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Reimagining the CBC i am deeply concerned about the Conservative government’s plan to cut more than $100 million dollars from the CBC (NOW, April 1218). The CBC keeps Canada connected. It provides a common thread for all Canadians living across our massive and diverse country. These severe cuts will be hardest on rural and remote regions where the CBC is the main media presence. Good public media is important for our democracy, our culture and our digital economy. In a time of massive global change, we need strong Can adian institutions that can change and grow to meet the challenges of our times. This is a time for a national conver sation about how we can take advan tage of those opportunities. It’s time to create, not cut. I urge all Canadians to send a message to the government at reimaginecbc.ca/ connected. Nathalie Daumas Toronto

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the UK, I am of the opinion I will be better off not being struck or electrocuted for my curiosity. DW Toronto

Princes’ Gate puzzle enjoyed now’s articles on disappearing Toronto (NOW, March 29April 4). It’s a great shame that more effort isn’t put into restoring heritage sites to their former glory. One such monument that was restored in Toronto has been absolutely destroyed. I am talking about the Princes’ Gate at Exhibition Place. It now looks like a jigsaw puzzle. Let’s hope the Union Station revitalization does not turn out the same. It would be a great loss to the people of Toronto if it did. Scott Edwards Toronto

Haunted heritage i read with great interest enzo DiMatteo’s Toronto’s Heritage Hit List and agree wholeheartedly with the reasons to preserve our past. To those who are actively fighting to save such landmarks, may I humbly suggest they call in the Searcher Group (TSG) to help add a more human “spin” to their efforts? Whether any of the locations listed boasts a ghost or not, utilizing the free services of TSG to thoroughly investigate them and discover the stories the walls of these historical gems contain might strengthen their conservation endeavours. What could it hurt to try? Peter Roe Toronto

Spare us TTC lectures regarding ttc’s funding fix (now, April 5-11). Adam Giambrone was part of the administration that gambled on the downtown streetcar replacement funding contract being funded

by the feds even though it was clear (and I’m no friggin’ Tory) that other municipalities would go nuts if Toronto were allowed to sidestep the terms of the stimulus money – namely that no project could proceed without being likely to finish by the stimulus end date. Let’s have no lectures from Mr. Giambrone on funding. In fact, spare us all of his opinions. Mark Dowling Toronto

Flaming Lips lock for NXNE i can’t possibly think of anything that would put a bigger smile on my face than news that the Flaming Lips (NOW Daily, April 17) will be playing NXNE. So awesome! Jason Paris From nowtoronto.com NOW welcomes reader mail. Address letters to: NOW, Letters to the Editor, 189 Church, Toronto, ON M5B 1Y7. Send e-mail to letters@nowtoronto.com and faxes to 416-364-1166. All correspondence must include your name, address and daytime phone number. Letters may be edited for length.

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Everybody from young families to bankers, middle-class professionals and visiting diplomats takes the tram. If you live downtown, it’s much easier and faster than driving. In Geneva, public transit isn’t something you use only if you can’t afford a car or want to make a green political statement. It’s a practical way to get from A to B. Everybody does it. People depend on it, and they don’t accept bad service. It has to work well, and it does. Waiting more than five minutes for a tram

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In the flap over Toronto’s transit future, we have to recognize that few have had any kind of exposure to light rail. For most of us, subways are our only experience of public transportation that works well and doesn’t get bogged down in traffic. I can see why there’d be a tendency to associate light rail with old-fashioned, slow and unpredictable streetcars. But believe me, light rail is nothing like that. As a Canadian expatriate living in Geneva, Switzerland, I’ve experienced first hand the wonders of a light-rail-based system that’s fast, efficient and dependable. In fact, I take a light rail “tram” to work every morning. When I arrive at the stop where I change connections, a convenient automated screen shows when the next tram is coming and where it’s going. When the vehicle arrives, the doors open only briefly. You hurry on and they automatically lock behind you. This results in some dramatic scenes of frustrated people rushing to the tram, banging on the doors and making hysterical gestures, but it definitely speeds things up. There’s no turnstile at the front; instead, you buy a ticket or a monthly pass. “Controllers” make random checks and impose hefty fines on those who can’t produce a ticket. Once you board, your tram flies past cars; it’s in its own lane.

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feels like an eternity, and people complain loudly to the city when this happens. This winter, unseasonable cold caused a water main break and a two-day transit meltdown. People were incensed. It was front-page news locally; waiting 10 minutes was simply unacceptable. I can’t imagine what this population would make of the TTC. Of course, this is Switzerland, the gold standard for transit. But it proves that a workable system is out there. Perhaps Torontonians have been living so long with transit mediocrity that they simply can’t imagine anything better. Trust me, it exists, and Toronto deserves it.

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Unique Quebec folkroots duo the McGarrigle Sisters talked to NOW about their fifth release, Love Over And Over, and why their musical mix of tunefulness and vulnerability hadn’t made them famous yet. Anna and Kate agreed that family was more important to them. The McGarrigle dynasty has proved strong. Kate’s children, Martha and Rufus Wainwright, have their own successful careers; Rufus’s new release gets a 5N review this week (see page 60). His material this time around deals extensively with his mother, who died two years ago. He’ll be front and centre at the Luminato event Love Over And Over: The Songs Of Kate McGarrigle, slated for June 15 at Massey Hall. (Page 7 of the issue) Use the cool new searchable viewer online at nowtoronto.com/archives

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Vegas hard sell in T.O. Big money is moving in to spin gambling as a win-win for a reluctant city By ENZO DiMATTEO

irst, the big news: one of premier Dalton McGuinty’s most powerful cabinet min isters, Municipal Af fairs and Housing head Kathleen Wynne, the MPP for Don Valley West, doesn’t like gambling or the idea of a casino in To ronto. She describes herself as “con flicted” on the issue. Now the bad news: her personal misgivings aside, Wynne says it’s up to the city to decide if it wants a casino. She’s not “naive” enough to think that gambling will go away. The province, she says, will respect the decision of council. As for the monied and very powerful forces of evil agitating behind the scenes for a Toronto casino – lobbyists are sniffing around City Hall as we speak – Wynne advises you, dear voter, to call your local councillor about your concerns. Talk about skilled deflection.

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Around the cabinet table at Queen’s Park, more MPPs than not share Wynne’s discomfort with gambling. Their reticence is compounded by the fact that the brothers Ford will be the ones running the show should the de cision be made to bring a casino to the Big Smoke. But I’m hearing that a fallback pos ition is being concocted by the Libs to land this baby in Mississauga, Mark ham or Oakville – better alternatives, to my mind, given their more regional location and the lesser threat they pose to existing gaming operations freaked at the prospect of Toronto sucking up all the action. Despite the political pushing and shoving happening behind the scenes, the casino debate will be won or lost in the court of public opinion. It’s almost two weeks and still no re sults, at least none that have been made public, on that casino poll linked to former Ford chief of staff Nick Kou

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valis – more specifically, to the Cam paign Support call centre run by his wife. Perhaps the hopedfor results among casino advocates – that Toron tonians are dying for a gambling den on the waterfront – just aren’t there. Results of polling conducted by the Canadian Gaming Association and others to gauge our appetite for a Caesars Palacestyle casino are split down the middle – not strong num bers for casino pushers. Enter MGM Resorts International, which has hired the Sussex Strategy Group to push its gambling interests at City Hall. At last count, Sussex has placed four staffers on the casino file. Among those visited by Sussex opera tives since Campaign Support’s poll: Amir Remtulla, the mayor’s chief of staff; Earl Provost, the mayor’s direc tor of councillor and stakeholder rela tions, and a number of councillors, including Giorgio Mammoliti twice.

So how to spin this gambling thing into a winwin? Mammoliti opined on the may or’s radio show Sunday, April 14, that a casino would create great job op portunities for unemployed single mothers. (Yeah, let’s send them all to college to become card sharks.) Mammo went one better Tuesday, April 17, suggesting that gambling could provide the kind of revenue that would allow the city to back off on budget cuts – if saving single mothers isn’t a big enough carrot for ya. Between casinos and bunny ranches, another Nevada import Mammo’s high on, a lot of palms stand to get greased, if you know what I mean. With the province leaving this one up to Toronto, we can expect more in the way of, um, positive re inforcement on the casino question. My hunch is that public support for it just isn’t there. If it were, we’d have heard more on Campaign Support’s survey by now. It will be interesting to see how those numbers are reported. If the results are anything like the polls on the gambling issue so far, a casino will be a tough sell. The mayor’s brother, Councillor Doug Ford, an unabashed casino supporter, has all of a sudden been talking about public transit as a pre requisite for any gambling facility. The cynic in me thinks he’s an gling to make a casino more palat able by linking transit to the deal. Besides, a casino would be just the kind of catalyst the Fords are looking for to fasttrack their own develop ment plans for the eastern water front. A recent consultants’ study done for Waterfront Toronto named tran sit as the big missing link standing in the way of significant revitaliza tion for the area. It might all be a coincidence. But I’m not the only one whose Spidey senses are tingling on this business. Adam Vaughan’s motion to put the casino idea to a referendum at last week’s meeting of council (it was referred to the executive commit tee) takes on new meaning in light of the lobbying that’s taken flight in recent days at City Hall. But another motion of Vaughan’s didn’t capture the same headlines. That one asks the province to put tighter controls on the misuse of telephone technology, i.e. robocalls. Vaughan didn’t craft the motion with the current casino debate in mind, but he is wary that misleading robopolls could be used, too, to push casinos. Right now, any firm outside Cana da providing robocall technology to a client, for example, or engaging in the funny business of loaded polls, is beyond the reach of the Canadian courts. Vaughan says that leaves the city open to “corruption” by outside influences. The early returns on the casino question, however, indicate that the public’s no sucker. 3 enzom@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/enzodimatteo

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Awaveofsupportfor diversityintopparty positionshowsprovincial NDPonthecuspofmajor transformation.

ONDP gets a facelift There’s tension as the party turns up a whole new power base By ADAM GIAMBRONE you could feel the sense of generational change in the air last weekend, April 13-15, as 1,000 Ontario New Democrats gathered at the Hamilton Convention Centre to chart policy and elect a new party president. The new winds were evident Friday night, for example, when K’naan took the stage to talk about his personal activism with MC MPP Jagmeet Singh. The crowd, many of them young Somalis, cheered when K’naan broke into their mother tongue. It’s an exciting time to be involved in the NDP because the party’s makeup is changing. For the first time in years, many long-time members didn’t recognize most of the faces, since a large number of delegates were young, from diverse backgrounds and first-timers. Traditionally strong in the north and downtown urban centres, the ONDP at this convention showcased its new strength in the 905, typified by Singh’s breakthrough win in Bramalea-Gore-Malton. The meet, the first since Andrea Horwath was elected leader in 2009, was full of the energy of the newly recruited. And attendance set a new record, just like the federal leadership confab a few weeks back. In the halls of the Convention Centre, clutches of young people were everywhere, discussing policy resolutions, organizing for elections or just getting to know each other and enjoying being part of the process. Despite the upbeat mood, things weren’t all sunny; there was tension

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Friday when Ontario Federation of Labour president Sid Ryan argued strongly that raising welfare rates and corporate taxes, as well as opposition to an imposed wage freeze in the public service, ought to be a bigger part of Horwath’s negotiation agenda with Dalton McGuinty. The convention split on his referral motion 218 to 200. There were other kinds of strains, too, particularly over the new generation’s efforts to win prominent administrative positions, especially when Tamil activist Neethan Shan won the ONDP presidency over long-time union activist Andrew Mackenzie. Shan, a former school trustee, came close to winning a seat in Scarborough-Rouge River in the last provincial election. Shan brings new perspectives based on his experience as a 16year-old Tamil refugee fleeing repression and war in Sri Lanka. He has long been a leader in his community, and it was evident from the number of young people in his entourage that he knows how to build a team. His victory is likely to complement Horwath’s push toward an updated, urban-aware party capable of picking up seats in the new- Canadian communities increasingly

dominating the 905. But these hard-fought elections pitted some older members, longtime labour-associated delegates, against a younger, diverse group aiming to contribute what they’ve learned in Tamil, Somali or Sikh community action as well as in student and grassroots movements. The NDP has a long, strong history with unions, but that relationship is evolving, as it did when new federal laws cut the financial ties that had cemented the labour/ party relationship. The new structure allowed the party to bring in new blood while still respecting its union legacy. The ONDP’s new leaders must ensure that these long-established links are protected and any bridges burned at the convention rebuilt. The newer constituency and the old guard share many of the same principles; the differences seem to be those of style. Organizations need to reflect new realities and change. Such shifts can be difficult, but transformation is the only guarantee that the ONDP will be ready for a cross-province win. 3

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It was called re-imagining our Cities, but the summit was more about reimagining the NdP. One of its first policy events since electing Tom Mulcair federal leader, the April 13 invitation-only conference hosted by the federal NDP and York U’s City Institute at the Toronto Reference Library was about how to grow the city economy. A roomful of Dippers in suits, jackets and ties sipping coffee from real mugs instead of church-basement styrofoam cups is a sure sign the party is moving on, hoping to fill a new political niche as tomorrow’s economic growth managers. The meet also included a handful of local councillors and various policy experts. But it was obvious the eight NDP MPs, plus party staffers, were there to firm up their new positioning as champions of an innovative urban manufacturing and knowledge economy, against Conservative cronies of foreign-based resource exporters. These are not your grandmother’s tax-and-spend New Democrats. The party was always about wealth redistribution, but now, in the midst of recession and austerity, it’s busy developing proposals on actual wealth creation. The Conservatives have given them a unique opportunity to play this card. Starving the public sector, especially in cities, is cutting off the economy’s nose to spite the deficit’s face, the argument goes. Smart public programs are only dispensable in an economy run for hewers of wood and drawers of oil and water. The outlines of the developing narrative were laid out in an op-ed by NDP MP Matthew Kellway and City Institute director Roger Keil a few weeks back. The Conservative budget, they wrote, “makes the projection of the vanished middle class of our city all the more certain.” Before everyone broke into workshops, participants heard expert contributions. U of T political economist David Wolfe showed how the auto-based economy that brought prosperity to southern Ontario after the 1960s was “the child of government policy” that gave substantial subsidies to every new plant built after 1980. Today, Hamilton and Kitchener-Waterloo pin their hopes on what robust university research programs can do to bolster local medical, software and small manufacturing operations. But Toronto, he says, must compete as a global city, vying with New York, London and Tokyo despite underfunded programs. The Conservative budget matches about $1 billion in spending over four years for research and innovation with an approximately equal amount of operational cuts in the same areas. Economist Armine Yalnizyan of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives followed with an advisory that southern Ontario’s success depends on attracting the best and brightest immigrants, who stimulate demand for new homes, furnishings and food. The region is in competition for about 200 million footloose professionals and entrepreneurs from across the global South who are picking cities based on creative employment and good health care, recreation and housing. Despite the innovation this discussion foretells, the new Dipper brand needs a little work on substance. The range of the discussion seemed unnecessarily narrow. It wouldn’t hurt to have at least one word to say about the food sector, the scene of actually existing job-creating innovation across the spectrum of farming, processing, retailing and eating. And organizers might’ve invited someone from the fashion biz to share the limelight in a gathering a little too worshipful of biomedical researchers and software developers, or reps from NGOs or green or social innovators. Still, the NDP has a golden opportunity to lead on the economy, and it looks like they might take it. 3

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Safe injection SiteS will Save liveS, So how come polS aren’t leaping to Support them? By BEN SPURR a report released last week that recommended setting up supervised drug injection facilities here seems to have faded from the public discourse in a flash. While the Toronto And Ottawa Super vised Consumption Assessment (TOSCA) Study aimed to start a discussion about a harm reduction strategy for vulnerable cocaine and opiate addicts, there’s little indication that’s a conversation our leaders and law enforcers are prepared to have. The ink had barely dried on the four-year-long study, sponsored by St. Michael’s Hospital and U of T’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health, when key officials dismissed its findings out of hand. Despite the authors’ assertion that three T.O. safe injection sites would reduce overdose deaths and HIV and hepatitis C infections, Health Minister Deb Matthews quickly declared that the province has no intention of pursuing the matter at this time because “experts continue to be divided on [their] value.” Deputy mayor Doug Holyday didn’t waste any time either telling reporters he had “some doubts as to whether there is real benefit and whether you don’t just attract more problems,” and urged yet more study. And Chief Bill Blair chimed in that while Vancouver has had such a facility for some years, “issues have arisen

there. I don’t know of any place in Toronto where [a site] couldn’t have a significant negative impact on communities.” Blair’s spokesperson, Mark Pugash, when asked for elaboration, says only that the chief has “had regular discussions with senior police leaders in Canada, the States and western Europe. Based on that, this is not something he can support.” But Vancouver Police Department spokesperson Constable Lindsey Houghton tells NOW the site there, the only one in Canada, “has not had a measurable effect on the increase or decrease of crime or disorder. The VPD is supportive of any legal measure that might have a chance at reducing the drug problem” in Vancouver’s troubled Downtown Eastside. Ahmed Bayoumi of the Centre for Research on Inner City Health at St. Michael’s Hospital, who led the study along with U of T’s Carol Strike, isn’t surprised by the negative reaction. But he dismisses charges that such facilities jeopardize quality of life for neighbours. His research found the opposite: in cities like Vancouver and Sydney, Australia, safe injection sites have led to less visible drug use and lower crime rates. “Contrary to what most people think, the sites generally have had a positive community impact rather than negative,” he says. “They generally operate as very good neighbours.”

“Contrary to what people think, the sites have had a positive community impact. They operate as good neighbours.” While officialdom balks at these findings, some closer to the front lines are taking the report seriously. A statement from Toronto Public Health, which would likely be involved in running such a facility, says the agency “is supportive of the use of supervised consumption sites as an effective intervention in some circumstances,” and it’s reviewing the report. Councillor Gord Perks, who represents Parkdale, an area seen by many as the logical place for a supervised program, says council needs to be open to the study’s findings. “It’s very clear that these facilities would save lives, reduce health care costs and reduce harm to our neighbourhoods,” he says. “So I think that from a good policy perspective but also from a moral perspective we have to try to find a way to meet the recommendations.” But if higher-ups con-

tinue to obstruct imple mentation, Perks predicts it’s “going to be a very steep hill to climb.” While key players line up in opposition, Bayoumi suggests Vancouver, with its public support for harm reduction, should serve as both a model and a warning. “It is important to recognize that the Downtown Eastside is a pretty unique situation,” he says. “The issues with drug use in that neighbourhood have gotten so bad that I think everybody realized something different had to be done.” If his assessment is correct, Toronto’s drug problem may have to get a lot worse before our leaders are willing to engage in an open discussion about remedying it.

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Bringing our cities back from the brink “A man who, beyond the age of twenty-six, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.” — Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

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

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This is an example of an email I receive on a regular basis: an inane subject line, then a long, unruly link to whichever viral video is trending that day. For the past few years, this is more

or less how the media have presented the same videos: no context, no expla nation, no effort, simply cuttingand pasting a video that’s racking up views somewhere online. I’m offended by this. And you should be, too. At what point did it become acceptable to shove viral videos in someone’s face without any explana tion? Not only is it irritating, but it can be shady, too. Take the recent video of the intoxi cated man in the back of a police car

singing Bohemian Rhapsody. Without knowing the circumstances, that was a pretty hilarious clip. But throw the context back in and it gets less and less funny. Robert Wilkin son, the man in the video, has been pulled over multiple times for drunk driving. He is in the back of an RCMP vehicle on this occasion on those very stops – for impaired driving and refus ing to take a breathalyzer. He was made into a hero in the Canadian media. By the time the de tails of his arrest came out, many felt forced to defend their celebration of the video. The National Post even went so far as to suggest the charges had been trumped up. It gets more complex, though. The allegedly drunk driver, who uploaded the video of his antics turned over to him by prosecutors, is in a position to make money off it. This week, YouTube launched a Canadian partner program, allowing contentcreating YouTube users to monetize viral videos with advertising. YouTube, for its part, will help make partner videos go viral. (In this case, EMI, the owners of the rights of the Queen hit, get most of the advertising bucks off the video.) So the more information that comes with a video, specifically who’s making money off it, the better. That respon sibility rests with whoever is pushing it, be it YouTube, the Huffington Post or the idiot barraging my inbox. And viewers are already starting to demand more information. Just ask the producers of the Kony2012 video, who were subjected to intense, world wide scrutiny after their video went through the viral machine. So the next time http://www.you tube.com/watch?v=LqeC3BPYTmE or something like it arrives in an email, don’t click it. Email back and demand an explanation. What in god’s name is this? Why should I watch it? What are you trying to accomplish by sending it? And why thrust it upon me in such a passiveaggressive manner? Anyone can upload a video. Anyone can share a video. And anyone can watch it. But do you want to be just another anyone? joshuae@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/joshuaerrett

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terial soap has been declared toxic. Can you believe they say it might cause super-bugs?” rather than “I noticed you’re using antibacterial soap. You’re really poisoning your family, you know that?” 4) Make a night of it. Hold a swap night where friends and family bring in old movies, CDs, re-gifts and preloved clothes and they’ll see what a blast recycling can be. Host a Bring Your Own Jar party where you make your own cleaning products. Just download a Green Cleaning Party Kit

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Thursday, April 19

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green drinkS earth day FundraiSer (Earth

Day Canada) Drinks party. 7 pm. Free. CN Tower, 301 Front W. greendrinks.org/on/toronto. maSSive party (Art Gallery of Ontario) The AGO’s annual fundraising party celebrates contemporary art with installations, entertainment and more. 8 pm. $150. Art Gallery of Ontario Walker Court, 317 Dundas W. 416979-6628, ago.net/massive. noah dinner (Nurturing Orphans of AIDS for Humanity) Fundraising dinner. 6:30 pm. $150. The Berkeley, 315 Queen E. 416-571-1262. rumbon para/For billy bryanS (Billy Bryans) Music by Alex Cuba, Samba Squad, Son Ache and others, plus a dance lesson. Doors 7 pm. $30. Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas W. 416588-0307, lula.ca. Spring Shopping extravaganza (Summit Heights Public School playground) Clothing, jewellery, accessories and more. 4-9 pm. Free. Temple Sinai, 210 Wilson. 416-487-4161.

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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.

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Festivals this week

Central teChniCal SChool environmental Film FeStival An eco-fair, panel discus-

sions and a free screening of The Clean Bin Project on opening night (Wed, 7 pm) are part of this festival. Central Technical School, 725 Bathurst. centraltechnicalschool.ca/EFF/eff.html. Apr 24 to 26 |Fat| artS & FaShion Week Celebration of innovative and pioneering style and indie design, with runway and photo exhibitions, fashion installations, screenings, parties and more. Various venues. $30-$35/day, $75/week. fashionarttoronto.ca. Apr 24 to 28

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continuing imageS FeStival Showcasing international contemporary moving image culture with screenings of 100 films and videos from 150 artists including Jon Akomfrah, Sarah Rara and Lav Diaz, plus media art installations, performances, talks and concerts. $10, stu/srs $5; closing night $35, adv $30. Royal Cinema (608 College), Toronto Underground Cinema (186 Spadina). imagesfestival.com. To Apr 21 rkeep toronto reading Festival celebrating books, featuring readings, talks, workshops, interviews and more with authors including Esi Edugyan, Maggie Helwig, Lionel Shriver and Rabindranath Maharaj. Free. Various Toronto Public Library branches. torontopubliclibrary.ca. To Apr 30

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. 416599-8433, tiff.net/ kids. To Apr 22

and others. 8 pm. $10-$20. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. radarproductions.org.

255 Front W. torontoartexpo.com.

SoCrateS: authentiCity and the path to happineSS New Acropolis lecture on knowing

Councillor Shelley Carroll hosts a discussion on the Sheppard line LRT extension. 7-9 pm. Free. 30 Herons Hill Way, Party Room. Preregister 416-392-4099. WaterdoCS Screening of The Polar Explorer and The Antarctica Challenge, followed by discussion on the effects of climate change in our polar regions with filmmaker Mark Terry. 7 pm. Free. Ralph Thornton Community Centre, 765 Queen E. ecologos.ca/waterdocs. We’re all JournaliStS noW Canadian Journalism Fdn forum on participatory journalism, with TVO executive producer Dan Dunsky, Global News director Jennifer MacMillan and others. 7 pm. $15, stu free. TMX Broadcast Centre, 130 King W. Pre-register at cjfparticipatory.eventbrite.com.

oneself and the path to conscious evolution. 7:30 pm. $25, stu $15. Centre for Social Innovation, 215 Spadina. toronto.newacropolis. earth day – bothered by my green Conca/events/socrates. SCienCe Lecture by essayist Franke James. 7 Street art Funding in toronto Info session pm. Free. Big Carrot, rm 212, 348 Danforth. and panel discussion with StreetARToronto’s 416-466-2129. Lilie Zendel, Whippersnapper’s Joshua Barndt, high park biCyCle Club Info and sign-up Art Starts’ Katherine Earl and others. 4-6 pm. night. 7:30-9 pm. Lithuanian Hall, 1570 Bloor Free. Art Starts, Yorkdale Shopping Centre, W. torontohpbc.ca. 3401 Dufferin, lower level, #38. artstarts.net. publiC provoCative porn The year’s best in toronto art expo Art fair with Canadian feminist film. 9:30 pm. $15. Hot Docs Bloor and international galleries. Tonight 6-10 pm, Cinema, 506 Bloor W. goodforher.com. tomorrow noon to 9 pm, Sat 10 am-9 pm, Sun 11 am-6 pm. To Apr 22.Page $12-$14, SiSter with Michelle KROSpit 092Queer Nowliterary Mag event Ads May 12_FNL 12/04/12 3:41 PM 1 stu/srs $10, kids under 12 free. Metro Convention Centre, Tea, Brontez Purnell, Cassie J Sneider, Kit Yan

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about Toronto’s hosting of this event and how to participate. 7-9 pm. Free. Christie Ossington Neighbourhood Centre, 854 Bloor W. pridetoronto.com.

Friday, April 20

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divas from LUSH perform. 7 pm. $20 sugg. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org. red & White ball (Rethink Breast Cancer) A formal evening of live entertainment, dancing, cocktails and more. 9 pm. $60. Courthouse, 57 Adelaide E. redandwhitetoronto.com. red Carpet aFFair (Assaulted Women’s Helpline) Gala dinner and party. 6:30 pm. $150. Liberty Grand, 25 British Columbia. awhl.org.

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the big piCture This event is part of Global Action Week For Education and features an art installation and reading by children’s author Maria Stewart Konrad, followed by an interactive panel and networking session. 9:30-11:15 am (panel from 1:30-4 pm). Free (RSVP for panel). Ryerson Quad (40/50 Gould) and George Vari Engineering Centre (245 Church). ecdgroup.com/gaw. CapitaliSm iS the CriSiS Rebel Films screening and discussion with Yasin Kaya. 7 pm. $4. OISE, rm 2-212, 252 Bloor W. 416-535-8779, socialistaction-canada.blogspot.com. Common Front general aSSembly Ontario Federation of Labour meeting to develop collective plans for collective action. 3-6 pm. Church of the Holy Trinity, 10 Trinity Square. 416-443-7668, dmacdonald@ofl.ca. earth day book SWap Drop off a book, take a book. Noon-7 pm daily. To Apr 22. Free. Ransack the Universe, 1207 Bloor W, lower level. info@ransacktheuniverse.com. FeminiSt porn aWardS Celebration of porn makers with entertainment by Ill Na Na, CoCo la Creme and others, movie clips and host Elvira Kurt. 9 pm. $30, adv $25. Berkeley Church, 315 Queen E. goodforher.com. 4:20 party Live music, DJs, comedy acts and more. 2 pm-midnight. Free. Hot Box Cafe, 191 Baldwin. hotboxcafe.ca. Friday night live @ rom Earth Day-themed event with a real grass carpet, wine tasting and screening Sarah Harmer’s film Escarpment Blues, plus visual art and DJ dance. 6 pm. $9. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. rom.on.ca/fridays. greening StC Community cleanup, tree planting and barbecue. 9:30 am-noon. Free. Scarborough Town Centre, Hwy 401 btwn Brimley & McCowan. scarboroughtowncentre.com.

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artmart (Canadian Lesbian & Gay Archives/ Casey House) A silent auction of photos, posters, watercolours and more. 6-9 pm. Free. CLGA, 34 Isabella. clga.ca. the beautiFul etiquette oF Japan (Japan’s tsunami victims) Exhibition of photos about Japan by Jaime Barraza and others. 6 pm. $5. Accents on Eglinton, 1790 Eglinton W. jazzmanifiesto@gmail.com. Cn toWer Climb (World Wildlife Foundation of Canada) Step up and help save the living planet. 6 am. Pledges. CN Tower, 301 Front W. Pre-register wwf.ca/cntower. From baCh to roCk (Exultate Chamber Singers) Musical entertainment, a silent auction and more. 8 pm. $35. St Thomas Anglican Church Hall, 383 Huron. exultate.net. iya ire (Muhtadi International Drumming Festival) Festival benefit with the Afro-Cuban drum ensemble, plus Muhtadi & the World Drummers and DJ Corey Dawkins. 8 pm. $20. 918 Bathurst. muhtadidrumfest.com. Jam 4 JamaiCa (scholarships for underprivileged kids in Jamaica) Fundraising party. 10 pm. $20-$30. Sheraton Centre, 123 Queen W. jam4jamaica.com. leaSide Spring into aCtion (Canadian Dia-

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hoW to boil a Frog Film on climate change followed by discussion with Liz Rice of the Citizens’ Climate Lobby. 7 pm. Pwyc. Friends House, 60 Lowther. 416-731-6605, torontoclimatecampaign.org. iriSh Ceili Traditional Irish group dances for all ages with instruction. 8 pm. $5-$12. Christ the Saviour Russian Orthodox Cathedral, 823 Manning. info@set-dance.ca. never gonna groW up burleSque Performances with a comic-book theme by Bella Fox, Delicia Pastiche, Dr Tease and others. 9 pm. $15, adv $12. Toronto Underground Cinema, 168 Spadina. brownpapertickets.com. total health ShoW 2012 Panels, vendors and lectures on raw food, healthy aging, superbugs, children and pharmaceuticals, fluoride, energy healing and more. Today 6-10 pm; tomorrow 10 am-9 pm; Apr 22, 10 am-9 pm. $10-$50. Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front W. totalhealthshow.com. a Weekend With Jane auSten A lamplight tour of Fort York, historical dance demo, workshops, Regency-era food, an evening ball and more. Today 7-10 pm; tomorrow 10 am10:30 pm; Apr 22, 11 am-4 pm. Fort York (250 Fort York), St Barnabas Anglican Church (361 Danforth) and Montgomery’s Inn (4709 Dundas W). 416-394-8113, janeaustendancing.ca.

