Films release. 100 minutes. Opens Friday (August 12). For venues and times, see Movies, page 56.

“i know where to get the best 12yearolds.” That was one of the first things Kathy Bolkovac heard about Bosnia at a training camp in Fort Worth, Texas. Bolkovac, a Neb raska cop, was heading to eastern Europe for the first time on a UN peacekeeping mission. The pedo phile who nonchalantly boasted about where he could get underage tail was a fellow officer returning for his third tour. That was just a primer, according to Larysa Kondracki, the Canadian director who brings Bolkovac’s in cendiary story to the big screen in The Whistleblower. Speaking from Los Angeles, Kondracki defends her film to critics (myself included) carp ing about how implausible the events seem. In fact, The Whistleblower, which recounts Bolkovac’s investiga tion into sex trafficking in Bosnia and the shocking involvement of UN brass, depicts behaviour among decorated officers that is very diffi cult to swallow. That’s kind of the point. “We actually toned it down,” says Kondracki, who spent two years in eastern Europe researching and in ter viewing former sex slaves, not to mention collaborating intensely with Bolkovac, played in the film by Rachel Weisz. Kondracki discovered a corrupt

review THE WHISTLEBLOWER (Larysa Kondracki). Rating: NNNN You don’t see very many movies like The Whistleblower these days. Shaped after the paranoid thrillers of the 70s, it’s a genre film that exposes an issue that is both contemporary and urgent. Despite its storytelling flaws, it’s a movie that needs to be seen if only for its subject matter: sex trafficking. Rachel Weisz turns in a fierce performance as Kathryn Bolkovac, a Nebraska police officer commissioned to be a UN peacekeeper in Bosnia. There, she discovers a horrific sex trade in which peace officers and UN officials are incriminated. In bringing Bolkovac’s true story to the screen, co-writer/director Larysa Kondracki gives in to some melodramatic speeches and bits of awkward expository dialogue. But with a tale as disturbing and detailed as this, you can forgive such liberties. It remains a solid thriller that, like Bolkovac, never loses sight of what’s most important: Rachel Weisz is fierce as real-life RS the victims.

Whistleblower Kathryn Bolkovac.

world where UN peacekeepers are regular customers and even collabor ators in sex trafficking, and where the popular attitude is to casually treat such criminal behaviour as mild indiscretions. Kondracki recounts how one Inter national Police Task Force officer ac tually approached Bolkovac to com plain that a sex slave he purchased had escaped. “He was particularly upset that she took his cellphone. He wanted to get her back.” This is one of many shocking de tails from Bolkovac’s story that Kon dracki left out of her film for the sake of economy. There was also the mur dered girl found with OSCE (Organ ization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) tape wrapped around her mouth: a warning to women who would collaborate with the likes of Bolkovac. Traffickers released girls into the repatriation system to find out where NGOs were hiding infor mants, then raided safe houses and made examples of girls seeking ref uge. It’s a sensational subject that easi ly lent itself to Kondracki’s button pushing film, which harkens back to conspiracy thrillers like Serpico, All the President’s Men and Silkwood. Despite the fact that early audiences are finding The Whistleblower enter taining, Kondracki doesn’t want the genre’s pleasures to overshadow a desperate issue that remains urgent. “Kathy’s still seeking some kind of punishment for the officers who committed these crimes,” Kondracki says. “She’s still pushing the U.S. gov ernment and UN to look at laws of diplomatic immunity and prosecute these men.” 3 movies@nowtoronto.com

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Another eArth (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,

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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) Cumberland 4, Varsity

ñAttAck the Block

(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, as a bunch of local thugs, an off-duty nurse (Venus’s Jodie Whittaker) and a pot dealer (Nick Frost) band 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)

eron Diaz as a high-functioning sociopath teaching seventh grade at a dinky Illinois school and chasing the new substitute teacher (Justin Timberlake). Jason Segel walks off with the picture as an affable, unassuming gym teacher who’s hip to Diaz’s game but attracted to her anyway. 92 min. nnn (NW) Colossus, Kennedy Commons 20, Queens way, Yonge & Dundas 24

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

ñBeginners

(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

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, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Yonge, Humber Cinema, 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 allAmerican 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, Canada Square, 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 Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

looks and id. They switch bodies (never mind how, it’s really stupid), and each learns a valuable lesson about appreciating himself from the outside in. Leslie Mann alternates between shrill and weepy as Dave’s neglected wife; Olivia Wilde is the sexy associate with whom Dave considers a fling while driving Mitch’s body. Everything you expect to happen happens; whatever energy the movie has comes from Reynolds’s livewire performance. 112 min. NN (NW) 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

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 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-

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) Carlton Cinema

ñCONAN O’BRIEN CAN’T STOP

(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

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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) Canada Square, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, 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-yearold 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

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stupid body-swapping comedy with a great performance at its centre. That’d be Ryan Reynolds’s, sending up his frat-boy image and channelling Jason Bateman’s fussy-prissy persona so well that it completely unbalances the movie. (Amazing that this should be the movie that reaffirms Reynolds’s star quality rather than that dopey superhero venture.) Bateman plays Dave, an overachieving lawyer who’s lost sight of his real goals; Reynolds is his best pal, Mitch, a slacker coasting on his

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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-handedly gives the movie something like a heart as its amnesiac hero; I’d love to see him try his hand at a proper western sometime, without any of the silly distractions here. 112 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

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ñCrazy, Stupid, Love.

(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) turns the true story of Latif Yahia, an Iraqi soldier forced to become the public double of Uday Hussein during the first Gulf War, into an ungainly parable about the trappings of power. Director Tamahori heaps on the debauchery as though he’s vicari-

ously getting off on Uday’s raging id, but Dominic Cooper’s dual performance keeps us firmly on Latif’s side. The disconnect brings the movie up short, as does a clumsy subplot involving sleepy-eyed Ludivine Sagnier as a member of Uday’s harem. 108 min. NNN (NW) Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Kennedy Commons 20, 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) Carlton Cinema

eL buLLi – CookiNg iN progreSS (Gereon Wetzel) documents star chef Ferran Adrià and his team as they invent new dishes for his famous El Bulli restaurant near Roses, Catalonia. Forget about anything you’ve seen on the Food Network – with no bellowing ego-trippers strutting their stuff, the film lacks drama and personalities. Watched by a completely neutral camera, 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 team’s tasting menu – 40 dishes in all – flashes by at the end in a series of spectacular images. Sadly, the restaurant has closed, so foodies who haven’t been previously will never know its brilliance. Subtitled. 108 min. NNN (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, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Docks Lakeview Drive-In, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale the future (Miranda July) illustrates the

dangers of an artist becoming too sure of herself. After the tender, tentative quirk of 2005’s Me And You And Everyone We Know, writer-director-star July plunges headlong into twee self-indulgence with this study of a couple (July and Hamish Linklater) facing the end of their freedom when they decide to adopt a cat in 30 days’ time. The cat narrates the movie, actually one of the less obnoxious choices in a picture stuffed full of observations and gestures that become more stultifying as they pile up. 91 min. NN (NW) Yonge & Dundas 24

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JaNe eyre(Cary Fukunaga)isyetanother adaptationofCharlotteBrönte’snovel abouttheeponymousorphan-turnedgoverness,butthisoneisrichlyatmosphericandbolsteredbythealwayswatchableMiaWasikowskainthelead.There’s lotsofsmoulderingchemistrybetween JaneandherByronicemployer,Mr. Rochester(MichaelFassbender),butsome oftheirdialoguefeelsclunky.118min. NNN(GS) Mt Pleasant KuNg Fu PaNda 2(Jennifer Yuh

