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Drake Hotel. nowtoronto.com. +clYBourne Park Studio 180’s production of Bruce Norris’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play closes Apr 28 at the Berkeley Street Theatre. 8 pm. Pwyc$45. 416-368-3110.

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email letters@nowtoronto.com Harping on Harper i always enjoy reading Alice Klein, but with all due respect, I think she may be getting carried away in describing the federal budget as Stephen Harper’s recipe for “command and control” (NOW, April 5-11). In fact, many economists think the cuts didn’t go far enough.

Klein might be surprised to learn that it was the Liberal majority back in the early 90s that first

brought up moving eligibility for Old Age Security from 65 to 67. Of course, she’s certain there must be a conspiracy. My suggestion would be for Klein to contact a travel agent immediately and book a fact-finding tour by bus through European countries like Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain.

David Honigsberg Toronto

Mad sensitivities i wish to bring to your attention the fact that the caption Mad Budget on your cover to illus-

trate Alice Klein’s article on the federal budget has upset my daughter, who lives and works in Toronto and asked me to write to you to let you know.

Perhaps you are not aware that it is in fact oppressive to insult or criticize someone by calling them crazy or mad. People who struggle with mental health issues would do better not to read such articles.

Perhaps you are competing with the Mad magazine of my youth? Perhaps you want your readers to stop taking you seriously?

David Rosser Toronto

Ratings game regarding paul weinberg’s credit Rating Rip-off (NOW, April 5-11). The credit rating agencies are incompetent, which they’ve repeatedly proven. But I agree with this article in that they are also irrelevant.

Look at the market’s reaction after the U.S. was downgraded. The U.S. economy rallied. That’s because the

“ Credit rating agencies have repeatedly proven they’re incompetent. They’re also irrelevant. ” markets already set the credit worthiness of any borrower.

Ratings are both redundant and dumber than the crowd-sourced price that already exists. I talk about the failure of the credit rating agencies in my book Jackass Investing. Myth #13: It’s best to follow expert advice.

Mike Dever From nowtoronto.com

Bully for you the review of bully (now, april 511) states that “Hirsch rides the bus – truly hell on wheels – to record the abuse, the pathetically passive bystanders and the distressing response from wholly inept teachers.”

I find this comment ignorant and offensive, mainly because it states that the kids on the bus who don’t do anything should somehow be held accountable, too.

These are scared young kids who do not know how to react to bullying at someone else’s expense. The issue is awareness. Calling them “pathetically passive bystanders” is in itself a form of bullying.

A.B. Toronto

Eat this as a news organization and a political voice NOW magazine has lost a great deal of my respect with its most recent cover (NOW, April 5-11).

It is pretty dumb to eat meat – even “free range” organic – and claim to be environmentally conscious, not to mention supposedly humanitarian.

Natalie Marconi Toronto

History of police violence how occupy turned violent (now Daily, April 5)? That’s a poor headline considering that it is the police that

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got violent, initially on someone in handcuffs (whom they beat), then on the person who was just filming. The video doesn’t show any violence on the part of protesters. Also, I object to the suggestion that there weren’t enough police or that the police “panicking” was somehow justified. In this video you can see [from] the context directly preceding the violence, there was no reason for the police to panic.

Sakura Saunders From nowtoronto.com

Infiltration clarification we were dismayed to read jesse Rosenfeld’s contention that the Movement Defence Committee of the Law Union of Ontario (MDC) had been “infiltrated” by JIG officers prior to the G20 (NOW, March 22-28).

The MDC organized a legal observer program in preparation for demonstrations. Volunteer legal observers attended training sessions where they learned to report arrests and monitor police misconduct.

The G20 legal support office, however, was staffed exclusively by members of the MDC, a secure committee with a vetted membership of trusted activists, legal workers, law students and lawyers.

No observers were given access to confidential, sensitive or non-public information gathered.

Irina Ceric On behalf of the MDC Toronto

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Jazz riffing i enjoyed reading the article about BBNG, (NOW, March 22-28) but was concerned about the misleading depiction of the Humber College music program.

Jazz programs at colleges and universities have gone a long way toward filling an apprenticeship void that was once provided by an abundance of steady gigs and road work. Humber, where I teach, has long prided itself on having a “real world” approach to music education. To say that the school is only interested in churning out a generation of bebop clones is ludicrous. As to whether or not there is any value in transcribing solos by jazz masters, a school that didn’t expose its students to this approach would simply not be doing its job.

Ted Quinlan Toronto

Biggest demolition sin regarding your cover story on Disappearing Toronto (NOW, March 29-April 4). The biggest demolition sin ever committed in Toronto was tearing down the Armouries in 1963. We continue to opt for commerce and gentrification as we erase several aesthetic periods that will never return.

It doesn’t make for a beautiful city, and it means I need to work harder to appreciate where I live as I walk past all the cheapness.

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[Frontlines] Glenn Sumi on avoiding taxes, term papers and spring cleaning April is the cruellest month, but not for the reasons T.S. Eliot had in mind.

The beginning of spring always reminds me of my chronic procrastination habit.

Back in university, year-end term papers piled up and books and notes waited to be studied for final exams. It always seemed like the ultimate sick joke, or some psychology experiment in delayed gratification.

Just as windows were being thrown open for the first time in months and you could finally walk outside without a winter coat, students were asked to stay indoors.

Cruel, right?

And now there’s another evil element to April: income taxes. With the end-of-the-month filing deadline approaching, I’m getting more anxious by the day. After all, there’s a year’s

worth of paperwork to sort through.

My place is a mess. Receipts, charitable donation slips and T4 forms are everywhere. The older ones have been stuffed into plastic bags or big, bulky envelopes. The newer ones clutter my kitchen counter or have been shoved into knapsack pouches or deep into coat pockets somewhere in my closet.

Past experience tells me that all it will take to get everything together is a day or two of solid work. I can crank the stereo, listen to a podcast, reward myself with a fancy dinner that I’ll be able to pay for once my tax refund arrives.

Um, not gonna happen. Not this week anyway.

I’ve often wondered why I became an arts journalist in the first place,

ruled by 10 am screenings, 8 pm curtains and “drop-dead deadlines.” But maybe I realized that without someone asking me for copy, I’d never get anything written.

It’s a trick we procrastinators sometimes use. Need to clean up the house?

Receipts are everywhere, stuffed into plastic bags and shoved into old coat pockets.

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President Hubert T. Lacroix says upwards of 650 jobs will have to be eliminated, 475 of them this year. Lost in most coverage of the squeeze: the $115 million cut includes $60 million the CBC has been receiving since 2001 to invest in Canadian programming. Other moves being contemplated: selling its digital channel, Bold, and allowing advertising on Radio 2. Lacroix says the changes won’t mean a reduction in programming quality. We know better.

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This gamble not worth the risk Your odds of winning the lottery are better than those of a casino on the waterfront being a good bet for business By ENZO DiMATTEO 72: the percentage of torontoians who opposed casinos the last time there was a refer­ endum on the issue back in 97.

Unknown: the percentage of Torontonians who oppose casinos today.

But you can bet your bottom dollar, and we are talking big dollars here, that our riverboat gambler of a mayor and his sidekick brother, Hopalong Cassidice (the Sopranos version of Cassidy), are working on turning public opin­ ion in their favour.

Exhibit #1: that mysterious telephone poll last Wednesday night, linked to former Ford chief of staff and personal pollster Nick Kou­ valis. It asked loaded questions of the variety designed to elicit a preordained response. As in, “If it was decided that a casino resort would be located in Toronto, which location would you prefer?” And, “If the casino resort resulted in thousands of jobs created, how would you feel about the casino now?”

Google one of the numbers whence the poll originated and it shows up on websites where folks have registered complaints about “harass­ ing” phone calls – some of them during the last federal election. (Insert head­scratch here).

City council progressives were planning their own pre­emptive strike this week, Trin­ ity­Spadina councillor Adam Vaughan tabling a motion to say no to a casino in Toronto until a city­wide referendum can be held on the issue.

At NOW press time Wednesday, council was still debating the issue.

Technically, referendums are only supposed to take place during elections, the next one be­ ing in 2014. But the province has signalled its willingness to consider a plebiscite now. The masses will vote for circuses every time.

So we may have the province to thank for turning that gambling wet dream of some in Ford’s administration into a dangerous reality.

The province doing Rob a favour – what were the chances of that?

Better than you might think when you factor in the fact that Paul Godfrey, grand poobah of conservatives and kingmaker in this town for a lot of years, happens to be head of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG), the outfit that recently announced a plan to “mod­ ernize” (code for “privatize”) gambling in good ol’ Ontari­ari­o.

Godfrey has had some experience with ca­ sino deals in his position as chair of the board of trustees for RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust.

Already, this casino business is beginning to feel like a bad Boardwalk Empire episode.

We’ve heard the horror stories before. Casi­ nos tend to give rise to negative consequences like petty crime, prostitution, loan­sharking and suicides associated with gambling losses.

The province currently spends $41 million a

year from its gaming proceeds on problem gamblers. Money Laundering Typologies And Trends In Canadian Casinos, a 2009 report by the Financial Transactions and Reports Analy­ sis Centre of Canada, identified casinos as sites of money laundering by drug traffickers, or­ ganized crime figures and suspects involved in alleged terrorist activities.

But in their own high­stakes gamble, the families­first minority provincial Libs, freaked by a credit rating downgrade and the prospect of having to go to the polls again if they don’t play nice with the opposition parties, seem willing to play along. Ontario Place is among the rumoured locations for a casino.

There’s also the half­billion­dollar­a­year on­ line betting biz the Libs want to horn in on but want someone else with experience to handle for them. Allowing the private

sector to build casinos seems to be the trade­off for access to that pot of gold.

But a casino is not the solution for what ails the province and the city economically.

The literature on the subject suggests that the odds of winning the lottery are better than those of a casino moving into a city without damaging its social and economic fabric.

There’s only one Las Vegas on the planet. For every casino success story, there are many more like Atlantic City’s, which has just opened casino number 12 although all the others have failed at their advertised goal of changing Atlantic City from a resort town to a place to raise a family.

And casinos aren’t just casinos any more.

They’re hotels and resorts. They’re big. They suck the life out of the small retail, restau­ rants and hotels around them. And they require thousands of parking spaces,

which seems like a bad starting point for any development.

We know from experience in Niagara Falls and Windsor that casinos are no panacea. Profits from gaming facilities near the border have dropped to $100 million a year in 2011 from $800 million in 2001. The jump in the value of the Canuck buck and a depressed U.S. economy have no doubt had an effect.

But it’s also important to note that today there are more competitors. A number of U.S. cities in nearby states (Chicago, Detroit, Balti­ more, Boston and Buffalo and locations in Ohio among them) have casinos and are preparing to expand their gambling offerings. Competi­ tion for the gaming buck is only getting stiffer.

Which illustrates what critics have been saying about the supposed economic benefits of ca­ sinos: there’s a saturation point.

Casinos do create jobs, but they don’t neces­ sarily create wealth. They merely transfer wealth, since money spent on gambling is mo­ ney already in circulation that could have been spent on other things.

The surest economic benefit from casinos is to governments, and there’s the rub. The added revenue from taxes – host municipalities are receiving a pittance compared to Queen’s Park – is arguably far outweighed by higher health, economic and social costs, which in many re­ spects are not fully appreciated.

Personal costs related to gambling – like bankruptcies and family breakdown – aren’t usually part of the equation. But the research is clear: increased access to gambling means in­ creased rates of problem gambling.

But the province is prepared to roll the dice, go bigger and make Toronto’s casino an enter­ tainment destination. That’s doing the equiva­ lent of betting the house on the off chance of hitting the jackpot at a time when logic dictates it may be time to close one of the casinos in Nia­ gara Falls, for example.

The OLG report that gave rise to all the ca­ sino talk, Modernizing Lottery And Gaming In Ontario, makes curious references to the loss of players under 45, as if the potential exists to grow the market.

The report includes a big, fat disclaimer on page one of the sort you read in the investment documents of businesses making public stock offerings. It says that the report’s projections or “forward­ looking statements… involve risks and uncer­ tainties that could cause actual results to dif­ fer materially from those projected.”

Casinos are in the business of making money.

The mathematical odds are such that they win more than they lose. That in itself tells you whom the business of gambling ultimately fa­ vours, and it ain’t the guy wagering his pay­ cheque at the blackjack table.

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F-35 nose dive integration with U.S. military the real reason feds broke all the rules for a failed fighter By ELLIE KIRZNER what does canada’s nonsensical and tragic mission in Afghanistan have to do with the feds’ F-35 procurement scandal? More than the current uproar over the auditor general’s report would suggest, actually.

The document, issued last week, is a trek through the government’s detailed obfuscation, fudged numbers and contempt for oversight and process, all showing how jets with a near-$24 billion price tag were made to appear to cost $10 billion less.

But when you get beyond the conniving and scorn for Parliament, you start to smell the desperation. The Department of National Defence went to the wall to join its Yankee counterparts in a high-tech shopping spree justified in the name of quick and easy wars and more coalition-ofthe-willing-type romps.

That fevered momentum was disguised by high-minded trumpeting of all the Canadian jobs that would come via contracts for the 65 fighter planes, as the report shows. You have to admire the auditor’s restraint as he pointedly notes the complete absence of any employment guarantees in the deal (no local sourcing

rules were applied) and the fact that Canadian firms would have to bid against other nation partners.

Our generals wanted a stealth jet.

How thoroughly modern of them.

That, of course, neatly eliminated all other purchasing options but the F35. But Winslow Wheeler of the Washington-based Center for Defense Information, who’s been on the reality-check path for several years on military purchasing, has made mincemeat of stealth reliability.

He told Canada’s Standing Committee on National Defence – and this reporter as well – that stealth features only operate at select angles and that a craft’s radar-averting capability adds “weight and drag,” hindering acceleration and grounding the plane for excessive maintenance.

The F-35, he’s fond of saying, is “unaffordable” and a “technological kludge.”

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And that is the essence of the matter. DND went quite the distance in pursuit of its integrationist desires, falsely claiming that U.S. experts had validated the price tag, telling politicians costs had stabilized when it was clear they hadn’t, and deftly avoiding the exchange of info with other government bodies. In other words, the department went deeply rogue.

I couldn’t help thinking of The Unexpected War: Canada In Kandahar as I trudged through the week’s reportage. Authors Janice Stein and Eugene Lang wrote that the DND has “always been preoccupied, almost obsessed with their relationship with the U.S. military.” The Canadian Forces, they point out, have become increasingly dependent on their colleagues to the south for equipment,

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Having had this noxious experience, do Canadians really want to subsidize further fusion with the U.S. defence establishment? Or buy war toys presaging another round of selfrighteous invasions?

Afghanistan showed us the extent to which our foreign policy independence, such as it was, has rusted away like discarded military hardware.

Last week’s flap over a fighter jet has given us a chance to politicize this loss once again.

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Our skyline has featured highrises since the 1950s and 60s, when Toronto was known for the number of office and residential towers across the entire city (as distinct from just downtown as in U.S. cities). Now, with 132 super-talls on the way, thereby overshadowing New York’s paltry 86, Toronto is near the head of the pack in the global competition for biggest construction erection.

The upward trend is sometimes justified as intensification, a beneficial counterweight to suburban sprawl, which eats up farmland. And some, like the 38-storey Jade Waterfront going up in Etobicoke, use their height to offer “sky yard” balconies that might actually allow apartment dwellers to grow more green and biomass on the site than existed when it was wilderness.

But (and this might have been noticed if the people regulating highrises also regulated chicken coops) there’s a point in overcrowding when the pecking order gets scrambled and the collapse of immune systems requires constant antibiotic medication.

It will prove to be a super-tall order to reconcile a large number of super-tall buildings with good mental health and well-being.

In my view, the emerging findings of brain researchers – not mind, which is software, but brain, which is hardware – are so persuasive that further approvals of high-rises in already dense areas need to be put on

hold in the name of the precautionary principle.

Life today involves an unrelenting set of assaults on our mental and physical well-being because the architecture of daily life is totally out of kilter with the capabilities of bodies, senses and hormones that evolved in less paved-over times.

Sitting longer than we were designed to sit causes weight, back, neck, hip and knee problems. We move less than we were designed to move, absorb information for longer times and with greater discipline than we (certainly young boys) were designed to. We hear more mechanical noise than ears and hormones can take without stress. We work and shop under the glare of unnatural light, then sleep when we must in order to work, not according to circadian rhythms related to the sun.

We spend more time indoors, where the air in our sealed-up dwellings is more polluted than outdoors in most industrial areas. We choke back our fight-or-flight instincts to hold onto jobs. We spend less time in nature, less time with friends, more time with necks craned over screens.

And, of course, we swallow more eatable things that are the products of labs, not farms.

Thanks to the incredible advantages that population density and variety offer for collaboration and innovation, cities are the most powerful economic invention ever.

But density casts a shadow as long as any building, and the pace of that creative destruction should be countered by activities and landscapes that relieve and renew bodies, minds and souls infected by post-industrial biohazards.

What needs to be examined is the cost of chronic psychological depres-

sion and its possible relationship to feeling isolated and overwhelmed amid massive structures. We need to explore whether an excess of density contributes to an individual’s sense of confusion and aloneness. And to organize against the proliferation of towers unless the parks, services and transit actually exist, instead of building and hoping they will come.

Brain scientists can contribute to the diagnosis. Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg’s findings in Science identify a nature-loving (biophilic) portion of the brain that has its own needs. His piece came out at the same time as a tranquility study by Greg Watts identifying the value of natural sounds for overcoming stress.

Crosscurrents, published by Ontario’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, presented research on the importance of natural lighting based on the needs of the retina, not some cultural preference.

Given the direction neuroscience is heading, I think it’s time for people who love cities and downtowns to crack the covers of books by Christopher Alexander. In The Timeless Way Of Building and A Pattern Language, he sets out the architectural version of chemistry’s periodic table or biology’s genetic code and comes up with the elements people need in order to feel comfortable in a place – things like natural light, curved lines, textured materials, nooks and crannies for chatting or watching the world go by.

Density has always been seen as a planning positive, but now I think we need a broader discussion of its limits and needs. The officials responsible for welcoming in towers should be sent back to their drawing boards. 3 news@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/nowtorontonews

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technology President Obama signs the JOBS Act.

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The pros and cons of crowdfunding for start-ups By nowtoronto.com editor JOSHUA ERRETT This week Barack Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act into law.

The JOBS Act, as per its bacro­ nym, is especially interesting to the technology sector for its “crowdfunding” section. It en­ larges the field of potential inves­ tors in early­stage companies, from accredited investors (those making a minimum of about $200,000 a year) to anyone at all.

Is this a good idea for Canada?

Check the pros and cons.

PROS

Get a JOBS Act

Start-ups in Toronto aren’t exactly broken down at the side of the highway desperately waiting for a jumpstart. But in order to keep pace with their American counterparts, they could use some juice.

It all comes down to competitive­ ness. If the U.S. is giving breaks to its entrepreneurs, so should Canada.

Democratizing the process so regu­ lar people can invest 2 to 10 per cent of their income in start­ups would help level the playing field.

Vancouver investor Mike Volker has been campaigning for crowdfunding

here, advocating that we go even further than the JOBS Act by taking all caps off start­up investment.

“Entrepreneurs in Canada should at least have the same, preferably better, access to capital,” he writes in a post.

He’s got a point. Just look around To­ ronto for money to start a business.

Commercial banks don’t deal with start­ups, and there are few angel in­ vestors and only a select group of incu­ bators. And they will only look at a company with viable product already built out. So it can be a challenge.

Compared with, say, Austin, Texas, or Washington, DC, Toronto looks ill equipped. On average, U.S. start­ups

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have three times the funding.

And with three times the funding comes three times the ability to hire, promote, distribute and ultimately suc­ ceed.

Tech start­ups likely agree. The Ca­ nadian Advanced Technology Alliance, the country’s largest association of high­tech businesses, is currently lobbying for a crowdfunding provision in Canada.

This is simply a matter of keeping up with the JOBSes.

CONS

Take this JOBS Act and shove it

First of all, the JOBS Act is a misnomer, because it’s not really about employment.

“Most start­ups are having problems filling the job slots they have now,” argues Evan Prodromou, entrepreneur behind Montreal’s Status.net. “There aren’t any Ruby programmers walking around with a tin cup.”

Truly. At the bottom of young tech company’s homepage there’s almost always a link that reads “We’re hiring!”

So take the jobs part out of the equation and it becomes just a ques­ tion of investment.

Prodromou says what the JOBS Act creates is a secondary market for in­ vestment – and one without regula­ tion.

This system is “ripe for abuse,” he writes. “Don’t you want to own a part of the next Facebook?” will be the in­ evitable calling card of the tech hustler.

Even if there’s no outright fleecing, nine out of 10 start­ups fail. Right now, wealthy investors who fund these fail­

ures lose money. The JOBS Act shifts some of that risk onto Joe Average.

When the public starts losing money, and it inevitably will, invest­ ment in start­ups gets a bad name.

“It will make it harder, not easier, for entrepreneurs to raise money in the fu­ ture,” Prodromou says, making the case that there’s enough money already without having go to the public.

So the JOBS Act focuses on problems – joblessness, investment – that aren’t necessarily there in the tech sector.

It will change the game, according to Obama. But isn’t it better for Canada to watch from the sidelines first before joining in? joshuae@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/joshuaerrett

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Benefits

charIty concert (May Be Me) Performances

by Ann Chaplin and Soul Nidus help prevent violence towards diverse women and youth.

9:30 pm. $15, adv $10. Sister, 1554 Queen W. maybemecampaign.ca. coc FIne wIne auctIon (Canadian Opera Co) Live auction of wines from private collections.

6 pm. $100. Design Exchange, 234 Bay. 416363-8231. 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

Lecture by a homeopathic practitioner. 7 pm.

Free. Big Carrot, rm 212, 348 Danforth. 416466-2129.

the capItalIst recessIon: causes and solutIons Forum with speaker Barry Weisleder

and screening of the documentary Inside Job. 6:30 pm. $2 donation, pwyc. Oakham House, Room D, 63 Gould. 647-241-6748.

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Festivals this week

Images FestIval International contempor-

ary cinema festival with screenings of 100 films and videos by 150 artists, media art installations, performances, talks and concerts. $10, stu/srs $5; opening night $15, stu $8; closing night $35, adv $30. Royal Cinema (608 College), Toronto Underground Cinema (186 Spadina). imagesfestival.com.

Apr 12 to 21 sIng! toronto vocal arts FestIval Performances by local and international a cappella groups including Swingle Singers, Darbazi and Elmer Iseler Singers, plus workshops and more. Various prices. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, torontovocalartsfestival.com.

Apr 13 to 15

rtIFF KIds InternatIonal FIlm FestIval Screenings of films including

Chimpanzee, plus discussions with filmmakers. $8.50-$12, opening night $25. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. 416-599-8433, tiff.net/kids.

Apr 13 to 22

interviews and more with a variety of authors. Free. Various Toronto Public Library branches. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

To Apr 30 reelworld FIlm FestIval Movies by filmmakers from the aboriginal, Asian, black, Latino, South Asian, Middle Eastern and other diverse communities. $10, stu/srs $5. Sheppard Cinemas (4861 Yonge), Canada Square (2190 Yonge). reelworld.ca.

To Apr 15 true tales Global storytelling event on the theme of families.

Wednesdays (Brazen Head, 165 E Liberty), Thursdays (Bedford Academy, 36 Prince Arthur). grantswhiskey. com/ca/ experiencegrants/yourtrue-tales.

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12 to 17 with comic artist Eric Kim. 4-6 pm.

Free. Story Planet, 1165 Boor W. Pre-register manga-dojo.inkskratch.com. mass exodus Fashion shows featuring designs by Ryerson fashion graduating students.

Today and tomorrow. $25-$35. Ryerson Theatre, 43 Gerrard E. massexodus.ca.

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. talks about the hangings of the pro-democ$15. Drake Hotel Underground, 1150 Queen racy rebels and the significance of the RebelW. nowtoronto.com. lion of 1837. 7:30 to 8:30 am. Free. Corner of Toronto and Court. jivashok@gmail.com. russIa and the west aFter the cold war Discussion with political science prof Sergei gardenIng Is For the BIrds Workshop on Plekhanov. 4 pm. Free. University College, 15 creating a garden with songbird appeal. 7 pm.

King’s College Circle, rm 179. scienceforpeace.

Free. Spadina Road Library, 10 Spadina Rd. Preca. register trcastewardshipevents.ca. sIgns and scrIBBles oF dreams – the get on the mIc! puBlIc speaKIng 101 Learn dreamlIKe experIence In the “lIBrone deI tips to help build your confidence with OCAP’s sognI” By FellInI Appraisal of Fellini’s sketchSarah Vance. 6-8:30 pm. $20, unwaged $10. U es and notes. 6:30 pm. Free. Italian Cultural of T St George campus. Pre-register at Institute, 496 Huron. 416-921-3802. toolsforchange.net/2012/01/04/get-on-themic-public-speaking-101. tamIl people’s For selF-determInKRO 090 Now Mag Ads April 12 FNL 05/04/12 2:51struggle PM Page 1 atIon and JustIce: a ‘sInhala leFt’ perspecmanga worKshops Six-week course for girls

tIve Presentation by Dr Jude Lal Fernando.

6:30 pm. Free. OISE, 252 Bloor W, room 5230. jdavis@kairoscanada.org.

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 Graduate conference on the 50th anniversary of Frantz Fanon’s book. Today and tomorrow. York University, 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.

Friday, April 13

Benefits

desIgn hope toronto art auctIon (Parkdale Activity-Recreation Centre) Art auction and

dinner and a silent auction. 6 pm. $125. Destiny Banquet Hall, 4220 Steeles W (Woodbridge). pmhf3.akaraisin.com/micheletemple.

585 Cranbrooke. 416-922-6413. a lIttle opera For BaBIes (Linden Fund) Opera, art song and musical theatre perfomed

by Christopher Burton, Cheryl Campbell and others benefits premature babies. 2:30 pm. $15, stu/srs/child $10. Bloor Street United Church, 300 Bloor W. musicforpreemies.ca.

calvIno and eco: rhIzomatIc relatIonshIps

aBsolutely vIntage Sale of men’s and

raffle. 7 pm. Donation. St John’s Parish Hall, 186 Cowan. designhopetoronto.ca.

mIchele temple melanoma FundraIsIng gala (Princess Margaret Hospital) Live music,

Events

Conference and workshop with Italian authors Umberto Eco and Italo Calvino. Today 2-6:45 pm; tomorrow 9 am-7 pm. Free. Muzzo Family Alumni Hall 100, 121 St Joseph. 416-926-2345.

colomBIa, archItecture In transFormatIon Presentations and discussion with archi-

tects Luis Callejas, Antonio Yemail and others.

6 pm. Free. Design Exchange, 234 Bay. dx.org.

gtwa coFFeehouse: worKIng In the neolIBeral unIversIty Greater Toronto Workers’

Assembly discussion with CUPE’s Sarah Hornstien and others. 7 pm. Free. Regal Beagle, 335 Bloor W. 416-591-6859. mad couture catwalK Runway-style presentation of wearable couture inspiring dialogue about mental illness and creativity. 7 pm. $25, stu $15. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. tickets.ago.net. model talK NOW senior writer Norman Wilner leads a panel on the documentary Girl Model with subject Rachel Blais and others in the fashion industry. Screening 9 pm, discussion afterwards. $11. Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor W. bloorcinema.com. sprIng Into salsa Learn salsa and merengue with Toronto Danse Salsa. 5:30 pm. $45. Gardiner Museum 111 Queen’s Park. 416-5868080. treehouse talKs Short talks on three topics by three speakers. 6:30 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca. vIolet wand demo Master Tony demonstrates the use of the kinktoy. Midnight. Free.

Black Eagle, 457 Church. 416-413-1219.

Saturday, April 14

Benefits

art For goodness’ saKe (27 community char-

ities) Sale of original works by 32 artists. 10 am-4 pm. $10. Kingsway-Lambton Church, 85 the Kingsway. kingswaylambton.ca/art_show. html. rBooKs are Fun-damental! (Children’s Book Bank) Bookmark-making, face painting, storytelling and more for kids three and up.

Noon. Donation. Playful Grounds Cafe, 605 College. 416-645-0484.

Flea marKet (German International School Toronto) Chldren’s clothes, toys, games, books, DVDs and more. 10 am-1 pm. Free.

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women’s clothing, accessories, jewellery and more. 10 am-5 pm. Free. Toronto Heritage Maple Cottage, 62 Lang. gadabout.ca.

BuIldIng communIty power – neIghBourhood organIzIng past & Future St Clair

West Stop the Cuts workshop. Free. Pre-register stopthecuts.workshops@gmail.com.

communIty vs corporate medIa: lessons From venezuela and Beyond Documentary

screening and a presentation by Carlos Hurtado and others. 10 am-4 pm. Free. Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex. venezuelasolidarity.ca. rdestInatIon dIscover sleepover Exploring the exhibits, interactive activities and an IMAX film. 4:45 pm. $59. Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills. Pre-register 416-696-1000, ontariosciencecentre.ca/sleepovers.

exceptIonal mInds: the convergence oF art and mental Illness In the 21s century

Symposium with artists and culture theorists.

10 am-5 pm. $160, stu $50. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6608. heartworm open house Info on heartworm prevention and treatment in dogs and cats.

Noon-3 pm. Free. Park Animal Hospital, 1958 Burnhamthorpe (Mississauga). parkanimalhospital.ca. puppet maKIng Explore new artmaking ideas, mediums and practices. 11 am. Free. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org.

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. renaIssance conFerence Members of the public participate in a forum to discuss and debate the primary issues of the day. 8:30 am-5 pm. $30, adv $25, stu $20. Centennial College, 941 Progress. 416-709-7019.

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. save the school house shelter Rally and community barbecue. Noon. Free. Outside the School House, 349 George. 416-925-6939. sex toys 101 All-genders workshop with Annanda DeSilva. 7:30-9 pm. Free. Come as You

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Are, 701 Queen W. Pre-register 416-504-7934. rSpring Family Fun DayS Interactive demos, decoding hieroglyphics, ancient Roman games and more. Today and tomorrow 11 am-4 pm.

Free w/ admission. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000. rSpringFeSt 2012 A magic show, henna tattoos, a barbecue and more. 3-6 pm. Free. Albion Islington Square. albionislingtonsquare. com. rtoronto ComiC Con Celebrating the best in pop-fi, movies, graphic novels, comics, toys, video gaming and more with guests Paul Wesley, Scott Bakula, Jeri Ryan, Amy Acker and others. Today 10 am-7 pm; tomorrow 11 am-6 pm. $25-$55. Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front W. wizardworldcomiccon.com. toronto roller Derby Gore-Gore Rollergirls vs Death Track Dolls and CN Power vs Queen City Rollergirls. 6 pm. $18, adv $12. Bunker, Downsview Park, 40 Carl Hall. torontorollerderby.com. toronto SalSa praCtiCe No lesson, beginners to pros, no partner required. 3:30-5:30 or 5:30-8 pm. $5. Trinity-St. Paul’s Church, 427 Bloor W. torontosalsapractice.com. rWeekenD Family Fun at the bata Kids three to nine try on shoes, go on a treasure hunt and more. 11 am-4 pm. Free w/ admis-

sion. Bata Shoe Museum, 327 Bloor W. 416979-7799, batashoemuseum.ca.

Why Don’t the riCh pay? toronto CommunitieS unite to reSiSt auSterity St Clair

West Stop the Cuts community meeting and workshop. 2:30-4:30 pm. Free. Skills for Change, 791 St Clair W. Pre-register at stopthecuts.workshops@gmail.com.

Women anD the War oF 1812 Ontario Women’s History Network conference, with a talk on women’s roles in the war. 8 am-5 pm.

Historic Fort York, 100 Garrison. Pre-register arts.uwaterloo.ca/~owhn.

WreStleStoCk Live pro wrestling with Steve Corino, “Psycho” Mike Rollins, Cherry Bomb and others. 7:30 pm. $20. Royal Canadian Legion Hall, 1083 Pape. wrestlestock.com.

Sunday, April 15

Benefits

huStle For hunger (Daily Bread Food Bank) 5K run/walk to combat hunger. 10:30 am.

Pledges. High Park. events.runningroom.com.

VoiCeS oF hope gala (Kirabo Canada) Performances by local talent in support of children’s education in Uganda. 7 pm. $30. Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas W. kirabocanada.ca.

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annual thirD SeyDer Secular Passover celebration linking the liberation struggle from slavery to liberation for the 99%. 4:30 pm. $48, child $25. Villa Colombo, 40 Playfair. Pre-register winchevskycentre.org. artbuS Bus tour to visit exhibitions at the Art

Gallery of Hamilton and Oakville Galleries.

Noon-5 pm. $10. OCAD U, 100 McCaul. Preregister artbus@oakvillegalleries.com. lgbtQ Volunteer Fair Skill-building workshops for people interested in volunteering with diverse LGBTQ communities. Noon-4 pm.

Free. 519 Church Community Centre. facebook.com/events/394110330616892. miChael ignatieFF The politician/historian talks about thinking about inequality at Easter. 10:10 am. Free. St Clement’s Church Parish Hall, St Clements and Duplex. 416-483-6664. muSiCal ColleCtibleS reCorD & CD Sale Vinyl records, CDs, books, posters and more. 10 am-4 pm. $5. Capitol Banquet Centre, 6435 Dixie (Mississauga). 1-800-255-4416. poSt a letter SoCial aCtiVity Club Afternoon of letter-writing at a historic post office. 1-4 pm. Free (pwyc stationery). Toronto’s First Post Office, 260 Adelaide E. pal-sac.com.

preSS pauSe: DiSCoVering your Still point

Meditation workshop. 2 pm. $25 sugg, stu free. Hart House Music Room, 7 Hart House Circle. Pre-register at harthouse.ca/studentengagement/presspause. toronto Vintage Clothing ShoW Clothing, accessories, quilts, fabrics and more. 11 am-4 pm. $8, children free. Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. antiqueshowscanada.com.

Wanna talk about the eConomy? Info session for a new initiative that seeks to create a platform for conversations about local and global economies. Free. Whippersnapper Gallery, 594b Dundas W. candidcallcentre.org.

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As Earth Day calls our attention to our much-abused environment, the Green Living Show offers tons of ideas on how to show the planet some love. The three-day event puts thousands of eco-products and services under one roof, and, via the show’s panels, scores of eco icons – including former mayor David Miller and NOW’s own Ecoholic, Adria Vasil – spread the enviro message. April 13 to 15 at the Direct Energy Centre (Exhibition Place). $15. Friday and Saturday 10 am to 9 pm, Sunday 10 am to 6 pm. greenlivingonline.com.

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Writing a play For the young When one

iSn’t Presentation by playwright/novelist Don Hannah. 2 pm. Free. Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil. ulyssean.on.ca.

Monday, April 16

Benefits

one night only (Harold Green Jewish Theatre Co) Evening of song and laughter with Thom Allison, Micah Barnes, Charlotte Moore and others. 8 pm. $50 and up. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-366-7723.

8-80 Cities’ Gil Penalosa talks urban planning on April 18.

ShellShoCkeD: SaVing oySterS to SaVe ourSelVeS (Environmental Defence) Film screen-

ing and Q&A with director/environmentalist Emily Driscoll plus oyster tasting. 6 pm. $77.50.

Rodney’s Oyster House, 469 King W. 416-3638105 ext 0.

Smile gala (Smile Theatre) Cocktails, dinner and entertainment. 6 pm. $125. First Canadian Place, 68th fl, 1 First Canadian Pl. 416-5998440 ext 222.

Who Do you Wannabe? (519 Church Community Centre) Performance by Spice Girls tribute band Wannabe. 7 pm. $15. 519 Church. the519.org.

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aCtiViSm in aCtion Peaceworks workshop on lobbying and letter writing with Cheryl McNamara of Citizens Climate Lobby. 6:30 pm. $25. Friends House, 60 Lowther. 416-7316605. noW talkS: aDria VaSil NOW columnist/author Vasil launches her book Ecoholic Body: Your Ultimate Earth-Friendly Guide To Living Healthy And Looking Good in conversation with NOW style editor Andrew Sardone. 6 pm. $10. Drake Underground, 1150 Queen W. nowtoronto.com/nowtalks. open DraWing SeSSion Life drawing from the model. 6:30 pm. $9. Ralph Thornton Centre, 765 Queen E. donriverdwgsessions@hotmail. com.

StreSS 3.0: Feeling your Way ForWarD to total health Workshop on transforming your relationship with stress. 7-9:30 pm. $15. Carrot Common, rm 212, 348 Danforth. Pre-register erin@erinbentley.com. through minD & hanD to health Talk on the history of occupational therapy by Judith Friedland. 7:30 pm. Free. University College, rm 179, 15 King’s College Circle. wmsc.ca.

issues facing the city at this monthly lecture series. 6:30-8:30 pm. Free. Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex. Pre-register at www.citiescentre. utoronto.ca/about/Events/17apr12TIQ.htm.

