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liked your double dumb-down article on the Fords (NOW, August 11-17). I consider myself a left-ofcentre liberal. However, I voted for these guys. I’m a small business owner with 22 employees, and my nuts are on the line pretty much every payroll. Love the city, and although I loved David Miller’s vision, I hated his spending. I figure, let the Fords change the dirty economic diaper so we can get back to making this place great. I’m willing to cut these guys some slack. Claude Germain Toronto
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benjamin boles’s being glued to Rob Ford (NOW, August 410) was the funniest article I have had the pleas ure of reading in NOW in a very long time. Thank you. My favourite part? Boles’s refer ence to Giorgio Mammoliti “acting like an attack dog to sweet old ladies staying up way past their bedtime to plead politely for compassionate government.” Priceless. It doesn’t get any better than that. Now all we have to do is figure out what to do about the $774 million shortfall in the budget. Peter Gwin
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Parade participants beat the drum for Indian independence at Queen and Bay, part of the 64th annual anniversary celebrations, Saturday, August 13, 12:15 pm.
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Giorgio Mammoliti might want to turn his attention to the mayor’s office in his witch hunt for communist symps at City Hall. Why, take a look here. It’s El Fordo himself – yes, Mayor Rob Ford – caught red-handed, photographed in Toronto in February with a couple of prominent members of China’s Communist Party. That would be His Excellency Zhang Junsai, ambassador to Canada, and Chen Ligang, China’s consul general in Toronto. More on red scare on page 16.
SPOTTED WHAT Low-hanging fruit of the European mountain ash, which can be used for wine, cider, jelly or a glaze for cooking meat. (NB: the leaves induce vomiting, and the bark is poisonous so should be avoided.) WHEN On Local Enhancement & Appreciation of Forests’ (LEAF) edible tree tour Sunday (August 14). WHY To showcase the bounty of Toronto’s urban forest. More at yourleaf.org.
Here’s one dirty word you can call me, Mammoliti. Call me motha. You, too, Ford brothas. It’s about time we started to talk family, because you’re not just messing with the grown-ups when you tear all civility and grace from Toronto’s public sphere. The KPMG report you’re studying for surgical guidance documents every place where the city offers any degree of excellence or innovation. These are highlighted as “opportunities” for the knife. How’s that for a subliminal message to the kiddies? Let’s gang up on the best and brightest. This is perhaps too subtle for the mayor, but if you check out news from across the pond you can see it’s time we paid attention to the subliminal messages our urban culture fashions. Ford’s dysfunctional political fam has probably been too busy figuring out how to slice the flesh off our already thin metropolis to have noticed that last week in the UK, thousands of angry, urban (and suburban) kids took their power in the way they know how – a destructive rage on their neighbourhoods. Any parent or former child can tell you: young humans have needs. They have wants, too. But the needs are not a choice or a spoiled whim. I know the mayor knows that kids need sports. At least some do. And for them, sports are crucial in a
way that goes beyond words or politics. For others it’s dance. Or art. Or making stuff. Or building things. We all need an opportunity to partake in some form of expression. That’s part of the weird and inscrutable process called life as civilized humans. Without that, things get ugly. This year the streets have made a lot of history. In Tunisia and Egypt, young people have given expression to peaceful sentiments powerful enough to depose dictators. In the UK, expressionless youth have risen to burn and loot and ravage. This fall, when city council votes, councillors in the mushy middle will choose
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This week Waterfront Toronto began taking reporters on tours of Don River Park, its signature project in the West Don Lands. The 7.3 hectare site, which will anchor the Athletes’ Village to be built next door for the 2015 Pan Am Games, is beginning to take shape. The pavilion (pictured here) is nearing completion, as is a wetland area at the bottom of one of the hilltop playgrounds. More on this story, including a slide show, at nowtoronto.com. AUGUST 18-24 2011 NOW
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what message we ingrain in the souls of the next generation. They will have to take a stand either with Ford or against him, and that will make all the difference. They must know there will be consequences if they forsake the children. We need to gather in numbers and voice the needs of the youngest among us or we will surely pass our wordless frustration to a next generation who will have nothing but rage to show for our actions. alice@nowtoronto.com
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Nuit Blanche released its program this week for the annual extravaganza of art and the avant-garde. And who’s extolling the importance of art to our city “as a globally competitive creative capital”? Mayor Rob Ford, Mr. Slash and Burn, that’s who. Check out his message on scotiabanknuitblanche.ca. It notes that the event has generated more than $70 million for Toronto since its inception in 2006. Hope he remembers that when budget cuts for the arts come up for discussion in the fall.
Fruit picking Not Far From The Tree, T.O.’s fruit tree project, rolls out its new fleet of cargo bikes just in time for the urban harvest.
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Local designers, architects and artists explore what’s beautiful, problematic and inspiring about our city in Open Eyes Toronto, on until August 22 at the Gladstone. Art on display includes pieces by UforChange, which works with lowincome youth in St. James Town. A DJ party goes tonight (Thursday, August 18) at 7 pm, and a round table discussion happens Saturday (August 20) at 2 pm. openeyestoronto.com for more.
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The late John Harkness, NOW’s first film reviewer, was a passionate and encyclopedic fan of director David Cronenberg. So, when the Torontobased filmmaker released his remake of The Fly, Harkness leapt at the chance to talk to Cronenberg about his vision for the film – everything from script, to makeup, to star Jeff Goldbloom. Cronenberg’s still going strong, releasing 17 films since then. Look for his latest, A Dangerous Method – all about Freud and Jung – at this fall’s edition of the Toronto International Film Festival. (Page 13 of the issue) Travel back in time with NOW’s online archives. nowtoronto.com/archive
Despite the entreaties of some big-time Tory movers and shakers, including Paul Godfrey and Mike Harris, the Ford admin declines to explore bringing the 2020 Summer Games to T.O. Read our Q and A with Games pusher Bob Richardson at nowtoronto.com.
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Cars parked in bike lanes Vilnius, Lithuania, mayor Arturas Zuokas sends a message by driving an armoured personnel carrier over a Mercedes parked in a bike lane. Closer to home, Councillor Josh Matlow tables a plan to up the fine to $500 for vehicles blocking traffic or bike lanes during rush hour.
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When you rob people of what little they have you should expect resistance By NAOMI KLEIN
i keep hearing comparisons between the London riots and riots in other European cities – window smashing in Athens, or car bonfires in Paris. And there are parallels, to be sure: a spark set by police violence, a generation that feels forgotten. But those events were marked by mass destruction; the looting was minor. There have, however, been other mass lootings in recent years. There was Baghdad in the aftermath of the U.S. invasion – a frenzy of ar son and looting that emptied librar ies and museums. The factories got hit, too. Back then, the people on cable news thought looting was highly political. They said this was what happened when a regime had no legi timacy. After watching for so long as Saddam and his sons helped them selves to whatever and whomever they wanted, many regular Iraqis felt they had earned the right to take a few things for themselves.
But London isn’t Baghdad, so sure ly there is nothing to learn there. How about a democratic example, then? Argentina, circa 2001. The eco nomy was in free fall, and thousands of people living in rough neighbor hoods stormed foreignowned super stores. They came out pushing shop ping carts overflowing with the goods they could no longer afford: clothes, electronics, meat. The gov ernment called a “state of siege”; the people didn’t like that and overthrew the government. Argentina’s mass looting was called El Saqueo – the sacking. That was politically significant because it was the same word used to describe what that country’s elites had done by selling off national assets, hiding their money offshore, then passing on the bill to the people with a brutal austerity package. Argentines understood that the saqueo of the shopping centres would not have happened without
the bigger saqueo of the country. But England is not Latin America, and its riots are not political, or so we keep hearing. They are just about lawless kids taking advantage of a situation to take what isn’t theirs. This is said in all seriousness. As if the massive bank bailouts never hap pened, followed by the defiant record bonuses. Followed by the emer gency G8 and G20 meet ings, when the leaders decided not to do any thing to punish the bankers, nor to do any thing serious to prevent a similar crisis from happening again. Instead, they would all go home to their respective countries and force sacrifices on the most vulnerable by firing public sector workers, closing libraries, rolling back union contracts, carrying out rush privatizations and decreasing pensions.
This is the global Saqueo, a time of great taking. Fuelled by a pathological sense of entitlement, this looting has all been done with the lights left on, as if there were nothing at all to hide. Of course, London’s riots weren’t a political protest. But the people com mitting nighttime robbery sure as
The people committing nighttime robbery sure as hell know that their elites have been committing daytime robbery. hell know that their elites have been committing daytime robbery. Sa queos are contagious. The British Tories are right when they say the rioting is not about the cuts. But it has a great deal to do with what those cuts represent: being cut off. Locked away in a ballooning underclass with the few escape
routes rapidly sealed off. At last year’s G20 “austerity sum mit” in Toronto, cop cars burned. It was nothing by London 2011 stan dards, but it was still shocking to us Canadians. At the time, many of us pointed out that the pricey new ar senal police had acquired wasn’t just meant for the protesters in the streets. Its longterm use would be to discipline the poor, who in the new era of austerity would have danger ously little to lose. This is what David Cameron got wrong: you can’t cut police budgets at the same time as you cut every thing else. Because when you rob people of what little they have, you should expect resistance – whether organized protests or spontaneous looting. And that’s not politics. It’s physics.
3 This column was first published in The Nation. www.naomiklein.org, twitter: NaomiAKlein news@nowtoronto.com
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Silly me, I keep waiting for Bay Street big shots to read the riot act to wackos who think cutting jobs will save us By WAYNE ROBERTS as the economic crisis deepens worldwide, I’m having trouble fath oming the sheer chutzpah of our political and financial leaders. You’d think the folks who hyped multibilliondollar bailouts and onenightstand stimulus programs and who noticed that these didn’t do
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much to stimulate the world’s stock of human, social or natural capital and who know they didn’t keep a banking and credit crisis from escal ating into a fullblown economic cri sis would feel embarrassed, apolo getic and keen to make amends. Since I haven’t yet seen a politi
cian, auto magnate or banker fess up to spectacular misspending of public savings, I can only conclude that chutzpah means never having to say you’re sorry. It’s just plain cruel that the give aways to big business were followed by takeaways from vulnerable people
in need of social programs, and that those who didn’t benefit from bail outs were forced to make up for the money gone missing. And silly me, I keep waiting for some Bay Street big shots to read the riot act to wack jobs who want to save the economy by eliminating impor
tant jobs and vaporizing billions of dollars of spending power. Or for some Wall Street mogul to give the Tea Party its marching orders for wrecking a national economy’s repu tation. Or for some banking lord on Threadneedle Street to warn British continued on page 18 œ
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But I would argue that Rob Ford’s verbal reign of terror of threats and intimidation is having the desired effect of scaring away opponents and keeping council in line. The exodus of senior managers from the bureau cracy continues; another job ad was posted week, mak Eek. Does this red tie this ing eight man make me smell like a agers gone since Ford took commie? office. You could say he’s done an ef fective job of suppressing dissent. The recent chestbeating by Coun cillor Giorgio “I am not a commun ist” Mammoliti isn’t just the pumped up rhetoric of someone looking for headlines. We take that part of Mam mo for granted. No, what we’re witnessing is an ad ministration too high on power. Ask members of council sitting on the other side of the political fence at City Hall and they’ll tell you the Ford ists have been strutting through the corridors of power at 100 Queen West, talking about the scourge of reds and making offcolour remarks the list made famous in that state about gays for months. ment on the rise of a certain political The only thing that’s changed in movement in Europe in the 1920s recent weeks is that they’re now do that will go unnamed here. ing their powertripping out in the Let’s be crystal clear, to borrow a open, on TV, radio and in print. phrase from Colonel Nathan Jessup All of which creates a dilemma – in A Few Good Men. I’m in no way and a distraction, it should also be suggesting Ford’s political opponents noted – for the good men and women will soon be rounded up because of of the City Hall press corps on how to their beliefs. handle the more twisted bafflegab
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The bigoted rantings of Ford & Co. are those of an administration teetering on the edge By ENZO DiMATTEO
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If you smell like someone who’s part of the Communist party you’re not going to be welcome.
first they came for the bike-riders. Then they came for the trade unionists. Then they went after gays. Now they’re attacking communists. What/who’s next on the Ford ad min’s list of opponents to purge? Mongrels? The poor? Too late. There’s already a plan being cooked up for them. The trajectory of the three ring circus running City Hall looks a
little ominous these days after that red scare scared up by Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti last week about some of his leftleaning colleagues on council allegedly being out to con trol the minds of Torontonians. Jesus, Giorgio. The list of targets on the Ford admin’s hit list so far (should we add books?) is looking an awful lot like
coming from the Ford crew. I mean, we do have hate laws in Canada, right? Mammo’s redscaring may make for irresistible copy or TV, but does airing his comments just make him look stupid, or give his twisted views more currency? In the current polit ical climate, I’d suggest that running every idiotic comment that flows from the mouths of Ford’s orcs only lends them legitimacy. Anyone who’s come across the scapegoating done by the foot sol diers in Ford Nation, be it via email, telephone conversations or screeds online, understands that all too well. Oppose Ford and you’re a fag or worse – a communist, it seems now. Would Mammo’s redbaiting or any of the antigay slurs or attacks on the poor we’ve heard from different members of the Ford camp have been allowed to stand only a year ago? A lockerroom mentality has taken hold. What is Ford & Co. if not a re flection of the socalled nation that elected them? What we’re witnessing, though, isn’t just the loss of a measure of civility on our political discourse. It’s a sea change in the zeitgeist. And it’s the guys elected to City Hall who are feeding to and from it. It’s here where big brother Doug Ford’s musings about Margaret At wood running for office if she wants to be heard have most resonance. From the Tao of Dougie: you’re not elected, so shut the fuck up. continued on page 18 œ
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The news ticker scrolling across the TV screen in a McDees I happened into the other day said 35 per cent of Canadians think they’re worse off economically today than they were four years ago. The impact of an economy teetering on the edge as world markets crumble can never be underestimated when trying to evaluate what ails us. Is the mayor losing control? Can he just not be bothered reining in the likes of Mammoliti? Those rabid pro vocations dovetail nicely with Ford’s larger agenda: wreaking havoc on the public service, impoverishing the government and selling off its assets. But personally, Ford seems con tent to continue the work he started as a councillor, making house calls to listen to noise complaints and such, rather than deal with the meatier af fairs of state. He gave that impression early in his tenure, when he was mostly MIA from City Hall, and he hasn’t changed. Those I’ve had occa sion to talk to recently who’ve been in touch with the mayor on one issue or another suggest he’s distracted, maybe a little overwhelmed. Ford’s not one to let things bother him, but being mayor isn’t an easy job. Looked at another way, then, the bigoted rantings of Ford & Co. are those of an administration teetering
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on the edge. The mayor, who’s usual ly content to let others do the talking, has taken to amping the rhetoric himself to keep that allimportant base, aka Ford Nation, stroked. In his appearance on Sun TV Fri day, August 12, one of his regular weekly oneonones with Ford friendly media, the mayor said he wasn’t going to let people concerned about cuts to services (he called them “NDP activists”) “hold a gun to his head.” From where I’m sitting, the only ones packin’ gats and holding hos tages are the mayor and his band of merry henchmen, but I digress. The mayor went further in his Sun TV spot, blaming that $774 million deficit he keeps waving like a red flag on the previous administration. Bull shit, of course, but when you’re top banana in the Republic of Ford, you can write your own summer fiction. We’ve read that book before. It’s called The Big Lie. Worked during the election, but the fibbing may be getting a little slippier to manage, for there was the mayor who swore never to go cap in hand to the province going cap in hand to the province Wednesday (August 17) to beg for financial help for his subway scheming. More to the point, those were defi nitely boos heard from the crowd at Saturday’s Lakeshore Mardi Gras when the mayor bounded onstage for some PR and to tell the gathering to “call me any time.” 3
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Conservatives that massive cutbacks undermine efforts to train people for a complex economy. Despite the dissent of a few econo mists, pundits and financial leaders (like Warren Buffett, who wants the rich to pay more taxes), what amazes me is the quick consensus that’s been formed about who will be riding steerage in the new ship of state. Enough members of the elite used to be interested in a healthy, educat ed workforce and social peace to en sure that governments initiated poli cies fostering prosperity for all. But no moguls, lords, big shots or barons have stepped forward, and now it’s finally dawning on me that today’s financial class doesn’t give a fig for the longterm economic health of any one nation state. They only care about consumers, wherever they may be in the world, which explains why they feel no compunctions about their historically low tax rate and why they don’t raise a peep about cutbacks to services that make the domestic population poorer. Corporate producers now feed their profit margins by outsourcing jobs once performed by locals to countries with low incomes and few enviro controls, or by importing the besteducated and healthiest work ers from those countries to displace domestic employees. This failure to care, I’ve come to
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believe, is the story behind the story of deep dysfunction in established national (UK and U.S. for example) and international (UN and OECD, for instance) governments. They’re tell ing everybody loud and clear: your problem is not my problem. And they speak their truth. The costs and burdens of running society in a way that stabilizes it have been down loaded to municipalities. The “riots” (why isn’t a stock market crisis or Tea Party rally called a rich riot?) across Eng land show us how problems caused by lack of investment in human, social and cultural capital come home to roost. Cities are the level of government where mutual interdepend ence is most forcefully felt. In the 1800s, every one who lived in cities, rich and poor, was sub ject to lifeordeath problems caused by fire, disease, sewage, garbage and the like. This is why government was so readily accepted as the provider of ser vices like sidewalks, trash collec tion, restaurant inspection, public safety, road maintenance, etc. This bent remains despite City Hall’s current privatization moves. Anyone who complains about the cost of these essentials of our inher ently sociable cities has only to con sider the costs of not having them – which is why no candidate of any stripe, Tea Party or Gravy Party, ever runs openly on a platform of elimi
nating civic services. It’s hard to miss the blatant con trast between wellfinanced national and international government bod ies – reluctant to promise basic pro tection of our economic, social and environmental wellbeing – and un derfinanced city governments that must do their best in the everyday. Cities will soon be the decisive governments. Oldstyle national gov ernments used to call control of banking, resources and heavy manu facturing the commanding heights they needed to own or regulate. New
Today’s financial class doesn’t give a fig for the long-term economic health of any one nation state. They only care about consumers. style municipalities may well iden tify water, soil, food, shelter, educa tion and social services as the essential foundations of the future. Toronto has long been a leader in setting the terms as cities respond to their expanded mandate on public health, community development and green living. Those campaigning right now to win support for these notions of city responsibility and to uphold existing programs in the face of cuts have their finger on the pulse of a major new political force about to emerge on the world scene. 3 news@nowtoronto.com
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cut its budget by 10 per cent next year. “The thing that’s so ironic about councillors speaking out about panhandling is that their proposed cuts will increase the number of people needing to panhandle,” says Cathy Crowe, director of the Toronto Disaster Relief Committee. “All over the city there is a massive network of drop-in centres that provide major meals, and they all rely on Community grants.” Those drop-in centres as well as organizations like St. Christopher House, which runs education and employment programs, and food security group FoodShare receive funding through the city’s $47 million Community Partnership and Investment Program. In its recent core services review, KPMG suggests CPIP funds be eliminated completely. While that’s unlikely, the mayor has said he will consider all options. Even if support services escape Rob Ford’s budget axe, frontline workers say a root cause of panhandling is that Ontarians’ welfare cheques barely cover rent in a city as expensive as Toronto. With an average payout of $592 per month, welfare levels are $70 lower than when Bob Rae was premier, and none of the major parties in the upcoming provincial election plans to change that. “The biggest difficulty is that the funds provided [by Ontario’s welfare program] are inadequate for proper housing,” says Toby Mullally, a manager at Central Neighbourhood House. “You can’t rent a room in this town for $350 a month.” And once the money runs out, even people with homes can end up panhandling. 3 bens@nowtoronto.com
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rides, a talent competition and much more runs to Sep 5. $16, child/srs $12, under 4 free (rides extra). Exhibition Place. theex.com. Canning WorkShop Learn to make tomato salsa. 6 pm. $30. Lisa Shamai’s Kitchen, Unit W 12, 388 Crawford. 416-461-1925 ext 252. CYCling in thE CitY Outdoor panel discussion. 7 pm. Free. Scadding Court Community Centre, 707 Dundas W. scaddingcourt.org. FridaY night ridES With CYClopS Bike rides with performances by Cycling Oriented Puppet Squad. 6:30 pm. Free. Various locations. clayandpapertheatre.org/cyclops/category/ group-rides.
rliVE loCal markEtplaCE An outdoor stage, movie screening, art, kids’ activities, food and more. 6 pm. Free. Scadding Court Community Centre, 707 Dundas W. scaddingcourt.org. modS n’ roCkErS Vintage motorcycle and scooter show. Today 7 pm; tomorrow 2 pm. $25-$80. Fri at Black Dice Cafe (1574 Dundas W), Sat at Dominion on Queen (500 Queen E). modsandrockerstoronto.com. rtour thE CrimE SCEnE Learn how science and technology are used to collect evidence at a crime scene. 1 pm & 3 pm. Free w/ admission. Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills. 416-696-1000.
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Toronto Port Authority’s 100th anniversary. Doors 7 pm. Free (tickets required). Sugar Beach, Queens Quay E at Jarvis. torontoport. com. Aug 18 to 20 Yoga FEStiVal toronto Classes, talks, kids’ events and more. Passes $75-$390. National Ballet School, 400 Jarvis. yogacommunity.ca. Aug 19 to 21
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pull For Sight (ORBIS Kids Sight Program) Teams of up to 25 people pull a FedEx 757 aircraft 12 feet in a friendly competition. 10 am1:30 pm. $50 pledge, spectating free. Pearson International Airport – FedEx Apron, 6895 Bramalea (Mississagua). 1-877-672-4722. QuEEn WESt muSiC FESt (Toronto General & Western Hospital) Stephen Prickett, Miss Emily, Mike Evin, Adam’s Rib and others perform. 1 pm. Free. Trinity Bellwoods Park, Queen and Gore Vale. queenwestmusicfest.com.
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rational mind. 5 pm. Free. Free Times Cafe, 320 College. cficanada/ca/ontario/events.
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Be Veg (Be Veg TTC Subway Campaign) Vegan bake sale. 1-5 pm. Free. Panacea Vegan Shop, 588 Bloor W. 647-350-3269. an eVenIng of Jazz and CHoColaTe (Girls’ Gardens) Musical performances by Sharron McLeod and others plus chocolate tasting. 6 pm. $20, stu/artists $15. Ocho Hotel, 195 Spadina. econof.org. exHIBIT, engage, Transform (Abeona Fdn) Wine and cheese gallery reception benefitting orphaned children in Colombia. 6 pm. $20 sugg. Arta, 55 Mill. 416-364-2782. TrIadVenTure arrIVal ParTy (HIV/AIDS programs in Africa) Greet participants of the benefit triathlon at the finish line. 4 pm. Free. 519 Church Community Centre. triforafrica. org. zomBIe Car WasH (Toronto Zombie Walk) Car wash to raise funds for a permit for the 2011 walk. Noon-6 pm. Donations. Classic Coin Car Wash, 1286 College. torontozombiewalk.ca.
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demoCraCy, Can’T We do BeTTer THan THaT? Talk and discussion with America In Decline author Raymond Lotta. 3:30 pm. Free. OISE, 252 Bloor W, 5th floor, rm 170. 647-772-9348.
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wood Lane. 1 pm. Free. NE corner Withrow Park (McConnell and Carlaw). info@ graemeparry.com. maCkenzIe’s ToronTo Heritage Toronto walking tour. 1:30 pm. Free w/ admission. Mackenzie House, 82 Bond. 416-392-6915, heritagetoronto.org. rmulTICulTural fesTIVal Children’s games, a reading tent, entertainment, food and more. 11 am. Free. Antibes Community Centre, 140 Antibes. 416-395-0475. rPoWer kIds Kids eight to 12 learn to play with shape, space and scale to create sculptures. 3 pm. $6. Power Plant, 231 Queens Quay
W. Pre-register 416-973-4000. PsyCHIC BrunCH Brunch and a reading. $45. Clinton’s, 693 Bloor W. 416-535-9541.
Queen’s Park CIrCle: PolITICs, Profs and PundITs Guided ROM walk. 2 pm. Free. Queen’s Park. rom.on.ca.
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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 Inga Untiks. 2 pm. Free. Power Plant, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949. rVoICes of THe naTIons Showcase of Christian fine arts and music from various cultural backgrounds. 11 am-9 pm. Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca. zIne dream 4 Annual small-press arts and crafts fair with comedy, live music, DJs and more. Noon-5 pm. Pwyc. Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. zinedream.com.
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draWIng from THe model Life drawing session, no instruction. 6:30-9 pm. $5. Ralph Thornton Centre, 765 Queen E. 416-392-6810. HealTH faIr Info on nutrition, injury prevention, chronic disease prevention, caregiver support services and more. 2 pm. Free. Agincourt Library, 155 Bonis. 416-396-8943. InTernaTIonal day of aCTIon To defend THe amazon Rally against the Belo Monte dam in
Brazil. 3 pm. Free. Embassy of Brazil, 77 Bloor W. artistfortheocean@gmail.com. u of T HIsTorICal WalkIng Tours Guided tours of the St George campus happen weekdays at 2:30 pm through Aug. Free. Nona Macdonald Visitors Centre, 25 King’s College Circle. 416-978-5000.
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Tuesday, August 23
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Explore the rich diversity of South Asian culture!
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Jason alexander (United Jewish Appeal) An evening with the comic/actor. 7:30 pm. $35$125. Sony Centre, 1 Front E. 416-365-2883 ext 5329, ujaevents.com. Homemade BeauTy Learn to make natural
sachets and beautify your nails. 6 pm. Free. Agincourt Library, 155 Bonis. 416-396-8943. InTernaTIonal folk danCIng Dance in the park every Tue. 7:30 pm. Free. Sir Winston Churchill Park, Spadina and St Clair. ofda.ca. memoIr WrITIng for senIors Share, discuss and write. 1 pm. Free. Cliffrest Library, 3017 Kingston. 416-396-8916. offICe sPaCed! Animation workshop for adults. 6 pm. Free. NFB Mediatheque, 150 John. Pre-register 416-973-3012. PuB sTumPers Trivia night. 7:30 pm. Free.
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Stout Irish Pub, 221 Carlton. 647-344-7676. Recycle the RAin Chris Denich conducts a workshop on how homeowners can use rain water for their yards. 6:30-8 pm. Free. Victoria Village Library, 184 Sloane. yourleaf.org. RunninG fRee! Running group for families who have a loved one with a mental health or addiction issue. 6 pm. Free. CAMH, rm 2029, 33 Russell. Register 416-535-8501 ext 2189. tRue tAles International storytelling celebration. 7 pm. Free. Drake, 1150 Queen W. 416531-5042.
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Can studying gender shed light on the Arab-Israel conflict? Carlton sociologist Nahla Abdo thinks so. Abdo launches her new book, Women In Israel: Race, Gender And Citizenship, an anti-racist study of the experiences of Ashkenazi, Mizrahi (Jews born in Arab countries) and Arab Israeli women tonight (Thursday, August 18). The meeting also features a panel discussion with activist filmmaker b.h. yael, U of T’s Amir Hassanpour, York U’s Himani Bannerji and others. 6 pm. Free. 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org. event for professionals. 6 pm. $25-$30. Brazen Head, 165 East Liberty. socialeventmatrix. eventbrite.com.
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ARt spin Bicycle art tour. 6:30 pm. Free. Trinity Bellwoods Park gates, Queen and Strachan. artspin.ca. RAcK to RAcK fAshion funshops Learn how to put together outfits and find clothes that work for your body. 7 pm. $40-$50. Foundry Lofts, 1100 Lansdowne. Pre-register info@ racktorack.com. science & philosophy BooK cluB Discussion on Susan Pinker’s The Sexual Paradox: Men, Women And The Real Gender Gap. 7 pm. Free. Centre for Inquiry, 216 Beverley. cficanada.ca. 3
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Project: Object Sunday, 21 August, 3 – 5 Pm $4 memberS / $6 General (per child)
New Art from Central and Eastern Europe Paweł Althamer, Anetta Mona Chişa and Lucia Tkáčová, Gintaras Didžiapetris, Dušica Dražić, Igor Eškinja, Johnson & Johnson, Anna Kołodziejska, David Maljković, Ján Mančuška, Dénes Miklósi, Alex Mirutziu, Anna Molska, Ivan Moudov, Ciprian Mureşan, Deimantas Narkevičius, Roman Ondák, Anna Ostoya, Taras Polataiko, Wilhelm Sasnal, Sislej Xhafa, Katarina Zdjelar
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Curated by Christopher Eamon Organized by The Power Plant and the Art Gallery of Alberta
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Catch a glimpse of Slovak artist Roman Ondak’s The Stray Man (2006), a special performance throughout the day. Plus, enjoy free hourly tours of the exhibition led by gallery Animateurs.
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This autumn preview is for the boys: standout fall arrivals to dress you head-to-toe dapper for a whole new season. 1. The Scout pant ($275) by 18Waits (18waits.com) is instantly recognizable by the curve of its fly facing. For fall, the tapered trouser is cut from Woolrich herringbone wool, proudly made in Toronto and available at The Future of Frances Watson (1390 Queen West, 416531-8892, thefutureoffranceswatson.blogspot.com).
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5. The Bay has built a new, loyal following for the multicoloured stripes of its signature collection pieces, but the store’s private menswear label, Hudson North, is worth a look, too. Fall’s lineup includes budget-friendly striped, checked and solid shirting ($44.99, The Bay).
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Also up at Yorkdale, cult blues brand 7 for All Mankind has just opened its first Toronto retail store (7forallmankind.com). The shop’s fall lineup includes sportswear, accessories, a new children’s collection and lots of swanky jeans. To celebrate the launch, the brand debuts a sevensenses-inspired denim installation in the space on August 31.
Wednesday night, August 17, was a busy one at Yorkdale (3401 Dufferin). After checking out the opening of Canada’s first J.Crew shop (see Store of the Week), the city’s fashion pack floated over to Danier (416-783-9526, and others, danier. com), where Greta Constantine designers Stephen Wong and Kirk Pickersgill hosted a trunk show for the Skin collection they created for the leather retailer. The lineup of contemporary, draped separates is available to shoppers now.
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Jennifer Halchuk and Richard Lyle, the designers behind Toronto label Mercy (mercystudio.com), are opening their first boutique this fall. The duo are currently making over the former Tin Taj space (913 Queen West) sandwiched between White Squirrel and Clafouti, across the street from Trinity Bellwoods Park. Look for an opening date around September 6.
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To say Toronto shoppers have been eagerly anticipating the opening of J.Crew’s first international shop at Yorkdale is the understatement of the season. With little to go on other than the store’s size (5,000 square feet) and lack of menswear (store reps say the city’s male J.Crew junkies will get their fix asap), the buzz leading up to today’s (Thursday, August 18) launch has been extraordinary. “The Toronto customer is a savvy customer, so we’ve mirrored the collections of our better Manhattan stores,” said J. Crew president and creative director Jenna Lyons last week while touring Calgary, Vancouver and Toronto to scout addi-
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The timing seems perfect that as summer vacations wind down and day camp kids stress about abandoning the mates they’ve met across the craft table, designer Corrine Anestopoulos releases a new collection of friendship bracelets. Instead of neon gimp and plastic beads, though, her Biko version weaves together more grown-up heavyweight chain and multicoloured embroidery thread. $85 Bicyclette Boutique, 880 Queen West, 416-532-8048, ilovebiko.com.
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Who gets hooked? Blame luck and biology for why some get addicted By elizaBeth Bromstein why do some people get addicted and others don’t? How come some folks can snort a line of coke and binge drink from time to time and then return to their normal lives, while others get
hooked and destroy theirs? We don’t know the cause of Amy Winehouse’s death – she joined the 27 Club last month – but she did have a lengthy public battle with substance abuse.
The question is why? Addiction, it turns out, is both genetic and environmental. How it all shakes down seems to be a question of luck, opportunity, biology and coincidence.
What the experts say “Certain personality types, like narcissists, are more vulnerable to addiction. Narcissism has been thought to de velop in the first years of life, but I think you can also acquire it through great wealth and celebrity. People who fall prey to narcissism aren’t able to assess what others are thinking. There are dif ferent paths to dependency: psycho logical, genetic, situational. Some people are vulnerable to the good feel ings they get from various drugs, while others are less interested. Extremely wealthy people are at risk, as are the extremely poor. Those prone to depen dency feel out of control; the drugs are an attempt to get control.” ROBERT MILLMAN, former director of the Drug and Alcohol Abuse Treatment and Research Service at New YorkPresbyterian Hospital, New York
“Genetic and environmental causes each account for 50 per cent when it comes to addictions. That’s not to say that’s the ratio in any given indi vidual. Some people have a genetic proclivity. Their brain falls in love with a particular substance. You are genetically coded for what drugs you are susceptible to. If you can keep potentially addicted brains away from drugs until those individ uals are in their 20s, the incidence of addiction will go down. Addiction is a treatable disease, but like diabetes it requires attention, because it can be chronic. There are drugs that can help, but the problem with Naltrexone, for instance, is that we don’t know who it will and won’t work for.” DAVID WITHERS, MD, associate med-
astrology freewill
by Rob Brezsny
Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 Time magazine
asked Pulitzer Prizewinning historian David McCullough why he started writing a biography of Pablo Picasso but never finished it. McCullough said it was be cause the famous artist turned out to be boring. He attracted a steady flow of new lovers, and he made hundreds of paint ings, but he didn’t actually live an inter esting life. I’m urging you to be the anti Picasso in the coming weeks, Aries. Put the emphasis on the quality of your ad ventures more than on what you produce. Regard your life as your most important work of art.