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Larry CrowNe(Tom Hanks)isalazy,sitcommyconstructionthattakesapotentiallyrichidea–amiddle-agedCalifornian becomesacasualtyoftheGreatRecession andgoesbacktoschooltoreinventhimself–anddoesabsolutelynothingwithit. Instead,wegetamillionaire’sviewof “regularpeople”asadorablyscrappybags ofquirk–mostlikelythankstoco-writer NiaVardalos,whosesimplisticsenseof characterandTV-scaleplottingseemto overrideeverydirectorialflourishthatstar andco-writerHanksbroughttoThat ThingYouDo!Hisgenerositywithactors, attentiontosubtledetail,senseoftime andplaceareentirelyabsent.There’s nothingherethatDanHarmon’sCommunitydoesn’tdofaster,funnierandwith farmoreintelligenceeveryThursday night.98min.NN(NW) Canada Square, Kingsway Theatre LiFe iN a day(Kevin Macdonald)emerges fromover4,500hoursoffootageshotby hundredsofpeoplearoundtheworldona singleday.Greatidea,butwhat’sthe point?OscarwinnerMacdonald(OneDay InSeptember)doesn’tseemtohaveone. Atfirstthefilmlookslikeitwillcompare waking,eating,working,sleepingand everythinginbetween.Butthenitturns intobirth,growingup,marriage,babies, deathandeverythinginbetween.There aremanydetours.Someofthem,likethe sectionwherepeopleareaskedwhat’sin theirpockets,oranotherthatasksabout personalfears,wouldmakeexcellent shortsbutfeeloutofplacehere.There’sa dynamitesequencefeaturingthestampedeatDuisburg,Germany’sLoveParade, butitonlymakesyouwishformorenews oftheday.Intheend,Macdonaldcan’t findhisstory.90min.NN(SGC) Yonge & Dundas 24 LiFe, above aLL(Oliver Schmitz)tracks Chanda,ateencaringforhermother, who’sdyingofAIDSinaSouthAfrican town.Greatperformancesgivethisdrama astrongemotionalcharge.Subtitled.102 min.NNN(SGC) Regent Theatre MidNight iN Paris(Woody Allen)casts

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Wyatt)demonstrateshowperfecttheoriginalPlanetOfTheApeswasasColdWar cinema,andwhyamodernrebootisunnecessary.Thedopeynewstoryfollowsa geniusAlzheimer’sresearcher(James Franco)whowindsupraisingsuper-intelligentchimpCaesar(performedthoughthe magicofmotioncapturebyKingKong’s AndySerkis),who’llgrowuptoleada rebellionofsimilarlyenhancedprimates. WritersRickJaffaandAmandaSilver clearlyspentmoretimesqueezinginnods tothepreviousApesfilmsthantheydid establishingclearmotivationsforCaesar’s actions,orthereasonsbehindthesimian rebellion.Stuffjusthappensbecausethe effectsguyshadagreatideaforashot. Butnoneofitisanchoredtoanythingthat makesanykindofsense,andifthere’sone thingamovieaboutarebellionofsuperintelligentapesdesperatelyneeds,it’s internallogic.105min.NN(NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Docks Lakeview Drive-In, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinema, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

themonotonousSelenaGomezasaTexan teenwhoimpersonatesaParisHilton-like socialite,landingherandherfriendsa dreamvacationinMonteCarlo’sfamous HoteldeParis.Althoughlooselybasedon anovel(JulesBass’sHeadhunters)that couldhavebecomeaclassicscrewball comedy,MonteCarloinsteadoffers generictweenfarewithzerolaughs,little charmandactorswhodon’tdomuch morethanmakecutefaces.109min.N (RS) Interchange 30, SilverCity Mississauga

Mr. PoPPer’s PeNguiNs(Mark Waters)is apositivelypleasantadaptationofRichardandFlorenceAtwater’sslender picturebookaboutaNewYorkerwho windsupwithhalfadozenflightless waterfowlinhisParkAvenuepenthouse. JimCarrey’ssceneswithhisalliteratively inclinedassistantPippi(OpheliaLovibond) borderonthejoyful.Thepenguinsarefun, too.94min.NNN(NW) Kingsway Theatre Page oNe: a year iNside the New yorK tiMes(Andrew Rossi)goesinsideAmer-

ica’smostprestigiousdaily,whereadvertisingrevenueistanking.Anewgenerationofnewshoundsgetsitsinformation online,andthefuturelooksdim.Unfortunately,there’sverylittlenewandexciting here,exceptforthepresenceofidiosyncraticmediawriterDavidCarr.88min.NN (SGC) Cumberland 4

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Depp’sCap’nJackSparrowsweptupinthe racetofindthefountainofyouth.Swords clash,barrelsroll,coalwagonsrainfireon cobblestonestreets,piratesswing throughaforestofcoconuttrees.It’sall verybusy,andthe3-Dmakeseverystunt looklikeabadlyprocessedvisualeffect evenwhenitisn’t.137min.NN(NW) Kennedy Commons 20

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(François Ozon)starsCatherineDeneuveasawomanwho,in thelate70s,comesintoherownwhenher reactionary,philanderinghusbandfallsill andshetakesoverthefamilyfactory.One biggobsmackingpleasure.Subtitled.103 min.NNNN(SGC) Carlton Cinema, Mt Pleasant

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thedirectoroftheOscar-winning ManOnAWirecomingupwithanother stranger-than-fictiontaleofNewYorkin the1970s,chartingtheodysseyofNim Chimpsky,achimpanzeeraisedamong humans–andtaughtsignlanguage–as partofaColumbiaUniversitylinguistics experiment.AsMarshreveals,itwasa ventureunderminedatalmosteveryturn bystunningarroganceandincompetence. Andthat’sjustthebeginningofthis astonishing,heart-wrenchingstory, recountedinoneoftheyear’sbest documentaries.99min.NNNNN(NW)

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the sMurFs iN 3d(Raja Gosnell)isadull andlargelyunfunnyattempttocapture thejoyofPeyo’scomicsandthe1980s animatedseries.Despitesomedecent3-D visuals,thefilmisactuallymoreofadrag whentheSmurfsareonscreen.NeilPatrickHarrisandJaymaMaysarewastedas put-uponparents-to-be,whohavetoprotectthepun-filledblueannoyancesfrom theevilwizardGargamel(HankAzaria). Azariagivestheonlyfunnyperformance inthefilm,actingastheonethingthat mightkeepwearyparentsawake.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 sNow FLower aNd the seCret FaN (Wayne Wang)celebratesthefriendships betweentwopairsofwomen:Snow FlowerandLilyin19thcenturyChinaand NinaandSophiaincontemporaryShanghai.Fromchildhoodonward,theirbond sustainsthemthroughvarioustrialsuntil theinevitablefalling-out.LiBingbingand GiannaJun,whoplaybothsetsoffriends, easilyholdourinterestdespitetheoverall subduedtone.102min.NNN(AD) Carlton Cinema, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20

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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

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30 MINUTES OR LESS (Ruben Fleischer) 82 min. See review, page 54. NNN (NW) Opens Aug 12 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale. TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON

(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, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale

ñTHE TREE OF LIFE

(Terrence Malick) perfects the intuitive approach to cinema Malick has been developing for nearly four decades, and it affected me more profoundly than any of his earlier films. It’s beautiful in its inelegance and confusion, embracing the awe of adolescence and the loss of innocence in the purest sense of those terms. It’s a rhapsody on the mystery of simply being alive. 138 min. NNNNN (NW) Cumberland 4, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, TIFF Bell Lightbox

ñTHE WHISTLEBLOWER NNNN

(Larysa Kondracki) 100 min. See interview and review, page 55. (RS) Opens Aug 12 at Grande - Yonge, Varsity.