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betes Assoc) Walk, run or cycle a 2-, 5- or 10K course through Sunnybrook Park. 9 am. $35. Northlea United Church, 125 Brentcliffe. insideoutstudio.ca/action. Massive Charity GaraGe sale (Victoria College) Clothing and more. 10 am-3 pm. Free. Victoria College Birge Carnegie Bldg, 95 Charles W. michael.cournoyea@utoronto.ca.

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Time to lose our inferiority complex when it comes to boozemaking. We can get great wines and delicious beers – of all kinds – all of them manufactured close to home. In fact, we spotlight 30 brews made within a 100-mile radius of City Hall. Downtown breweries are springing up, and within a few kms of the city centre we found distillers concocting vodkas, whisky and, yes, sake. Read all about it in NOW’s special guide to drinking locally. By GRAHAM DUNCAN

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Distance: 1.6 km The localest. For an ice-cold beer on a shit-hot day, this lager (okay, Pilsner, to be precise), is a total goto. Like they say, “Doing one thing really, really well,” really, really close. Price: 1 x 500ml/$2.80 Availability: LCBO, the Beer Store

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DOUBLE BLACK IPA ñ Rating: NNNNN

Where: Toronto Distance: 1.7 km From the kitchen of Bar Volo. Hop bitterness weaves in and out of dark chocolate and clove notes. Complex. Hats off to the Morana family, their beer and their Yonge Street tabernacle. Price: 1 X 300ml glass/$6.50 Availability: For a limited time at Bar Volo

AMSTERDAM BONESHAKER UNFILTERED IPA Rating: NNN Where: Toronto Distance: 3.1 km With 7.1 per cent alcohol and modern IPA helpings of hops, Boneshaker lives up to its name. Amsterdam has been supplying downtown-made beer to Torontonians since 1986. Price: 1 x 500ml/$3.95 Availability: Amsterdam Brewery store

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LOCAL BREWS Beers brewed within 100 miles of Toronto aren’t necessarily totally green, since most commercial hops and barley are grown outside Ontario. But for many Toronto drinkers there’s undeniable allure in supporting local brewers whose beers and business culture reflect who we are and where we live. It’s the efforts of the craft beer movement that are re-localizing our brew – just ask the members of the brand new Ontario Hops Growers Association.

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KENSINGTON BREWING AUGUSTA ALE Rating: NNN Where: Etobicoke Distance: 15 km Awaiting its eventual brewery home behind Burger Bar, this admirably restrained pale ale, which considers the maltier side of life, is being made at Black Oak. Soon to debut at the LCBO. Price: Variable Availability: On draft at various bars and pubs

COOL LAGER Rating: NNN Where: Etobicoke Distance: 15.7 km Hey, craft beer snobs – some people genuinely enjoy mass-market-style beers. Deal with it. For a good, locally owned, locally operated everyday beer, go Cool. Price: 4 x 341ml/$5 Availability: LCBO, the Beer Store

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ORGANIC LAGER ñ Rating: NNNN Where: Burlington Distance: 54 km It’s got some of the most unhip branding in the biz, so it’s a good thing the lager’s so tasty. Robust, toasty with a resonant hop finish and organic to boot. Price: 473ml/$2.50 Availability: LCBO

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BEST BITTER ñ Rating: NNNN

Where: Toronto Distance: 7.1 km This long-standing uptown brew pub pioneer is the place to be for England-inspired traditional, cask-conditioned ales. At 4.5 per cent alcohol, the best bitter runs true to form. Price: 2 litre growler/$12 Availability: Granite Brewery store

MUSKOKA BREWERY MAD TOM IPA Rating: NNN Where: Bracebridge Distance: 183 km Mad Tom’s come to cottage country with IPA hoppity hipness and 6.4 per cent alcohol. Grapefruit hop flavour dominates, but the full body and fine carbonation stop Tommy from going crazy. Price: 6 x 355ml/$13.55 Availability: LCBO, the Beer Store

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GREAT LAKES DEVIL’S PALE ALE Rating: NNN Where: Etobicoke Distance: 14 km Enduring since 2006, the company’s unholy marketing alliance with Beerlzebub is obviously paying off. Mature, balanced style might also have something to do with it. Price: 1 x 473ml/$2.60 Availability: LCBO

Rating: NNNN ñ Where: Etobicoke

Distance: 15 km Always a favourite with the Drink Up tasting panel. Lots of balance, easy drinking but not lacking character. If you were looking for a definitive Toronto style of beer, this would be a good place to start. Price: 6 x 341ml/$12.75 Availability: LCBO, the Beer Store

Where: Etobicoke Distance: 15 km Cheshire Valley brews out of Black Oak and is only available at beer-centric bars. This nuanced coffee- and smoke-tinged porter with a contrasting hopped edge is worth the hunt. Price: Variable Availability: On draft at various bars and pubs

SAINT ANDRE VIENNA LAGER Rating: NNN Where: Etobicoke Distance: 15.7 km Overshadowed by flamboyant, Johnny-come-lately local brews, Saint André continues its long-standing interpretation of this lesser-known, subtle, balanced style of beer. Contract-brewed at Cool. Price: 6 x 341ml/$11.45 Availability: LCBO, the Beer Store

CHURCH-KEY NORTHUMBERLAND ALE Rating: NNN Where: Campbellford Distance: 179 km Compelling yin and yang with the nose and the mouth. Aromas of orange and brown spices contrast with the first hit of bracing, peppery grain on the palate. Great mouthfeel. Price: 6 x 341ml/$13.75 Availability: LCBO

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Where: Pickering Distance: 42 km Beer’s just like people. Having character? Good. Being a character? That’s another thing. This has character. Solid body, astringent hops and then just the tiniest hint of fruitiness that conjures up cherry brandy. Let it warm up just a bit. Price: 6 x 341ml/$11.95 Availability: LCBO, the Beer Store

DOUBLE TROUBLE HOPS AND ROBBERS IPA Rating: NNN Where: Etobicoke Distance: 15 km Brewed by Paul Dickey of Cheshire Valley at Black Oak. Follow? Things get simpler when you taste this balanced, modern IPA with its energetic, peppery finish. Price: Variable Availability: On draft at various bars and pubs

MOLSON STOCK ALE Rating: NNN Where: Etobicoke Distance: 26 km Be careful, Molsons. This week’s “heritage” brand is next week’s marketing darling, and then, kablooey, you shed all the hipster cred. Just ask Black Label next time you see it. Price: 24 x 341ml/$39.95 Availability: LCBO, the Beer Store

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BLACK CREEK OLDE STOUT Rating: NNN Where: Oakville Distance: 41 km Made in conjunction with the Black Creek Pioneer Village brewery and contracted out of Trafalgar. This chocolatey, toasty, relatively full-bodied stout is no anachronism. Price: 1 x 500ml/$3.55 Availability: LCBO

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Where: Nobleton Distance: 52 km An always reliable take on the classic Bohemian style. Made with Czech hops, Czech malts and Czech yeast, it’s not the localest local, but it tastes great. Price: 6 x 341ml/$12.95 Availability: LCBO, the Beer Store

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Where: Oakville Distance: 39 km RPA offers up the pleasurable experience of flavour complexity built up around deceptively light texture, not dissimilar to a good sparkling wine. Other Cameron’s beers are available at the LCBO and the Beer Store. Price: Variable Availability: On draft at various pubs and bars

Where: Orangeville Distance: 82 km Another English-style ale that leans toward the malt side of the malt/ hops/yeast flavour equation. Worth trying just to see that dark doesn’t always mean heavy. Price: 473ml/$2.65 Availability: LCBO

FLYING MONKEYS SMASHBOMB ATOMIC IPA Rating: NNN Where: Barrie Distance: 93 km Old Robert Simpson calls himself Flying Monkeys nowadays and makes things like Smashbomb. If you wish to embrace hops in all their resinous glory, get Smashbombed tonight. Price: 6 x 355ml/$13.25 Availability: LCBO, the Beer Store

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WATERLOO PREMIUM AMBER Rating: NNN Where: Waterloo Distance: 110 km Originally known as Brick, Waterloo goes way back to 1984 in the local beer game. With fruitiness, high alcohol and smooth texture, it shows what oak aging can do for a beer. Price: 1 x 473ml/$2.50 Availability: LCBO

GRAND RIVER BLACKBERRY WHEAT Rating: NNN Where: Guelph Where: Cambridge Distance: 95 km Distance: 99 km Perfect for the next Game Of Thrones One good thing about locals is party. Enthusiastically brown. Rides they’re more likely to serve up seathe heavily roasted malt edge nicely. sonals like this charming offering. Fine carbonation out of the bottle. Grand’s regular non-seasonal beers, Price: 6 x 341ml/$12.85 like Curmudgeon IPA, can be had at Availability: LCBO the LCBO. Price: Variable Availability: On draft at various pubs and bars

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NEUSTADT 10W30 BROWN ALE Rating: NNN Where: Neustadt Distance: 188 km Here, we’re in the malty, warm range of flavours, with less emphasis on hops, referencing English mild beers. Suitably named, 10W30 is smooth and easy. Price: 1 x 473ml/$2.70 Availability: LCBO

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TANK HOUSE ALE ñ Rating: NNNN Where: Scarborough Distance: 23 km So ahead of its time, they knew calling it a West-coast-style IPA would just confuse everyone. The brew pub’s in the Distillery District, but almost all the blood, sweat and beers happens at the Scarbeeria brewery. Price: 6 x 341ml/$12.95 Availability: LCBO, the Beer Store

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Distance: 15.7 km Contracted out at Cool but brewed in the spirit of Bavaria. Be sure to give the can a gentle roll to stir up the yeast sediment which is all part of the weissbier fun. Price: 473ml/$2.60 Availability: LCBO, the Beer Store

CREEMORE SPRINGS KELLERBIER Rating: NNN Where: Creemore Distance: 119 km This seasonal beer goes full-time, allowing you to enjoy this take on “cellar beer” year-round. Still delivers Creemore, not Cree-less flavour despite ongoing concerns regarding Molson-Coors ownership. Price: 1 x 473ml/$2.80 Availability: LCBO, the Beer Store

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WELLINGTON IRON DUKE STRONG ALE Rating: NNN Where: Guelph Distance: 97 km My bottle sample seemed to be lacking the touted fruity notes, but it still packed a warm, high-alcohol, roastytoasty punch. Probably great poured fresh on draft. Swell label. Price: 6 x 341ml/$12.50 Availability: LCBO, the Beer Store

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Location TBA Having once owned La Hacienda and the Paddock Tavern, Tom Paterson is now all about the beer at Junction Brewery. Junction’s Conductor Craft Ale is currently contract-brewed at Wellington under the supervision of Paterson and Doug Pengelly of Saint André, but this zymurgistic duo has a toehold in the Junction with a warehouse where they make their cask beers. Sample the Conductor at various bars around town and, eventually, at the Junction Brewery somewhere in the Junction.

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John Hall walked past the Hiram Walker distillery on his way to school, dreaming they would hire him to make whisky. Never happened. So he became a winemaker, eventually establishing Kittling Ridge in Niagara, which is also home to his Forty Creek Distillery. In 1992, while the rest of the Canadian whisky business was pursuing the bigger-is-better approach, Hall was thinking small. Forty Creek’s output is a fraction of the average mega-distillery’s, and its approach to whisky-making anticipated current artisanal and local concerns regarding food and drink. Forty Creek uses a pot still like those used to make Scotland’s revered single malts. The rye, corn and barley are all grown in Ontario. All single-grain whiskies are aged separately in barrel and then blended and further aged in Forty Creek’s own sherry casks. His craft-whisky-making has won Hall worldwide recognition from the whisky fraternity and resulted in remarkable, uncompromising tipples like the Forty Creek Barrel Select. Forty Creek Barrel Select Whisky, 750 ml/$25.75, LCBO #550715

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Regardless of how much Still Waters vodka I “sampled,” I had to remind myself that I was neither thinking nor seeing double as I conversed with proprietors Barry Stein and Barry Bernstein. Working in an extremely mundane suburban industrial mall, the two Barries do it all: fermenting, distilling, blending, bottling, marketing and sticking the corks in the bottles. Bernstein and Stein don’t put the DIY back in distillery, because then it would be spelled ddistiilleryy, but you get the idea. Still Waters is on its way to making Canadian whisky, but since that takes three years from start to finish at the very minimum, they’re paying the bills by making vodka while the brown spirits Rip Van Winkle it up in barrel. It’s their fascination with whisky that distinguishes their vodka from much of the competition. Still Waters is a single malt vodka using 100 per cent malted Canadian barley. That, combined with some innovative approaches to distilling, yields a distinctive, long-finishing, grain-infused vodka. It will be out at the LCBO in May or June of this year but is available now at the distillery. Still Waters Vodka, 750 ml/$34.95, 150 Bradwick, unit 26, Concord

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Almost all sake we drink comes from the other side of the world, and to withstand lengthy, unrefrigerated shipping and warehousing, it must be double-pasteurized. When successful sushi marketer Ken Valvur established his sake brewery in Toronto, he knew that proximity to his southern Ontario clientele would allow him to sell totally or partially unpasteurized sake. Another local advantage was proximity to Haliburton spring water, whose chemistry is very similar to some of Japan’s most soughtafter sake water. Ontario Spring’s sake is a revelation for Japanese tourists. Happening upon a sake brewery in the midst of the Distillery District’s Victorian industrial never-never land is like finding a Norwegian herring pickling plant in the middle of Cancún. What’s more, only 7 per cent of sake made in Japan is unpasteurized, so it’s doubly confounding. But once they sidle up to the small tasting bar and try Ontario Spring’s extremely fresh, highly drinkable, fruit-forward sakes, the reviews are enthusiastic. Make up your own mind by visiting the brewery, or try its Nama Cho sake, available at most LCBO Vintages outlets. Izumi Nama Cho Junmai Sake, 300 ml/$12.95, LCBO 260174

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Watch nowtoronto.com/daily starting April 23 for runway snaps and the behind-the-scenes scoop from FAT.

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24 FAT Arts & Fashion Week, the annual catwalk blowout of indie designers and upstart labels, kicks off five days of alt style on Tuesday (April 24). We’ve got the scoop on each night’s must-see shows and off-the-runway antics, plus executive director Vanja Vasic’s insider picks of names to watch.

Armour by Seema (armourbyseema.com), 9:30 pm Each FAT night has a theme, and its opening evening’s focus is physical environments and global landscapes. Seneca College grad Seema Patel takes the runway with her mix of protective accessories and delicate clothes.

>> What brings you to FAT?

I’m honoured to be participating in FAT because it’s a place where people create, share and are accepted for doing what they love.

>> Any show hints?

This collection showcases clothing in soft silhouettes and accessories with a sculptural, armour-like design. Aubergine sequin and cognac leather pieces are paired with items in floral cotton, metallic linen and petal shaped chiffon.

>> Why is it important to celebrate independent voices in fashion?

Tuesday (April 24) to April 28, 213 Sterling. Day pass $30, week pass $75 in advance at fashionarttoronto.ca. $35 at the door.

Creativity inspires new creativity. There is so much talent out there, and we need to be able to share and experience it all.

>> VAnjA’s pick:

Belinda Visag (belindavisag.com), 9:25 pm I was intrigued by the way Visag’s colour palette and choice of fabrics mirror the Mexican landscape she remembers from her childhood. Her Nicte collection (the word is Mayan for “flower”) is extremely vibrant in colour – it brings to mind luscious, fantastical flower gardens along with nostalgic cultural references to graphic Mayan motifs.

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Woudenberg (emilywoudenberg.com), 9:45 pm Emily Woudenberg’s collection is already sold at Homegrown Boutique (16 Cumberland) and online at Ukamaku.com, so we have high expectations for the Sheridan College graphic design grad’s FAT show. If this tease has you craving more of a sneak peek, check out the hyper-colourful collection trailer on her website.

>> What brings you to FAT? It’s an excellent opportunity to get feedback on what I’m designing.

>> Any show hints? My collection is about the fashion ego, and it’s inspired by some of the egos I’ve met along the way. I designed my own print for the collection that resembles the texture of an old RGB television screen. It’s a little bit of Cruella De Vil mixed with the 90s.

>> Why is it important to celebrate independent voices in fashion? FAT provides a more rounded perspective on the fashion culture, what makes good design and who design is for.

>> VAnjA’s pick:

Rachel Sin (rachelsin.com), 8:05 pm The symmetrical lines and sharp tailoring of Sin’s designs tell the story of how well she understands built structures. It’s clear Sin uses her architectural training to create great wearable clothing. The geometric shapes and structural details she uses to accent a dress or a suit make it unique and desirable. ZENT

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ZENT (zentkeymole.com), 8:30 pm Four-season-young Sherbrooke, Quebec-based menswear line ZENT pushes beyond basic shirts and slacks to design clothing that stands out from the suit-and-tie standard. Zent Keymole tips us off to what to expect from his Bodyscapes-themed lineup.

WallacePlayford (wallaceplayford.com), 8:05 pm Jennifer Murtagh and Katherine Laird’s retrofuturistic WallacePlayford takes a cheeky approach to the sometimes so-serious fashion racket. Like what you see? Pick up a piece from their Etsy boutique, Love in the Afternoon (loveintheafternoon.etsy.com).

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Not everything fabulous at FAT is on the runway. Here are more of the style fest’s must-attend indie designer happenings.

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>> What brings you to FAT?

The event allows for a more experimental point of view compared to the commercial clothes one finds at the usual Fashion Week.

FAT provides creative licence and a much-needed forum to generate art through fashion, tell stories and explore figments of the imagination without infringement of the artists’ vision.

This free, multi-location event includes parties christening FAT’s satellite space at the Drake Lab (1142 Queen West) and a good ol’ opening bash down the street at Church (1090 Queen West), both Sunday (April 22), starting at 8 pm.

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>> Any show hints? I decided to take a less traditional approach to clothing male bodies. The use of sheer fabrics and nets is abundant, in addition to more fitted pants and shorts. Micro-knits, “hairy” yarn and waterproof materials are mixed and used for their lustre and volume. It’s by far my most experimental collection.

Our collection is a glimpse into the future and a stunning display of spaceage beauty. We’ve drawn inspiration from the classic silhouettes of mid-century modern and science fiction and thrown it into the future with inventive use of fabric and materials.

>> Why is it important to celebrate independent voices in fashion? Customers are resistant to change because the industry is resistant to change. Change is good, and it’s important for the customer to be exposed to different things and feel inspired to experiment with clothing.

>> Why is it important to celebrate independent voices in fashion?

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>> VAnjA’s pick:

Brankopopovic (brankopopovic.com), 9:35 pm Popovic gives menswear new possibilities. I love the contrast of softness and darkness in his collection, including the morphing of silhouettes into shapes we’ve never seen before. The collection feels sharp and dangerous, yet it’s about transformation and moving forward into the future.

>> VAnjA’s pick:

House of Etiquette (houseofetiquette.com), 9:25 pm This show is super-sexy hot. House of Etiquette is all about the female form, revealing and sculpting the body and accenting all the sensual curves. You are sure to be seduced! House of Etiquette

Alternative art supplies the creative pulse that deconstructs the barriers between alternative and mainstream ideologies. While vanilla is a classic go-to, it’s always twice as sweet paired with a little rocky road and a cherry on top.

In collaboration with Goethe Institut and Designer Scouts Berlin, FAT presents an on-site gallery exhibition of images created by 14 German designers and photographers, plus fashion films and presentations by Esther Perbandt and Von Bardonitz. Tuesday (April 24) to April 27.

FAT Fashion market Designers including Human Nature, Chicedge Fashion Studio, Mackenzie Jones and Pedram Karimi sell their fresh-off-the-catwalk stuff over mimosas and croissants at the Drake Lab (1142 Queen West) Saturday (April 28) from 11 am to midnight.

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Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 You had to take the test before you got a chance to study more than a couple of the lessons. Does that seem fair? Hell, no. That’s the bad news. The good news is that this test was merely a rehearsal for a more important and inclusive exam that is still some weeks in the future. Here’s even better news: the teachings that you will need to master before then are flowing your way, and will continue to do so in abundance. Apply yourself with diligence, Aries. You have a lot to learn, but luckily, you have enough time to get fully prepared.

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1946, three Bedouin shepherds were tending their flock near the Dead Sea. They found a cave with a small entrance. Hoping it might contain treasure hidden there long ago, they wanted to explore it. The smallest of the three managed to climb through the narrow opening. He brought out a few dusty old scrolls in ceramic jars. The shepherds were disappointed. But eventually the scrolls were revealed to be one of the most important finds in archaeological history: the first batch of what has come to be known as the Dead Sea Scrolls. Keep this story in mind, Gemini. I suspect a metaphorically similar tale may unfold for you soon. A valuable discovery may initially appear to you in a form you’re not that excited about.

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together a committee meeting of his top assistants. He was displeased. Recruitments of people born under the sign of Cancer had fallen far below projected totals. “It’s unacceptable,” the dark lord fumed. “Those insufferable Crabs have been too mentally healthy lately to be tantalized by our lies. Frankly, I’m at my wits’ end. Any suggestions?” His marketing expert said, “Let’s redouble our efforts to make them buy into the hoax about the world ending on December 21, 2012.” The executive vice-president chimed in: “How about if we play on their fears about running out of what

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they need?” The chief of intelligence had an idea, too: “I say we offer them irrelevant goodies that tempt them away from their real goals.”

Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 “If you don’t run your own life, someone else will,” said psychologist John Atkinson. Make that your motto in the coming weeks, Leo. Write it on a big piece of cardboard and hold it up in front of your eyes as you wake up each morning. Use it as a prod that motivates you to shed any laziness you might have about living the life you really want. Periodically ask yourself these three questions: Are you dependent on the approval, permission or recognition of others? Have you set up a person, ideology, or image of success that’s more authoritative than your own intuition? Is there any area of your life where you have ceded control to an external source? VirGo Aug 23 | sep 22 Here are the last

words that computer pioneer Steve Jobs spoke before he died: “OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.” I’d propose that we bring that mantra into as wide a usage as Jobs’s other creations, like the iPhone and iPad. I’d love to hear random strangers exclaiming it every time they realize how amazing their lives are. I’d enjoy it if TV newscasters spoke those words to begin each show, acknowledging how mysterious our world really is. I’d be pleased if lovers everywhere uttered it at the height of making love. I nominate you to start the trend, Virgo. You’re the best choice, since your tribe, of all the signs of the zodiac, will most likely have the wildest rides and most intriguing adventures in the coming weeks.

LibrA sep 23 | oct 22 A starfish that loses an arm can grow back a new one. It’s an expert regenerator. According to my understanding of the astrological omens, you are entering a starfish-like phase of your cycle. Far more than usual, you’ll be able to recover parts of you that got lost and reanimate parts of you that fell dormant. For the foreseeable future, your words of power are “rejuvenate,” “restore,” “reawaken” and “revive.” If you concentrate really hard and fill yourself with the light of the spiritual sun, you might even be able to perform a kind of resurrection. sCorpio oct 23 | nov 21 Too much of a good thing isn’t necessarily good. (Have you ever hyperventilated?) Too little of a good thing can be bad. (Have you ever gotten dehydrated?) Some things are good in measured doses but bad if done to excess. (Wine and chocolate.) A very little of a very bad thing may still be a bad thing. (It’s hard to smoke crack in moderation.) The coming week is prime time to be thinking along these lines, Scorpio. You

will generate a lot of the exact insights you need if you weigh and measure everything in your life and judge what is too much and what is too little.

sAGiTTArius nov 22 | Dec 21 Sculptor Constantin Brancusi had a clear strategy as he produced his art: “Create like God, command like a king, work like a slave.” I suggest you adopt a similar approach for your own purposes in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. With that as your formula, you could make rapid progress on a project that’s dear to you. So make sure you have an inspiring vision of the dream you want to bring into being. Map out a bold, definitive plan for how to accomplish it. And then summon enormous stamina, fierce concentration and unfailing attention to detail as you translate your heart’s desire into a concrete form. CApriCorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 “If there is

one door in the castle you have been told not to go through,” writes novelist Anne Lamott, “you must. Otherwise, you’ll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you’ve already been in.” I think the coming weeks will be your time to slip through that forbidden door, Capricorn. The experiences that await you on the other side may not be everything you have always needed, but I think they are at least everything you need next. Besides, it’s not like the taboo against penetrating into the unknown place makes much sense any more. The biggest risk you take by breaking the spell is the possibility of losing a fear you’ve grown addicted to.

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falls on dry land, it activates certain compounds in the soil that release a distinctive aroma. “Petrichor” is the word for that smell. If you ever catch a whiff of it when there’s no rain, it’s because a downpour has begun somewhere nearby, and the wind is bringing you news of it. I suspect that you will soon be awash in a metaphorical version of petrichor, Aquarius. A parched area of your life is about to receive much-needed moisture.

pisCes Feb 19 | Mar 20 Forty per cent of

Americans do not know that the dinosaurs died out long before human beings ever existed. When these folks see an old cartoon of caveman Fred Flintstone riding on a Diplodocus, they think it’s depicting a historical fact. In the coming weeks, Pisces, you need to steer clear of people who harbour gross delusions like that. It’s more important than usual that you hang out with educated, cultured types who possess a modicum of well-informed ideas about the history of humanity and the nature of reality. Surround yourself with intelligent influences, please.

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Rating: NNNN Introducing the euphoric tribal banger Lost In Time, vocalist Starving Yet Full summed up Toronto four-piece Azari & III’s mandate: “We want you to step outside of your body and watch yourself dance.” Easier said than done. The Hoxton was so crammed for the band’s first proper hometown headlining gig since conquering European festival stages that the wild, interpretive raver moves best suited to their nostalgic acidhouse sound were almost physically impossible to do. Azari & III came up playing Toronto after-hours jams and gay clubs, and giddy fans from both worlds were well represented. Fashion-forward frontmen Starving Yet Full and Fritz Helder carried the show with their glammedup voguer styles and playful vocal interplay, while producers Dinamo Azari and Alixander III provided monstrously sleazy beats and dizzying

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vocal samples that added an element of psychedelia. They ended with a tripped-out reworking of Adonis’s house classic No Way Back and their soulful pop-house track Into The Night. It felt like a cathartic moment for the hard-working group, whose bowel-emptying bass lines will require a bigger room next KEVIN RITCHIE time around.

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Rating: NNNN Maybe it was her feline-yellow contact lenses and chain-mail vest or the fact that Lioness have been emerging from a rejuvenating low-profile period, but something was giving singer Vanessa Fischer the confidence to claim her spot on the stage and bring the crowd into her world. Entering in a long black veil and sequinned skirt (drummer Jeff Scheven and bassist Ronnie Morris were more casual in all black and skull masks), Fischer seemed primed to spend the

night peering from behind the gauze. But it wasn’t long before she cast it aside, gazed into the faces crowding the stage and danced, bringing newfound theatricality to Lioness’s set. The flames lighting up the backdrop didn’t hurt either. The set list introduced songs from just-released album The Golden Killer, yet many devotees were singing along to every word. By the time the band played single The Night, the Horseshoe’s dance floor was a mass of JOANNE HUFFA writhing bodies.

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Rating: NNNN We’re happy about the success that Toronto soul-folk performer Bahamas (aka Afie Jurvanen) has enjoyed lately, but we had doubts about whether his low-key, cosily intimate live show would translate at the Virgin Mobile Mod Club. Though his soft-spoken stage patter and quieter acoustic moments had to compete with loud talk-

ers at the back, his artfully restrained songs filled the space gorgeously and came alive through the crisp sound system. Green, leafy plants covered the stage, which, along with Jurvanen’s casual charisma and stories about his mom, made the place feel more like someone’s house than a venue that often makes use of lasers and smoke machines. We’re going to miss hearing him in tiny rooms, but seeing him effortlessly rock a big stage feels like vindication for long-time believers. Even a rowdy bachelorette party was stunned into silence by an unamplified interlude showcasing backing vocalists Felicity Williams and Carleigh Aikins. BENJAMIN BOLES

WHITE LUNG at Duffy’s Tavern, Saturday, April 14. Rating: NNN

White Lung looked uncomfortable from the moment they took the stage. The female-dominated Vancouver punk band spent the first few minutes appealing to an apparently non-exist-

ent sound guy before playing a note, and drummer Anne-Marie Vassilou had broken her rented kick pedal by the end of the first song. Things only got worse from there. Early in the set, an unrelenting heckler got under lead singer Mish Way’s skin. “You think you can sing better than me? Go right ahead,” she challenged, and the alcohol-fuelled shit disturber took her up on it. They stopped the fan-sung experiment after a minute or so and kicked the cynic to the curb. Frustration isn’t necessarily a negative trait for a punk band, and it certainly didn’t detract from White Lung’s noisy yet tuneful sonic assault. Way’s melodic, scratchy vocals were a highlight despite her obvious annoyance. The packed-in crowd kept up the energy in the brimming back room of old-school Duffy’s Tavern, even succeeding in bringing the band back for a reluctant encore. We’d never suggest an audience deliberately aggravate a touring band, but it did the trick this RICHARD TRAPUNSKI time.

