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LYNN CROSBIE Author launches her new book, Life Is About Losing Everything, at the Mascot, 7 pm. Free. houseofanansi.com.

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Dance (by James Kudelka), opera and text are used in this adaptation of the Edith Wharton novel, on at the Citadel until May 13. 8 pm. Pwyc-$50, gala $100. 416-364-8011.

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indie rock duo bring massive volume and a new LP to the Garrison. Doors 9 pm. $10.50.

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Garrison plays host to a fine double bill with the Fiery Furnaces’ female quotient and indie pop trio Hospitality.

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BRYAN ADAMS The Canuck music legend celebrates the 20th anniversary of his Waking Up The Nation tour. Air Canada Centre. Doors 7 pm. $20 and up. TM. AFTER THE ARAB SPRING Discussion on the uprising in Egypt with Bahey Eldin Hassan and Reem Bahdi. 7 pm. $10. Beit Zatoun. beitzatoun.org.

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Peter Dick Toronto

Dirty diesel particulars despite all the negative press around “dirty diesel” trains (NOW, April 26-May 2), the fact is they’re not quite as bad for the environment as opponents are suggesting.

I’m an advocate of electrifying the line, of course, but diesel isn’t the Devil.

The new Air Rail Link trains have diesel particulate filters that capture all the ash we associate with diesel. It is my understanding that these trains will meet tier-four emissions standards with 94 per cent less particulate.

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App plying the truth regarding app pathetic by joshua Errett (NOW, April 26-May 2). Oh, Joshua, where to begin?

I’ll start by saying I don’t support Rob Ford or his allies, but neither do I support dishonest journalism.

Why is it confusing to Errett that there are two apps that do the same thing? No one said they were only for graffiti. They both expedite the process of reporting a problem to the city for those with smartphones. Is that bad? And how is TDOT 311 worse? Because it’s iPhone-only so far? Because it’ll cost $1.99 after May 5? (It’s free now.) Because you don’t know where that money will go? Maybe to the developers who are trying to build a business?

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What we see coming out of mainstream Hollywood does not even begin to scratch the surface of the vast array of American films produced each year. Cole reinforces a thoughtless and shallow notion of Americans as people simply incapable of seeing through Hollywood’s plastic lens.

How many independent American film artists can she name?

Surely, Cole must have extensive knowledge on the subject, unlike our “xenophobic” neighbours who are too locked into their ways to sift through the facade of pop culture.

It is truly ironic that in her attempt to label Americans as people without the intellectual drive to understand other cultures, she commits the exact same error.

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Flying fart for the mayor your comment in newsfront about the mayor putting his “backside” into the annual cleanup day (NOW, April 26-May 2) was nothing more than a flying fart. How many of your readers participated in the cleanup? Thought so. Get a life.

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the CBC will survive just fine after getting rid of some redundant man­ agement.

But Daumas is definitely correct when she states that the CBC “keeps Canada connected” – although she fails to identify exactly who or what is the “common thread” the CBC pro­ vides for all Canadians “across our massive and diverse country.”

As far as I’m concerned, the only common thread the CBC provides is Rex Murphy and his creative, enlight­ ened and relevant commentaries.

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Plastics overexposure your green issue was welcome (NOW, April 12­18). It revealed the hid­ den toxins we are exposed to every day. I fear it could give readers a false sense of security, however. What vex­

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unnecessary. We still have plastic rings for six­packs, which could easily be replaced by cardboard.

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Billy Bryans remembered thanks for the tribute to billy Bryans (NOW, April 26­May 2) and for running my photo of him with Susan G. Cole’s obituary.

I took it at the Diamond Club in 1987 during the Jane Vasey benefit featuring Downchild Blues Band, with Lorraine Segato as guest singer.

Billy was a gentleman and always easily approachable. He was a large presence in the local and Canadian music community. He will be greatly missed. Rest in peace, Billy.

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april, 22, 1929, looking west along front from the royal york hotel, when toronto was ruled by the rails. to the left is the John Street roundhouse, which was closed by canadian Pacific and donated to the city in 1986 and where Steam Whistle brewery has since taken up residence. in 2001, the toronto railway historical association proposed building a railway museum in the roundhouse machine shop. But trha was notified last week that toronto hydro wants to put a transformer there. trha says the utility had previously committed to burying the transformer underground.

Jane’s Walk, the annual strolls inspired by late urbanist Jane Jacobs through the city’s most compelling public spaces, takes to the streets Saturday and Sunday (may 5 and 6), with more than 100 volunteer-led walks. our pick: toronto: city as Urban Playground, a trek for kids (including a treasure hunt) through the underground Path and financial district. check janeswalk.net for details.

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[Frontlines] Ben Spurr on Occupy’s short-term affairs occupy toronto once again held park turf on tuesday, may 1, though the occupation was planned as a 24-hour affair instead of a St. James-type long-term presence. as part of a may Day celebration and a harbinger of a summer of resistance, nearly 2,000 gathered at city hall, where protesters took turns making speeches, singing chants and banging drums amidst a sea of banners. as always in occupy affairs, a wide range of causes were represented, from indigenous sovereignty and federal immigration reform to the Quebec student strike, opposition to austerity and an end to the war in afghanistan. then demonstrators, accompanied by an extraordinarily heavy police presence, marched west to alexandra Park. at 9 pm, a smaller group snaked their way through rush-hour traffic, periodically stopping to block intersections on their way to their secret re-occupation destination, which turned out to be Simcoe Park, directly north of the metro toronto convention centre on front. “the idea is that we’re occupying the heart of the beast,” said organizer Sakura Saunders.

Protesters were covert about the location, fearing police would erect barri-

cades around the site. toronto bylaws prohibit being in public parks overnight, and at first it was unclear whether police would allow protesters to stay. the Parks Department decided to waive enforcement of the bylaw, however, and the cops said they wouldn’t clear the area as long as tents and other structures weren’t erected.

“The idea is that we’re occupying the heart of the beast.”

most participants, whose numbers by that point had dwindled to fewer than 200, agreed to the compromise, but a multi-faith group tried to erect a tent, and three members were arrested. other clergy who weren’t taken into custody said they had been trying to set up a place of worship in the park. “our intent was to put up a sacred space,” said reverend alexa Gilmour. “We have values in common with folks who are part of the occupy movement, and we’re taking a stand with those people and with those values.” organizers are calling for more warmweather occupys in strategic places. But they will, no doubt, be short-term affairs. bens@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/nowtorontonews

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Barometer CITYSCAPE WHAT Six-storey “intimate boutique” condo that Beaches residents say is too big for the Queen East strip of two-storey storefronts – but that local councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon seems disposed to support WHERE On the site of Lick’s burger restaurant WHEN Up for approval at the May 15 meeting of Toronto and East York Community Council

$546.08 Mayor’s vehicle maintenance and fuel charges for first two months of 2012.

That amount buys about 420 litres of gas, which, when given the fuel mileage for a vehicle comparable to his minivan, is just under 3,000 kilometres driven, or about 74 kilometres per day (and that’s not counting weekends). It’s 32 kilometres round trip from the Ford’s Etobicoke home to City Hall. The upshot: all that talk about the mayor running a very full schedule is questionable.

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ON THE COVER Salman Rushdie was still in hiding when we talked to him in New York about his sixth novel, The Ground Beneath Her Feet. In fact, NOW writer Matt Galloway – now host of CBC Radio’s Metro Morning – feared he’d never find the famed writer, still under the Ayatollah’s fatwa. Rushdie, having fully surfaced, has recently forged a strong creative bond with Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta, who’s adapting his 1981 Midnight’s Children. It’s just been announced that the feature will be released in October. Rushdie’s on his way to Ottawa to pay tribute to Mehta at the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards gala on Saturday (May 5). (Page 38 of the issue) Travel back in time with NOW’s online archives. View online at nowtoronto.com/archives

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he latest title in the For dummies refpolitics erence books series was released this week: Public Opinion And Polling For dummies.

Yep. Now you, too, can learn about the ins and outs of market research in 56 easy-to-read pages. No Phd required. Call it dIY polling.

The timing couldn’t be better, or worse, depending on your perspective, after the debacle in Alberta last week that left polling firms across the land with egg on their face. All of them predicted a Wildrose majority. didn’t happen. Not even close. The Tories ran away with it.

I’ll get to the Forum poll of a few weeks back that showed Mayor Rob Ford’s approval ratings are on the rise.

But first, the Alberta results no one saw coming. Twitter played host to an interesting mano-a-mano featuring Ford’s crack pollster for hire (and former chief of staff), Nick Kouvalis, versus Ipsos Reid CEO darrell Bricker.

Bricker expressed disgust with the Alberta election polling. A “catastrophe,” he called it.

Kouvalis offered that Bricker shouldn’t throw stones, since Ipsos hasn’t exactly been hitting the nail on the head in its recent elections polls.

The truth on that count is a little more complicated.

But speaking of glass houses, Kouvalis shouldn’t talk. The Marketing Research and Intelligence Association (MRIA), the governing body of marketing professionals, is investigating his company, Campaign Research, over that messy business of misleading phone calls in Liberal MP Irwin Cotler’s Montreal riding during the last federal election.

Ipsos didn’t see a Wildrose collapse in the offing either, but the firm has been more honest than most in the biz about its discomfort with the proliferation of one-person polling operations with questionable political connections – and a knack for bending the rules when it comes to public opinion research.

Ipsos’s infamous open letter to journalists during last fall’s Ontario election didn’t name names but warned of “hucksters selling methodological snake oil,” and polls “distorting our democracy” and “confusing voters.”

That entertaining Bricker-versusKouvalis pissing match aside, it’s arguable that our political system is being held hostage by polls. Maybe we need to consider some kind of moratorium extending the ban on reporting on polls beyond the current 24 hours before an election. Some industry types say it’s high time.

But the Supreme Court of Canada has aldissenting justice Charles Gonthier wrote ready pronounced a fat no on that matter. that polls “tend to pre-empt the discussion of In 1998, it struck down a section of the Canissues and short-circuit the democratic proada Elections Act banning the publication of cess,” and that our reliance on them has bepublic opinion polls in the 72 hours before a come “a substitute for public policy.” federal election.

Gonthier wrote that the media’s attention to The court was divided on the question, polling results “tends to distract voters’ attenthough. dissenting judges noted the pervasivetion from substantive issues. The problem beness of polls and their reduction of politics to a comes more acute when some voters con“horse race... [reducing] the level of discourse to sciously use survey results to make decisions.” the lowest common denominator.”

These problems have only gotten worse since

The MRIA has identified the problem as well.

Says executive director Brendan Wycks: “They are not market research companies; they are political telemarketing firms. The political advocacy and voter intention work they do couldn’t be further removed from statistical-science-based research.”

Industry pros have two words to describe the work these firms do: “mugging” (marketing under the guise of interviewing) and “sugging” (soliciting under the guise of interviewing).

But polls are only part of the problem. The media’s reporting of them, often absent information contextualizing them, clouds the picture in the public’s mind.

Now to that poll done by Forum on the mayor’s approval rating.

The Globe, Star and Sun all reported

Polls are only part of the problem. The media’s reporting of them, often absent important info, clouds the picture in the public mind. what the poll results claimed – that the mayor’s numbers had risen to 47 per cent, compared to 41 per cent in March.

The papers, following standard practice, reported the margin of error in the Forum poll, in this case plus or minus 3.4 per cent based on the sample size of 812 respondents. Which is to say that the poll’s numbers are considered accurate within 3.4 per cent 19 out of 20 times.

But the significance of the margin of error wasn’t explained in the news stories. It rarely is.

The MRIA calls the margin of error of “waning relevance” in assessing polls. Its own guide to reading polls says a margin of error of plus or minus 3.4 per cent really represents a spread of 6.8 percentage points. So the mayor’s approval rating could be as high as the stated 47 per cent or as low as 40 per cent, which would mean his support has flatlined.

Polls are weighted to take demographic characteristics into account, but their random nature means their samples aren’t always representative of the population at large, which can also skew results. The Canadian Press, for example, will not report on national polls with samples of fewer than 1,000 respondents.

Polls helped stop a civil war in Ireland when surveys revealed support for peace talks.

They’ve also been described as the lungs of democracy, keeping our leaders on their toes.

But increasingly, it seems, they’re more tools to push hidden agendas than to give the masses a say in public policy.

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1998 with the growth of robocalling and nowdominant online polls.

Nowadays, anybody can purchase automated polling services (usually from U.S. providers) for a fraction of the cost of hiring traditional polling firms with in-house staff who conduct phone surveys.

Ipsos senior VP John Wright says there are lots of “questionable” polling companies out there, many of which make no secret of the fact that they have a political agenda.

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ON LOCATION Montreal

Quebec’s spring

Many outsiders don’t get that the free tuition idea has deep roots here

By JESSE ROSENFELD montreal – as 180,000 students continue their 12-week strike against tuition increases, and police respond with concussion grenades, pepper spray, batons, kettling and mass arrests, Quebec’s major city is becoming ungovernable.

What was a fairly routine student strike has turned into what many are calling the Maple Spring.

Day after day, protesters wearing signature swatches of red cloth clog the streets of Montreal’s downtown chanting anti-capitalist slogans. A minority has responded to police aggression by trashing government offices and corporate windows, building barricades and ripping up concrete to heave onto police lines.

This week, CLASSE, the main coalition of student unions, rejected Premier Jean Charest’s attempt to defang the surging movement by spreading the tuition increase over seven years instead of five. Hours after the offer, thousands of protesters in a boisterous nighttime demo condemned it as an “insult.”

Outsiders, it seems, are having trouble grasping why students with the lowest post-secondary tuition in the country (generally around $2,600 yearly) would be so exercised about the Charest government’s increase of $1,625 over five years.

But the reality is, the hike portends a weakening of government commitment, and there’s a long tradition here of pushing back when

Quebecers are clearer about their social rights; there’s a long tradition of pushing back when they’re threatened. public supports are threatened. Quebecers are just plain more aspirational when it comes to social rights, something Charest had to reckon with in 2005 and 06 when labour forced him to back down on cuts and

privatization and a student strike nixed cuts to loans and grants.

In the nightly mass demonstrations of the past week, one feels the frustration of a generation that is seeing the promises of social security their parents benefited from being taken away.

Furthermore, the narrative about making university a fee-less service like health care has deep roots here.

“It’s written in the most fundamental text of the Quebec educational system that there should be free education,” says Simon Tremblay-Pepin, of the Institute for Socio-Economic Research and Information (IRIS), referring to the 1960s Royal Commission on Education, or the Parent Report.

That report, which led to the overhauling of the school system, created nine U of Quebec campuses and a vast network of free colleges known as Cégeps. The whole point of this Quiet Revolution in education, he says, was to break the control of the elites and democratize a society once dominated by Church institutions.

“Access to new universities was important because education was no longer a privilege, something just for a very limited number of people linked to the Catholic Church and the Liberal party,” Tremblay-Pepin tells me.

As part of this initiative, he says, the province first regulated Quebecwide tuition fees. The fees were initially intended as students’ contribution to the cost of building the new campuses, but they were supposed to remain frozen, making up a decreasing proportion of university revenue.

The commission called for the eventual elimination of all tuition fees.

By 1995, however, tuition had increased by 228 per cent.

Until now, low tuition has had an undeniable impact on quality of life.

As an IRIS report points out, students in Quebec carry a lighter debt load than elsewhere in Canada – average debt for students in their final year was $15,102 in Quebec compared, for

example, to Ontario’s $25,778.

And participation in post-secondary education is 9 per cent higher than in other provinces. Tremblay-Pepin also notes that because of ease of access, most parents have small or no college savings plans for their kids.

For Holly Nazar of Concordia U’s Graduate Student Association, the protests are “about a whole vision of how we want Quebec society to be.”

The fee hike, she says, “has everything to do with ideology and very little to do with economic conditions. There are so many places the government can find revenue. It’s a question of where you put the burden.”

Interestingly, that’s exactly the position of former co-chair of the Parent Commission, sociologist Guy Rocher. He and prof Yvan Perrier recently penned a widely circulated letter backing the student cause. The two call for a more equitable and fairer tax system as a way of abolishing university fees altogether.

“Free university,” the two write, “is not a utopia. It would cost about 1 per cent of the entire Quebec budget, and reintroducing the tax brackets abolished between 1988 and 1998 would yield the necessary funds.” Tuition, they charge, is a “regressive” tax.

That’s not how Education Minister Line Beauchamp sees the issue. “The government of Quebec is firm and convinced that students should pay their fair share,” she tells the press.

“The debate always comes back to this demand for a freeze on tuition. I want to be very clear. I will always refuse to ask all Quebec taxpayers to foot the bill,” Beauchamp says.

Sitting across a café table in the Jean Talon Market, Gabriel NadeauDubois, a spokesperson for CLASSE, dismisses this logic. “The government knows, if they succeed in breaking the mobilization of students, other measures will be easier,” he says, referring to attempts to destroy the welfare system and other public services.

So students and the government are locked in a game of brinkmanship, a clash over the direction of the province and whether higher education is a public good or a private advantage.

“The Liberal party of Quebec has the majority of seats, but they don’t have the majority in the francophone or youth population,” says Francis Dupuis-Deri, a poli sci prof at U of Quebec at Montreal.

“For the last few years in Quebec, the political elite has been seen as corrupt and disconnected from the population. This explains the orange wave. Now you have this strong social movement taking on this elite.”

And instead of being intimidated by the prospect, the young activists marching up Sherbrooke are feeling their strength. Says Philippe Morin of Profs Against the Hike, “The strike has been given a meaning: you can change history. People get hurt, get $500 fines on a student budget, are tear-gassed and pepper-sprayed, and they’re like, ‘You thought we’d back down? Well, we’re not and we’re going to go further.’”

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the conflict between sound financial practices and ludicrous fi­ nancial dogma will hit the roof at city council May 9 or 10. The issue is whether schools can be exempted from our celebrated green roof by­ law.

As with any roof, there are a lot of stories underneath, so give me a second to review the foundations of what will be one of this council term’s critical eco decisions.

The Green Roof Bylaw, passed in 2009 and the first in North America, requires green roofs on new com­ mercial, institutional and residential developments with a minimum gross floor area of 2,000 square metres.

Two million square feet of green roofs have since been built here, ac­ cording to Green Roofs for Healthy Cities president Steve Peck.

But on February 23, the city’s chief planner recommended that the Plan­ ning and Growth Management Com­ mittee exempt public and Catholic school boards from the bylaw. His ra­ tionale is that painting them white would reduce the heat stored in roofs and that schools might be able to store rainwater and offer green space on other parts of their property.

The committee vote was dead­ locked, which explains why the mat­ ter heads to council next week with­ out a recommendation.

Adam Vaughan, who sits on the Planning Committee, opposed the school boards’ attempt to sidestep their eco responsibility. He tells me he’s sympathetic to their request for relief from the bylaw, because they’re saddled with more older schools

than the rest of the province and have more repairs and overhauls to pay for.

But he’s very clear that when it comes to new schools, “we expect them to be built smarter than before, and they shouldn’t get a pass on this.”

Vaughan made a motion that schools become eligible for grants equal to $50 a square foot for green roofs to cover extra costs. The argument is that the city will save money in the long term, since green roofs collect rainwater and keep it from going into storm sewers.

Says Vaughan, schools can “roll green roofs into the curriculum” and turn them into outdoor classrooms, since they “make a statement about the environment.” He’s hopeful his grant motion “will sail on through council” next week.

That would certainly help the cause. The larger matter, however, is that the zealots behind Ontario’s re­ cent budget appear not to under­ stand the difference between infra­ structure investment that yields savings and revenues over time and operational expenditures that are spent and gone.

The province gives school boards no ability to amortize expenditures for building maintenance or green infrastructure generally. They must balance the books each year.

This thinking explains why the Ontario government assumes gam­ bling casinos will bring in money (which they may do on a day­to­day basis) while green roofs cost money.

No wise decisions can be made with this perspective, which is why the green­roofs­on­schools issue needs

to be brought to a head – and not, as the school boards have tried so des­ perately to do, swept under the car­ pet by sacrificing buildings to sal­ vage programs.

The total value of green roofs is in­ calculable. In a soon­to­be­released report, the U.S. General Services Ad­ ministration calculates that engin­ eered green roofs have “a net present value of $2.70 per square foot per year, payback of 6.2 years and an in­ ternal rate of return of 5.2 per cent annually” thanks to keeping rain out of storm sewers, reducing roof main­ tenance and lowering energy bills.

This says nothing about benefits to the environment (they’re a great habitat for birds and bees), the sheer splendour on the grass on green roofs or the possibilities of using such spaces to grow food.

The city, by the way, is in the same bind as the school boards. It, too, lacks the ability to borrow from its operational budgets and amortize in­ vestments in maintenance and green infrastructure that pay back over time.

Rather than mortgage the future of schools and public infrastructure, the city should refuse exemptions from its green roof bylaw. My guess is that $8.2 billion in environmental retrofits of T.O. schools would em­ ploy more people than a casino, and with far greater value. A treasurer who can’t see this is a menace to the public good.

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okay, it’s possible she’s not very nice. Her Globe and Mail columns recounting her lunches with celebrities became so notorious for their nastiness that local lights considered turning down her lunch dates.

But Jan Wong’s a tough, seasoned journalist. She was the Globe’s Beijing correspondent in the 90s, came back to Toronto to become the newspaper’s star reporter, and famously went undercover as a maid to report on the experience in a series that was nominated for a National Newspaper Award.

She’s well known, highly skilled and writes like a dream. So why did she have to self-publish Out Of The Blue, her new book on her experience of depression and the way her employer, the Globe, dealt with it (see review, page 64)? Did our national newspaper put the screws on her original publisher, Doubleday? Is that why the company opted out of the Wong project?

We can’t say. Globe and Mail publisher Phillip Crawley is not returning calls.

But the chronology of events, as Wong offers it, may offer some clues.

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“I can’t remember which words exactly, because none of them mattered to me,” she says when asked for specifics. “I assumed the Doubleday lawyer [paid in part by Wong] was on my side.”

Having satisfied the legal team, Wong was surprised when she was called back into the Doubleday offices. “The big honchos were there,” she recalls, “– something that’s never happened to me before once a book has gone to copy editors.”

They’d brought back the manuscript with sections highlighted that they wanted her to change or move.

“That included every single mention of the Globe and a few references to [Globe insurer] Manulife.”

Wong says she and the publisher amicably agreed to part when she refused to make these changes. Doubleday is keeping mum about what went wrong.

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That’s nice, even if it makes no sense from a business perspective. I mean, really, what’s likely to sell more, a book about depression with a courageous personal account by a sur vivor of the disease or a book about depression with a courageous personal account by a survivor of the disease that includes her conflict with her employer, Canada’s iconic national newspaper?

After she wrote an article about her depression in Chatelaine in the fall of 2010 mentioning her forthcoming book, Wong recalls that Globe in-house counsel called the law yer she shared with Doubleday, Brian Rogers. Rogers is not answering questions, citing lawyer-client (Doubleday in this case) privilege.

Wong, for her part, doesn’t want to give the impression that her publishers caved in to pressure. She does say that when they parted ways, Doubleday, as had the Globe when she was fired, tried to impose a confidentiality order regarding what had transpired between them. She refused, choosing to include some details about her final negotiations with Doubleday in the afterword to her memoir.

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The developers are now crying foul. They’ve designed their projects and marketing plan with LRTs at the centre, which now have no funding.

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So you’ve been sending your mom flowers every year, thinking you’re the most charming child in the fam­ ily. Well, hold up. My mother­in­law had been getting bouquets every year, too, until she finally told her sons, “Enough with the disposable gifts al­ ready! Send me a houseplant or some­ thing instead.”

Keep her message in mind when you’re planning this year’s Mother’s Day gift.

What are you trying to tell her any­ way: “Ma, my love for you, like a rose, wilts and dies after a few days”? At least a houseplant lasts and offers up the gift of cleaner air (plants are natural air purifiers) and plant therapy.

If you’re still hell­bent on sending an emblem of love in the form of blooms, just know that the ethical choice isn’t always clear-cut. You may already have listened to me rant about how conventional cut flowers are dripping blood, sweat and toxins. (Cue the Debbie Downer music.)

Most of Canada’s flowers come from Colombia, where in the lead­up to special holidays like Mother’s Day workers clock 12- to 15-hour days in baking-hot plastic-sheeted greenhouses, stewing in a cocktail of pesticides banned in North America.

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Who knows? But for the many people who dislike Apple’s business practices, these trumped-up criticisms are maddening.

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art auCtiOn FOr aFriCa (Habitat for Human-

ity) Silent auction, raffle, music by Christian D and the Hangovers and more. 7 pm. $5. Press Club, 850 Dundas W. facebook.com/ events/405752949434894. a Bid FOr the arts (Cabbagetown Community Arts Centre) Auction of fine art and ceramics. 7 pm. Free. 422 Parliament. 416-925-7222.

CaMp awakening’s 30th anniversary party (Camp Awakening) CBC humorist

Stuart McLean, music by Justin Hines and others. 7 pm. $75. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. campawakening.com. tFi 25 (Toronto Fashion Incubator) Evening of fashion and glamour with MC Jully Black. 9:30 pm. $100. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. tfi25.eventbrite.ca.

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aFter the araB spring Discussion on the human rights implications and legal challenges resulting from the uprising in Egypt, with Bahey Eldin Hassan and Reem Bahdi. 7 pm. Free.

Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org.

BellydanCe COnFerenCe OF Canada Performances and workshops with 150 international bellydancers. Various times, venues and prices. To May 6. 416-920-5593, bellydanceconference.com/2012. the BOreal herBal: explOring the use OF wild MediCinal and ediBle plants FOr health and healing Lecture. 7 pm. Free. Big Carrot, 348 Danforth. 416-466-2129.

iMpaCt OF FaMily viOlenCe – a sOuth asian perspeCtive Workshop with CBC’s Anne Marie

Mediwake, experts Farah Ahmed, Isabel Khalef and others. Today and tomorrow. Seneca College Markham Campus, Hwy 7/DVP 404. socialservicesnetwork.org. yiddish vinkl Author Shirley Kumove talks about her translation of Yehoshue Perle’s book Yidn Fun A Gants Yor. Noon. $18 (includes buffet lunch). Free Times Café, 320 College. Preregister yiddishvinkl@yahoo.ca.

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Stage’s festival of workshops and readings, with Anusree Roy, Richard Sanger, Gein Wong and others. Free. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416-368-3110, canadianstage.com.

May 9 to 13 MaywOrks Festival of working people and the arts, with film, theatre, cabaret, poetry, forums, workshops and more. Various prices, many events free. Steelworkers’ Hall (25 Cecil) and other venues. mayworks.ca.

May 5 to 13 rOCk.paper.sistahz Showcase of work by women artists, poets and performers of colour including Naomi Abiola, Mason Haigh and Asanda Phewa. Various prices and venues. bcurrent.ca.

May 4 to 11 rtOrOntO COMiC arts Festival Celebration of comics and graphic novels with more than 300 international cartoonists including Jeff Smith, Alison Bechdel and Guy Delisle, kids comics, YA fantasy and more. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontocomics.com.

May 5 and 6 tOrOntO Jewish FilM Festival Features, documentaries and shorts. $13, stu/srs $9; weekday matinees $8, opening night $20, some free screenings. Various cinemas.

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aMeriCa’s next tOp MOdel live COnsuMer event Fashion shows, a style stage, design

zone and more. Today noon-9 pm; tomorrow 10 am-6 pm; May 6, 10 am-5 pm. $20, online $18, VIP $29. Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front E. antmlivetoronto.com.

Friday night live @ rOM Toronto Fashion Incubator 25th-anniversary celebration,with a trunk show and a dance party. 6 pm. $9. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. rom.on. ca/fridays. hOw CuBa survived peak Oil Rebel Films screening and discussion. 7 pm. $4. OISE, rm 2-212, 252 Bloor W. 416-535-8779, socialistaction-canada.blogspot.com. phOtOshOOt Fiesta DJ party to support

kids’ play zone, concerts by the Burning Boyz, Ariana Gillis and Liam Titcomb and more raise funds for the homeless-youth outreach initiative. 11 am-7 pm. Free. Etienne Brule Park, 13 Crosby. lightfest.org. rwalk FOr MusCular dystrOphy (Muscular Dystrophy Soc) 1K and 5K fundraising walks.

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folio reviews, talks and more. Most shows free. Various venues. contactphoto.com.

To May 30 deep wireless New Adventures in Sound Art festival of radio and transmission art, with performances, installations and a conference. NAISA Space, Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. naisa.ca.

To May 31 hOt dOCs Canadian and international films, plus a conference and forum. $9$20. Various venues. hotdocs.ca.

To May 6 mother artisans that create eco, fair trade and handmade products. 10:30 pm. Free. Milagro Restaurant-Bar, 783 Queen W. Pre-register photoshootfiesta.eventbrite.ca. rOM Friday night live Talk by Textile Museum curator Sarah Quniton, a trunk show and more. 6 pm. $9. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. rom.on.ca. rstars On iCe Ice skating show with Kurt Browning, Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, Joannie Rochette and others. 7:30 pm. $25 and up.

Air Canada Centre, 40 Bay. starsonice.ca. teQuila and MOre Taste and sample tequila, mezcal, Mexican beer, wine and cocktails. Today and tomorrow 4-10 pm. $30-$40. Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front W. tequilaandmore.ca. urBan CharM sChOOl Workshops with performer Sedina Fiati. 7 pm. $10-$35. CSI Annex, 720 Bathurst. Pre-register eventbrite.com/ event/3166070803. wOMen and the araB spring Interactive talk with Saudi Arabian poet/photographer Nimah Nawwab. 7 pm. $5. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org.

Saturday, May 5 annual attiC sale (Grace Chuch on-the-Hill) Retro, electronics, collectibles, art and more.

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artists FOr asd (autisM speCtruM disOrder) (Giant Steps Toronto) Show and sale of art, textiles, jewellery and more. Today and tomorrow noon-5 pm. Free. Berkeley Castle Courtyard, 250 the Esplanade.

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(Juvenile Diabetes Fdn) Music by the Rattles, Gordie Lewis from Teenage Head and others. 7 pm. $30. Cadillac Lounge, 1300 Queen W. 416876-2751. hanvOiCe: One night, One vOiCe (fighting child malnutrition in North Korea) Auction fundraiser. 9 pm. $20, adv $15. Hotel Ocho, 195 Spadina. onenightonevoice.eventbrite.ca. i Beat CanCer (and sO Can yOu) (Sunshine Dreams for Kids Fdn) Improvisers explore the stories of a recently cured cancer survivor. 8 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

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Awards presentation to professionals who have made a contribution to the African Canadian community. 7:30 pm. $40, stu $25. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front E. africancanadianac hievementawards.com.

BlOwJOB BOOtCaMp All-genders workshop with Jayme Waxman. 7:30-9:30 pm. $35 sliding scale. Come as You Are, 493 Queen W. Preregister 416-504-7934. rChalk the BlOCk! Express yourself with chalk graffiti on the sidewalks of Brockton Village and watch chalk artists at work. 10 am-4 pm. Free. Dundas btwn Dovercourt and Lansdowne.

CliMate iMpaCts day Talks on what we can do to reduce our use of fossil fuels. 10 am. Free.

Cathedral Bluffs Park, 24 Lyme Regis. c4181enator@gmail.com.

COMMunity parks suMMit Ward 18 Councillor Ana Bailão hosts an open house and consultation forum about parks. 1 pm. Free.

Dovercourt Boys and Girls Club, 180 Westmoreland. anabailao.ca. danFOrth BlOOMs Gardening demos (12:30, 1 & 1:30 pm) and hyacinth bulb giveaways.

Noon-2 pm. Free. Carrot Common Courtyard, 348 Danforth. thedanforth.ca.

dr. Fitzgerald and the COnnaught laBOratOries: MediCal legaCy Meets FaMily histOry Heritage Toronto walk. 11 am. Free. Con-

vocation Hall, 31 King’s College Circle.

416-338-3886, heritagetoronto.org.

FantastiC pulps shOw & sale Pulp fiction magazines from the 1920s to the 50s. 10 am-5 pm. $3. Lillian H Smith Library, 239 College. info@girascollectables.com. rFree COMiC BOOk day Silver Snail celebrates its 36th anniversary with an art demo/poster signing by Phil Noto and giveaways. 11 am-6 pm. Free. 367 Queen W. silversnail.com.

gender and expOsure in COnteMpOrary iranian phOtOgraphy Talk by artists Amirali

Ghasemi and Samira Eskandarfar. 3 pm. Free.

Gallery 44, 401 Richmond W, suite 120. 416979-3941. glOBal MariJuana MarCh Peaceful protest to legalize marijuana, led by NORML Women’s Alliance of Canada. Noon. Free. Assemble 11 am at E side of Queen’s Park just S of Charles. normlstephanie@gmail.com.

Jane’s walk Celebrate the ideas and legacy of urbanist Jane Jacobs by getting outdoors to explore your neighbourhood and meeting your neighbours. Today and tomorrow. Free. In neighbourhoods across the city. See website for details. janeswalk.net. liMelight arts Crawl Walking tour with live art performances. 1-6 pm. Free. Living Arts Centre, 4141 Living Arts (Mississauga). mississaugaartscouncil.com.

MrMaywOrks FaMily Fun day Join singer/ songwriter Jessica Speziale for an interactive popular music workshop, plus art with Shannon Moynagh. 10 am-noon. Free. Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil. mayworks.ca.

Mining inJustiCe COnFerenCe Members of mining-impacted communities share their stories and discuss strategies for action. Today and tomorrow 10 am-5 pm. Free. U of T Earth Science Building, 5 Bancroft. solidarityresponse.net. la revOluCiOn de derBy GTA Rollergirls roller derby double header with Derby Debutantes vs Belles of the Brawl and Gstars vs Rideau Valley Vixens. Doors 5 pm. $15, adv $12. Ted Reeve Arena, 175 Main. gtarollergirls.com. spaCe expeditiOn weekend Activities include walking on a piece of the moon and holding a meteorite. Today and tomorrow 10 am-5:30 pm. Free w/ admission. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. rom.on.ca. spring JOB Fair Job fair for people looking for summer retail work. 9:30 am-5:30 pm. Free (bring your resumé). Sherway Gardens, Hwy

427 and QEW. 416-621-1070. rspring tOad Festival Learn about the breeding rituals of American toads. Today and tomorrow 10 am-4 pm. Free w/ admission.

Toronto Zoo, Meadowvale N of 401. 416-3925929. street FOOd BlOCk party Cinco de Mayothemed dishes from indie food vendors, gourmet food trucks and local craft breweries. 5 pm-midnight. $20 adv. Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview. streetfoodblockparty.com. where’s the snOw? Family climate action event, with tobogganing on the grass and more. 10:30 am. Free (bring snowy weather accoutrements). Trinity Bellwoods Park north hill, Shaw just south of Dundas. tania_ szablowski@yahoo.ca.

Sunday, May 6

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spark gala (Children’s Aid Fdn) Inspirational

talks by musician Randy Bachman, figure skater Patrick Chan, actor Lisa Ray and others plus music, dance and fashion. 11:30 am. $250.

Carlu, 444 Yonge. ignitethespark.ca. spiCe FOr liFe (People with AIDS Fdn) Bike rally fundraiser with live music, food and prizes. 4 pm. $35. Southern Accent, 595 Markham. 416893-2566, southernaccent.com. tOrOntO hike FOr hOspiCe (Alliance Hospice/ Hospice Toronto/Perram House/Philip Aziz Centre) Hike through Riverdale Park with music by Big Silver Blues Band. 11 am. Pledges.

Riverdale Park West (Carlton and Sumach). torontohikeforhospice.squarespace.com.

Events

duende – a CeleBratiOn OF the liFe OF Billy

Bryans Celebration of late Parachute Club drummer and musician: drum procession led

by Baque de Bamba, Samba Squad from Grange Park, 3:30 pm, heading to Queen and stopping at various venues, ending at Cameron House (408 Queen W) at 5 pm; one-hour service at Lula Lounge (1585 Dundas W) at 6 pm, with music by Molly Johnson, Downchild Blues Band, Telmary, Morgan Davis and more.

Latin jam follows. facebook.com/billybryans, donations to kensingtonhealth.org.

Flipside dJ & COlleCtOrs vintage reCOrds

sale 10 am-4 pm. $4. Gladstone, 1214 Queen W. gladstonehotel.com. high park native plant sale 11 am-2 pm.

Free admission. In front of High Park Greenhouse, High Park. highparknature.org.

OCCupy psyChiatry Coalition Against Psychiatric Assault and Occupy Toronto rally to protest psychiatric oppression and capitalism. 1 pm. Free. CAMH, NE corner College and Spadina. 416-545-0796. sally arMstrOng The human rights activist talks about the dawning of a new revolution.

10:10 am. Free. St Clement’s Church Parish Hall, St Clements and Duplex. 416-483-6664. sleepwalking tO CatastrOphe: a Call tO aCtiOn Climate change forum with Sea Sick

author Alanna Mitchell, environment professor Stephen Scharper and others. 2-5 pm. Free.

Yorkminster Park Baptist Church, 1585 Yonge. forourgrandchildren.ca.

MtOrOntO’s “Old tOwn”: laBOur histOry walking tOur JP Hornick, Maureen Hynes

and Sue Smith explore the oldest section of the city and its turbulent past with labour groups. 10 am. Free. St Lawrence Hall, 157 King E. mayworks.ca. unCOvering the O All-genders workshop with Jayme Waxman. 5:30-7:30 pm. $35 sliding scale. Come as You Are, 493 Queen W. Preregister 416-504-7934.

viCtOria park avenue: nature, rails and Quarries Heritage Toronto walk. 1:30 pm.

Free. Victoria Park and Denton, subway station S entrance. 416-338-3886.

the walls are alive with the sOunds OF Mad peOple Friendly Spike theatrical/histor-

ical tour of the patient-built wall standing on the grounds of CAMH. 1 pm. Free. Queen and Shaw. friendlyspike@primus.ca.

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CresCendO! (Regent Park School of Music) Performances by Molly Johnson, Steel Pan Ensemble, RPSM Choir and others. 6:30 pm.

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$125. Toronto Board of Trade, 77 Adelaide W. 416-364-8900.

MelanoMa awareness Month (David Cornfield Melanoma Fund) Benefit celebrating the success of the viral video. 6:30 pm. $125. Liberty Grand, 25 British Columbia. dcmf.ca. scrabble with the stars (Performing Arts Lodge) Play with celebrities including Colin Mochrie and Amy Sky. 6:30 pm. $150. Arcadian Court, 401 Bay. scrabblewiththestars.ca.

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adi nes Artist talk. 7 pm. Free. Rogers Com-

munication Centre, 80 Gould, Eaton Theatre. kofflerarts.org. early Monthly segMents Screening of rare films and talk by UK filmmaker Nicky Hamlyn.

8 pm. $5 sugg. Gladstone Art Bar, 1214 Queen W. earlymonthlysegments.org. new Music 101 Members of the Toronto Music Alliance guide you through the world of contemporary classical music. 7 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. 416-393-7172.