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, Humber Cinema, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñX-MEN: FIRST CLASS

(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 ubtitles. NNNN (NW) 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 a watchful eye on his love life. Rosario Dawson turns up as a comely veterinarian who becomes part of his plan to win back his ex (Leslie Bibb). Dawson and James have one lovely scene that made me wish I were watching them in a proper movie. 104 min. N (NW) Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Humber Cinema, Kennedy Commons 20 3

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ñTHE TRIP

(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

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BRIDESMAIDS (14A) Thu 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:25, 7:10, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:40, 4:25, 7:10, 10:00 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG) 4:10, 6:55, 9:40 Sat-Sun 1:25 mat CARS 2 (G) Thu 4:05 6:45 9:15 Fri-Wed 4:15, 6:45, 9:15 Sat-Sun 1:10 mat COWBOYS & ALIENS 4:20, 7:25, 9:55 Sat-Sun 1:35 mat FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (14A) 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 Sat-Sun 2:15 mat HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A) 4:30, 7:05, 9:35 Sat-Sun 2:00 mat LARRY CROWNE (PG) Thu 4:25, 7:10, 9:30 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (PG) Thu 4:45, 7:20, 9:40 Fri, MonWed 4:40, 7:00, 9:20 Sat-Sun 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:20 SUPER 8 (PG) Thu 4:20, 6:55, 9:35 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON (PG) Thu 4:50, 8:00 WINNIE THE POOH (G) Thu 4:00 6:50 8:45 Fri-Wed 4:00, 6:50, 9:00 Sat-Sun 1:00 mat ZOOKEEPER (G) Thu 4:40, 7:05, 9:25

MT PLEASANT (I)

675 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-489-8484 JANE EYRE (PG) Fri, Tue 7:00 Sat 9:15 Sun 4:15 POTICHE (14A) Thu, Sat-Sun, Wed 7:00 Fri 9:30

REGENT THEATRE (I) 551 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-480-9884

IN A BETTER WORLD Fri-Sat, Tue 7:00 Sun 4:30 LIFE, ABOVE ALL Thu 7:00 WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (PG) Fri-Sat 9:15 Sun, Wed 7:00

SILVERCITY YONGE (CE) 2300 YONGE ST, 416-544-1236

30 MINUTES OR LESS (14A) Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:40, 7:00, 9:20

3030 BLOOR ST W, 416-232-1939

BEGINNERS (14A) Thu 5:00 Fri-Wed 3:00 KUNG FU PANDA 2 (PG) Thu 1:10 LARRY CROWNE (PG) Thu 2:45 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (PG) Fri-Wed 1:20, 7:30 MR. POPPER’S PENGUINS (G) 11:30 THE TREE OF LIFE (PG) Thu 7:00 Fri-Wed 5:00 X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (PG) Thu 9:25 Fri-Wed 9:15

QUEENSWAY (CE)

1025 THE QUEENSWAY, QEW & ISLINGTON, 416-503-0424 30 MINUTES OR LESS (14A) Fri-Wed 2:10, 4:20, 6:30, 8:40, 10:50 ATTACK THE BLOCK (14A) Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:10, 5:25, 7:50, 10:10 BAD TEACHER (14A) Thu 10:20 BRIDESMAIDS (14A) Thu 12:45, 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG) Thu 6:30, 9:40 Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed 9:30 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER 3D (PG) Thu 1:20 4:25 7:30 10:30 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:25, 7:35, 10:30 CARS 2 (G) Thu 1:00, 3:45 THE CHANGE-UP (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:10, 8:00, 10:45 Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:30, 7:30, 10:25 COWBOYS & ALIENS Thu 1:30, 2:15, 4:15, 5:00, 7:15, 7:55, 10:15, 11:00 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:00, 6:55, 9:45 CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (PG) Thu 12:55 3:55 7:05 10:05 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:10, 10:05 FINAL DESTINATION 5 3D Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:30, 6:00, 8:30, 10:55 FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (14A) Thu 12:10, 2:40, 5:20, 8:05, 10:55 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:10, 7:20, 10:15 GLEE THE 3D CONCERT MOVIE Fri-Wed 12:05, 2:30, 4:45, 7:05, 9:20 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (PG) Thu 12:00, 3:10, 6:20, 9:30 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:40, 6:45, 9:50 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2: 3D (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:40

THE HELP (PG) Thu 12:05, 3:30, 6:50, 10:25 Fri-Tue 12:10, 3:25, 6:50, 10:10 Wed 4:05, 7:25, 10:35 HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A) Thu 12:30, 2:55, 5:45, 8:20, 10:40 Fri-Wed 12:15, 2:50, 5:20, 8:10, 10:45 M*A*S*H Wed 7:00 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (PG) Thu 6:40, 9:15 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) Thu 12:25 2:10 3:00 4:40 5:40 7:10 8:15 9:55 10:50 Fri-Wed 12:20, 2:00, 3:00, 4:35, 5:40, 7:15, 8:20, 10:00, 11:00 THE SMURFS 3D (G) Thu 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:05, 5:30, 8:00, 10:20 THE SMURFS (G) Thu 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45 Fri-Sat, MonTue 12:00, 2:20, 4:40, 7:00 Sun, Wed 12:00, 2:20, 4:40 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON (PG) Fri-Wed 12:00, 3:15, 6:40, 10:00 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D (PG) Thu 12:35, 4:10, 7:40, 11:00 WINNIE THE POOH (G) Thu 12:20, 2:25, 4:30 WWE: SUMMERSLAM 2011 Sun 8:00

RAINBOW WOODBINE (I)

WOODBINE CENTRE, 500 REXDALE BLVD, 416-213-1998 30 MINUTES OR LESS (14A) Fri-Wed 1:15, 3:50, 6:50, 9:25 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG) 12:55, 3:55, 6:55, 9:40 THE CHANGE-UP (14A) 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 FINAL DESTINATION 5 3D Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:45 FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:00, 6:50, 9:25 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2: 3D (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:50, 6:45, 9:45 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) 12:45, 3:40, 7:10, 9:30 THE SMURFS (G) 12:35, 2:50, 5:05, 7:20, 9:35

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

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

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

30 MINUTES OR LESS (14A) 1:00, 2:10, 3:10, 4:50, 5:20, 7:00, 8:00, 9:20, 10:05 Fri-Sat 11:15, 11:55 late BRIDESMAIDS (14A) Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed 7:50, 10:30 Sun 5:25 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:40, 7:30, 9:25, 10:45 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:45, 7:30, 10:20 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER 3D (PG) Thu 4:30, 10:10 COWBOYS & ALIENS Thu 1:30, 2:10, 4:15, 5:10, 8:00, 9:50, 10:35 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:10, 6:50, 9:50 CRIME Thu 1:05, 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 THE DEVIL’S DOUBLE (18A) 1:50, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 Fri-Sat 11:59 late HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:50, 6:30, 7:50, 10:40 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2: 3D (PG) Thu 1:10, 7:10 Fri-Sat 1:10, 4:20, 7:20, 10:15, 11:50 SunWed 1:10, 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) Thu 1:20, 2:20, 4:00, 5:00, 6:50, 7:40, 9:30, 10:30 Fri-Sat 1:15, 2:00, 4:00, 5:00, 6:40, 7:40, 9:30, 10:10, 11:55 Sun-Wed 1:15, 2:00, continued on page 64 œ

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

30 MINUTES OR LESS (14A) Fri-Sat 12:20, 1:50, 2:40, 4:00, 5:00, 6:40, 7:30, 9:10, 10:15 Sun-Wed 12:20, 1:50, 2:40, 4:00, 5:00, 6:40, 7:30, 9:10, 10:00 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG) Thu 12:20, 3:20, 6:10, 9:10 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER 3D (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:20, 7:15, 10:15 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 THE CHANGE-UP (14A) Thu 1:00, 1:40, 4:00, 4:40, 6:50,

NOW

AUGUST 11-17 2011

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4:00, 5:00, 6:40, 7:40, 9:30, 10:10 The SmurfS 3D (G) Thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:15, 9:40 Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:05, 9:35 The SmurfS (G) Thu 1:15, 4:10 Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed 3:00, 5:30 Sun 3:00 WWe: SummerSlam 2011 Sun 8:00