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For their third album, Montreal indie rock trio Plants and Animals tinkered with their approach. Instead of jamming out songs in the studio the way they did in the past, they developed and demoed the material over several wintery months, and by the time they headed to Paris to record last spring, they knew exactly what they were doing. The dynamic result, The End Of That (Secret City), features concise tunes that balance urgent, widescreen rock with hazy acoustic-guitar-fuelled folk. Penned in the aftermath of a relationship breakup, singer/guitarist Warren Spicer’s agitated lyrics stand out for their open, conversational, restless tone. Ahead of the band’s album release show at Lee’s Palace on Saturday (April 21), we reached drummer Mark Woodley en route to a gig in Birmingham, Alabama. (He’d just purchased sugared pecans and oranges from “a big man at a little stand.”) into recording before songs really took You’ve returned to your more acousshape. We’d have bed tracks done betic early beginnings and streamlined fore lyrics were written, or we’d give a the songwriting. Whatever will we song character through overdubs but call you now that “indie jam band” then not be able to go back and doesn’t fit? change, say, the drums. This time we We’re not a jam band any more? wanted to just go in and Decent! I think because of execute. We wanted it to our name, some people assound like a band playing sumed we were hippies, but I songs together, simply, diralways thought of jam bands ectly. I don’t necessarily as ones that take turns playthink either approach is beting really long solos. We’ve ter. Some of our best monever done that. The End Of Drummer for That is the most economical Plants and Animals ments have been happy accidents from taking risks while the we’ve ever been in terms of song structape was rolling. ture and sound. That isn’t to say our Were you surprised by the polarizing three-part-epic days are behind us, just reaction your last album got? like the acoustic guitar wasn’t behind I have pretty mixed feelings about that us when we put out La La Land. We record myself. The sophomore album missed the colour it brings to things. is a tough one. We recorded [the JunoThe Paris studio where you recorded and Polaris-nominated debut] Parc – and where Feist recorded The Avenue over two years and had no exReminder – sounds idyllic. pectations. Then we toured like crazy It’s got the magic of an old mansion and went straight into the studio to and the coziness of home all in one, make La La Land. There was less and it’s anchored by an old schooner of breathing room and we had a differa recording console that they call “La ent, possibly skewed sense of who we vieille dame.” Plus, the people who were. I don’t think we communicated work there are incredible. Our record with one another so well about what wouldn’t be what it is without Lionel we were setting out to do. With The Darenne, who engineered it and End Of That, we talked a lot more played therapist on the side. beforehand and made sure we were on Why the change in writing approach? the same page. 3 In the past, we’d already be a few steps

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every reason to be happy, seeing as they’re on their “victory lap” tour enjoying their successes before returning to the studio. But at the moment, they’re more concerned with post-show party plans. Their friends in Sleigh Bells just cancelled their own Vancouver concert, dashing Cults’ hang-out hopes. It’s not hard to see why they feel such fellowship with the New York

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Wrongbar (1279 Queen West), Friday (April 20) Toronto 90s hardcore punk reunion.

PLANTS AND ANIMALS, HALF MOON RUN

Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), Saturday (April 21) See preview, page 45.

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Spadina), Saturday (April 21) Live soundtracks to silent films.

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NICK LOWE & HIS BAND, PETER ELKAS

Phoenix (410 Sherbourne), Monday (April 23) UK new wave hero.

FUN., MINIATURE TIGERS

Guvernment (132 Queens Quay East), Wednesday (April 25) See preview, page 58.

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Thursday, April 19

AIDS WOLF (FINAL SHOW), CHILD ABUSE, GORDON MONAHAN, NOT THE WIND NOT THE FLAG The Gar-

JANELLE MONAE Toronto Jazz Festival Nathan Phillips Square Mainstage Marquee 8 pm, $62.50. TM. tojazz.com. June 22.

POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL

LOS AMIGOS INVISIBLES Toronto Jazz

man (folk/blues) 9:30 pm.

COWBOY JUNKIES, ADAM COHEN, SERENA RYDER, BASIA BULAT, JOHN PRINE AND OTHERS The Glenn

Festival Horseshoe 10 pm, $20. TM. torontojazz.com. June 25.

rison 9 pm, $10. RT, SS. May 11.

Gould Prize Gala In Honour Of Leonard Cohen Massey Hall 8:30 pm, $34.95-$149.95. RTH. May 14.

THE MILES PERKIN TRIO Jazz Avant Series Music Gallery 8 pm, $30, adv $25. RT, SS, TW. May 15. OLD MAN LUEDECKE, DEL BARBER Hugh’s Room 8:30 pm, $25, adv $22. May 16.

THE INDEPENDENTS Lee’s Palace doors 9 pm, $9. RT, SS. May 25.

CRYSTAL FIGHTERS & IS TROPICAL Wrongbar 8 pm, $13. TW. May 26.

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COEUR DE PIRATE, KANDLE Opera

House doors 7 pm, $22.50. RT, SS, TW. June 1.

THE DANDY WARHOLS Phoenix Concert

Theatre doors 7 pm, $30. RT, SS, TM. June 3.

LK’NAAN W/ KAE SUN Luminato

FRANCOIS HOULE 5 & BENOIT DEL-

BECQ Toronto Jazz Festival Music Gallery 8 pm, $15. TM. torontojazz.com. June 25.

BEENIE MAN, MAXI PRIEST, FAB 5, JOHN HOLT, MARCIA GRIFFITHS, YELLOW MAN, STEELE, EXCO LEVI, JAY DOUGLAS, MOUNTAIN EDGE

Jamaica 50 Celebration: Jamaican Rhythms Sony Centre for the Performing Arts $35-$150. jamaica50.ca. June 28.

AFROJACK, DUCK SAUCE, RICHIE HAWTIN, STEVE LAWLER, A-TRAK, CHUCKIE AND OTHERS Digital Dreams

Music Festival The Flats at Molson Canadian Amphitheatre $59.50 per day, two-day pass $79.50. LN, TM. digitaldreamsfest.ca. June 30.

KASKADE, ALESSO, DUBFIRE, NIC FANCIULLI, MARK KNIGHT, BORIS, CARLO LIO AND OTHERS Digital

Dreams Music Festival The Flats at Molson Canadian Amphitheatre $59.50, two-day pass $79.50. LN, TM. digitaldreamsfest.ca. July 1.

ALLEYCATZ Lady Kane 9 pm. AQUILA UPSTAIRS Ray Whimsey & Less HoffTHE BALLROOM BOWL BAR BISTRO Rock Show-

case 10 pm.

BOVINE SEX CLUB Skaface, the Harmonauts, Slander, DJ Cactus.

THE CENTRAL Chuxx & the Family 10:30 pm. CLINTON’S Different Skeletons, We Were

Heads, Flying Museum Band, Willmott Redd (rock & roll) doors 9 pm. CRAWFORD Drink & Destroy Charming Ruins, Deutsch Banks, Miesha & the Spanks (rock) 10 pm. DRAKE HOTEL LOUNGE Weekend Startup Boot Knives (rock) doors 11 pm.

GLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR Sylvie Laliberté w/ Les Singes Bleus (French pop) 9 pm. GRAFFITI’S The High Tides (surf) 8 pm, Jeff Oussauren 5 to 7 pm. THE GREAT HALL Farewell Concert Forest City Lovers, Kite Hill, Lisa Bozikovic, DJs Casey & Jenny Mecija. HORSESHOE Fish Head Benefit Fundraiser. INTER STEER Ronnie Hayward Trio (rockabilly) 8 to 11 pm. LEE’S PALACE Ornaments, Cool Man Cool, New Teeth, Desperate Executives. LINSMORE TAVERN Desmond Nathan (power pop piano) 10 pm. THE LOCAL Fraser/Daley. LOU DAWG’S RYERSON Jeff Eager (acoustic soul/funk/Motown) 10 pm. MASSEY HALL Death Cab for Cutie, Magik*Magik Orchestra, Low (indie pop) doors 7:15 pm, all ages. OPERA HOUSE Nipsey Hussle, Juicy J doors 7 pm (Venue changed from Sound Academy, original tickets honoured). THE PISTON CD release Bob Sheppard and Then It Hit Me, Jennifer LFO 8:30 pm. PRESS CLUB High Top Society, Careers in Science & Buddy Black (acoustic punk/ska) 10 pm. RANCHO RELAXO Goodnight Sunrise, Wild Hearses, Emorie doors 9 pm.

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RICHMOND HILL CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS April Wine 8 pm. RIVOLI Kreesha Turner,

Selena Evangeline, Kiri 7 pm.

SAZERAC GASTRO LOUNGE The Capitol Beat

(funk/soul/R&B) 10 pm. SILVER DOLLAR Greasy Skeletons, the Lunes, Blues Emergency doors 8:45 pm. THE SISTER Light Bulb Alley, Poison Arrows.

SNEAKY DEE’S Young Widows. ñ SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY’S Skip Tracer 10 pm.

EL MOCAMBO UPSTAIRS

Lisa Michelle’s Concert Bash Thank the Academy and others doors 9 pm.

EL MOCAMBO DOWNSTAIRS

Hundred Faces Group: Volume 1 doors 9 pm.

David Pecaut Square Luminato Festival Hub 8 pm, free. luminato.com. June 8.

SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO (DJ SET) The

LERNEST RANGLIN W/ JAY DOUGLAS & EVERTON ‘PABLO’ PAUL, CALYPSO ROSE Luminato Festival David Pe-

SANTANA Molson Amphitheatre doors 7

pm, $22.50-$89.50. TM. July 14.

CURREN$Y

LRUFUS WAINWRIGHT & THE RUFUS SONGBOOK Luminato David Pe-

SAM ROBERTS BAND, BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB, THE JEZABELS Echo

SMOKE DZA

LJAYME STONE, LOREENA MCKENNITT Luminato: From The Mummers

THE GROWLERS Horseshoe doors 8:30 pm, $11.50. HS, RT, SS. August 1.

Flaming Lips

SIGUR RÓS Echo Beach at Molson Can-

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caut Square Luminato Festival Hub 2 pm, free. luminato.com. June 9.

caut Square Luminato Festival Hub 8 pm, free. luminato.com. June 10.

Hoxton 10 pm, $12.50. PDR, RT, SS, TW. July 12.

BLIND PILOT Opera House doors 8:30 pm, $17.50. RT, SS, TM. July 25. Beach at Molson Canadian Amphitheatre doors 7 pm, all ages, $39.50-$55. RT, SS, TM. June 26.

TRADEMARK & MORE

Dance To The Mist Of Avalon Evening Concert David Pecaut Square Luminato Festival Hub 8 pm, free. luminato.com. June 14.

adian Amphitheatre doors 7 pm, all ages, $49.50. RT, SS, TM. August 1.

THE OPERA HOUSE

THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH Queen Elizabeth Theatre doors 7:15 pm, $27.50. RT, SS, TM. June 15.

DEADMAU5, AVICII Veld Music Festival

Downsview Park all ages. INK. veldmusicfestival.com. August 4 and 5.

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LRUFUS WAINWRIGHT, ANNA MCGARRIGLE, EMMYLOU HARRIS, BRUCE COCKBURN, PEGGY SEEGER, JANE MCGARRIGLE, LILY AND SYLVAN LANKEN, DANE LANKEN AND OTHERS Luminato: Love Over & Over – The

WOLFGANG GARTNER, ZEDS DEAD, THOMAS GOLD, DATSIK, DJ HYPE, KRAFTY KUTS, FELIX CARTEL, KEYS N KRATES, GOLDIE AND OTHERS WEMF South Algonquin three-day

LDAN MANGAN, KATHLEEN EDWARDS Luminato: Canadian Titans Of

MOBY (DJ SET), CHASE & STATUS (DJ SET), ANDY C, INFECTED MUSHROOM, 12TH PLANET, THE CRYSTAL METHOD, CHRISTOPHER LAWRENCE, ED RUSH & OPTICAL, THE KILLABITS AND OTHERS WEMF

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Songs Of Kate McGarrigle Massey Hall $30$95. RTH. luminato.com. June 15.

Roots Tune-Craft David Pecaut Square Luminato Festival Hub 2 pm, free. luminato.com. June 16.

TRAVIS GOOD, GREG KEELOR, GORDON PINSENT Down And Out In

Upalong Glenn Gould Studio 8 pm, $39.50. RTH. June 19.

pass $239, two-day pass $150. LN, TW. August 17.

South Algonquin three-day pass $239, twoday pass $150. LN, TW. August 18.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & THE E STREET BAND Wrecking Ball World Tour

Rogers Centre $tba. TM. August 24.

The first announcements about this year’s North By Northeast festival have started trickling out, and there’s already a lot to get excited about. For starters, Oklahoma space rock legends the Flaming Lips are the Saturday-night YongeDundas Square headliners. Most bands calm down a bit after close to 30 years in the business, but these guys have just kept getting weirder, and they put on one of the craziest live shows you’ve ever seen. The festival takes over Toronto June 11 to 17, and the giant free shows at Yonge-Dundas are bigger and better than events at any other local music festival. Also on the mainstage this year: Los Angeles punk legends Bad Religion, Wu Tang alumni Raekwon and Ghostface Killah, and Canadian alt-pop survivor Matthew Good. Out in the clubs, bigger names include Bleached, Yamantaka//Sonic Titan, Oberhofer, Death Grips, Purity Ring, Action Bronson, Ceremony, Unknown Mortal Orchestra and the Men. Check nxne.com for more details about the lineBENJAMIN BOLES up and for info on how to get your NXNE pass.

Music T.O. NOTes

Billy Bryans benefit After a six-year remission from lung cancer, Billy Bryans is now in palliative care. Over his illustrious 40-year run in Toronto’s music scene, Bryans has had a major impact. Many know him best as one of the founders of the Parachute Club, but he’s also had a long career as a producer for people like Downchild Blues Band, not to mention his tireless work as a promoter of African, Cuban and Brazilian music in Toronto. His friends in the musical community come together in a benefit concert tonight (Thursday, April 19) at Lula Lounge (1585 Dundas West). On the bill are Laura Fernandez, Alex Cuba, Baque de Bamba, Samba Squad, Jane Bunnett, Hilario Durán and many more. Doors open at 7 pm, and tickets are $30. The Wilson 96 The Poor Darlins (rockabilly/

Houndstooth (old-time) 7:30 pm.

Folk/Blues/Country/World

Cherry sTreeT resTAurAnT Thursday Night

country/rock) 9 pm.

AspeTTA CAffe Open Mic/Jam 8 pm. CAmeron house fronT room Fedora Upside

Down 10 pm, Alan Snoddy 8 pm, Corin Raymond 6 pm. CAsTro’s lounge Jerry Leger & the Situation (country/folk/rock) 9 pm. The CenTrAl Brodie Dakin (folk) 7 pm. C’esT WhAT Jack Walker, Sharon Nutzati, Leela & the Agrestics, the Renegade Jays doors 8:30 pm. CloAk & DAgger pub David Pauskauskas (folk/pop) 10 pm. DAkoTA TAvern Songs From The Yukon Tour Sarah Macdougall & Gordie Tentrees 7 pm. DAve’s... on sT ClAir Uncle Herb’s Open Mic (folk/ blues/rock/ country) 9 pm.

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Keith Jolie (blues/roots) 7 pm.

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Robin Harp 10 pm.

Jazz/ClassiCal/experimental Jazz Morgan Childs Trio 7:30 pm.

Dominion on Queen Music And Comedy Night: Reimer Rants 8 pm.

emmeT rAy bAr Vokurka’s Vicarious Virtuoso Violin (Gypsy swing) 9 pm.

firsT CAnADiAn plACe gAllery Stephan Moccio noon.

gATe 403 Bartek Kozminski El Mosaico Fla-

menco Jazz Fusion Band 9 pm, Carol Oya Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. glADsTone hoTel bAllroom The Crush Project Sister Spit, MX Justin Vivan Bond, Brontez Purnell. hArlem unDergrounD Carl Bray Trio (jazz) 8:30 pm.

mArkhAm TheATre for The performing ArTs Measha Brueggergosman 8 pm. mélAnge Norman Marshall Villeneuve Jazz Message Trio 7 to 10 pm.

musiDeum Bill McBirnie, Don Naduriak, Russ Little 7 pm.

olD mill inn home smiTh bAr John Sherwood (solo piano) 7:30 pm.

reposADo The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz). rex Robi Botos Side ‘B’ Band 9:30 pm, Richard

Whiteman Five 6:30 pm.

royAl ConservATory of musiC mAzzoleni hAll Discovery Series Glenn Gould School

New Music Ensemble, Adam Sherkin 7:30 pm.

holy oAk CAfe

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Oh Susanna, Jay Harris 8:30 pm. lolA Brian Cober (double slide guitar) 9 pm. lou DAWg’s Mike C (acoustic blues/rock/ funk/reggae) 10 pm.

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TrAne sTuDio Willful Blues 8 pm.

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“what’s so Funny about peace love understanding” “cruel to be kind” • “i knew the bride”

sunday april 29 the phoenix

all-ages • $18.50 advance

with

monday april 23

Peter elkas @ the phoenix

imaginary friend saturday may 12 tuesday may 8 opera house •

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fri may 18 & sat may 19 queen elizabeth theatre Scrappy happineSS tour $ 29.50 advance + FF (reserved seating)

kina grannis

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lee’s palace • $ 22.50 adv

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Saturday april 21

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hanni el khatib sundelles + non stop girls

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plants &

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The CenTral Soul Motivators (soul/funk) 10 pm, Yard Apes (indie) 6 pm.

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el MoCaMbo Cancer benefit concert The

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Lee’s PaLace Album release Plants and

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Lou Dawg’s RyeRson Southern Brunch Irene Torres Duo (soul) noon to 3 pm.

newfounDLanDeR Seaborn (East Coast/

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DJs Groove Institute, Leo Gee Gee & Mista Ice (deep Afro house) 9 pm. cake baR Dessert Saturdays (top 40/mashups). cLinTon’s Shake, Rattle & Roll (60s dance party) doors 10 pm. cRawfoRD uPsTaiRs DJ Grouch (80s & 90s/ hip-hop-R&B/new jack swing). cRawfoRD DownsTaiRs Video Dance Party DJ Law.

Tour Toh Kay, Sycamore Smith, Dan Potthast 7 pm, all ages. The cenTRaL Drig 9 pm. c’esT whaT Tim Bovaconti (pop) 7 pm. Dominion on queen Rockabilly Brunch 11 am to 3 pm. gaLLeRy 345 Michael Johnston & King Creosote 8 pm. The gaRRison Crosswires Henri Fabergé, Bawdy Electric, Ambisonic, lightsweetcrude 9 pm. gRaffiTi’s Blackmetal Brunch. gRaffiTi’s Michael Brennan 4 to 7 pm. hoLy oak cafe Luke Kuplowsky, Sophie Traub, Stephen Prickett & Mimi Ursa (pop) 9 pm. hoRseshoe Manitoba w/ Handsome Dick Manitoba, Crummy Stuff, Evil Eyes 8 pm. The LoaDeD Dog Jessica Mondello & Mark Ripp (acoustic pop) 4 to 8 pm. souThsiDe Johnny’s Open Jam Rebecca Matiesen & Phoenix 9:30 pm.

Folk/Blues/Country/World

aquiLa uPsTaiRs Junction Jam The New Mynah Birds (mostly blues) 3:30 pm. aquiLa uPsTaiRs The McDale’s Open Mic 8:30 pm. asPeTTa caffe Tiny Montgomery, Luke Vajsar’s Hypnotic Smash, Gold Watch & Chain 2 to 6 pm. cameRon house fRonT Room Kevin Quain 9 pm, Joanne Mackell (folk) 6 pm. casTRo’s Lounge Makita Hack & the Log Rollers (stringband) 4 pm. cLoak & DaggeR Pub Alex Bien Band (folk/ pop) 9 pm. DakoTa TaveRn Bluegrass Brunch 11 am-3 pm. Duffy’s TaveRn Ken Yoshioka (blues) 9:30 pm. gLaDsTone hoTeL meLoDy baR Sunday Acoustic Family Brunch 9 am to 4 pm. gLaDsTone hoTeL aRT baR Old Time Jam 2 to 5:30 pm. gRossman’s The Nationals 10 pm. hugh’s Room. David Archibald’s Titanic: Pride Of The White Star Line (musical tribute to the end of the gilded age ) 8:30 pm. The LocaL Boxcar Boys 10 pm, Chris Coole (banjo) 5 pm. PaLmeRsTon LibRaRy Ayekan Ensemble, Nano Valverde, Marcelo Puente 2 pm. Pogue mahone Sandy MacIntyre & Steeped

in Tradition (Celtic ceilidh) 4 to 8 pm. PRess cLub Staggy Townsend (country rock) 10 pm. Rebas café & gaLLeRy Sunday Matinee Mark Martyre, Myke Mazzei & the Cane Toads 1 to 4 pm. ReLish Stir It Up Sundays Open Mic 10:30 pm. suPeRmaRkeT Freefall Sundays Open Mic/Jam 8 pm.

ToRonTo insTiTuTe foR The enJoymenT of music Anne Janelle (avant-folk cellist). TRanzac main haLL The Guitar Show Chris-

tine Bougie, Joey Wright, Marc Roy, Jason Fowler, Donné Roberts doors 7 pm. TRanzac souTheRn cRoss Michael Laderoute 3 pm. winchesTeR kiTchen & baR Open Mic Porter 9 pm.

Jazz/ClassiCal/experimental

Dominion on queen Uptown Swing Band 5 to 8 pm.

emmeT Ray baR Tropical Punch (tropical jazz) 9 pm.

foResT gRove uniTeD chuRch The Marriage Of Figaro 101 Christopher Sharp, Marco Petracchi, Sara Schabas, Andrew Bolton, Deena Nicklefork and others 3 pm. gaTe 403 Robin Banks Jazz Band 9 pm, Anything Goes 5 to 8 pm. gRossman’s New Orlean Connection Allstars 4:30 to 8 pm. haRbouRfRonT cenTRe bRiganTine Room

Music With Bite Children’s Concert TorQ (drumming ensemble) 1 pm. monTgomeRy’s inn JaneAustenDancing Barbara Ackerman, Stephen Fuller, Laura Jones, Dorothy de Val, Susanna McCleary 2 pm. musiDeum Lara Solnicki, Mark Kleswetter (live jazz recording) 8 pm.

918 baThuRsT cenTRe foR cuLTuRe & The aRTs CD release The Thing Is (Balkan/jazz fusion) 8 pm.

Rex Avi Granite’s Verse w/ Ralph Alessi 9:45

pm, Ugly Beauties 7 pm, Excelsior Dixieland Jazz noon.

RoyaL conseRvaToRy of music koeRneR haLL Australian Chamber Orchestra w/ Dawn Upsaw 3 pm.

somewheRe TheRe sTuDio Scott Thomson,

Kyle Brenders, Rosano Coutinho 8 pm, Ken Aldcroft 5 pm. TRane sTuDio Spoke N’ Heard 8 pm. TRanzac Cachoro (Brazilian Choro/jazz) 5 pm. TRanzac souTheRn cRoss Jeff Scarrott Trio (jazz) 7:30 pm.

danCe musiC/dJ/lounge

Campbell 7 pm. oLD nick M Factor Mondays River City Junction, Elana Harte 7 pm. TRane sTuDio NuBlue Mondays Son Roberts 8 pm.

Jazz/ClassiCal/experimental

emmeT Ray baR Max Sennit Group (jazz) 9 pm. gaTe 403 Richard Whiteman & Laura Hubert

Jazz Band 9 pm, Jake Koffman Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. Rex Herbie Hancock Tribute Gray Matter 9:30 pm, Peter Hill Quintet 6:30 pm. Roy Thomson haLL The Joy Of Singing Hamilton Children’s Choir & High Park Choirs of Toronto noon.

scaRLeTT heighTs enTRePReneuRiaL acaDemy

German Romantics Etobicoke Philharmonic Orchestra 8 pm.

danCe musiC/dJ/lounge

insomnia DJs Topher & Oranj (rock). The PisTon Junk Shop DJs Jorge & Jeeks, Allosaurus & Emorie (pre to post punk/new wave/garage/indie) 10 pm. RePosaDo Mezcal Mondays DJ Elis Dean.

Tuesday, April 24 pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul

baR 460 Old World Vulture, Bulletproof Tiger. bovine sex cLub Shark Attack, Up-N-Atom. c’esT whaT Tra La La Tuesdays Meredith Shaw

& the Hearts Club (pop/folk/country) 9 pm. DRake hoTeL unDeRgRounD Wunderstrands w/ Terra Lightfoot (rock) doors 9 pm.

gLaDsTone hoTeL meLoDy baR & aRT baR

System D District 5, DJ Vechia Brutta (ska) 6 pm to midnight. gRaffiTi’s Tumultuous SSW Tuesdays Marcus Walker (pop/rock/acoustic). haRD Luck baR Andrew Jackson Jihad, Joyce Manor, Treasure Fleet, Kind of Like Spitting (folk punk) doors 7:30 pm, all ages. hoLy oak cafe Yeah, You’re Right (funk) 10 pm. hoRseshoe Dave Bookman’s Nu Music Nite Late Night City Lights, Low Animal, Ray Beadle, Andrew Austin 9 pm. The PisTon The Dead Tuesdays Jam 9 pm. viRgin mobiLe moD cLub Purple Revolution.

Folk/Blues/Country/World

annex wReckRoom Drummers In Exile (drum and dance circle) 8:30 pm.

axis gaLLeRy & gRiLL The Junction Jam Derek

Downham 9:30 pm.

cameRon house fRonT Room Friendly Rich 10 pm, Doug Paisley 6 pm. ñ casTRo’s Lounge blueVenus (acoustic singer/

DRake hoTeL unDeRgRounD Elvis Monday

songwriter) 10 pm. The cenTRaL Jam Night At The Central 9:30 pm. cLoak & DaggeR Pub Slocan Ramblers (bluegrass/folk) 10 pm. DRake hoTeL Lounge Memphis Tuesdays Grand Canyon (country) doors 9 pm. gaTe 403 Blues Night Julian Fauth (barrehouse) 9 pm. gRossman’s Tall Grass & the Murdering Of Chloe 10 pm. hoLy oak cafe Ivy Mairi (folk) 7 pm. The LocaL Bon Fire. monaRchs Pub Acoustic Tuesdays: Benefit for Earthday Canada 7:30 pm. PRess cLub Press Club Open Jam Gord Zubrecki Band 10 pm. The RusTy naiL Open Stage Jam Chad Campbell 9 pm.

DRake hoTeL Lounge Ride the Tiger (60s &

Jazz/ClassiCal/experimental

bovine sex cLub B.Y.O.DJ. casTRo’s Lounge Watch This Sound (rare, vintage ska/reggae/dub) 9 pm.

cRawfoRD Miss Sedina. insomnia Sunday Mass DJ TvT (old school hiphop/disco/funk).

Lou Dawg’s Dirty South Sundays (soul/Mo-

town/old school) 10 pm. Lou Dawg’s RyeRson Dirty South Sundays DJ Ksmooth (soul/Motown/old school) 10 pm.

Monday, April 23 pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul

bovine sex cLub Flash Lightnin’. ñ casTRo’s Lounge Rockabilly Mondays 9 pm. (indie) doors 9 pm.

70s soul/Motown/stax/R&B) doors 11 pm. gRaffiTi’s Kevin Quain 6 to 9 pm. gRossman’s Open Jam Mondays No Band Required 10 pm. haRLem Open Jam Night Carolyn T (R&B/ soul/jazz/Motown/Latin) 8 pm. haRLem unDeRgRounD Cary Shields (pop/ rock/folk/soul) 8 pm. hoRseshoe Hanni El Khatib, Sundelles doors 8 pm. oPeRa house Havok, Sepultura, Death Angel, Krisiun, Havok doors 6:30 pm, all ages. oRbiT Room James Taylor Tribute Group w/ Neil Donell 9 pm. Phoenix conceRT TheaTRe Nick Lowe & his Band, Peter Elkas doors 7:30 pm.

Folk/Blues/Country/World

cameRon house fRonT Room David Baxter 10 pm, The Rucksack Willies 6 pm.

cLoak & DaggeR Pub Alex Leggett (folk/pop) 9 pm.

The LocaL Hamstrung Stringband (bluegrass)

9:30 pm.

Lou Dawg’s RyeRson Open Mic Night Don

aLLeycaTz Carlo Berardinucci Band (swing/ jazz) 8:30 pm. aquiLa Sounds Different (experimental music/soundscapes) 8:30 pm. chaLkeRs Pub Robi Botos (piano) 7:30 pm. Dominion on queen Hot Club Of CorkTown (Django jam) 8:30 pm. fouR seasons cenTRe foR The PeRfoRming aRTs RichaRD bRaDshaw amPhiTheaTRe

New York State Of Mind Lauren Margison, Christopher Mokrzewski (vocals, piano) noon. gaTe 403 Andy Malette (piano) 5 to 8 pm. haRLem unDeRgRounD John Campbell (jazz/ pop/soul/R&B) 8:30 pm. Rex Bob Rice Latin Big Band w/ Hilario Duran 9:30 pm, Norman Marshall Villeneuve’s Jazz Message Trio 6:30 to 8:30 pm.

