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the budget

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up Trouble PM seeks forMula for the resource industry’s doMination of the country

By ALICE KLEIN

finally, it’s crystal clear. when it comes to public spendFlaherty couldn’t have made it any clearer. Nothing and no ing, it’s the public, not the spending, the Harper government one is getting in the way of the bulldozers on his watch. Least is really out to control. of all the people. That’s why so many of the budget cuts are The budget that came down last week was a defining mo- aimed at institutions that research or foster citizen rights ment, though not the way anyone expected. Naturally, Con- and information. Nothing will be allowed to impede Big Oil servative Canada widely assumed the new majority would be and mining. all about government austerity. That was a misconception. Is the idea to become more like autocratic resource-rich There will be government jobs shed, of course, but the Russia so we don’t turn off Chinese-state power investors? Canadian Taxpayers Federation and its ilk were quite dis- History offers an amusing irony here, but not in a good way. appointed, which was the best thing about this otherwise In Harper’s dream Canada, regulatory hurdles to big captruly disturbing budget. Economists internationally are in ital investment get cleared away lickety-split. Charities are near-consensus that drastically cutting government spend- land-mined by new regulations to keep environmentally ing is the fast way to halt economic growth. minded and other socially progressive donors away. So our That old “c” approach that Flaherty and his friends un- once vibrant civil society that empowered citizens to evaluleashed on Ontario during the Harris days got ditched be- ate the costs as well as the benefits of Harper’s resource rush cause the facts just don’t support the is starved and withers away under acts. And for that reason, slashing unprecedented government siege. wouldn’t sell well across the pond in The Conservative plan calls for a Davos, where the world’s global cordocile public – especially the distract1 Handcuff the critics porate and political elite go to confer ed youth demographic that is facing Crack down on charities’ political action. on the future of humanity. all the environmental, health and 2 Stamp out eco controls It was no accident that Harper upsafety risks while reaping few of the Limit environmental reviews. staged the budget by announcing his rewards – that expects and asks little 3 Free the deniers intention to raise the age for Old Age Seor nothing from government. Ditch the National Round Table on the curity benefits from 65 to 67 over there Hey, government spending is great! Environment and the Economy. first, in January, instead of here. It’s all You can use it for oil and mining com4 End liberal claptrap about priorities. Think how much Conpany incentives, venture capital funds Cut the CBC by $115 mil over three years servative political capital Harper was and subsidizing private firms with 5 Delegitimize sharing willing to spend to follow through on the work of our best and brightest sciChop 7 per cent from the foreign aid budget that “Davos promise” in this budget. entists. International development But it’s worth it to Harper, because rolling back our popu- money can be used to wrangle up our finest overseas aid worklation’s sense of entitlement to government support in our ers and force them to partner with mining companies to get older years gets gold stars from international finance and its funded. There’s a happy face for the costly prison-expansioncredit rating agencies. This is the brand of Canada Harper is ist crime bill, too, while penny-ante savings are achieved by busy creating and selling to the world. But where does that slicing and dicing the CBC budget and axing the National leave those of us who live outside Alberta when it comes to Council on the Environment and the Economy, and the NaCanada’s economic and social future? tional Welfare Council. That was no federal budget last week. It was a Canadian Really? Charter of Rights and Freedoms for Global Capital. I’m not What connects all the dots in this budget is not conservajust trash-talking. Flaherty was unapologetic about the fact tism. It’s the other two c-words that have been the hallmarks that it was an open-arms embrace for the highly globalized of Harper’s prime ministership from the beginning. “Comresource sector and its deal brokers to come on in and get mand” and “control.” Now it is we the people who must fall busy as fast as possible. He repeatedly invoked his cause: into line. the $500 billion in investment over the next decIt’s clear what’s going on. The only question is, what are we ade waiting impatiently to drill and deploy going to do about it? 3 alice@nowtoronto.com | twitter.com/nowtorontonews our natural landscapes.

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Don’t look for economic productivity in either Lib or Con budgets By WAYNE ROBERTS don’t blame the recession for last week’s double header of provincial Liberal and federal Conservative cutback budgets. Hard times often provoke smart moves. An economy on a downslope can’t be held accountable for plain stupidity. Virtually every provincial and federal government budget of the last 75 years promised some government program that would improve people’s standard of living. These two budgets do not conform to that tradition, commit to it or even suggest it may return. Both financial plans are meant to re-engineer the Canadian conversation about politics. From here on in, improvements are only to be dispensed in proportion to growth in the private sector, which will only take place if governments cut expenditures and taxes. There is no other strategy for economic productivity or community development. If this isn’t beyond idiocy, what is? Don’t dress these budgets up as ideology; the finance ministers have no ideological clothes. To describe the federal Conservative budget as fiscally conservative or austerity-minded is to overlook its lack of any hard numbers or proverbial sharp pencils put to expenditures like expanded jails and F-35s. It’s also to overlook the extremist fiscally conservative government of England, which is making serious efforts to embrace a green energy agenda and build capacity for that transition. England’s Conservatives are fiscal conser vatives, for what that’s worth.

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Canadian Conservatism needs to be differentiated from anything that passes for Conservative in other climes: our homegrown Tories are supreme over-benders for the foreign-owned oil industry, which they subsidize to the tune of $1.4 billion a year in a most fiscally unconservative manner. Lackeyism to foreign owners who sell nonrenewable Canadian resources to foreign markets is Harper’s distinctive contribution to the Conser vative tradition. Blaming his budget on ideology is like blaming ideology instead of unhinged and undisciplined ignorance for the leadership-race spectacle in the U.S. Republican party. Why would anyone describe a budget as parsimonious or austerity-minded when it increases the amount of customs-free purchases Canadian cross-border shoppers can make in the U.S.? Is it fiscally conservative to deprive Canadian retailers of sales and Canadian governments of retail taxes? Call the feds’ budget reckonings the Alberta tar sands mindset at work. Strong like bulldozer, smart like tar; easy come, easy go – the high-throughput and fastturnover logic of a resource-dominated economy rather than the slow turnover and high interaction of a well-rounded domestic economy. Ontario’s budget is just as dimwitted. Its failure to increase energy purchasing from the local economy, via wind and sun, and

its lack of interest in economy-stimulating retrofitting and conser vation only exacerbate the financial hemorrhaging that goes with relying on oil from elsewhere. This isn’t restraint: it’s willingness to waste and squander. Instead of pushing the local energy economy, the Libs will increase revenue from gambling and boozing. Give me the lunacy of the GOP leadership race, which is at least good entertainment in a sort of sick, Survivor kind of way, over this moronic substitution of unhealthy and morale-destroying revenue creation for real economic development. The attack on public service pensions is beneath contempt, as anyone knows who is aware of the function they serve. These pensions ensure career-long commitment to the public service even when, as during an economic boom, the sector’s wages lag far behind those in the private realm. Over a career of service, the costs and savings balance out, while the public gains a civil service with cost-free institutional memory and commitment. This recession has lasted so long that many have forgotten the wisdom of boom times, but one function of the civil service used to be to counsel governments against bad policy based on brainless prejudices and resentments fanned by the ignoramuses at the Toronto Sun. When the central plank of a budget is built on resentment and industrial-relations illiteracy, stupid becomes stupider. The Ontario budget is unworthy of any other explanation. 3 news@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/nowtorontonews

Credit rating rip-off Investors don’t base decisions on the opinions of rating agencies By PAUL WEINBERG

there’s nothing like a credit rating threat to soften up the voting public ahead of fiscal restraint. Moody’s warning last December that Ontario’s rating would tumble – supposedly depressing investor interest in Ontario bonds and a higher interest rate on government debt – if it didn’t rein in expenses, certainly gave the Liberals’ austerity budget an aura of sanctity last week. But just how seriously should we take credit rating agencies? Independent financial analyst Diane Urquhart thinks Moody’s Ontario rating has credibility, but she doubts a downward change from its current Aa1-negative rating would have much impact. Institutional investors, she says, still view Ontario’s diversified economy and stability with favour. “You can have a downgrade without an impact on the market,” she says, drawing a parallel to last year’s controversial downgrading of the U.S. government’s debt by Standard & Poor’s. Investors, she says, simply ignored the pronouncement and carried on buying highly valued American treasury bills. And how about interest rates, now at historic lows? Many don’t believe a lower rating would cause the government’s payments on its debt to suddenly balloon, particularly because interest rates on long-term bonds are already set. That’s the view taken by Doug Peters, a retired bank economist and associate with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). A lower rating, he says, wouldn’t have the effect the Libs are suggesting. “On-

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tario is a solid economy,’’ he says, “and it has the tax base. It’s just going through a period of slow economic growth and relatively high unemployment.’’ Credit ratings are a matter of “splitting hairs,’’ says U of T finance prof Laurence Booth. The difference between a triple-A and a doubleA is “pretty minor. We are talking about a good credit rating for Ontario to start with.” As well, international investors aren’t likely to make decisions based solely on rating agencies’ opinions, he says. Rather, they will investigate any new bond or security offering on their own. “They are more likely to do an internal evaluation the longer the term of the bond.’’ According to economist Hugh Mackenzie, also with CCPA, “in the real world the impact of a downgrade is widely overstated. Rating agencies are aware of the political role bonds play, and a government that has decided to take drastic action is not unhappy to be at the front of a potential downgrade.’’ (A spokesperson for Moody’s says staff were too busy to respond.) Meanwhile, Dean Baker from the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC, points to rating agencies’ credibility gap. None, he says, have faced legal consequences for their endorsement of securities containing toxic mortgages. “There were people in the agencies trying to do their job,’’ says Baker. “They were basically told to shut up.” 3 news@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/nowtorontonews

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If the private sector can’t be relied on, what can be done to raise cash for public transit? By ADAM GIAMBRONE no, there will be no sheppard subway, at least not in the short run, but in Mayor Ford’s desperate last-ditch effort to fundraise for his prized project, he raised the notion of new revenue tools to fund transit – and actually there’s a lot going for this idea. The fact that the province intends to bankroll two LRT lines leaves aside the fact that there are at present no funding plans for the completion of Transit City, which includes LRT lines on Don Mills, Finch, Jane, Waterfront West as well as the Scarborough-Malvern line. Neither is cash allocated for the planned Downtown Relief Line, a subway (or underground LRT) from Pape station across the bottom of the city and up to Bloor between Dundas West and Jane. These projects, already endorsed by council, will cost around $16 billion. Note that this is $8 billion beyond the existing commitment from the province. So where will these public dollars come from? And where does the mayor’s call for new revenue sources come in? In the traditional model, governments of various levels pay for infrastructure by borrowing money over 20 to 30 years at very low interest rates. The city designs the project, either itself or with help from paid specialist consultants and issues calls for bids from the private sector for construction. But Mayor Ford is pushing public-private partnerships – though much to his chagrin, private firms aren’t eager to leap into this locally untested arena. Typically, private firms prefer PPPs that are smaller, less complicated and less risky. In PPP arrangements, often outlined in documents 10 centimetres thick, companies borrow on behalf of the government, and the government then repays the sum over several decades at higher rates of interest than if they’d borrowed it from the bond markets. On top of pricier financing, the total cost of PPP projects is usually higher. Because the construction industry is a specialized sector with high market-wage rates, the private sector usually receives no better deal than the public, and any small savings found by private companies are cancelled out by their desired profit of 5 to 10 per cent. And if the company is slated to actually run the service, since fare revenues never cover the cost of operations, the city has to pay perrider subsidies to the private operator. So if the private sector can’t be relied on to take the burden off overstretched governments, what can be done? There are several options, but only a few would bring in close to enough. True, the $60

vehicle registration tax that Ford abolished yielded about $60 million yearly (there are roughly 1 million cars), but this in and of itself wouldn’t go far. The parking charges the mayor has proposed would bring in $25 to $100 million yearly, depending on how high they could be set politically. This, too, wouldn’t be enough on its own, and neither would a property tax surcharge bringing in $22 million per 1 per cent increase. Even surcharges like TIFs (Tax Increment Financing) on properties that increase in value thanks to new transit could not be expected to raise more than 10 per cent of the cost of the projects. Still, all of the above should be seen as part of a funding package. But the most important revenues would come from a combo of road tolls and a 1 per cent sales tax surcharge. To be effective, road tolls would need to be implemented on all series-400 highways in the GTA. According to Metrolinx estimates, they would generate around $1 billion if they were set at Highway 407 levels. Presumably, only half of that would be available for the 416, the rest going to the 905, leaving around $500 million per year for the 416. An alternative would be a gas tax that would generate around $32 million (T.O.’s share) per 1¢, meaning a 25¢ per litre surcharge would be required to equal proposed toll revenue. This is likely to be hard to sell politically, and it would need provincial approval. It could, however, be implemented quickly and would be cheaper than costly toll collection equipment. At $500 million, road toll or gas tax revenue still wouldn’t be enough. Another problem is that these revenue tools would only tax car users; fairness suggests we need a broader tax to make up the rest of money needed. One form of tax increase that has relatively little impact on the economy, and for which there is already a rebate system for low-income residents, is the sales tax, or HST. In 2012-13, Ontario expects to collect $22 bil from its 8 per cent (5 goes to Ottawa) of the HST. Between 20 and 25 per cent of the province’s population lives in Toronto, and more of its economic activity takes place here, so we could expect a 1 per cent surcharge on the HST to bring in $500 to $600 million annually. Everyone agrees that transit expansion is desperately needed, and while finding ways to secure billions of dollars can seem daunting, jurisdictions around the world have the courage to adopt new revenue tools, and we need to do so, too. Maybe the mayor’s musings on parking taxes have led the way. 3 news@nowtoronto.com | twitter.com/nowtorontonews

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Really? Self-proclaimed straphanger Taras Grescoe disagrees, taking you on a global journey that has him boarding highspeed trains, tramways and buses. He examines the damage automobiles have caused to the world’s greatest cities and opens a discussion about how a global revolution in transporation can bring them back from the brink. harpercollins.ca @grescoe

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Fine, but two insurmountable problems. One, Toronto has more taxis than Tim Hortons, and it’s rarely that difficult to get one. And two, taxis are already exorbitantly priced. These app-friendly rides are even pricier. During peak hours, which Uber calls “surge pricing,” the cost is offensive. When the supply of cars gets low, costs “surge” as much as six times the already expensive amount. One Uber user in San Francisco complained about a $63 bill for travelling just a bit further than a kilometre. Technology for 1 per cent of the population, if you catch my drift.

QR Codes For the energy it takes to open a scan app, press it against a Rorschachlike image called a “QR code” and take a picture that (hopefully) directs you to a web page, you could probably just search what you were looking for. I’m not sure what problem QR codes solve, besides deeper behaviour tracking. And when will advertisers realize QR codes don’t work in places without an internet connection, like the subway? Square Jack Dorsey, the co-founder and whiz kid of Twitter, has developed a mobile payments system called Square. You can pay or accept money using your phone. To make payments, you start tabs at local businesses, which go onto your credit card. To accept payments, all you need is a piece of hardware that you swipe a credit card through. The idea is cool in theory: no more plastic cards and PIN numbers. But it’s not like you can leave your wallet at home. It has your ID, health insurance, receipts, brand loyalty cards, pictures of your five-month-old kitten and, yes, credit cards. Plus, Square is just another vehicle for user fees (2.75 per cent on every credit card transaction). . Part of the genius of the iPhone is that it eliminates the need to carry around a phone and an MP3 player, because it’s both devices in one. Since you still have to carry a physical wallet, Square fails in this regard, spreading the payment system over two devices – the phone and the cards in your wallet. Why bother? Is there a technology you find particularly useless? 3 joshuae@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/joshuaerrett

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If Apple made a stroller, it would be the 4moms Origami – both in style and eye-gouging price. This baby pusher folds up like an Autobot and features headlights, phone charger and an LCD that displays the weather and a speedometer, all self-powered through generators in its wheels. Still not worth the price? It’s got four cup holders! $850 from shop4moms.com

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Thursday, April 5

Benefits

Party With the ScotS! (McDonnell School of

Highland Dance) Performances by the Tartan Terrors, the Cedar Strippers, pipe bands and dancers plus whisky tasting. 6:30 pm. $30. Steam Whistle Brewery, 255 Bremner. gettickets.ca.

Events

Blue Gold: World Water WarS Film screen-

ing and discussion on the mega quarry with director Jason Van Bruggen. 7 pm. Free. Ralph Thornton Centre, 765 Queen E. ecologos.ca/ waterdocs-program-details2012/#march-22.

criSiS in the conGo: uncoverinG the truth

Film screening and discussion with Congolese guests from Eglise du Christ au Congo. 6:30 pm. Free. Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil. 416-463-5312. GloBal WarminG: Fact or Fiction Presentation on climate change by experts Lee Norton and Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu. 6:30 pm. Free. North York Civic Centre, 5100 Yonge. Pre-register climatechangetoronto@gmail. com.

Gravity: From FallinG aPPleS to riPPleS in SPacetime Astronomy presentation and tele-

scope observing. 9:10 pm. Free. McLennan Physical Labs, 60 St George. uoft.me/ astrotours. loS carPinteroS The Cuban artist duo speaks about their contemporary art practice with curator Michelle Jacques. 7:30 pm. $10, stu/srs $7. Prefix, 401 Richmond W. prefix.ca. national JoB Fair & traininG exPo Recruitment and career training event. Today and tomorrow 10 am-7 pm. $5. Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front W. thenationaljobfair.com. older lGBt Social Social gathering for LGBT people 55 and over. 2 pm. Free. Senior Peoples’ Resources in North Toronto, 140 Merton. 416-481-0669 ext 287.

listings index

Live music Theatre Dance

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Comedy Art galleries Readings

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Movie reviews Movie times Rep cinemas

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festivals • expos • sports etc.

Should We Be aFraid? real and imaGined Security threatS 10 yearS aFter 9/11 Dis-

cussion with Mark Sedra of University of Waterloo’s Centre for International Governance. 4 pm. Free. University College, rm 179, 15 King’s College Circle. scienceforpeace.ca. think you have iBS? Lecture on irritable bowel syndrome by a naturopathic doctor. 7 pm. Free. Big Carrot, rm 212, 348 Danforth. 416-466-2129.

Friday, April 6

Benefits

Good Friday (Photographers without Borders) Performances by Kyauna Clarke, Tanika Charles, BFSoul and others. 9 pm. $10, after midnight $15. El Mocambo, 464 Spadina. photographerswithoutborders.ca.

Festivals this week

reelWorld Film FeStival Films by filmmakers from the aboriginal, Asian, black, Latino, Middle Eastern, South Asian and other diverse communities. $10, stu/srs $5; music video night $25; passes $125 & $500. Sheppard Cinemas (4861 Yonge), Canada Square (2190 Yonge). reelworld.ca. Apr 11 to 15 SPrinG Fever FeStival Theatre Elusive presents previews of works in development by local playwrights, plus performances by comedy duo the Young Geologists and others. Pwyc. Theatre Centre, 1087 Queen W. awkwardshow@gmail. com. Apr 9 to 11

tartan day (Sick Kids Fdn) Evening of Scottish heritage and entertainment. 7:30 pm. $20. Fairmont Royal York Hotel, 100 Front W. tartanevents.com.

Events

rall aBout PetS ShoW A kids play-and-

learn zone, exotic pets, animal activities and more. Today 10 am-6 pm; tomorrow 10 am-6 pm; Apr 8, 10 am-5 pm. $14, stu/srs $10, under 5 free. International Centre, 6900 Airport. allaboutpetsshow.com. community PaSSover Seder Gourmet Passover dinner and Seder. 7:15 pm. Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina. Pre-register mnjcc.org. reaSter eGG-StravaGanza An Easter bunny parade, keeper talks, puzzle-solving and more. To Apr 9, 9:30 am-3:30 pm. Free w/ admission. Toronto Zoo, erty), Thursdays (Bedford Academy, 36 Prince Arthur). grantswhiskey. com/ca/experiencegrants/your-true-tales. To Apr 26

Meadowvale N of 401. 416-392-5929. end Police violence in toronto! Mass demonstration. 5 pm. Free. Toronto Police Service 52 Division, 255 Dundas W. facebook. com/events/217863461648147. exclaim! hockey Summit oF the artS Easter weekend hockey tournament, with 64 games and the Exclaim! Hootenanny (El Mocambo, 464 Spadina). To Apr 8. Spectating free. De La Salle College (131 Farnham), Westwood Arena (90 Woodbine Downs). exclaimhockey.ca. Good Friday JuStice Walk A walk through downtown stopping at Stations of the Cross, with music, prayer and a vegan meal. 2 pm. Free. Church of the Holy Trinity (beside the Eaton Centre). goodfridaywalk.ca.

GtWa coFFeehouSe: WorkinG in the neoliBeral univerSity Greater Toronto Work-

ers’ Assembly discussion with CUPE’s Sarah Hornstien and others. 7 pm. Free. Regal Beagle, 335 Bloor W. 416-591-6859. marx reloaded Cinema Politica Danforth film screening and discussion with author Sam Gindin. 7:30 pm. Free. Centre of Gravity, 1300 Gerrard E. cinemapolitica.org/danforth. the PaSSion oF our lord JeSuS chriSt Good Friday procession through Little Italy. 3 pm. Free. College and Grace. stfrancis.ca.

Saturday, April 7

Benefits

canadian taBle hockey chamPionShiPS

(Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Toronto) Table hockey tournament hosted by the Toronto Marlies. Ricoh Coliseum, Exhibition Place. ontariotablehockey. com. harry’S SPrinG run-oFF (Princess Margaret Hospital) 8K and 5K runs plus a kids’ run fight prostate cancer. 10 am. Pledges. High Park (Bloor and High Park entrance). Pre-register springrunoff.ca.

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Festival celebrating books, with readings, workshops, interviews and more with authors including Esi Edugyan, Maggie Helwig and Rabindranath Maharaj. Free. Various Toronto Public Library branches. torontopubliclibrary.ca. To Apr 30 true taleS Global storytelling event on the theme of families. Wednesdays (Brazen Head, 165 E Lib-

Events

addreSSinG conFlict, conFrontinG PrivileGe Workshops

ErinRodgersandGillianEnglishofthe comedyduotheYoungGeologists performattheSpringFeverfest.

for members of activist groups. 1-5 pm. $20 or pwyc. OISE, rm 5250, 252 Bloor W. Pre-register toolsforchange.net. ranimate thiS! – earth day Kids six to 13 create an organic kitchen at a 3D clay animation workshop. 12:30 pm. $5 (free for accompanying adult). NFB Mediatheque, 150 John. Preregister 416-973-3012. Better muS’ come Film screening and talkback with Storm Saulter,

Klive Walker and others. Free. Innis college, 2 Sussex. da.trotz@utoronto.ca. rcan’t Sit Still – earth day Kids three to five create an organic kitchen at a 3D clay animation workshop. 10:30 am. $5 (free for accompanying adult). NFB Mediatheque, 150 John. Pre-register 416-973-3012. rFamily Fun at the Bata Kids three to nine try on shoes, go on a treasure hunt and more. 11 am-4 pm. Free w/ admission. Bata Shoe Museum, 327 Bloor W. 416-979-7799.

GarriSon creek: FirSt nationS route to credit river and Beyond Lost rivers walk. 2

pm. Free. Queen and Gore Vale. 416-5932656. GladStone artiStS & FleaS Vintage clothing and art, and designer goods. 11 am-4 pm. Free. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416531-4635. kenSinGton FoodieS rootS Walk Walk to celebrate food connected with the immigrant waves in the Market. 9:30 am. $45, stu/ srs $40, child $30. Red Pole with Black Cat, 350 Spadina. Pre-register 416-923-6813. ra morninG With mo WillemS The children’s author launches his new book, The Duckling Gets a Cookie!? 11 am. Free. YWCA Elm Centre, 87 Elm. morningwithmowillems. eventbrite.com. Queen WeSt Gallery tour Explore the galleries and project spaces along the Queen West strip. 11:45 am. $25, two for $45. Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042. Queen WeSt WalkinG art tour Walk led by Betty Ann Jordan. Noon. $25. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.

riGhteouSly outraGeouS tWirlinG corPS

The performance-based colour guard holds rehearsals for LGBT-positive people interested in participating in the 2012 Pride Parade. 12:30-2:30 pm. Free. Church Street Public School Gym, 83 Alexander. rotctoronto.com. WeStWood SailinG cluB oPen houSe Tour the grounds and learn about sailing albacores, lasers and catamarans. 11 am-2 pm. Free. 12 Regatta (just E of Cherry Beach). 416461-2870.

Sunday, April 8 reaSter cruiSe Brunch cruise and tour of the waterfront. Noon. $49, child $25. mariposacruises.com.

kenSinGton market eaSter SWeetS tour

Walking tour of the market and sampling of chocolates, cookies and more. 11:30 am & 2 pm. $30, child $10. Butterfly Bakery, 492 Dundas W. tastytourstoronto.com.

loSt FiShinG villaGeS oF aShBridGe Bay – marine heritaGe oF PortlandS WaterWayS Lost rivers walk. 2 pm. Free. Queen and

UnlimiTed TAsTinGs Mingle with Jamie Kennedy, celeb chefs & master brewers at a local food feast in aid of Green Thumbs Growing Kids

April 18th @ 6:30pm | Roy Thomson Hall Tickets $125 +sc www.brewersplatetoronto.org

Win a Special Edition neal Brothers insulated Picnic Basket filled with Award-Winning products from neal Brothers Foods featuring ‘Lip Snackin’ Good!’ snacks and gourmet foods.

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NOW editors pick a trio of this week’s can’t-miss events

yuks for schizophrenia society Some of T.O.’s best comics are getting ready to stand up at a benefit for the Schizophrenia Society of Canada. Named Laughs For Scott in honour of comedian, organizer and host Carolyn Bennett’s brother Scott Way, who had lived with schizophrenia since he was a teen and died last January, the event features yuksters wrangled by Bennett, including Winston Spear, Ron Sparks, Judy Croon and more. They take the stage Wednesday (April 11), 8:30 pm, at the Rivoli, 332 Queen West. $20 or pwyc. 416-977-5082.

water: more precious than gold Fresh water is a life-saving elixir, but it’s nonetheless wasted, polluted and coveted by corporate interests. Come watch Blue Gold: World Water Wars and hear director Jason Van Bruggen. Carl Cosack of the North Dufferin Agricultural and Community Taskforce will be there, too, to discuss the water-menacing mega-quarry near Orangeville, as will Josh Garfinkel of Earthroots to talk about the Oak Ridges Moraine. Today (Thursday, April 5), 7 pm. Free. Ralph Thornton Community Centre, 765 Queen East. ecologos.ca.

easter trek for a just planet

Winston Spear yuks it up for the Schizophrenia Society April 11.

Celebrate Good Friday with church folks of all denominations who want to remake the world so it’s fair, peaceful and green. The Good Friday Justice Walk treks through the downtown highlighting social ills needing redress, among them Canada’s missing and murdered aboriginal women. Expect music, prayer and bread and soup at the end. Friday (April 6), 2 pm. Free. Church of the Holy Trinity, beside the Eaton Centre. goodfridaywalk.ca.

Woodfield. 416-593-2656.

rToronTo Beaches Lions easTer Parade

Floats, marching bands and more. 2 pm. Free. Starts Queen and Munro and heads W to Woodbine. beacheslions.com.

Monday, April 9 oPen drawing session Life drawing from

the model. 6:30 pm. $9. Ralph Thornton Centre, 765 Queen E. donriverdwgsessions@ hotmail.com. sorauren Park Farmers markeT Open Mondays year-round. 3-7 pm. Sorauren S of Dundas. westendfood.coop.

Tuesday, April 10

Benefits

com-a-rama (Toronto writer Derek McCor-

mack’s battle with cancer) Live music and a raffle. 7:30 pm. Pwyc ($10 sugg). Garrison, 1197 Dundas W. artforderek.com.

Events

amnesTy LeTTer-wriTing Join Amnesty Int’l and write letters to prisoners of conscience. 7:30 pm. Free. St John’s Norway Church, 470 Woodbine. beachamnesty@gmail.com. Border crossings: an eroTic aFFair?

Roundtable discussion with artists Sylvat Aziz, Meral Pasha and Vicky Moufawad-Paul plus presentations. Noon. Free. CWSE, 252 Bloor W, rm 2-227. wiaprojects.com. chris marTenson’s crash course Presentation and discussion on sustainability and the root causes of our current and upcoming crises in the economy, energy and the environment. $10 or pwyc. OISE, rm 2-212, 252 Bloor W. Pre-register irbe.org. drummers in exiLe Weekly drum and dance circle. $2-$5. Annex Wreck Room, 794 Bathurst. drummersinexile.com. dykes PLanning Tykes Drop-in session on family planning. 6:30 pm. Free. Sherbourne Health Centre, 333 Sherbourne. parentingnetwork@sherbourne.on.ca. growing orchids Scarborough Garden & Horticultural Soc talk. 7:30 pm. Free. Scarborough Village Community Centre, 3600 Kingston. gardenontario.org.

inTernaTionaL deveLoPmenT and reLieF FoundaTion oPen house Information ses-

sion for people interested in volunteering. 5 pm. Free. IDRF, 2 Berkeley. Pre-register events@idrf.ca. The keyhoLe sessions Debaucherous lifedrawing as part of the 7 Deadly Sessions series. 7:30 pm. $20, stu $17. Great Hall, 1087

Bancroft, rm 214. Pre-register 647-520-4339, thessea.org. sTudenT work aBroad Travel talk. 6:30 pm. Free. Adventure Travel Co, 408 King W. atcadventure.com.

ToronTo FiBromyaLgia suPPorT grouP

Meeting and group discussions. 7 pm. Free. St Andrew’s United Church, 117 Bloor E. 416760-2227.

ToronTo The Bad: wriTing hoT crime in a coLd cLimaTe Discussion on the challenges of crime writing with authors Howard Shrier, Rick Blechta and Elizabeth Duncan. 7 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

upcoming Thursday, April 12

Benefits

coc Fine wine aucTion (Canadian Opera Co)

Live auction of hard-to-find wines from private collections. 6 pm. $100. Design Exchange, 234 Bay. 416-363-8231. showTime shaker (Extend-a-Family) Movie and martini night with local talent, games and prizes. 7 pm. $15. Projection Booth, 1035 Gerrard E. eafshowtimeshaker@gmail.com.

Events

aLLergy season: reLieF wiThouT side eFFecTs Lecture by a homeopathic practitioner.

7 pm. Free. Big Carrot, rm 212, 348 Danforth. 416-466-2129. gardening is For The Birds Workshop on creating a garden with songbird appeal. 7 pm. Free. Spadina Road Library, 10 Spadina Rd. Pre-register trcastewardshipevents.ca. geT on The mic! PuBLic sPeaking 101 Learn tips to help build your confidence with OCAP’s Sarah Vance. 6-8:30 pm. $20, unwaged $10. U of T St George campus. Preregister toolsforchange.net/2012/01/04/geton-the-mic-public-speaking-101.

inTernaTionaL home and garden show

Queen W. thekeyholesessions.com.

rePorT on The FederaL ndP convenTion

NDP Socialist Caucus report on the convention and plans for the Ontario NDP Convention, with Barry Weisleder and John Orrett. 7 pm. Free. OISE, rm 2-213, 252 Bloor W. ndpsocialists.ca. ToronTo BaBeL Practice languages and meet people from around the globe. 7:30 pm. Free. Rivoli, 332 Queen W, upstairs. meetup.com/ torontobabel.

Wednesday, April 11

Benefits

c magazine aucTion 2012 (C Magazine) Live auction of contemporary art by Lois Andison, Peter Bowyer, Julie Beugin and others. 6 pm. $75. MOCCA, 952 Queen W. cmagazine2012. eventbrite.com. heroes vs viLLains (George Brown College Fdn/Keep a Breast Canada) Entertainment, food and a silent auction. 7 pm. $25, adv $20. LoftRaum @ UA, 86 Parliament. heroesvsvillains2012.com. Jaymz Bee BirThday Bash (Unison Benevolent Fund) Music by Sly Blue, Richard Underhill’s Astro Groove and others. 8 pm. $20. Old Mill Inn, 21 Old Mill. bullhorn.ca. Laughs For scoTT (Schrizophrenia Soc of Canada) Evening of comedy with Winston Spear, Ron Sparks, Judy Croon and others. 8:30 pm. $20 or pwyc. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. 416-977-5082. Psychic Fair (Central Eglinton Community Centre) Tarot cards, astology charts, numerology and more. 4-8 pm. Free admission. 160 Eglinton E. centraleglinton.com.

Events

arTscene ToronTo: BoardLink Live evenT

Meet local arts organizations and be matched with volunteer board positions. 5:30 pm. $25. KPMG, 46th fl, 333 Bay. boardlink2012.eventbrite.com. drake Trivia Play a game of Trivia. 8 pm. $2. Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042. hoT arT: Joshua kneLman The journalist talks about international art theft. 7 pm. $20, stu $12. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. ago.net/learning. mass exodus Fashion shows featuring designs by Ryerson fashion graduating students. Today and tomorrow. $25-$35. Ryerson Theatre, 43 Gerrard E. massexodus.ca. nuBia and The egyPTian new kingdom Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities lecture on ancient Nubia. 7 pm. $35. U of T, 4

Tips from celebrity decorator Karl Lohnes, interior designer Glen Peloso and others plus gardening experts, a green pavilion and more. Today to Apr 14, 10 am-9 pm; Apr 15, 10 am-6 pm. $15, stu/srs $12, child $1. International Centre, 6900 Airport. home-show. net/homeandgardenshow/index.html.

now TaLks: greg keeLor/Travis good/ gordon PinsenT Keelor and Good perform

songs inspired by humorous poems penned by Pinsent and talk about their careers. 6 pm. $15. Drake Underground, 1150 Queen W. nowtoronto.com.

russia and The wesT aFTer The coLd war

Discussion with political science professor Sergei Plekhanov. 4 pm. Free. University College, rm 179, 15 King’s College Circle. scienceforpeace.ca.

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whaT’s Bogus aBouT The conservaTive immigraTion sysTem No One Is Illegal and

the South Asian Legal Clinic hold a community forum and call to action to axe Bill C-31. 6 pm. Free. Friends Meeting House, 60 Lowther. toronto.nooneisillegal.org. wreTched oF The earTh York U graduate conference on the 50th anniversary of Frantz Fanon’s book. Today and tomorrow. York U, 4700 Keele. Pre-register yorku.ca/gradspth/ conference.html.

wriTing ToronTo: creaTing a PowerFuL, BeLievaBLe sense oF PLace in your sTories

Writing workshop with author Elizabeth Ruth. 7 pm. Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. Pre-register 416-395-5639. 3

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life&style STEFANIA YARHI

stylenotes The week’s news, views and sales

On April 17, resident NOW eco crusader Adria Vasil releases Ecoholic Body, her new guide to environmental health and greening your clothing and cosmetics choices. She chats with yours truly about the book on April 16 at the Drake Hotel (1150 Queen West), part of our ongoing NOW Talks series. We’ll be discussing everything from sustainable style to whether, with the right choices, you can really be both a shopaholic and earth-friendly? Tickets are $10 through nowtoronto.com.

WHO: Mélanie Brisson WHERE: Dundas Square WEARING: Something Else pink sweater ($189), Charlie Jade printed dress ($238), Scout & Catalogue tie dye clutch ($88), Lauren Elan Collections Misel rope necklace ($60, all Bicyclette Boutique, 880 Queen West, 416-5328048, shopbicyclette.ca). Franco Sarto sandals ($120, Heel Boy, 773 Queen West, 416-3624335, heelboy.com).

Colour on colour

SCHOOL ASSIGNMENTS

1. Danier leather wallet ($39, 66 Wellington West, 416-368-3515, and others, danier.com) 2. Franco Sarto sandals ($120, Heel Boy, 773 Queen West, 416362-4335, heelboy.com) 3. Allison Wonderland colour block dress ($184, Charlie Boutique, 809 Queen West, 647-4368452, allisonwonderland.ca) 4. Happy Socks ($13, happysocks. com), 5. Lauren Elan Collections Misel rope necklace ($60, Bicyclette Boutique, 880 Queen West, 416532-8048, shopbicyclette.ca)

Be bright this spring with clothing and accessories that mix and clash neons, vivid values and other hot hues.

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Over 5,000 spectators are expected to take in Ryerson University’s Mass Exodus fashion shows next week. The dreamy “Lucid”-themed production features the work of 56 graduating students in the Ryerson Theatre (43 Gerrard East) on April 11 and 12. Fourth-year fashion communications student work is also exhibited on those dates at 350 Victoria, room 250. Runway show tickets are $25 to $35 at massexodus.ca. And mark April 26 in your calendar for Flex, the George Brown College School of Design’s year-end show featuring the work of graphic design, art and design foundation, design management and game development students. This one takes place in two locations (220 Richmond East and 333 King East) from 6:30 to 9 pm.

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TALKING SUSTAINABLE STYLE

By ANDREW SARDONE

ALT-FASHION FIX

It’s almost time for Toronto Alternative Arts & Fashion ). The celeWeek (aka |FAT|). bration of subversive style and indie design takes place April 24 to 28 in a 15,000-squarefoot industrial warehouse at 213 Sterling. Look for labels like Woudenberg, Rachel Sin and Worth on the runway as well as photo exhibitions, fashion installations and an offsite series of screenings and parties at Drake Lab (1142 Queen West) starting April 16. Passes for the main event are $30/day or $75/ week in advance at fashionarttoronto.ca.

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162 Ossington, 647-348-1827, philipsparks.com

store of the week

I figure I’ve written well over 200 Store Of The Week features during my time at NOW, but this one is a little different. The man behind this shop tucked away next to I Deal Coffee off Ossington is my husband, designer Philip Sparks, and I will fully disclose that I spent many a late evening sanding, painting and badly drilling into its walls to help prep the space for its mid-March opening. Enter off Foxley into the first floor and you’re met with a pair of vintage racks hung with the season’s standout pieces: printed blazers, work chinos and navytrimmed macs for men; plaid shirt dresses, techno fabric trench coats and pleated skirts for women. Down a few steps, more of the spring line hangs close to a pair of change rooms. I have it on good authority that a summer-wedding-perfect selection of men’s linen suits will be arriving throughout April along with casual tops in red Breton stripes that pay homage to the season’s 1930s beach scene inspiration. Philip Sparks picks: Dapper men’s dress shirts come in crisp aqua or butter-yellow cotton, $235; a Harbourfront photo print blouse captures sailboats and tall ships on Lake Ontario, $250; a belt is made from vintage multicolour webbing and tan leather tabs. Look for: A handsome yellow leather briefcase with multiple file and laptop dividers (that I’ve been forbidden from buying myself) also comes in classic navy or tan. Hours: Monday to Wednesday 11 am to 6 pm, Thursday to Saturday 11 am to 7 pm, Sunday noon to 5 pm. 3

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FASHION FROM THE BAZAAR

Competition between retailers can be fierce, so it warms our stylish heart to see so many shops and designers partnering up for The Bazaar, a four-day fashion market kicking off today (Thursday, April 5) at Loft 580 (580 King West). Organized by RAC Boutique’s Glenna Weddle and Faith Orfus (pictured), the sale includes new womenswear, menswear and accessories, vintage goods and discounted stock from Robber, LAB Consignment, 69 Vintage, Jacflash, Woodlawn, Dalston Grey, Gotstyle, Tosca Delfino, Fashionably Yours, Rita Liefhebber, Fischer Street, Love of Mine, Aeroplane Eyewear and Elle Hardware. Shopping hours are Thursday 6 to 11 pm, Friday and Saturday 10 am to 7 pm, Sunday 11 am to 6 pm.

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testimony: “Born in a rancid, bat-infested cave at the base of the smouldering Sangay Volcano, I was raised by the half-bear demon princess Arcastia. At the age of four, my training as a ninja shaman began when I was left naked and alone next to a stream of burning lava with only two safety pins, a package of dental floss and a plastic bag full of Cheerios. My mission: to find my way to my spiritual home.” Now, Aries, I’d like you to compose your own version of this declaration – a playful, over-the-top myth about your origins that gives you a greater appreciation for the heroic journey you’ve been on all these years.

TAurus Apr 20 | May 20 Our ancestors

owned slaves and denied education to girls. What were they thinking? Time magazine asked renowned historian David McCullough if there was anything we do today that our descendants will regard as equally insane and inexcusable. His reply: “How we could have spent so much time watching TV.” I’ll ask you, Taurus, to apply this same exercise on a personal level. Think of some things you did when you were younger that now seem incomprehensible or ignorant. Then explore the possibility that you’ll look back with incredulity at some weird habit or tweaked form of self-indulgence you’re pursuing today. (PS It’s an excellent time to phase out that habit or self-indulgence.)