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Stomp cast member Ali Bradley leads a workshop. Intermediate 6 to 7:30 pm, advanced 7:30 to 9 pm. $25/session. Bathurst Street Theatre, 736 Bathurst, studio B01. 416-534-8638. traMPoline hall Mini-lectures curated by Lauren Bride and hosted by Misha Glouberman. 8 pm. $5-$6. Garrison, 1197 Dundas W. trampolinehall.net.

MworK in Progress Public forum on the intersections between collaborative artistic practices, class and working conditions for community-engaged artists with Mahlikah Awe:ri, Leah Houston and others. 7 pm. Free.

519 Church Street Community Centre. mayworks.ca.

Tuesday, May 8

Benefits

PongaPalooza (First Book Canada) Team up

with Noah Richler, Gill Deacon and other publishing notables in a ping pong tournament. 6 pm. $250/team or $25-$30 to watch. SPiN, 461 King W. firstbookcanada.org.

Events

cliMate Modelling Climate Change Toronto lecture by physics professor Richard Peltier.

6:30 pm. Free. OISE, 2nd fl, 252 Bloor W. Preregister climatechangetoronto@gmail.com.

globalization & neolibralisM FroM a FeMinist standPoint Conversation with Nancy

Hartsock. 2 pm. Free. OISE, 252 Bloor W, rm 2-227. Pre-register cwse@utoronto.ca. innoversity creative suMMit Join leaders and celebrities in Canada’s media industry and creators from culturally diverse backgrounds to explore ways to energize and re-imagine media. Today and tomorrow. $125 and up.

Reference Library, 789 Yonge. innoversitysummit.com. lost Ponds oF silverthorn Lost rivers walk.

6:30 pm. Free. Caledonia and Eglinton. 416593-2656. lynne cohen: nothing is hidden Exhibition walk-through with designer/artist Barr Gilmore. 6:30 pm. $10. Design Exchange, 234 Bay. 416-363-6121.

Wednesday, May 9 antoni Muntadas The New York-based artist talks about his work. 7 pm. $12. Power Plant, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949.

celtic and Pictish FortiFications in the heart oF scotland University of Glasgow’s

Tessa Poller talks about her work for the Strathearn Environs and Royal Forteviot project. 7 pm. $10-$12. U of T Alumni Hall, 12 St Joseph. canadiancelticarts.ca.

change your health – change your liFe with natasha turner The naturopathic doc-

tor gives a talk. 7 pm. $15. CBC Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front W. oand.org.

MFood Fight: resisting austerity Screening of the video Poverty And Health: The Special Diet and a discussion. 7 pm. Free. FoodShare, 90 Croatia. mayworks.ca.

FranKie Flowers The gardening expert shares tips on container gardening. 12:10 pm.

Free. The Eatery, Royal Bank Plaza, King and Bay. chapters.indigo.ca. iyengar yoga conFerence Practitioners, teachers and newbies are welcome to learn more about the practice and teaching of BKS Iyengar in this event featuring demos, classes, lectures and more. To May 13. $40-$615. Allstream Centre, 105 Princes’ Blvd. Pre-register

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

honour billy bryans Celebrate the life and legacy of drummer/DJ/producer Billy Bryans on Sunday (May 6). The event, called Duende, begins at 3:30 pm in Grange Park with a drum procession that heads down Queen to the Cameron House. A one-hour service at Lula Lounge (1585 Dundas West) follows at 6 pm, and then the music kicks in, featuring the Parachute Club, Ken and Chris Whiteley, Lillian Allen, Molly Johnson and tons more. facebook.com/billybryans.

those living nearby, particularly native communities suffering from enviro destruction and human rights abuses.

The Mining Injustice Solidarity Network hosts a conference Saturday and Sunday (May 5 and 6), 10 am to 6 pm, examining mining’s dark side and featuring a huge slate of speakers including Salem State U prof Avi Chomsky, Attawapiskat First Nation’s Jackie Hookimaw, Peruvian activist Ulises Garcia and more. Free. U of T Earth Sciences Building, 5 Bancroft. solidarityresponse.net.

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storytelling to Further the artist, not Just the art Workshop for artists with Lisa

Horvat. 7-9:30 pm. $65. Gallery 1313, 1313 Queen W. 416-536-6778. thought leader ForuM Forum with former mayor David Miller on how we can fight climate change and create jobs simultaneously.

7 pm. Pwyc. Trinity-St Paul’s, 427 Bloor W. 416-909-5911. rwhite hat welcoMe Calgary Stampede centennial anniversary celebration. 11:30 am.

Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca.

Hard to believe that penalties for potgrowing are actually harsher now than bicycle dreaMs (Tour for Kids) Fundraising screening of the Race Across America documentary. 7 pm. $30. Royal Cinema, 608 College. teamendurance.ca/events. toP ten event (Stephen Lewis Fdn) Ten renowned Canadians take the stage to share the one thing people should know before they die.

7:30 pm. $50-$150. Winter Garden Theatre, 189 Yonge. toptenevent.com.

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asian heritage celebration Traditional and

contemporary Chinese music and dance by the Little Pear Garden Collective, poetry by Priscilla Uppal and more. 6:30 pm. Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca. birding 101 Workshop with naturalist/birdwatcher Zak Smith. 7 pm. $35, yth $15. High Park Nature Centre, 440 Parkside. 416-392bacK to the 80s (416 Community Support for- CHS Banner(print)2.pdf 6374MS 1 5/1/2012 3:42:59 PM 1748 ext 2.

Women) Sring fling with an 80s dance party conteMPorary art in Public Places Discusand silent auction. 6 pm. $30. Shamba Space, sion with Toronto Public Art co-ordinator Jane 48 Yonge. 416-928-3334 ext 224.

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ever thanks to the Tories. But forget the downer news and join the Global Marijuana March Saturday (May 5) to demand free choice and an end to the drug war. The rally starts at 11 am on Charles, just north of Queen’s Park, and the march kicks off at noon. Free. globalmarijuanamarch.com.

Perdue, Nuit Blanche curator Shirley Madill and public artist Lesia Mokrycke. 7 pm. $30.

Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. Preregister rom.on.ca.

Frequency Matters More now than ever

Lecture on dirty electricity and cell phone frequencies. 7 pm. Free. Big Carrot, 348 Danforth.

416-466-2129.

the next Jew: where do we go FroM here?

Discussion about the Judaism of tomorrow, with author Dan Mendelsohn Aviv, editor/ analyst Lisa Goldman and others. 7 pm. Free.

Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina. 416-924-6211.

Peddle For a greener city Learn how you can help make the city green, ride a stationary bike and watch local artists in action. 10 am-8 pm.

Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca.

the Power oF advocacy: Fighting For social Justice Stephen Lewis delivers the sixth

annual June Callwood lecture. 7 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. 416-395-5577, torontopubliclibrary.ca.

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The newest incarnation of the always in-flux retail space known as 198 Walnut is The Collective Pop Up Shop curated by designer Ashley Rowe (ashleyrowe.com). Rowe’s new stock, samples and discounted items from 69 Vintage, Collective Bleach Denim, the Code Boutique and her own line are in store until May 13. The space is open Thursday through Saturday from noon to 7 pm and Sunday noon to 6 pm.

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SHUTTER BAGS We’re making a case for snapping up a new camera carrier. Try practical finds that fit every body, lens and flash, or Proenza Schouler’s fantastically frivolous camera-bag-inspired purse.

WHO Evan Biddell WHERE Boston Avenue WEARING Colour-blocked blazer (Biddell’s own), Lomography fisheye camera ($89) and case with viewfinder pocket ($49, both Lomography Gallery Store, 536 Queen West, 647-352-6702, lomography.ca)

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DESIGN MINDS All design-related TV shows don’t have to feature fame-hungry folks sassing each other out in front of dubiously credentialed judges. Take the series Great Minds Of Design airing Mondays at 8 pm on the CBC’s Documentary Channel for example. Monday (May 7)’s episode follows Toronto’s Patty Johnson as she develops products with communities in Haiti. Future shows focus on eco architecture and working with recycled materials.

Philip Sparks for Danier camera bag ($249, TD Centre, 66 Wellington, 416368-3515, and others, danier.com)

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Also on at the haute pink shopping palace is a launch for Lauren Bush Lauren’s collection of FEED bags created in collaboration with Tory Burch on May 10. A portion of sales from the $50 totes will benefit child nutrition initiatives and micro-financing projects.

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West-end vintage spots Chosen (chosen-vintage.com), Penny Arcade (pennyarcadevintage.com) and Silver Falls (silverfallsvintage.blogspot.com) partner up for a Cinco De Mayo sale on Saturday (May 5) from noon to 6 pm.

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It’s a bright and airy space outfitted with grasscloth panels, dark wood cabinetry and a trio of change rooms wrapped in striped fabric. An all-glass storefront lets them expand their always changing lineup of charming and quirky window displays.

Once the shop is up and running, Cornish and Gunhouse switch their focus to moving Comrags’ studio from condo-saturated King West to a lofty space above the store. The building’s basement, once home to the Hard Luck Bar’s rock stage, will become a space where they can

experiment with fabric treatments and other creative clothing pursuits.

Comrags picks: The Florida dress has a classic scoop neck and a colour-block skirt, $395; the Comrags look is never too trend-driven, but the striped Anderson top does feature a very inseason peplum detail, $245; tie on the apron-style Service skirt in either teal blue or Dijon yellow, $255.

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Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 On the one hand,

you’re facing a sticky dilemma that you may never be able to change no matter how hard you try. On the other hand, you are engaged with an interesting challenge that may very well be possible to resolve. Do you know which is which?

Now would be an excellent time to make sure you do. It would be foolish to keep working on untying a hopelessly twisted knot when there is another puzzle that will respond to your love and intelligence. Go where you’re wanted.

TAurus Apr 20 | May 20 From an astro-

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logical perspective, it’s the New Year season; you’re beginning a fresh cycle. How would you like to celebrate? You could make a few resolutions – maybe pledge to wean yourself from a wasteful habit or self-sabotaging vice. You could also invite the universe to show you what you don’t even realize you need to know.

What might also be interesting would be to compose a list of the good habits you will promise to cultivate and the ingenious breakthroughs you will work toward and the shiny yet gritty dreams you will court and woo.

GeMini May 21 | Jun 20 “My father-inlaw was convinced that his sheepdogs picked up his thoughts telepathically,” writes Richard Webster in his article Psychic Animals. “He needed only to think what he wanted his dogs to do, and they would immediately do it. He had to be careful not to think too far E MOR AND ahead, as his dogs would act on the thought he was thinking at the time.”

To this I’d add that there is a wealth of other anecdotal evidence, as well as some scientific research, suggesting that dogs respond to unspoken commands. I happen to believe that the human animal is also capable of picking up thoughts that aren’t said aloud. And I S, REVIEWS, LISTING suspect that you’re in a phase when it will beE especially important to take that CONTESTS AND MOR into account. Be discerning about what you imagine, because it could end up in the mind of someone you know!

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CAnCer Jun 21 | Jul 22 Your right brain

and left brain have rarely been on such close speaking terms as they are right now. Your genitals and your heart seem to be in a good collaborative groove as well. Even your past and your future are mostly in agreement about how you should proceed in the present. To what do we owe the pleasure of this rather dramatic movement toward integra-

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tion? Here’s one theory: you’re being rewarded for the hard work you’ve done to take good care of yourself.

Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 A South African biol-

ogist was intrigued to discover an interesting fact about the rodent known as the elephant shrew: it much prefers to slurp the nectar of pagoda lilies than to nibble on peanut butter mixed with apples and rolled oats. The biologist didn’t investigate whether mountain goats would rather eat grasses and rushes than ice cream sundaes or whether lions like fresh-killed antelopes better than Caesar salad, but I’m pretty sure they do. In a related subject, Leo, I hope that in the coming weeks you will seek to feed yourself exclusively with the images, sounds, stories and food that truly satisfy your primal hunger rather than the stuff that other people like or think you should like.

VirGo Aug 23 | sep 22 There are only a

very few people whose ancestors were not immigrants. They live in Africa, where homo sapiens got its start. As for the rest of us, our forebears wandered away from their original home and spread out over the rest of the planet.

We all came from somewhere else! This is true on many other levels as well. In accordance with the astrological omens, I invite you Virgos to get in touch with your inner immigrant this week. It’s an excellent time to acknowledge and celebrate the fact that you are nowhere near where you started from, whether you gauge that psychologically, spiritually or literally.

LibrA sep 23 | oct 22 “When I’m good, I’m very good,” said Hollywood’s original siren, Mae West, “but when I’m bad I’m better.” I think that assertion might at times make sense coming out of your lips in the next two weeks. But I’d like to offer a variation that could also serve you well. It’s articulated by my reader Sarah Edelman, who says, “When I’m good, I’m very good, but when I’m batty, I’m better.” Consider trying out both of these attitudes, Libra, as you navigate your way through the mysterious and sometimes unruly fun that’s headed your way. sCorpio oct 23 | nov 21 The Weekly World News, my favourite source of fake news, reported on a major development in the art world: an archaeologist found the lost arms of the

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famous Venus de Milo statue. They were languishing in a cellar in southern Croatia. Hallelujah! Since her discovery in 1820, the goddess of love and beauty has been incomplete. Will the Louvre Museum in Paris, where she is displayed, allow her to be joined by her original appendages and made whole again? Let’s not concern ourselves now with that question. Instead, please turn your attention to a more immediate concern: the strong possibility that you will soon experience a comparable development, the rediscovery of and reunification with a missing part of you.

sAGiTTArius nov 22 | Dec 21 Phys-

icians in the 17th century sometimes advised their patients to consume tobacco as a way to alleviate a number of different maladies, from toothaches to arthritis. A few doctors continued recommending cigarettes as health aids into the 1950s. This bit of history may be useful to keep in mind, Sagittarius.

You’re in a phase when you’re likely to have success in hunting down remedies for complaints of both a physical and psychological nature. But you should be cautious about relying on conventional wisdom, just in case some of it resembles the idea that cigarettes are good for you. And always double check to make sure that the cures aren’t worse than what they’re supposed to fix.

CApriCorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 Outer space isn’t really that far away. As astronomer Fred Hoyle used to say, you’d get there in an hour if you could drive a car straight up. I think there’s a comparable situation in your own life, Capricorn. You’ve got an inflated notion of how distant a certain goal is, and that’s inhibiting you from getting totally serious about achieving it.

I’m not saying that the destination would be a breeze to get to. My point is that it’s closer than it seems.

AquArius Jan 20 | Feb 18 When most

Westerners hear the word “milk,” they surmise it has something to do with cows. But the fact is that humans drink milk collected from sheep, goats, camels, yaks, mares, llamas and reindeer. And many grocery stores now stock milk made from soybeans, rice, almonds, coconut, hemp and oats. I’m wondering if maybe it’s a good time for you to initiate a comparable diversification, Aquarius. You shouldn’t necessarily give up the primal sources of nourishment you have been depending on. Just consider the possibility that it might be fun and healthy for you to seek sustenance from some unconventional or unexpected sources.

pisCes Feb 19 | Mar 20 You wouldn’t want to play a game of darts with an inflatable dartboard, right? If you were a smoker, you’d have little interest in a fireproof cigarette. And while a mesh umbrella might look stylish, you wouldn’t be foolish enough to expect it to keep the rain out. In the spirit of these truisms, Pisces, I suggest you closely examine any strategy you’re considering to see if it has a built-in contradiction.

Certain ideas being presented to you – perhaps even arising from your own subconscious mind – may be inherently impractical to use in the real world.

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What the experts say “Conflict is an inherent component of the universe. Buddhism sees conflict as being stuck in rigid viewpoints. We all have stories about ourselves and our place in the world. When we’re clinging to how we think things should be, it takes place not just in the mind but also in the body. You can feel it in breathing, in the nervous system, in the musculature, in fascia. Being attached to how you think a situation should go is a recipe for conflict and suffering. We think we can work through conflict if we have the right tools. But there are some that can’t be resolved. How do you accept this without storing the residue in your body and heart? Resentment surprises us, showing up as anger. It’s impossible to work through conflict until we accept that it’s inevitable.”

MICHAEL STONE, Buddhist teacher, psychotherapist, Toronto “How conflict affects your well-being depends on how you handle it. Han­ dling it poorly affects your health. It raises cortisol and stress levels. If people can’t let go of that feeling of being wronged, they become preoccu­ pied. Carrying that long-term affects your sense of self, as in, ‘I’m the kind of person who can be taken advantage of, can’t stand up for herself,’ etc. The research says that forgiving someone is something you do for that person, but in fact it’s something you do for yourself. Be willing to see your part in the problem. It’s empowering to say, ‘I can change that going forward and get a different result.’ See if you can find a third story about what’s going on in your conflict; step outside it and look at it as an observer.”

SHEILA HEEN, DOUG STONE, coauthors, Difficult Conversations, Boston

“The madder we get, the dumber we get, and it makes things worse if we react instead of respond. Those successful at resolving conflict are aware of their triggers; they’re able to take a breath, a second or two-second break. Then there’s ‘the drama triangle,’ the victim, the villain and the hero. Intuitively we tend to see ourselves as the victim in a conflict and the other as the villain, and we might go into hero mode to right the wrong. People won’t listen to our story until they feel theirs has been heard and understood. Make one behavioural change: develop some curiosity and hear the other person out.”

GARY HARPER, principal of Harper & Associates Conflict Resolutions Ltd, Burnaby, BC “Most conflicts have a flare-up period at the beginning; if you try to resolve them right then, it’s not going to work.

It’s called a refractory period. One of the tricks is to use self­awareness to figure out when you’re at a point where you can actually start to re­ solve it. Later in the conflict, people can learn to approach each other with kindness and eventually compassion, which means they’ve developed a sense of the other person’s suffering.

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Café Fiorentina owner/chefs Alex Chong and Tina Leckie’s porchetta and havarti sandwich and their beautiful cheese and charcuterie platter are real winners.

New taste of Danforth Café Fiorentina’s plates are tasty and way wallet-friendly By STEVEN DAVEY don’t come to tina leckie and Alex Chong’s Café Fiorentina on the Danforth expecting flaming cheese and so-so souvlaki. But do go for some of the most polished and shockingly inexpensive plates on this or any other local resto strip.

From a constantly shifting lineup, sandwiches on house-baked yeastfree sourdough come amply layered with the likes of seared rare steak, gooey Gruyère and pickled wild mushrooms or house-cured Berkshire pork belly and puréed kimchee (both $9).

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Seasonal Menus Fresh local ingredients

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Charcuterie may be old hat on Ossington, but out here in Greektown it’s positively cutting-edge, especially when it involves impossibly thin ribbons of house-made duck prosciutto, blond bacon lardo and fatty capicollo, a slab or two of rustic terrine de campagne and a smear of pear paste ($12 with bread and pickles/$14 with a selection of aged Monforte Dairy cheese).

At weekend brunch, Leckie and Chong interpret eggs Benny as a pair

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Sure, Geoff Hopgood’s Foodliner on Roncesvalles does an upscale take on house-baked pita at twice the price, and College Falafel on Ossington offers a weirdly spiced Albanian version it calls “east coast” (the Adriatic, we’d guess), but only Fuzz Box’s are the real deal.

Kissing cousin to a Greektown gyro, ($4.99 small/$5.99 regular/$8.99 super), it features a thicker than usual grilled pita wrapped around spicy ground beef spiked with paprika and cayenne. Dressed simply with diced ripe tomato and mild Spanish onion, these donairs also come slathered in a slimy sweet garlic sauce you’ll either love or loathe.

You can also get donair toppings on pizza ($9.99/$13.99/$16.99), while Haligonian garlic fingers ($5.99/$8.49) are nothing but a plain cheese pizza.

Pair them with a starter of deep-fried pepperoni ($4.99) and you’re almost there.

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Hot turkey sandwiches in gravy ($8.99) are another delicious exercise in nostalgia, built as they should be on supermarket white bread and sided with sugary KFC-style coleslaw and buttery baked potatoes.

A dessert called Blueberry Grunt ($4.49) turns out to be dumplings swimming in pie filling squirted with industrial whipped cream.

The menu’s description of the catch of the day – “from the land, the sky, or the sea” – has us pining for squirrel or possum, but we make do with smoked trout hash ($8.49 with salad and spuds) and the daily soup – cream of ’shroom ($3.49) – instead.

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After months of speculation, Momofuko’s David Chang revealed last week that the three restaurants he’s creating for the new Shangri-la Hotel at University and Adelaide will open July 28.

Two days later, the time frame was adjusted to August with the qualifier that the eateries will definitely be up and running in time for September’s Film Fest. Adds Chang: “I’m scared shitless.”

And so he should be: the luxury hotelcondo complex looks nowhere near completion.

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Susur Lee’s new venture with sons Kai and Levi Bent-Lee at Dundas and Markham will be known as Bent in honour of Lee’s wife and the boys’

mom, designer Brenda Bent. “Not my choice,” says Bent, who preferred the more family-friendly Kin. Watch for a late May launch complete with curbside patio.

Fuzion fizzles

David Adjey has just launched the Chickery (130 Spadina, at Camden, 647-347-2222, thechickery.com) in tandem with What a Bagel’s Danny Farbman. As the resto’s name suggests, bird is the word, whether on sandwiches, in salads or whole, although 24 bucks a pop seems a tad pricey, even if it comes with two sides. Does no one remember what happened to the simi-

One of midtown’s most elegant patios, Fuzion is about to be rebooted on Monday (May 7) as the slightly more down-market Vic Pub (580 Church, at Dundonald, 416-944-9888, thevicpubtoronto.ca). “I’m tired of fine dining and high food costs,” says the resto’s Jimmy Georgoulis of the shift. Translation: adios, trendy tapas and champagne cocktails; hello, poutine and local microbrews.

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And when it’s not, it’s not.

Famous for its student-friendly allyou-can-eat Indo-Nepalese buffet, Bloor West’s Mt Everest is about to expand into Leaside in the former Onassis Pizza at 804 Eglinton East.

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the Hoof Café’s suckling pig eggs Benny and bone-marrow beignets are a thing of distant memory, our vote for Hogtown’s most creative brunch goes to owner/chef Aaron Joseph Bear Robe’s innovative midday weekend nosh. Best: to start, a basket of pastry chef Nis’ku Closs’s baked goods – flaky petite croissants, carrotcake muffins, perfect crumbly blueberry scones, buttery shortbread and a ginger snap or two; mains like new potato ’n’ onion hash with sliced picnic ham, baked runny eggs, Kozlick’s Triple Crunch mustard and funky adobo sauce: seared fatty pork belly confit over sautéed wild mushrooms, shallots and leek sided with or-

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Contemporary woodlot 293 Palmerston, at College, 647ñ 342-6307, woodlotrestaurant.com. Hav-

ing already passed through his molecular gastronomy phase – haven’t we all? – owner/chef David Haman now deploys two locally sourced comfort-food cartes, one unabashedly carnivore, the other aimed at the Birkenstock set, both primarily cooked in the former body shop’s

wood-burning oven. And while portions are somewhat less elephantine than they were when he first opened in late 2010, he still promises leftovers. Best: to start, vegan French onion soup topped with Gruyère and Red Fife sourdough croutons; crostini dressed with puréed squash, bufala mozzarella and apple jam; agnolotti stuffed with minty spring peas in shaved pecorino; whey-fed pork chops; naturally raised flat-iron steak with black trumpet Béarnaise; sides of caramelized sunchokes; roasted Japanese sweet potatoes spiked with maple syrup; to finish, cherry pavlova.

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Rating: NNNN From the moment he walked onto the Drake Underground stage, Willis Earl Beal’s presence was overwhelming. Wearing tight blue jeans, cowboy boots and a single black leather glove, a pair of RayBans under his rectangular 50s-style haircut and a toothpick in his mouth, the heavily hyped singer/songwriter began his debut Toronto performance not with a song but with a Charles Bukowski poetry reading.

Before singing a note, the 28-year-old troubadour had already delivered a fully formed encapsulation of his persona. Beal, perfectly framed by a highball whisky on one side and a well-worn volume of Bukowski on the other, was mostly accompanied only by a vintage reel-to-reel tape machine.

What sold the performance, however, was his full-force passion and legitimate vocal chops. He’s obviously still honing his accuracy, at one point breaking the spell with a sardonic “Well, I can’t hit that fucking note”, but Beal has a soulful, powerful, awe-inspiring voice that he commits to with unrelenting intensity. After giving his all at every moment, he ended the show exhausted and dripping with RICHARD TRAPUNSKI sweat.

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Shows that rocked Toronto last week

music breaks into mainstream North America. Thankfully, the sudden explosion of corporate raving is fuelling a complementary resurgence in the underground scene, as proved by this gleefully gritty party in a historic church.

The unique venue was definitely a selling point, but the music was the clincher. Headliners Addison Groove and Doc Daneeka have both successfully dodged easy categorization back home in the UK, and they brought that promiscuous attitude with them to Toronto, bouncing freely between Chicago juke, UK funky and good old-fashioned house music.

What made both sets successful was an openness not only to going deep but also to freely embracing giddy hands-in-the-air anthems when appropriate. Although we didn’t see any glow sticks, the crazy energy of Toronto’s 90s warehouse scene seems poised BENJAMIN BOLES for a comeback.

ELAQUENT with KNXWLEDGE and SUNCLEF at Wrongbar, Thursday, April 26. Rating: NNN

What was billed as the album release party for Elaquent’s new LP, The Scenic Route, was more like a chill, somewhat loose showcase of Toronto’s still nascent community of hip-hop-indebted, psychedelic-minded beatmakers.

A rap-specked, soul-heavy surprise set by Philly’s Knxwledge was wily and lighthearted. Local Drake dead ringer Sunclef followed with a more cerebral set of florid funk anthems.

Still, the night celebrated Guelph’s Elaquent, a smiling teddy bear of a man who says he coiled the album’s warm, jazzy beats

around songs like Palm Tree Shit, a twinkling, pastel-hued paean to L.A., where the tune was recorded.

Triggering samples on an SP-404, he ran through old and new tunes, from a remix of Slakah the Beatchild’s D.A.N.C.E. to the clacking funk of Montreal Poutine and Carpe Diem.

The highlight came when horn player Octavio Santos, featured on the record, clambered onstage to trill laid-back flourishes over ANUPA MISTRY Elaquent’s neck-snapping drums.

Rating: NNNN The lo-fi crunch of Cousins’ bare-bones garage-pop sounds perfect coming through the speakers of the Silver Dollar. Playing to a halffull bar, the Halifax duo proved that as good as their latest album is, it’s a pale alternative to the live experience.

Though both members remained seated throughout the show – Aaron Mangle played a kick drum with his feet, in addition to guitar – they never let the energy dip. And beneath the high-voiced hooks and overdriven guitars was studied, polished precision. Mangle and drummer Leigh Dotey have been touring heavily, and it showed in their well-handled stop-start rhythms and musical chemistry.

Openers By Divine Right also impressed with a high-energy set of indie rock. José Contreras has been the only constant in the long-running Canrock institution, and his current trio (featuring RT Sheezer shredder Alysha Haugen on bass) is a good one.

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Living up to his image, J. Spaceman (aka Jason Pierce) confesses that he didn’t answer my first call because he’d forgotten about the interview and was taking a nap. The groggy musician has spent the last 30 years making notoriously druggy drone rock, first as part of Spacemen 3 and more famously as the leader and sole permanent member of Spiritualized – so a bit of, er, spaciness is to be expected.

Given that the newest Spiritualized album, Sweet Heart Sweet Light (Double Six), was recorded while Pierce was undergoing experimental treatment for liver disease,

tact, but this time he went into recording with the goal of harnessing his pop instincts.

“I had this idea that [the record] was going to sound like the Beatles, but halfway through I realized that I don’t even fucking like the Beatles that much. I think it’s good to lose sight of what you’re trying to do sometimes.

Sometimes the mistakes, the errors, the broken effect pedals, all the things that go wrong are where the magic happens.

“I love abstraction and distortion, but I wanted to avoid that this time. I wanted to use the song Soul On Fire from the last album as the key [reference point]. I was a little embarrassed about it being on that album, so I wanted to take what I felt was its weakest bit and find strength in it.”

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and that his previous release, Songs In A&E, was almost derailed by severe pneumonia and respiratory failure, you can’t help but wonder if he’s reconsidering some of his lifestyle choices.

“I thought I’d come back from it changed,” Pierce says of his health scares. “You hear about people having revelations and all that, but I’ve been slightly disappointed to be exactly the same person I was.”

Sweet Heart does see Pierce sounding slightly more musically mature, though, and it’s worth noting that his lyrics aren’t necessarily autobiographical, nor are his copious drug references always celebratory. The formula of Rolling Stones + Velvet Underground + synths is still in-

In the end, it’s still apparent that Pierce is a Rolling Stones fan rather than a Beatles guy, though he’s only half-joking about hating the latter. (He claims to listen to them much more now that he’s a father.)

But reacting against what he did last time is definitely driving his approach to the live presentation.

“The last shows I’d been doing, there were 55 people onstage, I think, and there were so many places to hide in that sound. Now it’s so stripped back that [the musicians] have to think more about what they’re contributing rather than just playing a part that’s already been written.” 3 benjaminb@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/benjaminboles

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LEE FIELDS & THE EXPRESSIONS with MAYLEE TODD and DJ JOHN KONG at the Great Hall (1087 Queen West), Saturday (May 5), 9:30 pm. $22.50. PDR, RT, SS, TW.

Critics have been talking about a “soul revival� for much of the last decade.

But with Amy Winehouse getting a posthumous reputation boost and Adele continuing to dominate the Billboard charts, it no longer seems like such a niche fad.

Funky soul crooner Lee Fields has benefited from new interest in the genre, but it’s kind of silly to call him a throwback. “I’m not throwing back, because I’m from there,� says the 62-year-old singer over the phone from a tour stop in Houston.

Now in the 43rd year of a music career lined with peaks and valleys, Fields is currently enjoying a particularly fruitful phase. Armed with a talented young band, the Expressions, he’s found himself part of the same movement that’s given late-career popularity to fellow north-of-50 singers like Charles Bradley and Sharon Jones.

While the younger generation takes inspiration from the catalogues of Stax and Motown, the retro-minded wizards at Truth & Soul (Fields’s label) and Daptone (his one-time stomping ground) have gone back to the source, reviving the underappreciated greats of a bygone era.

“It’s a wonderful situation, because it not only benefits me as an artist but it also benefits all of us in general,� says Fields in his trademark oratorical style. “Younger people are gravitating toward the music I’m so well acquainted with, and the public at large is being introduced to an art form that’s worth preserving.�

Fields has dabbled in disco, deep funk and dance (via collaborations with French DJ/mega-producer Martin Solveig), but his albums with the Expressions, including his latest, Faithful Man, could easily be mistaken for his 70s records, which have become serious collectors’ items. “Soul music is what I am, so regardless of what I do you will hear the soul in it,� says Fields. “Soul comes from the spirit. It’s about reaching within yourself and expressing as much reality and passion in the words as possible, not trying to fit a mould or trend but singing the words as they come to you. “Soul music is about the human saga, human trials and tribulations, the ups and the downs. Regardless of how modern we get, regardless of how many things we done to make life quicker and easier, one thing that will always remain will be the human story.

You can come up with electronic gadgets and all sorts of amusing sounds, but sadness, happiness, the human story stay the same.�

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this week How to find a listing

Pow wow SteP

A Tribe CAlled red

The ottawa-based DJ crew have gotten a lot of attention lately for their innovative blending of contemporary underground club sounds with native Canadian references and politics, pretty much inventing a new genre in the process. As impressive as the recordings are, though, you need to catch them live for the full effect.

At the Drake Hotel Underground (1150 Queen West), tonight (Thursday, May 3), doors 11 pm. $10.

Kid KoaLa’s spaCe CadeT headphone experienCe

918 Bathurst, tonight and tomorrow (Thursday and Friday, May 3-4) See preview, page 61.

hot

tickets

rose Cousins

The Rivoli (332 Queen West), tonight (Thursday, May 3) See preview, page 54.

Lee FieLds & The expressions, MayLee Todd, dJ John Kong The Great Hall (1087 Queen West), Saturday (May 5) See preview, page 51.

Kids on TV

Harbourfront Studio Theatre (235 Queens Quay West), Saturday (May 5) See nowtoronto.com.

Loudon WainWrighT iii

spiriTuaLized

eLeanor FriedBerger, hospiTaLiTy

M83, i BreaK horses

Hugh’s Room (2261 Dundas West), tonight (Thursday, May 3) Folk music heavyweight w/ famous kids.

The Garrison (1197 Dundas West), Friday (May 4) Quirky indie pop by Fiery Furnaces singer.

JaMes Murphy

Phoenix Concert Theatre (410 Sherbourne), Saturday (May 5) See preview, page 48.

Sound Academy (11 Polson), Sunday (May 6) Ambient electro-pop from France.

The CranBerries

The Hoxton (69 Bathurst), Friday (May 4) DJ set from LCD Soundsystem leader.

Sound Academy (11 Polson), Wednesday (May 9) The Irish 90s hit-makers reunite.

TyLer hiLTon Virgin Mobile Mod Club

BeTTy riChardson Hugh’s Room 8:30 pm, $25-$27.50. June 29.

iggy azaLea Wrongbar dors 8 pm, $20.

dJ sTarTing FroM sCraTCh, dJ Jason ChaMBers Amnesia Boat Cruise

LaL, Mia sKye, MaTTheW MasKaanT, saye sKy, r3 CoLLeCTiVe, dJs niK red, LoVer sun CD release

aLexi MurdoCh The Great Hall doors

Josh WhiTe Jr Lower Ossington The-

deMi LoVaTo, hoT CheLLe rae, oWL CiTy Molson Amphitheatre $tba. TM.

Just announced doors 6:30 pm, all ages, $13.50. RT, SS, TM. May 17.

TW. May 18.

The Garrison. May 18.

Enterprise 2000 10 pm departure, $40-$45.

PDR, TDW. amnesia.ca. June 29.

8:30 pm, $15. RT, SS, TM. June 30.

atre Green Door Cabaret $25-$30. May 19.

July 3.

LiaM TiTCoMB Rivoli 8 pm, $10. PDR, RT,

noBody BeaTs The druM Wrongbar 10 pm, $15. PDR, RT, SS, TW. July 4.

arT oF TiMe enseMBLe, andy Maize, John Mann, Craig norThey, sTeVen page 45th Anni-

MeLVins ‘LiTe’, reTox Opera House 8 pm, $26. PDR, RT, SS, TM. July 5.

SS, TM. May 31.

versary Of The Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Harbourfront Centre 8 pm, $25-$59. artoftimeensemble.com. May 31 to June 2.

niCKeLBaCK, i MoTher earTh, My darKesT days Here & Now Tour Molson Amphitheatre 6:30 pm, $64.50$103.50. TM. July 11.

TaLiB KWeLi Sound Academy 8 pm, $21.50. PDR, RT, SS, TM. June 1.

andreW Bird Echo Beach at Molson Canadian Amphitheatre 8 pm. RT, SS, TM. July 19.

CiViL TWiLighT The Garrison 8 pm, $13.50. PDR, RT, SS, TM. June 20.

eriC prydz, WoLFgang garTner, exCision, Madeon, porTer roBinson, nero (dJ seT), pauL Van dyK, arTy, doCTor p, noisia, shoWTeK and oThers Identity Festival Echo Beach at

MishKa & anuhea Lee’s Palace doors 8 pm, $17.50. RT, SS, TM. June 20.

These uniTed sTaTes The Garrison doors 9 pm, $10.50. RT, SS. June 22.

Molson Canadian Amphitheatre $40-$60.

TM. idfestival.com. July 21.

BeTTy LaVeTTe, The Big sound

aMy CaMpBeLL CD release Hugh’s

The hiVes Sound Academy doors 8 pm, all ages, $28.50. RT, SS, TM. June 26.

sCissor sisTers Sound Academy 8 pm, all ages, $32.50-$42.50. RT, SS, TM. June 28.

Room 8:30 pm, $15-$17. July 24.

sharon Van eTTen, Tennis G

Toronto Jazz Festival Nathan Phillips Square $25. TM. torontojazz.com. June 23.

Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 8 pm, $18.50.

RT, SS, TM. July 31.

KeLLy CLarKson, The Fray, CaroLina Liar Molson Amphitheatre 7 pm, $24-$133.50. TM. August 28.

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All listings are free. Send to: music@nowtoronto.com, fax to 416-364-1166 or mail to Music, NOW Magazine, 189 Church, Toronto M5B 1Y7. Include artist(s), genre of music, event name (if any), venue name and address, time, ticket price and phone number or website.

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Thursday, May 3 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

Air CAnAdA Centre Bryan Adams doors 7 pm.

AspettA CAffe Open Mic/Jam 8 pm. the BAllroom Indie Rock Showcase 10 pm.

Bovine sex CluB Big Eyes, Unfun, Make No Gains doors 9 pm.

CAstro’s lounge BidiniBand 9 pm. the CentrAl Hey It’s Summer! Kathleen Korri-

gan & Lucy Shaw, Stone Orchard, Red Nightfall (alt rock) 8 pm. the CentrAl Moe Gonsalves 10 pm.

Clinton’s Fitness Club Fiasco, Dilly Dally, Emorie & Friend Friend, DJ Lum doors 9 pm. drAke hotel lounge Weekend Startup Boot Knives (rock) doors 11 pm. duffy’s tAvern No Thaw Urban Blight, Abyss, S.H.I.T., DC 81, DJ IPOD. el moCAmBo Little Creatures, Belleregards, Kevin Myles Wilson 9 pm. the gArrison Teen Daze, Foxes in Fiction, Megafortress, Southern Shores, Tezeta doors 8 pm. horseshoe Future Islands, Valleys, Ed Schraders Music Beat doors 8:30 pm. linsmore tAvern Desmond Nathan (power pop piano) 10 pm. lolA 1971 & Mother of Russia (punk) 8 pm. lou dAwg’s ryerson Jeff Eager (acoustic soul/funk/Motown) 10 pm.

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riChmond hill Centre for the performing Arts Sheena Easton 8 pm. rivoli CD release Rose Cousins 7:30 pm.

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Rose Cousins isn’t scared of her sadness. For her new album, We Have Made A Spark (Outside), the singer/ songwriter let challenging real-life relationships pull her into a deeply introspective place from which she then re-surfaced bearing hard-won insight. The result is 11 stark, impeccably written songs that will probably make you cry.

“Sad songs are my favourite,” says Cousins as she crosses the Confederation Bridge to her native Prince Edward Island for her next gig. “I’m not a miserable person, but I seem to have really intense inner thoughts all the time, and I find myself drawn to sadder situations – whether it’s a friend who’s trying to navigate something or my own stuff. I’m interested in the things people are struggling with. I’m not gonna lie, though – sometimes I just want to dance to Beyoncé.”

While it’d be easy to assume We

Have Made A Spark is a breakup album, Cousins says the songs were influenced less by a single person than by recognizing a pattern of unhealthy relationships.

“It was important to me to find a way to let go of people who weren’t good for me, even though it’s really hard to say goodbye. I think it took me a longer time than it should have because I care very much about these people. But there’s only so long you can want something from somebody or wish someone was a certain way.”