RoyaL conseRvaToRy of music koeRneR haLL

Symphonic Metamorphosis Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra, Nicole Li (violin) 7:30 pm. Ten ResTauRanT & wine baR Don Breithaupt, Chris Smith 9 pm. TRane sTuDio Jazz Jam The Taylor Cook Quintet (jazz) 8 pm. TRanzac souTheRn cRoss Drumheller (jazz) 10 pm, Mike Gennaro Orchestra

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AIR CANADA CENTRE 40 Bay. 416-815-5500. ALLEYCATZ 2409 Yonge. 416-481-6865. ANNEX WRECKROOM 794 Bathurst. 416-536-0346. AQUILA 347 Keele. 416-341-8487. ASPETTA CAFFE 207 Augusta. 416-725-0693. AXIS GALLERY & GRILL 3048 Dundas W. 416-604-3333. THE BALLROOM BOWL BAR BISTRO 145 John. 416-597-2695. BAR 460 460 Spadina Ave. BAR ITALIA 582 College. 416-535-3621. BLACK EAGLE 457 Church. 416-413-1219. BOVINE SEX CLUB 542 Queen W. 416-504-4239. BUNDA LOUNGE 1108 Dundas W. CAKE BAR 214 Adelaide W. 416-599-2253. CAMERON HOUSE 408 Queen W. 416-703-0811. CASTRO’S LOUNGE 2116 Queen E. 416-699-8272. THE CAVE 860 College. THE CENTRAL 603 Markham. 416-913-4586. C’EST WHAT 67 Front E. 416-867-9499. CHALKERS PUB 247 Marlee. 416-789-2531. CHERRY COLA’S ROCK N’ ROLLA 200 Bathurst. CHERRY STREET RESTAURANT 275 Cherry. 416-461-5111. CLINTON’S 693 Bloor W. 416-535-9541. CLOAK & DAGGER PUB 394 College. 647-436-0228. COPPS COLISEUM 101 York Blvd (Hamilton). CRAWFORD 718 College. 416-530-1633. DAKOTA TAVERN 249 Ossington. 416-850-4579. DANCE CAVE 529 Bloor W, 2nd floor. 416-532-1598. DAVE’S... ON ST CLAIR 730 St Clair W. 416-657-3283. DC MUSIC THEATRE 360 Munster. 416-234-0222. DEVIL’S MARTINI 473 Adelaide W. 416-591-7541. DOMINION ON QUEEN 500 Queen E. 416-368-6893. DOVERCOURT HOUSE 805 Dovercourt. 416-535-3847. DRAKE HOTEL 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042. DUFFY’S TAVERN 1238 Bloor W. 416-628-0330. THE DUKE LIVE.COM 1225 Queen E. 416-463-5302. EL MOCAMBO 464 Spadina. 416-777-1777. EMMET RAY BAR 924 College. 416-792-4497. ENWAVE THEATRE 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. ETON HOUSE 710 Danforth. 416-466-6161. FIRST CANADIAN PLACE 1 First Canadian Pl. FLY 8 Gloucester. 416-410-5426. FOOTWORK 425 Adelaide W. 416-913-3488. FOREST GROVE UNITED CHURCH 43 Forest Grove. 416-222-2781. FOUR SEASONS CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231. GALLERY 345 345 Sorauren. 416-822-9781. THE GARRISON 1197 Dundas W. 416-519-9439. GATE 403 403 Roncesvalles. 416-588-2930. GLADSTONE HOTEL 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. GLENN GOULD STUDIO 250 Front W. GOODHANDY’S 120 Church. 416-760-6514. GRAFFITI’S 170 Baldwin. 416-506-6699. THE GREAT HALL 1087 Queen W. 416-826-3330. GROSSMAN’S 379 Spadina. 416-977-7000. GUVERNMENT 132 Queens Quay E. 416-869-0045. HARBOURFRONT CENTRE 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. HARD LUCK BAR 772a Dundas W. 416-833-0302. HARLEM 67 Richmond E. 416-368-1920. HARLEM UNDERGROUND 745 Queen W. 416-366-4743. HIRUT FINE ETHIOPIAN CUISINE 2050 Danforth. 416-467-4915. HOLY OAK CAFE 1241 Bloor W. 647-345-2803. HORSESHOE 370 Queen W. 416-598-4753. HOT BOX CAFE 191A Baldwin. 416-203-6990. HOTEL OCHO 195 Spadina. 416-593-0885. THE HOXTON 69 Bathurst. 416-456-7321. HUGH’S ROOM 2261 Dundas W. 416-531-6604. INSOMNIA 563 Bloor W. 416-588-3907. INTER STEER 357 Roncesvalles. 416-588-8054. LAIDE LOUNGE 138 Adelaide E. 416-850-2726. LEE’S PALACE 529 Bloor W. 416-532-1598. LEVACK BLOCK 88 Ossington. 416-916-0571. LINSMORE TAVERN 1928 Danforth. THE LOADED DOG 1921 Lawrence E. 416-750-9009. THE LOCAL 396 Roncesvalles. 416-535-6225.

LOLA 40 Kensington. 416-348-8645. LOU DAWG’S 589 King W. 647-347-3294. LOU DAWG’S RYERSON 76 Gerrard E. 647-349-3294. MARKHAM THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 171 Town Centre Blvd (Markham). 905-305-7469. MASSEY HALL 178 Victoria. 416-872-4255. MÉLANGE 172 Main. 416-686-6485. MEZZETTA 681 St Clair W. 416-658-5687. MONARCH TAVERN 12 Clinton. 416-531-5833. MONARCHS PUB 33 Gerrard W. 416-585-4352. MONTGOMERY’S INN 4709 Dundas W. 416-394-8113. MUSIDEUM 401 Richmond W. 416-599-7323. NAWLINS JAZZ BAR 299 King W. 416-595-1958. NEWFOUNDLANDER 420 Danforth. 416-267-8406. 918 BATHURST CENTRE FOR CULTURE & THE ARTS 918 Bathurst. 416-538-0868. NOCTURNE 550 Queen W. 416-504-2178. NOW LOUNGE 189 Church. 416-364-1301. OLD MILL INN 21 Old Mill Rd. 416-236-2641. OLD NICK 123 Danforth. 416-461-5546. ONTARIO SCIENCE CENTRE 770 Don Mills. 416-696-1000. OPERA HOUSE 735 Queen E. 416-466-0313. ORBIT ROOM 580A College. 416-535-0613. PALMERSTON LIBRARY 560 Palmerston. 416-393-7680. PARTS & LABOUR 1566 Queen W. 416-588-7750. PERIDOT LOUNGE 81 Bloor E. 416-515-7560. PHOENIX CONCERT THEATRE 410 Sherbourne. 416-323-1251. THE PISTON 937 Bloor W. 416-532-3989. POGUE MAHONE 777 Bay. 416-598-3339. PRESS CLUB 850 Dundas W. 416-364-7183. QUEEN ELIZABETH THEATRE 190 Princes’ Blvd. 416-263-3293. QUOTES 220 King W. 416-979-7717. RANCHO RELAXO 300 College. 416-920-0366. REBAS CAFÉ & GALLERY 3289 Dundas W. 416-626-7372. RELISH 2152 Danforth. 416-425-4664. REPOSADO 136 Ossington. 416-532-6474. REVIVAL 783 College. 416-535-7888. REX 194 Queen W. 416-598-2475. RICHMOND HILL CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 10268 Yonge (Richmond Hill). 905-787-8811. RIVOLI 332 Queen W. 416-596-1908. ROCCO’S PLUM TOMATO 156 The Queensway. 416-255-5081. ROY THOMSON HALL 60 Simcoe. 416-872-4255. ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC 273 Bloor W. 416-408-0208. ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000. RUNNYMEDE UNITED CHURCH 432 Runnymede. 416-767-6729. THE RUSTY NAIL 2202 Danforth. 647-729-7254. SAZERAC GASTRO LOUNGE 782 King W. 647-342-8866. SCARLETT HEIGHTS ENTREPRENEURIAL ACADEMY 15 Trehorne. 416-394-7750. SCREEN LOUNGE 20 College. SHERATON CENTRE 123 Queen W. 416-361-1000. SILVER DOLLAR 486 Spadina. 416-975-0909. THE SISTER 1554 Queen W. 416-532-2570. SLACK’S 562 Church. 416-928-2151. SNEAKY DEE’S 431 College. 416-603-3090. SOMEWHERE THERE STUDIO 227 Sterling, unit 112. SONIC BOOM 782 Bathurst. 416-532-0334. SOUND ACADEMY 11 Polson. 416-461-3625. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY’S 3653 Lake Shore W. 416-521-6302. ST NICHOLAS ANGLICAN CHURCH 1512 Kingston Rd. 416-691-0449. ST SIMON-THE-APOSTLE ANGLICAN CHURCH 525 Bloor E. 416-9238714. SUPERMARKET 268 Augusta. 416-840-0501. SUTRA TIKI BAR 612 College. 416-537-8755. TEN RESTAURANT & WINE BAR 139 Lakeshore E (Mississauga). 905271-0016. THREE MONKEYS 1585 Warden. 416-609-1511. TORONTO CENTRE FOR THE ARTS 5040 Yonge. 416-733-9388. TORONTO INSTITUTE FOR THE ENJOYMENT OF MUSIC 821 Queen W. 416-504-5444. TORONTO UNDERGROUND CINEMA 186 Spadina. 647-992-4335. TRANE STUDIO 964 Bathurst. 416-913-8197. TRANZAC 292 Brunswick. 416-923-8137. TRINITY ST. PAUL’S CHURCH 427 Bloor W. 416-922-8435. VIRGIN MOBILE MOD CLUB 722 College. 416-588-4663. WETBAR 106 Peter. 416-599-2224. THE WILSON 96 615 College. 416-516-3237. WINCHESTER KITCHEN & BAR 51A Winchester. 416-323-0051. WINTER GARDEN THEATRE 189 Yonge. WRONGBAR 1279 Queen W. 416-516-8677.

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Saving rock ’n’ roll, with some help from Glee By BENJAMIN BOLES

FUN. with MINIATURE TIGERS at the Guvernment (132 Queens Quay East), Wednesday (April 25), 7 pm. $18.50. RT, SS, TM, UE.

In March, fun.’s breakout single, We Are Young, from their second album, Some Nights (Fueled by Ramen), made history as the first rock song by a newly charting band to hit number one on Billboard’s Hot 100 since Nickelback’s How You Remind Me in 2001. Sales were undoubtedly helped when the song was featured in a Superbowl Chevrolet ad, though the

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groundwork had already been laid back in December by its appearance somewhere that never would’ve made sense for Nickelback: on TV’s Glee. But as 30-year-old singer/songwriter Nate Ruess explains, the placement was perfect for one of fun.’s musicaltheatre-influenced stadium-ready anthems. “I’d never really watched it before, but a show that has kids in it who are homosexuals in high school? Are you fucking kidding me? That’s crazy! “As well, Glee is very much about theatre. I live in New York and have seen how Broadway’s taken a hit over the years, and what Glee has done for it. That’s a powerful thing. It’s a show that focuses on the arts for once, and in the United States that’s getting lost.” Statements like that, plus fun.’s partnership with Canadian LGBTQ

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rights and anti-bullying org Revel & Riot on their current tour and the overthe-top flamboyance of their sound have led some to question the band’s sexuality. But smitten male fans might be disappointed by the answer. “As far as I know, we’re all straight. And I think that’s kind of important: it’s not just time for gay people to talk about [homophobia]. It’s the time for straight people to talk about it, too.” While Billboard classified them as “alt-rock” on their March cover, there’s little post-grunge machismo in fun.’s version: Queen-style theatrics mixed with Weezer hyperactive pop and grandiose production touches borrowed from contemporary hip-hop. Nevertheless, Ruess would rather be considered alt than indie. “[The alternative era] was an incredible time for music. In the 90s it was okay to be in a rock band and on a major label. You could write songs that weren’t so formulaic and still have commercial success. If we’re going to be labelled alt-rock, I’ll take it. We’re definitely not indie rock. “The problem was, rap rock came out in the late 90s and set the world back about 10 years. Everyone spent the 2000s apologizing for it. If you were a band, you had to be an indie rock band, and I thought that was kind of pathetic. I didn’t get that modesty. If you’re making music, shouldn’t you want everyone to hear it?” If he weren’t so intensely earnest, you’d almost wonder if Ruess is being deliberately contrary. After all, what kind of American rock singer loves Toronto for its basketball? “I’m a massive Raptors fan,” he says. “In fact, I’m a massive fan of Toronto in general. It’s one of my three favourite cities of all time. I really do love how diverse it is. When I see Drake repping Toronto, I get excited myself because I’m such a fan.” 3 benjaminb@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/nowtorontomusic

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HALF MOON RUN Dark Eyes (Indica) Rating:

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Out Of The Game (Decca/Universal) Rating: Rufus Wainwright has always been an unabashed practitioner of “elitist” music, dabbling in Shakespearean sonnets and opera in recent years. With his seventh studio album, however, the acerbic singer/songwriter has leaned in the direction of – as he recently put it – “the common listener” by handing a large amount of creative control to pop producer Mark Ronson. That turned out to be a remarkably inspired move. Out Of The Game is his most accessible effort to date but still very Rufus. Indulging in a classic late 70s/early

80s AM radio aesthetic, it’s full of breathtakingly beautiful harmonies and spiralling narrative lyrics that balance complex emotional subject matter with pitch-perfect delivery and hummable melodies. Ronson and his players (including the Dap Kings) match the varied emotional terrain with expansive accompaniment. Whether it’s Barbara’s swirling synths, Jericho’s soulful swagger or Candles’ gloomy requiem, they provide a comfortable landing for Wainwright’s fanciful gestures. If there’s a pop formula at work here, you might call it “accessible elitism.” Top track: Barbara KEVIN RITCHIE

The next “next big thing” in a city full of them, Montreal trio Half Moon Run aren’t likely to see their buzz dry up with the release of their debut album. Often described as the sonic spawn of Radiohead and Fleet Foxes – something we don’t disagree with – they prove they can stretch their signature sound across a full LP without losing anything significant. They layer reverby, gravitas-imbued folkpop harmonies over moody, intricate keyboards, plucked guitar, deftly deployed percussion and occasional electronic flourishes. They also have an ear for subtlety and dynamics, with arrangements that sound remarkably full for a three-piece yet never overstuffed. Circular melodies and an emphasis on texture over hooks mean the songs float rather than hit, making for an agreeable experience you likely won’t remember after it’s over. But it’s a pleasant ride. Top track: Full Circle Half Moon Run play Saturday (April 21) at Lee’s Palace. RT

vocals and heartfelt lyrics make it one to hold onto. Top track: Auditorium JORDAN BIMM

COUSINS The Palm At The End Of The

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Young Canadians (White Whale) Rating: NNNN On his third album, local folk-rocker Eamon McGrath moves easily between noisy punk-leaning anthems, quiet country ballads and back again. Teardrop On The Sun channels the intimate confessionals of Hayden and Neil Young, while Bry Webb’s gruff bark bleeds through the uptempo Saskatoon, SK. Topdown barnstormer Signals, meanwhile, brings Springsteen and Archers of Loaf in equal measure. But it’s in the slow-burning, strippeddown Auditorium where McGrath hits an absolute sweet spot. Haunting and wistful, the song’s simple melody is deceptively catchy, and his powerful, rough-hewn

Mind (Saved by Vinyl) Rating: NNN It’s tempting to compare a stripped-down garage rock band like Cousins to guitar/ drums outfits like the White Stripes, Pack A.D. or (early) Black Keys. But though the Haligonians, now a trio, share those bands’ propensity for blues progressions and lo-fi, live-sounding rock clamour, they’re as skilled at slow and moody as they are at fast and dirty. The guitars are crunchy and the drums rollicking, yes, but Aaron Mangle’s yelping falsetto is dreamy rather than frenzied, and the melodies lean toward jangle pop. There’s a lot of energy in the nine songs on Cousins’s sophomore album, though you never get the sense that the band members are simply letting themselves run wild. Tightly wound stop-start arrangements abound, as do moments of relative calm, making the highs hit with greater impact. No matter how effortless it all might sound, The Palm At The End Of The Mind is a deceptively controlled album. Top track: Defense Cousins play the Silver Dollar on April 28. RICHARD TRAPUNSKI

JACK WHITE Blunderbuss (Sony)

Rating: NNN Jack White’s first proper post-White Stripes solo album began on a whim when the RZA blew off a recording session – and it shows. Blunderbuss has the casual feel of a talented rocker fooling around in a nice studio, giving a pleasing sense of immediacy but with far less weight than you’d expect from an album this highly anticipated. It’s immediately pleasing and, thanks to varied instrumentation, comes across as far more complex than it actually is. Unfortunately, Blunderbuss is more a collection of great sounds than good songs, and there’s very little here that you’ll be humming to yourself later. White seems to be having tons of fun, to a point that verges on self-parody. Thankfully, there are just enough flashes of brilliance to save it, even if much of the album comes across as a really expensive demo. Top track: Take Me With You When You Go BENJAMIN BOLES

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The War On Rock ’N’ Roll (In the Red) Rating: NNNNN Montreal’s Mark Sultan (sometimes known as BBQ) is a criminally underappreciated garage rock cult hero who puts on a one-man-band live show so sincerely passionate that he makes most primitive rock ’n’ roll revivalists look like cynical imposters. Unfortunately, none of his studio recordings have captured that unhinged genius, which is why anyone who believes in him needs to pick up this one-take improvised stream-of-consciousness limited-edition live album (also available as a free download). It’s very lo-fi and unapologetically sloppy, but it’s also so real it hurts. If you haven’t caught him doing this routine live before, you may be a bit baffled at first. There are no spaces between songs, and even describing them as songs is a bit of a stretch. He might freak out at the comparison, but it’s more like what a good DJ can accomplish by blending the raw elements of whatever songs feel right for that moment. He speeds up and slows down as the spirit moves him, stops on a dime to let loose some of the most authentically soulful crooning in punk rock and somehow makes credible links between 50s R&B and 80s hardcore. Deranged but brilliant. Top track: not applicable BB

ñNICK TEEHAN

There Is Not A Snake (independent) Rating: NNNN Baritone crooner Nick Teehan made the move from Oshawa to Toronto to study jazz sax and has since played in the Fedora Upside-Down folk collective, Barbarella and Maylee Todd’s backup band. The theatrical writer/performer’s debut album bursts with an unlikely array of instruments: electric guitars sidle up to clarinet, strings, horns, accordion and his brother Rob’s sousaphone. Be forewarned: attention-grabbing opener Racoon is the album’s loudest, grittiest, most cacophonous track. When yelling, Teehan channels Tom Waits, but more striking is his eerie vocal similarity to early Rufus Wainwright. A captivating and imaginative songwriter, he offers

Burning Hell-style dystopian commentary (Disneyland), folk balladry with a twist (Isobella Morris) and a slow piano spiritual for Toronto hipsters (Broken Window). Start with poppy Say Hello and move on to the sparse, eccentric Mom Song. Top track: Broken Window Nick Teehan plays a CD release Friday (April 20) at the Tranzac. SARAH GREENE

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Long Live Heavy Metal (Century Media) Rating: Fans of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal will shit a brick when they hear 3 Inches of Blood’s newest. The Vancouver band’s fifth album stays astonishingly true to the studded leather/duelling guitars/epic vocals aesthetic that emerged in the late 70s. It’s throwback music, for sure, but a slightly thrashier take executed with supreme vigour and, most impor tantly, without an iota of irony. And so we get galloping Maidenesque rhy thms, sweet, sweet interweaving guitar riffs (see Leather Lord and Look Out), jaw-dropping musicianship and high, muscular vocals by Cam Pipes that evoke Dio, Halford and, well, a hysterical Elmo, the little red monster from Sesame Street. (Those new to the band might find that difficult to get past, though guitarist Justin Hagberg sometimes adds harsher ones.) Best, the five-piece isn’t scared to reach beyond metal. Chief And The Blade is a flat-out gorgeous folk instrumental, seven-and-a-half-minute Men Of Fortune offers a surprisingly mellow and emotional breakdown, while Storming Juno sets aside fantasy-metal lyrics for ones inspired by the Canadian role on D-Day. Top track: Storming Juno CARLA GILLIS

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BBNG2 (independent) Rating: NNNN Thanks to the combination of overnight viral success and their irreverent attitude (or arrogance, depending on your perspective), Toronto’s BADBADNOTGOOD have ignited a firestorm of debate in the jazz scene. The questions revolve around whether what they do is jazz, whether they have the technical skills to justify their youthful bluster and if there’s anything innovative about their jazz-inspired covers of contemporary hip-hop. If you’ve discounted them as a bunch of entitled brats after watching a couple of their early YouTube videos and reading interviews, their second free mixtape could change your mind. Strong original compositions show them moving away from the gimmick of unexpected covers, and the covers themselves expand the turf they’ve staked out. Turning shoegazer icons My Bloody Valentine’s You Made Me Realise into a bizarre punk/jazz hybrid is a much better idea than it seems. Top track: CMYK BB 3

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do you chuckle at those email messages from Nigeria about all the dough you can make if you transfer just the smallest sum? You won’t be laughing after you read 419. Nigerian Criminal Code article 419 gives its name to the email scams that can devastate naive folks who fall for them. Take copy editor Laura’s father, a hoax victim who commits suicide in Will Ferguson’s thriller when a Nigerian operator drains his bank account. Ferguson shifts the scene back and forth from Laura’s hometown (probably Calgary) to Nigeria, where teen-

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aged Nnamdi has left his home village to work for foreign oil interests. The narrative then shifts to Amina, pregnant and starving, who’s walking through villages pillaged by oil companies, trying to survive. Forget Ferguson’s breezy travel writing or his humour collection, Canadian Pie. Here, the emphasis is on the effects Shell, BP, et al., have had on the landscape, where oil has slimed once healthy rivers, and on the psyches of Africans forced to comply with their modern conquerors. Vivid descriptions of impoverished people living in shacks beside obscenely wealthy communities make this a valuable contribution to the world-wide debate on inequality. So committed is the author to this part of his literary mission that he lets his Africa narrative unfold in ways that sometimes disrupt the thriller action – a minor weakness.

ENDING TODAY Neil Pasricha didn’t know his tiny idea would blow up into an online sensation – and two books. But that’s what happened when he launched 1000awesomethings.com. Readers loved his daily blog citing everyday stuff that qualifies as awesome – the smell of Play-Doh, for example. He spun the blog into two books, The Book Of Awesome and The Book Of (Even More) Awesome, now in paper ($16, Berkley/Penguin). Thing is, nothing lasts forever. He said he’d blog daily for 1,000 days, and the last blog goes up today (Thursday, April 19). For a Q&A with Pasricha, go to nowtoronto.com/books. SGC Eventually, all the characters converge, but not as you’d expect, making this a powerful read. Whether he likes it or not (he’s on record about his irritation at the idea that 419 is a “departure”), Ferguson’s a heavyweight now. Good thing. SUSAN G. COLE Write Books at susanc@nowtoronto.com.

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Strait forward

Ydessa Hendeles tweaks a fine exhibit By DAVID JAGER STRAIT-JACKET at Ydessa Hendeles

Art Foundation (778 King West), ongoing. Saturday noon-5 pm. 416-4139400. Rating: NNNNN

in the movie strait-jacket, joan Crawford returns home after serving a 25-year sentence in a psychiatric ward for murdering her husband and his mistress with an axe. Her daughter, raised in her absence, gives her the gold charm bracelets her mother wore the night of the murder, initiating a twisted plot that examines how

the legacy of violence is passed from one generation to the next. Those 14k gold bracelets, which actually belonged to Crawford, form a central part of Strait-Jacket, a hidden gem of a show up since 2009. Many of the artifacts, from the previous show Dead!Dead!Dead!, are reinvigorated by the addition of Ydessa Hendeles’s newer acquisitions. This time, violence – domestic, societal and political – is its theme. Punch and Judy, the centuries-oldwarring husband-and-wife puppet team, are the first point of focus via a

MUST-SEE SHOWS ANGELL Painting/prints: Radoslaw Kudlinski, Brendan George Ko and Caroline Larsen, to Apr 28. 12 Ossington. 416-530-0444. BAU-XI PHOTO Barbara Cole, to Apr 28. 324 Dundas W. 416-977-0400. BIRCH LIBRALATO Painting: Howard Simkins and Michelle Gay, Apr 19-May 26. 129 Tecumseth. 416-365-3003. CHRISTOPHER CUTTS Painting: Michael Amar and Pat McDermott, to May 9. 21 Morrow. 416-532-5566. CORKIN GALLERY Video/prints: Sharon Switzer, to Apr 24. 55 Mill. 416-979-1980. DANIEL FARIA GALLERY Derek Liddington, Apr 20-May 26, reception 6-8 pm Apr 20. 188 St Helens. 416-538-1880. DON’T TELL MAMA Street art: DEADBOY, to Apr 30. 108 Ossington. 416-516-3668. DOUBLE DOUBLE LAND Rear-View Mirror group show, noon-6 pm Apr 22. 209 Au-

gusta. workersassembly.ca. GALLERY 44 Photos/video/performance: Deanna Bowen, to Apr 21 (daily performances 1 pm). Photopia group show, Apr 25-28. 401 Richmond W. 416-979-3941. GEORGIA SCHERMAN PROJECTS Suzy Lake, reception 6-8 pm Apr 19, Apr 20-May 26. 133 Tecumseth. 416-554-4112. GRAVEN FEATHER Prints/installation: Noelle Wharton-Ayer, to Apr 28. 906 Queen W. 416858-4401. INDEXG GALLERY Drawing: Gary Michael Dault and Malgorzata Wolak Dault, to Apr 22. 50 Gladstone. 416-535-6957. INTERACCESS Sound installation: Tristan Perich and Sarah Rara, to May 26. 9 Ossington. 416532-0597. KATHARINE MULHERIN Julian Higuerey Núñez and Susan Campbell, Apr 24-May 6. 1082/1086 Queen W. 416-993-6510.

Pipilotti Rist’s disturbing video Ever is Over All joins the Strait-Jacket show.

beautiful original Punch and Judy theatre used by British puppeteer Thomas Rose. It’s placed in sombre political context by the Bill Brandt photograph of Stalin and Churchill puppets pummelling a prone Hitler. In the plays, smug anarchist Punch generally refuses to do a task and then gleefully bludgeons all comers, including his wife, the local policeman and occasionally the Devil.

LE GALLERY Amanda Nedham, to Apr 29. 1183 Dundas W. 416-532-8467. MERCER UNION Installation: Deborah Stratman, to May 19. 1286 Bloor W. 416536-1519. 918 BATHURST CENTRE The Dark Room group show, Apr 20-May 10, reception 7-10 pm Apr 20. 918 Bathurst. 416-538-0868. PEAK GALLERY Painting: Raffael A Iglesias, to May 7. 23 Morrow. 416-537-8108.

READINGS THIS WEEK Thursday, April 19 ARTHUR ELLIS SHORT LIST EVENT 7 pm. Free.

Indigo ManuLife, 55 Bloor W. crimewriterscanada.com. EVA STACHNIAK 6:45 pm. Free. High Park Library, 228 Roncesvalles. 416-393-7671. FARIDEH DE BOSSET 6-8 pm. Free. Alliance Française, 24 Spadina Rd. 416-922-2014. NAHLAH AYED 12:30 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca. SISTER SPIT Queer literary event with Michelle Tea, Brontez Purnell, Cassie J Sneider, Kit Yan and others. 8 pm. $10-$20. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. radarproductions.org.

Friday, April 20 ADRIA VASIL 4 pm. Free. Whole Foods Market, 87 Avenue Rd. wholefoodsmarket.com.

DIASPORA DIALOGUES Readings by Andrew

Pyper, Shadi Eskandani, Mia Herrera and Ron Schafrick. 7 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

Saturday, April 21 LAST POET STANDING Poetry slam with 16

poets. 9 pm. $20 adv. Great Hall, 1087 Queen W. info@upfromtheroots.ca.

Sunday, April 22 ADRIA VASIL Noon. Free. Ecoexistence, 766 St Clair W. ecoexistence.ca.

MARSHA BARBER/LISA RICHTER/CLARA BLACKWOOD/MARTHA BAILLIE 6:30 pm. Free. Pau-

per’s Pub, 539 Bloor W. pauperspub.com.

NAHLAH AYED/NOAH RICHLER/KYO MACLEAR Hendeles’s wooden Punch and Judy puppets are grouped in near gloom in the second room. Totems of a childish delight in slapstick, with larger, unsettling implications, their collective grins and stares are eerie. So is the new 1997 Pipilotti Rist video Ever Is Over All. A woman saunters down a quaint city street in slow motion, carrying a long tropical blossom called a red-hot poker. She suddenly swings the flower at the passenger window of a parked car, shattering it. The marriage of gleeful abandon and violence is both liberating and disturbing. Barbara Kruger’s Your Gaze Hits The Side Of My Face, nestled in a back room, relates the truncheon to the male gaze. Hendeles situates her objects along a continuum of evolving meaning and compelling associations. 3

Tuesday, April 24 DAVID ROTENBERG 7 pm. Free. Annette Library, 145 Annette. torontopubliclibrary.ca. EVA STACHNIAK 8 pm. Free. Temple Sinai, 210 Wilson. templesinai.net. GARY GEDDES 7 pm. Free. Runnymede Library, 2178 Bloor W. torontopubliclibrary.ca. MARINA ENDICOTT 9:30. Free. Northlea Church, 125 Brentcliffe. northleasidewomensgroup.com. NORA YOUNG 7 pm. Free. Dora Keogh Pub, 141 Danforth. benmcnallybooks.com. QUATTRO SPRING BOOK LAUNCH Readings by Patrick Senecal, Sonia Saikaley, Isa Milman and Antonino Mazza. 7:30 pm. Free. Supermarket, 268 Augusta. quattrobooks.ca. RICHARD STURSBERG 7:30 pm. $5. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. tinars.ca.