GeMini May 21 | Jun 20 “I can’t tell if I’m dealing well with life these days or if I just don’t give a sh-t any more.” I stumbled upon that comment at someecards.com and decided to pass it along for your consideration. You may be pondering the same riddle: feeling suspicious about why you seem more relaxed and tolerant than usual in the face of plain old everyday chaos. I’m here to tell you my opinion, which is that your recent equanimity is not rooted in jaded numbness. Rather, it’s the result of some hard work you did on yourself during the last six months. Congrats and enjoy! CAnCer Jun 21 | Jul 22 What excites

you, Cancerian? What mobilizes your self-discipline and inspires you to see the big picture? I encourage you to identify those sources of high-octane fuel and then take extraordinary measures to make them a strong presence in your life. There has rarely been a better time than now for you to do this. It could create effects that will last for years. (PS Here’s a further nudge from Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it.”)

Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 While browsing in a bookstore, I came across a book and deck of cards that were collectively

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New Yorker, Joanna Ravenna paraphrased German philosopher Nietzsche: “The best way to enrage people is to force them to change their mind about you.” I’d like to see you mutate this theory in the coming weeks, Virgo. If possible, see if you can amuse and entertain people, not enrage them, by compelling them to change their minds about you. I realize that’s a tricky proposition, but given the current astrological omens, I have faith that you can pull it off.

LibrA sep 23 | oct 22 In 1892, when Wrigley was just starting out as a company, its main product was baking powder. Free chewing gum was included in each package as a promotional gimmick. But soon the freebie became so popular that Wrigley rearranged its entire business. Now it’s a multi-billiondollar company that sells gum in 140 different countries – and no baking powder. Maybe there’s something like that on the verge of happening in your own life, Libra: what seemed like the main event could turn out to be secondary, or what seemed incidental might become a centerpiece. Is there something you’re overvaluing at the cost of something you’re undervaluing? sCorpio oct 23 | nov 21 People in intimate relationships are hypersensitive to negative comments from their partners. Psychologists say it takes five compliments to outweigh the effects of a single dash of derogatory criticism. I’m sure the ratio is similar even for relationships that aren’t as close as lovers and spouses. With this in mind, I urge you to be extra-careful not to dispense barbs. They would be especially damaging during this phase of your astrological cycle – both to you and to those at • HEALING ARTS PRACTITIONERS • YOGA STUDIOS, PROPS & TRAINING • FITNESS CENTRES •

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searchers report that the typical man falls in love 5.4 times over the course of his life, while the average woman basks in the glow of this great mystery on 4.6 occasions. I suspect you may be close to having a .4 or .6 type of experience, Sagittarius: sort of like infatuation, but without the crazed mania. That could actually be a good thing. The challenging spiritual project that relationship offers may be most viable when the two people involved are not electrifyingly interwoven with every last one of their karmic threads. Maybe we have more slack in our quest for intimacy if we love but are not obsessed.

CApriCorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 “I couldn’t

wait for success,” said rich and famous comedian Jonathan Winters, “so I went ahead without it.” I love that approach, and I suggest you try it out. Is there any area of your life that is held captive by an image of perfection? Consider the possibility that shiny concepts of victory and progress might be distracting you from doing the work that will bring you meaning and fulfilment. If you’re too busy dreaming of someday attaining the ideal mate, weight, job, pleasure and community, you may miss out on the imperfect but amazing opportunities that are available right now.

AquArius Jan 20 | Feb 18 On Reddit.

com, Kaushalp88 asked the question, “What is the most badass thing that you have ever done but that other people weren’t impressed by?” Here’s his own story: “I was at an ice cream shop. At the exit, there was a small raised step I didn’t see. I tripped over it with my ice cream cone in my right hand. The ice cream ball sprang out of the cone. I instinctively lurched my left hand forward and grabbed it, but at the same time I was already falling toward the pavement. I tucked my head into my chest and made a perfect somersault, rising to my feet and plopping the ice cream back in the cone.” I suspect you will soon have comparable experiences, Aquarius – unusual triumphs and unexpected accomplishments. But you may have to be content with provoking awe in no one else besides yourself.

pisCes Feb 19 | Mar 20 “Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.” So says a Swedish proverb. Can we talk about this, please, Pisces? Of course, there are real hazards and difficulties in life, and they deserve your ingenious problem-solving. But why devote any of your precious energy to becoming embroiled in merely hyped-up hazards and hypothetical difficulties? Based on my analysis of the astrological omens, now is a propitious time to cut shadows down to their proper size. It’s also a perfect moment to liberate yourself from needless anxiety. I think you’ll be amazed at how much more accurate your perceptions will be as a result. Homework: Do a homemade ritual in which you vow to attract more blessings into your life. Report results at FreeWillAstrology.com.

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What the experts say “Buddha taught that honesty is one of the five precepts that also include not killing or stealing and refraining from sexual misconduct and intoxicants. The instruction is to be careful and notice when you’re speaking and whether what you’re saying is true or not. Later Buddhist practitioners considered that life is complicated, so there’s a second doctrine, upaya, or “skilful means.” This holds that there are conditions under which it’s better not to adhere to the five precepts if you harm someone by doing so. The one thing that overrules precepts is compassion.” WILLA MILLER, lama, author, Everyday Dharma, Cambridge, Massachusetts “From a Zen point of view, if we notice what’s true for us, it’s easier to be honest with others. Dishonesty is mainly about trying to manipulate others’ opinion of us. The Zen view is that [who we are] is much more true and forgivable and lovable than who we’re pretending to be. Everyone trying to impress is living a double life, even if only for 30 seconds. In meditation, you check in with your mind; you show up with yourself and aren’t trying to be different than you are. There’s an acceptance that comes with that and an honesty, as in ‘I lose my temper and I can accept that.’ We can’t pretend, because we’re paying attention.” JOHN TARRANT, psychologist, roshi, Pacific Zen Institute, Santa Rosa, California “People lie because it’s effective in getting what they want. Often we spin things that will help us with our selfesteem at the moment. Everyone has been guilty of a little exaggeration of our accomplishments or the extent of our acquaintance with important people. There is research indicating that in order not to be depressed, one requires a certain degree of self-deception, and that depressed people actually have better reality testing than do the non-depressed. Put differently, we need to lie to ourselves to be happy. Very frequently we lie to others as a way to self-deceive, and we encourage other people to lie to us in order to feel better about ourselves.” CHARLES V FORD, professor of psychiatry, U of Alabama at Birmingham, author Lies! Lies!! Lies!!! The Psychology Of Deceit

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We’ve surveyed the scene to find Toronto’s top five new restos, the most eco-conscious cantinas and veggie-friendly venues (vegan even), the best in brunch, the classics we love and the tastiest of the all-day cafés. From low-key to high-end, these are places where you can actually sit down and savour the vibe, not grab a quick slice or vindaloo to go. A quartet of adventurous chefs chime in with their favourites – and the ones they wish hadn’t gone away – and we also point you to some of summer’s primo patio real estate – look for the z symbol. Not got enough on your plate? You do NOW!

Chef Jacob SharkeyPearce does a bold take on winter root salad at always audacious Ursa.

1. ursa 924 Queen W, at Shaw, 416-536-8963, ursa-restaurant.com. It takes seven chefs – two of them doing a stage – six people on the floor and the very deep pockets of not-so-silent partner Cosimo “Terroni” Mammoliti to pull off co-owner/chef Jacob Sharkey-Pearce’s audaciously avant-garde carte. And that’s in a room that seats all of 62 people. The mind boggles at the investment involved. It shows on each jaw-dropping plate, first forays like sculpted salads of upright candy-cane beet sheets over wilted beet greens dressed with house-made probiotic kefir yogurt vinaigrette ($13). Wild venison tartare and fatty foie gras ($16) come cured in blueberry vinegar and festooned with medicinal Icelandic moss. Chef brines Niagara pork loin and belly ($24) in whey before glazing them with apple cider and plating them du Puy lentils and decorative kale ($24). And why not? Sharkey-Pearce pulls out all the stops with his Milk & Honey ($16), a sensational closer built for two consisting of a warm bowl of made-to-order ricotta coupled with bee pollen, honeycomb, pomegranate and dehydrated grapes on the vine. Outrageously clever stuff. But profitable? Dinner Tuesday to Sunday 6 to 11 pm. Reservations recommended. Bar till late. Closed Monday, some holidays. Licensed. Access: two steps at door, washrooms in basement. z

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2. Grand electric 1330 Queen W, at Elm Grove, 416-6273459, grandelectricbar.com. It seemed like a good idea at the time: open a low-key dive in not-so-glamorous Parkdale with an emphasis on single-barrel bourbon. Offer a few salty Tex-Mex snacks, crank the old-school hip-hop and chillax. That was ex-Black Hoof chef Colin Tooke’s plan anyway. Instead, the 29-seat no-reservations bar was an instant sensation among the local Twitterati, so much so that you don’t stand a frozen margarita’s chance in hell of scoring a two-top unless you line up on the sidewalk half an hour before GE opens. Later than that, good luck! If you are fortunate enough to get in, order everything on the short 15-item card. Soft-shelled tacos come generously piled with sweetly pulled pork belly and grilled pineapple, shredded arbol chicken or outrageously tender braised beef cheeks dressed with chopped avocado and jalapeños. Best of the bunch, Bajastyle tilapia tacos (all $3.50) come with a chiffonade of radish and squirts of crema and lime. A marvellously messy plate of deep-fried miscellaneous poultry parts (Chicken Frito $12) doused in a fiery Thai-style sauce make wet-naps mandatory. Is it worth the wait? No question, but the non-stop foodie feeding frenzy should die down some once GE goes seven days a week and introduces lunch as well as a 40-seat backyard patio in the very near future. Wednesday to Monday from 6 pm. Closed Tuesdays, some holidays. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms in basement.z

Ex-Hoof Café chef Geoff Hopgood’s twomonth-old resto not only doesn’t do brunch – it doesn’t even serve coffee. Apparently, it distracts from service. But there’s no ignoring the former Haligonian’s playful bill of fare. Call it nouveau Nova Scotia trailer park: retro-futuristic hors d’oeuvres like his mom’s recipe for crab dip and Triscuits ($14) upgraded with seasonal Atlantic snow crab. We’re surprised he hasn’t thought of reinventing Nuts and Bolts. He reconfigures late-night-drunk donairs ($12) as two house-baked pitas topped with spicy sautéed beef, chopped tomato and a sweet, vinegary sauce made from evaporated milk, all served on a crunched-up paper bag. He debones naturally raised chicken thighs ($24), wraps them in crackling and plates them over cheesy grits and maple syrup studded with house-smoked bacon. Crispy Toffee dessert ($8) resembles a frozen Coffee Crisp chocolate bar, a crushed Rice Crispies-and-white-chocolate wafer dipped in sticky toffee, airbrushed with powdered dark chocolate and wrapped in paper rubber-stamped with the resto’s logo. Who says you need caffeine to create a buzz? Dinner Thursday to Monday 6 to 11 pm. Reservations recommended. Closed Tuesday, Wednesday, some holidays. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms in basement.

4. ortolan 1211 Bloor W, at Margueretta, 647-3484500, littledrunkbird.com. Could Damon Clements and Daniel Usher’s Bloordale bistro be Toronto’s quintessential cantina? With its 26 seats, consummately professional staff and chef-driven card, it’s the resto that most toques only dream of. From the ever-changing chalkboard menu, hit the ground running with pâtélike rabbit rillettes spread on chewy slices of Thuet baguette, or grilled scallions in Catalan almond chili sauce ($8). The former Delux and Pizerria Libretto cooks hop the rustic Italian bandwagon

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with beautifully executed gnocchi in a luxurious mascarpone cream flush with foraged Hen of the Woods mushrooms ($14). They send out rare pre-sliced slices of grilled Grace Meats flank steak ($18) in a spicy pool of house-made harissa, and a red radish and kohlrabi salad ($7) comes in lemony cumin yogurt swirled with snippets of frsh dill frond. So what if NOW’s restaurant of the year for 2011 doesn’t take reservations? Show up Tuesday night at 7, no problem. Saturday night at 9, problem. Dinner Tuesday to Saturday 5 to 10:30 pm. Closed Sunday, Monday, holidays. Licensed. Access: slight bump at door, tight tables, washrooms in basement.

5. 416 snack Bar 181 Bathurst, at Queen W, 416-364-9320, 416snackbar.wordpress.com. If you’re planning on grabbing a bite to eat at Adrian Ravinsky and David Stewart’s watering hole, remember to BYOF – bring your own fork - since their westside saloon is proudly “cutlery-free.”

They also take pride in the unconventional. As a playlist of Ziggy-era Bowie segues into the Stones, dig into tapasstyle nibbles like chef Jon Vettraino’s Scotch eggs Benny ($5), a halved medium-boiled egg encased in a baked house-made sausage crust. Miniature lobster rolls in baby hot dog buns arrive at table in the creamy company of a demitasse of lobster bisque. Chef’s pint-sized Reuben sandwiches (both $7) on buttery toasted rye come stacked with house-smoked brisket, sauerkraut and Thousand Islands dressing. They do, however, provide a knife with their bargain-basement Smorgasbord charcuterie platter ($9, all tax-inclusive). You’ll need it to spread ambrosial chicken liver mousse and raisin chutney on toasts sided with house-made duck prosciutto, pancetta and pickled heirloom beets. Nightly 5 pm to 2 am. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms on same floor. continued on page 32

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Manager Laura Hipple makes sure the Gilead Café keeps its locavore promises.

The centrepiece of the Brick Works eco complex in the bucolic Don Valley, TV chef Brad Long’s eponymous eatery (B. Long, geddit?) is an unabashed showcase for locally grown produce – easy when there’s a farmers’ market right next door every Saturday. It translates to the plate as a seasonal salad listed as “simple mixed lettuces ($9),” a tangle of red oak, lollo rosso and arugula in apple cider vinaigrette. They cure Georgian Bay whitefish and serve it over grilled fennel and “various leaves” – kale, collards, Swiss chard – daubed with honeyed crème fraîche ($14). Get a little bit of everything with Café’s Bricklayer’s Board ($20), a wooden plank stockpiled with nitrate-free house-made boudin blond and lamb merguez sausages and an assortment of Monforte and Fifth Town artisan cheeses. Pingue of Niagara provides the prosciutto that wraps a venison steak from Perth County ($28), their side of puréed Jerusalem artichokes dug up from Long’s own backyard. Daily from 8 am, full menu from 11 am to 10 pm. Closed holidays. Licensed. Access: barrier-free.z

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Keep it cool and conscious at spots that honour the planet 2. Fabarnak 519 Church, at Dundonald, 416-355-6781, fabarnak.com. This breezy café adjunct to the 519 Community Centre prides itself on the fact that at least 60 per cent of ingredients are locally sourced and organic. In summer, that number climbs closer to 80 per cent. The cutting-edge kitchen and caterer takes braised Beretta beef and interprets it two ways, first as a sandwich on Ace

Fabarnak’s Eric Wood has a lust for local foods.

bakery’s pain au lait dressed with a gingery slaw spiked with jalapeño pepper ($10.50 with soup or salad), and then as a potato hash laced with caramelized onion and Ontario-grown field mushrooms topped with a fried free-range runny egg. Jowl-size pork cheeks and brandysoaked prunes luxuriate in an apple cider jus, while house-made tagliatelle (all $12 small/$17 large) comes tossed with stewed tomato and fennel pollen as well as shredded free-range chicken braised in Peller Estates chardonnay. Or go with the Square Peg special ($10 lunch/$15 dinner), a four-course sampler of whatever it is they’re up to that day. Monday and Tuesday 7:30 am to 4 pm, Wednesday to Friday 7:30 am to 9 pm, lunch from 11:30 am, dinner from 5 pm. Brunch Saturday 9 am to 3 pm. Unlicensed. Access: barrier-free.z

4. cafe Belong 550 Bayview, at Pottery Rd, 416-901-8234, cafebelong.ca.

3. cowbell Not only does owner/chef Mark Cutrara butcher his own meat and churn his own butter, but he’s also been known to catch his own fish. With his bare hands! Cutrara was doing snout-to-tail long before seemingly every toque in town turned to offal. His charcuterie board ($14/$10 each additional person) typical-

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Jamie Kennedy was a locavore before there was even a term for the eco-conscious food philosophy. In a series of groundbreaking boîtes, among them Palmerston, JKROM and JKWB, the movie-star handsome chef pioneered the use of local ingredients. His signature French fries ($6) are made with Ontario-grown Yukon Gold potatoes, as is his poutine topped with a Bolognese of naturally raised Cumbrae beef and aged regional cheddar ($11). At dinner, his take on traditional tourtierre ($16) features Perth County pork, house-made mustard preserves from the Café’s much-copied wall of pickles in Mason jars and a roasted heirloom beet salad in a honey vinaigrette supplied by a bee that happened to be passing. For brunch, he smokes the bacon found on crisp potato rosti and cheesy scrambled free-range eggs ($13), and the whitefish on his Red Fife pancakes ($12) comes all the way from Georgian Bay. His Prince Edward County farm even grows all the resto’s summer tomatoes. Not local enough for ya? The casual Corktown café’s wine list is completely VQA, and its sparkling spring water ($6/750 ml) is bottled on the premises. Now, that’s locavore! Monday 8 am to 4 pm, Tuesday to Saturday 8 am to 5:30 pm. Lunch daily 11 am to 3 pm, dinner Tuesday to Saturday 5:30 to close. Brunch Sunday 10 am to 3 pm. Licensed. Access: three steps at door, washrooms on same floor.z

ly features house-made Genoa salami, spicy chorizo and smoky lardo pork fat from a whey-fed pig in Stratford. The house burger ($21) sees a 6-ounce patty of dry-aged Dingo Farms chuck dressed with house-cured bacon and Quebec cheddar on a house-baked bun spread with grainy mustard aioli. At weekend brunch, he constructs eggs Benny with deep-fried ducks’ eggs, pulled pork and English muffins – baked in house, of course – and sides them with sautéed southern-style collard greens ($14). Sunday nights he hosts a familystyle $33 three-course roast beef prix fixe complete with sautéed chanterelles and potatoes confited in beef fat from some unsung cow. Dinner Tuesday to Thursday 6 to 10 pm, Friday and Saturday 6 to 11 pm. Brunch Saturday and Sunday 10 am to 3 pm, prix fixe dinner Sunday 5 to 9 pm. Closed Monday, holidays. Licensed. Access: barrier-free.z

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Located near the epicentre of the Junction Triangle, this extremely casual café could be the poster child for the locavore movement. Chef Joel MacMillan turns Ontario parsnips into garlicky hummus before pairing them with house-preserved pickles and St. John Bakery’s multigrain toast ($6). He cans local lake trout in miniature Mason jars – doesn’t everybody?– then plates them next to a pâté of roasted carrots and a handful of house-baked spelt crackers. His signature “broken bread” sandwiches (all $10) are significantly less extravagant than they were when Zocalo opened just two years ago but still offer serious bang for the buck. We’re partial to chef’s naturally raised Gasparro beef and bacon meat loaf laced with bone marrow and his all-in-one pork and baked bean sausage sided with beerbraised cabbage and smoky split-pea purée. At brunch, roasted apple ’n’ raisin oatmeal bread pudding ($7.50) coupled with yogurt dressing and Muskoka cranberry relish almost doubles as dessert. Wednesday to Monday from 10 am, lunch and weekend brunch from 10:30 am, dinner 5 to 10 pm. Bar till close. Closed Tuesday, some holidays. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms in basement.z continued on page 34

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Having worked at Cookstown Greens – the organic grower that supplies most of Toronto’s top restaurants with the likes of purple snow peas and lovage – David Haman has a profound passion for vegetables. Which explains why his exceptionally popular west-side resto offers two parallel menus, one for flesheaters, the other geared toward the Birkenstock set. His all-veggie version of French onion soup is such a convincing recreation, it also appears on the carnivore card, as does cornbread crostini dressed with puréed squash and spicy apple compote (both $11). Haman stuffs house-made agnolotti ($16 small/$23 large) with minced sweet spring peas and sauces them with a minty pine nut ragu. And though his oven-baked pies – tonight, smoky roasted tofu, parsnips and Swiss chard ($26) – are clearly smaller than when he first opened two years ago, they’re still large enough to guarantee leftovers, something almost every table goes home with. Pavlova ($11) brings dinner to a dazzling close, an impossibly light hollowed-out meringue exploding with tart lemon custard and macerated cherries. Le Commensal et al, take note. Dinner Tuesday to Sunday 5 to 11 pm. Closed Monday, holidays. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms in basement.z

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noodles tossed with avocado in lemon hemp dressing is just the kind of thing Woody Harrelson would start his day with. And he has! Italiano regularly caters his Hogtown film shoots. Her totally raw pizza ($16) translates as a thin crushted-walnut crust spread with arugula and topped with intense black olives and “cheese” fashioned from pulverized cashews. Right on trend, she also reinterprets poutine ($13), tacos ($14) and pulled pork burritos ($15) with bur-

dock standing in for pig. Desserts are just as deliriously bright. At brunch, she constructs faux chocolate crepes ($16) from cacao date Fluff, blackberry jam and whipped coconut cream. You’d never know. Monday to Thursday 11:30 am to 9:30 pm, Friday 11:30 am to 10 pm. Brunch Saturday and Sunday 11 am to 3 pm, dinner Saturday till 10 pm, Sunday till 9 pm. Closed some holidays. Licensed. Access: 11 steps at door, washrooms in basement.z

In the general stampede along Dundas West toward the likes of Campagnola, the Hoof and Enoteca Sociale – not to mention the Atlantic, Brockton General and L’Ouvrier – this handsomely appointed vegetarian restaurant often gets lost in the crush. We blame the lack of headbangin’ DJs and $16 cocktails. Instead, Hon Quach and Ngoc Lam offer sophisticated meat- and dairy-free takes on the Cantonese canon with a Thai and Vietnamese twist, sizable plates like their health-conscious spin on Singapore noodles (#55, $9.99) replaces musty curry powder with zesty coconut cream. No proper visit to 668 begins without a pair of raw rice paper wraps teeming with Thai basil, crunchy peanut and bean sprouts (#1, $4.50) or the 668 salad (#11, $8.99), a riot of julienned veg, cashews and optional gluten. Meaty king mushrooms mixed with strips of veggie-beef gluten in spicy satay (#75, $14.99) could hoodwink a carnivore. A short list of local organic wines and microbrews help it all go down that much easier. Monday to Thursday 5 to 9 pm, Friday and Saturday 3:30 to 10 pm, Sunday and holidays 3:30 to 9 pm. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms in basement.z continued on page 36

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4. Hibiscus 238 Augusta, at Nassau, 416-364-6183. When self-taught chef Joseph Tam opened his diminutive 12-seat diner six years ago, Kensington Market was known as the place where poor people shop. Now that the nabe is hipster central, Tam’s oft-overlooked café is perpetually packed to the gills. And about time, too, because Tam’s short meat-free menu is worthy of a wider audience, if only a dozen at a time. Crepes come two ways, made with eggand gluten-free buckwheat flour or the more traditional egg batter, and get topped with everything from dulce de leche to blue cheese and pear (from $5.65). Salad combos – steamed potato in lemony Dijon vinaigrette, quinoa tabouleh with cranberries, haricots verts with button mushrooms (three for $8.83) – would be almost twice the price anywhere else. And don’t leave without a scoop of vegan gelato ($3). When NOW went looking for the best gelaterie in the GTA a couple of summers back, Hibiscus came out at the top of the heap. Daily 11 am to 6 pm. Closed some holidays. Unlicensed. Access: three steps at door, washroom on same floor.z

5. Yours Truly 229 Ossington, at Dundas W, 416-533-2243, yours-truly.ca. Ossington’s latest buzz boîte seems unable to decide whether it’s a loud latenight lounge with nibbly tapas a la Grand Electric and 416 Snack Bar or a serious kitchen whose “aim is to bring down the wall between the kitchen and diners,” as its website manifesto proclaims. Too bad you can’t hear a word of it. Falling somewhere between OMG and WTF, chef Jeff Claudio’s unorthodox approach works best in his constantly evolving $35 four-course vegetarian tasting menu. One night it begins with a jewel-like jellied parsnip dumpling in cucumber juice tossed with nasturtium leaves and chased by a spinach raviolo fried in goat butter draped with moulten house-made ricotta. The main – if you can call a starter-size portion a main – appears to be a trio of turnip gnocchi and a Japanese-style softboiled egg in dashi. A tiered Jello-like dessert of yogurt and hibiscus compote concludes this offbeat prix fixe on a sticky note. Hardcore veg-heads be warned: Yours Truly also serves meat. Dinner Wednesday to Monday 5:30 pm to 10 pm, snack menu till 2 am. Reservations recommended. Closed Tuesday, some holidays. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms in basement.

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1690 Queen W, at Roncesvalles, 416-533-2552, keriwacafe.ca.. Now that the Hoof Café’s suckling pig eggs Benny and bone-marrow beignets are a thing of distant memory, our vote for Hogtown’s most creative brunch goes to owner/chef Aaron Joseph Bear Robe’s innovative midday weekend nosh. It begins with an assortment of pastry chef Nis’ku Closs’s baked goods – a pair of flaky petite croissants, a moist carrot-cake muffin, a perfect crumbly blueberry scone, some buttery shortbread and a brittle ginger snap or two, the lot sprinkled with granulated sugar ($10) – before moving on to a new potato ’n’ onion hash ($14) piggybacked with slices of picnic ham and a pair of baked runny eggs, all garnished with Kozlick’s grainy Triple Crunch mustard and a blob of funky adobo sauce.

Bear Robe expertly sears slabs of fatty pork belly confit, then plates them over a sautée of wild mushrooms, shallots and leek, a tangle of organic greens and house-baked Red Fife toast spread with house-made butter on the side ($15). But chef pulls out all the stops with his spin on bread pudding ($16), here concocted from cinnamon buns and finished with a confited duck leg, a puddle of tart bullberry sauce, a dollop of crème fraîche and a final toss of pea shoots We say “Hoof who?” Brunch Saturday 10 am to 2 pm, Sunday 10 am to 3 pm. Reservations accepted. Dinner Tuesday to Thursday 5:30 to 10 pm, Friday and Saturday 5:30 to 11 pm. Closed Monday, holidays. Licensed. Access: barrier-free, washrooms in basement.

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2. Gallery Grill 7 Hart House Circle, at Wellesley, 416-978-2445. If you’re planning on having a bite under the vaulted arches of historic Hart House on the U of T campus, you might want to consider donning a mortar board and matching gown, such is the resto’s scholastic vibe. The less academically inclined may opt for more casual attire when commencing with chef Suzanne Baby’s excellent biscuits du jour – cheddar and chive, say – alongside glasses of unfiltered cranberry juice ($4.95). Sadly not set aflame like they do out on the Danforth, slices of haloumi cheese arrive on a bed of quinoa studded with fresh dates, while a pair of perfectly poached free-range eggs ladled with Meyer lemon hollandaise ride salt-cod fish cakes ($14.95). Baby’s take on Alsatian tarte flambée (both $15.95) skews more to breakfast than the versions offered at Elle M’a Dit on Baldwin, here topped with a runny olive-oil-fried egg, house-cured Berkshire bacon and shaved Benedictine blue cheese. Save room for textbook crème brûlée ($7.95) drizzled with maple syrup collected on the university farm. Brunch Sunday 11 am to 2 pm. Reservations mandatory. Lunch Monday to Friday 11:30 am to 2:30 pm. Closed Saturday, holidays, holiday weekends, and July and August. Licensed. Access: barrier-free.

Though they’re lined up out the door at Federal Reserve down the block, the Sunday scene is a bit more serene at Pam Thomson and Brie Read’s west-side resto. As an iPod shuffles through the Beach Boys’ greatest hits, we tuck into a basket of chef Alexandra Feswick’s tasty pastries ($6): grilled slices of Southweststyle cornbread, delicate Niagara cherry scones and fried-to-order doughnuts topped with sweet pear puree ’n’ apple compote ($2.50 each à la carte). We follow with eggy wedges of frittata thick with chopped rapini, Toscano cheese and spicy Portuguese chorizo and a skilfully executed omelette stuffed with wilted watercress and sharp triplecream Riopelle cheese (both $12), a shared plate of house-cured bacon ($4) on the side. Both come with roasted beets, sweet potato and parsnips in place of ho-hum home fries as well as a few of Feswick’s ethereal grilled gnocchi. Go big with buttermilk waffles ($14) layered with a wobbly sunny-side-up egg, house-smoked chicken and a heap o’ collard greens. Better still, get any main on the brunch card and a choice of either granola, oatmeal, soup or salad plus a drink for 18 bucks. Brunch Sunday 10:30 am to 3 pm. Dinner Wednesday 6 to 10 pm, Thursday to Saturday 6 to 11 pm. Closed Monday, Tuesday, holidays. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms on same floor. z

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Those of us with an expanded waistline won’t appreciate this Franco-Cuban bistro’s tight-fitting booths, but the rest of you tattooed skinny Minnies will squeeze in just fine. You’ll definitely leave a few belt notches larger, though, after chowing down on chef Corrina Mozo’s stellar Sunday-only lineup. Be sure to start with a paper bag of baked-to-order buttermilk donuts sided with sweet dulce de leche chantilly, and a plate of crunchy Caribbean-style conch fritters and tangy tartar dip (both $5). Don’t miss the fried egg-topped picadillo hash ($12) flush with Quebec duck confit, duck-fat-fried potatoes, peppers, olives, capers and raisins. A mound of black beans ‘n’ rice and smashedplantain tostones completes the considerable plate. Maple-syrup-drenched challah French toast gets dressed with caramelized banana, while her signature grilled Cubano sandwich of cider-cured pork shoulder, sliced deli ham and gooey Gruyère comes between pressed slices of Havana-style bread (all $10). Brunch Sunday 10:30 am to 3 pm. Closed Monday, holidays. Lunch Tuesday to Saturday 11:30 am to 3 pm, dinner Tuesday to Sunday from 6 pm. Closed Monday, holidays. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms on same floor.

5. Free Times Cafe 320 College, at Robert, 416-967-1078, freetimescafe.com. If you think the scramble for a table at the Dakota Tavern’s insanely popular Bluegrass Brunch can be difficult, you should see the mob scene Sundays at Judy Perly’s 30-year-old resto when 100odd hungry seniors descend on her allyou-can-eat $19.95 Jewish buffet. We advise wearing football shoulder pads to fight your way through the feisty throng, such is the crush for blintzes stuffed with lemony ricotta and dolloped with apple sauce just like Bubbie used to make. Golden-fried latkes arrive topped with sour cream, and consummately fluffy omelettes come stuffed with lox and sided with St Urbain bagels spread with cream cheese. As they should. The salad bar alone is worth two trips, if only for the pickled herring. Bite-sized desserts – fruit flans, chocolate cake, cherry Danish – will have you up and dancing to live klezmer combos at 10:30 and 1:30. Brunch Sunday 10 am to 3 pm (under 12 half-price, infants free), reservations recommended, dinner to midnight. Cafe open Monday to Saturday 10 am to 2 am. Licensed. Access: barrier-free. z continued on page 38

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Formerly of Live Organic Food Bar, Urban Herbivore and Prime Steakhouse (!) and author of Eat Raw, Eat Well: 400 Raw, Vegan And GlutenFree Recipes (Robert Rose) PIZZA LIBRETTO, 550 Danforth, at Carlaw, 416-466-0400; 221 Ossington, at Dundas West, 416-532-8000, pizzerialibretto.com “Although I don’t eat cheese – I’ve been a level-10 vegan for nearly seven years – I love Libretto’s authentic wood-fired Neapolitan pizza. They offer an alternative spelt crust, add a generous amount of fresh arugula and drizzle it with house-made chili oil to die for.” ENOTECA SOCIALE, 1288 Dundas West, at Coolmine, 416-534-1200, sociale.ca “When you think traditional Italian cuisine, you don’t automatically think vegan. But they make a kale salad that could rival any raw food restaurant’s. To say I’m picky when it comes to greens is an understatement.” BELMONTE RAW, 1022 Queen East, at Boston, 647-340-1218, belmonteraw.com “It’s a new raw food spot that opened in Leslievile last fall. Carol, the owner, has dedicated her life to helping people cleanse their highly acidic diets by teaching them about the power of fruits and vegetables in their purest form. And I don’t have to worry about consuming produce from China.”

Gone but not forgotten Calico, 1226 Bloor West, at Brock (2009-10) “It was one of the few places in the city where I could get a crusted tempeh cutlet with a healthy carb and lots of veggies. Chef Jared Davis grew his own kale in the backyard and only used quality ingredients. He’s now a private chef for a highprofile vegan client, but I hope he comes back soon.”

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Executive chef and co-owner of Liberty Village’s critically acclaimed Mildred’s Temple Kitchen (85 Hanna, at Snooker, 416-588-5695, templekitchen.com) ALLEN’S, 143 Danforth, at Broadview, 416-463-3086, allens.to “No one does hospitality better than John Maxwell. A warm, welcoming environment and great food and drink. John goes out of his way to source local ingredients and wines and presents them with simplicity and taste.” CURRY TWIST, 3034 Dundas West, at High Park, 416-769-5460, currytwist.com “I think I was the first customer through the door, and I’ve been going ever since. The kitchen consistently delivers, and the dining room offers friendly, enthusiastic service. This is my go-to spot when I’m really knackered and I’m looking for a cold beer and some bold flavours.” CANOE, 66 Wellington West, at Bay, 416-364-0054, oliverbonacini.com “When I’m feeling sassy and need to strap on some high heels, Canoe is my number-one choice. Peter Oliver and Michael Bonacini have raised the bar for customer service and great dining. The view’s not too shabby either.”

Gone but not forgotten THE BAMBOO (1983-2002), 312 Queen West, at Peter “The original Queen West spot with an edge. On a warm summer day, the rooftop patio would be alive with highly energetic patrons enjoying what felt like a day in the Caribbean. It was one of the few places where you could eat, drink, dance and listen to music all at the same time.”

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country top 5 cLassic style 450 Bloor W, at Albany, 416-536-5966. Long before the stretch of Bloor between Spadina and Bathurst got taken over by countless studentfriendly sushi shacks, it was home to a number of student-friendly Hungarian restaurants, now-forgotten boîtes with names like Korona, the Continental and the Blue Cellar. Not only were the plates they dished up plentiful and inexpensive, but they served beer on Sundays, something that was very rare back in the day. Food doesn’t come much bigger than it does at the last of the goulash houses. Take the Schnitzel Platter ($39.95). Billed as feeding two, it could easily keep a four-person bobsled team happy. This Matterhorn of a meal arrives at table on a wooden cutting board groaning with doughy spaetzle, home fries and pickled beets layered with two schnitzels – one breaded, the other battered, both deep-fried – and a spiral of sausage, the lot pierced by a pair of wooden-handled steak knives. The deal includes meaty cabbage rolls mit sauerkraut und sour cream, too. Lesser appetites will be appeased by rustic chicken gizzard stew ($17.95) as well as egg noodles tossed with warm cottage cheese and sour cream topped with what seems like a pound of lean julienned bacon ($12.95). Make sure to save room for a paper-wrapped slice of custard torte ($3.75), the equivalent of eating vanilla pudding from an envelope. Daily 11 am to 10 pm. Licensed. Cash only. Access: barrier-free, washrooms upstairs.

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2. La Bruschetta 1317 St Clair W, at St. Clarens, 416-656-8622, labru.ca. The autographed photo of Sophia Loren proudly displayed at Benito “Benny” Piantoni’s tucked-away Corso Italia trat proves the 83-year-old knows what he’s doing when it comes to southern Italian cooking. Look no further than the complimentary bruschetta and addictive house-pickled jalapeños that start every meal at La B. See it, too, in family-recipe meatballs in sweet San Marzano tomato sauce (Polpette della Nonna, $13.50) and thinly sliced veal stuffed with prosciutto and parmigiano in sauce (Vitello Involtini $23). But it’s Piantoni’s pastas that truly shine, wide house-made noodles tossed with

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wilted rapini and cannelloni beans (Fettucini Rustiche), beefy ragu (Linguine alla Bolognese, both $15) and earthy wild mushrooms sautéed in brandy and garlic (Papardelle Tartufate $18). Top it all off with tiramisu ($7.50) and taste tradition. To maximize the menu, they’ve just introduced family-style platters of the above ($14 to $48) for groups of four or more from Monday to Wednesday. Dig in and stuff yer face. Sophia would approve! Dinner Tuesday to Saturday 5:30 to 10 pm, lunch Wednesday to Friday noon to 2 pm. Closed Sunday, some holidays. Licensed. Access: barrier-free, washrooms in basement.

3. swatow 309 Spadina, at Dundas W, 416-977-0601. If, like most, you’ve only ever visited this Chinatown essential after a night of serious drinking, you’re not likely to recall some of its more subtle nuances. Strong notes of garlic and chili sing loudly in the Special Fried Noodle (#65, $8.95), a tasty tangle of wide saucesoaked rice noodles tossed with barbecued pork, crunchy shrimp and seared scallion. Other dishes are less powerfully flavoured, most unmistakably Swatow’s signature shrimp dumpling soup (#10, $5.25), a brimming bowl of house-made mein in a clear broth thick with chewy Chinese mushrooms and dim sum-style har gow. Beef stew noodle soup (#6, $4.25) turns out to be more of that same marvellous mein and broth, only now

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249 Victoria, at Yonge-Dundas Sq, 416364-7517, thesenator.com. Time truly stands still at Bob Sniderman’s gem of an art deco diner. Nothing much has changed since its birth in 1948, from the red-and-white checkerboard tiles on the floor and the dark mahogany booths upholstered in oxblood naugahyde to the blond formica lunch counter from which a vintage Coke machine still dispenses cola. True, the menu has moved slightly upmarket of late to appeal to the busloads of tourists who flock to the nearby Pantages and Elgin Theatres, but much of it stays true to its greasy-spoon roots. Wedges of iceberg lettuce get tossed with diced bacon and drizzled with herbed mayo ($8.45 lunch/$9 dinner), oldschool meat loaf comes properly sided with mashed potatoes ($12.95/$18), and the house burger ($11.95 with fries/$14) now sports an 8-ounce custom-ground Cumbrae patty, all served on turquoise Fiesta ware. Genial servers make first-timers feel like long-lost regulars. Breakfast and lunch Monday to Friday 7:30 am to 2:30 pm; dinner Tuesday to Saturday 5 to 9 pm. Brunch Saturday and Sunday 8 am to 2:30 pm. Reservations accepted for dinner only. Licensed. Access: barrier-free, booth seating, washrooms in basement.

5. tulip 1606 Queen E, at Coxwell, 416-469-5797, tulipsteakhouse.com. Back when the old Woodbine racetrack was just down the block, tradition dictated that a big win on the ponies was followed by a blowout steak dinner at this deeply discounted diner. Sure, the 83-year-old eatery may no longer attact a Damon Runyanesque clientele, but it’s still a favourite of the cash-strapped and fiscally challenged. A recent renovation to the 116-seat space drags the resto firmly into the early 80s – think a Golden Griddle’s worth of maroon vinyl upholstery and hanging plastic ivy – and the matronly servers of yore are conspiculously AWOL, replaced by a younger crew more bent on crowd control than hospitality. That doesn’t keep them from lining up for daily dinner specials like boiled corned beef and cabbage ($9.50 Tuesdays), chicken cacciatore over rice ($8.95 Wednesdays) and roasted shoulder of lamb ($11.95 weekends). The namesake Big Breakfast – three eggs, two links of sausage, two rashers of bacon, two slices of peameal bacon and too buttermilk flapjacks ($9.95) – runs all day. Steaks aren’t quite the bargain they used to be (what is?), an 8-ounce tenderloin with salad, choice of potato and slices of pre-buttered white bread coming in at $22.50 and a 20-ounce T-bone for $30.95. But finish with a bowl of retro rice pudding ($3.25) and come up a winner. Monday to Thursday 8 am to 11 pm, Friday to Sunday 7 am to midnight. Closed some holidays. Licensed. Access: barrier-free.

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Chef Saksith Chang’s pad thai (top right) and sous chef Matt Dowd’s ping gai pork (bottom right) help the Queen Mother’s take on Asian food excel.