WorlDpriDe to 2014 publiC meeting Learn about Toronto’s hosting of this event and how to participate. 7-9 pm. Free. Courtyard Marriott, 475 Yonge. pridetoronto.com.

Wednesday, April 18

Equality was always a tall order, and the sisters of the world haven’t achieved it yet. In the nation to the south of us, Republican fanatics are even trying to take away what’s been won. Come celebrate a new Human Rights Watch anthology, The Unfinished Revolution: Voices From The Global Fight For Women’s Rights, edited by the org’s Minky Worden, who speaks along with Erna Paris, author of Long Shadows: Truth, Lies And History, and Michele Landsberg, author of Writing The Revolution. Wednesday (April 18), 7:30 pm. $10, stu free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay West. readings.org.

Free. Masaryk Cowan Community Centre, 220 Cowan. 416-531-2411 ext 248.

opera 101: a Florentine trageDy/gianni SChiCChi Canadian Opera Co discussion. 6 pm.

Free. Duke of Westminster, 77 Adelaide W. coc.ca.

Queen WeSt Walking art tour Walk led by Betty Ann Jordan. Noon. $25. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.

Salon nightS – gil penaloSa The liveble city adviser/social marketing strategist is interviewed by city councillor Adam Vaughan. 6:30 pm. $10 or pwyc. Design Exchange, 234 Bay. 416-363-6121. thyroiD health & healing Health talk. 7 pm.

Free. Deer Park Library, 40 St Clair E. 416-3937657. the unFiniSheD reVolution Conversation about women’s rights with Global Initiatives editor Minky Worden and Long Shadows author Erna Paris. 7:30 pm. $10, stu free; w/ reception & book $50. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. readings.org.

WorlDpriDe to 2014 publiC meeting Learn about Toronto’s hosting of this event and how to participate. 7-9 pm. Free. Metropolitan Community Church, 115 Simpson. pridetoronto.com.

upcoming Thursday, April 19 green DrinkS earth Day FunDraiSer (Earth

MaRS Discovery District CEO Ilse Treurnicht. 7 pm. Free. Duke of York, 39 Prince Arthur. Preregister wsicapr2012.eventbrite.ca.

(Zoey’s Projects) Performing arts show. 7:30 pm. $17. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416531-4635. breWerS plate toronto (Green Thumbs Growing Kids) Spring feast from master chefs and brewers. 6:15 pm. $125. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe. brewersplatetoronto.org.

Tuesday, April 17

F-35 Debate: DoeS CanaDa neeD it? Discussion

Why ShoulD i Care? reSearCh & innoVation – What are itS eConomiC impaCtS? Talk with

CultiVating Dominant anD SubmiSSiVe boDy language All-genders workshop with

author Andrea Zanin. 7:30-9:30 pm. $30.

Come as You Are, 701 Queen W. Pre-register 416-504-7934.

DrummerS in exile Weekly drum and dance circle. $2-$5. Annex Wreck Room, 794 Bathurst. drummersinexile.com.

Film screening and discussion with Jose Etcheverry. 7 pm. Free. Swansea Town Hall, 95 Lavinia. green13toronto.org.

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paleStinian politiCal priSoner Day Discussion on the struggle. 7 pm. Free. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org. paSSion into aCtion Young Women of Influence lecture by Toronto International Film Festival executive director Michèle Maheux. 6 pm. $45. National Ballet School, 400 Jarvis. youngwomenofinfluence.ca.

SiCkkiDS FarmerS market Cheese, bread, honey, maple syrup, preserves and more.

SickKids Hospital, 555 University. info@ farmersmarketsontario.com. the Stop’S gooD FooD market Tuesdays year-round. 4-6 pm. Davenport-Perth Neighbourhod Centre, 1900 Davenport. thestop.org. toronto babel Practice languages and meet people from around the globe. 7:30 pm. Free.

Rivoli, 332 Queen W, upstairs. meetup.com/ torontobabel.

ning minds have to say. The Design Exchange Salon night hosts what is sure to be a rich discussion featuring Gil Penalosa, exec director of 8-80 Cities and former parks commissioner for the planning-smart city of Bogotá, Colombia. Urban-savvy councillor Adam Vaughan interviews Penalosa. Wednesday (April 18), 6:30 pm. $10 or pwyc. 234 Bay. torontosocietyofarchitects.ca.

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on the history and development of the F-35 fighter jet by aviation historian Keith Hyde, followed by a debate on the aircraft. 7 pm.

Free. Richview Library, 1806 Islington. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

getting StarteD in health anD SCienCe Writing Periodical Writers’ Assoc panel dis-

cussion with Carolyn Abraham and others. 7 pm. $20, adv $15. St Paul’s Bloor Street, 227 Bloor E. Pre-register pwactoronto.org. knoW your rightS aS a tenant Parkdale Community Legal Svs info session. 6:30 pm.

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Day Canada Charity) Drinks party. 7 pm. Free.

CN Tower, 301 Front W. greendrinks.org/on/ toronto. maSSiVe party (Art Gallery of Ontario) The AGO’s annual fundraiser celebrates contemporary art with installations, entertainment and more. 8 pm. $150. Art Gallery Of Ontario Walker Court, 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6628, ago.net/massive.

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olDer lgbt SoCial Social gathering for LGBT people 55 and over. 2 pm. Free. Senior Peoples’ Resources in North Toronto, 140 Merton. 416481-0669 ext 287. toronto art expo Art fair with Canadian and international galleries. To Apr 22, tonight 6-10 pm, tomorrow noon to 9 pm, Sat 10 am-9 pm, Sun 11 am-6 pm. $12-$14, stu/srs $10, kids under 12 free. Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front W. torontoartexpo.com.

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by Rob Brezsny

understand the do-it-now fervour of the Aries tribe, thinking it must inevitably lead to carelessness. Please prove them wrong in the coming weeks. Launch into the interesting new possibilities with all your exuberance unfurled. Refuse to allow the natural energy to get hemmed in by theories and concepts. But also be sure not to mistake rash impatience for intuitive guidance. Consider the likelihood that your original vision of the future might need to be tinkered with a bit as you translate it into the concrete details.

TAurus Apr 20 | May 20 There is a pos-

sibility that a pot of gold sits at the end of the rainbow. The likelihood is small, true, but it’s not zero. On the other hand, the rainbow is definitely here and available for you to enjoy. Of course, you would have to do some more work on yourself in order to gather in the fullness of that enjoyment. Here’s the potential problem: you may be under the impression that the rainbow is less valuable than the pot of gold. So let me ask you: what if the rainbow’s the real prize?

GeMini May 21 | Jun 20 “It’s eternity in a

CAnCer Jun 21 | Jul 22 For a white guy

from 19th-century England, David Livingstone was unusually egalitarian. As he travelled in Africa, he referred to what others then called “witch doctors” as “my professional colleagues.” In the coming weeks, Cancerian, I encourage you to be inspired by Livingstone as you expand your notion of who your allies are. For example, consider people to be your colleagues if they simply try to influence the world in the same ways you do, even if they work in different jobs or spheres.

What might be your version of Livingstone’s witch doctors? Go outside your usual network as you scout around for confederates who might connect you to exotic new perspectives and resources you never imagined you could use.

Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 The flag of California

features the image of a grizzly bear, and the huge carnivore is the state’s official animal. And yet grizzly bears have been extinct in California since 1922, when the last one was shot and killed. Is there any discrepancy like that in your own life, Leo? Do you continue to act as if a particular

VirGo Aug 23 | sep 22 The cartoon char-

acter Felix the Cat made his debut in 1919. He was a movie star in the era of silent films, and eventually appeared in his own comic strip and TV show. But it wasn’t until 1953, when he was 34 years old, that he first got his Magic Bag of Tricks, which allowed him to do many things he wasn’t able to do before. I bring this up, Virgo, because I believe you’re close to acquiring a magic bag of tricks that wasn’t on your radar until you matured to the point where you are now. To ensure that you get that bag, though, you will have to ripen even a bit more.

LibrA sep 23 | oct 22 I have one child, a daughter, and raising her conscientiously has been one of the great privileges and joys of my life. Bonus: she’s turned out to be a stellar human being. Every now and then, though, I get a bit envious of parents who’ve created bigger families. If bringing up one kid is so rewarding, maybe more would be even better. I asked an acquaintance of mine, a man with six kids, how he managed to pull off that difficult feat. He told me quite candidly, “My secret is that I’m not a good father; I’m very neglectful.” I offer up this story as a way to encourage you, at this juncture in your development, to favour quality over quantity. sCorpio oct 23 | nov 21 I expect there’ll

be some curious goings-on this week. A seemingly uninspired idea could save you from a dumb decision, for example. An obvious secret may be the key to defeating a covert enemy. And a messy inconvenience might show up just in time to help you do the slightly uncool but eminently right thing. Can you deal with this much irony, Scorpio? Can you handle such big doses of the old flippety-flop and oopsie-loopsie? For extra credit, here are two additional odd blessings you could capitalize on: a humble teaching from an unlikely expert and a surge of motivation from an embarrassing excitement.

sAGiTTArius nov 22 | Dec 21 Some of

our pagan forebears imagined they had a duty to assist with nature’s revival every spring by performing fertility rituals. And wouldn’t it be fun if it were even slightly true that you could help the crops germinate and bloom by making sweet love in the fields? At the very least, carrying out such a ceremony might stimulate your own personal creativity. In accordance with the astrological omens, I invite you to slip away to a secluded outdoor spot, either by yourself or with a romantic companion. On a piece of paper, write down a project you’d like to make thrive in the coming months. Bury the note in the good earth, then enjoy an act of love right on top of it.

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person that turns the crank handle,” said Franz Kafka. At least that should be the case, I would add. The unfortunate fact of the matter is that a lot of people let other, lesser things turn the crank handle – like the compulsive yearning for money, power and love, for example. I challenge you to check in with yourself sometime soon and determine what exactly has been turning your crank handle. If it ain’t eternity, or whatever serves as eternity in your world view, get yourself adjusted. In the coming months, it’s crucial that you’re running on the cleanest, purest fuel.

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cards. Maybe this story will inspire you to do something comparable, Capricorn: sacrifice an outmoded attachment or juvenile treasure or youthful fantasy to empower the future of love.

AquArius Jan 20 | Feb 18 We all know

that spiders are talented little creatures.

Spiders’ silk is as strong as steel, and their precisely geometric webs are engineering marvels. But even though they have admirable qualities I admire, I don’t expect to have an intimate connection with a spider any time soon. A similar situation is at work in the human realm. I know certain people who are amazing creators and leaders but lack the personal integrity or relationship skills that would make them trustworthy enough to seek out as close allies. Their beauty is best appreciated from afar. Consider the possibility that the ideas I’m articulating here would be

the wind knocked out of you? It feels weird for a short time but leaves no lasting damage. I’m expecting that you will experience a form of that phenomenon sometime soon. Metaphorically speaking, the wind will get knocked out of you. But wait – before you jump to conclusions and curse me out for predicting this, listen to the rest of my message. The wind that will get knocked out of you will be a wind that needed to be knocked out – a wind that was causing confusion in your gutlevel intuition. In other words, you’ll be lucky to get that wind knocked out of you.

You’ll feel much better afterwards, and you’ll see things more clearly.

Homework: Why is this a perfect moment? Tell me at Truthrooster@gmail.com. To hear my reasons why, tune in to my podcast: http://bit.ly/PerfectionNow.

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AdriA VAsil Comes Clean ADRIA VASIL in conversation with Andrew sardone, part of NOW Talks, at the drake Underground (1150 Queen West), Monday (April 16), 6 pm. $10. nowtoronto.com. Also at the Green living show, direct Energy Centre (Exhibition Place), sunday (April 15), 3:30 pm. $15. greenlivingonline.com.

ECoHoLIC BoDY: Your Ultimate EarthFriendly Guide To Living Healthy And Looking Good by Adria Vasil (Vintage), 480 pages. $29.95 paper.

NOW’S ENVIRONMENTAL EXPERT GETS PERSONAL IN NEW Ecoholic body bIbLE

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n an early April evening, i’m sit ting in Adria Vasil’s east-end kitchen while she cooks me chickpea balila. But I really want to be poking through her closet.

I’m not usually such a snoopy dinner guest, but NOW’s sustainable living star is about to release a new book on the subject of greening the skin care, fashion, cosmetics and supplements we consume, and I want proof that she wears what she preaches in the clothing chapter of Ecoholic Body.

So after dinner and a bottle of biodynamic Southbrook red, we abandon our dirty dishes on the dining room table, turn off the first floor lights and climb the narrow staircase past a sleepy tomcat named Hookah to her messy bedroom closet full of locally made, upcycled and vintage duds.

“Tidiness is not my virtue,” says Vasil, who’s wearing a grey sweater-jacket

by Paper People Clothing and clothing-swap-sourced second-hand jeans.

Writing a third book suggests that her best quality is in fact sticking to her

earth-advocating guns, even at a time when rallying readers around the eco cause isn’t as easy as it used to be.

If we’re talking trends in fashion, media or public consciousness, the green movement isn’t that in at the moment. The Harper government has tricked many Canadians into believing they have to choose between ecology and the struggling economy, while consumers are frustrated by greenwashed products that promise health but deliver harmful chemicals and toxins. We’re all craving results from making earth-friendlier choices like reusable bags and compact fluorescent bulbs, but it doesn’t look like Mother Nature will be patting us on the back any time soon.

“I don’t think green is completely in the crapper,” says Vasil, citing how this year’s wacky weather and rising gasoline prices are reinvigorating people’s eco interest. “But I think that’s where the body comes in. When people get a bit of environmental big-issue fatigue, you can bring it back home and say, ‘Let’s take a more personal look at this and see continued on page 36 œ NOW april 12-18 2012

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When my lab test turns up dirt i didn’t knoW Was in me, i put on my detective hat to track doWn the culprits By AdriA VAsil

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s slates go, mine feels like a pretty clean one. I eat organic at home, I only use natural body care products and eco or DIY cleaners. My water is filtered. There’s no compressed wood in my rented apartment that can off-gas formaldehyde, or vinyl counters to shed phthalate dust (although, hmm, what are those faux tiles in my bathroom made of?).

But two Sundays ago I peed on a lab stick and sliced off a few hunks of hair from the back of my head to send for testing so I could find out how many toxins I’m pulling in from the world around me. continued on page 34 œ

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LEAD (neurotoxin that messes with your brain), stored in bones for decades The usual suspects: Pipes, old chipped paint, paint on some imported toys Off the radar: Cheap silver jewellery. Lead’s also been found in supplements including AlgaeCal, Nature’s Way Alive! Whole Food Energizer Ultra Shake, InnerLight SuperGreens and Nature’s Plus Herbal Actives American Ginseng.

Now what? Get a water filter for your tap, test old paint for lead before sanding, or paint over chips. Check supplement testing at consumerlab.com for lead results.

BISPHENOL A (estrogenic chem tied to elevated breast and prostate cancer, obesity, diabetes) The usual suspects: Baby bottles and most tin can linings – think beans, canned veggies, drinks.

Off the radar: Resin dental sealants, glass jar lid linings, cash register receipts, toilet paper (from recycled coated receipts) Now what? Eden and President’s Choice Organics use BPA-free linings – alas, except for tomatoes. Cook your own beans; look for glass drinks with bottle caps or plain plastic lids, stew fresh tomatoes, and if you’re pregnant, definitely steer clear of all BPA sources. Ask your MP for a ban on BPA linings and receipts.

Here are the chief baddies among the hidden toxins in your everyday life – and how to give them the boot, like, today.

TRICLOSAN/TRICLOCARBAN (in the process of being deemed an official enviro toxin, linked to superbugs and endocrine disruption) The usual suspects: Antibacterial hand and dish soap Off the radar: Acne washes; deodorants like Adidas 0% Aluminum, Right Guard Total Defense Power Deodorant, Soft & Dry; Colgate Total What now? Avoid anything promising 24-hour protection or bacteria-busting unless you’ve scanned the ingredients.

PARABENS (estrogen-mimicking preservatives, suspected endocrine disruptors) The usual suspects: Conventional shampoos, cosmetics, shaving gels, body care products in general Off the radar: Check your medicine cabinet – they’re in Advil Cold & Sinus, Buckley’s cough and cold syrups, KY Jelly, and in some cured meat, pâtés, candy and fruit cakes.

Now what? Get up close and personal with ingredient labels, even the tiny type that comes with your medication. Tell Health Canada to enforce regs on estrogenic chems in body care.

FORMALDEHYDE (official carcinogen) The usual suspects: Off-gassing from pressed wood, particle board Off the radar: Lots of body care and cleaning products prolong shelf life with formaldehyde-releasing preservatives like DMDM hydantoin and imidazolidinyl urea. Ditto for the 2-bromo-2nitropropane-1,3-diol in Ecover dish soap. It’s also in shiny coatings on new clothes that makes them somewhat wrinkle-resistant.

Now what? Buy solid wood (FSC certified or second-hand preferred) or ultra-low formaldehyde/ VOC furniture, including Ikea post-1992. Check the ingredients in your cleaners and/or get used to shining up your place with vinegar, baking soda and salt. Look for eco clothes with Oeko-Tex certification. Stick to health store body care products.

PHTHALATES (linked to birth defects, thyroid irregularities, diabetes) The usual supects: Anything artificially scented, perfume, cologne, vinyl shower curtains/floors, older toys (Six phthalates are being restricted from toys now.)

Off the radar: Squishy plastic sandals, some pharmaceuticals, jelly sex toys, vinyl diaper covers, MMA-containing acrylic retainers and dentures; vinyl retainers/mouthguards can leach 10mg of phthalates a day.

Now what? Avoid fake scents and vinyl like the plague. Choose PEVA or hemp/organic cotton shower curtains and zero/no-formaldehyde-added wood/bamboo, marmoleum flooring. Look for MMA-free dental gear. Avoid second-hand toys.

NON-STICK CHEMICALS (PFOA, the most common of these, is officially a likely carcinogen, and a persistent one to boot) The usual suspects: Teflon frying pans (PFOA is used to make Telfon, aka PTFE.) Off the radar: That durable water-repellent finish (DWR) on most waterproof breathable jackets gives off PFOA as it degrades. Maybelline mineral Power powder, Urban Decay eyeshadow and Glide floss all contain PTFE, aka Teflon.

Now what? Switch to stainless steel cookware and ditch the water-repellent concept for now. By fall 2013, Patagonia’s water-repellent finishes will be totally PFOA-free. Big industry players have promised to stop making PFOA by 2015.

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Five health-store sunscreens contained up to seven harmful chemicals not disclosed on the package, including estrogenic UV filtering chems like oxybenzone. What if one of my favourite brands is hiding something?

In the days leading up to my test, I’m hyper-aware of everything I come in contact with. I cringe at lathering up with restroom suds – you know, the pink stuff in public washrooms. (FYI, the orange kind is pretty much guaranteed to leave your palms floating in triclosan, though so can the blue, white and pink ones.)

I do a rough apples-and-oranges assessment: what’s worse, a few bac-

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found parabens in some health food store products, though 34 of 39 of them were in the clear.

I’m just going to have to trust in the better odds I get buying health store products versus drugstore ones.

The biggest spike in my system is a xylene metabolite, at levels higher than 75 per cent of the North Americans in the system. “Is that bad? Nobody knows,” says Gillson.

But let’s back up. What is xylene anyway? It’s basically an organic solvent and VOC in paint thinners, dirty car exhaust, second-hand smoke and all the nasty solvents that eat holes in your brain. How the heck do I have higher than average levels of that? Well, says, Dr Gillson, it could be coming from unexpected places like bike chain cleaner, inks, dyes, paint stripper and oil paint. I’m mentally crossing off the list – no, no, no, no….Wait, did you say oil paint?

MERCURY (neurotoxin that stays in your body for decades) The usual suspects: Tuna, mercury fillings, tiny amount in CFL bulbs Off the radar: Pollution from coal plants, some high-fructose corn syrup, some vaccines Now what? Eat less big fish, say no to mercury fillings and processed foods with highfructose corn syrup, and don’t trash CFL’s – bring them to hazardous waste depots.

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What I’m snooping for is the big boomerang effect – you know, how our environment and what we put in it comes right back at us like a slap upside the head. That’s the gist of environmental health, really.

Growing up, in part, in a pulp and paper/ aluminum smelter town in Quebec, in the era of Scotchgarded surfaces on a steady diet of tuna sandwiches and canned ravioli, I know I should have plenty of embedded chems in my body.

But I’ve repented. Actually, over the course of a few years, my whole family largely did. Led by my big brother Nick, we turned into a bunch of mostly vegetarian alt-health junkies – even more so when he developed pretty serious environmental sensitivities.

Since I was a teen, I’ve slowly eased myself off a growing list of enviro toxins. But how clean can you get? Testing by the peeps over at

Environmental Defence shows that whether you live in small-town BC, northern Canada or big-city Toronto, we’re all polluted.

Thing is, to get the full lowdown on what’s in you, you’re talking a $1,000-to-$2,000 blood test. If you’ve got worsening chemical sensitivities, allergies, rashes, joint pain or a depleted immune system, your naturopath may very well suggest a boiled-down pollutants urine scan and/or heavy metals hair test.

Admittedly, apart from the headaches I get from the cleaning aisle and the wave of queasiness that comes on when I’m near perfume, I’m not sure I qualify as a prime candidate for the testing, but I’m curious – especially knowing that the Silent Spring Institute just last month released results on over 50 categories of products and found a lot of them aren’t listing all their ingredients on the label. Yes, natural brands included.

teria or a shot of triclosan, parabens and phthalates? I resolve to carry on and lather as usual in the name of science.

Might as well order a hot bowl of Chinese takeout soup steeped in polystyrene, aka styrofoam, while I’m at it, to see if I can spike my carcinogenic styrene level the night before I do the test. Call it “pulling a Slow Death By Rubber Duck,” à la Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie.

Next morning I wake up, pee on the stick and send it off in the mail along with my baggy of hair, then wait. * * * Lo and behold, weeks later, there it is staring back at me on my computer screen, the little styrene spike on my chart from my takeout soup. George Gillson, MD, medical director of the Rocky Mountain Analytical lab, is on the line helping me break down my results. He says I shouldn’t worry. It’s definitely in the “normal” North American range, to which I reply, “Don’t normal North Americans eat a lot of styrofoam takeout?” He concurs.

Moving right along, I’m happy to hear that my phthalate levels (at least the kind of phthalates found in scented personal care products) are really low, a sign that my natural body care products are telling the truth about being phthalate-free. So why are my parabens a little higher?

Could be the restaurant soap from the night before, but that Silent Spring study has me wondering if anything in my medicine cabinet is hiding parabens on me. After all, that study

Suddenly, it hit me. We repainted our living room with eco paints four months ago, and at the time an old can of oil paint was accidentally applied to the fireplace. Since the smell went away in a few days, I let it go.

“So are you saying the xylene’s been in my system since December?” Turns out the paint’s still off-gassing today, even if I can’t smell it. I’m floored.

Then my hair results come in. Uranium, cadmium, arsenic are all in there at “normal’’ levels, though the test shows I have “higher than average’’ lead and mercury exposure. What the? I don’t have mercury fillings, I eat large fish like tuna very, very rarely (i.e., mercury-tested cans of BPA-free Raincoast Trading tuna), I don’t wear leaded lipstick, I drink filtered water.

I ask Gillson how old my exposure could be.

He reminds me that lead and mercury stay in the body for a lifetime. Truth is, mercury is in the air, thanks to coal plant pollution. Either way, he says, I seem to be “tolerating’’ these pollutants. I joke that maybe I could be 10 IQ points smarter if I hadn’t chewed on so many lead necklaces as a teen.

He notes that I’ll need to follow up with a naturopath if I want to make a more solid link. * * * So does knowing how toxic I am actually help me in any way? I’m just grateful for the reminder that even if you can’t smell stuff, you can still be inhaling nasty fumes; that harmful chemicals can be hiding in places even an ecoholic has trouble finding; and, for the sake of our health and our planet’s, we should never stop trying to root them out.

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ADRIA VASIL COMES CLEAN

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how we’re involved with polluting ourselves and our kids.’”

The book, which launches with a NOW Talks event Monday at the Drake Hotel, is as personal a look at

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how we’re connected to the planet as you can get. While the original Ecoholic compendium, released at the peak of environmental awareness in 2007, included short sections on

body, fashion and health, Ecoholic Body is 480 FSC-certified pages of product reviews, ingredient definitions, DIY recipes and boxed-out tips for living as deeply green as possible.

“There were moments writing the book when I thought, ‘Oh, is this too fluffy?’” she says, recalling the process of researching the fashion and beauty chapters. “And then I realized that for most Canadians, these are the products we use without a second thought. We’re all lugging these bodies around and taking the products we put in and on them for granted.”

While Ecoholic Body’s more stylerelated sections will earn it buzz on the morning talk show circuit, it’s the chapters about what’s happening inside our bodies that matter most to Vasil. She started the book as a family project, writing the health chapters first and drawing on the mega-vitamin, supplement and herbal expertise of her siblings.

But then her father had a stroke

that landed him in the hospital for six months, and her brother Nick, who originally ignited the group’s green advocacy when Vasil was a teenager, passed away.

“It was a heavy period,” she says.

“The book took a back seat, and the only thing that brought me back to it was doing it for my family.”

The result is ambitious in its breadth, and slightly overwhelming since it highlights the level of consumption we’ve reached. But Vasil is always careful to approach eco issues as an educator rather than a judge, including when she encounters them in her day-to-day life.

“You can invite me over to your house and I’m not going to leave you with a report on what you’re doing wrong,” says Vasil, who puts much more emphasis on the responsibility of politicians and companies than on individual consumers.

“My role is to say ‘Let’s look at our choices. And, by the way, if you feel

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THE FEDS

THE BOOSTER SHOT Harper may have declared open season on the environment, but he’s wise enough to keep appeasing the family vote by declaring certain outlaws officially toxic. Too many dodgy recalls and toxic baby stories are just bad PR. Hence the feds brought the Cana­ dian Consumer Product Safety Act into force 10 months ago, then coughed up $508 million for better

product safety and more research on health villains like bisphenol A. Speaking of which, the govern­ ment just announced it will be declar­ ing triclosan an official toxin. Shame it’s talking voluntary phase­out, not all­out ban.

THE BIG CHOKE Probably the single biggest shaft to our environmental health is the budget’s slashing of funding for enviro assessments by 40 per cent and word of bulldozed

regulatory hurdles for a good 500 of the biggest air­, water­ and climate­ polluting industrial projects in the nation (think Big Oil and Mining). You can bet we’ll be breathing in the ramifications soon enough.

While Health Canada’s website openly notes that many will suffer from climate change’s human health impacts, somehow we don’t think Harper’s budgeted for how much his climate­screwing is going to cost the

health care system.

By the way, Canada is still aggressively lobbying on the international scene against recognition of access to clean water as a human right (probably since he won’t provide it our own First Nations.) And let’s not forget Harper’s astounding attempts to revive Quebec’s cancer-exporting asbestos mines. PS: We’re still waiting on a promised cosmetic regs overhaul to, for instance, require label ID for sensitizers in fragrances.

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THE BOOSTER SHOT Ontario’s done fairly well on the enviro health front over the last few years. Banning chemical lawn and garden pesticides has reduced pesticide concentrations in some urban streams by up to 97 per cent. And thanks to the ongoing coal phase-out and McGuinty’s green energy push (well, minus the slashing of feed-in tariffs for solar), 2011 saw more smog-free, lung-friendly wind and solar produced in this province. Hopefully, the province’s air pollution death toll (9,500 a year in 2008) will drop as a result.

THE BIG CHOKE Health risks are hiding in the fine print. Coal may be on its way out, but plants are still pumping out over 300 megawatts of the dirtiest energy on the planet as you read this.

Docs and nurses like those at the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment are urging McGuinty to shutter all remaining coal plants in 2012 and not wait till 2014. Also, why is the province funnelling billions of dollars into nuke refurbishment? We don’t need more radioactive tritiated water dumping, especially after the Pickering reactor spilled 20,000 gallons of it into Lake Ontario this time last year.

Plus, it’s a shame the province has stalled on getting businesses to map and reduce toxins through the Ontario Toxic Reduction Act.

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by David Miller is going live this summer. We’ll be the first town in Canada to force small businesses to publicly disclose 25 emissions.

THE BIG CHOKE Don’t expect any big greenhouse-gas-slashing, imaginative climate change preparedness thinking or green innovation in general, unless the far-seeing wing of council get its way over the mayor’s wishes. And it’s hard to imagine Rob Ford shutting the core to cars on smog days. As well, David Miller’s target for doubling our tree canopy by 2050 has been dangerously put off. Such a shame – our lungs would have been grateful.

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earth week events For the planet lover in you, we survey events celebrating earth Day 2012 Compiled by JuliA HoeCKe

Thursday, April 12 InternatIonal Home and Garden SHow 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.

Friday, April 13 Green lIvInG SHow Green technologies display, an eco fashion marketplace, yoga pavilion, electric vehicles and more. Today and tomorrow 10 am-9 pm; Apr 15, 10 am-6 pm. $15, stu/srs $11. Direct Energy Centre, Exhibition Place. greenlivingshow.ca.

SpoIl Toronto Climate Campaign film screening and discussion on the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline. 7 pm. Free. Friends House, 60 Lowther. info@torontoclimatecampaign.org.

Saturday, April 14 rFun wItH FunGuS Family nature walk to look for fungi. 1 pm. $2. High Park Nature Centre, 440 Parkside. highparknaturecentre.com.

Sunday, April 15 rHarbInGerS oF SprInG In tHe valley Guided walk to look for skunk cab-

bage and red-winged blackbirds. 1:30 pm. $5, stu/srs $3, child $2. Todmorden Mills, 67 Pottery. 416-396-2819. oHara SprInG Flower SHow Ikebana displays and demos by senior ohara masters. 1-5 pm. $5, children free. Toronto Botanical Garden, 777 Lawrence E. 416-695-8153.

Monday, April 16 now talkS: adrIa vaSIl NOW columnist/author Vasil launches her book Ecoholic Body: Your Ultimate Earth-Friendly Guide To Living Healthy And Looking Good in conversation with NOW style editor Andrew Sardone. 6 pm. $10.

Drake Underground, 1150 Queen W. nowtoronto.com/nowtalks. out Into tHe woodS Toronto Bruce Trail Club presentation on hiking in general and the specifics of the hiking program (today) and visit to an equipment outfitter (Apr 19). Free. YMCA, 20 Grosvenor. torontobrucetrailclub.org.

SHellSHocked: SavInG oySterS to Save ourSelveS (Environmental Defence benefit) Film screening, Q&A with director/environmentalist Emily Driscoll and oyster tasting. 6 pm. $77.50. Rodney’s Oyster House, 469 King W. 416-363-8105 ext 0.

Tuesday, April 17 envIronmental toxInS In tHe Home and Food Learn about the different

toxins and how to avoid them. 7 pm. Free. Central Eglinton Community Centre, 160 Eglinton E. 416-392-0511.

Wednesday, April 18 brewerS plate (Green Thumbs Growing Kids benefit) Spring feast from master chefs and brewers. 6:15 pm. $125. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe. brewersplatetoronto.org. centre For envIronment reSearcH day Presentations on the health impacts of gardening, the politics of the Toronto waterfront, livelihoods in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest and more. 1 pm. Free. Centre for Environment, 41 Willcocks. environment.utoronto.ca.

Thursday, April 19 tHe bloSSomInG oF SprInGtIme plantS: Herbal medIcIne Workshop on

identifying and using medicinal plants. 6 pm. $45 sliding scale. Eglinton Park Community Garden, Yonge and Eglinton. Pre-register garden@torontogreen.ca. eartH day – botHered by my Green conScIence Lecture by essayist Franke James. 7 pm. Free. Big Carrot, rm 212, 348 Danforth. 416-466-2129.

Green drInkS eartH day FundraISer (Earth Day Canada Charity) Drinks party. 7 pm. Free. CN Tower, 301 Front W. greendrinks.org/on/toronto.

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GreenInG Stc Community cleanup, tree planting and barbecue. 9:30 am-noon.

Free. Scarborough Town Centre, Hwy 401 btwn Brimley and McCowan. scarboroughtowncentre.com.

Saturday, April 21 cn tower clImb (World Wildlife Foundation of Canada benefit) Step up and

help save the living planet. 6 am. Pledges. CN Tower, 301 Front W. Pre-register wwf.ca/cntower. reartH day rattleSnake workSHop Learn about the natural history of rattlesnakes and Q&As. $5. Toronto Zoo, Meadow vale N of 401. 416-392-5929. eartH day Star party Celebration of Roberta Bondar’s flight in space, with music, telescope observing and more. 8 pm. $15-$40. Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills. 416-696-1000. eartH day SprInG cleanInG Electronics recycling event to celebrate Earth Day. 9 am to 3 pm. Neighbourhood Unitarian Church, 79 Hiawatha. 416-686-6809. mayor’S communIty cleanup day Get together with family, friends and neighbours to clean up a park, street or laneway. toronto.ca/litter. rparty For tHe planet Earth Day celebration with talks on how the zoo recycles, polar bears and how to be environmentally friendly. Today and tomorrow 10 am-4 pm. Free w/ admission. Toronto Zoo, Meadowvale N of 401. 416392-5929. rwalk on tHe wIld SIde: urban wIldlIFe and bIrdHouSeS Learn about the wildlife near the lake and decorate a birdhouse. 10 am-4 pm. $60. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. Pre-register 416-973-4093, harbourfrontcentre.com.

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improving soil. 10 am or 2 pm. $45, adv $35, stu $25. Ben Nobleman Park (across from Eglinton West subway). Pre-register communityorchard.ca.

Wednesday, April 25 taSte tHe waSte Zeitgeist-Toronto screening and panel discussion on why we throw away so much food. 7 pm. Pwyc. OISE Auditorium, 252 Bloor W. tastethewaste.com.

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Montreal-based Rescued cuts fancy fabric remnants from mills in Italy and France into one-of-a-kind frocks like this floral print piece ($225).

2. DEBORAH ADAMS

For eco-fashionistas who require highcapacity baggage, Deborah Adams creates this oversized tote ($149).

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3. MEEMOZA

Made in Montreal using modal and Tencel fabrics, Meemoza’s Audrey cocktail dress ($139) has the tailored fit you don’t always find in green fashion.

4. BAZANT

Jewellery designer Lara Bazant shares studio space with FTA, where she crafts baubles like this necklace with vintage, natural and fair trade stones ($140).

5. LOCAL BUTTONS

To balance the second-hand clothing market’s decimation of garment manufacturing in developing countries, Toronto-based Local Buttons collaborates on pieces like this men’s vest ($65) with tailors in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

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Kym Klopp isn’t the kind of eco retailer who forces green products on her customers. But bring up hand sanitizers with their triclosan and synthetic scents and she gets understandably riled up.

“They’re some of the worst things out there,” Klopp tells a shopper who says she uses a popular drugstore germ killer over 30 times a day, while I’m poking around the store. It’s a sign of how much the eco market has expanded that Klopp is able to offer her three green alternatives by EO, Graydon and CleanWell.

Opportunities like this to educate a broader audience about living sustainably have made EcoExistence’s recent move from sleepy Vaughan Road to St. Clair’s main drag extra-sweet for Klopp. Her traffic’s quintupled, and she’s multiplied her merch as well, adding Santevia water filters, Totem bags made from reclaimed signs and Thera Wise ointments to replace earth- and body-icky vapo-rubs and acne treatments lurking in your medicine cabinet.

EcoExistence picks: Klopp carries hard-to-find reusable canisters for the SodaStream water carbonation system, $17.99; neutralize room odours with Graydon’s The Mist, part of a product lineup with a portion of proceeds benefiting Environmental Defence’s Just Beautiful campaign, $15; Paper People Clothing’s Chloe vest is made locally, in Kensington Market, $99.

Look for: Klopp believes electromagnetic field issues resulting from ubiquitous WiFi signals and smartphone use are green living’s next frontier. On April 18, the store releases Safe Space Protection’s lineup of cellphone patches and home devices to minimize mobile radiation.

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Do your winterworn skin some good and help the planet at the same time by picking up Kiehl’s Rare Earth Deep Pore Cleansing Masque.

The detoxifying formula of Amazonian white clay, oatmeal and aloe vera draws out dirt while moisturizing refreshed skin. All proceeds from April sales of the product benefit Evergreen’s ecoeducation school programs. $26, 407 Queen West, 416-977-3588, and others, keihls.ca.

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Join us on Sunday, April 15 for the GTA’s newest show and sale of vintage clothing, jewellery and fashion accessories.

More than 30 of Canada’s premier vintage dealers display and sell men’s and women’s vintage clothing, costume and estate jewellery, handbags, shoes, hats, belts, scarves, lingerie, notions, textiles, linens, fabrics and quilts.