The recording process itself, meanwhile, was anything but solitary or difficult. Recorded at Boston’s Q Division, the album includes over 16 members of what Cousins calls her “Boston family” – trusted musicians she met through years of attending The Cutting Edge Of The Campfire music festival, organized by Harvard Square’s famed Club Passim, where Joan Baez and Bob Dylan honed their chops.

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Down 10 pm, Corin Raymond 6 pm. caStro’S LounGe Jerry Leger & the Situation (country/folk/rock) 9 pm. c’eSt What CD release Anna Gutmanis, Carrie Chesnutt, Wayne DeAdder, Karen Dinardo, Jen Gillmor, Dan Neill, Alyssa Wright, Elana Harte (acoustic) 9 pm. cLoak & daGGer PuB Ty Trumbull (folk/pop) 10 pm. daVe’S... on St cLair Uncle Herb’s Open Mic (folk/blues/rock/country) 9 pm. eton houSe Keith Jolie (blues/roots) 7 pm.

GLadStone hoteL meLody Bar Morgan Davis (blues) 9 pm.

GraFFiti’S The After Work Market Soiree Tim Bradford & Bright Blue Motels (country) 5 to 7 pm.

GroSSman’S Rock’n Robin Harp 10 pm. hoLy oak caFe Lost Girl Subdivision (old time) 7:30 pm. huGh’S room Loudon Wainwright III 8:30 pm.

LoLa Brian Cober (double slide guitar) 9 pm.

Lou daWG’S Mike C (acoustic blues/rock/ funk/reggae) 10 pm.

LuLa LounGe Les Voix du Coeur (francophone choir) 7:30 pm. monarchS PuB Jerome Godboo, Shawn Kellerman, Stan Miczek, Al Cross (blues ) 9 pm. naWLinS Jazz Bar Nothin’ but the Blues 8 pm. tranzac Southern croSS The Pre-Season Draft 9:30 pm, Bluegrass Thursdays Houndstooth 7:30 pm.

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the emotion of the song, the vulnerability of the lyrics and the intimacy of Cousins’s voice. Like her two previous albums, We Have Made a Spark was funded by fans, a process made easier this time around by the existence of crowd-funding website Kickstarter. In 45 days, she surpassed her $20,000 goal by over $5,000.

Does she have any conflicted feelings about asking her fans for financial assistance?

“It makes perfect sense to me,” she says. “Being given the opportunity to be a part of something you love is an extremely cool thing and can make you feel even more connected to the music. To me, music shouldn’t be a one-sided thing from a performer out.

I like it better when there’s no disconnect between me and the audience. I seek that connection. The people funding me are making an investment in my music and my career, and I’m invested in them as well. I want to give them something really good.”

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Claire, Toronto Symphony Orchestra (soprano) 8 pm.

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BlacK Swan Desekratewhore, Korrupt, Gunt (metal) doors 9 pm.

BOvine Sex cluB The Mindsight, Crooked Valentine, the Android Meme, DJ Vania. cadillac lOunge The Rattles. caStrO’S lOunge Ronnie Hayward (rockabilly) 5 to 7 pm. tHe cave No Thaw Young Mother, the Blue Sage, Soupcans, Lids, hellaluya, Supreme Court of Canada DJs. tHe central Robb Hill, Leela & the Agrestics (pop/rock) 7:30 pm. tHe central Danny Georgi 10 pm. dicKenS Street tHeatre Feast In The East 1-Year Anniversary Actual Water, Gay, b’ling b’long, Loom 9 pm, all ages. draKe HOtel undergrOund Moon Hooch, Nobile Savage (alt rock) doors 8 pm. el MOcaMBO CD release Hatchet Men, Kate Rogers Band 9 pm. etOn HOuSe The Soles 9 pm. tHe Flying Beaver puBaret Momo MacLeod, Rauf Azimoff 7 pm. tHe garriSOn Eleanor Friedberger, Hospitality doors 9 pm. gladStOne HOtel MelOdy Bar The Mercenaries (oldies rock cover band) 9 pm. graFFiti’S Paul Martin (covers) 5 to 7 pm.

Hard lucK Bar Derelict, Deamon, the Unborn Dead, Nephelium, Blastomycosis (death metal) 8 pm.

HOly OaK caFe A Soul (soul) 10 pm.

HOrSeSHOe Gruve, Alert the Medic, Bernadette Connors doors 10 pm. lee’S palace Justus, Impulse, Beached, Crooked Hill. tHe lOaded dOg Red Velvet (rock/top 40) 8:30 pm. lOu dawg’S Jeff Eager (acoustic soul/funk/ Motown) 10 pm. lOu dawg’S ryerSOn Don Campbell (acoustic blues/rock) 10 pm.

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july 21

big d & the ska! kids table

The jesus & best fishbone blind pilot mary chain coast the aggrolites phoenix •

$ 18.50

advance

saturday june 30 @ lee’s palace • $21.50 advance

los aNgeles sKa soul PuNK legeNds

wednesday july 25 @ opera house • $17.50 advance

sunday august 5 @ lee’s palace • $16.50 adv • l.a. sKa

first toronto show in 15 years!

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w/ those

darlins

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

thurSday may 3 $ 11.50

advance • baltimore

fuTure iSlaNdS

ed sChrader’s mUsiC BeaT + valleys with

Sat may 5 • $17.50 adv

juSTiN ruTledGe alt rootS folk & country

friday may 4 $ 6.00

• local alternative

gruve alerT The medic BernadeTTe Connors Sunday may

6 • $25.00

steven david Hnatiuk memorial nigHt Hosted by bookie (18th year)

tueSday may 8

super-Quest NevermiNd NeverlaNd Maolin

mammoth Grave PaTTi CaKe GooDniGht sunrise daYbreak GeNTlemaN

WedneSday may 9 • $5.00

thurSday may 10

daniel romano

monday may 7 • no cover shoeless mondays

CaNadiaN Shield broNx Cheerleader old World vulTure friday may 11 $ 10.50 adv • indie rock & roll

$ 8.00

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GReat bloomers YounG Rival nils eDinloFF

Wild life ty

Sat may 12 • sold out! garage punk Spectacular

ToPanga + PKeW PKeW + reversing falls

tHurS may 3 @ mod cluB • $ 18.50 adv • all-ages • 6pm

Sat may 12 @ mod club

thurSday may 17 @ mod club • all-ageS

William beckett “The aCademy is...”

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defeaTer + BalanCe & ComPosUre + all geT oUT + sainThood rePs

tyler hilton

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of “one tRee hill”

thurS may 17 @ queen elizabeth theatre $ all-ageS • 29.50 advance • reServed Seating • 7:15pm

7pm doors • all-ages • $14.50 advance

of

Saturday june 2 horSeShoe tavern • $15.00 adv

jon langford & his sadies sKUll orChard +

ron sexsmith joe with

BUrlingTon Welsh Choir WedneSday june 13 lee’S palace • $ 17.50 advance

with kyp harness

Billy The Kid + miKey erg

PurDy

Sunday may 27 @ horSeShoe tavern • $11.50 advance

friday june 22

WedneSday may 23 @ horSeShoe • $11.00 advance

joe mcmahon langhorne slim

With

ha ha TonKa

monday may 28 @ horSeShoe tavern $ 13.50

advance • neW york Singer-SongWriter

the giving tree band horSeShoe • $ 15.00 advance

hanniBal

buress

thurS may 3 • $ 6.00 • metal

Hellbound

DaWn valley the horned • river of ghosts Saturday may 5 Chilean RoCk

ChiCo

ron PoPe alexi Tujillo (snl & 30 RoCk)

Saturday june 30 great hall • $ 15.00 advance

With

josiah leming + Zach berKman

japandroids murDoch Sunday july 8 horSeShoe • $ 15.00 advance

friday july 13 horSeShoe • $ 9.00 advance

friday july 20 horSeShoe • $ 15.00 advance

loney jc brooks murDer

by Death dear & the uptown sound alt Soul

fri may 4 @ garrison

• $15.00 adv

eleaNor SeGall fatHer Friedberger joHn misty

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

daYTrader

corey chisel + WanDerinG sons

WedneSday may 2 the garriSon • $10.00 advance

jUsTUs imPulse beacheD crookeD hill friday may 11

local rock • $ 7.00 door

real liFe situation may 10 crowe Funk the alarm harD honey rebel rebel • talk blooDy Five with

neW venUe! Sat june 23 @ lee’S palace • $15.00 adv

friday may 4 • $ 7.00

JuMple

thurSday

• $ 6.00

Saturday may 12

tueSday may 15

active xiu xiu child $ 13.50

advance

$ 15.00

With diRtY beaches

Father murphy

advance

W/ balam acab

royal sTar slinger bear in canoe Heaven spindrift strangers Family band w b-13s ChriS milk carton jinja sti l l li F e sti l l kids ramona falls safari junejune 115 --theDeerParlotones maps & tick murraY

monday may 14 • adv fleet foxeS Sub pop folk $ 11.50

tHe strangeboys White Fence har mar sUPersTar teenanGeR

with

Pentimento + sinGle mothers + bathurst the garriSon • $11.50 advance

hospitality

friday may 4

Saturday may 19 • $10.00

thurSday may 24 the rivoli • $10.50 advance

advance

atlases

Zechs marquise + chang a lang

The hood inTerneT + Chrissy mUrderBoT Wed may 16 • $ 8.00 @ door Sunday may 27 pSych rock double header $ 10.00

BloUse + doldrUms

chicago • barSuk recordS $ 11.50

May 14 • $15.00 advance

Saturday may 5

velvet underground • $11.50 adv

WedneSday may 16

monday

/

fri jUne 8 @ the drake • $10.00 advance

Brazyn + The PainT movemenT + Teen TiTs Wild Wives

maY 18 - TaraNTula maY 24 - eamoN mcGraTh maY 26 - joe puG

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

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

tueSday may 29 @ hard luck • $10.00 @ door • all-ages

@ door

tueSday july 17

june 20 - mishka

of king apparatuS

tHe fundamentals

daylight lower june 22 the inDePenDents dens daN SarTaiN lee’S palace • $ 12.00 advance

friday may

mon jUne 18 @ horseshoe • $9.00 adv

friday

the garriSon • $10.50 advance

thurs jUly 5 @ garrison • $12.50 adv

young magic

25 • $9.00 advance • punk rock

these united states

rehab For quitters + von Drats + hoWlinG bullets

wed aUgUsT 1 @ horseshoe • $11.50 adv

the growlers

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

leespalace.com 529 bloor Street WeSt / bathurSt NOW may 3-9 2012

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Cake bar Dessert Saturdays (top 40/mashups).

Clintonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Shake, Rattle & Roll 60s Dance Party doors 10 pm.

ColleGe street bar Heavy Rotation DJ Mercilless, Royale, Sweet Touch Foundation (4 DJs X 4 turntables).

Drake hotel unDerGrounD Chris Malinchak, Jeremy Glenn, Dime-A-Dozen (disco house) doors 11 pm.

Drake hotel lounGe DJ Dougie Boom doors 10 pm. emmet ray bar DJ Sawtay (soul/hip-hop/old school) 10 pm. fly Pitbull: Cinco De Mayo DJ Dwayne Minard, DJ Mark Falco, DJ Deejon doors 10 pm.5 footwork Nick Curly doors 10 pm.

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Parts & labour Pay Day DJs Isosceles & Stew Innes (old school rap/R&B) 10 pm.

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You can bring your kids to Eric San’s outer-space-inspired show By ANUPA MISTRY

KID KOALA’s sPACE CADET HEADPHONE EXPERIENCE at 918 Bathurst, tonight and tomorrow (Thursday and Friday, May 3-4), 9:30 pm, all ages. $25-$30. RT, SS.

Better known as Kid Koala, Canadian turntablist/musician/author Eric San says he’s in clubs and at concerts 200 nights a year. But his new Space Cadet Headphone Experience tour allows him to bring his young daughters – ages three and three months – on the road with him for the first time.

An exploratory, interactive complement to his second graphic novel, Space Cadet, about a girl-child astronaut, the tour is logistically and conceptually more complex than carting a laptop or even stacks of vinyl to a club.

Throughout the audio-visual show, San cuts and stacks Space Cadet’s rockabye soundtrack of orchestral noise and plays piano while concertgoers sit back in “space pods” and take it in via headphones.

“It’s sort of like a pop-up, cozy, relaxed, crib-like atmosphere,” laughs San while rooting for Polaroid cameras in a Walla Walla, Washington, antiques store. He added a social element by including a gallery that you walk through prior to the show, featuring his space record collection, sculptural installations and original etchboards from the

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Samson Grey, At Arms Reach, Bretty Dylan, Jacelyn Holmes, Mirian Kay, It Will Be, DJ Crack 7 pm. sOuND ACADEmy M83, I Break Horses doors 8 pm. sOuTHsIDE JOHNNy’s Open Jam Rebecca Matiesen & Phoenix 9:30 pm.

TRANzAC sOuTHERN CROss The Blue Shirts, Plants of a Dissolving Colour (Halifax indie) 7:30 pm.

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AquILA uPsTAIRs The McDale’s Open Mic 8:30 pm, Junction Jam The New Mynah Birds (mostly blues) 3:30 pm.

CAmERON HOusE Kevin Quain 9 pm, Joanne Mackell 6 pm.

graphic novel.

“As much as I’m a fan of being in a really crowded, sweaty place and smelling armpits all night, some [past concert experiences] that really got me have been intimate ones like the Preservation Hall Jazz Band’s,” says San, who’s also a member of cult alt-rap group Deltron 3030. “Or even if it’s a big concert, [I like] those moments when [the musicians] do the quiet songs.”

Specifically, San didn’t want this tour to be one where “you come and you dance to 140 BPM all night and then take the book home and cry yourself to sleep.”

A side effect of this contextual presentation of the graphic novel and soundtrack is that the tour is kidfriendly. “Young families seem to be bringing their toddlers, which is great,” San says. “That’s mainly because we’re playing venues like planetariums and biospheres.”

But San says the tour wasn’t specifically designed for younglings. So did he instead have in mind all those music lovers grateful for the chance to sit down at a show?

“Yeah,” laughs San. “It was really about [creating] something we’d want to attend as adults.”

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CLOAK & DAggER Pub Matt Cooke 9 pm.

DAKOTA TAvERN Bluegrass Brunch 11 am to 3 pm.

THE FLyINg bEAvER PubARET All Strung Up:

Unplugged Mark Brown, Ashley Annon, Kathryn Fudurich, James Mulvale 7 pm. gLADsTONE HOTEL mELODy bAR Sunday Acoustic Family Brunch 9 am to 4 pm. gROssmAN’s Blues Jam Brian Cober Band 9:30 pm. gROssmAN’s New Orlean Connection Allstars 4:30 to 8 pm.

HIRuT FINE ETHIOPIAN CuIsINE Open Stage With Gary 17 3 to 6 pm.

HOLy OAK CAFE Taylor Ashton (folk) 9 pm.

HugH’s ROOm International Bellydance Conference Of Canada Closing Night Arabesque Orchestra, Bassam Bishara.

LAbyRINTH LOuNgE Open Mic Joy Thompson 5 to 9 pm.

THE LOCAL Boxcar Boys 10 pm, Chris Coole (banjo) 5 pm.

LuLA LOuNgE Family Salsa Brunch noon.

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Arts Broadway Kids Live! Kindred Spirits Or­ chestra 2 pm. mCgrAdies tAp And grill Open Jam Dan Walek (R&B) 6 to 10 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 The Richard Whiteman Group 1 to 4 pm. rose & thorne The Lil’ Steve Band 3:30 to 7:30 pm. sArAh’s CAfe Open Stage Dan McLean Jr 3 to 6 pm. supermArket Freefall Sundays Open Mic/Jam 8 pm. thirsty fox puB Fera (acoustic jam) 6 to 10 pm. trAnzAC Brian Pickell Band, Shane Cook (oldtime/traditional fiddle & song) 7:30 pm.

WinChester kitChen & BAr Open Mic Porter 9 pm.

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chestra 7 pm.

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

gAte 403 Joel Hartt & Mark Kieswetter Jazz

Duo 5 to 8 pm. gAte 403 Peter Eastmure Jazz Band 9 pm. kingsWAy ConservAtory of musiC Strings Electric Concert for Youth & Families DeVah Quartet (classical/rock/pop) 7 to 8 pm. meAdoWvAle theAtre Afternoon At The Proms The Mississauga Pops Band 2 pm. montgomery’s inn The Neapolitan Connection Musical Matinees: La Belle Melodie Ales­ sandra Paonessa (soprano) 3 pm. musideum Duet Series Brownman + 1 8 pm. nAWlins JAzz BAr Brooke Blackburn (solo guitar) 7 to 10 pm. rex Random Access 9:30 pm, Tom Reynolds Trio 7 pm, Club Django 4 pm, Humber Community Music Student Recitals noon. roy thomson hAll Gershwin & Beyond Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Todd Yaniw (piano) 3 pm.

royAl ConservAtory of musiC koerner hAll

Elgar – The Kingdom Pax Christi Chorale 3 pm. someWhere there studio Ken Aldcroft & John Oswald 8 pm, Jason Steidman & Mi­ chael Kaler 5 pm. st. AndreW By-the-lAke ChurCh Canzona Concert Series Yosuke Kawasaki, Vadim Sere­ bryany (violin, piano) 2 pm. trAnzAC southern Cross Monk’s Music

Venue Index

DAnCE MuSIC/DJ/LOunGE

Jazz Band 9 pm.

Bovine sex CluB B.Y.O. DJ. CAstro’s lounge Watch This Sound (rare, vin-

people’s ChiCken Advocats Big Band (bop/ swing/swoon) 7:30 pm. rex Circles Quartet 9:30 pm, Peter Hill Quin­ tet 6:30 pm.

insomniA DJ Shannon (old school hip-hop/

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tage ska/reggae/dub) 9 pm.

disco/funk).

lou dAWg’s Dirty South Sundays (soul/funk/

Motown/old school) 10 pm. lou dAWg’s ryerson Dirty South Sundays DJ Ksmooth (soul/Motown/old school) 10 pm. rumours nightCluB Tun Up Sundays Grand Opening King Turbo, Black Joe Movementz, Majestic Vybez, DJ Wiz, DJ Griff, DJ Vipa, DJ Lady Supa.

Monday, May 7 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOuL

ArtsCApe WyChWood BArns rock.paper.sistahz

festival Lisa Michelle (R&B/soul) 8 to 10 pm.

AsCAri enoteCA Hard Count Mondays The Wine Killas (hip-hop) 9:30 pm.

Bovine sex CluB Flash Lightnin’.

CAstro’s lounge Rockabilly Mondays 9 pm.

CloAk & dAgger puB Kat, Adam & Tim (pop/ folk) 9 pm. drAke hotel underground Elvis Monday (indie) doors 9 pm. drAke hotel lounge Ride the Tiger (60s & 70s soul/Motown/stax/R&B) doors 11 pm. grossmAn’s Open Jam Mondays No Band Required 10 pm. hArlem Open Jam Night Carolyn T (R&B/ soul/jazz/Motown/Latin) 8 pm. horseshoe Shoeless Monday Superguest, Nevermind Neverland, Maolin 9 pm. press CluB Domestic Bliss Mondays The Exec­ utives w/ Max Marshall (alt rock) 10 pm. sound ACAdemy This World Is Ours Escape the Fate, Attack Attack!.

FOLK/BLuES/COunTRY/WORLD

CAmeron house The Rucksack Willies 6 pm.

CAmeron house David Baxter 10 pm. the CentrAl Jam Night Dr Keys 10:30 pm. dAve’s... on st ClAir Open Jam Pete Eastmure

7:30 pm.

dorA keogh JT & Friends Jam 9 pm. highWAy 61 southern BArBeque Chris Chambers (blues) 7 pm.

the loCAl Hamstrung Stringband (bluegrass)

9:30 pm.

lou dAWg’s ryerson Open Mic Night Don Campbell 7 pm. old niCk Elana Harte, Rory Taillon, Andrew Victoria, Arlene Bishop 7 pm, all ages.

JAzz/CLASSICAL/ExPERIMEnTAL

emmet rAy BAr Ryan Butler, Ethan Ardelli & Michael Herring (songs of Bill Frisell ) 9 pm.

the CentrAl 603 Markham. 416-913-4586.

C’est WhAt 67 Front E. 416-867-9499.

ChAlkers puB 247 Marlee. 416-789-2531.

ChurCh of st AndreW 2333 Victoria Pk. Clinton’s 693 Bloor W. 416-535-9541.

CloAk & dAgger puB 394 College. 647-436-0228.

CoBrA lounge 510 King W. 416-361-9004.

Air CAnAdA Centre 40 Bay. 416-815-5500.

College street BAr 574 College. 416-533-2417.

AlleyCAtz 2409 Yonge. 416-481-6865.

Copps Coliseum 101 York Blvd (Hamilton).

Annex WreCkroom 794 Bathurst. 416-536-0346.

Czehoski 678 Queen W. 416-366-6787.

AquilA 347 Keele. 416-341-8487. dAkotA tAvern 249 Ossington. 416-850-4579.

ArtsCApe WyChWood BArns 601 Christie. dAnCe CAve 529 Bloor W, 2nd floor. 416-532-1598.

416-392-7834. dAve’s... on st ClAir 730 St Clair W. 416-657-3283.

AsCAri enoteCA 1111 Queen E. 416-792-4157. diCkens street theAtre 35 Dickens.

AspettA CAffe 207 Augusta. 416-725-0693. disgrACelAnd 965 Bloor W. 647-868-5263.

AugustA house 152 Augusta. 416-977-8881. dominion on queen 500 Queen E. 416-368-6893.

Axis gAllery & grill 3048 Dundas W. dorA keogh 141 Danforth. 416-778-1804.

416-604-3333. doverCourt house 805 Dovercourt. 416-535-3847. the BAllroom 145 John. 416-597-2695. drAke hotel 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042.

BAr neon 1226 Bloor W. duffy’s tAvern 1238 Bloor W. 416-628-0330.

BlACk sWAn 154 Danforth. 416-469-0537. el moCAmBo 464 Spadina. 416-777-1777.

Bloke & 4th 401 King W. 416-477-1490. emmet rAy BAr 924 College. 416-792-4497.

Bovine sex CluB 542 Queen W. 416-504-4239. etienne Brulé pArk Bloor W at Riverside.

CAdillAC lounge 1296 Queen W. 416-536-7717. eton house 710 Danforth. 416-466-6161.

CAke BAr 214 Adelaide W. 416-599-2253. fACes nightCluB 224 Richmond W. CAmeron house 408 Queen W. 416-703-0811. fly 8 Gloucester. 416-410-5426.

CAstro’s lounge 2116 Queen E. 416-699-8272.

Ad_Now_1-5 270412.ai 1 BeAver 4/27/12 5:00 PM the flying puBAret 488 Parliament. the CAve 860 College.

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gAte 403 Tom McGill (piano solo) 5 to 8 pm. gAte 403 Richard Whiteman & Laura Hubert

insomniA DJs Topher & Oranj (rock). the piston Junk Shop DJs Jorge & Jeeks, Allo­ saurus & Emorie (pre to post punk/new wave/garage/indie) 10 pm.

Tuesday, May 8 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOuL

Bovine sex CluB Aunt Beazy, Sluts on 45, Cel­ ery Troff.

drAke hotel underground Transformation

Tour: Spring Fling Edition Clara Venice (singer/ songwriter/thereminist) doors 8:30 pm.

drAke hotel Ariane Moffatt doors 8:30 pm. ñ grAffiti’s Tumultuous SSW Tuesdays Marcus

Walker (pop/rock/acoustic). horseshoe Dave Bookman’s Nu Music Nite Mammoth Grave, Patti Cake, Goodnight Sun­ rise, Daybreak Gentleman 9 pm. operA house Decibel Magazine Tour Behe­ moth, Watain, the Devil’s Blood, In Solitude doors 6:30 pm, all ages. phoenix ConCert theAtre Neon Indian, Lemonade doors 8 pm. silver dollAr Quintron & Miss Pussy­ cat, Catl, Wet Dirt doors 9 pm.

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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 Fred Spek’s Camp Combo 10 pm, Samantha Martin (folk/rock) 6 pm.

CAstro’s lounge blueVenus (singer/songwriter) 10 pm, Smokey Folk (bluegrass) 8 pm.

CloAk & dAgger puB Slocan Ramblers (bluegrass) 10 pm. dAkotA tAvern Treasa Levasseur (blues/R&B) 7:30 pm. drAke hotel lounge Memphis Tuesdays Grand Canyon (country) doors 9 pm. emmet rAy BAr Peter Boyd & the Mutant Duo (blues) 9 pm. gAte 403 Blues Night Julian Fauth 9 pm. grossmAn’s Tall Grass, the Murdering of Crows 10 pm. hugh’s room CD release Wade Benson, Arun Pal Band 8:30 pm. the loCAl Ben and Gary’s Ice Cream Band (eclectic singer/songwriters) 9:30 pm. lolA The Sheryl Show Sheryl Lindsay (acoustic pop/rock) 8 pm. lulA lounge Small World Asian Music Series

647-347-6567. footWork 425 Adelaide W. 416-913-3488. four seAsons Centre for the performing Arts 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231. gAllery 345 345 Sorauren. 416-822-9781. the gArAge 73 Cecil. the gArrison 1197 Dundas W. 416-519-9439. gAte 403 403 Roncesvalles. 416-588-2930. glAdAmAn’s den 502A Yonge. 416-961-5808. glAdstone hotel 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. glenn gould studio 250 Front W. goodhAndy’s 120 Church. 416-760-6514. grACe ChurCh on-the-hill 300 Lonsdale.

416-488-7884. grAffiti’s 170 Baldwin. 416-506-6699. the greAt hAll 1087 Queen W. 416-826-3330. grossmAn’s 379 Spadina. 416-977-7000. hArBourfront Centre 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. hArd luCk BAr 772a Dundas W. 416-833-0302. hArlem 67 Richmond E. 416-368-1920. the hideout 484 Queen W. 647-438-7664. highWAy 61 southern BArBeque 1620 Bayview. 416-489-7427. 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.

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the hoxton 69 Bathurst. 416-456-7321. hugh’s room 2261 Dundas W. 416-531-6604. the inner gArden 401 Richmond W, suite 384.

416-537-1413. insomniA 563 Bloor W. 416-588-3907. kingsWAy ConservAtory of musiC 2848 Bloor W. 416-234-0121. kool hAus 132 Queens Quay E. 416-869-0045. lAByrinth lounge 298 Brunswick. 416-925-7775. lee’s pAlACe 529 Bloor W. 416-532-1598. linsmore tAvern 1928 Danforth. living Arts Centre 4141 Living Arts (Mississauga). 905-306-6000. 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. lulA lounge 1585 Dundas W. 416-588-0307. mAgpie CAfe 831 Dundas W. 416-916-6499. mAison merCer 15 Mercer. 416-341-8777. mArkhAm theAtre for the performing Arts 171 Town Centre Blvd (Markham). 905-305-7469. mCgrAdies tAp And grill 2167 Victoria Park.

416-449-1212. meAdoWvAle theAtre 6315 Montevideo (Mississauga). 905-615-4720. molly Bloom’s irish puB 191 College. 416-916-6448.

Khaira Arby (Saharan indie rock) 8 pm. old niCk Jennifer Brewer 9:30 pm. the piston Gabrielle Papillon, Brie Neilson, Mary Milne. press CluB Toast N’ Jam 10 pm. rivoli CD release Marta Pacek (folk). the rusty nAil Open Stage Jam Chad Camp­ bell 9 pm.

JAzz/CLASSICAL/ExPERIMEnTAL

AlleyCAtz Carlo Berardinucci Band (swing/ jazz) 8:30 pm.

ChAlkers puB Robi Botos (piano) 7:30 pm.

Czehoski The Pink Pearl Dragon. dominion on queen Hot Club Of CorkTown (Django jam) 8:30 pm. four seAsons Centre for the performing Arts riChArd BrAdshAW AmphitheAtre

Harmonies du jour Scott MacIsaac (piano) noon to 1 pm. gAte 403 Gosia Fanya (jazz solo) 5 to 8 pm. holy oAk CAfe Final Boss (jazz pop) 9 pm. nAWlins JAzz BAr Stacie McGregor (piano) 6:30 to 9:30 pm. rex Myriad Trio 6:30 pm. rex Classic Rex Jazz Jam. someWhere there studio Rob Clutton & Doug Tielli 8 pm. ten restAurAnt & Wine BAr Don Breithaupt, Chris Smith 9 pm. trAnzAC Stop Time (jazz) 10 pm, Convergence Ensemble 7:30 pm.

DAnCE MuSIC/DJ/LOunGE

Bloke & 4th Swank DJ Tom Wrecks. goodhAndy’s Ladyplus T-Girl Lust DJ Todd

Klinck doors 8 pm.5 insomniA She’s Got The Funk DJ Shannon. reposAdo Alien Radio DJ Gord C. sound ACAdemy Rusko, Sigma doors 8 pm. virgin moBile mod CluB Casey Veggies, the 6th Letter, Redway doors 7 pm, all ages.

Wednesday, May 9 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOuL

Bovine sex CluB Cadillacs & Cadavers, the

House of Haunt, the Greasemarks.

CAdillAC lounge The Neil Young’uns.

CloAk & dAgger puB The Out of Towners (rockabilly/blues) 10 pm. drAke hotel underground Craig Stickland, Tim Moxam (rock) doors 8 pm. emmet rAy BAr Box Full of Cash 9 pm. the hideout The Unseen Strangers 10:30 pm. horseshoe Bronx Cheerleader, Old World Vulture 9 pm. lolA Jammin’ Johnny Bootz 8 pm. phoenix ConCert theAtre The Maine, Lydia doors 6 pm, all ages. rivoli Hightimes 4 Lorraine Leckie, Johnny MacLeod Band, Phil Shoenfelt & Southern Cross, Cynthia Ross 9 pm.

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monArChs puB 33 Gerrard W. 416-585-4352. montgomery’s inn 4709 Dundas W. 416-394-8113. musiC gAllery 197 John. 416-204-1080. musideum 401 Richmond W. 416-599-7323. nAWlins JAzz BAr 299 King W. 416-595-1958.

918 BAthurst Centre for Culture & the Arts 918 Bathurst. 416-538-0868. noW lounge 189 Church. 416-364-1301. old mill inn 21 Old Mill Rd. 416-236-2641. old niCk 123 Danforth. 416-461-5546. operA house 735 Queen E. 416-466-0313. the ossington 61 Ossington. 416-850-0161. pArts & lABour 1566 Queen W. 416-588-7750. people’s ChiCken 744 Mt Pleasant. 416-489-7931. peridot lounge 81 Bloor E. 416-515-7560. phoenix ConCert theAtre 410 Sherbourne.

416-323-1251. the piston 937 Bloor W. 416-532-3989. plACeBo spACe 1409 Bloor W. pogue mAhone 777 Bay. 416-598-3339. polyhAus 388 Carlaw. press CluB 850 Dundas W. 416-364-7183. quotes 220 King W. 416-979-7717. rAnCho relAxo 300 College. 416-920-0366. reBAs CAfé & gAllery 3289 Dundas W. 416626-7372. relish 2152 Danforth. 416-425-4664.

sound ACAdemy The Cranberries doors 7:30 pm. ñ supermArket Wednesdays Go Pop! Eric Con­

lon, the Heights, Alert the Medic 9 pm. trAnzAC mAin hAll Nerd Nite 7 pm. trAnzAC southern Cross Yek Koo & LA Lakers, HVYWTR, Man Made Hill (indie rock) 10 pm. uniCorn puB Dat Dam Jam Band 9:30 pm. virgin moBile mod CluB Never Shout Never, Koji, Kurt Travis, Bearcat doors 6 pm, all ages.

White sWAn Soul Instigators 8 pm.

WinChester kitChen & BAr Big Name Actors (garage jazz rock) 9:30 pm.

WrongBAr Grouplove, Reptar doors 9 pm.

FOLK/BLuES/COunTRY/WORLD

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

eton house Danforth Jam 8 pm. gAte 403 Brian Cober & Aslan Gotov (blues

duo) 5 pm.

glAdAmAn’s den Open Mic Night James Quigley.5

grossmAn’s Bruce Domoney 10 pm. highWAy 61 southern BArBeque Sean Pin­ chin 7 pm.

hirut fine ethiopiAn Cuisine Acoustic Open

Stage Nicole Coward (eclectic) 10 pm. hugh’s room Cd release Susie Arioli 8:30 pm. lou dAWg’s ryerson Wycik Wednesdays Matt Morgan (acoustic blues/rock) 10 pm. trAne studio Liberty Wednesdays Noah Zacharin (folk) 8 pm. trAnzAC tiki room Comhaltas Irish Slow Session 7:30 pm.

JAzz/CLASSICAL/ExPERIMEnTAL

CAstro’s lounge The Mediterranean Stars

(fusion jazz) 9 pm.

dominion on queen Corktown Ukulele Jam 8 pm. gAllery 345 In The Current Mike Downes Big Band 8 pm.

gAte 403 Victor Monsivais Trio 9 pm. glAdstone hotel melody BAr Swing Night

Combo Royale 8 pm. lulA lounge Lulaworld: Small World Asian Music Series Autorickshaw (jazz/ funk) doors 7 pm. nAWlins JAzz BAr Jim Heineman Trio 7 pm. rex Earthtones 9:30 pm, Victor Bateman Trio 6:30 pm. roy thomson hAll Holst: The Planets To­ ronto Symphony Orchestra, Joaquin Valdepeñas (clarinet) 8 pm. someWhere there studio Octopus 8 pm.

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Clinton’s Single Release Party New Hands (indie rock) doors 9 pm. insomniA DJ O­God (house/reggae/mashups). reposAdo Sol Wednesdays Spy vs Sly vs Spy.

reposAdo 136 Ossington. 416-532-6474. 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. roCkpile 5555 Dundas W. 416-504-6699. rose & thorne 264 Brown’s Line. 416-233-8827. 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. rumours nightCluB 2787 Eglinton East.

416-410-5041. the rusty nAil 2202 Danforth. 647-729-7254. sAgAn Convention Centre 7180 Edwards Blvd (Mississauga). 905-670-5220. sAlvAdor dArling 1237 Queen W. 416-534-0488. sArAh’s CAfe 1426 Danforth. 416-406-3121. sAzerAC gAstro lounge 782 King W. 647-342-8866.

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for the trumpet, twangy guitars and lonesome whistling of a spaghetti western soundtrack.

While Adventures In Your Own Backyard can’t be described as instantly catchy, its songs wend their way into your memory as if you’ve always known them.

Top track: The Quiet Crowd Patrick Watson plays the Music Hall on May 29.

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Kill For Love (Italians Do It Better) Rating: Chromatics are generally seen as another one of Johnny Jewel’s gloomy disco-inspired bands on the Italians Do It Better label (which includes Glass Candy and Desire), even though he wasn’t in the original lineup. While all the bands have their own variations on the sound, they share an affection for vintage Italodisco synths, post-punk moodiness and ice-cold female vocalists.

Critics have adored all his projects, but the big boost Chromatics got last year from their involvement in the Drive soundtrack

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Talking Points (independent) Rating: NNNN After releasing a couple of well-received split 7-inches on Pleasence Records over the past two years, local oddball janglepop outfit Gay finally have a full-length.

As their name suggests, they take an exuberant, carefree approach to their music: arty indie rock peppered with tongue-incheek lyrics, group-shout choruses and a charmingly loose lo-fi production style.

The result is a fun and unpredictable romp that incorporates varied influences.

Shotgun Harry morphs from an Elton John piano ballad into an upbeat disco stomp, while Lisa channels the cutesy urban folk of UK indie heroes Hefner. Take Me Home is a roots-inspired acoustic-and-banjo anthem, while Don’t Leave Me Hangin’, Olga pairs horns with crunchy power chords.

They’re most epic and catchy, however, on weird, wistful closer Asbestos.

Top track: Asbestos Gay release Talking Points Friday (May 4) as part of Feast In The East at Dickens Street Theatre.

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NORAH JONES Little Broken Hearts (Blue Note/EMI) Rating: NNN If you think you hate Norah Jones, this col-

means Kill For Love could reach a much larger audience.

The increased visibility couldn’t have come at a better time either, since they’ve come up with a strikingly epic album that easily lives up to the hype. At 16 tracks, it’s verging on sprawling, but it doesn’t drag, even during the long, minimalist instrumental passages. Sure, as a more condensed pop album it could also be a strong statement, but the languid pacing and excess of empty space make the perfect frame for the singalongs. If Kill For Love doesn’t make you a Chromatics believer, nothing will.

Top track: Back From The Grave BENJAMIN BOLES

laboration with producer Danger Mouse is the album that could change your mind.

The pairing not only gives the silky-voiced crooner some much-needed edge and humanity, but it also finds the producer showing more restraint and appreciation for space than he has for much too long.

Together, they’ve brought an impressively large range of new influences to her sound, including spaghetti western twang, dub reggae, ambient pop and new wave, most of which work far better than you might imagine.

Of course, it wouldn’t be Norah Jones if all this experimentation weren’t built around the easy-listening adult contemporary ballads that have brought her commercial success. And with that comes the expected blandness, but it’s much easier to digest when spiced up with more adventurous flavours. Little Broken Hearts is held back by a lack of intimacy and the unemotional stiffness we associate with Jones. Still, it’s almost a great album.

Top track: After the Fall Norah Jones plays Massey Hall July 6. BB

MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Electra

Heart (Atlantic) Rating: NN A self-proclaimed DIY pop star with equal amounts of love for Britney Spears and Daniel Johnston, British singer/songwriter Marina Diamandis takes aim at American consumer culture by embracing the conventions of its most marketable music. On her debut, The Family Jewels, this tactic resulted in an interesting but uneasy disjuncture that becomes increasingly problematic on her sophomore effort.

On Electra Heart, Diamandis trades her cabaret post-punk vocal histrionics and thrift-store chic for an unconvincing Jacqueline Susann bombshell image and more overtly top-40-friendly sound courtesy of A-list pop producers Dr. Luke, Diplo

and Greg Kurstin. Her husky, swooping voice brims with character, but it’s rarely given room to breathe here, and pairing the blunt metaphorical conceits of songs like Primadonna, Bubblegum Bitch and Homewrecker with equally unimaginative beats results in much middling and unmemorable material.

Things turn around in the third act with gentler and sweetly melodic songs Hypocrates and Fear And Loathing, two songs that end Electra Heart on a high note.

Top track: Hypocrates KEVIN RITCHIE

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Adventures In Your Own Backyard (EMI) Rating:

Polaris winner Patrick Watson’s fourth album is a sneaky surprise. Lighthouse, the twinkling piano ballad that starts things off, is slow and gentle, with Watson’s falsetto coming close to evoking Jeff Buckley’s gentler moments.

From there, Watson leads us on a journey of piano, acoustic guitar and ambient sounds, with backing vocals occasionally rising like mist. The songs unfold languidly and rarely adhere to standard versechorus-verse form. The title track is, perhaps unsurprisingly, the most adventurous, forgoing minimalist arrangements

KEVIN MYLES WILSON Businessman (inDiscover) Rating: NNN The debut EP from Toronto singer/songwriter Kevin Myles Wilson makes a solid first impression. The spacious arrangements – essentially just Wilson singing over quietly picked acoustic guitar – leave lots of opportunity for us to zero in on his voice, which is brawny, restrained and full of sincerity.