208 Queen W, at Duncan, 16-598-4719, queenmothercafe.ca. Along with the nearby Peter Pan, Andre Rosenbaum and David Stearn’s beloved Queen Mum helped define the Queen West dining scene. Today the nabe’s a shopping district geared to suburban teenagers buying $200 sneakers, but back in the day – oh, 1979, say – it was the stomping ground of wannabe artists, musicians, fashion designers and chefs set on dragging Toronto the Good into the 20th century. Sort of like Kensington Market, only with spikier haircuts. They still come for Laotian spring rolls (Nam Jeun $6.75 lunch/$7.50 dinner) bursting with shredded carrot ’n’ cabbage and correctly ketchup-free pad thai, both veggie-friendly dishes introduced by original chef Vanipha Southalack. Her Khao Soy Gai – chicken simmered in spicy coconut milk over thin egg noodles tossed with baby bok choy (both $10.95/$13.95) – was a hit with the local cognoscenti 30 years before Sukothai existed. Why, School chef Brad Moore (who once cooked at the Mum’s sister resto the Rivoli) loves the crispy grilled Ping Gai chicken ($13.50/$16.95 with salad and steamed rice) so much, he has it regularly cabbed over to his Liberty Village boîte. Throw in cozy private booths built for two and get the best cheap first date in town. Monday to Saturday 11:30 am to 1 am. Brunch Sunday 11:30 am to 4:30 pm, dinner till midnight. Licensed. Access: barrier-free, washrooms in basement.z

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grab lunch at casual spots like these 2. Aunties And Uncles Saving Grace on Dundas West and Bonjour Brioche on Queen East are notorious for their Sunday morning lineups. Big deal. Russell Nichol’s 35-seat hole-inthe-wall has customers out the door every day of the week. They patiently wait to sit at mismatched kitchen furniture left over from the 50s and listen to the greatest hits of the Specials while chowing down on soft breakfast tacos piled with scrambled eggs, house-made chorizo, pinto beans and cheddar ($8.75) and deliciously straightforward vegan soups like mushroom and leek ragout ($2.75/$3.75 with bread). Get all Continental with a mini-Niçoise salad with optional tuna on warm housebaked focaccia ($8.75) or a Croque Monsieur with Black Forest ham on challah (both $8.25). Hefty Belgian waffles ($7.50) drowning in seasonal fruit and maple syrup sell out quickly, so make sure to show up early. Like 8:45. Course you could be the only one in line, but you’re guaranteed to snag a table. Daily 9 am to 3 pm. Closed holidays and long weekends (May through October). Unlicensed. Cash only. Access: barrier-free, washrooms in basement.z

size of oven mitts, garnished with real whipped cream, stewed strawberries and maple syrup. Slabs of garlicky tofu get paired with oven-baked refried black beans, roasted home fries and cornbread (Huevos Yelapa $11) and benefit from a generous splash of aggressive salsa. Not only that, but the price of everything on the menu includes tax, fruit salad and a bottomless mug of I Deal fair trade coffee. Who needs books anyway? Wednesday to Friday 11 am to 7 pm. Brunch Saturday and Sunday 10 am to 4 pm. Closed Monday, Tuesday, some holidays. Unlicensed. Cash only. Access: barrier-free, washrooms in basement.

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3. e.l. ruddy 1371 Dundas W, at Rusholme, 647-3510423. Helena Kosikova intended to open a bookstore in the dilapidated Dundas West space she rented almost two years ago, but changed her mind halfway through the renovation. Instead, she turned the rundown room into a hip 20-seat vegetarian lunch ’n’ brunch spot with a shockingly inexpensive card that’s often vegan and glutenfree. And so we get garlicky cream of tomato soup sweetened with yams and crushed cashews ($6) and multi-culti sandwiches like Vietnamese banh mi subs ($5) layered with marinated tofu, pickled daikon and fresh coriander on flaky house-baked whole wheat buns. On the weekend, brunch kicks off with massive spelt Belgian waffles ($12) the

Devin Connell’s stylish uptown spot may be designed up the wazoo – slogans painted on the chic white walls shout cryptic things like “Seasoned with integrity” and “When eating a fruit, think of the person who planted the tree” – but there’s nothing vague about her no-nonsense card, little surprise when you learn the Cordon Bleu-trained chef’s mother is Ace bakery founder Lynda Haynes. As you’d expect, Mom’s crusty rolls form the base of the Spicy Bird sandwich ($8.50), an ingenious take on Buffalo chicken wings reinterpreted as rosemary-roasted chicken breast dressed with Frank’s Red Hot sauce, raw carrot threads and blue cheese aioli. Named for the Conrad novel, Heart of Darkness chili ($4.99 small/$13.50 litre) finds a minimum of beans and a maximum of meltin-the-mouth brisket in a bittersweet sauce that references Mexican mole. Desserts also impress, especially Connell’s low-fat “superfood” muffins ($2.75) and not-so low-fat Oreo cookies ($1.30). Monday to Friday 10 am to 7 pm, Saturday 9 am to 5 pm. Closed Sunday, holidays. Unlicensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms in basement, counter seating.

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5. frankly 1118 Queen E, at Caroline, 647-350-1611, franklyeatery.com. If your idea of the ideal resto soundtrack consists of the complete canon of Morrissey and the Smiths with a smattering of glam-era T. Rex, David Bowie and Roxy Music mixed in for good measure, have we got the joint for you. Don’t come expecting the predictable eggs Benny. Rather, make the trek to Leslieville for chef Alka Graham’s weekend specials like puri flatbread piled with bacon, scrambled free-range eggs and garlicky roasted salsa ($11). Served on St. John’s sourdough, chunky curried chicken salad in avocado mayo shows up dressed with celery slaw and walnuts ($9). Gobi parantha ($8.50, all with organ greens in honey balsamic vinaigrette) turns out to be thick whole wheat crepes stuffed with al dente cauliflower sided with East-meets-West sour cream raita. Coffee ($1.95) is strong and eco-friendly, tap water doctored with lemon, and servers ably keep up with the crowd. The room might be small – only 18 seats – but the rewards are substantial. Frankly, we wouldn’t have it any other way. Lunch Wednesday to Friday 11 am to 3 pm. Brunch Saturday and Sunday 9 am to 3 pm. Closed Monday, Tuesday, holidays. Unlicensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms on same floor. continued on page 40

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the best places to eat right now 2. George 111 Queen E, at Mutual, 416-863-6006, georgeonqueen.com. Lorenzo Loseto’s ambitious dining room may have lost some of its culinary cachet since it first launched back in 2005 – and already dated decor wins few points – but his opulent carte’s attention to detail has never been more focused. If pricy expense-account tasting menus aren’t you style, show up at lunch and do George on the cheap. That’s when you’ll find his sustainable tuna tartare finished with wasabi mayo and a topknot of tart apple julienne, or accessible mains like locally raised and hormone-free Cornish hen playfully paired with pierogi on a bed of artichokes. His exemplary veal burger (both $19) riddled with foie gras placed fourth in the Over $10 category in last summer’s survey of 50 local burger joints. And the carnivore crowd will undoubtedly be wowed by seared beef tenderloin ($24) plated on a puddle of goat cheese gratin ringed with a moat of broccoli purée. Us? We’ll be back, if only for a basket of Callebaut chocolate beignets ($10) on the patio come summer. Lunch Monday to Friday noon to 2:30 pm, dinner Tuesday to Saturday 5:30 to 10:30 pm. Closed Sunday, holidays. Licensed. Access: four steps at door, washrooms on same floor.z

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1 Benvenuto, at Avenue Rd, 416-961-8011, scaramoucherestaurant.com.

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At Scarpetta, where black cod crowns a layer of olives and concentrated tomatoes, the meal is always memorable.

550 Wellington W, at Portland, 416-601-3590, scottconant.com/restaurants/scarpetta/toronto. When money’s no object – or better yet, someone else is paying – New York City celubu-chef Scott Conant’s upscale franchise in the super-chic Thompson Hotel is the only way to go. From the room’s muted sophistication to the brigade of servers’ unfailing attention, everything about Scarpetta says perfection. See it in baskets of complimentary stromboli, a mutant cross between strudel and pizza dough stuffed with roasted red pepper, or absurdly rich starters like winebraised beef short ribs over faro risotto thick with season-fresh asparagus ($16). A starter of ridiculously rich polenta intensified with heavy cream gets topped with multi-mushroom fricassee splashed with

white truffle oil. Most will likely balk at dropping 24 bucks on a small plate of meatball-free spaghetti in tomato sauce, but the pricey labour-intense pasta’s worth every penny. Dusted with powdered paprika and cayenne, thick slices of Sicilian-spiced duck breast in pickled mustard seeds ($34) pack an unexpected punch, their smooth purée of f-f-fava beans a silky contrast. A closing salvo of Conant’s retro chocolate torte with burnt-orange gelato ($11) suggests pudding cake, albeit one served in the penthouse of the Trump Tower. Dinner Sunday to Thursday 6 to 10 pm, Friday and Saturday 6 to 11 pm. Licensed. Access: barrier-free.z

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She may be showing signs of age – she is, after all, approaching her 33rd birthday, an eternity in the flash-in-the-pan resto biz – but this local landmark remains a dining destination. Blame chef Keith Froggett’s elegant ecominded Cal Ital card, starters like Dungeness crab raviolo over fava beans and spring onions swimming in lobster bouillon ($24) or principal plates like roasted Ontario partridge breast and pan-seared foie gras from a duck in Coboconk on crisp potato pancakes ($44). Dessert always calls for La ’mouche’s sky-high coconut cream pie ($13), a last course as legendary as the resto’s spectacular skyline view. Those with somewhat slimmer wallets will be indebted to the adjacent Grill and Pasta bar that now offers an Atkins-lite lineup – correctly composed Ceasar salads ($14), sustainable ocean trout over arugula in Green Goddess dressing ($28) – noticeably low on carbs. They’ll even valet park your Hummer for free! Dinner Monday to Saturday 5:30 to 9:30 pm. Closed Sunday, holidays. Licensed. Access: barrier-free.

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864 College, at Concord, 416-538-1910, chiadorestaurant.com.

4. Nota Bene 180 Queen W, at Simcoe, 416-977-6400, notabenerestaurant.com. How to tell if you’re in a really expensive restaurant: crumb scrapers. Restos like owner/chef David Lee’s Splendido spinoff actually employ staff to remove the bread crumbs produced by the contents of the linen-wrapped bread basket. They also put your napkin on your lap, acceptable behaviour in these rarefied climes, evidently. Service is Note’s forte – there seem to be three bowers-and-scrapers for every table

– and the Bay Street suits who flock here in droves wouldn’t have it any other way. But, then, they can afford $89 steaks. Lee’s unusually exuberant Yucatan hot ’n’ sour soup ($11) finds a bowl of smoky chicken littered with goji berries and pansy petals. At dinner, a salad of crispy threads of duck breast ($15 dinner only) comes stacked with citusry daikon noodles, deep-fried taro threads and more pansies à la Susur Lee’s similar Singapore slaw. If a stuffy space that feels like some generic Las Vegas dining room isn’t your scene, check out NB’s curbside bar, where Lee’s terrific burger topped with

The row of late-model Maseratis and Sclass Mercs parked in front of this 28-year-old temple to Portuguese seafood proves there’s a seriously monied set inside. Owner Albino Silva works the room in a bespoke suit, air-kissing regulars and welcoming newcomers. Formally dressed servers proffer linen napkins folded into the shape of dinner jackets. There’s a Picasso print on the wall. Sneaky Dee’s this ain’t. Chef Manuel Vilela sends out an amuse of fresh house-made ricotta, then follows with first courses of classically grilled sardines ($8.50 lunch/$12 dinner) and vegan lobster bisque ($10). Mains also take a healthful turn with grilled tail-on tiger shrimp in low-sodium piri-piri ($48) and roasted boneless pheasant in Madeira sauce on garlic mash ($38). No meal’s complete without Molotov ($12), a monumental meringue and spun sugar combo that’s big enough for three. Don’t say we didn’t warn you. Lunch Monday to Friday noon to 2:30 pm, dinner nightly 5 to 10 pm. Closed holidays. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms in basement. continued on page 42

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Co-owner and chef at Woodlot, where you can find one of the best veggie menus in town (see page 34). THE ATLANTIC, 1597 Dundas West, at Brock, 416-219-3819, atlanticondundas.com “Nathan Isberg and I used to work together at Czehoski, and the freedom he’s now able to exercise is unbelievable. Unlike most chefs, he’s not afraid to take risks. He approaches food intellectually, and when it works it really works.” THE BLACK HOOF, 928 Dundas West, at Gore Vale, 416-551-8854, theblackhoof.com “Without question, it’s the restaurant I visit the most. For whatever reason and every reason. The vibe, the food, the drinks. Nine times out of 10, I see someone I know eating there. And there’s always something new to try.” 416 SNACK BAR (see page 31) “Those guys hit the nail on the head. It’s totally casual. They serve junk food that’s delicious and exactly what people want to eat.

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My girlfriend and I go just after they open on Sundays, when there are only four people in the place and we can eat the entire menu for 40 bucks.”

gone but not forgotten KEI, 932 Queen West, at Shaw (2001-2007) “I ate there all the time when I first moved to Toronto. I used to spend my summers in Malaysia, so the food reminded me of home. It was really shanty, but in all the right ways. And I could actually afford to eat there.”

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KING’S NOODLE, 296 Spadina, at Dundas West, 416-598-1817 “I always get the barbecued pork on rice or seafood congee with deepfried bread. I’ve been going there since the early 80s, when I was growing up on Beverley Street. Everything from the communal seating to the hyper-efficient staff and the worldclass Chinese barbecue (trust me on this – I lived and worked with Susur Lee in Singapore) makes me glad that owner/chef Stanley Li makes his home here.” THE HARBORD ROOM, 89 Harbord, at Spadina, 416-962-8989, theharbordroom.com “I used to always order either the steak frites (no longer on the menu) or the burger, but I’ve since tried almost everything that chefs Cory Vitiello and Curt Martin have cooked up over the years. Service is always professional and prompt. We’ve gone there for anniversaries, business dinners and even gone solo. With Dave Mitton running the bar, I’ve done a few late nights there as well.” KOREAN VILLAGE, 628 Bloor West, at Palmerston, 416-536-0290 “Since we immigrated to Canada 36 years ago, this has been our taste of home. As a child I ordered the bi bim bap or the ja jang myun, but our go-to order for family dinners is the bulgogi. The food is consistent, and the owners are now family friends. The wall of photographs of celebrities who’ve eaten there, from ex-Blue Jays to Chow Yun-Fat, proves the Village is Toronto’s version of Montreal’s old Ruby Foo’s.”

Gone but not forgotten SWITZER’S DELI, 322 Spadina, at Dundas West (1946-1992) “The last Jewish deli on Spadina. We used to go for knishes, kishka and the famous Bubby Burger. Better than any pseudo-gourmet burger BS.”

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Rating: NNNN Seth Bogart is as confident a performer as he is a flirty, hilariously faggy one. Dressed in a red blazer, sheer panties and black bikini briefs, the Hunx and his Punx main man presided over a rowdy mosh pit of deliriously happy bouncing guys and girls. Though the Oakland-based thrift-store heartthrob’s latest album, Hairdresser Blues, was a solo effort largely about personal catharsis and recorded without his Punx backing band, the garagepop songs have a simple timelessness and filthy energy that’s totally irresistible when played live by a razor-sharp four-piece band (including Shannon Shaw of Shannon and the Clams on bass) dressed like background actors from John Waters’s Cry-Baby. When he wasn’t pausing to reapply lipstick, Bogart used between-song moments to verbally molest a beefy stage hand – or anyone, really – and poll the audience for homos. “If you’re a gay man raise your hand. This one’s for you.” Gay or otherwise, the KEVIN RITCHIE crowd seemed inspired by his charisma.

GRIMES at the Horseshoe, Tuesday, March 27.

Rating: NNN Anticipation was extra-high for this Grimes show. It was Claire Boucher’s first time playing Toronto since NXNE last June, when, latent buzz aside, she wasn’t yet a critics’ sweetheart. It’s also a month since the Montreal-based noise pop gremlin released the 4AD-backed Visions. But despite the favourable clamour, last Tuesday’s show, her final North American date, fell a bit flat.

A disclaimer would be fair: Boucher’s been sick. Much of her music is vox-dependent, hinged on looped, warped layers of octavejumping yelps and coos. Hitting those high notes was tough, and she self-consciously acknowledged those missteps to the crowd, sometimes cuing pre-recorded vocals instead. Still, Boucher, swaddled in an XXL camo-print jacket, moon face framed by long, heavy-hanging, mottled-blond hair, was smiling and in good spirits. She played off the crowd’s energy, jumping along, making sure we didn’t waver. Just six songs, the set was centre-stacked with Vanessa, Oblivion, Be A Body and Genesis. Openers Born Gold backed those songs, adding needed muscle. It wasn’t bad, just underwhelmingly short. No surprises, no enANUPA MISTRY core.

ANDREW W.K. at the Phoenix, Tuesday, March 27.

Rating: NNNN I hurt my leg last night at the Andrew W.K. show, not because I was pogoing in the pit but because I tripped on someone’s foot as I temporary left the pit to catch my breath. That seemed entirely appropriate: in A.W.K.’s universe, not partying to the max is much more dangerous than going balls-out. In celebration of the 10th anniversary of his breakthrough album I Get Wet, the New York rocker played the entire thing (and some new songs) with a full band. After years of mostly performing solo on keyboard with backing tracks, he went all-out with the band. Why would you need four guitarists onstage? Why was his wife, Cherie Lily, jumping around in a leotard and headbanging? Why not?!

And although A.W.K.’s hard rock odes to partying are basically the same song over and over again, his absurdly catchy music is secondary to the larger celebration of fun. We’re still not sure whether he’s a really complicated conceptual art project or simply a rock singer, but regardless, he’s one of the most consistently entertainBENJAMIN BOLES ing performers around.

YOUTH LAGOON at Lee’s Palace, Saturday, March 31.

Rating: NNN Though his debut album, The Year Of Hibernation, is barely six months old, Youth Lagoon (aka 22-year-old Boise native Trevor Powers) faces a familiar problem for many bedroom artists who’ve blown up quickly: how best to translate music made in seclusion to a capacity crowd of adoring fans. Powers spent Youth Lagoon’s entire Lee’s Palace set seated in front of a keyboard while guitarist Logan Hyde helped fill out the sound. The remaining arrangement came from sequenced drum and bass beats. Such non-organic concessions often detract from this kind of performance, but here the prerecorded dialed-up bits provided most of the sonic muscle. Still, the most distinctive element was the most human: Powers’s voice, a fragile, damaged falsetto that reveals his semi-traditional singer/songwriter foundations. Youth Lagoon’s intimate yet epic aesthetic is a tough one to recreate with just two players, and while he did a decent job, it still felt like a work in progress. Shelling out for a live drummer would RICHARD TRAPUNSKI be a wise follow-up move.

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clubs& OUT APRIL 3 The anticipated NEW ALBUM from the Juno and Polaris nominated band featuring EASY COME EASY GO and NEW WILD EVERYWHERE

BABY EAGLE & THE PROUD MOTHERS Dakota Tavern (249 Ossington), tonight (Thursday, April 5) See preview, page 49.

HOWLER, QUILT

Drake Hotel Underground (1150 Queen West), tonight (Thursday, April 5) Minneapolis guitar rock.

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DJ SPINNA, GROOVE INSTITUTE, DIRTY DALE, DJ MENSA, FELIX & GANI

Revival (783 College), tonight (Thursday, April 5) Soulful house, funk, disco and hip-hop.

MARK SULTAN, THE MILK LINES, DJ FATA MORGANA Parts & Labour (1566 Queen West), Friday (April 6) Gospel-influenced garage punk.

THE DEEP DARK WOODS, OLD MAN LUEDECKE The Great Hall (1087 Queen West), Friday (April 6) Back-to-basics Canadian folk-pop.

Sound Academy (11 Polson), Friday (April 6) Dubstep/electro rave.

OPETH, MASTODON, GHOST

Sony Centre for the Performing Arts (1 Front East), Saturday (April 7) Metal mayhem in a soft-seat theatre.

SEAN NICHOLAS SAVAGE, QUIET HOOVES, PLANET CREATURE, BETA FRONTIERS

Double Double Land (209 Augusta), Sunday (April 8) See preview, page 56.

PERFUME GENIUS

Drake Hotel Underground (1150 Queen West), Sunday (April 8) See preview, page 44.

KAT GOLDMAN, KEVIN HEARN Hugh’s Room (2261 Dundas West), Tuesday (April 10) See preview, nowtoronto.com.

HIP-HOP

SHABAZZ PALACES Few people expected former Digable Planets member Butterfly (aka Ishmael Butler, aka Palaceer Lazaro) to come up with an experimental hip-hop sound as modern and dark as his work with Seattle collective Shabazz Palaces. It’s a hard left turn musically, but the results are impressive. At Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), Tuesday (April 10), doors 8 pm. $15. HS, RT, SS, TM.

Just announced GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS live w/ Cold Specks Sat, June 2 @ The Music Hall (formerly Danforth Music Hall)

DJ RASHAD Galapagos Wrongbar 10 pm,

$10. April 13.

GEORGY TCHAIDZE Glenn Gould Studio 8 pm, $29.50. RTH. April 21. MANITOBA Horseshoe 8 pm, $20. April 22. CHEIKH LO The Great Hall doors 8 pm, $25-$30. batukimusic.com. April 25.

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Find out what’s written in the stars, page 28. Rob Brezsny’s Free Will

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MEWITHOUTYOU Virgin Mobile Mod Club doors 6 pm, $16.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. June 9. DEER TICK Lee’s Palace doors 8 pm, $22.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. June 11.

STEAMBOAT Album release Sneaky Dee’s

ARCHERS OF LOAF NXNE Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 9 pm, $24.50, limited wristbands accepted. HS, RT, SS, TM. June 16.

A TRIBE CALLED RED Drake Hotel May 3. PENDULUM, AC SLATER Projek Kool

KEANE, MYSTERY JETS Sound Academy

10 pm. April 27.

doors 7 pm, all ages, $45. RT, SS, TM. June 19.

Haus doors 10 pm, all ages, $25. PDR, TW. May 5.

JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD Wrongbar

CASEY VEGGIES Virgin Mobile Mod Club

JAPANDROIDS Horseshoe doors 9 pm,

June 23.

doors 7 pm, all ages, $18.50. UE. May 8.

$15. HS, RT, SS, TM. June 23.

WILLIAM BECKETT Virgin Mobile Mod

AEROSMITH, CHEAP TRICK Air Canada Centre doors 7 pm, $49.50-$149.50. TM. June 27.

DANIELA NARDI, GABRIELE MIRA-

NORAH JONES Massey Hall doors 7 pm, $49.50-$69.50. RTH, TM. July 6.

Club doors 7 pm, all ages, $14.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. May 12.

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ALAN DOYLE, DUSTIN BENTALL

Virgin Mobile Mod Club doors 7 pm, $29.50. LN, RT, SS, TM. May 31.

BASSI Lulaworld: CD release Lula Lounge doors 7 pm, $15-$20. May 15. PS I LOVE YOU The Garrison May 15. JAMES McCARTNEY The Great Hall

doors 8 pm, $15. LN, RT, SS, TW. May 15.

YELAWOLF, A-GAME Rescheduled from

SHADOWY MEN ON A SHADOWY PLANET Lee’s Palace doors 9 pm, $15. HS, RT, SS. July 14.

REFUSED, OFF! Sound Academy doors 8

pm, all ages, $35.99. RT, SS, TM. July 22 and 23.

Mar 8. Original tickets honoured. Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 8 pm, all ages, $22. PDR, RT, SS, TM, UE. May 26.

BRAND NEW Sound Academy doors 6:30

SINÉAD O’CONNOR The Music Hall doors 7 pm, all ages, $49.50-$64.50. TM. May 26.

THE AULT SISTERS Hugh’s Room 8:30 pm, adults $20-$22.50, child $10-$12. August 7.

ROGER TAYLOR The Queen Extravaganza Queen Elizabeth Theatre doors 7 pm, all ages, $29.50-$65.50. TM. May 29.

pm, all ages, $33.50-$43.50. RT, SS, TM. August 2.

concerts DAkotA tAvern Baby Eagle & the Proud See preview, page 49. ñMothers. DrAke hotel unDergrounD Howler, clubs&concerts ñQuilt doors 9 pm. el mocAmBo upstAirs Rock Out For Refugees:

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Thursday, April 5 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

Annex Wreckroom Woods V – The CD

Release, A Memorial Concert For David ñ Gold Novembers Doom, Eclipse Eternal, Em-

pyrean Plague, Gypsy Chief Goliath, Hallows Die, Kittie, Musk Ox and others 7 pm. AquilA upstAirs Colleen Hodgson & Chris Bennett 9:30 pm. Bovine sex cluB Rye & Silence, the Jaded Gentlemen, Bonwit Teller, DJ Boom Boom. the centrAl Maninder 10 pm. cloAk & DAgger puB The Art of Storytelling (rock/pop) 10 pm.

Benefit for Burmese refugee children in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Emily Jill West, Mughal Empire, Opium Parlour, Trevor James & the Perfect Gentlemen, DJ Q 8 pm. the gArrison Margot & the Nuclear So & So’s, Writer, Sveta Bout doors 9 pm. grAffiti’s Kitgut 8 pm. grossmAn’s The Damned Neighbour 10 pm. horseshoe CBC Cover Me Canada Winners Whosarmy, Little Black Dress, the Crux, Salty Radio 9 pm. lee’s pAlAce Toronto Jam-tronica Showcase The Chameleon Project, lightsweetcrude, Dynamo & Badnutbeats, Daniel Manger Band, BossFYTE doors 9 pm. living Arts centre Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Classic Albums Live, Mississauga Symphony Orchestra 8 pm. noW lounge Miss Madette (soulful sultry music) doors 8 pm. operA house Fire & Ice Tour We Came as Romans, Emmure, blessthefall, Woe Is Me, the Color Morale and others doors 6 pm, all ages. phoenix concert theAtre The English Beat, Half Beat (80s ska/soul/reggae) doors 7:30 pm. the piston The Rattles (Beatles tribute) 9 pm. rivoli Music City Toronto Showcase Dylan Goes Electric, This Side Down, Cyn Electro, Riding Shotgun, Inner City Grooves, Profit, Angelo, No Skids Daddy 7 pm. the rovers puB Arjun & Dave (rock/pop/hiphop) 10 pm. silver DollAr Julian Hacquebard, Lava & Ash, White Suede, Joseph & the Mercurials. sounD AcADemy The Naked & Famous, Vacationer, Now Now doors 8 pm, all ages. southsiDe Johnny’s Skip Tracer (rock/top 40) 9:30 pm. trAnzAc mAin hAll CD Release party Vince Lombarrdi & Ryan Spratt (sport rock comedy musical CD) 7 pm. the Wilson 96 The Poor Darlins (rockabilly/ country/rock) 9 pm.

Folk/BlueS/countRy/WoRld

AspettA cAffe Open Mic/Jam El Faron 8 pm. cADillAc lounge Big Tobacco & the Pickers

(country) 9:30 pm. cAmeron house The Mocking Bird. cAstro’s lounge Jerry Leger & the Situation (country/folk/rock) 9 pm. the centrAl Dawn & Marra, Adelle Taylor & Kori Pop (folk/ indie) 8 pm. eton house Keith Jolie (blues/ roots) 7 pm.

glADstone hotel meloDy BAr Layla Zoe

(blues) 9 pm.

hugh’s room Blue River 40th Anniversary

Celebration Eric Andersen, Layah Jane, Oliver Johnson 8:30 pm. the locAl The Ole Fashioned. lulA lounge Aline Morales, Quique Escamilla (Brazilian/funk/rock/ranchera) 10 pm. monArchs puB Jerome Godboo, Shawn Kellerman, Stan Miczek, Al Cross (blues) 9 pm. press cluB Normal for Once, Ego & the Rest (garage pop) 9 pm. trAnzAc southern cross Rucksack Willies (bluegrass) 11 pm, Bluegrass Thursdays Houndstooth (bluegrass/old-time) 7:30 pm. virgin moBile moD cluB Ben Howard (singer songwriter) doors 7 pm, all ages.

Jazz/claSSical/exPeRimental

cherry street restAurAnt Thursday Night Jazz Alex Goodman Group 7:30 pm.

eDWArD Johnson BuilDing mAcmillAn theAtre U of T Symphony Orchestra, Jamie Krus-

pe (violin) 7:30 pm. emmet rAy BAr The John Wayne Swingtet (gypsy jazz) 9 pm.

four seAsons centre for the performing Arts richArD BrADshAW AmphitheAtre

Extase Religieuse Christopher Mokrzewski (piano) noon to 1 pm. gAte 403 Mikko Hilden Standards Jazz Quartet 9 pm, Melissa Lauren Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. JAne mAllett theAtre Quatuor Bozzini 8 pm. loWer ossington theAtre Easterween John Southworth, Andrew Downing, Peter Lutek, Kevin Turcotte, Aleksandar Gajic, William Carn, David Occhipinti, Joe Phillips 8 pm. mélAnge Norman Marshall Villeneuve Jazz Message Trio 7 to 10 pm. olD mill inn home smith BAr John Sherwood (solo piano) 7:30 pm. reposADo The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz). rex Morgan Childs Quartet 9:30 pm, Richard Whiteman Five 6:30 pm. roy thomson hAll Bronfman Plays Brahms Toronto Symphony Orchestra 8 pm. someWhere there stuDio Mark Segger 8 pm. Winchester kitchen & BAr Jazz Thursdays Ron Davis Trio 7 pm.

dance muSic/dJ/lounge

BrAnt house Bunny Hop DJ Rhiannon, Christopher Michaels. coBrA lounge Eddie Halliwell, Jed Harper, Northend (electro house). DrAke hotel lounge Easter Weekend Kick-Off Your Boy Brian doors 10 pm. fly Easter Weekend Kickoff DJ Alessandro doors 10 pm.5 footWork Oliver $, Jesse Rose, Nathan Barato, Rafwat & Chorniy 10 pm. founDAtion room Urban Royalty DJs Spence Diamonds & B-Easy (hip-hop/R&B/house/ reggae). gooDhAnDy’s Ladyplus Parties DJ Todd Klinck doors 8 pm.5 guvernment/kool hAus Decadence Sebastian Ingrosso, Alesso, Sander Van Doorn, Artyo, Otto Knows. insomniA DJ Ron Jon (funk/soul/house). lAiDe lounge Spring Awakening DJ Bingo Bob (Café Del Mar/remix/house/beats/electro). revivAl Easter Long Weekend Edition DJ Spinna, Groove Institute, Dirty Dale, DJ Mensa, Felix & Gani (soul/funk/disco/R&B/ hip-hop/house) 10 pm. supermArket What It Is! No Parking On The Dance Floor Kwame Younge, DJ Dave Campbell (funk/house/soul/reggae/hip-hop) 10 pm. WrongBAr Music For Your Mind Lori J Ward (Hifi Princess), T.Orlando & Alan Smithson (underground deep tech music) 9 pm.

Friday, April 6 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

AlleycAtz Ascencion (R&B/funk) 9:30 pm. Annex Wreckroom Wardance Jacky Murda,

Aries & Tuffist, Tester, Demolition Man, DJ K, Mighty Melody, Krinjah and others 10 pm. BAr itAliA Shugga (funk/soul/R&B/top 40). BlAck sWAn Nuclearhammer, Into Oblivion, Befouled Serenity (black metal) doors 9 pm. Bovine sex cluB Jacques & the Valdanes, the continued on page 48 œ

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now lounge Africa Up Close Sountougoum-

Sure Things, the Thinly Veiled Double Entendres, DJ Vania. CadillaC lounge The Rizdales 10 pm. Castro’s lounge Ronnie Hayward (rockabilly) 5 to 7 pm. the Central Bad & Ugly 10 pm, Live on Brighton 7 pm.. drake hotel underground Lost in the Trees, Poor Moon doors 8 pm. the duke live.Com Fleetwood Nicks (Fleetwood Mac & Stevie Nicks tribute) 10 pm. el moCambo downstairs Exclaim! Hockey Tournament Hootenanny. eton house Live from Limbo 9 pm. graffiti’s Paul Martin (classic covers) 5:30 to 7:30 pm. grossman’s City Soul 10 pm, Sandi Marie 5 pm. horseshoe KC Roberts & the Live Revolution, the Morning Thieves 9:30 pm. lee’s PalaCe The Alter Kakers, Lunar Piano Tuner, Spacegirl. the loaded dog Red Velvet (rock/dance) 8:30 pm. Parts & labour the shoP Mark Sultan, the Milk Lines, DJ Fata Morgana (garage/soul) 10 pm. Phoenix ConCert theatre The Ting Tings, MNDR doors 7:30 pm. Press Club Alun Piggins & the Goat Men (rock) 10 pm. rivoli Leela & the Agrestics, Calling August, Jack Walker Band, Jenn Fiorentino 8 pm. silver dollar The Livin’ Art, Nature Move Faster, Arkham Dispatch, Womb. southside Johnny’s Bad to the Bone (George Thorogood tribute) 10 pm. thug mansion Black Tea V Le Sphinxx, Matt Struck, Alpha Couple, Matt Poirier, DJ Aubrey Beardsley 9 pm, all ages. tranzaC southern Cross Mimi Osvath, Ada Dahli & her Pallbearers, Toki Oto (indie) 10 pm, Dom De Luca (indie rock) 7:30 pm. virgin mobile mod Club Converge, Burning Love, Loma Prieta, Git Some (metal-core) doors 6 pm, all ages.

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Folk/Blues/Country/World

trician (house/breaks).

levaCk bloCk baCk room DJ Rad McCool (hip-hop).

ba ‘Tapa’ Diarra (Malian djeli/griot) 8 pm. rePosado The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz). southern aCCent Sugar Bob’s Maple Hoedown Soozi Schlanger & Peter Jellard 6 to 9 pm. winChester kitChen & bar Jumple (Ukrainian/world/pop) 10 pm.

levaCk bloCk front room DJ Nerdvana. magPie Cafe Pop Lobster (pop/eclectic/retro)

Jazz/ClassiCal/experimental

Mantis, Silvermayne, Bassmynt (electronic/ futurebeats/hip-hop) 10 pm. revival Slave To The Rhythm DJs Jason Palma, Jakes Aristotle, La-Z-E, Chris Sakai. salvador darling firstBASS Curtis Savage, DJ Paulinator (funky house) 9 pm. sCreen lounge Feature Fridays DJ J-Class (hip-hop/R&B/reggae/house) 10:30 pm. sneaky dee’s Trendy Chords (punk dance party). sound aCademy Nero, Dillon Francis doors 10 pm, all ages. suPermarket Rollin’ & Scratchin’ Dance Party R$S DJ Crew 10 pm. wetbar Penthouse Fridays DJs Glew, R2, KidZero & Peter Kash (house/top 40/party anthems) 10 pm. wrongbar Big Primpin’/CDG DJs Kevin Ritchie, Phil V, Stunts (hip-hop for homos) 10 pm. 5

gate 403 Reide Kaiser: Doc Barrister’s Harlem

Rhythm 9 pm, Elizabeth Martins Jazz Trio 5 to 8 pm. lula lounge Changuy Havana (salsa) 10:30 pm, Hilario Duran Trio (jazz) 8 pm. metroPolitan united ChurCh BachFest IV: Mass In B Minor Metropolitan Festival Choir & Orchestra 7:30 pm. PlaCebo sPaCe Unusual Spectrums The Thin Edge New Music Collective 8 pm. rex Kieran Overs Eleven 9:45 pm, Artie Roth Trio 6:30 pm, Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm. roCCo’s Plum tomato Andy De Campos 5 to 8 pm. trane studio Spring Is Sprung Shelley Hamilton (vocal jazz) 8 pm. tranzaC The Foolish Things (jazz) 5 pm. vsvsvs Die O.S.T. Vol. II Screening/Performance Flow Child, Cop Car Bonfire (electro-noise/experimental) 8:30 pm.

danCe musiC/dJ/lounge

10 pm.

the Piston Beatlemania DJs Bangs & Blush (60s soul/rock) 10 pm.

ranCho relaxo Man Mantis X Low-Life Man

Saturday, April 7

andy Poolhall Pop Goes The World! VJs Gee

pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul

Dangerous Summer, Brighter Brightest, We Are the Wild Things doors 6 pm, all ages. bar italia Jordan John & the Funk Parade 10:30 pm. bovine sex Club Rock Candy #1 Yardlets, the Mercy Now, Troubadour, DJs Erin Donnelly & Ian Blurton. CadillaC lounge The Rattles eleven. diCkens street theatre Feast In The East 12 Steve Kado, Nifty, Blame Face, Thighs 9 pm, all ages. dominion on queen Brian Rose Little Big Band 8:30 pm, Ronnie Hayward Trio (rockabilly) 4 to 7:30 pm.. drake hotel Milagres (indie pop) doors 8:30 pm. el moCambo downstairs Exclaim! Hockey Tournament Hootenanny. eton house North of 49 (rock/country) 4 to 7 & 9 pm. graffiti’s Hicks & Dawe 8 pm, Taxichain 4 to 7 pm.

& JT (mashup video dance party). bar neon Scissors DJs Fawn Big Canoe, Sokes (sexy house) $5.5 Cake bar FourPlay Fridays (top 40/mashups). Castro’s lounge DJ I Hate You Rob (soul/ funk/R&B/punk rock/rockabilly) 10 pm. College street bar Special Delivery: Throwback Edition DJ Law doors 10 pm. devil’s martini DJ 4Korners, DJ Dennis R. doverCourt house 805 Salsa Underground Fridays DJ Fabz 9:30 pm. drake hotel underground Never Forgive Action DJ Numeric, DJ Dalia, Agile (classic hip-hop) 11 pm. drake hotel lounge DJ DB Cooper doors 10 pm. emmet ray bar DJ Back ‘A’ Yard (reggae) 10 pm. fly Dirty Sexy Party James Huntsman, DJ Foxtrot doors 10 pm.5 footwork Mendo, Anthony D’Amico, Rafwat & Chorniy, Fresque. gladstone hotel ballroom Pop Kult DJs Oliver, Members Only, Hemingway 10 pm. goodhandy’s Glitch DJ Sexy Pants doors 9 pm.5

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aquila uPstairs James Carroll (acoustic blues/rock) 9:30 pm. asPetta Caffe Pete Van Dyk, Zachary Aasman 8 pm. gladstone hotel melody bar Tim Bastmeyer (solo blues) 9 pm.

hot box Cafe High Fantasy Iain’n’Nick 7 pm. insomnia Funkn’ Fresh Fridays Wes the Elec-

alleyCatz Soular (R&B/soul/funk) 9:30 pm. annex wreCkroom Ten Second Epic, the

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grossman’s Fried Angel 10 pm, The Happy Pal 4:30 to 8 pm..

hard roCk Cafe Beyond the Cage doors 8 pm. the hideout Ménage. horseshoe CD release Future History, Boys

Who Say No, Armen at the Bazaar 9 pm. lee’s PalaCe Rasputina doors 9 pm. the loaded dog Area 52 (rock/pop) 8:30 pm. the loCal The Jessica Stuart Few 9:30 pm. newfoundlander Tamin’ Thunder (rock/top 40/dance) 9:30 pm. on the rox Spring Break Gyptian, Serani, Arielle, Sample King, Korexion and others. oPera house Streets Of Sesame Joob, Still Authors, Rose Gold Slugs, the Muckabouts, Jaffa Charles doors 9 pm. Press Club Cactus (acoustic punk) 10 pm. rex Danny Marks (pop) noon. rivoli Music City Toronto Showcase Hotel Royal, the Crunge, Hassan, the Dangles, Avida Rae, Daevyd Pepper, State of Us, One Divided, Lil Pappie & the Haus of Frankenstein 7 pm. silver dollar Paint, Patti Cake, the Pinecones (rock) doors 10 pm.

sony Centre for the Performing arts Opeth, Mastodon, GHOST doors 6:30 ñ pm, all ages. southside Johnny’s The Bear Band w/ Chuck Jackson (rock/blues) 4 to 8 pm.

three monkeys Tommy Rocker 10 pm. trane studio Sharon Musgrave (soul/jazz/

R&B) 8:30 pm.

velvet underground Vibonics, the Antiheroes, SidePonyNation.

winChester kitChen & bar All Funk Saturdays

The BreakDown (rock/jazz fusion) 10 pm.