If this winter’s wacky weather reminded you that something’s seriously up with the planet and you’re craving a crash course on going green, check out the Green Living Show, kicking off Friday (April 13) at the Direct Energy Centre (Exhibition Place). For three intensely earthconscious days, exhibitors will school visitors on everything from sustainable beauty to eco building design. Tickets are $15 unless you bring along some electronic waste to exchange for free admission.

Find a list of acceptable castoff computers, pagers and more online at greenlivingonline.com.

CRAFTY AND GREEN

Eco-conscious accessory designer Dara Frydman launches her new craft studio, Designher Co. (1380 Bathurst, 416-8894437) this weekend (April 14 and 15) with an open house and series of free workshops. After that, classes kick into gear, including six-week tutorials on fashion design, jewellery making, DIY home projects, paper crafts and concocting green cleaning products. For more info and to register, visit designherco.com.

SUSTAINABLE SKIN SEMINARS

Green skin care shop Consonant (2479 Yonge, 416-925-2855, consonantskincare. com) hosts a series of Best Skin Seminars to school you about healthy skin. On May 7, Beautiful Skin Throughout And After Pregnancy focuses on skin-satisfying foods and sunscreens as well as how to read labels when sourcing baby-friendly products. May 14’s Radiant Summer Skin session also includes makeup advice and achieving a sunsafe glow. Seminars are free, but space fills up fast on a first-come, first-served basis.

Call the shop to save your spot.

CONSCIOUS CLOTHES

H&M’s (1 Dundas West, 416-623-2090, and others, hm.com) new Conscious Collection hits stores today (Thursday, April 12), but rather than zeroing in on casual earthfriendly fashion, the lineup includes redcarpet pieces incorporating organic cotton and hemp plus recycled polyester. Designs include a pleated mini-dress with a cutout back, photo-print jackets and a top and skirt inspired by the H&M look actor Michelle Williams wore to this year’s BAFTAs. 3

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Partners Zach Slootsky and Duncan MacNeill (right) oversee an unusual Cubano sandwich (left) at Federal Reserve.

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That collective professionalism shows.

See it in a lightly toasted cheddar scone ($3.50) that could pass for a grilled cheese sandwich if it came with ketchup, and a wild blueberry version ($4) paired with ramekins of house-made apple preserves and what could be lemon tart filling.

They also make their own soda pop, our faves a lemony ginger ale and an almost medicinal root beer (both $2.50).

Since kitchen space in the former Zoots Café is at a premium, many ingredients multi-task. So we get a classic Cobb salad ($12) neatly tiered with shredded Gasparro free-range chicken confit, sliced Bosc pear, chopped avocado, crispy bacon and slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of arugula

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and spinach in strong blue cheese dressing.

Most of those – hold the bacon and avocado – show up in a very good curried chicken salad sandwich on St. John’s Bakery raisin bread, and in an unorthodox take on a Cubano minus the bacon, the bird and the bread but with the addition of pulled pork, Black Forest ham and cheddar (both $12 with greens in peppery shallot dressing and pestolaced rösti). Messy but delish.

The inevitable Benny gets interpreted as a pair of fluffily poached eggs in tarragon cream strewn with sautéed ’shrooms on English muffins piled with thick rashers of meaty bacon (Eggs Federal, $11 with greens and rösti). And the everevolving Ploughman’s Lunch – today, a terrific chunky quail terrine

with house-made piccalilli and stinky L’Ermite blue ($12) – always comes sided with warm slices of exceptional baguette from Dolly’s Bakery across the street. Now, that’s local!

Cleverly listed on the 36-seat resto’s all-day card as an “unsavory,” a half-order of buttermilk Belgian waffles finished with whipped cream and maple syrup ($5/$9 full) could stand in for dessert, something the one-page menu currently lacks. Watch for that to be rectified with the imminent introduction of dinner once the liquor licence kicks in later this spring.

Sounds perfect, doesn’t it? And, for the most part, it is, except for one small problem: the Reserve doesn’t take reservations for groups smaller than six, and then only on the weekend. Go on a Wednesday and you’ll walk right in. Saturday or Sunday after 11 am, you’ll cool your heels on the sidewalk along with the stroller brigade.

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Weep into your hair-of-the-dog beer, Caribbean-style plates of huevos rancheros and vegan key lime pie to the musical stylings of Big Tobacco and the Pickers.

Chetti chatter

Not content with the upcoming launch of a second Queen Margherita Pizza in the Junction and the fledgling FBI chain, John Chetti and crew have quietly taken over the management of the beleaguered Bowery and rebooted it as Osteria 55 (55 Colborne, at Church, 416901-2332). Say goodbye to ex-Vertical and Ballroom toque Tawfik Shehata’s “punk-meets-farm” carte and hello to former Atlas One chef Anthony Figliano’s southern Italian pastas – “with an edgy twist,” no less. But no pizza.

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Taco time

Pop-up taqueria La Carnita hosts a graffiti fest at the Brick Works (550 Bayview, south of Pottery Rd, 416596-1495, lacarnita.com) Friday (April 13) from 7 pm till 2 am. Participating taco chefs include the ubiqui-

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tous Guy Rawlings, the Beast’s Scott Vivian, Steve Gonzales (ex-Origin and Niagara Street Café) and Bertrand Alépée (ex-Amuse-Bouche). Admission’s

Il Fornello has shuttered its lakefront location in Queens Quay Terminal.

Reason? Busy in summer, dead in winter. Expect the long-running pasta parlour and pizzeria to expand into the Ajax and Barrie markets in SD the very near future.

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WHAT: Crios Torrontés 2011 (white) Rating: NNN WHERE: La Rioja, Argentina WHY: Torrontés is one of those lesser-known “expressive” grapes that wine-guys get all worked up over.

Most Torrontés wines remind me of car air fresheners. Thankfully, this one’s a little less aromatic. Melon and florals are present along with a touch of oiliness and a nice buzzy top note. A solid effort that detours out of the wine rut. Save for the first asparagus of spring. Good value.

PRICE: 750 ml/$12.95 AVAILABILITY: At selected Vintages outlets as of April 14 (product #1834)

WHAT: Aperol Rating: NNNN

WHERE: Canale, Italy ñ WHY: I’m sure there are all sorts of yummy things you can do with Aperol, but if you only get one drink out of this, the simple Aperol spritz, then my work here is done. Aperol, Prosecco, soda, etc, etc: I’ve yet to serve one of these effervescent appetite whetters that didn’t get drained posthaste, usually followed by, “Oh, if you’re making another…” type noises.

The recipe’s right on the bottle. On its own as an aperitif, it’s quite sweet and only slightly bitter. Spritz it!

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1690 Queen W, at Roncesvalles, 416533-2552, 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. Best: to start, a basket of pastry chef Nis’ku Closs’s baked goods – flaky petite croissants, carrot-cake muffins, perfect crumbly blueberry scones, buttery shortbread and a ginger snap or two; mains like new potato ’n’ onion hash with sliced picnic ham, baked runny eggs, Kozlick’s Triple Crunch mustard and funky adobo sauce: seared fatty pork belly confit over sautéed wild mushrooms, shallots and leek sided with organic greens and house-baked Red Fife toast spread with house-made butter; cinammon-bun bread pudding duck leg confit in bullberry sauce dolloped with crème fraîche and tossed with pea shoots.

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and fresh dill on a flaky flatbread crust so thin it’s almost gluten-free; mains like coq au vin with spaetzle laced with onion, mushrooms and slivered celery; velvety foie gras over gingerbread French toast; Baeckeoffe, an Alsatian shepherd’s pie thick with slow-braised, short ribs, lamb shank and pork belly sided with greens in cranberry vinaigrette; to finish, another tarte flambée dressed with cinnamondusted apple. Complete dinners for $50 per person (lunches $30), including tax tip and a glass of wine. Average main $20/$13. Open for lunch Tuesday to Friday 11:30 am to 2 pm, dinner Tuesday to Sunday 5:30 to 11 pm. Closed Monday, holidays. Licensed. Access: two steps at door, washrooms upstairs.

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130 Dundas W, at Bay, 416-4925292. Kaiseki-Sakura’s Daisuke Izutsu

ditches pricy Japanese tasting menus for inexpensive tapas-style snacks geared to the after-work drinking crowd. Yes, they bang drums and shout occasionally, but the fun isn’t as forced – or time-regulated – as the similar Guu. Best: heavily salted Crispy Shrimp complete with heads ’n’ feelers; deconstructed Caesar salads of iceberg lettuce, carnation petals, parmigiano, puff-pastry croutons and very runny poached eggs; hay-smoked BC tuna with raw garlic and a line of sea salt; Hoppeta-Yaki, garlicky mashed potatoes, diced chicken and asparagus topped with shaved bonito flakes that, due to the heat, wriggle like worms on a rainy-day lawn. Complete dinners for $35 per person (sushi lunches $20), including tax, tip and a discounted domestic beer. Average main $8. Open for izakaya dinner Sunday to Thursday 4 pm to midnight, Friday and Saturday 4 pm to 1 am; sushi lunch Monday to Friday 11:30 am to 4 pm, Saturday and Sunday noon to 4 pm. Licensed. Access: two steps at door, washrooms on same floor. Rating: nnnn 3

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It’s hard to get wild at the Sony Centre, but the soft-seater venue made up for that with a powerful sound system and knockout acoustics and lights. Sweden’s Ghost opened with one of the creepiest shows you’ll ever see: transcendent melodies and head-bangworthy riffs set against a stained-glass backdrop, musicians in hooded robes and singer Papa Emeritus swinging an incense thurible.

Co-headliner Mastodon’s incredible lighting rig shot beams of colour into the rafters and out of the eyes of the deer-like beast on their backdrop. Aside from bassist/singer Troy Sanders’s gestures of love and gratitude, they didn’t engage with the crowd much, though we were too mesmerized by the lights, swirling guitar tones and Hunter-heavy set list to mind.

The beloved Opeth from Sweden were supporting a new album, Heritage, that forgoes their trademark death metal for progressive folk. They focused on that new sound – delicate singing, clean guitars, jazzy rhythms – but seemed to acknowledge how less hard the new songs hit by slaying us with polyrhythmic, throat-scraping old ones at the end.

Equally good? Singer/guitarist Mikael Åkerfeldt’s hilarious beCARLA GILLIS tween-song banter.

HOWLER at the Drake Underground, Thursday, April 5.

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excitement about young Minneapolis rockers Howler. They sound like a less abrasive Jesus and Mary Chain crossed with a tighter version of the Replacements, with just enough sullen Strokesesque swagger to seem vaguely modern. It’s not the most inventive formula, but they do it well and sound as good live as on record.

While many pine for the days when cute musicians with guitars could change the world with a snarl, maybe it’s time to let go of that dream. Marketing a band as both teen magazine pin-ups and saviours of rock ’n’ roll just isn’t convincing any more and forces talented young groups into restrictive, retrogressive identities before they’ve had a chance to find their own sound.

Howler are good, but when a packed club of curiosity seekers doesn’t care enough to summon them back for an encore, maybe BENJAMIN BOLES the hype is hurting more than helping.

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Rating: NNNN In keeping with the resurrection theme that permeates Easter weekend, Groovy Greg Tymoshenko (who now lives in Montreal) and Classy Craig Daniels brought back the Leather Uppers for a rare performance at the Trash Palace that also featured the stunning Pow-Wows and Wet Dirt (who have to be seen to be believed).

They played a short, fast, out-of-control set that had the audience grinning from the moment the duo walked out in white pants, black shirts and white chiffon scarves. Alternating between drums and guitar, Tymoshenko and Daniels played material from their 20year history, including a smoking version of Sexy Time and their

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Rating: NNNN Mike Hadreas’s heavy, tumultuous piano ballads are a little less intimidating in person. Although the 31-year-old Seattle-based singer/songwriter – aka Perfume Genius – sings about sexual abuse and suicide with a clenched-jaw intensity that looks painful, his anxious energy and disarming sense of humour between songs add a compelling other dimension to his musical catharsis without undermining it.

“Do you feel like you’re in my living room?” he asked the sold-out crowd, which maintained a respectful silence throughout his 45-minute set. “Or my kitchen?”

On his latest album, Put Your Back N 2 It, Hadreas fills out his rough-hewn home-recording aesthetic with polished studio flourishes. The live version keeps the focus on his delicately delivered narrative lyrics, though the most affecting moments came when his keyboardist and drummer gently accentuated his vocals. He’s an arresting singer exploring his vocal potential with the same fearKEVIN RITCHIE lessness he brings to his songwriting.

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CATL RHYTHM AND BLUES

Rollicking local trio recovers from a loss

By RICHARD TRAPUNSKI

CATL with NICHOLAS DOUBLEYOU & THE B-SQUAD and DJ ANOUSHEH at Parts & Labour (1566 Queen West), Friday (April 13). $10. RT, SS. And at Sonic Boom (782 Bathurst), Saturday (April 14). Free.

When bands face a large setback, they tend to handle it in one of two ways: collapse under the pressure or rebound twice as strong. Fans of rollicking rhythm and blues will be happy to know that local heroes Catl have taken the second route.

The Delta-blues-inspired rockers were halfway through the recording of their third album, Soon This Will All Be Gone (weewerk/Catl), when drummer Johnny LaRue abruptly quit. His absence was quickly felt beyond the kit.

The founding member – he and singer/ guitarist Jamie Fleming started as a duo in 2007 – was also the band’s manager, administrator and, often, concert booker.

“That was a big shift,” admits Fleming over coffee and cigarettes at Saving Gigi, seated next to co-vocalist/ organist Sarah Kirkpatrick and new drummer Andrew Moszynski.

“We’ve had to take on a lot of new responsibilities,” adds Kirkpatrick, “but we got bits and pieces of advice from other people and then kind of charted our own path.”

A member since 2009, Kirkpatrick has since taken over much of the

band’s publicity, excitedly handling their Twitter and Facebook accounts.

(She took “a million photos” of the Catl-themed display currently in the window of Sonic Boom.)

Kirkpatrick’s increased presence is also apparent on the new album. She sings lead on a few songs and even tackles the drums on first single Gold Tooth Shine.

Though much of Soon This Will All Be Gone was recorded live off the floor, the album incorporates more layering, overdubs and studio magic than Catl’s earlier recordings while maintaining their trademark bourbonsoaked grit.

“A record’s a document of what you’re doing, for sure, but at the same time you’re using the studio for what it can offer,” says Fleming. “If you want to come see us live, come see us live.”

Their furious live energy is an experience on its own, and it’s only intensified by the addition of powerhouse drummer Moszynski, former stick man for late Toronto garage rock institution the Deadly Snakes.

Meanwhile, Kirkpatrick’s dance moves are a sight to behold, and Fleming exudes more energy than you’d expect from a seated guitarist.

“I’m totally wearing out the ass of my suit,” he jokes.

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clubs & conce hot NOW TALKS

tickets

w/ Greg Keelor, Travis Good, Gordon Pinsent Drake Hotel (1150 Queen West), tonight (Thursday, April 12) Intimate onstage interview with NOW’s Michael Hollett.

YUKON BLONDE, LIBRARY VOICES, GREAT BLOOMERS

Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), tonight and Friday (April 12 and 13) Sunny West Coast rock ’n’ roll.

LIONESS, RITUALS, HOLLOW EARTH

Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Friday (April 13) See preview, page 62.

CATL, NICHOLAS DOUBLEYOU & THE B-SQUAD, DJ ANOUSHEH Parts & Labour (1566 Queen West), Friday (April 13) See preview, page 55.

ANAGRAM, CUT FLOWERS, THE SOUPCANS

Silver Dollar (486 Spadina), Friday (April

13) Final show for Toronto post-punks.

AZARI & III, BORDELLO & ALEX CHARLTON

The Hoxton (69 Bathurst), Friday (April 13) See preview, page 68.

HAPPY ENDINGS

w/ Schlachthofbronx, Poirier, PHO, Yes Yes Y’all DJs Dim Sum King (421 Dundas West), Saturday (April 14) Soca, techno and dancehall party.

CHILLY GONZALES

Glenn Gould Studio (250 Front West), Tuesday (April 17) Pianist/rapper super-villain.

ALABAMA SHAKES, LEE BAINS II & THE GLORY FIRES Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), Tuesday (April 17) Classic soul rock revivalists.

TANLINES

Wrongbar (1279 Queen West), Tuesday (April 17) See preview, page 58.

FOLK SOUL

BAHAMAS

If you weren’t one of the lucky contest winners who caught the talented Toronto singer/songwriter playing the NOW Lounge back in February, the laidback, charismatic performer finally plays his triumphant homecoming album release party this weekend.

At Virgin Mobile Mod Club (722 College), Friday (April 13), doors 7 pm. $16. RT, SS, TW.

Just announced SAMMY ADAMS Phoenix Concert

MARDUK, 1349, WITHERED, WEAPON Annex Wreckroom doors 7 pm,

DJ YODA, BIG LEAGUE CHU, FARBSIE FUNK Lee’s Palace doors 9:30

RAMONA FALLS Drake Hotel doors 8 pm,

Theatre doors 8 pm, all ages, $21.50. RT, SS, TM, UE. April 26.

pm, $20. TW. April 28.

Wrongbar doors 10 pm, $12.50. RT, SS, TW. June 9.

ALEX KENJI & MANUEL DE LA MARE The Hoxton doors 10 pm, $15. RT, SS,

KRISTIN CHENOWETH Massey Hall 8

MILK CARTON KIDS Velvet Under-

JOE PURDY & THE GIVING TREE BAND Lee’s Palace doors 8 pm, $17.50,

TW. May 3.

ground doors 7 pm, $11.50. RT, SS. May 4.

WORDBURGLAR, GHETTOSOCKS CD release El Mocambo. May 11.

WE ARE SERENADES The Garrison doors 9 pm, $10.50. RT, SS, TW. May 14.

SANTIGOLD Kool Haus doors 8 pm, all ages, $27.50. May 15.

PROTOMEN & POWERGLOVE The Hoxton doors 8 pm, $15. RT, SS, TW. May 23.

MT EDEN, HYDEE & WARRIOR MUSIC Wrongbar doors 10 pm, $15. RT, SS,

TW. May 23.

THE EARLY NOVEMBER, THE WONDER YEARS, THE SWELLERS, YOUNG STATUES Opera House doors 6 pm, all ages, $18.50. RT, SS, TM, UE. May 27.

RHAPSODY (OF FIRE), VOYAGER

Virgin Mobile Mod Club doors 6 pm, all ages, $33.25. RT, TM. June 1.

NADASTROM Wrongbar doors 10 pm, $15. RT, SS, TW. June 2.

APRIL 12-18 2012 NOW

$10. RT, SS. June 8.

THE MAGICIAN & PLASTIC PLATES

ROYAL CANOE The Garrison doors 9 pm, $10. RT, SS. May 2.

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$26.50. RT, TM. June 5.

pm, $45-$85. RTH. June 12.

limited NXNE wristbands admitted. HS, RT, SS, TM. June 13.

BASS DRUM OF DEATH Wrongbar June 15.

REEL BIG FISH, GOLDFINGER, SUBURBAN LEGENDS Sound Academy doors 6:30 pm, all ages, $25.50-$35.50, limited NXNE wristbands admitted. RT, SS, TM. June 17.

MICHAEL KIWANUKA The Great Hall 8

pm, $15. RT, SS, TW. June 19.

FIONA APPLE Sound Academy doors 7 pm, $52.50. RT, SS, TM. July 4.

DIRTY PROJECTORS Music Hall 10 pm,

$25-$30. TM. July 6.

BEAT CONNECTION, WHITE ARROWS Drake Hotel doors 8 pm, $10. RT, SS, TW. July 8.

JASON MRAZ Molson

Amphitheatre $tba.

September 9.

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this week How to find a listing

Music listings appear by day, then by genre, then alphabetically by venue. Event names are in italics. See Music Club Index, page 68, for venue address and phone number.

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How to place a listingAll listings are free. Send

to: music@nowtoronto.com, fax to 416-364-1166 or mail to Music, NOW Magazine, 189 Church, Toronto M5B 1Y7. Include artist(s), genre of music, event name (if any), venue name and address, time, ticket price and phone number or website. Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm. Weekly events must confirm their listing once a month.

Thursday, April 12 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL

ALLEYCATZ Lady Kane 9 pm.

BAR ITALIA Fusion Events Orchestra Showcase (top 40/R&B/soul/funk/rock/reggae) 9 pm.

BOVINE SEX CLUB Quietus, Polarity, Odium, Laugh at the Fakes, DJ Misty.

THE CENTRAL Music Parlor 9:30 pm, Pete Eastmure (pop/rock/hip-hop/soul) 6 pm.

C’EST WHAT Five Star Trailer Park (pop/rock) 9

pm.

DOUBLE DOUBLE LAND Tape release Not the Wind, Not the Flag, HVY WTR, Forget the Times 9 pm, all ages.

ñ DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND NOW Talks Greg Keelor, ñ Travis Good, Gordon Pinsent (performing songs inspired by the humorous poetry written

by Gordon Pinsent) 6 to 8 pm.

erts SILVER DOLLAR Tops, Foxfire, Triple Gangers, Hellaluya doors 9 pm. ñ THE SISTER May Be Me Charity Concert Annie Chaplin, Soul Nidus 9:30 pm.

SLACK’S Stephen Beasley & Ryan McDougall

(soulful rock/funk/blues) 8 pm.

SOUND ACADEMY Benefit for an Accessible Playground in Jeff Healey Park Randy Bachman, Paul James, Jack de Keyzer, Danny Marks, Lamont James, Tony ‘Wild T’ Springer, Dave Murphy Band doors 8 pm.

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

FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD

AQUILA UPSTAIRS Jon Travis Train (country/ rock) 9:30 pm.

ASPETTA CAFFE Open Mic/Jam 8 pm.

CASTRO’S LOUNGE Jerry Leger & the

Situation (country/folk/rock) 9 pm.

CLOAK & DAGGER PUB Matt Cooke (folk/pop) 10 pm.

DAVE’S... ON ST CLAIR Uncle Herb’s Open Mic (folk/blues/rock/ country) 9 pm.

EMMET RAY BAR Box Full of Cash (blues) 9 pm.

ETON HOUSE Keith Jolie (blues/roots) 7 pm.

HOLY OAK CAFE Fiver & Jess Kussin (country) 10 pm.

HORSESHOE New Country Rehab, the Pining, Crooked Brothers (bluegrass/ alt country).

HUGH’S ROOM Craig Cardiff 8:30 pm.

THE LOCAL Tim Bradford & the Bandits (country) 9 pm.

LOLA Brian Cober (double slide guitar) 9 pm.

LULA LOUNGE Bombino (blues/rock).

PRESS CLUB Sarah Burton Band (Americana/ folk rock/pop) 10 pm.

TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Bluegrass Thursdays Houndstooth (bluegrass/old-time) 7:30 pm.

TRANZAC TIKI ROOM Jocelyn Moen 8:30 pm.

TRANZAC Hylia (bluegrass/jazz) 9:30 pm.

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CHERRY STREET RESTAURANT Thursday Night Jazz Alex Pangman & Her Alleyñ cats (jazz) 7:30 pm.

GATE 403 Kevin Laliberté Jazz & Flamenco Trio 9 pm, Alex Samaras Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm.

GLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR

The Jazz Forge (jazz) 9 pm.

MARKHAM THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

Canadian Brass 8 pm.

DRAKE HOTEL LOUNGE Weekend

Startup Boot Knives doors 11 pm.

Santigold

EL MOCAMBO DOWNSTAIRS Run with the

GOODHANDY’S Ladyplus Parties DJ Todd Klinck doors 8 pm.5 THE HOXTON Laidback Luke, GTA & Andy Ares doors 10 pm.

INSOMNIA DJ Ron Jon (funk/soul/house).

RIVOLI POOL LOUNGE DJ Plan B (reggae/funk/ electroretro).

WAYLABAR Reality Bytes 90’s Dance Night 10 pm.

WRONGBAR Music For Your Mind Lori J Ward (Hifi Princess), T.Orlando & Alan Smithson (underground deep tech music) 9 pm.

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ALLEYCATZ Reelworld Film Festival Music Video

Night.

ANNEX WRECKROOM World Deaf Athletics Championship Benefit Concert Signmark!.

ASPETTA CAFFE Sabrina Fallah, Melanie Lilla, Funkenspiel (rock/pop/funk) 7 to 11 pm.

THE BALLROOM BOWL BAR BISTRO Chicken &

Waffles (rock/soul/funk/R&b) 10 pm.

BAR ITALIA Shugga (funk/soul/R&B/top 40).

BOVINE SEX CLUB The Sainte Catherines, the Hunters, DOGS, Fake Lake, DJ Vania.

CASTRO’S LOUNGE Ronnie Hayward (rockabilly) 5 to 7 pm.

THE CENTRAL Death Party Playground 10 pm.

DAVE’S... ON ST CLAIR Ilvekyo (pop/rock) 9:30 pm.

DC MUSIC THEATRE Indie Night Grayl, Take the Apple, the Open Door, the Dean Project doors 7 pm, all ages.

DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Michael Stagliano (rock) doors 6:30 pm.

DUFFY’S TAVERN Anger, 9vol, Breadfan, Curmudgeons, War of Squares, DJ BonerTit doors 9 pm.

THE DUKE LIVE.COM For Those About to Rock (AC/DC tribute).

EL MOCAMBO DOWNSTAIRS Memoryhouse, Paradise Animals & Volcano Playground doors 9 pm.

EL MOCAMBO UPSTAIRS Single Release Party The Muso Project, Adam Martin, Leela & the Agrestics, DJ RyFi doors 8 pm.

GALLERY 1581 BYO Blood Party Sid Alaistar, Sloth, Couriers.

THE GARRISON Boys Who Say No, Japanther, Absolutely Free 10 pm.

GLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR Kilowatt Band (funk) 9 pm.

GRAFFITI’S The Roncy Boys 8 pm.

THE GREAT HALL Said the Whale, Chains of Love, Boxer the Horse (pop rock) doors 8 pm, all ages.

HARD LUCK BAR The Rebel Spell (political punk band).

HOLY OAK CAFE Alex Lukashevsky (rock) 10 pm.

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Kittens, Rich & the Lollipop People doors 9 pm.

GLADSTONE HOTEL BALLROOM The Little City Festival

(formerly Totstock Benefit) The Billie Hollies & Selina Martin Triplets 7 pm.

GRAFFITI’S The Blacklungs of Medicine Hat 7 pm, Jeff Oussoren 5 to 7 pm.

LEE’S PALACE Yukon Blonde, Library Voices, Great Bloomers.

MONARCHS PUB The Swingin’ Blackjacks (blues).

ORBIT ROOM Julian Taylor Band (rock singer/ songwriter) 10 pm.

PHOENIX CONCERT THEATRE Of Monsters and Men, Lay Low doors 7 pm.

THE PISTON Metal Health (hair band/metal/ hard rock) 9 pm.

RIVOLI Francesco, Dane Hartsell, Lincoln Blache, Hello Beautiful 7 pm.

SAZERAC GASTRO LOUNGE The Capitol Beat (funk/soul/R&B) 10 pm.

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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 Richard Whiteman Five 6:30 pm.

REX Boptarts w/ Seamus Blake 9:30 pm.

SOMEWHERE THERE STUDIO Mark Segger 8 pm.

TRANE STUDIO Trilogy Remixed 2.3 Honouring Abbey Lincoln Sharron McLeod (jazz) 8 pm.

UNITARIAN CONGREGATION GREAT HALL Chamber Music Mississauga 8 pm.

WINCHESTER KITCHEN & BAR The Mike Daley Trio (old-time swing jazz) 9 pm.

HORSESHOE CD release Lionñ ess, Rituals, Hollow Earth.

DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE

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CRAWFORD Battle Of The Video Dance Party DJ Law Vs CC Diemond (rap Vs rock).

See preview, page 62.

IMAGES AT 204 Images Festival: Sound Objects Lucky Dragons, Tristan Perich, Abstract Random.

LEE’S PALACE Yukon Blonde, Library Voices, Young Rival.

THE LOADED DOG Midnight Jewel (rock/top 40) 8:30 pm.

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MARKHAM THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Alice Tan Ridley (R&B/gospel) 8 pm.

OPERA HOUSE The Planet Smashers, Big D &

the Kids Table, Ghetto Blaster (ska) doors 7:30 pm, all ages.

PARTS & LABOUR CD release Catl, Nicholas Doubleyou & the B-Squad, DJ Anousheh. See preview, page 55.

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LOLA Blood Orange 8 pm, Jam Danny Beerio 3 pm.

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SATURDAY APRIL 28 WRONGBAR

ON SALE NOW

YANN TIERSEN

RIVOLI Morgan Cameron Ross, Todd Clark,

Alyssa Pridham 9 pm.

SILVER DOLLAR Last Show Ever For Anagram Anagram, Cut Flowers, the Soupcans (post-punk) 9 pm.

THE SISTER GRFNKL, Ethel & the Mermen, Les Cactus.

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SONY CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

Show Choir Canada nationals 11 am to 7:30 pm.

SOUND ACADEMY Led Zeppelin 4 Michael White & the White doors 8 pm.

SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY’S Pop Cherry (Stonesy rock) 10 pm.

TRANZAC MAIN HALL Octoberman, Del Bel doors 7 pm.

VIRGIN MOBILE MOD CLUB Bahamas doors 7 pm.

WINTER GARDEN THEATRE Canadian Songbook Steven Page 8 pm.

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FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD

AQUILA UPSTAIRS Michael Brennan Band

9:30 pm.

BLACK SWAN The Stevie Ray Vaughan Experience (rockin’ blues) 9:30 pm.

DAKOTA TAVERN Big Tobacco & the Pickers, Devin Cuddy Band, Krief 10 pm.

GATE 403 Sweet Derrick Blues Band 9 pm.

HUGH’S ROOM Jesse Winchester 8:30 pm.

LIVING ARTS CENTRE Irshad Khan (sitar) 8 pm.

THE LOCAL Lucas Stagg (acoustic roots/rock).

Buddy Guy (blues) 8 pm.

Chris Gostling w/ Toledo (roots rock) 10 pm.

REPOSADO The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz).

THE SIXTH The Good Right Arm Stringband 10 pm.

TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS CD release Max Layton 7:30 pm.

WHITE SWAN Stacie Tabb, Gary Lee Hill 8 pm.

JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL

CADILLAC LOUNGE Tia Brazda (jazz vocals) 9 pm.

THE CENTRAL DRUNKmusicforDRUNKpeople

Brad Cheeseman Group (jazz/funk) 6 pm.

DAVE’S... ON ST CLAIR Happy Hour Jazz The Jordan Saul Quartette (jazz) 5 to 8 pm.

DOMINION ON QUEEN Sky Blue (swing) 9 pm.

GATE 403 Sarah Kennedy & Matt Pines 5 to 8 pm.

GLENN GOULD STUDIO Eine Kleine Nachtmusik Sinfonia Toronto, Eugene Skovorodnikov, Victor Kuleshov 8 pm.

ñHARBOURFRONT CENTRE BRIGANTINE

ROOM Sing! Vocal Arts Festival New York Voices, Cadence (a cappella) 8 pm.

HARBOURFRONT CENTRE LAKESIDE TERRACE

Sing! Toronto Vocal Arts Festival Cawthra Park Chamber Choir, Naria, FreePlay Duo 7:30 pm.

LULA LOUNGE CD release Roland Hunter (Latin jazz) 8 pm.

OLD MILL INN Fridays To Sing About George Evans, Nancy Walker, Pat Collins 7:30 pm.

REX Tara Davidson Quartet 9:45 pm, Artie Roth Trio 6:30 pm, Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm.

ROCCO’S PLUM TOMATO Andy De Campos 5 to 8 pm.

ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC KOERNER HALL Royal Conservatory Orchestra w/ Uri Mayer 8 pm.

SCARLETT HEIGHTS ENTREPRENEURIAL ACAD-

EMY German Romantics Etobicoke Philharmonic Orchestra 8 pm.

SOMEWHERE THERE STUDIO Penguins of Nepal, Rob Piilonen, Andy Yue 8 pm.

TRANE STUDIO The Owens & Wright Experience.

TRANZAC The Foolish Things (jazz) 5 pm.

DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE

ANNEX WRECKROOM 90s Party Fawn BC & Caff.

BEAVER Cub Camp DJs Scooter & Max

Mohenu.

CAKE BAR FourPlay Fridays (top 40/mashups).

CASTRO’S LOUNGE DJ I Hate You Rob (soul/ funk/R&B/punk rock/rockabilly) 10 pm.

CRAWFORD UPSTAIRS Phazed DJ Aphillyaded (hip-hop/old school/R&B).

CRAWFORD DOWNSTAIRS Double Dragons

Freeza Chin & DJ Shai (reggae/dancehall/ soca/hip-ho).

DEVIL’S MARTINI DJ Dennis R. DOVERCOURT HOUSE 805 Salsa Underground Fridays DJ Fabz 9:30 pm.

DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND DJ Your Boy Brian doors 11 pm.

DRAKE HOTEL LOUNGE Membersonly DJs doors 8 pm.

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

ETON HOUSE Singles Dance DJ Phil (top 40/ dance) 9 pm.

FLY Grapefruit DJ Shane Percy, DJ Aural 10 pm.5 FOOTWORK Luv This City 10 pm.

GLADSTONE HOTEL Electro Swing Club Launch Party DJs Medicineman, Foxtrot Holmes,

Rambunctious (swing fused with electro music) 10 pm.

GOODHANDY’S Spectra DJ Todd Klinck doors 10 pm.5 THE HOXTON Azari & III, Bordello & Alex Charlton 10 pm. See preview, page 68.

INSOMNIA Funkn’ Fresh Fridays George William (house/breaks).

MAISON MERCER Deniz Koyu, Northend, Apollo 10 pm.

NOCTURNE Wonked Fridays Hawri ’N’ Mandy, Mike Conradi, Sour DJs, Lady Bass, Josh Switchbass, Feeva & D Mac, Jonny Dekz, Evidence, Maddi Quickstep and others (electronic/dubstep fusion/DnB/techno/house) doors 10 pm.

THE PISTON Soulskank (soul/funk/dancehall/ ska) 10 pm.

RIVOLI POOL LOUNGE DJ Stu (rock/old– school/ Brit/electro/classics/retro).

SMILING BUDDHA Seven Inch Samurai DJs Natto Rocker, Ginger Sting, King Magic Sparky, Tako, Fancy Fanny, Sumo Kai Sumo, Garlic Panda (7 DJs, 7 songs each, all on 7 inches) doors 9:30 pm.

SUPERMARKET Props! DJs Rich Medina, Akalepse 10 pm.

WAYLABAR B-EAST DJ Cory Activate 10 pm.

WETBAR Penthouse Fridays DJs Glew, R2, KidZero & Peter Kash (house/top 40/party anthems) 10 pm.

WRONGBAR Galapagos DJ Rashad 10 pm.

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Saturday, April 14 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL

ALLEYCATZ Soular (R&B/soul/funk) 9:30 pm.

ASPETTA CAFFE Frailfragment, Funk the Alien

WEDNESDAY MAY 2 THE PHOENIX

ON SALE NOW

CASEY

VEGGIES TUESDAY MAY 8

VIRGIN MOBILE MOD CLUB

ON SALE NOW

EXPERIMENTAL POP

TANLINES New York City duo’s debut album is worth the wait

By ANUPA MISTRY TANLINES at Wrongbar (1269 Queen West), Tuesday (April 17), 9 pm. $10.50. RT, SS, TW.

ON SALE NOW AT TICKETMASTER

ON SALE NOW

NORM MACDONALD FRIDAY OCTOBER 19 QUEEN ELIZABETH THEATRE (CNE GROUNDS)

TICKETS AT TICKETMASTER, ROTATE THIS, SOUNDSCAPES & PLAY DE RECORD

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What does an 80s-rock-indebted, tropical-inflected, electronic pop record sound like processed through the same sampler as Ginuwine’s lustrous single Pony?

Pretty shitty, concedes Jesse Cohen, one-half of Brooklyn duo Tanlines alongside Eric Emm. Still, the band couldn’t help but give it a try when they found themselves sitting down with engineering legend/Timbaland collaborator Jimmy Douglass, who mixed their debut album, Mixed Emotions (True Panther).

But there are, in fact, parallels between, say, Timbaland’s idiosyncratic style and Mixed Emotions’ lush, precise soundscapes.

“We use a lot of percussion from all over the world,” says Cohen. “We play live instruments on top of samples. [When we started out as a band], we knew Eric’s voice was going to be a huge part of what we do. That’s the palette: a mix of real and fake sounds.”

Tanlines formed in 2008, and Mixed Emotions took four years to materialize. In that time, Cohen and Emm built a steady following through singles like the indefatigable Real Life, which they later

remixed with vuvuzela effects for the World Cup. Taking the time to set sonic parameters was equally about defining their sound – “existential pop,” Cohen jokingly says, pointing to Emm’s diarist lyrics and elegiac delivery – and reining themselves in.