TAurus Apr 20 | May 20 “Let’s celebrate
the first time you cried naked in someone else’s bed,” is a message on an ecard I found at Someecards.com. You might want to send that proposal to yourself, Taurus. It’s an excellent time to commem orate the rousing catharses of the past. You may find that revisiting the break through epiphanies of yesteryear will help put you in the right frame of mind (and heart) to conjure up a fresh batch.
GeMini May 21 | Jun 20 Why is it so hard
for Westerners of the last two centuries to feel the intimate presence of the divine intelligences? Every other culture in the history of the world has had a more vital connection with the realm of spirit. Ac cording to poet Gary Snyder, California’s Yana Indians explained it this way: The gods have retreated to the volcanic re cesses of Mt. Lassen, passing the time playing gambling games with magic
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sticks. They’re simply waiting for the time when human beings will “reform them selves and become ‘real people’ that spir its might want to associate with once again.” Here’s why I’m bringing this up, Gemini: I think that right now is a special time in your life when you have the power to become a “real person” with whom the spirits will want to have closer commun ion.
CAnCer Jun 21 | Jul 22 I strongly advise you against purchasing and reading what some observers have called “the saddest book in the universe.” It’s a recipe book by Sonia Allison called Microwave For One (bit.ly/SadBook). No matter how inclined you might be to opt for excessive selfsuf ficiency right now, no matter how peeved you are at the human race for being so clumsy and ignorant, I believe you must keep trying to reach out and touch those who are touchable, even if they’re barely so. You need what people have to offer you, even if it’s sloppy, wimpy or kooky. Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 Science writer K.C. Cole asks this question: “How would you hold 100 tons of water in thin air with no vis ible means of support?” Here’s her an swer: “Build a cloud.” What you have be fore you right now, Leo, is a comparable scenario. Your assignment is to material ize a phenomenon that from a certain viewpoint may appear to be laughably impossible. And yet, with the proper at titude on your part and nature’s help, the project at hand is eminently achievable. It won’t necessarily be fast and easy, mind
ical director, Marworth Treatment Center, Waverly, Pennsylvania “There are behaviours that are volun tary and those that are involuntary. And what we mean by disease is symp toms that are involuntary. The ques tion of whether addiction is a disease is determined by whether people clas sified as addicts are sensitive to drug taking consequences. There’s a consensus that an addict’s drug use changes according to repercussions – whether or not they have children, whether there are legal sanctions, whether it threatens their income. Most people quit on their own in their late 20s, early 30s.” GENE HEYMAN, author, Addiction: A Disorder Of Choice; lecturer, Boston College, Harvard Medical School
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you – but you wouldn’t want it to be, be cause then it wouldn’t be able to teach you all the precious wisdom it has to impart.
VirGo Aug 23 | sep 22 “Dear Astrology
Guy: Thank you kindly for your assistance. One of your horoscopes gave me a kick in the butt that propelled me free of a trap I had stupidly agreed to stay stuck in. At the same time, I also have to tell you to go to hell, because no one, including me, likes hearing the awful, embarrassing truth. As much healing as your words helped bring me, they also stung my pride. Love and hate, Virgo.” Dear Virgo: You’re welcome and I’m sorry. It’s good to hear you’re able to appreciate the gifts of paradox. Let’s hope that will keep you cre atively humble as you slip into an expan sive building phase when your ego may be understandably prone to a bit of inflation.
LibrA sep 23 | oct 22 Newsweek re ported a fact that few Westerners know about: Nigeria is accustomed to major oil spills. Every year since the 1960s, the Ni ger delta has been slammed with a spill as extensive as the Exxon Valdez, which was the secondbiggest oil catastrophe in U.S. history. “Large purple slicks cover once fertile fields,” said Newsweek, “and rivers are clogged with oil leaked decades ago.” My purpose in bringing this to your attention is not to depress you, Libra, but rather to inspire you. In the coming weeks, I hope you will make it your pas sion to uncover injustices you’ve been un
“Think of stacks of Swiss cheese slices, with holes in different areas. One slice represents biology, one parenting style, one the neighbourhood, and so on. The holes represent risks, like a bad gene or bad maternal care. The holes need to be properly aligned for fullblown addiction. You may have genes that make you a novelty seeker, but if you’re in a neighbourhood where drugs aren’t available, you may not use. This is why addiction doesn’t affect everybody. Just as it’s difficult to predict who will get into it, it’s hard to predict who will get out of it with different approaches. We’re moving into personalized treatments based on life experience and genetics.” RUBEN BALER, health scientist
administrator, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Bethesda, Maryland
aware of, including those close to home. I think you’ll be amazed at how much this buoys your spirits. P.S.: You’ll get extra credit if you actually take action to ad dress the unfairness.
when I grow up,” concluded the boy. In the coming weeks, Capricorn, I see you as being like the boy. You’ll be in the mood to brainstorm about what you might like to evolve into, and your fantasies will tend to move in the direction of what’s most adventurous and exciting. I urge you to fully indulge in those flights of fancy. It’s time to dream really big and really free.
sCorpio oct 23 | nov 21 In the song Fan
tasy World, the lead singer of the band Pissed Jeans imagines himself in his happy place. “It’s Friday night and Satur day morning in my fantasy world / Sitting near piles of clothes and drinking a soda / with a slice of pizza in my fantasy world.” He’s not describing some unrealistic para dise where he can fly like an eagle and se duce anyone he wants and find gold bars under his pillow in the morning. Rather, he’s content with the simple, familiar pleasures. I urge you to follow his lead as you imagine and create your own fantasy world this week. Love what you’ve got.
sAGiTTArius nov 22 | Dec 21 The high
est unclimbed mountain in the world is Gangkhar Puensum, an almost 25,000foottall beauty in Bhutan. It will remain free of human influence indefin itely, as local authorities are keen on pre venting the environmental degradation that has occurred on popular peaks like Mt. Everest, where climbers have left lots of trash. What’s the equivalent in your sphere, Sagittarius? The most prominent unconquered prize? The Grail that still remains elusive? The virgin treasure your quest has not yet won? According to my analysis, you now have the potential to make tangible progress toward that goal. Unlike the case with Gangkhar Puensum, there are no rules or laws preventing you.
CApriCorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 “Mommy,
are scientists real?” the boy asked his mother. “Yes, son, they are,” she replied. “Do they make stuff that is dangerous?” continued the boy. “Sometimes they do,” said the mom. “Then I want to be one
“About 1 to 2 per cent of rock and pop stars die within five years of becom ing famous. For those who don’t, for a period of around 25 years after their success their levels of mortality are about double those of the general population. Causes of death are more greatly associated with alcohol and substance use. Part of it is oppor tunity and access. They’re in an envi ronment where there’s easy access to drugs, where price isn’t a problem, where they feel relatively protected.” MARK BELLIS, professor of public health, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, England 3
AquArius Jan 20 | Feb 18 “I got ex
pelled from college for cheating during my metaphysics final,” joked Woody Allen. “I got caught looking into the soul of the guy next to me.” Even if you’re not taking a big test for a metaphysics class, Aquarius, I urge you to do a lot of what Allen claimed he did: Gaze into the souls of those around you. It’s an excellent time, astrologically speaking, for you to escape the enclosed container of your own inner world and survey the raw truths and deep feelings that other people hold dear.
pisCes Feb 19| Mar 20 “I have no doubt
that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can ima gine,” said pioneering geneticist J.B.S. Haldane. I share that view, and I think it’s good to keep in mind whenever we’re tempted to rearrange our lives in accord ance with the visions of those who pre dict the future, whether they be New Age prophets, indigenous elders, scientific ex perts or political pundits. Nobody knows much of anything about how it’s all going to unfold! The future is not set in stone, but is totally up for grabs. The sooner you make that an everyday reminder, the more aggressive you’ll become about cre ating the life you want. Now is an excel lent time to get the hang of it.
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launched in june, viva napoli (679 Mt. Pleasant, 647-344-8482, rating: NN) serves what the wouldbe Libretto of Leaside calls “autentica pizza Napoletana.” Translation: no AVPN, though we get the requisite DOP canned tomatoes, mozzarell’ and wood-burning oven. Shame the pies that come out of it are so worrisome. Oh, the Carpaccio pizza initially impresses, a generous heap of thinly shaved beef, arugula and great whacks of grated parmigiano on an oddly wet thin crust. The Pesto & Polpo pie (both $19) is an even soggier mess, one swimming in olive oil strewn with octopus pencil erasers, mind. Service in the already buzzing bistro ranges from sweetly befuddled to bullying. When we point out that our prosciutto and melon pizza ($20) is MIA, our all-in-black waiter insists not only that we didn’t order one, but that there is no prosciutto and melon pizza on the menu. Who argues with a customer? When the pizza arrives five minutes later – another droopy disaster dressed with tissue-thin ham and the stuff you leave on your plate at brunch – we realize the dude was SD trying to tell us something.
PIzza e Pazzi owners Danilo (left) and Sandrelle Scimo have reason to smile as chef Andrea Monacelli attends to the wood-fired pizza oven.
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to be certified by the associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana, the organization that determines the authenticity of Neapolitan-style pizza, is much like being honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Pony up the lire and you’re in.
The latest AVPN-approved trat to launch locally, Pizza e Pazzi (“Pizza and Crazy”) lives up to its name. Owners and first-time restaurateurs Danilo and Sandrelle Scimo must be nuts to open a pizzeria kitty-corner across the Corso Italia to Marcello’s. And who in their right mind offers a meal deal as ridiculously walletfriendly as Pazzi’s Monday-to-Wednesday aperitivo special? From 5 to 7 pm, pay 10 bucks for any beverage in the house, alcoholic or otherwise – a pint of Moretti ($7.50 à la carte), a cappuccino ($3.25), a glass of Prosecco ($9), say – and get the house’s terrific starter buffet, too. To-
night, the impressive spread includes old-school eggplant parmigiana layered with sweet San Marzano tomato sauce, an antipasti plate of imported cheese ’n’ cold cuts, a large green salad in regulation balsamic, and a couple of entry-level pizzas like a white-sauced Mimosa stuffed with rapini ($14.75). “I’m just putting out a Margherita!” shouts Scimo as he races past our table, pie in hand, straight from the wood-burning oven. Thanks, but we’ve already ordered it, a remarkably thin-crusted wonder that’s correctly blistered, crackercrisp but still foldable, and dressed
with family-recipe sauce, DOP mozzarella di bufala and a wayward basil leaf or three ($13). The Contadina ($15.75) switches out the bufala for fior di latte and a toss of explosively ripe baby Roma tomatoes, while the Valtellina ($19.75) layers a garlicky white pie with shaved bresaola, parmigiana and a heap of raw arugula splashed with quality olive oil and a last-minute squeeze of lemon. Despite the starter buffet, we’ve still managed to make room for beefy meatballs (hold the spaghetti but bring on the house-baked bread) in “gravy” (Polpette della Nonna, $9.75), perfectly al dente papardelle in a textbook bolognese ($14.75) and nutmeg-scented ricotta manicotti ($15.75). An over-the-top tiramisu al caffe ($7.50) of espresso-dipped savoiardi lady fingers in boozy zabaione dished up like some ice cream sundae makes a suitably spectacular finish. With its downtown exposed-brick decor, retro Bon Jovi soundtrack and the fourth-best pizza in Toronto – not to mention that early-bird aperitivo special – only a fool would pass on Pazzi. 3
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1 Pizzeria Libretto
221 Ossington, at Dundas W, 416-5328000, pizzerialibretto.com. No longer the only AVPN-certified pie in town, this busy west-side trat is still the best, especially its brilliantly blistered ’za topped with housemade fennel-freckled sausage, hellaceously hot peppers, thick San Marzano sauce, local bufala mozzarella and a final drizzle of honey ($19). Monday to Saturday noon to 11 pm, Sunday 4 to 11 pm. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms in basement.
2 Queen Margherita Pizza
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1402 Queen E, at Vancouver, 416466-6555, queenmargheritapizza.ca. Named for Naples-born Romolo Salvati, the Romolo ($16.95), a remarkably yeasty crust brushed with pulpy house sauce and tossed with local fior di latte, prosciutto cotto and ’shrooms. Monday to Thursday noon to 11 pm, Friday and Saturday noon to midnight, Sundays noon to 10 pm. Licensed. Access: five steps at door, another 11 to dining room, washrooms on same floor.
3 terroni
720 Queen W, at Claremont, 416504-0320 and others, terroni.ca. No, they won’t cut your pie – that’s what your knife is for – and they don’t allow substitutions, but this maddeningly delicious pizza still betters most of what’s out there, our fave, the Santo Stefano ($17.95) finished with house sauce, bufala moz- Search by rating, price zarella, aru- neighbourhood, genre, gula and pro-review and more! sciutto. Sunday to Thursday 9 am to 11 pm, Friday and Saturday 9 am to 11:30 pm. Access: barrier-free.
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5 obika
30 Yonge, at Front, 416-546-1062, obika.ca. Though this Rome-based chain’s mozzarella is officially DOP, its non-AVPN Margherita ($14) may as well be the real thing, dressed with the correct cheese, San Marzano tomato sauce and minimal basil, its thin, blistered crust appropriately floppy. Monday to Thursday 7 am to 11 pm, Friday 7 am to midnight, Saturday 11 am to midnight. Access: barrier-free.
($13.95) layered with spicy sausage, grilled eggplant, roasted red peppers, mozzarella and house tomato sauce. Monday to Wednesday 11:30 am to 10:30 pm, Thursday to Saturday 11:30 am to 11 pm, Sunday 1 to 10:30 pm. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms in basement.
7 gerrard sPaghetti & Pizza
1528 Danforth, at Rhodes, 416-4637792. A hipster’s Terroni this ain’t. Who cares when the thin-crusted pies are as tasty as the Nancy ($16), complete with nutty basil pesto, chèvre, fior di latte, sliced Yukon Gold potato and homegrown pickled hot peppers? Monday 4 to 11 pm, Tuesday to Thursday 11:30 am to 11 pm, Friday 11:30 am to midnight, Saturday 4 pm to midnight. Closed Sunday. Licensed. Access: barrier-free, washrooms in basement.
8 diverso by Ferraro
328 Dupont, at Spadina, 416-9293388, diversobyferraro.com. Why they flock: the Pizza Canadese ($10 lunch/$12 dinner), a marvellously retro combo of tomato sauce, mozzarella, mushrooms, pepperoni and green pepper. Also: 502 Eglinton W, at Warren, 416-488-7729. Monday to Thursday 11 am to 10 pm, Friday 11:30 am to 11 pm, Saturday noon to 11 pm, Sunday and holidays 4 to 9 pm. Licensed. Access: four steps at door, washrooms on same floor.
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1 Romar Cr, at Marlee, 416-256-6222, bigabaldis.com. If a minimally dressed, barely there pie isn’t your style, go for the Bigga Pizza ($14.50 small), cracker-crisp and generously dressed with house San Marzano tomato sauce, local mozzarella, sausage, bacon, mortadella and fresh basil. And they deliver! Sunday and Monday 11 am to 10 pm, Tuesday and Wednesday 11 am to 11 pm, Thursday to Saturday 11 am to midnight. Unlicensed. Access: three steps at door, washrooms on same floor.
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3010 Dundas W, at High Park, 10 nowtoronto.com/food 416-763- 4191. Toronto’s longest-running
MarceLLo’s 6 Online RestauRant guide 1163 St Clair W, at Dufferin, 416656-6159, marcellospizzeria.com. Though it’s rarely mentioned in the endless Terroni vs Libretto pizza debate, this familystyle trat bakes a thin-crusted pie their equal, notably the Pizza alla Compagniola
pizzeria kicks it old school with the Vesuvio Super ($18), a Deluxe (pepperoni, mushroom, green peppers, $15.75) ramped up with ham, bacon and onion. Pineapple optional (75 cents). Monday to Thursday 11:30 am to 10 pm, Friday and Saturday 11:30 am to 11 pm, Sunday and holidays 3 to 10 pm. Delivery till 10 pm, except 11 pm Wednesday and Thursday, midnight Friday and Saturday. Access: barrier-free. 3
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her Toronto fans mind. Her hoards of loyalists have learned to keep expectations low and filled the ACC with wild roars whenever she so much as moved from stage left to right. After a video set up a narrative that cast Spears as a sexy secret agent, she glided in on a moving contraption and launched into Hold It Against Me. The heavy dubstep beats set the tone, and many older hits were tweaked to align with the hardedged newer material. Unfortunately, the digital wizardry that made the Femme Fatale album so fun was lost. Spears hit her marks and looked relaxed while singing along to backing tracks, but it all felt mechanical. Nicki Minaj, on the other hand, has unmistakable hunger in her eyes. The blue-wigged MC performed with a frenzied theatricality that suited her unhinged rhymes. Her set ended with an obligatory Drake cameo, but the highlight was a faux gun battle with a dancer dressed like Saw bad guy Jigsaw, set to the music of Enya. KEVIN RITCHIE
DNTEL at the Horseshoe, Sunday, August 14. Rating: NN
You’d think that after waiting 10 years to tour behind his debut album, Dntel (aka James Scott Tamborello) would have put together a better live show. Or maybe that long delay was a sign that his indie-electronic laptop tunes were never meant to be performed in a rock club. If Tamborello is hoping to be known as more than the other guy in Postal Service, this tour isn’t going to do it. Tamborello, his head buried in his laptop on a dark stage, was obviously hoping the trippy projections behind him would carry the show. But they paled in comparison to what other artists are doing with video these days. Occasionally he sang, though mostly relied on disembodied prerecorded vocals and appearances by members of openers the One AM Radio. Getting someone who’s more comfortable onstage than you to take the mic is smart, but what’s the point when you can barely see them? There wasn’t even enough flow between songs to treat it BB as a DJ set. NOW AUGUST 18-24 2011
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The word “indie” gets abused in music writing, but few bands have the true independent spirit that’s kept garage rock stalwarts M.O.T.O., more lengthily known as Masters of the Obvious, going for 30 years. During that time, Paul Caporino, the lone constant member, has released about 25 albums (many of them cassette-only) and almost as many singles, including a Christmas split 7-inch with Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet. Now he’s embarking on the Middle Age Rampage tour, which takes him all over North America and then Europe for three months this autumn. “I decided that I’m going to tour as much as I can,” he says from a stop in Sherbrooke, Quebec. “Hopefully, I can make enough to stay on the road for a while. I don’t have a band, but I’m lucky to have other musicians around who can play with me. Other shows I just play on my own.” It takes a certain passion for playing rock ’n’ roll to undertake the biggest tour of your life at the age of 50, especially when you’re sleeping on floors and travelling by car. “Now’s the time to do it,” he argues. “In the 80s and 90s there wasn’t the internet, and cellphones weren’t widespread. It’s easier to book shows these days. And you know, my songs have [retained] a low level of popularity – enough that people will put together a show for me.” Caporino recently moved back to his hometown of New Orleans after living in Chicago for 20 years. For much of that time, M.O.T.O.’s other member was Beck Dudley, making the band a guitar/drums, boy/girl duo long before it was cool to be one. “She’s one of my favourite artists, and recently self-published a book of children’s stories” Caporino enthuses. “Rock ’n’ roll is such a boys’ game, and most gals I know focus on the fun. She was really great to play with.” 3
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clubs & concerts hot SLIM TWIG, U.S. GIRLS, SUN RA RA RA
Dakota Tavern (249 Ossington), tonight (Thursday, August 18) See preview, page 44.
tickets
GARY CLARK JR., DARREN GLOVER
Rivoli (332 Queen West), Friday (August 19) See preview, page 48.
MILES JONES
Yonge-Dundas Square, Friday (August 19) Soulful Toronto hip-hop show. Free.
(August 19) Queer hip-hop and dancehall party.
BLUE RODEO, STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES & DUCHESSES W/ ALLISON MOORER
Molson Amphitheatre (909 Lake Shore West), Saturday (August 20) Local roots heroes and a Texas legend.
BERES HAMMOND, WAYNE WONDER
THOUGHTLESS MUSIC LAUNCH
Sound Academy (11 Polson), Saturday (August 20) Lovers rock and soulful dancehall.
YES YES Y’ALL
w/ Gilles Peterson, General Eclectic, Luis Deniz Jazz Quartet Mod Club (722 College), Saturday (August 20) Iconic UK jazz-funk DJ plays Cuban fest.
w/ Deepchild, Fairmont, Noah Pred, Alicia Hush, Phantom Ambulance Li’ly (656 College), Friday (August 19) Local techno label launches new monthly party.
HAVANA CULTURA
w/ L Rock, Sammy D, Nino Brown, J-ILL, Stunts Annex Wreckroom (794 Bathurst), Friday
SKRATCH BASTID FIRST ANNUAL BBQ
Wristpect, DJ P-Plus, Paul E Lopes Steam Whistle Brewing (255 Bremner), Saturday (August 20) Hip-hop afternoon BBQ bash.
TEKI LATEX, ORGASMIC Wrongbar (1279 Queen West), Saturday (August 20) Parisian electro rapper.
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How to find a listing
THE WAR ON DRUGS, CAVEMAN, PORCELAIN RAFT
= Critics’ pick (highly recommended) ñ 5= Queer night
Parts & Labour (1566 Queen West), Sunday (August 21) See preview, page 41.
Drake Underground (1150 Queen West), Wednesday (August 24) Experimental Americana.
$69.50. RTH. April 13.
Swabs, Crack Squad, Ruthless Ones (punk) doors 7 pm. AQUILA UPSTAIRS Alain Richer (acoustic rock). BOSTON PIZZA Azalea (pop) 8 pm, all ages. BOVINE SEX CLUB The Caraways, Cavaliers, Excellerator, DJ Vania. CADILLAC LOUNGE Poor Fred Noonan. CLINTON’S Vermillion Skye (art rock). CLOAK & DAGGER PUB The Cosmotones (old school rockabilly/pop) 10 pm. DAKOTA TAVERN Slim Twig, U.S. Girls & Sun Ra Ra Ra. See preview, page 44. DC MUSIC THEATRE Punk Ska BYOBizzle Party The Dead Hour. DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Kestrels, Bandera doors 9 pm. THE GARRISON Simply Saucer, Wet Dirt, B17 doors 9 pm. GLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR The Barettas & Mintz (bluesy punk pop/emo rock) 8 pm. HORSESHOE Monster Truck, Indian Handcrafts, the Coppertone 9 pm. LEE’S PALACE Rodrigo Wilde, Drugs in Japan, Blood Rexdale, Dinosaur Dinosaur, Joob doors 8:30 pm. THE LOCAL Ronley Teper & her Lipliners (experimental pop). LULA LOUNGE Almost Twenty Something Cabaret (pop/jazz) 7:30 PM. MITZI’S SISTER Toby Beard. MOD CLUB Crash Parallel 9 pm. PARTS & LABOUR Needles/Pins, Ultrathin, the Moby Dicks (garage/punk) 10 pm. THE PISTON David Borins 9 pm. RIVOLI CD release The Unknown Culprits, GRUVE, Future History & the Peter James Project doors 8:30 pm. SILVER DOLLAR Ostrich Tuning, My Empty Phantom, Prosimii, Nitemarket 12. SMILING BUDDHA Doug Hoyer, the Joe, Wide Eyed Tour Guide, Fighter/Lover, Nex’ Stuff doors 9 pm. SOUND ACADEMY Classic Rock Thursdays Honeymoon Suite 8 pm. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY’S Skip Tracer (rock/top 40) 9:30 pm. SPORTSTER’S Nicola Vaughan (pop rock) 10 pm. SUPERMARKET Benefit Concert For Animal Rights Jay Pollock, Mercy Flight, Monster Beach, Picturesound doors 8:30 pm. VELVET UNDERGROUND The Scumballys, Moonshine & Roofies, Dimitri the Lover, High Priestess Colette O’Quinn, DJ Osaze doors 8 pm.
Glenn Gould Studio 8 pm, $29.50. RTH. October 29.
BOBBY MCFERRIN Roy Thomson Hall 8
FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD
DAWES, BLITZEN TRAPPER Opera
COLIN JAMES Canadian Songbook Mas-
JUST ANNOUNCED
vernment/Kool Haus 9:30 pm, $95 two-night pass. ink-00.com. September 3 and 4.
K’NAAN, BEDOUIN SOUNDCLASH
Canada’s Walk Of Fame Festival Massey Hall 8 pm, $29-$59. RTH. October 1.
SUUNS The Garrison doors 8 pm, $12.50. RT, SS. October 2.
DOA Horseshoe doors 9 pm, $12.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. October 7. THE TOASTERS Horseshoe doors 8:30
pm, $12.50. HS, RT, SS. October 12.
MATT MCHUGH & THE BEAUTIFUL GIRLS Drake Hotel doors 8:30 pm, $13.50.
RT, SS. September 6.
JOHN HIATT & THE COMBO Queen Elizabeth Theatre 7:30 pm, $64.50. TM. October 12.
SEAN ROWE RIVOLI doors 9 pm, $11.50.
ZUCCHERO Massey Hall 8 pm, $49.50-
RT, SS. September 9.
$69.50. RTH. October 15.
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JOAN BAEZ Roy Thomson Hall 9 pm, $49.50-$79.50. RTH. November 2. CROOKED FINGERS Drake Hotel doors 8:30 pm, $15.50. RT, SS. November 8.
TRAMPLED BY TURTLES Horseshoe
doors 8:30 pm, $15. HS, RT, SS, TM. November 10.
THE KOOKS Sound Academy doors 8 pm,
all ages, $25-$35. HS, RT, SS, TM. November 23.
JUSTIN RUTLEDGE Canadian Songbook
Glenn Gould Studio 8 pm, $29.50-$39.50. RTH. November 25.
VNV NATION Phoenix Concert Theatre
doors 8 pm, $28.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. December 2.
CHICAGO Massey Hall 8 pm, $59.50-
CHRIS BROWN, KELLY ROWLAND, T-PAIN, TYGA, DIGGY The F.A.M.E. Tour
THE PACK A.D. Opera House. October 15.
Molson Amphitheatre doors 6 pm, $25.75$85.75. TM. September 12.
LISA HANNIGAN, GAVIN GLASS Mod
LAILA BIALI Glenn Gould Studio 8 pm,
KID CUDI, CHIP THA RIPPER Re-
SHONEN KNIFE Horseshoe doors 8:30
BRANDI DISTERHEFT Glenn Gould
JOHN PRINE Massey Hall 8 pm, $49.50-
WHITEHORSE (MELISSA MCCLELLAND & LUKE DOUCET) Canadian
scheduled from July 30. Original tickets honoured. Molson Amphitheatre doors 7:30 pm, all ages, $20-$55. RT, SS, TM. September 15.
BAYSIDE, TRANSIT, BATHURST
Annex Wreckroom doors 6:30 pm, all ages, $14.50. RT, SS, TM, UE. September 24.
NEW VILLAGER Drake Hotel doors 8:30
Club doors 7 pm, $15. RT, SS, TW. October 15.
pm, $14.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. October 20. $62.50. RTH. October 21.
METHOD MAN, CURREN$Y, SMOKE DZA, FIEND, THE PRICKS, CORNER BOY P The Smokers Club Tour Kool Haus
pm, $12.50. RT, SS. September 26.
doors 8 pm, all ages, $29.50. PDR, RT, SS, TM. October 21.
BURTON CUMMINGS Canada’s Walk Of
GHOUL Phoenix Concert Theatre. October 25.
Fame Festival Massey Hall 8 pm, $49-$135.50. RTH. September 29.
GENTLEMEN HUSBANDS Horseshoe
doors 9 pm, $10.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. September 30.
CHANTAL KREVIAZUK, SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Canada’s Walk Of Fame Festival Massey Hall 8 pm, $39.50$88.50. RTH. September 30.
TRANS AM Lee’s Palace doors 9 pm, $13.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. September 30.
All listings are free. Send to: music@nowtoronto.com, fax to 416-364-1166 or mail to Music, NOW Magazine, 189 Church, Toronto M5B 1Y7. Include artist(s), genre of music, event name (if any), venue name and address, time, ticket price and phone number or website. Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm. Weekly events must confirm their listing once a month.
ALLEYCATZ Uptown Swag 9 pm. ANNEX WRECKROOM The Casualties, the
Sure, most of Weezy’s recent musical offerings haven’t been all that impressive, but we’ve still got high hopes for his upcoming Tha Carter IV album (dropping August 29), and this gig will offer a sneak peak. Besides, as Wayne proved with his guest appearance at Drake’s OVO Fest, he can definitely still rock a crowd. At Molson Amphitheatre (909 Lake Shore West), Friday (August 19), 7 pm. $29.75-$109.75. TM.
BENNY BENASSI, BLOODY BEETROOTS DEATH CREW 77, AVICII, DUBFIRE, CROOKERS, GARETH EMERY, TOMMY LEE, DJ AERO, VICTOR CALDERONE, LOCO DICE, GUTI AND OTHERS Labour Of Love Gu-
How to place a listing
POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL
Lil Wayne
RT, SS, TM. September 3.
Music listings appear by day, then by genre, then alphabetically by venue. Event names are in italics. See Music Club Index, page 50, for venue address and phone number.
Thursday, August 18
w/ Starting from Scratch, Bonjay,
HIP-HOP
J COLE Sound Academy doors 8 pm, $30.
THIS WEEK IN THE CLUBS
LIZA MINNELLI Roy Thomson Hall 8 pm, $59.50-$199.50. RTH. October 27.
KEVIN DEVINE Drake Hotel doors 8 pm.
$13.50. RT, SS, TM. October 27.
DOUG PAISLEY Canadian Songbook
House doors 7 pm, $18.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. October 30.
$99.50. RTH. February 4.
$29.50. RTH. February 10.
Studio 8 pm, $29.50. RTH. February 21.
Songbook Winter Garden Theatre 8 pm, $29.50-$39.50. RTH. February 24.
PAVLO Roy Thomson Hall 8 pm, $39.50$59.50. RTH. February 24.
ALEJANDRA RIBERA Glenn Gould Studio 8 pm, $29.50. RTH. March 2.
STEVEN PAGE Canadian Songbook Win-
ter Garden Theatre 8 pm, $29.50-$49.50. RTH. April 13.
BUDDY GUY Massey Hall 8 pm, $49.50pm, $49.50-$69.50. RTH. April 16.
sey Hall 8 pm, $39.50-$69.50. RTH. April 20.
NIKKI YANOFSKY Massey Hall 8 pm, $39.50-$69.50. RTH. April 21.
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2011 HIGHLIGHTS
FREE TIMES CAFE Julian Haqueband. GRAFFITI’S Frank Nevada 3 to 5 pm. GRAFFITI’S Fraser Melvin Blues Band (blues) 5
to 8 pm.
ASPETTA CAFFE Open Mic Nite 7 to 11 pm. CASTRO’S LOUNGE Jerry Leger & the Situation
GROSSMAN’S Summer Open Jam 9 pm. HUGH’S ROOM Joey DeFrancesco, Vito Rezza,
CENTRE ISLAND OUTDOOR LAGOON THEATRE SP
JULIE’S CUBAN RESTAURANT Havana Cultura
(country/folk/rock) 9 pm.
Simms & Maya’s Caravan Of Song 7 pm.
C’EST WHAT Jesse Labelle 9 pm. THE DANNY Acoustic Open Stage Sebastian Agnello (country/rock protest) 9:30 pm.
DAVE’S... ON ST CLAIR Open Mic Uncle Herb Dale & Fran McCann 9:30 pm.
EMMET RAY BAR Ken Yoshioka Trio 9 pm.
Robi Botos 8:30 pm.
Cassava Latin Duo w/ Adis Rodriguez (salsa/ cha-cha/Latin jazz/fusion) 7 to 11 pm. LOU DAWG’S Call In Sick Friday Mike C (acoustic) 9:30 pm. NATHAN PHILLIPS SQUARE Toronto Blues Society Talent Search noon to 2 pm. ONLY CAFÉ Jennifer Schaeffer (singer/songwriter) 8 pm.
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THE PAINTED LADY Ben Veneer, My Home the Stars (folk/alt pop) 9 pm. LA PERLA Quique Escamilla (Latin jazz). REPOSADO Havana Cultura Reposado House Band (Cuban music) 10 pm. TORONTO BOTANICAL GARDEN Gardens Of Song Nagata Shachu (taiko drums) 7 to 8:30 pm. TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Songs by Bert 6 pm. TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Bluegrass Night Houndstooth (bluegrass/old-time) 7:30 pm. TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Not the Wind Not the Flag, Jax Deluca 10 pm. WHITE SWAN Jam Section 8 7 pm.
JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL
BLUE DOT GALLERY Summer Cool Dinner & Jazz Barbara Lica, Era Chorna 6:45 pm. DE SOTOS Open Mic/Jazz Jam Double A Jazz 8 pm. DOMINION ON QUEEN John T Davis (organist) 5:30 to 8 pm. GATE 403 Sammy Jackson Jazz Quartet 5 to 8 pm. GATE 403 Bartek Kozminski El Mosaico (flamenco/jazz fusion) 9 pm. REPOSADO The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz). REX Melissa Stylianou, Jamie Reynolds, Fabio Ragnelli, Andrew Downing 9:30 pm. REX Sophia Perlman 6:30 pm. TORONTO MUSIC GARDEN Summer Music In The Garden: Mountain High, River Flow... (without end) Orchid Ensemble 7 pm. WATUSI Havana Cultura Eliana Cuevas (jazz) 11 pm.
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BAR 460 Oi! Night (punk/oi) 10 pm. COBRA LOUNGE Swanky Tunes Jed Harper. GOODHANDY’S Ladyplus Parties DJ Todd
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Klinck doors 8 pm.5 INSOMNIA DJ Ron Jon (funk/soul/house). LEVACK BLOCK Havana Cultura DJ General Eclectic, Jason Palma 10 pm. MARGRET Post Punk DJ Darkness Visible (post punk/gothic rock/alternative) 10 pm. THE OSSINGTON Soundclash Blk Btlz Vs Pirate’s Blend. VELVET UNDERGROUND DJ Ozaze (industrial/ goth) 11:15 pm. XS NIGHTCLUB Get Wild Thursdays DJ Couture 10 pm.
EXPERIMENTAL POP
Slim Twig
Avant-garde noise rocker discovers the joys of conventional songwriting By RICHARD TRAPUNSKI SLIM TWIG with U.S. GIRLS and SUN RA RA RA at the Dakota (249 Ossington), tonight (Thursday, August 18). $7. 416850-4579.
Slim Twig has cut his hair. His signature pompadour has been replaced by a much more conservative crew cut. The change is dramatic enough that when he arrives at the Only Café, I almost don’t recognize him. “It’s just a summer thing,” he says. “It’s too hot right now for that hairstyle.” Still, it parallels a change in his music. After cycling through Suicideinfluenced gothabilly to hip-hop-referencing cut-and-paste experimentation, the 23-year-old songwriter/ sometime actor is now reinventing himself as a 60s pop craftsman. Tonight at the Dakota, he releases a new 12-inch (Palmist) split record with experimental soul-pop pushers U.S. Girls that hints at the new direction. Two of its songs, Priscilla and I’ll Always Be A Child, will reappear, likely in different versions, on a fulllength LP set for release on Paper Bag in the fall. “My emphasis now is on classically composed and performed pop songs,” says the thoughtful Toronto musician between sips of beer. “I’m
trying to appropriate things from 60s music like the Zombies and the Kinks as well as Motown and Philly soul, always with a producer’s eye. “The structures of those songs are so precise; it’s exhilarating trying to plug in my own choruses and prechoruses and to fit my own ideas into those rigidly defined parameters.” In the new material, Twig abandons his sample-based technique for live drums, bass, strings and especially keyboards. He’s solidified a new four-piece lineup for shows, and, for the first time, collaborates with the members on record. “I’m trying to remove some of the ‘weirdo’ and ‘avant-garde’ connotations I got in the past,” he says. “So much of what I was doing before was about opposing conventions and trying to push music as a whole, as pretentious as that might sound. But I feel like I was alienating people. “I think music should challenge people, and it’s great if it does, but it can be a fruitless [exercise] at times. The feeling is not as fulfilling as it sounds. People wear that as a badge of honour sometimes, the fact that they’re pursuing music on their own terms. I totally admire that. But I just don’t think that’s what I’m actually about. I want to be a songwriter.” 3 music@nowtoronto.com
Friday, August 19 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL
ALLEYCATZ Graffitti Park 9:30 pm. BOVINE SEX CLUB Castle, Dentata, Possessed Steel. ñ CADILLAC LOUNGE Cross-Border Rockin’ Blue
Mercury Coupe, the Irving Klaws, DJ Rockin’ Dave Faris (greasy garage rock) doors 9 pm.
CANADIAN NATIONAL EXHIBITION STRIKER’S MIDWAY STAGE Danny Scott (rock & roll) 2 to
6 pm, Redline Run 7 to 11 pm.
CANADIAN NATIONAL EXHIBITION MIDWAY STAGE The Stew 3 to 6 pm. C’EST WHAT Jen Foster (pop rock) 8 pm. CSI ANNEX Album release The Weather
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Station, Daniel Romano, Eons (Misha Bower and Matt Cully). DC MUSIC THEATRE Metal As F#$% Fest The After Chapter. DICKENS STREET THEATRE Feast In The East IV Digits, Moon King, Thomas 9 pm, all ages. DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND EP release The Jilted Lovers Club doors 7 pm. ECHO BEACH Done With Dolls 4 pm. EL MOCAMBO Avery Island, Stephanie Bosch, Union City doors 9 pm. EL MOCAMBO Quietus the Isosceles Project, the Killing Field and Symbionic 8:30 pm. GLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR Amatrice (neo-soul/R&B/jazz) 8 pm. GRAFFITI’S Rocking For Sick Kids Paul Martin (classic covers) 5 to 7 pm. GRAFFITI’S Bill Wood & the Woodies 9 pm. HORSESHOE The Replacements Tribute Night The Balconies, Give Us the Daggers, Dirty Mags and others. LEE’S PALACE Jumple, the Wilderness, Rival Boys 9 pm.
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MISSISSAUGA CIVIC CENTRE CELEBRATION
SQUARE Abandon All Ships, San Sebastian (hardcore/Euro/dance) 7:30 to 9:30 pm. MITZI’S SISTER The Boojies, the Hook Up, Light Bulb Alley. MOLSON AMPHITHEATRE Lil Wayne, Keri Hilson, Far East Movement, Lloyd doors 7 pm. PARTS & LABOUR Static Thought, the Delinquints, Take Drugs (punk rock) doors 9 pm, all ages.
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Revival Hip-Hop Karaoke: Round 55 Abdominal, More or Les, DJ Numeric, Ted ñ Dancin’ 10 pm. Rivoli Gary Clark Jr, Darren Glover doors 8 pm. See preview, page 48. ñ Rockpile The Joys. SilveR DollaR Blue Coupe Dennis Dunaway,
Joe & Albert Bouchard, Snowblower, Truth Panel (Alice Cooper Band & Blue Oyster Cult musicians). SouthSiDe Johnny’S Cameltoe (rock/top 40) 10 pm. SupeRmaRket Circle Of Time Mr Charlton, DJ Cal & Kyle Marshall doors 10 pm. yonge-DunDaS SquaRe Indie Fridays Miles Jones (hip-hop) 8-10 pm.
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aquila upStaiRS The New Mynah Birds, Nicole Dunn (blues). aSpetta caffe Strawn & Moon, Mike Nagoda, Blair Harvey, Black Mink 6 to 10 pm. canaDian national exhibition caSino
Frankie Benson 2 to 6 pm.
canaDian national exhibition caSino patio Paul James Band (blues) 7:30 pm. centRe iSlanD outDooR lagoon theatRe SP
Simms & Maya’s Caravan Of Song 7 pm. the Danny Nicole Dunn Band (blues/R&B) 10 pm. fRee timeS cafe Katie Doidge. gate 403 Mr Rick & the Biscuits (country) 9 pm.
haRbouRfRont centRe ReDpath SugaR Stage Masala! Mehndi! Masti! Carnatic Vio-
gooDhanDy’S Ladyplus Parties DJ Todd Klinck doors 8 pm.5
miDWay Stage Danny Scott (rock & roll) 2 to
haRbouRfRont centRe bRigantine Room Masala! Mehndi! Masti! 22° of Beatitude 11 pm. hot box cafe Big Spliff (ital reggae). inSomnia Funkn’ Fresh Fridays DJ Maestro (house/breaks). li’ly Thoughtless Music Launch Deepchild, Fairmont, Noah Pred, Alicia Hush, Phantom Ambulance. the oSSington Get By Friday DJ Pagea Delphi & DJ Bane (deep grooves). la peRla Eclectic City DJ Noloves. the piSton DJ Gspot 10 pm. RepoSaDo Havana Cultura DJ Jimmy Suave 10 pm. the Savoy DJ JRyDee (hip-hop/old school) 10 pm. velvet unDeRgRounD DJ Hannah (alt rock) 10 pm. xS nightclub Summer Session Fridays DJ Couture (top 40/house/hip-hop) 10 pm.
canaDian national exhibition miDWay Stage The Stew 3 to 6 pm. centRe iSlanD ShopSy’S patio Reggae In Para-
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alleycatz Ascencion (R&B/soul/funk) 9:30
pm.
bovine Sex club La Quarella, Lost Cities, No-
madic Sound Division, DJ Ian Blurton. caDillac lounge Mary & Micky (country) 3:30 pm.
canaDian national exhibition StRikeR’S
6 pm, Redline Run 7 to 11 pm.
dise Kidd Rasta, Jah International 4 to 9 pm. c’eSt What Sandra Bouza 8 pm. cheRRy cola’S Rock n’ Rolla CD release In My Coma doors 8 pm. Dominion on queen Ronnie Hayward Trio (beatnik hillbilly ) 3 to 7 pm. DRake hotel unDeRgRounD Scattered Trees, the Alternate Routes doors 7:30 pm. glaDStone hotel meloDy baR Box Full of Cash (country/rockabilly) 7 to 10 pm. haRD luck baR Polka Dot Cadaver, Downtown Brown. hoRSeShoe Amos the Transparent, Fast Romantics, Parcs & Rec, Evylyn (alt rock) 9:30 pm. lee’S palace Rue Morgue Pre-Party Saint Alvia, Organ Thieves, Get Nuns. mitzi’S SiSteR Aunt Beazy. molSon amphitheatRe Blue Rodeo, Steve Earle & the Dukes & Duchesses w/ Allison Moorer doors 6:30 pm. Rivoli A Latesummer Night’s Dream: The Jessica Stuart Few & Larra Skye Band, Anna Atkinson, Ryan Van Sickle (melodic indie/folk/ pop/jazz) doors 8:30 pm. Rockpile Who Made Who (AC/DC tribute). SilveR DollaR Late Night Live Dilly Dally, Fires Of..., Organic Funk 10:20 pm.
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SounD acaDemy Redemption Reggae Festival Beres Hammond, Wayne Wonñ der 8 pm. SouthSiDe Johnny’S Kat House (rock/top 40) 10 pm.
tRanzac SoutheRn cRoSS The Lake Vernon
Drowning, William & Polly (indie) 10 pm. tRinity bellWooDS paRk Queen West MusicFest Stephen Prickett, Miss Emily, Mike Evin, Lazybones, Adams Rib 1 to 7 pm, all ages. WRongbaR Hoodie Allen (rap) doors 8 pm, all ages.
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Folk/Blues/Country/World
aquila upStaiRS Ken Yoshioka Blues Band 9 pm. aSpetta caffe Zack ‘Mr Perfect’ Clark, Hello
Pluto, Olivia Pileggi, Aimie Page, Pretty Odd, Boxes of Boom, Die Eichhomchen Maschine, Gabriel Nicolau 2 to 11 pm. axiS galleRy & gRill Poppa K’s 70th Richard Keelan. caDillac lounge The Mashmen (folk/pop) 10 pm.
canaDian national exhibition caSino patio Paul James Band (blues) 7:30 pm. canaDian national exhibition caSino
Frankie Benson 2 to 6 pm.
centRe iSlanD outDooR lagoon theatRe SP Simms & Maya’s Caravan Of Song 7 pm.
cloak & DaggeR pub Fraser Melvin Blues Band (blues) 9 pm.
the Danny Nicole Dunn Band (blues/R&B) 10 pm. faiRbank village Fairbank Village Summer
Fest Imbayakunas, the Swingin’ Blackjacks, Sol de Cuba, Johnny Scat, Cafe Cubano, Dr Draw, Shrimp Daddy, Vanessa Marie Carter, Danny Marks and others noon to 11 pm. fRee timeS cafe Harrison Fine. gate 403 Sweet Derrick Blues Band 9 pm. gRaffiti’S Hicks & Dawe Country Band 4 to 7 pm.
haRbouRfRont centRe bRigantine Room
Masala! Mehndi! Masti! Chin Injeti (hip-hop) 11 pm, the Guru Bros, Gitanjali Lena, Anupa, Blitz, Mandeep Sethi 11:30 pm
haRbouRfRont centRe ReDpath SugaR Stage Masala! Mehndi! Masti!: Seniors Desi Idol Finals 1 pm, Kaminari 2:30 pm.
haRbouRfRont centRe WeStJet Stage
Nishith Pandya & Jonita Gandhi 2 pm, SW Storm (pop soca) 3 pm, Shillong Chamber Choir 9:30 pm. levack block Havana Cultura Soul Drums 9 pm. libeRty biStRo Philomene Hoffman, Luke Andrews (singer/songwriter). the local Lucas Stagg (acoustic roots/rock). lou DaWg’S Mike C (acoustic blues/rock/ska/ reggae) 9:30 pm. lula lounge Salsa Saturday Ricky Franco. mambo lounge Trio On The Patio Evaristo (traditional Cuban music) 8 pm. oSSington avenue Havana Cultura Fredy Suarez 3 to 6 pm. the oSSington Havana Cultura Son Aché Trio 8 & 9:15 pm.
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lins 7 & 9 pm.
haRbouRfRont centRe WeStJet Stage Masala! Mehndi! Masti! Waheed Soroor, Kice 8 pm. haRbouRfRont centRe Masala! Mehndi! Masti!: Bhanging By The Lake Dhol Circle, DJ Double AA, Gabroo Punjab De & Paul-the Drummer-Nanuwa (bhangra) 9:30 pm. Julie’S cuban ReStauRant Havana Cultura Cassava Latin Duo w/ Adis Rodriguez (salsa/ cha-cha/Latin jazz/fusion) 7 to 11 pm. levack block Havana Cultura Soul Drums 9 pm. lou DaWg’S It’s Gotta Groove Friday Jeff Eager 9:30 pm. oSSington avenue Havana Cultura Fredy Suarez 3 to 6 pm. the oSSington Havana Cultura Latinada Band 8 pm. the painteD laDy Funkete Party Dos Mundos Sound Crew 10 pm. RepoSaDo Havana Cultura Reposado House Band (Cuban music) 10 pm. SWeaty betty’S Havana Cultura Evaristo Machado (salsa/Cuban troba/Latin pop) 8:30 & 10 pm. tRanzac SoutheRn cRoSS The Foolish Things (folk) 5 pm. WatuSi Havana Cultura Son Aché Trio 11 pm & 12:15 am.
He was Bad Blake in Crazy Heart He was Rooster Cogburn in True Grit And he was The Big Lebowski… One of America’s greatest actors releases an album of roots/country/Americana….. and it’s very tasty!
Jazz/ClassiCal/experimental
gate 403 Ventana 5 Jazz Band (jazz) 5 to 8 pm. lula lounge Summer Jazz Series Alithea Cameron (jazz).
lula lounge Althea Cameron (jazz) 8 pm. olD mill inn home Smith baR Mike Murley
Trio 7:30 pm. RepoSaDo The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz). Rex Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm. Rex Sultans of String 6:30 pm. Rex Jeff Coffin’s Mutet 9:45 pm. WateRfallS Jim Heineman Trio (jazz) 6:30 to 10:30 pm.
danCe musiC/dJ/lounge
annex WReckRoom Yes Yes Y’All L Rock, Sammy D, Nino Brown, J-iLL, Stunts ñ (hip-hop/dancehall/R&B) doors 10 pm.5
"When the pieces come together - as on laid-back, folksy charmers like "Everything But Love" & "Maybe I Missed The Point" - the result is as comfortable and unpretentious as the Dude's bathrobe" - SPIN
caStRo’S lounge DJ ‘I Hate You’ Rob (soul/ funk/R&B/punk rock/rockabilly) 10 pm.
clinton’S Girl & Boy 90s Dance Party. cRookeD StaR Havana Cultura DJ Alexis
D’Boys, DJ Bernal 10 pm. DRake hotel lounge Bangs & Blush (Motown/Britpop) doors 10 pm. DRake hotel unDeRgRounD Edumacation DJ Fase (hip-hop) doors 11 pm. enteRpRiSe 2000 Soul Kitchen Boat Cruise Jexter X Kid Kut, DJ Starting From Scratch boarding 9 pm. fly Main Street House DJ Ticky Ty, Jay Force 10 pm.5 footWoRk Luv This City Nathan Barato, the Junkies, Chris Larsen, Jonathan Rosa doors 10 pm. fox & fiDDle WelleSley DJ Shaq-T (salsa/ merengue/reggaeton/house/dance). glaDStone hotel ballRoom A Fresh Celebration Cyn & Kmleon, DJ GSpence, DJ Kmleon 10 pm.
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fri september 16
thursday
october 6
lee’s palace
$17.50 advance • 9:00pm doors
lee’s palace • $ 17.50 advance
ra ra
riot
olivia
tremor control
tues september 27 lee’s palace • $20.00 advance
horrors mudhoney the
tues september 27 mod club • $16.50 advance
Musictapes
friday september 30 the phoenix • $ 27.50 advance
tues october 4 the phoenix $18.50 advance
8:00pm doors • 19+
blake
thurs september 29 the mod club
wild $18.50
$ 22.50
london uk goth shoegaze
girls james athens, elephant 6 90’s indie rock
w/
saturday september 10 @ the horseshoe
advance • 7:00pm early show
advance • 9:00pm doors • 19+
sunday october 16 the phoenix $
fri september 16 @ opera house
girls w/ crocodiles
the real Mckenzies ska
17.50 advance • 8:00pm doors
7:30pm doors • all-ages • $17.50 advance
dum dum
saturday october 15 / lee’s palace • $16.50 advance ska & soul
beasts the aggrolites
fri october 28 @ opera house
w/ Marketa Irglova of tHE sWELL sEasON
saturday october 15 sound academy
$ 27.00
advance Ga • $ 37 advance VIP • 8pm doors • all-ages
friday october 28 @ queen elizabeth theatre
$ 22.50
advance • 8:30pm doors • all-ages
the
20th anniversary ska celebration
slackers sunday october 30 @ opera house
dan mangan dawes $
27.50 advance • all-ages • 7:15pm doors • vancouver
$ 18.50 adv • indie folk double header
blitzen trapper
monday october 17 / lee’s palace • $ 20.00 advance
lemonheads
perform
it’s a shame about ray
saturday october 15 @ opera house $ 15.00
advance • all-ages • 8:00pm doors
hollerado with Wildlife
+ the Pack ad
wednesday october 19 @ sound academy
boyce avenue $ 23.50
advance • all-ages • 7:00pm doors
cold lykke li war kids friday november 4 the phoenix • $ 20.50 adv • 8:30pm doors
with
second date added!
thurs october 27 the sound academy
tickets
sat november 19 $ opera house • 17.00 advance
all-ages ga • 19+ vip advance ga • $40.00 advance vip
$ 15.00
@ the phoenix
august 18-24 2011 NOW
sound academy
thursday november 17 @ the mod club
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tuesday november 15 $ 30.00 adv ga (all-ages) • $ 40.00 advance vip (19+) • doors 8:00pm
$ 34.50
friday
goth industrial dance $28.50 advance • doors 8:00pm
first aid kit
special guest
canon blue
advance • early show 7:00pm doors
the radio dept.
advance ticketS @ ticketmaster.ca or 1-855-985-5000 • HorSeSHoe Front Bar • SoundScapeS • rotate tHiS tHurS august 18 @ annex Wreckroom / all-ageS • punk • $16.00 adv
the caSualtieS
The SwabS + CraCk Squad + ruThleSS OneS
Friday august 19 / $10.00
tHurS august 18 / $7.00
MonstEr replacements trUCK nigHt indian handcraFts tribute feaTuring coppertone Dirty mags BeneFit For nellie’S SHelter
give us the daggers thE BaLconIES thE gEt nunS color me obsessed film
Sat august 20 / $10.00
amos the transparent the Fast romantics parcs & rec evylyn
tueSday august 23 audio blood night featuring
morning thieves Wed august 24 / $4.00
Fri august 26 / $12.00 adv
cancer fundraiSer
crush luther
Arson autistic love the Breaking Lakes She RoaRS $15.50 adv
SurprISE mE mr. Davis Freeman dre & the kitchen party spookey reuben
justin townes sometimes why earLe Devolver opeN Door
Saturday august 27 / $7.00
shovels & rope
tueS september 6 / no cover
the young evils the wagons
Sat september 17 @ the horSeShoe / $13.50 advance With
tHe brains
tueS september 20 @ lee’S palace / $13.50 advance
yuck tHe HorSeSHoe / $13.50 advance
monday august 22 / $6.00
seattle / australia
guttErmouth nEkromantIx starfucker
nEW thrEat + SkuLLIanS
Sun september 25
Quiet cool Sandman VIpEr commanD caNoN blue thE Box tIgEr
Fri august 26 /
tueSday august 23 @ Sneaky dee’S / $15.00 advance
lick peNNy loAfEr No fouND aDDress
friday september 2 / $10.50 advance
fri september 30 @ the horSeShoe / $10.50 advance
Sun october 2 @ HorSeSHoe / $12.00 adv
tueSday september 13 /
11.50 advance
jim jones revue little richard meets mc5 meets SpringSteen
W/
kiD coNgo powers
artist bookings: craig@horseshoetavern.com or 416-598-0720
horseshoetavern.com 370 Queen St. WeSt / Spadina 416-598-4226 • 1947 to 2010
lee’S palace / $12.00 advance
the beauties deep dark woods mon september 26
tuneyards lee’S palace / $16.50 advance
tHurS october 20 Wed HorSeSHoe • $ 14.50 advance
Ska
Friday october 14 $ 11.50
lee’S palace
advance • 9:00pm doors • 19+
knife toasters
yukon star sea & 30th anniverSary tour
Wed November 2
blonde october 30 lee’S palace $16.00
advance - 7pm doors
Sat November 5
tHurS august 18 / $ 10.00
BaBE • rodrIgo WILdE Drugs in Japan dInoSaur dInoSaur blooD rexDale
Sat august 20 / $ 10.00 rue morgue pre-party
Sat august 20 the drake / $11.50 advance
friday august 26 / $8.00
Sat august 27 / $ 10.00
thurS september 1
tHurS september 8 / $8.00
cake
tueSday august 23 partS & laBour / $11.50 advance
WedneSday august 24 drake underground / $12.00 advance
JumpLE thE wilderness rIVaL BoyS trackIng nIcELy trEVor gordon & thE nIghtSoundS
lee’S palace • $ 16.50 advance
jon MclAUghlin
friday august 19 / $7.00
sAint AlviA orgAn thieveS get nuns
lost InnocEncE polarity SLEEpIn tom sliNger overtime StEphEn kELLog & thE SIxErS heroes HorSeSHoe • $ 12.00 advance
Sunday
with
Sat september 24
tHe HorSeSHoe • $ 12.50 advance
$17.50
advance
SEcrEt
tHurS august 25 / $ 6.00
AshEs At DAwn BAnD of CrooKs the Seed thiS iS Me as a Woman
thE WILdErnESS of maNitoba thE gErtrudES
chieFs 3 the the war eLastocitizens pizzAs
ScattErEd persoNal and thE
San franciSco pizza punk
Fri september 9 / $ 12.00 lOCal funk rOCk parTy
on drugs
Fri august 26 @ tHe drake / $12.00 adv
Fri september 9 @ tHe drake / $15.00 adv
Sun september 11 @ HorSeSHoe / $9.00 adv
tueS september 6
Fri september 9 @ rivoli / $11.50 adv
Wed sept 14 @ tHe garriSon | $12.00 adv
ex-Mr. bungle & FaitH no More
plus guests
Fri september 2 & Sat september 3
two gallants matt schofield peter Bjorn sean rowe active child & john these united states new villager drag the river weeDeater japandroids sleepercar suuns ha ha tonka cobra skulls leespalace.com
the paint mELLISa colin stetson movement fErrIck mat mchugh & the beautiful girls $
samiam
tHe HorSeSHoe / $15.50 advance
gentLemen husBands october 12 bob logg iii shoNeN the
london uk • sub pop grunge punk!
cd release
tHe HorSeSHoe / $12.50 advance
london uk • fat poSSum recordS
male bonding trEES Friday september 9 / $8.00 Wed september 14 / $15.00
Friday october 7
Wed september 21
@ tHe drake / $13.50 adv
Sat september 17 @ drake / $10.00 adv
$ 20.00
advance • 9:00pm doors • SWeden Startime
with
mon september 26 @ drake / $12.50 adv
mEmoryhouSE
Sat october 1 @ Hard luck / $13.50 adv
tueSday september 13 / $18.50 advance
tHurS sept 22 @ Sneaky dee’S / $12 adv
mon september 26 @ the horSeShoe / $9.00 advance With
ben sollee
Sun october 2 @ drake / $10.00 adv
metal
mon october 3 @ drake / $9.00 adv
Sat october 8 @ Hard luck / $13.50 adv wiTh nothington
wiTh
sAviors + Bison BC
artiSt bookingS: 416-598-0720 or ben@leespalace.com
529 bloor Street WeSt / bathurSt
NOW august 18-24 2011
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clubs&concerts œcontinued from page 45
The PainTed Lady Havana Cultura Heavyweights Brass Band, Fritz of Art (New Orleans-style brass band) 10 pm. Rebas Café Open Mic Saturday 1 to 4 pm. Rex Shrimp Daddy Reid (blues) 3:30 pm. Rex Justin Bacchus 7 pm. Rex CD release Robi Botos Trio 9:45 pm. ñ siLveR doLLaR Big Silver Blues 7 pm.
TRanzaC souTheRn CRoss Jamzac Jam Ses-
sion 3 pm.
viLLage of yoRkviLLe PaRk Summer Music In
The Park Sean Dowhaniuk Trio w/ Aubrey Wilson 2 to 5 pm. WaTusi Havana Cultura Orlando Cardoso 11 pm.
Jazz/ClassiCal/ExpErimEntal
Ceno Myrrhine Faller and Neil Hendry 7:30 pm. gaTe 403 Sandy Blakeley Duo noon to 3 pm. gaTe 403 Textura Music 5 to 8 pm. haRbouRfRonT CenTRe WesTJeT sTage Masala!
Mehndi Masti! Snehasish Mozumder 8 pm. hugh’s Room Eddie Bullen, Kingsley Ettienne (jazz/R&B) 8:30 pm. oLd miLL inn home smiTh baR Terry Clark Trio 7:30 pm. Rex Laura Marks (vocal jazz) noon. TRanzaC souTheRn CRoss Michael Davidson (jazz) 6:30 pm. WyChWood TheaTRe ChRisTie sTudio Sound Travels Festival Of Sound Art: Intensive Concert (performances by festival participants) 8 pm.
DanCE musiC/DJ/loungE
dRake hoTeL Lounge DJ Dougie Boom doors
berg & Adam Finchler 10 pm.
emPiRe Lounge Riddims. fLy Splash! DJ Isaac Escalante, DJ Shawn Riker,
aQuiLa Open Mic The McDales (country) 8:30 pm. aQuiLa Blues Brunch Ken Yoshioka noon to 2 pm. aQuiLa Sunday Junction Jam The New Mynah Birds & Jake Chisholm 3:30 to 7:30 pm. asPeTTa Caffe Textura, Hot Little Trio, zuviri, Luke Vajsar, Imaaji 2 to 7 pm. CadiLLaC Lounge Scotty Campbell & his Wardenairs. CameRon house The Cameron Brothers Band 10 pm. CameRon house Trace Bundy (acoustic guitar) doors 7:30 pm.
10 pm.
DJ Mike Vieira 10 pm.5 fooTWoRk Nick Curly, Hali, Rafwat & Chorniy, Nitin doors 10 pm. goodhandy’s Sodom Sci-Fi DJ Sumation 10 pm.5 hoT box Cafe Wild Style (dubstep/hip-hop/ reggae). insomnia Sense Saturdays DJ Charles (deep house). kuLTuRa The Bedtime Affair DJ Janina Marie, DJ Numeric doors 10:30 pm. LevaCk bLoCk Havana Cultura DJ Paul E Lopes, Simmer Down DJ Crew 10 pm. mod CLub Havana Cultura Gilles Peterson, DJ General Eclectic, Luis Deniz Jazz Quartet 9 pm. The ossingTon All Souled Out DJ Silvermayne & Big Jimmy Mills (hip-hop/soul/funk/dance). PaCha Lounge Dub FX, Flower Fairy, Cade, DJ Czech, Marcus Visionary, Farbsie Funk doors 9:30 pm. PaRTs & LabouR Religious Material DJ Scott Cudmore (soul/funk/R&B/rnr) 10 pm. La PeRLa Eclectic City. The PisTon Hot Blooded (disco/remix) 10 pm. sneaky dee’s Shake A Tail (60s pop/soul) 11 pm. sTeam WhisTLe bReWing Skratch Bastid First Annual BBQ DJs Starting from Scratch, Bonjay, Wrispect, DJ P-Plus, Paul E Lopes 3 to 10 pm. suPeRmaRkeT Do Right Saturdays! DJ John Kong, MC Abs.
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WRongbaR Latex & Orgasmic 10 pm. ñTeki
annex WReCkRoom See You Saturdays DJs
Sunday, August 21
CasTRo’s Lounge DJ Ken ‘Ken Spinson’ Simp-
pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul
Lexx Decibel, Rick Toxic 10 pm.
son (old school/underground hip-hop) 9 pm. CLinTon’s Shake, Rattle & Roll Bangs & Blush (Motown/Britpop). CRooked sTaR Havana Cultura DJ Alexis D’Boys, DJ Bernal 10 pm. dRake hoTeL undeRgRound The Goods Scott C, Andy Williams doors 11 pm.
6 pm, Redline Run 7 to 11 pm.
Canadian naTionaL exhibiTion midWay sTage The Stew 3 to 6 pm. Canadian naTionaL exhibiTion midWay sTage Gunz N’ FN’ Rosez (tribute band) 7:30
Science (punk rock) 9 pm, all ages. See ñ preview, page 41. PLaCebo sPaCe MV & EE, Spectre Folk, Tradition, Eric Chenaux 9 pm, all ages. ñ RoCkPiLe Hawthorne Heights. Stars 7:30 pm.
Gilles Peterson 693 Bloor St. W 416-535-9541 WWW.CLINTONS.CA W of Bathurst
VERMILLION SKYE ◆ GIRL & BOY 90S DANCE PARTY
THU 18 ◆
18 20 22 26
CRASH PARRALEL HVANA NIGHTS AGAINST ME ALI FEST
FRI 19
SAT 20 ◆
SHAKE, RATTLE SOUL & & ROLL: ROCK N’ ROLL
DRINK, DANCE, GET MESSY W/ THE GIRLS OF BANGS&BLUSH
2010-2011 HOME & NATIVE SOUND SERIES MON 22 ◆ QUIZ NIGHT w/ Terrance Balazo TUE 23 ◆ ART BAR POETRY THU 25 ◆ UNDER THE COVERS SUN 21 ◆
PSYCHIC BRUNCH & FREE WIFI! Contact Fletch To Play at Clinton's
New Music Night!
bookclintons@hotmail.com or 416.503.2921
Twitter: @ClintonsTavern • facebook.com/ClintonsToronto
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August 18-24 2011 NOW
Shirsha 1:30 pm.
haRbouRfRonT CenTRe WesTJeT sTage Masala! Mehndi! Masti! Rhythm Of Rajasthan 2 pm, Devis n’ Divas Anusha Sivalingam 4:30 pm. haRbouRfRonT CenTRe bRiganTine Room
Masala! Mehndi! Masti! Chillout Mandippal (pop/rock) 3:30 pm.
haRbouRfRonT CenTRe bRiganTine Room
Jazz/ClassiCal/ExpErimEntal
Canadian naTionaL exhibiTion sTRikeR’s midWay sTage Danny Scott (rock & roll) 2 to
tair Crystal 11 am to 2:30 pm.
AUGUST
haRbouRfRonT CenTRe RedPaTh sugaR sTage Masala! Mehndi! Masti!: Devis n’ Divas
TRanzaC souTheRn CRoss David B Green-
Holy Grail, Kommando doors 7 pm, all ages.
gRaffiTi’s The Z-Rays (surf/pop) 4 to 7 pm. oRbiT Room Horshack (rock/blues) 10:30 pm. PaRTs & LabouR M.O.T.O., Careers In
ANDY ARES
Frankie Benson 2 to 6 pm. CasTRo’s Lounge Eugene Smith (blues) 4 pm. CenTRe isLand ouTdooR Lagoon TheaTRe SP Simms & Maya’s Caravan Of Song 7 pm. duffy’s TaveRn Ken Yoshioka (blues) 9:30 pm. faiRbank viLLage Fairbank Village Summer Fest Daniel Panetta, Everglo, Low Level Flight, Sambacana, Havana Express, Imbayakunas, Puente Del Diablo, Erin McCallum, Johnny Scat, Sol De Cuba and others noon to 9 pm. fRee Times Cafe Gordon’s Acoustic Living Room.