Folk/Blues/Country/World

aquila uPstairs Michael O’Grady 9:30 pm. asPetta Caffe New City Lights, John Jamie-

son Clarke, Daniel Stern 7 to 11 pm. CadillaC lounge Cadillac Ranch Country Matinee. Castro’s lounge Big Rude Jake (blues shouter) 4:30 pm. free times Cafe Mario Panacci. gladstone hotel melody bar Rae Billing (country) 9 pm. hirut fine ethioPian Cuisine Country Jam Murray Powell (eclectic) 2 to 6 pm. hot box Cafe Hairy Holler (folk/punk/blues/ jazz/gypsy/swing) 7 pm. hugh’s room Like A Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan Tribute Ariana Gillis, Kevin Breit, Suzie Vinnick, Jory Nash, Paul James and others 8:30 pm. the loCal Arthur Renwick (blues) 5 pm.

lower ossington theatre green door Cabaret Michael Burgess 8 pm. lula lounge Cafe Cubano (salsa) 10:30 pm. naughty nadz You Can Never Hold Back

Spring Arlene Paculan, Mark Martyre, Sean Pinchin, Carlo Meriano, Camille HollettFrench (songwriter showcase) 8 pm. not my dog Kristine Schmitt & her Special Powers 10 pm. queen street laundry Song Cycles Amanda Struthman, Kim Jarrett, Robert Graham, James King 4 pm. rebas Café & gallery Open Mic David Crighton 1 to 4 pm. relish New Music Night Kristin Sweetland (singer/songwriter) 9:30 pm. tranzaC Beneath the Ice (indie folk) 10 pm.

Jazz/ClassiCal/experimental

C’est what The Hot Five Jazzmakers (trad

jazz) 3 pm.

Chalkers Pub Aspects Of Oscar Dave Young, Robi Botos, Terry Clarke, Alex Dean 6 to 9 pm. gate 403 Alan Leatherman (jazz) 9 pm, Bill Heffernan (folk/country/blues) 5 to 8 pm.. now lounge Ken Skinner, Owen Tennyson, Lee Saba Huchinson, Grant Lyle (jazz/blues/ soul) doors 7 pm. old mill inn Jazz Masters Russ Little, Reg Schwager, Scott Alexander 7:30 pm. rex CD release concert Melissa Stylianou, Pete McCann, Jamie Reynolds, Andrew Downing, Nick Fraser 9:45 pm, Sara Dell (vox/solo piano) 7 pm, Chris Hunt Tentet + 2 3:30 pm. tranzaC southern Cross Bloomsday (jazz) 7:30 pm. viCtoria ChaPel Imagine Scaramella (17thcentury Italian music) 8 pm.

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annex wreCkroom DJ Rick Toxic 8 pm. augusta house Reality Bytes (90s night). bunda lounge Palm Tree Saturdays El Negro

Mozambique, DJ Valeo, DJ Kyabu (Baile Funk Vs Kuduro) doors 10 pm.

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BABY EAGLE Capturing looseness is hard work By CARLA GILLIS

BABY EAGLE & THE PROUD MOTHERS at the Dakota (249 Ossington), tonight (Thursday, April 5), 10 pm. 416-850-4579.

There’s a wonderful casualness to Baby Eagle’s music. On the former Constantines member’s new album, Bone Soldiers (You’ve Changed), he and his four-member Proud Mothers played the rollicking tunes loosely and recorded them quickly. But don’t think for a second that Steve Lambke is tossing them off. “We did it fast, live in the studio, but beforehand I worked really hard on the lyrics and arranging the songs,” says the Guelph native from his home in Sackville, New Brunswick. “Ian [Kehoe] and I demoed almost all of the them, and I played them for a year or so. “At the same time, when it comes down to playing and making music, I think spontaneity or looseness or that living quality – which includes mistakes sometimes – is kind of what I want to hear. That’s how I think rock music should sound.” Lambke, who runs You’ve Changed Records with Daniel Romano, sings in a light, raspy wheeze largely free of distinct melodies and choruses. Often his rambling vocals trade off with swaths of distorted guitar riffs. The band, in fact, includes three guitarists – Lambke, Will Kidman and Spencer Burton – yet things stick much closer to Velvet Underground mellowness than to Lynyrd Skynyrd nuttiness.

“They’re all fucking great songwriters, so nobody’s looking to just fill up the space,” Lambke enthuses. “Three people with loud guitars not really playing very much – that’s an awesome sound. And then there are moments when everybody fucking goes for it. It’s a really fun way to play.” But it’s Lambke’s poetic and grim lyrics that take centre stage. On this, his second Baby Eagle album, they include a number of military references: soldiers in uniform swaggering, a military reject slouching at salute, the sound of marching orders. He’s using those images, he says, as a way to examine ideas like faith, duty and loyalty. “I feel like a lot of the record is about staying loyal and being faithful to something, even when that maybe isn’t the best move,” Lambke offers carefully. “How [being a soldier] can be the most elevating thing a person can do, but also how it can lead to absolute craziness because you’re not questioning things. “And then there’s the tarot card and ‘holy age’ stuff [offered up] as more of a mystical solution or in opposition to the soldiers wandering around the record. There’s talk of visions and stars. There’s a dialogue between those things. I’m really spilling my guts here! It’s all very inconclusive. “Oh boy, I’m going to regret saying some of this stuff.” 3 music@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/nowtorontomusic

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C Lounge DJ Heather Van Viper, DJ Fisher Pryce. Cake Bar Dessert Saturdays (top 40/mashups). C’est What DJ MALXP 9:30 pm. CoLLege street Bar Heavy Rotation DJ Mercil-

less, Royale, Sweet Touch Foundation (4 DJs X 4 turntables). Drake hoteL unDergrounD Broken English Ryan Hemsworth doors 11 pm. Drake hoteL Lounge DJ Dougie Boom doors 10 pm. emmet ray Bar DJ Sawtay (soul/funk/old school) 10 pm. FLy Dj Alyson Calagna, DJ Shawn Riker doors 10 pm.5 FootWork Sonny Fodera, Mike Gleeson, Rich Hope, B-Team doors 10 pm. hoLy oak CaFe DJ Sandro Perri (kraut and prog) 10 pm. the hoxton Sydney Blu doors 10 pm. InsomnIa Sense Saturdays DJ Charles (deep house). LeVaCk BLoCk BaCk room DJs Dougie Boom & Cryo. LeVaCk BLoCk Front room DJs RSNST & Crew. LoFt 161 Boys Noize Records Loft Party Housemeister, D.I.M, Strip Steve, DJedjotronic

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Parts & LaBour Pay Day DJs Isosceles & Stew Innes (old school hip-hop) 10 pm.

PerIDot Lounge Good Saturdays DJs Glew &

R2 (hip-hop/R&B/old school) 10:30 pm. the PIston Rip It Up DJ Davy Love (garage/ psyche/soul) 10 pm. sounD aCaDemy Easter Saturday Fire Fete doors 10 pm. suPermarket Do Right Saturdays! DJs John Kong, MC Abs. sutra tIkI Bar The Bridge DJ Triplet (old skool hip-hop). taj Banquet haLL Dance Hall Immortals Bodyguard, Metro Media, Stone Love, Soul2Soul, Sky Juice and others. unknoWn Venue Break & Enter Dave Aju, James Teej, Martin Fazekas, Dick Diamonds doors 10 pm (RSVP for location rsvp.breakandenter.net). VIrgIn moBILe moD CLuB UK Underground MRK, Tigerblood, Lauren Malyon, Dream Jefferson 10 pm. WrongBar Slowed Craze, Torro Torro & Lucie Tic 10 pm.

Sunday, April 8 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

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BoVIne sex CLuB Koffin Kats, Katacombs, Black Cat Attack 9 pm.

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Trio (funk fusion) 9 pm. the garrIson Crosswires Music Series:CD release David MacKinnon, Canaille, Ben Veneer 9 pm. graFFItI’s Michael Brennan 4 to 7 pm. grossman’s The Nationals 10 pm. hoLy oak CaFe Kindness Killers (pop) 9 pm. the LoaDeD Dog Jessica Mondello & Mark Ripp (acoustic pop) 4 to 8 pm. southsIDe johnny’s Open Jam Rebecca Matiesen & Phoenix 9:30 pm.

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friday april 6 @ mod club • $18.50 adv • all-aGes • 6:00pm

bUrning LoVe Loma prieta git some

friday april 13 @ opera house $ 18.00

advance • 7:30pm doors • montreal ska

big d & the kids table “What’s so fuNNy aBout Peace love uNdeRstaNdiNg” “cRuel to Be KiNd” “i KNeW the BRide”

monday

april 23 w/ peter eLkas

deer

tick

$34.00 advance • limited seated

show (400) • 7:30pm doors

saturday may 12

monday june 11 lee’s palace • $ 22.50 adv

@ the phoenix

opera house • $18.50 advance

Nashville Bloodshot RecoRds alt couNtRy

Justin townes earle w/

triSten

friday april 20

•• tickets at the door! tonight! ••

the wooden sky

the naked & famous

opera house • $15.50 advance

sunParlour Players wednesday april 25

thuRsday april 5 @ souNd academy • $22.50 advance

now now + vacationer sunday april 29 friday april 20 phoenix • all-ages • 18.50 adv w/

cults grannis phoenix • $ 20.00 advance

with SpectralS

wednesday may 2 mod club •

$18.50

advance

boxer

kina $

lee’s palace • $15.00 advance

newman boys benefit

basia bulat sandro Perri bry webb Jim Guthrie tuesday may 8 andre ethier Casey meCiJa the phoenix and more!

rebellion neon

indian

thuRs may 17

queeN elizaBeth theatRe all-aGes • $29.50 advance reserved seatinG • 7:15pm

ron zeus mewithoutyou SATURDAY june 9 friday @ the phoenix

arts & crafts • 15.00 advance $

w/ lemonade

saturday june 9 mod club •

$16.50

advance

sexsmith archers of loaf

burning bedS + imaginary citieS

saturday june 16 @ the phoenix

24.50 advance • 19+ • first toronto show in over 15 years!

sunday june 17 @ sound academy all-ages • $25.50 advance Ga • $35.50 advance 19+ vip

monday may 21

sound academy $59.50

all-ages/ 19+ • advaNce $79.50 advaNce seated v.i.P.

loNdoN uK • RaRe toRoNto Play oNly 3 NoRth ameRicaN dates!

with

saturday june 30

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thurs july 19 @ sound academy

fishbone beirut lee’s palace • $21.50 advance

los aNgeles sKa soul PuNK legeNds

ska! all-aGes / licensed • $ 35.00 advance Ga $ 50.00 advance vip (19+)

advance ticketS @ ticketmaster.ca or 1-855-985-5000 • HorSeSHoe Front Bar • SoundScapeS • rotate tHiS tueSday april 17

tHurSday april 5 • $15.00 cbc cover me canada WinnerS!

Whosarmy

little black Dress the crux • salty radio Saturday april 7 • $10.00

boys who say no future history armen the bazar rory

Friday april 6 • $10.00

Groovy Funky rock & roll cd releaSe

roberts & the live

revolution two sets: 11:00pm & 12:30am

the morning thieves

(cd releaSe @ 11:30Pm)

monday april 9 • no cover shoeless mondays

dreadful starlings hilary Weaver WedneSday april 11 • $4.00

mad soul band mike cavanagh no Found address tHurSday april 12 • $12.00 bluegraSS & alt country

new country REHAB the pining + crooked Brothers Saturday april 14 • $15.50 adv

Friday

the drake • $ 13.50 advance

lionheart + no bragging rights

Saturday may 12

tueSday april 10

humanzees last of the Bandits the socials indoor voices charlotte cornfield

with

Saturday

the garriSon • $11.50 advance

bear in alcoholic Faith mission heaven

xiu xiu wildlife lee’S Palace • $ 13.50 advance

blouse + doldrums

Friday may 11 @ the horSeShoe • $10.50 advance

w/ dirty beaches

monday Hosted by bookie (18th year)

Sunday april 29 @ horSeShoe • $10.50 advance

feathers acacia horse may 5 strain WEDNESDAY may 2 annex Wreckroom • $16.50 adv

may 14

stARtheslingER hood internet

lee’S Palace • $15.00 advance

Saturday may 12

with

thurSday TUESDAY may 15

WedneSday june 13

thurSday april 5 • $8.00

Friday april 6 • $ 10.00

active joe Beckett child purdy lioness maps rasputina & atlases joe pug hanniBal virgin mobile mod club

$12.00

@ door $15.00 w/ cd • $20.00 w/ vinyl

monday april 16

cancer White bats denim auStin texaS • $12.50 advance

chameleon project dynamo & badnutbeats bossFyte & more

the alter kakers lunar piano sunday night jam reunion tuner Frank Fazi & his all-star band spacegirl

Sunday april 8 • $10.00 w/

“the academy is...”

W/ Balam acaB

the giving tree band

WedneSday$may 16

Saturday may 26

Friday june 22

the horSeShoe • 11.50 advance

ritualS + hollow earth

lee’S Palace • $ 17.50 advance

william

Friday april 13

indie electro record releaSe Party

lee’S Palace • $ 15.00 advance

7pm doors • all-ages • $14.50 advance

horSeShoe tavern • $11.50 adv

Saturday april 7 • $20.00 advance

horSeShoe • $ 15.00 advance

tueS april 10 • $ 15 adv

with

daniel knox

thurSday april 12 & Friday april 13

shaBazz Buress yukon japandroidS palaces $ 15.00 advance • 9:00pm

chicago alt country

Saturday june 23 @ horSeShoe • $15.00 advance

(snl & 30 rock)

Sunday april 8

thurSday april 5

fri april 6 @ the drake • $13.50 adv

margot & the nuclear so-so’s

perfume poor moon genius

garriSon • $ 11.50 advance

lost in the trees

drake underground • $11.50 advance

abstract random

Blonde

liBrary voiceS WedneSday april 11 • $17.50 advance

the cribs heaD sleepy sun fish benefit milagres disappears lucero white hills funDraiser eleanor friedberger willis earl beal pontiak alaBama hanni trampled good el khatib electric guest moon hooch daytrader By turtles shakes old touche amore

hundred visions +

a sight For sewn eyes

sandman viper command

Sunday april 15 • $10.50 adv

tHurSday april 19 • $25.00

San FranciSco PSychedelic rock double header!

Writer + Sveta Bout

hounds below +

teen tits wild wives

saturday april 14 • sold out!

sunday april 15 @ garrison • $11.50 adv

Saturday

j roddy walston & the business

april 7

@ the drake $

10.50 advance

friday april 27 @ drake hotel • $11.50 adv

mon april 30 @ the drake • $13.50 adv

friday may 4 @ the garrison • $15.00 adv

Sunday april 15

tueSday april 17

$ 20.00 advance • bluegraSS

Friday april 20

monday april

23 • $10.00 adv

with hospitality

PhiladelPhia • $12.50 advance

sun april 29 @ the drake • $12.00 adv

friday may 4 @ the drake • $10.00 adv

sat may 5 @ hard luck • $10 @door • all-ages

wed may 2 @ the garrison • $10.00 adv

mon may 14 @ horseshoe • $11.50 adv

wed may 23 @ horseshoe • $11.50 adv

with sundelles

War

Belle Brigade family of the year

apr 22 - handsome dick manitoba apr 26 - supersuckers & nashville pussy

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

horseshoetavern.com 370 Queen Street WeSt / Spadina 416-598-4226 • 1947 to 2012

royal canoe milk carton kids cheap girls langhorne slim ramona falls rocky Votolato the meatmen father John misty joe mcmahon

loS angeleS Fleet FoxeS Sub PoP Folk rock

with billy the kid + mikey erg

fri may 4 @ velvet underground • $11.50 adv

sat THU may 17 @ sneaky dee’s • $10.00 adv

sun may 27 @ horseshoe • $11.50 adv

fri june 8 @ the drake • $10.00 advance

sat may 19 @ the drake • $15.50 advance

sat may 19 @ hard luck • $13.50 advance

these united states

lee bains the iii & the glory Fires

sold out!

Sat april 21 • $15.00 adv

Boy’s Benefit plants & aprapr2721- -wenewman were promised Jetpacks animals may 12 - xiu xiu leespalace.com artiSt bookingS: 416-598-0720 or ben@leespalace.com

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Sioux Newberry (electric folk) 7 & 9 pm. Cloak & Dagger Pub Fraser Melvin Blues Band (blues) 9 pm. Dakota tavern Bluegrass Brunch 11 am to 3 pm. glaDstone Hotel MeloDy bar Sunday Acoustic Family Brunch 9 am to 4 pm. glaDstone Hotel art bar Old Time Jam 2 to 5:30 pm. HugH’s rooM Jory Nash. tHe loCal Boxcar Boys 10 pm, Chris Coole (banjo) 5 pm. lula lounge Sunday Family Salsa Brunch (salsa/son cubano) noon. Pogue MaHone Sandy MacIntyre & Steeped in Tradition (Celtic ceilidh) 4 to 8 pm. Press Club Staggy Townsend (country rock) 10 pm. relisH Stir It Up Sundays Open Mic 10:30 pm. suPerMarket Freefall Sundays Open Mic/Jam 8 pm. tHe Wilson 96 Beefknuckle Sunday Supper Show (blues/roots) 6 to 9 pm. WinCHester kitCHen & bar Open Mic Porter 9:30 pm.

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The Toronto Improvisers Orchestra 1 pm.

grossMan’s Chloe Watkinson & Adam Cola-

DanCE musiC/DJ/loungE

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Monday, April 9

lee’s PalaCe Shabazz Palaces doors 8 pm. ñ tHe Piston The Dead Tuesdays 9 pm.

Castro’s lounge Watch This Sound (Jamaican record party) 9 pm. insoMnia Retro Lounge Night DJ Doctor G.

pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul

bovine sex Club Flash Lightnin’. Castro’s lounge Rockabilly Mondays 9 pm. Cloak & Dagger Pub Gord Light (pop/folk) 9 pm. Drake Hotel unDergrounD Elvis Monday

HorsesHoe Dave Bookman’s Nu Music Nite Last of the Bandits, the Socials, Indoor Voices, Charlotte Cornfield 8:30 pm.

Press Club Toast N’ Jam Open Jam James Grey 10 pm.

Folk/BluEs/Country/WorlD

axis gallery & grill The Junction Jam Derek

tHe loCal Hamstrung Stringband (bluegrass)

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trane stuDio Nu Blue Mondays Son Roberts

alleyCatz Carlo Berardinucci Band (swing/

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Free tiMes CaFe Open Stage Jeff Kahl (pop/folk). graFFiti’s Gut Bucket Lounge Kevin Quain. HigHWay 61 soutHern barbeque Chris Chambers (blues) 7 pm.

9:30 pm. 8 pm.

tHe Wilson 96 Jordan John w/ Prakash John & Al Cross (blues/soul) 9 pm.

Jazz/ClassiCal/ExpErimEntal

eMMet ray bar David French-Davidson-Fortin-Ragnelli (jazz) 9 pm.

gate 403 Richard Whiteman & Laura Hubert

Jazz Band 9 pm, Denis Schingh (solo piano) 5 to 8 pm. rex Jerry Johnson Tribute Al Kay’s Torontobones 9:30 pm, Kogging 6:30 pm.

DanCE musiC/DJ/loungE

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insoMnia DJs Topher & Oranj (rock). tHe Piston Junk Shop DJs Jorge & Jeeks, Allosaurus & Emorie (pre to post punk/new wave/garage/indie) 10 pm. rePosaDo Mezcal Mondays DJ Elis Dean. WaterFalls The Lion’s Den (reggae).

Tuesday, April 10 pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul

bovine sex Club The Hunters, Astpai, Sketch. C’est WHat Tra La La Tuesdays Meredith Shaw

& the Hearts Club (pop/folk/country) 9 pm. Drake Hotel unDergrounD Jeanine Mackie Band (pop) doors 8 pm. graFFiti’s Marcus Walker (pop/rock/acoustic) 8 pm.

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aquila uPstairs Sounds Different (experi-

mental music/soundscapes) 8:30 pm. CHalkers Pub Robi Botos (piano) 7:30 pm. DoMinion on queen Hot Club Of CorkTown (Django jam) 8:30 pm.

Four seasons Centre For tHe PerForMing arts riCHarD braDsHaW aMPHitHeatre

Plays Of Light Trio Arkel noon to 1 pm. gate 403 Noam Lemish Jazz Trio 5 to 8 pm. rex Norman Marshall Villeneuve’s Jazz Message Trio 6:30 to 8:30 pm. rex Classic Jazz Jam Terra Hazelton 9:30 pm. ten restaurant & Wine bar Don Breithaupt, Chris Smith 9 pm. tranzaC soutHern Cross Stop Time (jazz) 10 pm, Thomas Lehn (piano) 7:30 pm.

DanCE musiC/DJ/loungE

CraWForD Drink & Destroy Dan Arget (rock & roll).

gooDHanDy’s Ladyplus T-Girl Lust DJ Todd

Klinck doors 8 pm.5 insoMnia She’s Got The Funk DJ Shannon (rock). rePosaDo Alien Radio DJ Gord C.

Wednesday, April 11 pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul

annex WreCkrooM MyChildren MyBride, For Today, A Skylit Drive.

aquila uPstairs The Groovies w/ Jay Pennell

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Folk/BluEs/Country/WorlD

alleyCatz CitySoul (swinging blues/vintage R&B) 8:30 pm.

Castro’s lounge Smokey Folk (bluegrass) 9 pm. tHe Central Melanie Brulee (folk) 10 pm. Cloak & Dagger Pub Blair Harvey (folk/pop) 10 pm.

eMMet ray bar Peter Boyd & the Mutants (blues) 9 pm.

gate 403 Ken Kawashima & Bob Vespaziani

Blues Band 9 pm, Brian Cober & Asland Gotov Blues Duo 5 to 8 pm.. HigHWay 61 soutHern barbeque Sean Pinchin (blues) 7 pm. Hirut Fine etHioPian Cuisine Gary 17s Acoustic Open Stage Roger Zuraw 7:30 pm. HugH’s rooM Spirits Of Music Benefit Concert Jane Bunnett & the Spirits of Havana, Molly Johnson, Heavyweights Brass Band and others 8:30 pm.

HuMber College lakesHore CaMPus k Cot-

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Canada’s weirdo pop movements are gaining steam By RICHARD TRAPUNSKI SEAN NICHOLAS SAVAGE with QUIET HOOVES, PLANET CREATURE and BETA FRONTIERS at Double Double Land (209 Augusta), Sunday (April 8). $7. doubledoubleland.com.

Ever since Weird Canada won CBC Radio 3’s Searchlight competition as best Canadian music site last year and, more recently, Grimes became an overnight critical darling, a new market has opened up for artists with distinct, off-kilter approaches to pop music. That bodes well for Montreal-via-Edmonton weird pop auteur/Grimes labelmate Sean Nicholas Savage, though he refuses to view the opportunity in commercial terms. “Claire’s [Boucher, aka Grimes] doing well opens up plenty of doors for everyone in the community,” Savage drawls over the phone from his girlfriend’s apartment in Montreal’s Mile End neighbourhood. “But it’s not a business thing. When people are doing new things musically, that’s when I think, ‘Wow, I’ve got to step up.’ Artistically,

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that’s when I get driven and inspired. “As far as business goes, that’s just one plus one equals two. I’m not worried about it.” That’s familiar rhetoric from underground musicians, though it’s not hard to recognize the 25-year-old’s genuineness. Beyond the fact that he’s almost comically earnest, there’s also his track record: nine solo releases in just over three years (plus a few with his former band, the Silly Kissers), most of which are available physically on cassette and digitally through the paywhat-you-can price model. Savage’s prolific output can overwhelm fans looking for an entry point. The versatile crooner’s albums have ranged from strummy acoustic folk-pop to Bee Gees disco to his latest, Flamingo (Arbutus), influenced by memories of marathon sessions watching retro 80s videos on MuchMoreMusic as a teenager in Edmonton. Uniting the sprawling discography are Savage’s lilting, quavering voice, nostalgic lyrics, lo-fi production and undeniable knack for well-crafted pop melodies.

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“I have a deep appreciation for classic verse-chorus-verse pop structure,” says Savage in a message later left on my voice mail. “You know how Einstein said any idiot can make something more complicated but it takes a genius to simplify? I really believe in that.” Savage’s love of pop tradition is difficult to reconcile with his “weirdo” persona, which mixes a lanky, wispy-mustached look with Zen-like aloofness. First-time audiences often don’t know whether to take his performances with a grain of salt. But his wide-eyed sincerity – evident in conversation and in concert – would be difficult to fake. With similarly off-kilter acts like Doldrums and Phèdre slowly rising to prominence, it seems just a matter of time before a generation of music lovers discovers him, too. “Everyone’s dying for personal, really creative ideas,” says Savage. “It’s a great time to be making music.” music@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/nowtorontomusic

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album reviews album of the week CALLED RED ñA TRIBENNNN

(Masalacism) Rating: There’s no substitute for experiencing A Tribe Called Red’s music and audio-visual assault live, but their debut fulllength, a capsule of the past year’s digital releases, is a good start. Much of the Ottawa-based DJ trio’s work – remixes and sample-based originals – centres on “pow wow step,” a powerful, subversive, hyper-Canadian meeting of traditional native drum-and-chantsteered songs and on-trend club music. Starting with the slow bounce fuzz of opening track Electric Pow Wow Drum, ATCR weave sampled hand

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Electric Cables (Domino) Rating: As one of three songwriters in Teenage Fanclub, Gerard Love can be counted on to write a love song that’s both musically gorgeous and lyrically surprising – the kind of song you wish you’d written, or that someone had written for you. Under the name Lightships, Love has free rein, and the 10 songs on his solo debut venture down an even more dreamlike, romantic path than those he records with his day band. Numerous titles (not to mention the band name) make reference to sun and light, and he’s not being ironic; this is a blatantly hopeful record. Even the instrumentation – flutes, gentle guitar and various keyboard sounds – evoke a sense of ease and airiness. With a band made up of old friends, Love has made a seemingly effortless record that reveals more with every listen. Top track: Sweetness In Her Spark JOANNE HUFFA

LOST IN THE TREES A Church That

Fits Our Needs (Anti-) Rating: NNN The second album by North Carolina chamber pop group Lost in the Trees is

drums and vocal chorus lines through hip-hop, dancehall, electro, dubstep and moombahton influences. Weaned on rap and dancehall at school and indigenous rhythms of home, they cleverly articulate the in-between dichotomy felt by young urban Canadians of all backgrounds. To that end, ATCR can make a song by Grammy-nominated Northern Cree (Red Skin Girl) wobble while revving up a Jamaican dancehall chune (Shottas by Mr. Lexx) with earthy, percussive pitter-patter. Top track: PowWowzers featuring Northern Cree and Clarence Two Toes ANUPA MISTRY lush and jam-packed with musically ambitious ideas. You could call its widescreen complexity and depth cinematic, but this isn’t soundtrack music that fades into the background. It’s not surprising that band leader Ari Picker lists Radiohead as one of his main influences, but he adopts only that band’s melodramatic moodiness, trading their electronic experimentation for acoustic orchestration and classical inspiration. Given that the album was largely written in response to the suicide of Picker’s mother (whose image adorns the cover), it’s surprising how hopeful much of it feels. It might be an album written while grieving, though it’s as much about life as it is about death. A Church feels a little long, and getting through it requires a certain amount of emotional energy, but it’s well worth the effort. Top track: Neither Here Nor There Lost in the Trees play the Drake Hotel Underground Friday (April 6). BENJAMIN BOLES

THE SHINS Port Of Morrow (Aural Apothecary/Columbia) Rating: NNN Since the last Shins album came out five years ago, main man James Mercer has primarily kept busy with Broken Bells, his

electronic music collaboration with Danger Mouse. But the time away from traditional songwriting hasn’t dulled his skills, and his voice sounds better than ever. The Portland-based band’s eclectic fourth album showcases Mercer’s bright and inventive AM-radio-pop songwriting and a sonically ambitious production style courtesy of Mercer and co-producer Greg Kurstin. The guest list includes Wild Flag’s Janet Weiss, singer/songwriter Nik Freitas, Modest Mouse’s Joe Plummer and several on-and-off supporting Shins players. Ultimately, though, aside from Fall Of ’82, Simple Song and No Way Dawn, it lacks the memorable melodies and exhilarated energy we’ve come to expect from the Shins. A few languid, wistful tunes add balance but don’t always captivate. It’s an interesting listen but doesn’t leave a strong impression. Top track: Simple Song The Shins play the Molson Amphitheatre August 4. CARLA GILLIS

Ministry albums. Sure, every song is in the speed metal vein, but I’m happy to let Korn handle the brostep/rock futurism. No, there’s no sonic variety, but this is Ministry, so were you expecting random folk interludes? Bands that were exciting when you were a teenager tend not to sound very good once you’re no longer battling your parents over piercings. You remember bands like Ministry as transgressive and exciting, so when they put out something new, you can’t help but compare it to your warm, fuzzy recollections of their glory years. Relapse isn’t their best work by far, but if you listen to it next to their genuinely great albums like Psalm 69 or The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste, it stands up better than the cranky metal/industrial establishment – who’ve been dissing it mercilessly – would have you believe. Top track: Double Tap BB

tells her haters to “suck a big dick” on the record’s best chorus, goes hard over a minimal trap-rap beat and teams with Lil Wayne for a brilliantly nasty serenade in which Oprah’s name becomes a sex act. It takes a few listens to comprehend how an MC capable of snarling “Take bitches to school, then I Columbine these hos” one minute can sing stultifyingly bland lyrics about getting “sexy and hotter” in order to “shut the club down” the next. The best things about Minaj are her spastic delivery, the complexity and outlandishness of her flow and her utter indifference to political correctness (or gender). Unfortunately, her adventurous side is rarely heard in the more radiofriendly jams, which are heartfelt and catchy but less inspired. Top track: I Am Your Leader KEVIN RITCHIE

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Boys & Girls (ATO) Rating: There’s huge music industry excitement about Alabama Shakes, and once you hear Boys & Girls it’s clear why. Singer/guitarist Brittany Howard has one of those spinetingling soul voices like the ones that sold shitloads of Amy Winehouse and Adele records. The band plays classic, gritty R&B with an intense urgency that we hope won’t be beaten out of them during the next few years of touring. Their talent and impossible-to-fake passion merit the sudden attention. The other reason they’re getting so much buzz is because they’re so fucking retro that boomers can’t resist this disc. Meanwhile, young hipsters obsessed with the idea that authenticity comes from beards and vintage gear are loving it, too. But though the album’s great, there’s nothing “real” about pretending nothing new has happened musically since 1968. Alabama Shakes’ 60s blues is based as much in fantasy as Rick Ross’s drug kingpin mythology, which is fine as long as we admit it. Top track: Rise To The Sun Alabama Shakes play Lee’s Palace April 17. BB

Blue Chips (Fool’s Gold) Rating: NNNN Only Action Bronson, the ample Queens, NY, lover man with a penchant for piff and puttanesca, could have made Blue Chips. A loose concept record tracking Bronsolini’s borough excursions in explicit, ribsplitting rap detail, it’s a vivid novella – like he’s channelling a less sad sack Misha Vainberg, the fat, fly Russian protagonist of Gary Shteyngart’s Absurdistan. Except, as Bronson’ll have you know, he’s Albanian. Producer Party Supplies cues a nostalgic, well-worn soul palette. From Aaron Neville to the Flamingos, samples are often left intact and unadorned for Bronson to straight rap to. The effect is stunning, cinematic, forcing you hang onto every word as the chef-turned-rapper pins self-aware barbs (“At times my only friends are drugs and a cannoli”) against gassed-up gastro gags (“I’m on the art and food scene / Fuck rap, laying back eating poutine”) and Casanova conceit (“Facially, I’m like a young John Kennedy”). Top track: Thug Love Story 2012 AM

NICKI MINAJ Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded (Cash Money/Universal) Rating: NNN At 19 tracks, Nicki Minaj’s latest is essentially a double album divided almost evenly between gleefully rude hip-hop and big, shiny club numbers produced by popdance hit makers RedOne and Dr. Luke. Along the way, the cartoonish Queens MC flips an old-school electro beat into the Christmas carol Oh Come All Ye Faithful,

Folk/Rock

LAKE SWIMMERS ñGREAT NNNN

New Wild Everywhere (Nettwerk) Rating: Canadian folk-rockers Great Lake Swimmers are known for finding and incorporating creative locations into their recordings. But for their fifth album, they went the traditional route, hunkering down at Revolution Recording studio in Toronto with long-time producer Andy Magoffin. The result is a poppy, polished, triumphant record augmented by backup vocals and violin from new member Miranda Mulholland. Tony Dekker’s voice has lost some sadness and delicacy but none of its beauty. Heavily inspired by the natural world, he sings of transformations, the cycle of life and death and a fish’s perspective on the knife it’s under. The band successfully experiments with tempos, though Changes With The Wind is slightly hectic. If you miss the field recordings, check out third song The Great Exhale, recorded in Lower Bay Station. Top track: The Great Exhale Great Lake Swimmers play the Music Hall June 2. SARAH GREENE

Industrial/Metal

MINISTRY Relapse (13th Planet) Rating: NNN

Yes, Relapse is goofy and cartoonish, and, yes, its politics are simplistic and childish, but this has always been the case with

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more online nowtoronto.com/stage Audio clips from interview with PRISONER OF TEHRAN’S MAJA ARDAL • previews of CLYBOURNE PARK and AJAX & LITTLE ILIAD • Scenes on MICHAEL HEALEY’S PM PLAY • and more Fully searchable listings with venue maps nowtoronto.com/stage/listings the young are trying to survive by being as normal as they can be.” Ardal was also drawn to the challenge of capturing one of the key points of Nemat’s story: not making the narrative a clash between good and bad characters. “Ali, who said he’d hurt those she loved if Marina didn’t return his love, did indeed love her. I wanted to find a way to invite the audience to walk the tightrope with Marina, to swing them between the horror and hatred of her interrogator and the discovery of his earnest affection for her.

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“ This isn’t a

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black-and-white tale of a woman who survives a villain .”

Maja Ardal says she’s always drawn to the dramatic dark side of a story.

Ardal’s ardour Play examines torture and love in Iran By JON KAPLAN PRISONER OF TEHRAN by Marina Nemat, adapted for the stage and directed by Maja Ardal, with Bahareh Yaraghi, Mirian Katrib and Razi Shawahdi. Presented by Contrary Company in association with Theatre Passe Muraille at Passe Muraille (16 Ryerson). Previews Tuesday (April 10), opens Wednesday (April 11) and runs to April 28, Tuesday-Saturday 7:30 pm, matinee Saturday 2 pm. Pwyc-$35. 416-5047529.

marina nemat’s bestselling memoir, Prisoner Of Tehran, deals with imprisonment, torture and death. To Contrary Company’s Maja Ardal, though, Nemat’s story speaks fundamentally about the profound depth of friendship. Imprisoned while a teen in her native Iran, Nemat spent two years in Evin prison, was tortured, nearly executed and later given the choice by her interrogator, Ali, of marrying him or having her family harmed.

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“I wanted to share the memoir’s authentic feelings with viewers in an immediate onstage context,” says director Ardal, who’s been working on the stage version for nearly five years. “I was initially struck by the youthful friendships in the book, the preciousness and value of those connections. The revolutionary government under Ayatollah Khomeini had already finished its revenge against its heavyweight political enemies and had begun picking off the young. “The contrast between the simplicity of having a best girlfriend and the simultaneous madness of living under a destructive, oppressive political regime fascinated me.” She also realized that the more horrible that life is, the more people seek normalcy in their day-to-day interactions. “As a theatre artist, I look for the dramatic dark side of a story; here, it didn’t have to be invented, since it’s central to the situation. Within that,

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“I don’t want to make this the black-and-white tale of a courageous young woman who survives despite the efforts of a bad villain. “That’s horrible children’s theatre.” At the same time, Ardal speaks with admiration of Nemat as being “glorious and fascinating, a complex, feisty woman, the only person I know who’s faced a firing squad and doesn’t seem to be afraid of death. Her book is filled with the power of the human spirit.” The director dislikes saying she adapted Nemat’s memoir and instead talks about “selecting the portions of the book that crystallize a theme: bearing witness to how a revolution can consume its young, how an oppressive government can destroy human hope.” Working on the script, Ardal found it valuable to hand-write notebooks that told the story from the viewpoint of the various characters. She creates Nemat’s world with just three actors: Bahareh Yaraghi (Hallaj) as Nemat, Mirian Katrib as the other female characters, and Razi Shawahdi as the men. “As a woman-led company, we have a collaborative approach to directing,” says Ardal, who works here with associate director Kim Blackwell and vocal coach Fides Krucker. “The young performers never leave the stage during the show. Those of us with more experience help guide them and give the production to them piece by piece, until they own the whole thing.” 3 jonkap@nowtoronto.com

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Considering all the recent Kony 2012 business, Matthew MacKenzie’s Fringe hit about present-day violence in Africa and Western interventions is getting a remount at just the right time. The show’s resounding critique of casual Western activism in Africa seems extra-relevant and powerful. The show centres around Saa Abraham (Thomas Olajide), a Liberian refugee and former child soldier living in a camp in Ghana. In a desperate attempt to stop a war crimes tribunal, he kidnaps a young Canadian aid worker (Brendan McMurty-Howlett) and holds him hostage. The situation feels a bit didactic, and the characters’

contrasting world views occasionally make their back-and-forth dialogue come across as formulaic. However, the otherwise realistic arguments nicely blur any sense of right and wrong and eventually pay off in a chilling revelation regarding Abraham’s little sister, Sia (Jajube Mandiela). The stories the characters tell each other are based on actual interviews MacKenzie conducted at a Liberian refugee camp. Documenting in graphic detail the brutal emotional and physical violence at all levels of society, they’re at times quite disturbing, but also elucidating and not sensational. Lindsay Anne Black’s striking set is also impressive. A massive wall constructed out of hundreds of empty plastic water bottles divides the otherwise basic set. Light shone through the giant structure creates a dazzling shimmering effect, and the discarded bottles serve as a constant reminder of capitalism’s role in creating and maintaining poverty. JORDAN BIMM

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Opening CLYBOURNE PARK by Bruce Norris (Studio 180 Theatre/Canadian Stage). A battle over race and real estate rages over two generations in a suburban Chicago neighbourhood. (See nowtoronto.com/stage.) Opens

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Apr 5 and runs to Apr 28, Mon-Sat 8 pm, mats Wed 1:30 pm, Sat 2 pm. $22-$49, limited Mon pwyc. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416-368-3110, studio180theatre.com. ORPHEUS DESCENDING/HAPPY END by Tennessee Williams/Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht (George Brown College Theatre School). Williams’s Southern retelling of the Orpheus myth and the Weill/Brecht surrealistic musical comedy are presented in repertory. Opens Apr 10 and runs to Apr 21, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat at noon. $18, srs $12, stu $7. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-8668666, youngcentre.ca. PRISONER OF TEHRAN by Marina Nemat (Contrary Company). Nemat’s memoir of being imprisoned on false charges, a forced marriage and family tension is adapted for the stage (see story, page 58). Previews Apr 10. Opens Apr 11 and runs to Apr 28, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $30-$35, stu/srs $20, mat pwyc. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. 416-504-7529, artsboxoffice.ca. ROMEO AND JULIET by William Shakespeare (ESA Drama). Students perform the classic tragedy with influences from modern and traditional Japanese culture. Opens Apr 11 and runs to Apr 13, Wed-Fri 7:30 pm. $21, stu $13. Etobicoke School of the Arts, 675 Royal York, Nancy Main Auditorium. esainfo.ca. SPRING FEVER FESTIVAL (Theatre Elusive). This festival offers previews of in-development shows, featuring comedy duo the Young Geologists, stage combat by Demanding Satisfac-

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Love this show I LOVE YOU BECAUSE by Joshua

Salzman and Ryan Cunningham (Angelwalk). At the Toronto Centre for the Arts Studio (5040 Yonge). To April 15. $35$45. 416-872-1111. See Continuing, page 60. Rating: NNNN

In a few short years, Angelwalk Theatre has carved out a nice little niche for itself mounting fine productions of smart, imaginative off-Broadway musicals. They succeed once again with I Love You Because, an adorable show about a bunch of cynical 20-something New Yorkers looking for love in the caffeineand alcohol-fuelled city. Austin (Jeff Madden) is a buttoneddown greeting card writer who’s just caught his girlfriend in bed with another guy, so his brother Jeff (Jay Davis) convinces him to date other women. Enter Marcy (Elena Juatco), a spontaneous photographer who’s recovering from her own dating disaster, helped by her bestie, Diana (Gabi Epstein). At first Austin and Marcy detest each other – this is, after all, a (very loose) update of Jane Austen’s Pride And Prejudice – while Jeff and Diana hit

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it off doing the friends-with-benefits thing. But before you can say Sex And The City, the plot takes a few twists. There’s lots to enjoy in Joshua Salzman’s music and Ryan Cunningham’s lyrics, particularly actuary Diana’s patter song about how long it takes to recover from a broken heart (complete with whiteboard illustration), Marcy’s touching act-one finale about not being ready for love, and several lively ensemble numbers in the second half. Director/choreographer Darcy Evans stages the show effectively, making nice use of Scott Penner’s two-tiered set, which, with a simple turn of an Ikea-like table, alternates between café and bar (Michael DeRose and Cara Leslie double as bartenders and baristas, and chime in charmingly throughout.) Evans can’t quite fix a few of the book’s problems, like the weird fact that the poetry-writing Austin is a Republican or that we’re watching a New York-set musical where every character is straight. But the cast and band, helmed by Lily Ling, make you forget all that with their energetic, full-throttle performances. The stand-out is Epstein, who invests her controlling Diana with so much empathy and inner life that she GLENN SUMI almost steals the show.