His vocals are the highlight, so it was smart to focus on them. The lyrics share a searching, melancholic quality, giving the impression of a young musician trying to find his path in life. At times they lack subtlety (My Son), but Wilson’s writing instincts largely feel right.

Touches of lap steel, strings, female vocal harmonies and percussion make effective, understated appearances. The Wasted Years has an intermittent shuffle beat, broken-hearted ditty More Than Love has a really effective French horn part, while Ode To A Businessman shows off the unforced vibrato in Wilson’s voice.

Top track: The Wasted Years Kevin Myles Wilson and his band play the El Mocambo tonight (Thursday, May 3).

CARLA GILLIS DEL BARBER Headwaters (Six Shooter)

Rating: NNN The third album by Winnipeg-based contemporary folk troubadour Del Barber, his first for Six Shooter, was culled from a collection of about 30 tunes. The 10 that made the cut showcase his smooth lefthanded guitar work and gentle, pleasant voice. The lyrics focus on travelling, touring and relationships, but there are also story songs like The Waitress.

Producer Sam Kassirer got a textured and spacious sound out of Barber’s backup band, throwing lots of reverb on the slower songs and giving the rockers just the right amount of crunch. Barber seems to be trying on different voices: hints of Joel Plaskett, Springsteen and Josh Ritter can be heard. He’s most charismatic on stripped-down fingerpicked numbers like Hen House Manifesto and the faithaddressing Right Side Of The Wrong Top track: Hen House Manifesto Del Barber plays Hugh’s Room May 16.

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Pluto (Epic/Sony) Rating: Future’s name is a bit of a misnomer. His guests are not-so-futuristic 90s standbys R. Kelly and Snoop Dogg, and he still likes the sound of Auto-Tune, so he’s not exactly George Jetson.

But Pluto nicely refreshes current rap trends and offers some genuinely forwardthinking hooks.

Yes, Future owes lots to the past – particularly his spaced-out Atlanta predecessors OutKast. But he’s concocted an amazing update of Deep South rap that sounds like an intergalactic Pimp C, with church organs, rattling drums and laser noise.

Rather than being motivated by nostalgia, Future seems to live and breathe his heroes’ knack for taking risks and getting returns.

He also has a street gravitas not heard since Young Jeezy came out of Atlanta a decade ago. On street hit Tony Montana, a menacing but outrageous single, he makes guest Drake sound like Kreayshawn.

All his best traits come together on album closer You Deserve It, an ode to hard work, commitment and patience – because the future doesn’t happen all at once.

Top track: You Deserve It JOSHUA ERRETT

Experimental

BLACK DICE Mr. Impossible (Ribbon)

Rating: NNN Mr. Impossible is easily Black Dice’s most accessible album yet, but that’s not saying much. It’s still very uneasy listening, even if the band is embracing its dance influences more explicitly, something that may piss off fans who prefer a more purist take on avant-garde music.

Even by techno standards, much of this is just barely music, and makes you feel disoriented and nauseated if you spend too much time with it. Picture Captain Beefheart trying to make house music and you’re getting close to the chaotic, herkyjerky vibe. What works best are their electronic abstractions of pop music. On songs like The Jacker, images of drunk robots trying to play rock ’n’ roll come to mind, and it’s a pleasingly giddy mess.

It’s hard to think exactly who this album is for, but there has to be demand out there somewhere for experimental music that’s explicitly fun, a band that can have a laugh without becoming a novelty act.

Top track: Pigs Black Dice play Polyhaus Saturday (May 5).

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published), 263 pages, $21.99 paper. Rating: NNNN

this is a book about depression.

Well, actually it’s a book about the conflict between a person suffering from depression and the employer who fired her for a variety of causes, many of which can be read as euphemisms for malingering.

Depressed people are often blamed for their mental state. Wong uses that observation as a starting point for her investigation into the disease. Tapping into her journalistic rigour, she gathers research on societal attitudes, symptoms and treatments – especially of the pharmaceutical variety – to give a complete profile of the disease

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and its history.

But this is a personal story. Wong fearlessly reveals the painful details of her incapacitation. In the depths of depression she could not parent her sons or write a line, had bouts of uncontrolled weeping and wallowed in confusion over how she, one of Canada’s toughest scribes, could sink to such non-functioning depths.

All of that’s compelling enough.

But the real juice is in Wong’s relationship with her employer. The publication of her Globe & Mail article about the shootings at Dawson College, in which she made reference to Quebecers’ preoccupation with racialist ideas like “pure laine,” caused a huge furor.

The PM castigated her in Parliament,

IN PERSON It’s a beautiful thing to watch a queer talent who once had only a niche audience blow up big. Alison Bechdel got lots of lesbian love for her Dykes To Watch Out For comic strip in the 90s. Then her graphic memoir Fun Home made a big splash in 2006. She follows it up with another graphic memoir, Are You My Mother? ($25.95, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), about her problematic relationship with Mom. If a recent rave in the New York Times is any indicator, Bechdel could be headed for superstardom. She reads at Buddies on Saturday (May 5), part of the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. See Readings, this page. SGC

Wong started getting scary racist hate mail, and her father’s Montreal restaurant was threatened.

Worse, the Globe left her twisting in the wind via an article written by editorin-chief Edward Greenspon that said the offending passages should have been removed. This despite the fact, as she reports it, that the national editor had encouraged the “pure laine” elements and Greenspon himself had read the piece before it went to press.

When the Dawson debacle sent her into a deep depression, her relationship with the newspaper and her insurer, Manulife, deteriorated. If what she says is true, the Globe was less than compassionate, eventually cutting her loose.

Note that the publisher of Out Of The Blue is Jan Wong. Why can’t one of Canada’s most accomplished journalists, author of four bestsellers, get a deal for a book about depression?

Doubleday was on board and then, though the manuscript was lawyered several times, “disagreed on the book’s direction.”

SUSAN G. COLE 3 Weird, eh?

Wong launches the book Monday (May 7) at the North York Central Library. See Readings, this page. For more on Wong, see page 20.

Write Books at susanc@nowtoronto.com

Thursday, May 3 GUY DELISLE Launching his graphic novel

The Jerusalem Chronicles with an interview, screening and Q&A. 7 pm. $5. Carlton Cinema, 20 Carlton. torontocomics. com.

BRAD FRASER Reading from his play True Love Lies. 6 pm. Free. Chapters, 142 John. playwrightsguild.ca.

FICTIONISTA! Alison Preston, Heather Birrell and others. 7 pm. Free. Ben McNally Books, 366 Bay. 416-361-0032.

MICHELE LANDSBERG NOW’s Susan G Cole interviews the author of Writing The Revolution. 12:30 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. 416-395-5577.

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Friday, May 4 MARCIA JOHNSON The librettist/theatre

artist reads from Courting Johanna. 6 pm.

Free. Chapters, 142 John. playwrightsguild.ca.

JEFF SMITH/GABRIEL BA/FABIO MOON Toronto Comic Arts Festival presents onstage interviews, Q&As and signings. 7 pm. Free tix required through torontocomics.com. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. 416-395-5577.

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Bechdel reads from Are You My Mother? followed by an interview and queer mixer. 6:30 pm. Free.

Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. torontocomics.com.

MALIEN-NATION Spoken word artists Lishai, Truth Is..., Ritallin and Dub Trinity perform. 8 pm. $10-$15 sliding scale. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. mayworks.ca.

Sunday, May 6 M LEFTWORDS FESTIVAL OF BOOKS AND IDEAS Readings, panels and discussions

with Frances Fox Piven, Michele Landsberg, Sean Carleton and others. 11 am-5 pm. Free. Ryerson U Student Centre, 55 Gould. mayworks.ca.

Monday, May 7 PLAYWRIGHTS CANADA SPRING LAUNCH

Readings by Maja Ardal, Ronnie Burkett, Sky Gilbert, Anusree Roy and others. 7 pm.

Free. Revival, 783 College. 416-535-7888.

JAN WONG Launching Out Of The Blue: A Memoir Of Workplace Depression, Redemption And, Yes, Happiness. 7 pm. Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

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Tuesday, May 8 MICHAEL DEAN/BRIAN DEDORA/GUY EW-

ING/LESLEY McALLISTER Launch for Ewing’s poetry book, Earth Becoming Sky, and fiction anthology Permission To Speak. 8 pm.

Free. Supermarket, 268 Augusta. teksteditions.com.

ANDREW HOOD Launching his short story collection The Cloaca in conversation with Steven Beattie. 7:30 pm. $5. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. tinars.ca.

JULIE KIRKPATRICK Evening with The Camino Letters author. 7 pm. Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

ROBERT ROTENBERG Meet the writer of Stray Bullets. 12:30 pm. Free. Indigo Eaton Centre, Yonge and Dundas. chapters.indigo.ca.

ADRIA VASIL The NOW columnist/ author reads from Ecoholic Body: Your Ultimate Earth-Friendly Guide To Living Healthy And Looking Good. 1 pm. Free.

Cedarbrae Library, 545 Markham. 416396-8850.

M VOICES OF PARKDALE Spoken word, poems and stories. 7 pm. Free. Parkdale Project Read, 1209 King W. mayworks.ca.

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Wednesday, May 9 JOHN NYMAN/TERRI FAVRO/MICHAEL FRASER/BEATRIZ HAUSNER Reading. 7:30 pm.

Free (donations appreciated). Annex Live, 296 Brunswick. 416-929-3999.

TOK 7: WRITING THE NEW TORONTO Book launch. 6 pm. Free. Gladstone, 1214 Queen W. gladstonehotel.com.

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Anonymous crowds in Philippe Chancel’s panoramic shots of mass games in Korea make a big impact.

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416-395-0067. Rating: NNNN

mocca’s exhibit takes a wary view of public space and its discontents. Anonymous crowds dominate, from Michael Wolf’s snapshots of compressed Tokyo subway commuters to Philippe Chancel’s panoramic photos of North Korean mass games.

The cold panoptic light in many of these photos brings the viewer into an uneasy voyeuristic alliance with the camera.

This is especially true for appropriated im-

MUST-SEE SHOWS C indicates Contact event CAKASHA ART PROJECTS Photos: Harry Enchin, to May 26. 511 Church, 2nd fl. 647-348-0104.

CALLIANCE FRANÇAISE DOWNTOWN Film installation: Elisa Julia Gilmour and Gemma Warren, to Jun 1. 24 Spadina Rd. 416-922-2014.

CANALOGUE GALLERY Photos: 50 Years Of The Rolling Stones group show, to May 31, reception 6-11 pm May 3. 673 Queen W. 416-901-8001.

CANGELL Photos: Jon Rafman, May 3-Jun 2, reception 6-9 pm May 3. Andrew Myers, May 3-Jun 2, reception 6-9 pm May 3. 12 Ossington. 416-530-0444.

CART SQUARE GALLERY Between Fantasy And Reality: Contemporary Photography From Cambodia, May 8-Jun 4, reception 6:30-10 pm May 9. 334 Dundas W. 416-7054331.

CBAU-XI PHOTO Dan Dubowitz, to May 31, reception/ artist’s talk 2-4 pm May 5. 324 Dundas W. 416-9770400.

BEIT ZATOUN Encoding Resistance: Graphic Design & Media Control In Syrian Uprising, to May 6. 612 Markham. 647-726-9500.

CBELLJAR CAFE Photos: Lisa Kannakko, May 3-27, reception 6-9 pm May 3. 2072 Dundas W. 416-535-0777.

CBILLBOARDS Photos: Tim Hetherington, Lansdowne at Dundas W and at College; Jim Goldberg, NE corner Front W and Spadina; to Jun 3. scotiabankcontactphoto.com.

CCIRCUIT GALLERY @ GALLERY 345 Photos: Eamon Mac Mahon and Jim Verburg, May 3-26, reception 6-9 pm

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ages. Many subjects are unaware they’re being photographed in the daily urban crush. Some faces, as in the Google Street View photos appropriated by Montreal’s Jon Rafman, are digitally blurred, underscoring the tense feeling of alienation and surveillance.

Others, like Bill Sullivan’s elevator photographs, are an attempt at candid photography that is also theatrical. Mostly, however, the ambivalence is palpable.

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Complete contact art listings at nowtoronto.com/art/listings Works by Adi Nes are at the Koffler’s offsite show at Olga Korper Gallery, as part of the Contact festival.

A dress that inflates into a tent for two, frozen ball gowns and a colossal toque…

These are just some of the intriguing works by 23 featured Canadian artists, including Kent Monkman, Aganetha Dyck, and Jana Sterbak, who explore the interplay between clothing, identity, and culture in this fascinating exhibition about our “Fashionality”.

Media Partner May 3, artists’ talk 1 pm May 5 (Sat noon-5 pm or by appt). 345 Sorauren. 647-477-2487.

CCOMMUNICATION ART GALLERY Photos: Erin Brubacher and John Haney, to May 31, reception 7-10 pm May 4.

209 Harbord. 416-588-2011.

CCONTACT GALLERY Photos: Lynne Marsh, to Jun 15. 80 Spadina #310. 416-539-9595.

CONVENIENCE Installation: Jim Verburg, to May 20. 58 Lansdowne. conveniencegallery.com.

CORKIN GALLERY Painting: Françoise Sullivan, to May 29.

55 Mill. 416-979-1980.

DIAZ CONTEMPORARY Painting: Elizabeth McIntosh, to

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May 26. 100 Niagara. 416-361-2972.

CDistillery District Photos/video: Melanie Manchot, to May 31. 55 Mill. scotiabankcontactphoto.com.

CDrake Hotel Photos: Oliver Pauk and Zach Slootsky, May 3-31, reception 7-11 pm May 3. In The Corner Of My Eye group show, to Jun 25. 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042. eDwarD Day Gallery Painting: Melissa Doherty, May 3-26, reception 6-9 pm May 3.

952 Queen W. 416-921-6540.

CesP/erin stumP Projects Photos: Kotama Bouabane, May 3-31, reception 7-10 pm May 3. 1086 1/2 Queen W. 416-834-0005.

CGallery 44 Gender And Exposure In Contemporary Iranian Photography, May 4-Jun 16, reception 6-9 pm May 4, panel 3 pm May 5. 401 Richmond W, #120. 416-979-3941.

CGallery 1313 Photos: Acts Of Exposure group show; Bill Filiou, to May 13, reception 6:30-9:30 pm May 3. 1313 Queen W. 416536-6778.

CGallery tPw Video (Images Festival): Mark Boulos, to May 26. 56 Ossington. 416645-1066.

CGallerywest Photos: Susan Bozic and Evan Tyler, to May 30, reception 7-10 pm May 3. 1172 Queen W. 416-913-7116.

CGlaDstone Hotel Photos: Exposed 2012 group show, May 3-27; photos: Laurie Kang and Jamie Campbell, to Jun 2, reception 7-10 pm May 3. Queen West Walking Art Tour, ongoing (Sat noon-2:30 pm, $25, $45/two).

1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.

Harbourfront centre HATCH performances, Kids on TV 8 pm May 5 ($15, stu/srs $12, pass $40). C Photos: Johan HallbergCampbell, to Jul 15. 1812-2012: A Contemporary Perspective; Jubilee; This Way That Way group shows, to Jul 15. 235 Queens

Quay W. 416-973-4993.

CHenryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s PHoto Photos: Arab Awakening: A Revolutionary Snapshot group show, to May 31. 119 Church. 416-368-8363.

Ci.m.a Gallery Video: Rehab Nazzal, to May 26. 80 Spadina, suite 305. 416-7032235.

CinDexG Gallery Photos: Laura BarrĂłn, to May 27. 50 Gladstone. 416-535-6957.

Cix Gallery Photos: iPhoneography group show, to May 25. 11 Davies #303. 416-4694848.

CjoHn b. airD Photo-Op 2012 group show, to May 25, reception 6-8 pm May 3. 900 Bay. 416-928-6772.

ClausberG contemPorary Photos: Katharina Mayer, to Jun 3, reception 7-10 pm May 3. 326 Dundas W. 416-516-4440.

Cle labo Photos: Raymond Gemayel, May 4-31. 55 Mill, Cannery bldg 58. 416-8611853. lonsDale Gallery Sculpture: Larry Kagan and Amanda McCavour, to May 27. 410 Spadina Rd. 416-487-8733.

Cmiles naDal jcc Photos: Shoot With This Collective, to May 29. 750 Spadina. 416-9246211.

Cmobile foto buG Vw Max Dean, to May 31. Various locations. scotiabankcontactphoto.com.

Cmonte clark Gallery Photos: Stephen Waddell, to Jun 3. 55 Mill, bldg 2. 416-7031700.

CmontGomeryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inn Photos: Judy Griffin and Carm Griffin, to Jul 2. 4709 Dundas W. 416-394-8113.

CnicHolas metiVier Photos: Michael Awad, to May 19. 451 King W. 416-2059000.

C918 batHurst centre for culture & tHe arts The Dark Room group show, to May 10.

918 Bathurst. 416-538-0868.

May 5-Jun 9, reception 2-5 pm May 5. 1026 Queen W. 416-504-0575. susan Hobbs Sculpture/video: Kevin Yates, to May 26. 137 Tecumseth. 416-504-3699. teoDoraart Painting: Ali Basiedji, to May 26. 214 Avenue Rd. 647-340-5832. toronto comic arts festiVal Jeff Smith, Alison Bechdel, Guy Delisle and others, May 5-6. Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontocomics.com.

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ocaDu Graduate Exhibition, May 3-6, recep-

tion 6:30-11 pm May 3. 100 McCaul. 416977-6000.

ColGa korPer Photos: Adi Nes, May 3-Jun 2, reception 6-9 pm May 3. Koffler offfsite, 17 Morrow. 416-538-8220. ontario crafts council Glass: Susan Rankin, May 3-31, reception 6-9 pm May 3. 990 Queen W. 416-925-4222.

Coâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;born contemPorary Photos: Jill Greenberg, to Jun 2. 131 Ossington. 416413-9555.

Coz stuDios Photos: Sandy Baron, May 6-27, reception 7-10 pm May 6. 134 Ossington. 416-792-5511.

CPari naDimi Video/photos: Matilda Aslizadeh, to May 26. 254 Niagara. 416-591-

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Pentimento fine art Gallery Photos: David Luciano, May 3-Jun 3, reception 6-9 pm May 3. 1164 Queen E. 416-406-6772.

CPikto Photos: Aaron Vincent Elkaim, to May 31, reception/artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s talk 6-10 pm May 3. 55 Mill, bldg 59. 416-203-3443.

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Installation: Pascal Grandmaison, May 3-Jul 21, reception/Prefix Photo 25 magazine launch 7-10 pm May 3. 401 Richmond W. 416-591-0357.

CriVoli Photos: Jacqueline Bruner, May 5-Jun 29. Photos: Louis Au, to Jun 30, reception 3-6 pm May 5. 332 Queen W. 416-5961908.

CstePHen bulGer Photos: Sanaz Mazinani,

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Photos: The Human Condition Of Public Space And Private Space group show, to May 31. 5050 Yonge. 416-396-7510.

Ctoronto imaGe works Photos: Robert Leslie, to Jun 4. 80 Spadina. 416-703-1999.

Ctoronto scHool of art Photos: Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The End Of The World... As We Know It group show, to May 31, reception 4-7 pm May 3, occupation event 10 am-4 pm May 4. 410 Adelaide W, 3rd floor. 416-504-7910.

Cttc subway station Posters Photos: Derek Besant, to Jun 3. scotiabankcontactphoto.com.

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ver, preview to May 3, auction 6 pm May 3 ($75). 300 City Centre (Mississauga). 905-8965088. art Gallery of oNtario Jack Chambers, to May 13. Annie MacDonell, to Jun 3. CSelections From Max Dean’s Albums: TDSB students, to Jun 3 (also at selected schools). Iain Baxter&, to Aug 12. Zhang Huan, May 5-Aug 19. Pablo Picasso, to Aug 26 ($25, stu $16.50), talk 7 pm May 9 ($20, stu $12) . CMax Dean, May 5-Sep 9. $19.50, srs $16, stu $11, free Wed 6-8:30 pm (special exhibits excluded). 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648. art Gallery of york u Diane Borsato, to Jun 10. 4700 Keele, Accolade E. 416-736-5169.

Blackwood Gallery Running With Concepts conference, May 5-6 (10 am-5 pm, $40). U of T Mississauga, 3359 Mississauga N. 905-8283789.

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Dramatic duet

Play looks at life with laughs and tears By JON KAPLAN GRUESOME PLAYGROUND INJURIES by Rajiv Joseph, directed by Stefan Dzeparoski, with Peter Mooney and Janet Porter.

Presented by BirdLand Theatre at the Theatre Centre (1076 Queen West). Opens tonight (Thursday, May 3) and runs to May 13, Tuesday-Sunday 7:30 pm, matinees Saturday-Sunday 1:30 pm (no mat May 5). $20-$30. 416-538-0988.

schoolyard cuts and scrapes hold no terrors for Kayleen and Doug, the two characters in Gruesome Playground Injuries. From childhood on, they face a whole lot worse.

Tracing three decades in the lives of the pair, beginning with their meeting at eight in the school nurse’s office, Rajiv Joseph’s play explores a push-pull relationship simultaneously horrifying in its intensity and laugh-out-loud funny.

Though the script deals with major

gashes, fireworks burns and stomach pains caused by something more deep-seated than indigestion, the scenes resonate with a dark humour that might suggest a Monty Python sketch.

“Joseph’s got this brilliant ability to write sitcom-style quick, witty banter, but the substance underneath is dark and meaty,” says Janet Porter, who plays Kayleen. “By the end of the play, the characters rip your heart out, but you’ve been laughing all the way through.”

“I’m attracted to the organic writing,” adds Peter Mooney, who plays Doug, “the fact that while Joseph deals with the specifics of these two people’s lives, he also refers simultaneously to moments outside and above the dayto-day elements, points that fill us in on who they really are.”

The playwright moves back and forth in time – projected scene titles

help us locate where we are in the characters’ lives – to trace the essential link between Doug and Kayleen.

“They meet at crucial points in their lives when an injury has happened,” explains Porter, whose previous stage work includes The Last Days Of Judas Iscariot and Family Stories: Belgrade. “We’ve talked a lot in rehearsal about how they’re magnets attracted to each other, innately made to be together despite the pain they’re in.

“Kayleen, for instance, has an innocence in addition to her dark side; she’s a damaged little soul even at eight. Realizing she’s not wanted by her family, she develops an anxiety that manifests itself in major stomach issues; I see her vomiting as a way of releasing internal pain. At the same time, she feels a numbness and fear of happiness. Doug cuts through that fear.”

In contrast, Doug comes from a background that’s “idyllic and suburban; he plays hockey and has lots of brothers,” notes Mooney, who’s performed in theatre out west and in TV series Falcon Beach and Camelot.

“But Doug also has a hell of a daredevil streak that manifests itself in recklessness. Unlike Kayleen, he’s not suffering from overt mental anguish, but experiencing life wildly and vividly. He channels the darker aspect of his personality in bizarre physical stunts that leave him with scars.”

It might sound surprising that the events in these intertwined damaged lives become funny in performance. The playwright is also part of the writing team for the blackly comic TV series Nurse Jackie.

But the comedy is there, agree the actors, who laugh and joke with each other throughout the interview. They both talk about playing the “truth of the story.”

“By the end of the play, I still want the two characters to get together so badly,” smiles Porter. “As actors, we have a bit of hope each time we play it that they’ll work it out.”

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Light laughs YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman (Soulpepper). At the Young Centre (55 Mill). In rep to June 21. $22-$68, some rush tickets. 416-866-8666. See Continuing, page 76. Rating: NNN In You Can’t Take It With You, the Sycamore family follows Henry David Thoreau’s dictum: they march to the beat of a different drummer.

The Soulpepper production of Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman’s classic American comedy has lots of emotional truth, though the laughs aren’t all yet there.

Like the Munsters or Charles Addams’s clan, the Sycamores and those residing with them live outside the mainstream but don’t see themselves as unusual. Grandpa (Eric Peterson) decided decades ago to forgo his daily job and live for fun.

His daughter,

Penny (Nancy Palk), is a playwright; her husband, Paul (Derek Boyes), builds fireworks in the basement with the help of Mr. De Pinna (Michael Simpson).

The one “normal” family member is granddaughter Alice (Krystin Pellerin), whose relationship with her boss, Tony Kirby (Gregory Prest), comes to a head when Tony’s straitlaced parents (Brenda Robins and John Jarvis) show up for dinner on the wrong night.

Much of the play’s first half is a delightful set-up for that disastrous dinner, and director Joseph Ziegler has captured much of its humour. At this point, though, the production isn’t yet driven by the strange but believable passion that everyone in the household devotes to their idée fixe.

It’s much better at finding the heart of these ebullient, lifeloving characters, an important point since the play is partly about being true to oneself rather than following social rules.

You Can’t Take It With You advocates fun, and audiences will have that even if the laugh machine isn’t totally wound up yet.

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Krystin Pellerin and Gregory Prest give heart to Kaufman and Hart.

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Passions of various sorts run high in the Canadian Opera Company double bill pairing a lesser-known tragedy by Alexander Zemlinsky with a comic gem by Giacomo Puccini.

Director Catherine Malfitano and designer Wilson Chin have set both operas in the same house but a century apart, a fascinating concept that partially pays off.

In Zemlinsky’s A Florentine Tragedy, a merchant (Alan Held) in 1920s Florence discovers his wife (Gun-Brit Barkmin) in a possible tryst with a prince (Michael König).

It’s a familiar story of cuckolding and vengeance – handled more dramatically in Puccini’s Il Tabarro. What’s fascinating is how Zemlinsky weaves elements of bitter humour and tension into his score, which is as richly tex-

Opening THE AGONY AND ECSTASY OF STEvE JObS

by Mike Daisey (Outside the March/ ñ Theatre Passe Muraille). Daisey’s exposé

about the human cost of our love of technological gadgets is presented in a found space (see cover story, page 70). Opens May 5 and runs to May 13, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun May 13 at 2 pm. $25, stu $20 (artsboxoffice.ca). Secret Location, revealed with ticket purchase. outsidethemarch.ca. bAObAb by Hélène Ducharme (Théâtre Motus/SÔ Company). An ancient tree gives birth to a boy who is destined to save a village from drought. Opens May 7 and runs to May 17, see website for schedule. $15-$20. Young People’s Theatre, 165 Front E, Studio. 416862-2222, youngpeoplestheatre.ca. bEYOND THE CUCkOO’S NEST by Edward Roy (Young People’s Theatre). This drama for ages 13-18 follows three youths who meet at a drop-in group for teens with mental health issues. Previews May 7-8. Opens May 9 and runs to May 17, see website for schedule. $15$20. 165 Front E. youngpeoplestheatre.ca.

COTTON PATCH GOSPEL by Tom Key, Russell Treyz and Harry Chapin (The Arts Engine).

Matthew’s gospel is taken from Israel to the modern-day American South in this musical.

Opens May 9 and runs to May 13, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 3 pm. $18.50-$26.50. Walmer Centre Theatre, 188 Lowther. theartsengine.ca.

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– Le Figaro tured as the exotic fabrics the merchant sells and performed beautifully by conductor Andrew Davis and the COC orchestra, even if at times the balance with the singers is off.

The staging feels a bit awkward, particularly in the latter half. But Held devours his role as the wronged man, particularly in his menacing aria about adultery.

Things are much more focused in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, set in the present day, about how the clever title character (Held again) helps alter a dead man’s will to assist the bourgeois family his daughter might soon be marrying into. It’s clever comedy with a touch of satire, and Malfitano effectively brings out the pettiness of the family while using almost every inch – horizontal and vertical – of Chin’s set.

The singers, clad in Terese Wadden’s fashion-forward costumes, are superb, especially Barbara Dever and Donato Di Stefano’s bossy cousins Zita and Simone, with René Barbera and Simone Osborne full of youthful lyricism and naivete.

Held proves as nimble a comic actor as he is frightening in the earlier dramatic role, commanding the stage with his booming baritone and sendGLENN SUMI ing audiences off happy. stu/srs $20. St Michael’s College School, 1515 Bathurst. torontomusictheatre.com.

FESTIvAL OF IDEAS AND CREATION (Canadian Stage). This development festival features readings and workshop performances of cross-disciplinary works by Anusree Roy, Gein Wong, Justin Rutledge, Jordan Tannahill, Debashis Sinha, Barbara Nichol and others.

Opens May 9 and runs to May 13, see website for details and schedule. Most events free.

Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416368-3110, canadianstage.com/festival.

GRUESOME PLAYGROUND INJURIES by Rajiv Joseph (Birdland Theatre). This drama about wounded friendships follows the lives of two childhood pals over 30 years (see story, page 68). Opens May 3 and runs to May 13, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat-Sun 1:30 pm (no mat May 5). $20-$30. Theatre Centre, 1087 Queen W. birdlandtheatre.com.

HIGH by Matthew Lombardo (The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis/Mirvish). Kathleen Turner plays a nun trying to help a drug addict in this drama about truth, redemption and human fallibility (see story, page 75). Opens May 8 and runs to May 13, Thu-Sat and Tue 8 pm, rating, price Sun and Wed 7 Search pm, matsby Sat-Sun 2 pm. $50$150. Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260genre, King W. neighbourhood, 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. review and more!

HOw TO DISAPPEAR COMPLETELY by Itai Erdal (The Chop Theatre/Performance Spring Festival). Erdal performs his solo show about the final months of his mother’s life. Opens May 8 and runs to May 13, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $30-$40. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Mainspace. 416-504-9971, factorytheatre.ca.

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As Mike Daisey’s controversial Apple exposé The Agony And The ecstasy Of Steve Jobs gets set to open here, fudged facts and all, Toronto’s newest theatre wunderkind talks about truth, art and why this show must go on. By Glenn Sumi PhotoS By Cheol Joon Baek

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THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY OF STEVE JOBS (AND THE REPUDIATION AND REDEMPTION OF MIKE DAISEY) by Daisey, directed by Mitchell Cushman, with David Ferry. Presented by Outside the March at a variety of secret locations. From Saturday (May 5) to May 13. $25, stu $20. 416504-7529, artsboxoffice.ca

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s mitchell cushman and I place our shiny iPhones on the table, we both chuckle sheepishly at the irony.

“My life revolves around it,” he says, munching a piece of banana bread at a Bloor and Ossington café with free WiFi. “I used to be very anti-Apple, but not for any political reasons. Then I saw the iPhone and had to have one. I transitioned to the dark side. The next time I buy a laptop it’ll probably be a Mac.” If there were an app for up-andcoming directors, Cushman’s curlyhaired, boyish, grinning face could be its icon.

Last summer, he made jaded Toronto theatre types literally stand up and take notice with his SummerWorks production of Noah Haidle’s Mr. Marmalade. He set the disturbing play about a lonely girl’s fantasy life in a Catholic school kindergarten classroom, complete with miniature kitchen, sinister-looking cubbyholes and chairs too small to sit on.

His take on Mike Daisey’s The Agony And The Ecstasy Of Steve Jobs could cement his reputation as the city’s newest wunderkind.

Cushman decided to mount Daisey’s show several weeks before NPR’s This American Life (which had excerpted the play) revealed that the playwright had fudged some facts in his exposé of inhumane working conditions in the Foxconn factory in China where many Apple products are made.

When the story broke, Daisey – formerly the truth-teller taking on the big corporate baddie and the evils of globalization – was branded a liar. A proposed Chicago production of the play was scrapped.

But for Cushman and his actor/ collaborator, David Ferry, the news actually gave them a key to the work.

Written and performed by Daisey, the original show chronicles the storyteller’s travels to the Shenzhenbased Foxconn factory, where he witnesses child labour, workers doing cripplingly repetitive tasks and logging spirit-crushing hours – all to produce shiny disposable toys for the privileged in the Western world.

So would Ferry, an actor, be playing Daisey, the writer/narrator?

“It’s funny,” says Cushman. “Early on we were trying to figure out who David would be in this story. He didn’t go to China, he didn’t experience these things first-hand. Then,

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caught the attention of Crow’s Theatre’s Chris Abraham, who asked him to work on the documentary play Seeds, and of Talk Is Free Theatre’s Arkady Spivak, who’s hired him to direct the cerebral show Possible Worlds next year.

Suddenly, Cushman’s plate is full. He and his company, Outside the March (which he runs with Simon Bloom), are remounting Marmalade at the same venue this July. In August he directs another challenging piece – an Irish play called Terminus performed fully in rap poetry – at SummerWorks.

He wants to polish his own script, which concerns two actors kidnapping an artistic director, this fall. Oh, and he’s a resident artist at Theatre Passe Muraille.

That’s a lot of theatre, but it comes naturally to a kid who grew up seeing and talking about theatre with his father, Robert Cushman, the theatre critic for the National Post.

“Sure, that was a real treat,” he says. “[My triplet siblings and I] were very lucky to be exposed to the arts in a heavy way. We spent a lot of summers at Stratford and Shaw. And I think it instilled in me a love of going to the theatre.”

He has many favourite shows. In grade 10, he was part of a playwriting co-op unit at the Tarragon, where he saw Kristen Thomson’s I, Claudia for the first time. He also remembers being impressed by Adam Pettle’s short play Misha, which he’s been wanting to direct for years.

And as fate would have it, one of his most exciting Toronto theatre memories, Stephen Adly Guirgis’s The Last Days Of Judas Iscariot, performed in the unique setting of the Distillery District’s Fermenting Cellar, was directed by his Mike Daisey collaborator, David Ferry.

Director, writer, producer: how does he find the energy for it all?

“You have to have as many tools in your toolkit as you can,” he says. “But I’m lucky to have great collaborators.

If you’re working with the right people, work can feel effortless. The reverse,” he smiles, “can also be true.”

And will his dad be reviewing The Agony And The Ecstasy?

“Everyone’s been asking that,” he says. “No, he won’t. It’s too much of a conflict of interest. He’s reviewed stuff I’ve assisted on, and he’s owned up to that. But he’ll be seeing the show. It’ll be a shame if he likes it that he won’t be able to write about it. But that’s probably for the best.”

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after the controversy, it snapped into focus.

“Suddenly it became a show about how drama is constructed.”

Now, through some creative revision, Cushman and Ferry have added details about the backlash, including the vilification and demonization of Daisey. (They’ve also added a clever, Daisey-style subtitle.)

In rehearsals, the pair have consulted a stack of supplementary materials, including a transcript of This American Life’s retraction episode and dozens of articles and blog posts about the news.

“We’re calling this the third act of the story,” he says. Details that have been repudiated – that Foxconn guards carry guns, for instance – will now feature commentary.

“With each of these moments, we’ll let the audience know the ‘full story’ before they hear it, or right after,” he says.

The decision to continue with the production has already raised eyebrows in the Toronto theatre community, with lots of lively and intelligent debate (see sidebar) that has even provoked Daisey himself to comment.

“I was thrilled that the conversation happened, and hopefully this production will spawn some more,” says Cushman.

One thing that should also get people talking is where the show is being performed. Ticket buyers will be contacted the morning of the performance and told the address of the venue.

Over five performances, the location will shift three or four times.

This isn’t just a gimmick.

“There are so many sides to this story, so I thought the only way to do it properly would be to present it in a range of [venues],” says Cushman. “I’ve tried to find places that speak to the prevalence of Apple technology in our community today, but also places that speak to the kind of innovative spirit Steve Jobs represented.”

A novel setting worked for his production of Mr. Marmalade, which

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DAISEY CHAIN “Daisey pumped up the facts to keep up the drama, and I relate to that temptation. But I try to maintain the integrity of the facts I Annabel Soutar find out.”

DID MIKE DAISEY’S “CREATIVE LICENCE” VIOLATE A SACRED CODE, OR WAS HE JUST BEING AN ARTIST? By SUSAN G. COLE

“I was shocked, disappointed and angry, yet pleased when Daisey came forward to talk about the nature of his work and admitted to some fabrication.”

“Why do we crucify artists when they take flights of fancy? Theatre is artifice. Anybody who says theatre can tell real truth – documentary drama – is ridiculous.”

Liza Balkan

Mess with the facts when creating a work of art and you can get into deep trouble.

Foolish me. I showed a draft of my play A Fertile Imagination – about two lesbians trying to have a baby – to my partner. Before long she was wailing in anguish about the pivotal conflict-laden baby shower scene.

“How could you do that?” she howled. “We loved our shower. What will our friends say?”

“They’ll say I’m making theatre,” I said reassuringly.

Of course, that was my story and out in the world I could get away with it. But when a narrative is wrenched from the headlines, all hell can break loose.

Now that playwright Mike Daisey has admitted to fudging some facts for The Agony And The Ecstasy Of Steve Jobs, there’s been major fallout.

Apple lovers feel vindicated, audiences feel betrayed, and some theatre artists developing the new form of documentary theatre fear the genre will lose credibility.

“I was shocked, disappointed and angry yet pleased when Daisey came forward, talked about the nature of his work and admitted to some fabrication,” says Liza Balkan, who used verbatim transcripts for Out The Window, her play about the police kill-

ing of Otto Vass.

Where Daisey plainly has a point of view and knew he had an exposé in the making, Balkan was interested in more than simply slamming the police.

“I never wanted it to be a polemic. That’s too easy, and the issues are complex, so I was painstaking in staying true to the truth of the situation.”

Annabel Soutar’s show Seeds portrays Saskatchewan farmer Percy Schmeiser, who was sued

by Monsanto for growing canola from genetically modified seeds the company manufactured that he said blew onto his land.

Soutar did more research for that piece than most journalists do for a 10,000-word story, talking to practically every farmer in the area, even checking in with Monsanto executives.

“Daisey pumped up the facts to keep up the drama,” she tells me over the phone from Montreal, “and I relate to that temptation. But I try to maintain the integrity of the facts I find out. I’m not seeking to create scandal; I’m seeking to uncover truths the public doesn’t know.”

Agony star David Ferry challenges the idea that there’s a single truth in the first place. He also starred in the recent production of Balkan’s play and is cast in the next production of Seeds.

In the wake of the NPR

controversy over Daisey’s play, he’s been an active and vocal defender of the playwright’s reputation.

It was NPR host Ira Glass who made the mistake of dealing with Daisey as if he were a journalist and not following up with any questions to Apple of his own, says Ferry. Daisey’s an artist – not a journalist.

“Theatre is all artifice,” says Ferry emphatically.

“Anybody who says theatre can tell real truth – as in documentary drama – is ridiculous. I want to tell a story that moves, stuns, excites and shocks.

“Why are we so ready to crucify artists when they take flights of fancy?

Maybe Daisey’s eyes got big and the pie was too tempting not to take,” Ferry allows, “but in the end, NPR was ready to rip his jugular out because [the network was] made to look bad.”

Chris Abraham, who helped develop both Seeds and Out The Window, isn’t so sure. In documentary theatre, he says, you forge a kind of contract with your audience, and nobody wants to be made a fool of. Soutar herself almost fell into that trap.