“Part of the problem with making music in the digital age is that there are almost no limitations to what you can do. You can just keep working, looking, chasing sounds.”

Plus, Emm, who isn’t into doing interviews, is a bit of a perfectionist and needs those limits, says Cohen, describing his bandmate as “amazing and complicated.”

Cohen’s the showboat: in charge of stage banter, recognized by the Village Voice for his prolific tweeting, comfortable analyzing last night’s dream about Young Money’s iPhone app.

But he’s also quite earnest, and that bruised honesty is reflected on Mixed Emotions.

“I hear one thing when I listen to our music and someone else hears something, and the truth is somewhere in between,” he offers. “When it was time to write the album, we wanted it to have meaning for us and for anyone who listens to it – for as long as possible.” music@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/nowtorontomusic

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DAVE’S... ON ST CLAIR Mark Ripp (acoustic folk/rock) 4 to 7 pm.

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(alt rock/alt funk) 2 to 11 pm.

BAR 460 Nagasaki, Bumpin’ Tacos, Corgasm, Shart Attack (punk rock).

BAR ITALIA Jordan John & the Funk Parade 10:30 pm.

BLACK SWAN Honouring Our Own: Mike McKenna Tribute Luke Gibson, Jack Tassé, Pete Otis, Scott ‘Professor Piano’ Cushnie, Joe Mavety, Bob Segarini, Brian Gladstone, Dave Bingham and others 7 pm.

BOVINE SEX CLUB Foresight for the Blind, Sinister Trailer Park Magic, the Fifth, DJ Sir Ian Blurton.

THE CENTRAL Techromance The Spoofs, Aaron Morris, Joy Phillips 9:30 pm.

THE CENTRAL Janee Olivia 6 pm.

DAVE’S... ON ST CLAIR The Groovies (rock/pop/ folk) 9:30 pm.

DC MUSIC THEATRE KAOS Music Showcase 10 pm, all ages.

DOMINION ON QUEEN Ronnie Hayward Trio (rockabilly) 4 to 7:30 pm.

DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Music City Toronto: A&R Live (rock) doors 6 pm.

DUFFY’S TAVERN White Lung (punk) 9 pm.

EL MOCAMBO Wailers Showcase House of David Gang, Kidd Rasta & the Peacemakers, Rudeboy Rudegirl, Amber Coates & April Johnson, DJ & MC King David doors 9 pm.

EL MOCAMBO DOWNSTAIRS CD release Responsables, Mackenzie Rhythm Section, Dysfunct doors 9 pm.

GRAFFITI’S The John Borra Band 4 to 7 pm.

HORSESHOE Cancer Bats, Touché Amoré, A Sight for Sewn Eyes (punk rock) doors 9 pm.

LEE’S PALACE Lucero, J Roddy Walston & the Business (alt country punks) doors 9 pm.

THE LOADED DOG The Staff (rock/pop) 8:30 pm.

THE LOCAL Ronnie Hayward Trio (rockabilly) 10 pm.

MASSEY HALL Classic Albums Live: Queen – A Night At The Opera 8 pm.

MONARCH TAVERN Erika Werry Band w/ the Formula (pop/rock/funk/soul) 9 pm.

THE MUSIC HALL Supersonic (Oasis tribute) doors 7 pm.

NEWFOUNDLANDER Harvest (pop rock) 9:30 pm.

PHOENIX CONCERT THEATRE NeedtoBreathe, Ben Rector doors 8 pm, all ages.

REX Sara Dell (vox/solo piano) 7 pm, Danny Marks (pop) noon.

RIVOLI CD release Erik Flowchild, Brandron Dramatic, Redway, DJ Soul Child doors 7:30 pm.

SILVER DOLLAR The Dirty Ghosts, Josh Reichman/DOPES, the Sphinxs, Two Koreas doors 9 pm.

THE SISTER The JP Wasson Band, Crockstar.

GLADSTONE HOTEL Country Saturdays Tim

Bradford & the Bandits (country) 9 pm.

GRAFFITI’S Alun Piggins (folk/pop) evening.

THE GREAT HALL Pegi Young & the Survivors doors 8 pm.

GROSSMAN’S Chloe Watkinson & the Crossroads 10 pm, The Happy Pals (New Orleans jazz) 4:30 pm.

HIRUT FINE ETHIOPIAN CUISINE Country Jam Murray Powell (eclectic) 2 to 6 pm.

HOLY OAK CAFE Spencer Good & Co (bluegrass party) 9 pm.

HUGH’S ROOM Jesse Winchester 8:30 pm.

JOHN CANDY BOX THEATRE CD release Joe Zambon doors 8 pm.

LAZY DAISY’S CAFE CD release Chris Rawlings (singer/songwriter) 9 pm.

THE LOCAL Arthur Renwick (blues) 5 pm.

LOLA Smokestack Lighting 8 pm.

NOW LOUNGE Toast & Twang Brunch Big Tobacco & the Pickers (country) 10:30am to 3:30 pm.

PRESS CLUB LuXury Bob, Blisters & the Saddle Sores (folk/indie/pop) 10 pm.

REBAS CAFÉ & GALLERY Open Mic The Just Us Band 1 to 4 pm.

RELISH New Music Night Julian Taylor (singer/ songwriter) 9:30 pm.

REVIVAL TIME TABERNACLE Gospel Music Machine 25-Year Celebration Brian Hamilton & Divine Worship, TC3, Toronto Mass Choir, Judith Gayle, Ann Marie Stern Williams and others 7 pm.

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Recording without rushing pays off By BENJAMIN BOLES

LIONESS with RITUALS and HOLLOW EARTH at the Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Friday (April 13). $12.

416-598-4753.

Four years between putting out an EP and releasing your debut full-length album is an eternity by 21stcentury standards, but sludgy dance-rock trio Lioness SONIC BOOM had their reasons for taking their sweet time finishing In-store Performance Catl 3 pm.

SONY CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS The Golden Killer (New Romantic).

Show Choir Canada nationals 2 to 8:30 pm.

Blame the hype machine in part. It affected not only SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY’S Kat House (rock/top 40) the members’ previous bands, which included dance10 pm, The Bear Band w/ Steven Ambrose rockers controller.controller and soul-punks No Dyna(rock/blues) 4 to 8 pm. mics, but also led to premature burnout for many of the THREE MONKEYS Road House (bluesy rock) 10 pm.

TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS The Colour Team acts they played alongside. (indie) 10:30 pm.

Stepping out of the indie rock hamster wheel to THE WHITE HOUSE STUDIO PROJECT One Way record at a more relaxed pace was a luxury they Ticket Bo Janglez doors 7:30 pm. couldn’t pass up this time around.

FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD “When we thought we needed some time away, we AQUILA UPSTAIRS All the Tired Horses (folk/ just took it,” explains drummer Jeff Scheven. “It can be rock) 9:30 pm. really beneficial and extend the life of a band. Had we CAMERON HOUSE Big Tobacco & the Pickers 050412.ai 1 4/10/12 12:36 PM (country) 6 to Ad_Now_1-5 8 pm. rushed into it, we might have broken up by now.

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“Instead, we’re super-stoked and excited about everything that’s coming instead of dreading another tour. That old way of getting in the van and burning yourself out to make it doesn’t seem necessary any more.”

In 2007, when Scheven and bassist Ronnie Morris joined forces with vocalist Vanessa Fischer, Lioness enjoyed considerable buzz. But when the time came to start recording their full-length, it became apparent that blog hits weren’t going to pay for studio time.

“All the hype and momentum had come to a stop,” Scheven recalls. “We didn’t get the money to make the record when we originally wanted to, and you can only tour an EP for so long.

“The truth is, we’ve made pretty much all our money from licensing. You don’t sell records unless you’re Bieber, and you don’t make a lot live. We love playing Canada, but it just doesn’t make sense. We end up losing money every time unless we’re sleeping on people’s floors.”

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ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION – PORT CREDIT MonkeyJunk (blues/roots) doors 7 pm.

TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Scott B Sympathy

(folk) 6:30 pm.

JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL

BLOOR STREET UNITED CHURCH A Little Opera For

Little Babies Benefit Concert for The Linden Fund Christopher Burton, Cheryl Campbell, Jennifer Carter, Jesse Clark and others 2:30 pm.

CHRIST CHURCH DEER PARK Baroque And Jazz Julian Milkis, Eugene Skovorodnikov (clarinet, piano) 7 pm.

DOMINION ON QUEEN Jordana Talsky (jazz) 9 pm.

GATE 403 Donna Greenberg Jazz Band 9 pm, Bill Heffernan (folk/country/blues) 5 to 8 pm.

GLENN GOULD STUDIO Latin Romance Ensemble Vivant 8 pm.

GRACE CHURCH ON-THE-HILL An Evening Of Duke Ellington York Jazz Ensemble, Beverly Taft, George Westerholm 7:30 pm.

HARBOURFRONT CENTRE BRIGANTINE ROOM

Sing! Vocal Arts Festival The Nylons (a cappella) 8:30 pm, Retrocity, Human Record (a cappella) 3:30 pm, Toronto Chamber Choir & Cantores Celestes 1 pm.

HARBOURFRONT CENTRE LAKESIDE TERRACE

Sing! Toronto Vocal Arts Festival Soul Influence 8 pm, After Hours 6 pm, Onoscatopoeia, Oasis Vocal Jazz 4 pm, Cantabile Chamber Singers 3 pm, Univox Choir 2 pm, RPSM Vocal Quartet 1 pm, Young Centre City Choir noon.

OLD MILL INN Jazz Masters Lenny Solomon, Bernie Senensky, Pat Collins 7:30 pm.

REX Blue Note Tribute Brian O’Kane, Alex Dean, Brian Dickinson, Neil Swainson, Barry Elmes 9:45 pm, Swing Shift Big Band 3:30 pm.

ROY THOMSON HALL Tchaikovsky & Verdi Toronto Symphony Orchestra 8 pm.

ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC KOERNER HALL A Year Of Great Sax Joshua Redman & Brad Mehldau Duo 8 pm.

SOMEWHERE THERE STUDIO Tim Shia, Mark

Laver, Ken Aldcroft 8 pm.

ST ANDREW’S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Annex Quartet & Peter Longworth 8 pm.

ST MARK’S LUTHERAN CHURCH Soundscapes: Classic And Contemporary Mississauga Choral

Society 7:30 pm.

Trane STudio Brownman & Gruvasylum (jazz w/ hip-hop ideology) 8:30 pm.

York univerSiTY accolade eaST Bldg TriBuTe communiTieS reciTal Hall York U Jazz Orchestra w/ the JazzFM91 Youth Big Band 7:30 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

annex Wreckroom DJ Rick Toxic 8 pm. aruBa Bar & lounge LP Tour Loxy, Vicious

Circle, Gremlinz, Rene LaVice, Adrian Go, Love Hz Silo.

Bunda lounge Palm Tree Saturdays: Riddim Mike Stoan, DJ Caff, the Dirty Frenchman doors 10 pm. cake Bar Dessert Saturdays (top 40/ mashups). cenTre of graviTY WeST Promise 12th Year Anniversary Frankie Bones, Nasty Nav, Ali Black, Lee Osborne, Tripzone, Koen & Cee Cee Cox 10 pm. c’eST WHaT DJ MALXP 10 pm. craWford upSTairS I Know You Care! Shan Dub & Boots Boogie (hip-hop/R&B/old school/funk). craWford doWnSTairS Maki & Makem (hip-hop/R&B/old school/funk). dim Sum king Happy Endings Schlachthofbronx, Poirier, PHO (Bonjay DJ set), Yes Yes Y’All DJs 10 pm. drake HoTel underground F*ckin Eh! Pt II doors 11 pm. drake HoTel lounge Jukebox (rock/soul) doors 10 pm. emmeT raY Bar DJ Chris Cruz (ol’ skool/soul/ hip-hop) 10 pm. eTon HouSe My Favorite Headache (Rush tribute band) 9 pm. flY Fly Las Vegas DJ Billy Lace, DJ Mike Vieira doors 10 pm.5 fooTWork Miss Honey Dijon, the SnoMen, Baby Joel doors 10 pm. gladSTone HoTel Ballroom Goin’ Steady (50s/60s dance party) 10 pm. inSomnia Sense Saturdays DJ Charles (deep house). levack Block Back room DJs Dougie Boom & Cryo. levack Block fronT room DJs RSNST & Crew. pacHa lounge HOLE Mac & Teves, Ess Cams, DJs the Sound Sluts 10 pm. parTS & laBour Bitch Craft (all girl DJs play loud rap). peridoT lounge Good Saturdays DJs Glew & R2 (hip-hop/R&B/old school) 10:30 pm.

THe piSTon Shoplifters Will Be Prosecuted DJs Digital Needle 10 pm. repoSado Happy Talk Tiki Night DJ LS Dean 9 pm. rivoli upSTairS Bump N’ Hustle DJs Paul E Lopes & Mike Tull (soul/funk/house/disco/ Latin/hip-hop/boogie) doors 10 pm. rivoli pool lounge DJ Osum (disco/electro/ funk).

SneakY dee’S Shake A Tail 10 pm.

SupermarkeT Do Right Saturdays! DJs John Kong, MC Abs. SuTra Tiki Bar The Bridge DJ Triplet (old skool hip-hop). virgin moBile mod cluB UK Underground MRK, Tigerblood, Lauren Malyon, Dream Jefferson 10 pm.

WaYlaBar Tequila Nights DJ Truewind (Latin house/top 40) 10 pm.

WHiTe SWan Disco Dance Party 8 pm.

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THe cenTral Dominique Royer 9 pm, Luke Bass 6 pm.

c’eST WHaT Thar Be Dragons (alt rock) 3 pm. dominion on Queen Rockabilly Brunch 11 am to 3 pm.

douBle douBle land The Dreebs. emmeT raY Bar Mr Rick & the Biscuits (rockabilly) 9 pm.

THe garriSon Back room Disappears, Lotus Plaza (Sonic Youth’s Steve Shelley) ñ doors 8 pm.

THe garriSon fronT room Crosswires Alastair Thompson 9 pm. ñ graffiTi’S Blackmetal Brunch, Michael Bren-

nan 4 to 7 pm.

FoLk/BLues/countRy/WoRLD

aQuila upSTairS The McDale’s Open Mic 8:30 pm, Junction Jam The New Mynah Birds (mostly blues) 3:30 pm. caSTro’S lounge Tim Bradford & the Bright Blue Motels 4 pm. cloak & dagger puB Rekha Patel & Ben Spivak (folk/pop) 9 pm. dakoTa Tavern Bluegrass Brunch 11 am to 3 pm. gladSTone HoTel melodY Bar Sunday Acoustic Family Brunch 9 am to 4 pm.

HugH’S room Jesse Winchester 8:30 pm, Michael Johnston Music Studio: Student Recital & Spring Celebration noon. lee’S palace Trampled by Turtles, These United States (alt bluegrass folk) doors 8 pm.

THe local Boxcar Boys 10 pm, Chris Coole (banjo) 5 pm. lola Nick Pickin’ 3 pm. pogue maHone Sandy MacIntyre & Steeped in Tradition (Celtic ceilidh) 4 to 8 pm. preSS cluB Kristine Schmitt (bluegrass/country/roots) 10 pm. reBaS café & gallerY Sunday Matinee Nicole Coward (singer/songwriter) 1 to 4 pm. reliSH Stir It Up Sundays Open Mic 10:30 pm. rivoli The Song Writers Sessions Tomi Swick, Ron Lopata 7 pm.

ST. andreW BY-THe-lake cHurcH Folk Influences Daniel Kushner, Jacquey Malcolm, Jonathan Krehm, Coby Stoller (violin/cello/ clarinet/piano) 2 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 pm.

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dominion on Queen Jazz Jam Noah Leibel 4 to 7 pm.

edWard JoHnSon Building WalTer Hall

The Afiara String Quartet, David Hetherington (cello) 3:15 pm, Music & Truffles The Afiara String Quartet 1:15 pm. enWave THeaTre BriganTine room Sing!

Vocal Arts Festival Swingle Singers, Countermeasure (a cappella) 7:30 pm, Elmer Iseler Sings, High Park Choir, Toronto Allegria Choir 2:30 pm.

THe flYing Beaver puBareT Addicted To TCM Vincent Wolfe (jazz crooner) 7 pm. gaTe 403 Kristin Lindell Jazz Band 9 pm, The France St Trio 5 to 8 pm. groSSman’S New Orlean Connection Allstars 4:30 to 8 pm.

HarBourfronT cenTre BriganTine room

Sing! Vocal Arts Festival Darbazi, Lachan Jewish Chamber Choir 11 am.

HarBourfronT cenTre redpaTH Sugar STage Song! Toronto Vocal Arts Festival: Mass Choir Sing-Along 1 to 2 pm.

HarBourfronT cenTre lakeSide Terrace

Song! Toronto Vocal Arts Festival GREX, Hamilton All Star Vocal Jazz 6 to 8 pm, Varsity Jews (a cappella choir) 11 am, WIBI noon, Church of St Mary Magdalene Gallery Choir 2 pm, Catch-Phrase, Broulala 3 to 5 pm, Miles Nadal JCC Community Choir 5 pm. rex Live Vinyl Jake Wilkinson, Amanda Tosoff, Ryal Oliver (classic records played note for note) 9:30 pm, Ugly Beauties 7 pm.

roYal conServaTorY of muSic conServaTorY THeaTre Kabaret! Noir Adi Braun & Trio 7:30 pm.

roYal conServaTorY of muSic koerner Hall 150th Anniversary Gala Concert The

Band of the Royal Regiment of Canada, the Pipes & Drums of the 48th Highlanders of Canada, Danielle Bourré and Jon Patterson 2 pm.

SomeWHere THere STudio Ali Berkok, Andy Yue, Tania Gill, Casey Sokol 8 pm, Ken Aldcroft, Karen Ng, Jonathan Adjemian, Josh Cole, Germaine Liu 5 pm.

Trane STudio Orange Devils Big Band 8 pm.

Tranzac SouTHern croSS Aldcroft, Krakowiak, Lewis & Rob Clutton (creative music for deep strings) 7:30 pm, Monk’s Music (jazz) 5 pm.

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Bovine Sex cluB B.Y.O. DJ. caSTro’S lounge Watch This Sound (rare, vintage ska/reggae/dub) 9 pm.

HolY oak cafe Kindness Killers & Whitney

craWford Lost Levels Mario Pinata.

HorSeSHoe Sleepy Sun, White Hills doors

Monday, April 16

SouTHSide JoHnnY’S Open Jam Rebecca

PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/souL

Rose (pop) 9 pm.

8:30 pm.

Matiesen & Phoenix 9:30 pm.

Bovine Sex cluB Flash Lightnin’.

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“what’s so funny about peace love understandinG” “cruel to be Kind” • “i Knew the bride”

with

monday april 23

Peter elkas @ the phoenix

$34.00 advance • limited seated show (400) • 7:30pm doors

friday may 18 & saturday may 19 queen elizabeth theatre scrappy happiness tour $ 29.50 advance + ff (reserved seating)

thurs may 17

queen elizabeth theatre all-aGes • $29.50 advance reserved seatinG • 7:15pm

tuesday may 8 the phoenix

neon indian w/ lemonade

fri june 9 @ phoenix

t h e m a g i k * m a g i k o r c h e s t r a & l ow thursday april 19 • massey hall all-ages / tickets $59.50 - $69.50 advance roy thompson hall box office, massey hall box office & masseyhall.com

wed april 25 @ phoenix • $ 20.00 advance

zeus cults arts & crafts • $15.00 advance

ron mewithoutyou spiriTualized sexsmith

Two Hours Traffic + THe elwins

with SpectralS

saturday june 9

saturday may 5 @ the phoenix • $27.00 advance

mod club •

$16.50

advance

burning bedS + imaginary citieS

all-ages/ 19+ • $59.50 advance $79.50 advance seated v.i.p.

friday june 15 @ queen elizabeth theatre $ 27.50

advance • 7:15pm doors • 19+

the tallest

man on earth

london uk • rare toronto play • only 3 north american dates!

monday june 18 @ the phoenix

mogwai $ 29.50

monday may 21 • sound academy sunday june 17 @ sound academy all-ages • 25.50 advance Ga • 35.50 advance 19+ vip $

with

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ska!

saturday june 30

thurs july 19 @ sound academy

los angeles ska soul punk legends

w/ little

monday june 11 lee’s palace • $ 22.50 adv

deer

Rhode Island • dIne alone • alt CountRy RoCk & Roll

tick

w/ turbo

fruits

advance • 8:00pm doors • 19+

wed august 1 $ phoenix • 20.00 advance

mozarT’s sisTer

thursday july 21 phoenix •

$ 18.50

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sunday july 15 @ sound academy • $ 25.00 advance • all-ages

fishbone beirut hot chip lee’s palace • $21.50 advance

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

scream

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

ska!

friday

april 13 tHurSday april 12 • $12.00 bluegraSS & alt country

neW CoUnTry REHAB the pining + crooked Brothers

friday april 13 indie electro record releaSe party

li o ness cancer

Saturday april 14

rituals + hollow earth

Bats

ToUChe amore

a sighT for seWn eyes

$12.00

@ door • $15 w/ cd • $20 w/ vinyl

Sunday april 15 • $10.50 adv San franciSco pSychedelic rock double header!

sleepy sUn WhiTe hills

monday april 16

White Denim auStin texaS • $12.50 advance

Hosted by bookie (18th year)

tueSday april 17

The BeaTdoWn gheTTo BlasTer

18.00 advance 7:30pm doorS montreal Ska

$

tueSday april 17 annex Wreckroom • $16.50 adv

acacia strain lionhearT + no Bragging righTs

thurSday may 3 horSeShoe • $11.50 advance

future

friday april 20 $ opera houSe • 15.50 adv

WedneSday may 2 mod club • $18.50 advance

Boxer WooDen reBellion sky la dispUTe tHE

tHurS may 3 @ mod cluB • $ 18.50 adv • all-ages

sunparlour players evening hymns

defeaTer & BalanCe and ComposUre

islands wildlifE Saturday may 5

friday may 11 @ the horSeShoe • $10.50 advance

rUTledge

sandman viper Command

WedneSday april 18 • $4.00

tHurSday april 19 • $25.00

lee’S palace • $ 13.50 advance

With

Dan romano

thurS april 12 & friday april 13

yukon blonde parlotones $ 15.00 advance • vancouver • dine alone / nevado

monday may 14 @ lee’S palace • $15.00 advance

jUsTin sTar slinger horSeShoe • $17.50 advance

Long Distance runners RikERs BirthDay Boys henry Wagons

hUndred visions +

Big d & The Kids TaBle

opera houSe

The hood inTerneT

tueSday june 5 @ lee’S palace • $13.50 advance

with

liBRaRy voicEs

great bloomers (thurS) young rival (friday) saturday apRil 14 • sold out!

lUCero xiu xiu joe hannibal alabama trampled hello PUrDy buress gooD beautiful jon langford shakes by turtles Killing & his sadies olD hollyWood arizona LiLy BanD still lions Big foot thE REal friday april 20

fish head benefit fundraiser

Saturday april 21 • $7.00

philadelphia • $12.50 advance

Saturday may 12

WedneSday june 13 lee’S palace • $ 17.50 advance

friday june 22

Sunday april 15

w/ dirTy BeaChes Saturday june 2 horSeShoe tavern • $15.00 adv

(snl & 30 rock)

Saturday june 23 @ horSeShoe • $15.00 advance

belle brigaDe

family of the year Sunday april 22 • $20 @ door nyc 1977 dictatorS punk rock & roll!

handsome Dick manitoBa

tueSday april 17

$ 20.00 advance • bluegraSS

The giving Tree Band

War

j roddy WalsTon & The BUsiness

horSeShoe • $ 15.00 advance

rUBy spiriT box tiger lasT BUlleT

with sKUll orChard +

BUrlingTon Welsh Choir

japanDroiDs

Sunday april 15 @ the garriSon • $11.50 advance

tues april 24 @ hard luck • $10.50 adv

andrew jackson jihad Disappears hanni el khatib acid mother’s temple moon hooch monday april 23 • $10 adv

W/ joyce manor

all-ageS

thurs april 26 @ garrison • $15.00 adv

friday may 4 @ drake underground • $10.00 advance

friday may 4 @ the garrison • $15.00 adv

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

with sundEllEs

WedneSday may 2

daytrader royal sUPersUckers nashviLLe PUssy milk carton cheap girls canoe 3 - Future islands horse May May 5 - Justin rutledge kids rocky Votolato the meatmen feathers May 14 - Father John Misty thurSday april 26 • $23.50 advance • rock double header!

eleanor Friedberger

the garriSon • 10.00 advance $

with hospitality

friday may 4

thurs may 17 @ sneaky dee’s • $10.00 adv

velvet underground • $11.50 adv

Sunday april 29 • $10.50 adv

sat may 19 @ the drake • $15.50 advance

portland indie folk rock

wed may 23 @ horseshoe • $11.50 adv

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

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

Joe McMahon with Billy The Kid + miKey erg

sun may 27 @ horseshoe • $11.50 adv

sat may 19 @ hard luck • $13.50 advance

friday may 25 @ lee’S palace • $9.00 advance • punk rock

The independenTs

fri jUne 8 @ the drake • $10.00 advance

wed aUgUsT 1 @ horseshoe • $11.50 adv

langhorne slim ramona falls the growlers

these UniteD states

thurSday april 19 • $6.00

Lee Bains the iii & the gLory Fires

sold out!

fri april 20 • $15.00 adv

ornaments newman boys benefit cool man cool • new teeth owen pallett DesPerate execUtives basia bulat Saturday april 21 $ 15.00

advance

plants &

sandro perri bry webb Jim guthrie andre ethier casey meciJa

we were animals promised friday april 27 $ 15.00

advance

tueSday may 15

active Jetpacks chilD $ 15.00

advance

W/ balam acab

may 12 - xiU xiU may 14 - starslinger JUne 5 - Parlotones

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

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Castro’s Lounge Rockabilly Mondays 9 pm.

Drake HoteL unDergrounD Elvis Monday doors 9 pm.

Drake HoteL Lounge Ride the Tiger (60s & 70s soul/Motown/stax/R&B) doors 11 pm. grossman’s Open Jam Mondays No Band Required 9 pm.

HarLem Open Jam Night Carolyn T (R&B/ soul/jazz/Motown/Latin) 8 pm.

HorsesHoe White Denim, Hundred Visions, Sandman Viper Command doors 8:30 pm. not my Dog Monday Mishaps Tequila Mockingbird Orchestra doors 9 pm. opera House Beautiful Freaks Tour 20112 Hot Chelle Rae, Electric Touch doors 6 pm, all ages.

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AZARI & III ELECTRONIC

Local dance group gets it together and breaks through By KEVIN RITCHIE

AZARI & III with BORDELLO and ALEX CHARLTON at the Hoxton (69 Bathurst), Friday (April 13), 10 pm. $15. RT, SS, TW.

If there’s a silver lining in Azari & III’s woefully belated hometown headlining gig, it’s that Toronto fans will get a much better show than they would’ve 10 months ago.

Since their self-titled debut was released in Europe last summer (and then re-released on UK major label Island Records in January), the fourpiece electronic dance group has come into its own as a live act.

During a break from recording their sophomore album, producer Alphonse Alixander Lanza III and vocalist Cedric Gasaida (aka Starving Yet Full) say the band (which also includes Christian “Azari” Farley and Fritz Helder) has come a long way since the days of cramming into the Barn’s tiny DJ booth to perform for college kids with Britney blinders on.

“Going to Europe was good because we really had to get our crew together and sort out our shit in order to be able to get on a festival stage and play,” says Lanza.

“Improvisation is a big part of our set,” adds Gasaida. “It’s like we start having a silent dia-

logue about what we can do with each other.”

The turning point was a hedonistic concert at London’s XYO club last August. Everything seemed to come together after that. Now they can pack 1,000-capacity venues in Amsterdam and Berlin and count among their fans everyone “from hipsters to geeky weird guys who throw an Azari shirt overtop their business shirt and get pissed on pints,” says Lanza.

Despite their success overseas, they still feel like music industry transients. There are signs, though, that North Americans are coming around. They were nominated in the best electronic album category at this year’s Junos (the

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only nominee whose album you can’t buy on iTunes) and were warmly received by the industry at the Ottawa ceremony. They’re hoping to announce a North American deal this fall.

“We’ve grown into more of a monster,” Lanza says when asked about the direction of the next record. “We have this big, throbbing Metallica sound. The entity is now bigger than all of us.

Before, it was a little more cozy; this one is thundering, spacious and cerebral. It’s an assault on the mind and body.

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NAWLINS JAZZ BAR 299 King W. 416-595-1958.

NEWFOUNDLANDER 420 Danforth. 416-267-8406.

NOCTURNE 550 Queen W. 416-504-2178.

NOT MY DOG 1510 Queen W. NOW LOUNGE 189 Church. 416-364-1301.

OLD MILL INN 21 Old Mill Rd. 416-236-2641.

OLD NICK 123 Danforth. 416-461-5546.

OPERA HOUSE 735 Queen E. 416-466-0313.

ORBIT ROOM 580A College. 416-535-0613.

PACHA LOUNGE 1305 Dundas W. 416-530-4781.

PARTS & LABOUR 1566 Queen W. 416-588-7750.

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PHOENIX CONCERT THEATRE 410 Sherbourne.

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THE PISTON 937 Bloor W. 416-532-3989.

POGUE MAHONE 777 Bay. 416-598-3339.

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REVIVAL TIME TABERNACLE 4340 Dufferin. 416-630-9346.

REX 194 Queen W. 416-598-2475.

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ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION – PORT CREDIT 35 Front N (Mississauga). 905-278-1705.

ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC 273 Bloor W. 416-408-0208.

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SCARLETT HEIGHTS ENTREPRENEURIAL ACADEMY 15 Trehorne. 416-394-7750.

SILVER DOLLAR 486 Spadina. 416-975-0909.

THE SISTER 1554 Queen W. 416-532-2570.

THE SIXTH 1642 Queen W. SLACK’S 562 Church. 416-928-2151.

SMILING BUDDHA 961 College. 416-516-2531.

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SONIC BOOM 782 Bathurst. 416-532-0334.

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album reviews vocalist. Dirty Ghosts succeed when Baker embraces her quirkiest tendencies, which still end up sounding like pop music, but less deliberate and self-conscious than the more overworked tracks.

Top track: Surround The Controls Dirty Ghosts play the Silver Dollar Saturday (April 14).

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album of the week SPIRITUALIZED Sweet Heart

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Sweet Light (Fat Possum) Rating:

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Jason Pierce has said that Sweet Heart Sweet Light is his attempt to make a pop album from a grown-up standpoint. It might seem odd that a guy who’s spent the last 30 years making explicitly drug-inspired music is now contemplating rock ’n’ roll maturity, but, then, recent serious health issues may have given him some perspective on mortality and aging.

Sweet Heart Sweet Light feels like a sober reflection on a life spent chasing glimpses of heaven in powders and potions. He still borrows

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Tiger Talk (Dine Alone) Rating: On their driving sophomore full-length album, Vancouver-based Yukon Blonde tone down the neo-classic-rockisms and folky Fleet Foxes-aping and up the pop (and maybe even post-punk). Seeing how quickly both of those former genres are getting played out in this Sheepdogs-loving musical landscape, that’s a good thing.

The poncho-clad four-piece still deliver bright but warm tunes that will make a superb summer soundtrack, and the pop arrives through a Beach Boys-informed filter especially apparent in Oregon Shore’s multi-part harmonies and Guns’ verse melody. Big, crunchy guitar solos blast between catchy choruses, guitar jangle and ambitious harmonies, while drummer Graham Jones keeps things moving at a brisk, if relentlessly hectic, clip.

An infusion of their earlier hazy laidbackness would’ve add more variety, but Tiger Talk is still an enthusiastic, confident follow-up from a band well on its way.

Top track: My Girl Yukon Blonde play Lee’s Palace tonight (Thursday, April 12) and tomorrow (Friday, April 13).

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TOPS Tender Opposites (Arbutus)

Rating: NNN Montreal DIY pop is currently experiencing a particularly fertile moment, and

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heavily from the pantheon of junky rock, but subverts the clichés with subtle tweaks.

More important than Pierce’s shift in outlook are his efforts to stop hiding his pop talents under walls of sonic experiments and psychedelia.

There’s still nothing particularly radio-friendly here and plenty of weirdness to go around, but more than ever the free jazz influences and pulsating drones seem designed to serve the song and not just enhance the listener’s physical sensations.

Top track: Hey Jane Spiritualized play the Phoenix Concert Theatre May 5.

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TOPS seem poised to be the latest breakout. Like Arbutus labelmates Grimes, Blue Hawaii and Sean Nicholas Savage, the band makes strange, beguiling pop music that sounds simultaneously inviting, offkilter and familiar.

Made up of members of Pat Jordache and the Silly Kissers, TOPS mine a strand of late 70s/early 80s soft rock that’s both hooky and atmospheric. The album risks sliding into empty revivalism, but the band’s impressive musicianship, songcraft and straight-faced commitment to the style often make up for that.

Jane Penny’s versatile voice alternates between the distant floatiness of Stereolab’s Lætitia Sadier and Stevie Nicks’s rich croon, gracefully combining with slowburning keys and nimble guitar work that never wastes a note. Taking cues from disco and synth-pop, TOPS are better suited to drifting and daydreaming than dancing.

Top track: Evening TOPS play the Silver Dollar tonight (Thursday, April 12).

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DIRTY GHOSTS Metal Moon (Last Gang)

Rating: NNN Former Torontonian Allyson Baker has spent most of her life since the 90s playing guitar in punk, psych, surf and garage bands, but has finally taken her turn in front of the mic with her newest project, Dirty Ghosts. Now based in San Francisco, Baker takes an unexpected musical left turn by collaborating with hip-hop artist/ producer Aesop Rock and finding inspiration in a buffet of classic pop sounds.

These two factors have led to an eclectic, danceable feel, with one foot still in the garage.

When the everything-and-the-kitchensink approach works best, Metal Moon sounds like little bits of all your favourite records glued together into one mutant disc. Over the course of an entire album, though, the sonic soup begins to feel a bit directionless, and it’s occasionally apparent that Baker is still finding herself as a

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Waiting In The Well (Saved by Vinyl/Outside) Rating:

Octoberman frontman Marc Morrissette had to take a break during the recording of his fourth album to recover from a vocal polyp. The wait worked out, both for his glammy, gritty vocals, which sound awesome, and for the sonic experimentation that occurred under the guidance of coproducers Jim Guthrie and Andy Magoffin.

(Everything from synths, horns and strings to pedal steel and squealing guitar makes an appearance.)

Morrissette and his indie rock band, conceived in Vancouver but now based in Toronto, found inspiration for the clever lyrics in the work of Haruki Murakami and Kurt Vonnegut, the life of Van Gogh, odd news stories and meditations on romance.

Disregard the autumnal band name; the sadness and loneliness of their earlier sound is still present, but many songs suit a sunny day.

Top track: Pool Hoppin’ Octoberman play the Tranzac Main Hall Friday (April 13).

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BOXER THE HORSE French Residency

(independent) Rating: NNN On their enthusiastic second album, Boxer the Horse sound like they’re having the greatest time. The Prince Edward Island four-piece employ Stephen Malkmusesque casual vocal delivery and the loose, lo-fi sound for which the East Coast is quickly becoming known.

They sound like they (along with the rest of Generation Y) have been listening to plenty of 90s grunge (Rattle Your Cage almost lifts the Smashing Pumpkins’ “I’m just a rat in a cage” lyric – heard here as “just to rattle your cage”), but also new wave (Party Saturday), insouciant punk (Bridge To The U.S.A) and 80s jangle-pop (T. Rex, Karen Silkwood).

It’s an inspired, melodic melding of influences that doesn’t break new ground.

The larger achievement is how well they’ve captured the messy vitality of youth.

Top track: T. Rex Boxer the Horse play the Great Hall on Friday (April 13).

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TRAMPLED BY TURTLES Stars And Satel-

lites (Six Shooter) Rating: NNN Duluth, Minnesota’s Trampled by Turtles have slowly risen to prominence on the back of their live show, which showcases their impressive chops as they attack traditional roots and bluegrass sounds with the speed dial turned up to 11. Those drawn in by the band’s display of lightning-quick musicianship might feel let down by Stars And Satellites, their latest release for Toronto’s Six Shooter.

Rather than speed-folk, the album largely features slow-burning, harmonyladen ballads. The plaintive numbers are

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still richly layered with banjo, mandolin and strings. But by sticking mostly to introspective songwriting, the quintet ignores the strongest tool in its arsenal.

It’s no surprise that the most memorable tunes are the few where they let their fingers fly.

Top track: Walt Whitman Trampled by Turtles play Lee’s Palace on Sunday (April 15).