Grande - YonGe (Ce) 4861 YonGe ST, 416-590-9974

aarakShan Fri-Wed 1:00, 5:00, 9:00 BriDeSmaiDS (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:10, 7:20, 10:15 Cave of forgoTTen DreamS (G) Thu 1:10, 4:00, 6:50, 10:00 The Change-up (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:20 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:15, 7:10, 10:25 Crazy, STupiD, love. (PG) 1:20, 4:15, 7:10, 10:25 final DeSTinaTion 5 3D Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:40, 7:30, 10:30 frienDS WiTh BenefiTS (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:40, 7:50, 10:30 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:00, 6:50, 10:00 glee The 3D ConCerT movie Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:10, 7:20, 10:15 The help (PG) 12:00, 3:15, 6:30, 9:45 horriBle BoSSeS (14A) 2:20, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 miDnighT in pariS (PG) Thu 1:40 4:20 7:00 9:50 Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:20, 7:15, 9:50 SnoW floWer anD The SeCreT fan (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 The Trip Thu 12:40, 3:30, 6:20, 9:20 The WhiSTleBloWer Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:30, 6:20, 9:20

SilverCiTY FairvieW (Ce)

FairvieW Mall, 1800 Sheppard ave e, 416-644-7746 30 minuTeS or leSS (14A) Fri-Sun, Tue 1:20, 4:15, 7:20, 10:00 Mon 1:20, 4:15, 7:20, 9:45 Wed 4:15, 7:20, 9:45 CapTain ameriCa: The firST avenger (PG) Fri-Sun, Tue 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 10:10 Mon 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 10:00 Wed 12:50, 4:00, 10:00 CapTain ameriCa: The firST avenger 3D (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:50, 7:00, 10:20 The Change-up (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Fri-Sun, Tue 1:00, 3:45, 6:50, 9:50 Mon 1:00, 3:45, 6:50, 9:30 Wed 1:10, 3:45, 6:40, 9:15 CoWBoyS & alienS Thu 12:40, 3:40, 6:30, 9:30 Fri-Sun, Tue 9:30 Mon 9:20 Wed 9:25 final DeSTinaTion 5 3D Fri-Sun, Tue 1:30, 4:50, 7:40, 10:20 Mon, Wed 1:30, 4:50, 7:40, 10:10 frienDS WiTh BenefiTS (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:10, 6:40, 9:40 Fri-Tue 12:35, 3:30, 6:40 Wed 12:35, 3:30, 6:50 glee The 3D ConCerT movie Fri-Sun, Tue 12:10, 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:20 Mon 12:10, 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:15 Wed 12:10, 2:20, 4:40, 7:10, 9:30 harry poTTer anD The DeaThly halloWS: parT 2: 3D (PG) Thu 12:25 3:20 6:20 9:20 Fri-Wed 12:20, 3:20, 6:30, 9:40 horriBle BoSSeS (14A) Thu 1:55, 4:20, 7:40, 10:30 m*a*S*h Wed 7:00 riSe of The planeT of The apeS (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 Fri-Sun, Tue 1:10, 4:30, 7:50, 10:30 Mon 1:10, 4:30, 7:50, 10:20 Wed 1:20, 4:30, 7:50, 10:20 The SmurfS 3D (G) Thu 12:05 2:30 5:00 7:30 9:55 FriWed 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 TranSformerS: Dark of The moon 3D (PG) Thu 12:15, 3:30, 6:50, 10:10 Winnie The pooh (G) Thu 12:00

SilverCiTY Yorkdale (Ce) 3401 duFFerin ST, 416-787-4432

30 minuTeS or leSS (14A) Fri-Wed 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:45, 10:10 CapTain ameriCa: The firST avenger 3D (PG) Thu 12:40 3:50 7:00 10:10 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 The Change-up (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 9:45 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:10, 10:00 CoWBoyS & alienS Thu 1:20, 4:15, 7:20, 10:30 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:20 Crazy, STupiD, love. (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 final DeSTinaTion 5 3D Fri-Wed 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:50, 10:30 frienDS WiTh BenefiTS (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 Fri-Wed 10:15 glee The 3D ConCerT movie Fri-Wed 12:10, 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:20 harry poTTer anD The DeaThly halloWS: parT 2 (PG) Fri-Wed 12:20, 3:20, 6:30 harry poTTer anD The DeaThly halloWS: parT 2: 3D

august 11-17 2011 NOW

(PG) Thu 12:10, 3:15, 6:20, 9:30 horriBle BoSSeS (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 FriWed 9:30 riSe of The planeT of The apeS (PG) Thu 1:40 4:45 7:40 10:20 Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:20 The SmurfS 3D (G) Thu 12:00 2:30 5:00 7:30 10:00 FriWed 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 TranSformerS: Dark of The moon 3D (PG) Thu 2:15, 6:10, 10:15 Winnie The pooh (G) Thu 12:05

Scarborough 401 & MorninGSide (Ce) 785 Milner ave, SCarborouGh, 416-281-2226

30 minuTeS or leSS (14A) Fri-Wed 2:30, 5:00, 7:15, 9:40 CapTain ameriCa: The firST avenger (PG) Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:20, 6:20, 9:00 CapTain ameriCa: The firST avenger 3D (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:30, 6:55, 9:50 The Change-up (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:45, 7:05, 10:00 Fri-Tue 2:15, 5:10, 8:00, 10:30 Wed 2:15, 5:10, 7:55, 10:20 CoWBoyS & alienS Thu 1:30, 4:40, 7:40, 10:25 Fri-Tue 1:45, 4:50, 7:40, 10:25 Wed 1:45, 4:50, 7:40, 10:15 Crazy, STupiD, love. (PG) Thu 12:30 3:10 6:20 9:15 FriWed 12:30, 3:10, 6:10, 8:50 final DeSTinaTion 5 3D Fri-Tue 2:00, 4:40, 7:50, 10:20 Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:50, 10:15 frienDS WiTh BenefiTS (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:50, 7:50, 10:35 glee The 3D ConCerT movie Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:15, 6:55, 9:25 harry poTTer anD The DeaThly halloWS: parT 2 (PG) Fri-Wed 12:50, 4:00, 7:05, 10:00 harry poTTer anD The DeaThly halloWS: parT 2: 3D (PG) Thu 12:50, 4:15, 7:15, 10:10 The help (PG) Thu 12:15, 3:20, 6:30, 9:45 Fri-Wed 12:20, 3:30, 6:45, 9:50 horriBle BoSSeS (14A) Thu 2:15, 5:00, 8:00, 10:30 riSe of The planeT of The apeS (PG) Thu 1:45 4:30 7:25 10:20 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:10 The SmurfS 3D (G) Thu 1:15 4:00 6:45 9:25 Fri-Wed 1:15, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15 TranSformerS: Dark of The moon (PG) Thu 2:45, 6:10, 9:35

ColiSeuM SCarborouGh (Ce) SCarborouGh ToWn CenTre, 416-290-5217

30 minuTeS or leSS (14A) Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:00 CapTain ameriCa: The firST avenger 3D (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Fri-Wed 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 The Change-up (14A) Thu 12:45 3:45 6:55 9:45 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:45, 6:40, 9:45 CoWBoyS & alienS Thu 12:40, 1:10, 3:40, 4:10, 6:40, 7:10, 9:40, 10:10 Fri-Wed 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 10:25 Crazy, STupiD, love. (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 FriWed 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Deiva Thirumagal (PG) Thu-Sat, Mon-Wed 2:00, 6:05, 9:55 Sun 2:00, 6:05 final DeSTinaTion 5 3D Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 frienDS WiTh BenefiTS (14A) Thu 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:50 glee The 3D ConCerT movie Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 riSe of The planeT of The apeS (PG) Thu 1:00 1:30 4:00 4:30 7:00 7:30 10:00 10:30 Fri-Wed 12:50, 1:30, 3:50, 4:30, 6:50, 7:30, 9:50, 10:30 The SmurfS 3D (G) Thu 12:55 3:55 6:50 9:30 Fri-Wed 12:55, 3:55, 6:45, 9:30 The SmurfS (G) Thu 12:20, 3:20, 6:10, 9:00 TranSformerS: Dark of The moon (PG) Fri-Sat, MonWed 12:30, 3:40, 6:55, 10:15 Sun 12:30, 3:40, 10:15 TranSformerS: Dark of The moon 3D (PG) Thu 12:15, 3:25, 6:45, 10:05 WWe: SummerSlam 2011 Sun 8:00