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Dance presents a performance by graduating students. To Apr 5, Wed 8 pm, Thu 7 pm. $25. Betty Oliphant Theatre, 404 Jarvis. 416-9788849, uofttix.ca. A MONth Of SUNDAYS Aimee Dawn Robinson presents a performance series that features art, video, dance and more with Evan Webber, Dawne Carleton, Victoria Cheong and others. Runs to Apr 29, Sun 1:30 pm (no show Apr 8), plus Apr 25 at 8 pm. $10. Halo Halo Village, 208 Christie. wix.com/aprilisamonthofsunda/ aprilisamonthofsundays. 3

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tion and more. Apr 9-11, Mon-Wed 8 pm. Pwyc. Theatre Centre, 1087 Queen W. theatrecentre.org. The Tales Of hOffmaNN by Jacques Offenbach (Canadian Opera Company). The dark reminiscences of a drunken poet come to life as he recalls his lost loves. Opens Apr 10 and runs to May 14: Apr 10, 18, 21, 27, May 3, 8 and 14 at 7:30 pm, Apr 14 at 4:30 pm, May 6 at 2 pm. $12-$318. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231. TOrONTO PassiON Play (Queensway Cathedral). This theatrical musical tells the Easter story. Apr 6-8, Fri-Sat 7 pm, mats Fri 2 pm, SatSun 4 pm. $5. 1536 the Queensway. torontopassionplay.com. The WOlf by Edmund Stay (Michelle Nir). An outbreak of strange murders lead paranoid townsfolk to turn on each other in this folktale musical play. Apr 7-8 at 8 pm. $15. 918 Bathurst Centre, 918 Bathurst. jenniferjunemurphy@gmail.com.

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harvey by Mary Chase (Drayton Entertainment). A man with an imaginary friend vexes his society-conscious sister in this comedy. Previews Apr 11, opens Apr 12 and runs to Apr 29, Wed-Sun (see website for times). $40, previews $32, stu $20. St Jacobs Country Playhouse, 40 Benjamin E, Waterloo. 1-888-3729866, draytonentertainment.com. ragTime by Terrence McNally, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (Shaw Festival). Turn-ofthe-century America is seen through the eyes of three very different families in this musical. Previews Apr 10-May 25. Opens May 26 and runs in rep to Oct 14. $35-$110, stu/srs mats $24-$45. Festival Theatre, 10 Queen’s Parade, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com.

One-nighters

The hallWay by Leah-Simone Bowen (Ob-

sidian Development Series). Black tenants of a rooming house struggle with daily life in this workshop production set in 1936. Apr 7 at 2 pm. $10. The Cannery, 55 Mill, Bldg 58, Studio 315. 416-463-8444, obsidian-theatre.com. hauNTed by Daniel Karasik (Between Stages). Karasik’s play about family, desire and spiritual hunger gets a reading. Apr 10 at 8 pm. Pwyc ($10 sugg). Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina. 416-924-6211 ext 606, mnjcc.org.

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thaniel). In 1908, an Italian apprentice goes to Ireland to deliver an anniversary gift from Germany. Runs to Apr 28, Fri-Sat 7 pm (no shows Apr 6-7). $20-$25. The Annex Live, 296 Brunswick. 416-929-3999. i lOve yOu Because by Joshua Salzman and Ryan Cunningham (Angelwalk Theatre). An uptight man meets a flighty woman in this musical modern twist on Jane Austen’s Pride And Prejudice (see review, page 59). Runs to Apr 15, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm (no show Apr 8). $35-$45. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge, Studio Theatre. 416-872-1111, angelwalk.ca. NNNN (GS) jack aNd The giaNT BeaNsTalk by Linda A Carson (Young People’s Theatre). This version of the classic children’s folk tale features audience participation. Runs to Apr 21, see website for schedule. $10-$20. 165 Front E. 416-8622222, youngpeoplestheatre.ca. kNickers (a Brief cOmedy) by Sarah Quick (Class Act Dinner Theatre). A small town seeks economic growth in the designer underwear business in this dinner theatre comedy. Runs to Apr 29, see website for schedule. $54-$65. 104 Consumers, Whitby. class-act.ca. my graNNy The gOldfish by Anosh Irani (Factory Theatre). The hypochondriac Nico, recuperating in a Canadian hospital, gets a visit from his tart, anecdote-spouting granny from India. Their relationship, as well as the treatment of Nico’s alcoholic parents, is handled with comedy. Too bad the laughs aren’t sharper; it’s only in the second half that we care about the characters, despite the actors’ strong work.. Runs to Apr 15, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $30-$40, mat pwyc. 125 Bathurst. 416-504-9971, factorytheatre.ca. NN (JK) The NuN’s vacaTiON by Tom Walmsley (Doghouse Riley Productions). Gritty Toronto playwright Walmsley’s latest play follows a psychiatrist (Glen Matthews) who unwittingly instigates a dangerous lust triangle involving his terminally-ill patient (Stephen Chambers) and an old flame (Sandy Duarte), who also happens to be nun. Funny banter about the constructed nature of sexual labels unravels in a searing, realistic psychological drama where sexual tension and violence fire in all directions. Runs to Apr 8, Thu-Sun 8 pm, mat Sun 2 pm. $20. Toronto Free Gallery, 1277 Bloor W. dhrproductions.com. NNNN (Jordan Bimm) PiNkaliciOus, The musical by Elizabeth Kann, Victoria Kann and John Gregor (Vital Theatre). A girl turns pink after eating too many cupcakes in this family show. To May 27, Sun 1 pm. $29.50-$40. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. 416-642-8973, vitaltheatre.ca. POTTed POTTer by Daniel Clarkson and Jefferson Turner (Starvox Entertainment/Potted Productions). This unauthorized sprint through all seven Harry Potter books in 70

World Stage). These interrelated multimedia works look at an attempted adaptation of a Sophoclean war story. Runs to Apr 8, Fri-Sat and Wed 8 pm (plus Fri 6 pm), Thu 7 and 9 pm, mat Sat 4 pm, Sun 2 and 4 pm. $15-$35. Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-9734000, harbourfrontcentre.com. Bliss by Olivier Choinière (Candles Are for Burning). Céline Dion speaks through an oracle to Walmart cashiers in this surrealist play about our appetite for celebrity (see review, page 61). Runs to Apr 8, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $23-$33, stu $19-$27, mat pwyc. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com. NNNN (JK) BOeiNg-BOeiNg by Marc Camoletti (Rogue Theatre). A man juggles three fiancées in this comedy. Runs to Apr 8, Tue-Sun 8 pm. $25, stu $15. Common Good, 837 Dundas W, Underground Space. secureaseat.com. The duck variaTiONs by David Mamet (Glance Productions). Two friends watch ducks in a park while obliquely talking about life, aging and death. Runs to Apr 14, Tue-Sat 8 pm. $18, stu/srs $15. Red Sandcastle Theatre, 922 Queen E. 416-845-9411, glanceproductions. ca. easTerWeeN (John Southworth and Andrew Downing). A musical cabaret tells a magicrealist tale about a mythical egg hunt during an eternal winter. To Apr 5, Thu 8 pm. $15. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. easterween.ca. fuNkylaNd (Famous People Players). The blacklight theatre company presents a twist on Lewis Carroll’s Alice In Wonderland. Runs to Apr 28, Tue-Sat noon and 6:45 pm. $62, srs $56, child $40 (includes meal). 343 Evans. 416532-1137, fpp.org. The greeN dOOr caBareT series (Lower Ossington Theatre). This series features cabaret performances by Joel Hartt, Randy Vancourt, Kelly Holiff and others. Runs to Apr 7, Fri-Sat 8 pm, some Sun 3 pm (see website for exact dates and performers). $20-$30. 100A Ossington. lowerossingtontheatre.com/ cabaret. hearT sTriNgs, The musical (Reynold Na-

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STAIRS by Carole Fréchette (Tarragon Theatre). Fréchette successfully reworks the Bluebeard tale in this eerily atmospheric look at a perky blond woman (Nicole Underhay) who starts having doubts about her new husband (Rick Roberts), especially when she’s told not to enter one mysterious room in her 28room mansion. Director Weyni Mengesha’s production is superb – lighting and sound are like characters – and so are the performers, who include Sarah Dodd and Claire Calnan. A

theme about global strife feels shoehorned into the script, however. Runs to Apr 8, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $21-$51. 30 Bridgman. 416-531-1827, tarragontheatre. com. NNNN (GS) WAR hORSe based on a novel by Michael Morpurgo, adapted by Nick Stafford (National Theatre of Great Britain/Mirvish). The story’s familiar – boy gets horse, boy loses horse, etc – but the stagecraft on display in War Horse is like nothing else. Handspring Puppet Company’s equines come to life with Rae Smith’s spectacular design, which uses projections to convey the First World War battlefields where Albert (an excellent Alex Ferber) seeks the horse he loves. We appreciate the anti-war message, as well, but it’s the magic theatre can create that’ll make you weep. Runs to Sep 30, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 1:30 pm. $35-$130. Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King W. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. NNNNN (Susan G Cole) WAS SPRINg by Daniel MacIvor (Tarragon Theatre). Three women from different generations confront each other about an incident in their shared past. Runs to May 6, TueSat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $24-$51. 30 Bridgman. 416-531-1827, tarragontheatre. com. 3

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minutes was a hit in England and likely will be in North America, too. The strength of the show, though, isn’t the parody of the books – that’s mildly entertaining – but rather the strong comic chemistry between creator/performers Clarkson and Turner. Runs to Apr 8, see website for schedule. $29.95-$99.95. Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge. 1-800-461-3333, mirvish.com. NNN (JK) SIA by Matthew MacKenzie (Cahoots Theatre Company). A Canadian student volunteering in West Africa is taken hostage by a former child soldier (see review, page 58). Runs to Apr 15, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $30, stu/srs $25, mats pwyc-$18.75. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Studio. 416504-9971, cahoots.ca. NNNN (Jordan Bimm)

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Quebec playwright Olivier Choinière takes the cult of celebrity down a long, dark tunnel in the ironically named Bliss. It’s a challenging script, but in the hands of director Steven McCarthy and his cast, the production offers both chills and surprises. At its centre are two women, the much-lauded Céline Dion and the lesser -known Isabelle Côté, held captive for years in her home until shortly before her death from cancer at the age of 22. Each knows personal tragedy: a miscarriage in the former case and repeated sexual abuse by family members in the latter. A group of Walmart employees (Jean Robert Bourdage, Trent Pardy and France Rolland) relate the details of the women’s travails, details that during the telling start to blur together in a fascinating manner. The stories are orchestrated by a figure named the Oracle (Delphine Bienvenu), who corrects minutiae in the trio’s reportage. Eventually, the employees do more than recount events; they become Céline and Isabelle’s family members as well as part of Céline’s entourage. McCarthy skilfully arranges the text’s rhythms and choreographs the action on James Lavoie’s antiseptic white set. The director uses an intentionally gushy, stylized tone at the start, as Céline steps down from the concert stage in order to have a family with her husband, René.

That picture darkens when Isabelle’s life intrudes on that of the idolized Céline. Over the course of the show, Choinière provides a carefully designed devolution from Céline’s luxurious desert mansion to Isabelle’s lower-class home. A narrative twist near the end adds a third world to the two we’ve been watching and allows a minor character to become a major one. Bliss traces a journey of isolation and loneliness, of fantasy and fixation. The play won’t be to everyone’s taste, but this carefully shaped production touches the emotions in a deliberately disJON KAPLAN turbing manner.

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Thursday, April 5 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Jay MalAllison Dore and host Mike Paterñone, son. To Apr 8, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 &

10:45 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10-$15. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca. ATTENTION! DEFICIT! DISORDER! The Bench presents an original revue by up-and-coming improv and sketch talent. 11 pm. Pwyc. Second City, 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. 647-342-5058, starvingartistbar.com. GUILTY OF BEING FUNNY presents weekly stand-up w/ hosts Andrew Fox and Jamie O’Connor. 10 pm. Free. Hot Wings, 563 Queen W. 416-359-8860. THE IMPROV SHOW Comedy Bar presents Kerry Griffin, Lauren Ash, Kayla Lorette, Carmine Lucarelli, Jerry Schaefer, Leslie Seiler and others. 8 pm. $5. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. KATHLEEN PHILLIPS SOLO SHOW The Flying Beaver Pubaret presents the character comic in a live show w/ guest Sara Hennessey. 8 pm. $10-$15. 488 Parliament. 647-347-6567, brownpapertickets.com/ event/236033. LAUNCHPAD COMEDY presents a weekly show. 8:30 pm. Free. White Swan, 836 Danforth. 416-463-8089. LIVE WRONG AND PROSPER Second City presents its latest revue of sketches, songs and improvisations (see review, page

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63). Wed-Sat 8 pm, plus Sat 10:30 pm, Sun 7 pm. $24-$29, stu $15. 51 Mercer. 416-3430011, secondcity.com. NNNN (GS) THE SOAPS The National Theatre of the World presents a weekly improvised soap opera. 8 pm. $10, stu $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. thesoaps.ca. STONER COMEDY Hot Box Cafe presents a weekly show w/ host Jillian Thomas. 7 pm. $5. 191A Baldwin. hotboxcafe.ca. THE TASTY SHOW presents weekly stand-up w/ host Jeffrey Danson. 10 pm. Free. La Revolucion, 2848 Dundas W. 416-766-0746.

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sents amateur comedians competing for $1,000. Nine comics per night. To Apr 5, Mon-Thu 8 pm. $5. Crown & Tiger, 414 College. torontocomedybrawl.com. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Bryan O’Gorman. To Apr 8, Thu and Sat-Sun 8 pm (plus Sat late show 10:30 pm), Fri 9 pm. $12$20. 224 Richmond W. yukyuks.com.

Friday, April 6 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 5. BEERPROV presents an improv competition w/ Jan Caruana, Kerry Griffin, ñ Ron Sparks, host Josh Murray and others.

10:30 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. THE CARNEGIE HALL SHOW The National Theatre of the World presents a monthly improv show w/ Matt Baram, Chris Gibbs, Naomi Snieckus, Ron Pederson and guests. Doors 10:30 pm. $12, stu $6. Second City, 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, thenationaltheatreoftheworld.com.

CHRIS LOCKE PORTLAND FUNDRAISER Chris Locke presents a funder for his ñ trip to the Bridgetown Comedy Festival w/

Mark Little, Kathleen Phillips, Graham Chittenden, Alex Pavone and others. 10 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. LIVE WRONG AND PROSPER See Thu 5. NAKED FRIDAYS John Candy Box Theatre presents weekly improv, sketch, stand-up and music. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. scnakedfridays@gmail.com. THE NO NAME COMEDY SHOW The Bar with No Name presents weekly comedy and people talking loudly w/ host Matt Shury. 9:30 pm. Free. 1651 Bloor W. 416-997-6045. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 5.

Saturday, April 7 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 5. FILTHY: THE NO RULES IMPROV CABARET

The (Very) Bad Dog Theatre presents four foul-mouthed comedians and one wholesome improviser w/ Jan Caruana, Matt Folliott, Ashley Botting, Rob Norman and guest Reid Janisse. 10 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, comedybar.ca. LIVE WRONG AND PROSPER See Thu 5. SMASH HIT Opening Night Theatre presents a weekly improvised musical. 7:30 pm. Pwyc. Augusta House, 152 Augusta. openingnighttheatre.com. THE SUPERSTARS OF COMEDY Comedy Bar presents DJ Demers, Darryl Orr, Gavin Stephens, Pat MacDonald and host Ali Hassan. 9:30 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. THEATRESPORTS Bad Dog Theatre presents unscripted comedy battles. Undercard warm-up event at 7 pm, main event at 8 pm. $12, stu $10 (for one or both shows). Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-491-3115, baddogtheatre.com. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 5.

Sunday, April 8 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 5. HAPPY HOUR @ EIN-STEIN presents Matt

Holmes, Rene Payes, Karina Karina, Eric Bamberg, host Dave Kemp and others. 8 pm. Free. Ein-Stein, 229 College. ein-stein.ca. LIVE WRONG AND PROSPER See Thu 5. SUNDAY NIGHT LIVE The Sketchersons present weekly sketch w/ guest hosts and musical acts. 9:30 pm. $8. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. thesketchersons.com. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 5.

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director chris earle’s last Second City mainstage show – 2010’s record-smashing Something Wicked Awesome This Way Comes – was one of their best ever. His new revue doesn’t quite match the satiric perfection of that show, but it comes close. Partly, this has to do with the times. Wicked Awesome arrived right after the G20 riots, when lots of anger was percolating beneath the city’s surface. There’s still anxiety – witness the opening montage, where the six writer/performers rant about their wants (Jason DeRosse’s “I want a new mayor” understandably got a big response on opening night) – but things aren’t at the breaking point yet. BEST. MONDAY. EVER. Second City presents a weekly show featuring sketch, songs and improvisation. 8 pm. $14. 51 Mercer. 416-3430011, secondcity.com. BLAIR STREETER presents weekly open-mic stand-up comedy. 9 pm. Free. Naughty Nadz, 1590 Dundas E, Mississauga. 905-232-5577. CHEAP LAUGHS MONDAY PJ O’Briens Irish Pub presents a weekly show w/ Russell Roy and guests. 9 pm. Free. 39 Colborne. 416-8157562. THE COMEDY SLAM! Toronto Poetry Project presents poets performing funny spoken word poems in a competition, with improv by the National Theatre of the World. Doors 7 pm. $5. Supermarket, 268 Augusta. torontopoetryslam.com. THE LITTLE COMEDY SHOW THAT COULD Jon Kane presents Dave Atkinson, Amanda Day, Dom Pare, Darryl Orr and Joshua Elijah. 9 pm. $5. The Avro, 750 Queen E. jonkane.ca.

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The political humour, two Rob Ford jokes aside, is generally pretty subtle this time around. In one of the strongest sketches, a son (DeRosse) uses attack ads to shoot down his father’s (Alastair Forbes) suggestions during a family discussion about where to go for summer vacation. Clearly, he’s been following the nasty goings-on in the U.S. And in the high-energy first-act closer, the economic crisis gets skewered in a sketch that sees members of the EU participating in an addiction support group. “It’s been six days since my last bailout,” says one sheepish member. The cultural stereotyping here – from Ashley Comeau’s black-clad Greek matron to Forbes’s stiff German – is broad but fun. The sketch with the bitterest aftertaste, however, concerns a pair of cops (Inessa Frantowski and Carly Heffernan) who walk into the audience bragging that under proposed Bill C-30 they could invade our privacy. It’s a

beautifully written sketch that employs absurdity – including Heffernan serenading someone and Frantowski wanting to re-enact a scene from the movie Dirty Dancing – without losing its sinister edge. Social media get sent up in two LOL-worthy sketches, the first about a couple (Forbes and Heffernan) who want to capture their child’s birth on Twitter, complete with ridiculous hashtags and Twitpics, the second about a group of women who try unsuccessfully to shut down their recently deceased friend’s Facebook account. And for pop culture satire, it’d be hard to top the brilliant improvised spin on reality shows. Heffernan plays a jaded TV exec and Forbes pitches various pilots to her. On opening night, these included Macramé With The Stars, pitting Comeau’s Céline Dion against DeRosse’s John Travolta. The slo-mo replay got one of the night’s biggest laughs.

atre presents a workshop presentation from Taylor White’s Performance Series: World Tour. 8 pm. Wheel Of Improv, w/ Natasha Boomer. 9:30 pm. $5-$7. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-491-3115, baddogtheatre.com. I HEART JOKES The Central presents weekly comedy w/ host Evan Desmarais. 7 pm. $5. 603 Markham. 416-913-4586. THE SECOND CITY’S IMPROV ALL-STARS Second City presents a fast-paced, completely improvised weekly show. 8 pm. $20. 51 Mercer. 416343-0011, secondcity.com. SKETCHCOMEDYLOUNGE Rivoli presents The Headliner Series w/ Pink Slip, British Teeth, Punch in the Box, Newsdesk with Ron Sparks, MC Eric Andrews and more. 9 pm. Pwyc. 332 Queen W. sketchcomedylounge. com. STANDING ON THE DANFORTH Eton House presents Lisa’s Birthday Show Pt. 1, w/ Mark Forward, Dave Hemstad, Richard Ryder, Rob Pue, Kate Davis, Cleve Jones, Cal Post, host Jo-Anna Downey and others. 9 pm. Free. 710 Danforth. 416-466-6161. SUPERMARKET SWEEP Supermarket presents

stand-up and sketch w/ the Ugly Stiks and Tino Monte. 8 pm. $5. 268 Augusta. 416-8400501. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents the Humber School of Comedy at 7:30 pm, and stand-up Amateur Night at 9:30 pm. $4. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

Wednesday, April 11 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Pro-Am Night w/ Mike Paterson, Al val, Darren Pyle, Amy Zuch, DK Phan, Robert Keller and host Slim Bloodworth. 8:30 pm. $6. 2335 Yonge. 416486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca. CHUCKLE CO. PRESENTS Joel Buxton, Adrian

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I also liked two sketches that sent up the ridiculous things found in women’s magazines vs. men’s magazines. Unfortunately, it’s easier to make fun of women’s mags than men’s. Among the cast, Heffernan stands out as a number of high-strung types, including a clown who’s questioning her career choices. Frantowski makes an art of physical awkwardness, especially in a scene where she unsuccessfully tries to Sawyer and DJ Demers present weekly stand-up. 9 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, comedybar.ca. EGG ZEPPELIN Bad Dog Theatre presents Kris Siddiqi and Marcel St Pierre cooking up unscripted comedy, live music and actual bacon w/ guests Tyler Stewart and Nug Nahrgang. 8 pm. $12, stu $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-491-3115, baddogtheatre.com. LAUGHS FOR SCOTT Schizophrenia Society of Canada presents a comedy benefit w/ Kevin MacDonald, Ron Sparks, Winston Spear, Scott McCrickard, Darren Frost, Judy Croon, Rob Ross and host Carolyn Bennett. 8:30 pm. $20 or pwyc. Rivoli, 332

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join an orgy. But for sheer balls, this revue belongs to DeRosse, who bares almost everything to get laughs as a man who thinks he’s getting into some kinky action but instead finds himself thrown out into the audience, where he has to rely on the kindness of strangers to restore his dignity. You won’t be able to look at a can of whipped cream the same way again. 3 glenns@nowtoronto.com

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LIVE WRONG AND PROSPER See Thu 5. SIREN’S COMEDY Celt’s Pub presents open-mic

stand-up w/ Mike Sitaram and host Jarrett Campbell. 8:30 pm. Free. 2872 Dundas W. 416767-3339. SPIRITS COMEDY NIGHT presents Fiona Carver, Levi MacDougall, Peter Anthony, Rose Giles, Dave Hemstad, Justin Laite, TJ Riley, Cal Post, host Jo-Anna Downey and others. 9 pm. Free. Spirits Bar & Grill, 642 Church. 416-967-0001. TACOMEDY Mark DeBonis presents weekly stand-up. 10 pm. Pwyc. La Revolucion, 2848 Dundas W. iamnotmarkdebonis.com. 3

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There Will Be ____ looks back at an 80-year-old mystery.

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Memory bank Kerry Tribe tracks the tricks of time By DAVID JAGER KERRY TRIBE at the Power Plant (231 Queens Quay West) to June 3. 416-9734949. Rating: NNN

time, memory and narrative can play endless tricks on us. Kerry Tribe, an artist from Los Angeles, uses video and film to plumb the labyrinth of memory as it’s skewed and distorted through rumour, falsehood or physical mishap. There Will Be ___ delves into the 1929 Greystone Mansion Murders, when oil heir Ned Doheny and his secretary, Hugh Plunkett, were found dead – a murder-suicide – in his bedroom in the Beverly Hills mansion. Five scenarios enact what might

have happened between Ned, Hugh and Ned’s wife, Lucy, several of them involving the enduring rumour that the two men were lovers. Handsomely recreated with a full cast and sleek production values, the segments are joined by the simple conjunction “or” to show that any one of the death scenes is as plausible as another. The film runs in a perpetual loop; you recognize you’ve come full circle when characters start repeating themselves. Many brilliant films skewer their own narrative logic (Memento and Pulp Fiction come to mind), but for all its brilliant detail, this one feels a bit coldly enigmatic and too clever by half.

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feels like it’s been rushed to the finish line. Morayo and sister Eniayo go to school in a DAUGHTERS WHO WALK THIS PATH by small town surrounded by friends Yejide Kilanko, 329 pages, $24 paper. and relatives. But when their male Rating: NNN cousin Bros T moves in and proves to there’s a lot of promise in this be a sexual predator, Morayo’s life is debut novel about a spirited girl growchanged4:28 forever. 24954_AuthorsNOWad:Apr 5 3/26/12 PMFortunately, Page 1 she has ing up in Nigeria. Too bad the story a loving aunt who can relate to her ex-

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Patient H.M., an older work by Tribe, is warmer and more humanscale. Its anonymous subject underwent experimental brain surgery to stop his epileptic seizures, but the operation left him without the ability to form long-term memories. A two-channel installation broadcasts his story in 20-second segments, the average length of H.M.’s recall ability. The cognitive dissonance of his condition is thus cleverly imposed on the viewer, recreating the baffling narrative of a man who must make sense of things over and over again. Her use of sophisticated concepts and techniques makes Tribe part of a generation of artists distancing themselves from a public perception of video art as black-and-white footage of studio artists in unitards and instead moving it toward the richness of cinema. Is the trend a success? Too soon to say, but Tribe’s work is compelling. 3 art@nowtoronto.com

ART GALLERY OF MISSISSAUGA Lila Lewis Irving, to Apr 29. 300 City Centre (Mississauga). 905896-5088. ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO Francisco Goya y Lucientes and James Gillray, to Apr 15. Songs Of The Future: Canadian Industrial Photographs, to Apr 29. Jack Chambers, to May 13. Annie MacDonell (Images Festival), Apr 11-Jun 3. Iain Baxter&, to Aug 12. $19.50, srs $16, stu $11, free Wed 6-8:30 pm. 317 Dundas W. 416-9796648. ART GALLERY OF YORK UNIVERSITY Diane Borsato, to Jun 10. 4700 Keele, Accolade E bldg. 416-736-5169. BLACKWOOD GALLERY Art & art history grads, to Apr 8. 3359 Mississauga N, U of T Missis-

perience. But that doesn’t make it any easier for her to sort out her feelings about men. Yejide Kilanko has a lively style – she conveys the profound difference between cultures in Nigeria’s small towns and large cities with great skill – and a strong grasp of the material. She understands exactly how male privilege operates, and her account of Morayo’s unrestrained promiscuity during her university years rings painfully true. If she’d stayed with her themes instead of going into so much detail about seemingly unrelated things – Morayo’s job at the bank and her fiancé’s sister’s wedding, for example – the book wouldn’t sag in the middle. When Bros T reappears, the story regains its tension. At the same time, I wanted to learn more about Tiyamiu, a daring politico, and his attempt to unseat a corrupt chieftain. That storyline falls away a bit too quickly. But by the end, Kilanko is cramming so much into the narrative, you can barely catch your breath. You get the sense that she’s jammed it all in because she doesn’t believe she’ll write another book. SUSAN G. COLE I hope she does. Write Books at susanc@nowtoronto.com

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French, to Apr 21. 511 Church, 2nd fl. 647348-0104. BIRCH LIBRALATO Sylvie Bélanger and Richard Storms, to Apr 14. 129 Tecumseth. 416-365-3003. CITY HALL Ecuadorian Art 2012, Apr 5-13, reception 5 pm Apr 5. 100 Queen W. 416338-0338. DIAZ CONTEMPORARY Painting/video: Chris Kline and Manon de Pauw, to Apr 21. 100 Niagara. 416-361-2972. GALLERY 44 Photos/video/performance (Images Festival): Deanna Bowen, Apr 5-21, reception/performance 6-9 pm Apr 5 (daily performances 1 pm). Installation (Images Festival): Deborah Stratman, Apr 6-May 19. 401 Richmond W, #120. 416-979-3941. GALLERY 1313 What Just Happened: OCADU scupture/installation students, to Apr 15, reception 7-10 pm Apr 5. 1313 Queen W. 416-536-6778. GLADSTONE HOTEL Artists And Fleas (Part II), 11 am-4 pm Apr 7. Colourshift Abstract Arts Collective, Apr 11-23. Photos: Outliers group show, to Apr 29. Drawing: Lauren Poon, to Apr 10. 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. IMAGES AT 204 Photos/film (Images Festival): Alexandra Navratil, Duncan Campbell

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Kilanko reads as part of the Harbourfront Readings Series at the Brigantine Room Wednesday (April 11).

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sauga (Mississauga). 905-828-3789. DESIGN EXCHANGE Marlis Saunders, to Apr 23. $10, stu/srs $8. 234 Bay. 416-363-6121. GARDINER MUSEUM OF CERAMIC ART Greg Payce, to May 6. $12, stu $6, srs $8; Fri 4-9 pm half-price, 30 and under free. 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080. JUSTINA M. BARNICKE Melanie Gilligan, to Apr 8. 7 Hart House. 416-978-8398. MOCCA C Magazine Contemporary Art Fundraiser, preview 6 pm, auction 7 pm Apr 11 ($75, cmagazine2012.eventbrite.com). 952 Queen W. 416-395-0067. THE POWER PLANT Kerry Tribe, to Jun 3. Dissenting Histories: 25 Years Of The Power Plant, to Sep 3. 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949.

and Julieta María, Apr 10-28. 204 Spadina. imagesfestival.com. INDEXG GALLERY Erik Jerezano, to Apr 22. 50 Gladstone. 416-535-6957. JULIE M. GALLERY Painting: Atsmon Ganor, Apr 5-May 13, reception 6-9 pm Apr 5. 15 Mill, bldg 37. 416-603-2626. KATZMAN KAMEN GALLERY Blue Republic (Anna Passakas and Radoslaw Kudlinski), to Apr 7. 80 Spadina #406. 416-504-9515. LAUSBERG CONTEMPORARY Painting: Joseph Drapell, to Apr 29. 326 Dundas W. 416-5164440. LE GALLERY Amanda Nedham, to Apr 29, reception 7-10 pm Apr 6. 1183 Dundas W. 416-532-8467. OCADU GRADUATE STUDENT GALLERY Electric Circus: For The Love Of Neon, to Apr 15. 205 Richmond W #104. 416-977-6000. PARI NADIMI Video/photos: Matilda Aslizadeh, Apr 5-May 26, reception 5-8 pm Apr 5. 254 Niagara. 416-591-6464. WARC Installation: Jules Koostachin, to Apr 7. 401 Richmond W #122. 416-977-0097. XPACE Archive: Hannah Hilary Enkel, to Apr 21. Yesterday’s Today, Tomorrow group show (Images Fest), to Apr 21. Installation: Nadia Belerique, to Apr 28. 58 Ossington. 416-849-2864.

ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM Maya: Secrets Of

Their Ancient World, to Apr 9 ($25, stu/srs $22.50, Fri after 4:30 pm $19, stu/srs $17). Deborah Samuel, to Jul 2. The Art Of Collecting, ongoing. $15, stu/srs $13.50; Fri 4:308:30 pm $9, stu/srs $8. 100 Queen’s Park. 416586-8000. TEXTILE MUSEUM OF CANADA Dare To Wear Love, to May 6. Perpetual Motion: Material Re-use; Portable Mosques: The Prayer Rug, to Sep 3. $15, srs $10, stu $6; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre. 416-599-5321. UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ART CENTRE MVS studio grads; XXXX Collective, to Apr 7. Workforce: Chinese Propaganda Posters, to Apr 21. 15 King’s College Circle. 416-978-1838. 3

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IN PERSON They had a feeling that the bucket list thing was pretty big, and they were right. Ben Nemtin, Dave Lingwood, Duncan Penn and Jonnie Penn made up their own list of things they wanted to do before facing the Grim Reaper and offered to help others cross items off their own lists. The result is the Facebook page, the TV show The Buried Life and now the book What Do You Want To Do Before You Die? ($23.95, Artisan/Thomas Allen). It’s a collection of tender confessions offered in the spirit of the great PostSecret project: people speak honestly and humbly about what matters to them. Meet the authors at Chapters, Tuesday (April 10). See Readings, this page. SGC

READINGS THIS WEEK Thursday, April 5 WALID BATIR/SUSAN STEUDEL Reading. 7 pm.

Free. Magpie, 831 Dundas W. coachhouse.ca. ESI EDUGYAN The Half Blood Blues author is interviewed by writer Susan Swan. 12:30 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca. STEDMAN PURDY/ANDREW MCLEOD 7 pm. Cineforum, 463 Bathurst. 416-603-6643. LIONEL SHRIVER With Macleans columnist Anne Kingston. 7 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca. NICHOLAS SPARKS 7 pm. Free. Indigo Yorkdale, 3401 Dufferin. chapters.indigo.ca.

Saturday, April 7 KELLEY ARMSTRONG Signing copies of her YA novel The Calling. 2 pm. Free. Indigo Yorkdale, 3401 Dufferin. chapters.indigo.ca.

Sunday, April 8 MOTHER WORLD, PACHAMAMA Poetry and

more plus an open mic. 11:30 am. Free. Ellington’s Cafe, 805 St Clair W. 416-652-9111.

Monday, April 9 THE COMEDY SLAM! Poets perform their funny

spoken word poems in a two-round slam. 7 pm. $5. Supermarket, 268 Augusta. 416-3123865.

Tuesday, April 10 THE BURIED LIFE The founders of the MTV reality documentary show (Ben Nemtin, Dave Lingwood, Duncan Penn and Jonnie Penn) sign copies of their new book, What Do You Want To Do Before You Die? 7 pm. Free. Chapters, 142 John. 416-595-7349.

Wednesday, April 11 HEATHER BIRRELL/JOHN BOYNE/YEJIDE KILANKO 7:30 pm. $10 stu free. Harbourfront Cen-

tre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, readings.org.

LINDSAY CAHILL/ERIC SCHMALTZ/ROCCO DE GIACOMO/GIANNA PATRIARCA 7:30 pm. Free. Annex Live, 296 Brunswick. quattrobooks.ca.

SANJAY GUPTA Talking about his novel, Mon-

day Mornings, with Heather Reisman. 7 pm. Free. Indigo Manulife, 55 Bloor W. chapters. indigo.ca. ELENA LAMBERTI Discussing her book Marshall McLuhan’s Mosaic with Nino Ricci and Philip Marchand. 6:30 pm. Free. Italian Cultural Institute, 496 Huron. 416-921-3802. 3

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THE SALT OF LIFE (Gianni Di Gregorio). 90 minutes. Subtitled. Opens Friday (April 6). For venues and times, see Movies, page 69. Rating: NNN

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Bully for you

Director Lee Hirsch goes after the bullies who slapped an R rating on his brave documentary By SUSAN G. COLE BULLY directed by Lee Hirsch. 108 min-

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utes. An Alliance release. Opens Friday (April 6). For venues and times, see Movies, page 69.

every time i read about the documentary Bully, a clear-eyed look at the impact of bullying on five families, the word “controversial” is used to describe it. Fact is, it’s powerful, pointed and important, but there’s nothing controversial about it. “I’m actually sick of people saying it’s controversial,” says director Lee Hirsch, pouring himself coffee in a downtown Toronto hotel room. “But the fight over the rating did give us a lot of attention, and it’s hard for documentaries to get that.” It’s amazing what four “clear and present fucks,” as Hirsch calls them, and two “background fucks” will do. When Bully received an R rating in the U.S. that will prevent middle school kids – the doc’s target audience – from seeing it, celebrities like Johnny Deep, Merle Streep and Justin Bieber decried the decision, and the film’s profile was radically increased. Fortunately, Canada’s panel gave it a PG rating. It’s not that the American rating system is rigid. “They bend the rules when they want to,” says the New York City-based filmmaker. “But this wasn’t a giant studio movie. It’s a double standard. You keep giving us violence, exploitation of

women, homophobia and everything else and you glorify it and make it sexy – The Hunger Games, for example – and then you have to intervene on behalf of the parents of America when it comes to Bully? It really pissed people off.” Hirsch spent a year following his subjects and accompanying them on the school bus, where a lot of the abuse takes place. Almost as disturbing as the bullies punching, kicking, poking and everything else – not at all inhibited by the presence of the camera – are the shots of the young witnesses who do nothing. “Those are the kids this movie is for,” Hirsch insists. “It fires everybody up. The bullies watch it and go, ‘Oh, I thought I was just messing around’ and don’t realize they’re compounding something. The bullied kids say, ‘Thank you for giving me a voice.’ “But the best message I got was from a kid who wrote, “On the bus today I stopped someone from being bullied. I stopped it and I went with the kid to the counsellor and I never would have done it if I hadn’t seen the film.” Not that counsellors are equipped to deal with the problem. Bully reveals an array of inept teachers and school systems not at all prepared to be accountable for what happens to their young charges. But though his film may indicate other wise, Hirsch doesn’t consider teachers his enemies.

Alex’s horrific ordeal caused the director to intervene.