“Annabel thought Schmeiser was a kind of beacon of truth-telling, but in the process of investigating his story she began to worry that he wasn’t the truth-teller she thought he was,” says Abraham from

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Stratford, where he’s directing The Matchmaker this season.

Ferry cautions against trusting transcript-driven theatre works. Don’t assume, he says, that because a play is based on transcripts, intentions and meanings can’t shift.

“The way I cross my legs, the way I interpret the man I actually met – we as artists are always creating a point of view.”

Balkan, too, is far from naive about the way text can be manipulated.

“It’s what we do in the theatre. We add intention in order to understand motivation, and we can manipulate that at the drop of a hat. There were days in rehearsal when an actor would be predisposed to look at police officers negatively, and that infused the reading.”

And what’s wrong with having a point of view?

Whatever the specifics, The Agony And The Ecstasy tells an important truth: by our standards, Apple and its manufacturing partner, Foxconn, have been engaging in exploitive labour practices. The fact that Mike Daisey wrote a theatre piece about it made a big difference.

“The New York Times went over there and uncovered everything that was mentioned in the play,” Ferry says. “That’s the huge power of the poet.”

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(Split Britches). Forgotten iconic lounge acts are recreated in this show about the effects of gentrification on history and culture. May 3-5, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $20. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555.

LuBA, SIMpLy LuBA by Diane Flacks, Luba Goy and Andrey Tarasiuk (Pleiades Theatre/Red Boots Canada). Goy shares her life story. Previews May 7-8. Opens May 9 and runs to May 26, Mon-Sat 8 pm. mats May 19, 21 and 26 at 2 pm (no 8 pm show May 21). $33. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416-368-3110, canadianstage.com.

MACHOMER by Rick Miller (Stratford Festival/ WYRD Production). Miller voices characters from TV’s The Simpson’s in this solo comedic adaptation of Macbeth. Previews to May 4.

Opens May 5 and runs in rep to May 26. $30$70. Studio Theatre, 34 George E, Stratford.

1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca.

MAN Of LA MANCHA by Dale Wasserman, Mitch Leigh and Joe Darion (Alexander Singers and Players). The imprisoned Cervantes reenacts the misadventures of his novel’s protagonist in this musical. Opens May 4 and runs to May 13, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 2 pm. $27, stu/ srs $22. York Woods Library, 1785 Finch W. 416-324-1259, alexandersingers.com.

MINE by James Barrett, Paul Herwig, Martin Moreau and Kevin Sepaul (Globus Theatre).

The search for trapped miners following an explosion looks at blame and the reasons for our actions. Opens May 9 and runs to May 19, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat May 19, 2 pm. $16, stu $5.

Lakeview Arts Barn, 2300 Pigeon Lake, Bobcaygeon. 1-800-304-7897, globustheatre.com.

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val features theatre, dance, comedy, spoken word, visual art and more by Naomi Abiola, Sandra Brewster, Mason Haigh and others.

Opens May 4 and runs to May 11, see website for schedule, prices and more details. Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie, Studio 251, and other venues around the city. bcurrent.ca.

SEMELE by GF Handel (Canadian Opera Company). Handel’s opera based on Greek myth is fused with Chinese myths in this adaptation.

Opens May 9 and runs to May 26: May 9, 11, 16, 19, 22 and 24 at 7:30 pm, May 13 at 2 pm, May 26 at 4:30 pm. $12-$318. Four Seasons Centre, 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231, coc.ca.

THE SHIpMENT by Young Jean Lee (Harbourfront World Stage). This drama looks at how we unconsciously process experiences of life and theatre through a filter of racial perspective. Opens May 9 and runs to May 12, Wed-Sat 8 pm. $15-$45. Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com. uNSpOkEN by Nina Kaye (Unspoken Theatre Company). This drama looks at the darker side of romantic relationships in vignettes that are connected through the poetry of WB Yeats.

Opens May 7 and runs to May 13, Mon-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $15, stu/srs $10. Unit 102 Theatre, 376 Dufferin. 647-770-3837.

WEST SIDE STORy by Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim (Dancap Productions). The classic musical about gangs gets a staging. Opens May 8 and runs to Jun 3, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm. $51-$180. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge. 416-644-3665, dancaptickets.com.

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LOvE NOTWITHSTANDINg by Grant Tilly (A Vancouver Apt. Co-op). Two young artists agree to a time-limited relationship, but find their modern ideas at odds with their emotions. Previews May 9. Opens May 10 and runs to May 20, Wed-Sun 8 pm. $20, stu/srs $15. Red Sandcastle Theatre, 922 Queen E. 416-845-9411, redsandcastletheatre.com.

RAgTIME by Terrence McNally, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (Shaw Festival). 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.

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m ALIEN-NATION (Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts). Spoken word artists Truth Is..., Lishai and Ritallin perform pieces about workers’ struggles, discrimination and injustices. May 5 at 8 pm. $10-$15 sliding scale. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. mayworks.ca.

BELLE’S BOuDOIR (Belle Jumelles). This burlesque cabaret features Esther De Ville, Trixi Jones, Titus Androgynous, Belle Jumelles and others. May 5 at 9:30 pm. $15-$20. The Flying Beaver Pubaret, 488 Parliament. 647-3476567, brownpapertickets.com/event/244269.

HACHIOJI kuRuMA NINgyO (Japanese Can-

adian Cultural Centre). This Japanese puppet theatre show features chanted narration and English subtitles. May 8 at 7 pm. $30, stu $25.

6 Garamond. 416-441-2345, jccc.on.ca.

HALLELuJAH pEppERpOT (The Heritage Singers).

This performance explores the diverse religious music of Jamaica through singing, drumming and dance. May 6 at 6 pm. $25. Revival Time Tabernacle, 4340 Dufferin. 416-4470135, heritagesingerscanada.com.

HAROLD AWARDS (Toronto Harolds). The awards for Toronto theatre artists are presented with host Caroline Gillis. May 7 at 8 pm. $10 plus a canned food donation. El Mocambo, 464 Spadina. haroldawards.com.

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Stanley (playwright Daniel Karasik), a nerdy, smart-ass young lawyer, is representing Aaron (Nathan Barrett), a lazy, nihilistic, trust-fund 20-something charged with murder. The story expands to include Stanley’s awkward romantic attempts with high-achieving reporter Laura (Virgilia Griffith) and Aaron’s barista ex-girlfriend, Jackie (Amelia Sargisson).

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The biggest problem is relating to the characters. Great writing and acting can generate empathy for unlikeable people, but these variously flawed characters never do anything compelling, inspired or unexpected enough to hook us into caring about them. All we get are combative back-and-forth jailhouse interviews, awkward foreplay in a condo and dull corporate lunch chitchat.

Barrett’s over-privileged ne’er-dowell is believable, but Karasik unfortunately limits Aaron’s narrative thread (and potential) in favour of focusing on Stanley’s cringe-worthy sexual exploits.

On top of this, much of director Jordan Tannahill’s blocking seems like business for busyness’s sake, and some locations, like Jackie’s coffee shop, need to be better established, especially given the minimalist all-white set.

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THE HUNGARIAN ART OF SMILING by Alex Karolyi (Shadowpath Theatre). A girl poses as a boy to survive in WWII Hungary in this staged reading. Pwyc. May 5, 7:30 pm, at Toronto Waldorf School (9100 Bathurst, Thornhill). May 6, 2 pm, at Bonsai Hill Cafe (15263 Yonge, Aurora). shadowpaththeatre.ca.

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SPEAkEASy (Les Coquettes). The cabaret theatre company presents burlesque, music and more inspired by vintage NYC nightclubs in a dinner theatre show. May 6, doors 6 pm, show 8:15 pm. Dinner + show $105; show only $20$50. Revival, 783 College. lescoquettes.com. m VOICES OF PARkdALE (Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts). Area residents share spoken word performances, poems and stories. May 8 at 7 pm. Free. Parkdale Project Read, 1209 King W. mayworks.ca.

THE wALLS ARE ALIVE wITH THE SOUNd OF MAd PEOPLE (Friendly Spike Theatre Band). Theat-

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BIG IdEAS 2012 (Alumnae Theatre). Tabletop and staged readings and scenes from fulllength plays-in-progress, with works by Diane Forrest, Marianne Fedunkiw, Catherine Frid and others. Runs to May 6, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 6 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. Free. 70 Berkeley, Studio. 416-364-4170, alumnaetheatre.com.

BRING IT ON: THE MUSICAL by Jeff Whitty, LinManuel Miranda, Tom Kitt and Amanda Green (Mirvish). This musical comedy looks at high school rivalries and friendship in the world of competitive cheerleading. Runs to Jun 3, TueSat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm (see website for other times). $35-$130, rush $25.

Ed Mirvish Theatre, 244 Victoria. mirvish.com.

BROTHERS kARAMAzOV by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Wordsmyth Theatre). Four women play the roles of the brothers in this adaptation. Runs to May 20, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $29. Odyssey Studio, 636 Pape. wordsmyth.ca.

CRASH by Pamela Mala Sinha (Theatre Passe Muraille). The death of her father triggers a girl’s long-suppressed memories of an unresolved crime. Runs to May 13, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $25-$30, mat pwyc. 16 Ryerson. 416-504-7529, passemuraille.on.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 John Merrick. 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). A suicidal oddball jeopardizes a hit man’s task in this comedy, in French

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A FLORENTINE TRAGEdy/GIANNI SCHICCHI by Alexander Zemlinsky/Giacomo Puccini (Canadian Opera Company). Zemlinsky’s satire based on an unfinished Oscar Wilde play is presented with Puccini’s comedy about a greedy family members scheming over a will (see review, page 69). Runs to May 25: May 5, 15, 18 and 25 at 7:30 pm, May 12 at 4:30 pm, May 20 at 2 pm. $12-$318. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231, coc.ca. NNN (GS) 42Nd STREET by Michael Stewart, Mark Bramble, Harry Warren and Al Dubin (Etobicoke Musical Productions). A chorus girl upstages an aging diva in this 30s musical. Runs to May 12, Fri-Sat 8 pm (except May 12 at 2 pm), Sun 2 pm. $26, stu $20. Burnhamthorpe Auditorium, 500 the East Mall. e-m-p.net.

THE GAME OF LOVE ANd CHANCE by Marivaux (Canadian Stage/Centaur Theatre). Marivaux’s romantic farce from 1730 follows two young aristocrats who switch places with their servants to study each other. Hilarious performances and an intriguing set design involving movable mirror walls help spice up this otherwise tedious chestnut. Runs to May 12, MonSat 8 pm, mats Wed 1:30 pm, Sat 2 pm. $20$99, limited Mon pwyc. Bluma Appel Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-368-3110, canadianstage.com.

NNN (Jordan Bimm) 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. Runs to May 6, Sat 11 am & 2 pm Sun 2 pm. $12-$15. Wychwood Theatre, 76 Wychwood. theatredirect.ca.

THE INNOCENTS by Daniel Karasik (Innocents Collective/Tango Co). A lawyer meets a young man with a bright future who’s confessed to a senseless murder (see review, page 73). Runs to May 13, Fri-Sat and Wed 8 pm, mat Sun 2:30 pm (and May 12). $22, stu/srs $17. Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman, Near Studio. 416531-1827, tangoco.net. NN (Jordan Bimm) OIL ANd wATER by Robert Chafe (Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland/Performance Spring Festival). In 1942, a shipwrecked black American sailor is nursed by a small Newfoundland village. Thirty years later, he reminds himself of their humanity when his daughter faces racism. Director Jillian Keiley does simple wonders with Chafe’s strong script in a production that integrates music as an essential element in this moving tale. Runs to May 6, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $30-$40.

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Although her performance was praised during the Broadway run, she doesn’t hold back about her shock that it closed days after opening.

“Disappointment? Whoa! I thought I was going to die! Nothing like that’s ever happened to me before,” says the Tony and Oscar nominee. “But that’s also a reason we’re doing this.

“Still, in hindsight, we rushed it into New York. And we had a producer who really, truly damaged us.”

While Turner’s returned to the screen in series like Californication and the upcoming indie film The Perfect Family, she stands by theatre.

She’s been doing a solo show based on the late Texas journalist and shitdisturber Molly Ivins.

“It’s called Red Hot Patriot,” says Turner, with a grin. “I’m going to take it to Washington this fall, right before the election, just to inject a bit of feminism and liberalism into those bastards.”

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“Yeah, all 20 seconds of it,” laughs the actor in her trademark husky voice.

This week she bares a different part of herself in High, a role that hits home in many ways. She plays Sister Jamison Connelly, an alcoholic nun who tries to rehabilitate a meth addict. The story made the star think about her own battle with the bottle.

“I went through a period when I was abusing alcohol,” she says in a Mirvish theatre green room during a whirlwind press day that would defeat a performer half her age.

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Diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis in the early 1990s, Turner could barely walk or turn her head.

“It was hard to even describe the pain,” she says. “I just had to live it. My joints were destroyed.”

Medication changed her once svelte figure, and corrective surgeries (nine in total) altered things ever so slowly.

And so she turned to booze to selfmedicate.

“I got to the point when I realized [alcohol] wasn’t just dulling the pain, it was dulling my brain. And that’s when I got scared. I couldn’t act if I couldn’t think.”

Her personal experience in a clinic – and the research she did for High with playwright Matthew Lombardo, himself a recovering meth addict – helped her get into the skin of her tough-talking nun.

“She went through a period when she was homeless for a few years,” says Turner. “She tells a story of going to the A&P baking supplies aisle to chug bottles of vanilla extract just to get some alcohol.”

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THE TALES OF HOFFMANN by Jacques Offenbach (Canadian Opera Company).

Filled with beautiful melodies, Offenbach’s often dark opera gets a strong production in the hands of conductor Johannes Debus and director Lee Blakeley, who gives a proper fantasy tinge to the action. The singing is first rate, as is much of the acting, though tenor Russell Thomas in the lead role is dramatically bland. Runs to May 14: May 3, 8 and 14 at 7:30 pm, May 6 at 2 pm. $12-$318.

Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231, coc.ca.

NNNN (JK) THE TENNESSEE PROJECT (The Tennessee Project). Seven one-act plays by Tennessee Williams will rotate through seven different neighbourhoods, with productions by Theatre Caravel, Red One Theatre Collective, Red Light District, Afterglow Theatre and others. Runs to May 7, see website for schedule and venue addresses. $18, passes $45$85. tennesseeprojecttoronto.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 WWI battlefields where Albert (an excellent Alex Ferber) seeks the horse he loves. We appreciate the anti-war message, as well, but it’s the magic theatre

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WRONG FOR EACH OTHER by Norm Foster (Encore Entertainment). A chance meeting draws a divorced couple into flashbacks. Runs to May 6, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $28$29.50. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge, Studio Theatre. encoreshows.com.

YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU by George S Kaufman and Moss Hart (Soulpepper). A woman brings her fiancé’s conservative family home to meet her eccentric one (see review, page 68). Runs to Jun 21, see website for schedule. $51-$68, stu $32; rush $22/stu $5.

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new works by 25 artists, including Masuyo Higashide, Amy Hampton, Sung-Ah Choi, Juanita Suarez, Robin Toller and others. May 3-6, Thu-Sun 8 pm, mat Sun 2 pm. $20, stu/srs $15. Dancemakers Centre for Creation, 55 Mill, bldg 58, studio 313. 416-588-9452.

CIS DANCE FEST Conference of Independent Schools presents a performance by private school students from grades 6 to 12. May 6 at 2 pm. $10. Havergal College, 1451 Avenue Rd. ourkids.net/blog/tag/cis.

FROM THE HOUSE OF MIRTH Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie present a dance/ theatre piece inspired by Edith Wharton’s novel The House Of Mirth, choreographed by James Kudelka. Opens May 9 and runs to May 13, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat Thu 3 pm, Sat-Sun 4 pm. $50, Thu night gala $100, Thu mat pwyc.

The Citadel, 304 Parliament. 416-364-8011, colemanlemieux.com.

HISTOIRE D’AMOUR DanceWorks and Harbourfront NextSteps present a performance of vignettes by BoucharDanse that look at love through the ages, from ancient Greece to modern times. May 3-5, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $28-$33.50, stu/srs $19-$22.50. Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com.

A LITTLE BIT OF VAUDEVILLE Kaeja d’Dance presents its annual Kaeja Lounge fundraiser featuring 25 performers in various disciplines, a silent auction and more. May 5, doors 7 pm. $35, stu $20. Dovercourt House, 805 Dovercourt, Ballroom. kaeja.org.

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by Sharon B Moore, Jennifer Dallas, Christopher House and others. Opens May 3 and runs to May 12, Thu-Sat 8 pm, gala Wed 7:30 pm. $19, stu/srs $15; gala $60. Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester. schooloftdt.org.

STOMP Living Arts Centre presents the percussion and dance show. May 8-9 at 7 pm. $55-$80, child from $35. 4141 Living Arts, Mississauga. 905-306-6000, livingartscentre.ca.

Continuing AGWA/CORRERIA Harbourfront World Stage and Compagnie Käfig present an ñ all-ages double bill featuring a blend of hip-

hop and urban dance from Brazil. Runs to May 5, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $15-$45. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com.

BALLET CLASS WITH THE STARS The National Ballet of Canada presents an open class with company dancers for intermediate ballet students and spectators. May 6 at 11 am. $40 per class, $10 to watch (must preregister). Walter Carsen Centre, 470 Queens Quay W. 416-345-9595.

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around the world. Runs to May 6, Wed-Sat 8 pm, closing night party Sun 7 pm at Hugh’s Room (2261 Dundas W). $25-$45. Lithuanian House, 1573 Bloor W. 416-920-5593, bellydanceconference.com.

SLEEPING BEAUTY Etobicoke School of the Arts presents original choreography by Colleen Friedman and Gabby Kamino, set to the music of Michael Jackson. Runs to May 4, Thu-Fri 7 pm. $15-$30. 675 Royal York. esainfo.ca. 3

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Thursday, May 3 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Ryan Belleville, Diana Love, Jon Schabl and host Barry Taylor. To May 6, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:45 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10-$15.

2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

THE BOOM SHOW Drake Hotel presents the sketch troupe in a monthly show. Doors 8 pm. $10. 1150 Queen W. boomcomedy.com.

COMEDY THURSDAYS The Starving Artist presents a weekly showcase w/ host Natasha Henderson. 9 pm. Free. 584 Lansdowne.

647-342-5058, starvingartistbar.com.

GUILTY OF BEING FUNNY presents weekly stand-up w/ hosts Andrew Fox and Jamie O’Connor. 10 pm. Free. Hot Wings, 563 Queen W. 416-359-8860.

THE IMPROV SHOW Comedy Bar presents Lauren Ash, Jan Caruana, Kerry Griffin, Kayla Lorette, Carmine Lucarelli, Jerry Schaefer and Leslie Seiler. 8 pm. $5.

945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

LAUNCHPAD COMEDY presents a weekly show. 8:30 pm. Free. White Swan, 836 Danforth. 416-463-8089.

LIVE WRONG AND PROSPER Second City presents its latest revue of 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 physical comedy – including one sketch about a woman (the fabulous Inessa Frantowski) trying to join an 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. 51 Mercer.

416-343-0011, secondcity.com. NNNN (GS) THE SOAPS The National Theatre of the World presents a weekly improvised soap opera. 8 pm. $10, stu $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. thesoaps.ca.

STONER COMEDY Hot Box Cafe presents a weekly show w/ host Jillian Thomas. 7 pm. $5. 191A Baldwin. hotboxcafe.ca.

THE TASTY SHOW presents weekly stand-up w/ host Jeffrey Danson. 10 pm. Free. La Revolucion, 2848 Dundas W. 416-766-0746.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Eddie Della Siepe. To May 6, Thu-Sun 8 pm (plus Fri-Sat 10:30 pm). $12-$20. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

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JERRY SEINFELD JS Touring and Just For Laughs present the sitcom star and stand-up in a live show. To May 5, Fri-Sat 7 & 9:30 pm. $65.50-$99.50. Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Front E. 1-855-872-7669, sonycentre.ca.

LIVE WRONG AND PROSPER See Thu 3.

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.

PAUL BELLINI’S BIOPIC The Flying Beaver Pubaret presents the former Kids In The Hall writer in a live show. 9 pm. $10-$15.

488 Parliament. 647-347-6567, brownpapertickets.com/event/245532.

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THE CARNEGIE HALL SHOW: MAY THE 4TH BE WITH YOU The National Theatre

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show w/ Matt Baram, Naomi Snieckus, Chris Gibbs, Ron Pederson and guests. 11 pm. $12.

Second City, 51 Mercer. thenationaltheatreoftheworld.com.

CATCH23 Comedy Bar presents weekly competitive improv. 8 pm. $8. 945 Bloor W. 416551-6540, comedybar.ca.

COMEDY ON THE DANFORTH Timothy’s World News Café presents improv with Common Glitterati. 9 pm. Pwyc. 320 Danforth. 416461-2668, comedyonthedanforth.com.

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Drop-In workshop. 6 pm. $5. Danforth Confidential: The Improvised Soap Opera. 8 pm.

Pwyc. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor.

416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com.

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Merchant, Sean Tabares, guest Colin Mochrie and others. 7 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

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The (Very) Bad Dog Theatre presents debauched, suggestive and politically incorrect comedy for ages 18+ w/ Rob Norman, Ashley Botting, Jan Caruana and Matt Folliott. 10 pm. $10 ($5 w/ Theatresports ticket). Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-491-3115, baddogtheatre. com.

I BEAT CANCER (AND SO CAN YOU) Tyson Breuer presents his story as a cancer survivor, performed by improvisers Rob Norman, Ashley Botting, Mandy Sellers, Jan Caruana and others. 8 pm. $10 (benefit for the Sunshine Dreams for Kids Foundation). Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

JERRY SEINFELD See Fri 4.

LIVE WRONG AND PROSPER See Thu 3.

RETURN OF THE WHITE RHINO Wayne Jones presents an improv comedy party with music and prizes. 10 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

SMASH HIT Opening Night Theatre presents a weekly improvised musical. 7:30 pm. Pwyc.

Augusta House, 152 Augusta. openingnighttheatre.com.

THEATRESPORTS Bad Dog Theatre presents unscripted comedy battles. Undercard warm-up event at 7 pm, main event at 8 pm. $12, stu $10 (for one or both shows). Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-491-3115, baddogtheatre.com.

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City, 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011.

HAPPY HOUR @ EIN-STEIN presents Scott Dell, Graham Kay, Dave Shuken, Bobby Fuller, Matt Holmes, Peter Aterman, host Dave Paterson and others. 8 pm. Free. Ein-Stein, 229 College. ein-stein.ca.

LIVE WRONG AND PROSPER See Thu 3.

PIECE OF GARBAGE SEX DUNGEON: A NIGHT OF SOPHISTICATED COMEDY Revel Theatre Collect-

ive presents host Sara Hennessey and improv

by Improvniacs, the Puns of Brixton and Big in Japan. 8 pm. $5. Unit 102 Theatre, 376 Dufferin. reveltheatre.com.

SUNDAY NIGHT LIVE The Sketchersons present weekly sketch w/ guest hosts and musical acts. 9:30 pm. $8. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. thesketchersons.com.

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Monday, May 7 ALTDOT COMEDY LOUNGE Rivoli presents Alex Pavone, Rhiannon Archer, Andrew Ivimey, Chris Locke, James Ball, MC Arthur Simeon and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. Coming Soon... w/ Brandon Peniuk, Michael Jagdeo, MC David Heti and others. 11 pm. Free. 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com.

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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 weekly show w/ Russell Roy. 9 pm.

Free. 39 Colborne. 416-815-7562.

THE JOkEBOX Impulsive Entertainment presents comedy w/ the Short Form Richards, Adam David Regen, Matt Folliott, host El Jaguar and others. 8 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. impulsiveent.com.

STAND-UP AT SAZERAC presents weekly standup. 9 pm. Free. Sazerac Gastro Lounge, 782 King W. 647-342-8866, sazerac.ca.

TROUBADOUR! Bad Dog Theatre presents the competitive musical improv show for one last edition before a summer hiatus. 9 pm. Pwyc.

Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-491-3115, baddogtheatre.com.

Tuesday, May 8 BAD DOG THEATRE presents High School Confidential, teen improv. 7 pm. Bad Dog Academy Tuesdays, a student showcase. 8 pm. Wheel Of Improv, w/ Natasha Boomer and BDT faculty. 9:30 pm. $5-$7. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-491-3115, baddogtheatre.com.

FUNNY IN THE BANk Banknote presents a weekly comedy show. 9 pm. Free. 663 King W. 416-947-0404.

I HEART JOkES The Central presents weekly comedy w/ host Evan Desmarais. 7 pm. $5.

603 Markham. 416-913-4586.

THE SECOND CITY’S IMPROV ALL-STARS Second City presents a fast-paced, completely improvised weekly show. 8 pm. $20. 51 Mercer. 416343-0011, secondcity.com.

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

Wednesday, May 9 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Pro-Am Night w/

Steve Burr, Blair Streeter, Mary-Anne Gibson, Justin Sanchez, Shawn Hogan, Trixx and host Chet Wild. 8:30 pm. $6. 2335 Yonge. 416-4867700, absolutecomedy.ca.

BLACk SWAN COMEDY presents Chaos, improv with randomized teams, w/ host Ralph MacLeod. 8 pm. The Hangout, improv duos w/ host Adam Ward. 10 pm. Pwyc. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, second floor. 416-905-5388, 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 Muoi and others. 7 pm. Free. Hakuna Matata Sports Bar, 326 Parliament. 416-519-1569.

LIVE WRONG AND PROSPER See Thu 3.

SIREN’S COMEDY Celt’s Pub presents open-mic stand-up w/ Maddox Campbell and host Darren Springer. 8:30 pm. Free. 2872 Dundas W. 416-767-3339.

TACOMEDY Mark DeBonis presents weekly stand-up. 10 pm. Pwyc. La Revolucion, 2848 Dundas W. iamnotmarkdebonis.com.

THRONE OF GAMES Bad Dog Theatre presents a weekly improv show based on the Game Of Thrones fantasy series w/ Colin Munch, Paul Bates, Aurora Browne and others.

To May 23, 9:30 pm. $10-$12. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, baddogtheatre. com.

YUk YUk’S DOWNTOWN presents Kate Davis.

To May 13, Wed-Sun 8 pm (plus Fri-Sat 10:30 pm). $12-$20. 224 Richmond W. 416-9676425, yukyuks.com.

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Mark Ruffalo is rage-free when talking about The Avengers By NORMAN WILNER MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS directed by

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mark ruffalo doesn’t look like a rage monster.

In fact, the actor is downright cheerful, picking through a box of Soma chocolates he’s been given at some point in the day. He insists I try the dark chocolate and sea salt variant, if only so he doesn’t have to eat it all himself.

“No, buddy, I gotta stay away from that,” he laughs, slapping his abdomen.

“It’s like this tire here, and at any given moment it’s like, ‘Mark! Take off your shirt!’ ‘Okay!’”

The shirtless thing is an occupational hazard in his new role in Marvel’s The Avengers. As Bruce Banner, the gamma-

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irradiated scientist who turns into the Hulk when he loses control, he rips through his clothes at least twice in the movie. Fortunately, Banner doesn’t spend much on his wardrobe.

“He buys stuff at the thrift store,” Ruffalo says, explaining that he and writer/ director Joss Whedon figured that Banner’s inability to wear anything he really likes – because the Hulk would inevitably ruin it – would be part of the larger malaise afflicting the character in his third feature film outing.

“There’s a world-weariness,” Ruffalo sighs. “It’s like he’s the bad joke of the universe. It’s like a tragic comedy. ‘This is it, this is my situation: I’m fucked.’”

It’s an angle on the character that neither Eric Bana nor Edward Norton – stars of 2003’s Hulk and 2008’s The Incredible Hulk respectively – was able to tap.

“He’s in his mid-40s,” Ruffalo explains. “He’s been on the run, he’s older, he’s at that place where you know exactly who you are and who you’re not; you know what’s not possible. And you make

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peace with it or you die. Or you kill yourself.”

Suicide not being an option for Banner – think of the franchise! – he’s inevitably drawn into the Avengers superteam to face an extraterrestrial invasion.

Which presented its own set of challenges for the guy playing Bruce Banner on the set and the Hulk in motion capture.

“The hardest thing is just how discombobulated you are during it,” he says. “I’m mocapped throughout the movie. I’m doing that even before we shoot a frame of film.

“And then I’m on set with my CGI suit on and they’re like, ‘Okay, the aliens are that dot over there.’ ‘What do they look like?’ ‘I don’t know – they’re just really scary! And here’s where the sky opens up!’ It’s all shot out of order, there are all these different, disparate parts of the movie you’re shooting. And then the next thing you know, you’re sitting in a movie theatre and it’s all put together and you’re like, ‘Oh my god, that’s incredible. How did we do that?’”

The question is whether they’ll do it again. Marvel has been cagey about a third Hulk movie, but however things shake out for the big green guy, Ruffalo’s on board.

“I’m signed on for six,” he says, “whether it’s a cameo, a stand-alone or another Avengers. But, you know, there’s an obsolescence built into that. I’m in my mid-40s.”

I don’t know, I say. The idea of an older Hulk could be interesting.

Ruffalo thinks about it for a second, then tries panting, heaving his breath in and out like an exhausted monster.

“It’s kinda cool,” he says. “He’d get out of breath. He’d just be more economical in his rage.”

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The Avengers – or as it’s more formally known, Marvel’s The Avengers – is, quite simply, an epic win.

Yes, the Marvel team-up extravaganza is the culmination of years of multi-level marketing.

Heroes from half a dozen movies (and three different studios) come together to form a super-group that’s been teased ever since Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury dropped in on Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark at the end of 2008’s Iron Man. But it’s also tremendous fun, sprinting through its gargantuan adventure on a mixture of adrenaline, glee and wise-assery.

That’s mostly due to director and co-writer Joss Whedon, whose ability to render large, distinct casts of characters – perfected in his years on Buffy, Angel, Firefly and Dollhouse – is exactly what’s required for a movie of this scale.

Everything that happens is grounded in who these people are, not what they can do. Captain America (Chris Evans) perpetually sees himself as an underdog; Thor (Chris Hemsworth) has no patience with human politics; the Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) is always playing an angle; and Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) is a straight shooter.

Whedon juggles his cast expertly, giving each actor his or her moment to shine while driving the story forward. And he’s the first filmmaker to crack the problem of the Hulk, remembering that Bruce Banner (newbie Mark Ruffalo) is a scientist, not a fugitive, and that the Hulk has a personality, too.

I’d have been happy to watch these actors sit around eating pastries for two and a half hours – especially Downey and Ruffalo, who have wonderful chemistry as a pair of brainiacs with very different control issues.

But Thor’s brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston) has to go and launch an alien invasion of Earth, forcing them to suit up and fight back.

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The Headhunters hunks Norwegian actors deliver dark laughs with their brutal, blood-curdling thrills By NORMAN WILNER HEADHUNTERS directed by Morten Tyldum, written by Lars Gudmestad and Ulf Ryberg based on the novel by Jo Nesbø, with Aksel Hennie, Synnøve Macody Lund, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Julie R. Ølgaard. An Alliance Films release. 101 minutes. Subtitled. Opens Friday (May 4).

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so there’s this norwegian thriller, Headhunters, where the most awful things happen. Heads are crushed, characters are betrayed, and the movie’s hero – who’s not that much of a hero – must plunge into filth and worse to stay alive in the face of an implacable pursuer.

But here’s the twist: it’s all really, really funny.

At the Toronto Film Festival last fall, the film’s stars were giggling over some of the awful, awful things they had to do.

“So many of those are from Jo Nesbø’s writing,” says Aksel Hennie, who plays a corporate recruiter and art thief who finds himself marked for death by his latest prospect. “He doesn’t have any boundaries in the way he writes. If he wants to write something, he’ll just write it. It can be horrific, it can be, like, tragic and brutal, and you have to laugh because it’s so over the top but still in a natural setting.”

“I was laughing a lot when I read it,” says Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, who plays the cat to Hennie’s mouse. “I was like, ‘I wonder what they’re gonna do. Oh, that’s interesting.’ It’s got that heightened sense of reality,

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pushing things a little further. It’s like something crazy happened to you yesterday; when you retell the story to someone, you’re gonna add some colours.”

Hennie, best known as the star of Max Manus: Man Of War, was a friend of Head-

hunters author Nesbø but hadn’t read his books before making the movie. “Now I’ve started,” he says with a grin. “His way of writing crime is amazing…. You have these strong action-driven thriller plots, but you also have characters, and this humour in the midst of it that makes it readable for me.”

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ñ(Morten Tyldum) Rating: NNNN A corporate recruiter (Aksel Hennie from Max Manus) who moonlights as an art thief finds himself on the run when his latest scheme goes wrong – or at least that’s why he thinks he’s running – in this energetic Norwegian cat-andmouse thriller.

A streak of black comedy nicely distinguishes the story it from those dour Stieg Larsson adaptations. Hennie makes a great anti-hero, and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game Of Thrones) is charmingly casual as his psychotic pursuer.

Director Morten Tyldum keeps the plot twisting in a manner that feels both surprising and logical, but be warned: at least two of Hennie’s speedily improvised escapes get pretty messy.

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That said, it’s one thing to read about a character comically mutilating a corpse to fake his own death and another to watch someone do it in close-up.

“Some of it actually felt horrible when we did it,” says Coster-Waldau, who’s currently playing Jaime Lannister on Game Of Thrones. “And then when I saw it, I was actually laughing. I mean, it was [still] horrible, but it’s so horrible that it’s funny.”

Audiences at home responded enthusiastically to Headhunters. Hennie says it enjoyed the second-largest opening for a Norwegian film since Max Manus. And that energy has followed them to TIFF. “I’m feeling a buzz around the film that I’ve never experienced before,” he says. “The international industry is really interested in it, and that feels good.”

Of course, that may have something to do with Headhunters being the new film from Yellow Bird, the production company behind the movie versions of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy, which gave the world Lisbeth Salander.

“That’s also one of the selling points of this movie,” Coster-Waldau admits, “‘the guys who did Millennium.’ But it’s very, very different. If you laugh at The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, I don’t think it’s intentional.” 3

Detachment’s a lot like a car accident: it’s horrifying, but you can’t take your eyes off it.

Adrien Brody plays Henry, a substitute teacher whose profession – moving from classroom to classroom – perfectly suits his personal difficulty making connections.

But women have no problem attaching themselves to him. A colleague (Christina Hendricks, nothing like her Mad Men persona) appreciates his teaching gifts; an artistically inclined student falls in love; and the teenage street prostitute he shelters (charismatic relative newcomer Sami Gayle) wants more than he thinks he can give.

In the meantime, his students are angry, and the teachers – including Lucy Liu as a guidance counsellor who loses it, William Petersen, Blythe Danner and James Caan, given to superb rants – desperate.

Henry could be a game changer, but a childhood trauma has ground down his sense of self.

A cast like this doesn’t fall out of the blue. The film’s fiercely independent spirit – off-kilter dialogue, disturbing flashbacks, animated commentaries – attracted this kind of talent.

The theme’s a grabber, too. Director Tony Kaye tells the story with almost unbearable intensity in order to make his point that the New York City school system has gone into the crapper.

Detachment will doubtless divide audiences. Some will admire its style.

Others will think it’s hopelessly pretentious – Darren Aronofsky lite.

I was riveted, even if the story does SUSAN G.COLE give out in the end.

Adrien Brody gets top marks for his riveting turn in Detachment.

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back at the predominantly Jewish shmatte district in midtown Manhattan, where American fashion was invented by Yiddish-speaking immigrants and distributed to the rest of the nation.

Co-produced by New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology as something of a marketing tool, it doesn’t delve too deeply into its subject, preferring long-winded stories from the children and grandchildren of rag traders to any exploration of the working conditions of the early 20th century. (You won’t hear the words “Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire,” for example.)

But audiences of a certain age who are looking for a pleasant, slightly kitschy stroll through a vaguely remembered past will have a fine time.

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Roth revealed ROTH ON ROTH (William Karel, Livia Manera, France). 52 minutes. May 10, 4 pm, Sheppard; May 13, 1:30 pm, Bloor.

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Fest opener A Bottle In The Gaza Sea is worth uncorking.

THE TORONTO jEWISH FILM FESTIvAL at various locations from Thursday (May 3) to May 13. $8-$13, opening night $20, closing night $18. 416-3249121, tjff.com. See Indie & Rep Film, page 92.

Bottle opener A BOTTLE IN THE GAzA SEA (Thierry Binisti, France/Canada/Israel). 99 minutes. Subtitled. Tonight (Thursday, May 3), 8 pm, Varsity; Sunday (May 6), 5 pm, Sheppard Grande. Rating: NNN

Based on a young adult novel by French author Valérie Zenatti, TJFF’s opening-night gala is a well-meaning but rather insistently earnest plea for mutual understanding between Israelis and Palestinians.

After a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, an Israeli teen (Agathe Bonitzer) wonders what would drive someone to

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strap on an explosives belt. She puts her question into a bottle that her soldier brother then throws into the sea. A young Palestinian (Mahmud Shalaby) finds it and replies, starting a conversation that moves beyond initial hostility toward something like empathy – though their respective elders remain rooted in old hatreds.

It’s well acted and pleasant enough, though one gets the sense that there could be more to the drama than just NORMAN WILNER getting along.

Trial and error THE BROTHER WHO SENT THE ROSENBERGS TO THE ELECTRIC CHAIR (Clara Kuperberg, Robert Kuperberg, France). 52 minutes. Friday (May 4), 3 pm, Innis College. Rating: NNN

Rosenberg junkies may not find much that’s new in this account of the case of Julius and Ethel, who were executed in 1953 for conspiracy to commit

been lured to a once glorious, now dilapidated Indian hotel for seniors run by a spirited but scattered manager (Slumdog Millionaire’s Dev Patel).

Madden). 124 minutes. Opens Friday (May 4). For venues and times, see Movies, page 84. Rating: NNN

Here’s an example of a first-rate cast saving a middling movie. John Madden’s The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is cloying, predictable and obviously manufactured to cash in on an aging baby boomer demographic that doesn’t give two figs about The Avengers.

But when you’ve got Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Tom Wilkinson and Bill Nighy (among others) on board, who cares? They play British retirees who’ve

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Judi Dench (left) and Celia Imrie make this trip worthwhile.

espionage. It does, however, ask interesting questions.

Why did David Greenglass turn in his sister and brother in­law? What’s the significance of the fact that all the lawyers associated with the case were Jewish, including the judge? How does the Rosenbergs’ son Robert Meeropol view the uncle who betrayed his family?

And the directors make the intri­ guing argument that it was never the U.S. government’s intention to execute the Rosenbergs. It just happened.

This movie explains how. SUSAN G. COLE

Dressed up DRESSING AMERICA: TALES FROM THE GARMENT CENTER (Stephen Fischler, Joel Sucher, U.S.). 57 minutes. Sunday (May 6), 1 pm, Sheppard Grande; May 10, 3 pm, Al Green. Rating: NNN

Dressing America: Tales From The Garment Center is an affectionate look

Of course, not long after they check in, their late-in-life epiphanies begin.