Wednesday, April 25 THE HOUSE OF ANANSI PRESS POETRY BASH

6:30 pm. Free. Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. houseiofanansi.com. MARKO FEREK 7 pm. Free. Metropolitan Community Church, 115 Simpson. hdreamers@ gmail.com.

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LUND 7:30 pm. $10, stu free. Harbourfront Centre Brigantine Rm, 235 Queens Quay W. readings.org. TZEPORAH BERMAN/NAHLAH AYED/JUDY

REBICK World Literacy benefit reading. 6:30 pm. $60. Park Hyatt, 4 Avenue. worldlit.ca. 3

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AGO Jack Chambers, to May 13. 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 U Diane Borsato, to Jun 10. 4700 Keele, Accolade E. 416-736-5169. DESIGN EXCHANGE Marlis Saunders, to Apr 23. Sarah Fee talk 6:30-7:30 pm Apr 23 (pwyc). High School Design Competition, Apr 25-May 22. $10, stu/srs $8. 234 Bay. 416-363-6121. GARDINER MUSEUM Greg Payce, to May 6. $12, stu $6, srs $8; Fri 4-9 pm half-price. 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080. JUSTINA M. BARNICKE Sovereign Acts, to May 27. 7 Hart House. 416-978-8398. POWER PLANT Kerry Tribe, to Jun 3. Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber, Apr 25-Jun 18. Dissenting Histories, to Sep 3, Fastwürms/Philip Monk talk 7 pm Apr 25. 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949. ROM Deborah Samuel, to Jul 2. The Art Of Collecting, ongoing. $15, stu/srs $13.50;Fri 4:308:30 pm $9, stu/srs $8. 100 Queen’s Park. 416586-8000. art@nowtoronto.com TEXTILE MUSEUM Dare To Wear Love, to May 9. Perpetual Motion; Portable Mosques: The MORE ONLINE Prayer Rug,4:33 to Sep 3.PM $15, srs $10, stu 24954_AuthorsNOWad:Apr 19 3/26/12 Page 1 $6; pwyc Complete art listings at Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre. 416-599-5321. 3 nowtoronto.com/art/listings

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Installation: Uriel Orlow, to Apr 21, closing reception 2-5 pm Apr 21, artist talk 7:30 pm Apr 24 ($10, stu/srs $7). 401 Richmond W. 416-591-0357. SUSAN HOBBS Sculpture/video: Kevin Yates, Apr 19-May 26, reception 7-9 pm Apr 19. 137 Tecumseth. 416-504-3699. TRINITY SQUARE VIDEO (Images Festival): Gary Kibbins, to May 19. 401 Richmond W #376. 416-593-1332. VTAPE Video: Antoni Mutadas, to May 19. 401 Richmond W. 416-351-1317.

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Learning to adapt Michael Trent looks to the past for a new work By GLENN SUMI THE ADAPTATION PROJECT a reimagined performance by Michael Trent, based on Mitchell Rose’s Following Station Identification. Presented by Dancemakers at the Dancemakers Centre for Creation (55 Mill). Opens tonight (Thursday, April 19) and runs to April 29, Wednesday-Saturday 8 pm, matinee Sunday 4 pm. $25, stu/srs $20. 416-367-1800.

classic plays are remounted regularly, and every week it seems another movie gets rebooted for a new generation of popcorn munchers. But the situation is different in the ephemeral world of contemporary dance, where shows go up quickly and just as quickly disappear. This week, though, Dancemakers artistic director Michael Trent unveils The Adaptation Project, inspired by Mitchell Rose’s piece Following Station Identification, which the company debuted in 1974. Poring through the more than 100 original works in the Dancemakers repertoire was arduous. But while Trent was going through the archives and talking with some of the original members, Rose’s name kept coming up. Trent eventually found production shots and video footage of rehearsals of the piece, and invited original dancers Carol Anderson, Peggy Baker, Pat Fraser and Pat Miner to view them. “Carol began watching and said, ‘Oh yeah, I remember that,’ and she got up and started dancing a little bit,” he says. “She’d performed it almost four decades ago. Remarkable.” From the start, Trent knew he didn’t want to do a simple remount. For one thing, the original – a satire about middle-American family values – was 13 minutes long, and Trent’s version would be closer to an hour. But he’s stayed with Rose’s basic three-part structure. “In the original, there’s a moment when the dancers change costume onstage and become

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these characters – sort of like a family of sitcom characters: a mother, father and kids. One of the reasons I was drawn to it was there was a conceptual framework. It wasn’t only a piece of movement exploration to music. It had strong ideas.” He then exposed his current dancers to the archival material and discussions with the older dancers – as well as with Rose, who’s now an Ohio filmmaker, via Skype. “We really discovered him through these interviews,” says Trent. “What his interests were, what it was like for him to make work. He’s got this quirky sense of humour, and that was evident in the work. Back then he had this habit of screaming into a pillow really, really loudly before a show. It freaked everybody out.” Through Trent’s own process of improvisation with the dancers, he says, their collective interests started to reveal themselves. “We found the thing about the original material that resonated for us now.” Baker, Anderson, Miner and Fraser will all see The Adaptation Project during the run. But will they recognize the piece in which they danced years ago? “I think so,” Trent says. “One of my theoretical sources for this work was a book by Linda Hutcheon on adaptation. She raises the idea of a knowing and an unknowing audience. In order for us to encounter an adaptation, what relation do you need to have to the original source? “With something like a Harry Potter film, many viewers will have read the book, but in our case only a few people will have seen the original dance. So how are we going to deal with that? I’m not going to give it away, but we do address it in some way.” 3 glenns@nowtoronto.com

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Opening AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner (Theatre Smith-Gilmour). A family hauls ñ their matriarch’s corpse across the Mississippi

countryside to honour her dying wish in this workshop production. Opens Apr 19 and runs to Apr 29, Tue-Sat 7 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $15 (Apr 26 fundraiser gala $45, stu $22). Theatre Centre, 1087 Queen W. 416-538-0988, theatrecentre.org. A CHRISTIAN TURN’D TURK by Robert Daborne (Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies/Poculi Ludique Societas). This 1612 play is based on the life of an English sailor who became a pirate and then converted to Islam. Apr 19-22, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20, srs $15, stu $10. Glen Morris Studio Theatre, 4 Glen Morris. 416-978-7986. DANCING QUEEN by Sky Gilbert (The Cabaret Company). This fusion of theatre and dance looks at gay romance in an intergenerational continued on page 64 œ

Colin Ainsworth and Peggy Kriha Dye get passionate in awesome Armide.

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Lully lingers ARMIDE by Jean-Baptiste Lully (Opera Atelier). At the Elgin (189 Yonge). Runs to April 21. $35-$175. 1-855622-2787. See Continuing, page 65. Rating: nnnn

Opera Atelier’s production of JeanBaptiste Lully’s 1686 baroque opera Armide is gorgeous in so many ways, you might forget it’s a psychological drama pitting hatred against love. That battle takes place both between the central characters, the sorceress Armide and the warrior Renaud, and within the soul of Armide, who’s forced to weigh her initial feelings of anger at Renaud against the warm passion she later feels for him. Both characters derive their protection from their virginity; Armide defends her Muslim warriors with her purity, while Renaud seeks glory as a Christian knight. But when Armide, who inflicts love on others but doesn’t feel it herself, uses her enchantments to make Renaud love her, she falls for him without the use of charms. Armide’s is a tragic tale, caught as she is between conflicting emotions. But that story is told through exquisite music elegantly played by Tafelmusik

Baroque Orchestra and sung by the Tafelmusik Chamber Choir under conductor David Fallis, the action given a mostly vital staging by director Marshall Pynkoski. Peggy Kriha Dye’s vocally adept Armide is staunchly proud at the start, then painfully torn as she acknowledges her own love. Her Renaud, Colin Ainsworth, has a bright tenor voice that impresses the first time he sings. Singly and together they generate a wide range of emotions vocally and dramatically; their one love scene together is charmingly sensual. There are other fine voices onstage, too, including a resonant João Fernandes as Armide’s uncle, Carla Huhtanen and Meghan Lindsay as various seductive figures and Curtis Sullivan as La Haine, the swaggering personification of hatred. Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg’s choreography, always a part of Opera Atelier productions, has rarely been as central and effective as it is here. Gerard Gauci’s attractive Persianinspired sets are sumptuous, as are Dora Rust D’Eye’s colourful costumes and Bonnie Beecher’s lighting. The production has a few infelicitous moments, including some unnecessarily heavy-handed comedy, but Armide deserves to be one of Opera JOn KAPLAn Atelier’s signature pieces.

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love triangle. Opens Apr 19 and runs to Apr 29, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $25-$30, stu $20$24, preview $20, Sun pwyc ($18-$20 adv). Buddies in Bad Times, 12 Alexander. 416-9758555, ticketweb.ca. The elephanT Man by Bernard Pomerance (The Bench Theatre Initiative). Appearance versus reality and the limits of charity are explored in this drama about the life of John Merrick. Opens Apr 20 and runs to May 12, Fri-Sat 8 pm. $12-$15. Sanctuary, 25 Charles E. thebenchtheatre.com. l’eMMerdeur by Francis Veber (Théâtre français de Toronto/Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui). A suicidal oddball jeopardizes a hit man’s task in this comedy. Previews to Apr 19. Opens Apr 20 and runs to May 5, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat Apr 28 and May 5 at 3:30 pm. $33-$100, srs $28$100. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley.

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A re-imagined performance by Michael Trent based on Mitchell Rose’s Following Station Identification (1974)

416-534-6604, theatrefrancais.com. The exquiSiTe hOur by Stewart Lemoine (The Theatre Department). A seemingly happy bachelor finds his life altered when an alluring stranger enters his backyard and asks a simple question. Opens Apr 19 and runs to Apr 29, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $17, Sun pwyc at the door. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Studio. 416-504-9971, factorytheatre.ca. head a TeTe by David S Craig and Robert Morgan (Theatre Direct). Two strangers who speak different languages take shelter from a storm under a magical fruit tree. Opens Apr 21 and runs to May 6, Sat-Sun 11 am & 2 pm (no 11 am show on May 6). $12-$15. Wychwood Theatre, 76 Wychwood. theatredirect.ca. h.M.S. pinaFOre by WS Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan (Toronto Operetta Theatre). The popular high-seas comic opera gets a staging. Opens Apr 24 and runs to Apr 29, Fri-Sat and Tue-Wed 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $66-$95. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-366-7723, torontooperetta.com.

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Jacques Offenbach (Canadian Opera Company). At the Four Seasons Centre (145 Queen West). To May 14. $22$318, standing room $12. 416-363-8231. See Continuing, page 67. Rating: nnnn

Offenbach’s The Tales Of Hoffmann is filled with memorable music, but as a narrative it’s rather like a jigsaw puzzle whose pieces don’t quite fit together. The Canadian Opera Company production is a marvel to see and hear, although a weak central performance drains away some of the drama. The poet Hoffmann, seeking the feminine ideal, is besotted with four women: automaton Olympia, sickly

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seeks, he turns to art. Throughout the various stories, he’s followed by two figures. The protective Muse takes on the form of his pupil Nicklausse and encourages both Hoffmann’s drinking and writing. A quartet of figures – Lindorf, Coppélius, Dr. Miracle and Dapertutto – become a composite nemesis for Hoffmann, blocking the poet’s attempts to realize his desires. Johannes Debus conducts a rousing reading of the score, while director Lee Blakeley keeps the non-stop action involving. The singing is first-rate, beginning with Lauren Segal’s passionate Muse/ Nicklausse and John Relyea’s excellent satanic villains, all splendidly differentiated in voice and character, as are Steven Cole’s four mainly comic servants. Hoffmann’s loves are just as striking. Adriana Chuchman sings with proper clockwork ease and gets lots of laughs as the coloratura Olympia. Erin Wall’s touching Antonia is plangent and appealing, and Keri Alkema brings sensuality and a strong presence to her manipulative Giulietta. The elegant Ambur Braid doesn’t have much to sing as Stella, but she drifts ghostlike through each of the episodes, helping to maintain the production’s otherworldliness. As the increasingly drunk Hoffmann, Russell Thomas has a beautiful voice; the higher vocal reaches hold no terror for him. But dramatically he’s bland, never investing emotionally in the role, a fact especially evident when good actors like Relyea and Segal are onstage with him. You never get the sense that this Hoffmann is inspired by either love or art; he talks of rapture but never JOn Kaplan shows it. nn = Seriously flawed

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Previewing 42nd street by Michael Stewart, Mark Bram-

ble, Harry Warren and Al Dubin (Stratford Festival). A director falls for a chorus girl while trying to keep his musical production afloat. Previews to 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. misaLLiance by Bernard Shaw (Shaw Festival). A bored heiress finds adventure when a plane crashes into her home during a dull party. Previews Apr 19-May 24. Opens May 25 and runs in rep to Oct 27. $35-$90, stu mats $24. Royal George Theatre, 85 Queen, Niagara-on-theLake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. ragtime by Terrence McNally, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (Shaw Festival). Turn-of-the-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, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. the reaL worLd? by Michel Tremblay (Tarragon Theatre). A playwright draws on his family as the raw material for his first work. Previews Apr 24-May 1. Opens May 2 and runs to Jun 3, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2:30 pm (no mats during previews). $21-$51. 30 Bridgman. 416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com. you can’t take it with you by George S Kaufman and Moss Hart (Soulpepper). An eccentric clan experiences unusual order when their daughter finds a fiancé from a conservative family. Previews Apr 19-25. Opens Apr 26 and runs to Jun 20, see website for schedule. $51-$68, stu $32; rush $22/stu $5. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-8668666, soulpepper.ca.

One-nighters aPPrentice to murder (you’re Fired) by

Brian Caws and Ken MacDougall (Mysteriously Yours... Dinner Theatre). This dinner-theatre show spoofs the TV reality show The Apprentice. Apr 20 at 6:30 pm. $66-$71. 2026 Yonge. 416-486-7469, mysteriouslyyours.com. a BLock to Broadway! BeneFit (Beyond Boundaries). Theatre artists perform to raise

funds to send the musical drama Living With Henry to the New York Musical Theatre Festival. Apr 23 at 8 pm. $35, stu $25. Bathurst Street Theatre, 736 Bathurst. 416-504-7529. Born Free* Launch Party (The Empty Room). This launch party/funder for the upcoming theatre project features music and comedy. Apr 21, doors 8 pm. $8. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. indiegogo.com/bornfree. caBaret 375 (Back Burner Productions). Renee Odo, SidePony Nation, Guy Doucette and others perform. Apr 19 at 8 pm. Pwyc. Dominion on Queen, 500 Queen E. 416-899-3279. La coLmenita (Havanarte Productions/Cuban Embassy of Canada/Carranza LLP). The Cuban children’s theatre group puts a Cuban twist on songs by the Beatles and childhood tales like Pinocchio. Apr 19 at 6:30 pm. $25. Royal Cinema, 608 College. torontohispano.com. From cheLm to choLLyvood by Morris Jacobs (Medina Theatre Ensemble). This funder for the company features a comedic ride through the history of Jewish humour. Apr 23 at 7:30 pm. $10. Temple Sinai Congregation, 210 Wilson. 416-638-2716. hot itaLian action by Melissa D’Agostino (The Flying Beaver Pubaret). Woodbridge meets the Dufferin Mall meets Little Italy in a musical comedy revue. Apr 20 at 7:30 pm. $10$15. 488 Parliament. 647-347-6567, brownpapertickets.com/event/242007. the marriage oF Figaro 101 (Forest Grove United Church). Learn about Mozart’s famous opera at this all-ages presentation. Apr 22 at 3 pm. Pwyc. 43 Forest Grove. 416-222-2781. mickey & Judy (Michael Hughes). This encore performance of the 2011 Fringe hit raises funds for the show’s debut at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Apr 21 at 8 pm. $25. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge, Studio Theatre. mickeyandjudy.ca.

the sad Bride caBaret (Loft Theatre Group).

This funder for the company’s upcoming production includes music, poetry, comedy and more. Apr 22 at 7 pm. $10. Hard Luck Bar, 772a Dundas W. openbooktoronto.com/events/ sad_bride_caberet. the sheets, the... by Salvatore Antonio (The Empty Whole Group/HATCH). This multidisciplinary creation explores the human need for emotional connection, sexual release and simple contact. Apr 21 at 8 pm. $15, stu/srs $12. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W, Studio Theatre. harbourfrontcentre.com. sPeakeasy (Les Coquettes). The cabaret theatre company presents burlesque, music and more inspired by vintage NYC nightclubs in a dinner theatre show. Apr 22, doors 6 pm, show

at 8 pm. Dinner + show $85; show only $20$55. Revival, 783 College. lescoquettes.com.

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(Studio 180 Theatre). This funder for the company includes tickets to Clybourne Park followed by a special reception. Apr 20 at 8 pm. $65-$75. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416-368-3110, studio180theatre.com. toga Party Fundraiser (Soup Can Theatre). Magicians, musicians, comedians and burlesque artists perform at this funder for the company. Apr 22, doors 7 pm. Pwyc. Clinton’s, 693 Bloor W. 416-535-9541.

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Christian knight and a Muslim princess plays out against a backdrop of obsession, jealousy and magic (see review, page 63). Runs to Apr 21, Fri-Sat and Tue-Wed 7:30 pm, Sun 3 pm. $35-$175. Elgin Theatre, 189 Yonge. 1-855622-2787, operaatelier.com. nnnn (JK) cLyBourne Park by Bruce Norris (Studio 180 Theatre/Canadian Stage). Norris’s award-winning, unsettling comedy follows the sale of a suburban Chicago house, first in 1959 and then again in 2009. A tale of real estate and race relations, the play gets a strong production featuring a talented cast. It’s a demonstration that while social niceties might change over the years, underlying attitudes are more inflexible. Runs to Apr 28,

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(Toronto Underground Cinema). This drag and burlesque show features Meryle Trouble, Bella Fox, Great Canadian Burlesque and many others. Apr 20 at 9 pm. $12-$15. 186 Spadina. brownpapertickets.com/event/239775. the PhiLosoPher’s wiFe by Susanna Fournier (Nightwood Theatre). A philosopher hires a dog trainer to cure his wife’s animalistic behaviour in this staged reading. Apr 22 at 2 pm. Pwyc. The Cannery, 55 Mill, Bldg 58, Studio 315. nightwoodtheatre.net.

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This new adaptation of Marina Nemat’s harrowing memoir about being imprisoned in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison following the 1979 revolution provides quick glimpses of the jarring social and personal changes wrought by the return of Islamic theocracy to Iran. The action follows Nemat (Baha reh Yaraghi) – a Christian Iranian – from her carefree youth under the Shah’s rule (including a sweet teenaged romance with an Islamic revolutionary) to her capture, imprisonment, torture and coerced marriage to a prison interrogator. Trying to suggest something of the ways memory works, adapter/ director Maja Ardal tells the story out of chronological order, with

416-364-4170, alumnaetheatre.com. CouNTRy oF THE BliND (Budget Cut Collective). Humber theatre students use music, dance, puppetry and physical theatre to re-imagine the five senses. Runs to Apr 21, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, mat 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. Runs to Apr 29, Fri-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Apr 29 at 4 pm. $45. 100A Ossington. 416-915-6747, lowerossingtontheatre.com.

quick, fluid jumps between scenes. To keep these transitions in time and place from disturbing the fast pace, Ardal makes minimal use of sets, costumes and props, and has Razi Sha wahdeh and Mirian Katrib playing all the supporting roles. The two actors do a good job of managing the constant on-the-fly character changes. In one transition, Shawahdeh transforms from Arash, Marina’s sweet, idealistic boyfriend, into Ali, a callous prison official – in the blink of an eye, using only his voice and physicality. While Ardal’s decision to mimic the workings of memory in the staging itself is mostly well executed, one side effect is that the non-linear storytelling and constant juggling of secondary characters make piecing together the narrative difficult in the first half, especially if you haven’t read the book. And while Ardal explicitly says she’s avoiding realism, having the actors dressed in modern-day street clothes (like Capri pants and V-neck sweaters) produces a workshop look at odds with her goal of conjuring living memories onstage. JoRDAN BiMM

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blacklight theatre company presents a twist on Lewis Carroll’s Alice In Wonderland. Runs to Apr 28, Tue-Sat noon and 6:45 pm. $62, srs $56, child $40 (includes meal). 343 Evans. 416532-1137, fpp.org. The 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 romantic comedy. 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. hearT STrinGS, The muSiCal (Reynold Nathaniel). In 1908, an Italian apprentice goes to Ireland to deliver an anniversary gift from Germany. Runs to Apr 28, Fri-Sat 7 pm. $20-$25. The Annex Live, 296 Brunswick. 416-929-3999.

hOw TO SuCCeed in BuSineSS wiThOuT really TryinG by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, Willie Gilbert and Frank Loesser (Toronto Youth Theatre). A man schemes his way to the top in this musical. Runs to Apr 28, Wed-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $17.50-$37.50. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. tythowtosucceed.eventbrite.ca.

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folk tale features audience participation. Runs to Apr 21, see website for schedule. $10-$20. 165 Front E. 416-862-2222, 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. The melville BOyS by Norm Foster (Panfish Productions). Two pairs of siblings have their cottage getaway plans changed by a chance meeting in this comedy. Runs to Apr 28, TueSun 8 pm. $25. Alumnae Theatre, 70 Berkeley, Studio. 647-401-9727, panfishproductions.ca. Oil and waTer by Robert Chafe (Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland/Performance Spring Festival). This theatrical retelling tells the story of Lanier Phillips, the only black survivor of a 1942 shipwreck off the coast of Newfoundland. Runs to May 6, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $30-$40. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Mainspace. 416-504-9971, factorytheatre.ca. 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, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 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-$39.50. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. 416-642-8973, vitaltheatre.ca. prelude TO a kiSS by Craig Lucas (Amicus Productions). A new husband fights to free his young wife’s spirit after she exchanges souls with an old man in this romantic comedy. Runs to Apr 21, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat 2 pm. $18-$20. Fairview Library, 35 Fairview Mall. 416-860-6176. priSOner OF Tehran by Marina Nemat (Contrary Company). Nemat’s memoir of being imprisoned on false charges, a forced marriage and family tension is adapted for the stage (see review, page 66). Runs to Apr 28, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $30-$35, stu/srs $20, mat pwyc. Theatre Passe Mu-

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TwelFTh niGhT, Or, whaTever by William Shakes (Snobbish Theatre). Wear neon and become part of the play at this rave-inspired party adaptation of the comedy. Runs to Apr 25, Mon-Wed 8 pm. $15, stu $10. Breakout Studios, 1541 Bayview. snobbishtheatre.com. 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 4/16/12 10:10 Page Alex 1 battlefields where AlbertAM (an excellent Ferber) seeks the horse he loves. We appreci-

raille, 16 Ryerson. 416-504-7529, artsboxoffice.ca. nnn (Jordan Bimm) The Simian ShOwCaSe (Monkeyman Productions). Short plays by Sarah Bowden, Nick Philpott, Matthew Ivan Bennett and DJ Sylvis deal with themes of geek/fandom/pop culture. Runs to Apr 21, Fri-Sat 8 pm (late show Apr 21 at 11 pm), mat Sun 2 pm. $10. Imperial Pub, 54 Dundas E. monkeymanproductions.com. 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 (see review, page 64). Runs to May 14: Apr 21, 27, May 3, 8 and 14 at 7:30 pm, May 6 at 2 pm. $12-$318. Four 25004Centre Paris NOW ad:Layout Seasons for the Performing Arts, 145 1 Queen W. 416-363-8231, coc.ca. nnnn (JK)

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ate the anti-war message, as well, but it’s the magic theatre can create that’ll make you weep. Runs to Sep 30, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 1:30 pm. $35-$130. Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King W. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. nnnnn (Susan G Cole) waS SprinG by Daniel MacIvor (Tarragon Theatre). MacIvor’s play about one woman at various stages in her life feels more like a poem for three voices than a play. There are vivid, knowing lines about sex and relationships, but little narrative subtext. Still, it’s worth seeing for performers Caroline Gillis, Jessica Moss and especially the luminous Clare Coulter. Runs to May 6, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $24-$51. 30 Bridgman. 416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com. nnn (GS) 3

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Josh Williams and host Monty Scott. To Apr 22, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:45 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10-$15. 2335 Yonge. 416-4867700, absolutecomedy.ca. COMEDY THURSDAYS The Starving Artist presents a weekly showcase w/ host Natasha Henderson. 9 pm. Free. 584 Lansdowne. 647342-5058, starvingartistbar.com. EAST SIDE REPRESENTS Red Sandcastle Theatre presents a monthly comedy revue w/ Ryan Belleville, Jeanie Calleja, Fiona Carver, Precious Chong, Rachelle Elie, Rose Giles, host Sandra Battaglini and others. 8 pm. $10. 922 Queen E. 416-845-9411, redsandcastletheatre.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 Lauren Ash, Jan Caruana, Kerry Griffin, Kayla Lorette, Carmine Lucarelli, Jerry Schaefer and Leslie Seiler. 8 pm. $5. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. LAUGH SABBATH presents Mark Little, Levi MacDougall, Eric Andrews, Steph Kaliner, Sarah Ford and host Adam Christie. 9:30 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. laughsabbath.com. 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 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 & Sat 10:30 pm, Sun 7 pm. $24-$29, stu $15.

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51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.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. THE TASTY SHOW presents weekly stand-up w/ host Jeffrey Danson. 10 pm. Free. La Revolucion, 2848 Dundas W. 416-766-0746. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Phil Hanley. To Apr 22, Thu-Sun 8 pm (plus Fri-Sat 10:30 pm). $12-$20. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

Friday, April 20 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 19. COMEDY ON THE DANFORTH Timothy’s World

News Café presents improv with Dan’s Mix ‘95 (Dan Hershfield and others). 9 pm. Pwyc. 320 Danforth. comedyonthedanforth.com.

THE EPIC NERD SHOW PRESENTS: MYQ KAPLAN Empire Comedy Live presents ñ the Jewish atheist vegan comic w/ host Craig

Fay. 8 & 10:30 pm. $15. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. empirecomedylive.com/EpicNerdShow. LIVE WRONG AND PROSPER See Thu 19. 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. TREVOR BORIS The Flying Beaver Pubaret presents the comic and Video On Trial personality in a live show. 9 pm. $15-$20. 488 Parliament. brownpapertickets.com/event/ 242000. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 19.

Saturday, April 21 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 19. BLACK SWAN COMEDY presents Improv Drop-

In workshop. 6 pm. $5. Comedy At The Swan improv show. 8 pm. Pwyc. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, second floor. 416-905-5388, blackswancomedy.com. BORN FREE* LAUNCH PARTY The Empty Room presents a party/funder for an upcoming production w/ British Teeth, Jessica Beaulieu, Jordan Foisy, Sex T-Rex, host Nick Hamilton and others, plus live music. Doors 8 pm. $8. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. indiegogo.com/bornfree.

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Lambadina presents Evan Desmarais, Garrett Jamison, Jackie Nicholson, Anthony Englebrecht and host Kris Bonaparte. 8:30 pm. $10$15. 875 Bloor W. comedylounge.ca. COMEDY MACHINE presents K Trevor Wilson, Andrew Ryan Fox, Chris Brazeau, Allison Dore, Darry Orr, Sarah Donaldson, Diana Love and

dance listings Opening THE ADAPTATION PROjECT Dancemakers presents a re-imagining of works from ñ its 38-year repertoire (see story, page 62).

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. ANASTASIA Ballet Jörgen presents the mystical story of the Russian Grand Duchess. Apr 21-22, Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20-$69. Betty Oliphant Theatre, 404 Jarvis. balletjorgen.ca.

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Harbourfront NextSteps and Esmeralda Enrique Spanish Dance Company present a new flamenco work featuring dancer Juan Ogalla. Apr 19-22, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 3 pm. $25-$43, stu/srs $21.50-$28.25. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. DREAMDANCE presents improvised music and dance with Claudia Wittman plus musicians. Apr 25 at 8 pm. $8. Somewhere There Studio, 227 Sterling. coexisdance.wordpress.com.

EROS, THANATOS & THE AVANT-GARDE – THE CABARET SERIES Rivoli presents music, dance

and more with Jimmy Danger, Giada Salvi, Hip Kik, Winston Spear and others. Apr 25 at 9 pm. $12-$15. 332 Queen W. rivoli.ca.

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PARIS 1994/GALLERY Harbourfront WorldStage and the Dietrich Group ñ present choreography by DA Hoskins explor-

ing longing, desire, memory and our reconstructions of the past. Opens Apr 25 and runs to Apr 28, Wed-Sat 8 pm. $15-$35. Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com. RIVERS Harbourfront Centre NextSteps and Toronto Dance Theatre present new work by Christopher House set to the music of Canadian composer Ann Southam. Opens Apr 25 and runs to Apr 28, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $15-$40. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, tdt.org. SERIES 3 – FROM THE FRYIN’ PAN Dance Matters presents works by Marie France Forcier, Louis Laberge-Côté, Carmen Romero, Kiri Figueiredo and others. Apr 21-22, Sat-Sun 4 pm. $10-$12. Pia Bouman Studio, 6 Noble. dancematters.ca.