REVIEW BULLY

ñ(Lee Hirsch) Rating: NNNN Five middle-school children and their families are the focus of this relatively conventional inside look at kids being mercilessly bullied by their peers. It’s upsetting in all the right ways. A young girl finds a gun and threatens her harassers – eventually experiencing the full force of the law. Lesbian Kelby survives thanks to supportive parents and gay friends. Alex, who has Aspergers and whose bullying is most graphically exposed, doesn’t tell his family anything about his ordeal. Two sets of parents try to make school authorities accountable for the suicides of their kids. Hirsch rides the bus – truly hell on wheels – to record the abuse, the pathetically passive bystanders and the distressing response from wholly inept teachers. Committed filmmaking at its best – and guaranteed to make a difference. SGC

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“I see every educator as a partner. The two big teacher unions are partners in the project. I’m not at war with educators. This isn’t Waiting For Superman. If educators can acknowledge that they don’t have the tools to deal with the problem, then that really matters.” At one point during the shoot, Hirsch could no longer stomach what he was seeing and showed the footage to the parents and teachers of Alex, whose abuse is most explicitly documented. It’s unusual for documentary filmmakers or photojournalists to intervene in this way. Most allow horrible things to happen to get the hot story. Famously, Kevin Carter’s Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of a starving African child at a feeding centre was criticized for that reason. “There’s a difference between a photojournalist shooting famine victims and being engaged with a family on a journey,” says Hirsch. “These guys were partners. This wasn’t a drop-in interview, and Alex [the victim at the heart of the film] knew that every time I showed up in his life I had his back. “The whole film is an act of intervention.” 3

Italian writer Gianni Di Gregorio scored a big art house hit with his directorial debut, 2010’s Mid-August Lunch, and now he’s back with another bittersweet ode to growing older. The Salt Of Life casts him as Gianni, an early retiree who walks his dog through his quiet Rome neighbourhood, runs errands for his wife (Elisabetta Piccolomini) and basically acts as a servant for his mother (the scratchyvoiced Valeria di Franciscis Bendoni), who lives in luxury yet doesn’t want to sell her home to help him out. Gianni flirts with his downstairs neighbour and his mother’s live-in helper, but lately he’s begun to feel useless and invisible. Is he going to become one of the old geezers shooting the breeze outside the corner store? Or does he still have a shot at romance? This is a very European midlife crisis movie (nobody blinks at the idea of his pondering an affair) with little plot and no real big laughs. It has the leisurely pace of one of Gianni’s walks, observing life as it goes by. But the details are full of honesty and charm, and Di Gregorio has a wonderfully droll deadpan face that he uses to maximum effect, whether assessing the bags under his eyes in the mirror or smiling uncomfortably while his best friend tries to hook them up with blond twins half their age. GLENN SUMI

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Lovers loses LOVERS IN A DANGEROUS TIME (May Charters, Mark Hug). 100 minutes. Opens Friday (April 6). For venues and times, see Movies, page 69. Rating: NN

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Mary Harron doesn’t let the industry suck her dry By PHIL BROWN ThE MOTh DIARIES directed by Mary Harron, written by Harron from the novel by Rachel Klein, with Sarah Bolger, Lily Cole, Sarah Gadon and Scott Speedman. An Alliance release. 83 minutes. Opens Friday (April 6). For venues and times, see Movies, page 69. american psycho writer/director Mary Harron never planned to tap into the Twilight-fuelled teen vampire market with her new film, The Moth Diaries. It just kind of happened. She discovered Rachel Klein’s novel about an absorbing friendship between two young girls and a new blood-sucking student six years ago, long before the shirtless circus came to town. “I saw it as a film immediately,” Harron said, shortly after the film’s premiere during the Toronto Film Festival. “I loved the boarding school setting and in particular the intense, romantic crazy girlfriend shit. I felt like the supernatural element was just a fantastic metaphor to illustrate that and make the story a traditional Gothic, which I hadn’t seen in a while.” Of course, the massive success of that other franchise should at least have made it easier for once for the fiercely independent filmmaker to get her movie made, but that wasn’t the case. “It didn’t help at all,” she says with a wry grin, “partly because people said, ‘Well there’s already a Twilight,’ and partly because people complained, ‘There are no hot boys in this.’ Nor [was] there enough hot lesbian sex – which no one said in so many words, but when I’d get notes about the girls’ relationship saying things like ‘Make it more visceral,’ it was clear what they meant.” On paper, the project seems like Harron’s most commercially viable movie ever, yet she still found herself trudging through a five-year

review THE MOTH DIARIES (Mary Harron) Rating: NNN The Moth Diaries is part bubble-gum vampire romp, part study of a disturbed teen mind. Rebecca (Sarah Bolger) enters boarding school reeling from her father’s suicide and unusually dependent on her best friend (Sarah Gadon), who is stolen away by a possibly blood-sucking new British girl (Lily Cole) in a manner reminiscent of the Gothic novels assigned in class. The teenage vampire shenanigans soon turn into psychological horror, and there’s a possibility that the whole situation is Rebecca’s delusion. Harron’s memorably cracked approach to psychological horror in American Psycho works well in this twisted study of female friendship. Sadly, her characteristic dark humour isn’t present here, although some material will cause titters. Fanged teen melodrama with an emo voice-over can only be taken so seriously. PB

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production odyssey. It’s something she’s come to accept as part of her process, since she has no desire to make packaged commercial vehicles. But unanticipated roadblocks were put up simply because this was a movie for the teen girl market. “When people made something like Stand By Me, nobody said, ‘Only teenage boys are going to see this. How are we going to get anyone else in the theatre?’ But you make a film about teenage girls and they say only teenage girls will go to see it,” says Harron. “Producers want a new Gossip Girl, and they want everything for that audience to be done on that level. If it’s a bit dark or more ambitious, they think no one will go. It’s very condescending.” Harron works as a TV director between film projects to avoid having to dilute her movies to stay employed. The battles can be frustrating for a filmmaker with many projects she’d like to bring to fruition, though Harron finds the rewards worth the wait. “It was always difficult, but I have to say that the last few years were extremely hard. I just had a movie with Universal collapse, which was tough,” she says, not wanting to go into details. “But I have to think, what if I made a studio movie that wasn’t very good? How would I feel then? At least when you work on a studio project that goes down in flames, you believed in it and didn’t have to compromise. That’s my compensation.” 3 movies@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/nowfilm

This feature has the whiff of a vanity project – the filmmakers are the stars, writers, editors and just about everything else – but it’s more than that. It’s got likeable characters, a clever framing device and a great premise. Too bad it just misses. Todd (Mark Hug) and Allison (May Charters) have known each other since they were three years old, growing up in a small BC coastal town. When Allison returns after losing her book illustration job, she and Todd try to sort out their illdefined relationship. Todd, in the meantime,

copes with the insecurities of being the older brother of hockey superstar Bobby (Mark Wiebe, far outshining his novice co-stars), eking out a living as a cherry picker even as filthy-rich Bobby offers him a whack of cash. These are believable situations, some of them quintessentially Canadian. But just when you think the stakes will get raised – drunken Allison and Todd consider hooking up, the boys get physical at a pickup hockey game – the script goes slack. In an attempt to deal with the inadequacies in the writing, one sequence by the water has obviously been reshot and dubbed. And the sound is dreadful. The device of seeing the childhood Todd and Allison in flashback is very effective. And Allison’s drawings are used as a narrative frame in very smart ways. None of those strategies, however, can make up for mediocre filmmaking. SUSAN G. COLE

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Weaving moments of psychological insight into a crowd-pleasing underdog narrative, Fightville takes an energetic look behind the scenes of mixed martial arts while still functioning as an incisive documentary. Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker, directors of Gunner Palace and The Prisoner: Or How I Planned To Kill Tony Blair, examine the MMA circuit in Louisville through the

eyes of a pair of up-and-coming fighters, Dustin Poirier and Albert Stainback. Using tiny digital cameras, Epperlein and Tucker capture intense footage of the fights, but they’re equally good at getting close to the athletes and their coaches out of the ring, as we see when Stainback shares a harrowing memory of domestic abuse without seeming to understand how his past has led him to adopt a stage persona borrowed from the Droogs of A Clockwork Orange. It’s not for the squeamish – the cage matches get pretty messy – but just about everyone else should find someNORMAN WILNER thing to appreciate.

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The Girl In The White Coat is what happens when someone watches Breaking The Waves and doesn’t understand it – though writer/director Darrell James Wasyk cites Gogol’s The Overcoat as a source instead, giving his perpetually suffering heroine Elise (Pascale Montpetit) a ragged white winter coat which she wears like a life jacket. Working a menial factory job to keep her father in a nursing home, Elise can’t afford to repair the coat; she can’t afford much of anything, really. And so she finds herself drifting into questionable situations, with questionable people, until things get very bad indeed. This sort of story can work really well if the filmmaker constructs a credible reality for his characters, but Wasyk whiffs it. The world of The Girl In The White Coat should feel oppressive and inescapable, but it never quite does. The supporting characters are cartoon ghouls who exist only to torment our suffering heroine. Then again, our heroine isn’t terribly well-defined either. There are points in the film when Elise acts impulsively and foolishly, and others when she seems to lack even the most basic social intelligence. I spent the first half of the film trying to figure out how Wasyk wanted me to see the character, and then realized it didn’t matter; she was just there to be pummelled by circumstance until the credits rolled. norMan Wilner

The first in a series of four feature-length documentaries to be collectively known as Tales Of West Street, Yu Xun’s The Vanishing Spring Light introduces us to the inhabitants of a decaying block of Dujiangyan City, in China’s Sichuan province. One of the oldest communities in the country, dating back 2,000 years, the area is slated for redevelopment as part of a gentrification initiative. But until that happens, a woman named Grandma Jiang sits around outside her building keeping an eye on the mah jongg parlour within. Grandma Jiang is in poor health, having fallen and subsequently suffered a stroke. As she deteriorates, Yu’s camera watches her recede from the community – and then records the family squabbling that fills the vacuum of her absence. The Vanishing Spring Light has no narration or music; its impassive, direct-cinema approach brings to mind the landmark studies of Frederick Wiseman and Allan King. Yu isn’t quite working at their level – he lacks their ruthless editorial sensibility and storytelling economy, and the doc’s twohour length occasionally strained my patience. But there’s enough human drama to be mined here to norMan Wilner justify a little shifting in your seat.

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nnnnn Don’t expect any shocking alterations in James Cameron’s re-release of Titanic – which arrives, rather awkwardly, at the centenary of history’s most famous nautical disaster. The boat still sinks, Rose still lets go, and Céline Dion still howls that awful, awful song over the end credits.

The major difference is that now it all happens in digital 3-D, so the image is about 10 per cent darker than it was in 1997, but that isn’t much of a problem. Titanic still works brilliantly; it’s a grand-scale studio epic with the heart of a romance and the pulse of an action movie. It’s the only American film that rivals Gone With The Wind for both swoonery and production value. Yes, Cameron paints his story in broad strokes, and some of the dialogue is risible. But Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet sell the hell out of it – particularly Winslet, whose fiery, spirited performance is just as strong 15 years on. (The little moment when she almost psychs herself out of disrobing for that portrait remains the best thing she’s ever done.) The 3-D is at best unobtrusive. The image rarely blurs or strobes the way it does in certain other conversions with the word “Titan” in the title. But you’re not really going back to count Bernard Hill’s beard hairs, are you now? norMan Wilner

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everything to run one last job, and yeah, that’s a movie he’s made before. But he’s got pretty good at the stone-faced hero thing, and his simmering presence suits the film’s modest scale nicely. The ever-mounting complications start to feel a little ridiculous about an hour in, but director Kormákur keeps the action moving so swiftly that you won’t really mind. 109 min. NNN (NW) Interchange 30

A DANGEROUS METHOD (David Cronenberg) finds the master filmmaker exploring the friendship and eventual schism between Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) and Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen), which gave birth to modern psychoanalysis. Cronenberg’s clinical approach to Christopher Hampton’s too on-the-nose play makes for a very static drama; it’s as if he’s much more comfortable dealing with eroticism as subtext than text. 93 min. NN (NW) Carlton Cinema

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(Lee Hirsch) 108 min. See interview and review, page 65. NNNN (SGC) Opens Apr 6 at Varsity.

CASA DE MI PADRE (Matt Piedmont) is a parody brought to you by Will Ferrell and his Funny Or Die amigos. Ferrell speaks Spanish and sports a tan and deep-fried hair as a dim-witted ranchero fighting Mexican drug lords. Ridiculing Mexican telenovelas and Zapata westerns can be moderately funny, but Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez already affectionately mimicked these genres. 84 min. NNN (RS) Scotiabank Theatre

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(Alexander Payne) stars George Clooney as a Hawaiian lawyer trying to cope with his wife’s impending death from a brain injury, figure out how to relate to his two young daughters (Shailene Woodley and Amara Miller) and digest the revelation that she was cheating on him before her accident. It’s sort of a comedy. Clooney’s textured

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Waugh) is a generic B-movie about an elite military team racing to stop a terrorist operation cast with “actual Navy SEALs” who may be able to swing heavy ordnance around, but cannot deliver a single line of dialogue convincingly. You’d be surprised how much that matters. Some subtitles. 110 min. N (NW) Interchange 30, Yonge & Dundas 24

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as good as its performances. Glenn Close plays an uptight butler working in a luxurious 19th-century Dublin hotel, whose big secret is that he’s actually a she. When she meets another woman (Janet McTeer) living comfortably as a man, her life takes a turn. Close’s performance is rock solid, especially physically, while McTeer’s charm and charisma leap off the screen. Too bad the script doesn’t travel to some more interesting places about gender and sexuality in a repressed era. 113 min. NN (GS) Carlton Cinema

AMERICAN REUNION (Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg) 113 min. See Also Opening, page 68. Opens Apr 6 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande Steeles, Humber Cinema, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale.

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(Michel Hazanavicius) is a stylistic experiment pulled off with panache. A 1920s silent film star (Jean Dujardin) and fan and aspiring star (Bérénice Bejo) meet cute, and soon her career is taking off (she’s dubbed the “it girl” of talkies) as his falls into decline. Filming in gorgeous black-and-white, director Hazanavicius lovingly embraces all the tropes of silent cinema (iris shots, titles), sharpening the familiar narrative with a slight edge that should satisfy contemporary tastes. Oscar wins include picture, director and actor. 100 min. NNNN (GS) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Grande Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre

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performance pulls uneasy laughs out of the misery, and the kids are terrific at the complicated emotional turns. 115 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre

Dr. SeuSS’ the Lorax (Chris Renaud, Kyle Balda) is the latest feature-length Dr. Seuss adaptation that transforms the masterful author’s succinct writing into souped-up CGI spectacle. Lovers of the book will find the added pop culture references and songs distracting, but the breezy comedy should please kids. Seuss won’t roll over in his grave – maybe just shudder slightly. 94 min. NNN (Phil Brown) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Humber Cinema, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24 FightviLLe ñ NNNN

(Petra Epperlein, Michael Tucker) 85 min. See review, page 66. (NW) Opens Apr 6 at Bloor Hot Docs Cinema.

FootNote (Joseph Cedar) folds an entire

universe of conflict into the tale of two Talmudic scholars: a meticulous father (Shlomo Bar-Aba) who toils angrily in obscurity and his populist, media-savvy son (Lior Ashkenazi). When the father is mistakenly told he’s being given the prestigious Israel Prize, which was actually awarded to his son, the conflict explodes. Writer/director Cedar (Beaufort) satirizes academic politics, personal integrity and generational resentment, but his stylistic choices under-

mine the points and punchlines. Cedar’s literary narration and omniscient cross-cutting interfere with the progression of the narrative rather than enhancing it. Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums got the balance of observation and commentary exactly right; Cedar’s Footnote gets it wrong. Subtitled. 105 min. NNN (NW) Cumberland 4, Grande - Yonge

the ForgiveNeSS oF BLooD (Joshua

Marston) tracks a family feud that tears an Albanian family apart. When a man kills his neighbour over a land claim and then leaves town, it’s his high schooler son Nik (Tristan Halilaj) who – according to the Kanun, Albania’s tribal legal code – must live under virtual house arrest or be killed himself. The sexual politics are fascinating: while the restless, hormonal Nik must stay put, his younger sister, Rudina (Sindi Lacej), wins more freedom and responsibility, taking over the family business and running it shrewdly. This is a film about the old country, represented by the Kanun, and the new Albania represented by Nik and his cellphone. The movie doesn’t exactly gallop along, but it builds tension, the performances, especially Halilaj’s, are strong, and, like recent Oscar winner A Separation, it’s got many layers. Subtitled. 109 min. NNN (SGC) Cumberland 4

FrieNDS With KiDS (Jennifer Westfeldt) is

an entirely okay comedy about two longtime pals (writer/director Westfeldt and Parks And Recreation’s invaluable Adam Scott) who impulsively decide to have a baby together without any romantic entanglement, only to find their friendship getting complicated anyway. It’s the same mechanism that drove No Strings Attached and Friends With Benefits, only without

condoms. Westfeldt’s script is stronger in the first half than the second. She’s far better at establishing characters and situations than she is wrapping them up, and she still has that weird obsession with writing scenes where people tell her she’s beautiful. But the actors are appealing and talented enough to make it work. Scott, particularly, is terrific, his ironic detachment slowly sliding away into self-knowledge as his character slowly comes into focus. And Jon Hamm makes a sardonic supporting role into a complex human being, just like he did in Bridesmaids. 107 min. NNN (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

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oscillates between the usual documentary elements – a press conference, testimonials from colleagues and journalists, a few moments where the painter discusses his influences – and long, luxurious takes where Belz just observes Richter in his studio as he works on a piece. And while there’s nothing wrong with the usual stuff, it’s just not interesting as observing the artist in his element, making aesthetic decisions with the mere placement of a brush or the intensity of a stroke. The footage of Richter at work is so enthralling that you’ll come away wishing Belz had devoted her whole movie to it. She wouldn’t even have had to change the title. Subtitled. 97 min. NNN (NW) TIFF Bell Lightbox

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(Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor) finds Nicolas Cage importing the plot of last year’s Drive Angry into a superhero sequel, as accursed biker Johnny Blaze is charged with protecting a boy (Fergus Riordan) at the centre of an apocalypse prophecy. Pairing the reliably outsized Cage with makers of the Crank films and Gamer must have seemed like a great idea, but the chemistry’s all wrong – they’re incompatible variants of crazy. 96 min. NN (NW) Interchange 30

(Tim Hill) is a generic family comedy about the rebellious son of the Easter Bunny that’s redeemed by a demented, genuinely subversive spirit that comes straight from star Russell Brand. 94 min. NNNN (NW) Kingsway Theatre

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Wasyk) 112 min. See review, page 68. NN (NW) Opens Apr 6 at TIFF Bell Lightbox.

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(David Fincher) is a taut thriller adapted from the Swedish bestseller and film. Daniel Craig has lots of charisma as a disgraced journalist investigating the disappearance of an industrialist’s niece, and Rooney Mara rocks as his troubled, tattooed research assistant. But this is another unnecessary English-language remake. 158 min. NNN (SGC) Interchange 30, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Michael Dowse) stars Seann William Scott as a dim-witted but sweet-natured bouncer recruited to the minor leagues because his fist can deliver concussions on demand. The film embraces hockey’s brute culture, with a critical eye to fans who crave commodified violence and sympathy for the enforcers who merely play their bare-knuckled roles. 90 min. NNNN (RS) Interchange 30

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Wallner) provides a measured examination of the extra-legal prison facility through interviews with Diane Beaver, who authored the infamous memo sanctioning torture; Matthew Diaz, who blew the whistle on the harsh treatment of detainees, and Spanish lawyer Gonzalo Boye, who brought suit against the Bush Administration for its attempts to cover up the rampant violation of human rights. But it’s the story of Murat Kurnaz that makes the biggest impact. A German Muslim wrongly arrested in Pakistan and sold to the American military as a high-value target, he’s still haunted by the five years he spent in detention. Kurnaz comes to represent the dozens of other faceless captives still held at Guantánamo; he was just lucky enough to have people who fought for him on the outside. Director Wallner’s dry, methodical approach may lack the flash of previous Gitmo docs, but he lays out the story clearly and without any unnecessary posturing. 90 min. NNN (NW) Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, Carlton Cinema

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adventure into a heartfelt appeal for film preservation and a love song to pioneering film director Georges Méliès. I don’t blame Scorsese for making this bauble; after decades of tireless advocacy for cinema history, it’s probably the best way to get his message out. I just don’t know whether it works as a movie. 126 min. NNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, SilverCity Mississauga

the huNger gameS (Gary Ross) is an adaptation of the popular Suzanne Collins novel that will definitely satisfy its rabid fans. Sometime in the future, 12 downtrodden districts must each serve up two children – picked by lottery – as “tributes” to participate in a televised fight-to-the-death spectacle. When her younger sister is chosen, Katniss volunteers to take her place in the ultimate reality show. Jennifer Lawrence is superb as Katniss, and she’s matched by the supporting cast, including Liam Hemsworth, Stanley Tucci and Lenny Kravitz. The film looks great, contrasting the greys and browns of the povertystricken district with the Capitol’s outrageous fashions and architecture. But the material’s been sanitized in order to pull in the largest audience. This is really creepy stuff. Given its potential to be a devastatingly dystopic film event, this is definitely a missed opportunity. 142 min. NNN (SGC) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, 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, Varsity iN DarKNeSS (Agnieszka Holland) tells the true story about a sewer inspector (Robert Wieckiewicz) in Lvov who hid a dozen Jews underground during the Nazi occupation. Long – and a lot to take – but the actors are excellent and the important story is told with deep conviction. Subtitled. 145 min. NNN (SGC) Carlton Cinema

the iroN LaDy (Phyllida Lloyd) portrays former British PM Margaret Thatcher (Meryl Streep) as a proto-feminist outsider fighting the male establishment, and steers clear of her union-busting, privatizing, deregulating policies. The politics are a mess; even Thatcher would be appalled. But Streep’s performance is genius. 105 min. NNN (SGC) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Kennedy Commons 20 JeFF, Who LiveS at home (Jay Duplass,

Mark Duplass) finds the directors of The Puffy Chair, Baghead and Cyrus going fully Hollywood with a tale of a 30-year-old layabout (Jason Segel) whose conviction that the universe is sending him signals leads him on a convoluted journey through Baton Rouge accompanied by his dickish older brother (Ed Helms). The Duplasses are great at creating tiny flashes of character-based comedy, and Segel’s lumbering presence is used to terrific effect – as is a marvellous Judy Greer as the possibly unfaithful wife of Helms’s character. But their style just doesn’t lend itself to a studio project, and the atonal influence of producer Jason Reitman can be felt all over the picture’s second half. (No other filmmaker relies on pop music to sell emotional catharsis as nakedly as Reitman – though in fairness, it often works in his own movies.) The result is a film trapped irresolvably between the idiosyncrasies it loves and the desire to draw a mass audience. 83 min. NN (NW) Canada Square, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, Varsity

Jiro DreamS oF SuShi (David Gelb) is an

attractive if slightly undercooked documentary about sushi master Jiro Ono, who rose from humble Japanese roots to become the only sushi chef to receive a three-star restaurant rating in the Michelin Guide. In his mid-80s, he still presides over his modest 10-seat Tokyo restaurant, but he’s not yet ready to hand over the shop to his son, who’s been patiently working there for decades. Gelb takes us through each step of the sushi-making process, from getting the best ingredients (a visit to Tokyo’s famed Tsukiji Fish Market is a highlight) to the patient grilling of nori. Ono isn’t very talkative – his mischievous eyes tell us more than his words – so it helps to have food critic Masuhiro Yamamoto put the man’s achievements in perspective. But Gelb never builds momentum, instead repeating (hypnotically gorgeous) images to bits of familiar movie soundtracks and classical music. The

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ings. Subtitled. 111 min. NNNN (GS) Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24

LOVE NEVER DIES is a high-def broadcast of

the stage sequel to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s monster musical The Phantom Of The Opera. 121 min. Apr 11, 7 pm, at Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yonge

LOVERS IN A DANGEROUS TIME (May Charters, Mark Hug) 100 min. See review, page 66. NN (SGC) Opens Apr 6 at Yonge & Dundas 24.

THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: MANON is a

live high-def broadcast of the Met’s production of the Massenet opera starring soprano Anna Netrebko in the tragic title role. 248 min. Apr 7, noon, at Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge

omission of any mention of Ono’s wife sticks out like a rogue grain of rice on an otherwise impeccable plate. 81 min. NNN (GS) TIFF Bell Lightbox

JOHN CARTER (Andrew Stanton) tries a little too hard to turn Edgar Rice Burroughs’s simple adventure story about a Civil War veteran (Taylor Kitsch) transported to Mars into the next massive SF epic. When it’s just the simple story of a broken man reinventing himself as a hero – and falling in love with a Martian princess (Lynn Collins) – it’s pretty entertaining stuff, but whenever it lurches into grandiose space-opera mode it feels rushed and overstuffed. Some subtitles. 132 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Humber Cinema, Queensway, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24 JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND

(Brad Peyton) is a sequel to Journey To The Center Of The Earth that swaps out Brendan Fraser for Dwayne Johnson, sending him and step-son Josh Hutcherson off to find Jules Verne’s impossible island. The premise becomes a frame for absurdist concepts in this anything-goes funhouse disguised as an adventure movie, and that’s not a bad thing at all. 96 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Yorkdale

LOVE IN THE BUFF (Pang Ho Cheung)

is a funny and poignant sequel to 2010’s Hong Kong-set romantic comedy Love In A Puff. Hong Kong ad exec Jimmy (Shawn Yue) and his slightly older lover, Cherie (Miriam Yeung), who works for a cosmetics company, are at an impasse. When he’s transferred to Beijing, there’s no talk of her moving with him, but as fate would have it, she too gets stationed there. Soon, although both have new partners, the two begin flirting, texting and carrying on an affair. Pang and his co-writer, Heiward Mak, offer up lots of funny sequences for the two stars, who are surrounded by great comic talents as their friends and a handful of cameos by Hong Kong celebrities. There’s a whiff of Pacific Rim lifestyle porn to the flick, but the actors are superb, especially Leung, whose wounded Cherie expertly uses brittle repartee to hide her true feel-

MIRROR MIRROR (Tarsem Singh) is an allstyle, no-substance remake of Snow White that casts Julia Roberts as the Evil Queen who wants her ingénue stepdaughter (Lily Collins) killed and the hunky prince (Armie Hammer) all to herself. Structurally, the film’s a mess. Director Singh and writer Melissa Wallack have no idea whose story to tell, lurching from Roberts’s bitchy cougar repartee with her ineffectual assistant (Nathan Lane) to Snow’s interaction with her seven little people (here reimagined as stilt-walking bandits) to repeated scenes of the prince getting his clothes yanked off. Oh, yeah, a bogus Occupy movement theme grafted onto the script involves the corrupt Queen and her henchmen exploiting the 99 per cent townsfolk. All of this might be bearable with decent performances, but Roberts’s villainy is pitched at the same screeching level throughout, Collins has the young Audrey Hepburn’s looks without her charm, and Hammer seems as lost as the young puppy he turns into at the three-quarter mark. Singh is more art director than director, but we’ve seen these costumes and fairy-tale forests in any number of Tim Burton movies. 106 min. N (GS) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24 IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL ñMISSION:

(Brad Bird) puts genius animator Bird (The Incredibles, Ratatouille) in the driver’s seat for a bracing adventure that sends Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt and his team racing around the Eastern hemisphere to stop a madman from triggering a nuclear war between the U.S. and Russia. The movie zips through its paces with marvellous craftsmanship; the action scenes are only incoherent when they need to be, the characters are sharply and simply defined, and the locations are attractively photographed and smartly used. Some subtitles. 133 min. NNNN (NW) Interchange 30

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(Philippe Falardeau) is a tender and touching drama that captures the pulse of both primary school politics and Canadian immigration. Algerian refugee Bachir Lahzar (Fellag) becomes a substitute teacher to students struggling with grief after their former teacher’s suicide. He must navigate the minefield that is dealing with traumatized children – no physical contact being of utmost importance. Like the kids who are faced with a new world of tragedy and lost innocence, Bachir must confront his own personal demons while figuring out his place in a new country. Director Falardeau proves once again why he’s one of Canada’s premier talents in this focused and intelligent drama that never allows allegorical touches to overwhelm the very personal story at its centre. A witty screenplay, moving performances – particularly from the precocious child cast – and social observations free of a political agenda makes Mon-

sieur Lazhar a high achiever. Subtitled. 94 min. NNNNN (RS) Kingsway Theatre, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Varsity

THE MOTH DIARIES (Mary Harron) 82 min.

See interview and review, page 66. NNN (Phil Brown) Opens Apr 6 at Yonge & Dundas 24.

MY WEEK WITH MARILYN (Simon Curtis) is as star-struck by its subject as its narrator is. It’s based on the memoirs of Colin Clark, who barely registers as a character. As for Marilyn Monroe (an excellent Michelle Williams), the film acknowledges the void between her public persona and private life but it does very little to fill it. 101 min. NN (RS) Regent Theatre

ONE LIFE (Michael Gunton, Martha Holmes) is essentially a greatest-hits package compiled from BBC’s acclaimed 10-part Life series, with James Bond’s Daniel Craig acting as narrator. Naturally, the high-def images of a few dozen of the world’s thousands of species look glorious, especially on a big screen. It’s full of mammal money shots, like the female humpback whale deciding who gets to hump her, or a wise elephant pushing her daughter out of the way to rescue her granddaughter from a muddy death. But there’s not much to the narration, and Craig often sounds slightly embarrassed to be reading his cheesy lines about how all the world’s creatures are connected by our desire to eat, propagate and make a home. This is a family movie, although a scene where a bunch of Komodo dragons poison a water buffalo and then tear it apart might give the little ones nightmares. 85 min. NNN (GS) Yonge & Dundas 24

anced their spectacular action sequences with well-drawn characters and clockwork pacing, The Raid just lurches from one battle to the next like a blunt instrument. Effective, sure, but not exactly distinguished. Subtitled. 101 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale

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RAMPART (Oren Moverman) stars Woody Harrelson as a dirty cop who’s being set up by his department to deflect media attention from a scandal. Or maybe not – the film is so confusing, it’s never clear what’s actually happening. But performances by Harrelson, Robin Wright and Ben Foster are terrific. 108 min. NNN (SGC) Carlton Cinema SAFE HOUSE (Daniel Espinosa) is an okay

Bourne Trilogy knock-off. A novice CIA agent and a captured rogue agent go on the run when a Johannesburg safe house gets raided. Its car chases and punch-ups lack the Bourne series’ manic invention, but it still delivers solid thrills, good acting and a fast-paced if predictable spy story. 115 min. NNN (AD) Canada Square, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, continued on page 73 œ

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(Jennifer Baichwal) comes to life thanks to director Baichwal, who finds four human stories to match Margaret Atwood’s intellectually ferocious book about debt. Oppressive farmers pay a “debt” to migrant workers; ex-cons describe their life in prison, where they supposedly paid a debt to society; British Petroleum owes a whopping debt to the environment; and in Albania, a family feuds brutally over an old score. As always in a Baichwal film, the visuals are the stars, more than Atwood herself, who also appears. The director’s the master of the tracking shot, following a farmer tying up a long row of tomato plants, for example. And images – by Ed Burtynsky and especially aerial shots by Daniel Beltrá – of the BP oil spill are spectacular. Taken all together, Payback is both smart and beautiful. Some subtitles. 90 min. NNNN (SGC) Carlton Cinema, Grande - Yonge, Varsity

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(Wim Wenders) doesn’t reveal a lot about dance great Pina Bausch – she died right before shooting was set to begin – but it does capture the essence of her art through excerpts from her richly dramatic works and unconventional interviews with her dancers. Director Wenders uses 3-D technology effectively, getting visceral effects from Bausch’s complex choreography. Subtitled. 104 min. NNNN (GS) TIFF Bell Lightbox

ñPROJECT X

(Nima Nourizadeh) puts a found-footage spin on the teen-comedy genre, dropping us into a high school zero’s birthday party that spirals disastrously – and spectacularly – out of control. It’s not for everybody, but if you ever wondered what Risky Business would have felt like without the glossy cinematography and Tangerine Dream score, you’ll be very pleasantly surprised. 88 min. NNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre

THE RAID: REDEMPTION (Gareth Huw Evans) sets itself up as a non-stop action movie, and pretty much delivers on that premise, with a Jakarta tactical team’s assault on a crime lord’s apartment building turning into a frantic battle for survival against dozens of heavily armed thugs. But the constant bone-shattering kung-fu smackdowns both define and undermine The Raid, since there’s literally nothing else to the movie; by the 15th brutal confrontation, it gets a little monotonous. Unlike, say, Flash Point or Attack The Block, which bal-

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SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN (Lasse Hallström) is a light comedy about a stuffy salmon expert (Ewan McGregor) and a troubled administrator (Emily Blunt) drawn to one another while working to stock the river of a wealthy Yemeni sheik (Amr Waked) with Atlantic salmon. No, seriously. 112 min. NN (NW) Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity

slime and the revenge cunning, but it’s an ordinary eatery with generic characters: nice-guy hero, his wacky co-workers, ineffectual manager and the front-office fascist. Customers include a family with bratty kids and a trio of snobby frat types. The comedy leans toward fart jokes and smartass remarks. The servers’ revenge reaches its peak with a live lobster painted red and placed before an unsuspecting diner. 85 min. N (AD) Cumberland 4

SILENT HOUSE (Chris Kentis, Laura Lau) stars Martha Marcy May Marlene’s amazing Elizabeth Olsen as a young woman terrorized by someone or something in a boarded-up old house. Remaking Gustavo HerTHE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY (Hironandez’s 2010 Uruguayan masa Yonebayashi) is a thriller La Casa Muda, charmless Japanese anidirectors Kentis and Lau mated adaptation of Brit(Open Water) doom EXPANDED REVIEWS ish novel The Borrowers themselves to renowtoronto.com dubbed with an American peating the mistakes of voice cast. The tale of that movie’s last act, pixie-sized Arrietty and her which deflates the initial tension and evenrelationship with a sickly human boy takes tually garbles the plot beyond coherence. our patience for granted, with narrative 86 min. NN (NW) rhythms as flat as the hand-drawn cartoons Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24 and voice actors who can’t liven up the

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(Asghar Farhadi) is one of the strongest films of the year. A middle-class Tehran couple attempt to separate, and in their stubbornness and lack of communication irrevocably affect the lives of those around them. It’s a complex, gripping mystery that’s also a human and moral drama. Winner of the best foreign-language film Oscar. Subtitled. 123 min. NNNNN (GS) Canada Square, Cumberland 4, Grande Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre

SERVITUDE (Warren P. Sonoda) is a weakly amusing sitcom-style comedy about wait staff facing mass firing who go ballistic on the restaurant’s customers. This might have been a hoot if the staff had been downtrodden, the customers over-privileged

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SLEEPING SICKNESS (Ulrich Köhler) has

mundane scenes packed with meaning and visuals that unfailingly put their message across. Unfortunately, the film’s many finely drawn moments don’t add up to a completely satisfying whole. Pierre Bokma stars as Ebbo Velten, a German doctor running a hospital program in Cameroon to treat an epidemic that’s no longer a threat. Ebbo’s time is up when another doctor, Alex Nzila (Jean-Christophe Folly), arrives to evaluate the program. Alex happens to be black, and the locals treat him with disdain despite the fact that he’s from France. Köhler takes the intellectual high road, using his characters as allegorical figures to serve an unsubtle debate on neo-colonialism. Both Ebbo’s and (especially) Alex’s personalities remain undefined, so the film’s themes, though food for thought, never resonate emotionally. Subtitled. 88 min. NNN (RS) TIFF Bell Lightbox

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(Tom Lin) tells the whimsical story of two children rejected by their classmates and quietly suffering in broken homes who find warmth and acceptance in their shared fantasies. In only his second feature, Lin crafts a touching fable of lost innocence, with incredibly naturalistic performances from his young leads and a magical use of CGI that allows their childish imaginations to seep out into the real world. Cynics may scoff at the simplicity of the story and themes, but anyone who remembers painfully losing their naive childhood mindset will be flooded with emotion. Subtitled. 99 min. NNNN (Phil Brown) Kennedy Commons 20

THIS MEANS WAR (McG) is a romantic comedy about a California product tester (Reese Witherspoon) who falls for two CIA agents (Chris Pine, Tom Hardy) while unaware of their covert status – or their friendship. The script is nonsensical even for an outsized action movie, with characters actively endangering each other for a cheap laugh. 98 min. N (NW) Colossus, Interchange 30

A THOUSAND WORDS (Brian Robbins) stars Eddie Murphy as a fast-talking literary agent whose life becomes intertwined with that of a mysterious Bodhi tree. Each word he speaks – or writes – results in a fallen leaf, and presumably when the branches are completely bare he will die. The film lurches from broad comedy to sentimentality, and Murphy never seems comfortable. 91 min. N (GS) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, Yonge & Dundas 24

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valuable Benedict Cumberbatch. 127 min. nnnn (NW) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre, Mt Pleasant

TITAnIC In 3D (James Cameron) 195

min. See review, page 68. nnnnn (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Phil Lord, Christo pher Miller) reboots the 80s television series, where young undercover cops (Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum) pose as high school students. Thankfully, it never takes itself or its source material very seriously. The meta comedy is all tongue-in-cheek shenanigans that proudly lift a middle finger to the hoary clichés the film recycles. Even Jump Street alum Johnny Depp gets in on the act in a giddy cameo. Hill and Tatum deserve high marks for their enthusiasm, making dick jokes funny again and developing an agreeable onscreen camaraderie. They play the outcast and jock, respec tively, who return to the realm of a high school movie and find their social roles reversed in a post-Glee era. The movie’s not brilliant, but it damn sure is a lot of fun. 109 min. nnnn (RS) 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

TylEr pErry’s gooD DEEDs (Tyler Perry) is not your typical Perry movie. Missing are the juvenile gags, the combustible, circuslike shouting matches (there are still a few, but not as many as we’re used to) and Madea, Perry’s pistol-packing, smack-talking mammy alter ego. His attempt to be taken seriously results in a schmaltzy, joyless melodrama that lacks edge and loses its grip with Perry’s audience. The director plays the bland Wesley Deeds, a CEO from a wealthy family whose charitable eye falls on a janitor (Thandie Newton) living in a minivan with her precocious six-year-old daughter. Newton turns in a ferocious performance, but even she can’t save Good Deeds from being predictable and overly earnest. 111 min. nn (RS) Kennedy Commons 20

ThE vAnIshIng sprIng lIghT (Yu Xun) 116 min. See review, page 68. nnn (NW) Opens Apr 6 at Bloor Hot Docs Cinema. ThE voW (Michael Sucsy) is a silly romance

that’ll quickly evaporate from your memory. That’s appropriate, because it’s about two married boho Chicagoans (Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum) whose lives are upturned when an accident causes her to lose all memories of him. The only

suspense comes from location-spotting, since Toronto stands in for the Windy City more than a few times. 104 min. nn (GS) Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(David Wain) stars Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston as a Manhattan couple who lose their condo and head south in search of a fresh start, winding up at a commune outside Atlanta. It’s hysterically funny. My face actually hurt from laughing afterward, and I cannot remember the last time that’s happened. 98 min. nnnn (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Interchange 30, Kingsway Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Steven Spielberg) adapts Michael Morpurgo’s children’s novel to tell a simple but affecting story about an English farm boy (Jeremy Irvine) following his beloved horse into World War One. The script allows Spielberg to touch on the senseless brutality of combat and the redemptive power of a non-human creature, all captured in cinematographer Janusz Kaminski’s vivid imagery. The result is an old-fashioned picture full of humanity and heroism that only occasionally dips into sentimentality. 146 min. nnnn (GS) Regent Theatre

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(Lynne Ramsay) examines a Columbine-style tragedy from a new perspective. Tilda Swinton plays the suffering mother of a teen killer. Ramsay vividly captures her nervous breakdown through a non-linear narrative as she struggles with memories of her son (Ezra Miller as a teen, Jasper Newell as a child, both excellent) and the repercussions of his actions. Disturbing, fascinating and enigmatic. 112 min. nnnn (Phil Brown) Carlton Cinema

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(James Wat kins) takes place a century ago, when a widowed estate lawyer (Daniel Radcliffe) encounters a vengeful spirit in a remote coastal town. There’s a stateliness and gravity to the film that recalls grand ghost stories of decades past like The Haunting and The Innocents, and Radcliffe proves quite able to hold the screen. 95 min. nnnn (NW) Yonge & Dundas 24

WrATh of ThE TITAns (Jonathan Lieb esman) is a worthy successor to Louis Leterrier’s Clash Of The Titans. Sam Worthington’s demigod Perseus is dragged back into the pantheistic fray when his halfbrother Ares (Édgar Ramírez) betrays their father, Zeus (Liam Neeson), in a plot to unleash the monstrous Kronos from his prison in the underworld. Like its predecessor, the action is near-constant, with Perseus racing from one mythological adventure to another. This time he’s accompanied by his comic-relief cousin Agenor (Toby Kebbel), son of Poseidon, and Andromeda (Rosamund Pike). And like its predecessor, it’s big and silly and kind of fun, with Worthington’s surly hero scraping nicely up against the loftier likes of Neeson’s Zeus, Ralph Fiennes’s Hades and Danny Huston’s Poseidon. The effects sequences would surely work as well without the annoying postconversion 3-D. Why they keep doing that, only the gods know. 99 min. nnn (NW) 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, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale 3