The fragile widow (Dench) slowly gains self-confidence by working at a call centre, while the racist housekeeper (Smith) learns to get along with those nasty dark-skinned people. Wilkinson’s is the most intriguing character, a man haunted by a traumatic experience when he lived in India as a young man.

It all amounts to a master class in screen acting, with Dench and a terrifically understated Nighy (as a henpecked civil servant) taking top honours.

Too bad the various subplots – including an undeveloped one about the hotel manager’s overbearing mother and his girlfriend – make it longer than GLENN SUMI it needs to be.

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This TV-scale documentary does nothing to challenge the genre’s conventions, but admirers of American novelist Philip Roth shouldn’t miss it.

The title is apt. Though friends of the author – no literary heavyweights, unfortunately – occasionally weigh in, the focus is an interview with Roth.

Interesting to hear his motivation for writing his breakthrough novel, Portnoy’s Complaint, and his confession that, con­ trary to popular opinion, he’s always been more obsessed with death than with sex.

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Jewish girl for him, and Maury minces his way through the role. Imagine – Carmen Maura as Ruben’s sister is positively restrained.

French farce is an acquired taste for sure, but even fans of the genre will find the stereotypes in Let My People SGC Go tasteless.

Hitler hahas HITLER: THE COMEDY YEARS (Jacques Peretti, UK). 48 minutes. May 13, 5 pm, Al Green. Rating: NNN

This intriguing 2007 doc looks at the British and American appropriation of Adolf Hitler as a comic figure – which started at roughly the same time as the Second World War, when the British government decided the best way to encourage its citizens to resist Germany’s superior military force was to mock the funny-looking weirdo running the country.

It hits all the expected marks – The Great Dictator, The Producers, Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, Dad’s Army – and offers a rare discussion of the ludicrous 1990 Heil, Honey, I’m Home!, which infamously reimagined Hitler and Eva Braun as 1950s sitcom characters living next to a Jewish couple – and was cancelled after one episode.

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LET MY PEOPLE GO (Mikael Buch, France). 100 min. Subtitled. May 12, 9:30 pm, Bloor. Rating: NN

When Ruben (Nicolas Maury) wants to keep the whack of cash he’s acquired by strange means, his Finnish boyfriend dumps him, forcing him to return to his family in Paris in time for Passover.

The big synagogue macher (JeanLuc Bideau) is a dirty old man of a clo­ set case, Ruben’s mother wants a nice

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Empty Planet PLANET YOGA (Carlos Ferrand). 87 minutes. Opens Friday (May 4). For venues and times, see Movies, page 84. Rating: N If you want to know more about yoga, enroll in a class and read a few Wikipedia entries. While the doc Planet Yoga certainly offers a thorough breakdown of the ancient discipline, the absence of any perspective will also bore you into a state of tranquility.

Director/narrator Carlos Ferrand opens his film with a promise to explore whether yoga is a fad, a sect or something more, yet the practice is never questioned.

Can this man get a laugh? Find out in Hitler: The Comedy Years.

He interviews active yoga instructors, swamis and other folks who swear by its profound effect on their mind and body. When he recounts how popular yoga was among hippies in the 60s, he passes over the possibility that their trance-like state might have had something to do with another popular pastime.

If a religion like Scientology, also based on spiritual rehabilitation, can have its critics, why can’t yoga be interrogated for its cult-like following? At one point Ferrand simply states that “50 million North Americans can’t be wrong.” A typically naive statement.

At the end, the director finally declares: “Yoga has won me over. It has earned my respect.” No surprise there, but I can’t say I feel that way about Planet Yoga. RADHEYAN SIMONPILLAI

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ACT OF VALOR (Mouse McCoy, Scott

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

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ALBERT NOBBS (Rodrigo García) isn’t nearly

as good as its performances. Glenn Close plays an uptight butler working in a luxurious 19th-century Dublin hotel, whose big secret is that he’s actually a she. When she meets another woman (Janet McTeer) living comfortably as a man, her life takes a turn.

Close’s performance is rock solid, especially physically, while McTeer’s charm and charisma leap off the screen. Too bad the script doesn’t travel to some more interesting places about gender and sexuality in a repressed era. 113 min. NN (GS) Kingsway Theatre, Regent Theatre

AMERICAN REUNION (Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg) reassembles the cast of American Pie for a largely pointless vehicle that finds our heroes facing their Carlsberg years with a mixture of exhaustion and confusion. Seann William Scott does some amazing things with his face, and it’s nice to see the awkward chemistry between Jason Biggs and Eugene Levy remains intact. But those are fleeting moments of pleasure in a very long, empty movie. 113 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

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(Michel Hazanavicius) is a stylistic experiment pulled off with panache. A 1920s silent film star (Jean Dujardin) and fan and aspiring star (Bérénice Bejo) meet cute, and soon her career is taking off (she’s dubbed the “it girl” of talkies) as his falls into decline. Filming in gorgeous black-and-white, director Hazanavicius lovingly embraces all the tropes of silent cinema (iris shots, titles), sharpening the familiar narrative with a slight edge that should satisfy

contemporary tastes. Oscar wins include picture, director and actor. 100 min. NNNN (GS) Kennedy Commons 20, Mt Pleasant

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Madden) 124 min. See review, page 82. NNN (GS) Opens May 4 at Varsity.

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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. Committed filmmaking at its best – and guaranteed to make a difference. 108 min. NNNN (SGC) Carlton Cinema, 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,

Linfield) finds veteran nature filmmakers Fothergill (African Cats) and Linfield (Earth) documenting 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 actual 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. 78 min. NNN (NW) 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

COMIC-CON EPISODE IV: A FAN’S HOPE

(Morgan Spurlock) follows a handful of people – a collector, a costume designer, a vendor, two aspiring artists and a sweethearted nerd who’s planning to propose to his girlfriend during a Kevin Smith Q&A – through the frenzy of the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con. Staying off-camera this time, director Spurlock breaks up the busy convention footage with testimonials from 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 turn all the material into a smooth narrative – 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 all-inclusive vibe. 88 min.

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(Whit Stillman) finds writer/director Stillman (Metropolitan, Barcelona, The Last Days Of Disco) picking up precisely where he left off after a 13-year absence from filmmaking, once again

Indie queen Greta Gerwig and the O.C.’s Adam Brody hit it off in Damsels In Distress.

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Poe boy: John Cusack plays writer Edgar Allan Poe in period thriller The Raven. 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 new recruit (Analeigh Tipton of 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? 99 min. NNNN (NW) Grande - Yonge, Kingsway Theatre, Varsity

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sends an empty-nester (Diane Keaton), her distracted husband (Kevin Kline), his affable nephew (Mark Duplass), the nephew’s flighty mother (Dianne Wiest) and her doofus boyfriend (Richard Jenkins) racing all over a small Colorado town in search of a lost dog. And wouldn’t you know it, they end up learning valuable lessons about themselves and each other along the way.

Like director and co-writer Kasdan’s earlier The Big Chill and Grand Canyon, this is about well-off people whose problems turn out to be the catalyst for self-discovery and happiness. But where those earlier films were genuinely concerned with searching their characters’ souls, this one just feels ridiculously out of touch. 103 min. N (NW) Varsity

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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.

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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 uneasy laughs out of the misery, and the kids are terrific at the complicated emotional turns. 115 min. nnnn (NW) Interchange 30

detachment (Tony Kaye) 97 min. See review, page 80. nnn (SGC) Opens May 4 at Yonge & Dundas 24.

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) Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga the Five-Year engagement (Nicholas Stoller) is just as shaggy and casual as Jason Segel’s Forgetting Sarah Marshall, although the structure is more ambitious. It sprawls out over more than half a decade to chronicle the flailings of a San Francisco couple (Segel and Emily Blunt) who find their marriage plans constantly upstaged or thwarted by the simple progression of their lives. Segel and Blunt are terrific together, with a buoyant chemistry that feels both sexy and comfortable, and it’s a pleasure to hang out with their characters, even when things get difficult for them. This is a deeper and richer film than its marketing suggests – it’s ultimately about the characters’ transition from carefree post-adolescence to the more demanding realities of living as adults. 123 min. nnnn (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cin-

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Footnote (Joseph Cedar) folds an entire

universe of conflict into the tale of two Talmudic scholars: a meticulous father (Shlomo Bar-Aba) who toils angrily in obscurity and his populist, media-savvy son (Lior Ashkenazi). Writer/director Cedar satirizes academic politics, personal integrity and generational resentment, but his stylistic choices undermine the points and punchlines. Subtitled. 105 min. nnn (NW) Cumberland 4, Grande - Yonge

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, Interchange 30, Yonge & Dundas 24

assault on a hill they’ve already taken and lost 30 times or more. The movie drags here and there, and lacks much that’s new, but it packs a decent middleweight punch. An underground bunker used by both sides generates some surprise and depth. The hilly Korean countryside makes a powerful setting and the final shot of the battlefield is devastating. Subtitled. 133 min. nn (AD) Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Morten Tyldum) 101 min. See interview and review, page 80.

(NW) Opens May 4 at Varsity.

the hunger games (Gary Ross) adapts

Suazann Collins’s futuristic novel about a young girl – an excellent Jennifer Lawrence – who must participate in a televised fightto-the-death spectacle. The cast is great and the film looks terrific, but it sanitizes the material in what could have been a devastatingly dystopic film event. 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-

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

the Front Line (Hun Jang) is a well-made, energetic horrors-ofwar entry that takes its combat style from Saving Private Ryan and its characters from every movie about stress-disordered grunts since Platoon. The guys of Alligator company don’t know it, but they’re about to take part in the final battle of the Korean war, yet another

Australian wilderness, under contract to a cloak-and-dagger 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 fog-shrouded 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) Carlton Cinema

i’m Yours (Leonard Farlinger) casts Rossif

Sutherland (High Life) and Karine Vanasse (Polytechnique) in a 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 in the same space, you have to give them interesting things to do, and writer-director 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 material here. 78 min. nn (NW) Canada Square

Centre, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga

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) Regent Theatre 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) Carlton Cinema, Scotiabank Theatre

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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. Gelb patiently takes us through each step of the sushi-making process, but there are some oddities; the omission of any mention of Ono’s wife

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sticks out like a rogue grain of rice on an otherwise impeccable plate. 81 min. NNN (GS) TIFF Bell Lightbox

JourNey 2: The MysTerious islaNd

(Brad Peyton) is a sequel to Journey To The Center Of The Earth that swaps out Brendan Fraser for Dwayne Johnson, sending him and step-son Josh Hutcherson off to find Jules Verne’s impossible island. The premise becomes a frame for absurdist concepts in this anything-goes funhouse disguised as an adventure movie, and that’s not a bad thing at all. 96 min. NNN (NW) Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Kennedy Commons 20

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(Guy Maddin) finds Winnipeg’s most famous auteur in playful form with a mind-bending take on Homer’s Odyssey in which a mobster (Jason Patric) travels through his old home to return to his wife’s bed. The complexity and nods to 50s noirs and William Castle films give Maddin’s work a lot of charm that film buffs and the literary-minded will love.

Kudos also to Patric, who commands every scene and adds and extra level of wit to Maddin’s already jocular film. 105 min.

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The lady (Luc Besson) is an expensive,

Suu Kyi and her husband, though Thewlis allows himself a little fun when he plays his character’s twin brother. But every scene is staged with the self-importance of an Oscar clip because Besson can’t think of any other way to present the drama. Some subtitles. 145 min. NN (NW) Grande - Yonge, Varsity

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(James Mather, Stephen St. Leger) is basically John Carpenter’s Escape From New York in space, with Guy Pearce as a flippant ex-CIA agent sent to an orbiting prison colony to rescue the president’s visiting daughter (Maggie Grace) after 500 defrosted convicts revolt and take her hostage. The latest production from Luc Besson’s Digital Factory (The Transporter, Taken), it’s a clever cat-andmouse game given additional zing with a nicely self-aware script (co-written by Besson and the directors) and a terrific leading performance from Pearce, who nods to Kurt Russell’s Snake Plissken in his physical carriage but gives his wiseass dialogue an offthe-cuff looseness. It sounds like he’s making his lines up as he goes – which nicely matches the improvisational nature of his mission. 95 min. NNNN (NW) Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview

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ñ love iN The

Buff (Pang Ho Che-

winning activist Aung San Suu Kyi. French action czar Besson (La Femme Nikita, The Fifth Element) seems confounded by the static nature of Suu Kyi’s battle against the Burmese military dictatorship that confined her to house arrest while preventing her British husband from visiting her. Suu Kyi’s opponents are drawn as one-dimensional fanatics and thugs who delight in thwarting her; Michelle Yeoh and David Thewlis carry themselves with great dignity as

ung) is a funny and poignant sequel to 2010’s Hong Kong-set romantic comedy Love In A Puff. Hong Kong ad exec Jimmy (Shawn Yue) and his slightly older lover, Cherie (Miriam Yeung), find themselves in Beijing, where they’re dating others but are still drawn to each other. The two stars, surrounded by great comic talents and a handful of celebrity cameos, are superb, especially Leung, whose wounded Cherie expertly uses brittle repartee to hide her true feelings. Subtitled. 111 min. NNNN (GS) Kennedy Commons 20

The lucKy oNe (Scott Hicks) is a soft romance that offers weak acting and dialogue and unintentional humour. A soldier tracks down a woman whose photo he found on a Iraq battlefield. She’s aloof but secretly interested. We can’t tell if the soldier reciprocates because Zac Efron plays him with all the verve of an ox. Complications in the form of her possessive

ex-husband keep them apart until the movie ditches its golden light and soft guitar music for a Victorian melodrama climax complete with raging storm and peril on a suspension bridge. 101 min. N (AD) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, 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

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Whedon) 143 min. See interview and review, page 79. NNNN (NW) Opens May 4 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande Steeles, Humber Cinema, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity.

The MeTropoliTaN opera: das rheiNgold eNcore is an encore presentation of

the Met’s production (directed by Canada’s Robert Lepage) of the first opera in Wagner’s Ring Cycle. 195 min.

May 9, 6:30 pm, at Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yonge

Mirror Mirror (Tarsem Singh) is an allstyle, no-substance remake of Snow White that casts Julia Roberts as a bitchy cougar of an Evil Queen who wants her stepdaughter (Lily Collins) killed and the hunky prince (Armie Hammer) all to herself. Structurally, the film’s a mess. Director Singh has no idea whose story to tell, and the laughs are uninspired. 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) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24 iMpossiBle – ghosT proTocol ñMissioN:

(Brad Bird) puts genius animator Bird (The Incredibles, Ratatouille) in the driver’s seat for a bracing adventure that sends Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt and his team racing around the Eastern hemisphere to stop a madman from triggering a nuclear war between the U.S. and Russia. The movie zips

through its paces with marvellous craftsmanship; the action scenes are only incoherent when they need to be, the characters are sharply and simply defined, and the locations are attractively photographed and smartly used. Some subtitles. 133 min.

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(Philippe Falardeau) is a tender and touching drama that captures the pulse of both primary school politics and Canadian immigration.

Algerian refugee Bachir Lahzar (Fellag) becomes a substitute teacher to students struggling with grief after their former teacher’s suicide. Falardeau proves once again why he’s one of Canada’s premier talents in this focused and intelligent drama that never allows allegorical touches to overwhelm the very personal story at its centre. Subtitled. 94 min. NNNNN (RS) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre, Varsity

My Way (Kang Je-kyu) is a big-budget South Korean film about rival marathon runners – one Korean, one Japanese – who work together to survive the Second World War. 137 min.

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preseNTaTioN is a repeat broadcast from London’s National Theatre of Richard Bean’s English version of Goldoni’s Italian comedy, starring James Corden. 160 min.

May 5, 12:30 pm, at Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yonge

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(Peter Lord) is as energetic and fearlessly goofy as anything to bear the stamp of England’s Aardman Animation. When an affable Pirate Captain (voiced by Hugh Grant) and his jolly crew (including Martin Freeman, Brendan Gleeson and Anton Yelchin) embark on an adventure with scientists, the ship’s parrot brings our heroes to the attention of both Charles Darwin (David Tennant) and Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton).

The story’s cracked alternate history gets funnier as it goes along, and the film sails merrily through a

series of inspired set pieces with lusty recitations of very silly dialogue. Shot in 3-D, which allows us notice the sight gags crammed into every corner of the frame. 88 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

plaNeT yoga (Carlos Ferrand) 87 min. See

review, page 82. N (RS) Opens May 4 at Yonge & Dundas 24.

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) Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Scotiabank Theatre The raveN (James McTeigue) is a moderately entertaining murder mystery that casts famed writer Edgar Allan Poe as a sleuth when somebody uses his stories as the pattern for their grisly killings in 1849 Baltimore. The case provides some atmospheric, suspenseful fun, notably with a horseman at a party and the mystery of the missing stagehand. John continued on page 88 œ

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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) Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinema, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

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Cusack as Poe can’t make the alcoholic ranter the film depicts convincing, and neither he nor Alice Eve, the love interest, is believable as someone from the 19th century, but Cusack is enjoyable when he’s detecting or romancing. 111 min. NNN (AD) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24

Safe (Boaz Yakin) is a Jason Statham movie, always a safe bet for dumbed-down, nonstop action. The dialogue is as brutal and in-your-face as Statham’s feet, but even when Safe is bad, it’s good. Statham plays a down-on-his-luck prizefighter who finds new purpose when he must protect a young Chinese girl from the Triads, the Russian Mob and corrupt NYPD officers, all with itchy trigger fingers. Statham bounces around scenes and people like a pinball that explodes on contact. There’s something

downright existential about his character, who becomes a garbage collector, a rundown cop and/or whatever else the plot dictates at any given moment. No matter what hat he’s sporting (in any movie), when throwing down he’s always Statham: stripped-down masculinity with a bulletshaped head, a husky voice and a fist that dislocates jaws. 95 min. NNN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

WagNer’S dream (Susan Froemke) looks

at Canadian director Robert Lepage’s controversial staging of the monumental Ring Cycle for the Metropolitan Opera. 115 min.

May 7, 6:30 pm, at Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yonge

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Safe HouSe (Daniel Espinosa) is an okay

Bourne Trilogy knock-off. A novice CIA agent and a captured rogue agent go on the run when a Johannesburg safe house gets raided. Its car chases and punch-ups lack the Bourne series’ manic invention, but it still delivers solid thrills, good acting and a fast-paced if predictable spy story. 115 min.

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tHe tHree StoogeS (Peter Farrelly, Bobby

Hallström) is a light comedy about a stuffy salmon expert (Ewan McGregor) and a troubled administrator (Emily Blunt) drawn to one another while working to stock the river of a wealthy Yemeni sheik (Amr Waked) with Atlantic salmon. No, seriously.

112 min. NN (NW) Canada Square, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Kingsway Theatre, Varsity

tHe Salt of life (Gianni Di Gregorio) stars its writer/director as an early retiree who feels useless and invisible as he nears old age. It’s a very European midlife crisis movie (nobody blinks at the idea of his pondering an affair) with little plot and no real big laughs. But the details are full of honesty and charm, and Di Gregorio has a wonderfully droll deadpan face that he uses to maximum effect. Subtitled. 90 min. NNN (GS) Canada Square, Kingsway Theatre

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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

Sound of My Voice A hit at last year’s Sundance and named as one of the best indie movies of 2011 by Indiewire, Sound of My Voice is an electrifying thriller from firsttime feature director Zal Batmanglij. A Los Angeles journalist and his girlfriend infiltrate a cult with the aim of exposing its leader as a charlatan, but she is not who they expected at all. Sound of My Voice is “a nifty little spellbinder... Batmanglij appears to have channeled his limited resources for maximum effectiveness: Tamara Meem’s editing is sharp, Rachel Morrison’s lensing often splendidly unnerving as the camera presses up close against the characters” (Variety).

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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 during her dying days. Director Hui humanistic touch and gentle humour enliven the weepy material, along with the two heartbreaking lead performances. Subtitled. 117 min. NNN (Phil Brown) Kennedy Commons 20 tHiNk like a maN (Tim Story) is a slick bit

of self-promotion from author (and executive producer) Steve Harvey, who uses his tell-all guidebook, Act Like A Lady, Think Like A Man, to kick off the plot and set up the punchlines in this harmless rom-com. A handful of black women heed advice from Harvey’s bible on how to deal with male clichés like the player, the mama’s boy and the guy too comfy to drop some dime on a ring. All they really had to do was refer back to Carrie’s misadventures in Sex And The City, but then Harvey would be without a movie. There’s no point arguing that the characters are stereotypes, since the book makes a point of categorizing people by sex and malfunction. Some strong actors manage to make the most out of thin material.

122 min. NNN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity

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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) 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 Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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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.

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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) Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Queensway, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñ21 Jump Street

(Phil Lord, Christopher Miller) reboots the 80s television series, where young undercover cops pose as high school students. Thankfully it never

(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) Interchange 30

WarriorS of tHe raiNboW: Seediq bale (Wei Te-Sheng) is the largest produc-

tion in Taiwanese filmmaking history – and it shows. No expense was spared in recreating the massive battles between the indigenous Seediq tribes and their colonizing Japanese oppressors in 1930. Unfortunately this 2.5-hour international cut is roughly half the length of the original version, sacrificing characterization and narrative clarity.

Without characters to care about, the endless action quickly becomes empty and exhausting. That streamlined editorial approach might work for an unapologetic B-movie like The Raid, but not for a project with artistic aspirations attempting to honour a true story. Subtitled. 154 min. NN (Phil Brown) Scotiabank 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) Kingsway Theatre

WeSt WiNd: tHe viSioN of tom tHomSoN (Michèle Hozer, Peter Raymont) is a

straightforward doc about Group of Seven painter Tom Thomson, whose richly colourful landscapes of the harsh yet beautiful northern Ontario wilderness are well known but whose life and death are shrouded in mystery. Talking heads discuss the paintings in elaborate detail, providing context about what was going on in art circles in Toronto and the rest of the world.

The directors are less successful mining Thomson’s personal life. The shy bachelor may have left behind some broken hearts – including that of a Seattle woman who later became a romance novelist – and theories abound about his death by drowning at age 39. Was he murdered? There’s even mystery surrounding the fate of his corpse. Unfortunately, the filmmakers never unearth something that explains the man. But at least the art endures. 95 min. NNN (GS) TIFF Bell Lightbox

WratH of tHe titaNS (Jonathan Liebesman) is a worthy successor to Louis Leterrier’s Clash Of The Titans. Sam Worthington’s demigod Perseus is dragged back into the pantheistic fray when his half-brother Ares (Édgar Ramírez) betrays their father, Zeus (Liam Neeson), in a plot to unleash the monstrous Kronos from his prison in the underworld. 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) Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga3

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THE CABIN IN THE wOODS (18A) 1:05, 3:05, 5:05, 7:10, 9:10 Fri 11:10 late THE FIVE-YEAR ENgAgEMENT (14A) 12:55, 3:30, 6:50, 9:25 THE HUNgER gAMES (14A) thu 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:30 THE LUCKY ONE (PG) thu 1:00, 3:20, 5:20, 7:30, 9:35 MARVEL’S THE AVENgERS (PG) thu 12:01 Fri-Wed 12:45, 1:00, 3:45, 4:00, 6:45, 7:00, 9:45, 10:00 THE pIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS (PG) 1:15, 3:15, 5:15, 7:15, 9:20 Fri 11:15 late THE RAVEN (18A) 1:30, 4:05, 6:55, 9:15 Fri 11:20 late

LOCKOUT (14A) thu 1:50, 4:20, 7:10, 9:30 Fri 1:45, 4:30, 7:00, 9:45 sat 11:40, 2:15, 5:00, 8:00, 10:45 sun 3:30, 7:20, 10:00 mon 12:50, 3:30, 9:10 tue 12:50, 3:30, 6:30, 9:10 Wed 9:40 MARVEL’S THE AVENgERS (PG) Fri 12:00, 2:50, 3:20, 6:10, 6:40, 9:30, 10:00 sat 11:30, 12:00, 2:50, 3:20, 6:10, 6:40, 9:30, 10:00 sun 12:00, 2:00, 3:20, 5:20, 6:40, 8:40, 10:00 mon-Wed 2:50, 3:20, 6:10, 6:40, 9:30, 10:00 MARVEL’S THE AVENgERS 3D (PG) thu 12:01, 12:30 Fri-sat 12:30, 1:00, 1:30, 2:00, 3:50, 4:20, 4:50, 5:20, 7:10, 7:40, 8:10, 8:40, 10:30, 11:00, 11:30, 12:00 sun 11:30, 12:30, 1:00, 1:30, 2:50, 3:40, 4:20, 4:50, 6:10, 7:10, 7:40, 8:10, 9:30, 10:30 mon 12:30, 1:00, 1:30, 2:00, 3:50, 4:20, 4:50, 5:20, 7:10, 7:40, 8:10, 8:40, 10:30 tue 12:30, 1:00, 1:30, 2:00, 3:50, 4:20, 4:50, 5:20, 7:10, 7:40, 8:10, 8:40, 10:30, 11:00 Wed 12:30, 1:00, 1:30, 2:00, 3:40, 4:20, 4:50, 5:20, 7:10, 7:40, 8:10, 8:40, 10:30 THE METROpOLITAN OpERA: DAS RHEINgOLD ENCORE Wed 6:30 ONE MAN, TwO gUVNORS - ENCORE pRESENTATION sat 12:30 THE RAID: REDEMpTION (18A) thu 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 Fri 1:20, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00, 11:40 sat 1:15, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00, 11:45 sun 1:45, 4:30, 7:00, 9:40 mon-tue 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 9:45 Wed 1:45, 4:30, 9:45 SAFE (14A) thu 1:00, 2:00, 3:30, 5:05, 6:15, 7:30, 8:45, 10:40 Fri 12:50, 3:20, 5:50, 8:20, 10:50 sat 12:40, 4:40, 7:20, 10:20 sun 11:50, 2:30, 5:00, 8:00, 10:35 mon-tue 2:30, 5:00, 8:00, 10:35 Wed 12:50, 3:30, 7:15, 10:00 21 JUMp STREET (14A) thu 1:15, 1:45, 3:50, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Fri 12:10, 2:45, 5:30, 8:15, 10:50 sat 11:50, 2:30, 5:30, 8:20, 11:10 sun 11:30, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:20 mon 1:15, 4:50, 7:30, 10:20 tue-Wed 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:20 wAgNER’S DREAM mon 6:30 wARRIORS OF THE RAINBOw: SEEDIq BALE (14A) thu 1:00, 4:30, 8:00 Fri 3:10, 6:45, 10:20 sat 3:10, 6:50, 10:50 sun-Wed 12:45, 5:30, 9:20 wRATH OF THE TITANS (14A) thu 1:30, 4:10, 6:30, 8:50 wRATH OF THE TITANS: AN IMAx 3D ExpERIENCE (14A) thu 2:50, 5:15, 7:45, 10:10 Fri-sun 12:20, 2:40, 5:10, 7:45, 10:10 mon-Wed 2:40, 5:10, 7:45, 10:10

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

JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI (G) thu 1:00, 6:15 Fri-sun 3:45, 8:15 mon 8:15 tue-Wed 1:30, 3:45, 6:15, 8:15 KEYHOLE (14A) thu 8:30 wEST wIND: THE VISION OF TOM THOMSON thu 4:00 Fri-sun 12:45, 6:00 mon 6:00 tue-Wed 12:45, 3:30, 6:00, 8:30

varsitY (ce)

55 Bloor st W, 416-961-6304 THE BEST ExOTIC MARIgOLD HOTEL (PG) Fri-sun, tue 12:20, 1:00, 3:20, 4:00, 6:30, 7:00, 9:30, 10:10 mon, Wed 12:20, 1:00, 3:20, 4:00, 6:30, 7:10, 9:30, 10:10 BULLY (PG) thu 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:25 DAMSELS IN DISTRESS thu 12:25 2:50 5:15 7:35 10:00 FriWed 12:05, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:00 DARLINg COMpANION (PG) thu 12:15, 2:45, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 Fri-Wed 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:05 THE DEEp BLUE SEA (14A) thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 9:40 HEADHUNTERS Fri-sun, tue 12:15, 2:50, 5:25, 7:55, 10:25 mon, Wed 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 THE HUNgER gAMES (14A) thu 12:20, 3:40, 7:00, 10:15 Fri-sun, tue 12:10, 3:30, 6:50, 10:20 mon, Wed 12:10, 3:30, 6:50, 10:05

THE BEST ExOTIC MARIgOLD HOTEL (PG) Fri-Wed 12:35, 3:25, 6:15, 9:25 DAMSELS IN DISTRESS thu 12:45, 3:05, 5:25, 7:45, 9:55 DARLINg COMpANION (PG) thu 12:15, 2:35, 4:55, 7:15, 9:35 Fri-tue 12:25, 2:45, 5:05, 7:25, 9:55 Wed 5:05, 7:25, 9:55 THE HUNgER gAMES (14A) thu 12:35, 3:35, 6:35, 9:45 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:55, 7:05, 10:05 THE LADY thu 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 MARVEL’S THE AVENgERS (PG) Fri-Wed 12:15, 3:15, 6:25, 9:45

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

BULLY (PG) thu-Fri, mon, Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:00, 9:35 satsun 10:30, 1:30, 4:30, 7:00, 9:35 tue 1:30 THE CABIN IN THE wOODS (18A) thu 1:45, 4:30, 5:15, 6:15, 7:15, 7:45, 8:30, 9:45, 10:15, 10:45 Fri 1:45, 2:45, 4:30, 5:15, 7:15, 8:00, 9:45, 10:30 sat 11:15, 12:15, 1:45, 2:45, 4:30, 5:15, 7:15, 8:00, 9:45, 10:30 sun 11:15, 12:15, 1:45, 2:45, 4:30, 5:15, 7:15, 7:45, 9:45, 10:15 mon-tue 1:45, 2:45, 4:30, 5:15, 7:15, 7:45, 9:45, 10:15 Wed 1:45, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 CHIMpANzEE (G) 1:55, 3:15, 4:15, 5:30, 6:30, 7:45, 9:15, 10:15 sat-sun 11:25, 12:45 mat DETACHMENT 2:40, 5:05, 7:30, 9:55 sat-sun 12:20 mat THE FIVE-YEAR ENgAgEMENT (14A) thu 2:00, 3:00, 4:00, 5:00, 6:00, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 9:30, 10:00, 10:45 Fri 12:45, 2:00, 3:00, 4:00, 5:00, 6:00, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 9:30, 10:00, 10:45 sat 11:00, 11:45, 12:45, 2:00, 3:00, 4:00, 5:00, 6:00, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 9:30, 10:00, 10:45 sun 11:00, 11:45, 12:45, 2:00, 3:00, 4:00, 5:00, 6:00, 7:00, 7:45, 9:00, 9:30, 10:00, 10:30 mon-Wed 2:00, 3:00, 4:00, 5:00, 6:00, 7:00, 7:45, 9:00, 9:30, 10:00, 10:30 FRIENDS wITH KIDS thu 4:45, 10:05 THE FRONT LINE sat 1:00 sun 6:45 THE gLOVE Fri 7:10 HELpLESS sat-sun 4:00 JANNAT 2 3:35, 6:50, 10:10 sat-sun 11:40 mat THE LUCKY ONE (PG) thu 2:00, 2:50, 3:45, 5:30, 6:45, 7:30, 8:15, 9:30, 10:35 Fri 2:50, 5:30, 8:15, 10:45 sat 12:05, 2:50, 5:30, 8:15, 10:45 sun 12:05, 2:50, 5:30, 8:05, 10:30 mon-Wed 2:50, 3:45, 5:30, 6:20, 8:05, 9:05, 10:30 MIRROR MIRROR (PG) thu 3:40 NAMELESS gANgSTER sat 6:45 sun 1:00 THE pIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS 3D (PG) thu 1:45, 2:30, 3:00, 4:30, 5:15, 7:15, 8:00, 10:00, 10:45 Fri 1:45, 2:30, 4:30, 5:15, 7:15, 8:00, 10:00, 10:45 sat 11:15, 12:05, 1:45, 2:30, 4:30, 5:15, 7:15, 8:00, 10:00, 10:45 sun 11:15, 12:05, 1:45, 2:30, 4:30, 5:15, 7:15, 8:00, 10:00, 10:25 mon-Wed 1:45, 2:30, 4:30, 5:15, 7:15, 8:00, 10:00, 10:25 THE pIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS (PG) 3:45, 6:30, 9:15 Fri 1:00 mat sat-sun 10:30, 1:00 mat pLANET YOgA 2:20, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 sat-sun 11:45 mat THE RAVEN (18A) thu 1:45, 2:45, 4:45, 5:45, 7:30, 8:15, 10:15, 10:45 Fri 1:45, 2:45, 4:45, 5:45, 7:10, 8:15, 9:40, 10:40 sat 10:45, 11:45, 1:45, 2:45, 4:45, 5:45, 7:10, 8:15, 9:40, 10:40 sun 10:45, 11:45, 1:45, 2:45, 4:45, 5:45, 7:10, 8:05, 9:40, 10:30 mon-Wed 1:45, 2:45, 4:45, 5:45, 7:10, 8:05, 9:40, 10:30 SpELLBOUND sat-sun 9:45 TEzz (PG) thu 3:10, 6:20, 9:25 Fri, mon-Wed 2:20, 5:30 sat-sun 11:10, 2:20, 5:30 THINK LIKE A MAN (PG) thu 2:45, 4:00, 6:15, 7:15, 8:30, 9:15, 10:30 Fri 1:00, 2:45, 4:00, 6:15, 7:15, 8:30, 9:15, 10:30 sat 11:45, 1:00, 2:45, 4:00, 6:15, 7:15, 8:30, 9:15, 10:30 sun 11:45, 1:00, 2:45, 4:00, 6:15, 7:15, 8:30, 9:15, 10:15 monWed 2:45, 4:00, 6:15, 7:15, 8:30, 9:15, 10:15 THE THREE STOOgES (PG) 1:35, 3:50, 6:10 sat-sun 11:15 mat TITANIC 3D (PG) 4:15, 8:30 sat-sun 12:05 mat TITANIC: AN IMAx 3D ExpERIENCE (PG) 5:15, 9:30 Fri-sun 1:00 mat VICKY DONOR (PG) thu 1:55, 5:05

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

AMERICAN REUNION (14A) 4:20, 7:00 Fri 9:40 sat-sun 1:50 mat, 9:40

DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAx (G) thu 4:30, 6:40 Fri, mon-Wed 4:45 sat-sun 2:30, 4:45 FRIENDS wITH KIDS thu 4:20, 7:10 I’M YOURS (14A) thu 4:45, 7:20 THE LUCKY ONE (PG) Fri 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 sat-sun 2:20, 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 mon-Wed 4:40, 7:15 MIRROR MIRROR (PG) 4:00, 6:30 Fri 9:00 sat-sun 1:35 mat, 9:00 THE RAVEN (18A) 4:05, 6:35 Fri 9:05 sat-sun 1:40 mat, 9:05 SALMON FISHINg IN THE YEMEN (PG) 4:30, 7:05 Fri 9:35 sat-sun 2:00 mat, 9:35 THE SALT OF LIFE thu 4:50, 7:15 THINK LIKE A MAN (PG) 4:10, 6:50 Fri 9:30 sat-sun 1:30 mat, 9:30 THE THREE STOOgES (PG) thu 4:40, 7:00 Fri-sun 7:30, 9:35 mon-Wed 6:45 21 JUMp STREET (14A) 4:35, 7:10 Fri 9:45 sat-sun 2:10 mat, 9:45

mt Pleasant (i)

675 mt Pleasant rD, 416-489-8484 THE ARTIST (PG) Fri 9:25 sat 9:30 sun, tue-Wed 7:00 TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SpY (14A) thu 7:00 Fri-sat 6:50 sun 4:15

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

ALBERT NOBBS (14A) Fri, tue-Wed 7:00 sun 4:30 THE IRON LADY (PG) thu, sun 7:00 Fri 9:10 HOT DOCS CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL sat

silvercitY Yonge (ce) 2300 Yonge st, 416-544-1236

AMERICAN REUNION (14A) thu 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 THE CABIN IN THE wOODS (18A) thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:40, 10:00 Fri 12:40, 3:00, 5:30, 8:10, 10:50 sat 3:00, 5:30, 8:10, 10:50 sun 2:00, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 mon 2:00, 4:40, 9:50 tue 2:10, 4:40, 10:00 Wed 2:10, 4:40, 9:50 CHIMpANzEE (G) thu 1:10, 3:40, 6:50, 9:10 Fri-sat 12:15, 2:40, 4:40, 7:00, 9:15 sun 12:15, 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:15 mon 1:50, 4:00, 6:30, 8:45 tue 1:45, 4:00, 6:20, 8:45 Wed 4:00, 6:30, 8:45 THE FIVE-YEAR ENgAgEMENT (14A) thu 1:20, 4:10, 7:10, 10:00 Fri-sun 1:15, 4:10, 7:20, 10:20 mon 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 tue 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:20 Wed 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 THE HUNgER gAMES (14A) thu 3:20, 6:30, 9:35 Fri-sun 12:20, 3:30, 6:50, 10:10 mon 3:15, 6:50, 10:10 tue 12:30, 3:40, 6:50, 10:10 Wed 3:15, 6:50, 10:05 THE LUCKY ONE (PG) thu 1:30, 4:00, 6:45, 9:20 MARVEL’S THE AVENgERS (PG) Fri-sun 12:00, 3:20, 6:40, 10:00 mon, Wed 2:00, 5:30, 9:00 tue 3:00, 6:30, 9:45 MARVEL’S THE AVENgERS 3D (PG) Fri-sat 12:30, 1:00, 3:50, 4:20, 7:10, 7:40, 10:30, 11:00 sun 12:30, 1:30, 3:40, 4:50, 7:10, 8:15, 10:30 mon, Wed 1:00, 3:30, 4:30, 7:00, 8:00, 10:15 tue 12:30, 1:15, 3:50, 4:30, 7:10, 8:00, 10:30 THE METROpOLITAN OpERA: DAS RHEINgOLD ENCORE Wed 6:30 ONE MAN, TwO gUVNORS - ENCORE pRESENTATION sat 12:30 THE pIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS 3D (PG) thu 3:30, 6:40, 9:00 Fri-sun 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 mon-Wed 4:20, 6:40, 9:10 THE pIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS (PG) thu 1:00 Fri-sun 12:10 mon, Wed 1:40 tue 1:30 SAFE (14A) thu 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 9:50 Fri 12:25, 2:45, 5:15, 7:50, 10:40 sat 12:25, 5:15, 7:50, 10:40 sun 1:45, 4:20, 7:40, 10:15 mon, Wed 1:20, 3:45, 7:20, 9:30 tue 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 7:40, 10:15 21 JUMp STREET (14A) thu 1:50, 4:30, 7:20, 9:55 wAgNER’S DREAM mon 6:30