TRanzaC souTheRn CRoss B-List Disney All-
annex WReCkRoom Toxic Holocaust, Inepsy,
to 11 pm.
w
Canadian naTionaL exhibiTion Casino PaTio Paul James Band (blues) 7:30 pm. Canadian naTionaL exhibiTion Casino
Masala! Mehndi! Masti! Ghazal Party Naqi Ali Khan 5 pm. haRbouRfRonT CenTRe Masala! Mehndi! Masti! Bathiya & Santhush 5 pm. hugh’s Room Dan Kosub & the Crass Lads, Dan Dwoskin, Courtney Walls, Eleanore Altman 8:30 pm. The LoCaL Dan Boniferro noon. The LoCaL Deer River 5 pm. The LoCaL Gord Zubrecki Band 10 pm. Lou daWg’s Blues Brunch Mark Bird Stafford & Darran Poole noon to 3 pm. LuLa Lounge The Mbira Queen Of Zimbabwe Mbira Stella Chiweshe 9 pm. The PainTed Lady Combo Royale (bluegrass/ jazz/ska) 9 pm. Rebas Café The McDales (country) 1 to 4 pm. Rex Club Django (gypsy-swing) 3:30 pm. Rex Tara Davidson 9:30 pm. souThside Johnny’s Jam Rebecca Matiesen & Phoenix Band 9:30 pm. sPiRiTs Kim Jarrett (folk rock) 9 pm. suPeRmaRkeT Freefall Sundays Open Mic 7 pm. viLLage of yoRkviLLe PaRk Summer Music In The Park Marty Oakes Duo 2 to 5 pm.
Canadian naTionaL exhibiTion bandsheLL PaRk Marianas Trench 7:30 pm. dominion on Queen Rockabilly Brunch Alis-
Havana-Cultura
Folk/BluEs/Country/WorlD
amadeus Rick Donaldson & the Jazz Cats 6:30 pm. The assembLy haLL Cellobration! Music For
Cello & Piano Ronée Boyce, Ramona Carmelly, Liza McLellan, Lydia Muhchinsky 3 & 7 pm. The CenTRaL Michael Kleniec (jazz guitar) 7:30 pm. de soTos Sunday Brunch Beverly Taft & Nathan Hiltz 11 am to 2 pm.
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Blues
Gary Clark Jr.
Getting labelled as the saviour of the blues is a lot to live up to By Benjamin Boles gaRy CLaRk JR. with daRRen gLoveR at the Rivoli (332 Queen West), Friday (August 19), 8 pm. $20.75. RT, SS, TW.
You can almost see aging rock critics drooling over the possibility that hotshot Austin guitarist Gary Clark Jr. is the long-awaited saviour of the blues. There aren’t a lot of young black players coming into the genre any more, and fewer still with Clark’s onstage charisma and star appeal. But being seen as the guy to reintroduce the genre to a younger generation has got to be intense. “I think there’s only pressure when people ask me if I feel pressure,” Clark shyly jokes from a pit stop in Quebec. “If I think about it too much, I might trip myself out. I just try to keep it moving and stay calm.” At 27, he’s already spent over a decade in the business, cutting his teeth in the Austin bar scene and playing alongside Texas blues legends old enough to be his grandparents. It was a scene he fell into, and his combina-
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GAte 403 Faber & Freedman Jazz Duo noon to
3 pm.
GAte 403 The France St Trio 5 to 8 pm. GAte 403 Grayceful Daddies 9 pm. hot Box CAfe Tigorangutan (jazz). mel lAstmAn squAre Sunday Serenades: A
Tribute To Count Basie The Swing Shift Big Band 7:30 to 9 pm. remArks BAr & Grill David Hutchison Trio 6 to 9 pm. rex Excelsior Dixieland Jazz noon. rex Richard Whiteman 7 pm. toronto musiC GArden Summer Music In The Garden: The Root Is One Shiraz Ensemble (Persian classical music) 4 pm. trAne studio CD release Jason Raso w/ Richard Underhill 8 pm. trAnzAC southern Cross Composers’ Workshop 2 pm. trAnzAC southern Cross Monk’s Music (jazz) 5 pm.
DAnCE MuSIC/DJ/LOunGE
Bovine sex CluB School For Band Aids DJ Candy-O.
CAstro’s lounGe Superfly Sunday DJ Eric (old
school funk/disco/R&B) 10 pm. insomniA DJ LK (old-school hip-hop/disco/funk). the ossinGton Unlimited Sundays Hajah Bug & Mantis (hip-hop). tAttoo roCk pArlour Trash Palace Sundays DJ 4Korners (house/hip-hop/rock). ultrA pAtio Ultra Chill Sundays DJs Mike Tull & Paul E Lopes 3 to 9 pm. velvet underGround DJ Hanna (retro 80s) 10 pm.
Monday, August 22 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOuL
CAnAdiAn nAtionAl exhiBition striker’s midwAy stAGe Danny Scott (rock & roll) 2 to
6 pm, Redline Run 7 to 11 pm.
CAnAdiAn nAtionAl exhiBition CAsino pAtio Los Homeless 7:30 pm. CAnAdiAn nAtionAl exhiBition midwAy stAGe LMT Connection (funk/R&B) 3 to 6 pm. CloAk & dAGGer puB TheTwo Timin’ Three (rockabilly/pop) 9 pm.
drAke hotel underGround Elvis Monday doors 9 pm.
drAke hotel lounGe Ride the Tiger (soul/
pop) doors 10 pm. GrAffiti’s Kevin Quain’s Gutbucket Lounge 6 to 8 pm.
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hArlem Open Jam CarolynT (R&B/soul/jazz/ pop/funk) 8 pm. horseshoe The Reason For Hope benefit for Metastatic Breast Cancer Research Crush Luther, Morning Thieves, the Danger Bees, Robyn Dell’Unto, Mary Stewart 8:30 pm. mitzi’s sister The Goodtimes (pop/trash). mod CluB Against Me!, Saint Alvia, Birthday Boys 8 pm, all ages. molson AmphitheAtre Train, Maroon 5 w/ Gavin DeGraw 7 pm. orBit room The Lion’s Den (reggae). sound ACAdemy Busta Rhymes, Ace Hood doors 8 pm.
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CAmeron house front room Betty Stew
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CAnAdiAn nAtionAl exhiBition CAsino pAtio Enrico Galante 2 to 6 pm. CAstro’s lounGe Smoky Folk (bluegrass) 9 pm. free times CAfe Open Stage Signe Miranda. GAte 403 Dance With The Blues Jorge Gavidia
Blues Band 9 pm. GAte 403 Havana Blues Trio 5 to 8 pm. hiGhwAy 61 southern BArBeque Chris Chambers (blues) 7 pm. huGh’s room Ian Tyson 8:30 pm. the loCAl Hamstrung String Band. the pAinted lAdy Open Mic Mondays 9 pm. rex Daniel Jamieson 9:30 pm. trAnzAC southern Cross This Is Awesome 7 pm. trAnzAC southern Cross Open Stage 10 pm.
JAzz/CLASSICAL/ExPERIMEnTAL rex Ernesto Cervini Trio 6:30 pm.
DAnCE MuSIC/DJ/LOunGE
Bovine sex CluB Moody Mondays Douglas
Fairbanks Jr. insomniA DJs Topher, Oranj (rock). the ossinGton Ice & Yolanda. the piston Junk Shop DJs Jorge & Jared (pre- to post- punk/new wave/garage/indie) 10 pm.
Tuesday, August 23 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOuL
AlleyCAtz Swing Tuesdays Carlo Berardinucci
& the Double A Jazz Swing Band 8 pm. CAdillAC lounGe Deuce Springsteen. CAnAdA’s wonderlAnd Reema Day Reema Major, Karl Wolf 4 to 9 pm.
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midwAy stAGe Danny Scott (rock & roll) 2 to 6 pm, Redline Run 7 to 11 pm. CAnAdiAn nAtionAl exhiBition CAsino pAtio Los Homeless 7:30 pm.
CAnAdiAn nAtionAl exhiBition midwAy stAGe LMT Connection (funk/R&B) 3 to 6 pm. CAnAdiAn nAtionAl exhiBition midwAy stAGe Elevation (U2 tribute) 7:30 to 11 pm. CAnAdiAn nAtionAl exhiBition BAndshell pArk EXFEST Battle Of The Bands 4 pm. C’est whAt Tra La La Tuesday Meredith Shaw
& Hearts Club Band, Andrea Caswell & the Donefors (pop) 9 pm. GrAffiti’s Marcus Walker. horseshoe 7 inch Release Party Sandman Viper Command, Quiet Cool, Canon Blue. molson AmphitheAtre Selena Gomez doors 6 pm. pArts & lABour Personal & the Pizzas, Peach Kelli Pop, First Base (punk rock) doors 10 pm. the piston The Dead Tuesdays, Mercy Flight 10 pm. sneAky dee’s Guttermouth, the New Threat, Skullians (skate punk) doors 8:30 pm.
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BreAd & CirCus Mike Evin, Language-Arts 8:30 pm.
CAmeron house Jadea Kelly 6-8 pm. CAnAdiAn nAtionAl exhiBition CAsino pAtio Enrico Galante 2 to 6 pm. CAstro’s lounGe Quiet Revolutions (singer/
songwriter jam) 10 pm. CloAk & dAGGer puB Slocan Ramblers (bluegrass) 10 pm. douBle deuCe sAloon Open Mic. drAke hotel lounGe Memphis Tuesday Samantha Martin & the Haggard, DJ Moe Berg (country) doors 10 pm.
eArl BAles pArk BArry zukermAn AmphitheAtre Tuesday Night Live! The Royal Can-
adian Legion Concert Band Branch 344 7 pm.
the fountAin Blue Grass Mondays Badly Bent (bluegrass/old time).
free times CAfe Best Of The Open Stage Nicole
Coward, Ahi, Paul Christopher. huGh’s room Ian Tyson 8:30 pm. liBerty Bistro Kim Jarrett (folk rock) 8 pm. the loCAl The Roughnotes.
mississAuGA CiviC Centre CeleBrAtion squAre Take In The Four Corners Songwriters’
Circle Sean Pinchin, Sarah Loucks, Robyn Dell’Unto, Peter Katz 7 to 8:30 pm. monArChs puB Acoustic Open Stage Jory Nash 7 pm. the pAinted lAdy Darelle London (folk/indie/ pop) 9 pm. rex Ernesto Cervini Trio 6:30 pm. rex Rex Jazz Jam Daniel Jamieson 9:30 pm. supermArket River Tiber, Craig Stickland, Poor Sebastion doors 9 pm.
(piano) 7:30 pm.
AquilA Nicole Coward (acoustic folk). CAmeron house The Strumbellas (folk) 10 pm. CAnAdiAn nAtionAl exhiBition CAsino pAtio Enrico Galante 2 to 6 pm. free times CAfe Molly Thomason. GrAffiti’s Kitgut Oldtime String Band 7 to
DAnCE MuSIC/DJ/LOunGE
GrossmAn’s Rockin’ Blues Jam Ernest Lee &
JAzz/CLASSICAL/ExPERIMEnTAL
dominion on queen Django Jam 8:30 pm. GAte 403 Richard Whiteman Jazz Band 9 pm. GAte 403 The Roper Show 5 to 8 pm. trAnzAC southern Cross Blake Mackay BeAver Tail The Scarlet Pansy (fast and slow jams).
GoodhAndy’s Ladyplus Parties DJ Cesar doors 8 pm.5 insomniA Soulful Tuesdays D-Jay (soul). the ossinGton Deadliest Snatch.
Wednesday, August 24 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOuL
CAdillAC lounGe The Neil Young’uns. CAnAdiAn nAtionAl exhiBition striker’s midwAy stAGe Danny Scott (rock & roll) 2 to
6 pm, Redline Run 7 to 11 pm.
CAnAdiAn nAtionAl exhiBition CAsino pAtio Los Homeless 7:30 pm. CAnAdiAn nAtionAl exhiBition midwAy stAGe LMT Connection (funk/R&B) 3 to 6 pm. CAnAdiAn nAtionAl exhiBition midwAy stAGe Jamaica to Toronto w/ Jay
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Douglas and Everton Pablo Paul 7:30 to 11 pm.
CAnAdiAn nAtionAl exhiBition BAndshell pArk The Magic Of Motown The Spinners, the
Manhattans 7:30 pm.
drAke hotel underGround The War on Drugs, Caveman, Porcelain Raft 8:30 pm. ñ horseshoe Arson, Austistic Love, the Break-
ing Lakes, She Roars 9 pm. the loCAl Ronnie Hayward Trio. the pAinted lAdy Little Creatures, Old Major, Michael Kulas (rock) 9 pm. the piston Skeletones Four, Bad Yoga 9 pm. rexAll Centre BlackCreek Summer Music Festival Barry Manilow & the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra 8 pm. roCkpile In the Act of Violence.
trinity Bellwoods pArk neAr mAin entrAnCe Picnic Party CD release Dave Borins 8 to 10 pm.
FOLK/BLuES/COunTRY/WORLD
AlleyCAtz The Graceful Daddies (swingin’
blues/vintage R&B) 8:30 pm.
Venue Index
Air CAnAdA Centre 40 Bay. 416-815-5500. AlleyCAtz 2409 Yonge. 416-481-6865. AmAdeus 184 Augusta. 416-591-1245. AmsterdAm Brewery 21 Bathurst. 416-504-6882. Annex wreCkroom 794 Bathurst. 416-536-0346. AquilA 347 Keele. 416-761-7474. AspettA CAffe 207 Augusta. 416-725-0693. the AssemBly hAll 1 Colonel Samuel Smith Park. 416-338-7255. Axis GAllery & Grill 3048 Dundas W. 416-604-3333. BAr 460 460 Spadina Ave. BeAver 1192 Queen W. 416-537-2768. Blue dot GAllery 55 Mill, bldg 47. 416-487-1500. Boston pizzA 2458 Queen E. 905-789-6525. Bovine sex CluB 542 Queen W. 416-504-4239. BreAd & CirCus 299 Augusta. 416-336-3399. CAdillAC lounGe 1296 Queen W. 416-536-7717. CAmeron house 408 Queen W. 416-703-0811. CAnAdA’s wonderlAnd 9580 Jane (Vaughan). 905-832-8131. CAnAdiAn nAtionAl exhiBition 210 Princes’ Blvd. 416-263-3800. CAstro’s lounGe 2116 Queen E. 416-699-8272. Ceno 137 Avenue Rd. 647-352-8822. the CentrAl 603 Markham. 416-913-4586. Centre islAnd Toronto Islands. C’est whAt 67 Front E. 416-867-9499. ChAlkers puB 247 Marlee. 416-789-2531. Cherry ColA’s roCk n’ rollA 200 Bathurst. Clinton’s 693 Bloor W. 416-535-9541. CloAk & dAGGer puB 394 College. 647-436-0228. CoBrA lounGe 510 King W. 416-361-9004. Crooked stAr 202 Ossington. 416-536-7271. Csi Annex 720 Bathurst. 416-979-3939. dAkotA tAvern 249 Ossington. 416-850-4579. the dAnny 2183 Danforth. 416-686-1705. dAve’s... on st ClAir 730 St Clair W. 416-657-3283. dC musiC theAtre 360 Munster. 416-234-0222. de sotos 1079 St Clair W. 416-651-2109. diCkens street theAtre 35 Dickens. dominion on queen 500 Queen E. 416-368-6893. douBle deuCe sAloon 1168 Queen W. 416-537-1313. drAke hotel 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042. duffy’s tAvern 1238 Bloor W. 416-628-0330. eArl BAles pArk 4169 Bathurst. 416-395-7873. eCho BeACh 909 Lakeshore W. el moCAmBo 464 Spadina. 416-777-1777. emmet rAy BAr 924 College. 416-792-4497. empire lounGe 50 Cumberland. 416-840-8440. enterprise 2000 242 Cherry, Pier 34. 416-777-5777. fAirBAnk villAGe 1877 Eglinton W. 416-646-0661. fly 8 Gloucester. 416-410-5426. footwork 425 Adelaide W. 416-913-3488. the fountAin 1261 Dundas W. 416-203-2311. fox & fiddle wellesley 27 Wellesley E. 416-944-9369. free times CAfe 320 College. 416-967-1078. the GArrison 1197 Dundas W. GAte 403 403 Roncesvalles. 416-588-2930. GlAdstone hotel 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. GoodhAndy’s 120 Church. 416-760-6514. GrAffiti’s 170 Baldwin. 416-506-6699. the GreAt hAll 1087 Queen W. 416-826-3330. GrossmAn’s 379 Spadina. 416-977-7000. hArBourfront Centre 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. hArd luCk BAr 812 Dundas W. hArlem 67 Richmond E. 416-368-1920. hiGhwAy 61 southern BArBeque 1620 Bayview. 416-489-7427. horseshoe 370 Queen W. 416-598-4753. hot Box CAfe 191A Baldwin. 416-203-6990.
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Cotton Traffic 9 pm.
huGh’s room Cancelled. To be rescheduled. Lorne Elliott, the Little Stevies 8:30 pm.
nAthAn phillips squAre Fresh Wednesdays David Celia (folk/rock) noon to 2 pm.
reposAdo Sol Wednesdays Spy Vs Sly Vs Spy. rex Darryl Orr Quartet 6:30 pm. rivoli Song Circle Emma-Lee, Peter Katz, Ada-
line, Andrew Austin doors 8:30 pm. silver dollAr High Lonesome Wednesday: Big City Bluegrass Crazy Strings doors 9 pm. supermArket Wednesdays Go Pop! Sidney York, Stacey Kaniuk 9:30 pm. terri o’s sports BAr Gary 17’s Acoustic Open Stage Dock Spiders 9 pm. trAnzAC tiki room Comhaltas Irish Slow Session 7:30 pm. trAnzAC Double CD release Saint Dirt Elemenatry School, Thomas 8 pm.
JAzz/CLASSICAL/ExPERIMEnTAL
ChAlkers puB Girls’ Night Out Jazz Lisa Particelli (jazz) 8 pm. CloAk & dAGGer puB Roger Chong (jazz) 10 pm. dominion on queen Corktown Uke Jam 8 pm. GAte 403 Jeff Peacock Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. GAte 403 Carissa Newfeld Jazz Duo 9 pm. nAwlins JAzz BAr Jim Heineman Trio (jazz) 7 to 10 pm. rex Another Country 9:30 pm.
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Annex wreCkroom Thank Goodness It’s Wednesday Rick Toxic 10 pm.
GoodhAndy’s Ladyplus Parties DJ Todd
Klinck doors 8 pm.5 hot Box CAfe Hump Day Uncut The Man (stoner gay- positive night).5 insomniA Parro (house).
wronGBAr doors 10 pm. ñ16-Bit
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EXPERIENCE THE FLAVOURS OF CUBA!
MUSIC | DANCERS | DRINKS | CIGARS
For the most up to date event schedule please visit havana-cultura.ca DJ GENERAL ECLECTIC 10pm – 2am General Eclectic’s knowledge, broad taste and skills have made him a favourite of music heads and dance floor junkies alike for well over 15 years. DJ JASON PALMA 10pm – 2am One of the first architects of Toronto’s early Acid Jazz, Deep House and Funk scenes and he’s also known for mixing records that would appear to be ‘unmixable’.
THE SCHEDULE THURSDAY AUGUST 18
Reposado
Delux
CUBAN LUNCH 11:30am – 3pm CUBAN PRIX FIXE DINNER – 3 Courses:
Appetizer, main and dessert $35, 6pm – Closing Experience true Cuban cuisine at Delux, where they offer a generous menu of delicious food options, sure to satisfy all of your taste buds.
Oz Studio ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ Cuban Photographer
“Cuba, año cero” is a sociological register of the multiple urban tribes made up by the adolescents: frikis, emos, repas, mikis. It’s a dialogue about the past, present and future of Cuba.
LeVack Block
ANGEL CARRILLO Live Graffiti Artist
Reposado
The house band will be playing Cuban music. 10pm – 2am
Watusi
ELIANA CUEVAS 11pm – 11:45pm & 12:15am – 1am The combination of original words and music, an exceptional band and her own superb vocal abilities make Eliana Cuevas an artist to both appreciate and watch out for.
Julie’s Cuban
CASSAVA LATIN DUO
featuring Adis Rodriguez 7pm – 11pm Cassava’s music reflects the colour and flavour of Latin styles such as Salsa, Cha cha-cha and contemporary Latin-Jazz and Fusion.
SON ACHE TRIO 11pm – 11:45pm
& 12:15am – 1am Expect to hear melodies and rhythms firmly rooted in the traditions of the Cuban guajiros, guitars, percussion and voice.
Crooked Star
DJ ALEXIS D’BOYS 10pm – 2am He has played for Havana Cultura since 2008 and has worked legendary Cuban hip-hop and timba artists. DJ BERNAL 10pm – 2am DJ Bernal came to Toronto in 2009 from Cuba. For years he had been playing the hottest beats in Cuban Clubs.
The Painted Lady
Please refer to havana-cultura.ca for details
The Ossington
IYA IRE DANCE COMPANY
8pm – 8:30pm & 9:10pm – 10pm Iyá Iré is Toronto’s newest and most vibrant Afro- Cuban folkloric performance group. DJ PAUL E. LOPES 7pm – 10pm Throughout the years Lopes has always delivered the best in a huge range of underground music from his well respected library. LATINADA BAND 8:30pm – 9:10pm The Latinada Band is a three piece trio that reflects the fusion of Latin cultures.
Julie’s Cuban
CASSAVA LATIN DUO 7pm – 11pm
Delux
EVARISTO MACHADO 8:30pm – 9:15pm &
Oz Studio
ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ Cuban Photographer
LeVack Block
ANGEL CARRILLO Live Graffiti artist SOUL DRUMS 9pm – 1am Soul Drums Ltd. is a team who have dedicated their lives to inspiring human rhythmic energy in others.
august 18-24 2011 NOW
CUBAN LUNCH 11:30am – 3pm CUBAN PRIX FIXE DINNER – 3 Courses:
learn to make a cuban mojito
Appetizer, main and dessert $35, 6pm – Closing
Oz Studio
LeVack Block
ANGEL CARRILLO Live Graffiti Artist SOUL DRUMS 9pm – 1am DJ PAUL E. LOPES 10pm – 2am SIMMER DOWN DJ CREW 10pm – 2am
presents
Brazilian, reggae and old vintage Cuban sounds.
PUBLIC MASTER CLASS
Reposado
Saturday, August 20 2pm – 4pm LEVACK BLOCK
DJ JIMMY SUAVE 10pm – 2am
FRIDAY AUGUST 19 Appetizer, main and dessert $35, 6pm – Closing
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Watusi
featuring Adis Rodriguez
CUBAN LUNCH 11:30am – 3pm CUBAN PRIX FIXE DINNER – 3 Courses:
Regist online nowerfo the chance tor win a trip to Havana, Cuba�
Delux
ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ Cuban Photographer
The house band will be playing Cuban music. 10pm – 2am
CHECK OUT THE GREAT FOOD & DRINK SPECIALS on ossington!
SATURDAY AUGUST 20
Sweaty Betty’s
10pm – 10:45pm Born in Havana, Evaristo mixes his own material with more traditional sounds such as Cuban Son and songs from the Cuban ‘Trovador’ tradition.
DJ Jimmy Suave has earned his reputation by “reading and connecting” with his audience which is why he caters specifically to their dancing desires.
Crooked Star
DJ ALEXIS D’BOYS 10pm – 2am DJ BERNAL 10pm – 2am
relax & enjoy cuban cinema
The Ossington
SON ACHE TRIO 8pm – 8:45pm &
presents
9:15pm – 10pm
Watusi
presents
The Painted Lady
in association with the Cuban Canadian Friendship Association
THE FRITZ OF ART
Body Painter 6:30pm – 9:30pm
HEAVYWEIGHTS BRASS BAND 8pm – 8:50pm & 9:30pm – 10:20pm The individual members of the band, (four horns plus a drummer) with collective experience as sidemen, have already earned national recognition, including a Western Canadian Music Award, a Galaxie Rising Star Award, and a JUNO nomination. Sharing a love for New Orleans-inspired jazz, they formed the Heavyweights Brass Band in 2009.
Ossington Ave
FREDY SUAREZ 3pm – 6pm
SUNDAY AUGUST 21 Delux
CUBAN BRUNCH 10:30am – 3pm
Oz Studio
He has participated in numerous events and festivals in Cuba. In Canada, Fredy has performed in the most prestigious Theatres of Maritimes such as Capitol in Moncton and Imperial in Nova Scotia, Massey Hall and Roy Thomson Hall of Toronto.
Cuban Photographer
ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ
Saturday, August 20 Doors @ 9pm THE MOD CLUB Gilles Peterson is a DJ, record collector and record label owner from London, UK. Through his labels Acid Jazz, Talkin’ Loud, and latterly Brownswood Recordings, he has been associated with the careers of well-known artists of the 90’s such as Erykah Badu, Roni Size and Jamiroquai. Other highlights of the night include Telmary as MC, Afro-Cuban rumba drummers and dancers, DJ General Eclectic, Luis Deniz Jazz Quartet, Ogguere, the Cigar Lounge, and Cuban drink specials.
Friday, August 19 & Saturday, August 20 8pm LOWER OSSINGTON THEATRE Friday, August 19 ESO QUE ANDA Saturday, August 20 LISANKA
DANCERS 8pm – 10:30pm
enjoy complimentlaedry hand rol cigars
advance tickets available online at ticketbreak.com $20
GILLES PETERSON
CUBAN FILM
ORLANDO CARDOSO 11pm – 1:30am
Ossington Ave
FREDY SUAREZ 3pm – 6pm
Each year Havana Club® runs a series of global bartending clinics around the world, teaching bartenders to create the finest Cuban cocktails. Now the art of drink making is open to the public. Guests will learn the art and history of rum-making and get an interactive lesson on creating the perfect Cuban cocktail. Sign up early online at havana-cultura.ca. Must be of legal drinking age, valid ID required.
Enjoy a hand rolled Cuban Cigar presents
CIGAR LOUNGE
Thursday, August 18 @ REPOSADO 9pm – 12am & CROOKED STAR 7pm – 10pm Friday, August 19 @ WATUSI 10pm – 1am & THE PAINTED LADY 9pm – 12am Saturday, August 20 @ REPOSADO 10pm – 1am CROOKED STAR 8pm – 11pm & THE MOD CLUB 9pm – 12am Correnti Cigars’ highly skilled and trained rollers will hand roll cigars and demonstrate the 300 year old art.
Please enjoy our products responsibly
NOW august 18-24 2011
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EXPERIENCE THE FLAVOURS OF CUBA!
MUSIC | DANCERS | DRINKS | CIGARS
For the most up to date event schedule please visit havana-cultura.ca DJ GENERAL ECLECTIC 10pm – 2am General Eclectic’s knowledge, broad taste and skills have made him a favourite of music heads and dance floor junkies alike for well over 15 years. DJ JASON PALMA 10pm – 2am One of the first architects of Toronto’s early Acid Jazz, Deep House and Funk scenes and he’s also known for mixing records that would appear to be ‘unmixable’.
THE SCHEDULE THURSDAY AUGUST 18
Reposado
Delux
CUBAN LUNCH 11:30am – 3pm CUBAN PRIX FIXE DINNER – 3 Courses:
Appetizer, main and dessert $35, 6pm – Closing Experience true Cuban cuisine at Delux, where they offer a generous menu of delicious food options, sure to satisfy all of your taste buds.
Oz Studio ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ Cuban Photographer
“Cuba, año cero” is a sociological register of the multiple urban tribes made up by the adolescents: frikis, emos, repas, mikis. It’s a dialogue about the past, present and future of Cuba.
LeVack Block
ANGEL CARRILLO Live Graffiti Artist
Reposado
The house band will be playing Cuban music. 10pm – 2am
Watusi
ELIANA CUEVAS 11pm – 11:45pm & 12:15am – 1am The combination of original words and music, an exceptional band and her own superb vocal abilities make Eliana Cuevas an artist to both appreciate and watch out for.
Julie’s Cuban
CASSAVA LATIN DUO
featuring Adis Rodriguez 7pm – 11pm Cassava’s music reflects the colour and flavour of Latin styles such as Salsa, Cha cha-cha and contemporary Latin-Jazz and Fusion.
SON ACHE TRIO 11pm – 11:45pm
& 12:15am – 1am Expect to hear melodies and rhythms firmly rooted in the traditions of the Cuban guajiros, guitars, percussion and voice.
Crooked Star
DJ ALEXIS D’BOYS 10pm – 2am He has played for Havana Cultura since 2008 and has worked legendary Cuban hip-hop and timba artists. DJ BERNAL 10pm – 2am DJ Bernal came to Toronto in 2009 from Cuba. For years he had been playing the hottest beats in Cuban Clubs.
The Painted Lady
Please refer to havana-cultura.ca for details
The Ossington
IYA IRE DANCE COMPANY
8pm – 8:30pm & 9:10pm – 10pm Iyá Iré is Toronto’s newest and most vibrant Afro- Cuban folkloric performance group. DJ PAUL E. LOPES 7pm – 10pm Throughout the years Lopes has always delivered the best in a huge range of underground music from his well respected library. LATINADA BAND 8:30pm – 9:10pm The Latinada Band is a three piece trio that reflects the fusion of Latin cultures.
Julie’s Cuban
CASSAVA LATIN DUO 7pm – 11pm
Delux
EVARISTO MACHADO 8:30pm – 9:15pm &
Oz Studio
ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ Cuban Photographer
LeVack Block
ANGEL CARRILLO Live Graffiti artist SOUL DRUMS 9pm – 1am Soul Drums Ltd. is a team who have dedicated their lives to inspiring human rhythmic energy in others.
august 18-24 2011 NOW
CUBAN LUNCH 11:30am – 3pm CUBAN PRIX FIXE DINNER – 3 Courses:
learn to make a cuban mojito
Appetizer, main and dessert $35, 6pm – Closing
Oz Studio
LeVack Block
ANGEL CARRILLO Live Graffiti Artist SOUL DRUMS 9pm – 1am DJ PAUL E. LOPES 10pm – 2am SIMMER DOWN DJ CREW 10pm – 2am
presents
Brazilian, reggae and old vintage Cuban sounds.
PUBLIC MASTER CLASS
Reposado
Saturday, August 20 2pm – 4pm LEVACK BLOCK
DJ JIMMY SUAVE 10pm – 2am
FRIDAY AUGUST 19 Appetizer, main and dessert $35, 6pm – Closing
52
Watusi
featuring Adis Rodriguez
CUBAN LUNCH 11:30am – 3pm CUBAN PRIX FIXE DINNER – 3 Courses:
Regist online nowerfo the chance tor win a trip to Havana, Cuba�
Delux
ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ Cuban Photographer
The house band will be playing Cuban music. 10pm – 2am
CHECK OUT THE GREAT FOOD & DRINK SPECIALS on ossington!
SATURDAY AUGUST 20
Sweaty Betty’s
10pm – 10:45pm Born in Havana, Evaristo mixes his own material with more traditional sounds such as Cuban Son and songs from the Cuban ‘Trovador’ tradition.
DJ Jimmy Suave has earned his reputation by “reading and connecting” with his audience which is why he caters specifically to their dancing desires.
Crooked Star
DJ ALEXIS D’BOYS 10pm – 2am DJ BERNAL 10pm – 2am
relax & enjoy cuban cinema
The Ossington
SON ACHE TRIO 8pm – 8:45pm &
presents
9:15pm – 10pm
Watusi
presents
The Painted Lady
in association with the Cuban Canadian Friendship Association
THE FRITZ OF ART
Body Painter 6:30pm – 9:30pm
HEAVYWEIGHTS BRASS BAND 8pm – 8:50pm & 9:30pm – 10:20pm The individual members of the band, (four horns plus a drummer) with collective experience as sidemen, have already earned national recognition, including a Western Canadian Music Award, a Galaxie Rising Star Award, and a JUNO nomination. Sharing a love for New Orleans-inspired jazz, they formed the Heavyweights Brass Band in 2009.
Ossington Ave
FREDY SUAREZ 3pm – 6pm
SUNDAY AUGUST 21 Delux
CUBAN BRUNCH 10:30am – 3pm
Oz Studio
He has participated in numerous events and festivals in Cuba. In Canada, Fredy has performed in the most prestigious Theatres of Maritimes such as Capitol in Moncton and Imperial in Nova Scotia, Massey Hall and Roy Thomson Hall of Toronto.
Cuban Photographer
ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ
Saturday, August 20 Doors @ 9pm THE MOD CLUB Gilles Peterson is a DJ, record collector and record label owner from London, UK. Through his labels Acid Jazz, Talkin’ Loud, and latterly Brownswood Recordings, he has been associated with the careers of well-known artists of the 90’s such as Erykah Badu, Roni Size and Jamiroquai. Other highlights of the night include Telmary as MC, Afro-Cuban rumba drummers and dancers, DJ General Eclectic, Luis Deniz Jazz Quartet, Ogguere, the Cigar Lounge, and Cuban drink specials.