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Down And Out In Upalong (Warner/TeleSoul) Rating: This unusual, slightly strange double album came out of a collaboration between Canadian actor Gordon Pinsent, the Sadies’ Travis Good and Blue Rodeo’s Greg Keelor. The first half is Pinsent’s poems put to music and sung by Good and Keelor, while the second half is the same lyrics performed as spoken word by Pinsent with musical accompaniment. (Bryden Baird helped with the arrangements.)

The album is reminiscent of Billy Bragg and Wilco’s Mermaid Avenue, but with strong Canadian flavour: Good’s bluegrass-inspired guitar work is as fluid and distinct as ever, and “upalong” in the title track refers to what Newfoundlanders used to call the rest of Canada. There’s a breadth of material, from toe-tapping love songs to the mysterious Night Light and Seagrass.

Pinsent’s spoken-word versions are often quite different than the songs, sometimes wearied and thoughtful and sometimes evoking a bit of Johnny Cash with a smile.

Top track: Night Light Good, Pinsent, Keelor play the Drake Underground tonight (Thursday, April 12) as part of NOW Talks, and the Glenn Gould Studio on June 19.

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Pop) Rating: NNN It makes sense that Seattle duo THEESatisfaction would have links with Toronto’s own 88 Days of Fortune collective of musicians and artists. Both cultivate queer-friendly black empowerment vibes through left-field hip-hop expressionism.

In fact, the interplay between THEESatisfaction’s Cat and Stas feels like a polished, ripened version of 88 Days’ own sing-rap girl duo Bizzarh.

With the support of Sub Pop and Shabazz Palaces (they appeared on the group’s 2011 LP Black Up), THEESatisfaction deliver a one-two to hip-hop on awE naturalE. The messages – love, acceptance, Afrocentricity – and musical cues, from jazz to hippie rap, help expand on what’s viable in the oft-rigid genre. Much of the music moves fluidly between singing and rapping spread thick over resonant, out-of-time piano loops (Earthseed, Existinct, Crash).

And though the overall groove (“Don’t funk with it,” they advise on QueenS) is freewheeling enough to avoid being preachy, awE naturalE is implicitly political – a meditation on being black and queer and in this world.

Top track: QueenS ANUPA MISTRY

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Deanna Bowen and Russell Bennett play a jounalist and a Klansman in The Paul Good Papers.

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Deanna Bowen goes back in time By FRAN SCHECHTER DEANNA BOWEN at Gallery 44 (401

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Richmond West), to April 21. Performances daily at 1 pm. 416-979-3941.

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the paul good papers, co-presented by the Images Festival, is part of Deanna Bowen’s ongoing research into the links between racism and the civil rights movement in the U.S. and Canada. A descendant of African Americans who immigrated to Canada from Alabama around 1900, Bowen is working toward a show

next year at the Art Gallery of York University that brings together the many strands of her project.

At Gallery 44, in a room displaying a 1965 Saturday Evening Post spread on the Ku Klux Klan and a poster for a Klan rally, the show’s centrepiece unfolds: the daily performance of an interview by Paul Good (played by Bowen), a U.S. journalist and civil rights supporter, with KKK Imperial Wizard Robert Shelton (actor Russell Bennett).

Shelton tries to represent the Klan as a law-abiding pro-segregation or-

ganization, but menace leaks through, especially in an ominous clip of Shelton’s own voice foretelling the assassination of Martin Luther King. Bowen and Bennett plan to comment on the text and experiment with different ways of playing it over the course of the show.

In a second room, the focus is on the 1964 high school integration campaign in Notasulga, Alabama, and Klan members’ beating of a photographer covering it. A mostly imageless video with vertical lines and splotches includes audio that Good surreptitiously recorded at the Notasulga demonstration and an inter view with the mayor, who, like

Shelton, puts up a law-abiding front.

If the Klan, with its bizarre outfits and titles, lives on both organizationally and in the public imagination, these documents of the struggle seem to have barely survived the attempt to suppress them. Faded black-and-white footage of a young white woman, perhaps a student at the closed high school, singing along with the Beatles, suggests what lies beneath rosy memories of the era.

Changes in the dialogue about racism over time and the performance of a white man by a black woman add layers of meaning to the historical material.

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THIS WEEK IN THE MUSEUMS ART GALLERY OF HAMILTON William Kurelek,

to Apr 29. Women’s Art Association of Hamilton, to May 13. Kristin Bjornerud and Mark Lewis, to May 21, ARTbus tour Apr 15 (see Oakville Galleries). Size Matters group show, to Jun 17. $10, stu/srs $8, free first Fri of month 5-9 pm. 123 King W (Hamilton). 905527-6610.

ART GALLERY OF MISSISSAUGA Lila Lewis Irving, to Apr 29. 300 City Centre (Mississauga).

905-896-5088.

ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO Mad Couture Catwalk, 7-10 pm Apr 13 ($25, stu $15). Exceptional Minds: The Convergence Of Art And Mental Illness, symposium 9:30 am-5:30 pm Apr 14 ($160, stu $50). 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. (Images Festival): Annie MacDonell, to Jun 3. Iain Baxter&, to Aug 12. A Tribute To Ayala Zacks, to Feb 28, 2013. $19.50, srs $16, stu $11, free Wed 6-8:30 pm.

317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648.

ART GALLERY OF YORK UNIVERSITY Diane Borsato, to Jun 10. 4700 Keele, Accolade E bldg.

416-736-5169.

BURLINGTON ART CENTRE Geometrics group show, to Apr 22. Latow Photographers Guild, to May 13. 1333 Lakeshore (Burlington). 905632-7796.

CITY OF TORONTO ARCHIVES A World Of Music: Celebrating 90 Seasons With The Toronto Symphony Orchestra, to May 31. 255 Spadina Rd. 416-397-0778.

DESIGN EXCHANGE Colombia: Architecture In Transformation, talk 6-7:30 pm Apr 13 (pwyc).

Gregory Herringshaw, History Of Wallpaper talk 6:30-7:30 pm Apr 16 ($15). Marlis Saunders, to Apr 23. $10, stu/srs $8. 234 Bay. 416363-6121.

DORIS McCARTHY GALLERY Age Of Consent, Apr 14-May 12, reception 2-5 pm Apr 14 (bus from 401 Richmond, 2 pm). 1265 Military Trail. 416-287-7007.

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.

McMASTER MUSEUM OF ART Wise Up: graduating students, Apr 12-28. Barbara Astman, to May 5. 125 & 45: An Interrogative Spirit, to

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Aug 25. 1280 Main W (Hamilton). 905-5259140.

McMICHAEL CANADIAN ART COLLECTION The Treel, to Apr 22 ($15). $15, stu/srs $12. 10365 Islington (Kleinburg). 905-893-1121.

MUSEUM OF INUIT ART Sculpture/prints/drawing from the collection; Jessie Kenalogak, ongoing. $6, stu/srs $5, weekends free. 207 Queens Quay W. 416-640-7591.

OAKVILLE GALLERIES (Images Festival): Keren Cytter, Apr 14-Jun 10, ARTbus tour noon-5 pm Apr 15 (from OCADU, $10, reserve). Gairloch Gdns, 1306 Lakeshore E, and Centennial Sq, 120 Navy (Oakville). 905-844-4402.

ONTARIO SCIENCE CENTRE The DIY Body Project, to Aug 12. $20, stu/srs $16. 770 Don Mills. 416-696-1000.

THE POWER PLANT Kerry Tribe, to Jun 3, artist’s talk/performance 7 pm ($10, stu/srs $5) Apr 18. Dissenting Histories: 25 Years Of The Power Plant, to Sep 3. 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949.

ROBERT McLAUGHLIN GALLERY Oshawa Creek Project: Then And Now, to Apr 26. Animal, to May 6. Community Collects, to Jun 3. Adrian Norvid, reception 7 pm Apr 13, Apr 14-Jun 10.

Pwyc. 72 Queen (Oshawa). 905-576-3000.

ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM Deborah Samuel, to Jul 2. The Art Of Collecting, ongoing. $15, stu/ srs $13.50; Fri 4:30-8:30 pm $9, stu/srs $8.

100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000.

TEXTILE MUSEUM OF CANADA Dare To Wear Love, to May 9. Perpetual Motion: Material Re-use In The Spirit Of Thrift, Utility And Beauty; Portable Mosques: The Sacred Space Of The Prayer Rug, to Sep 3. $15, srs $10, stu $6; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre. 416-5995321.

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ART CENTRE Workforce: Chinese Propaganda Posters, to Apr 21.

15 King’s College Circle. 416-978-1838.

VARLEY ART GALLERY Deconstructed: Works From The Permanent Collection, to May 12, Olga Korper talk 7:30 pm Apr 18 ($15) . $5, stu/srs $4. 216 Main (Unionville). 905-4779511.

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ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE DOWNTOWN Photos: Mikel Mata-Langlois, to Apr 25. Galerie Pierre-Léon, 24 Spadina Rd. 416-9222014.

A SPACE GALLERY Installation/video (Images Festival): Silvia Kolbowski and Naeem Mohaiemen, Apr 14-May 26. 401 Richmond W #110. 416-979-9633.

CHRISTOPHER CUTTS Painting: Michael Amar and Pat McDermott, Apr 14-May 9, reception 2-6 pm Apr 14. 21 Morrow. 416532-5566.

EDWARD DAY GALLERY Photos: Peter Hill, to Apr 28, reception 4-6 pm Apr 14. 952 Queen W. 416-921-6540.

ESP/ERIN STUMP PROJECTS Video installation: Leisure (Susannah Wesley and Meredith Carruthers), to Apr 29. 1086 1/2 Queen W. 416-834-0005.

GALLERY 44 Photos/video/performance (Images Festival): Deanna Bowen, to Apr 21 (daily performances 1 pm). Photos: Maju Tavera, to Apr 21. Installation (Images Festival): Deborah Stratman, to May 19. 401 Richmond W, #120. 416-979-3941.

GALLERY TPW Video (Images Festival): Mark Boulos, Apr 13-May 26, reception 6-8 pm Apr 13. 56 Ossington. 416-6451066.

GALLERYWEST Prints/painting/sculpture: Doug Hunter, Dessa Harhay and Stewart Evans, to Apr 27. 1172 Queen W. 416-9137116.

GENDAI WORKSTATION Installation (Images Festival): Angélica Teuta, Apr 14May 26. 1265 Bloor W. 647-200-6161.

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GENERAL HARDWARE CONTEMPORARY

Painting: Celia Neubauer, to Apr 28. 1520 Queen W. 416-516-6876.

GLADSTONE HOTEL Queen West Walking Art Tour, noon-2:30 pm Apr 14 ($25, $45/ two). Big Ass Spring Is Finally Here (benefit for Zoey’s Projects), 7:30-11 pm Apr 18 ($17). Colourshift Abstract Arts Collective, to Apr 23, reception 7-9 pm Apr 12.

Black Sheep: OCADU printmaking students, to Apr 24. Photos: Outliers group show, to Apr 29. 1214 Queen W. 416-5314635.

JESSICA BRADLEY ART + PROJECTS Installation: Zin Taylor, to May 5. 1450 Dundas W. 416-537-3125.

LOOP GALLERY John Abrams and Sung Ja Kim, to Apr 21. 1273 Dundas W. 416-5162581.

MILES NADAL JCC Painting: Shelly Grimson, to Apr 30. 750 Spadina. 416-924-6211.

NARWHAL PROJECTS Sculpture: Tibi Tibi Neuspiel, to Apr 22. 2988 Dundas W. 647346-5317.

NICHOLAS METIVIER Painting: Xiaoze Xie and Joachim Bandau, to Apr 21. 451 King W. 416-205-9000.

O’BORN CONTEMPORARY Photos: Elle Flanders and Tamira Sawatzky, to Apr 21.

131 Ossington. 416-413-9555.

OLGA KORPER Painting: John Brown, to Apr 28. 17 Morrow. 416-538-8220.

ONSITE [AT] OCADU (Images Festival): Twinning Artists – Twinning Cities: Avalon (Bangalore And Toronto), to Jun 3, Oliver Husain performance/book launch 4-6 pm Apr 14. 230 Richmond W. 416-9776000 ext 327.

PAUL PETRO Editions, Part Two; Robert Flack, to May 5. 980 Queen W. 416-9797874.

P|M GALLERY Painting: Amanda Reeves, to May 5. 1518 Dundas W. 416-937-3862.

PREFIX INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART

Installation: Uriel Orlow, to Apr 21. 401 Richmond W. 416-591-0357.

SCRAP METAL Read All Over group show, to May 1. Fri-Sat or by appt.

11 Dublin (enter via laneway). 416-5882442.

STEPHEN BULGER Photos: Benoit Aquin, to Apr 28, reception 2-5 pm Apr 14. 1026 Queen W. 416-504-0575.

URBANSPACE Toronto: Cinema City (Images Festival), to Apr 28. 401 Richmond W. 416-595-5900.

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.

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Scarred writer AND SO IT GOES: KURT VONNEGUT:

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by Charles J. Shields (Henry Holt), 528 pages, $30 paper. Rating: NNNN

if you’re curious about what demons plagued Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat’s Cradle author Kurt Vonnegut, Charles J. Shields’s bio of the mercurial and troubled writer is required reading. Though it’s been five years since Vonnegut died, And So It Goes is the first official biography .

Shields knows how to get to an author’s core, having profiled Harper Lee in Mockingbird. Using the same kind of exhaustive research, he reviewed more than 1,500 letters and interviewed Vonnegut as well as dozens of relatives and friends.

An Indiana boy raised in a German-American home, young Vonnegut craved attention, feeling alienated from his constantly warring parents. His brother Bernard got hooked on science and won over Mom and Dad, giving rise to a resentment Vonnegut never really let go of.

But Bernard also got him curious

about science and engineering.

Vonnegut’s Cornell days, his stint as a Second World War infantryman and the devastating Dresden bombing that later surfaced in his bestselling Slaughterhouse-Five are related in brisk, well-crafted prose. It’s eerie to read how that Dresden scar ran so deep that Vonnegut felt little closure even after completing the book.

The bio keeps the intrigue coming in the stories of two ex-wives who

ALL ABOUT KINDNESS: REMEMBERING JUNE CALLWOOD Launch for a collection of essays.

5:30 pm. Free. Casey House, 9 Huntley. cormorantbooks.com.

ALEX BOYD Launching his poetry collection The Least Important Man. 7 pm. Free. Dora Keogh, 141 Danforth. 416-778-1804.

SHARIFA SHARIF Launching On The Edge Of Being: An Afghan Woman’s Journey. 6:30 pm.

Free. Toronto Women’s Bookstore, 73 Harbord. 416-922-8744.

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS’ PERSONAL LETTERS Tennessee Project reading. 8 pm. Free. Cobourg, 533 Parliament. tennesseeprojecttoronto.com.

Friday, April 13 DIASPORA DIALOGUES Readings by Sheila Heti,

Brandon Pitts, Rabindranath Maharaj, Sarah Feldbloom and Misha Glouberman. 7 pm. Free.

Reference Library, 789 Yonge. 416-395-5577.

Saturday, April 14 CHRISTOPHER MOORE Signing his novel, Sacre Bleu. 2 pm. Free. Chapters, 142 John. chapters. indigo.ca.

PETA-GAYE NASH Reading to mark 50 years of Jamaican independence. 2 pm. Free. Maria A. Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton W. 416-3941000.

Sunday, April 15 POETRY AND REVOLUTION Bolivarian Circle

Louis Riel and Hands Off Venezuela present poetry, music, visual arts and an open mic with Arnold Itwaru, Charles Roach, Enrique Castro, Beatriz Santiago and others. 11:30 am-2:30 pm. Free. Ellington’s Cafe, 805 St Clair W. e_sundaypoetry@yahoo.ca.

Monday, April 16 CLOSE ENCOUNTERS: THE NEXT FIVE HUNDRED YEARS OF INDIGENOUS ART & THOUGHT Book launch. 7:30 pm. $5. Gladstone, 1214 Queen W. tinars.ca.

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seem to withhold nothing. As salacious as those tales are, the more telling details emerge from Vonnegut’s views on creative writing and sharing stories he wants the world to hear.

The best parts of And So It Goes examine the ways his real-life drama bled into his fiction, something his fans may always have suspected but could never know for DAVID SILVERBERG sure – until now. books@nowtoronto.com

LAUNCHING THIS WEEK It’s been five years since Canada lost iconic author and activist June Callwood, but she is definitely not forgotten. Margaret McBurney has put together It’s All About Kindness: Remembering June Callwood ($20, Cormorant), a collection of appreciations by people who were close to her, including George Smitherman, Charles Pachter and Michael Enright. Cormorant launches the book this evening (Thursday, April 12) at, appropriately, Casey House, which was founded

by Callwood and named for her son, who was killed by a drunk driver. See Readings, SUSAN G. COLE this page.

READINGS THIS WEEK Thursday, April 12

THE INTERVIEW SERIES THAT’S NOT AFRAID TO GET LOUD

MANSFIELD SPRING POETRY PARTY Launch of

books by Nelson Ball, Alice Burdick, Jaime Forsythe and David W McFadden. 7:30 pm. Free.

Monarch Tavern, 12 Clinton. 416-532-2086.

MARY LOU SOUTAR-HYNES/JENNIFER WALCOTT/ QUENTIN LINDSAY Reading to mark 50 years of

Jamaican independence. 7 pm. Free. Malvern Library, 30 Sewells. 416-396-8969.

ADRIA VASIL NOW columnist/author Vasil launches her book Ecoholic Body: Your Ultimate Earth-Friendly Guide To Living Healthy And Looking Good, in conversation with NOW style editor Andrew Sardone. 6 pm. $10. Drake Hotel Underground, 1150 Queen W. nowtoronto.com/nowtalks.

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Tennessee Project reading. 7 pm. Free. One in the Only Cafe, 966 Danforth. tennesseeprojecttoronto.com.

Wednesday, April 18 GABRIELLE HAMILTON Talking about her new

memoir, Blood, Bones And Butter. 7 pm. Free.

Reference Library 789 Yonge. 416-395-5577.

WAYNE JOHNSTON Reading from A World Elsewhere. 12:30 pm. Free. Northern District Library, 40 Orchard View. 416-393-7610.

MAX AND MONIQUE NEMNI Presenting their book Trudeau Transformed 1944-1965. 7 pm.

Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

PIVOT READINGS Marianne Apostolides, Gregory Betts and Stephen Cain. 8 pm. Pwyc. Press Club, 850 Dundas W. pivotreadings.ca.

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS’ PERSONAL LETTERS LILIAN NATELL Reading from Web of Angels. 7 Tennessee Project reading. 10 pm. Free. Green pm.

Free. Palmerston Library, 560 Palmerston.

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Human Rights Watch Book Series Presenting The Unfinished Revolution, a collection of essays which tell the story of the ongoing global struggle to secure basic rights for women and girls worldwide.

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Gemma James-Smith and Gil Garratt get physical in The Game Of Love And Chance.

Classic comedy gets a contemporary spin with lots of emotional and political twists By JON KAPLAN THE GAME OF LOVE AND CHANCE by Pierre de Marivaux, translated by Nicolas Billon, directed by Matthew Jocelyn, with Zach Fraser, Gil Garratt, Gemma JamesSmith, Harry Judge, Trish Lindström and William Webster. Presented by Canadian Stage and the Centaur Theatre at the Bluma Appel (27 Front East). Previews from Monday (April 16), opens April 19 and runs to May 12, Monday-Saturday 8 pm, matinees Wednesday 1:30 pm, Saturday 2 pm. $22-$99. 416-368-3110.

love can alter your state of being, but rarely as drastically as in Marivaux’s The Game Of Love And Chance.

The 1730 comedy, in a new translation by Nicolas Billon, brings together two pairs of lovers who have to deal with multiple mistaken identities and a roller-coaster ride of plot twists and turns.

When the high-born fathers of Silvia and Dorante arrange a marriage for their children, Silvia gets permission from her father, Orgon, to allow her to switch positions with her maid Lisette when Dorante and his manservant, Arlequino, come courting.

She wants to see the character of her husband-to-be when he’s not publicly wooing. What Orgon knows but Lisette doesn’t is that Dorante has arranged the same stratagem.

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“Class relations are hugely important in this play, especially for the servants,” says Gil Garratt, who plays Arlequino to Gemma James-Smith’s Lisette. “They’ve spent their lives taking care of others and barely being noticed, and now, for the first time, they’re being ‘seen,’ treated as people of tremendous value.”

“As a servant, Lisette is pushed into a situation to which she can’t say no and has to pretend to be someone she isn’t,” adds James-Smith.

“It’s a scary situation, but even scarier when she finds herself drawn to the masquerading Arlequino. She’s shocked and frightened, confused not only by her new position in the world but also by having someone from a higher rank – she thinks – acknowledging and reacting to her.”

It’s possible, notes Garratt, to play Arlequino as someone who has a chance not only to impersonate his master but also “to usurp his power and play for gain, seducing the young mistress of the house and enjoying the fun and excitement of his new role.

“But director Matthew Jocelyn suggested I play Arlequino’s passion for Lisette as true and the love affair as genuine.”

That sort of grounding helps give the production, while still firmly rooted in comedy, an emotional subtext. And a political one.

“The play has within it the seeds of revolution,” adds Garratt, “with ser-

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vants playing at the subjugation of their masters, treating them as servants. In 60 years, heads would be rolling in France; it was a thrilling time for underlings to think about whether their roles were fixed or they could change their positions in the world.”

Stylistically, the play is a blend of the period’s Italian comedy style, which drew on the physicality and improvisation of commedia dell’arte (the name of Garratt’s character, Arlequino, testifies to his roots) and a more formal French style. The current production aims for an emphasis on both text and rubber-limbed comedy.

“Some of that comedy comes about because the action occurs in a single day, which creates added intensity for the four characters taking on fresh roles,” says James-Smith. “Especially for Lisette and Arlequino, their newfound positions may combust at any moment; as a result, their actions have a frantic quality.”

Garratt says he’s fascinated by the fact that playing at something can tremendously affect the reality of one’s life.

“In some way, this show is a wonderful and hilarious look at the magic of theatre: those who play at being lovers really do fall in love.”

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Spring thaw WAS SPRING by Daniel MacIvor (Tarragon, 30 Bridgman). To May 6. $24-$51.

416-531-1827. See Continuing, page 77.

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Forget the seven ages of man. In Was Spring, Daniel MacIvor presents the three ages of woman, and they make a quietly powerful, if not fully developed, night of theatre.

On a stage bare except for a few chairs and two panels of see-through mirrored wall, three women reflect on their lives. First to enter is the older Kitty (Clare Coulter), who’s been ejected from her home and seems to be losing her memory but not a streak of anger; next is Kath (Caroline Gillis), an embittered woman in middle age; and then comes Kit (Jessica Moss), who in her 20s is the chattiest and most exuberant.

It’s no spoiler – just look at the character names or the way they unwrap a piece of candy in unison – to reveal they’re the same woman at different stages in her life. A common enough

name and address and box office/info phone number. Listings may be edited for space. Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm.

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ARMIDE by Jean-Baptiste Lully (Opera Atelier).

Obsession, jealousy and magic surround the doomed love affair of a Christian knight and a Muslim princess. Opens Apr 14 and runs to Apr 21, Fri-Sat and Tue-Wed 7:30 pm, Sun 3 pm. $35-$175. Elgin Theatre, 189 Yonge.

1-855-622-2787, operaatelier.com.

COSI by Louis Nowra (Alumnae Theatre). A theatre director looks to stage Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte with a cast of mental patients in 1970s Australia. Apr 13-28, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20, Wed 2-for-1, Sun pwyc. 70 Berkeley.

416-364-4170, alumnaetheatre.com.

COUNTRY OF THE BLIND (Budget Cut Collective).

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theatrical device, but MacIvor hasn’t provided enough details to let us see how events turned one woman into the next. There’s talk about relationships, love and a life-changing event that occurred one spring, but the script’s power lies not in narrative suggestion but in poetic sharpness.

In fact, Was Spring feels more like a poem for three voices than a play. MacIvor offers up lots of vivid lines about the war between the sexes and the safety of childhood. But the piece lacks an anchor – is it set in some existential limbo? – and while the characters address us, it’s never clear what role we’re meant to play.

Still, it’s worth seeing for the performances. Gillis can suggest a lifetime of disappointment with a glance, and Moss is fine as the brash, overly confident young woman.

But it’s Coulter – an artist who has inhabited so many memorable characters at the Tarragon – who leaves the strongest impression. With a glint in her defiant eyes and her voice as resonant as ever, she’s like a solid tree branch that’s survived years, trembling GLENN SUMI slightly in the wind.

Jessica Moss (left), Clare Coulter and Caroline Gillis Spring to life.

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the five senses. Opens Apr 18 and runs to Apr 21, Wed-Sat 7:30 pm (and Sat 2 pm). $10-$15.

Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson, Backspace. 416-504-7529.

Forever Plaid by Stuart Ross (Lower Ossington Theatre). Four young singers get a posthumous chance to fulfill their dreams in this musical revue. Opens Apr 13 and runs to Apr 29, Fri-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Apr 14 at 2 pm, Apr 29 at 4 pm. $45. 100A Ossington. 416-915-6747, lowerossingtontheatre.com.

Guys & dolls by Frank Loesser, Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows (Brampton Music Theatre). A wager leads to romance in this musical comedy. Apr 12-14, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 1 pm. $18-$28. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Lane, Brampton. 905-874-2800, rosetheatre.ca.

Harvey by Mary Chase (Theatre Aurora). A man with an imaginary friend vexes his image-conscious sister in this comedy. Opens Apr 13 and runs to Apr 28, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat 11 pm), Sun 2 pm. $10. Imperial Pub, 54 DunApr 22 at 2 pm. $23. 150 Henderson. 905-727das E. monkeymanproductions.com.

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TWelFTH NiGHT, or, WHaTever by William THe Melville Boys by Norm Foster (Panfish Shakes (Snobbish Theatre). Wear neon and Productions). Two pairs of siblings have their become part of the play at this rave-inspired cottage getaway plans changed by a chance party adaptation of Shakespeare’s comedy. meeting in this comedy. Opens Apr 12 and Opens Apr 16 and runs to Apr 25, Mon-Wed 8 runs to Apr 28, Tue-Sun 8 pm. $25. Alumnae pm. $15, stu $10. Breakout Studios, 1541 Theatre, 70 Berkeley, Studio. 647-401-9727, Bayview. snobbishtheatre.com. panfishproductions.ca.

Muse oF Fire (Talisker Players/Groundling Theatre Co). Actors read and musicians play in a celebration of the words of Shakespeare, plus daNciNG QueeN by Sky Gilbert (The Cabaret the premiere of Groundling Theatre’s The Company). This fusion of theatre and dance Breath Of Kings. Apr 17-18 at 8 pm. $30, srs looks at gay romance in an intergenerational $20, stu $10. Trinity St Paul’s Church, 427 love triangle. Previews Apr 18. Opens Apr 19 Bloor W. 416-978-8849, taliskerplayers.ca. and runs to Apr 29, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $25-$30, stu $20-$24, preview $20, Sun oil aNd WaTer by Robert Chafe (Artistic pwyc ($18-$20 adv). Buddies in Bad Times, 12 Fraud of Newfoundland/Performance Alexander. 416-975-8555, ticketweb.ca.

Spring Festival). This play tells the story of Lanier Phillips, the only black survivor of a THe eXQuisiTe Hour by Stewart Lemoine (The 1942 shipwreck off the coast of NewfoundTheatre Department). A content bachelor land. Opens Apr 18 and runs to May 6, Tue-Sat finds his life altered when a stranger enters 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $30-$40. Factory Theatre, his backyard and asks a question. Previews 125 Bathurst, Mainspace. 416-504-9971, facApr 18. Opens Apr 19 and runs to Apr 29, Tuetorytheatre.ca.

Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $17, Sun pwyc at the door. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Prelude To a Kiss by Craig Lucas (Amicus ProStudio. 416-504-9971, factorytheatre.ca. ductions). A new husband fights to free his young wife’s spirit after she exchanges souls l’eMMerdeur by Francis Veber (Théâtre franwith an old man in this romantic comedy. çais de Toronto/Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui). A Opens Apr 12 and runs to Apr 21, Thu-Sat 8 suicidal oddball jeopardizes a hit man’s task in pm, mats Sat-Sun 2 pm. $18-$20. Fairview Lithis comedy. Previews Apr 18-19. Opens Apr brary, 35 Fairview Mall. 416-860-6176.

20 and runs to May 5, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat Apr 28 and May 5 at 3:30 pm. $33-$100, srs $28THe siMiaN sHoWcase (Monkeyman). Short $100. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. plays by Nick Philpott, Matthew Ivan Bennett, 416-534-6604, theatrefrancais.com.

Sarah Bowden and DJ Sylvis deal with themes Hatch Mortified 3 ad:Layout 4/5/12 3:37BramPM of24986 geek fandom and pop culture. OpensNOW Apr 13 42Nd sTreeT by1Michael Stewart, Mark and runs to Apr 21, Fri-Sat 8 pm (and Apr 21 at ble, Harry Warren and Al Dubin (Stratford Fes-

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tival). A director falls for a chorus girl while trying to keep his musical production afloat.

Previews Apr 12-May 28. Opens May 29 and runs in rep to Oct 28. $49-$106, srs $41-$66, stu $19-$29. Festival Theatre, 55 Queen, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca.

THe GaMe oF love aNd cHaNce by Marivaux (Canadian Stage/Centaur Theatre).

A betrothed couple who have never met trade places with their servants to spy on each other in this 18th-century comedy (see story, page 72). Previews from Apr 16, opens Apr 19 and runs to May 12, Mon-Sat 8 pm, mats Wed 1:30 pm, Sat 2 pm. $20-$99. Bluma Appel Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-368-3110, canadianstage.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 to 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, Niagaraon-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com.

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coc’s FiNe WiNe aucTioN (Canadian Opera Company). This fundraiser includes wine tasting and a performance by soprano Ambur Braid. Apr 12 at 6 pm. $100. Design Exchange, 234 Bay. 416-363-8231, coc.ca.

THe KiTe ruNNer by Khaled Hosseini (The American Place Theatre’s Literature to Life).

This solo show based on the novel looks at the lives of two boys in Afghanistan. Apr 12 at 8 pm. $28-$45. Living Arts Centre, 4141 Living Page 1 Arts, Mississauga. livingartscentre.ca.

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dance listings Opening The AdApTATion projecT Dancemakers presents a re-imagining of works from ñ the company’s 38-year repertoire, choreo-

graphed by Michael Trent. Previews Apr 18.

Opens Apr 19 and runs to Apr 29, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 4 pm. $25, stu/srs $20. Dancemakers Centre for Creation, 55 Mill, bldg 58, studio 313. 416-367-1800, dancemakers.org.

BAllroom WiTh A TWisT Living Arts Centre presents dancers from Dancing With The Stars and other shows with choreography by Louis van Amstel. Apr 14 at 2 and 7 pm. $40$80. 4141 Living Arts, Mississauga. 905-3066000, livingartscentre.ca.

BBoyizm – izm DanceWorks and Harbourfront NextSteps present choreographer/dancer Yvon Soglo (Crazy Smooth) exploring the street dance tradition. Apr 1314, Fri-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 1 pm (Evolution Of B-Boying family show). $15-$28, stu/srs $15$18. Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com.

Big Ass spring is FinAlly here Ariel Len presents this funder for Zoey’s Projects with the Parahumans, plus artists, poets and more. Apr 18 at 8 pm. $17. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen

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W, Ballroom. gladstonehotel.com. dreAmdAnce Somewhere There Studio presents guest dancer Dawne Carleton and others. Apr 18 at 8 pm. $8. 227 Sterling, unit 112. coexisdance.wordpress.com. essence YMI Dancing presents new work by Julia Aplin, Kate Franklin, Bethany Litner and Larissa Taurins. Apr 12-15, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20, stu/srs $15, Sun pwyc. Pia Bouman Studio, 6 Noble. 416-533-3706, ymidancing.com.

The evoluTion oF B-Boying The Free Concert Series in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre presents a street dance showcase with dancer/ choreographer Yvon Soglo. Apr 12 at noon.

Free. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. coc.ca. morTiFied HATCH 2012 presents a creation by Jenn Goodwin and Camilla Singh that uses sound and movement to explore aggression, enthusiasm, kindness, rage, pride and regret.

Apr 14 at 8 pm. $15, stu/srs $12. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W, Studio Theatre.

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A liTTle operA For BABies (The Linden Fund)

Jesse Clark, Cheryl Campbell and others perform opera, art songs and musical theatre to raise funds for premature babies. Apr 14 at 2:30 pm. $15, stu/srs $10. Bloor Street United Church, 300 Bloor W. musicforpreemies.ca.

one nighT only – An evening oF song And lAughTer (Harold Green ñ Jewish Theatre). This funder for HGJT fea-

tures music and comedy by Micah Barnes, Thom Allison, the National Theatre of the World, hosts Sheila McCarthy and Linda Kash and many others. Apr 16 at 8 pm. $50$180. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front E. 416366-7723, hgjewishtheatre.com. open clAss WiTh philippe gAulier (Fixt Point). This masterclass performance by the Paris performer/clown instructor is open to the public. Apr 13 at 2 pm. $20. Second City, 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com/ performances/detail/1116.

All-male dance crew steps into Quicksand, a new work by Hari Krishnan. and others. Apr 14, doors 7:30 pm. Pwyc. The White House Studio Project, 277.5 Augusta. theotherwhitehouse.ca.

The process reveAled: rivers Toronto Dance Theatre presents discussion and excerpts from the upcoming work by Christopher House set to the music of Ann Southam. Apr 16 at 7 pm. Free. Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester. tdt.org.

QuicksAnd/nine Harbourfront NextSteps and inDANCE present works by Hari Krishnan that mix classical Indian dance with modern influences and explore culture and human encounters. Apr 12-14, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $30-$35, srs $25-$28, stu $15. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. 416973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com.

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ANDSatMOR Runs to Apr 14, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat 2 pm.E $25. Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester. momentumdancetoronto.com.

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erations in a suburban Chicago neighbourhood (see review, page 75). 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. nnnn (JK) The duck vAriATions by David Mamet (Glance Productions). Two friends watch ducks in a park and obliquely talk about aging and death. Runs to Apr 14, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $18, stu/ srs $15. Red Sandcastle Theatre, 922 Queen E. 416-845-9411, glanceproductions.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. heArT sTrings, The musicAl (Reynold Nathaniel). In 1908, an Italian apprentice goes to

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Ireland to deliver an anniversary gift from Germany. Runs to Apr 28, Fri-Sat 7 pm. $20-$25.

Annex Live, 296 Brunswick. 416-929-3999.

I LOVE YOU BECAUSE by Joshua Salzman and Ryan Cunningham (Angelwalk Theatre). A bunch of cynical 20-something New Yorkers look for love in this charming staging of an off-Broadway musical, given a zippy production by director/choreographer Darcy Evans. The superb cast is headed by Jeff Madden, Elena Juatco and Gabi Epstein, who nearly steals the show as a control freak actuary.

Runs to Apr 15, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $35$45. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge.

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. 416504-9971, factorytheatre.ca. NN (JK) ORPHEUS DESCENDING/HAPPY END by Tennessee Williams/Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht (George Brown Theatre School). Williams’s Southern retelling of the Orpheus myth and the Weill/Brecht surrealistic musical comedy are presented in repertory. 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. 416-866-8666, youngcentre.ca.

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. $30-$40. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. 416-642-8973, vitaltheatre.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. 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. 416-5047529, artsboxoffice.ca.

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(ESA Drama). Students perform the classic tragedy with influences from modern and traditional Japanese culture. Runs to Apr 13, ThuFri 7:30 pm. $21, stu $13. Etobicoke School of the Arts, 675 Royal York. esainfo.ca.

SIA by Matthew MacKenzie (Cahoots Theatre Co). This gripping remount of MacKenzie’s 2010 Fringe hit explores the complex relationship between present-day violence in Africa and Western interventions, through the story of a former child soldier who kidnaps a young, idealistic Canadian aid worker. The characters’ contrasting world views occasionally make their back-andforth dialogue seem formulaic. But the otherwise realistic arguments blur any sense of right and wrong and lead to a chilling conclusion. Runs to Apr 15, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $30, stu/srs $25, mats pwyc-$18.75. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Studio. 416-504-9971, cahoots.ca. NNNN (Jordan Bimm) 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. Runs to May 14: Apr 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, coc.ca.

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, TueSat 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 (see review, page 72). Runs to May 6, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats SatSun 2:30 pm. $24-$51. 30 Bridgman. 416531-1827, tarragontheatre.com. NNN (GS)

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Out of Town HARVEY by Mary Chase (Drayton Entertainment). A man with an imaginary friend vexes his society-conscious sister. Runs to Apr 29, Wed-Sun (see website for times). $40, stu $20.

St Jacobs Country Playhouse, 40 Benjamin E, Waterloo. draytonentertainment.com.