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ThE DIsAppEArAnCE of MCKInlEy nolAn thu 9:30 fIghTvIllE Fri 3:30, 9:45 sat, mon 6:30 sun, tue-Wed 9:15 ThE guAnTAnAMo TrAp thu 6:30 ThE vAnIshIng sprIng lIghT Fri, sun, tue-Wed 6:30 sat, mon 9:00

carlton cinema (i) 20 carlton, 416-494-9371

AlbErT nobbs (14A) thu 1:25, 4:00, 7:20, 9:45 Fri-Wed 3:50, 9:45 AMErICAn rEunIon (14A) Fri-Wed 1:25, 3:55, 6:45, 9:10 ThE ArTIsT (PG) thu 1:45, 4:05, 7:25, 9:35 Fri-Wed 1:35, 4:20, 7:00, 9:30 bEIng flynn (14A) 1:50, 6:55 A DAngErous METhoD (14A) thu 4:10, 9:40 Fri, sunWed 4:00, 9:25 ThE DEsCEnDAnTs (14A) thu 1:35, 6:45 frIEnDs WITh KIDs Fri-Wed 4:25, 9:20 gAllIpolI sat 9:30 ThE guAnTAnAMo TrAp Fri-Wed 4:10, 9:35 hugo (PG) thu-Fri, sun-Wed 1:20, 6:50 In DArKnEss (14A) thu 3:50, 9:25 ThE Iron lADy (PG) 1:40, 7:15 oh! WhAT A lovEly WAr sat 1:15 pAssChEnDAElE (14A) sat 7:00 pAybACK Fri-Wed 1:55, 7:20 projECT X (18A) thu 3:55, 9:10 rAMpArT thu 7:00, 9:30 ThE sECrET WorlD of ArrIETTy (G) thu 2:00 4:25 FriWed 2:00, 4:30 TInKEr TAIlor solDIEr spy (14A) Fri-Wed 4:05, 9:15 21 juMp sTrEET (14A) 1:45, 4:15, 6:40, 9:05 A vEry long EngAgEMEnT sat 4:15 WAnDErlusT (14A) thu 1:55, 4:30, 7:10, 9:20 Fri-Wed 1:30, 7:25 WE nEED To TAlK AbouT KEvIn (14A) thu 4:20, 9:15 FriWed 7:10, 9:40

cumBerlanD 4 (aa) 159 cumBerlanD ave, 416-646-0444

fooTnoTE (14A) thu 2:15, 5:10, 7:45 Fri-mon 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:40 tue-Wed 2:00, 4:45, 7:45 ThE forgIvEnEss of blooD (14A) thu 2:45, 5:30, 8:20 Fri-mon 1:15, 4:00, 6:30, 9:20 tue-Wed 2:30, 5:30, 8:20 A sEpArATIon (14A) thu 2:30, 5:20, 8:10 Fri-mon 1:00, 3:45, 6:40, 9:50 tue-Wed 2:15, 5:15, 8:10 sErvITuDE thu 2:20, 5:00, 8:00 Fri-mon 2:00, 4:30, 7:10, 9:30 tue-Wed 2:45, 5:00, 7:30

rainBoW market square (i) market square, 80 Front st e, 416-494-9371

AMErICAn rEunIon (14A) 1:15, 3:50, 7:00, 9:20 Fri 11:30 late Dr. sEuss’ ThE lorAX (G) 1:05, 3:05 thu 5:05, 7:05, 9:05 ThE hungEr gAMEs (PG) thu 2:00, 3:45, 5:00, 6:45, 8:00, 9:35 Fri 12:45, 3:45, 5:00, 6:45, 8:00, 9:35, 11:00 sat-Wed 12:45, 3:45, 5:00, 6:45, 8:00, 9:35 MIrror MIrror (PG) thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:20 Fri 1:00, 4:00, 7:05, 9:30, 11:35 sat-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:05, 9:30 21 juMp sTrEET (14A) 1:30, 4:05, 6:55, 9:15 Fri 11:20 late

WrATh of ThE TITAns (14A) 12:50, 3:00, 5:10, 7:15, 9:25 Fri 11:25 late

scotiaBank tHeatre (ce) 259 ricHmonD st W, 416-368-5600

AMErICAn rEunIon (14A) Fri-sun 1:10, 2:10, 3:50, 4:50, 6:40, 7:40, 9:40, 10:30 mon-Wed 1:10, 2:00, 3:50, 4:45, 6:40, 7:30, 9:40, 10:15 CAsA DE MI pADrE (14A) thu 1:00, 3:45, 6:15, 8:40 ThE hungEr gAMEs (PG) thu 12:40, 1:10, 1:50, 2:30, 4:00, 4:30, 5:00, 5:45, 6:30, 7:15, 8:00, 8:30, 9:10, 9:45, 10:30 Fri, sun 12:00, 12:40, 1:50, 3:10, 3:40, 4:10, 5:00, 6:30, 7:00, 7:30, 8:20, 9:50, 10:20, 11:00 sat 12:00, 12:40, 1:50, 3:10, 4:10, 5:00, 6:30, 7:00, 7:30, 8:20, 9:50, 10:20, 11:00 mon 12:00, 12:40, 1:50, 2:10, 3:10, 4:00, 5:00, 5:30, 6:30, 7:15, 8:20, 8:50, 9:50, 10:30 tue 12:40, 1:50, 2:10, 3:10, 4:00, 5:00, 5:30, 6:30, 7:15, 8:20, 8:50, 9:50, 10:30 Wed 12:40, 1:50, 2:10, 3:10, 4:00, 5:00, 5:30, 7:15, 8:50, 9:55, 10:30 jEff, Who lIvEs AT hoME (14A) thu 1:20, 3:30, 6:40, 9:00 Fri-sun 12:50, 3:30, 6:20, 9:00 mon-Wed 1:00, 3:30, 6:20, 9:00 lovE nEvEr DIEs Wed 7:00 ThE METropolITAn opErA: MAnon sat 12:00 projECT X (18A) thu 2:00 4:40 7:00 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:30, 7:10, 9:30 ThE rAID: rEDEMpTIon (18A) thu 2:15, 4:50, 7:30, 10:00 Fri-sun 2:20, 4:40, 7:50, 10:15 mon-Wed 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:45 21 juMp sTrEET (14A) thu 1:30, 3:00, 4:20, 6:00, 7:10, 8:50, 9:50 Fri, sun 1:40, 2:40, 4:20, 5:25, 7:20, 8:00, 10:00, 10:40 sat 1:40, 4:20, 5:25, 7:20, 8:00, 10:00, 10:40 mon-Wed 1:40, 3:00, 4:20, 6:00, 7:20, 9:20, 10:00 WrATh of ThE TITAns (14A) thu 1:40, 4:10, 6:50, 9:20 Fri-sun 1:30, 4:00, 6:50, 9:15 mon-Wed 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:15 WrATh of ThE TITAns 3D (14A) thu 12:50, 3:15, 5:35, 8:15, 10:40 Fri, sun 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 8:10, 10:50 sat 1:00, 5:40, 8:10, 10:50 mon-tue 12:50, 3:15, 5:35, 8:10, 10:40 Wed 12:50, 3:15, 8:10, 10:40 WrATh of ThE TITAns: An IMAX 3D EXpErIEnCE (14A) 12:30, 2:50, 5:15, 7:45, 10:10

tiFF Bell ligHtBox (i) 350 king st W, 416-599-8433

gErhArD rIChTEr pAInTIng (PG) thu 1:00, 3:30, 6:00, 8:30 Fri-mon 1:00, 3:30, 6:15, 8:30 tue-Wed 3:30, 6:15, 8:30 ThE gIrl In ThE WhITE CoAT Fri-Wed 3:00, 6:45 jIro DrEAMs of sushI (G) thu 2:00, 5:00, 7:15, 9:15 Fri 12:45, 2:00, 4:00, 5:00, 7:00, 9:30 sat-sun 12:45, 2:00, 4:00, 5:00, 6:00, 7:00, 9:15, 9:30 mon 12:45, 2:00, 4:00, 5:00, 7:00, 9:15, 9:30 tue 4:00, 5:00, 7:00, 9:15 Wed 4:00, 5:00, 7:00, 9:15, 9:30 MonsIEur lAzhAr (PG) thu 12:30, 4:30 pInA 3D (G) thu 1:15, 3:45, 9:20 slEEpIng sICKnEss (14A) thu 3:00, 7:00

varsity (ce)

55 Bloor st W, 416-961-6304 bully (PG) Fri-sun 12:10, 2:50, 5:20, 7:40, 10:10 mon-Wed 12:35, 3:00, 5:30, 7:55, 10:20 Dr. sEuss’ ThE lorAX 3D (G) Fri-sun 12:00, 2:10, 4:20 mon-Wed 12:40, 3:10, 5:25 frIEnDs WITh KIDs thu 1:00, 3:50, 6:30, 9:20 ThE hungEr gAMEs (PG) thu 12:30, 1:30, 3:45, 4:45, 7:00, 8:00, 10:15 Fri-sun 12:30, 3:50, 6:40, 7:10, 10:00, 10:30 mon-Wed 12:30, 3:45, 7:00, 8:00, 10:15 jEff, Who lIvEs AT hoME (14A) thu 12:40, 2:50, 4:50, 10:10 MIrror MIrror (PG) thu, mon-Wed 1:20, 4:00, 6:50, 9:30 Fri-sun 12:15, 2:40, 5:10, 7:50, 10:20 MonsIEur lAzhAr (PG) thu 1:10, 4:10, 6:40, 9:10 Fri-sun 12:05, 2:25, 4:45, 7:05, 9:30 mon-tue 12:25, 2:40, 5:05, 7:25, 9:45 Wed 12:25, 3:20, 9:45 sAlMon fIshIng In ThE yEMEn (PG) thu 12:50, 3:40, 7:10, 10:00 Fri-sun 12:50, 3:40, 7:00, 9:50 mon-tue 12:50, 3:40, 7:10, 9:50 Wed 12:50, 3:40 ThE sAlT of lIfE Fri-sun 12:40, 3:00, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 monWed 12:45, 3:00, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 TITAnIC 3D (PG) 12:20, 4:30, 8:40

VIP SCREENINGS

bully (PG) Fri-sun 12:15, 2:45, 5:05, 7:25, 9:45 mon-Wed 12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 8:05, 10:15 ThE hungEr gAMEs (PG) 12:25, 3:25, 6:35, 9:35 MIrror MIrror (PG) thu, mon-Wed 12:55, 3:45, 6:15, 8:45 Fri-sun 12:35, 2:55, 5:15, 7:35, 9:55 pAybACK thu 1:55, 4:25, 7:05, 9:25 sAlMon fIshIng In ThE yEMEn (PG) thu, mon-Wed 1:15, 3:55, 6:45, 9:15 Fri-sun 12:05, 2:35, 4:55, 7:45, 10:05

yonge & DunDas 24 (amc) 10 DunDas st e, 416-335-5323

ACT of vAlor (14A) 2:30, 5:15, 8:00, 10:25 Fri-sun 11:40 mat AgEnT vInoD (14A) 6:25, 9:50 thu 3:05 mat tue-Wed 2:15 mat Dr. sEuss’ ThE lorAX (G) 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:25 Fri-sun 10:30, 12:45 mat Dr. sEuss’ ThE lorAX 3D (G) thu, tue-Wed 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Fri-sun 11:00, 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 mon 1:00, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 frIEnDs WITh KIDs thu 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 10:15 Fri-sun 11:45, 2:15, 4:45, 7:25, 10:15 mon-Wed 2:15, 4:45, 7:25, 10:15 ThE gIrl WITh ThE DrAgon TATToo (18A) thu 4:20, 10:05 housEfull 2 thu 3:20, 6:45, 10:20 Fri-sun 10:45, 3:00, 6:30, 10:15 mon-Wed 3:00, 6:30, 10:15 john CArTEr (PG) 2:45, 6:00, 9:15 Fri-sun 11:00 mat john CArTEr 3D (PG) thu 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 Fri-sun 12:15, 3:45, 7:30, 10:30 mon-Wed 3:45, 7:30, 10:30 KAhAAnI (14A) thu 10:05 lovE In ThE buff thu 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Fri-sun 11:00, 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 9:50 mon-Wed 4:30, 7:15, 9:50 lovErs In A DAngErous TIME 3:00, 7:00, 10:00 Fri-sun 11:15 mat MIrror MIrror (PG) thu 2:00, 2:45, 4:00, 5:00, 5:45, 7:00, 7:45, 8:45, 9:45, 10:30 Fri-sun 10:30, 11:15, 12:05, 1:15, 2:00, 2:45, 4:00, 5:00, 5:45, 6:45, 7:30, 8:30, 9:45, 10:00, 11:00 mon 12:50, 2:00, 2:45, 4:00, 5:00, 5:45, 6:45, 7:30, 8:30, 9:45, 10:00 tue-Wed 2:00, 2:45, 4:00, 5:00, 5:45, 6:45, 7:30, 8:30, 9:45, 10:00 ThE MoTh DIArIEs (14A) 2:45, 5:00, 7:15, 10:15 Fri-sun 10:15, 12:30 mat nAMElEss gAngsTEr 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Fri-sun 10:30, 1:30 mat onE lIfE (G) 2:20, 4:45, 7:10, 9:25 Fri-sun 11:55 mat sAfE housE (14A) thu 4:00, 7:15, 10:10 Fri-sun 10:35, 1:15, 4:15, 7:05, 10:10 mon-Wed 4:15, 7:05, 10:10 sIlEnT housE (14A) 3:10, 5:25, 7:50, 10:20 Fri-sun 10:35, 12:55 mat A ThousAnD WorDs (PG) thu 2:45, 5:00, 7:35, 10:00 Fri-sun 12:15, 2:30, 5:10, 7:35 mon, Wed 2:30, 5:10, 7:35, 10:00 tue 2:30 TITAnIC 3D (PG) thu 3:15, 4:45, 7:45, 9:15 Fri-sun 11:15, 12:15, 1:30, 3:30, 4:45, 8:15, 9:00, 10:00 mon 12:45, 1:30, 3:00, 4:45, 7:00, 9:00 tue-Wed 3:00, 4:45, 7:00, 9:00 TITAnIC: An IMAX 3D EXpErIEnCE (PG) thu-Fri 1:45, 6:15, 10:45 sat-sun 10:00, 2:30, 7:00, 11:30 mon-Wed 2:00, 6:00, 10:00 ThE voW (PG) 3:30, 6:35, 9:30 Fri-sun 12:45 mat WAnDErlusT (14A) 2:35, 5:05, 7:35, 10:10 Fri-sun 11:55 mat ThE WoMAn In blACK (14A) thu 2:00, 7:40

midtown canaDa square (ce) 2200 yonge st, 416-646-0444

ThE ArTIsT (PG) thu 4:05, 6:30 Fri-sun 1:10, 3:40, 7:10, 9:35 mon 1:10, 3:40, 7:10 tue-Wed 4:30, 7:10 ThE DEsCEnDAnTs (14A) thu 4:20, 7:00 frIEnDs WITh KIDs thu 4:35, 7:15 Fri-sun 1:20, 4:30, 7:20, 9:45 mon 1:20, 4:30, 7:20 tue-Wed 4:20, 7:20 ThE Iron lADy (PG) thu 4:45, 7:10 Fri-sun 1:30, 4:20, 6:45, 9:00 mon 1:30, 4:20, 6:45 tue-Wed 4:25, 6:45 jEff, Who lIvEs AT hoME (14A) Fri-sun 1:50, 4:50, 7:00, 9:10 mon 1:50, 4:50, 7:00 tue-Wed 4:50, 7:00 john CArTEr (PG) Fri-sun 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 9:40 mon 1:00, 4:00, 6:50 tue-Wed 4:00, 6:50 sAfE housE (14A) thu 4:10, 6:50 Fri-sun 7:05, 9:30 monWed 7:05 ThE sECrET WorlD of ArrIETTy (G) thu 4:25, 6:40 Frimon 1:45, 4:40 tue-Wed 4:40 A sEpArATIon (14A) thu 4:00, 6:45 Fri-sun 1:05, 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 mon 1:05, 3:50, 6:40 tue-Wed 4:05, 6:40 WAnDErlusT (14A) thu 4:50, 7:20 Fri-sun 1:40, 4:10, 6:30, 8:50 mon 1:40, 4:10, 6:30 tue-Wed 4:10, 6:30

mt Pleasant (i)

675 mt Pleasant rD, 416-489-8484 TInKEr TAIlor solDIEr spy (14A) thu, tue-Wed 7:00 Fri, sun 4:10, 7:00 sat 6:50, 9:30

regent tHeatre (i) 551 mt Pleasant rD, 416-480-9884

My WEEK WITh MArIlyn (14A) sat 9:30 sun, tue 7:00 WAr horsE (PG) thu, Wed 7:00 Fri 4:00, 7:00 sat 6:45 sun 4:00

silvercity yonge (ce) 2300 yonge st, 416-544-1236

AMErICAn rEunIon (14A) Fri-sun 11:45, 2:30, 5:20, 8:10, 9:30, 11:00 mon 11:45, 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 9:30, 10:30 tue 1:00, 4:20, 7:10, 9:20, 10:00 Wed 1:10, 4:20, 7:10, 9:20, 10:00 Dr. sEuss’ ThE lorAX (G) thu 12:40 Fri, sun-mon 12:00 tue-Wed 1:30 Dr. sEuss’ ThE lorAX 3D (G) thu 2:45, 5:00, 7:15, 9:45 Fri 2:20, 4:35, 7:00 sat 5:10, 7:20 sun-mon 2:20, 4:40, 7:00 tue-Wed 4:00, 6:40 ThE hungEr gAMEs (PG) thu 12:30, 1:00, 2:10, 3:10, 3:50, 4:20, 6:00, 6:30, 8:00, 9:30, 10:00 Fri, sun 11:50, 12:40, 1:10, 3:10, 3:50, 4:20, 6:30, 7:15, 7:40, 9:50, 10:30, 11:00 sat 11:50, 1:10, 3:10, 4:20, 6:30, 7:15, 7:40, 9:50, 10:30, 11:00 mon 11:50, 12:40, 1:10, 3:10, 3:50, 4:20, 6:30, 7:15, 7:40, 9:50,

april 5-11 2012 NOW

= Critics’ Pick nnnnn = Top ten of the year nnnn = Honourable mention nnn = Entertaining nn = Mediocre n = Bomb

10:25 Tue 12:40, 1:40, 2:40, 3:45, 4:45, 5:45, 6:50, 8:15, 9:30, 9:55 Wed 12:40, 1:40, 2:40, 3:45, 4:45, 6:50, 8:15, 9:30, 9:55 LOVE NEVER DIES Wed 7:00 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: MANON Sat 12:00 MIRROR MIRROR (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:30, 6:40, 9:40 Fri-Mon 11:45, 2:15, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Tue 12:50, 3:50, 6:30, 9:10 Wed 3:50, 6:30, 9:10 RASCAL FLATTS: CHANGED Thu 8:00 TITANIC 3D (PG) Thu 12:30 4:35 8:30 Fri-Wed 12:30, 4:30, 8:30 21 JUMP STREET (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 10:05 Fri-Sun 11:55, 2:30, 5:15, 8:00, 10:50 Mon 11:55, 2:30, 5:15, 8:00, 10:30 Tue 1:10, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Wed 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 WRATH OF THE TITANS 3D (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:10, 7:30, 10:10 Fri, Sun 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:50, 10:40 Sat 12:10, 2:35, 5:00, 7:50, 10:40 Mon 12:10, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:20 Tue 1:20, 4:10, 7:15, 9:40 Wed 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:40

Titanic In 3D

Metro

West End HUMBER CINEMA (I) 2442 BLOOR ST. WEST, 416-232-1939

KINGSWAY THEATRE (I) 3030 BLOOR ST W, 416-232-1939

THE ARTIST (PG) Thu 7:00 Fri-Wed 3:00 THE DESCENDANTS (14A) Thu 1:00 HOP (G) Fri-Mon 11:00 MONSIEUR LAZHAR (PG) Fri-Wed 7:00 A SEPARATION (14A) Fri-Wed 4:45 TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY (14A) Thu 3:00 Fri-Wed 12:45 THE VOW (PG) Thu 5:00 WANDERLUST (14A) 8:55

QUEENSWAY (CE)

1025 THE QUEENSWAY, QEW & ISLINGTON, 416-503-0424 AMERICAN REUNION (14A) Fri-Sun 11:55, 1:35, 2:35, 4:15, 5:15, 7:00, 8:00, 9:45, 10:45 Mon 11:50, 1:10, 2:30, 4:05, 5:15, 6:50, 8:00, 9:35, 10:45 Tue-Wed 1:10, 2:30, 4:05, 5:15, 6:50, 8:00, 9:35, 10:45 AN AMERICAN TAIL (G) Sat 11:00 DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX (G) Thu 2:10, 4:25 Fri, Sun 2:00, 4:20 Sat 11:45, 2:00, 4:20 Mon-Wed 1:55, 4:20 DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX 3D (G) Thu 12:40, 2:55, 5:15, 7:40, 9:55 Fri-Mon 12:40, 2:55, 5:20, 7:40, 9:55 Tue-Wed 2:55, 5:20, 7:40, 9:55 FRIENDS WITH KIDS Thu 1:50, 4:30, 7:05, 9:40 Fri, Sun 2:05, 4:45, 7:20, 10:05 Sat 11:25, 2:05, 4:45, 7:20, 10:05 Mon 11:55, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:25 Tue 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:25 Wed 5:10, 7:45, 10:25 THE HUNGER GAMES (PG) Thu 12:45, 1:45, 2:30, 3:30, 4:00, 5:00, 5:45, 7:15, 8:15, 9:00, 10:30 Fri, Sun 12:25, 1:25, 2:45, 3:45, 4:40, 6:00, 7:10, 8:05, 9:20, 10:25, 11:15 Sat 11:30, 12:25, 1:25, 2:45, 3:45, 4:40, 6:00, 7:10, 8:05, 9:20, 10:25, 11:15 MonTue 12:45, 2:20, 3:00, 4:00, 5:45, 6:30, 7:15, 9:00, 9:45, 10:30 Wed 12:45, 2:20, 3:00, 4:00, 5:45, 7:15, 9:00, 9:45, 10:30 JEFF, WHO LIVES AT HOME (14A) Thu 1:25, 3:35, 5:50, 8:05, 10:25 Fri, Sun 12:35, 2:50, 5:05, 7:15, 9:30 Sat 7:15, 9:30 Mon 12:10, 2:25, 4:40, 7:00, 9:20 Tue 2:25, 4:40, 7:00, 9:20 Wed 4:40, 7:00, 9:20 JOHN CARTER (PG) Fri-Sun 10:10 Mon-Wed 9:30 JOHN CARTER 3D (PG) Thu 12:55, 4:05, 7:10, 10:20 JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (PG) Fri, Sun 1:15, 3:50 Sat 11:00, 1:30, 3:55 Mon 12:00, 2:25 Tue-Wed 2:25, 4:55 JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND 3D (PG) Thu 2:25, 4:50, 7:20 LOVE NEVER DIES Wed 7:00 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: MANON Sat 12:00 MIRROR MIRROR (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:10, 7:00, 9:45 Fri 11:55, 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 Sat-Sun 11:50, 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:35, 7:10, 9:50 PROJECT X (18A) Thu 3:05, 5:25, 7:50, 10:20 Fri 6:20, 8:40, 11:05 Sat-Sun 6:25, 8:40, 11:05 Mon 4:55, 7:20, 9:40 TueWed 7:20, 9:40 THE RAID: REDEMPTION (18A) Fri, Sun 12:50, 3:20, 5:50, 8:20, 10:55 Sat 11:35, 2:15, 5:50, 8:20, 10:55 Mon 12:15, 2:50, 5:25, 7:55, 10:25 Tue-Wed 2:50, 5:25, 7:55, 10:25 RASCAL FLATTS: CHANGED Thu 8:00 SAFE HOUSE (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:30, 10:15 Fri, Sun 1:45, 4:50, 7:45, 10:35 Sat 4:50, 7:45, 10:35 Mon-Wed 1:25, 4:15, 7:05, 10:05 SILENT HOUSE (14A) Thu 9:50 A THOUSAND WORDS (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:15, 6:55, 9:20 TITANIC 3D (PG) Thu 12:35, 4:45, 8:55 Fri-Mon 12:20, 1:20, 4:30, 5:40, 8:45, 10:00 Tue-Wed 12:45, 1:45, 4:50, 5:50, 9:00, 10:00 21 JUMP STREET (14A) Thu 1:05, 3:55, 6:50, 7:25, 9:35, 10:05 Fri 1:10, 4:10, 6:50, 7:25, 9:35, 10:15 Sat 11:20, 2:10, 4:45, 6:50, 7:25, 9:35, 10:15 Sun 2:10, 4:45, 6:50, 7:25, 9:35, 10:15 Mon-Wed 2:10, 4:45, 6:40, 7:30, 9:25, 10:15 WRATH OF THE TITANS (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:40, 6:30, 9:10 Fri-Sun 1:50, 4:35, 7:30 Mon-Wed 1:35, 4:10, 6:55 WRATH OF THE TITANS 3D (14A) Thu 2:05, 4:40, 7:35, 10:10 Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:10, 5:45, 8:25, 11:00 Mon-Wed 2:15, 4:50, 7:25, 10:10

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RAINBOW WOODBINE (I)

WOODBINE CENTRE, 500 REXDALE BLVD, 416-213-1998 AMERICAN REUNION (14A) Fri-Wed 1:20, 3:55, 6:55, 9:25 DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX (G) Thu 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:05, 9:15 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:00, 7:05, 9:15 THE HUNGER GAMES (PG) 1:00, 3:30, 4:00, 6:30, 7:00, 9:30 JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (PG) 1:05, 3:45 Thu 6:50, 9:20 MIRROR MIRROR (PG) 1:25, 4:10, 7:10, 9:40 A THOUSAND WORDS (PG) Thu 1:20, 3:40, 6:55, 9:25 FriWed 6:50, 9:20 21 JUMP STREET (14A) 1:10, 4:05, 7:00, 9:35 WRATH OF THE TITANS 3D (14A) Thu 1:15 3:50 6:45 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:15, 3:50, 7:15, 9:30

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

AMERICAN REUNION (14A) Fri, Sun-Mon 1:20, 4:00, 7:00, 9:40 Sat 1:20, 4:45, 7:40, 10:20 Tue-Wed 7:00, 9:40 DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX 3D (G) Thu 6:30, 8:40 THE HUNGER GAMES (PG) Thu 7:10, 10:15 Fri-Mon 12:30, 3:45, 6:45, 10:00 Tue-Wed 6:45, 10:00 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: MANON Sat 12:00 MIRROR MIRROR (PG) Thu 6:20, 8:50 Fri-Mon 1:00, 3:30, 6:30, 9:00 Tue-Wed 6:30, 9:00 TITANIC 3D (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 8:00 Fri-Sun 12:00, 4:15, 8:30 Mon 12:00, 4:15, 8:00 21 JUMP STREET (14A) Thu 7:30, 10:00 Fri, Sun-Mon 2:00, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Sat 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Tue-Wed 7:30, 10:10 WRATH OF THE TITANS 3D (14A) Thu 7:00, 9:30 Fri-Mon 1:45, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 Tue-Wed 7:15, 9:50

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

AMERICAN REUNION (14A) Fri-Mon 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Tue-Wed 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 THE HUNGER GAMES (PG) Thu 2:15, 3:15, 4:00, 4:45, 5:45, 6:40, 7:15, 8:15, 9:15, 10:00, 10:30 Fri-Mon 1:00, 1:45, 2:45, 4:00, 5:00, 6:00, 7:00, 8:30, 9:15, 10:00 Tue-Wed 4:00, 5:00, 6:00, 7:00, 8:30, 9:15, 10:00 THE RAID: REDEMPTION (18A) Fri-Mon 1:40, 4:30, 7:45, 10:30 Tue-Wed 4:30, 7:45, 10:30 TITANIC 3D (PG) Thu 1:45, 3:00, 5:45, 7:15, 9:45 Fri-Mon 1:30, 3:00, 5:30, 7:30, 9:30 Tue-Wed 3:45, 5:30, 8:15, 9:30 21 JUMP STREET (14A) Thu 2:45, 4:30, 5:30, 7:30, 8:30, 10:10 Fri-Mon 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Tue-Wed 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 WRATH OF THE TITANS (14A) Thu 2:30 Fri-Mon 1:15 WRATH OF THE TITANS 3D (14A) Thu 4:15, 5:15, 7:00, 8:00, 10:15 Fri-Mon 2:30, 4:15, 5:15, 7:15, 8:00, 10:15 Tue-Wed 4:15, 5:15, 7:15, 8:00, 10:15 continued on page 76 œ

ZACH SLOOTSKY

AMERICAN REUNION (14A) Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX (G) Thu 2:30, 4:30 Fri-Wed 11:30 THE HUNGER GAMES (PG) Thu 12:45 3:45 6:45 9:45 FriWed 1:00, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 JOHN CARTER (PG) Thu 7:00, 9:35

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gRAnde - yonge (Ce) 4861 yonge ST, 416-590-9974

the artiSt (PG) 4:20, 6:50, 9:25 Fri, Sun-Mon 1:05 mat dr. SeuSS’ the LoraX (G) Thu, Tue-Wed 4:25 Fri-Mon 1:30, 4:25 dr. SeuSS’ the LoraX 3d (G) Thu, Tue-Wed 4:50, 7:15, 9:20 Fri-Mon 2:20, 4:50, 7:15, 9:20 footnote (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 4:15, 7:10, 9:45 Fri-Mon 1:00, 4:15, 7:10, 9:45 friendS With KidS Thu, Tue 4:40, 7:30, 10:00 Fri-Mon 1:40, 4:40, 7:30, 10:00 Wed 4:30, 7:25, 10:00 hugo 3d (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 4:00, 6:55, 9:50 Fri-Mon 1:10, 4:00, 6:55, 9:50 jeff, Who LiVeS at home (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 4:35, 7:25, 9:35 Fri-Mon 1:45, 4:35, 7:25, 9:35 LoVe neVer dieS Wed 7:00 the metroPoLitan oPera: manon Sat 12:00 mirror mirror (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 4:10, 7:00, 9:40 FriMon 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:40 PayBacK Thu-Tue 7:20, 9:55 Wed 9:55 SaLmon fiShing in the yemen (PG) Thu, Tue 4:05, 6:40, 9:30 Fri-Mon 1:15, 4:05, 6:40, 9:30 Wed 4:05, 6:40, 9:40 a SeParation (14A) Thu, Sat, Tue 4:30, 7:05, 9:50 Fri, Sun-Mon 1:25, 4:30, 7:05, 9:50 Wed 4:30, 9:50

SilveRCiTy FAiRvieW (Ce)

FAiRvieW MAll, 1800 ShePPARd Ave e, 416-644-7746 american reunion (14A) Fri 2:35, 5:15, 8:00, 9:45, 10:40 Sat-Sun 11:50, 2:35, 5:15, 8:00, 9:45, 10:40 Mon 1:50, 4:40, 7:25, 9:40, 10:10 Tue 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 9:40, 10:10 Wed 4:40, 7:30, 9:40, 10:10 an american taiL (G) Sat 11:00 dr. SeuSS’ the LoraX (G) Thu 12:30 Fri-Mon 12:10 TueWed 2:30 dr. SeuSS’ the LoraX 3d (G) Thu 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:00 Fri-Mon 2:30, 4:45, 7:20 Tue-Wed 4:50, 7:15 the hunger gameS (PG) Thu 12:15, 12:45, 3:20, 3:50, 4:00, 6:30, 7:00, 7:15, 9:45, 10:15, 10:30 Fri-Sun 12:00, 12:40, 3:20, 4:00, 6:45, 7:15, 10:00, 10:30 Mon 12:00, 12:40, 3:20, 4:00, 6:40, 7:10, 9:50, 10:20 Tue 12:50, 2:00, 4:00, 5:10, 7:10, 8:40, 10:20 Wed 2:00, 4:05, 5:10, 7:10, 8:40, 10:20 the metroPoLitan oPera: manon Sat 12:00 mirror mirror (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:40, 6:40, 9:30 Fri-Sat 2:25, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 Sun 11:45, 2:25, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 Mon 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 Tue-Wed 1:30, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 titanic 3d (PG) Thu 12:20, 4:25, 8:30 Fri-Mon 12:20, 4:30, 8:40 Tue 12:45, 4:40, 8:50 Wed 12:45, 4:45, 8:50 21 jumP Street (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 Fri 2:40, 5:20, 8:10, 10:50 Sat-Sun 11:55, 2:40, 5:20, 8:10, 10:50 Mon 1:30, 4:15, 7:05, 10:00 Tue-Wed 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 Wrath of the titanS (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:10, 7:05, 9:40 Fri 2:20, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Sat 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Sun 11:40, 2:20, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Mon 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:30 Tue-Wed 1:40, 4:20, 7:05, 9:45 Wrath of the titanS 3d (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:15, 5:45, 8:20, 10:55 Mon 2:10, 4:55, 7:30, 10:05 Tue-Wed 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15

SilveRCiTy yoRKdAle (Ce) 3401 duFFeRin ST, 416-787-4432

american reunion (14A) Fri-Sun 12:00, 2:45, 5:30, 8:15, 10:15, 11:00 Mon 1:30, 4:30, 7:45, 9:45, 10:30 Tue-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:45, 9:50, 10:30 dr. SeuSS’ the LoraX (G) Thu-Sun 12:50 Mon 12:30 TueWed 1:10 dr. SeuSS’ the LoraX 3d (G) Thu 3:05, 5:25, 7:40, 10:00 Fri-Sun 3:15, 5:35, 7:50 Mon 2:45, 5:15, 7:30 Tue-Wed 3:20, 5:30, 7:40 the hunger gameS (PG) Thu 12:45, 1:30, 3:15, 4:00, 4:45, 6:30, 7:15, 8:00, 9:45, 10:30 Fri-Sun 12:30, 1:20, 3:45, 4:30, 7:00, 7:40, 10:10, 10:50 Mon 12:00, 12:50, 3:15, 4:00, 6:30, 7:15, 9:40, 10:25 Tue-Wed 1:05, 3:15, 4:10, 6:30, 7:15, 9:45, 10:25 john carter (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:15 journey 2: the mySteriouS iSLand (PG) Fri-Sun 12:00, 2:25, 4:55 Mon 12:00, 2:25, 4:50 Tue-Wed 1:40, 4:15 mirror mirror (PG) Thu 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20 Fri-Sun 12:10, 2:45, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30 Mon 12:15, 2:50, 5:25, 8:00, 10:30 Tue-Wed 2:35, 5:10, 7:40, 10:15 the raid: redemPtion (18A) Fri-Sun 12:20, 2:55, 5:25, 8:00, 10:40 Mon 2:30, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 Tue-Wed 2:30, 5:05, 7:35, 10:10 titanic 3d (PG) Thu 12:30, 4:30, 8:35 Fri-Mon 12:45, 4:50, 9:00 Tue-Wed 1:00, 5:00, 9:00 21 jumP Street (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:40, 7:45, 10:25 Mon-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 Wrath of the titanS (14A) Fri-Sun 7:30, 10:00 Mon 7:20, 9:50 Tue-Wed 7:00, 9:30

april 5-11 2012 NOW

Wrath of the titanS 3d (14A) Thu 2:00, 2:50, 4:30, 5:20, 7:10, 7:55, 9:50, 10:25 Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:45 Mon 12:10, 2:40, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 Tue-Wed 2:20, 4:55, 7:50, 10:20

Scarborough 401 & MoRningSide (Ce) 785 MilneR Ave, SCARboRough, 416-281-2226

american reunion (14A) Fri-Sun 2:40, 5:15, 8:00, 9:50, 10:35 Mon 2:40, 5:15, 8:00, 9:50, 10:30 Tue-Wed 5:15, 7:50, 9:50, 10:20 dr. SeuSS’ the LoraX (G) Fri-Mon 12:50 dr. SeuSS’ the LoraX 3d (G) Thu 4:30, 6:50 Fri-Mon 3:00, 5:10, 7:30 Tue-Wed 3:25, 5:30, 7:40 the hunger gameS (PG) Thu 4:20, 5:00, 7:00, 7:40, 8:10 Fri-Mon 12:55, 2:30, 4:15, 6:25, 7:20, 9:30, 10:25 Tue-Wed 3:20, 4:00, 6:20, 7:10, 9:25, 10:20 john carter (PG) Thu 4:40, 7:50 journey 2: the mySteriouS iSLand (PG) Fri-Mon 1:30 Tue-Wed 3:45 mirror mirror (PG) Thu 5:15, 8:00 Fri-Mon 2:15, 5:00, 7:50, 10:15 Tue-Wed 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 the raid: redemPtion (18A) Fri-Sun 1:10, 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:40 Mon 1:10, 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30 Tue-Wed 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:25 a thouSand WordS (PG) Thu 6:00, 8:30 Fri-Sun 4:00, 6:15, 8:30, 10:45 Mon 4:00, 6:15, 8:25 Tue-Wed 6:45, 9:15 titanic 3d (PG) Thu 7:15 Fri-Mon 1:40, 5:40, 9:40 Tue-Wed 5:00, 9:00 21 jumP Street (14A) Thu 5:30, 8:45 Fri-Sun 2:50, 5:30, 8:20, 10:50 Mon 2:50, 5:30, 8:05, 10:30 Tue-Wed 4:45, 7:30, 10:10 Wrath of the titanS (14A) Thu 4:45, 7:30 Fri-Mon 12:45, 3:00, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05 Tue-Wed 4:15, 7:00, 9:35 Wrath of the titanS 3d (14A) Thu 5:45, 8:20 Fri-Sun 1:20, 3:40, 6:00, 8:25, 10:50 Mon 1:20, 3:40, 5:55, 8:15, 10:30 Tue-Wed 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:25

ColiSeuM SCARboRough (Ce) SCARboRough ToWn CenTRe, 416-290-5217

american reunion (14A) Fri-Sat 12:15, 1:10, 2:55, 4:30, 5:35, 7:35, 8:15, 10:20, 10:55 Sun-Wed 1:35, 2:05, 4:15, 4:45, 7:00, 7:30, 9:45, 10:15 an american taiL (G) Sat 11:00 the hunger gameS (PG) Thu 12:30, 1:00, 2:30, 3:40, 4:10, 6:00, 6:50, 7:20, 9:30, 10:00, 10:30 Fri 12:20, 12:50, 3:40, 4:10, 7:00, 7:30, 7:45, 10:15, 10:45, 11:00 Sat 11:45, 12:50, 4:10, 7:00, 7:30, 7:45, 10:15, 10:45, 11:00 Sun-Tue 12:45, 3:00, 3:50, 6:30, 6:45, 7:00, 9:50, 10:00, 10:15 Wed 12:45, 3:00, 3:50, 6:30, 6:45, 9:50, 10:00, 10:15 john carter 3d (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:25, 10:25 Fri 1:20, 4:25, 7:25, 10:35 Sat 4:25, 7:25, 10:35 Sun-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 journey 2: the mySteriouS iSLand (PG) Thu 12:45 Fri-Sat 12:25, 3:05, 5:30, 8:10, 10:40 Sun-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:05, 9:40 journey 2: the mySteriouS iSLand 3d (PG) Thu 3:30, 7:00, 9:35 LoVe neVer dieS Wed 7:00 the metroPoLitan oPera: manon Sat 12:00 Star 67 Thu 2:30, 5:30, 8:00, 10:20 Fri-Sat 1:00, 3:25, 6:00, 8:20, 10:40 Sun-Wed 2:50, 5:25, 7:45, 10:05 a thouSand WordS (PG) Thu 2:15, 4:55, 7:40, 10:10 Fri 1:30, 5:00 Sat 11:30, 1:50 Sun-Wed 1:30, 4:00 titanic 3d (PG) Thu 1:00, 1:45, 5:00, 5:45, 9:10, 9:50 FriWed 12:45, 1:15, 4:45, 5:20, 8:45, 9:30 21 jumP Street (14A) Thu 2:10, 5:00, 7:45, 10:25 Fri-Sat 12:20, 3:00, 5:40, 8:20, 11:00 Sun-Wed 1:50, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00

eglinTon ToWn CenTRe (Ce) 1901 eglinTon Ave e, 416-752-4494

american reunion (14A) Fri, Sun 1:20, 2:00, 4:10, 5:00, 7:00, 8:00, 9:50, 10:55 Sat 11:10, 1:20, 2:00, 4:10, 5:00, 7:00, 8:00, 9:50, 10:55 Mon 12:10, 1:10, 3:00, 4:00, 5:50, 6:55, 8:40, 9:50 Tue-Wed 3:45, 4:30, 6:40, 7:20, 9:30, 10:15 an american taiL (G) Sat 11:00 dr. SeuSS’ the LoraX (G) Fri-Sun 12:45, 3:00, 5:20 Mon 12:15, 2:30, 4:50 Tue 4:20 Wed 4:40 dr. SeuSS’ the LoraX 3d (G) Thu 5:10, 7:35, 10:00 Fri, Sun 1:30, 3:50, 6:10, 8:25, 10:40 Sat 11:00, 1:30, 3:50, 6:10, 8:25, 10:40 Mon 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:05 Tue-Wed 5:20, 7:40, 10:05 friendS With KidS Thu 4:35, 7:10, 9:50 Fri-Sun 10:10 Mon-Wed 10:00 the hunger gameS (PG) Thu 3:45, 4:30, 5:00, 6:00, 7:00, 7:45, 8:15, 9:15, 10:20 Fri, Sun 12:00, 1:00, 2:20, 3:20, 4:20, 5:40, 6:40, 7:40, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 Sat 12:05, 1:00, 2:40, 3:20, 4:20, 6:00, 6:40, 7:40, 9:15, 10:00, 11:00 Mon 12:00, 12:50, 2:20, 3:20, 4:10, 5:40, 6:40, 7:30, 9:00, 10:00 TueWed 3:30, 4:30, 5:30, 6:45, 7:40, 8:40, 10:00 john carter (PG) Thu 3:50, 7:05, 10:10 Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:25, 7:30, 10:35 Mon 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Tue-Wed 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 journey 2: the mySteriouS iSLand (PG) Thu 4:50, 7:30 Fri-Mon 12:05, 2:35, 5:05, 7:35 Tue-Wed 5:05, 7:35 the metroPoLitan oPera: manon Sat 12:00 mirror mirror (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:05, 9:45 Fri-Sun 12:10,