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Sunday, April 22 ABsoLUTe CoMedY Second City presents the

Stand-Up 101 Graduation Show. 3:30 pm. $5. Evening show, see Thu 19. 2335 Yonge. 416486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca. CoMedY AT 51: siLver FoX nigHT Kyra Williams presents a late-night comedy cabaret w/ Todd Van Allen, Harry Doupe, Erik Andersen, 500 Miles Off Broadway, Bruce Pirrie and host Jim Kim. 10 pm. Pwyc. Second City, 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011. THe FULL BAWdY CoMedY sHoW Rivoli presents Shelley Marshall, Sandra Battaglini, Phil Luzi, Ginger St James, the Vagetarians, Evelyn Reese and more. 8:30 pm. $20. 332 Queen W. 416-596-1908, fullbawdycomedy.com. HAPPY HoUr @ ein-sTein presents Aaron Kogan, Brian Ward, Craig Fay, Gabriel Dumas, Jy Harris, host Arie Kizel and others. 8 pm. Free. Ein-Stein, 229 College. ein-stein.ca. Live Wrong And ProsPer See Thu 19. MAe MArTin See Sat 21.

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lective presents improv by Corgi in the Forest, Almost Blind and Painter’s Radio, w/ host

Mark Little. 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. YUK YUK’s doWnToWn See Thu 19.

Monday, April 23 ALTdoT CoMedY LoUnge Rivoli presents Dave Merheje, Phil Hanley, Andre Arruda, ñ Ali Hassan, DJ Demers, Rose Giles, Julie Kim,

MC Debra DiGiovanni 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. BLACK sWAn CoMedY presents Improv DropIn workshop. 6 pm. $5. Monday Improv Jam. 8 & 9 pm. Pwyc. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. 416-905-5388, blackswancomedy.com. BLAir sTreeTer presents weekly open-mic stand-up comedy. 9 pm. Free. Naughty Nadz, 1590 Dundas E, Mississauga. 905-232-5577. CHeAP LAUgHs MondAY PJ O’Briens Irish Pub presents a show w/ Russell Roy and guests. 9 pm. Free. 39 Colborne. 416-815-7562.

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$6. 2335 Yonge. absolutecomedy.ca. BLACK sWAn CoMedY presents Names From A Hat, improv with randomized teams, w/ host Sage Tyrtle. 8 pm. The Hangout, improv duos w/ host Adam Ward. 10 pm. Pwyc. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, second floor. 416-9055388, blackswancomedy.com. CHUCKLe Co. PresenTs Joel Buxton, Adrian Sawyer and DJ Demers present weekly standup. 9 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416551-6540, comedybar.ca. HUMPdAY HUMoUr Muoi Nene Productions present weekly Afrocentric comedy w/ Raïs ABsoLUTe CoMedY presents Pro-Am Night w/ Muoi and others. 7 pm. Free. Hakuna Matata Mike Storck, Alex Nikolov, Danish Anwar, Tom Sports Bar, 326 Parliament. 416-519-1569. Mes, Claire Stollery, Luke Gordon Field, JP 25008 Hatch Sheets NOW ad:Layout 1 4/13/12 3:08 PM Page Hodgkinson and host Geoff MacKay. 8:30 pm. Live Wrong And ProsPer See Thu 19. presents Trevor K Wilson, Suzan Mazur, Alex Brovedani, Chris McLean, Julia Brice, Andrew Barr, Dave Rutt, Hannah Huang and host JoAnna Downey. 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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Tuesday, April 24 CoMedY on KensingTon Lola presents biweekly stand-up comedy. 8 pm. Free. 40 Kensington. 416-348-8645, lolamartinis.com. i HeArT JoKes The Central presents weekly comedy w/ host Evan Desmarais. 7 pm. $5. 603 Markham. 416-913-4586. iMPATienT THeATre Co presents improv by its students. 7 pm. Free. Harold Night. 8 pm. $5. The Incubator, up and coming improv teams. 10 pm. $5. Late Night Menu, new and developing acts. 11 pm. Free. Clinton’s, 693 Bloor W. 416-535-9541, impatient.ca. THe seCond CiTY’s iMProv ALL-sTArs Second City presents a fast-paced, completely improvised weekly show. 8 pm. $20. 51 Mercer. 416343-0011, secondcity.com. sKeTCHCoMedYLoUnge presents The Headliner Series w/ Plum Thunder, El Jaguar, Parker & Seville, Newsdesk with Ron Sparks, MC the Sues and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. sketchcomedylounge. com.

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siren’s CoMedY Celt’s Pub presents open-mic stand-up w/ Reid Brackenbury and host Adam Groslouis. 8:30 pm. Free. 2872 Dundas W. 416767-3339. sPiriTs CoMedY nigHT presents Will Norris, Mike Rita, Scott Hyde, Morgan Joy, Hunter Collins, Danny Freedman, Dom Pare and host Jo-Anna Downey. 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. YUK YUK’s doWnToWn presents Graham Kay. To Apr 28, Wed-Sat 8 pm (plus Fri-Sat 110:30 pm). $12-$20. 224 Richmond W. 416967-6425, yukyuks.com. 3

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host Amanda Day. 10 pm. Pwyc. Crown & Tiger, 414 College. 416-920-3115. Live Wrong And ProsPer See Thu 19. MAe MArTin The Flying Beaver Pubaret presents Martin performing with Sabrina Jalees on Saturday and with opening act Georgea Brooks-Hancock on Sunday. To Apr 22, Sat 8 pm, Sun 7:30 pm. $10-$15. 488 Parliament. 647-347-6567, brownpapertickets. com/event/242536. THe sAL & sAndY sHoW Underground Comedy Club presents Lianne Malaudin, Steve Boleantu, Marissa Gregoris, Shelley Marshall, Ron Sparks and hosts Sal Feldman & Sandy Frigginelli. 9 pm. $15. 670 Queen E. 416-732-7761. 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 (one or both shows). Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-491-3115, baddogtheatre.com. YUK YUK’s doWnToWn See Thu 19.

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whit stillman has been missed. After spending the 90s defining a certain type of tiny, perfect American indie with Metropolitan, Barcelona and The Last Days of Disco (and one atypical episode of Homicide: Life On The Street), the preppie auteur pretty much disappeared from sight. Well, not entirely. There were reports that he was trying to get something going, and he was frequently spotted on the film festival circuit. I bumped into him at a Cannes party in 2008 (and, yes, that phrase is as casually bourgeois as any uttered in Stillman’s films) and asked how he was doing. “I’m working on a few things,” he said, offering no details about what those things might be. “Yeah, I was just starting this,” Stillman says three and a half years later at the 2011 Toronto Film Festival, where his sprightly campus comedy Damsels In Distress had just made its North American premiere. “My writing process isn’t, like, straight ahead. It was, like, work on 30 pages, turn in 30 pages, wait, write something else.”

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Damsels In Distress finds Stillman back in his wheelhouse, once again focusing on the travails of privileged characters. A trio of sorority sisters – Violet (Greta Gerwig), Heather (Carrie MacLemore) and Rose (Megalyn Echikunwoke) – have decided to improve their East Coast university by wearing retro dresses and dating lunkheads. It makes sense when Violet explains it to new sister Lily (Analeigh Tipton), anyway. This somewhat ridiculous story, it turns out, is true. And that was the hook. “I’ve had a hard time finding things that have a good structure,” Stillman says. “And in this case, there’s the story, the anecdote, of these girls who transformed this depressing, grungy university where I went to college.” (Stillman graduated from Harvard in 1973.) “It was really depressing, very political and grim,” he says. “When I went back later, everyone was talking about these girls who wore perfume and dressed up and had this great social life and everything was quite fun now; they were transformative. So that gave me something to work with as sort of a narrative line, and then I had insight into the whole heartbreak experience and the idea that something happens to Violet. There’s some big thing about to happen to her, and it’s nothing she can laugh off.”

REVIEW DAMSELS IN DISTRESS (Whit Stillman) Rating: NNNN After a 13-year absence from filmmaking, writer/director Whit Stillman (Metropolitan, Barcelona, The Last Days Of Disco) picks up precisely where he left off, chronicling the interactions of well-spoken young people with more privilege than sense. Here, the bone-dry comedy springs from the efforts of four haughty college girls – including a queen bee played by Greta Gerwig (Greenberg) and a new recruit played by Analeigh Tipton (Crazy, Stupid, Love.) – to make their campus a better place by condescending to date idiot frat boys. It’s a little more complex than it sounds, and much funnier, thanks to Stillman’s ear for pompous dialogue and fondness for inspired running gags. There’s no ending, but who needs one when you have two musical numbers? NW

That sounds grim. The movie isn’t – it’s a bubbly, brightly coloured comedy (and, briefly, a musical) that just happens to be about some incredibly shallow people. “I don’t think I’ve ever been cynical,” Stillman says. “I always feel positive about unlikely people. I sort of defend people who are despised by society, or despised by those who write about society. I’d like to make a film sometime where there’s not a big sociological barrier to liking the characters. “I mean, [even] these girls being very dressy and retro,” he laughs, “it’s kind of antagonizing.” 3 normw@nowtoronto.com

Damsels dressed: Analeigh Tipton (left), Greta Gerwig, Carrie MacLemore and Megalyn Echikunwoke.

After Genius Within, their portrait of pianist Glenn Gould, directors Michèle Hozer and Peter Raymont take on another enigmatic Canadian artist in West Wind, painter Tom Thomson. It’s a straightforward doc about a man whose canvases are well known but whose life and death are shrouded in mystery. Thomson grew up outside Owen Sound and moved to Seattle to work in illustration before settling in Toronto and, via a series of trips to Algonquin Park, beginning to paint the works that would make his name: richly colourful landscapes of the harsh yet beautiful northern Ontario wilderness. The filmmakers focus mostly on his artistic growth, especially how the encouragement and advice of fellow artists like Lawren Harris and A.Y. Jackson helped motivate him. Experts discuss the paintings in intricate detail, providing context about what was going on in art circles in Toronto and the rest of the world. One Toronto art critic dismissed Thomson’s work at the time, saying his “violent colours” could “scarcely be called pleasing.” Ouch. The filmmakers are less successful mining Thomson’s personal life. He was a shy bachelor who may have left behind some broken hearts – including one belonging to a Seattle woman who later became a romance novelist. And there are lots of theories about his death by drowning at age 39. Was he murdered? There’s even mystery about what happened to his corpse. Unfortunately, the filmmakers never unearth something that explains the man. But at least the art endures. GLENN SUMI

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SOUND IT OUT (PG) “Like a mint pressing in a bargain bin Sound It Out is a rare find.” – The New York Times

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BACK TO THE SQUARE D: Petr Lom | Norway, Canada | 83 min

Corruption, repression and military rule are still very much alive in post-revolution Egypt. In this nuanced vérité doc, the stories of five citizens from across the country’s social strata illustrate that while the streets are calm, the people remain steadfast. FRI, APR 27 9:15 PM ISABEL BADER THEATRE SUN, APR 29 2:00 PM TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX FRI, MAY 4 1:30 PM ISABEL BADER THEATRE

PEOPLE OF A FEATHER (G) Official Selection, Hot Docs 2011 Director and members of Sanikiluaq community in attendance FRI, APR 20 & SAT, APR 21, 6:30 p.m

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SOLDIER/CITIZEN D: Silvina Landsmann | Israel | 68 min

A group of young Israeli combat soldiers departing the military are forced to contemplate complex issues of human rights and democracy when a teacher attempts to open their minds in a mandatory civics class. SUN, APR 29 6:00 PM BLOOR HOT DOCS CINEMA MON, APR 30 2:00 PM TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX SAT, MAY 5 9:00 PM ROM THEATRE

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RADIOMAN

COMIC BOOK CONFIDENTIAL (PG)

D: Mary Kerr | UK | 75 min

WINNER—Best Feature Length Documentary, Genie Awards 1989 Premiere of newly remastered HD version.

Once a homeless alcoholic, Radioman is now a fixture of NYC film sets. With over a hundred Hollywood cameos and A-listers like Meryl, Marty, George and Cher as pals, he gets noticed… but not as he would like. MON, APR 30 9:00 PM BLOOR HOT DOCS CINEMA WED, MAY 2 11:45 PM BLOOR HOT DOCS CINEMA SAT, MAY 5 4:15 PM CUMBERLAND FOUR

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LABYRINTH (PG) Starring: David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly. From our Back to the Bloor series.

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SUMMER OF GIACOMO D: Alessandro Comodin | Italy, France, Belgium | 78 min

Giacomo, a 19-year-old deaf boy, spends a summer day with childhood friend Stefania in the countryside of Northern Italy. Sensuality infuses their youthful games as they find themselves caught in the moment where childhood meets adulthood. MON, APR 30 4:00 PM TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX WED, MAY 2 1:00 PM TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX FRI, MAY 4 10:00 PM TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX

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The huge documentary fest doesn’t start until next week, but you’d better buy your tickets now for these flicks, which are sure to sell out. For ticket info, see hotdocs.ca.

Top docs include High Tech, Low Life (clockwise, from top left), An Affair Of The Heart, Shut Up And Play The Hits and The Mechanical Bride.

About Face: The Supermodels, Then And Now

(Timothy Greenfield-Sanders) You know their faces from hundreds of magazine covers, posters and perhaps even Madonna’s Vogue video. Now photographer Greenfield-Sanders and several generations of fashion’s most gorgeous models scrape beneath the surface to look at issues of substance abuse, Botox and how the idea of beauty has changed – if at all. Screens April 28, 29 and May 4

An Affair Of The Heart

(Sylvia Caminer) If you know all the words to Jessie’s Girl, you’ve probably already got your tickets to this documentary about pop star/soap opera actor Rick Springfield, the Justin Bieber of his time. Now in his 60s, Springfield continues to serenade his fans in concerts and – be still your hearts – will attend the opening screening. Screens April 29, 30 and May 3

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

(Alison Klayman) Ai Weiwei helped design Beijing’s Olympic stadium and has been celebrated around the world. He’s also endangered himself and his family by taking to Twitter to openly criticize the

Chinese government’s draconian policies – leading to his detention for 81 days in the spring of 2011. Klayman’s documentary, opening Hot Docs after winning the special jury prize at Sundance, follows Ai’s efforts to make art and trouble, sometimes simultaneously. Screens April 26 and 28

Detropia

(Rachel Grady, Heidi Ewing) The directors of Jesus Camp and 12th & Delaware turn their culturally incisive attention to the city of Detroit, where the citizens, businesses and government of the one-time automotive boom town are on the verge of bankruptcy. With its sense of a despairing populace tilting toward chaos while hapless politicians struggle to find solutions both popular and possible, it plays like the prequel to RoboCop. Screens May 5

Gambler

(Phie Ambo) Screening in the retrospective series, Gambler is a 2006 study of the personal crisis of Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn, who broke out with the thriller Pusher but immediately crashed with the flop Fear X. Heavily in debt and struggling to keep his family afloat, Winding Refn stakes his comeback on a pair of Pusher sequels. These

days, he makes movies like Bronson and Drive, so we know everything works out, but Gambler is still an effective cautionary tale about the risks and rewards of cinema. Screens May 6

drive to turn the Lightbox into a miniature version of Madison Square Garden on April 2, 2011. It’s okay if you want to dance in the aisles; they did at Park City and Austin, too. Screens May 1, 3 and 5

High Tech, Low Life

Theo Fleury: Playing With Fire

(Stephen Maing) China’s restrictions on free speech are infamous and more than a little scary. That hasn’t stopped two intrepid activists who, despite the huge risks, use their cellphones and laptops to report on untold stories inside their country. An important entry that falls under Hot Docs’ theme of activism and revolution. Screens May 3, 4 and 6

The Mechanical Bride

(Allison de Fren) Sex dolls – life-sized and unbearably close to the real thing – are big business all over the world. De Fren deconstructs the industry, from dolls to robots, and its appeal in a disturbing, visually arresting, exploration. Screens April 29, 30 and May 6

Shut Up And Play The Hits

(Will Lovelace, Dylan Southern) After rocking Sundance and SXSW, this concert doc of LCD Soundsystem’s final performance arrives at Hot Docs with enough fan anticipation and musical

(Matt Embry, Larry Day) When Theo Fleury finally came out as one of coach Graham James’s young sexual abuse victims, everything became clear – the booze, the anger and the ways Fleury threw his brilliant hockey career away. In this film, he’s releasing his candid 2009 memoir. A fascinating character. Screens May 4, 5 and 6

The World Before Her (Nisha Pahuja) Which offers more in the way of female empowerment, the Miss India pageant or a fundamentalist Hindu boot camp that teaches girls to respect their cultural roots – and shoot a gun? Pahuja gets unprecedented access behind the scenes to find out. Screens May 2, 5 and 6

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Every year, Hot Docs changes its lineup a little, with spotlight programs focusing on a different theme or aspect of the documentary form. This year the programs are Rise Against and Nightvision. Charlotte Cook, in her first year as Hot Docs’ director of programming, explains that Rise Against looks at activism from the inside out, while Nightvision aims to challenge the very notion of what a documentary can be. “The idea was to look at films about the people behind the movements,” Cook says of Rise Against, “– people who had done something that had actually been a catalyst for something bigger. And by looking at it from that perspective, we could broaden the subject. We have United In Anger: A History Of ACT UP, which looks at people who were at the forefront of gay rights, and then we have a film like We Are Legion: The Story Of The Hacktivists, a very different kind of take on how technology is changing activism.” The Nightvision series has a more existential mission statement, using features about everything from James Franco’s stint on General Hospital to the horrific crimes of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer to explore the possibilities of the documentary format. “A lot of these filmmakers aren’t necessarily straight-up doc filmmakers,” Cook explains. “They’re just filmmakers who’ve used the [format] to tell their story. How people are creatively using the form is incredibly interesting. “So rather than making Nightvision strictly about genre, it’s more looking at those films that have highly creative elements. They’ve told a story in such an unusual way that it appeals to people beyond documentary-lovers. If you’re interested in film in general, you’ll find films in Nightvision that really surprise you.”

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Sound it out (Jeanie Finlay). 75 minutes. Opens Friday (April 20). For venues and times, see Movies, page 75. Rating: nn Arriving just in time for Record Store Day, Jeanie Finlay’s documentary takes a perhaps too loving look at the epony mous record shop, the last indepen dent vinyl dealer in northeast England. Sound It Out is a little shop tucked

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Jane Goodall’s always on the go By NORMAN WILNER Chimpanzee directed by Alastair Fother gill and Mark Linfield, narrated by Tim Allen. A Disneynature release. 78 minutes. Opens Friday (April 20). For venues and times, see Movies, page 75. dame jane goodall was not involved with the production of Disneynature’s Chimpanzee, except to look at a rough cut of the documen tary during the editing stage. (She liked it.) But as the human being most iden tified with the cause of chimpanzees, the legendary primatologist is happy to speak on behalf of the film, and since she’s already in Toronto for a screening of the documentary Jane’s Journey – and to greet the local chap ter of her Roots & Shoots youth group – she’s meeting the press on the film’s behalf. A handful of people have changed the way the entire world sees some thing. Goodall did it in the 60s with her revelatory research on chimpan zees in East Africa, discovering that the primates lived in family groups not unlike humans, and were far closer to us in behaviour than any one had previously imagined. (I am, of course, oversimplifying.) Now in her late 70s, Goodall spends most of her time educating and ad vocating – with Roots & Shoots, the Jane Goodall Institute and various other organizations. She estimates that she spends 300 days a year tra velling. “You have to take it day by day,” she says, “and not think about all this other stuff. Okay, you’ve got a day,

you’re doing these things, there are always these flipping emails that come in and bring something else to mind that you really didn’t want to think about. My grandmother was married to a Congregational minis ter who sadly I never met, because he sounds amazing. But she had as her favourite text, ‘As thy day, so shall thy strength be.’ And that’s mine, too.” In this age of webenabled isola tion, where anyone can find a website to back up any political or social be lief, however preposterous, Goodall believes it’s more important to reach out to people who don’t already share her position on her issues. “I go after the ones who aren’t [al ready] on the side of the angels,” she says, “because I think that’s really important. I mean, not the really ex treme ones – I don’t fancy meeting [Sarah] Palin, for example, quite hon estly, and you have some pretty bad politicians in Canada, too. But I do try to meet those people who think differently.” Goodall credits her perspective on animal behaviour to the most basic of inspirations. “It was a dog who taught me every thing, when I was a child,” Goodall says. “When people say, ‘Oh, chimps are your favourite animal,’ I say no. For one, they’re far too human. I don’t even think of them as animals, any more than we think of ourselves as animals. My favourite animal is a dog, absolutely. No question.” 3

away in a village called Teesside. Al though it stocks new music, it’s treated as a collectibles store, and the people it attracts are appropriately devoted to rooting around in the bins while the staff looks on approvingly. It’s billed as a reallife version of High Fidelity, but of course High Fidel ity was gleefully fictional, amping up the eccentricities of clerks and custom ers for the sake of comedy. Sound It Out faithfully captures the dull, repeti tive reality of working in a record shop

by being – well, dull and repetitive. At 75 minutes, it’s at least an hour longer than it needs to be. noRman WiLneR

“IT’S DEAR JOHN

MEETS THE VOW. ” Maria Salas, AMERICA TEVE

“ZAC EFRON’S BEST PERFORMANCE YET.” Mosé Persico, CTV MONTREAL

“GRAB YOUR GIRLFRIENDS AND SEE THE MOST ROMANTIC MOVIE OF THE YEAR.” KYLIE MAR, MADE IN HOLLYWOOD

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review CHIMPANZEE (Alastair Fothergill, Mark Linfield) Rating: nnn In the latest Disneynature eco-doc, veteran nature filmmakers Alastair Fothergill (African 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. As is becoming standard practice for the Disneynature films, this is pitched at family audiences, which means footage has been organized into an easily understood narrative straight out of The Lion King, right down to the appearance of a villainous chimp called Scar. It’s a little on the anthropomorphic side, and Tim Allen’s insistently chummy narration grates. But the developments in the second half are genuinely gripping, and the high-def images are stunning. The making-of featurette that plays over the end credits is a remarkable little mini-movie of camera operators slogging through the wild to capture that footage; perhaps we’ll see a nW Disneynature documentary about that one day.

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ECO DOCUMENTARY

Inuit inspire

Q&A

PEOPLE OF A FEATHER (Joel Heath)

KATHRYN GAITENS

90 minutes. Subtitled. Opens Friday (April 14) at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema. For times, see Movies, page 82. Rating: NNNN

LEONARD FARLINGER & ROSSIF SUTHERLAND

This spectacular documentary not only sheds light on the survival of a specific Inuit population but also offers important insight into the complexities of global warming. The Sanikiluaq community living around the Belcher Islands in Hudson Bay has depended on the eider duck for warmth and food for centuries. But to fill the insatiable demand for electricity from cities as far south as the U.S. eastern seaboard, Quebec Hydro has been creating reservoirs that flood the salty bay with fresh water, changing the ice patterns and threatening the eider population in the process.

Joel Heath became involved in a late-90s study – watching birds dive for food – and later filmed the Sanikiluaq, who speak eloquently of their changing way of life, through seven winters. The images run the gamut from gorgeous shots of eider flocks flying to their water oases within vast stretches of ice, to graphic footage of the Inuit carving up a seal for consumption, or eiders being trapped between converging ice floes, all of it expertly shot. And Heath’s strategy of comparing modern Inuit methods – of gathering eider eggs, for example – with the ways of the Inuit 100 years ago, reenacted here, is genius. Great filmmaking – and not just for the enviro-conscious. A Q&A with filmmaker Heath follows the Friday (April 20) 6:30 pm SUSAN G. COLE screening.

Director/writer and actor, I’m Yours

If you’re going to make a movie about an unpredictable woman who kidnaps an unsuspecting guy and takes him on a road trip to meet her parents, you’ll need interesting actors. Leonard Farlinger ticked that box when he cast Rossif Sutherland and Karine Vanasse in I’m Yours, taking them from Manhattan to North Bay on an odyssey of discovery (and poutine). At the Toronto Film Festival, Farlinger and Sutherland took a moment to talk about the picture. The script is so tightly focused on the two leads – did you find yourself tweaking or redefining the characters after you cast the roles? Leonard Farlinger: Karine’s casting changed some of the dialogue, but it was more about how different [her character] was from the American girls. Something about the idea of her being French-Canadian and wild and sexy, kind of free and all those things. And then I would say another transformation happened in the editing room, when we started taking out all the dialogue. It was once a very rat-atat movie, and we lifted that out because some of it just felt so much more real and more interesting if it was unsaid. There’s a real sense of electricity in all those silences between the characters. Rossif Sutherland: I have no idea where you found all those silences. I mean, I remember shooting – we were just talking our way through. Farlinger: But we would grab stuff. Like

REVIEW I’M YOURS (Leonard Farlinger) Rating: NN Rossif Sutherland (High Life) and Karine Vanasse (Polytechnique) co-star in this trifling two-hander about a Wall Street player who finds himself on a road trip from Manhattan to North Bay after a night with a mysterious woman. There’s just one problem: if you’re going to build an entire movie around two people sharing the same space, you have to give them compelling things to do, and writer/director Leonard Farlinger (All Hat) never quite makes the characters’ respective secrets and motivations line up in a way that justifies all the drama. Sutherland and Vanasse are appealing, and they do what they can to get us involved, but they’re working with some pretty thin NW material here.

when we were in the car I’d say, “Just look at each other. We don’t know exactly what we’re going to do with it yet.” We did actually consciously grab quiet moments. The movie’s Manhattan scenes have a kind of guerrilla feel to them. Sutherland: Are we allowed to talk about this? Farlinger: Yeah, sure we are. We went down with a Super 16 camera. We got so much shooting done – it was, like, four of us and that means me, the cameraman, the camera assistant and Rossif. It was really fun. Sutherland: We stayed in this little hotel that wasn’t really a hotel, with a shared bathroom on the same floor. I had my wardrobe, nobody to do makeup; I was putting makeup on my face as best I could. And we were just trying to steal shots. It was fascinating. Farlinger: Well, we got stopped by the cops once – we had to plead Canadian to them, and they went for that. “We’re Canadian, and we know we’ve done something wrong” [laughing]. NORMAN WILNER

People Of A Feather heats up important issues.

DOCUMENTARY

Con job

COMIC-CON: EPISODE IV – A FAN’S HOPE (Morgan Spurlock). 88 minutes. Opens Friday (April 20). For venues and times, see Movies, page 75. Rating: NNN

Deploying an anonymous crew, director Morgan Spurlock wisely keeps himself out of this look at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con, which tries – with some measure of success – to capture the energy of the West Coast nerd mecca. In three decades of operation, the SDCC has expanded from its origins as a comic book convention to become the world’s premier pop-culture festival. Spurlock’s cameras follow a handful of people – a collector, a costume designer, a vendor, two aspiring artists and a sweet-hearted nerd who’s planning to propose to his girlfriend during a Kevin Smith Q&A – through the frenzy of the convention.

Spurlock breaks up the busy convention footage with testimonials from various celebrities who’ve wandered into his studio, including geek icons Joss Whedon, Edgar Wright, Guillermo del Toro, Todd MacFarlane and Robert Kirkman. But he never figures out how to shape the material – and he can’t help poking fun at some of the more extreme nerds, giving the movie a sour undercurrent of jocky superiority that’s completely at odds with Comic-Con’s NORMAN WILNER all-inclusive vibe. Get ready for some Iron Man irony.

also opening Rossif Sutherland and Karine Vanasse get close in I’m Yours. See Q&A with Vanasse at nowtoronto.com/movies.

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The Lucky One

Think Like A Man

(D: Scott Hicks, 101 min) Nicholas Sparks’s novels have inspired many a triple-hankie movie (The Notebook, A Walk To Remember). Now Zac Efron wrings tears as a Marine searching for a woman (Taylor Schilling) who he believes helped him survive the Iraq war.

(D: Tim Story, 122 min) Chris Brown, Gabrielle Union and others star in this comedy involving a manipulative relationship manual. Both open Friday (April 20). Screened after press time – see reviews April 20 at nowtoronto.com/movies.

movie reviews Playing this week How to find a listing

Movie listings are comprehensive and organized alphabetically. Listings include name of film, director’s name in brackets, a review, running time and a rating. Reviews are by Norman Wilner (NW), Susan G. Cole (SGC), Glenn Sumi (GS), Andrew Dowler (AD) and Radheyan Simonpillai (RS) unless otherwise specified. The rating system is as follows: NNNNN Top 10 of the year NNNN Honourable mention NNN Entertaining NN Mediocre N Bomb

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Movie theatres are listed at the end and can be cross-referenced to our film times on page 82.

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. 110 min. N (NW) Interchange 30

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) Kingsway Theatre

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. 113 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinema, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale the Artist (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, Kennedy Commons 20

Opens Apr 20 at Varsity.

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) 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. If you only know Hiddleston as the bad guy from Thor, this will give you a sense of his impressive range. Adapting the play by Terence Rattigan, writer-director 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. 98 min. NNNN (NW) 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 Miller) and digest the revelation that she was cheating on him. It’s sort of a comedy. Clooney’s textured performance pulls uncontinued on page 76 œ

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(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. 108 min. NNNN (SGC) Grande - Yonge, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Drew Goddard) should be viewed with as little advance knowledge as possible – frankly, you shouldn’t even be reading this capsule. But since you are, let’s just say that director 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 and 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. Well, almost everything. 95 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, 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, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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 chimPANzee (Alastair Fothergill, Mark

Linfield) 78 min. See interview and review, page 73. NNN (NW) Opens Apr 20 at 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24.