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Thursday, April 12 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Mike Paterson,

cops who brag about internet surveillance, but overall there’s lots of harmless physical comedy – including one about a woman trying to join and orgy and a man (the fearless Jason DeRosse) getting ejected from a kinky sex date. Don’t order any whipped cream.

Wed-Sat 8 pm, plus Fri and Sat 10:30 pm, Sun 7 pm. $24-$29, stu $15. 51 Mercer. 416-3430011, secondcity.com. NNNN (GS) RON WHITE: MORAL COMPASS TOUR Massey Hall presents the comic/writer/actor in a live show. 7 pm. $39.50-$69.50. 178 Victoria. 416872-4255, masseyhall.com.

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.

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Adam Growe and host Slim Bloodworth. To Apr 15, Thu at 8:30 pm, Fri at 9 pm, Sat-Sun at 8 pm (plus Sat 10:45 pm). $10-$15. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

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Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival presents Peter ’n Chris And The Mystery Of The Hungry Heart Hotel. 8 pm. Full-length show by Falcon Powder. 9 pm. $15/show. Lower Ossington

Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival presents performances by SketchFest 2011 awardwinning troupes Falcon Powder, Peter ’n Chris and Vest of Friends. 10:30 pm. $15. Second City, 51 Mercer. torontosketchfest.com.

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BOB NEWHART Roy Thomson Hall presents the TV/film star in a stand-up show (see story, page 78). 8 pm. $59.50-$79.50. 60 Simcoe. 416-872-4255, masseyhall.com.

BRIAN REGAN Live Nation presents the Miami comedian in an all-ages show. 7:30 pm. $43.50. Queen Elizabeth Theatre, 190 Princes’ Blvd. ticketmaster.ca.

COMEDY ON THE DANFORTH Timothy’s World News Café presents improv with Common Glitterati. 9 pm. Pwyc. 320 Danforth. 416461-2668, comedyonthedanforth.com.

DARRIN ROSE: CHASING MANHOOD The Art of Skullduggery presents Rose in his new comedy tour. 8 pm. $27. Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex. 416-978-8849, uofttix.ca.

DRUG DEALER OR PUBLIC SPEAKER The Flying Beaver Pubaret presents Bernard Robichaud (aka Cyrus of The Trailer Park Boys) in a solo show. To Apr 14, Fri-Sat 7 pm. $20$25. 488 Parliament. 647-347-6567, brownpapertickets.com/event/236261.

LIVE WRONG AND PROSPER See Thu 12.

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.

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presents Chris Robinson and Alex Pavone. 9 pm. $5. The Underground Comedy Club, 670 Queen E. 647-436-7895.

COMEDY THURSDAYS The Starving Artist presents a weekly showcase. 9 pm. Free. 584 Lansdowne. 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.

LIVE WRONG AND PROSPER Second City presents its latest revue of sketch and improv, written and performed by a fine sextet and directed with note-perfect precision

by Chris Earle. Standout sketches take on the economic crisis in Europe, political attack ads (and how they affect a family vacation), bad reality TV and social media. There’s a sinister edge to one improvised bit about a pair of

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TEXAS COMEDY MASSACRE 2 Fox & Fiddle

Wellesley presents stand-up w/ Bryan Hatt, Craig Fay, Tod Van Allen, K Trevor Wilson, host Xerxes Cortez and others. 8:30 pm. Pwyc. 27 Wellesley E. texascomedymassacre2.com.

WOMEN FULLY UNCENSORED Shelley Marshall presents stand-up w/ Sandra Battaglini, Candice Gregoris, Shelley Kidwell, Lianne Mauladin, Brenda Lennie and more. 9 pm. $15. The Underground Comedy Club, 670 Queen E. 416-732-7761.

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Saturday, April 14 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 12.

DRUG DEALER OR PUBLIC SPEAKER See Fri 13.

EL JAGUAR Comedy Bar presents Derek Flores as a masked Mexican luchador. 9:30 pm. $8.

945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, comedybar.ca.

LIVE WRONG AND PROSPER See Thu 12.

ADAPTATION PROJECT Dancemakers Centre for Creation in the Distillery

April 19 – 29, 2012

Preview April 18

For tickets: 416-367-1800 / dancemakers.org

Photo: David Hou Dancers: Amanda Acorn, Benjamin Kamino and Robert Abubo Design: Jonathan Kitchen, jakcreative.com

THE MOST RACES SHOW ON EARTH!

Markham Theatre for the Performing ñ Arts presents multicultural comedy w/ Neil

Bansil, John Ki, Mark DeBonis, Ali Hassan, Ben Mathai, Keith Pedro and Trixx. 7:30 pm. $25. 171 Town Centre Blvd, Markham. 905305-7469, mrsoe.com.

SMASH HIT Opening Night Theatre presents a weekly improvised musical. 7:30 pm. Pwyc.

Augusta House, 152 Augusta. openingnighttheatre.com.

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.

WEST END GIRLS: VIRGIN SUICIDES EDITION presents all-girl stand-up w/ Sarah Donaldson, host Daniela Saioni and first-timers. 8:30 pm. $5. Rhino, 1249 Queen W. westendgirls.ca.

Sunday, April 15 ABSOLUTE COMEDY Second City presents the

Stand-Up 101 Graduation Show, w/ new comics from the Second City program. 1 & 3:30 pm. $5. Evening show, see Thu 12. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

COMEDY AT 51 Kyra Williams presents a latenight comedy cabaret w/ Marco Timpano, Camille Cote, Brian Ward, Danny Polishchuk, Kevin Dowse, Morgann Ewan, Steven Shehori and Jim Kim. 10 pm. Pwyc. Second City, 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011.

HAPPY HOUR @ EIN-STEIN presents Joel West, Deborah Bojman, Marty the Catman Simsovic, Samuel Leak, host Julia Bruce and others. 8 pm. Free. Ein-Stein, 229 College. ein-stein.ca.

JUST FOR LAUGHS ROADSHOW Living Arts Centre presents Pete Zedlacher, Bret Ernst, Godfrey and Paula Bel. 7 pm. $35-$70.

4141 Living Arts, Mississauga. 905-306-6000.

LIVE WRONG AND PROSPER See Thu 12.

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Collective presents host Ely Henry and improv w/ Special Features, Sing Sing and Smash Hit: The Musical. 8 pm. $5. Unit 102 Theatre, 376 Dufferin. reveltheatre.com.

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.

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Monday, April 16 ALTDOT COMEDY LOUNGE Rivoli presents Rob Pue, Matt O’Brien, Craig Fay, Heidi ñ Brander, Jeff Leeson, Chuck Byrn, MC Mark

Forward and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com.

BEST. MONDAY. EVER. Second City presents a weekly show featuring sketch, songs and improvisation. 8 pm. $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.

BOYD BANKS BIRTHDAY SHOW Comedy Bar presents Banks’s annual show featuring the ‘drunken birthday set’ with Jo-Anna Downey, Steve Shuster, Pat Thornton, Dave Martin, MC Ron Sparks and others. 10 pm.

Pwyc. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

CHEAP LAUGHS MONDAY PJ O’Briens Irish Pub presents a show w/ Russell Roy and guests. 9 pm. Free. 39 Colborne. 416-815-7562.

LAUGHABLE AT UNLOVABLE presents Arthur Simeon, Martha O’Neill, John Hastings, Jamie O’Connor, Nick Carter, Avery Edison, Steph Tolev and host Nick Flanagan. 9 pm. Pwyc.

Unlovable, 1415-B Dundas W. 416-532-6669.

THE REGULARS AT THE JOKEBOX Impulsive Entertainment presents the sketch troupe w/ Sammy D’Onofrio, Lance Byrd, Chris Cornish, Two Weird Ladies, Xave Ruth and host Mike Rita. 8 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. impulsiveent.com.

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Tuesday, April 17 AQUILA SLAMMERS Aquila presents Rocket Hotdog, Jeffrey Danson, Camille Cote, Puns of Brixton and Paul Thompson. 8:30 pm. Pwyc.

347 Keele, Upstairs. 647-341-8487.

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Buddies in Bad Times Theatre presents new faces at the queer comedy show, w/ sketch duo Cheap Smokes, Steph Tolev, Ann Pornel, Deborah Robinson, host Andrew Johnston and others. 8:30 pm. $10. 12 Alexander. femaledogsalad@gmail.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.

416-343-0011, secondcity.com.

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Bob Newhart probably won’t be flying JetBlue to his Toronto gig.

win an Oscar. And now the 82-yearold Bob Newhart is bringing his stand-up act to town.

So is 80 the new 50?

“Well, maybe four is the new two,” deadpans Newhart, with the same understated charm that’s endeared him to comedy and TV fans for more than half a century.

“I don’t think too much about age,” he says from his California home.

“Maybe if you’re hurting, aching and arthritic, then you think about it a lot. But I don’t.”

He’s too busy, he says, putting in full days of work and accomplishing nothing.

“I’m a master at it,” he says. “I get going from 10 am and by the end of the day have absolutely nothing to show for it. It’s an art form. It takes a lot of work.”

Newhart is joking, of course. Besides having two classic TV sitcoms on his resumé – The Bob Newhart Show and Newhart – the Chicago native still does a couple of dozen dates a year. And he’s created several routines that comedy lovers know by heart, like his Abe Lincoln getting an

image makeover joke.

“Look at focus groups and all the tools that are available for politicians,” he says about that classic bit.

“That was written and performed 50 years ago, and it’s probably more true today than it was even then.”

As for new material, he’ll be drawing as usual on observational bits, including memories of growing up Catholic in Chicago. But he may be dusting off another classic routine – the one about the air traffic controller – because of the recent news story about a JetBlue pilot meltdown.

“We used to just have to worry about lost luggage when travelling, but now airline captains are going berserk,” he says. “Thank god there’s a locked door on the plane. I thought it was to keep us out, but actually it’s to keep them in.”

If a reality TV show were to follow Newhart around, it’d show him on the road, playing with his grandkids and getting together every Tuesday with his old comedy pals Don Rickles, Tim Conway and Mike Connors, from the TV show Mannix. (Oh, to be a fly on that wall.)

And what’s the secret to surviving in such a fickle industry?

“A certain way of looking at life,” he says, as if it’s just occurred to him.

“The only way to survive is to have a sense of humour.”

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AUTISM SPEAKS COMEDY & MUSIC BENEFIT

Hugh’s Room presents a fundraiser w/ Ron James, Illustrated Men, Colin Mochrie, Deb MacGrath and others. 7:30 pm. $25-$30. 2261 Dundas W. 416-531-6604, hughsroom.com.

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Sawyer and DJ Demers present weekly standup. 9 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416551-6540, comedybar.ca.

COMEDY NIGHT Crawford presents Ian Gordon and Jordan Stevens. 9 pm. 718 College. 416530-1633, crawfordbar.com.

LAUGH THROUGH THIS! Black Swan presents all-female comedy w/ hosts Danz Altvater and Moniquea Marion. 8 pm. Pwyc. 154 Danforth. 416-903-5388.

LIvE WRONG AND PROSPER See Thu 12.

SPIRITS COMEDY NIGHT presents Chris Roberts, Julie Kim, Andre Arruda, Nick Flanagan, Nick Carter, Joel West, Al Val, Becky Bay, Cal Post 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.

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SKETCHCOMEDYLOUNGE Rivoli presents The Twitter Gong Show in which the audience tweets to determine who moves on or gets gonged. 9 pm. Pwyc. 332 Queen W. sketchcomedylounge.com.

STANDING ON THE DANFORTH Eton House presents Lisa’s Birthday Show Pt. 2, w/ Darren Frost, Debra DiGiovanni, Candice Gregoris, Dom Pare, Ted Morris, Becky Bays, host Jo-Anna Downey and others. 9 pm. Free.

710 Danforth. 416-466-6161.

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

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After a string of largely autobiographical films, Winnipeg auteur Guy Maddin returns with his most entertaining and accessible film to date. A playful take on Homer’s Odyssey, Keyhole follows mobster Ulysses Pick (Jason Patric) on a quest through the now haunted house he once owned to return to the bed of his wife (Isabella Rossellini).

Much like the epic poem, the film can be read in myriad ways, but it’s this complexity that gives it its charm. Maddin wants the audience to have fun puzzling things out. At the same time, his reverential love for 1950s hardboiled noirs and the cheesy frights of William Castle productions is on display. It’s all very far from conventional, and Maddin’s bizarre visual style remains intact, but genre fans and the more literary-minded will find plenty to like.

Even toward the end, when the director lets his imagination run a bit too wild in some overly elaborate set pieces, his leading man always picks up the slack. In a role the perpetually boyish actor seems born to play, Patric commands every scene he’s in and adds an extra level of wittiness to ANDREW PARKER Maddin’s jocular and delightful script.

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Goddard, written by Joss Whedon and Goddard, with Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Bradley Whitford and Richard Jenkins. An Alliance Films release. 95 minutes. Opens Friday (April 13). For venues and times, see Movies, page 85.

drew goddard enjoys playing with mythology. He made his name writing key episodes of Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel for Joss Whedon, and Alias and Lost for J.J. Abrams, folding crucial information about the worlds of those shows into convincing emotional beats.

The friendships he forged led to feature work: Abrams produced his first feature script, the ingenious found-footage monster movie Cloverfield, and Whedon co-wrote and produced his new film, the delirious genre mashup The Cabin In The Woods, about which I will say nothing further so as not to spoil the fun. But it’s definitely something special, and Goddard knows how lucky he is to have made it the way he and Whedon wanted.

“I feel like this is a movie that would have been destroyed by the studio system,” says the lanky auteur, stretching back on the couch in a suite at the Soho Metropolitan. “We’d never have gotten it through. It gave us such freedom, because we knew it didn’t matter. ‘Let’s just write the best version we can write. Let’s just do the thing that’s going to entertain us the most, and then go from there.’ And I think the movie has that spirit of ‘Oh, why not? Let’s go for it!’”

He’s absolutely right. The Cabin In The Woods goes for broke in the best possible way, celebrating and subverting a certain set of horror tropes in a manner sure to delight genre fans who grew up on said tropes – myself included. And

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Co-writer and producer Joss Whedon (left) was on hand to make sure Drew Goddard didn’t get lost in the woods.

even then, Goddard acknowledges, it burrows pretty deep.

“The only person who gets everything in this movie is me,” he laughs. “And maybe Joss. But I put some stuff in there I don’t think even he gets. If you’ve never seen a horror movie in your life, I think you’re still gonna have fun with this movie. And that was my goal.”

The trick, he says, was making sure that everything in the script was rooted in something believable.

“When in doubt, find the emotional core,” he says. “Those were the lessons that Joss drummed into me as a young writer on Buffy, [and] I’ve carried that with me ever since. If you can make these characters feel real, and relate to them and empathize with them, the audience will go with you to the most ridiculous places. They will. But if it’s not real, if you don’t buy what they’re doing or thinking, that’s when viewers will turn on you and start worrying about the specifics.”

There is one thing he’d like to tell people about The Cabin In The Woods: don’t expect a traumatic experience like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. As you’ll see in the first two minutes, it’s more playful than that.

“I was definitely going for thrilling more than nightmares,” he says. “I love the horrific horror films, but in this case I really wanted to make a fun horror film, one where you’re laughing as much as you’re screaming. That was the goal here.”

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REVIEW THE CABIN IN THE WOODS (Drew Goddard) Rating: NNNN The Cabin In The Woods should be viewed with as little advance knowledge as possible. Frankly, you shouldn’t even be reading this review.

But since you are, let’s just say that director Drew Goddard and producer/co-writer/nerd godhead Joss Whedon have constructed a delightful puzzle box of a picture rooted in the cheesy horror movies they watched back in the 1980s.

It’s gamely played out by attractive youngsters Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Jesse Williams and Dollhouse’s Fran Kranz. (It’s also one of the driest workplace comedies ever made, thanks to the performances of Bradley Whitford and Richard Jenkins.)

The script is inspired, the direction is sprightly, and the third act does not falter. And everything you need to know is in the title.

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Simply moving A SIMPLE LIFE (Ann Hui). 118 minutes. Subtitled. Opens Friday (April 13). For venues and times, see Movies, page 85. Rating: NNN Director Ann Hui is known for her delicate observational dramas, and A Simple Life is one of her most poignant yet.

Hong Kong superstar Andy Lau plays Roger, a low-level film producer who’s been cared for by Ah Tao (Deanie Ip) his entire life. Tao was his family’s servant for 60 years before suddenly suffering a stroke, forcing Roger to put her in a nursing home and care for her through her final days. It’s material ripe for melodrama, yet with a basis in a real life and filtered through Hui’s unique sensibility, the story never feels false.

The director’s humanism and gentle humour are crucial. Her nursing home is no abusive 60 Minutes exposé, but a sweet place filled with kind souls and hilarious eccentrics (particularly the randy Kin, who borrows money from Tao for escorts). Ip is heartbreaking as the dying caregiver, while Lau drops his star baggage for pained realism.

Shot in a loose documentary style without much emphasis on narrative, the film meanders a bit before coming together for a tearful climax that’s earned rather than forced.

A Simple Life is that rare movie about the elderly that never panders, priming tear ducts PHIL BROWN without prodding.

Andy Lau and Deanie Ip bring lots of heart to A Simple Life.

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Hard Core Logo 2 directed by Bruce McDonald, written by McDonald and Dave Griffith, with McDonald, Care Failure, Julian Richings and Adrien Dorval. An Alliance release. 96 minutes, Opens Friday (April 13). For venues and times, see Movies, page 85.

no one is more tickled by the idea of a Hard Core Logo sequel than director Bruce McDonald.

Given that he killed off Joe Dick, the protagonist of his road documen­ tary about an aging West Coast Cana­ dian punk band, in the first film, a follow­up was always unlikely.

“We had zero thoughts of a sequel – no one in Canada or in independent film has that mindset,” said the gre­ garious director during the Toronto Film Festival.

It was actually actor Hugh Dillon (Logo 1’s Joe Dick) who spearheaded the project a decade later.

“He wasn’t working at the time, then suddenly became the most in­ demand actor in the country,” says McDonald. “But the idea stuck with me, so it was a situation where you start with one thing and end up with something you never expected.”

The strange meta­comedy stars the director as himself, making a new documentary about Die Manne­ quin’s Care Failure, who claims to have been possessed by Joe Dick.

But that’s only the subject on the surface; the film is more a comedic study of a megalomaniacal director abusing his subjects to make a film at any cost.

“I’ve always enjoyed the tension in documentaries, which present them­ selves as portraits of reality when they are actually highly constructed fictions.”

In fact, the sequel has less in com­ mon with the original than with Mc­ Donald’s experimental documentary

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review HARD CORE LOGO 2 (Bruce McDonald) Rating: NNN Hard Core Logo 2 is more a companion piece than a sequel, yet it succeeds on its own odd, self-conscious terms.

Director Bruce McDonald stars as a fictionalized version of himself who returns to documentary filmmaking when Care Failure (also playing herself) claims to be possessed by Joe Dick, giving the director a chance to confront the guilt associated with possibly causing the punk’s death.

Filled with intriguing ideas and self-effacing humour, this Charlie Kaufmanesque meta-comedy shoves aside the original film in favour of an examination of documentary ethics. (Logo 1 fans will be happy to see the amusing return of side character Bucky Haight.)

McDonald probably slides too far down his metaphysical rabbit hole in the closing scenes, but this is still one of his best films in PB recent years.

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Claire’s Hat, about his painful experi­ ence making 2001’s Picture Claire.

“That’s another companion piece, and not what we might call a com­ pany­sanctioned movie,” says Mc­ Donald. “It can only be shown under certain circumstances, but it was an­ other story about a movie that went horribly wrong. People always re­ sponded really well to it, and it served as a model here.”

Hardcore McDonald fans might be surprised to learn they’ve probably already seen the Hard Core Logo 3 that was announced alongside part 2.

“That was actually Trigger,” ex­ plains the director. “It was initially written for Hugh [Dillon] and Callum [Keith Rennie], but we couldn’t do it because of their schedules. So we had to decide whether to wait three years or rewrite it for Molly [Parker] And Tracy [Wright]. We had a great script that we really liked, so we just changed the name of the band and changed some of the dialogue so it wasn’t about Joe Dick and Billy Talent any more; it was about the girls.”

This might not even be the end of the franchise.

“Believe it or not, there’s a fourth one that Paul Spence, one of the Fubar guys, has written about [Joe Dick and Billy Talent’s] daughters,” says the direc­ tor. “It’s really f u n n y , smart and filthy.

We’ve both been busy, but we’re planning to get together soon. I love the idea of having this little family of music movies that spin out of the Hard­ core wheelhouse. Why not?”

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the images fest is marking its 25th edi­ tion in high style. In addition to the usual aggregation of experimental film and video from around the world – mostly screening at the AGO’s Jackman Hall – Images looks backwards in a few interesting ways.

Four retrospective programs screen shorts that played at the first Images in 1988, each one selected and introduced by a festi­ val founder or programmer. Former NOW film critic and current TIFF artistic director Cameron Bailey presents Richard Kerr’s American travelogue Last Days Of Contrition in the first program, screening Friday (April 13) at 8 pm.

And the fest literally looks backward with Toronto: Cinema City, an exhibition at the Images Hub at 401 Richmond’s Urbanspace Gallery. Curated by Eric Veillette, it cele­ brates the history of Hogtown’s movie pal­ aces through archival photographs and memorabilia. (My grandfather ran the Or­ pheum at Bathurst and Queen, so this one had me at hello.) The exhibit will be open for the run of the festival; Veillette hosts a panel discussion, Defining Cinema Space, Friday (April 13), 3 pm, in the gallery.

We’re not totally stuck in the past, mind you. Images 25 has plenty of contemporary programming.

East Hastings Pharmacy, part of the shorts program titled A Place In The World (Monday, 7 pm), is a 45­minute documen­ tary about a Vancouver drugstore where

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people on a methadone program come to be witnessed taking their daily dose, as legally mandated. Director Antoine Bourges paints a stark portrait of these alternately desper­ ate and hopeful “clients” as they interact with sympathetic, unflappable pharmacist Shauna Hansen.

Ben Rivers’s Two Years At Sea (Sunday, 9 pm) is a mesmerizing black­and­white wide­ screen feature that follows a bearded man through his rural life. Who is he, and what’s he doing? If you’ve seen Rivers’s 2006 short This Is My Land, you’ll have an advantage, but it’s not necessary. Just sink into the new work and let it carry you along.

Simone Rapisarda Casanova’s The Strawberry Tree (April 20, 7 pm) is a documentary about the small Cuban village of Juan An­ tonio – which was destroyed by a hurricane less than a month after Casanova finished shooting. We’re told this up front, and as a result, the footage of unremarkable village life is haunted by our knowledge of impend­ ing doom. It’s a sort of accidental gravitas, and it’s incredibly moving.

Wrapping things up with a rock vibe worked so well last year that Images is doing it again. Yo La Tengo perform their original soundtrack to the short films of Jean Painlevé, The Sounds Of Science, live at the To­ ronto Underground Cinema at 8 pm on April 21.

Yes, it’s the same program that’s been available on the Criterion Collection Science Is Fiction DVD for several years, but the ex­ perience will be very different with a big screen and a live band.

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Siberian sled dogs will warm your heart.

HaPPY PeoPLe: a Year IN tHe taIga (Dmitry Vasyukov, Werner Herzog). 94 minutes. Opens Friday (April 13). For venues and times, see Movies, page 85. Rating: NNN Call it Werner Herzog’s answer to Nanook Of The North. In Happy People: A Year In The Taiga, the guy with a fixation on grizzly men makes co-director Dmitry Vasyukov’s fourhour television documentary into a 90-minute sojourn in the Siberian wilderness.

Fur trappers like 60-year-old Gennady spend a great deal of time digging through the kind of snow that would make us call in the army in order to make skis, canoes and complex animal traps. Vasyukov captures the processes in painstaking detail, which may require patience to watch, but it’s clearly nothing compared to what the subjects endure.

Living off the land, the trappers remain iso-

lated in remote locations that can only be reached by helicopter (or by boat for about two months of the year). Gennady’s only relationships are with his dogs, and hearing him describe them warms your heart despite the miserable cold on screen.

Herzog’s admiration for the men and their adaptation to their harsh surroundings comes through in his usual philosophical narration.

However, instead of subtitles, the film employs laughable English-language voice-overs that verge on condescending – more like Sesame Street than National Geographic. radHeYaN sImoNPILLaI

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St. Leger). 95 minutes. Opens Friday (April 13). For venues and times, see Movies, page 85. Rating: NNNN

So it’s 2079, and there’s this orbital prison station, and some idiot let a villain get hold of a gun and now the place is crawling with 500 defrosted convicts who’ve taken the president’s daughter (Maggie Grace) hostage.

What can the good guys do but recruit a convict of their own and send him in on a rescue mission?

Yup, Lockout is basically John Carpenter’s Escape From New York in space, with Guy Pearce in the Snake Plissken role of the flippant anti-hero (here, an ex-CIA agent known only as Snow). It’s also the latest from Luc Besson’s production line, and just like its cousins The Transporter and Taken, it’s an entirely satisfying action thriller with sharply sketched characters and

Tom Hiddleston and Rachel Weisz share a Deep connection.

Guy Pearce takes on 500 convicts in Lockout.

propulsive energy.

This particular cat-and-mouse game is given additional zing by a nicely selfaware script co-written by Besson and directors James Mather and Stephen St. Leger – and a terrific leading performance by Pearce, who gives his super-competent wiseass an off-thecuff looseness that sounds like he’s

making up his dialogue as he goes.

Not only does that suit the improvisational nature of Snow’s mission, but his barely masked impatience with everything and everyone around him makes him distinctly different from Snake – and it gives him the wiggle room to warm up once he meets NORMAN WILNER Grace’s character.

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Deep insights THE DEEP BLUE SEA (Terence

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Davies). 98 minutes. Opens Friday (April 13). For venues and times, see Movies, page 85. Rating: NNNN

The opening text of Terence Davies’s The Deep Blue Sea tells us we’re in “London, Around 1950,” but where else would we be? Davies lives to recreate that postwar era, with its pub singalongs and stiff-upper-lip endurance as the British people rebuild both literally and psychically after the Blitz.

Adapted from Terence Rattigan’s play, The Deep Blue Sea spans two days in the life of Hester Collyer (Rachel Weisz), who’s abandoned her comfortable marriage to a stuffy judge (Simon Russell Beale) for a younger, more sexually desirable man (Tom Hiddleston). It’s just that living with that decision is much, much harder than she expected.

All three actors are terrific. Weisz, who’s in virtually every shot, is mesmerizing. And if you only know Hiddleston as the bad guy from Thor, this will give you a sense of his range. Davies fixes his actors in period detail so exacting that even the dust on the chintz curtains seems vintage.

It’s as if Douglas Sirk had been entrusted with Brief Encounter instead of David Lean, and taken the material in rather a more expressive direction. The result is a deliberate, absorbing melodrama in the best sense of the word.

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contract to a cloak-and-dagger biotech company that wants him to capture the last of the presumed-extinct Tasmanian tigers (a creature that did actually exist).

He stirs up a ruckus with typically brutish local loggers who don’t take kindly to foreigners. Meanwhile, he befriends two engineered-to-be-adorable children who warm his cold demeanour with scenes that (yes, I have to admit) are cute.

Director Daniel Nettheim shows a patient hand in developing Martin’s relationship with nature, Dafoe logging plenty of hours in the fog-shrouded Tasmanian woods.

But the film falls prey to clichés and predictability, since it follows the plot points laid out by so many westerns and fails to cover its tracks along the way.

tHe HUnter (Daniel Nettheim). 100 minutes. Opens Friday (April 13). For venues and times, see Movies, page 85.

Rating: nn You have to give Willem Dafoe credit.

The actor can pretty much phone in a precise performance while using his hypnotic bone structure to do the talking. Unfortunately, The Hunter, about a soldier of fortune stalking an extinct beast, isn’t as captivating as the crevices on that face.

Adapted from Julia Leigh’s novel, the eco-friendly quasiwestern is constantly on the verge of getting interesting but never goes in for the kill.

Dafoe’s Martin is a stranger in the Australian wilderness, under

to pose in Japan – where they like them young and short and where their recruiters say they’re guaranteed work.

Not so fast. When recruiter Ashley Arbaugh chooses 13-year-old Nadya and sends her thousands of miles from home, the young girl gets a photo portfolio, a few auditions, lots of judgment from art directors and rapidly accumulating debts.

I wish we’d seen more of Ashley’s intriguing ambivalence; as a former model, she knows the pitfalls of the industry, yet tells bald-faced lies to the young girls begging for attention. And the modelling agency running this strange operation is never confronted by the filmmakers.

But the opening meat market sequence is spectacular, and the cautionary tale is important, especially for aspiring teens whose fantasies leave no room for the reality of exploitation.

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sequel since Electric Boogaloo. This UK answer to the Step Up franchise pleases, but probably not in the way The Three Stooges directors Max and Dania planned.

(D: Bobby and Peter Farrelly, 92 min) After an embarrassment at a huge Slapstick comedy often gets a bad rap. competition in England, American danSo maybe the Farrelly brothers, who cer Ash (Falk Hentschel, in one of the made us laugh over semen hair gel in most dead-eyed lead performances in There’s Something About Mary, might history) travels across Europe with his be the ones to retool the vintage charmanager (George Sampson) recruiting acters. a team of dancers to compete in next Opens Friday (April 13). Screened after year’s tournament. Included is a Paripress time – see review April 13 at sian salsa dancer (Sofia Boutella) for nowtoronto.com/movies. whom Ash has the hots.

Despite the ludicrous assertion that the blending of Latin and street dance styles is somehow revolutionary, the dances are well staged and energetic but uninspired. A story that managed to make a lick of logical sense could have offset the lazy vision, but we’re treated instead to loosely connected and laughable epi- Will Sasso (left), Sean Hayes and Chris Diamantopoulos aim for wheel laughs. sodes only there to space out the dance numbers.

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Act of VAlor (Mouse McCoy, Scott

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.

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Albert Nobbs (Rodrigo García) isn’t nearly

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) demonstrates, for all of its gross-out pranks and wacky misunderstandings, that the American Pie franchise really only needed to be two movies long at most. Reuniting the entire cast of the original film (including Chris Klein, who sat out the third one) for a largely pointless vehicle that finds our heroes facing their Carlsberg years with a mixture of exhaustion and confusion, it’s an empty vessel drained of almost all the warmth and goodwill generated by the original breakout hit way back in 1999. That said, it’s nice to see the awkward chemistry between Jason Biggs and Eugene Levy remains intact, Eddie Kaye Thomas continues his remarkable Nicolas Cage impression as the enigmatic Finch, and Seann William Scott does some amazing things with his face as id-monster Stifler. But those are only fleeting moments of pleasure in a very long, very empty movie.

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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

Miller) and digest the revelation that she was cheating on him. It’s sort of a comedy.

Clooney’s textured performance pulls uneasy laughs out of the misery, and the kids are terrific at the complicated emotional turns. 115 min. NNNN (NW) Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20

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.

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(Petra Epperlein, Michael Tucker) weaves moments of psychological insight into a crowd-pleasing underdog narrative, offering fans of mixed mar-

tial arts an energetic look behind the scenes of their beloved sport while still functioning as an incisive documentary. Epperlein and 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, they capture intense footage of the fights, but they’re equallly good at getting close to the fighters and their coaches out of the ring.

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beiNg flyNN (Paul Weitz) turns Nick Flynn’s memoir, Another Bullshit Night In Suck City, into a cookie-cutter drama about a young shelter worker who learns a valid lesson about stability from his homeless father. As the younger Flynn, Paul Dano’s introverted performance crumples in the face of Robert De Niro’s grandstanding turn as his father. 95 min. NN (NW) Carlton Cinema

ñbully

(Lee Hirsch) focuses on five families and their middle-school children in a 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.

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(Drew Goddard) 95 min. See interview and review, page 80.

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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) Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20 A dANgerous method (David Cronen-

berg) 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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(Terence Davies) 98 min. See review, page 83, and Q&A with director Davies at nowtoronto.com/ movies. NNNN (NW) Opens Apr 13 at Grande - Yonge, Varsity.

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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

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everyone else should find something to appreciate. 85 min. NNNN (NW) 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). Writer/director Cedar satirizes academic politics, personal integrity and generational resentment, but his stylistic choices undermine the points and punchlines. 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, Yonge & Dundas 24

GERHARD RICHTER PAINTING (Corinna Belz)

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

THE GIRL IN THE WHITE COAT (Darrell

Wasyk) is what happens when someone watches Breaking The Waves and doesn’t understand it – though writer-director Wasyk cites Gogol’s The Overcoat as a source instead, giving his perpetually suffering heroine Elise (Pascale Montpetit) a ragged white winter coat that 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 well if the filmmaker can construct a credible reality for his characters, but Wasyk whiffs it; 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.

Some subtitles. 112 min. NN (NW) TIFF Bell Lightbox

GIRL MODEL (David Redmon, Ashley Sabin)

78 min. See review, page 84. NNN (SGC) Opens Apr 13 at Bloor Hot Docs Cinema.

THE GUANTANAMO TRAP (Thomas Selim 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) Carlton Cinema HAPPY PEOPLE: A YEAR IN THE TAIGA

(Dmitry Vasyukov, Werner Herzog) 94 min.

See review, page 82. NNN (RS) Opens Apr 13 at Bloor Hot Docs 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

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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,

Who knew Channing Tatum could be funny?

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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) convinced that the universe is sending him signals. 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

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tary 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 mid80s, 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 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 spaceopera mode it feels rushed and overstuffed.

Some subtitles. 132 min. NNN (NW) Canada Square, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Interchange 30, Queensway, 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

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(Guy Maddin) 105 min. See review, page 80. NNNN (Andrew Parker) Opens Apr 13 at TIFF Bell Lightbox.

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

lovers iN a daNgerous tiMe (May

Charters, Mark Hug) is a debut feature by Hug and Charters, who play childhood friends Todd and Allison. When Allison returns to their small town after losing her book illustration job, they try to sort out their ill-defined relationship while he copes with being the older brother of hockey superstar Bobby (Mark Wiebe, far outshining his novice co-stars), eking out a living as a cherry picker. Nice premise, but the script goes slack in all the wrong places. In an attempt to deal with the script’s inadequa-

cies, one sequence by the water has obviously been reshot and dubbed. And the sound is dreadful. The device of seeing Todd and Allison in flashback as kids is effective.

And Allison’s drawings are used as a narrative frame in very smart ways. But these strategies can’t make up for mediocre filmmaking. 100 min. NN (SGC) Yonge & Dundas 24

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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 stiltwalking 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, Cumberland 4, 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 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. 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. Subtitled. 94 min. NNNNN (RS) Kingsway Theatre, Varsity

the Moth diaries (Mary Harron) 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. 82 min. NNN (Phil Brown) Carlton Cinema, Yonge & Dundas 24

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.

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(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) Colossus, 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 cast. The tale of pixie-sized Arrietty and her turning into a frantic battle for survival relationship with a sickly human boy takes against dozens of heavily armed thugs. But our patience for granted, with narrative the constant bone-shattering kung-fu rhythms as flat as the hand-drawn cartoons smackdowns both define and undermine and voice actors who can’t liven up the The Raid, since there’s literally nothing else proceedings. 94 min. NN (RS) to the movie; by the 15th brutal confrontaCarlton Cinema tion, it gets a little monotonous. Unlike, say, Flash Point or Attack The Block, which balA SEPARATION (Asghar Farhadi) is anced their spectacular action sequences one of the strongest films of the year. with well-drawn characters and clockwork A middle-class Tehran couple attempt to pacing, The Raid just lurches from one battle separate, and in their stubbornness and to the next like a blunt instrument. Effective, lack of communication irrevocably affect sure, but not exactly distinthe lives of those around guished. Subtitled. 101 them. It’s a complex, min. NNN (NW) gripping mystery that’s 401 & Morningside, ColiEXPANDED REVIEWS also a human and morseum Mississauga, Colosnowtoronto.com al drama. Winner of the sus, Courtney Park 16, Egbest foreign-language linton Town Centre, Empire film Oscar. Subtitled. 123 Theatres at Empress Walk, Kennedy Commin. NNNNN (GS) mons 20, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, Canada Square, Cumberland 4, Grande SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Regent Theatre SAFE HOUSE (Daniel Espinosa) is an okay Bourne Trilogy knock-off. A novice CIA agent SERVITUDE (Warren P. Sonoda) is a weakly and a captured rogue agent go on the run amusing sitcom-style comedy about wait when a Johannesburg safe house gets raided. staff facing mass firing who go ballistic on Its car chases and punch-ups lack the Bourne the restaurant’s customers. This might have series’ manic invention, but it still delivers solbeen a hoot if the staff had been downtrodid thrills, good acting and a fast-paced if preden, the customers over-privileged slime and dictable spy story. 115 min. NNN (AD) the revenge cunning, but it’s an ordinary eatColossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town ery with generic characters: nice-guy hero, Centre, Grande - Steeles, Kennedy Commons his wacky co-workers, ineffectual manager 20, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24 and the front-office fascist. Customers include a family with bratty kids and a trio of SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN (Lasse snobby frat types. The comedy leans toward Hallström) is a light comedy about a stuffy fart jokes and smartass remarks. The servers’ salmon expert (Ewan McGregor) and a revenge reaches its peak with a live lobster troubled administrator (Emily Blunt) drawn painted red and placed before an unsuspectto one another while working to stock the ing diner. 85 min. N (AD) river of a wealthy Yemeni sheik (Amr Cumberland 4 Waked) with Atlantic salmon. No, seriously.