2:50, 5:35, 8:10, 10:50 Mon 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 Tue-Wed 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 Project X (18A) Thu 10:00 the raid: redemPtion (18A) Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:15, 5:50, 8:20, 10:55 Mon 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 Tue-Wed 5:00, 7:45, 10:15 Safe houSe (14A) Thu 4:10, 6:55, 9:40 Fri-Sun 7:40, 10:30 Mon 7:05, 9:50 Tue-Wed 7:00, 9:50 a thouSand WordS (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:00, 9:20 titanic 3d (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 4:00, 8:15 Fri-Mon 12:00, 4:00, 8:00 21 jumP Street (14A) Thu 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Fri, Sun 12:20, 3:00, 5:45, 8:35, 11:15 Sat 1:10, 4:00, 6:50, 9:40 Mon 1:30, 4:15, 7:05, 9:55 Tue-Wed 4:15, 7:05, 9:55 Wrath of the titanS (14A) Thu 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 Fri, Sun 12:05, 2:35, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30 Sat 12:10, 4:55, 7:30, 10:20 Mon 1:20, 4:05, 6:45, 9:25 Tue-Wed 4:00, 6:45, 9:25 Wrath of the titanS 3d (14A) Thu 5:15, 7:50, 10:30 FriSun 12:50, 3:20, 6:00, 8:40, 11:15 Mon 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Tue 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Wed 4:45, 7:30, 10:10

Kennedy CoMMonS 20 (AMC) Kennedy Rd & 401, 416-335-5323

agent Vinod (14A) 2:40, 6:00, 9:30 Fri-Sun 11:00 mat araVaan (14A) Thu 3:00, 6:30, 9:50 the artiSt (PG) 1:40, 4:05, 6:35, 9:05 Fri-Sun 11:05 mat the deScendantS (14A) 2:15, 5:05, 7:50, 10:30 Fri-Sun 11:20 mat dr. SeuSS’ the LoraX (G) 2:00, 4:25, 6:50, 9:10 Fri-Sun 11:40 mat dr. SeuSS’ the LoraX 3d (G) 1:35, 3:50, 6:10, 8:30 Fri-Sun 11:00 mat friendS With KidS Thu 2:00, 4:25, 6:50, 9:20 Fri-Sun 11:20, 2:00, 4:25, 7:00, 9:20 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:25, 7:00, 9:20 houSefuLL 2 Thu 3:40, 7:10, 10:20 Fri-Sun 11:45, 3:00, 6:15, 9:35 Mon-Wed 3:00, 6:15, 9:35 the iron Lady (PG) 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15 Fri-Sun 11:10 mat Kahaani (14A) Thu 3:50, 7:00, 10:25 Fri-Sun 12:00, 3:10, 6:20, 9:40 Mon-Wed 3:10, 6:20, 9:40 LoVe in the Buff 3:15, 5:30, 8:00, 10:20 Fri-Sun 10:45, 1:00 mat mirror mirror (PG) Thu 2:30, 3:30, 5:00, 6:30, 7:30, 9:00, 10:00 Fri-Sun 11:30, 12:30, 2:30, 3:30, 5:00, 6:30, 7:30, 9:00, 9:50 Mon-Wed 2:30, 3:30, 5:00, 6:30, 7:30, 9:00, 9:50 the raid: redemPtion (18A) 2:10, 4:45, 7:45, 10:10 FriSun 11:50 mat Safe houSe (14A) 4:00, 6:50, 9:45 Fri-Sun 10:30, 1:20 mat a SeParation (14A) 4:00, 6:40, 9:30 Fri-Sun 10:30, 1:15 mat Starry Starry night Thu 2:05, 4:45, 7:45, 10:30 tyLer Perry’S good deedS (PG) Thu 2:10, 7:15 Fri-Sun 11:45, 2:50, 5:20, 8:00 Mon-Wed 2:50, 5:20, 8:00 the VoW (PG) Thu 4:50, 9:45 Fri-Sun 11:30, 2:10, 4:50, 7:40, 10:00 Mon-Wed 2:10, 4:50, 7:40, 10:00 Wrath of the titanS (14A) 3:45, 6:15, 8:45 Fri-Sun 10:45, 1:15 mat Wrath of the titanS 3d (14A) 1:45, 2:45, 4:15, 5:15, 6:45, 7:45, 9:15, 10:15 Fri-Sun 11:15, 12:15 mat

WoodSide CineMAS (i) 1571 SAndhuRST CiRCle, 416-299-3456

houSefuLL 2 Thu 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Fri-Sun 3:15, 4:45, 6:30, 8:15, 9:45 Mon-Wed 4:45, 6:30, 8:15, 9:45

GTA Regions Mississauga

ColiSeuM MiSSiSSAugA (Ce) SquARe one, 309 RAThbuRn Rd W, 905-275-3456

american reunion (14A) Fri-Sun 12:20, 1:30, 3:00, 4:20, 5:40, 7:00, 8:20, 9:50, 11:00 Mon-Tue 12:20, 1:30, 3:00, 4:20, 6:15, 7:00, 9:10, 9:50 Wed 12:20, 3:00, 4:20, 6:15, 7:00, 9:10, 9:50 an american taiL (G) Sat 11:00 dr. SeuSS’ the LoraX (G) Thu 1:30, 3:50 Fri-Wed 11:50 dr. SeuSS’ the LoraX 3d (G) Thu 12:50, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30 Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:10, 6:20, 8:30 the hunger gameS (PG) Thu 12:40, 1:20, 2:10, 4:00, 4:40, 5:30, 7:10, 8:00, 8:50, 10:30 Fri, Sun 11:50, 12:30, 1:20, 3:10, 3:50, 4:30, 6:30, 7:10, 7:50, 9:40, 10:20, 11:00 Sat 11:10, 11:50, 12:45, 3:10, 3:50, 4:40, 6:30, 7:10, 7:50, 9:40, 10:20, 11:00 Mon-Tue 11:50, 12:30, 1:20, 3:10, 3:50, 4:30, 6:30, 7:10, 7:50, 9:40, 10:15 Wed 11:50, 12:30, 3:10, 3:50, 4:30, 7:10, 7:50, 9:40, 10:15 john carter (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:40, 6:30, 9:30 journey 2: the mySteriouS iSLand (PG) Thu 12:10 FriWed 12:15, 2:40, 5:00 journey 2: the mySteriouS iSLand 3d (PG) Thu 2:30, 4:50, 7:00 LoVe neVer dieS Wed 7:00

the metroPoLitan oPera: manon Sat 12:00 Project X (18A) Thu 6:10, 8:30 the raid: redemPtion (18A) 2:10, 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 Sat 11:40 mat raScaL fLattS: changed Thu 8:00 titanic 3d (PG) Thu 1:00 5:00 9:00 Fri-Wed 12:40, 4:50, 9:00 titanic: an imaX 3d eXPerience (PG) 12:00, 4:00, 8:00 21 jumP Street (14A) Thu 1:50, 2:20, 4:20, 5:00, 7:50, 10:40 Fri-Sun 12:10, 2:50, 5:30, 7:20, 8:10, 10:00, 10:50 Mon-Wed 12:50, 3:30, 6:40, 7:20, 9:30, 10:00 Wrath of the titanS (14A) Thu 1:40 4:10 6:40 9:20 FriWed 1:10, 3:40, 6:50, 9:20 Wrath of the titanS 3d (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:20, 5:50, 8:20, 10:00, 10:50 Fri-Sun 2:30, 5:10, 7:40, 10:30 Mon-Wed 2:30, 5:10, 7:40, 10:05

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110 CouRTney PARK e AT huRonTARio, 888-262-4386 american reunion (14A) Fri-Mon 10:05, 11:20, 12:35, 1:55, 3:05, 4:25, 5:35, 7:10, 8:10, 10:00, 10:45 Tue-Wed 1:55, 3:05, 4:25, 5:35, 7:10, 8:10, 10:00, 10:45 dr. SeuSS’ the LoraX (G) Thu 2:15, 6:30 Fri-Mon 10:05, 2:20, 6:30 Tue-Wed 2:20, 6:30 dr. SeuSS’ the LoraX 3d (G) Thu 4:20, 9:30 Fri-Mon 12:10, 4:20 Tue-Wed 4:20 the hunger gameS (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 1:00, 1:30, 2:00, 2:30, 4:00, 4:30, 5:00, 5:30, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 8:30, 10:00, 10:30, 11:00 Fri-Mon 10:00, 10:30, 11:00, 11:30, 1:00, 1:30, 2:00, 2:30, 4:00, 4:30, 5:00, 5:30, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 8:30, 10:00, 10:30, 11:00 mirror mirror (PG) Thu 1:45, 3:15, 4:10, 5:45, 6:45, 8:15, 9:10, 10:45 Fri-Mon 10:00, 11:15, 12:45, 1:45, 3:15, 4:15, 5:45, 7:15, 8:15, 9:45, 10:40 Tue-Wed 1:45, 3:15, 4:15, 5:45, 7:15, 8:15, 9:45, 10:40 Project X (18A) Thu 1:35, 3:45, 5:55, 8:05, 10:15 the raid: redemPtion (18A) Fri-Sat, Mon 10:45, 1:10, 3:30, 5:50, 8:20, 10:50 Sun 3:30, 5:50, 8:20, 10:50 Tue-Wed 1:10, 3:30, 5:50, 8:20, 10:50 Safe houSe (14A) Thu 3:10, 5:50, 8:25, 11:00 Fri-Wed 9:30 titanic 3d (PG) Thu 1:30, 3:30, 6:00, 8:00, 10:00 Fri-Mon 10:00, 11:00, 2:00, 3:00, 6:00, 7:35, 10:05 Tue-Wed 2:00, 3:00, 6:00, 7:35, 10:05 21 jumP Street (14A) Thu 1:50, 3:10, 4:15, 5:45, 7:15, 8:15, 9:45, 10:55 Fri-Mon 10:15, 1:05, 3:30, 5:55, 8:25, 10:55 TueWed 1:05, 3:30, 5:55, 8:25, 10:55 Wrath of the titanS (14A) Thu 3:40, 6:30, 9:15 Fri-Mon 10:10, 1:00, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15 Tue-Wed 1:00, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15 Wrath of the titanS 3d (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:15, 8:00, 10:45 Fri-Mon 11:25, 2:30, 5:15, 8:05, 10:45 Tue-Wed 2:30, 5:15, 8:05, 10:45 Wrath of the titanS: an imaX 3d eXPerience (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Fri-Mon 10:30, 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30

SilveRCiTy MiSSiSSAugA (Ce) hWy 5, eAST oF hWy 403, 905-569-3373

dr. SeuSS’ the LoraX (G) Fri-Mon 12:25 dr. SeuSS’ the LoraX 3d (G) Thu 4:35, 7:10, 9:25 Fri-Mon 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 Tue-Wed 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 friendS With KidS Thu 4:20, 7:00, 9:45 hugo 3d (PG) Thu 3:45, 6:45, 9:40 the metroPoLitan oPera: manon Sat 12:00 mirror mirror (PG) Thu 3:40, 4:25, 6:30, 7:05, 9:15, 9:55 Fri-Mon 12:45, 1:30, 3:25, 4:10, 6:30, 7:20, 9:15, 10:05 TueWed 3:35, 4:10, 6:30, 7:15, 9:15, 9:55 the raid: redemPtion (18A) Fri-Mon 1:55, 4:35, 7:15, 10:00 Tue-Wed 4:30, 7:05, 9:40 SaLmon fiShing in the yemen (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:40, 9:30 Fri, Sun-Mon 12:55, 3:35, 6:45, 9:30 Sat 3:35, 6:45, 9:30 Tue-Wed 3:50, 6:45, 9:30 titanic 3d (PG) Thu 4:00, 8:15 Fri-Mon 12:15, 1:20, 4:20, 5:30, 8:30, 9:40 Tue-Wed 4:20, 5:00, 8:30, 9:05 Wrath of the titanS (14A) Thu 3:55, 6:35, 9:20 Fri, SunMon 1:00, 4:00, 6:55, 9:25 Sat 1:00, 6:55, 9:25 Tue-Wed 4:00, 6:55, 9:25 Wrath of the titanS 3d (14A) Thu 4:50, 7:20, 10:00 Fri-Mon 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:15 Tue-Wed 4:50, 7:40, 10:00

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american reunion (14A) Fri-Mon 12:50, 1:50, 3:45, 4:50, 7:00, 7:50, 10:00, 10:40 Tue-Wed 3:45, 4:25, 6:30, 7:15, 9:25, 10:25 an american taiL (G) Sat 11:00 dr. SeuSS’ the LoraX (G) Fri, Sun-Mon 1:20, 3:35 Sat 11:10, 1:20, 3:35 Tue-Wed 3:35 dr. SeuSS’ the LoraX 3d (G) Thu, Tue-Wed 4:40, 6:55, 9:15 Fri-Mon 12:10, 2:30, 4:40, 6:55, 9:15 the hunger gameS (PG) Thu 4:00, 4:30, 5:00, 5:40, 7:15, 8:00, 8:40, 9:30, 10:30 Fri-Mon 12:05, 12:40, 3:10, 3:50, 6:00, 6:30, 7:10, 9:10, 9:50, 10:30 Tue-Wed 3:50, 5:30, 6:00, 7:10, 8:40, 9:50, 10:30

john carter 3d (PG) Thu 3:40, 6:45, 9:55 Fri-Wed 9:45 journey 2: the mySteriouS iSLand (PG) Fri, Sun-Mon 12:20 Sat 11:45 journey 2: the mySteriouS iSLand 3d (PG) Thu 3:55, 6:40, 9:20 Fri-Mon 2:45, 5:05, 7:25 Tue-Wed 4:35, 7:25 the metroPoLitan oPera: manon Sat 12:00 mirror mirror (PG) Thu 3:45, 4:20, 6:30, 7:00, 9:05, 9:40 Fri-Mon 12:25, 1:15, 3:20, 6:20, 7:15, 9:05 Tue-Wed 3:30, 6:20, 7:05, 9:05 Project X (18A) Thu 5:30, 8:10, 10:25 Fri, Sun-Mon 12:45, 3:00, 5:40, 8:15, 10:25 Sat 5:40, 8:15, 10:25 Tue-Wed 5:20, 7:35, 10:00 the raid: redemPtion (18A) Fri-Mon 2:15, 5:10, 7:55, 10:35 Tue-Wed 5:10, 7:40, 10:15 Safe houSe (14A) Thu 4:45, 7:30, 10:20 Fri-Mon 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 10:20 Tue-Wed 4:30, 7:20, 10:20 thiS meanS War (14A) Thu 4:25, 7:10, 9:45 a thouSand WordS (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:15, 8:55 Fri, SunMon 1:40, 4:15, 6:40, 9:30 Sat 11:20, 1:40, 6:40, 9:30 TueWed 4:15, 6:40, 9:30 titanic 3d (PG) Thu 4:15, 8:30 Fri-Sun 12:00, 1:00, 4:00, 5:00, 8:00, 9:00 Mon 1:00, 4:00, 5:00, 8:00, 9:00 Tue-Wed 4:00, 5:00, 8:00, 9:00 21 jumP Street (14A) Thu 3:35, 4:10, 6:35, 7:20, 9:10, 10:00 Fri, Sun-Mon 1:45, 4:10, 4:45, 7:30, 9:40, 10:15 Sat 1:45, 4:05, 4:45, 7:30, 9:40, 10:15 Tue-Wed 4:10, 4:45, 7:30, 9:40, 10:10 Wrath of the titanS (14A) Thu 3:50, 6:20, 8:45 Fri-Mon 2:00, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 Tue-Wed 3:40, 6:10, 8:30 Wrath of the titanS 3d (14A) Thu 4:35, 7:05, 9:35 FriMon 1:10, 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:45 Tue-Wed 4:20, 7:00, 9:20 Wrath of the titanS: an imaX 3d eXPerience (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 5:15, 7:45, 10:05 Fri-Mon 12:30, 2:50, 5:15, 7:45, 10:05

inTeRChAnge 30 (AMC)

30 inTeRChAnge WAy, hWy 400 & hWy 7, 416-335-5323 act of VaLor (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 4:40, 7:10, 9:45 Fri-Sun 11:30, 2:05, 4:40, 7:10, 9:45 Mon 2:05, 4:40, 7:10, 9:45 agent Vinod (14A) Thu 5:30 Fri, Sun-Mon 2:00, 5:30, 9:00 Sat 10:30, 2:00, 5:30, 9:00 Tue-Wed 5:30, 9:00 contraBand (14A) Thu 4:45, 7:25, 10:00 the deScendantS (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 4:35, 7:25, 9:55 Fri-Sun 11:15, 2:00, 4:35, 7:25, 9:55 Mon 2:00, 4:35, 7:25, 9:55 friendS With KidS Thu, Tue-Wed 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 FriSun 12:05, 2:25, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Mon 2:25, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 ghoSt rider: SPirit of Vengeance 3d (14A) Thu 7:40, 10:00 the girL With the dragon tattoo (18A) Thu, TueWed 6:00, 9:15 Fri-Sun 11:00, 2:30, 6:00, 9:15 Mon 2:30, 6:00, 9:15 goon (18A) Thu, Tue-Wed 5:30, 7:40, 9:50 Fri-Sun 10:45, 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:40, 9:50 Mon 3:15, 5:30, 7:40, 9:50 houSefuLL 2 Thu, Tue-Wed 6:00, 9:30 Fri, Sun-Mon 2:30, 6:00, 9:30 Sat 10:50, 2:30, 6:00, 9:30 hugo 3d (PG) 4:30, 7:15, 9:55 Fri-Sun 10:40, 1:20 mat miSSion: imPoSSiBLe – ghoSt ProtocoL (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Sun 1:05, 4:05, 7:00, 9:50 Mon 4:05, 7:00, 9:50 SaLmon fiShing in the yemen (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 4:30, 7:05, 9:45 Fri-Sun 10:35, 1:30, 4:10, 7:05, 9:45 Mon 4:10, 7:05, 9:45 Star WarS: ePiSode i – the Phantom menace 3d Thu 4:30 thiS meanS War (14A) Fri-Sun 12:30, 2:50, 5:05, 7:35, 10:00 Mon 2:50, 5:05, 7:35, 10:00 Tue-Wed 5:05, 7:35, 10:00 the VoW (PG) Fri-Sun 11:35, 2:10, 4:50, 7:25, 10:00 Mon 2:10, 4:50, 7:25, 10:00 Tue-Wed 4:50, 7:25, 10:00 WanderLuSt (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 4:55, 7:15, 9:35 Fri-Sun 12:10, 2:20, 4:55, 7:15, 9:35 Mon 2:20, 4:55, 7:15, 9:35

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american reunion (14A) Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 9:40, 10:20 Mon 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 9:40, 10:10 Tue-Wed 4:30, 7:30, 9:40, 10:10 dr. SeuSS’ the LoraX (G) Fri-Mon 12:30 dr. SeuSS’ the LoraX 3d (G) Thu 4:40, 7:10, 9:30 Fri-Mon 2:50, 5:00, 7:20 Tue-Wed 4:40, 7:20 the hunger gameS (PG) Thu 3:45, 4:45, 6:30, 7:00, 8:00, 9:45, 10:15 Fri-Sun 12:10, 12:40, 3:20, 3:50, 6:40, 7:10, 10:00, 10:30 Mon 12:10, 12:40, 3:20, 3:50, 6:35, 7:05, 9:45, 10:15 Tue-Wed 3:50, 5:00, 7:00, 8:30, 10:15 journey 2: the mySteriouS iSLand (PG) Fri-Mon 12:50, 3:30 Tue-Wed 3:30 mirror mirror (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:45, 9:40 Fri-Sun 1:00, 3:40, 6:45, 9:45 Mon 1:00, 3:40, 6:45, 9:50 Tue-Wed 3:40, 6:45, 9:50 Safe houSe (14A) Thu 4:20, 7:20, 10:05 Fri-Wed 6:30, 9:20 titanic 3d (PG) Thu 4:10, 8:30 Fri-Mon 12:00, 4:00, 8:00 Tue-Wed 4:00, 8:00 21 jumP Street (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:15, 9:55 Fri-Sun 1:10, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Mon 1:10, 4:10, 7:00, 10:00 Tue-Wed 4:10, 7:10, 10:00 Wrath of the titanS (14A) Thu 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 Fri-Mon 1:20, 4:20, 6:50, 9:30 Tue-Wed 4:20, 6:50, 9:30 Wrath of the titanS 3d (14A) Thu 5:10, 7:35, 10:10 FriSun 12:20, 2:45, 5:10, 7:40, 10:20 Mon 12:20, 2:45, 5:10, 7:40, 10:05 Tue-Wed 4:50, 7:40, 10:05 3

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ñChinatown

(Paramount, 1974) D: Roman Polanski, w/ Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway. Rating: NNNNN; Blu-ray package: NNNNN

Dunaway and Nicholson look better than ever in Blu-ray Chinatown.

Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close (WB, 2011) D: Stephen Daldry, w/ Thomas Horn, Max von Sydow. Rating: NNNN; Blu-ray package: NNN

The mere thought of a fiction based on the 9/11 disaster is enough to raise queasy forebodings of some schlockmeister milking fake sentiment from real tragedy. Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close doesn’t do that. Yes, our 10-year-old hero’s beloved father died in the Twin Towers, and that’s a key story element, but it’s not there for easy tears and is well used to launch the real story: young Oskar’s attempt to find the lock that fits the key he found among his father’s belongings. Oskar’s quest takes him all over the city, driving the narrative and infusing it with some humour as the overrational, anxiety-ridden and griefstricken kid struggles to overcome his own limitations. Thomas Horn makes him very believable and not at all cute. Max von Sydow, who almost steals the show as Oskar’s silent companion, gets the lion’s share of the extras in a half-hour on-set doc put together by his son. Along with the making-of doc, it constitutes a good look at director Stephen Daldry’s methods. EXTRAS Making-of doc, Thomas Horn doc, Max von Sydow doc. English, French, Spanish audio and subtitles.

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Think Buffy The Vampire Slayer reimagined as a half-hour sitcom by crazed metalheads with a taste for really gross humour and lots of gore. The titular book magically appears to disgruntled Crowley High students and grants their fondest wishes, a pro-

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cess that always goes spectacularly wrong and usually ends with the wisher splattered all over the walls. Throughout, stoner Todd, his buddy Curtis, Jenny the hottie and science nerd Hannah battle Satanist guidance counsellor Atticus Murphy Jr. for possession of the book. Episode highlights include a laxative battle with geriatric zombies, an invisible pervert, Atticus raped by a wolf, Curtis getting boobs and Hannah a dick. It’s all very funny and leaves room for characters that evolve from the first season onward. The generous extras package features an excellent making-of doc on the writing process. EXTRAS Cast and crew commentary on three episodes, making-of doc, bloopers, more. English audio and subtitles.

Chasing Madoff

(eOne, 2010) D: Jeff Prosserman. Rating: NN; DVD package: NN Harry Markopolos’s nine-year struggle to expose Bernie Madoff’s $50 billion Ponzi scheme is a fascinating story. Sadly, Jeff Prosserman’s movie does not fully explore its potential. In 1999, investment manager Markopolos sees signs of fraud in a document and launches an investigation,

This Chinatown is identical to the twodisc DVD that Paramount put out under its Centennial Collection banner in 2009. It’s worth going for the Bluray’s slight but noticeable additional clarity, because the rich, textured visuals are one reason why Chinatown is so rewatchable. The others have to do with its complex, multi-layered story that unfolds with the unexpectedness and inevitability of great tragedy. J.J. Gittes, a successful private eye in 1930s Los Angeles, takes on a simple

straying-husband job that leads him into a maze of murder and conspiracy with a terrible crime at its centre. Robert Towne wrote Gittes specifically for Jack Nicholson, and the role plays to all the actor’s strengths: his hustler’s charm, vanity, humour, compromised morals and outbursts of anger. It’s a career-defining performance. Ditto for Faye Dunaway, the client, whose emotionally damaged reticence fits perfectly with Gittes’s aggression and conflicted emotions. Towne, Nicholson, director Roman Polanski and producer Bob Evans pro-

vide almost an hour of reminiscences in the three-part retrospective making-of doc. Towne also makes a few fascinating remarks on constructing the script in the commentary he shares with The Social Network director David Fincher, whose insights into Polanski’s directing choices are valuable. EXTRAS Commentary, three-part historical doc, appreciation doc, three-part retrospective making-of doc, 5.1 or restored mono sound. English, French, Spanish, Portuguese audio and subtitles.

aided by a couple of colleagues and, later on, a reporter. He takes his report to the Securities Exchange Commission, Wall Street’s regulatory agency, and gets no response. Ditto when he tries the press. Prosserman uses Congressional hearing footage, news clips and a few victim interviews but mostly relies on interviews with Markopolos and his as-

sociates, often as voice-overs for uninformative and visually uninteresting recreations of events. What’s missing are the details that might bring the story into focus. How do the SEC executives explain their failure? What does the Wall Street Journal say about keeping its reporter off the story? How did Madoff fish so many banks into working with him? What

were Markopolos’s 29 red flags that signalled fraud? In his commentary, Prosserman explains some of the film’s shortcomings, discusses his visual style and tells production stories. EXTRAS Commentary, deleted scenes, alternate ending. English audio. English SDH subtitles. 3 movies@nowtoronto.com

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pm. Rampart (2011) D: Oren Moverman. 9:30 pm. FRi 6 – Closed. sat 7 – Monsieur Lazhar (2011) D: Philippe Falardeau. 7 pm. Rampart. 9:15 pm. suN 8-moN 8 – Monsieur Lazhar. 4:30 pm. We Need To Talk About Kevin (2011) D: Lynne Ramsay. 7 pm. tue 10 -Wed 11 – We Need To Talk About Kevin. 7 pm. Monsieur Lazhar. 9:15 pm.

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diverse communities. $10, stu/srs $5, music video night $25, festival pass $125, VIP pass (for two) $500. Wed 11 – Opening night: LUV (2012) D: Sheldon Candis. 7 pm (SC).

thu 5 – The Guantanamo Trap (2011) D:

Thomas Wallner. 6:30 pm. The Disappearance Of McKinley Nolan (2010) D: Henry Corva. 9:30 pm. FRi 6 – Fightville (2011) D: Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker. 3:30 & 9:45 pm. The Vanishing Spring Light (2011) D: Xun Yu. 6:30 pm. sat 7 – When We Were Kings (1996) D: Leon Gast. 3:30 pm. Fightville. 6:30 pm. The Vanishing Spring Light. 9 pm. suN 8 – Monty Python’s Life Of Brian (1979) D: Terry Jones. 3:30 pm. The Vanishing Spring Light. 6:30 pm. Fightville. 9:15 pm. moN 9 – Fightville. 6:30 pm. The Vanishing Spring Light. 9 pm. tue 10-Wed 11 – The Vanishing Spring Light. 6:30 pm. Fightville. 9:15 pm.

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zuki. 9 pm. FRi 6 – Princess Mononoke (1997) D: Hayao Miyazaki. 6:30 pm. Golem (1980) D: Piotr Szulkin. 9 pm. Issues (2011) D: Enrico Colantino and Hugh Dillon, and Hard Core Logo (1996) D: Bruce McDonald. 9:30 pm. sat 7 – Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) D: Hayao Miyazaki. 10:30 am & 4 pm. Spirited Away (2001) D: Hayao Miyazaki. 1 pm. Castle In The Sky (1986) D: Hayao Miyazaki. 6:30 pm. Issues, and Hard Core Logo. 9 pm. Vampire’s Kiss (1989) D: Robert Bierman. 10 pm. suN 8 – My Neighbor Totoro (1988) D: Hayao Miyazaki. 12:30 pm. Princess Mononoke. 3 pm. Nausicaä Of The Valley Of The Wind (1984) D: Hayao Miyazaki. 6:30 pm. Issues, and Hard Core Logo. 9 pm moN 9 – My Neighbor Totoro. 6:30 pm. Hard Core Logo. 6:30 pm.

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2236 queen e. 416-691-7330. foxtheatre.ca

thu 5 – Safe House (2012) D: Daniel Espinosa.

7 pm. The Artist (2011) D: Michel Haznavicius. 9:15 pm. FRi 6-moN 9 – Hugo 3D (2011) D: Martin Scorsese. 2 pm. The Descendants (2011) D: Alexander Payne. 4:30 pm & 9:15 pm. Iron Lady (2011) D: Phyllida Lloyd. 7 pm. tue 10 – Iron Lady. 7 pm. Descendants. 9:15 pm. Wed 11 – Iron Lady. 1:30 pm. Pina 3D (2011) D: Wim Winders. 7 pm. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) D: Tomas Alfredson. 9 pm.

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the Sheppard Grande.) Some of this year’s programming isn’t exactly brand-spanking-new. Gereon Wetzel’s documentary El Bulli: Cooking In Progress had a theatrical run last summer, and Sherry Horman’s 2009 drama Desert Flower – a drama based on the life of Somali supermodel-turned-activist Waris Dirie – went straight to DVD in Canada last fall. That said, if you missed Brendon Culliton’s If I Should Fall at the Canadian Film Festival last month, ReelWorld offers another opportunity to see it with an audience. While the documentary breaks no new aesthetic or narrative ground, it’s a heartfelt

look at the life and death of Marc Diab, a Lebanese-Canadian soldier killed in action in Afghanistan. The only new title available for preview at press time was High Chicago, a clunky period drama starring the English actor Colin Salmon (Prime Suspect 2) as an American poker player bent on opening a drive-in theatre in Africa. Made by the people who brought us the awful dance competition drama Beat The World, it’s a rote melodrama notable more for its inventive use of Sudbury locations to stand in for 1975 Michigan than for its story or performances. Good soundtrack, though. NoRmaN WilNeR

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pm. Under The Sea. Noon. Tornado Alley. 1 pm. FRi 6 – Rocky Mountain Express. 11 am & 2 pm. Jane Goodall’s Wild Champanzees. 1 pm. Under The Sea. 3 pm. Tornado Alley. Noon. sat 7 – Rocky Mountain Express. 11 am, 2, 4 & 8 pm. Tornado Alley. Noon & 7 pm. Jane Goodall’s Wild Champanzees. 1 pm. Under The Sea. 3 pm. suN 8-moN 9 – Rocky Mountain Express. 11 am, 2 & 4 pm. Tornado Alley. Noon. Jane Goodall’s Wild Champanzees. 1 pm. Under The Sea. 3 pm. tue 10-Wed 11 – Rocky Mountain Express. 11 am & 2 pm. Under The Sea. Noon. Tornado Alley. 1 pm.

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FRi 6-Wed 11 – Check website for schedule.

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sat 7 – Bugs Bunny Animated Cartoon Program. 7 pm. The Salvador Dali/Luis Bunuel Anarchist, Surrealist, Hallucinatory Film Festival. 9 pm. suN 8 – Science Or Superstition (2008) D: Nimrod Erez. 2 pm. The Fabric Of Time 3D (2007) D: David Priest. 4 pm. World War II 3D (2011). 5 pm. Jane Jacobs: Urban Wisdom (2003) D: Don Alexander. 6 pm. Le Patin Libre 3D (2011) D: Reg Hartt. 7 pm. The Shining (1980) D: Stanley Kubrick. 9 pm. moN 9 – Outside The Law (1920) D: Tod Browning. 7 pm. Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde (1920) D: John S Robertson. 9 pm. tue 10 – The Eye of Vichy (1993) D: Claude Chabrol. 7 pm. The Architecture Of Doom (1991) D: Peter Cohen. 9 pm.

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The CN Tower presents The Ultimate Wave Tahiti 3D. Continuous screenings daily 10 am-8 pm. 301 Front W. 416-8686937, cntower.ca. thu 5-Wed 11 – Casa Loma presents The Pellatt Newsreel (2006) D: Barbra Cooper, a film and permanent exhibit on the history of Casa Loma and Henry Pellatt. Daily screenings 10 am-4:30 pm. Included w/ admission. 1 Austin Terrace. 416-923-1171, casaloma. org. thu 5-sat 7 – VTape and WARC present A Long History Of Madness (2011) D: Mieke Bal and Michelle Williams Gamaker. Screened daily at 11 am & 2 pm. VTape, 401 Richmond W, suite 452. 416-351-1317, vtape.org. thu 5 – The Italian Cultural Institute presents the Italian Contemporary Cinema film retrospective, screening La Passione (2010) D: Carlo Mazzacurati. 7:30 pm. Free. Columbus Centre, 901 Lawrence W. 416-921-3802 ext 221. WaterDocs presents Blue Gold: World Water Wars (2008) D: Sam Bozzo, and short film Mega Quarry Film: Save Our Water (2011). 7 pm. Free. Discussion to follow. Ralph Thornton Commmunity Centre, 765 Queen E, 2nd flr. ecologos.ca/waterdocs. FRi 6 – Cinema Politica Danforth presents Marx Reloaded (2011) D: Jason Barker. Discussion to follow. 7:30 pm. Free. Centre of Gravity, 1300 Gerrard E. cinemapolitica.org/ danforth. Die O.S.T. presents Kenneth Anger X 2: Lucifer Rising and Scorpio Rising. Live soundtrack performed by Flow Child, Cop Car Bonfire and others. 8:30 pm. $5. Reserve: admin@vsvsvs.org. VSVSVS, 25 Polson. facebook.com/events/327703063945942. sat 7 – Vimy Ridge Day, War Horse and the Carlton Cinema present a World War One Mini Film Festival. Oh, What A Lovely War (1969) D: Richard Attenborough. 1:15 pm. A Very Long Engagement (2004) D: Jean-Pierre Jeunet. 4:15 pm. Passchendaele (2008) D: Paul Gross. 7 pm. Gallipoli (1981) D: Peter Weir. 9:30 pm. Free. Carlton Cinema, 20 Carlton. 416-494-9371. Caribbean Studies at New College, U of T presents Better Mus’ Come (2011) D: Storm Saulter. 6 pm. Free. Innis College, 2 Sussex. da.trotz@utoronto.ca. 3

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Stroking the cat and... I have an awesome relatIonshIp wIth n awesome guy. He loves me and a takes care of me. I’m GGG, and he’s vanilla. I only draw the line at poop, animals and children. But he’s never asked me for anything other than vanilla sex. Which is why I don’t know what to do. I went downstairs late the other night, and he was sitting on the couch masturbating while stroking the cat, which was sitting on his chest. The cat was sitting ON him, Dan, WHILE he was yanking himself. I don’t know if he saw me. I went right back upstairs and went to bed. In the morning he acted like nothing happened. Now I don’t know what to do. Confront him? Get him help? Get rid of the cat? Can’t Analyze This Pets want to be petted, and some pets are pushy about getting their pet on. Bearing that in mind, CAT, I want you to pick the two likeliest scenarios out of these four options: A. Your boyfriend is attracted to your cat. B. Your awesome boyfriend – unlike so many other boyfriends – is capable of doing two things at once. C. Your boyfriend fantasizes about fucking the Almond Roca out of your cat’s ass. D. Your awesome boyfriend needed to rub one out and he was considerate enough to slip out of bed and go downstairs – so as not to wake you (he’s awesome like that) – and there he was, lying back on the couch, concentrating on the

task at hand, when the cat jumped up on his chest. Now, you were there, CAT, and I wasn’t, which means you’re in a much better position to judge. But I think B and D are the likeliest scenarios: Your boyfriend was having a wank when the cat jumped on him, for a few moments he divided his attentions between stroking the cat and stroking himself – those moments you were unlucky enough to witness – and at some point he pushed the cat off his chest and turned back to the task at hand. But, again, you were there, CAT, I wasn’t. So did it look like your boyfriend was masturbating about the cat, with the cat or at the cat? Or did it look like your boyfriend was masturbating in the immediate vicinity of the cat? These are questions that only you can answer. And here’s a question that only your boyfriend can answer, CAT, and I think you should put it to him: “I came down the other night and you were beating off with the cat sitting on your chest – what was that about?” And here’s the answer you’re likely to get: “I was jerking it and the cat jumped up on me and I petted her for a minute midwank – but I didn’t want to lose my hardon and have to start all over, so the part of my brain that regulates higher boner function instructed my right hand to go into erection-maintenance mode. But I wasn’t perving on the cat, honey, I swear.” Your awesome boyfriend will say that even if he was perving on the cat, CAT. But if he has the decency and good sense to lie to you about it, you should have the decency and good sense to pretend to believe him.

I want to get pumped up I’m a 25-year-old straIght male

who’s into big-dick porn. I’m not into the dicks per se, Dan. It’s the domination and dirty talk aspects of big-dick porn that turn me on, i.e., hearing a woman say things like “That’s huge!” “Stop!” “You’re too big for me!” I’m not too bad off down there, but I want more. Significantly more. Do you have any recommendations on enlargement techniques? Pumps, pills, whatever? I have a partner

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who is sub and very GGG. I would really like to be able to play these fantasies out, but I know nothing of the feasibility. An Enlarging Problem There’s nothing you can do to make your dick bigger. Pills only waste your money, pumps only bruise your dick. (Yes, a pump can make your dick look a little bigger, temporarily, but your temporarily bigger dick will also be a whole lot softer, AEP, and what’s the use of that?) Your only options for safely exploring your big-dick fantasies are strap-ons (“Not Just for Dykes Anymore”) and “cock extenders,” i.e., hollow dildos that a guy can wear on his dick. You’ll find a nice selection of cock extenders here: http://tinyurl.com/ cockextend. Finally, AEP, I trust that you stop when your girlfriend – or any woman – says, “Stop!” unless you and your partner have pre-agreed to a safe word that (1) isn’t “stop” but means “stop” and (2) allows her to scream “Stop!” to her heart’s content.

I like my meth I agree wIth almost everythIng you

s ay, Dan, but I have one complaint: you have made several comments over the years bashing meth users! I know, I know – meth has a bad reputation. But people used to say that smoking pot caused insanity! Don’t believe the hype! Being a meth addict is not good, but occasional use never hurt anyone. I only do it maybe five times a year, and unlike what you see in anti-meth ads, I’m not crazy, I don’t have holes in my skin and I’m not a junkie. Instead, I’m a straight-A female student from a wealthy suburban family. You know when I really like to get some meth? Around finals, so I have lots of extra time to study. Stop bashing meth, Dan! Occasional Meth User Your pot analogy is a big fail, OMU: Different drugs have different risks, to say nothing of different chemical compositions and psychotropic effects. That anti-drug crusaders overstated the dangers of marijuana to advance their anti-hippie, proincarceration or blatantly racist political agendas does not prove that meth is safe. Meth, unlike pot, is highly addictive.

While there’s no such thing as a fatal dose of pot, there is such a thing as a fatal dose of meth. And while abusing pot – and pot can be abused – makes a person lethargic and lardy, abusing meth makes a person crazy and dead. But, hey, why should you take my word about meth, college girl? What do I know about meth? It’s not like I’ve ever used meth, right? “Most meth addicts started out feeling like meth was the perfect fix to a ‘problem’ like needing extra time to study,” says gay porn star Trenton Ducati. “I started out using meth ‘occasionally,’ too. Pretty much all meth users start out that way. And it’s not novel to think your life is in control, and that you’ve got it all together – everybody who gets addicted to meth thinks that.” Trenton says people who use meth – even occasionally – are the worst judges of whether they have a meth problem. “Meth wound up taking me places that I’m sure OMU doesn’t want to go,” says Trenton. “There is just no way to use meth safely. Even if she is not willing to listen to those who’ve come before her – and it sounds like she’s not – she could at least refrain from promoting a drug that has ruined so many lives.” (Gay porn fans – particularly fans of behind-the-scenes pics of porn shoots – can follow Trenton Ducati on Twitter: @TrentonDucati.) And maybe you didn’t learn the word “sophistry” when you were cramming for the SATs, OMU, but you might want to look it up. It’s never too late to expand the ol’ vocabulary – or to put down the meth pipe.

ONFIDENTIAL TO LGBT KIDS WITH C CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN PARENTS: Matthew Vines is your new best friend. Watch his video about what the Bible does and doesn’t say about being gay and send the link to your mother and father: http://tinyurl.com/matthewvines.

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