eGlinTon ToWn CenTre (Ce) 1901 eGlinTon ave e, 416-752-4494

30 minuTeS or leSS (14A) Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:00, 5:15, 8:10, 10:45 aTTaCk The BloCk (14A) Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 8:15, 10:40 CapTain ameriCa: The firST avenger (PG) Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:25 CapTain ameriCa: The firST avenger 3D (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 10:25 CarS 2 (G) Thu 1:45, 4:45, 7:25, 10:15 The Change-up (14A) Thu 2:00 4:40 7:40 10:40 Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:40, 7:45, 10:30 CoWBoyS & alienS Thu 12:20, 1:10, 3:15, 4:10, 6:10, 7:35, 9:10, 10:35 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:00, 9:45 Crazy, STupiD, love. (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:50, 9:50 Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:50, 6:45, 9:40 final DeSTinaTion 5 3D Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:45, 7:15, 9:50 frienDS WiTh BenefiTS (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:50, 7:45, 10:45 Fri-Wed 6:40, 9:20 glee The 3D ConCerT movie Fri-Wed 12:10, 2:40, 5:20, 7:40, 10:15

harry poTTer anD The DeaThly halloWS: parT 2 (PG) Thu 3:10, 6:20, 9:30 Fri-Wed 2:20, 5:10, 8:00 harry poTTer anD The DeaThly halloWS: parT 2: 3D (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Fri-Wed 12:15, 3:20, 6:30, 9:30 The help (PG) Thu 12:15, 3:35, 7:05, 10:15 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 horriBle BoSSeS (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:15, 6:45, 9:40 Fri-Sat, Mon-Tue 2:10, 4:50, 7:50, 10:20 Sun 2:10, 4:50 Wed 2:10, 4:50, 10:20 m*a*S*h Wed 7:00 riSe of The planeT of The apeS (PG) Thu 12:40 1:40 3:30 4:30 6:15 7:15 9:20 10:20 Fri-Wed 12:45, 1:30, 3:30, 4:20, 6:20, 7:10, 9:10, 10:10 The SmurfS 3D (G) Thu 12:00 2:30 5:00 7:30 10:00 FriWed 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 The SmurfS (G) Thu 1:00, 3:40, 6:30, 9:15 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:00 TranSformerS: Dark of The moon 3D (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:45, 7:10, 10:30 Winnie The pooh (G) Thu 12:10 Fri-Wed 12:20 WWe: SummerSlam 2011 Sun 8:00

kennedY CoMMonS 20 (aMC) kennedY rd & 401, 416-335-5323

BaD TeaCher (14A) Thu 5:55, 8:05, 10:25 BeaTS, rhymeS & life: The TravelS of a TriBe CalleD QueST (14A) Thu 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:15 BriDeSmaiDS (14A) 1:55, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Fri-Sun 10:55 mat CarS 2 3D (G) Thu 2:00, 4:30 Fri-Sun 11:25, 2:00, 4:30, 6:55, 9:35 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:30, 6:55, 9:35 Cave of forgoTTen DreamS (G) 2:25, 4:45, 7:05, 9:25 Fri-Sun 11:55 mat The Devil’S DouBle (18A) 1:45, 4:15, 7:15, 10:00 Fri 11:00 mat frienDS WiTh BenefiTS (14A) 1:50, 4:15, 7:05, 9:45 FriSun 11:20 mat harry poTTer anD The DeaThly halloWS: parT 2 (PG) Thu 1:45, 3:00, 4:45, 6:00, 7:45, 9:00, 10:45 Fri-Sun 12:00, 3:00, 6:05, 9:00 Mon-Wed 3:00, 6:05, 9:00 harry poTTer anD The DeaThly halloWS: parT 2: 3D (PG) Thu 12:35, 2:20, 3:35, 5:20, 6:35, 7:10, 8:20, 9:35, 10:10 Fri-Sun 11:20, 12:35, 2:20, 3:45, 5:20, 7:10, 8:20, 10:10 Mon-Wed 12:35, 2:20, 3:45, 5:20, 7:10, 8:20, 10:10 The help (PG) 12:30, 2:30, 3:45, 5:45, 7:00, 9:00, 10:15 Fri-Sun 11:15 mat horriBle BoSSeS (14A) Thu, Mon-Tue 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 7:50, 10:15 Fri-Sun 10:30, 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 7:50, 10:15 Wed 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 7:50 miDnighT in pariS (PG) 1:50, 4:05, 7:00, 9:20 Fri-Sun 11:35 mat piraTeS of The CariBBean: on STranger TiDeS (PG) 2:10, 5:20, 8:30 Fri-Sun 11:10 mat reServaTion 2:45, 6:00, 9:30 Fri-Sun 11:30 mat roWThiram 2:45, 6:00, 9:30 Fri-Sun 11:30 mat Singham (PG) Thu 2:05, 5:25, 9:00 SnoW floWer anD The SeCreT fan (PG) Thu, Mon-Tue 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05 Fri-Sun 10:50, 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05 Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:20 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 Fri-Sun 11:05 mat X-men: firST ClaSS (PG) 1:40, 4:35, 7:40, 10:35 Fri-Sun 10:45 mat zinDagi na milegi DoBara (PG) 2:20, 5:45, 9:15 Fri-Sun 11:00 mat zookeeper (G) Thu 1:15, 3:35

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30 minuTeS or leSS (14A) 12:20, 1:30, 3:00, 4:10, 6:30, 7:20, 9:10, 10:00 Wed no 1:30 CapTain ameriCa: The firST avenger (PG) Thu 12:10, 3:10, 6:20, 9:30 Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed 9:20 CapTain ameriCa: The firST avenger 3D (PG) Thu 1:20 4:40 7:40 10:45 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:40, 7:35, 10:30 CoWBoyS & alienS Thu 12:25, 1:30, 3:25, 4:30, 6:35, 7:30, 9:50, 10:25 Fri-Wed 12:25, 3:20, 7:10, 10:10 final DeSTinaTion 5 3D Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:20, 7:40, 10:15 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 12:00, 3:00, 6:10, 9:20 Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:30, 8:00 harry poTTer anD The DeaThly halloWS: parT 2: 3D (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:10, 7:30, 10:30 m*a*S*h Wed 7:00 riSe of The planeT of The apeS (PG) Thu 12:50 1:40 3:50 4:45 7:00 7:45 9:40 10:35 Fri-Wed 12:50, 1:50, 4:00,

4:50, 6:50, 7:45, 9:30, 10:25 The SmurfS 3D (G) Thu 12:00 2:30 5:00 7:35 10:10 FriWed 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 The SmurfS (G) Thu 1:10, 4:00, 6:40 Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed 1:10, 3:50, 6:40 Sun 1:10, 3:50 TranSformerS: Dark of The moon (PG) Thu 9:15 Wed 12:10, 3:40, 10:20 TranSformerS: Dark of The moon 3D (PG) Thu 12:15, 3:45, 7:10, 10:40 Fri-Tue 12:10, 3:40, 7:00, 10:20 WWe: SummerSlam 2011 Sun 8:00 zookeeper (G) Thu 12:45, 3:40, 6:30, 9:10 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:30, 6:20, 9:00

CourTneY park 16 (aMC)