Friday, August 19 & Saturday, August 20 8pm LOWER OSSINGTON THEATRE Friday, August 19 ESO QUE ANDA Saturday, August 20 LISANKA
DANCERS 8pm – 10:30pm
enjoy complimentlaedry hand rol cigars
advance tickets available online at ticketbreak.com $20
GILLES PETERSON
CUBAN FILM
ORLANDO CARDOSO 11pm – 1:30am
Ossington Ave
FREDY SUAREZ 3pm – 6pm
Each year Havana Club® runs a series of global bartending clinics around the world, teaching bartenders to create the finest Cuban cocktails. Now the art of drink making is open to the public. Guests will learn the art and history of rum-making and get an interactive lesson on creating the perfect Cuban cocktail. Sign up early online at havana-cultura.ca. Must be of legal drinking age, valid ID required.
Enjoy a hand rolled Cuban Cigar presents
CIGAR LOUNGE
Thursday, August 18 @ REPOSADO 9pm – 12am & CROOKED STAR 7pm – 10pm Friday, August 19 @ WATUSI 10pm – 1am & THE PAINTED LADY 9pm – 12am Saturday, August 20 @ REPOSADO 10pm – 1am CROOKED STAR 8pm – 11pm & THE MOD CLUB 9pm – 12am Correnti Cigars’ highly skilled and trained rollers will hand roll cigars and demonstrate the 300 year old art.
Please enjoy our products responsibly
NOW august 18-24 2011
53
FESTIVAL VENUES DUND AS ST. W.
THE MOD CLUB 722 COLLEGE
THE PAINTED LADY CROOKED STAR
WATUSI LOWER OSSINGTON DELUX
SHAW ST.
DOVERCOURT RD.
OZ STUDIO
OSSINGTON AVE.
REPOSADO
JULIE’S CUBAN
BOEHMER
LEVACK BLOCK THE OSSINGTON SWEATY BETTY’S QUEEN ST. W.
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gives the sense that they’re not taking the project seriously. Sure, the invented genre is obviously a bit tongue-in-cheek, but that doesn’t mean the band couldn’t play it a bit straighter. Still, there’s plenty to enjoy here and no awful songs. Just don’t hope for something truly awesome. Top track: Pineapple Girl BENJAMIN BOLES
disc of the week
ñDOG DAYNNNN
Deformer (FunDog) Rating: On their third full-length album, Halifax indie rockers Dog Day strip down from a four-piece to a duo and take a more fiercely DIY approach than ever. Seth Smith, who handles songwriting, guitar and vocals, and Nancy Urich, who learned drums for this new configuration, self-produced the album, silkscreened the artwork, assembled the packaging and released it on their new label, FunDog. (They also moved to the country and bought chickens.) It’s a step back from their affiliations with Outside and Tomlab, and is sonically
Pop/Rock
LIBRARY VOICES Summer Of Lust (Nevado) Rating: NNNN Library Voices have an undeniable knack for sticky hooks and upbeat, danceable melodies, but on their sophomore LP they’re never content to hang a whole song on them. The Regina seven-piece are just as interested in crafting brainy, literature-referencing, almost-too-clever lyrics. The classic power-pop riffs, sugarsweet harmonies and, for the first time, textural bleeps and bloops are as crafted as on their debut and become all the more impressive when paired with references to Hemingway and Alan Lomax. Generation Handclap and Be My Juliette Gréco, Paris 1949 perhaps too naively dismiss their generational peers and romanticize purely literary antecedents. That said, the band’s ability to turn lines like “Parliament’s making cuts to the CBC” into singalong choruses is impressive. Top track: The Prime Minister’s Daughter Library Voices play the Horseshoe on October 28. RICHARD TRAPUNSKI
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HERCULES AND LOVE AFFAIR Blue Songs (Moshi Moshi) Rating: NNN The second album from Hercules and Love Affair finally arrives in North America as a deluxe edition with B-sides and remixes to satisfy fans who’ve been listening since its UK release in January. It mines similar ter-
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less interesting than 2009’s Concentration, which burst with inventive arrangements. We’re left simply with the raw songs, delivered unadorned via fuzz-drenched guitars, vocals and thrashing drums. Evoking Hüsker Dü, the Nils, Chad VanGaalen and Eric’s Trip, they’re scrappy, driving and melodic yet consistently skirt saccharine-sweetness thanks to Smith’s casual delivery, disenchanted lyrics and heavy, mind-melty guitar tones. The hooks, then, come as little gifts. Top track: In The Woods CARLA GILLIS
ritory to the American dance-pop group’s acclaimed 2008 debut, but – as the title suggests – with a wistful tear in its eye. More a producer’s project than a band, Hercules leader Andy Butler recruited mostly new singers to take on his mix of lovingly realized disco, house and slow burners. Whether he’s dialing down the pace on drifting ballad Boy Blue or jacking up a techno beat on Visitor, he does so with a thoughtful, nuanced ear. His arrangements sometimes outshine his melodies and lyrics, though. Whereas the first album packed an emotional wallop, the enjoyment of this one is in its details. Top track: I Can’t Wait KEVIN RITCHIE
FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE Sky Full Of Holes (Yep Roc) Rating: NNN Veteran New York power-poppers Fountains of Wayne moved to Yep Roc for their rootsy fifth album, which sounds a bit like the Kinks and Tom Petty filtered through 90s MTV rotation. Not so surprising, considering the band debuted in 1996. Songwriters Chris Collingwood and Adam Schlesinger showcase their trademark storytelling, only this time their humour is less cutting. Even on standout Richie And Ruben, you feel a bit of empathy for the guys who do bad business with other people’s money. Musically and lyrically a summery driving album, Sky’s got references to vacations, oceans and train travel as well as an awkward, endearing country-tinged love song from the road. FOW are best when turning everyday darkness into hooks, as on opener The Summer Place. No doubt they know to bury weaker material; the last few songs are less memorable. Top track: Richie And Ruben SARAH GREENE
Hip-hop
GUCCI MANE & WAKA FLOCKA FLAME
MISTER HEAVENLY Out Of Love (Sub Pop) Rating: NNN We’ve been hearing about this “doom wop” indie supergroup featuring Islands’ Nicholas Thorburn, Man Man’s Honus Honus and Modest Mouse/Shins drummer Joe Plummer for a few years now, and the anticipation may have raised expectations too high. The combo sounds great on paper, and when it works you can hear its potential, but many songs come across as leftover tracks by the members’ main bands forced into a new format. Part of the problem is that they didn’t commit to the original concept. There’s not enough doo-wop or doom on much of the material, and their willingness to get far too goofy with the lyrics and delivery
Ferrari Boyz (Warner) Rating: NNN Are rap buddy albums a thing now? Ferrari Boyz is the mentor-protegé showpiece of Gucci Mane and Waka Flocka Flame, top billers for the successful Atlanta crew 1017 Brick Squad. With Gucci fresh out of jail and one-album Waka dodging retirement rumours (his sophomore, Triple F Life, is due this fall) Ferrari Boyz is both a promotional tool and the coming together of the current crown princes of the South. Skittish hi-hats, body-throttling bass and cartoonish, sometimes sinister melodies come courtesy of in-house producers Drumma Boy and Southside. But it’s the merging of Gucci’s grizzly, muddled lyrics and Waka’s unbridled energy that makes Ferrari Boyz a solid though sometimes glib listen. Both specialize in rousing you – from sleep, from seats – but in different ways: Gucci spews absurd, nihilistic imagery that demands attention, while Waka’s penchant for repetition and sirencall ad libs can be magnetic. Top track: Feed Me ANUPA MISTRY
DJ KHALED We The Best Forever (Cash
Money/Universal Motown). Rating: NN DJ Khaled’s fifth curatorial compilation of
= Critics’ Pick NNNNN = Stratospheric NNNN = Sizzling NNN = Swell NN = Slack N = Sucks
posse raps is a forgettable snapshot of mainstream hip-hop despite an all-star roster of emcees, R&B singers and producers. An industry fixture, the Miami radio DJ and Terror Squad member takes few stylistic chances, making We The Best Forever a mostly tedious listen despite its flashes of lyrical invention. The clear highlight is opening track I’m On One, a spaced-out summer single produced by Toronto’s T-Minus and Noah “40” Shebib and featuring a scene-stealing stop-start verse from Drake. The song is addictive – it’s a shame Drizzy couldn’t save it for his own record. It’s followed by radio anthem Welcome To My Hood, which succeeds thanks to TPain’s appropriation of a certain KRS-One hook. The Lex Luger-helmed club tracks Money and I’m Thuggin are as shallow as their titles suggest, while R&B-oriented entries It Ain’t Over Til Its Over (featuring Mary J. Blige) and Legendary (featuring Keyshia Cole, Ne-Yo and Chris Brown) are as melodically unimaginative as their titles are clichéd. Top track: I’m On One KR
R&B
LLOYD King Of Hearts (Zone 4/Universal) Rating: NNN Lloyd is one of contemporary R&B’s gentler and more textured singers, something producer Polow da Don takes full advantage of on King Of Hearts, which treads a fine line between charming and cringeworthy. Opening with Dedication To My Ex (Miss That) – a ridiculously cynical Motown song obviously following the profanely feel-good formula that worked for Cee Lo’s Fuck You – the album recovers with a blend of skittery Southern beats and choruses that evoke the earnestness of 80s-era R&B (in tone more than content). Jazzy trumpet and guitar lines add a touch of class to Naked’s cornball babymaking atmospherics, while sensuous mid-tempo singles Lay It Down and Cupid are the best moments, perfectly playing up Lloyd’s boyish vocal charms. Top track: Lay It Down Lloyd plays the Molson Amphitheatre on Friday (August 19). KR
Folk/Country NNNN ñGREG BROWN
Freak Flag (Yep Roc) Rating: American troubadour Greg Brown lost an album’s worth of material during a thunderstorm and ended up writing a new collection of songs for his 24th disc. Only the title track – a gutsy, emotional
take on identity – remains from the original list. That thunderstorm was a blessing: this is an easy, earthy listen and a snapshot of a great writer still in his prime. The material alternates between gentle, fingerpicked love songs and bluesier takes on the United States. Brown’s gravely baritone is welcoming and playful. In lesser hands, rockabilly moments and the occasional noodly guitar line from producer and long-time collaborator Bo Ramsey might be weaknesses, but not here. Start with toe-tapping flirtatious opener Someday House or try the talking blues of I Don’t Know Anybody In This Town. Brown also covers his wife, Iris DeMent’s, classic Let The Mystery Be and his daughter, Pieta Brown’s, Remember The Sun. Top track: Someday House SG
JEFF BRIDGES (EMI) Rating: NNN
Jeff Bridges won an Oscar for his portrayal of country singer Otis “Bad” Blake in 2009’s Crazy Heart, so it’s safe to assume that his new full-length album isn’t just another celebrity vanity project. Rather, it’s a natural extension of his world-weary performance in the film and on its soundtrack. Bridges has an expressive voice, a fried drawl that works well with the genre, but lacks range. He’s assisted by the best bigname pros Lebowski money can buy – producer T-Bone Burnett and guitarist Marc Ribot, to name a couple – but the result is a lot of gloss on an average product. The tunes mostly stick to a low-tempo, shuffling formula, though Bridges gets a chance to stretch a bit in a few scattershot moments of idiosyncrasy. Surprisingly, most of those come in Bridges’s original tunes. Trust your instincts, Dude. Top track: Falling Short RT
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Barre tender VARIOUS POSITIONS by Martha Schabas (Doubleday), 361 pages, $22 paper. Rating: NNN
i hesitate to refer to various Positions as a coming-of-age story, because that makes Martha Schabas’s debut novel sound smaller than it is. Yes, teen protagonist Georgia learns some of life’s essentials, but the fact that almost everything happens inside an art institution – specifically a ballet academy – deepens the narrative beyond the “Ooh I feel sexual” level. Georgia is a gifted dancer who gains admission to Toronto’s Royal
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Ballet Academy – an obvious stand-in for our National Ballet School. Fortunately, she’s better than almost everybody in the class. Unfortunately, that means she gets the attention of choreographer and teacher Roderick Allen. In effortless prose laced with powerful metaphors, Schabas skilfully conveys Georgia’s passion for ballet, its rigours and her confidence in her perfect body. The young dancer learns, however, that she’s not in total control – of anything. Schabas includes subplots on a student’s struggle with body image and anorexia and Georgia’s mother’s mood swings, related – maybe – to her floundering relationship with her husband.
But the essence of the story is the relationship between Georgia and Roderick and the ease with which a teacher-student connection can go off the rails. Various Positions is an impressive debut for the Toronto-based Schabas. You can tell by the precision with which she describes the students’ terror of being judged and their strange mix of intense competitiveness and loving attentiveness to one another that Schabas herself is a trained dancer. The book could use more characters as well developed as Georgia, and too bad Schabas leaves the plot thread concerning Georgia’s parents dan-
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selves outright. They could be bodies or clouds, animals or tea kettles, raw earth or wedding cakes. You’re equally in the dark if you try to pigeonhole them stylistically. It’s as if unfinished forms stolen from the studio of Louise Bourgeois were decorated by a group of hobbyist grandmothers in Brampton. Moon deftly melds a formal and rigorously trained sculptural sense with the aesthetics of bric-a-brac, outsider art and the cult of the found
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gling – not a good idea given its big impact on Georgia’s behaviour. But if you like novels about artists – whether accomplished or just budSUSAN G. COLE ding – snap this one up. Write Books at susanc@nowtoronto.com.
flowers on its side, however, it could also be the world’s greatest garage sale score. Moon isn’t just glibly crashing one style into another; she has some genuine sculptural concerns. In all their massed, amorphous weight, many of her objects convey a felt sense of the body or of bodies or objects in the process of becoming themselves. Ballerina is probably the best example. Mounds of massed clay that suggest an enormous leg, a hill of raw clay or a dessert trifle taper upward into a single pink ballet slipper. It is all and none of the things it suggests, which makes the real slipper all the more intriguing. In this show, Moon playfully tinkers with the grammar of the sculptural object. She’s having fun pitting essential form against ornamental surface, era against era, form against function. They’re not at war, just pleasantly at odds, and at times oddly harmonious. 3 art@nowtoronto.com
THIS WEEK IN THE MUSEUMS Commons, to Sep 11. Salmon Run Project, to Oct 1. 300 City Centre (Mississauga). 905-8965088. ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO Abel Boulineau, to Aug 21. Abstract Expressionist New York, to Sep 4 ($25, stu $16.50, Wed after 7 pm $10). 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, 2012. Lucy Tasseor Tutsweetok, to Apr 1, 2012. $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 (free). Play > Nation, to Oct 10. $10, stu/srs $8. 234 Bay. 416363-6121. 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. McMICHAEL CANADIAN ART COLLECTION MarcAurèle Fortin, to Sep 11. Steeling The Gaze: Portraits By Aboriginal Artists, to Sep 11. $15, stu/srs $12. 10365 Islington (Kleinburg). 905893-1121. MUSEUM OF INUIT ART Sculpture/prints/draw-
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In Linwood Barclay’s ninth crime thriller, The Accident ($22, Doubleday), a man investigates the death of his wife and uncovers a conspiracy that tears the facade off his sleepy suburb and messes with his perceptions of the woman he married. Barclay used to be one of the Toronto Star’s most entertaining columnists, telling tales about his family with heart-felt hilarity. Who knew he’d turn into a critically acclaimed master of suspense? Even SUSAN G. COLE Stephen King’s a fan.
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ing from the collection, ongoing. $6, stu/srs $5. 207 Queens Quay W. 416-603-7591. THE POWER PLANT Kevin Schmidt, to Sep 5. Rearview Mirror: New Art From Central And Eastern Europe, to Sep 5. 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949. ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM Edward Burtynsky, to Aug 21. Jane Ash Poitras, to Sep 1. Water: The Exhibition, to Sep 5 ($31, stu/srs $28). Riotous Colour, Daring Patterns: Fashions + Textiles 18th To 21st Centuries, to Oct 16. The Archaeology Of Godin Tepe, Iran, to Jan 31, 2012. $24, stu/srs $21; half-price Fri 4:30-8:30 pm; free Wed 3:30-5:30 pm. 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000. TEXTILE MUSEUM OF CANADA Magic Squares: The Patterned Imagination Of Muslim Africa In Contemporary Culture, to Nov 20. Cold Comfort: New And Improved Souvenirs Of Canada, to Sep 18. Silk Oasis On The Silk Road: Bukhara, to Sep 25, curator’s tour 6:30 pm Aug 24. $15, srs $10, stu $6; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre. 416-5995321. 3
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READINGS THIS WEEK Thursday, August 18 NAHLA ABDO Launching Women In Israel:
Race, Gender And Citizenship with a panel discussion. 6 pm. Free. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org.
Saturday, August 20 GEORGES BENAY Signing Nomad On The Run. 2-5 pm. Free. Chapters Square One, 189 Rathburn (Mississauga). chapters.indigo.ca.
Sunday, August 21 PLASTICINE POETRY Clara Blackwood launches Arcana with a reading, along with Kimberley Dawkins, Sonia DiPlacido, Jim Johnstone and Dane Swan, plus an open mic. 6 pm. Free. Pauper’s Pub, 539 Bloor W. pauperspub.com.
Monday, August 22 JANE FONDA Meet the author of Prime Time. Noon. Free. Indigo Manulife, 55 ñ Bloor W. chapters.indigo.ca. KATHY REICHS Signing her newest novel, Flash And Bones. Noon. Free. Indigo Eaton Centre, 220 Yonge. chapters.indigo.ca.
Tuesday, August 23 MIKE LIPSIUS/AMANDA HEIBERT/ADEBE Poetry
and an open mic. 8 pm. Free. Clinton’s, 693 Bloor W. artbar.org. 3
MUST-SEE SHOWS ARTSCAPE TRIANGLE GALLERY Painting:
Chris Fung, Nigel Fung and Janine Fung, to Aug 28. 38 Abell. artscapetrianglegallery.ca. BEN NAVAEE GALLERY Abstract Mixed Media group show, Aug 20-Sep 2, reception Aug 20. 1111 Queen E. 416-999-1030. EDWARD DAY GALLERY Painting: Margaret Sutherland and Pat Dumas-Hudecki, to Aug 31. 952 Queen W. 416-9216540. EVERGREEN BRICK WORKS Installation: Köbberling & Kaltwasser, to Aug 20, closing event 10:30 am-noon Aug 20. 550 Bayview. 416-596-1495. DRAKE HOTEL Painting: Maya Hayuk, ongoing. Installation: Gary Taxali, to Aug 29. The Writing On The Wall group show, to Aug 29. 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042. GALLERYWEST Painting: Randal Fedje, to Aug 21. 1332 Queen W. 416-913-7116. GLADSTONE HOTEL Open Eyes Toronto group show, to Aug 22, reception 7-11 pm Aug 18, panel 2-5 pm Aug 20 (openeyestoronto.com). Being Scene group show, to Oct 2. Textiles: Kerry Croghan, to Nov 1. Painting: Deborah L Young, to Aug 23. 1214 Queen W. 416531-4635. JOHN B. AIRD Summer Showcase fundraiser, Aug 22-24. Ontario Public Service group show, to Aug 19. 900 Bay. 416928-6772. LEVACK BLOCK Graffiti (Havana Cultura): Angel Carrillo, Aug 18-21. 88 Ossington. 416-916-0571, havana-cultura.ca. MONTE CLARK GALLERY Photos: Greg Girard, to Aug 21. 55 Mill, bldg 2. 416-703-1700. NAISA SPACE Sound installation: Chan Ka Nin, to Sep 3 (Fri-Sat). Pwyc. 601 Christie, studio 252. naisa.ca. ONTARIO CRAFTS COUNCIL Studio Remix group show, to Sep 11. 990 Queen W. 416-925-4222. OZ GALLERY Photos (Havana Cultura): Alejandro González, Aug 18-21. 134 Ossington. 416-792-5511, havana-culturea. ca. PIKTO Photos: Yousuf Karsh, to Sep 4. 55 Mill, bldg 59. 416-203-3443. ROBERT KANANAJ GALLERY Group show, to Sep 17. 1267 Bloor W. 416-289-8855. TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX Fellini: Spectacular Obsessions, to Sep 18 ($9.25-$12). 350 King W. 416-599-8433. WYNICK/TUCK Degrees Of Abstraction; From Private Collections group shows, to Sep 3. 401 Richmond W, #128. 416-5048716.
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Michaela Washburn says you should trust the language and let the text do its work.
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She’s ready to Pony up Actor digs into fascinating role in Judith Thompson revival By JON KAPLAN WHITE BITING DOG by Judith Thompson, directed by Nancy Palk, with Gregory Prest, Fiona Reid, Mike Ross, Michaela Washburn and Joseph Ziegler (Soulpepper). At the Young Centre (55 Mill). Opens tonight (Thursday, August 18) and runs in rep to October 1. $45-$65, stu $28, rush $5-$22. 1-866-8666, soulpepper.ca.
dogs are supposedly our best friends, but sometimes they aren’t the most trustworthy of animals. At least not in White Biting Dog, one of Judith Thompson’s earliest and best plays. Full of references to canines, the play begins with the near suicide of Cape, who plans to jump off the Bloor
Viaduct (this is before the installation of the Luminous Veil), until he’s stopped by the dog of the title. The pooch tells Cape he has a mission: to save his father, Glidden, from death. Is the task a sign from heaven, or does it come from a devil dog? “Sure, we see dogs as loyal and supportive, but sometimes it’s hard to know whether the dogs in this play are forces of good,” says Michaela Washburn, who plays Pony, the woman with whom Cape becomes involved. “She had her own dog, Queenie, an animal with ESP that she believes sent her on her own journey from Kirkland Lake to Toronto. But by fulfilling that command, does Pony get
what she wants? “And what is Queenie’s voice? Is it a message from beyond, from the ancestors, her unconscious or intuitive self? We never find out.” What’s clear is that Pony functions, at least initially, as the play’s moral centre. She’s the most grounded character in a world that includes the depressed Cape, his near-death, hallucinating father, Glidden, Glidden’s straying, sensual wife, Lomia, and her current boyfriend, the troubled and insecure Pascal. “She’s had some life experience, having worked as a paramedic,” continues Washburn. “But in many ways Pony is a naive person, an ethical creature filled with goodness, someone
who wants to do the right thing in the world. “But the affection she admits into her life when she meets Cape also admits something more sinister. As she says, ‘I had to open my mouth so wide to let the love in that the evil came in, too.’” White Biting Dog isn’t Washburn’s first performance in a Thompson play; she won a Dora nomination for her work in Such Creatures. “It’s an honour to perform in Judith’s plays, as challenging as they are. Her characters may seem to be outrageous figures, but you don’t have to play against that largeness. “I’ve learned to trust the language, because that’s when the actor can become liberated: by letting the text do the work, as in Shakespeare. You needn’t impose a whole emotional life on the text; it’s living there already. “It’s like starting a fire. You coax the story by breathing on its glowing embers and bringing the narrative and the characters to life.” Washburn, an aboriginal actor who’s appeared in Native Earth Performing Arts productions of Salt Baby, Death Of A Chief and Dreary And Izzy, is excited about working at Soulpepper, especially in the welcoming group of senior artists like Nancy Palk (making her directing debut), Joseph Ziegler and Fiona Reid. She speaks of “an extra sense of pride” in knowing that one of the new Soulpepper Academy members is native performer Justin Many Fingers. “The support around me is really important when you’re doing a play like White Biting Dog, with its element of the absurd. Our rehearsal room is a place of safety, encouraging some intense moments and a willingness to trust our instincts. I know I can go to the edge of my comfort zone, permitting me both to work and to play.” 3 jonkap@nowtoronto.com
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New cast adds colourful twists to ’Da Kink In My Hair.
Hair-raising return
’Da Kink gets a funky mini-makeover By JORDAN BIMM ’DA KINK IN MY HAIR by Trey Anthony, directed by Michele Shay. At the Enwave Theatre (231 Queens Quay West). To August 28. $37-$77. 416-973-4000. See Continuing, page 58. Rating: NNN
like a healthy head of hair, trey Anthony’s hard-hitting and inspiring monologue cycle about the challenges faced by black women in Canada continues to grow. This vibrant, up-
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Opening BABEL RAP by John Lazarus (Speakeasy Pro-
ductions). Two men building the Tower of Babel argue about the job and what the structure means. Aug 18-20 at 7:30 pm. $15, stu $12. Bread & Circus, 299 Augusta. speakeasyproductions.org. CANADIAN THEATRE FESTIVAL (The Pearl Company). Plays by Keystone Theatre, Kate Story, Peter Gruner and others are presented. Opens Aug 18 and runs to Aug 27, Thu-Sat (see website for schedule and show details). $15 per show, series $36. 16 Steven, Hamilton. 905524-0606, thepearlcompany.ca. COME FLY AWAY by Twyla Tharp (Dancap Productions). This dance-theatre piece about four couples at a night club features the music of Frank Sinatra. 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. FAIR PLAY by Dan Needles (Theatre Collingwood). Theatre artists and farmers must work together in a small town in this comedy. Opens Aug 18 and runs to Aug 27, Mon-Sat 8 pm, mats Aug 23, 25 at 2 pm. $19-$38. Gayety Theatre, Collingwood. 1-866-382-2200, theatrecollingwood.com. GUYS AND DOLLS by Frank Loesser, Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows (Drayton Entertainment). A wager leads to romance in this musical comedy. Previews to Aug 20. Opens Aug 21 and
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family after having a child with a black partner – resonates alongside the seven older pieces. However, the most gripping tale remains the tragic and haunting story revealed by Stacey-Anne (Thais Francis), a young immigrant from Jamaica who finds the comfort of Canada’s middle class poisoned by her step-father. New musical-styled elements find the cast segueing between monologues with mostly a cappella R&B songs (composed by Michael McElroy and Carol Maillard) and choreography by Roger C. Jeffrey that ranges from funky nightclub moves to traditional African dance. 3 stage@nowtoronto.com
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even with a grant cut, this fest was one of the best
Amber Borotsik and Mark Jenkins were in One of the best productions.
If you needed proof that Toronto is home to an amazing group of actors, you only had to catch some of the shows at the 21st SummerWorks Festival, which closed Sunday (August 14). It’s hard to imagine better performances than those by Cara Gee (Stitch), Elizabeth Saunders and Simon Bracken (The Particulars And In General), Michelle Monteith and Joe Cobden (Little One), Nicky Gua-
dagni (Hooked) and various acting ensembles (The Trolley Car, Strange Mary Strange, Out At Sea, Mr. Marmalade). And those are just some of the stronger shows. The festival included two versions of the Orpheus story, both from the viewpoint of the woman he loves (One and Eurydice). One of the recurrent themes was an exploration of child sexuality, often in a disturbing
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context (Little One, Strange Mary Strange, Mr. Marmalade, Stitch). We also had a chance to see the strong work of new directors Mitchell Cushman, Kristina Nicoll and Alex McCooeye. More work from all, please. One of the most striking productions was Iranian writer Nassim Soleimanpour’s White Rabbit, Red Rabbit, read by a different actor at each performance. And “read” is the proper word, since the performer didn’t get the script until the start of the show. The result was a fascinating cold read of a script that broke the theatre’s fourth wall, setting up a fluid relationship involving writer, performer and viewer and giving a whole new theatrical meaning to the phrase “author’s voice.” The Art Bar in the courtyard of the Edward Day Gallery and MOCCA was another success, providing audiences, especially those at the Lower Ossington Theatre and the Theatre Centre, a place to socialize, have a drink and listen to live bands and DJ spins. Festival producer Michael Rubenfeld again programmed lots of shows that ran over an hour. We appreciate giving companies a chance to develop longer works, but it’s time, as we said last year, to overhaul the schedule to let people see more productions. Audiences again had the problem of too much time between shows, especially in a schedule that usually allowed two and a half hours between productions in each venue. This year’s festival drew a crowd of over 20,000, and the Art Bar was full for the closing night party’s announcements of this year’s SummerWorks awards. The SummerWorks Prize for outstanding production went to Kaspar And The Sea Of Houses; the presenting company, twinwerks//zwillingswerk, gets a free slot in next year’s SummerWorks. The Contra Guys Award for outstanding new performance text, sponsored by SummerWorks founders Benj Gallander and Ben Stadelmann, went to White Rabbit, Red Rabbit. Several theatre groups sponsored other awards. The National Theatre School Award for set or costume design went to Julie Fox (design) and Nilan Perera (sound) for choreographer Susanna Hood’s Shudder. Sean O’Neill and Liz Peterson’s Express Yourself won the Buddies in Bad Times Award for risk and innovation, while One’s Eric Rose picked up the Canadian Stage Award for direction. The Spotlight Award, given to a featured performer, went to Cara Gee (Stitch); Joe Cobden and Michelle Monteith (Little One) got honourable mention. Playwright Cliff Cardinal (Stitch) and director Mitchell Cushman (Mr. Marma-
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lade) shared the emerging artist award, and director Michael Wheeler (You Should Have Stayed Home) won the Arts Professional Award. The NOW Audience Choice Award went to Victor E. Gómez’s Lizardboy.
heRe’s noW’s annual lIst oF the Best oF the Fest: OUTSTANDING NEW PLAYS: The Particulars And In General; Little One; The Trolley Car; Stitch; Hannah’s Turn; Hero And Leander OUTSTANDING PRODUCTIONS: Hooked; Malaria Lullabye; Strange Mary Strange; Eurydice; The Physical Ramifications Of Attempted Global Domination; Little One; The Trolley Car; Mr. Marmalade; Stitch; The Particulars And In General; Hannah’s Turn; The Safe Word; Hero And Leander; One; Elora Gorge; White Rabbit, Red Rabbit OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCES: Cara Gee (Stitch); Soo Garay and Erin McMurtry (Morning Glory); Nicky Guadagni (Hooked); Jessica Moss (Long Dark Night); Elizabeth Saunders and Simon Bracken (The Particulars And In General); Andy Trithardt, Zugzwang OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLES: Still Life; Strange Mary Strange; “I”; The Physical Ramifications Of Attempted Global Domination; Malaria Lullabye; Eurydice; Little One; The Trolley Car; Mr. Marmalade; Out At Sea; Hannah’s Turn; Dancing To A White Boy Song; The Safe Word; Hero And Leander; One; Elora Gorge; Combat OUTSTANDING DIRECTION: Mitchell Cushman (Mr. Marmalade); Evan Tsitsias and Esther Jun (Strange Mary Strange); Kristina Nicoll (Eurydice); Natasha Mytnowych (Little One); Ruth Madoc-Jones (The Trolley Car); Jovanni Sy (Stitch); Alex McCooeye (The Particulars And In General); Mary Francis Moore (Hannah’s Turn); Eric Rose (One) OUTSTANDING DESIGN: The Physical Ramifications Of Attempted Global Domination (Allie Marshall, Hanna Puley, Erin Alexa Freedman); Malaria Lullabye (Beth Kates, Ben Chaisson, Monica Dottor, Michelle DeBrouwer); Little One (Kimberly Purtell, Michael Gianfrancesco, Eric Meadows); Mr. Marmalade (Jon Grosz); One (Snezana Pesic, Matthew Waddell); Elora Gorge (Lindsay Anne Black, Trevor Schwellnus, Christopher Stanton); Anna Treusch (“I,” Hero And Leander, Out At Sea). Jon Kaplan/glenn suMI
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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. Into the Woods by James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim (StageWorks Toronto). Characters from popular fairy tales reunite in a musical about wishes and consequences. Aug 18-21, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2 pm. $20. Annex Theatre, 730 Bathurst. 416-803-5287, stageworkstoronto.com. Masala! MehndI! MastI! (Satya Arts). The South Asian arts fest presents Aizzah Fatima’s play Dirty Pakistani Lingerie and Rabindranath Tagore’s play Sacrifice, plus comedy, dance, music and more. Aug 19-21, see website for schedule. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com. tWeed a neW CanadIan MusICal by Tim Porter and Andre Morin (IANA Theatre Company). A couple’s new love is torn apart by the coming war in this play based on the history of the town of Tweed, Ontario. Opens Aug 18 and runs to Aug 27, Thu-Sun 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $28.25, stu/srs $25. Papermill Theatre, 67 Pottery. tweedthemusical.com. WhIte BItIng dog by Judith Thompson (Soulpepper). A suicidal lawyer on a bridge is advised by a talking dog (see story, page 57). Opens Aug 18 and runs to Oct 1, see website for schedule. $45-$65, stu $28, rush $5-$22. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca.
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Bovell (Shaw Festival). A family history unfolds across continents and generations in this drama. Previews to Aug 25. Opens Aug 26 and runs in rep to Sep 17. $24-$50. Studio Theatre, Niagara-on-the-Lake. shawfest.com.