Metro

West end HumBer cinema (i) 2442 Bloor st. West, 416-232-1939

THE FIVE-YEAR ENgAgEMENT (14A) thu 1:30 4:00 7:00 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:00, 7:00, 9:45 THE HUNgER gAMES (14A) thu 1:45, 6:45 MARVEL’S THE AVENgERS (PG) thu 12:01 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 21 JUMp STREET (14A) thu 4:30, 9:45

kingsWaY tHeatre (i) 3030 Bloor st W, 416-232-1939

ALBERT NOBBS (14A) thu 1:00 DAMSELS IN DISTRESS Fri-Wed 8:55

MONSIEUR LAzHAR (PG) 5:00 SALMON FISHINg IN THE YEMEN (PG) thu 7:00 9:00 FriWed 1:00, 7:00 THE SALT OF LIFE Fri-Wed 3:00 wE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN (14A) thu 3:00

queensWaY (ce)

1025 tHe queensWaY, qeW & islington, 416-503-0424 AMERICAN REUNION (14A) thu 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 Fri 4:15, 7:00, 9:40 sat 4:10, 7:00, 9:40 sun-tue 4:05, 7:00, 9:40 Wed 4:05, 9:40 THE CABIN IN THE wOODS (18A) thu 2:40, 5:05, 7:30, 9:55 Fri 12:35, 3:05, 5:30, 8:00, 10:35 sat 3:05, 5:30, 8:00, 10:35 sun 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:50, 10:15 mon 2:15, 4:45, 10:15 tue-Wed 2:45, 5:15, 7:50, 10:15 CHIMpANzEE (G) thu 12:55, 3:05, 5:15, 7:25, 9:35 Fri-sat 1:20, 3:30, 5:40, 7:50, 10:05 sun-tue 1:20, 3:30, 5:40, 7:45, 9:55 Wed 3:30, 5:40, 7:45, 9:55 DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAx (G) thu 3:10 Fri 1:55 sat 11:35, 1:55 sun 11:30, 1:45 mon-Wed 1:45 DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAx 3D (G) thu 5:25, 7:40 THE FIVE-YEAR ENgAgEMENT (14A) thu 1:25, 4:25, 7:20, 10:15 Fri 2:10, 5:10, 8:05, 11:05 sat 11:20, 2:10, 5:10, 8:05, 11:05 sun, tue 1:15, 4:15, 7:20, 10:15 mon 12:40, 3:35, 7:20, 10:15 Wed 3:45, 6:45, 10:20 THE HUNgER gAMES (14A) thu 1:35, 4:50, 6:50, 8:05, 10:00 Fri 12:45, 4:05, 7:25, 10:40 sat 11:55, 4:15, 7:25, 10:40 sun 11:50, 3:10, 6:30, 9:45 mon-Wed 12:35, 3:40, 6:50, 10:05 INDIE gAME: THE MOVIE - A HOT DOCS LIVE pRESENTATION thu 9:00 LOCKOUT (14A) thu 2:15, 4:40, 9:30 THE LUCKY ONE (PG) thu 2:30, 5:00, 7:35, 10:05 Fri-sat 12:10, 2:40, 5:25, 7:55, 10:25 sun-Wed 1:35, 4:10, 6:55, 9:25 MARVEL’S THE AVENgERS (PG) Fri 1:30, 2:50, 4:50, 6:10, 8:10, 9:30, 11:30 sat 11:30, 12:00, 2:50, 3:20, 6:10, 6:40, 8:10, 9:30, 10:00 sun 11:30, 1:30, 2:50, 4:50, 6:10, 8:10, 9:30 mon-Wed 1:30, 3:20, 4:50, 6:40, 8:10, 10:00 MARVEL’S THE AVENgERS 3D (PG) thu 12:01 Fri 12:00, 12:30, 1:00, 2:00, 3:20, 3:50, 4:20, 5:20, 6:40, 7:10, 7:40, 8:40, 10:00, 10:30, 11:00, 12:00 sat 12:30, 1:00, 1:30, 2:00, 3:50, 4:20, 4:50, 5:20, 7:10, 7:40, 8:40, 10:30, 11:00, 11:30, 12:00 sun 12:00, 12:30, 1:00, 2:00, 3:20, 3:50, 4:20, 5:20, 6:40, 7:10, 7:40, 8:40, 10:00, 10:30 mon 12:30, 1:00, 2:00, 2:50, 3:50, 4:20, 5:20, 6:10, 7:10, 7:40, 8:40, 9:30, 10:30 tue 12:30, 1:00, 2:00, 2:50, 3:50, 4:20, 5:20, 6:10, 7:10, 7:40, 8:40, 9:30, 10:30, 11:00 Wed 12:30, 12:55, 2:00, 2:50, 3:50, 4:20, 5:20, 6:10, 7:10, 7:40, 8:40, 9:30, 10:30, 11:00 THE METROpOLITAN OpERA: DAS RHEINgOLD ENCORE Wed 6:30 MIRROR MIRROR (PG) thu 1:30, 4:10, 6:45 Fri, mon-Wed 2:20, 7:35 sat-sun 11:45, 2:20, 7:35 ONE MAN, TwO gUVNORS - ENCORE pRESENTATION sat 12:30 THE pIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS 3D (PG) thu 2:25, 4:45, 10:10 Fri-sat 3:00, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 sun 2:35, 4:55, 7:15, 9:35 mon-Wed 2:40, 4:55, 7:15, 9:35 THE pIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS (PG) thu 2:00, 4:15, 7:05 Fri-sat 12:50 sun 12:20 mon-Wed 12:30 THE RAVEN (18A) thu 1:00, 3:40, 6:20, 9:20 Fri-sat 8:20, 11:10 sun-mon, Wed 7:25, 10:05 tue 8:00, 10:40 SAFE (14A) thu 2:55, 5:20, 7:55, 10:20 Fri 12:40, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:50 sat 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:50 sun-Wed 12:35, 3:00, 5:25, 7:55, 10:25 SAFE HOUSE (14A) thu 9:55 SHORT CIRCUIT sat 11:00 THINK LIKE A MAN (PG) thu 1:15, 4:05, 6:55, 9:45 Fri 2:05, 4:55, 7:45, 10:45 sat 11:15, 2:05, 4:55, 7:45, 10:45 sun-Wed 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 THE THREE STOOgES (PG) thu 3:00, 5:30, 7:50, 10:15 Frisat 1:10, 3:35, 5:55 sun 12:25, 2:40, 5:05 mon, Wed 2:30, 5:05 tue 12:50, 3:10, 5:35 TITANIC 3D (PG) thu 12:50, 4:55, 9:00 21 JUMp STREET (14A) thu 1:20, 4:00, 6:40, 9:25 Fri 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:10 sat 11:05, 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:10 sun-Wed 1:40, 4:25, 7:05, 9:50 wAgNER’S DREAM mon 6:30 wRATH OF THE TITANS (14A) Fri-sat 5:00, 10:15 sun-Wed 5:00, 10:10 wRATH OF THE TITANS 3D (14A) thu 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40

rainBoW WooDBine (i)

WooDBine centre, 500 rexDale BlvD, 416-213-1998 THE FIVE-YEAR ENgAgEMENT (14A) 1:05, 3:55, 6:50, 9:25 THE HUNgER gAMES (14A) thu 12:55, 3:45, 6:40, 9:20 THE LUCKY ONE (PG) thu 1:30, 4:00, 7:10, 9:30 MARVEL’S THE AVENgERS (PG) Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:45, 6:40, 9:45 THE pIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS (PG) 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00, 9:15 THE RAVEN (18A) 1:25, 4:10, 7:00, 9:45 SAFE (14A) 1:15, 3:50, 7:15, 9:40 THINK LIKE A MAN (PG) 1:10, 4:05, 6:55, 9:35 THE THREE STOOgES (PG) 1:20, 3:45, 7:05, 9:35 continued on page 90 œ

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

AMERICAN REUNION (14A) thu 2:40, 4:00, 5:30, 7:00, 9:40, 11:50 Fri 12:20, 3:00, 5:40, 8:30, 11:10 sat 12:10, 3:00, 5:40, 8:30, 11:20 sun-Wed 1:15, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 THE HUNgER gAMES (14A) thu 2:15, 3:00, 6:00, 6:40, 9:10, 9:50 Fri-sat 12:40, 4:10, 7:30, 10:40 sun 11:40, 3:40, 6:50, 10:10 mon-Wed 3:40, 6:50, 10:10 INDIE gAME: THE MOVIE - A HOT DOCS LIVE pRESENTATION thu 9:00 JEFF, wHO LIVES AT HOME (14A) thu 1:10, 3:20, 10:00

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east end beACh CineMAS (AA) 1651 queen ST e, 416-699-5971

The Five-YeAr engAgemenT (14A) Thu 7:00, 9:50 FriSun 12:50, 4:00, 7:20, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:20, 10:10 The hunger gAmes (14A) Thu 6:40, 9:40 Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:40, 6:50, 9:50 Mon, Wed 3:55, 6:55, 9:50 Tue 3:40, 6:50, 9:50 The LuckY one (PG) Thu 6:50, 9:10 mArveL’s The Avengers (PG) Fri-Sun 12:00, 3:20, 6:40, 10:00 Mon, Wed 4:45, 8:00 Tue 3:20, 6:40, 9:55 mArveL’s The Avengers 3d (PG) Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:50, 7:10, 10:30 Mon, Wed 3:50, 7:00, 10:20 Tue 3:50, 7:10, 10:30 The pirATes! bAnd oF misFiTs 3d (PG) Thu 6:30, 8:50 Fri-Sun 2:20, 4:30, 7:00, 9:10 Mon, Wed 4:30, 6:40, 9:10 Tue 4:30, 7:00, 9:10 The pirATes! bAnd oF misFiTs (PG) Fri-Sun 12:10 sAFe (14A) Thu 7:10, 9:30 Fri-Sun 1:10, 4:20, 7:30, 10:20 Mon, Wed 4:20, 7:10, 9:40 Tue 4:20, 7:30, 10:20 21 Jump sTreeT (14A) Thu 7:20, 10:00

north york eMpire TheATreS AT eMpreSS WAlk (eT) 5095 yonge ST, 416-223-9550

AmericAn reunion (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 The cAbin in The Woods (18A) Thu 4:40, 7:40, 10:20 Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:40, 7:45, 10:30 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:45, 10:30 deTenTion (14A) Thu 4:20, 7:20, 9:45 Fri-Wed 10:05 The hunger gAmes (14A) Thu 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:40, 6:45, 9:45 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:45, 9:45 mArveL’s The Avengers (PG) 5:30, 8:45 Fri-Sun 2:15 mat mArveL’s The Avengers 3d (PG) Thu 12:01, 12:15 Fri-Sun 1:00, 1:30, 4:15, 4:45, 7:30, 8:00, 10:45, 11:15 Mon-Wed 4:15, 4:45, 7:30, 8:00, 10:45, 11:15 mArveL’s The Avengers: An imAx 3d experience (PG) Fri 7:00, 10:15 Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 Mon-Wed 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 sAFe (14A) 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Fri-Sun 1:10 mat Think Like A mAn (PG) Thu 3:45, 6:50, 9:50 Fri-Sun 12:50, 4:00, 7:15, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:15, 10:00 The Three sTooges (PG) Thu 4:15 TiTAnic 3d (PG) Thu 5:30, 9:30 21 Jump sTreeT (14A) Thu 4:05, 6:55, 9:55 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:40 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:40 WrATh oF The TiTAns (14A) Thu 7:15

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

buLLY (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:05, 9:40 Fri 4:30, 7:05, 9:50 Sat 1:20, 4:30, 7:05, 9:50 chimpAnzee (G) Thu 5:15, 7:15, 9:40 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:20, 6:50, 9:00 Sat-Sun 2:00, 4:20, 6:50, 9:00

dAmseLs in disTress Fri 4:25, 7:00, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:50, 4:25, 7:00, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:25, 7:00, 9:45 The Five-YeAr engAgemenT (14A) Thu 4:00, 7:10, 9:50 Fri 4:00, 7:20, 10:10 Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:20, 10:10 MonWed 4:00, 7:15, 10:00 FooTnoTe (14A) Thu 4:15, 6:50, 9:20 Fri, Mon-Tue 4:15, 6:45, 9:20 Sat-Sun 1:10, 4:15, 6:45, 9:20 Wed 4:00 indie gAme: The movie - A hoT docs Live presenTATion Thu 9:00 The LAdY Thu, Tue-Wed 4:10, 6:55, 9:55 Fri 4:10, 7:15, 10:15 Sat-Sun 12:50, 4:10, 7:15, 10:15 Mon 9:55 The LuckY one (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:20, 9:45 Fri 4:45, 7:25, 9:45 Sat-Sun 1:45, 4:45, 7:25, 9:45 Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:25, 9:40 The meTropoLiTAn operA: dAs rheingoLd encore Wed 6:30 mY WAY (18A) Thu 5:30, 8:30 one mAn, TWo guvnors - encore presenTATion Sat 12:30 The pirATes! bAnd oF misFiTs 3d (PG) Thu 5:00 7:00 9:30 Fri-Wed 5:00, 7:10, 9:30 Sat-Sun 2:50 mat The pirATes! bAnd oF misFiTs (PG) Sat 12:30 Sun 12:35 The rAven (18A) Thu 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Fri 4:40, 7:30, 10:05 Sat-Sun 1:40, 4:40, 7:30, 10:05 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 sALmon Fishing in The Yemen (PG) Thu 4:05 Fri-Sat 4:05, 6:40, 9:15 WAgner’s dreAm Mon 6:30

SilverCiTy FAirvieW (Ce)

FAirvieW MAll, 1800 SheppArd Ave e, 416-644-7746 AmericAn reunion (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:20, 10:05 Fri-Sat 10:40 Sun-Wed 10:05 dr. seuss’ The LorAx (G) Thu 1:40 The Five-YeAr engAgemenT (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:15, 10:10 Fri-Sat 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:50 Sun-Tue 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:25 Wed 4:20, 7:20, 10:25 The hunger gAmes (14A) Thu 12:50, 4:05, 7:10, 10:20 Fri-Sat 12:40, 3:50, 7:05, 10:20 Sun-Wed 12:40, 3:55, 7:05, 10:20 LockouT (14A) Thu 10:15 The LuckY one (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:50, 7:25, 10:00 Fri-Sat 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00 Sun-Wed 1:55, 4:40, 7:25 mArveL’s The Avengers (PG) Fri, Sun, Tue 12:15, 3:35, 6:55, 10:15 Sat 11:00, 12:15, 3:35, 6:55, 10:15 Mon 2:15, 5:30, 9:00 Wed 5:30, 9:00 mArveL’s The Avengers 3d (PG) Fri-Sat 12:45, 1:15, 4:05, 4:35, 7:25, 7:55, 10:45, 11:15 Sun-Wed 12:30, 1:30, 3:50, 4:45, 7:10, 8:00, 10:30 mirror mirror (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:35 The pirATes! bAnd oF misFiTs 3d (PG) Thu 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:45 Fri-Sat 2:50, 5:20, 7:40, 9:55 Sun-Wed 4:25, 6:50, 9:10 The pirATes! bAnd oF misFiTs (PG) Thu 12:30 Fri-Sat 12:20 Sun-Wed 2:00 The rAven (18A) Thu 1:20, 4:15, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Sat 12:10, 2:45, 5:25, 8:10, 11:00 Sun-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 shorT circuiT Sat 11:00 TiTAnic 3d (PG) Thu 12:45, 4:45, 8:50 21 Jump sTreeT (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:05, 9:55 Fri-Sat 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:30 Sun-Wed 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10

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

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AmericAn reunion (14A) Thu 3:35, 10:10 The cAbin in The Woods (18A) Thu 2:30, 5:05, 7:30, 9:55 Fri 8:05, 10:35 Sat 8:20, 10:45 Sun-Wed 8:05, 10:25 chimpAnzee (G) Thu 1:00, 3:05, 5:15, 7:25, 9:35 Fri, SunWed 12:50, 3:10 Sat 11:30, 1:40, 3:50 The Five-YeAr engAgemenT (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Fri 2:00, 5:00, 7:55, 10:55 Sat 11:20, 2:15, 5:10, 8:05, 11:00 Sun-Wed 1:15, 4:10, 7:05, 10:10 The hunger gAmes (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:55, 7:05, 10:15 Fri-Sun 12:10, 3:30, 7:00, 10:20 Mon-Tue 12:35, 3:45, 6:50, 10:00 Wed 12:35, 6:50, 10:00 The LuckY one (PG) Thu 2:10, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 Fri-Sat 12:15, 2:50, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40 Sun 12:15, 2:40, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05 Mon-Tue 2:20, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 Wed 4:00, 7:50, 10:20 mArveL’s The Avengers (PG) Fri-Sun 12:00, 3:20, 6:40, 10:00 Mon, Wed 2:45, 6:15, 9:30 Tue 3:20, 6:40, 10:00 mArveL’s The Avengers 3d (PG) Fri-Sat 12:30, 1:00, 3:50, 4:20, 7:10, 7:40, 10:30, 11:00 Sun, Tue 12:30, 1:15, 3:50, 4:40, 7:10, 8:00, 10:30 Mon 12:30, 1:30, 3:50, 4:45, 7:10, 8:00, 10:30 Wed 12:30, 1:15, 3:50, 4:45, 7:10, 8:00, 10:30 The pirATes! bAnd oF misFiTs 3d (PG) Thu 3:00, 5:25, 7:40, 10:00 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:45, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 Sat 2:45, 5:05, 7:30, 9:50 The pirATes! bAnd oF misFiTs (PG) Thu 12:45 Fri-Sun 12:20 Mon-Wed 12:30 sAFe (14A) Thu 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:15 Fri 12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:45 Sat 1:30, 4:30, 8:15, 10:45 Sun-Wed 12:40, 3:05, 5:35, 8:00, 10:25 shorT circuiT Sat 11:00 Think Like A mAn (PG) Thu 1:25, 4:15, 7:05, 10:05 Fri-Sat 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:50 Sun-Wed 1:10, 4:15, 7:20, 10:15 The Three sTooges (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:55, 7:15, 9:45 Fri, Sun-Wed 5:30 Sat 6:00 21 Jump sTreeT (14A) Thu 12:55

Scarborough 401 & MorningSide (Ce) 785 Milner Ave, SCArborough, 416-281-2226

AmericAn reunion (14A) Thu 5:45, 8:20, 11:00 The cAbin in The Woods (18A) Thu 4:10, 6:30, 8:50, 11:15 Fri-Sat 1:15, 3:50, 6:10, 8:45, 11:05 Sun 1:15, 3:50, 6:10, 8:30, 10:45 Mon, Wed 3:45, 6:00, 8:15, 10:30 Tue 3:50, 6:10, 8:45, 11:05 chimpAnzee (G) Thu 4:40, 7:10, 9:10 Fri 2:10, 4:15, 6:30, 8:35 Sat-Sun 12:10, 2:10, 4:15, 6:30, 8:35 Mon, Wed 4:30, 6:25, 8:30 Tue 4:15, 6:30, 8:35 The Five-YeAr engAgemenT (14A) Thu 4:05, 6:50, 9:40 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:25, 7:15, 10:15 Mon, Wed 4:10, 7:00, 9:45 Tue 4:25, 7:15, 10:15 The hunger gAmes (14A) Thu 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:25, 6:55, 9:55 Mon, Wed 3:25, 6:55, 9:55 Tue 3:00, 6:55, 9:55 The LuckY one (PG) Thu 4:20, 6:45, 9:20 mArveL’s The Avengers (PG) Fri 12:30, 2:45, 3:40, 6:20, 7:05, 9:30, 10:25 Sat-Sun 12:20, 2:45, 3:40, 6:20, 7:05, 9:30, 10:25 Mon, Wed 3:35, 5:25, 6:45, 8:40, 10:00 Tue 2:50, 3:40, 6:20, 7:05, 9:30, 10:25 mArveL’s The Avengers 3d (PG) Thu 12:01 Fri 12:45, 3:15, 4:05, 6:45, 7:25, 10:05, 10:45, 11:00 Sat 12:00, 12:45, 3:15, 4:05, 6:45, 7:25, 10:05, 10:45, 11:00 Sun 12:00, 12:45, 3:15, 4:05, 6:45, 7:25, 10:05, 10:40, 11:00 Mon, Wed 4:00, 6:15, 7:15, 9:30, 10:25 Tue 3:15, 4:00, 6:45, 7:25, 10:05, 10:45, 11:00 The pirATes! bAnd oF misFiTs 3d (PG) Thu 4:50, 7:20, 9:30 Fri 4:25, 6:35, 8:45 Sat-Sun 2:15, 4:25, 6:35, 8:45 Mon, Wed 4:20, 6:35, 9:00 Tue 4:20, 6:35, 8:45 The pirATes! bAnd oF misFiTs (PG) Fri 2:15 Sat-Sun 12:10 The rAven (18A) Thu 5:15, 8:00, 10:45 Fri-Sat, Tue 11:05 Sun 10:40 Mon, Wed 10:30 sAFe (14A) Thu 5:30, 8:10, 10:30 Fri-Sat 1:00, 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:55 Sun 1:00, 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:45 Mon, Wed 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:15 Tue 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:55 Think Like A mAn (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 Fri-Sun 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:35 Mon, Wed 4:45, 7:30, 10:10 Tue 4:45, 7:45, 10:35 The Three sTooges (PG) Thu 4:15, 6:40, 9:30

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

AmericAn reunion (14A) Thu, Sun-Mon, Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:05, 9:55 Fri-Sat, Tue 1:30, 4:40, 7:45, 10:30 The cAbin in The Woods (18A) Thu, Sun-Mon, Wed 2:10, 4:50, 7:40, 10:15 Fri, Tue 12:55, 3:15, 5:40, 8:10, 10:45 Sat 12:20, 3:15, 5:40, 8:10, 10:45 chimpAnzee (G) Thu, Sun 2:00, 5:00, 7:15, 9:30 Fri, Tue 1:00, 3:10, 5:25, 7:50, 10:00 Sat 12:30, 5:25, 7:50, 10:00 Mon 2:00, 4:10, 7:15, 9:30 Wed 2:00, 4:10, 7:15, 10:20 The Five-YeAr engAgemenT (14A) Thu, Sun-Mon, Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Fri-Sat, Tue 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:45 The hunger gAmes (14A) Thu, Sun-Mon, Wed 1:00, 4:05, 7:15, 10:30 Fri, Tue 12:50, 3:55, 7:05, 10:35 Sat 12:15, 3:55, 7:05, 10:35 The LuckY one (PG) Thu, Sun-Mon, Wed 2:05, 4:45, 7:25, 10:05 Fri 2:10, 5:15, 8:00, 10:25 Sat, Tue 2:15, 5:15, 8:00, 10:25 The meTropoLiTAn operA: dAs rheingoLd encore Wed 6:30 one mAn, TWo guvnors - encore presenTATion Sat 12:30 The pirATes! bAnd oF misFiTs 3d (PG) Thu, Sun-Mon, Wed 4:00, 7:00, 9:25 Fri, Tue 3:00, 5:15, 7:40, 9:55 Sat 1:30, 3:50, 6:05, 8:20, 10:35 The pirATes! bAnd oF misFiTs (PG) Thu 1:05 Fri, Tue 12:45 Sat 11:15 Sun-Mon, Wed 1:25 sAFe (14A) Thu, Sun-Mon, Wed 2:45, 5:20, 7:50, 10:25 Fri, Tue 12:50, 3:10, 5:35, 8:10, 10:40 Sat 12:40, 3:10, 5:35, 8:10, 10:40 shorT circuiT Sat 11:00 Think Like A mAn (PG) Thu, Sun-Mon, Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:20 Fri-Sat, Tue 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:40 TiTAnic 3d (PG) Thu, Sun-Mon, Wed 1:05, 5:15, 9:20 Fri, Tue 12:45, 5:00, 9:15 Sat 1:25, 5:30, 9:35 21 Jump sTreeT (14A) Thu, Sun-Mon, Wed 1:20, 4:05, 6:55, 9:40 Fri-Sat, Tue 1:55, 4:55, 7:55, 10:35 WAgner’s dreAm Mon 6:30

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

AmericAn reunion (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:15, 10:05 The cAbin in The Woods (18A) Thu 5:15, 7:50, 10:15 FriSat 12:45, 3:10, 5:35, 8:00, 10:35 Sun 12:20, 2:45, 5:10, 7:35, 10:00 Mon-Tue 5:10, 7:35, 10:00 Wed 5:10, 7:30, 10:00 chimpAnzee (G) Thu 5:00, 7:30, 9:50 Fri 12:00, 2:10, 4:20, 6:30, 8:30 Sat 12:00, 2:10, 4:20, 6:30, 8:40 Sun 12:25, 2:40, 5:00, 7:15 Mon, Wed 5:00, 7:15 Tue 3:35, 5:50, 8:05 The Five-YeAr engAgemenT (14A) Thu 4:10, 7:05, 10:10 Fri 2:15, 5:20, 8:20, 11:20 Sat 11:20, 2:20, 5:20, 8:20, 11:20 Sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:25, 10:25 Mon, Wed 4:20, 7:25, 10:25 Tue 4:50, 7:50, 10:50 The hunger gAmes (14A) Thu 5:30, 9:30 Fri-Sat 1:40,

5:00, 8:15, 11:30 Sun 12:20, 3:40, 7:00, 10:15 Mon-Wed 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 indie gAme: The movie - A hoT docs Live presenTATion Thu 9:00 LockouT (14A) Thu 9:40 The LuckY one (PG) Thu 4:55, 7:35, 10:05 Fri-Sat 10:55 Sun 9:30 Mon, Wed 9:25 Tue 10:20 mArveL’s The Avengers (PG) Fri-Sun 11:30, 12:00, 2:50, 3:20, 6:10, 6:40, 9:30, 10:00 Mon, Wed 5:30, 6:10, 8:45, 9:30 Tue 3:30, 6:10, 6:45, 9:30, 10:10 mArveL’s The Avengers 3d (PG) Fri-Sat 12:30, 1:00, 1:30, 3:50, 4:20, 4:50, 7:10, 7:40, 8:10, 10:30, 11:00, 11:30 Sun 12:30, 1:30, 2:30, 3:40, 4:45, 5:50, 7:10, 8:00, 9:10, 10:30 Mon, Wed 3:50, 4:45, 6:40, 7:10, 8:00, 10:00, 10:30 Tue 3:40, 4:25, 4:45, 7:10, 7:40, 8:00, 10:30, 11:00 mirror mirror (PG) Thu 4:25, 7:00 Fri-Sat 12:10, 2:45, 5:20, 8:00 Sun 11:30, 2:05, 4:45, 7:20 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:15 The pirATes! bAnd oF misFiTs 3d (PG) Thu 4:45, 7:15, 9:35 Fri-Sun 2:40, 5:05, 7:30, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:05, 9:30 The pirATes! bAnd oF misFiTs (PG) Fri, Sun 12:15 Sat 11:00, 12:15 The rAven (18A) Thu 4:35, 7:25, 10:15 Fri-Sat 12:10, 2:55, 5:40, 8:25, 11:10 Sun 1:50, 4:40, 7:25, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:25, 10:10 sAFe (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Fri 12:25, 2:55, 5:50, 8:30, 11:00 Sat 2:55, 5:50, 8:30, 11:00 Sun 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:05 Mon, Wed 5:00, 7:30, 10:05 Tue 5:45, 8:15, 10:40 shorT circuiT Sat 11:00 Think Like A mAn (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Fri-Sat 11:30, 2:20, 5:15, 8:10, 11:05 Sun 1:30, 4:25, 7:20, 10:15 Mon, Wed 4:25, 7:20, 10:15 Tue 5:10, 8:00, 11:00 The Three sTooges (PG) Thu 4:50, 7:10 Fri-Sun 12:45, 3:10, 5:30 Mon, Wed 5:30 Tue 3:30, 5:50 21 Jump sTreeT (14A) Thu 4:20, 7:05, 9:55 Fri-Mon, Wed 7:50, 10:30 Tue 8:15, 10:55 WrATh oF The TiTAns (14A) Fri-Sat 10:40 Sun-Wed 9:55 WrATh oF The TiTAns 3d (14A) Thu 4:35, 7:10, 9:45

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The ArTisT (PG) Thu-Sun 11:05, 1:40, 4:05, 6:35, 9:05 Mon-Wed 4:05, 6:35, 9:05 Avengers mArAThon Thu 11:30 dr. seuss’ The LorAx (G) Thu 11:40, 2:00, 4:25, 7:00, 9:10 Fri-Sun 11:40, 2:00, 4:25, 6:50, 9:10 Mon-Tue 2:00, 4:25, 6:50, 9:10 Wed 4:25, 6:50, 9:10 dr. seuss’ The LorAx 3d (G) Thu 11:00, 1:35, 3:50, 6:10 houseFuLL 2 (PG) Thu-Sun 11:45, 3:00, 6:15, 9:35 MonWed 3:00, 6:15, 9:35 JAnnAT 2 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Fri-Sun 12:15 mat JourneY 2: The mYsTerious isLAnd 3d (PG) Thu 10:35, 1:10, 3:35, 6:10, 8:40 LockouT (14A) Thu 10:30, 12:50, 3:20, 5:45, 8:05, 10:30 Fri-Sun 10:30, 12:50, 3:20, 5:45, 8:05, 10:25 Mon-Wed 3:20, 5:45, 8:05, 10:25 Love in The buFF Thu 10:45, 1:00, 3:15, 5:35, 8:00, 10:20 mArveL’s The Avengers (PG) Fri-Sun 11:30, 2:40, 6:00, 9:00 Mon-Tue 2:40, 6:00, 9:00 Wed 6:00, 9:00 mArveL’s The Avengers 3d (PG) Thu 12:01 Fri-Sun 10:30, 11:00, 12:30, 1:00, 1:40, 2:20, 3:40, 4:15, 4:45, 5:30, 7:00, 7:40, 8:45, 10:00, 10:30 Mon-Tue 2:20, 3:40, 4:15, 4:45, 5:30, 7:00, 7:40, 8:45, 10:00, 10:30 Wed 3:40, 4:15, 4:45, 5:30, 7:00, 7:40, 8:45, 10:00, 10:30 mirror mirror (PG) Thu 11:30, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Fri-Sun 11:40, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Mon-Tue 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Wed 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 miThivedi Thu 8:30 The rAid: redempTion (18A) Thu-Sun 11:50, 2:10, 4:45, 7:45, 10:10 Mon-Tue 2:10, 4:45, 7:45, 10:10 Wed 4:45, 7:45, 10:10 The rAven (18A) Thu-Sun 11:00, 12:30, 1:30, 3:00, 4:00, 5:30, 6:30, 8:00, 9:00, 10:30 Mon-Wed 3:00, 4:00, 5:30, 6:30, 8:00, 9:00, 10:30 sAFe house (14A) Thu 10:30, 1:20, 4:00, 7:00, 9:45 FriSun 10:40, 1:20, 4:00, 7:00, 9:45 Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:00, 9:45 A simpLe LiFe (14A) Thu-Sun 11:30, 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25 Mon-Tue 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25 Wed 5:10, 7:50, 10:25 Tezz (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:40, 6:50, 10:15 Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:40, 6:50, 10:15 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:50, 10:15 The Three sTooges (PG) Thu-Sun 11:45, 2:15, 4:30, 7:05, 9:20 Mon-Tue 2:15, 4:30, 7:05, 9:20 Wed 4:30, 7:05, 9:20 vickY donor (PG) Thu 10:40, 2:05, 5:25, 8:45 Fri-Sun 10:40, 2:05, 5:25, 9:15 Mon-Tue 2:05, 5:25, 9:15 Wed 5:25, 9:15 WrATh oF The TiTAns (14A) Thu-Sun 10:45, 1:15, 3:45, 6:15, 8:45 Mon-Wed 3:45, 6:15, 8:45 WrATh oF The TiTAns 3d (14A) Thu 11:15, 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15

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houseFuLL 2 (PG) Thu 4:00 Sat 4:45 Mon-Wed 6:45, 9:30 Tezz (PG) Thu 4:45, 6:45, 8:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 7:00, 9:30 Sat-Sun 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 vAzhAkku enn 18/9 7:00, 10:00 Sat 1:00, 4:00 mat Sun 4:00 mat

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AmericAn reunion (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:35, 7:40, 10:10 Fri-Sun 12:20, 2:45, 5:15, 7:50, 10:15 Mon-Tue 2:45, 5:15, 7:50, 10:15 Wed 5:15, 7:50, 10:15 The cAbin in The Woods (18A) Thu 1:10, 3:40, 7:20, 9:55 Fri 1:00, 3:30, 5:50, 8:15, 10:45 Sat 5:50, 8:15, 10:35 Sun 12:30, 2:55, 5:20, 8:00, 10:35 Mon-Wed 2:55, 5:20, 8:00, 10:35 dr. seuss’ The LorAx (G) Thu 12:55 Mon, Wed 1:40, 4:00

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Dr. SeuSS’ the Lorax 3D (G) Thu 3:10, 6:10, 8:30 Fri-Sat 11:10, 1:15, 3:20, 5:35 Sun, Tue 1:10, 3:25, 5:35 the hunger gameS (14A) Thu 12:45, 1:15, 4:00, 4:50, 8:00 Fri 12:50, 4:00, 7:15, 10:20 Sat 11:50, 4:15, 7:15, 10:20 Sun 12:35, 3:50, 7:10, 10:20 Mon, Wed 12:50, 3:45, 7:00, 10:20 Tue 12:50, 3:50, 7:10, 10:20 Journey 2: the mySteriouS iSLanD (PG) Thu 1:40 marveL’S the avengerS (PG) Fri-Sat 1:00, 1:30, 4:20, 4:50, 7:40, 8:10, 11:10, 11:30 Sun-Tue 1:45, 2:30, 5:10, 6:00, 8:30, 9:15 Wed 1:45, 4:20, 5:10, 7:40, 8:30 marveL’S the avengerS 3D (PG) Thu 12:01 Fri-Sat 12:00, 12:30, 3:20, 3:50, 6:40, 7:10, 10:00, 10:30 Sun 12:00, 1:00, 3:20, 4:20, 6:40, 7:40, 10:00, 11:00 Mon 1:00, 3:20, 4:20, 6:40, 7:40, 10:00 Tue 1:00, 3:20, 4:20, 6:40, 7:40, 10:00, 11:00 Wed 2:30, 5:50, 6:40, 9:15, 10:00 marveL’S the avengerS: an imax 3D experience (PG) Thu 12:01 Fri-Sat 11:00, 2:00, 5:00, 8:00, 11:00 Sun-Wed 12:45, 4:00, 7:15, 10:30 the metropoLitan opera: DaS rheingoLD encore Wed 6:30 one man, two guvnorS - encore preSentation Sat 12:30 the raiD: reDemption (18A) Thu 3:50, 6:40, 9:40 Safe (14A) Thu 2:10, 5:00, 7:50, 10:30 Fri-Sat 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:20, 10:50 Sun 12:50, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40 MonWed 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40 Short circuit Sat 11:00 think Like a man (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:15, 7:30, 10:30 Fri-Sat 1:10, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Sun 1:00, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 the three StoogeS (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:20, 6:20, 8:40 titanic 3D (PG) Thu 1:20, 5:20, 9:20 Fri-Sat 11:40, 3:40, 7:30 Sun 12:10, 4:30, 8:40 Mon-Wed 1:00, 4:50, 8:40 titanic: an imax 3D experience (PG) Thu 12:40, 4:20, 8:10 21 Jump Street (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:30, 6:30, 9:50 Fri-Sat 12:10, 2:50, 5:30, 8:05, 10:40 Sun-Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 wagner’S Dream Mon 6:30 wrath of the titanS 3D (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:10, 9:30 Fri-Sun, Tue 7:45, 10:10 Mon, Wed 10:10

Lockout (14A) Thu 5:35, 8:05, 10:35 the Lucky one (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 7:55, 10:20 Fri-Sun 10:45, 12:55, 3:20, 5:40, 7:55, 10:20 Mon-Wed 3:20, 5:40, 7:55, 10:20 marveL’S the avengerS (PG) Thu 12:01 Fri, Sun 10:00, 12:30, 1:00, 3:30, 4:00, 6:30, 7:00, 9:30, 10:00 Sat 12:30, 1:00, 3:30, 4:00, 6:30, 7:00, 9:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 1:00, 3:30, 4:00, 6:30, 7:00, 9:30, 10:00 marveL’S the avengerS 3D (PG) Thu 12:01 Fri-Sat 11:00, 11:30, 12:00, 2:00, 2:30, 3:00, 5:00, 5:30, 6:00, 8:00, 8:30, 9:00, 11:00, 11:30 Sun 11:00, 11:30, 12:00, 2:00, 2:30, 3:00, 5:00, 5:30, 6:00, 8:00, 8:30, 9:00, 11:00 Mon-Wed 2:00, 2:30, 3:00, 5:00, 5:30, 6:00, 8:00, 8:30, 9:00, 11:00 marveL’S the avengerS: an imax 3D experience (PG) Thu 12:01 Fri-Sun 10:30, 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 mirror mirror (PG) 3:00 Fri-Sun 10:05, 12:30 mat the pirateS! banD of miSfitS 3D (PG) Thu 12:40, 5:00 Fri-Sun 12:10, 4:30, 8:50, 11:00 Mon-Wed 4:30, 8:50, 11:00 the pirateS! banD of miSfitS (PG) Thu 2:50, 7:10 FriSun 10:00, 2:20, 6:40 Mon-Wed 2:20, 6:40 the raven (18A) Thu 1:00, 3:20, 5:45, 8:10, 10:30 Fri-Wed 5:50, 8:15, 10:45 Safe (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 1:05, 3:30, 5:55, 8:15, 10:45 Fri-Sat 10:30, 1:05, 3:30, 5:55, 8:15, 10:45 Sun 3:30, 5:55, 8:15, 10:45 think Like a man (PG) 2:05, 4:45, 7:40, 10:25 Fri-Sun 11:20 mat the three StoogeS (PG) Thu 12:55, 3:15 titanic 3D (PG) Thu 2:00, 6:00 21 Jump Street (14A) Thu 12:55, 3:25, 5:50, 8:15, 10:45 Fri-Sun 10:25, 1:10, 3:30, 6:00, 8:25, 11:00 Mon-Wed 1:10, 3:30, 6:00, 8:25, 11:00