112 min. NN (NW) SILENT HOUSE (Chris Kentis, Laura Lau) stars Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Kingsway Martha Marcy May Marlene’s amazing ElizaTheatre, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity beth Olsen as a young woman terrorized by someone or something in a boarded-up old THE SALT OF LIFE (Gianni Di Gregorio) stars house. Remaking Gustavo Hernandez’s 2010 its writer/director as Gianni, an early retiree Uruguayan thriller La Casa Muda, directors who walks his dog through his quiet Rome Kentis and Lau (Open Water) doom themneighbourhood, runs errands for his wife selves to repeating the mistakes of that (Elisabetta Piccolomini) and basically acts as movie’s last act, which deflates the initial a servant for his mother (the scratchy-voiced tension and eventually garbles the plot beValeria di Franciscis Bendoni), who lives in yond coherence. 86 min. NN (NW) luxury yet doesn’t want to sell her home to Yonge & Dundas 24 help him out. Lately, Gianni’s begun to feel useless and invisible. Is he going to turn into A SIMPLE LIFE (Ann Hui) 117 min. See one of the old geezers shooting the breeze review, page 80. NNN (Phil Brown) outside the corner store? Or does he still Opens Apr 13 at Kennedy Commons 20, have a shot at romance? This is a very EuroYonge & Dundas 24. pean mid-life crisis movie (nobody blinks at STREETDANCE 2 (Max Giwa, Dania Pasquithe idea of his pondering an affair) with little ni) 85 min. See review, page 84. N (Andrew plot and no real big laughs. It has the Parker) leisurely pace of one of Gianni’s walks, Opens Apr 13 at Coliseum Scarborough, Colobserving life as it goes by. But the details ossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Cenare full of honesty and charm, and Di tre, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, SilverCity Gregorio has a wonderfully droll deadpan Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24. face that he uses to maximum effect.

Subtitled. 90 min. NNN (GS) A THOUSAND WORDS (Brian Robbins) stars Varsity Eddie Murphy as a fast-talking literary agent whose life becomes intertwined with that of THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY (Hiroa mysterious Bodhi tree. Each word he speaks masa Yonebayashi) is a charmless Japanese – or writes – results in a fallen leaf, and preanimated adaptation of British novel The sumably when the branches are completely Borrowers dubbed with an American voice

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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, Rainbow Woodbine, Yonge & Dundas 24

THE THREE STOOGES (Peter Farrelly, Bobby

Farrelly) 92 min. See Also Opening, page 84.

Opens Apr 13 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande Steeles, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24.

ñTINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY

(Tomas Alfredson) is a sleek, expertly acted adaptation of John le Carré’s thriller about a retired British intelligence operative on the hunt for a Soviet mole within MI-6. The remarkable cast includes Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Tom Hardy and the invaluable Benedict Cumberbatch. 127 min.

NNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre, Mt Pleasant

ñTITANIC IN 3D

(James Cameron) is now in 3-D, and it 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 values. 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 where 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? 195 min. 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

ñ21 JUMP STREET

(Phil Lord, Christopher 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 agreecontinued on page 90 œ

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able onscreen camaraderie. They play the outcast and jock, respectively, 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

Perry’s attempt to be taken seriously, a schmaltzy, joyless melodrama that lacks edge and loses its grip with his audience.

The director plays a bland, wealthy CEO whose charitable eye falls on Thandie Newton’s homeless janitor. 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

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The VaNishiNG sPriNG liGhT (Yu Xun) introduces us to the inhabitants of a decaying block of Dujiangyan City, in the Sichuan province of China, and to a woman named Grandma Jiang, who lives on West Street and owns a mah-jongg parlour there.

Grandma Jiang is in poor health, having fallen and then 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, directcinema approach brings to mind the landmark studies of Frederick Wiseman and Allan King. Yu isn’t quite working at their level – he doesn’t have Wiseman or King’s ruthless editorial sensibility or storytelling economy, and the doc’s two-hour length occasionally strained my patience. But there’s enough human drama to be mined here to justify a little shifting in your seat.

Subtitled. 116 min. NNN (NW) 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, 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

ñwar horse

(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

ñwe Need To Talk abouT keViN

(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

wraTh of The TiTaNs (Jonathan Liebesman) 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 half-brother 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 comicrelief 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 post-conversion 3-D. Why they keep doing that, only the gods know.

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ThE ArTIsT (PG) thu 4:30, 7:10 Fri 4:00, 6:30, 9:10 sat-sun 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:10 mon-Wed 4:10, 6:45 dr. sEuss’ ThE lorAx (G) Fri 4:30, 6:40, 9:00 sat-sun 2:10, 4:30, 6:40, 9:00 mon-Wed 4:30, 6:35 FrIEnds WITh KIds thu 4:20, 7:20 Fri 4:10, 7:00, 9:40 sat-sun 1:40, 4:10, 7:00, 9:40 mon-Wed 4:40, 7:15 ThE Iron lAdy (PG) Fri 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 sat-sun 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 mon-Wed 4:25, 6:50 JEFF, Who lIvEs AT hoME (14A) thu, mon-Wed 4:50, 7:00 sun 7:30, 9:35 John CArTEr (PG) thu 4:00, 6:50 sun 8:00 mon-Wed 4:00, 6:55 loCKouT (14A) Fri 4:40, 7:10, 9:30 sat-sun 2:00, 4:40, 7:10, 9:30 mon-Wed 5:00, 7:20 A sEpArATIon (14A) thu 4:05, 6:40 WAndErlusT (14A) sun 7:20, 9:40 mon-Wed 4:20, 6:40

mt Pleasant (i)

675 mt Pleasant rD, 416-489-8484 TInKEr TAIlor soldIEr spy (14A) thu, tue-Wed 7:00 Fri 6:50, 9:25 sat 6:50, 9:30 sun 4:15, 7:00

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

A sEpArATIon (14A) Fri-sat 9:30 sun, tue-Wed 7:00 WAr horsE (PG) thu 7:00 Fri-sat 6:45 sun 4:00

10 DunDas st e, 416-335-5323

silvercity yonge (ce)

ACT oF vAlor (14A) thu 2:30 AgEnT vInod (14A) thu 2:15, 6:25, 9:50 ThE CAbIn In ThE Woods (18A) thu 12:01 Fri 2:30, 3:15, 4:00, 5:00, 5:45, 6:45, 7:30, 8:15, 8:45, 9:30, 10:00, 10:45, 11:15 sat 10:00, 11:00, 12:00, 12:45, 1:30, 2:30, 3:15, 4:00, 5:00, 5:45, 6:45, 7:30, 8:15, 8:45, 9:30, 10:00, 10:45, 11:15 sun 10:00, 11:00, 12:00, 12:45, 1:30, 2:30, 3:15, 4:00, 5:00, 5:45, 6:45, 7:30, 8:15, 9:00, 9:30, 10:00, 10:45 mon-Wed 2:30, 3:15, 4:00, 5:00, 5:45, 6:45, 7:30, 8:15, 9:00, 9:30, 10:00, 10:45 dr. sEuss’ ThE lorAx (G) thu 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:25 Fri, mon-Wed 3:15, 5:30 sat-sun 10:15, 12:35, 3:15, 5:30 dr. sEuss’ ThE lorAx 3d (G) thu 4:00 6:30 9:00 Fri-Wed 4:00, 7:00, 9:20 sat-sun 11:00, 1:30 mat FrIEnds WITh KIds 2:15, 4:45, 7:25, 10:15 sat-sun 11:45 mat housEFull 2 (PG) thu 3:00 6:30 10:15 Fri-Wed 3:00, 6:30, 10:40 sat-sun 10:45 mat John CArTEr (PG) 2:45, 6:00, 9:15 sat-sun 11:40 mat John CArTEr 3d (PG) 3:45, 7:30, 10:30 sat-sun 12:15 mat lovE In ThE buFF 4:30, 7:15, 9:50 sat-sun 11:00, 1:45 mat lovErs In A dAngErous TIME thu 3:00, 7:00, 10:00 MIrror MIrror (PG) thu 2:00, 2:45, 4:00, 5:00, 5:45, 6:45, 7:30, 8:30, 9:45, 10:00 Fri 2:15, 3:30, 5:00, 6:25, 7:30, 9:00, 10:10 sat-sun 10:40, 11:30, 2:15, 3:30, 5:00, 6:25, 7:35, 9:00, 10:10 mon-Wed 2:15, 3:30, 5:00, 6:25, 7:35, 9:00, 10:10 ThE MoTh dIArIEs (14A) thu 2:45, 5:00, 7:15, 10:15 nAMElEss gAngsTEr thu 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Fri, mon-Wed 3:45, 7:15, 10:20 sat-sun 10:30, 3:45, 7:15, 10:20

AMErICAn rEunIon (14A) thu 1:00, 4:20, 7:10, 9:20, 10:00 Fri 2:00, 4:40, 7:30, 10:30 sat 12:00, 4:35, 7:20, 10:10 sun 12:50, 3:40, 6:50, 9:30 mon-Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 ThE CAbIn In ThE Woods (18A) Fri 2:10, 4:50, 7:40, 10:20 sat 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40 sun 12:40, 3:00, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 mon-Wed 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 9:55 dr. sEuss’ ThE lorAx (G) thu 1:30 dr. sEuss’ ThE lorAx 3d (G) thu 4:00, 6:40 ThE hungEr gAMEs (PG) thu 12:40, 1:40, 2:40, 3:45, 4:45, 5:45, 6:50, 8:15, 9:30, 9:55 Fri 1:10, 3:00, 4:20, 6:30, 7:20, 9:50, 10:30 sat 12:15, 3:20, 4:30, 6:30, 7:40, 9:50, 10:45 sun 12:15, 1:40, 3:20, 5:20, 6:30, 8:50, 9:45 mon-tue 1:10, 3:00, 4:20, 6:30, 7:40, 9:40 Wed 3:00, 4:20, 7:40, 9:40 ThE METropolITAn opErA: lA TrAvIATA sat 12:55 MIrror MIrror (PG) thu 12:50, 3:50, 6:30, 9:10 Fri 1:30, 4:00, 6:50, 9:30 sat 2:40, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 sun 12:00, 2:30, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 mon-Wed 1:30, 4:00, 6:50, 9:20 ThE ThrEE sToogEs (PG) Fri 1:40, 4:10, 7:00, 9:40 sat 12:20, 2:50, 5:15, 7:55, 10:20 sun 12:30, 2:50, 5:15, 7:45, 10:05 mon-tue 1:40, 4:10, 7:00, 9:10 Wed 4:10, 7:00, 9:10 TITAnIC 3d (PG) thu 12:30, 4:30, 8:30 Fri-Wed 1:00, 5:00, 9:00 21 JuMp sTrEET (14A) thu 1:10, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Fri 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 10:10 sat 12:10, 2:45, 5:20, 8:00, 10:45 sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:00, 9:50 mon-Wed 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 WrATh oF ThE TITAns 3d (14A) thu-Fri 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:40 sat 12:00, 2:25, 4:55, 7:30, 10:00 sun 12:00, 2:25, 4:55, 7:30, 9:55 mon-Wed 1:20, 3:50, 6:40, 9:10

2300 yonge st, 416-544-1236

Metro

West end HumBer cinema (i) 2442 Bloor st. West, 416-232-1939

AMErICAn rEunIon (14A) 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 dr. sEuss’ ThE lorAx (G) thu 11:30 ThE hungEr gAMEs (PG) 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 thu 1:00 mat MIrror MIrror (PG) Fri-Wed 1:30

kingsWay tHeatre (i) 3030 Bloor st W, 416-232-1939

ThE ArTIsT (PG) thu 3:00 MonsIEur lAzhAr (PG) thu 7:00 Fri-Wed 5:00 sAlMon FIshIng In ThE yEMEn (PG) Fri-Wed 12:30, 7:00, 9:15 A sEpArATIon (14A) thu 4:45 Fri-Wed 2:45 TInKEr TAIlor soldIEr spy (14A) thu 12:45 WAndErlusT (14A) thu 8:55

queensWay (ce)

1025 tHe queensWay, qeW & islington, 416-503-0424 AMErICAn rEunIon (14A) thu 1:10, 2:30, 4:05, 5:15, 6:50, 8:00, 9:35, 10:45 Fri 1:35, 2:30, 4:20, 5:10, 7:00, 7:50, 9:40, 10:30 sat 11:10, 1:35, 1:55, 4:20, 5:10, 7:00, 7:50, 9:40, 10:30 sun-tue 12:55, 1:35, 3:50, 4:20, 6:35, 7:15, 9:15, 9:55 Wed 12:55, 1:35, 3:50, 4:20, 6:35, 7:05, 9:15, 9:55 brEAKFAsT AT TIFFAny’s Wed 7:00 ThE CAbIn In ThE Woods (18A) Fri-sat 12:40, 3:05, 5:35, 8:05, 10:35 sun 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 mon-Wed 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 dr. sEuss’ ThE lorAx (G) thu 1:55, 4:20 Fri 1:45, 4:05 sat 4:35 sun-Wed 1:45, 4:15 dr. sEuss’ ThE lorAx 3d (G) thu 2:55, 5:20, 7:40, 9:55 Fri-sat 12:30, 2:40, 5:05, 7:20, 9:35 sun 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7:10, 9:25 mon-Wed 2:30, 4:45, 7:10, 9:25 FrIEnds WITh KIds thu 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:25 Fri-sat 6:50, 9:30 sun-Wed 7:25, 10:05 ThE grEAT MuppET CApEr sat 11:00 ThE hungEr gAMEs (PG) thu 12:45, 2:20, 3:00, 4:00, 5:45, 6:30, 7:15, 9:00, 9:45, 10:30 Fri 12:05, 12:35, 3:20, 3:50, 6:35, 7:05, 9:45, 10:15 sat 11:20, 12:00, 2:35, 3:20, 6:35, 7:05, 9:45, 10:15 sun 12:00, 12:30, 3:10, 3:45, 6:20, 7:00, 9:30, 10:15 mon-tue 12:45, 1:30, 3:55, 4:40, 7:05, 8:00, 10:15 Wed 12:45, 1:30, 3:55, 4:40, 8:00, 10:15 JEFF, Who lIvEs AT hoME (14A) thu 2:25, 4:40, 7:00, 9:20 John CArTEr (PG) thu 9:30 JournEy 2: ThE MysTErIous IslAnd (PG) thu 2:25, 4:55 Fri-sat 12:50, 3:15, 5:40 sun-tue 1:00, 3:30 Wed 1:05, 3:30 loCKouT (14A) Fri 12:25, 2:55, 5:25, 7:55, 10:25 sat 2:55, 5:25, 7:55, 10:25 sun 12:05, 2:35, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 mon-tue 2:35, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Wed 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 ThE METropolITAn opErA: lA TrAvIATA sat 12:55 MIrror MIrror (PG) thu 2:00, 4:35, 7:10, 9:50 Fri 2:05, 4:45, 7:25, 10:00 sat 11:30, 2:05, 4:45, 7:25, 10:00 sun 1:55, 4:30, 7:05, 9:40 mon-tue 1:55, 4:25, 7:00, 9:40 Wed 4:25, 7:00, 9:40 proJECT x (18A) thu 7:20, 9:40 Fri-sat 8:10, 10:25 sunWed 7:35, 9:50 ThE rAId: rEdEMpTIon (18A) thu 2:50, 5:25, 7:55, 10:25 Frisat 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:20 sun-Wed 1:40, 4:10, 6:45, 9:20 sAFE housE (14A) thu 1:25, 4:15, 7:05, 10:05 Fri 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 sat 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 sun-Wed 1:20, 4:05, 6:55, 9:50 sTrEETdAnCE 2 (PG) Fri 1:20, 3:45, 6:05, 8:25, 10:45 sat 11:00, 1:20, 3:45, 6:05, 8:25, 10:45 sun 12:00, 2:25, 4:55, 7:20, 9:45 mon-Wed 2:25, 4:55, 7:20, 9:45 ThE ThrEE sToogEs (PG) Fri 1:00, 3:25, 5:50, 8:15, 10:40 sat 11:15, 2:00, 5:50, 8:15, 10:40 sun 12:35, 3:00, 5:25, 7:50, 10:15 mon-Wed 3:00, 5:25, 7:50, 10:15 TITAnIC 3d (PG) thu 12:45, 1:45, 4:50, 5:50, 9:00, 10:00 Fri, sun-Wed 12:45, 1:50, 4:50, 6:00, 9:00, 10:05 sat 12:45, 4:50, 6:00, 9:00, 10:05 21 JuMp sTrEET (14A) thu 2:10, 4:45, 6:40, 7:30, 9:25, 10:15 Fri 1:40, 4:25, 7:10, 9:55 sat 11:05, 1:40, 4:25, 7:10, 9:55 sunWed 1:15, 4:00, 6:50, 9:35 WrATh oF ThE TITAns (14A) thu 1:35, 4:10, 6:55 WrATh oF ThE TITAns 3d (14A) thu 2:15, 4:50, 7:25, 10:10 Fri 2:25, 5:00, 7:35, 10:10 sat 11:45, 2:25, 5:00, 7:35, 10:10 sun-Wed 2:00, 4:35, 7:10, 9:40

rainBoW WooDBine (i)

WooDBine centre, 500 rexDale BlvD, 416-213-1998 AMErICAn rEunIon (14A) 1:20, 3:55, 6:55, 9:25

ThE CAbIn In ThE Woods (18A) Fri-Wed 1:25, 4:15, 7:20, 9:45 dr. sEuss’ ThE lorAx (G) thu 1:30, 4:00, 7:05, 9:15 ThE hungEr gAMEs (PG) thu 1:00, 3:30, 4:00, 6:30, 7:00, 9:30 Fri-Wed 12:55, 3:45, 6:40, 9:35 JournEy 2: ThE MysTErIous IslAnd (PG) thu 1:05, 3:45 loCKouT (14A) Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:00, 7:20, 9:50 MIrror MIrror (PG) 1:25, 4:10, 7:10, 9:40 A ThousAnd Words (PG) thu 6:50, 9:20 ThE ThrEE sToogEs (PG) Fri-Wed 1:05, 3:45, 7:05, 9:20 21 JuMp sTrEET (14A) 1:10, 4:05, 7:00, 9:35 WrATh oF ThE TITAns 3d (14A) 1:15, 3:50, 7:15, 9:30

east end BeacH cinemas (aa) 1651 queen st e, 416-699-5971

AMErICAn rEunIon (14A) thu, mon-Wed 7:00, 9:40 Fri 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 sat-sun 1:00, 4:30, 7:20, 9:55 ThE hungEr gAMEs (PG) thu 6:45, 10:00 Fri 3:45, 6:45, 10:00 sat-sun 12:30, 3:45, 6:45, 10:00 mon-Wed 6:45, 9:50 ThE METropolITAn opErA: lA TrAvIATA sat 12:55 MIrror MIrror (PG) 6:30, 9:00 Fri-sat 4:00 mat sun 1:10, 4:00 mat ThE ThrEE sToogEs (PG) 7:10, 9:30 Fri 4:40 sat-sun 12:20, 2:30 mat, 4:40 TITAnIC 3d (PG) thu, mon-Wed 8:00 Fri 5:00, 9:10 sat-sun 12:40, 5:00, 9:10 21 JuMp sTrEET (14A) thu 7:30, 10:10 Fri 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 sat-sun 2:00, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 mon-Wed 7:30, 10:00 WrATh oF ThE TITAns 3d (14A) thu 7:15, 9:50

north york emPire tHeatres at emPress Walk (et) 5095 yonge st, 416-223-9550

AMErICAn rEunIon (14A) thu 4:20 7:20 10:20 Fri-Wed 4:30, 7:20, 10:15 sat-sun 1:20 mat ThE CAbIn In ThE Woods (18A) 4:45, 7:45, 10:30 sat-sun 1:45 mat ThE hungEr gAMEs (PG) thu 4:00, 5:00, 6:00, 7:00, 8:30, 9:15, 10:00 Fri 4:00, 5:15, 7:00, 8:30, 10:00 sat-sun 1:00, 2:00, 4:00, 5:15, 7:00, 8:30, 10:00 mon-Wed 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 ThE rAId: rEdEMpTIon (18A) thu 4:30, 7:45, 10:30 Fri, mon-Wed 4:40, 7:40, 10:20 sat-sun 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:20 ThE ThrEE sToogEs (PG) 4:20, 6:45, 9:40 sat-sun 1:15 mat TITAnIC 3d (PG) thu-Fri, mon-Wed 3:45, 5:30, 8:15, 9:30 sat-sun 1:30, 3:00, 5:30, 7:30, 9:30 21 JuMp sTrEET (14A) thu 4:10 7:10 10:10 Fri-Wed 4:10, 6:50, 9:50 sat-sun 1:10 mat WrATh oF ThE TITAns (14A) sat-sun 1:05 WrATh oF ThE TITAns 3d (14A) thu 4:15, 5:15, 7:15, 8:00, 10:15 Fri-Wed 4:15, 7:10, 10:10

granDe - yonge (ce) 4861 yonge st, 416-590-9974

ThE ArTIsT (PG) thu 4:20, 6:50, 9:25 ThE dEEp bluE sEA (14A) 4:35, 7:05, 9:35 sat-sun 1:45 mat dr. sEuss’ ThE lorAx (G) thu 4:25 sat-sun 1:00 dr. sEuss’ ThE lorAx 3d (G) thu 4:50, 7:15, 9:20 Fri-sun 4:15, 7:15, 9:45 mon-Wed 4:15, 7:10, 9:45 FooTnoTE (14A) thu 4:15, 7:10, 9:45 Fri-sat 4:20, 6:45, 9:25 sun 1:05, 4:20, 6:45, 9:25 mon-Wed 4:20, 6:50, 9:25 FrIEnds WITh KIds thu 4:40, 7:30, 10:00 Fri-sat 4:25, 7:20, 10:05 sun 1:30, 4:25, 7:20, 10:05 mon-Wed 4:25, 7:20, 9:55 hugo 3d (PG) 4:00, 6:55, 9:50 sun 1:10 mat JEFF, Who lIvEs AT hoME (14A) thu 4:35, 7:25, 9:35 Fri-sat 4:30, 7:30, 10:00 sun 1:25, 4:30, 10:00 mon-Wed 4:30, 7:25, 9:50 loCKouT (14A) Fri 4:40, 7:40, 10:10 sat-sun 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:10 mon-Wed 4:40, 7:30, 10:00 ThE METropolITAn opErA: lA TrAvIATA sat 12:55 MIrror MIrror (PG) 4:10, 7:00, 9:40 sat-sun 1:20 mat pAybACK thu 9:55 sAlMon FIshIng In ThE yEMEn (PG) thu-Fri, mon-Wed 4:05, 6:40, 9:30 sat 1:15, 4:20, 6:55, 9:30 sun 1:15, 4:05, 6:40, 9:30 A sEpArATIon (14A) thu 4:30, 7:05, 9:50 sTrEETdAnCE 2 (PG) Fri 4:50, 7:10, 9:20 sat-sun 1:50, 4:50, 7:10, 9:20 mon-Wed 4:50, 7:15, 9:20

silvercity FairvieW (ce)

FairvieW mall, 1800 sHePParD ave e, 416-644-7746 AMErICAn rEunIon (14A) thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 9:40, 10:10 continued on page 92 œ

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BreaKfaSt at tiffany’S Wed 7:00 tHe caBin in tHe WooDS (18A) Fri-Sat 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:20, 10:50 Sun-Wed 12:40, 3:10, 5:30, 7:50, 10:15 Dr. SeuSS’ tHe Lorax (G) Thu-Tue 11:50 Dr. SeuSS’ tHe Lorax 3D (G) Thu-Tue 2:00, 4:10, 6:20, 8:30 Wed 4:10, 6:20, 8:30 tHe great muppet caper Sat 11:00 tHe Hunger gameS (PG) Thu 11:50, 12:30, 1:20, 3:10, 3:50, 4:30, 6:30, 7:10, 7:50, 9:40, 10:15 Fri-Sat 12:30, 1:20, 3:40, 4:30, 6:50, 7:50, 10:10 Sun-Wed 12:20, 1:40, 3:40, 5:20, 6:50, 8:40, 10:10 Journey 2: tHe mySteriouS iSLanD (PG) Thu 12:15, 2:40, 5:00 Fri-Wed 12:00, 2:10, 4:20 tHe metropoLitan opera: La traViata Sat 12:55 tHe raiD: reDemption (18A) Thu 2:10, 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:30, 4:55, 7:20, 9:50 Sat 4:55, 7:20, 9:50 tHe tHree StoogeS (PG) Fri-Sat 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:30, 10:10 Sun-Tue 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:30, 9:55 Wed 3:10, 5:15, 7:30, 9:55 titanic 3D (PG) Thu 12:40 4:50 9:00 Fri-Wed 1:00, 5:00, 9:00 titanic: an imax 3D experience (PG) 12:00, 4:00, 8:00 21 Jump Street (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:30, 6:40, 7:20, 9:30, 10:00 Fri-Sat 12:20, 2:50, 5:30, 7:10, 8:10, 10:00, 10:40 SunTue 12:30, 3:20, 6:30, 7:10, 9:10, 10:00 Wed 12:30, 3:20, 6:30, 9:10, 10:00 WratH of tHe titanS (14A) Thu 1:10, 3:40, 6:50, 9:20 WratH of tHe titanS 3D (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:10, 7:40, 10:05 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:40 Sat 11:50, 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:40

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Fri 2:10, 5:00, 7:45, 10:25 Sat 11:30, 2:10, 5:00, 7:45, 10:25 Sun-Wed 1:30, 4:15, 7:25, 10:05 BreaKfaSt at tiffany’S Wed 7:00 Dr. SeuSS’ tHe Lorax (G) Thu 2:30 Dr. SeuSS’ tHe Lorax 3D (G) Thu 4:50, 7:15 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:50, 4:10 Sat 11:20, 1:50, 4:10 tHe great muppet caper Sat 11:00 tHe Hunger gameS (PG) Thu 12:50, 2:00, 4:00, 5:10, 7:10, 8:40, 10:20 Fri-Sat 12:50, 4:00, 6:40, 7:20, 9:50, 10:30 SunWed 12:55, 4:00, 6:40, 7:10, 9:45, 10:15 LocKout (14A) Fri-Sat 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:20, 10:50 Sun 12:30, 2:55, 5:25, 7:50, 10:15 Mon-Tue 2:00, 4:40, 7:40, 10:10 Wed 4:40, 7:40, 10:10 mirror mirror (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Sat 2:50, 5:30, 8:10, 10:45 Sun-Tue 1:10, 4:25, 7:05, 9:40 Wed 4:25, 7:05, 9:40 tHe tHree StoogeS (PG) Fri 1:00, 3:20, 5:50, 8:15, 10:35 Sat 12:45, 3:05, 5:50, 8:15, 10:35 Sun 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:10 Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:30 titanic 3D (PG) Thu 12:45, 4:45, 8:50 Fri-Sat 12:30, 4:30, 8:30 Sun-Wed 1:00, 5:10, 9:20 21 Jump Street (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 Fri 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40 Sat 5:20, 8:00, 10:40 Sun-Tue 1:15, 4:05, 7:15, 9:55 Wed 1:15, 4:05, 9:55 WratH of tHe titanS (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:20, 7:05, 9:45 WratH of tHe titanS 3D (14A) Thu 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 Fri 2:45, 5:15, 7:50, 10:20 Sat 12:20, 2:45, 5:15, 7:50, 10:20 Sun-Wed 1:20, 4:30, 7:30, 10:00

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

american reunion (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:45, 9:50, 10:30 Fri-Sat 2:20, 5:10, 8:00, 10:45 Sun 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:25 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 tHe caBin in tHe WooDS (18A) Fri-Sat 1:00, 3:20, 5:45, 8:10, 10:35 Sun 12:45, 3:10, 5:35, 8:00, 10:25 Mon 1:30, 4:00, 7:25, 10:10 Tue-Wed 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:10 Dr. SeuSS’ tHe Lorax (G) Thu 1:10 Dr. SeuSS’ tHe Lorax 3D (G) Thu 3:20, 5:30, 7:40 Fri-Sun 12:00, 2:15, 4:35 Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:00 tHe Hunger gameS (PG) Thu 1:05, 3:15, 4:10, 6:30, 7:15, 9:45, 10:25 Fri-Sat 1:20, 4:25, 6:55, 7:35, 10:05, 10:45 Sun 1:05, 4:05, 6:50, 7:20, 10:00, 10:30 Mon-Wed 12:45, 3:55, 6:20, 7:05, 9:30, 10:15 Journey 2: tHe mySteriouS iSLanD (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:15 mirror mirror (PG) Thu 2:35, 5:10, 7:40, 10:15 Fri-Sun 12:10, 2:45, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30 Mon-Wed 1:55, 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 tHe raiD: reDemption (18A) Thu 2:30, 5:05, 7:35, 10:10 Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 1:50, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 Mon 1:50, 4:40, 9:50 tHe tHree StoogeS (PG) Fri-Sat 1:20, 3:40, 6:00, 8:20, 10:40 Sun 12:55, 3:15, 5:25, 7:55, 10:15 Mon-Wed 2:55, 5:20, 7:40, 10:05 titanic 3D (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 1:00, 5:00, 9:00 Fri-Sun 12:45, 4:50, 9:00 21 Jump Street (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 Fri-Sat 2:00, 4:50, 7:30, 10:15 Sun 2:00, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:35, 7:25, 10:10 WratH of tHe titanS (14A) Thu 7:00, 9:30 WratH of tHe titanS 3D (14A) Thu 2:20, 4:55, 7:50, 10:20 Fri-Sun 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:20 Mon-Wed 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00

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

american reunion (14A) Thu 5:15, 7:50, 9:50, 10:20 Fri 5:15, 7:55, 10:30 Sat-Sun 2:40, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30 Mon, Wed 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 Tue 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 tHe caBin in tHe WooDS (18A) Fri 5:45, 8:10, 10:35 SatSun 1:10, 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:35 Mon, Wed 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 Tue 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:35 Dr. SeuSS’ tHe Lorax (G) Sat-Sun 12:50 Dr. SeuSS’ tHe Lorax 3D (G) Thu 3:25, 5:30, 7:40 Fri 4:10, 7:20 Sat-Sun 3:00, 5:10, 7:20 Mon, Wed 4:15, 6:45 Tue 4:45, 7:20 tHe Hunger gameS (PG) Thu 3:20, 4:00, 6:20, 7:10, 9:25, 10:20 Fri 4:10, 7:15, 9:30, 10:20 Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:10, 7:15, 9:30, 10:20 Mon, Wed 4:10, 7:10, 9:00, 10:10 Tue 4:00, 7:00, 9:30, 10:05 Journey 2: tHe mySteriouS iSLanD (PG) Thu 3:45 LocKout (14A) Fri 6:00, 8:30, 10:45 Sat 1:30, 3:50, 6:10, 8:30, 10:45 Sun 1:30, 3:50, 6:10, 8:25, 10:40 Mon, Wed 5:10, 7:50, 10:05 Tue 3:50, 6:10, 8:30, 10:45 mirror mirror (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 Fri, Tue 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Sat-Sun 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Mon, Wed 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 tHe raiD: reDemption (18A) Thu 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:25 Fri 4:30, 8:05, 10:40 Sat-Sun 1:05, 3:20, 5:45, 8:05, 10:40 Mon, Wed 5:30, 7:55, 10:15 Tue 3:20, 5:40, 8:20, 10:40 a tHouSanD WorDS (PG) Thu 6:45, 9:15 tHe tHree StoogeS (PG) Fri 4:50, 7:45, 10:10 Sat-Sun

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Three Stooges’ Chris Diamantopoulos (left), Sean Hayes and Will Sasso shtick to it.