Continuing BIlly ellIot the MusICal by Lee Hall and Elton John (Mirvish). One of the best ñ new musicals of the millennium, Billy Elliot is
based on the 2000 film about a working-class boy whose dreams of becoming a ballet dancer are set against the grim reality of his 1984 northern England mining community. The characters are richly detailed, the conflicts believable and complex, and the dialogue raw, crudely funny and uncompromising. The songs, while not exactly hummable, serve the story and characters, and the performances (four boys alternate in the demanding lead role) grounded and deeply felt. Bring tissues. Runs to Sep 3, Tue 7 pm, Wed-Sat 7:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 1:30 pm. $36-$130. Canon Theatre, 244 Victoria. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. nnnnn (GS) ‘da KInK In My haIR by trey anthony (Trey Anthony Studios). Eight women tell their stories in a Caribbean hair salon in Toronto (see review, page 57). Runs to Aug 21, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $37-$67. Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, treyanthonystudios.com. nnn (Jordan Bimm) exIt the KIng by Eugene Ionesco (Soulpepper). An aging king with a crumbling kingdom gets more bad news in this absurdist play. 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 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. Nancy Palk shines as the formerly genteel Amanda, and Gemma James-Smith admirably transcends any idea of Laura as a tragic pixie. The impassioned performances and sensitive direction produce an unflinching view of Tennessee Williams’s wounded family. Runs to Sep 10, see website for schedule. $45-$65, rush $5-$22. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. nnnn (Naomi Skwarna) satuRday nIght at the young (Soulpepper Theatre Company). Derek Boyes and Mike Ross host a weekly arts talk-show cabaret. Runs to Aug 27, Sat 10 pm. $10, rush pwyc-$5. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416866-8666, youngcentre.ca. toteM by Robert Lepage (Cirque du Soleil). Music, dance, acrobatics and design are used to trace the journey of the human species (see review, page 59). Runs to Oct 9, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sun 1 & 5 pm, FriSat 4 pm (no show Sep 6). $74-$249, stu/srs $67-$235, children under 12 $54-$208. Grand Chapiteau, Port Lands, Commissioners at
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Cherry. cirquedusoleil.com. NNNN (GS) 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, TueSun 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 2 pm. $35-$99. Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260 King W. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. NNN (GS)
Out of Town THE ADMIRABLE CRICHTON by JM Barrie (Shaw Festival). Barrie’s thoughtful and ñ sometimes romantic play looks at the con-
trasting social hierarchies in the worlds of civilized London and a deserted tropical island. The Shaw ensemble, headed by Steven Sutcliffe as the conservative, subservient butler who becomes the leader on the island, captures the script’s comedy and irony, while director Morris Panych gives the story a musical vaudeville frame. Runs in rep to Oct 29. $24$106. Festival Theatre, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. NNNN (JK) CAMELOT by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe (Stratford Festival). King Arthur’s wife betrays him with his most trusted knight in this musical. Runs in rep to Oct 30. $50-$106, stu/srs $25-$66. Festival Theatre, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. CANDIDA by Bernard Shaw (Shaw Festival). A woman must choose between her preacher husband and her poet lover. Runs in rep to Oct 30. $24-$106. Royal George Theatre, Niagaraon-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF by Tennessee Williams (Shaw Festival). A bad marriage and a looming inheritance create tensions at
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a Southern patriarch’s birthday dinner. Runs in rep to Oct 23. $24-$106. Royal George Theatre, Niagara-on-the-Lake. shawfest.com. THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck, adapted by Frank Galati (Stratford Festival). Ruined by the Depression, an Oklahoma farming family travels to California to seek a new life. Runs in rep to Oct 29. $50$106, stu/srs $25-$66. Avon Theatre, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.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. Runs in rep to Oct 30. $50-$106, stu/srs $25-$66. Avon Theatre, Stratford. stratfordfestival.ca. 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 and 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, and great support from Brent Carver as Pontius Pilate and Bruce Dow as Herod. Runs in rep to Nov 6. $50-$106, stu/srs $25$66. Avon Theatre, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. NNNN (Susan G Cole) THE LITTLE YEARS by John Mighton (Stratford Festival). 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, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. NNNNN (JK) THE MISANTHROPE by Molière (Stratford Festival). A man scorns social conventions but falls for a superficial socialite in this manners com-
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edy. Runs in rep to Oct 29. $50-$106, stu/srs $25-$66. Festival Theatre, Stratford. 1-800567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. 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. THE PRESIDENT Ferenc Molnár, adapted by Morwyn Brebner (Shaw Festival). A banker has one hour to turn an heiress’s communist husband into someone her parents will like. Runs in rep to Oct 9. $32. Royal George 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. SHAKESPEARE’S WILL by Vern Thiessen (Stratford Festival). Shakespeare’s widow recalls her life with and without her famous husband in this solo show. Runs in rep to Sep 2. $25-$70. Studio Theatre, Stratford. 1-800567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. THE TAMING OF THE SHREW by William Shakespeare (PRISM Theatre in the Park). The classic play is staged outdoors. Runs to Aug 18, TueSat 7 pm. $5, kids under 5 free. Annie Williams Park, Santas Village Rd at Ewing, Bracebridge. 705-687-2745, prismtheatre.com. 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. 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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Totem stands tall Cirque’s latest is smart and sexy By GLENN SUMI
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although ci rque du soleil presents circus sans animals, a bunch of apes (costumed versions anyway) monkey around in their latest spectacle, Totem. Why? Well, the show attempts to tell the story of human evolution, from sea creatures and our hairy animal ancestors to suitedup Bay Street sharks. Ambitious goal, and thanks to visionary director Robert Lepage, it mostly works. Helped by a superb design team (dazzling and intricate costumes, ingenious sets), evocative
film projections and a typical Cirque score sampling world music sounds, Lepage’s second piece for the company is one of the more memorable. Nothing happens by rote. A Keatonesque clown suddenly reveals he’s an ace juggler, while another performer doffs a cloak to become a toreador with a terrific sense of balance. In one winning sequence, a trapeze bit gets a rom-com makeover as the two nimble acrobats spar and set off dangerous sexual sparks, all while perched precariously high in the air. Other highlights include a group of unicyclists who use their feet to flip metal bowls onto their own and others’ heads, and an aboriginalinspired roller skating sequence performed atop a tiny drum-like surface. And while there’s always been a bit of flesh in Cirque’s fantasy, Totem is hands-down the sexiest show in recent memory. From a trio of scantily clad, sunglasses-wearing acrobats flexing their buff bodies on the high rings (without a net) to a pair of women identified as the “crystal ladies” who spin, pizza-dough-style, what appear to be sequined squares of fabric on all their limbs, this show could very well raise your tent pole. 3 glenns@nowtoronto.com
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Thursday, August 18 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Mike Dambra,
Nathan Macintosh and host Lamont Ferguson. To Aug 21, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:45 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10-$15. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.
THE ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY COMPLETELY MADE UP SHOW Second City presents interactive,
family-friendly improv and sketch. To Sep 3, Thu-Sat 1 pm. $12. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com.
COMEDY THURSDAYS The Starving Artist presents a weekly showcase w/ host Natasha Henderson. 9 pm. Free. 584 Lansdowne. 647342-5058, starvingartistbar.com.
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coming 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. HELDER BRUM AND FRIENDS Bread & Circus presents Rob Mailloux, Kathleen Phillips, Bob Banks, Pat Thornton, Deborah Etta Robinson, Poppa Proppa and others. 10 pm. Pwyc. 299 Augusta. helderbrum.com. HOT BOX COMEDY Hot Box Cafe presents a weekly show w/ host Jillian Thomas. 7:15 pm. $5. 191A Baldwin. hotboxcafe.ca. LEAVING THE DREAM Henhouse presents comedy with Nick Flanagan, Rebecca Kohler and host Tom Henry. 8:30 pm. $7. 1532 Dundas W. 416-534-5939. THE TASTY SHOW presents weekly stand-up w/
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Steudle, Dom Pare, Jake Leland and Al Val. 6 pm. Free. 1496 Queen W. 647-342-3947. SPILLIN’ THE BEANS COMEDY Full of Beans Coffee presents a show w/ host Rene Payes. 7 pm. Pwyc. 1348 Dundas W. fullofbeans.ca. THEATRESPORTS Bad Dog Theatre presents fast and furious improv matches. 8 pm. $12, stu $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, baddogtheatre.com. WEST END GIRLS Poor John’s Café presents all-girl stand-up w/ Melody Johnson, Rhiannon Archer, Shelly Colman, Daniela Saioni and others. 8:30 pm. Pwyc. 1610 Queen W. 647-435-2688. YUk YUk’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 18. YUk YUk’S VAUGHAN See Fri 19. YUk YUk’S WEST See Fri 19.
Sunday, August 21 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 18. THE BENCH John Candy Box Theatre presents KathleenPhillipsgetslaughsatHelder BrumshowonAugust18. host Jeffrey Danson. 10 pm. Free. La Revolucion, 2848 Dundas W. 416-766-0746. YUk YUk’S DOWNTOWN presents Graham Chittenden. To Aug 21, 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 19 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 18. THE ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY COMPLETELY MADE UP SHOW See Thu 18. DREAMS REALLY DO COME TRUE! (AND OTHER LIES) See Thu 18. MOCkERY NIGHT IN THE JUNCTION Shoxs pre-
sents stand-up, sketch, the Komedy Kwiz and more. 8:30 pm. $5. 2827 Dundas W, downstairs. 416-762-7097, shoxs.ca. 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. TJ & DAVE Second City presents TJ Jagodowski and Dave Pasquesi in a long-form improv show. 11 pm. $15. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011. 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 18. YUk YUk’S VAUGHAN presents Chuck Byrn. To Aug 20, Fri-Sat 9 pm. $20. 70 Interchange Way. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com. YUk YUk’S WEST presents Tim Rabnett. To Aug 20, Fri-Sat 9 pm. $20. 5165 Dixie, Mississauga. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.
Saturday, August 20 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 18. THE ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY COMPLETELY MADE UP SHOW See Thu 18. BLACk SWAN COMEDY presents an Improv
Drop-In workshop w/ Ralph MacLeod. 6 pm. $5. 8-Bit Improv. 8 pm. Pwyc. The Ladder, competitive entertainment. 10 pm. $5. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. 416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com.
DREAMS REALLY DO COME TRUE! (AND OTHER LIES) See Thu 18. FATkID ALLSTARS Comedy Bar presents
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Sawyer, Liam Kelly, K Trevor Wilson and host Clifford Myers. 10:30 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. kOMIC SUTRA Harbourfront Centre presents stand-up comedian Nitin Mirani and others in an 18+ show, as part of the Masala! Mehndi! Masti! festival. 10:30 pm. Free. 235 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com. SPARkLES COMEDY Ground Level Cafe presents stand-up w/ Josh Infald, Alex Pavone, Richard
DREAMS REALLY DO COME TRUE! (AND OTHER LIES) See Thu 18. LEGENDS OF ZELDA’S presents weekly improv
w/ the Eleventh Commandment and guests. 8 pm. $5. Zelda’s, 692 Yonge. zeldas.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 18.
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Monday, August 22 ALT.COMEDY LOUNGE Rivoli presents Debra DiGiovanni, Nathan Macintosh, Eddie Della Siepe, Rob Pue, Rhiannon Archer, Allison Dore, Dwayne Hill, Jeanie Calleja, MC Perry Perlmutar 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. BINGO: THE SHOW Comedy Bar presents improv with actual bingo w/ Megan Fraser, Mike Kiss, Kristen McGregor and Jim Taylor. 9 pm. $8. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. BLACk SWAN COMEDY presents the Monday Improv Jam w/ Ralph MacLeod. 8 pm. The Improv Gong Show. 10 pm. Pwyc. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. 416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.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. IMPERIAL COMEDY STAND-UP COMPETITION Imperial Pub presents a weekly show with cash prizes w/ host Eric Bud. 9:30 pm. $5. 54 Dundas E. imperialcomedy.com. LAUGHABLE AT UNLOVABLE presents Allison Hogg, Ryan Belleville, Chris Locke, Conor Holler, Deb Robinson, Makesi Arthur and hosts Steph Tolev and Nick Flanagan. 9
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upcoming improvisers picked by the Second City. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270. BRUNCH & LAUGHS WSB Enterprises presents comedy and brunch with Blakka Ellis. Doors open at noon. $45. Maple Banquet Hall, 1325 Eglinton E, Mississauga. 416-744-2913.
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improvisers performing with AIM Toronto musicians. Aug 20 at 8 pm. $10. Majlis Multidisciplinary Arts, 163 Walnut, Art Garden. coexisdance.wordpress.com. 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. 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. DUSk DANCES 2011 presents outdoor dance by Santee Smith, Jenn Goodwin, Jon ‘Drops’ Reid, Roshanak Jaberi and Lua Shayenne. Aug 18-21, Thu-Sun 7 pm. Pwyc. Earlscourt Park, St Clair W at Caledonia. duskdances.ca.
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pm. Pwyc. Unlovable, 1415-B Dundas W. 416532-6669. SAVED BY THE JOkES Fox & Fiddle presents weekly comedy w/ hosts Evan Desmarais and Chris Robinson. 8 pm. Pwyc. 27 Wellesley E. wellesleyfox.com. TORONTO COMEDY BRAWL QUARTERFINALS 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. THE VEST SHOW IN TOWN Comedy Bar presents a variety show w/ Vest of Friends. 7 pm. Pwyc. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. WHEEL OF IMPROV John Candy Box Theatre presents an interactive improv show. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270.
Tuesday, August 23 AQUILA SLAMMERS Aquila Restaurant pre-
sents Rocket Hotdog, Dom Pare, James Gangl & Friends and Cameron Wyllie. 8:30 pm. Pwyc. 347 Keele. 416-761-7474. CAGE MATCH Impatient Theatre presents 16 improv teams battling for a cash prize w/ Not Dead Yet, Blank Stare Cowboys, Substitute Sandwich, Gandhi’s Flip Flop and others. 7:30, 8:30, 9:30 & 10:30 pm. $5 per show. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-238-7337, impatient.ca. FAT kAT$ COMEDY Nola Belle and Joey Harlem present a show w/ host Harlem. 9 pm. Free. Axis Gastropub, 585 Bloor W. 416-539-9009. IMPROV NIGHT IN CANADA John Candy Box Theatre presents the ultimate improv faceoff. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270. JASON ALEXANDER United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto presents the comic/ actor in a live show. 7:30 pm. $35-$125. Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Front E. 416-635-2883 ext 5329, ujaevents.com. SkETCHCOMEDYLOUNGE Rivoli presents The Headline Series w/ Haircut, A Classy Affair, Two Weird Ladies, Newsdesk with Ron Sparks, MC Arthur Simeon and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. 332 Queen W. sketchcomedylounge. com. TORONTO COMEDY BRAWL QUARTERFINALS See Mon 22. YUk YUk’S DOWNTOWN presents the Humber School of Comedy at 7:30 pm, and stand-up Amateur Night at 9:30 pm. $4. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.
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Lamont Ferguson, Chris MacLean, Aastha Lal, Danny Polishchuk, Double K, Mike Silver and host Larry XL. 8:30 pm. $6. 2335 Yonge. 416486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca. CAGE MATCH Impatient Theatre presents 16 improv teams battling for a cash prize w/ Book Club, 3 Peg Nancy, the Sexy Mistakes, Proxy Server and others. 7:30, 8:30, 9:30 & 10:30 pm. $5 per show. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416238-7337, impatient.ca. THE CARNEGIE HALL SHOW The National Theatre of the World presents a weekly variety show. 9 pm. Pwyc. Bread & Circus, 299 Augusta. thecarnegiehallshow.com. DJ DEMERS presents a weekly show w/ guests. 8 pm. $5. Underground Comedy Club, 670 Queen E. djdemers.com.
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DREAMS REALLY DO COME TRUE! (AND OTHER LIES) See Thu 18. SIREN’S COMEDY Celt’s Pub presents stand-up
w/ Craig Fay and host Marc-Anthony Sinagoga. 8:30 pm. Free. 2872 Dundas W. 416-767-3339. STUDENTS ROCk THE NITE John Candy Box Theatre presents improv by Second City Training Centre students. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416340-7270. YUk YUk’S DOWNTOWN presents Jon Steinberg. To Aug 27, Wed-Thu and Sat 8 pm (and Sat 10:30 pm), Fri 9 pm. $12-$20. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com. 3 dance/movement works by Julia Male & Chris Willes, Kyra Green & Jasmyn Fyffe and others. Aug 19 at 9 pm (exhibit runs to Aug 21). Free. 2A Pape. 416-836-1516, labspacestudio.com.
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Rina Singha Kathak Dance Organization presents classical dance from the temples and courts of northern India. Aug 18-20, Thu-Fri 8 pm, Sat 7:30 pm. $22, srs $15, stu $10. Fairview Library Theatre, 35 Fairview Mall. kathakmahotsavcanada.eventbrite.com. MASALA! MEHNDI! MASTI! Harbourfront Centre and Satya Arts present the South Asian arts fest, with dance by Sanskriti Arts, Tarana Dance Academy, Swar Sadhana and more. Aug 19-21, see website for schedule. Free. 235 Queens Quay W. masalamehndimasti.com. 3
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Experimental video artist Daniel Cockburn graduates to features with this playful but intensely cerebral look at identity, individualism and social dynamics. A lecturer (R.D. Reid) explains the importance of resisting distraction – including the distraction provided by his own lecture. An archivist (Tracy Wright, in one of her final performances) collects artifacts around Toronto, including a videotape of the lecturer. Office workers spend their days ordering people to wander the city. And a crowd – named Alan – ponders its daily routine. It all comes together – sort of – but that’s not really the point. Cockburn is inviting us into his head, to think about the things he never stops thinking about. It’s NW kind of nice in there.
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Why Daniel Cockburn’s You Are Here has wowed critics and audiences on the festival circuit By NORMAN WILNER
YOU ARE HERE written and directed by Daniel Cockburn, with Tracy Wright, R.D. Reid, Anand Rajaram and Nadia Litz. A Pacific Northwest Pictures release. 78 minutes. Opens Friday (August 19) at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. See Times, page 72.
daniel cockburn is having a pretty good year. Almost exactly 12 months ago, the Toronto experimental filmmaker premiered his first feature, You Are Here, at the Locarno Film Festival. Shortly thereafter, he brought it home to TIFF and set the critical community buzzing. I was one of those local critics bowled over by Cockburn’s intricately constructed narrative of lost characters searching for meaning in
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cryptic experiments and unexpected connections. (One of those characters is played by Tracy Wright, in one of her final screen performances.) Catching up with Cockburn over lunch at the Lakeview on Dundas West – he has a fishwich, I have the club, and both of us drink more coffee than we probably should – I ask him how things have been going since that first Locarno screening. “The first few months were this huge series of explosions in my mind,” he says. “It was like the movie had just been born, and it was finding its legs and then it started to talk, and talk with other people, and I stepped back and just watched it happen.” It’s difficult to discuss You Are Here in anything but the vaguest
terms; to run through the plot would either spoil the viewer’s discovery of its function or make me sound like a madman. Let’s just say the movie has roots in the heady literature of Franz Kafka and Jorge Luis Borges, and that it shares its inquisitive philosophical tone with a couple of other recent pictures, Terrence Malick’s The Tree Of Life and Mike Cahill’s Another Earth. These are all films that juxtapose individual human stories with wider existential inquiries, and give the audience the room to ponder the questions. And audiences are responding. “At Fantasia [in Montreal], somebody wanted to know what my religious beliefs were,” Cockburn says. “I was like, ‘I don’t know.’ Discussion around this movie often tends toward people
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“It was like the movie had just been born, and then it started to talk, and talk with other people” Daniel Cockburn asking about my religious or cosmic beliefs. It feels strange that that should be something a roomful of people would want to know, because I’m not an authority on anything – except this movie.” I ask what he’s enjoyed most about the festival circuit, now that the movie’s finally getting a Toronto release.
(I’ll be conducting a Q&A with Cockburn after Friday’s (August 19) 7:30 pm screening at the TIFF Bell Lightbox.) “I think the most satisfying thing about taking it around has been audience response,” he says. “Q&As or emails after the fact that show that people get it. They don’t just get it cerebrally, but they connect with it; they find it entertaining, and they find it funny and moving. These are all the things we were hoping for, but they’re the things you can’t predetermine or guarantee. You can’t know, until the movie enters into that dialogue with other people.” 3 normw@nowtoronto.com
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Speed demon SENNA (Asif Kapadia). 104 minutes. Some subtitles. Opens Friday (August 19). For venues and times, see Movies, page 68. Rating: NNNN
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Hollywood has attempted to make a biopic about late, great Brazilian Formula 1 legend Ayrton Senna (at one point Antonio Banderas was tapped to star), but such efforts never made it to the finish line. That’s okay, though, because the new documentary Senna has all the full-throttle momentum and sweeping emotion any big-budget feature could hope for. Asif Kapadia’s film tracks the charismatic, cocky driver’s career from his first Grand Prix to his final, fatal race in San Marino. It never lags, thanks to a refreshing absence of typical talkingLife’s a beach for One Day’s Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess.
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One note ONE DAY (Lone Scherfig). 108 minutes. Opens Friday (August 19). For venues and times, see Movies, page 68. Rating: NN
One Day doesn’t quite work, but there are some affecting moments in this adaptation of David Nicholls’s clever gimmick of a romantic bestseller. Dexter (Jim Sturgess) and Emma (Anne Hathaway) drunkenly stumble into bed after graduation from their Edinburgh university, and on the same day for the next 19 years we check in on them as their personal and profes-
sional lives rise or fall and they do or don’t acknowledge their attraction to each other. Think When Harry Met Sally meets Same Time, Next Year. Director Lone Scherfig (An Education) and Nicholls, who wrote the unsubtle screenplay, don’t let us work very hard to figure things out, and the characters feel awfully thin: Emma’s early left-leaning views quickly disappear, and the UK seems to go through no political or social changes over two decades. We’re left with clichéd arcs about Dex’s drug-addled life as a womanizing, shallow TV presenter and aspiring
writer Em’s quiet desperation while waiting for Dex to notice her, all played out to Rachel Portman’s lilting, melancholic score. Sturgess handles the showier role with an angry, unpredictable edge, while Hathaway, accent mostly in check, suffers stoically through a series of bad haircuts, sarcastic one-liners and the odd unreadable line. Speaking of haircuts, the aging process is done effectively, but everything seems focused on hair, face and wardrobe. I know actors want to look good, but it’s pretty unlikely that over two decades there’d be no noticeable gLENN SUMI weight changes.
We’re not buying THE CORNER SHOP (Upinder Raisauda). 94 minutes. Opens Friday (August 19). For venues and times, see Movies, page 68. Rating: N Brian Downey tries to polish the dull Whirligig.
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Whirligig spins out WHIRLIgIg (Chaz Thorne). 87 minutes. Opens Friday (August 19). For venues and times, see Movies, page 68. Rating: NN Chaz Thorne’s Whirligig fancies itself an arch comedy of manners about wayward young Nicholas (Everwood’s Gregory Smith), who moves back in with his parents (Brian Downey and Jennifer Overton) in their small Nova Scotia town after a failed business venture in Asia. Bored and aimless, Nicholas falls into bed with an older neighbour (Fiona Highet), then befriends her 12-year-old son (Siam Yu) in order to prolong the affair. Director Thorne (Just Buried) hasn’t the slightest idea how to make any of this funny or meaningful, settling instead for shuffling the actors through a series of stiff conversations and awkward encounters. R.H. Thomson seems to have a grip on the proper tone as Highet’s pompous, neglectful husband, but Thorne barely has time for him. Hey, if you want to see a decent movie about a young man’s awkward coming of age, Richard Ayoade’s Submarine might still be at the reps. NORMAN WILNER
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Terrific Terri TERRI (Azazel Jacobs). 105 minutes.
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The Corner Shop has nothing appealing to sell. The local amateur production deals in cheap jokes and dull stereotypes, with a little Bollywood flavour on the side. Ajay Athreya stars as Babuji, a paan shop owner who is eager to marry off his daughter Tara (Joanna Webb) to the first Indian doctor who satisfies his caste conditions. Meanwhile, Babuji’s employees, the screeching computer nerd Bunty (Ramy Gawargy) and a Hrithik Roshan-wannabe named Harry (Dan Della Penna, at times recalling a young Michael J. Fox), plot their own get-rich-quick schemes. With various mobster types aiming to jack Babuji’s safe, the film begins to assume the contours of a Clerks-meets-Snatch heist. However, shoddy editing and camerawork make Kevin Smith’s low-rent debut look slick. Actors James Byron (as a young mob boss) and Oporajito Bhattacharjee (as a fortune-telling swami) make the most of their over-the-top scenes, but such silliness only stands out because The Corner Shop has nothing more to offer. RADHEYAN SIMONPILLAI
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head interviews. Instead, Senna is composed entirely from archival television material and pulsating footage taken from cameras inside the cars. Each race comes with its own set of challenges, whether a title is on the line, questionable politics come into play or some heated personal drama raises the stakes. The catty feud between Senna and French rival Alain Prost is certainly the film’s driving force. Kapadia avoids Senna’s personal life and chooses not to dig deep into his reckless antics, as if too many details would tarnish the near-saintly figure painted here. We can forgive the director these oversights, since taking such detours would only steer the film away from its chosen path. As it is, Senna is a focused nuts-andbolts tribute that’s engineered to move RADHEYAN SIMONPILLAI you.
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Some movies use maladjusted characters as figures of unexpected wisdom or earthy humour. Terri is not one of those movies; its misfit protagonist is just a really weird kid on the verge of getting weirder. Terri (Jacob Wysocki) is an obese 15-year-old who lives with his ailing uncle (Creed Bratton) in a dingy house on the outskirts of a small California town.
Monosyllabic and apathetic, Terri has trouble in school. Eventually, his tardiness lands him in the office of Mr. Fitzgerald (John C. Reilly), who’s either the best guidance counsellor in the world or the worst; Terri can’t tell, and neither can we. And that’s where things get interesting. Working from a precise, economical script by Patrick DeWitt, director Azazel Jacobs – who made his name with the 2008 documentary Momma’s Man – delivers a naturalistic and entirely absorbing drama about a boy on the verge of self-awareness, capturing the awkward horrors and unexpected surprises that make up everyone’s adolesNORMAN WILNER cence.
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ed as Julia, the journalist whose story on the Vélodrome roundup of 1942 leaves her obsessed with a Jewish girl (Mélusine Mayance) who may have escaped – and whose family may have owned the apartment that now belongs to Julia’s husband’s family. As in Tatiana De Rosnay’s novel, the action cuts back and forth between 1942 and 2009, wasting half the running time on a framing story that means absolutely nothing. (The presence of Scott Thomas reminded me of how well Anthony Minghella’s adaptation of The English Patient pared Michael Ondaatje’s novel down to its essentials.) The last-act arrival of Aidan Quinn perks things up a little, but the movie sees him as just another means of jerking a few easy tears. nOrMAn Wilner
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Oz oddity Griff The invisible (Leon Ford). 90 minutes. Opens Friday (August 19). For venues and times, see Movies, page 68. Rating: nnn Griff The Invisible is the latest entry in the “ordinary superhero” wave that also includes Defendor and Super, in which a regular guy puts on a suit to fight crime and escape his miserable life. Leon Ford’s odd little movie is set in Sydney, where the withdrawn Griff (Ryan Kwanten) spends his days in a nondescript office job and his nights patrolling his neighbourhood and working on perfecting his invisibility suit. Griff’s endeavours get an unexpected boost when his brother (Patrick Brammall) introduces his new girlfriend (Maeve Dermody), who’s obsessed with passing her body through solid matter. Ford flirts with tweeness in his beautiful-dreamer whimsy, and the indie rock score doesn’t help. The pic also stumbles in the middle, when our sympathies are supposed to shift from one character to another and they don’t. But the actors hold things together, burrowing deeply into their agonizingly awkward characters. Fans of Kwanten’s often shirtless swaggering on True Blood will struggle to find any trace of Jason Stackhouse in the shrugging, stammering Griff, and Dermody matches his wide-open vulnerability as the starry-eyed Melody. Whether you buy the things these people do probably depends on your tolerance for adorable psychotic nOrMAn Wilner breaks.
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Spy Kids: All The Time In The World (D: Robert Rodriguez, 89 min) The latest in the family-friendly Robert Rodriguez series is apparently being shown in “Aromascope” – i.e., allowing audiences to smell odours and aromas from the film. There’s a dog and a baby in the thing, so you’ve been warned.
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Doctor Who star dons guyliner and metal gear to steal his scenes in remake of 80s cult fave Fright Night By NORMAN WILNER
FRIGHT NIGHT directed by Craig Gillespie,
written by Marti Noxon based on the screenplay by Tom Holland, with Colin Farrell, Anton Yelchin, Toni Collette and David Tennant. A DreamWorks release. 106 minutes. Opens Friday (August 19). For venues and times, see Movies, page 68.
david tennant is not the star of Fright Night. He’s not on the poster, and he appears in exactly one shot in the theatrical trailer. Colin Farrell gets all the attention as the movie’s menace, a suave suburban vampire named Jerry, and Anton Yelchin and Christopher Mintz-Plasse score a lot of screen time as the teenagers who try to end his reign of terror. But have no illusions: Tennant is the reason a large percentage of the movie’s audience will be catching Fright Night this weekend. It’s Tennant’s first genre role since he left the hit British sci-fi series Doctor Who after playing the beloved time-travelling hero for four years. And to put it simply, as Fright Night’s swaggering Vegas stage magician, Peter Vincent, Tennant owns the film, goosing the proceedings with the mercurial energy and over-the-top bravado of The Doctor, and then pulling back to reveal a very human hero underneath. “It’s a delicious character to be handed,” the actor says from his dressing room in Wyndham’s Theatre in London’s West End, where he’s starring in a production of Much Ado About Nothing opposite his former Who sidekick, Catherine Tate. “[It’s great to] come in in the second act, as the Hollywood people like to describe such things – to be allowed to freewheel with that a bit, which was very much encouraged.” He’s offering a radically different take on the Peter Vincent of Tom Holland’s original 1985 Fright Night, a has-been horror star turned local TV host played by Roddy McDowall. Horror hosts having gone the way of UHF stations, Tennant’s version of Vincent is a louche, leather-and-eyelinersporting rocker – The Doctor after a regeneration into Russell Brand. “You have this illusionist in every sense of the word,” Tennant explains. “He’s clearly very successful on his own terms, but his personal life is a disaster area. He’s a drunk, he’s miserable, he’s self-hating. At first he just seems like an irascible drunk, but we find out [that’s] perhaps more deeply rooted than it might first appear.” The actor says he was very happy with the experience of his first Hollywood
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picture, praising director Craig Gillespie (Lars And The Real Girl) for encouraging the cast to contribute ideas and improvise during the shoot. “I mean, it wasn’t improvisation like Mike Leigh would have it, but [Craig] would certainly be interested in sort of loosening it up a bit, seeing where it would go,” he says, “to the point that it went to some quite dark or lurid places – some of which ended up in the final film, which I’m very pleased to see. You’re on set at 3 in the morning, thinking, ‘Oh, you’re never gonna use that joke about me shagging the showgirl,’ and then you see the final film and it’s in! That’s quite pleasing.” Tennant hadn’t seen the original Fright Night when he was offered the role. “I was a kid when it first came out, and I remember it being there, but I didn’t see it then,” he says. “It was only after I was on board for this one that I checked out the original. It was a very small-scale, slightly tatty B movie that became a sensation. You look at it and you can’t figure out why that should be, other than it’s got a certain charm to it. And of course that’s quite a hard thing to re-create with a remake, because you’re chasing something that is by definition elusive.” Not that he would have turned from the challenge. “It was a very juicy opportunity to be handed, and kind of out of the blue,” he says. “I just got a phone call. DreamWorks wanted me to go over and meet some people, which is the sort of phone call that your drama-school self dreams about.” Despite having spent years seeing his face plastered all over the United Kingdom as part of Doctor Who’s marketing – and having turned up as a baddie in Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire – Tennant is still dazzled by the idea that he’s become a star. “It’s just remarkable that anybody knows who you are,” he says. “You know, I’ve just about got used to the fact that people in Britain know who I am on some level, but the notion that there’s any kind of international recognition is still slightly bizarre to me.” It seems bizarre to me, in the ComicCon age when blockbuster movies target geeks and nerds directly, that Tennant wouldn’t be a major star. His charismatic run on Doctor Who for then-showrunner Russell T. Davies brought millions of new fans to the revived series. In October, BBC Video will release a 26-DVD gift set collecting all of his episodes and specials, The Complete David Tennant Years.