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

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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

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ston) tracks high schooler Nik, who by dint of the Kunan, Albania’s tribal legal code, must live under virtual house arrest after his father slays a neighbour and leaves town. The film doesn’t exactly gallop along, but it does build tension, the performances (especially Tristan Halilaj’s as Nik) 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. Westfeldt’s script is stronger in the first half – she’s far better at establishing characters and situations than she is wrapping them up – but the actors are appealing and talented enough to make it work, particularly Scott. 107 min. NNN (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Grande -

is a bleak doc tracking poverty-stricken Siberian girls hoping to snag a modelling career. Barely pubescent young women wait in packed cattle calls, clad only in their underwear, hoping to be picked to pose in Japan – where they like them young and short and where their recruiters say they’re guaranteed work. Not so fast: when 13year-old Nadya is chosen and sent thousands of miles from home, she gets a photo portfolio, a few auditions, lots of judgment from art directors and rapidly accumulating debts. The doc could use more of recruiter Ashley Arbaugh’s intriguing ambivalence; as a former model, she knows the pitfalls of the industry, yet lies to the young hopefuls. And the modelling agency running this strange operation is never confronted by the filmmakers. But the opening meat market sequence is spectacular, and the sad cautionary tale is important. Subtitled. 78 min. NNN (SGC) Carlton Cinema

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

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zog’s answer to Nanook Of The North. The man with a fixation on grizzly men makes co-director Dmitry Vasyukov’s four-hour 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 the army to make skis, canoes and complex animal traps. Living off the land, the trappers remain isolated from the rest of the world. Gennady’s only relationships are with his dogs, and hearing him describe them warms your heart despite the miserable cold onscreen. Herzog’s admiration for the men and their adaptation to the harsh nature that surrounds them 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. 94 min. NNN (RS) Bloor Hot Docs Cinema

Hugo (Martin Scorsese) turns a children’s

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

THe HuNger games (Gary Ross) is an adaptation of the popular Suzanne Collins novel that will definitely satisfy its rabid fans. Sometime in the future, 12 downtrodden districts must each serve up two children – picked by lottery – as “tributes” to participate in a televised fight-to-the-death spectacle. When her younger sister is chosen, Katniss volunteers to take her place in the ultimate reality show. Jennifer Lawrence is superb as Katniss, and she’s matched by the supporting cast, including Liam Hemsworth, Stanley Tucci and Lenny Kravitz. The film looks great, contrasting the greys and browns of the povertystricken district with the Capitol’s outrageous fashions and architecture. But the material’s been sanitized in order to pull in the largest audience. This is really creepy stuff. Given its potential to be a devastatingly dystopic film event, this is definitely a missed opportunity. 142 min. NNN (SGC) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinema, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity THe HuNTer (Daniel Nettheim) is an eco-

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friendly quasi-western that’s constantly on the verge of getting interesting but never quite goes in for the kill. Willem Dafoe’s Martin is a stranger in the Australian wilderness, under contract to a cloak-anddagger biotech company that wants him to capture the presumed-extinct Tasmanian tiger. He stirs up a ruckus with typically brutish loggers and befriends two engineered-to-be-adorable children who warm his cold demeanour. Director Nettheim shows a patient hand in developing Martin’s relationship with nature, and Dafoe, who can pretty much phone in a precise performance while using his hypnotic bone structure, logs many hours in the fogshrouded Tasmanian woods. But the film falls prey to clichés and predictability, following the plot points laid out by so many westerns without covering its tracks. 100 min. NN (RS) Varsity

I’M YOURS (Leonard Farlinger) 78 min. See Q&A and review, page 74, and additional interview with Karine Vanasse at nowtoronto.com/movies. NN (NW) Opens Apr 20 at Cumberland 4. 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, 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, Carlton Cinema, Grande Yonge, Scotiabank Theatre

JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI (David Gelb) is an

attractive if slightly undercooked documentary about sushi master Jiro Ono, who rose from humble Japanese roots to become the only sushi chef to receive a three-star restaurant rating in the Michelin Guide. In his mid-80s, he still presides over his modest 10-seat Tokyo restaurant, but he’s not yet ready to hand over the shop to his son, who’s been patiently working there for decades. Gelb takes us through each step of the sushi-making process, from getting the best ingredients (a visit to Tokyo’s famed Tsukiji Fish Market is a highlight) to the patient grilling of nori. Ono isn’t very talkative – his mischievous eyes tell us more than his

words – so it helps to have food critic Masuhiro Yamamoto put the man’s achievements in perspective. But Gelb never builds momentum, instead repeating (hypnotically gorgeous) images to 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 space-opera mode it feels rushed and overstuffed. Some subtitles. 132 min. NNN (NW) Canada Square, Coliseum Scarborough, Interchange 30, 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

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LOVE NEVER DIES is a high-def broadcast of the stage sequel to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s monster musical The Phantom Of The Opera. 121 min. Apr 21, 12:45 pm, at Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yonge THE LUCKY ONE (Scott Hicks) 101 min. See Also Opening, page 74. Opens Apr 20 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24. MIRROR MIRROR (Tarsem Singh) is an allstyle, no-substance remake of Snow White that casts Julia Roberts as the Evil Queen who wants her ingénue stepdaughter (Lily Collins) killed and the hunky prince (Armie Hammer) all to herself. Structurally, the film’s a mess. Director Singh and writer Melissa Wallack have no idea whose story to tell, lurching from Roberts’s bitchy cougar repartee with her ineffectual assistant (Nathan Lane) to Snow’s interaction with her seven little people (here reimagined as stilt-walking bandits) to repeated scenes of the prince getting his clothes yanked off. Oh, yeah, a bogus Occupy movement theme grafted onto the script involves the corrupt Queen and her henchmen exploiting the 99 per cent townsfolk. All of this might be bearable with decent performances, but Roberts’s villainy is pitched at the same screeching level throughout, Collins has the young Audrey Hepburn’s looks without her charm, and Hammer seems as lost as the young puppy he turns into at the three-quarter mark. Singh is more art director than director, but we’ve seen these costumes and fairy-tale forests in any number of Tim Burton movies. 106 min. N (GS) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, 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, Yonge & Dundas 24

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

acteristic 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

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(Nima Nourizadeh) puts a found-footage spin on the teencomedy 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) Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre

the raid: redeMPtioN (Gareth Huw Evans) sets itself up as a non-stop action movie, and pretty much delivers on that premise, with a Jakarta tactical team’s assault on a crime lord’s apartment building turning into a frantic battle for survival against dozens of heavily armed thugs. But the constant bone-shattering kung-fu smackdowns both define and undermine The Raid, since there’s literally nothing else to the movie; by the 15th brutal confrontation, it gets a little monotonous. Unlike, say, Flash Point or Attack The Block, which balanced their spectacular action sequences with well-drawn characters and clockwork pacing, The Raid just lurches from one battle to the next like a blunt instrument. Effective, sure, but not exactly distinguished. Subtitled. 101 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale

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the Salt of life (Gianni Di Gregorio) stars its writer/director as Gianni, an early retiree who walks his dog through his quiet Rome neighbourhood, runs errands for his wife (Elisabetta Piccolomini) and basically acts as a servant for his mother (the scratchyvoiced Valeria di Franciscis Bendoni), who lives in luxury yet doesn’t want to sell her home to help him out. Lately, Gianni’s begun to feel useless and invisible. Is he going to turn into one of the old geezers shooting the breeze outside the corner store? Or does he still have a shot at romance? This is a very European midlife crisis movie (nobody blinks at the idea of his pondering an affair) with little plot and no real big laughs. It has the leisurely pace of one of Gianni’s walks, observing life as it goes by. But the details are full of honesty and

SileNt houSe (Chris Kentis, Laura Lau) stars Martha Marcy May Marlene’s amazing Elizabeth Olsen as a young woman terrorized by someone or something in a boarded-up old house. Remaking Gustavo Hernandez’s 2010 Uruguayan thriller La Casa Muda, directors Kentis and Lau (Open Water) doom themselves to repeating the mistakes of that movie’s last act, which deflates the initial tension and eventually garbles the plot beyond coherence. 86 min. NN (NW) Yonge & Dundas 24 a SiMPle life (Ann Hui) follows an elderly servant (Deanie Ip) who suffers a stroke, forcing her lifelong movie producer client (Andy Lau) to find a nursing home and care for the woman in her dying days. Director Hui’s humanistic touch and gentle humour enliven the weepy material. The nursing home is a genuinely sweet place filled with eccentrics rather than tragedy cases. Lau admirably ditches his movie star baggage in favour of pained realism, while Ip offers a heartbreaking performance as a dying caregiver without a family. A rare movie about the elderly that never panders and loosens tear ducts without prodding. Subtitled. 117 min. NNN (Phil Brown) Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24

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think Like a Man (Tim Story) 122 min.

See Also Opening, page 74. Opens Apr 20 at 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24.

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

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Eddie Murphy as a fast-talking literary agent whose life becomes intertwined with that of a mysterious Bodhi tree. Each word he speaks – or writes – results in a fallen leaf, and presumably when the branches are completely bare he will die. The film lurches from broad comedy to sentimentality, and Murphy never seems comfortable. 91 min. n (GS) Yonge & Dundas 24

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Farrelly) return in a passion project that the slapstick specialist Farrelly brothers have nursed for years, and it’s easily their best movie since the 90s. Larry, Curly and Moe attempt to save an orphanage before stumbling into a ridiculous murder plot played for deliberately cheesy laughs. The current cast’s Stooges impressions are eerily accurate, the slap-happy sound effects remain intact, and thankfully no one tries to cram in a pointless moral or love story. Aside from a few awkward contemporary pop culture references, the movie is surprisingly true to the sweetly violent source. Yes, the humour is idiotic and infantile, but with the Stooges, it couldn’t be any other way. 92 min. nnn (Phil Brown)

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(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, Mt Pleasant

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(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, Chris topher Miller) reboots the 80s television series, where young undercover cops pose as high school students. Thankfully it never takes its source material too seriously. The meta comedy is all tongue-in-cheek shenanigans that proudly lift a middle finger to the hoary clichés the film recycles. It’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, Humber Cinema, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview,

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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

ñWanDerLuSt

(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

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

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

WeSt WinD: the ViSion of toM thoMSon (Michèle Hozer, Peter Raymont) 95 min. See review, page 70. nnn (GS) Opens Apr 20 at TIFF Bell Lightbox.

Wrath of the titanS (Jonathan Liebes man) 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. The effects sequences would surely work as well without the annoying post-conversion 3-D. why they keep doing that, only the gods know. 99 min. nnn (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale 3 NOW XXXXXX 2012 NOW april 19-25 00-00 2012 81

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5:15 Sat-Sun 10:15, 12:35, 3:00, 5:15 Mon-Wed 3:00, 5:15 DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX 3D (G) Thu 4:00, 7:00, 9:20 FRIENDS WITH KIDS Thu 2:15 4:45 7:25 10:15 Fri-Wed 2:15, 4:45, 7:25, 10:05 Sat-Sun 11:15 mat HOUSEFULL 2 (PG) Thu 3:00, 6:30, 10:40 JOHN CARTER (PG) Thu 2:45, 6:00, 9:15 Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:45, 6:50 Mon-Wed 3:00, 6:30 JOHN CARTER 3D (PG) Thu 3:45, 7:30, 10:30 LOVE IN THE BUFF Thu 4:30, 7:15, 9:50 THE LUCKY ONE (PG) Fri 1:00, 2:00, 2:45, 3:45, 4:45, 5:30, 6:45, 7:30, 8:15, 9:00, 9:30, 10:15, 11:00 Sat 10:15, 11:30, 12:05, 1:00, 2:00, 2:45, 3:45, 4:45, 5:30, 6:45, 7:30, 8:15, 9:00, 9:30, 10:15, 11:00 Sun 10:15, 11:30, 12:05, 1:00, 2:00, 2:45, 3:45, 4:45, 5:30, 6:45, 7:30, 8:15, 9:00, 9:30, 10:15 Mon-Wed 1:30, 2:00, 2:45, 3:45, 4:45, 5:30, 6:45, 7:30, 8:15, 9:00, 9:30, 10:15 MIRROR MIRROR (PG) Thu 2:15, 3:30, 5:00, 6:25, 7:35, 9:00, 10:10 Fri 12:35, 3:15, 6:15 Sat-Sun 10:10, 12:55, 3:30, 6:15 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:15 NAMELESS GANGSTER Thu 3:45, 7:15, 10:20 SAFE HOUSE (14A) Thu 4:15, 7:05, 10:10 Fri-Wed 7:40, 10:30 SILENT HOUSE (14A) Thu 3:10, 5:25, 7:50, 10:20 A SIMPLE LIFE (14A) Thu 4:00, 6:50, 9:45 Fri 1:15, 4:00, 6:50, 9:45 Sat-Sun 10:25, 1:15, 4:00, 6:50, 9:45 Mon-Tue 1:40, 4:00, 6:50, 9:45 STREETDANCE 2 (PG) 4:45, 7:45, 10:15 Thu 2:15 mat Sat-Sun 11:00 mat THINK LIKE A MAN (PG) Fri 1:00, 2:45, 4:00, 6:15, 7:15, 9:30, 10:30 Sat 10:00, 11:45, 1:00, 2:45, 4:00, 6:15, 7:15, 9:15, 10:30 Sun 10:00, 11:45, 1:00, 2:45, 4:00, 6:15, 7:15, 9:15, 10:20 Mon-Wed 2:45, 4:00, 6:15, 7:15, 9:15, 10:20 A THOUSAND WORDS (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:10, 6:25 THE THREE STOOGES (PG) Thu 2:00, 2:45, 4:30, 5:15, 6:45, 7:45, 8:45, 9:15, 10:00 Fri 12:30, 1:45, 3:10, 4:05, 5:40, 6:50, 8:10, 9:10, 10:40 Sat 10:10, 11:15, 12:30, 1:45, 3:00, 4:05, 5:40, 6:50, 8:10, 9:25, 10:40 Sun 10:10, 11:15, 12:30, 1:45, 3:00, 4:05, 5:40, 6:50, 8:00, 9:25, 10:20 Mon-Wed 1:45, 3:00, 4:05, 5:40, 6:50, 8:00, 9:25, 10:20 TITANIC 3D (PG) Thu 3:30, 5:00, 8:15, 9:30 Fri 2:30, 4:00, 7:00, 8:45 Sat-Sun 11:30, 1:00, 4:00, 5:30, 8:15, 9:30 MonWed 1:30, 4:00, 5:30, 8:15, 9:30 TITANIC: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 2:00, 6:15, 10:30 Fri 1:15, 5:45, 10:00 Sat-Sun 10:00, 2:00, 6:15, 10:30 Mon-Wed 1:30, 5:45, 10:00 VICKY DONOR Fri 3:00, 6:30, 10:25 Sat 11:20, 3:00, 6:45, 10:35 Sun 11:20, 3:00, 6:45, 10:25 Mon-Wed 3:00, 6:45, 10:25

Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:40 Mon-Wed 1:20, 4:00, 6:40, 9:30 THE CABIN IN THE WOODS (18A) Thu 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 9:55 Fri 2:10, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Sat 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 8:20, 10:45 Sun 12:15, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 2:20, 4:50, 7:30, 10:00 CHIMPANZEE (G) Fri 1:30, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 Sat 12:15, 2:20, 4:30, 6:50, 9:10 Sun 12:10, 2:15, 4:30, 6:50, 9:10 Mon-Tue 2:10, 4:35, 6:50, 9:10 Wed 4:35, 6:50, 9:10 THE HUNGER GAMES (PG) Thu 1:10, 3:00, 4:20, 6:30, 7:40, 9:40 Fri 1:00, 3:00, 4:10, 6:20, 7:20, 9:50, 10:30 Sat 12:20, 3:20, 4:00, 6:40, 7:10, 9:50, 10:30 Sun 12:20, 1:20, 3:30, 5:00, 6:40, 8:10, 9:45 Mon-Wed 1:10, 1:40, 4:25, 5:00, 7:40, 8:10 LOVE NEVER DIES Sat 12:45 THE LUCKY ONE (PG) Fri 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 10:10 Sat 12:05, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:10 Sun 12:00, 2:25, 4:50, 7:20, 9:55 MonTue 2:00, 4:45, 7:20, 9:55 Wed 4:45, 7:20, 9:55 MIRROR MIRROR (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:00, 6:50, 9:20 THE THREE STOOGES (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:10, 7:00, 9:10 Fri 1:40, 4:00, 6:30, 9:40 Sat 12:40, 3:00, 5:25, 7:50, 10:25 Sun 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:00 Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:10, 6:30, 9:20 TITANIC 3D (PG) 1:00, 5:00, 9:00 Sat only 12:30 4:45 9:00 Sun only 12:30 4:40 9:00 21 JUMP STREET (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 Fri 1:20, 3:55, 6:40, 10:00 Sat 1:10, 3:45, 7:00, 10:00 Sun 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 9:45 WRATH OF THE TITANS 3D (14A) Thu 1:20, 3:50, 6:40, 9:10

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THE ARTIST (PG) Thu 4:10, 6:45 Fri 4:05, 6:35, 9:05 Sat-Sun 1:40, 4:05, 6:35, 9:05 Mon-Wed 4:05, 6:35 DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX (G) Thu 4:30, 6:35 Fri 4:30, 6:40, 8:50 Sat-Sun 2:20, 4:30, 6:40, 8:50 Mon-Wed 4:30, 6:40 FRIENDS WITH KIDS Thu 4:40, 7:15 Fri 4:20, 7:10, 9:35 SatSun 1:50, 4:20, 7:10, 9:35 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:10 THE IRON LADY (PG) Thu 4:25, 6:50 JEFF, WHO LIVES AT HOME (14A) Thu 4:50, 7:00 JOHN CARTER (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:55 LOCKOUT (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:20 Fri 4:45, 7:20, 9:20 Sat-Sun 2:10, 4:45, 7:20, 9:20 Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:20 MIRROR MIRROR (PG) 4:00, 6:30 Fri 9:00 Sat-Sun 1:35 mat, 9:00 THE SALT OF LIFE Fri 4:50, 7:30, 9:40 Sat-Sun 2:30, 4:50, 7:30, 9:40 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:15 THINK LIKE A MAN (PG) 4:10, 6:50 Fri 9:30 Sat-Sun 1:30 mat, 9:30 WANDERLUST (14A) Thu 4:20, 6:40 WRATH OF THE TITANS (14A) 4:40, 7:00 Fri 9:15 Sat-Sun 2:00 mat, 9:15

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1025 THE QUEENSWAY, QEW & ISLINGTON, 416-503-0424 AMERICAN REUNION (14A) Thu 12:55, 1:35, 3:50, 4:20, 6:35, 7:15, 9:15, 9:55 Fri 1:35, 2:25, 4:20, 5:10, 7:00, 7:50, 9:45, 10:35 Sat 11:40, 2:25, 4:20, 5:10, 7:00, 7:50, 9:45, 10:35 Sun 1:15, 4:00, 4:40, 6:40, 7:20, 9:20, 10:00 Mon-Wed 1:15, 1:55, 4:00, 4:40, 6:40, 7:20, 9:20, 10:00 BABE (PG) Sat 11:00 BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S Sun 1:00 THE CABIN IN THE WOODS (18A) Thu 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 Fri 3:00, 5:30, 7:55, 10:20 Sat 12:35, 3:00, 5:30, 7:55, 10:20 Sun 12:15, 2:40, 5:05, 7:30, 9:55 Mon-Wed 2:40, 5:05, 7:30, 9:55 CHIMPANZEE (G) Fri, Sun-Tue 1:00, 3:05, 5:15, 7:25, 9:35 Sat 11:55, 2:05, 4:15, 6:25, 8:35, 10:40 Wed 3:05, 5:15, 7:25, 9:35 DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX (G) Thu 1:45, 4:15 Fri 1:10, 3:30, 5:50 Sat 11:00, 1:10, 3:30, 5:50 Sun-Wed 2:00, 4:20 DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX 3D (G) Thu 2:30, 4:45, 7:10, 9:25 Fri 2:40, 5:05, 7:20 Sat 12:30, 2:40, 5:05, 7:20 Sun 12:30, 3:00, 5:20, 7:35 Mon-Wed 3:00, 5:20, 7:35 FRIENDS WITH KIDS Thu 7:25, 10:05 Fri-Sat 9:40 Sun-Wed 9:50 THE HUNGER GAMES (PG) Thu 12:45, 1:30, 3:55, 4:40, 7:05, 8:00, 10:15 Fri 12:55, 3:20, 4:05, 6:35, 7:15, 9:50, 10:35 Sat 12:05, 12:55, 3:20, 4:05, 6:35, 7:15, 9:50, 10:35 Sun 12:10, 12:40, 3:10, 3:50, 6:20, 7:00, 9:30, 10:10 Mon-Wed 12:45, 3:10, 3:50, 6:20, 7:00, 9:30, 10:10 JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:30 LOCKOUT (14A) Thu 2:35, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Fri-Sat 12:50, 3:10, 5:35, 8:00, 10:25 Sun-Wed 1:50, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15 LOVE NEVER DIES Sat 12:45 THE LUCKY ONE (PG) Fri-Sat 12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:45 Sun 12:00, 2:30, 5:10, 7:40, 10:15 Mon-Tue 2:30, 5:10, 7:40, 10:15 Wed 5:10, 7:40, 10:15 MIRROR MIRROR (PG) Thu 1:55, 4:25, 7:00, 9:40 Fri 1:50, 4:30, 7:05, 9:40 Sat 11:15, 1:50, 4:30, 7:05, 9:40 Sun-Wed 1:30, 4:05, 6:50, 9:25

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FairvieW Mall, 1800 ShePPard ave e, 416-644-7746 aMeriCan reunion (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:15, 7:25, 10:05 Fri 1:25, 4:15, 7:05, 10:00 Sat 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:15 Sun-Wed 1:25, 4:15, 7:05, 9:55 BaBe (PG) Sat 11:00 BreaKFast at tiFFany’s Sun 1:00 dr. seuss’ the Lorax 3d (G) Thu 1:50, 4:10 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:20 Sat 12:30 the hunger gaMes (PG) Thu 12:55, 4:00, 6:40, 7:10, 9:45, 10:15 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:00, 4:05, 7:10, 10:20 Sat 12:40, 3:50, 7:10, 10:20 LoCKout (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:40, 10:10 Fri 2:40, 5:10, 8:00, 10:30 Sat 12:50, 3:20, 5:50, 8:20, 10:45 Sun-Wed 2:40, 5:10, 7:45, 10:15 the LuCKy one (PG) Fri 2:30, 5:00, 7:50, 10:25 Sat 12:20, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40 Sun-Tue 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:10 Wed 5:00, 7:30, 10:10 Mirror Mirror (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:25, 7:05, 9:40 Fri 1:50, 4:25, 7:15, 9:50 Sat 11:40, 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:25 Sun 4:25, 7:00, 9:50 Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:25, 7:00, 9:50 the three stooges (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:30 Fri 2:10, 4:40, 7:20, 9:40 Sat 12:15, 2:50, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 SunTue 2:10, 4:40, 7:15, 9:45 Wed 4:40, 7:15, 9:45 titaniC 3d (PG) Thu 1:00, 5:10, 9:20 Fri 1:10, 5:15, 9:25 Sat 12:10, 4:20, 8:30 Sun-Wed 1:10, 5:15, 9:20 21 JuMP street (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:05, 7:15, 9:55 Fri 1:40, 4:45, 7:30, 10:10 Sat 11:50, 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:35 Sun-Wed 1:40, 4:45, 7:25, 10:05 Wrath oF the titans 3d (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:30, 7:30, 10:00 Fri 4:50, 7:45, 10:15 Sat 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Sun-Wed 4:50, 7:20, 10:00

SilverCiTy yorkdale (Ce) 3401 duFFerin ST, 416-787-4432

aMeriCan reunion (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 FriSat 1:45, 4:35, 7:25, 10:10 Sun-Wed 1:45, 4:35, 7:25, 10:05 the CaBin in the Woods (18A) Thu 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:10 Fri-Sat 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:05, 10:30 Sun 12:35, 2:55, 5:20, 7:40, 10:05 Mon-Wed 2:55, 5:20, 7:40, 10:05 ChiMPanzee (G) Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:05, 5:15, 7:25, 9:35 dr. seuss’ the Lorax 3d (G) Thu 1:40, 4:00 the hunger gaMes (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:55, 6:20, 7:05, 9:30, 10:15 Fri-Sat 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20 Sun-Wed 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 10:15 the LuCKy one (PG) Fri-Sat 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Sun 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:10 Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:00, 9:45 Mirror Mirror (PG) Thu 1:55, 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 Fri-Wed 1:10, 7:00 the raid: redeMPtion (18A) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 thinK LiKe a Man (PG) Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:25 SunWed 1:10, 4:15, 7:15, 10:10 the three stooges (PG) Thu 2:55, 5:20, 7:40, 10:05 FriSat 12:55, 3:15, 5:35, 7:55, 10:15 Sun 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:55 Mon-Wed 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:55 titaniC 3d (PG) Thu 1:00 5:00 9:00 Fri-Wed 12:45, 4:50, 9:00 21 JuMP street (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:35, 7:25, 10:10 Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Wrath oF the titans (14A) Fri-Wed 4:10, 9:50 Wrath oF the titans 3d (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00

12:55, 3:20, 5:45, 8:05, 10:30 Mon, Wed 4:30, 7:25, 9:55 Tue 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:30 Mirror Mirror (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Fri 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Sat-Sun 2:00, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Mon, Wed 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 Tue 4:10, 6:50, 9:25 the raid: redeMPtion (18A) Thu 5:30, 7:55, 10:15 thinK LiKe a Man (PG) Fri 4:50, 7:40, 10:25 Sat-Sun 1:50, 4:50, 7:40, 10:25 Mon, Wed 4:20, 7:15, 10:00 Tue 4:20, 7:05, 10:05 the three stooges (PG) Thu 4:50, 7:20, 9:40 Fri 3:20, 5:30, 7:50, 10:15 Sat-Sun 12:50, 3:00, 5:30, 7:50, 10:15 Mon, Wed 4:40, 7:00, 9:45 Tue 4:30, 7:45, 9:55 titaniC 3d (PG) Thu 4:40, 8:45 Fri 4:45, 8:40 Sat-Sun 12:50, 4:45, 8:40 Mon, Wed 4:15, 8:10 Tue 4:00, 8:30 21 JuMP street (14A) Thu 4:20, 7:30, 10:00 Wrath oF the titans 3d (14A) Thu 5:20, 7:45, 10:20 FriSun 5:50, 8:15, 10:40 Mon, Wed 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 Tue 5:45, 8:10, 10:25

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

aMeriCan reunion (14A) Thu 12:50, 2:00, 4:00, 4:45, 6:50, 7:30, 9:35, 10:15 Fri-Sat 1:50, 5:10, 7:50, 10:35 SunWed 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 10:10 BaBe (PG) Sat 11:00 the CaBin in the Woods (18A) Thu 2:30, 5:15, 7:40, 10:10 Fri-Sat 12:30, 3:00, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40 Sun-Wed 2:30, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 ChiMPanzee (G) Fri 12:00, 2:05, 4:15, 6:30, 8:40, 10:45 Sat 11:45, 2:05, 4:15, 6:30, 8:40, 10:45 Sun-Wed 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 7:45, 10:00 the hunger gaMes (PG) Thu 12:45, 2:45, 3:50, 6:30, 7:00, 9:45, 10:15 Fri-Sat 12:50, 4:00, 7:25, 10:40 Sun-Wed 12:45, 3:50, 7:05, 10:15 John Carter 3d (PG) Thu, Sun-Wed 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 Fri 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Sat 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Journey 2: the Mysterious isLand (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 Fri 2:40, 5:15, 7:45, 10:10 Sat 11:30, 2:40, 5:15, 7:45, 10:10 Sun-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 Love never dies Sat 12:45 the LuCKy one (PG) Fri-Sat 12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:45 Sun-Wed 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 streetdanCe 2 (PG) Thu 3:00, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 Fri-Sat 12:20, 3:10, 5:30, 8:05, 10:25 Sun-Wed 2:20, 4:45, 7:00, 9:45 thinK LiKe a Man (PG) Fri-Sat 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 SunWed 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:05 titaniC 3d (PG) Thu 12:45, 1:15, 4:45, 5:20, 8:45, 9:30 FriSat 12:15, 4:40, 8:45 Sun-Wed 1:00, 5:10, 9:20 21 JuMP street (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Fri-Sat 12:05, 2:45, 5:20, 8:00, 10:35 Sun-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:10, 9:55

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

aMeriCan reunion (14A) Thu 3:40, 4:30, 6:30, 7:20, 9:20, 10:10 Fri 1:30, 4:25, 7:15, 10:10 Sat 1:30, 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 Sun 12:20, 4:15, 7:10, 10:05 Mon-Wed 4:10, 7:05, 10:05 BaBe (PG) Sat 11:00 BreaKFast at tiFFany’s Sun 1:00 the CaBin in the Woods (18A) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:15, 7:50, 10:15 Fri-Sat 12:30, 3:00, 5:35, 8:10, 10:45 Sun 12:10, 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:15 ChiMPanzee (G) Fri 12:45, 3:00, 5:20, 7:45, 10:00 Sat 11:05, 1:20, 3:40, 6:00, 8:20, 10:40 Sun 12:25, 2:45, 5:05, 7:25, 9:45 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:15, 9:30 dr. seuss’ the Lorax (G) Thu 5:05, 7:20, 9:30 Fri 12:50, 3:05, 5:25, 7:45, 10:05 Sat 11:00, 1:15, 3:35, 5:55, 8:10, 10:30 Sun 12:40, 2:55, 5:15, 7:30, 9:50 Mon-Wed 5:15, 7:30, 9:50 the hunger gaMes (PG) Thu 3:30, 4:30, 6:50, 7:45, 10:05 Fri 12:50, 3:10, 4:05, 6:25, 7:25, 9:40, 10:45 Sat 11:15, 12:45, 3:10, 4:00, 6:25, 7:20, 9:40, 10:45 Sun 12:00, 3:20, 4:00, 6:40, 7:20, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:00, 5:00, 7:20, 8:20 LoCKout (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:25, 9:50 Fri-Sat 12:40, 3:05, 5:30, 8:00, 10:35 Sun 12:05, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:55 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:20, 9:55 the LuCKy one (PG) Fri 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 Sat 11:45, 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 Sun 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Mirror Mirror (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Fri 2:15, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Sat 11:20, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Sun 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 the raid: redeMPtion (18A) Thu 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 Fri, Sun 2:00, 4:35, 7:10, 9:50 Sat 11:30, 2:00, 4:35, 7:10, 9:50 streetdanCe 2 (PG) Thu 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 thinK LiKe a Man (PG) Fri 1:35, 4:30, 7:20, 10:15 Sat 2:00, 4:55, 7:50, 10:40 Sun 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:15, 7:15, 10:10 the three stooges (PG) Thu 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Fri 12:30, 2:55, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Sat 12:30, 2:55, 5:30, 8:00, 10:35 Sun 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:35, 10:00 Mon-Wed 5:05, 7:35, 10:00 titaniC 3d (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:15, 8:30 Fri-Sat 1:00, 5:10, 9:20 Sun 12:30, 4:45, 9:00 21 JuMP street (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 Fri-Sat 1:40, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Sun 1:20, 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 Wrath oF the titans 3d (14A) Thu 4:20, 6:55, 9:35 Fri 2:15, 4:55, 7:35, 10:20 Sat 11:40, 2:15, 4:55, 7:35, 10:20 Sun 1:45, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:00, 9:40