110 CourTneY park e aT huronTario, 888-262-4386 30 minuTeS or leSS (14A) Fri-Wed 11:50, 2:05, 4:30, 6:30, 8:30, 10:50 CapTain ameriCa: The firST avenger (PG) Thu 11:45, 2:30, 5:30, 8:30 Fri-Wed 5:00, 8:00, 11:00 CapTain ameriCa: The firST avenger 3D (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:40 Fri-Sun 11:00, 1:40, 4:25, 7:15, 10:20 Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:25, 7:15, 10:20 The Change-up (14A) 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 Fri-Sun 11:35, 2:25, 5:10, 8:00, 10:50 Mon-Wed 2:25, 5:10, 8:00, 10:50 Crazy, STupiD, love. (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:50, 8:00, 10:55 Fri-Sun 11:15, 2:00, 4:50, 7:50, 10:55 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:50, 7:50, 10:55 final DeSTinaTion 5 1:15, 3:20, 5:30, 7:35, 9:45 Fri-Sun 11:05 mat final DeSTinaTion 5 3D Fri-Wed 11:45, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00 final DeSTinaTion 5: an imaX 3D eXperienCe 9:00 Fri-Sat 11:15 late frienDS WiTh BenefiTS (14A) Thu 11:45 2:35 5:25 8:00 10:30 Fri-Wed 11:45, 2:35, 5:25, 7:55, 10:30 glee The 3D ConCerT movie 1:15, 3:20, 5:30, 7:35, 9:45 Fri-Sun 11:05 mat harry poTTer anD The DeaThly halloWS - parT 2: an imaX 3D eXperienCe (PG) Thu 11:30, 2:30, 5:25, 8:25 Fri-Wed 11:50, 3:00, 6:00 harry poTTer anD The DeaThly halloWS: parT 2 (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 harry poTTer anD The DeaThly halloWS: parT 2: 3D (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:45, 7:40, 10:45 Fri-Wed 9:15 The help (PG) Thu 1:00 4:10 7:25 10:40 Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:10, 7:30, 10:45 horriBle BoSSeS (14A) Thu 11:30, 2:05, 4:55, 7:45, 10:25 Fri-Sun 11:20, 2:10, 4:55, 7:45, 10:25 Mon-Wed 2:10, 4:55, 7:45, 10:25 riSe of The planeT of The apeS (PG) Thu 11:35, 12:15, 2:05, 2:45, 4:55, 5:30, 7:30, 8:15, 10:10, 11:00 Fri-Sun 11:25, 12:15, 2:15, 2:45, 4:55, 5:30, 7:30, 8:15, 10:10, 11:00 MonWed 12:15, 2:15, 2:45, 4:55, 5:30, 7:30, 8:15, 10:10, 11:00 The SmurfS 3D (G) Thu 1:15, 3:40, 6:00, 8:25, 10:50 FriSat 11:00, 1:25, 3:50, 6:15, 8:40, 11:05 Sun 11:00, 1:25, 3:50, 6:15, 8:40, 10:55 Mon-Wed 1:25, 3:50, 6:15, 8:40, 10:55 The SmurfS (G) 2:30 Fri-Sun 11:30 mat TranSformerS: Dark of The moon 3D (PG) Thu 11:50, 3:20, 7:00, 10:35

SilverCiTY MiSSiSSauGa (Ce) hWY 5, eaST oF hWY 403, 905-569-3373

BriDeSmaiDS (14A) Thu 6:40, 9:40 Fri-Sun 6:40, 9:30 CapTain ameriCa: The firST avenger (PG) Fri-Sun 9:15 CapTain ameriCa: The firST avenger 3D (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 9:30, 10:20 Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:20, 10:20 CarS 2 3D (G) Thu 1:00, 3:50, 6:45 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:40, 6:20, 9:00 The Change-up (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 Crazy, STupiD, love. (PG) Thu 1:20 4:10 7:00 10:10 FriWed 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:45 final DeSTinaTion 5 3D Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:30, 7:50, 10:30 The help (PG) 12:15, 3:30, 6:50, 10:15 horriBle BoSSeS (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 FriWed 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:10 monTe Carlo (G) Thu 12:45, 3:40, 6:20, 9:00 The SmurfS 3D (G) Thu 12:00 2:30 5:00 7:30 10:00 FriWed 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 The SmurfS (G) Thu 1:10, 4:00, 6:30, 9:10 Fri-Sun 1:10, 3:50, 6:30 Winnie The pooh (G) Thu-Sun 12:30, 2:45, 4:40

north ColoSSuS (Ce) hWY 400 & 7, 905-851-1001

30 minuTeS or leSS (14A) Fri-Wed 12:00, 12:45, 2:20, 3:45, 4:50, 6:50, 7:35, 9:40, 10:20 aTTaCk The BloCk (14A) Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:15, 7:15, 9:50 BaD TeaCher (14A) 10:05 Thu 1:45 mat, 4:35, 7:05 BriDeSmaiDS (14A) Thu 12:05 3:00 6:05 9:30 Fri-Wed 12:20, 3:15, 6:30, 9:30

CapTain ameriCa: The firST avenger (PG) Thu 12:15 3:15 6:15 9:15 Fri-Wed 12:10, 3:10, 6:10, 9:15 CapTain ameriCa: The firST avenger 3D (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 CarS 2 (G) Thu 12:35 3:35 6:35 9:35 Fri-Wed 12:35, 3:35, 6:40, 9:25 CoWBoyS & alienS Thu 12:45, 1:20, 3:45, 4:20, 6:50, 7:25, 9:50, 10:20 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:05, 10:15 frienDS WiTh BenefiTS (14A) Thu 12:40, 1:30, 3:40, 4:30, 6:40, 7:35, 9:40, 10:30 Fri-Wed 12:40, 4:30, 7:45, 10:30 glee The 3D ConCerT movie Fri-Wed 12:15, 2:50, 5:20, 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 12:20, 3:25, 6:20, 9:20 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:25, 7:20, 10:20 harry poTTer anD The DeaThly halloWS: parT 2: 3D (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 horriBle BoSSeS (14A) Thu 1:45 4:45 7:45 10:25 Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:45, 7:50, 10:25 riSe of The planeT of The apeS (PG) 1:00, 1:40, 4:00, 4:40, 7:00, 7:40, 10:00, 10:40 The SmurfS 3D (G) Thu-Sat, Mon-Wed 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 Sun 12:00, 2:30, 5:00 The SmurfS (G) Thu 12:50 3:20 6:00 8:40 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:20, 6:15, 9:00 TranSformerS: Dark of The moon 3D (PG) Thu 12:25 3:55 7:20 10:45 Fri-Wed 12:25, 3:55, 7:25, 10:45 WWe: SummerSlam 2011 Sun 8:00 zookeeper (G) Thu 12:10, 3:10, 6:10, 9:10 Fri-Wed 12:05, 3:00, 6:20

inTerChanGe 30 (aMC)

30 inTerChanGe WaY, hWY 400 & hWY 7, 416-335-5323 The Change-up (14A) Thu 2:15, 3:30, 4:15, 5:00, 6:15, 7:00, 7:45, 8:15, 9:00, 9:45, 10:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:15, 4:20, 4:50, 6:00, 7:30, 8:45, 9:30, 10:15 Sat-Sun 11:30, 12:25, 1:55, 3:15, 4:20, 4:50, 6:00, 7:30, 8:45, 9:30, 10:15 Crazy, STupiD, love. (PG) Thu 3:40, 4:30, 6:30, 7:20, 9:20, 10:10 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:05, 6:55, 7:35, 9:50, 10:25 Sat-Sun 1:15, 4:05, 6:55, 7:35, 9:50, 10:25 final DeSTinaTion 5 3:00, 4:00, 5:30, 6:30, 8:00, 9:00, 10:30 Sat-Sun 12:30, 1:30 mat final DeSTinaTion 5 3D 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 Sat-Sun 11:45 mat The hangover parT ii (18A) Thu 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 The help (PG) Thu 3:25, 4:30, 6:35, 8:00, 9:55 Fri, MonWed 2:50, 3:40, 6:10, 7:00, 9:35, 10:20 Sat-Sun 11:35, 12:20, 2:50, 3:40, 6:10, 7:00, 9:35, 10:20 kung fu panDa 2 3D (PG) Thu 2:05, 4:35, 7:05, 9:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:35, 9:15 Sat-Sun 11:55, 4:35, 9:15 miDnighT in pariS (PG) Thu 2:25, 4:50, 7:10, 9:35 FriWed 2:10, 7:10 monTe Carlo (G) Thu 2:10, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:05, 4:55 Sat-Sun 11:30, 2:05, 4:55 reServaTion Fri-Wed 2:45, 6:15, 9:40 roWThiram Fri-Wed 2:30, 6:05, 9:40 Winnie The pooh (G) Thu 2:00, 4:10, 6:10 Fri-Wed 2:25, 7:05 X-men: firST ClaSS (PG) Thu 3:45, 6:50, 10:00

rainboW proMenade (i)

proMenade Mall, hWY 7 & baThurST, 905-764-3247 30 minuTeS or leSS (14A) Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:05, 5:15, 7:20, 9:35 CoWBoyS & alienS Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:10, 9:35 Crazy, STupiD, love. (PG) Thu 1:10 4:05 7:00 9:30 FriWed 1:10, 4:05, 7:00, 9:20 final DeSTinaTion 5 3D Fri-Wed 12:55, 3:00, 5:10, 7:15, 9:40 frienDS WiTh BenefiTS (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:10, 6:55, 9:15 The help (PG) Thu-Sun, Tue-Wed 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:30 Mon 3:45, 6:45, 9:30 riSe of The planeT of The apeS (PG) 1:25, 4:20, 7:05, 9:25 The SmurfS (G) Thu 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:30 Fri-Wed 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:10, 9:10