There was a time, not too long ago, when doing a science-fiction series meant the end of an actor’s serious career. You took a role on a show with Star Trek in the title and you spent the rest of your days turning up on shows like Eureka and Warehouse 13. It’s not the same now, as Tennant has discovered. His run on Doctor Who turned out to be the gateway to doing virtually anything else he wanted to do, including playing Hamlet for the Royal Shakespeare Company – opposite Patrick Stewart, who similarly reinvented himself after more than a decade in the Star Trek franchise. “Actors move from TV to film now in a way they never used to,” Tennant says, “and things that might be called ‘genre’ television I don’t think are seen as the lesser art form they were once regarded as, [especially] when they’re being done by people like Russell T. Davies. You know, he’s the greatest writer television has.” It certainly doesn’t hurt that genre television has grown up in the last decade. Shows like Doctor Who and the U.S. remake of Battlestar Galactica appeal to adult viewers who fondly remember the old versions but appreciate the maturity and gravity of the new productions. When I ask whether he’ll be part of Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary celebration next year, Tennant is judicious: “I’m sure something will be celebrated, but I haven’t had any phone calls yet.” He shouldn’t have to wait much longer. Doctor Who is intensely beloved in England and elsewhere, and Tennant rates a big chunk of that love – and will likely be feeling it for a very long time. “I think there’s a generation now who don’t see [Doctor Who] as something lesser,” Tennant says. “They see it as something to be absolutely celebrated and put front and centre. Tom Baker, who played the Fourth Doctor in the 70s, talks now about how he’s employed solely by people who grew up loving him. “I pray to god I’ll be enjoying the same thing in about 20 years’ time. That’s fine by me.” 3
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FRIGHT NIGHT (Craig Gillespie) Rating: NNN When Marti Noxon’s script stays true to the 1985 original, the Fright Night remake hits the sweet spot of scary and funny. It only runs into trouble when it tries to turn Tom Holland’s charmingly old-school horror comedy into a blockbuster. Fright Night doesn’t want to be a blockbuster. It’s a small-scale creeper about a suburban teenager (a weedy Anton Yelchin) who can’t get anyone to believe him when a vampire (Colin Farrell) moves into his neighbourhood and starts devouring call girls. This version makes a few tactical errors, like throwing out the slow build of Holland’s original for more action beats, including an entirely unnecessary set piece cribbed from Children Of Men that takes place inside a moving vehicle. But once David Tennant gets involved as the disreputable Vegas illusionist to whom Yelchin turns for assistance, director Craig Gillespie finds the groove he’s been chasing and Farrell has an adversary with the proper stature – and terrific comic timing. NW
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(Mike Cahill) maps the interlocked destinies of a young woman (Brit Marling, who co-wrote the script with director Cahill) and an older man (William Mapother) whose lives go horribly wrong on the night scientists discover a duplicate Earth. Four years later, they meet again and embark on a complicated relationship. Cahill’s unhurried pacing gives us room to get to know his characters, grounding them in a convincingly mundane reality that anchors the story’s more fantastical elements. And Marling and Mapother are more than up to the challenge of carrying the movie, creating achingly real portraits of people enduring lives they never expected to live. 91 min. nnnn (NW) Cumberland 4, Varsity
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(Joe Cornish) plays like the rabid love child of John Carpenter’s Assault On Precinct 13 and Stephen Herek’s Critters. Director Cornish’s tremendously assured debut takes
place over one night in a low-rent South London housing district under siege from an invasion of extraterrestrial beasties, with a bunch of local thugs, an off-duty nurse (Venus’s Jodie Whittaker) and a pot dealer (Nick Frost) banding together to fend off the threat. It’s got some of the most endearing practical effects I’ve seen in a decade, including a terrific creature design that’s no less effective for being ingeniously simple, and a breakout performance by charismatic young actor John Boyega as an impulsive but principled gangster. It may not have Johnny Depp or giant robots, but it’s got everything a summer movie needs. Trust. 88 min. nnnn (NW) Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24
BAd teAcher (Jake Kasdan) stars Cam-
eron Diaz as a high-functioning sociopath teaching seventh grade at a dinky Illinois school and chasing the new substitute teacher (Justin Timberlake). Jason Segel walks off with the picture as an affable, unassuming gym teacher who’s hip to Diaz’s game but attracted to her anyway. 92 min. nnn (NW) Colossus, Yonge & Dundas 24
BeAts, rhymes & life: the trAvels of A triBe cAlled Quest (Michael Rapaport)
often feels like an E! celebrity profile of 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-and-reunion 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
(Mike Mills) is a terribly tender drama about a graphic artist (Ewan McGregor) still getting over the death of his father (Christopher Plummer), who spends his last few years out of the closet. See it for Plummer, who plunges gleefully into the roll of gay rogue. 105 min. nnnn (SGC) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre
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(Paul Feig) is a broad farce starring Kristen Wiig as a Milwaukee baker whose emotional equilibrium is in no state to cope with the impending marriage of best friend Lillian (Maya Rudolph). Even as the situations grow increasingly cartoonish, Bridesmaids paints a credible portrait of a woman in crisis, with Wiig giving a nicely considered performance in her first leading role. 124 min. nnnn (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Colossus, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Humber Cinema, Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24
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(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, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale
cArs 2 (John Lasseter) is bigger, shinier and far, far busier than the first film, but it’s all for naught. The elaborate spy parody focuses on tow truck Mater (redneck
comic Larry the Cable Guy) who’s mistaken for an American agent and caught up in an espionage caper. The animation is up to Pixar’s high standards, but the story is a mess. 120 min. NN (NW) Canada Square, Colossus, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga
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(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) Kennedy Commons 20, TIFF Bell Lightbox
THE CHANGE-UP (David Dobkin) is a really 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 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 live-wire performance. 112 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity CIRCO (Aaron Schock) is an intimate
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and moving portrait of the Ponces, a long-standing circus family who travel the small towns of Mexico and face a faltering economy and dissent from within. Director Schock gets great footage from the various acts and also ponders the possible end of their way of life. 75 min. NNNN (GS) Carlton Cinema
CONAN THE BARBARIAN (Marcus Nispel)
112 min. See Also Opening, page 64. Opens Aug 19 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Docks Lakeview Drive-In, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinema, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale.
THE CORNER SHOP (Upinder Raisauda ) 94 min. See review, page 62. N (RS) Opens Aug 19 at Carlton Cinema. COWBOYS & ALIENS (Jon Favreau) has explosions and horse-riding and fighting and monsters aplenty, but it’s utterly insubstantial. A couple of early moments suggest the confident, clever genre pastiche that might have been, but mostly this is a mess – moving at once too quickly and too slowly, rushing through its plot points and then bogging down in dialogue scenes, and further muddled by inconsistent character development and a story that makes very little sense. (On the bright side, at least it’s not in 3-D.) I refuse to believe the guy who gave us the loose, self-aware Iron Man movies would make something this lame on purpose. More likely, he was never able to reconcile the tonally diverse contributions of the movie’s six credited screenwriters. Daniel Craig single-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 Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale
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(Glenn Ficarra, John Requa) is the grown-up romantic comedy we’ve been waiting for. Directors Ficarra and Requa do for the genre what their I Love You Phillip Morris did for the caper picture, revitalizing a well-worn formula with intelligence, charm and clever storytelling. Steve Carell’s newly separated family man and Ryan Gosling’s firmly single player are at the centre or a series of relationships. Carell fleshes out his 40-Year-Old Virgin haplessness nicely, but it’s Gosling’s blossoming romance with savvy young lawyer Emma Stone that gives the movie its best moments. 118 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24
THE DEVIL’S DOUBLE (Lee Tamahori) 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 vicariously 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) Canada Square, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, 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 thorough doc will make them all happy. With archival footage, interviews with Watson’s former Greenpeace colleagues and family members, and gorgeous cinematography, Dolman creates a complex portrait. 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 FINAL DESTINATION 5 (Steven Quale) is a
return to goofball form for the franchise after the underwhelming third and fourth films, making elaborate deathtraps fun again. This time the survivors of a disastrous bridge collapse 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 overamped surgical laser. Unique among horror films, the FD films play equally well as comedies,
building each sequence with careful setups and crowd-pleasing punchlines – and encouraging the audience to actively root for the deaths of everyone on screen. Director Quale invests things with a little more wit than usual. Keep an eye on the production design. 92 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Docks Lakeview Drive-In, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale
FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (Will Gluck) casts
Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake as pals who figure out that their complementary “emotional damage” allows them to get naked without getting emotional – at least in theory. 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) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale
FRIGHT NIGHT (Craig Gillespie) 106 min. See cover story and review, page 66. NNN (NW) Opens Aug 19 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Docks Lakeview Drive-In, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale.
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You won’t want to sign up for laser eye surgery after seeing this enjoyable entry in the horror series about people who escape Death and then get picked off one by one.
The live performance by Glee cast members is okay, there’s no reason it should be in 3-D, but a handful of profiles of outsiders whose lives have been changed by the TV series is inspiring.
Star Jason Momoa’s too pretty as the beefy title character, but this adaptation of the sword-andsorcery story delivers great action, grim humour, some nudity and sex.
Rachel Weisz delivers a fierce performance as real-life Nebraska cop Kathryn Bolkovac, who exposes sex trafficking involving peace officers and UN officials.
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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, which is 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
GLEE: THE 3D CONCERT MOVIE (Kevin Tan-
charoen) doesn’t reveal much about the actors or the characters they play on the hit TV series about a group of high schoolers in and around a glee club. Without between-song patter or even an MC, Lea Michele, Cory Monteith, Darren Criss and the other well-scrubbed performers are left to prance around the stage and deliver numbers they made famous on the small screen. The few backstage interviews feel like DVD extras, though, and there’s no reason why the thing has to be in 3-D. But the movie’s real worth comes from its profiles of a handful of students whose lives have been affected by the show’s sensitive depiction of outsiders. The stories of a little person, a fearless gay teen and a young woman with Asperger’s add texture and a sense of drama to a by-thebook concert film. And footage of a little Asian boy in a mini Dalton uniform dancing and lip-synching to Teenage Dream is too cute for words. 90 min. NNN (GS) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24
GREEN LANTERN (Martin Campbell) lets
Ryan Reynolds play the roguish rookie Hal Jordan, a test pilot recruited into the universe-policing Green Lantern Corps.
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There’s enough story for a trilogy here, and without a singular vision to drive it, Green Lantern quickly deteriorates into a jumble of storylines, characters, exposition and explosions. 114 min. NN (NW) Yonge & Dundas 24
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(David Yates) serves not just as the second half of the Deathly Hallows story, but as the climax to the entire Harry Potter saga – and it delivers, with Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma Watson) working their way back to Hogwarts for a final battle with the forces of the evil Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes). There’s spectacle, with dragons and death traps and angry trolls and a full-on assault on Hogwarts, and the answers to various mysteries are revealed, but mostly there’s proper drama, as Radcliffe finally shows us the man Harry’s been forced to become. It’s a real performance, layered and even moving. The post-production 3-D conversion adds nothing; see it in 2-D if you can. 130 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk,
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The helP (Tate Taylor) is an adaptation of
Kathryn Stockett’s mega-selling novel that’s anchored by another powerful performance by Viola Davis (Doubt). As one of the maids in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who finds her personal power when she agrees to share her story with an upstart journalist (Emma Stone), Davis conveys a steely strength and dignity. Octavia Spencer also shines as another domestic who tells all. Stone proves she can handle drama, and Allison Janney as her deeply conflicted, cancer-ridden mother finds just the right tone. But the junior league matrons exploiting the help – especially Bryce Dallas Howard – play their parts to stereotypically shrieking heights. Racism and entitlement come across as much more malevolent when they have a quieter quality. 137 min. NNN (SGC) 401 & Morningside, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24
horrible bosses (Seth Gordon)
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casts Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day as put-upon wage slaves
who decide to murder their repugnant employers (Kevin Spacey, Colin Farrell and Jennifer Aniston), only to see their clockwork plan go sideways almost immediately. It’s a devilishly smart farce disguised as a really, really dumb one, with Sudeikis and Day turning their Going The Distance buddy act into a perpetual joke machine. 97 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Humber Cinema, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24
JaNe eyre (Cary Fukunaga) is yet another adaptation of Charlotte Brönte’s novel about the eponymous orphan-turnedgoverness, but this one is richly atmospheric and bolstered by the always watchable Mia Wasikowska in the lead. There’s lots of smouldering chemistry between Jane and her Byronic employer, Mr. Rochester (Michael Fassbender), but some of their dialogue feels clunky. 118 min. NNN (GS) Mt Pleasant
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(Jennifer Yuh Nelson) chalks up another win for DreamWorks’ unlikely martial arts franchise, with Po (voiced once again by Jack Black) and the Furious Five trekking to a distant city in order to stop a warlord (Gary Oldman) who threatens all of China. The fight choreography is exceptional, the animation exquisite and the voice cast in fine form. 90 min. NNNN (NW) Interchange 30
The MeTroPoliTaN oPera: doN Carlo (eNCore) (Nicholas Hytner) is an encore
broadcast in high def of the dark Verdi opera, conducted by Montreal wunderkind Yannick Nézet-Séguin and starring tenor Roberto Alagna. 300 min. Aug 24, 6:30 pm, at Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga.
MidNiGhT iN Paris (Woody Allen) casts
Owen Wilson and Rachel McAdams as an engaged couple vacationing in Paris, where at midnight, a vintage cab picks up a wandering Wilson and takes him back in time to meet the great artists of the 20s. It’s a pleasurable narrative hook, but the message that life is best lived in the present tense is too banal to make us care. 94 min. NN (SGC) Canada Square, Grande - Yonge, Inter-
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mr. popper’S peNguINS (Mark Waters) is
a positively pleasant adaptation of Richard and Florence Atwater’s slender picture book about a New Yorker who winds up with half a dozen flightless waterfowl in his Park Avenue penthouse. Jim Carrey’s scenes with his alliteratively inclined assistant Pippi (Ophelia Lovibond) border on the joyful. The penguins are fun, too. 94 min. NNN (NW) Kingsway Theatre
oNe Day (Lone Scherfig) 107 min. See
review, page 62. NN (GS) Opens Aug 19 at Canada Square, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Yonge, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity.
page oNe: a year INSIDe The New yorK TImeS (Andrew Rossi) goes inside Amer-
ica’s most prestigious daily, where advertising revenue is tanking. A new generation of newshounds gets its information online, and the future looks dim. Unfortunately, there’s very little new and exciting here, except for the presence of idiosyncratic media writer David Carr. 88 min. NN (SGC) Carlton Cinema
pIraTeS of The carIbbeaN: oN STraNger TIDeS (Rob Marshall) finds Johnny
Depp’s Cap’n Jack Sparrow swept up in the race to find the fountain of youth. Swords clash, barrels roll, coal wagons rain fire on cobblestone streets, pirates swing through a forest of coconut trees. It’s all very busy, and the 3-D makes every stunt look like a badly processed visual effect even when it isn’t. 137 min. NN (NW) Kennedy Commons 20
poTIche (François Ozon) stars Cath-
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erine Deneuve as a woman who, in the late 70s, comes into her own when her reactionary, philandering husband falls ill and she takes over the family factory. One big gobsmacking pleasure. Subtitled. 103 min. NNNN (SGC) Carlton Cinema, Mt Pleasant
projecT NIm (James Marsh) finds
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the director of the Oscar-winning Man On A Wire coming up with another stranger-than-fiction tale of New York in the 1970s, charting the odyssey of Nim Chimpsky, a chimpanzee raised among humans – and taught sign language – as part of a Columbia University linguistics experiment. As Marsh reveals, it was a venture undermined at almost every turn by stunning arrogance and incompetence. And that’s just the beginning of this astonishing, heart-wrenching story, recounted in one of the year’s best documentaries. 99 min. NNNNN (NW) Cumberland 4
rISe of The plaNeT of The apeS (Rupert
Wyatt) demonstrates how perfect the original Planet Of The Apes was as Cold War cinema, and why a modern reboot is unnecessary. The dopey new story follows a genius Alzheimer’s researcher (James Franco) who winds up raising super-intelligent chimp Caesar (performed though the magic of motion capture by King Kong’s Andy Serkis), who’ll grow up to lead a rebellion of similarly enhanced primates. Writers Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver clearly spent more time squeezing in nods to the previous Apes films than they did establishing clear motivations for Caesar’s actions, or the reasons behind the simian rebellion. Stuff just happens because the effects guys had a great idea for a shot. But none of it is anchored to anything that makes any kind of sense, and if there’s one thing a movie about a rebellion of superintelligent apes desperately needs, it’s internal logic. 105 min. 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
Sarah’S Key (Gilles Paquet-Brenner) 102 min. See review, page 64. NN (NW) Opens Aug 19 at Grande - Yonge, Varsity. The SmurfS IN 3D (Raja Gosnell) is a dull
and largely unfunny attempt to capture the joy of Peyo’s comics and the 1980s animated series. Despite some decent 3-D visuals, the film is actually more of a drag when the Smurfs are on screen. Neil Patrick Harris and Jayma Mays are wasted as put-upon parents-to-be, who have to protect the pun-filled blue annoyances from the evil wizard Gargamel (Hank Azaria). Azaria gives the only funny performance in the film, acting as the one thing that might keep weary parents awake. 103 min. NN (Andrew Parker) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, 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) celebrates the friendships between two pairs of women: Snow Flower and Lily in 19th century China and Nina and Sophia in contemporary Shanghai. From childhood onward, their bond sustains them through various trials until the inevitable falling-out. Li Bingbing and Gianna Jun, who play both sets of friends, easily hold our interest despite the overall subdued tone. 102 min. NNN (AD) Carlton Cinema, Kennedy Commons 20
Spy KIDS: all The TIme IN The worlD
(Robert Rodriguez) 89 min. See Also Opening, page 64. Opens Aug 19 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande Steeles, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24.
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(Azazel Jacobs) 105 min. See review, page 62. NNNN (NW) Opens Aug 19 at Yonge & Dundas 24.
30 mINuTeS or leSS (Ruben Fleischer)
may be the shabbiest, shruggiest heist movie ever made, but it’s enjoyable enough on its own very modest terms. Two Grand Rapids thugs (Danny McBride and Nick Swardson) rig a pizza delivery guy (Jesse Eisenberg) with a vest bomb and order him to rob a bank.The movie plays this out precisely as far as it will go. If you’re expecting the next Heat, you’ll be sorely disappointed. 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. But it’s Aziz Ansari who walks off with the picture as Eisenberg’s
resentful buddy – mainly by being Aziz Ansari. 82 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale
3D Sex aND ZeN: exTreme ecSTaSy
(Christopher Sun) 113 min. See Also Opening, page 64. Opens Aug 19 at Coliseum Scarborough, Scotiabank Theatre
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) Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Queensway
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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, Regent Theatre, TIFF Bell Lightbox
review, page 62. N (NW) Opens Aug 19 at Yonge & Dundas 24.
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, Kingsway Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24
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(André Øvredal) 103 min. See review, page 76. NNNN (Andrew Parker) Opens Aug 19 at the Royal. For times, see Indie & Rep Film, page 76.
waTer for elephaNTS (Francis Lawrence) has a timid approach to sex, violence and strong emotion, which sabotages this tale of a young man who joins the circus and falls for the cruel owner’s wife. Robert Pattinson makes cow eyes at Reese Witherspoon, but they both save their best moments for the scenes with Rosie the elephant. 121 min. NN (AD) Regent Theatre whIrlIgIg (Chaz Thorne) 87 min. See
(Larysa Kondracki) is a genre film shaped after the paranoid thrillers of the 70s while exposing an issue that’s both contemporary and urgent. Despite some storytelling flaws, it’s a movie that needs to be seen for its subject matter: sex trafficking. Rachel Weisz turns in a fierce performance as Kathryn Bolkovac, a Nebraska police officer commissioned as a UN peacekeeper in Bosnia. There, she discovers a horrific sex trade involving peace officers and UN officials. In bringing this true story to the screen, co-writer/director Kondracki gives in to some melodramatic speeches and bits of awkward expository dialogue. But with a tale as disturbing and detailed as this, we can forgive such problems. It’s a solid thriller that, like Bolkovac, never loses sight of what’s most important: the victims. 100 min. NNNN (RS) 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
(Matthew Vaughn) is a proper origin story for the mutant characters that strikes the same balance of gravitas and knowing camp that powered Bryan Singer’s first two X-films. Having toyed with costumed heroes in last year’s Kick-Ass, director Vaughn gets to play on a much larger scale here, and he’s pretty good at it. Some subtitles. NNNN (NW) Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24
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(Daniel Cockburn) 78 min. See interview and review, page 61. (NW) Opens Aug 19 at TIFF Bell Lightbox.
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) Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Interchange 30 3
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(Michael Winterbottom) is exclusively aimed at people who can’t wait to see Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon reprise the slightly exaggerated versions of themselves they played in director Winterbottom’s Tristram Shandy: A Cock And Bull Story. The insecure, statuschasing Coogan invites oblivious git Brydon on a week-long 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
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CARS 2 (G) Fri-Wed 1:00 THE DEVIL’S DOUBLE (18A) Fri-Wed 5:30 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (PG) 7:30 Thu 1:20 mat MR. POPPER’S PENGUINS (G) Thu 11:30 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON (PG) Fri-Wed 9:15 THE TREE OF LIFE (PG) Thu 5:00 Fri-Wed 3:05 WINNIE THE POOH (G) Fri-Wed 11:30 X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (PG) Thu 9:15
QUEENSWAY (CE)
1025 THE QUEENSWAY, QEW & ISLINGTON, 416-503-0424 ATTACK THE BLOCK (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:10, 5:25, 7:50, 10:10 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG) Thu 9:30 Fri 1:00, 4:05, 7:45, 10:40 Sat-Wed 12:55, 4:10, 7:45, 10:40 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER 3D (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:25, 7:35, 10:30 THE CHANGE-UP (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:30, 7:30, 10:25 Fri-Wed 1:55, 4:45, 7:35, 10:20 CONAN THE BARBARIAN 3D (18A) Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 COWBOYS & ALIENS Thu 1:10, 4:00, 6:55, 9:45 Fri-Tue 1:25, 4:05, 7:20, 10:15 Wed 12:50, 3:35, 7:20 CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:10, 10:05 FriWed 1:05, 3:55, 6:45, 9:40 FINAL DESTINATION 5 3D Thu 1:00, 3:30, 6:00, 8:30, 10:55 Fri 3:00, 5:35, 8:10, 10:30 Sat-Wed 12:40, 3:00, 5:35, 8:10, 10:45 FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:10, 7:20, 10:15 Fri-Tue 1:20, 4:15, 7:25, 10:05 Wed 1:20, 4:15, 10:15 FRIGHT NIGHT 3D Fri 3:00, 5:30, 8:05, 10:45 Sat-Wed 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:05, 10:45 GLEE: THE 3D CONCERT MOVIE (G) Thu 12:05, 2:30, 4:45, 7:05, 9:20 Fri-Wed 1:30, 3:40, 6:00, 8:15, 10:25 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:40, 6:45, 9:50 Fri 3:30, 6:50, 9:50 SatWed 12:30, 3:30, 6:50, 9:50 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2: 3D (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:40 THE HELP (PG) Thu 12:10, 3:25, 6:50, 10:10 Fri 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:30 Sat-Wed 12:35, 3:45, 6:55, 10:10 HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A) Thu 12:15, 2:50, 5:20, 8:10, 10:45 Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:20, 7:10, 9:45 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: DON CARLO (ENCORE) Wed 6:30 ONE DAY (PG) Fri-Tue 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 Wed 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) Thu 12:20, 2:00, 3:00, 4:35, 5:40, 7:15, 8:20, 10:00, 11:00 Fri 2:00, 2:55, 4:35, 5:25, 7:15, 8:00, 9:55, 10:35 Sat-Wed 12:25, 2:00, 2:55, 4:35, 5:25, 7:15, 8:00, 9:55, 10:35 THE SMURFS 3D (G) Thu 12:45, 3:05, 5:30, 8:00, 10:20 Fri 3:05, 5:30, 7:55, 10:15 Sat-Wed 12:45, 3:05, 5:30, 7:55, 10:15 THE SMURFS (G) Thu 12:00, 2:20, 4:40, 7:00 SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD (PG) Fri 2:50, 5:10, 7:40, 10:00 Sat-Wed 12:35, 2:50, 5:10, 7:40, 10:00 30 MINUTES OR LESS (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:20, 6:30, 8:40, 10:50 Fri-Wed 1:35, 3:50, 6:20, 8:30, 10:40 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON (PG) Thu 12:00, 6:40, 10:00
RAINBOW WOODBINE (I)
WOODBINE CENTRE, 500 REXDALE BLVD, 416-213-1998 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG) Thu 12:55, 3:55, 6:55, 9:40 Fri-Wed 3:45, 9:40 THE CHANGE-UP (14A) Thu 12:50, 4:10, 7:00, 9:15 CONAN THE BARBARIAN (18A) Fri-Wed 12:55, 3:55, 7:05, 9:30 COWBOYS & ALIENS Thu 1:10, 3:45, 7:05, 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:10, 6:55 CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (PG) Thu 1:05, 4:05, 6:45, 9:20 FINAL DESTINATION 5 3D 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:45 FRIGHT NIGHT Fri-Wed 1:05, 4:05, 6:45, 9:15 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 SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD (PG) Fri-Wed 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:15, 9:25 30 MINUTES OR LESS (14A) Thu 1:15 3:50 6:50 9:25 FriWed 1:15, 3:50, 6:50, 9:20
East End BEACH CINEMAS (AA) 1651 QUEEN ST E, 416-699-5971
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COWBOYS & ALIENS Thu 12:15, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 FINAL DESTINATION 5 3D Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:00, 9:30 FriWed 9:15 FRIGHT NIGHT Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2: 3D (PG) Thu 12:30 3:40 6:50 10:00 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:45 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) Thu 1:30 4:30 7:10 9:50 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:10, 10:10 THE SMURFS (G) Thu 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD 3D (PG) Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:50, 6:50 30 MINUTES OR LESS (14A) Thu 1:45 4:45 7:20 9:40 FriWed 1:45, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15
North York EMPIRE THEATRES AT EMPRESS WALK (ET) 5095 YONGE ST, 416-223-9550
ATTACK THE BLOCK (14A) Fri-Wed 2:10, 5:00, 7:50, 10:10 BRIDESMAIDS (14A) Thu 7:50, 10:30 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:45, 7:30, 10:20 Fri-Sat 4:20, 9:15, 11:50 Sun-Wed 4:20, 9:15 CONAN THE BARBARIAN 3D (18A) Fri-Sun 1:50, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 COWBOYS & ALIENS Thu 1:20, 4:10, 6:50, 9:50 Fri-Sun 1:10, 4:00, 6:40 Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:00, 6:40 THE DEVIL’S DOUBLE (18A) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 FriSat 9:20, 11:40 Sun-Wed 9:20 FRIGHT NIGHT 3D Fri-Sat 1:20, 4:10, 6:50, 9:40, 11:59 Sun 1:20, 4:10, 6:50, 9:40 Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:10, 6:50, 9:40 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2: 3D (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 Fri-Sun 1:15, 4:25, 7:30, 10:20 Mon-Wed 1:35, 4:25, 7:30, 10:20 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) Thu 1:15, 2:00, 4:00, 5:00, 6:40, 7:40, 9:30, 10:10 Fri-Sat 1:40, 4:40, 7:10, 9:50, 11:59 Sun 1:40, 4:40, 7:10, 9:50 Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:40, 7:10, 9:50 THE SMURFS 3D (G) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:05, 9:35 THE SMURFS (G) Thu 3:00, 5:30 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:05, 9:35 Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:30, 7:05, 9:35 SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD 3D (PG) 3:00, 5:10, 7:20, 9:30 Fri-Sat 12:45 mat, 11:30 late Sun 12:45 mat 30 MINUTES OR LESS (14A) Thu 1:00, 2:10, 3:10, 4:50, 5:20, 7:00, 8:00, 9:20, 10:05 Fri-Sat 1:00, 2:00, 3:10, 5:20, 7:00, 8:00, 10:00, 11:55 Sun 1:00, 2:00, 3:10, 5:20, 7:00, 8:00, 10:00 Mon-Wed 1:00, 2:05, 3:10, 5:20, 7:00, 8:00, 10:00
GRANDE - YONGE (CE) 4861 YONGE ST, 416-590-9974
AARAKSHAN (PG) 9:00 Thu 1:00 mat, 5:00 THE CHANGE-UP (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:15, 7:10, 10:25 Fri 4:25, 6:55, 10:00 Sat-Wed 1:55, 4:25, 6:55, 9:40 CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (PG) Thu 1:20 4:15 7:10 10:25 FriWed 1:15, 4:15, 7:10, 10:05 FINAL DESTINATION 5 3D Thu 1:30, 4:40, 7:30, 10:30 FriSat 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 Sun-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:00, 6:50, 10:00 GLEE: THE 3D CONCERT MOVIE (G) Thu 1:15, 4:10, 7:20, 10:15 Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:05, 6:30, 9:30 THE HELP (PG) Thu 12:00, 3:15, 6:30, 9:45 Fri 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:30 Sat-Wed 12:30, 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A) Thu 2:20, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 Fri-Tue 1:25, 3:45, 6:35 Wed 1:25, 3:45 THE LITTLE TRAITOR Fri-Wed 1:05, 3:25, 6:45, 9:15 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: DON CARLO (ENCORE) Wed 6:30 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:20, 7:15, 9:50 ONE DAY (PG) Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:00, 7:00, 10:10 SARAH’S KEY (PG) Fri 1:10, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 Sat-Wed 1:10, 3:50, 7:05, 9:50 THE WHISTLEBLOWER Thu 12:30, 3:30, 6:20, 9:20 Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:40, 7:15, 9:55
SILVERCITY FAIRVIEW (CE)
FAIRVIEW MALL, 1800 SHEPPARD AVE E, 416-644-7746 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG) Thu 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 10:00 Fri-Wed 4:10, 9:55 THE CHANGE-UP (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:45, 6:50, 9:30 Fri-Tue 1:15, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Wed 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 CONAN THE BARBARIAN 3D (18A) Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 COWBOYS & ALIENS Thu 9:20 FINAL DESTINATION 5 3D Thu 1:30, 4:50, 7:40, 10:10 FriWed 3:10, 5:30, 7:50, 10:15 FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (14A) Thu 12:35, 3:30, 6:40 FRIGHT NIGHT 3D Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:10 GLEE: THE 3D CONCERT MOVIE (G) Thu 12:10, 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:15 Fri-Wed 1:00 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (PG) Fri-Wed 1:20, 7:05 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2: 3D (PG) Thu 12:20, 3:20, 6:30, 9:40 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:30, 7:50, 10:20 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 THE SMURFS 3D (G) Thu 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 THE SMURFS (G) Fri-Wed 1:05, 3:30, 6:20, 9:10 SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD 3D (PG) Fri-Wed 1:10, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 30 MINUTES OR LESS (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:15, 7:20, 9:45 FriWed 2:10, 4:20, 6:50, 9:40