Scarborough

kennedy CoMMonS 20 (aMC)

401 & MorningSide (Ce)

agent vinod (14A) Thu 2:40, 6:00, 9:30 the artist (PG) 1:40, 4:05, 6:35, 9:05 Fri-Sun 11:05 mat

kennedy rd & 401, 416-335-5323

Casa de Mi Padre (14A) 3:10, 5:15, 7:20, 10:00 Fri-Sun 10:40, 12:45 mat dr. seuss’ the Lorax (G) Thu 2:00, 4:25, 6:50, 9:10 FriSun 10:40, 2:00, 4:25, 7:00, 9:10 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:25, 7:00, 9:10 dr. seuss’ the Lorax 3d (G) 1:35, 3:50, 6:10, 8:30 Fri-Sun 11:00 mat Friends With Kids Thu 2:00, 4:25, 7:00, 9:20 Fri-Sun 11:20, 2:00, 4:25, 6:50, 9:20 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:25, 6:50, 9:20 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) Thu 2:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:00, 9:50 Fri-Sun 11:30, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 the raid: redeMPtion (18A) 2:10, 4:45, 7:45, 10:10 FriSun 11:50 mat saFe house (14A) Thu 4:00, 6:50, 9:45 Fri-Sun 10:30, 1:20, 4:00, 7:00, 9:45 Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:00, 9:45 a siMPLe LiFe (14A) 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25 Fri-Sun 11:30 mat the three stooges (PG) Thu 2:15, 4:30, 7:00, 9:20 Fri-Sun 11:45, 2:15, 4:30, 7:05, 9:20 Mon-Wed 2:15, 4:30, 7:05, 9:20 viCKy donor 2:05, 5:30, 8:45 Fri-Sun 10:40 mat 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

2:30, 4:30, 5:30, 7:30, 8:30, 10:30 LoCKout (14A) Thu 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:15 Fri-Sun 10:30, 12:50, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:45 Mon-Wed 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:45 the LuCKy one (PG) 3:20, 5:40, 7:55, 10:20 Fri-Sun 10:35, 1:00 mat Mirror Mirror (PG) Thu 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:40 Fri 1:10, 3:35, 5:55, 8:20, 10:40 Sat-Sun 10:50, 1:10, 3:35, 5:55, 8:20, 10:40 Mon-Wed 3:35, 5:55, 8:20, 10:40 the raid: redeMPtion (18A) Thu 1:10, 3:25, 5:50, 8:20, 10:50 streetdanCe 2 (PG) Thu 2:55, 5:10, 7:25, 9:45 thinK LiKe a Man (PG) 2:00, 4:45, 7:40, 10:25 Fri-Sun 11:20 mat the three stooges (PG) Thu 2:40, 5:05, 7:20, 9:30 Fri-Sun 11:05, 1:35, 4:15, 6:55, 9:45 Mon-Wed 4:15, 6:55, 9:45 titaniC 3d (PG) Thu 2:00, 3:00, 6:00, 7:35, 10:05 Fri-Sun 10:40, 12:00, 2:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Mon-Wed 2:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 titaniC: an iMax 3d exPerienCe (PG) Thu 4:00, 8:00 Fri-Sun 11:30, 3:30, 8:00 Mon-Wed 3:30, 8:00 21 JuMP street (14A) Thu 1:05, 3:30, 5:55, 8:25, 10:55 FriSun 10:35, 12:55, 3:25, 5:50, 8:15, 10:45 Mon-Wed 3:25, 5:50, 8:15, 10:45 Wrath oF the titans (14A) Thu 2:45 Fri-Sun 10:45, 1:20, 3:50, 6:30, 9:30 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:30, 9:30 Wrath oF the titans 3d (14A) Thu 5:15, 7:45, 10:10 FriSun 11:45, 2:20, 4:50, 7:15, 10:15 Mon-Wed 2:20, 4:50, 7:15, 10:15

WoodSide CineMaS (i)

ChiMPanzee (G) Fri 12:40, 3:30, 7:10, 9:30 Sat-Sun 12:30, 2:40, 5:00, 7:20, 9:30 Mon-Wed 4:30, 6:45, 9:00 dr. seuss’ the Lorax (G) Thu 4:00, 6:30, 9:10 Fri 1:30, 4:00, 6:40, 9:10 Sat-Sun 12:15, 2:30, 4:50, 7:05, 9:20 MonWed 4:20, 6:35, 9:10 LoCKout (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:30, 9:50 Fri 1:10, 3:50, 6:55, 9:40 Sat-Sun 1:15, 3:45, 6:40, 9:40 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:00, 9:20 the LuCKy one (PG) Fri 2:00, 4:30, 7:30, 10:10 Sat-Sun 1:40, 4:15, 7:30, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:55, 7:35, 10:00 Mirror Mirror (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Fri 1:20, 4:10, 6:50, 9:50 Sat-Sun 1:05, 3:55, 6:50, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:25, 7:10, 9:45 the raid: redeMPtion (18A) Thu 4:45, 7:20, 9:40 saLMon Fishing in the yeMen (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:40, 9:20 Fri 1:00, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 Sat-Sun 12:55, 3:35, 6:30, 9:10 Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 streetdanCe 2 (PG) Thu 3:50, 6:50, 10:00 thinK LiKe a Man (PG) Fri 12:50, 4:05, 7:00, 10:00 Sat-Sun 12:45, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:05, 6:55, 9:55 the three stooges (PG) Thu 3:40, 7:10, 9:35 Fri 1:50, 4:20, 7:20, 9:55 Sat-Sun 12:25, 2:50, 5:10, 7:45, 10:05 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:20, 9:35 titaniC 3d (PG) Thu 4:10, 5:10, 8:15, 9:55 Fri 12:30, 4:50, 9:00 Sat-Sun 12:35, 4:40, 9:00 Mon-Wed 4:00, 8:00 Wrath oF the titans 3d (14A) Thu 4:25, 6:55, 9:25 Fri 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:15 Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:40, 10:15 MonWed 4:50, 7:25, 9:50

1571 SandhurST CirCle, 416-299-3456

houseFuLL 2 (PG) 6:30, 9:45 Thu 4:45, 8:15 Sat-Sun 3:15 mat

GTA Regions Mississauga

ColiSeuM MiSSiSSauga (Ce) Square one, 309 raThburn rd W, 905-275-3456

aMeriCan reunion (14A) Thu 12:50, 1:50, 3:50, 4:50, 6:40, 7:40, 9:30, 10:15 Fri 12:10, 2:40, 5:15, 6:30, 7:50, 9:15, 10:30 Sat 11:35, 2:40, 5:15, 6:30, 7:50, 9:15, 10:30 Sun-Tue 1:40, 4:10, 6:30, 7:30, 9:10, 10:00 Wed 4:10, 6:30, 7:30, 9:10, 10:00 BaBe (PG) Sat 11:00 BreaKFast at tiFFany’s Sun 1:00 the CaBin in the Woods (18A) Thu 12:40, 3:10, 5:30, 7:50, 10:15 Fri 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:30 Sat 12:30, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:30 Sun-Wed 12:20, 2:50, 5:10, 7:40, 10:15 dr. seuss’ the Lorax (G) Thu 11:50 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:10 Sat 11:30 dr. seuss’ the Lorax 3d (G) Thu, Sat 2:00, 4:10, 6:20, 8:30 Fri, Sun-Wed 3:20, 6:20, 8:30 the hunger gaMes (PG) Thu 12:20, 1:40, 3:40, 5:20, 6:50, 8:40, 10:10 Fri 12:30, 1:20, 3:40, 4:30, 6:50, 7:40, 10:00 Sat 1:20, 3:40, 4:30, 6:50, 7:40, 10:00 Sun 1:20, 3:40, 4:30, 6:50, 7:50, 9:50 Mon-Wed 12:30, 1:20, 3:40, 4:30, 6:50, 7:50, 9:50 Journey 2: the Mysterious isLand (PG) 12:00, 2:10, 4:20 Sat only 11:20 2:10 4:20 Love never dies Sat 12:45 the raid: redeMPtion (18A) Thu 2:30, 4:55, 7:20, 9:50 Fri-Sat 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:50 Sun-Wed 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:40 thinK LiKe a Man (PG) Fri 1:30, 4:10, 7:20, 10:20 Sat 1:30, 4:15, 7:20, 10:20 Sun-Tue 1:30, 4:15, 7:20, 10:10 Wed 4:15, 7:20, 10:10 the three stooges (PG) Thu 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:30, 9:55 Fri-Sat 12:50, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Sun-Wed 12:50, 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 titaniC 3d (PG) 1:00, 5:00, 9:00 titaniC: an iMax 3d exPerienCe (PG) 12:00, 4:00, 8:00 21 JuMP street (14A) Thu 12:30, 3:20, 6:30, 7:10, 9:10, 10:00 Fri 12:20, 3:30, 7:30, 10:10 Sat 12:10, 3:30, 7:30, 10:10 Sun 12:30, 3:00, 7:15, 10:05 Mon-Wed 12:40, 3:30, 7:15, 10:05 Wrath oF the titans 3d (14A) Thu-Sat 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:40 Sun-Wed 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:30

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, 9:55, 10:45 Fri-Sat 11:25, 2:00, 4:25, 7:10, 9:55 SunWed 2:00, 4:25, 7:10, 9:55 the CaBin in the Woods (18A) Thu 3:10, 5:30, 8:05, 10:35 Fri-Sun 10:40, 12:55, 3:10, 5:35, 8:05, 10:35 Mon-Wed 3:10, 5:35, 8:05, 10:35 ChiMPanzee (G) 3:00, 5:00, 7:00, 9:05 Fri-Sun 11:00, 1:05 mat the hunger gaMes (PG) Thu 1:00, 1:30, 2:00, 4:00, 4:30, 5:00, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 10:00, 10:30, 11:00 Fri-Sun 10:30, 11:30, 1:30, 2:30, 4:30, 5:30, 7:30, 8:30, 10:30 Mon-Wed

SilverCiTy MiSSiSSauga (Ce) hWy 5, eaST oF hWy 403, 905-569-3373

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

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NOW april 19-25 2012

indie&rep film complete festivals, independent and How to find a listing

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.

fresas) (2011) D: Simone Rapisarda Casanova. 7 pm. Sidewalk Stories shorts program including Everything Is Everyday (2011) D: Patrick Tarrant, Workers Leaving The Googleplex (2010) D: Andrew Norman Wilson, and others. Midnight. Screenings at AGO. sat 21 – Florentina Hubaldo CTE (2012) D: Lav Diaz. Noon (AGO). The Sounds Of Science, films of Jean Painlevé with a live score by Yo La Tengo, preceded by Mantler singer/ songwriter Chris Cummings performing a score for The Tide Goes In, The Tide Goes Out by Larissa Fan. 8 pm (TUC).

tiff kids internatiOnal film festival reitman square, 350 king w. 416-599-tiff (8433). tiff.net/tiffkids

thu 19-sun 22 – Children’s film festival. $12, child $8.50, stu/srs $9.50, ñ family ten-pack $75. All films w/ s-t.

festivals

sat 21 – Gattu (2011) D: Rajan Khosa. 10 am.

images festival

art gallery Of OntariO, Jackman Hall, 317 dundas w, (agO); images at 204 spadina (im); tOrOntO undergrOund cinema, 186 spadina (tuc). imagesfestival.cOm

thu 12-apr 21 – Festival of experimental film and video. $10, stu/srs $5. Closñ ing night $30, adv $25. thu 19 – 1988 Screening Part 2: Clouds (1985) D: Scott Haynes, Censored: The Business Of Frightened Desires (Or The Making Of A Pornographer) (1987) D: Vera Frenkel, and short films Learning About Female Sexuality and Delivrez-nous du mal. 9 pm. Open screening and Lounge: bring your 16mm, Super 8mm andDVD shorts (under 15 min) to share. 11pm. Free. Both at IM. fri 20 – The Strawberry Tree (El árbol de las

Kiwi Flyer (2012) D: Tony Simpson. 10:15 am. Elias And The Treasure Of The Sea (2010) D: Lise Osvoll. 10:15 am. For The Love Of... shorts program: 41 Days (2012) D: Ahmed Abdelaziz, Cristiano’s Shirt (2011) D: Vincent Bruno, and others. 10:30 am. Bacalar (2011) D: Patricia Arriaga Jordán. 12:15 pm. Reel Rascals: Movin’ And Groovin’ Program. 12:15 pm. Tony 10 (2012) D: Mischa Kamp. 12:45 pm. Loot Bag: Follow Your Dreams shorts program: The Bicycle Animation (2011) D: Katy Beveridge, and others. 12:30 pm. Alfie, The Little Werewolf (2011) D: Joram Lürsen. 2:30 pm. Will (2011) D: Ellen Perry. 2:45 pm. Famous Five (2012) D: Mike Marzuk. 3:15 pm. WUNDERKINDER (2011) D: Marcus O Rosenmüller. 5 pm sun 22 – The Blue Tiger (2011) D: Petr Oukropec. 10 am. Lotte And The Moonstone

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repertory schedules

Secret (2011) D: Heiki Ernits and Janno Poldma. 10:15 am. Loot Bag: Laugh & A Half shorts program: Paint Showers (2011) D: Miguel Jiron, and others. 10:15 am. The Crocodiles: All For One (2011) D: Wolfgang Groos. 12:15 pm. Jump Cuts: Grades 7-8 program at 12:15 pm; Grades 3-6 program at 12:30 pm. The Little Prince: Planet Of The Globes (2011) D: Pierre-Alain Chartier. 2 pm. Closing night sneak peek: Sky Force 3D (2012) D: Tony Tang. 2:45 pm. First Position (2011) D: Bess Kargman. 2:30 pm. Canada For Kids shorts program: Little Mao (2012) D: Allan Tong, The Rink (2011) D: Thelon Oeming, and others. 3 pm. Havanastation (2011) D: Ian Padrón. 3:30 pm.

cinemas BlOOr HOt dOcs cinema 506 BlOOr w. 416-637-3123. BlOOrcinema.cOm

thu 19 – Happy People: A Year In The Taiga (2010) D: Dmitry Vasyukov and Werner Herzog. 6:30 pm. Good For Her presents Public Provocative Porn: The Year’s Best in Feminist Film. 9:30 pm. $15. goodforher.com. fri 20 – Sound It Out (2011) D: Jeanie Finlay. 3:30 & 9:15 pm. People Of A Feather (2011) D: Joel Heath. Director in attendance. 6:30 pm. sat 21 – Comic Book Confidential (1988) D: Ron Mann. Director in attendance. 3:30 pm. People Of A Feather. 6:30 pm. Sound It Out. 9:15 pm. sun 22– Labyrinth (1986) D: Jim Henson. 3:30 pm. Sound It Out. 6:30 pm. People Of A Feather. 9 pm. mon 23 – People Of A Feather. 6:30 pm. Sound It Out. 9:15 pm. tue 24 – People Of A Feather. 6:30 pm. Trinity And Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie (1995) D: Peter Kuran. 9 pm. wed 25 – Sound It Out. 6:30 pm. Trinity And Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie. 9 pm.

camera Bar 1028 queen w. 416-530-0011. cameraBar.ca

sat 21 – The Thin Red Line (1998) D: Terrence Malick. 3 pm. Free.

cinematHeque tiff Bell ligHtBOx

reitman square, 350 king w. 416-599-tiff (8433). tiff.net

sat 21-sun 22 – TIFF International Kids Film Festival. See listings, this page. wed 25 – Science On Film: The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951) D: Robert Wise. 7 pm. $35.

fOx tHeatre

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

thu 19 – In Darkness (2012) D: Agnieszka

Holland. 6:45 pm. Salmon Fishing In The Yemen (2012) D: Lasse Hallström. 9:30 pm. fri 20 – Monsieur Lazhar (2012) D: Philippe Falardeau. 7 pm. We Need To Talk About Kevin (2011) D: Lynne Ramsay. 9 pm. sat 21-sun 22 – The Secret World Of Arrietty (2012) D: Hiromasa Yonebayashi. 2 pm. Monsieur Lazhar. 4 pm (Sun only) & 7 pm. We Need To Talk About Kevin. 9 pm. mon 23 – A Separation (2011) D: Asghar Farhadi. 6:45 pm. We Need To Talk About Kevin. 9:15 pm. tue 24 – A Separation. 6:45 pm. Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey (2011) D: Constance Marks. 9:15 pm. wed 25 – Monsieur Lazhar. 1:30 & 9 pm. Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey. 7 pm.

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cBc museum, cBc BrOadcast centre, 250 frOnt w, 416-205-5574. cBc.ca

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april 19-25 2012 NOW

Enviro doc To The Arctic might melt your heart when it opens Friday at the Ontario Science Centre.

thu 19-wed 25 – Continuous screenings Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm. Free. thu 19-fri 20 – Walking The Green Tiger. mon 23-wed 25 – Facebook Follies.

natiOnal film BOard

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150 JOHn. 416-973-3012. nfB.ca/mediatHeque

463 BatHurst. 416-603-6643.

thu 19-wed 25 – More than 5,000 NFB films

thu 19 – Christopher And His Kind (2011) D: Geoffrey Sax. 7 pm. Cabaret (1972) D: Bob Fosse. 9 pm. sat 21 – Bugs Bunny Animated Cartoon Program. 7 pm. The Salvador Dali/Luis Buñuel Anarchist, Surrealist, Hallucinatory Film Festival. 9 pm. sun 22 – Science Or Superstition (2008) D: Nimrod Erez. 2 pm. The Fabric Of Time 3D (2007) D: David Priest. 4 pm. World War II In 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 Four Musketeers (1973) D: Richard Lester. 9 pm. mon 23 – The Unholy Three (1925) D: Tod Browning. 7 pm. Beau Brummel (1924) D: Curtis Berhnardt. 9 pm. tue 24 – Les Enfants Du Paradis (1945) D: Marcel Carne. 7 pm. wed 25 – Olympia (1938) D: Leni Riefenstahl. 7 pm.

available at digital viewing stations. TueWed noon-7 pm, Thu-Sat noon-10 pm, Sun noon-5 pm. Free. tue 24 – The Paradigm Shift Projects presents films by Rebecca Sweetman: H2OPE: Water To People Everywhere (2012), Voicing Disaster (2011), and short film Malaysia’s Invisible Children. 5 pm. $10. theparadigmshiftproject. tumblr.com. wed 25 – Free Favourites At Four – In Celebration Of National Poetry Month: The Danish Poet (2006) D: Torill Kove, Conte De Quartier (2006) D: Florence Miailhe, 55 Socks (2011) D: Co Hoedeman. 4 pm.

OntariO science centre

770 dOn mills. 416-696-3127. OntariOsciencecentre.ca

thu 19-fri 20 – Rocky Mountain Express. 11

am & 2 pm. Under The Sea. Noon. Tornado Alley. 1 pm. fri 20 – Rocky Mountain Express. Noon. To The Arctic. 11 am & 2 pm. Under The Sea. 1 pm. sat 21 – Rocky Mountain Express. Noon, 3 & 7 pm. To The Arctic. 11 am, 2, 4 and 8 pm. Under The Sea. 1 pm. sun 22 – Jane Goodall’s Wild Champanzees. 1 pm. mon 23-wed 25 – To The Arctic. 11 am and 2 pm. Rocky Mountain Express. Noon. Under The Sea. 1 pm.

tHe prOJectiOn BOOtH

1035 gerrard e. 416-466-3636, prOJectiOnBOOtH.ca.

thu 19 – Once Upon A Time In Anatolia (2011) D: Nuri Bilge Celyan. 12:30 & 7 pm. Newlyweds (2011) D: Edward Burns. 3 pm. Pink Ribbons (2011) D: Lea Pool. 5pm. Battle Royale (2000) D: Kinji Fukasaku. 9:45 pm. fri 20 – Pink Ribbons. 1 pm. Battle Royale. 3 pm. Once Upon A Time In Anatolia. 5 pm. Earth Day Fundraiser: Godzilla Vs The Smog Monster (1971) D Yoshimitsu Banno. 8 pm. sat 21 – Battle Royale. 6:30 pm. Once Upon A Time In Anatolia. 9 pm. sun 22 – Battle Royale. Noon. Pink Ribbons. 2 pm. CUPE Local 416, CUPE Local 79 and SEIU Local 2 free film. 7:30 pm. mon 23 – Pink Ribbons. Noon. Battle Royale. 2 & 7 pm. Once Upon A Time In Anatolia. 4 & 9:15 pm. tue 24 – Battle Royale. Noon & 7 pm. Pink Ribbons. 2 pm. Once Upon A Time In Anatolia. 4 & 9:15 pm. wed 25 – Battle Royale. Noon & 9:45 pm. Pink Ribbons. 2 pm. Once Upon A Time In Anatolia. 4 & 7 pm.

revue cinema

400 rOncesvalles. 416-531-9959. revuecinema.ca

thu 19 – Lenny (1974) D: Bob Fosse. 6:45 pm. Café De Flore (2011) D: Jean-Marc ñ Vallée. 9:30 pm. fri 20 – Monsieur Lazhar (2011) D: Philippe Falardeau. 7 pm. We Need To Talk ñ About Kevin (2011) D: Lynne Ramsay. 9 pm. sat 21 – The Secret World Of Arietty (2012) D:

Hiromasa Yonebayashi. 2 pm. Monsieur Lazhar. 4 & 7 pm. We Need To Talk About Kevin. 9 pm. sun 22 – The Secret World Of Arietty. 2 pm. Coriolanus (2011) D: Ralph Fiennes. 4 pm. Monsieur Lazhar. 7 pm. We Need To Talk About Kevin. 9 pm. mon 23 – Monsieur Lazhar. 7 pm. Coriolanus. 9 pm. tue 24 – The Tennessee Project presents A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) D: Elia Kazan. 6:45 pm. $10, srs $7. Monsieur Lazhar. 9:15 pm. wed 25 – Monsieur Lazhar. 1 & 7 pm. Dion Conflict presents Mid-Week Mondo Madness, with mentalist Mysterion and a screening of Things To Come (1936) D: HG Wells. 9 pm.

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sat 21 – A Separation (2011) D: Asghar Farhadi. 7 pm. The Artist (2011) D: ñ Michel Hazanavicius. 9:15 pm. sun 22 – Point Four (2011) D: Mel Tewahade. 4:30 pm. The Artist. 7 pm.

mon 23 – 3-D Rock Doc. 7 pm. The Artist. 9:30 pm.

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disc of the week

TuE 24 – Augmented Cinema Film Festival. 7 pm. The Artist. 9:30 pm. WED 25 –Humber Film Projects. 7 pm. The Artist. 9:30 pm.

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Thu 19 – Nightmare (1981) D: Romano Scavolini. 9:30 pm.

fRI 20 – Check website for schedule. SAT 21 – Images Festival. 8 pm. See listings, this

page.

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Nearly two hours of extras provide a detailed look at production in Prague, Vancouver and Dubai, with an emphasis on Cruise’s building hang and a spectacular car crash. At one point, director Brad Bird remarks that he was able to put his own stamp on the movie. Pity he doesn’t have a commentary to expand on that. EXTRAS Two making-of docs, deleted scenes. English, French, Spanish, Portuguese audio and subtitles.

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of dialogue hint ambiguously in that direction. Brandon maintains a good front at his white-collar job and spends his free time having anonymous sex, surfing porn and masturbating. He has no one in his life and can’t handle it when his emotionally needy sister, Sissy, comes to stay. Michael Fassbender reveals all the shades of Brandon’s self-loathing. In one remarkable wordless scene, he

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equal footing speak to the myth of our union with nature, but the ones of the creatures alone or with each other prompt a more visceral response. Personally, I’m captivated by the images of elephants mooshing their bodies together for a mud wallow and of an orangutan wading chest-deep in a jungle stream. Lickley got his shots by lugging 30,000 pounds of gear into the rainforest. That’s something you’ll learn in the extras – half a dozen three-minute webisodes looking at the shoot, the sanctuaries and the staff. EXTRAS Webisodes. English, French, Spanish audio and subtitles.

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The action does not disappoint. It’s virtually non-stop, and the centrepiece – Tom Cruise swinging from a rope halfway up the outside of the world’s tallest building – is truly breathtaking. The prison break, car chase through a sandstorm and climactic punch-out in an automated parking garage aren’t too shabby either. The story is less impressive: stop the renegade Russian before he launches a missile at the U.S. Cruise and his black ops team – Paula Patton, Simon Pegg, Jeremy Renner – would be perfect actionmovie robots except for the humour Pegg’s character injects as a nervous newbie. Michael Nyqvist, the villain, has little screen time and less presence, though he does have the best reasons I’ve ever heard for wanting to blow everything up.

The Divide gets its apocalypse over in the first shot – a nuclear bomb takes out New York City. A handful of apartment dwellers scramble into the basement, where the building super, a survivalist with food and water, seals them in and they settle down to wait out the radiation. Social relations deteriorate rapidly. The acting carries the show, and Rosanna Arquette takes pride of place as a single mother who sinks from decency to lunacy as the situation worsens. Michael Biehn, the super, and Michael Eklund and Milo Ventimiglia, a couple of louts, go at each other with gusto, and Lauren German, as one-half of a troubled marriage, adds to the tension with unceasing watchfulness. Any movie confined to one set risks boring the viewer. The Divide keeps its story eventful, and director Xavier Gens makes fine use of the creepy, labyrinthine set with a restless camera and shifting, shadowy light. Even so, things sag a bit in the middle. The movie was shot in sequence and partly improvised. You won’t learn much more than that in the commentary Gens shares with Eklund and Ventimiglia. EXTRAS Commentary. English, French, Spanish audio. English, Spanish subtitles. 3 movies@nowtoronto.com

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banging away, pornstar style, but that would be a huge mistake. Your boy friend should instead stay perfectly still for the first minute or two while you breathe and relax. Kiss your boyfriend and stroke yourself during the brief lull before the fucking starts. Then he starts moving inside you – very slowly. He pulls out an inch or two and slides back in, you keep breathing and stroking, he pulls back an inch or two more and slides in. With each successive thrust, your boyfriend will be able to pull out a little farther, TUSH, and before you know it, he’ll be fucking the hell out of you. The whole process (the hole pro cess?) – from patient foreplay to fullon assfucking—takes 30 minutes at least. P.S. You don’t have to use condoms, but you should. Using condoms is a good habit to get into, TUSH, and if you have any concerns about cleanliness, well, a condom is your best friend. There are lots of gay guys out there – including guys as young as you – who got infected with HIV by boyfriends, including first boyfriends, who lied or didn’t know or fucked up. So listen to your mother and use condoms, TUSH, along with a waterbased lubricant.

Are anal wipes for real? I am an Intern at the health and wellness centre at my university. This is safe-sex-awareness month on campus. We got donations from some sex toy companies. Among the products we received is something marketed as “desensitizing anal wipes” by a company called California Exotic Novelties. We gave away these samples at our recent expo. After the fair, a student came up to my boss and me. As a young gay man, he expressed concern that desensitizing anal wipes were not safe to use, as masking pain could in fact lead to engaging in activities that you might not otherwise. I am assuming that what he meant is that if you are experiencing pain during anal sex, you prob-

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Googling “desensitizing anal wipes” got me this: “…perfect for using before anal sex to reduce friction pains and ease entry.” Anyone who’s too stupid to use lube for anal sex – or anyone who is using lube but somehow doesn’t realize that re ducing friction and easing entry is what lube is down there to do – probably won’t be harmed by a “desensitizing” moist towelette that retails for $3.99. I don’t know what the active ingredient is, ASS, but I can’t imagine it’s a phar maceuticalgrade topical anesthetic. So I doubt that anyone who uses a DAW is going to wind up with an ass so be numbed that he won’t realize he’s being torn to shreds until after he sees blood and santorum all over his sheets, pil lows, walls, floor, boyfriend, ceiling, Xbox 360, cats, etc. That said, ASS, desensitizing anal wipes play on common fears and misconcep tions about anal sex – namely, that anal sex is supposed to hurt. Anal done right isn’t painful, of course, even if it takes time, practice and some patience to get used to. Some people do experience dis comfort when they first attempt anal, but discomfort isn’t pain. It’s important for people to understand that if anal sex hurts, they’re doing it wrong – not enough lube, not enough foreplay, not enough practice – and they need to stop. Desensitizing wipes send the op posite message. Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage. mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter

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