West Grande - STeeleS (Ce) hWY 410 & STeeleS, 905-455-1590

30 minuTeS or leSS (14A) Fri 5:25, 7:50, 10:05 Sat-Sun 12:45, 3:00, 5:25, 7:50, 10:05 Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:05, 9:40 CapTain ameriCa: The firST avenger (PG) 4:00, 6:55, 9:50 Sat-Sun 1:00 mat CapTain ameriCa: The firST avenger 3D (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 10:15 The Change-up (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:10, 7:00, 10:00 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:15, 7:00, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 10:00 CoWBoyS & alienS Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:40, 10:30 Fri-Sun 9:40 Mon-Wed 9:35 Crazy, STupiD, love. (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:40 Sat-Sun 1:10, 3:50, 6:40 final DeSTinaTion 5 3D 5:10, 7:40, 10:15 Sat-Sun 12:10, 2:35 mat frienDS WiTh BenefiTS (14A) Thu 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:30 glee The 3D ConCerT movie Fri 4:55, 7:10, 9:35 Sat-Sun 12:35, 2:40, 4:55, 7:10, 9:35 Mon-Wed 4:55, 7:10, 9:25 harry poTTer anD The DeaThly halloWS: parT 2 (PG) 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Sat-Sun 12:25 mat harry poTTer anD The DeaThly halloWS: parT 2: 3D (PG) Thu 12:10, 3:20, 10:20 The help (PG) Fri 3:35, 6:50, 10:15 Sat-Sun 12:20, 3:35, 6:50, 10:15 Mon-Wed 6:45, 10:05 horriBle BoSSeS (14A) Thu 12:20, 2:45, 5:15, 7:50, 10:20 riSe of The planeT of The apeS (PG) 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Thu, Sat-Sun 1:45 mat The SmurfS (G) 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 Thu, Sat-Sun 12:00, 2:30 mat TranSformerS: Dark of The moon (PG) Thu 2:00, 6:15, 9:45 3

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Ghost From The Machine (Alliance,

Rainn Wilson is totally Super.

Super (eOne, 2010) D: James Gunn, w/ Rainn Wilson, Ellen Page. Rating: NNN; Blu-ray package: NNN Tonally, Super, which played TIFF 2010 but never got a theatrical release up here, is all over the map. It skips blithely from wrenching pathos to tentacles doing brain surgery. Sixties Batmanstyle graphics coexist with brutal violence, and tragedy with farce. You’ll either love it or hate it. Either way, stick around for the ending, which doesn’t necessarily pull everything together but does offer a thematically terrific surprise. A fry cook (Rainn Wilson) snaps when his junkie wife (Liv Tyler) leaves him for a dope dealer (Kevin Bacon).

James Ellroy’s L.A.: City Of Demons

(eOne, 2011) w/ James Ellroy. Rating: NNN; DVD package: none If you already know James Ellroy’s writing – L.A. Confidential, White Jazz – then you’re familiar with the sex slaying of his mother when he was 10, which propelled him into writing crime novels and then, decades later, drove him to try solving the case. That ground is covered in Dead Women Own Me, the first of six truecrime hours hosted by Ellroy. The best of the other stories features a postwar battle involving gangster Mickey Cohen, corrupt cops, the city’s top madam and a phone-tapping pioneer. Hyped-up visuals add edge to archival footage, reconstructions and interviews, the usual true crime stuff. Ellroy stands on the locations and barks out short, alliterative phrases. Some of them sound like his work, others like a bad imitation. There’s no writing credit on the series, and no extras to clue us in. EXTRAS Widescreen. English audio, no subtitles.

Mars Needs Moms

(Disney, 2011) D: Simon Wells, w/ voices of Seth Green, Dan Fogler. Rating: NN; Blu-ray package: NNN

With red tights and blunt instrument in hand, he goes out to fight crime. Along the way, he picks up a demented sidekick (Ellen Page). Director James Gunn works with his low budget to create a raw look, and keeps the energy high. Excellent performances offset the clunky action. Wilson, Page, Tyler and Bacon all get great moments, and Michael Rooker, Andre Royo and Gregg Henry add flavour to supporting roles. On the commentary, Gunn and Wilson tell enthusiastic, jokey production stories and muse about the theme. EXTRAS Commentary, making-of doc, making-of titles doc. Widescreen. English, French audio. English subtitles. One of the Martians (voiced by Elisabeth Harnois) in Mars Needs Moms speaks a version of English she picked up from a sitcom about hippies. She’s the high point of a show that’s competent enough but offers little in the way of laughs, thrills or emotion. Nine-year-old Milo (Seth Green) gets trapped aboard the flying saucer that abducts his mother (the Martians want to download her brain to their nannybots), then races around trying to save her, aided by man-child Gribble (Dan Fogler) and Martian rebel Ki (Harnois). The action features numerous plunging and soaring shots. They’re clearly designed for 3-D and not very effective in 2-D. After a while, it feels like a giant Snakes And Ladders game with good background graphics. The motion capture system that brings live performances to animated characters works well enough, except for Milo, who looks like he’s got some odd form of progeria, minus the wrinkles. You can watch the mocap process while you listen to the commentary shared by Green, Fogler and director Simon Wells, but it’s a tiny insert. Without a giant screen, you’ll be squinting and not learning much. Green and Fogler are funny and highly articulate on the pros and cons of mocap acting. EXTRAS Commentary with mocap insert, Martian language doc, Green clowning on set footage, more. Widescreen. English, French audio. English, French, Spanish, Portuguese subtitles.

2010) D: Matt Osterman, w/ Sasha Andreev, Matthew Feeney. Rating: NNN; DVD package: NNN

Seventy years ago, the mad scientist slaving over a machine to bring back the dead would have been Boris Karloff in a storm-battered castle. Today it’s Sasha Andreev in a suburban garage. Newly orphaned and consumed by grief and guilt, 20ish Cody tinkers endlessly with a machine he is certain will bring back his parents. He has custody of his teen brother, but he’s too obsessed to take care of him. The child welfare authorities are closing in. Enter Cody’s parts supplier, Tom (Matthew Feeney), a 40ish widower tormented by a ghost of his own. Plain visuals and the absence of effects, shock cuts and gore make the film look almost amateurish, but restrained, naturalistic performances and believable dialogue lead to a quiet, sad horror in which the greatest impact comes from the human consequences rather than the eruption of the supernatural. The making-of doc zips by in a blink, but there’s some fun in the 15-minute exploration of a haunted movie house that Andreev, Feeney, director Matt Osterman and their producer undertake with a veteran ghost hunter. EXTRAS Making-of doc, ghost hunt. Widescreen. English audio. No subtitles.

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Jane Eyre (Alliance, 2011) Another version of Charlotte Brontë’s Gothic romance about a governess (Mia Wasikowska) in an isolated mansion with a frightening yet attractive older man (Michael Fassbender). Meet Monica Velour

(Anchor Bay, 2010) Kim Cattrall plays a faded porn star struggling to get by and befriended by an 18-year-old fan.