12:55, 3:10, 5:30, 7:45, 10:10 Mon, Wed 4:50, 7:20, 9:40 Tue 3:20, 5:25, 7:40, 10:10 titanic 3D (PG) Thu 5:00, 9:00 Fri, Mon, Wed 4:40, 8:45 Sat-Sun 12:50, 4:45, 8:45 Tue 4:15, 8:15 21 Jump Street (14A) Thu-Fri 4:45, 7:30, 10:10 Sat 2:50, 5:40, 8:20, 10:50 Sun 2:50, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40 Mon, Wed 4:20, 7:30, 10:00 Tue 4:30, 8:00, 10:35 WratH of tHe titanS (14A) Thu 4:15, 7:00, 9:35 WratH of tHe titanS 3D (14A) Thu 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:25 Fri 4:20, 8:25, 10:50 Sat 1:20, 3:40, 6:00, 8:25, 10:50 Sun 1:20, 3:40, 6:00, 8:20, 10:40 Mon, Wed 5:20, 7:45, 10:20 Tue 3:40, 6:00, 8:25, 10:45

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

american reunion (14A) Thu 1:35, 2:05, 4:15, 4:45, 7:00, 7:30, 9:45, 10:15 Fri 12:15, 2:20, 2:50, 5:00, 5:30, 7:40, 8:10, 10:20, 10:50 Sat 11:45, 2:20, 2:50, 5:00, 5:30, 7:40, 8:10, 10:20, 10:50 Sun-Wed 12:50, 2:00, 4:00, 4:45, 6:50, 7:30, 9:35, 10:15 tHe caBin in tHe WooDS (18A) Fri 12:35, 3:00, 5:35, 8:00, 10:35 Sat 12:20, 3:00, 5:35, 8:00, 10:35 Sun-Wed 2:30, 5:15, 7:40, 10:10 tHe great muppet caper Sat 11:00 tHe Hunger gameS (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:00, 3:50, 6:30, 6:45, 7:00, 9:50, 10:00, 10:15 Fri 12:20, 12:50, 3:40, 4:10, 7:00, 7:30, 10:15, 10:45 Sat 12:15, 3:40, 4:35, 7:00, 7:40, 10:15, 10:45 Sun-Wed 12:45, 2:45, 3:50, 6:30, 7:00, 9:45, 10:15 JoHn carter 3D (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Fri-Sat 1:25, 4:35, 7:35, 10:40 Sun-Wed 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 Journey 2: tHe mySteriouS iSLanD (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:05, 9:40 Fri 1:30, 4:40, 7:45, 10:25 Sat 11:30, 2:00, 4:40, 7:45, 10:25 Sun-Wed 1:20, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 tHe metropoLitan opera: La traViata Sat 12:55 Star 67 Thu 2:50, 5:25, 7:45, 10:05 StreetDance 2 (PG) Fri-Sat 1:20, 3:50, 6:15, 8:30, 10:45 Sun-Wed 3:00, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 a tHouSanD WorDS (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:00 titanic 3D (PG) Thu, Sun-Wed 12:45, 1:15, 4:45, 5:20, 8:45, 9:30 Fri-Sat 12:45, 1:15, 4:45, 5:25, 8:45, 9:30 21 Jump Street (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Fri 12:15, 2:50, 5:40, 8:15, 10:50 Sat 12:10, 2:50, 5:40, 8:15, 10:50 SunWed 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00

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

american reunion (14A) Thu 3:45, 4:30, 6:40, 7:20, 9:30, 10:15 Fri 1:10, 1:50, 4:00, 4:50, 6:50, 7:55, 9:40, 10:50 Sat 11:50, 1:20, 2:30, 4:10, 4:50, 7:00, 7:55, 9:50, 10:50 Sun 12:20, 1:15, 3:10, 4:15, 6:00, 7:15, 9:45, 10:10 Mon-Tue 3:40, 4:30, 6:30, 7:20, 9:20, 10:10 Wed 3:40, 4:30, 6:30, 7:15, 9:20, 10:10 BreaKfaSt at tiffany’S Wed 7:00 tHe caBin in tHe WooDS (18A) Fri 12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 8:20, 11:00 Sat 12:40, 3:15, 5:45, 8:25, 11:00 Sun 12:10, 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:15 Mon-Wed 5:15, 7:50, 10:15 Dr. SeuSS’ tHe Lorax (G) Thu 4:40 Fri 12:50, 3:15, 5:35, 7:50, 10:10 Sat 11:00, 1:15, 3:35, 5:55, 8:15, 10:30 Sun 12:15, 2:40, 5:05, 7:20, 9:35 Mon-Wed 5:05, 7:20, 9:30 Dr. SeuSS’ tHe Lorax 3D (G) Thu 5:20, 7:40, 10:05 frienDS WitH KiDS Thu 10:00 tHe great muppet caper Sat 11:00 tHe Hunger gameS (PG) Thu 3:30, 4:30, 5:30, 6:45, 7:40, 8:40, 10:15 Fri 12:30, 1:00, 3:40, 4:20, 6:55, 7:40, 10:10, 11:00 Sat 12:30, 1:00, 3:40, 4:20, 6:55, 7:40, 10:10, 10:55 Sun 12:10, 1:20, 3:30, 4:40, 6:50, 8:00, 10:10 Mon-Tue 3:30, 4:30, 6:50, 7:45, 10:05 Wed 3:30, 4:00, 6:50, 10:00, 10:05 JoHn carter (PG) Thu 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Journey 2: tHe mySteriouS iSLanD (PG) Thu 5:05, 7:35 LocKout (14A) Fri-Sat 12:45, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:45 Sun 12:05, 2:35, 5:05, 7:30, 9:55 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:25, 9:50 tHe metropoLitan opera: La traViata Sat 12:55 mirror mirror (PG) Thu 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 Fri, Sun 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Sat 11:15, 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 tHe raiD: reDemption (18A) Thu 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 Fri

2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:05 Sat 5:30, 8:05, 10:40 Sun 2:00, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 Safe HouSe (14A) Thu 7:00, 9:50 StreetDance 2 (PG) Fri 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 Sat 11:10, 1:30, 4:00, 6:20, 8:40, 11:00 Sun 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Mon-Wed 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 tHe tHree StoogeS (PG) Fri 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Sat 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:35 Sun 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 titanic 3D (PG) Thu 4:00, 8:15 Fri-Sat 1:00, 5:00, 9:10 Sun 12:30, 4:45, 9:00 Mon-Wed 4:15, 8:30 21 Jump Street (14A) Thu 4:15, 7:05, 9:55 Fri 2:30, 5:15, 8:00, 10:45 Sat 1:25, 4:05, 7:00, 9:45 Sun 1:20, 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 WratH of tHe titanS (14A) Thu 4:00, 6:45, 9:25 WratH of tHe titanS 3D (14A) Thu 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Fri 12:35, 3:05, 5:40, 8:20, 10:55 Sat 12:20, 2:55, 5:35, 8:15, 10:50 Sun 1:45, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Mon-Wed 4:20, 6:55, 9:35

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

agent VinoD (14A) 2:40, 6:00, 9:30 Fri-Sun 11:00 mat tHe artiSt (PG) 1:40, 4:05, 6:35, 9:05 Fri-Sun 11:05 mat caSa De mi paDre (14A) 3:10, 5:15, 7:20, 10:00 Fri-Sun 10:40, 12:45 mat tHe DeScenDantS (14A) Thu 2:15, 5:05, 7:50, 10:30 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 2:00, 4:25, 7:00, 9:20 Fri-Sun 11:20 mat HouSefuLL 2 (PG) 3:00, 6:15, 9:35 Fri-Sun 11:45 mat tHe iron LaDy (PG) 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15 Fri-Sun 11:10 mat KaHaani (14A) 3:10, 6:20, 9:40 Fri-Sun 12:00 mat LocKout (14A) 3:20, 5:45, 8:05, 10:30 Fri-Sun 10:30, 12:50 mat LoVe in tHe Buff 3:15, 5:30, 8:00, 10:20 Fri-Sun 10:45, 1:00 mat mirror mirror (PG) 2:30, 3:30, 5:00, 6:30, 7:30, 9:00, 9:50 Fri-Sun 11:30, 12:30 mat 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) Thu 4:00, 6:40, 9:30 a SimpLe Life (14A) 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25 Fri-Sun 11:30 mat tHe tHree StoogeS (PG) 2:15, 4:30, 7:00, 9:20 Fri-Sun 11:45 mat tyLer perry’S gooD DeeDS (PG) Thu 2:50, 5:20, 8:00 tHe VoW (PG) Thu 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 (PG) 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) Thu 12:20, 1:30, 3:00, 4:20, 6:15, 7:00, 9:10, 9:50 Fri-Sat 12:50, 1:50, 3:50, 4:50, 6:40, 7:40, 9:30, 10:30 Sun-Wed 12:50, 1:50, 3:50, 4:50, 6:40, 7:40, 9:30, 10:15

CouRTney PARK 16 (AMC)

110 CouRTney PARK e AT huRonTARio, 888-262-4386 american reunion (14A) Thu 1:55 3:05 4:25 5:35 7:10 8:10 10:00 10:45 Fri-Wed 1:55, 3:05, 4:25, 5:35, 7:10, 8:10, 9:55, 10:45 Sat 10:05, 11:20, 12:35 mat Sun 11:20 mat tHe caBin in tHe WooDS (18A) 3:10, 5:30, 8:05, 10:35 Sat-Sun 10:40, 12:55 mat Dr. SeuSS’ tHe Lorax (G) Thu 2:20, 6:30 Dr. SeuSS’ tHe Lorax 3D (G) Thu 4:20 tHe Hunger gameS (PG) 1:00, 1:30, 2:00, 4:00, 4:30, 5:00, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 10:00, 10:30, 11:00 Thu 2:30 mat, 5:30, 8:30 Sat-Sun 10:00, 10:30, 11:00 mat LocKout (14A) 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:15 Sat-Sun 10:10, 12:30 mat mirror mirror (PG) Thu 1:45, 3:15, 4:15, 5:45, 7:15, 8:15, 9:45, 10:45 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:40 Sat-Sun 10:10, 12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:40 tHe raiD: reDemption (18A) Thu 1:10 3:30 5:50 8:20 10:50 Fri-Wed 1:10, 3:25, 5:50, 8:20, 10:50 Sat-Sun 10:35 mat Safe HouSe (14A) Thu 9:30 StreetDance 2 (PG) 2:55, 5:10, 7:25, 9:45 Sat-Sun 10:25, 12:40 mat tHe tHree StoogeS (PG) 2:40, 5:05, 7:20, 9:30 Sat-Sun 10:20, 12:30 mat titanic 3D (PG) 2:00, 3:00, 6:00, 7:35, 10:05 Sat-Sun 10:00, 11:00 mat titanic: an imax 3D experience (PG) 4:00, 8:00 SatSun 11:55 mat 21 Jump Street (14A) 1:05, 3:30, 5:55, 8:25, 10:55 Sat-Sun 10:15 mat WratH of tHe titanS (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15 Fri-Wed 2:45 WratH of tHe titanS 3D (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:15, 8:05, 10:45 Fri, Mon-Wed 5:15, 7:45, 10:10 Sat-Sun 10:05, 12:25, 5:15, 7:45, 10:10 WratH of tHe titanS: an imax 3D experience (14A) Thu 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-Sun 1:20, 4:00, 6:55, 9:10 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:30, 9:10 Dr. SeuSS’ tHe Lorax 3D (G) Thu 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 LocKout (14A) Fri-Sun 12:30, 2:55, 5:30, 7:55, 10:20 MonWed 4:30, 7:30, 9:50 tHe metropoLitan opera: La traViata Sat 12:55 mirror mirror (PG) Thu 3:35, 4:10, 6:30, 7:15, 9:15, 9:55 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:10, 7:05, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 tHe raiD: reDemption (18A) Thu 4:30, 7:05, 9:40 Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:15, 9:40 Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:20, 9:40 SaLmon fiSHing in tHe yemen (PG) Thu 3:50, 6:45, 9:30 Fri, Sun 12:45, 3:20, 6:45, 9:20 Sat 1:05, 6:30, 9:30 MonWed 3:30, 6:40, 9:20 StreetDance 2 (PG) Fri-Sun 12:25, 2:45, 5:20, 7:45, 10:15 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:50, 10:00 tHe tHree StoogeS (PG) Fri-Sun 12:15, 2:35, 5:00, 7:35, 10:00 Mon-Wed 3:40, 7:10, 9:35 titanic 3D (PG) Thu 4:20, 5:00, 8:30, 9:05 Fri, Sun 12:10, 1:05, 4:20, 5:10, 8:30, 9:30 Sat 12:10, 4:20, 5:10, 8:30, 9:20 Mon-Wed 4:10, 5:10, 8:15, 9:55 WratH of tHe titanS (14A) Thu 4:00, 6:55, 9:25 WratH of tHe titanS 3D (14A) Thu 4:50, 7:40, 10:00 Fri-Sun 12:55, 4:40, 7:25, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:25, 6:55, 9:25

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

american reunion (14A) Thu 3:45, 4:25, 6:30, 7:15, 9:25, 10:25 Fri-Sun 12:05, 12:55, 2:40, 3:50, 5:15, 6:50, 8:05, 10:00, 10:45 Mon-Wed 3:30, 4:05, 6:35, 7:05, 9:30, 10:00 tHe caBin in tHe WooDS (18A) Fri-Sun 1:00, 3:20, 5:45,

8:10, 10:35 Mon-Wed 5:10, 7:35, 9:55 Dr. SeuSS’ tHe Lorax (G) Thu 3:35 Fri-Sun 12:20, 2:30 Mon-Wed 3:30 Dr. SeuSS’ tHe Lorax 3D (G) Thu 4:40, 6:55, 9:15 Fri-Sun 1:30, 3:35, 5:40, 7:50, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:20, 8:30 tHe great muppet caper Sat 11:00 tHe Hunger gameS (PG) Thu 3:50, 5:30, 6:00, 7:10, 8:40, 9:50, 10:30 Fri, Sun 12:05, 12:40, 3:25, 4:10, 6:40, 7:20, 9:55, 10:30 Sat 11:45, 12:40, 3:25, 4:10, 6:40, 7:20, 9:55, 10:30 Mon-Wed 3:45, 4:30, 7:00, 8:05, 10:00 JoHn carter 3D (PG) Thu 9:45 Journey 2: tHe mySteriouS iSLanD (PG) Fri, Sun 12:25 Sat 11:20, 1:40 Journey 2: tHe mySteriouS iSLanD 3D (PG) Thu 4:35, 7:25 Fri, Sun 2:55, 5:25, 7:40 Sat 4:05, 6:25, 8:40 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:10 LocKout (14A) Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:10, 5:35, 8:00, 10:25 MonWed 4:50, 7:20, 9:45 tHe metropoLitan opera: La traViata Sat 12:55 mirror mirror (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:20, 7:05, 9:05 Fri-Sun 12:15, 2:35, 5:05, 7:35, 10:20 Mon-Wed 3:35, 6:15, 8:50 proJect x (18A) Thu 5:20, 7:35, 10:00 Fri, Sun 10:15 Sat 11:00 tHe raiD: reDemption (18A) Thu 5:10, 7:40, 10:15 Fri, Sun 12:45, 3:15, 5:50, 8:15, 10:55 Sat 5:50, 8:15, 10:55 Mon-Wed 4:55, 7:30, 10:10 Safe HouSe (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:20, 10:20 Fri-Sun 4:30, 7:00, 9:40 Mon-Wed 6:00, 8:40 StreetDance 2 (PG) Fri, Sun 1:25, 3:45, 6:05, 8:25, 10:50 Sat 11:10, 1:25, 3:45, 6:05, 8:25, 10:50 Mon-Wed 5:20, 7:55, 10:15 a tHouSanD WorDS (PG) Thu 4:15, 6:40, 9:30 tHe tHree StoogeS (PG) Fri, Sun 1:20, 3:40, 6:00, 8:20, 10:40 Sat 11:30, 1:45, 4:00, 6:15, 8:30, 10:45 Mon-Wed 5:05, 7:25, 9:50 titanic 3D (PG) 4:00, 5:00, 8:00, 9:00 Fri-Sun 12:00, 1:00 mat 21 Jump Street (14A) Thu 4:10, 4:45, 7:30, 9:40, 10:10 Fri, Sun 12:10, 2:45, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30 Sat 2:15, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30 Mon-Wed 3:55, 6:45, 9:35 WratH of tHe titanS (14A) Thu 3:40, 6:10, 8:30 WratH of tHe titanS 3D (14A) Thu 4:20, 7:00, 9:20 FriSun 1:10, 3:30, 6:10, 8:30, 11:00 Mon-Wed 9:10 WratH of tHe titanS: an imax 3D experience (14A) 5:15, 7:45, 10:05 Fri-Sun 12:30, 2:50 mat

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american reunion (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:30, 9:40, 10:10 Fri 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 Sat 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:30, 10:10 tHe caBin in tHe WooDS (18A) Fri 4:50, 7:50, 10:15 Sat 12:30, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:15 Sun 12:30, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:05 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 Dr. SeuSS’ tHe Lorax (G) Sat-Sun 12:50 Dr. SeuSS’ tHe Lorax 3D (G) Thu 4:40, 7:20 Fri, MonWed 3:55, 6:20 Sat-Sun 3:30, 6:20 tHe Hunger gameS (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 3:50, 5:00, 7:00, 8:30, 10:15 Fri 3:50, 6:30, 7:10, 10:00, 10:30 Sat 12:10, 12:40, 3:20, 3:50, 6:30, 7:10, 10:00, 10:30 Sun 12:10, 12:40, 3:20, 3:50, 6:30, 7:00, 9:45, 10:15 Journey 2: tHe mySteriouS iSLanD (PG) Thu 3:30 mirror mirror (PG) Thu 3:40, 6:45, 9:50 Fri 3:45, 6:40, 9:30 Sat 1:00, 3:40, 6:40, 9:30 Sun 1:00, 3:40, 6:40, 9:20 Mon-Wed 3:45, 6:40, 9:20 Safe HouSe (14A) Thu 6:30, 9:20 Fri-Wed 9:00 tHe tHree StoogeS (PG) Fri 4:40, 7:40, 10:10 Sat 12:20, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 Sun 12:20, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:40, 10:00 titanic 3D (PG) 4:00, 8:00 Sat-Sun 12:00 mat 21 Jump Street (14A) Thu 4:10, 7:10, 10:00 Fri 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Sat 1:10, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Sun 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 9:50 MonWed 4:10, 7:10, 9:45 WratH of tHe titanS (14A) Thu 4:20, 6:50, 9:30 WratH of tHe titanS 3D (14A) Thu 4:50, 7:40, 10:05 Fri 4:20, 6:50, 9:40 Sat 1:20, 4:20, 6:50, 9:40 Sun 1:20, 4:20, 6:50, 9:30 Mon-Wed 4:20, 6:50, 9:30 3

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Repertory cinema listings are comprehensive and appear alphabetically by venue, then by date. Other films are listed by date.

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All listings are free. Send to: movies@nowtoronto.com, fax to 416-364-1166 or mail to Rep Cinemas, NOW Magazine, 189 Church, Toronto M5B 1Y7. Include film title, year of release, names of director(s), language and subtitle info, venue, address, time, cost and advance ticket sales if any, phone number for reservations/info or website address. Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm.

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agO, Jackman Hall, 317 dundas w (agO); ROyal cinema, 608 cOllege (Rc); tOROntO undeRgROund cinema, 186 spadina (tuc). imagesfestival.cOm

Thu 12-apr 21 – Festival of experimental film and video. $10, stu/srs $5. Opening night $15, stu/srs $8, closing night $30, adv $25.

Thu 12 – Opening night gala: The Nine Muses (2011) D: John Akomfrah. 6:45 pm (RC).

FrI 13 – Images 25th Anniversary 1988 Screening Part One: Last Days Of Contrition (1987) D: Richard Kerr, Sirensong (1987) D: Jan Peacock, and Orientation Express (1988) D: Frances Leeming. 8 pm (AGO). saT 14 – As Afterwards The Image Still Rings program: Whose Eyes (2011) D: Tan Tan, Printed Matter (2011) D: Eitan Efrat and Sirah Foighel Brutmann, and others. 5 pm. The Observers (2011) D: Jacqueline Goss. 7:30 pm.

Right Ascension program: Depart (2011) D: Blake Williams, Rock (2012) D: Geoffrey Pugen, and others. 9:30 pm. All screenings at AGO. sun 15 – S Is For Student: So Certain I Was, I Was A Horse (2011) D: Emilie Serri, Children Of The Sun (2011) D: Nikolas Tsonis, and others. 5 pm. Drawing Conclusions: Charles (2011) D: Monique Moumblow, First Law: Quail Ct (2011) D: Mike Gibisser, and others. 7 pm. Two Years At Sea (2012) D: Ben Rivers. 9 pm. All screenings at AGO. mon 16 – A Place In The World program: East Hastings Pharmacy (2011) D: Antoine Bourges, The Home And The World (2011) D: Lucy Parker, and others. 7 pm.

Memorie Di Uno Smemorato program: Insideout (2010) D: Tonje Alice Madsen, Agatha (2012) D: Beatrie Gibson, and others. 9:15 pm. All screenings at AGO. Tue 17 – A Letter To The Living program: Hoof, Tooth & Claw (2011) D: Chu-Li Shewring and Adam Gutch, Where She Stood In The First Place (2010) D: Lindsay McIntyre. 7 pm. Two Movies program: Two Cabins (2011) D: James Benning, and Ani, Nan DooKKeobiga Anigo Geobuk-ee Yo! (No, I Am Not A Toad, I Am A Turtle!) (2012) D: Elke Marhöfer. 9 pm. All screenings at AGO.

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sHeppaRd cinemas, 4861 yOnge (sc); canada squaRe, 2190 yOnge (cs). ReelwORld.ca

Thu 12-sun 15 – Films from filmmakers from

the aboriginal, Asian, black, Latino, Middle Eastern, South Asian and other multi-racial communities. $10, stu/srs $5, music video night $25, festival pass $125, VIP pass (for two) $500.

Thu 12 – Oorana Oor/My Country D: Lalita Krishna. 4 pm. Short s program One including The Mark D: Lucius Dechausay, Two & Two D: Babak Anvari, The Truth D: Hill Harper, and others. 4 pm. Billy D: Winston Washington Moxam. 6:30 pm. De Dia y De Noche D: Alejandro Molina. 6:30 pm. Hopelessly In June (2011) D: Vincent Brantley. 7:30 pm. BumRush (2011) D: Michel Jetté. 8:30 pm. The Forest D: Ashvin Kumar. 9 pm. All screenings at CS. FrI 13 – Shorts program Two including Taxi Libre D: Kaveh Nabatian, Just Like Love D: Sarah Michelle Brown, All Ah We D: Karen Chapman, The Toboggan D: Richard B Pierre,

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Fest gets ready to kid around TIFF KIds InTernaTIonal FIlm FesTIval 2012 at TIFF Bell Lightbox

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(350 King West) from Friday (April 13) to April 22. tiff.net. See listings, this page.

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Remember Sprockets? Cast that name from your mind, children. The allages spring celebration shall hereafter be known as the TIFF Kids International Film Festival. Not a particularly elegant name, but it consolidates the brand and means local writers have to quit it with the Mike Myers dancing jokes.

The quality of the films on offer hasn’t changed; as always, the programmers have brought a solid lineup of shorts, features and documentaries from around the world to the Lightbox.

The public component kicks off Friday night with the Canadian premiere of DisneyNature’s Earth Day offering, Chimpanzee. Veteran nature filmmakers Alastair Fothergill (African and others. 4 pm. Arab Rap D: Bachir Bensaddek. 4:30 pm. I Want To Be A Desi 2 (2009) D: Allan Tong. 4:30 pm. The Golden Pen D:Lani Selick. 6:30 pm. No Look Pass (2011) D: Melissa Johnson. 6:30 pm. Corações Sujos D: Vicente Amorim. 7 pm. Music Video Night. 8:30 pm. Charlie Zone D: Michael Melski. 9 pm.

Besouro (2009) D: João Daniel Tikhomiroff.

9:30 pm. All screenings at CS. saT 14 – Colour Me (2011) D: Sherien Barsoum. Noon. El Bulli: Cooking In Progress (2011) D: Gereon Wetzel. 1 pm. High Chicago (2011) D: Alfons Adetuyi. 2:30 pm. SUPERBOB (2002) D: Joel Gordon. 2:30 pm. Paradise Stop (2011) D: Jann Turner. 4:30 pm. Searching For Angels (2011) D: Nadeem Soumah. 5:30 pm.

Neutered (2011) D: Randall Thorne. 5:30 pm.

Bonsai People: The Vision Of Muhammad Yunus (2011) D: Holly Mosher. 6 pm. Desert Flower (2009) D: Sherry Horman. 6:30 pm. If I Should Fall (2010) D: Brendon Culliton. 8 pm.

Land Of Opportunity (2010) D: Luisa Dantas.

8:30 pm. Clive Houston, We Have A Problem (2010), and Open Your Eyes Katarina (2010) D: Walter Alza. 9:30 pm. Hostage D: Joanna Jang. 9:30 pm. All screenings at CS. sun 15 – Shorts program One including A Doctor’s Job D: Julio O Ramos, The Runner D: Parker Ellerman, Shifters D: Rafal Sokolowski, and others. 1 pm (CS). Shorts program Two including Mr. Crab D: Faisal Lutchmedial, An Endangered Culture D: Tashi Wangyal, Shanty Town Cinderellas D: Bentha Vlok, and others.

3:30 pm (CS). Closing night: Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu (2012) D: Shakun Batra. 5:30 pm (SC).

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Chimpanzee (inset) and The Pirates! Band Of Misfits make a splash at Kids Fest.

Cats) and Mark Linfield (Earth) document the life of a young chimp living with his troop somewhere in the jungles that run through Uganda and Côte d’Ivoire.

It’s a little on the anthropomorphic side, and Tim Allen’s insistently chummy narration grated on me, but the developments in the second half are genuinely gripping, and the highdef images are stunning.

Other features include a new German adaptation of Enid Blyton’s Buch. 11 am. Elias And The Treasure Of The Sea (2010) D: Lise I Osvoll. 11:45 am. Will (2011) D: Ellen Perry. 12:45 pm. For The Love Of... program including 41 Days (2012) D: Ahmed Abdelaziz, Cristiano’s Shirt (2011) D: Vincent Bruno, and others. 1 pm. Stay! (2011) D: Lourens Blok. 1:15 pm. Cool Kids Don’t Cry (2012) D: Dennis Bots. 1:45 pm. Reel Rascals: Movin’ And Groovin’. 1:45 pm. Havanastation (2011) D: Ian Padrón.3:15 pm. Loot Bag: Laugh And A Half program including The Gruffalo’s Child (2011) D: Uwe Heidschötter and Johannes Weiland, and others. 3:30 pm. Nicostratos, The Pelican (2011) D: Olivier Horlait. 4:15 pm.

Le Tableau (2011) D: Jean-François Laguionie.

5:30 pm. sun 15 – The Blue Tiger (2011) D: Petr Oukropec. 10:15 am. Lotte And The Moonstone Secret (2011) D: Heiki Ernits and Janno Poldma.

10:30 am. Snowflake – The White Gorilla (2011) D: Andrés G Schaer. 10:30 am. Canada For Kids program including Joanna Makes A Friend (2011) D: Jeremy Lutter, The Rink (2011) D: Thelon Oeming, and others. Noon. Reel Rascals: Spring Into Spring! 12:45 pm. The Crocodiles: All For One (2011) D: Wolfgang Groos.

12:45 pm. The Great Bear (2011) D: Esben Toft Jacobsen. 1 pm. Kiwi Flyer (2012) D: Tony Simpson. 1 pm. Cool Kids Don’t Cry. 2:15 pm.

Stay! 2:30 pm. Gattu (2011) D: Rajan Khosa.

3:15 pm. Nicostratos, The Pelican. 3:30 pm. wed 18 – The Pirates! Band Of Misfits 3D (2012) D: Peter Lord. 6:30 pm.

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BlOOR HOt dOcs cinema

Reitman squaRe, 350 king w. 416-599-8433, tiff.net

506 BlOOR w. 416-637-3123. BlOORcinema.cOm

FrI 13-apr 22 – Children’s film festival. $12, child $8.50, stu/srs $9.50, family 10-pack $75.

All films w/ s-t.

FrI 13 – Opening night: Chimpanzee (2012) D: Mark Linfield and Alastair Fothergill. 7 pm. saT 14 – Reel Rascals Shorts: Spring Into Spring!

10 am. Loot Bag: Follow Your Dreams program including Magic Piano 3D (2011) D: Martin Clapp, and others. 10:45 am. Alfie, The Little Werewolf (2011) D: Joram Lürsen. 10:15 am.

Famous Five (2012) D: Mike Marzuk. 10:30 am.

Emil And The Detectives (2001) D: Franziska

Thu 12 – The Vanishing Spring Light (2011) D:

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Xun Yu. 6:30 pm. Fightville (2011) D: Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker. 9:15 pm.

FrI 13 – Girl Model (2011) D: David Redmon and Ashley Sabin. 3:30 & 9 pm. Happy People: A Year In The Taiga (2010) D: Dmitry Vasyukov and Werner Herzog. 6:30 pm. saT 14 – A Married Couple (1969) D: Allan King. 3:30 pm. Girl Model. 6:30 pm.

Happy People: A Year In The Taiga. 9 pm. sun 15 – The Big Lebowski (1998) D: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen. 3:30 pm. Happy People: A Year In The Taiga. 6:30 pm. Girl Model. 9 pm.

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Famous Five, in which four teenagers (and one incredibly photogenic border collie) solve modestly scaled mysteries, and Alfie, The Little Werewolf, a Netherlands comedy that arrives with the delightful cautions “minimal comedic violence,” “unseen animal death (eaten)” and “biting.” Suitable for ages seven through 10!

Me, I’m most looking forward to Wednesday night’s sneak peek of Aardman Animation’s new feature, The Pirates! Band Of Misfits. These are the cracked geniuses who made Chicken Run, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit, Flushed Away and Arthur Christmas, so my expectations are impossibly high – but I have hopes that director Peter Lord will meet them.

Lord will be here for a Q&A after the screening, and he’ll discuss Aardman’s history and its innovative business model in a master class on April 19. I’m just hoping he brings along some props to illustrate the sheer genius of their character design. Really, anything from the Wallace & Gronorman wIlner mit shorts will do. mon 16 – Girl Model. 6:30 pm. Happy People: A Year In The Taiga. 9 pm.

Tue 17 – Happy People: A Year In The Taiga.

6:30 pm. Girl Model. 9 pm. wed 18 – Girl Model. 6:30 pm. Happy People: A Year In The Taiga. 9 pm.

cameRa BaR 1028 queen w. 416-530-0011. cameRaBaR.ca

saT 14 – Seven Samurai (1954) D: Akira Kurosawa. 3 pm. Free.

cinematHeque tiff Bell ligHtBOx

Reitman squaRe, 350 king w. 416-599-8433, tiff.net

Thu 12 – Studio Ghibli: Pom Poko (1994) D: Isao Takahata. 6:30 pm.

FrI 13 – Nausicaä Of The Valley Of The Wind (1984) D: Hayao Miyazaki. 6:30 pm.

FrI 13-sun 15 – TIFF International Kids Film Festival. See listings, this page. saT 14-sun 15 – Crispin Hellion Glover’s Big Slide Show Part Two (2007) D: Crispin Glover and David Brothers, and What Is It? (2005) D: Crispin Glover. 7 pm. mon 16 – Books On Film: Will Aitken screens and discusses Death In Venice (1971) D: Luchino Visconti. 7 pm. $35.

Tue 17-wed 18 – TIFF International Kids Film Festival. See listings, this page.

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fOx tHeatRe

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

Thu 12 – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) D Tomas Alfredson. 6:45 pm. Pina 3D (2011) D: Wim Wenders. 9:15 pm.

FrI 13 – Salmon Fishing In The Yemen (2012) D: Lasse Hallstrom. 7 pm. The Artist (2011) D: Michael Hazanavicius. 9:15 pm. saT 14-sun 15 – Star Wars: Episode 1, The Phantom Menace 3D (2001) D: George Lucas. 1:30 pm. Salmon Fishing In The Yemen.

4:15 & 7 pm. The Artist. 9:15 pm. mon 16 – Coriolanus (2011) D: Ralph Fiennes. 7 pm. The Artist. 9:15 pm.

Tue 17 – The Artist. 7 pm. Coriolanus. 9 pm. wed 18 – .Salmon Fishing In The Yemen. 1:30 & 7 pm. In Darkness (2012) D: Agnieszka Holland. 9:15 pm.

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gRaHam spRy tHeatRe

cBc museum, cBc BROadcast centRe, 250 fROnt w, 416-205-5574. cBc.ca

Thu 12-wed 18 – Continuous screenings Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm. Free.

Thu 12-FrI 13 – Myth Or Science. mon 16-wed 18 – Walking The Green Tiger.

natiOnal film BOaRd 150 JOHn. 416-973-3012. nfB.ca/mediatHeque

Thu 12-wed 18 – More than 5,000 NFB films

available at digital viewing stations. TueWed noon-7 pm, Thu-Sat noon-10 pm, Sun noon-5 pm. Free.

Thu 12-saT 14 – Journey Through Flamenco & Spanish Films. $10, double feature $12.

TorontoFlamencoFestival.com.

Thu: Lorca (2006) D: Emilio Barrachina. 1 pm.

Copla (2009) D: Emilio Barrachina, and A Cara O Cruz, and Heads Or Tails D: Silvia Prió.

3 pm. Morente (2011) D: Emilio Barrachina. 6 pm. Kumpania: Flamenco Los Angeles D: Katina Dunn. 8:30 pm.

Fri: Morente. 1 pm. Lorca. 3:25 pm.

Sat: Morente. 8 pm. A Cara O Cruz, and Orson Welles, and Goya (2008) D: Emilio Barrachina. 3 pm. Lorca. 6 pm.

FrI 13 – Toronto Screen Shots presents Shorts That Are Not Pants. 7 pm. $10, adv $8. shortsnotpants.wordpress.com. wed 18 – A World Of Shorts presents Hide & Seek. 6 & 8 pm. $6, stu/srs $4.

OntaRiO science centRe

770 dOn mills. 416-696-3127. OntaRiOsciencecentRe.ca

Thu 12-FrI 13 – Rocky Mountain Express. 11

am & 2 pm. Under The Sea. Noon. Tornado Alley. 1 pm. saT 14 – 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 15 – Rocky Mountain Express. 11 am, 2 & 4 pm. Tornado Alley. Noon. Jane Goodall’s Wild Champanzees. 1 pm. Under The Sea. 3 pm. mon 16-wed 18 – Rocky Mountain Express.

11 am & 2 pm. Under The Sea. Noon. Tornado Alley. 1 pm.

tHe pROJectiOn BOOtH

1035 geRRaRd e. 416-466-3636, pROJectiOnBOOtH.ca

Thu 12 – Black Butterflies (2011) D: Paula van der Oest. Noon. Pink Ribbons (2011) D: Lea Pool. 1:45 pm. Battle Royale (2000) D; Kinji Fukasaku. 4:30 & 9:30 pm. Showtime Shaker Movie And Martini Charity Fundraiser for Extend-A-Family. Film tba. 7 pm. $15. extendafamily.ca.

FrI 13-wed 18 – Check website for schedule.

Reg HaRtt’s cinefORum 463 BatHuRst. 416-603-6643.

Thu 12 – Winifred Wagner und die Geschichte des Hauses Wahnfried von 1914-1975 (1975) D: Hans Jurgen Syberberg. 7 pm. saT 14 – Bugs Bunny animated cartoon program. 7 pm. The Salvador Dali/Luis Bunuel Anarchist, Surrealist, Hallucinatory Film Festival. 9 pm. sun 15 – 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 Three Musketeers (1973) D: Richard Lester. 9 pm. mon 16 – Shadows (1922) D: Tom Forman. 7 pm. Twentieth Century (1934) D: Howard Hawks. 9 pm.

Tue 17 – America And The Holocaust: Deceit And Indifference (2005) D: Martin Ostrow. 7 pm. The Damned (1969) D: Luchino Visconti.

9 pm. wed 18 – Night And Fog (1955) D: Alain Resnais. 6 pm. Triumph Of The Will (1935) D: Leni Riefenstahl. 7 pm. The Great Dictator (1940) D: Charles Chaplin. 9 pm.

Revue cinema

400 ROncesvalles. 416-531-9959. Revuecinema.ca

Thu 12 – In Darkness (2011) D: Agnieszka Hol-

land. 6:45 pm. Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey (2011) D: Constance Marks. 9:30 pm.

FrI 13 – Iron Lady (2011) D: Phyllida Lloyd. 7 pm. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) D: Tomas Alfredson. 9:15 pm. saT 14 – Hugo (2011) D: Martin Scorsese. 2 pm.

Iron Lady. 4:15 & 7 pm. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. 9:15 pm.

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Ask before posting pics My fiancé and i have been together for six years. We’re both 27. About a year ago, he admitted to me that he’s bi – which I was surprised about. I told him that I was bi-curious. We’ve had talks about meeting with other couples. I’m very insecure. I have been with very few men and no women (beyond kissing).

Today, he told me that a few weeks ago he signed us up on a personals website and posted a picture of me naked from the waist down. I was shocked and upset. I’ve never posted nude pics of myself anywhere! I felt this was a violation of my privacy. He says that I wasn’t actively doing anything about getting outside partners, so he wanted to show me that I’m attractive and that other people thought so.

He got angry when I tried to explain why I was upset. He said that if this is how I’m going to react, he’d take the whole thing down. When I tried again to explain that I was hurt that he didn’t talk to me first and I actually did want to see the responses, he said, “Fuck it” – he was giving up and refused to show me the responses.

1. Is it that ludicrous to be upset about naked pics of me being posted on the internet without my knowledge?

2. Do I deserve time to think about the naked-pic situation before he gives up?

3. Does he have a right to feel angry with me for being initially upset?

What Should I Do? 1. No. 2. Yes, you deserve some time to think about the naked-pic situation. You might also want to carve out a little time to think about the whole engagedto-a-manipulative-and-petulant-pieceof-shit situation.

3. No, he does not. Your reaction was not only understandable, WSID, it was one he should’ve anticipated. Maybe he thought it would be easier to ask for forgiveness than permission, and maybe he thought it wasn’t a big deal because it wasn’t a face pic, and maybe he hoped positive responses would heal your insecurities and prompt you to retroactively approve of his actions. He was wrong. But instead of apologizing for his thoughtlessness – instead of taking responsibility for his actions – your fiancé attempted to shift the blame onto you. (You weren’t actively seeking out sex partners so, like, what other choice did he have?) He’s the one who fucked up, and yet you’re the one who’s in trouble. If he can’t apologize, WSID, if he can’t stop trying to blame you for his own stupidity, if he doesn’t stop withholding those responses, you really should rethink your plans to marry this man. Bi and sexually adventurous are great traits in a mate, dishonest and emotionally abusive are not.

Fiancé digs my strap-on i have been with My fiancé for four years. We are happy together and very much in love. When I met him he was a bit boring, and I brought him out of his shell. But now I’m starting to feel like I’ve created a monster. He has discovered that he is really into some things.

For example: trans porn, wearing my lingerie, being on the “receiving end” of my strap-on, etc. All of these things are fine – once in a while. But it makes me feel like less of a woman when all he wants to do is be the woman every single time! We have talked about it, and he has cut back, but I can’t help but wonder, is he less satisfied in bed now?

I have noticed a drop in how often we have sex after we had the “talk.” I’m getting bored and worried!

Created A Monster You two may be experiencing – and you may be misinterpreting – a normal fouryears-in decrease in the frequency of sex, CAM, or this could be one of those lulls that even couples in LTRs that don’t see a drop in frequency sometimes experience. That the amount of sex you and your fiancé are having fell off steeply in the immediate wake of the “talk” may just be a coincidence.

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I’m GGG, so I mulled it over and decided that I’m not comfortable with that. I was able to explain that regardless of how sanitary it may be (one of his selling points!), I am not down and he deserves to be with someone who is. A couple of weeks later, I started talking to my future husband, who has the same kinks as me. Thanks for teaching me that being GGG does not mean doing whatever neaRly 2,0 your partner wants but to always be respectful, even if it eeks you out.Search by ra Soon To Wed

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ness. You get a gold star for drawing him out of his shell, sexually speaking, and he may have gotten so excited about you being up for watching trans porn, putting him in your lingerie and pegging his ass that he lost sight of your needs, wants and desires. It’s possible that he’s less interested in sex now that it’s not all about transgender porn and gender transgression, CAM, but it’s also possible that he’s embarrassed for being such a thoughtless panty-wearing clod and is having a hard time getting things back in gear. You may need to draw him out yet again.

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I’m glad you met the love of your life, STW, and here’s hoping your new man doesn’t have a secret kink that’s as bad or worse – or identical to – your previous man’s rather harmless kink. Yes, yes, being into golden showers, or getting off on being pissed on, is pretty kinky as kinks go. But after a few beers, piss is just so much hot water. I’m not saying you should’ve gone there for your ex if pissing on him was something you absolutely, positively couldn’t bring yourself to do. All I’m saying is that most people who give piss a chance quickly realize that golden showers aren’t nearly as gross and disgusting – or even golden – as they were led to believe by people who lump piss in with shit when discussing and/or freaking out about other people’s kinks.

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