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CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG) Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER 3D (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 THE CHANGE-UP (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:10, 10:00 Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:20, 7:05, 9:55 CONAN THE BARBARIAN 3D (18A) Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 COWBOYS & ALIENS Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:20 CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (PG) Thu 12:50 3:50 6:50 9:50 FriWed 1:00, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 FINAL DESTINATION 5 3D Thu 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:50, 10:30 Fri-Wed 2:10, 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (14A) Thu 10:15 FRIGHT NIGHT 3D Fri-Sun 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:20 MonWed 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:15 GLEE: THE 3D CONCERT MOVIE (G) Thu 12:10, 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:20 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (PG) Thu 12:20, 3:20, 6:30 HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A) Thu 9:30 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:20 Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:30, 7:30, 10:10 THE SMURFS 3D (G) Thu 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 FriWed 1:15, 3:50, 6:30, 9:00 SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD 3D (PG) Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:10, 6:40, 9:15 30 MINUTES OR LESS (14A) Thu 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:45, 10:10 Fri-Wed 2:20, 4:45, 7:10, 9:30
Scarborough 401 & MORNINGSIDE (CE) 785 MILNER AVE, SCARBOROUGH, 416-281-2226
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG) Thu 12:40 3:20 6:20 9:00 Fri-Wed 12:35, 3:20, 6:20, 9:15 THE CHANGE-UP (14A) Thu 2:15, 5:10, 7:55, 10:20 Fri-Wed 2:15, 5:00, 7:50 CONAN THE BARBARIAN 3D (18A) Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:30, 7:40, 10:20 COWBOYS & ALIENS Thu 1:45, 4:50, 7:40, 10:15 Fri-Wed 10:25 CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:10, 6:10, 8:50 Fri-Wed 6:10, 9:00 FINAL DESTINATION 5 3D Thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:50, 10:15 FriSat 2:00, 4:40, 8:00, 10:30 Sun-Wed 2:00, 4:40, 8:00, 10:25 FRIGHT NIGHT 3D Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:45, 7:00, 10:00 GLEE: THE 3D CONCERT MOVIE (G) Thu 1:00, 4:15, 6:55, 9:25 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (PG) Thu 12:50, 4:00, 7:05, 10:00 Fri-Wed 12:25, 3:15 THE HELP (PG) 12:20, 3:30, 6:45, 9:50 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) Thu 1:30 4:30 7:30 10:10 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:30, 10:10 THE SMURFS 3D (G) Thu 1:15, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15 THE SMURFS (G) Fri-Wed 12:45, 4:10, 7:10, 9:30 SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD (PG) Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:00, 6:30, 8:50 30 MINUTES OR LESS (14A) Thu 2:30 5:00 7:15 9:40 FriWed 2:30, 4:50, 7:20, 9:40
COLISEUM SCARBOROUGH (CE) SCARBOROUGH TOWN CENTRE, 416-290-5217
3D SEX AND ZEN: EXTREME ECSTASY Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG) Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER 3D (PG) Thu 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 THE CHANGE-UP (14A) Thu 12:45, 3:45, 6:40, 9:45 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 CONAN THE BARBARIAN 3D (18A) Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 COWBOYS & ALIENS Thu 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 10:25 Fri-Wed 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:30 DEIVA THIRUMAGAL (PG) Thu 2:00, 6:05, 9:55 FINAL DESTINATION 5 3D Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 FriWed 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:40 FRIGHT NIGHT 3D Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 GLEE: THE 3D CONCERT MOVIE (G) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:50, 6:50 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) Thu 12:50, 1:30, 3:50, 4:30, 6:50, 7:30, 9:50, 10:30 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 9:15, 10:20 THE SMURFS 3D (G) Thu 12:55, 3:55, 6:45, 9:30 THE SMURFS (G) Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:10 30 MINUTES OR LESS (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:00 FriWed 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 10:25 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:40, 6:55, 10:15
EGLINTON TOWN CENTRE (CE) 1901 EGLINTON AVE E, 416-752-4494
ATTACK THE BLOCK (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 8:15, 10:40 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:25 Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:55, 7:10, 10:10 THE CHANGE-UP (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:45, 10:30 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 CONAN THE BARBARIAN 3D (18A) Fri-Wed 2:10, 4:50, 7:35, 10:20 COWBOYS & ALIENS Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:00, 9:45 Fri-Tue 12:40, 3:25, 6:20, 9:15 Wed 12:40, 3:25, 6:20 CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:50, 6:45, 9:40 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:35, 6:25, 9:20 FINAL DESTINATION 5 3D Thu 2:00, 4:45, 7:15, 9:50 FriWed 1:40, 4:20, 7:05, 9:35 FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (14A) Thu 6:40, 9:20 FRIGHT NIGHT 3D Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 10:15 GLEE: THE 3D CONCERT MOVIE (G) Thu 12:10, 2:40, 5:20,
7:40, 10:15 Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:15, 6:35, 9:05 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (PG) Thu 2:20, 5:10, 8:00 Fri-Tue 12:45, 3:30, 6:30, 9:25 Wed 12:45, 3:30, 7:05, 9:25 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2: 3D (PG) Thu 12:15, 3:20, 6:30, 9:30 THE HELP (PG) Thu 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:50, 7:50, 10:20 FriTue 2:15, 4:45, 7:25, 10:05 Wed 2:15, 4:45, 10:05 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: DON CARLO (ENCORE) Wed 6:30 ONE DAY (PG) Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:05, 6:55, 9:40 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) Thu 12:45, 1:30, 3:30, 4:20, 6:20, 7:10, 9:10, 10:10 Fri-Wed 1:10, 3:50, 7:00, 9:50 THE SMURFS 3D (G) Thu 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 THE SMURFS (G) Thu 1:20, 4:00 Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:25, 7:15, 9:55 SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD (PG) Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:10, 6:40, 9:10 30 MINUTES OR LESS (14A) Thu 12:40, 3:00, 5:15, 8:10, 10:45 Fri-Wed 2:20, 4:40, 7:30, 9:45 WINNIE THE POOH (G) Thu 12:20
KENNEDY COMMONS 20 (AMC) KENNEDY RD & 401, 416-335-5323
AARAKSHAN (PG) 2:45, 6:00, 9:30 Fri-Sun 11:30 mat ATTACK THE BLOCK (14A) 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Fri-Sun 11:45 mat BRIDESMAIDS (14A) 1:55, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Fri-Sun 10:55 mat CARS 2 3D (G) Thu 2:00, 4:30, 6:55, 9:35 Fri-Sun 11:25, 2:00, 4:20, 6:55, 9:35 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:20, 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) Thu 1:45, 4:15, 7:15, 10:00 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) 3:00, 6:05, 9:00 Fri-Sun 12:00 mat HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2: 3D (PG) 12:35, 3:45, 7:10, 10:10 Thu 2:20 mat, 5:20, 8:20 THE HELP (PG) Thu 12:30, 1:45, 2:30, 3:45, 4:15, 5:45, 7:00, 7:15, 9:00, 10:00, 10:15 Fri-Sun 11:15, 12:30, 2:30, 3:45, 5:45, 7:00, 9:00, 10:15 Mon-Wed 12:30, 2:30, 3:45, 5:45, 7:00, 9:00, 10:15 HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 7:50, 10:15 Fri-Sun 10:30, 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 7:50, 10:25 Mon-Wed 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 7:50, 10:25 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (PG) 1:50, 4:05, 7:00, 9:20 Fri-Sun 11:35 mat ONE DAY (PG) 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 9:45 Fri-Sun 11:15 mat PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES (PG) Thu 2:10, 5:20, 8:30 Fri-Wed 6:55, 10:10 ROWTHIRAM 2:45, 6:00, 9:30 Fri-Sun 11:30 mat SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05 SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD (PG) 2:15, 4:30, 7:00, 9:15 Fri-Sun 11:45 mat SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD 3D (PG) 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:15 Fri-Sun 10:45 mat TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON (PG) 2:50, 6:15, 9:40 Fri-Sun 11:35 mat THE TREE OF LIFE (PG) 12:50, 4:00, 7:15, 10:20 Wed no 10:20 WINNIE THE POOH (G) Thu 1:10, 3:10, 5:10, 7:10 Fri-Sun 11:05, 1:10, 3:10, 5:05 Mon-Wed 1:10, 3:10, 5:05 X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:35, 7:40, 10:35 ZINDAGI NA MILEGI DOBARA (PG) Thu 2:20, 5:45, 9:15 Fri-Sun 11:00, 2:20, 5:50, 9:15 Mon-Wed 2:20, 5:50, 9:15
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COLISEUM MISSISSAUGA (CE) SQUARE ONE, 309 RATHBURN RD W, 905-275-3456
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG) Thu 9:20 Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER 3D (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:40, 7:35, 10:30 CONAN THE BARBARIAN 3D (18A) Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 COWBOYS & ALIENS Thu 12:25, 3:20, 7:10, 10:10 FINAL DESTINATION 5 3D Thu 1:40 4:20 7:40 10:15 FriWed 2:15, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 FRIGHT NIGHT 3D Fri-Wed 2:00, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS - PART 2: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 12:30 3:30 6:45 9:45 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (PG) Thu 1:00 4:30 8:00 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:50, 8:00 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) Thu 12:50 1:50 4:00 4:50 6:50 7:45 9:30 10:25 Fri-Wed 12:50, 1:50, 3:50, 4:40, 6:30, 7:20, 9:20, 10:10 THE SMURFS 3D (G) Thu 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 FriWed 12:45, 3:40, 6:40, 9:15 THE SMURFS (G) Thu 1:10, 3:50, 6:40 SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD (PG) Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 30 MINUTES OR LESS (14A) Thu 12:20, 1:30, 3:00, 4:10, 6:30, 7:20, 9:10, 10:00 Fri-Tue 12:40, 1:40, 3:10, 4:20, 6:20, 7:10, 9:00, 9:50 Wed 12:40, 3:10, 4:20, 6:20, 7:10, 9:00, 9:50 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON (PG) Fri-Wed 2:30, 6:10, 9:40 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D (PG) Thu 12:10, 3:40, 7:00, 10:20 ZOOKEEPER (G) Thu 12:40, 3:30, 6:20, 9:00
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8:00, 11:00 Fri-Sun 11:15, 2:00, 4:45, 7:45, 10:40 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:45, 7:45, 10:40 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER 3D (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:25, 7:15, 10:20 THE CHANGE-UP (14A) 11:50, 2:40, 5:20, 8:05, 10:45 COWBOYS & ALIENS 2:25, 8:00 Thu 5:10, 10:50 CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:50, 7:50, 10:55 Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed 11:30, 2:15, 4:55, 7:35, 10:10 Sun 2:15, 4:55, 7:35, 10:10 FINAL DESTINATION 5 Thu 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8:05, 10:30 Fri-Sun 11:25, 2:00, 4:45, 7:45, 10:30 Mon-Wed 11:30, 2:00, 4:45, 7:45, 10:30 FINAL DESTINATION 5 3D Thu 11:45, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00 FriWed 7:00, 9:45 FINAL DESTINATION 5: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE Thu 9:00 Fri-Wed 5:50, 8:15, 10:45 FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (14A) Thu 11:45, 2:35, 5:25, 7:55, 10:30 Fri-Wed 2:05, 4:50 FRIGHT NIGHT 3D Fri-Wed 11:55, 2:30, 5:10, 7:55, 10:35 GLEE: THE 3D CONCERT MOVIE (G) Thu 1:15, 3:20, 5:30, 7:35, 9:45 Fri-Sun 11:20, 1:30, 3:35, 5:35, 7:40, 9:40 MonWed 1:30, 3:35, 5:35, 7:40, 9:40 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS - PART 2: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) 11:50, 3:00 Thu 6:00 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2: 3D (PG) Thu 9:15 THE HELP (PG) Thu 1:00 4:10 7:30 10:45 Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:30 HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:55, 7:45, 10:25 FriWed 11:40, 5:15, 10:45 ONE DAY (PG) Fri-Wed 11:35, 2:10, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) Thu 12:15, 2:15, 2:45, 4:55, 5:30, 7:30, 8:15, 10:10, 11:00 Fri-Sun 11:25, 2:15, 4:55, 7:30, 10:10 Mon-Wed 11:30, 2:15, 4:55, 7:30, 10:10 THE SMURFS 3D (G) Thu 1:25, 3:50, 6:15, 8:40, 10:55 FriSun 11:15, 1:45, 4:15 Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:15 THE SMURFS (G) Thu 2:30 Fri-Wed 11:45, 7:35, 10:00 SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD (PG) Fri-Wed 11:45, 2:10, 4:35, 7:00, 9:15 30 MINUTES OR LESS (14A) Thu 11:50 2:05 4:30 6:30 8:30 10:50 Fri-Wed 11:55, 2:05, 4:20, 6:30, 8:35, 10:40
SILVERCITY MISSISSAUGA (CE) HWY 5, EAST OF HWY 403, 905-569-3373
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER 3D (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:20, 10:20 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 CARS 2 (G) Fri-Tue 12:40, 3:30, 6:20, 9:00 Wed 12:40, 3:20, 6:30 CARS 2 3D (G) Thu 12:45, 3:40, 6:20, 9:00 THE CHANGE-UP (14A) Thu 1:30 4:20 7:10 10:00 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15 CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (PG) Thu 1:20 4:10 7:00 9:45 FriWed 1:20, 4:10, 7:10, 9:50 FINAL DESTINATION 5 3D Thu 1:45, 4:30, 7:50, 10:30 FriWed 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:05 THE HELP (PG) 12:45, 3:55, 7:05, 10:15 Thu 12:15 3:30 6:50 10:15 Tue only 12:45 3:55 7:00 10:15 HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:10 FriTue 1:00, 3:20, 6:30, 9:10 Wed 1:00, 3:20, 9:10 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: DON CARLO (ENCORE) Wed 6:30 ONE DAY (PG) Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 THE SMURFS 3D (G) Thu 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 FriWed 1:10, 4:00, 6:45, 9:20 SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD 3D (PG) Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:30
North COLOSSUS (CE) HWY 400 & 7, 905-851-1001
ATTACK THE BLOCK (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:15, 7:15, 9:50 BAD TEACHER (14A) Thu 10:05 BRIDESMAIDS (14A) Thu 12:20, 3:15, 6:30, 9:30 Fri-Tue 12:35, 3:25, 6:25, 9:30 Wed 12:35, 3:25, 9:45 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG) Thu 12:10, 3:10, 6:10, 9:15 Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:45, 7:35, 10:15 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER 3D (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 CARS 2 (G) Thu 12:35, 3:35, 6:40, 9:25 Fri-Tue 1:05, 3:45, 6:30, 9:35 Wed 1:05, 3:45, 6:30 CONAN THE BARBARIAN (18A) Fri-Wed 6:50, 9:50 CONAN THE BARBARIAN 3D (18A) Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 COWBOYS & ALIENS Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:05, 10:15 Fri-Wed 1:25, 4:15, 7:15, 10:10 FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (14A) Thu 12:40, 4:30, 7:45, 10:30 Fri-Tue 2:00, 4:40, 7:25, 10:05 Wed 1:30, 4:00, 7:10, 10:05 FRIGHT NIGHT 3D Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:10, 7:05, 10:00 GLEE: THE 3D CONCERT MOVIE (G) Thu 12:15, 2:50, 5:20, 8:00, 10:35 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:00, 6:20, 9:20 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 1:15, 4:25, 7:20, 10:20 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:05, 6:55, 10:00 HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:45, 7:50, 10:25 FriWed 1:00, 3:35, 6:35, 9:10 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: DON CARLO (ENCORE) Wed 6:30 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) Thu 1:00, 1:40, 4:00, 4:40, 7:00, 7:40, 10:00, 10:40 Fri-Wed 12:45, 1:15, 3:40, 4:20, 6:40, 7:20, 9:40, 10:20 THE SMURFS 3D (G) Thu 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 FriWed 1:20, 4:00 THE SMURFS (G) 12:50, 3:20, 6:15, 9:00 SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD (PG) Fri-Wed 1:35, 4:25 SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD 3D (PG) Fri-Wed 12:55, 3:10, 6:00, 8:50 30 MINUTES OR LESS (14A) Thu 12:00, 12:45, 2:20, 3:45, 4:50, 6:50, 7:35, 9:40, 10:20 Fri-Wed 2:15, 5:00, 7:00, 7:40, 9:55, 10:25 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON (PG) Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:50, 7:10, 10:30 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D (PG) Thu 12:25, 3:55, 7:25, 10:45 ZOOKEEPER (G) Thu 12:05, 3:00, 6:20
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30 INTERCHANGE WAY, HWY 400 & HWY 7, 416-335-5323 AARAKSHAN (PG) Thu 2:45, 6:15, 9:40 ATTACK THE BLOCK (14A) 2:55, 5:15, 7:45, 10:10 Sat-Sun 12:35 mat THE CHANGE-UP (14A) Thu 3:15, 4:20, 4:50, 6:00, 7:30, 8:45, 9:30, 10:15 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:55, 4:40, 6:40, 7:25, 9:30, 10:15 Sat-Sun 1:05, 1:55, 3:55, 4:40, 6:40, 7:25, 9:30, 10:15 CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (PG) Thu 4:05 6:55 7:35 9:50 10:25 Fri-Wed 4:10, 6:55, 7:35, 9:50, 10:25 Sat-Sun 1:15 mat FINAL DESTINATION 5 Thu 3:00, 4:00, 5:30, 6:30, 8:00, 9:00, 10:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:05, 6:30, 7:15, 9:00, 9:45 Sat-Sun 1:35, 4:05, 6:30, 7:15, 9:00, 9:45 FINAL DESTINATION 5 3D Thu 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 THE HELP (PG) 2:50, 3:40, 6:10, 7:00, 9:35, 10:20 Sat-Sun 11:35, 12:20 mat KUNG FU PANDA 2 3D (PG) Thu 4:35, 9:15 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:00, 9:55 Sat-Sun 11:40, 4:00, 9:55 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (PG) Thu 2:10, 7:10 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:05 Sat-Sun 11:55, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:05 MONTE CARLO (G) 2:05, 4:55 Sat-Sun 11:30 mat ONE DAY (PG) 4:35, 7:20, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:50 mat ROWTHIRAM Thu 2:30, 6:05, 9:40 WINNIE THE POOH (G) Thu 2:25, 7:05 Fri-Wed 2:00, 6:20 ZOOKEEPER (G) 2:05, 4:40 Sat-Sun 11:30 mat
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PROMENADE MALL, HWY 7 & BATHURST, 905-764-3247 CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (PG) 9:20 Thu 1:10 mat, 4:05, 7:00 FINAL DESTINATION 5 3D 12:55, 3:00, 5:10, 7:15 Thu 9:40 THE HELP (PG) 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:30 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) Thu 1:25, 4:20, 7:05, 9:25 Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 1:10, 4:15, 6:50, 9:25 Mon 4:15, 6:50, 9:25 THE SMURFS (G) 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:10, 9:10 SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD (PG) Fri-Wed 12:50, 2:50, 4:55, 7:00, 9:00 30 MINUTES OR LESS (14A) Thu 1:00 3:05 5:15 7:20 9:35 Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:05, 5:15, 7:05, 9:15
West GRANDE - STEELES (CE) HWY 410 & STEELES, 905-455-1590
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:55, 9:50 THE CHANGE-UP (14A) Thu 4:15, 7:00, 10:00 Fri, MonWed 4:05, 6:40, 9:25 Sat-Sun 1:25, 4:05, 6:40, 9:25 CONAN THE BARBARIAN 3D (18A) 4:20, 7:10, 9:55 Sat-Sun 1:15 mat COWBOYS & ALIENS Thu 9:35 CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (PG) Thu 3:50, 6:40 FINAL DESTINATION 5 3D Thu 5:10 7:40 10:15 Fri-Wed 4:50, 7:40, 10:10 Sat-Sun 1:55 mat FRIGHT NIGHT Fri, Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:50, 9:35 Sat-Sun 12:55, 3:35, 6:50, 9:35 GLEE: THE 3D CONCERT MOVIE (G) Thu 4:55, 7:10, 9:25 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 Sat-Sun 12:50, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 THE HELP (PG) Thu 6:45, 10:05 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:55, 7:05, 10:15 Sat-Sun 12:45, 3:55, 7:05, 10:15 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) Thu 4:30 7:20 10:10 Fri-Wed 4:30, 7:30, 10:05 Sat-Sun 1:45 mat THE SMURFS (G) Thu 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:30, 9:15 Sat-Sun 1:05, 3:30, 6:30, 9:15 SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD (PG) 3:50, 6:25, 9:20 Sat-Sun 1:35 mat 30 MINUTES OR LESS (14A) Thu 4:45, 7:05, 9:40 Fri, MonWed 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Sat-Sun 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 3
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tary is largely dry and technical. There’s a second commentary hidden in the deleted scenes menu. Highlight “play all” and hit your right cursor: an icon appears. Press enter to hear two of Fukunaga’s film school buddies make mediocre jokes about the movie. EXTRAS Two commentaries, three making-of spots, deleted scenes. Widescreen. English, Spanish audio. English, French, Spanish subtitles.
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2010) D: Steven Silver, w/ Ryan Phillippe, Taylor Kitsch. Rating: NNNN; DVD package: NNNNN
In 1994, as South Africa’s apartheid government begins to fall, a quartet of news photographers cover the bloody war between ANC supporters and the government-instigated Inkatha in Soweto. They’re fuelled by competitiveness, pride and hard-partying nights. Two of them win Pulitzer prizes. But intimate daily contact with brutal violence takes its toll. The movie whips by with incredible momentum and high-energy per-
Jane Eyre (Alliance, 2011) D: Cary Fukunaga, w/ Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender. Rating: NNNN; DVD package: NN Jane Eyre is generally touted as a romance, but this version plays more as a Gothic character study. Orphaned young and shunned in childhood, Jane grows up thoughtful, solitary and reserved, but yearning for the freedom denied her. Only a few key lines and fewer glimpses of her artwork reveal her rich inner life. They are
formances by the entire cast, though the focus is on new guy Pete (Ryan Phillippe) and wildman Kevin (Taylor Kitsch), who both face the moral dilemma of whether to put down the camera to help someone. The film is based on a memoir by two of the photographers. Their input on the film and the use of actual locations and people who lived through the battles give the action scenes a powerful realism. Catch the details in the excellent making-of doc and the director’s commentary, which also fills in some of the larger political story. EXTRAS Director’s commentary, making-of doc, cast and crew interviews, more. Widescreen. English, French audio. English subtitles. enough to attract the ill-tempered Mr. Rochester, master of the haunted manor where Jane finds work as a governess. As Jane, Mia Wasikowska maintains an alert calmness. Even in extreme moments, she lets the anguish flow through her as though it were nothing new. It’s a remarkable performance. Michael Fassbender makes Rochester more than a cardboard cutout, endowing him with a powerful, understated physical tension. The candlelit faces, grand houses and sweeping moors are lovely but always used to enhance both Jane’s sense of entrapment and the Gothic atmosphere. Director Cary Fukunaga’s commen-
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Bay, 2010) D: Keith Bearden, w/ Kim Cattrall, Dustin Ingram. Rating: NNN; DVD package: NNN As Monica Velour, Kim Cattrall gives the same kind of full-immersion character portrayal as Melissa Leo in The Fighter and Charlize Theron in Monster. One look at the slumped shoulders and lowered gaze and you know how ground down the woman is and how well defended. In the voice, you can hear every weary mile. Monica, at 49, is a one-time porn star, flat broke and needing to get back into the business, but hampered by a bitter custody battle. Tobe (Dustin Ingram) is a petulant, clueless dweeb just out of high school. A long-time Monica Velour fan, he goes to see her perform and gets involved in her life. Ingram, like Cattrall, isn’t afraid to be unlikeable, but Tobe has so few appealing traits that he’s hard to warm to. This and the nothing-special visuals and dialogue occasionally make the movie a slog. On the up side, Brian Dennehy and Keith David bring a lot to the party in supporting roles. Cattrall takes full charge of the commentary, pushing director Keith Bearden from topic to topic while tossing in bits about creating the character and calling attention to details of Ingram’s and her performances. They’re amusing and informative. EXTRAS Commentary, deleted scenes. Widescreen. English audio. English, Spanish subtitles.
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2011) D: Scott Charles Stewart, w/ Paul Bettany, Maggie Q. Rating: NN; DVD package: NNN Lowered expectations and cheap rental prices turn Priest from a theatrical disappointment to acceptable couch fodder, with the bonus that you’re spared the substandard 3-D. In an alternate universe, a superpowered warrior priest ditches his vows to hunt down the vampires who’ve stolen his niece. The exotic setting is largely an ex-
cuse for the production designers to create some gaudy urban and spaghetti westernish backgrounds and a not bad climax featuring a train and some cool motorcycles. The vampires, looking like runts from an Alien litter, serve mainly as fodder for our invincible heroes, played with steely-eyed lockjaw by Paul Bettany (the priest), Cam Gigandet (the marshal) and Maggie Q (the priestess). Bettany and Q join director Scott Charles Stewart on a commentary that explores decision-making in the face of budgetary limitations. EXTRAS Commentary, making-of doc, weapons and vehicles doc, deleted scenes. Widescreen. English, French audio. English, French, Spanish subtitles. 3 movies@nowtoronto.com
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thu 18 – The Clowns (1970) D: Federico Fellini. 6:30 pm. Children Of Paradise ñ (1945) D: Marcel Carné. 8:45 pm. fri 19 – La Strada (1954) D: Federico Noon. Agnes Of God (1984) : ñFellini. Norman Jewison. 3 pm. Bellisima (1951) D:
Luchino Visconti. Teresa Venerdi (1941) D: Vittorio De Sica. 6:30 pm. Rollerball (1975) D: Norman Jewison. Bruce McDonald in attendance. 9 pm. sAt 20 – The Rocketeer (1991) D: Joe Johnston. 2 pm. The Hurricane (1999) D: Norman Jewison. 4:30 pm. Inside (2007) D: Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo. 11 pm. suN 21 – Raintree County (1967) D: Edward Dmytryk. 1 pm. La Terra Trema (1948) D: Luchino Visconti. 4:30 pm. Miracle In Milan (1951) D: Vittorio De Sica. 8 pm. MoN 22 – Mamma Roma (1962) D: Pier Paolo Pasolini. 6:30 pm. tue 23 – Raintree County. 6:30 pm. wed 24 – Bandits Of Orgosolo (1961) D: Vittorio De Seta. 6:30 pm. Accattone (1961) D: Pier Paolo Pasolini. 9 pm.
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A monster movie to mull over TROLL HUNTER
ñ(Andre Øvredal) Rating: NNNN Troll Hunter might not be the scari est “found footage” film ever made, but what it lacks in thrills it makes up for in brains. This Norwe gian import from director Andre Øvredal has amassed quite the cult following before coming to Cana da, and it’s easy to see why. It’s a thinking person’s monster movie. Three college journalism students set out to document a bearpoaching epidemic but instead stumble upon a guy who hunts trolls. The students quickly find out that these creatures are real and very angry. What sets this film apart from others of this style (like [REC] and Cloverfield) is that Øvredal takes the time to actively explain just how trolls and those who hunt them think and act. He takes an indepth look at a fantastical world instead of simply going for cheap shocks and discomfiting gimmicks. thu 18 – Bad Teacher (2011) D: Jake Kasdan.
7 pm. Beginners (2010) D: Mike Mills. 9 pm. fri 19 – Tree Of Life (2011) D: Terrence Malick. 6:45 pm. Bridesmaids (2011) D: Paul Feig. 9:30 pm. sAt 20-suN 21 – E.T. : The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) D: Steven Spielberg. 1:30 pm. Tree Of Life. 4 & 6:45 pm. Bridesmaids. 9:30 pm. MoN 22-tue 23 – Tree Of Life. 6:45 pm. Bridesmaids. 9:30 pm. wed 24 – Bridesmaids. 1:30 pm. Submarine (2010) D: Richard Ayoade. 7 pm. Potiche (2010) D: François Ozon. 9 pm.
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sAt 20 – Bad Teacher. 7 pm. Trollhunter. 9:15 pm.
suN 21 – Bad Teacher. 4:30 pm. Trollhunter. 7 pm.
MoN 22-tue 23 – Trollhunter. 7 pm. Bad Teach-
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Set in Norway, the low-budget Troll Hunter is a terrific genre exercise.
wed 24 – Beginners (2010) D: Mike Mills. 7 pm. Trollhunter. 9:15 pm.
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thu 18 – Tucker & Dale Vs Evil (2010) D: Eli Craig. 9:30 pm. fri 19 – Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008) D: Darren Lynn Bousman. 9:30 pm. sAt 20 – Conspiracy Culture presents Kubrick’s Odyssey, Part One, Kubrick And Apollo (2011) D: Jay Weidner. Q&A (via Skype) w/ filmmaker to follow screening. 9:30 pm. $7-$10. 416-9161696, conspiracyculture.com. suN 21-wed 24– Check website for schedule.
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The film’s a bit of a slow burn, but attention to detail heightens the intensity greatly once the scares finally arrive. Add some lushly filmed scenery and great visual
effects for a lowbudget film and Troll Hunter becomes one of the best genre exercises of the year. Subtitled. Opens Friday (August ANdrew PArKer 19) at the Royal.
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thu 18 – Bridesmaids (2011) D: Paul Feig. 6:30 pm. Chris Alexander’s Film School Confidential: Homicidal (1961) D: William Castle. 9 pm. fri 19 – The Tree Of Life (2011) D: Terrence Malick. 4 & 9 pm. Beginners (2011) D: Mike Mills. 7 pm. sAt 20-suN 21 – Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011) D: Jennifer Yuh Nelson. 2 pm. The Tree Of Life. 4 & 9 pm. Beginners. 7 pm. MoN 22 – Beginners. 1 pm. Kung Fu Panda 2. 3:15 pm. Kevin Courrier Lecture: The Films Of Hitchcock & De Palma. 7 pm. The Tree Of Life. 9 pm. tue 23 – Book Revue: The Talented Mr Ripley (1999) D: Anthony Minghella. 6:45 pm. Beginners. 9:45 pm. wed 24 – Beginners. 4 & 7 pm. The Tree Of Life. 9 pm.
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I went to craIgSLISt to Look at the
kinky shit people are into. And I found a picture of my sister. Her eyes are blurred out, but one pic is of her nude and one is of her giving head, and there’s a tattoo that’s unique to her and clearly visible. I’m 99 per cent sure it’s her. The ad was from her boyfriend, looking for a “horsecock” to stretch her pussy while he sits in the next room. It’s her business, but it’s a mindfuck. I half want to call her out, shame her out of it. She just turned 22. Sister Pics Dilemma Your sister is an adult, SPD, and adults are free to post what they like to CL, and adult females are free to stick whatever they like – mancock, horsecock, whatevercock – in their pussies. It’s hypocritical of you to enjoy the perversity on display at CL and then clutch your pearls in horror when you realize that someone you love – gasp! – is just as pervy as you are. So you’re not going to call your sister out or shame her. But you are going to say something to her. There’s a chance that your sister isn’t aware that her boyfriend is posting her pictures to CL. Horsecocks, stretching pussies, the GF getting it on while he sits in the next room – that’s all standard-issue cuckold fantasy stuff, SPD. There are women out there who are into cuckolding, of course, and there are women who’ve given their partners the okay to use their pictures in online per-
sonal ads seeking thirds for cuckold scenarios. However… Lots of men with cuckold fantasies have posted pics of their actual wives and girlfriends to sites like CL without the consent of their actual wives and girlfriends. These guys don’t see – or refuse to see – the potential harm in rubbing one out while fantasizing about the responses they’ve received from men who want to fuck their wives/girlfriends. The harm comes, of course, when the wife or girlfriend is recognized by a sibling, a co-worker, or an employer. On the off chance that your sister’s BF is posting private pics to CL without your sister’s okay, SPD, you need to say something to her. She needs to know those pics are out there if she doesn’t already know it, and if she does know they’re out there, she needs to know that she can be recognized. Your sister doesn’t need to be called out, and she doesn’t need to be shamed. What she needs is a heads-up from a concerned brother. Give her that, SPD, then butt the fuck out.
I’m a 20-year-oLd gay maLe and I
entered into a relationship with a guy at the beginning of the summer. The sex has always been really good, but I’m worried about pleasing him. He disclosed early on that he has a foot fetish. Sex usually consists of him topping me while sucking my toes or me jerking him off while he’s fondling the bottoms
of my feet. I don’t have any problem with him getting off to my feet. My problem with the whole ordeal is this: I don’t know diddly about foot fetishism. I tried Google, but my results weren’t much better than “Foot fetishism is the most common form of sexual fetishism from an otherwise nonsexual object or body part, and it’s different depending on who you’re fucking.” Not very helpful. I’ve talked to my boyfriend about what I can do to make things better and what he likes, but he’s so bashful about the subject that I haven’t gotten any information save “I prefer the soles of your feet.” I have tried experimenting with things like foot jobs (which didn’t work out very well because I had no idea what I was doing), and not knowing what else to do is frustrating. I am currently studying in France until the end of August, and I want to surprise him with my newfound knowledge on his kink and new ways to get him off. What should I know? What would you recommend? And could you fill me in on proper foot job technique? Seeking Orgasm Level Escalation Male foot fetishists – the straight ones, anyway – will tell you that they react to feet the way most straight guys react to tits: aroused by the sight of ’em, want to do stuff to ’em. Some wanna suck ’em, some wanna fuck ’em and some kinksters wanna safely, sanely and consensually “torture” ’em. In other words,
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SOLE, it’s different depending on who the woman with the tits in question happens to be fucking. Same goes for foot fetishists: Some wanna suck ’em, some wanna fuck ’em, some wanna “torture” ’em. (That’s called “bastinado,” and it should only be done safely, sanely and consensually.) To find out what a particular foot fetishist enjoys most, you’ll have to ask the foot fetishist who’s enjoying your feet. Your boyfriend probably finds it hard to talk about his fetish because he feels ashamed, needlessly so, and may have been rejected or mocked by previous partners when he opened up about his kink. (To avoid making his bashfulness worse, SOLE, avoid using terms like “problem” and “ordeal” when discussing his kink.) It’s possible that the stuff you’re doing for him now – sticking your toes in his mouth while he fucks you, jerking him off while he fondles your feet – fulfills all of his fantasies. Keep doing what you’re doing now, SOLE, and as his confidence levels about his kink and your relationship both grow, he’ll become less bashful about discussing his kink. As for a proper foot job: Bring the bottoms of your feet together and let him fuck the gap between your soles with his lubed-up cock, titty-fucking style, or have him lie on the floor while you sit on the edge of the bed and move the lubed-up sole of one of your feet back and forth across his cock until he blows his load. Have fun!
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You’re welcome, HTH, and in case anyone missed my Funny Or Die video – in which I threatened to redefine Rick Santorum’s first name if he didn’t lay off the gay bashing – you can watch it here: tinyurl.com/ricksick. Santorum hasn’t laid off the gay bashing, as it’s all he’s got, so it looks like I’m going to have to go ahead and redefine his first name, too. (My apologies to Rick Dees, Rick Fox, Ricki Lake and all the other innocent Ricks out there.) The definition I proposed in my video was a little too long and involved, so I vote for adopting yours, HTH. Now “Rick Santorum” isn’t just a vile and disgusting politician – he’s a vile and disgusting sentence. That said, I don’t think someone would rick his or her partner out of gratitude; ricking someone – sucking the frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the by-product of anal sex out of someone’s ass – is something a person would do only under duress or under orders from a cruel BDSM top. CONFIDENTIAL TO EVERYBODY: Make porn, win prizes! Details at humpseattle.com. No rick videos, please! fInd the Savage LovecaSt (my weekLy podcaSt) every tueSday at theStranger.com/ Savage. mail@savagelove.net
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