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do it on anyone else’s terms any more. I’m 41 now, dude. I know I’m much closer to the end than I am to the beginning – I’m not gonna live 82 fuckin’ years! I’m probably out by 60, 65 based on the way I live. I’ve done a stewardship of 40 years to everyone else in my life: I’m my mother’s son, my fuckin’ wife’s husband, my kids’ father, the audience’s fuckin’ director, whatever. And now I just wanna fuckin’ do whatever it is I wanna do. And I’m happy to do whatever it is other people wanna do as long as we can do it on my terms.

KEVIN SMITH Director, Red State

The Kevin Smith machine is coming to Toronto. The filmmaker, podcaster, cultural commentator and unofficial master of Twitter is taking over the Toronto Underground Cinema Monday night (August 15) for a sold-out screening of his latest feature, Red State. That’s the film that kicked up a controversy at Sundance earlier this year when Smith announced he’d rather release the movie himself than sell it to a distributor who wouldn’t know what to do with it. Smith’s been true to his word, holding Red State screenings across America on a kind of grassroots tour, accompanying the film himself and holding Q&As after each show. He declined to screen the film for media, so our conversation had to be about the marketing rather than the movie.

You’re personally bringing Red State to your fans, announcing screenings online and promoting the film through blogs, podcasts and Twitter. Is this the indie 2.0 you were talking about at Sundance? Yeah, the idea was just to kinda do it without spending money. That’s all indie 2.0 is: I don’t have Miramax [behind me] any more. So essentially, kinda go out and do it yourself. Between your presence on Twitter and the SModcast web network, you’ve established a direct line of communication to your fans. Or you’re establishing yourself as a cult leader. God, I hope so [laughing]. Nah, I can’t

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You’ve said your next movie, Hit Somebody, will be your last. What’s the pitch? I get to finish my entire career talking about one of my favourite subjects on the planet: Canada. It’s about hockey. [It’s like] I’m trying to write the great Canadian novel, and I think it’s arrogant cuz I’m an American, but sometimes you have to step outside the subject to see it a little better. So that’s what I’m working on with Hit Somebody. To me, it’s so fitting that my last flick is about hockey, but more specifically NORMAN WILNER about Canada.

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been in a relationship. I have had many crushes but never the courage to go ask anyone out. I dread rejection. Compounding this problem: I might be bisexual. I’m afraid to reveal this to anyone. Some girls might be okay with it at first, but they are likely to leave me later for fear that I could actually be gay – and those are the girls who would even consider dating a bisexual guy in the first place. I’ve wasted 23 years of my life because of my fear of being rejected – by everyone, including my conservative family. Any advice? Hopefully Not Hopeless Buck up, HNH. Most people don’t start dating until their late teens, HNH, so you haven’t wasted 23 years. You’ve wasted five or six years – eight on the outside. And your “wasted years” weren’t entirely wasted, were they? Presumably you were doing something more than pining away and jerking it between 15 and 23 – you were getting an education, seeing a movie now and then, having a decent meal once in a while, etc. Overcoming your paralyzing fear of rejection is something for which you may need the help of a therapist and a pharmacist. But you don’t have to be on meds to hear this: Rejection is a big and necessary part of romance. Getting a “yes” from someone we asked out, asked to peg us, asked to marry us, etc., wouldn’t be meaningful if we got a “yes” from

everyone we proposed marriage and/or pegging to, right? As for your bisexuality… Men – gay, straight, bi – tend to be huge sluts. So if you want to get a little experience, check your same-sex fantasies against same-sex realities and make your first moves on people who are less likely to reject you, you should hit on some horny, hard-up gay or bi dudes. You should also head to bisexual websites and online forums for insight, advice and support. A good place to start is binetusa.org. There are lots of bi folks out there who’ve come out to their conservative families, who’ve overcome their fear of being rejected for being bi and who know that bisexuality is something that can–if a person is open about it–attract the right kinds of partners, i.e., partners who view bisexuality as a plus. Talking with other bi folks will help. And finally, HNH, bisexual guys don’t have to settle for straight girls who don’t understand or gay dudes who can’t deal. There’s no law against bisexuals dating other bisexuals. (If another bisexual should dump you, however, you can’t blame your ex’s bi-phobia.) And your big reveal – ”I’m bisexual” – should you find yourself dating a straight girl? It could be worse…

In a couple of weeks I wIll be follow-

ing your advice and disclosing the full scope of my sexuality to my girlfriend. I am a 32-year-old male. We have been dating for two years. This is the happiest

I have ever been in a relationship. I want to marry her. She knows that I have a pantyhose fetish, and she wears nylons for me whenever I ask. She doesn’t know that I also love to wear pantyhose, and that when I do I have intense homoerotic fantasies. She doesn’t know that I also have a foot fetish and a cocksucking fetish, both directly associated with the pantyhose fetish. I intend to tell her everything. But how do I start? Bi Pantyhose Guy If you had followed my advice, BPG, your girlfriend would already know about your pantyhose/foot/cock fetishes. Your kinks aren’t first-date conversation topics – no one’s kinks are – but a woman has a right to know about kinks like yours, BPG, before she’s invested two years in a relationship with you. Start the conversation like this, BPG: “Honey, I’m a much kinkier boy than I’ve led you to believe.” Be upbeat, kink-positive and unapologetic – well, unapologetic about your kinks. You should be somewhat apologetic about waiting two long years to lay all your kink cards on the table. You should also avoid the phrase “cock fetishist” during this conversation, BPG. If you only have homoerotic fantasies during your solo pantyhose masturbateathons, you may be less into sucking cock and more into what sucking cock symbolizes during those pantyhose-charged moments: A dick in your mouth brings your feminization to a climax, er, cre-

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scendo, completing your transformation from straight/straight-identified guy to crossdressed, cock-hungry slut. For many men like you, BPG, a dick is a talismanic toy, not an identity-altering taste. But if you say “cock fetish,” your girlfriend is likely to hear “closeted cockhungry fag.” Better to tell her that when you’re wearing pantyhose, you get into fantasy role-play scenarios in which you assume the feminine role. She may not be ready to see you with a man – not right now, maybe not ever – but she could be up for seeing you on your knees, in pantyhose, sucking on the dildo she strapped on for your talismanic pleasure.

I recently told my gIrlfrIend of seven

months that I have a foot fetish. I had been trying to tell her for a few months, mostly by dropping subtle hints, but she didn’t pick up on it. Since I told her, she’s been asking me hypothetical questions like, “Would you put your thumb up my butt?” I quickly say, “Of course.” She comes back with, “Would you poop on me?” I’m a bit slower to answer that question, but I say, “Yes, if that’s something you wanted, I would do it.” Then she laughs and tells me, “Raise your standards.” I’m confused. Is she secretly into these things and afraid to tell me? (I know the fear one feels about revealing a sexual kink.) She’s brought it up more than once. A part of me is hoping there is something kinky she’s after, since it would most definitely free me up to go to town on her feet. Honestly Into Nasty Things Kink cards on the table at seven months. Well done, HINT. As for these bizarre conversations… Either your girlfriend is worried that you’ve got kinks you haven’t told her about yet – like BPG – or she believes that having a kink means a person has no sexual limits or boundaries at all. Her comment when you indicated that you would shit on her, if that was something she wanted (“Raise your standards”), is a good indication that she’s not into shit. She’s latching onto worst-kink scenarios, HINT, and seeing if you’ll “go there,” because it confirms her prejudices about kinky people, i.e., that there’s nothing a kinky person won’t do. You didn’t do yourself any favours when you agreed to shit on the girlfriend. That won’t inspire her to let you go to town on her feet. Instead, HINT, tell your girlfriend she should be thankful she’s dating an honest foot fetishist and not a dishonest necrophiliac – lots of men are kinky, your kinks could be worse – and let her know that you’re ready, willing and able to explore her kinks, if she has any, but then list a few of the things you won’t do. (Shit on her, for one.) And when she’s ready to share her kinks with you, tell her she knows where to find you: on the floor, going to town on her feet. Confidential to everybody: Don’t think a guy in pantyhose can be hot? Check out the insanely hot guys – in pantyhose, panties and camisoles – at xdress.com. Then answer this question: Are these guys so hot they’d be hot in anything, including panties, or do panties make these hot guys even hotter? Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage. mail@savagelove.net

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