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

chimpanzee (G) Thu 4:20, 6:55, 9:10 Fri-Sat 1:15, 3:30, 5:40, 7:45, 9:55 Sun 1:15, 3:20, 5:25, 7:35, 9:40 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:30, 9:40 Dr. SeuSS’ the Lorax (G) Fri-Sun 1:30 Dr. SeuSS’ the Lorax 3D (G) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:25, 6:35 Fri-Sat 3:40, 5:55, 8:15 Sun 3:40, 5:50, 8:00 the five-year engagement (14A) Thu 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 110 CourTney Park e aT HuronTario, 888-262-4386 Fri-Sat 1:50, 4:40, 7:35, 10:30 Sun 1:45, 4:35, 7:25, 10:15 american reunion (14A) Thu 1:55, 4:25, 7:05, 9:55 FriMon-Wed 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Wed 7:55, 10:30 inDie game: the movie - a hot DocS Live preSentaavengerS marathon Thu 11:30 tion Thu 9:00 the cabin in the wooDS (18A) Thu 12:50, 3:10, 5:35, the Lucky one (PG) Thu 4:15, 7:15, 9:40 Fri-Sat 12:35, 8:05, 10:35 Fri-Sun 10:40, 12:50, 3:10, 5:35, 8:05, 10:35 3:00, 5:25, 8:05, 10:25 Sun 2:10, 4:55, 7:20, 9:55 Mon-Wed Mon-Wed 3:10, 5:35, 8:05, 10:35 5:10, 7:35, 10:00 chimpanzee (G) Thu 1:10, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00, 9:05 Fri-Sun mirror mirror (PG) Thu 3:50, 6:25, 9:15 Fri-Sat 1:40, 11:00, 1:10, 2:55, 5:00 Mon-Wed 1:10, 2:55, 5:00 4:15, 7:05, 9:40 Sun 1:40, 4:15, 7:00, 9:35 Mon-Wed 4:05, the five-year engagement (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:45, 7:35 6:40, 9:25 Fri-Sun 11:15, 2:00, 4:45, 7:35, 10:20 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:45, the pirateS! banD of miSfitS 3D (PG) Thu 4:45, 7:05, 7:35, 10:20 9:20 Fri-Sat 3:15, 5:35, 8:00, 10:15 Sun 3:15, 5:35, 7:50, the hunger gameS: the imax experience (14A) Thu 10:05 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:05, 9:35 1:30, 4:30, 7:30 the pirateS! banD of miSfitS (PG) Fri-Sun 1:00 the hunger gameS (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:30, 8:30 Fri-Sun the raven (18A) Thu 4:35, 7:25, 10:00 Fri-Sat 2:00, 4:35, 10:25, 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 10:25 Mon-Wed 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 7:25, 10:05 Sun 4:30, 7:05, 9:45 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:20, SCTO_NOW_LiveWrong_05-2012_004_Layout 1 1:55, 5/2/12 12:27 PM Page 1 10:25 9:55

CourTney Park 16 (aMC)

think Like a man (PG) Thu 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 Fri-Sun 1:25, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 the three StoogeS (PG) Thu 4:05, 6:40 Fri-Sat 12:55, 3:15, 5:30, 7:55, 10:10 Sun 12:55, 3:10, 5:30, 7:55, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:35, 6:50, 9:20 titanic 3D (PG) Thu 3:45, 7:45 Fri-Sun 12:50, 4:50, 9:00 Mon-Wed 4:00, 8:00 wrath of the titanS 3D (14A) Thu 9:25 Fri-Sat 10:25 Sun 10:10 Mon-Wed 9:10

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

american reunion (14A) Thu 4:25, 7:25, 10:20 Fri-Sat 11:40, 2:20, 5:35, 8:25, 11:15 Sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Mon 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Tue-Wed 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 the cabin in the wooDS (18A) Thu 5:35, 7:55, 10:15 Fri-Sat 1:20, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00, 11:20 Sun 12:05, 2:25, 5:00, 7:35, 10:35 Mon 2:40, 5:20, 7:45, 10:05 Tue 3:40, 5:55, 8:20, 10:45 Wed 5:20, 7:45, 10:05 Dr. SeuSS’ the Lorax (G) Fri-Sat 11:45, 1:50, 3:55, 6:00, 8:05 Sun 12:25, 2:30, 4:35, 6:45 Mon 1:20, 3:50, 6:10, 8:40 Tue-Wed 3:50, 6:10, 8:40 Dr. SeuSS’ the Lorax 3D (G) Thu 4:40, 7:00, 9:10 the hunger gameS: the imax experience (14A) Thu 3:00, 6:00, 9:00 the hunger gameS (14A) Thu 3:30, 6:10, 6:40, 9:30, 10:00 Fri-Sat 11:30, 2:35, 5:40, 8:50, 11:55 Sun 12:35, 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 Mon 12:40, 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 Tue-Wed 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 Journey 2: the mySteriouS iSLanD (PG) Thu 3:45 Lockout (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:20, 9:40 marveL’S the avengerS (PG) Fri-Sat 12:00, 1:00, 3:20, 4:20, 6:40, 7:40, 10:00, 11:10 Sun 1:30, 2:00, 4:50, 5:20, 8:10, 8:40 Mon 2:00, 2:30, 5:30, 6:00, 9:00, 9:30 TueWed 5:30, 6:00, 9:00, 9:30 marveL’S the avengerS 3D (PG) Thu 12:01 Fri-Sat 12:30, 1:30, 2:10, 3:50, 4:50, 5:20, 7:10, 8:10, 8:40, 10:30, 11:30, 12:00 Sun 12:00, 12:30, 1:00, 3:20, 3:50, 4:20, 6:40, 7:10, 7:40, 10:00, 10:30, 11:00 Mon 12:30, 1:30, 3:30, 4:20, 5:00, 6:40, 7:40, 8:30, 10:00 Tue 3:30, 4:20, 5:00, 6:40, 7:40, 8:30, 10:00, 11:00 Wed 3:30, 4:20, 5:00, 6:40, 7:40, 8:30, 10:00 marveL’S the avengerS: an imax 3D experience (PG) Thu 12:01 Fri-Sat 11:00, 2:00, 5:00, 8:00, 11:00 Sun 12:45, 4:00, 7:15, 10:30 Mon 1:00, 4:00, 7:15, 10:30 Tue-Wed 4:00, 7:15, 10:30 mirror mirror (PG) Thu 5:25, 7:50, 10:15 Fri-Sun 12:20, 2:45, 5:25, 7:55, 10:25 Mon 12:45, 3:10, 5:40, 8:00, 10:25 Tue-Wed 5:25, 8:00, 10:25 the pirateS! banD of miSfitS 3D (PG) Thu 4:45, 7:30, 9:45 Fri-Sun 3:00, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 Mon-Wed 3:35, 5:50, 8:05, 10:20 the pirateS! banD of miSfitS (PG) Thu 3:40 Fri-Sun 12:40 Mon 1:15 the raiD: reDemption (18A) Thu 5:00, 7:35, 10:05

the raven (18A) Thu 3:15, 5:45, 8:20 Fri-Sun 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:50, 10:20 Mon 2:15, 5:10, 7:50, 10:20 Tue 5:10, 7:50, 10:35 Wed 5:10, 7:50, 10:20 Safe (14A) Thu 5:45, 8:05, 10:25 Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:10, 5:45, 8:20, 10:50 Mon 2:35, 5:15, 7:55, 10:15 Tue-Wed 5:15, 7:55, 10:15 Safe houSe (14A) Thu 7:15, 9:55 Short circuit Sat 11:00 think Like a man (PG) Thu 3:35, 6:50, 10:00 Fri-Sat 11:10, 1:55, 4:40, 7:25, 10:10 Sun 1:50, 4:40, 7:45, 10:45 Mon 1:25, 4:40, 7:35, 10:30 Tue 4:40, 8:10, 11:00 Wed 4:40, 7:35, 10:30 the three StoogeS (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:20, 8:10, 10:20 Fri-Sun 1:15, 3:40, 6:10, 8:30, 10:40 Mon 1:40, 4:25, 7:05, 9:45 Tue-Wed 4:25, 7:05, 9:45 titanic 3D (PG) Thu 4:10, 8:00 Fri-Sat 12:45, 4:45, 8:45 Sun 1:05, 4:45, 8:45 Mon 12:50, 4:45, 8:45 Tue-Wed 4:45, 8:45 21 Jump Street (14A) Thu 4:15, 6:45, 9:20 Fri 11:15, 1:40, 4:10, 6:45, 9:15, 11:45 Sat 1:40, 4:10, 6:45, 9:15, 11:45 Sun 12:15, 3:15, 5:40, 8:25, 10:55 Mon 2:10, 4:55, 7:30, 10:05 Tue 5:40, 8:15, 10:50 Wed 4:55, 7:30, 10:05 wrath of the titanS 3D (14A) Thu 5:05, 7:45, 10:10 Fri 1:05, 3:30, 5:50, 8:15, 10:45 Sat-Sun 1:10, 3:30, 5:50, 8:15, 10:45 Mon 2:20, 4:50, 7:10, 9:50 Tue-Wed 4:50, 7:10, 9:50

tezz (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:50 Fri 3:35, 6:35, 9:35 Sat 12:35, 3:35, 6:35, 9:35 Sun 12:35, 4:00, 7:00 wanDerLuSt (14A) Thu 5:15, 8:05

rainboW ProMenade (i)

ProMenade Mall, HWy 7 & baTHurST, 905-764-3247 the five-year engagement (14A) Thu-Sun, Tue-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:00, 9:30 Mon 4:20, 7:00, 9:30 the hunger gameS (14A) Thu 6:30, 9:15 the Lucky one (PG) 1:00, 4:10, 6:50, 9:25 marveL’S the avengerS (PG) Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 mirror mirror (PG) Thu 1:15, 3:45 the pirateS! banD of miSfitS (PG) 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:05, 9:00 the raven (18A) 1:25, 4:25, 7:10, 9:35 the three StoogeS (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:00, 7:15, 9:20

West grande - STeeleS (Ce) HWy 410 & STeeleS, 905-455-1590

inTerCHange 30 (aMC)

30 inTerCHange Way, HWy 400 & HWy 7, 416-335-5323 act of vaLor (14A) Thu 5:05, 7:55 chimpanzee (G) 5:15, 7:15 Fri 3:15 mat Sat-Sun 1:15, 3:15 mat the DeScenDantS (14A) Thu 5:20, 8:00 the five-year engagement (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:30, 5:00, 7:30, 8:00 Fri 2:00, 4:00, 5:00, 7:00, 8:00, 9:15, 10:00 Sat 1:00, 2:00, 4:00, 5:00, 7:00, 8:00, 9:15, 10:00 Sun 1:00, 2:00, 4:00, 5:00, 7:00, 8:00 frienDS with kiDS Thu, Mon-Wed 5:10, 7:40 Fri 2:25, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Sat 12:05, 2:25, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Sun 12:05, 2:25, 5:10, 7:40 houSefuLL 2 (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:45 Fri-Sat 2:30, 6:00, 9:30 Sun 1:00, 4:30, 7:45 Lockout (14A) Fri 2:35, 5:05, 7:35, 9:55 Sat 12:15, 2:35, 5:05, 7:35, 9:55 Sun 12:15, 2:35, 5:05, 7:50 Mon-Wed 5:05, 7:55 the Lucky one (PG) Thu 5:45, 8:15 Fri 2:00, 2:30, 4:30, 5:00, 7:00, 7:30, 9:30, 10:00 Sat 12:00, 2:00, 2:30, 4:30, 5:00, 7:00, 7:30, 9:30, 10:00 Sun 12:00, 2:00, 3:00, 4:45, 5:45, 7:30, 8:15 Mon-Wed 4:45, 5:45, 7:30, 8:15 miSSion: impoSSibLe – ghoSt protocoL (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:55, 7:55 Fri 4:05, 7:00, 9:50 Sat 1:05, 4:05, 7:00, 9:50 Sun 1:05, 4:55, 7:55 the raiD: reDemption (18A) Fri 2:25, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 Sat 12:00, 2:25, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 Sun 12:00, 2:25, 4:50, 8:00 Mon-Wed 5:20, 8:10 Safe houSe (14A) Fri 4:10, 7:10, 9:40 Sat 1:30, 4:10, 7:10, 9:40 Sun 1:30, 4:10, 7:10 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:20 SaLmon fiShing in the yemen (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:35, 7:35 Fri 4:30, 7:05, 9:45 Sat 1:45, 4:30, 7:05, 9:45 Sun 1:45, 4:35, 7:35

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american reunion (14A) Thu 3:55, 6:45, 9:30 the cabin in the wooDS (18A) Thu 4:50, 7:30, 9:50 Fri, Tue 5:00, 7:45, 10:05 Sat-Sun 12:25, 2:50, 5:00, 7:45, 10:05 Mon, Wed 5:00, 7:40, 10:00 chimpanzee (G) Thu 4:40, 6:55, 9:20 the five-year engagement (14A) Thu 4:10, 7:00, 10:00 Fri, Tue 4:25, 7:20, 10:15 Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:25, 7:20, 10:15 Mon, Wed 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 the hunger gameS (14A) Thu 3:30, 6:40, 10:00 Fri, Tue 3:40, 7:05, 10:20 Sat-Sun 12:20, 3:40, 7:05, 10:20 Mon, Wed 4:00, 7:05, 10:15 the Lucky one (PG) Thu 3:45, 6:30, 9:25 Fri 5:10, 7:50, 10:40 Sat 12:10, 2:45, 5:10, 7:50, 10:40 Sun 12:10, 2:45, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25 Mon-Wed 5:10, 7:50, 10:25 marveL’S the avengerS (PG) Fri, Tue 3:20, 6:40, 10:00 Sat-Sun 12:00, 3:20, 6:40, 10:00 Mon 5:25, 9:00 Wed 5:30, 9:00 marveL’S the avengerS 3D (PG) Fri 3:50, 4:20, 7:10, 7:40, 10:30, 11:00 Sat 12:30, 1:00, 3:50, 4:20, 7:10, 7:40, 10:30, 11:00 Sun 12:30, 1:00, 3:50, 4:20, 7:10, 7:40, 10:30 Mon, Wed 3:50, 4:40, 7:00, 8:00, 10:20 Tue 3:50, 4:20, 7:10, 7:40, 10:30 the pirateS! banD of miSfitS 3D (PG) Thu 4:00, 7:20, 9:40 Fri, Tue 4:45, 7:00, 9:15 Sat-Sun 2:30, 4:45, 7:00, 9:15 Mon, Wed 4:10, 6:50, 9:10 the pirateS! banD of miSfitS (PG) Sat-Sun 12:15 the raven (18A) Thu 4:20, 7:10, 9:55 Fri, Tue 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Sat-Sun 2:15, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Mon, Wed 4:30, 7:30, 10:05 Safe (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:15, 9:45 Fri 5:30, 8:00, 10:50 Sat 12:40, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:50 Sun 12:40, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Mon, Wed 4:50, 7:45, 10:30 Tue 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 the three StoogeS (PG) Thu 3:40 21 Jump Street (14A) Thu 6:20, 9:15 3

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Puey Quinones strikes a pose in The World’s Most Fashionable Prison.

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In the tradition of Frederick Wiseman’s Hospital, Pete Nicks takes a raft of cameras into the ER waiting room of Highland Hospital in Oakland, California, condensing the events of a single day into 81 harrowing minutes.

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When something totally unexpected happens during a documentary shoot, the surprise usually gives the movie its magic moment.

Unfortunately, that’s not what happens here. CK Mak was on a roll in this story of famed fashion designer Puey Quinones, who teaches inmates in a Filipino maximum security prison to style and sew in order to stage a fashion show.

The prisoners, most of them living in the gay dorm, talk about their jail experiences, their process of coming out and how working with Quinones is changing their perspective on just about everything.

But Quinones keeps talking about how he’s been having a bad year.

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THU 3-MAY 13 – More than 95 films representing 15 countries in TJFF’s 20th-anniversary edition. $13, stu/srs $9, weekday matinees $8; opening night $20, closing night $18; some free screenings.

THU 3 – A Bottle In The Gaza Sea (2011) D: Thierry Binisti. 8 pm (VC).

FRI 4 – Kafka’s Last Story (2011) D: Sagi Bornstein. 1 pm. The Brother Who Sent The Rosenbergs To The Electric Chair (2009) D: Clara Kuperberg and Robert Kuperberg. 3 pm. Both screenings at IT. SAT 5 – Notes And Frames: The Neglected Art Of Film Music, lecture and film clips with Kevin Courrier. 1 pm (IT). Free. Music For The Movies: Bernard Herrmann (1992) D: Joshua Waletzky. 3 pm (IT). Free. OSS 117 – Lost In Rio (2009) D: Michel Hazanavicius. 9:15 pm (TUC).

The Day I Saw Your Heart (2011) D: Jennifer Delvodère. 9:30 pm (AG). This Is Sodom (2010) D: Adam Sanderson and Muli Segev. 11:30 pm (TUC).

SUN 6 – Music For The Movies: The Hollywood Sound (1995) D: Joshua Waletzky. Noon (AG).

Free. Dressing America: Tales From The Garment Center (2011) D: Stephen Fischler and Joel Sucher, and short film Needle and “Tread”. 1 pm (SC). The Art Of Spiegelman (2010) D: Clara Kuperberg and Joelle Oosterlinck, and In the Shadow Of No Towers (2011) D: Marco Cappelli. 1 pm (IT). Foreign Letters (2012) D: Ela Thier. 2 pm (SC). My First Wedding (2011) D: Ariel Winograd, and short film Not Your Time: The Musical. 2:30 pm (AG). In Search Of Yiddish (2012) D: Alexander Gorodnitsky. 3 pm (SC). Planet Of The Apes (1968) D: Franklin J Schaffner. 3:30 pm (IT). A Bottle In The Gaza Sea. 5 pm (SC). Life In Stills (2011) D: Tamar Tal, and short film Wolf Suschitzky, Photographer And Cameraman. 5:15 pm (AG). Follow Me: The Jonathan Netanyahu Story (2011) D: Jonathan Gruber and Ari Daniel Pinchot. 5:30 pm (SC). The Conversation (1974) D: Francis For Coppola. 7 pm (IT). Six Million And One (2011) D: David Fisher. 7:45 pm (AG). Memory After Belsen (2012) D: Shiva Kumar. Work-in-progress screening followed by a panel. 8 pm (SC). The Day I Saw Your Heart. 8:30 pm (SC).

MON 7 – Women Unchained (2011) D: Beverly Siegel, and short film Alone. 12:30 pm (AG).

Gilad’s Liberation Army (2011) D: Ofra GatYellin, and Luxuries (2011) D: David Ofek. 1 pm (BC). The Lost Love Diaries (2011) D: Yasmine Novak, and short film Letters Home. 3 pm (SC). Evening Primrose (1966) D: Paul Bogart.

3:15 pm (AG). The Law In These Parts (2011) D:

Ra’anan Alexandrowicz. 3:30 pm (BC). Naomi (2010) D: Eitan Zur. 4 pm (SC). Kaddish For A Friend (2011) D: Leo Khasin. 5 pm (SC). The Trial Of Adolf Eichmann (2011) D: Michael Prazan. 6 pm (AG). My Australia (2011) D: Ami Drozd, and short film The Basketball Game. 6 pm (BC). Life In Stills and short film Wolf Suschitzky, Photographer And Cameraman. 6:45 pm (SC). Portrait Of Wally (2011) D: Andrew Shea. 8 pm (AG). Six Million And One. 7:30 pm (SC). The Last Butterfly (1990) D: Karel Kachyna. 8:30 pm (BC). God’s Fiddler (2011) D: Peter Rosen. 9 pm (SC).

TUE 8 – Standing Silent (2011) D: Scott Rosenfelt. 12:30 pm (AG). Salsa Tel Aviv (2011) D: Jorge Weller. 1 pm (BC). The Boys Of Terezin (2011) D: John Sharify. 3 pm (AG). In Heaven, Underground (2011) D: Britta Wauer. 3 pm (SC). God’s Fiddler. 3:30 pm (BC). Tony Curtis: Driven To Stardom (2011) D: Ian Ayres, and short film Grandpa Looked Like William Powell. 4 pm (SC). Wunderkinder (2011) D: Marcus O Rosenmüller. 5 pm (SC). Exile – A Myth Unearthed (2012) D: Ilan Ziv. 5:30 pm (AG). Foreign Letters. 6 pm (BC). Off-White Lies (2011) D: Maya Kenig, and short film Around Trip. 6:15 pm (SC). OSS 117 – Lost In Rio. 7:30 pm (SC). A People Uncounted (2011) D: Aaron Yeger. 8 pm (AG). Obsession (2011) D: Nissim Nutrika. 8:30 pm (SC). Dorfman (2011) D: Bradley Leong, and short film Flawed. 8:45 pm (BC).

WED 9 – Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment (2012) D: Toby Perl Freilich. 12:30 pm (AG). An Article Of Hope (2010) D: Daniel Cohen, and The Last Flight Of Petr Ginz (2011) D: Sandra Dickson and Churchill Roberts. 1 pm (BC). Michael Nyman In Progress (2010) D: Silvia Beck, and short film A Composer’s Dream. 3 pm (AG). Nicky’s Family (2011) D: Matej Minac. 3 pm (SC). Remembrance (2011) D: Anna Justice. 4 pm (BC). How To Re-Establish A Vodka Empire (2011) D: Dan Edelstyn, and short film Woody Before Allen. 4 pm (SC).

Born In A Concentration Camp (2010) D: Eva Gruberova and Martina Gawatz, and short film Through The Eye Of The Needle. 5:30 pm (AG). Free Men (2011) D: Ismaël Ferroukhi, and short film Scheherazade And The Kosher Delight. 5:30 pm (SC). The Prize (2011) D: Paula Markovitch. 6 pm (SC). My Dad Is Baryshnikov (2011) D: Dmitry Povolotsky. 6:30 pm (BC).

Something Wild (1961) D: Jack Garfein. 8 pm (AG). My Australia, and short film Stitches. 8 pm (SC). Off-White Lies and short film Around Trip. 9 pm (BC). Dorfman and short film Flawed. 9 pm (SC).

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THU 3-SUN 6 – Hot Docs Film Festival: see complete listings online at nowtoronto.com/ hotdocs.

MON 7-MAY 13 – Toronto Jewish Film Festival.

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SAT 5 – Catch-22 (1970) D: Mike Nichols. 3 pm.

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THU 3 – Keyhole (2011) D: Guy Maddin.

8:30 pm. Hot Docs Film Festival: see complete listings online at nowtoronto.com/ hotdocs.

FRI 4-SUN 6 – Hot Docs Film Festival: see complete listings online at nowtoronto.com/ hotdocs.

MON 7 – Goethe-Institut Toronto presents In The Face Of Crime, Dominic Graf’s 10-episode thriller. Part 1: The Struggle For Power Begins (episodes 1-3). 6:30 pm. $10. Hitchcock Masterclass w/ Guillermo Del Toro: Notorious (1946) D: Alfred Hitchcock. 7 pm. In Conversation With... Kathleen Turner. 8 pm.

TUE 8 – Hitchcock Masterclass w/ Guillermo Del Toro: Frenzy (1972) D: Alfred Hitchcock. 7 pm.

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Thu 3 – Salmon Fishing In The Yemen (2012)

Thu 3 – Friends With Kids (2012) D: Jennifer

D: Lasse Hallström. 7 pm. Friends With Kids (2012) D: Jennifer Westfeldt. 9:15 pm.

FRI 4 – Hot Docs Film Festival: see complete listings online at nowtoronto.com/hotdocs. sAT 5 – Salmon Fishing In The Yemen. 7 pm.

Jeff Who Lives At Home (2012) D: Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass. 9:15 pm. suN 6 – Dr Seuss’ The Lorax (2012) D: Chris Renaud and Kyle Balda. 2 pm. Salmon Fishing In The Yemen. 4 & 7 pm. Jeff Who Lives At Home. 9:15 pm. mON 7 – Salmon Fishing In The Yemen. 7 pm.

Jeff Who Lives At Home. 9:15 pm.

TuE 8 – Jeff Who Lives At Home. 7 pm. Salmon Fishing In The Yemen. 9 pm.

WED 9 – .Salmon Fishing In The Yemen. 1:30 & 7 pm. The Raid: Redemption (2012) D: Gareth Evans. 9:15 pm

Westfeldt. 7 pm. 21 Jump Street (2012) D: Chris Miller and Phil Lord. 9:15 pm.

FRI 4 – Friends With Kids. 7 pm. Jiro Dreams Of Sushi (2012) D: David Gelb. 9:30 pm. sAT 5 – Dr Seuss’ The Lorax (2012) D: Chris Renaud and Kyle Balda. 2 pm. Jiro Dreams Of Sushi. 4:15 & 7 pm. 21 Jump Street. 9:30 pm. suN 6 – Hot Docs Film Festival. See listings, this page. Jiro Dreams Of Sushi. 9:30 pm. mON 7-TuE 8 – Jiro Dreams Of Sushi. 6:45 pm.

The Raid: Redemption (2012) D: Gareth Evans.

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WED 9 – Jiro Dreams Of Sushi. 1 & 6:45 pm. Monsieur Lazhar (2011) D: Philippe Falardeau. 9:15 pm.

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Thu 3-FRI 4 – Generation Boomerang. mON 7-WED 9 – Journey To The Disaster Zone.

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Thu 3 – Maximum Exposure Film Festival. 7 pm.

FRI 4 – Intergalactic Star Wars Day Toronto

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Thu 3-WED 9 – More than 5,000 NFB films

available at digital viewing stations. Tue-Wed noon-7 pm, Thu-Sat noon-10 pm, Sun noon-5 pm. Free.

Thu 3 – Ciné-Jeudi presents Reema, AllersRetours (2006) D: Emile d’Entremont. French w/ s-t. 7:30 pm. $6, stu/srs $4.

WED 9 – Free Favourites At Four: Norman Jewison, Filmmaker (1971) D: Douglas Jackson. 4 pm. Free.

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Thu 3-FRI 4 – To The Arctic. 11 am & 2 pm.

Rocky Mountain Express. Noon. Under The Sea. 1 pm. sAT 5 – To The Arctic. 11 am, 2, 4 & 8 pm.

Rocky Mountain Express. Noon, 3 & 7 pm.

Under The Sea. 1 pm. suN 6 – To The Arctic. 11 am, 2 & 4 pm. Rocky Mountain Express. Noon & 3 pm. Under The Sea. 1 pm. mON 7-WED 9 – To The Arctic. 11 am & 2 pm.

Rocky Mountain Express. Noon. Under The Sea. 1 pm.

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Thu 3 – Battle Royale (2000) D: Kinji Fukasaku. 1 pm. Material Success (2012) D: Jesse Mann. 3 & 7 pm. Pink Ribbons (2011) D: Lea Pool. 4:30 pm. Once Upon A Time In Anatolia (2011) D: Nuri Bilge Ceylan. 8:30 pm FRI 4 – Turkish Star Wars (1982) D: Cetin Inanc. Turkish w/ s-t. 9 pm. sAT 5-WED 9 – Call/see website for details.

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sAT 5 – Metropolis (1927) D: Fritz Lang. 5 pm.

The Sex & Violence Cartoon Festival. 8 pm.

suN 6 – Godzilla Fest. 4 pm. Jane Jacobs:

Urban Wisdom (2003) D: Don Alexander. 6 pm. Keanu Reeves Film Fest. 7 pm. Kid Dracula: Nosferatu (1922) D: FW Murnau, set to the music of Radiohead’s Kid A and OK Computer albums. 9 pm. mON 7 – The Death And Life Of Great American Motion Pictures 1: The Big Box Office Films Of The Silent Era. 7 pm.

TuE 8 – The Death And Life Of Great American Motion Pictures 2: The Unbowdlerized History Of American Animated Cartoons. 7 pm.

WED 9 – The Death And Life Of Great American Motion Pictures 3: Greta Garbo. 7 pm.

Salvador Dali Film Fest. 9 pm

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presents May The 4th Be With You, with screenings of Blame Society Films’ series Chad Vader plus a Q&A and autograph session, costume contest, comedy and more. 7 pm. $10-$15. starwarsdayto.com. sAT 5 – Toronto Jewish Film Festival. See listings, this page. suN 6-WED 9 – Call/see website for details.

oTher FilMS Thu 3-WED 9 –

The CN Tower presents The Ultimate Wave Tahiti 3D. Continuous screenings daily 10 am-8 pm. 301 Front W. 416-8686937, cntower.ca.

Thu 3-WED 9 – Casa Loma presents The Pellatt Newsreel (2006) D: Barbra Cooper, a film and permanent exhibit on the history of Casa Loma and Henry Pellatt. Daily screenings 10 am-4:30 pm. Included w/ admission. 1 Austin Terrace. 416-923-1171, casaloma.org.

Thu 3 – The Italian Cultural Institute presents the Italian Contemporary Cinema film retrospective, screening Clash Of Civilization Over An Elevator In Piazza Vittorio (2010) D: Isotta Toso. 7:30 pm. Free. Columbus Centre, 901 Lawrence W. iictoronto.esteri.it.

FRI 4 – Toronto Socialist Action Rebel Film Series presents How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (2006) D: Faith Morgan. Discussion to follow. 7 pm. $4 donation. OISE, 252 Bloor W, room 2-212. 416-535-8779.

Cinema Politica Danforth presents the documentary Budrus (2009) D: Julia Bacha, about a Palestinian community and its peaceful resistance of the occupation. Discussion to follow.

7:30 pm. Free. Centre of Gravity, 1300 Gerrard E. cinemapolitica.org/danforth. mON 7 – Miles Nadal JCC presents Media Mondays, a lecture by Adam Nayman on The Films Of Stanley Kubrick with clips from Lolita (1962) and Dr. Strangelove (1964). 7 pm. $90 series, $12, stu $6. 750 Spadina. 416-9246211 ext 606, mnjcc.org.

Early Monthly Segments presents UK filmmaker Nicky Hamlyn in person and screenings of his films That Has Been (1984), White Light (1996) and Tobacco Shed (2010). 8 pm. $5 sugg donation. Gladstone Hotel Art Bar, 1214 Queen W. earlymonthlysegments.org.

WED 9 – Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts presents Food Fight: Resisting Austerity, screening two videos: Poverty And Health: The Special Diet (produced by Ontario Council of Hospital Unions & Ontario Coalition Against Poverty) and Food Justice – Lawrence Heights (produced by Lawrence Heights Youth Food Justice Group). Films followed by a panel discussion with trade unionists, health care workers and anti-poverty activists. 7 pm.

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(Paramount, 1995) D: Amy Heckerling, w/ Alicia Silverstone, Stacey Dash. Rating: NNNNN; Bluray package: NNN While there’s nothing inherently brilliant in a teen comedy about a Beverly Hills rich girl who thinks life’s about shopping and popularity, Clueless is the perfect embodiment of the kind of uncomplicated happiness that’s made P.G.

The Theatre Bizarre

(W2, 2011) D: Douglas Buck, Buddy Giovinazzo, David Gregory, Karim Hussain, Jeremy Kasten, Tom Savini, Richard Stanley, w/ Udo Kier, Virginia Newcomb.

Rating: NNNN; DVD package: NNN The third, fourth and fifth episodes are where this six-part (plus framing story) horror anthology lifts off into realms of strangeness most shockers don’t even try for.

Tom Savini’s Wet Dreams runs penis anxiety through the meat grinder of domestic discontent. In Douglas Buck’s The Accident, a mother, her young daughter and a highway car crash offer a quiet meditation on love and the value of horror stories.

Karim Hussain’s Vision Stains takes a unique, nightmarish approach to murder and storytelling that is not for the squeamish.

The other three tales are none too shabby either.

Atmospheric visuals, crisp performances and snappy pacing prevent the

Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster stories classics for almost a century.

Popular, pretty Cher (Alicia Silverstone) arranges better grades for herself by engineering a romance for two of her teachers, hangs with her BFF, Dionne (Stacey Dash), manages a makeover and the right boyfriend for the new girl (Brittany Murphy) and then falls in love herself.

Put-downs abound, but these kids flip off their teen-speak and one-liners with such casual aplomb, it’s clear there isn’t a mean bone anywhere in this universe.

Even the adults get treated well here, most notably Dan Hedaya as Cher’s hyper-aggressive, loving dad.

Somewhere in the extras, writer/director Amy Heckerling remarks on her intention to make fun of the in crowd.

Nowhere is this more apparent than in the costumes, which get their own doc. They deserve their own planet.

The doc on slang is also well worth a look.

EXTRAS Cast, script, costumes, slang and freeway sequence docs, more. English, French, Spanish, Portuguese audio and subtitles.

low-budget limitations from doing any damage.

Short running times force the directors to deliver precise commentaries.

This is a good thing.

EXTRAS Six commentaries, three director interviews, on-set footage.

No subtitles.

The Innkeepers

(eOne, 2011) D: Ti West, w/ Sara Paxton, Pat Healy. Rating: NN; DVD package: NNN The Innkeepers starts funny, turns tedious and comes back for an effectively spooky finale.

The funny and tedious spring from dropping a pair of contemporary slackers into an old-fashioned ghost story.

Claire and Luke are left in charge of an old hotel on its last weekend in business. They’re both avid ghost hunters, determined to make contact with the resident spirit.

Twenty-something Claire (Sara Paxton) is given to outbursts of anger, embarrassment and awkwardness, as if she’s in the grip of puberty. The decade-older Luke (Pat Healy) is a bitter,

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Haywire (2011) Steven Soderbergh directs Gina Carano as a black ops assassin out for revenge on her own organization.

Stella Days (2011) Martin Sheen stars as a parish priest who opens a movie house in 1950s Ireland to the dismay of parishioners and the bishop.

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bored lump. One of the hotel’s few guests (Kelly McGillis) is a crabby psychic given to dire warnings.

Paxton and Healy are competent actors, but Claire and Luke’s shtick wears thin and too much time gets spent with Claire recording spooky sounds in darkened rooms.

The Innkeepers comes with an opening advisory to play it loud. Good advice: the complex sound design gives the movie most of its power. Writer/ director Ti West discusses that on the commentary he shares with a trio of producers.

EXTRAS Director with producers commentary, director with Paxton and Healy commentary, making-of doc.

English audio and subtitles.

Tomorrow When The War Began

(eOne, 2010) D: Stuart Beattie, w/ Caitlin Stasey, Rachel HurdWood. Rating: NN; DVD package: NN Seven teens come home from a two-day getaway in Australia’s beautiful Blue Mountains to find their small town empty and invading soldiers everywhere. The kids have to find their parents, stay alive, take care of their wounded and maybe strike back.

Director Stuart Beattie knows how to make the most of the built-in tension and eruptions of violence, but his focus is squarely on the characters.

The cast, headed by Caitlin Stasey and Rachel Hurd-Wood, does a credible job in the character moments and the big action set pieces, one of which – the garbage truck chase – is well worth the rental price.

Beattie provides the usual mix of production stories and insight into his choices.

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Savage Love

By Dan Savage

Bust my balls, guys only I am a straIght 29-year-old guy and

I’ve been into ball-busting – having my balls kicked and stomped – since I was 14. The fucked-up thing is, I only enjoy getting my balls busted by other guys.

I’ve been hit in the balls by girls, and it doesn’t do anything for me. I thought I might be bisexual, since I want guys to kick me in the balls, but I don’t get turned on by the idea of sucking cock or getting fucked by a guy. Only ball-busting with a guy turns me on.

I’ve tried getting busted by girls, watching videos of girls kicking men in the balls, etc, but I never even get hard from it. Sometimes I can see a good-looking guy on the street and I’ll get hard just thinking about his feet kicking my balls.

In fact, while sitting here writing this question to you, I’m hard because you’re a good-looking guy and I’d love to have you kick my balls.

In my current relationship, I’ve snuck out and met with guys I’ve found online to have my balls busted. It feels like I’m leading a double life, but I don’t know what to do. I’ve thought of trying a relationship with a guy, but I don’t know how that would work since I’m really not into having any kind of sex with a guy.

Just ball-busting. I’ve tried to subdue my urges to get my balls busted, but I can’t.

I seem to need to get it every couple of months; otherwise I get stir-crazy. I’m confused and really just don’t know what to do about it. I’m hoping you

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might have some advice or insight to explain why my brain is so messed up about all this and what I can do.

Balls Smashed To Death At the risk of my inbox filling with angry emails – a risk I run on a weekly basis – I’m gonna quote the late psychologist and sexologist John Money. He was wrong about a lot of things, from gender being socially constructed to “affectional pedophilia” being harmless, but Money was onto something when he wrote about paraphilias, aka kinks.

“A wide range of sexuoerotic diversity has its counterpart in the diversity of languages historically manifested in the human species,” Money wrote in his book Lovemaps: Clinical Concepts Of Sexual/ Erotic Health And Pathology, Paraphilia, And Gender Transposition In Childhood, Adolescence, And Maturity. “[Sexual] diversity may be an inevitable evolutionary trade-off – the price paid for the freeing of the primate brain to develop its uniquely human genesis of syntactical speech and creative intelligence.”

So why does having your balls busted by other dudes turn you on when you’re not even remotely interested in other dudes romantically or sexually? No idea. We simply don’t know why a person has this, that or the other kink, BSTD, and almost everyone has at least one sexual interest that is seen as kinky by those who don’t share it. But it probably has something to do with your big, complex brain and the way it makes big, abstract and sometimes seemingly random connections – the kind of connections that lead to syntactical speech, creative intelligence and crazy-ass kinks.

So take comfort: The fact that you have this kink isn’t proof that there’s something wrong with you. It’s proof that you’re human.

Which is not to say that a kink like yours is easily incorporated into a person’s sex life. As one sex researcher I shared your letter with put it, BSTD, your kink involves an “override” of your usual erotic “target interest,” i.e., women. While that kind of override is not unheard of, it’s not something that’s easily explained to a girlfriend. And as your encounters with other

men pose no physical risk to your female partners (you’re not exactly gonna catch an STI getting kicked in the nuts), you can certainly justify getting your balls busted on the DL. But secret double lives are stressful, and most people leading them eventually get found out. And when your girlfriend inevitably stumbles over or snoops and finds evidence that you’ve been sneaking around behind her back with other men, you won’t be explaining just your kink to her, BSTD, but your betrayal, too.

So is there anything you can do about your kink?

“These problems are often highly treatable,” said Dr. Paul Fedoroff, who is a neuropsychiatrist, a forensic psychiatrist and the director of the Sexual Behaviours Clinic at the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre at the University of Ottawa. “Typically, a low-dose SSRI works magic.”

SSRIs, or “selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors,” are a class of drugs that are usually prescribed as antidepressants.

SSRIs can crater a person’s libido, as is commonly known, but they can also, according to Fedoroff, help a person overcome an unwanted sexual interest or compulsion. “I had one patient who used to tie his testes with rope and then hit them with a hammer,” said Fedoroff. “He was referred to me by a urologist when he asked for surgical castration. I prescribed an SSRI, and a month later he told me, ‘That [was] the craziest idea I ever had.’ He had no further interest in ‘ballbusting’ and said his life would have been different if he had found this medication earlier.”

Fedoroff also had some thoughts about why you want to do this with men.

“The last time I saw a case like this was about four hours ago,” said Fedoroff.

“This was a 50-year-old, highly successful businessman, a lifelong heterosexual who self-described as ‘dominant’ with women, [yet he was] advertising on the internet to find men he could perform oral sex on.” For some straight men, “being dominated by another man provides more ‘humiliation’ than being dominated by a woman.”

Fedoroff isn’t the only doctor out there

medicating kinksters. In his absolutely terrific book The Other Side Of Desire (which is where I first ran across that John Money quote), journalist Daniel Bergner profiles a foot fetishist so paralyzed by shame that he seeks treatment from a shrink who prescribes him a drug that “cures” him. The drug? The “lustobliterating” Lupron, an antiandrogen that is sometimes used to “chemically castrate” sex offenders.

Now, I’m generally a fan of Western medicine – prescription drugs, invasive procedures, hospital cafeteria Jell-O – but I think taking SSRIs or chemically castrating yourself to suppress an urge to get kicked in the balls six times a years… well, BSTD, that’s even more extreme than your kink. You would be better advised, in my opinion, to accept both your kink and your contradictions. Yes, BSTD, your kink will probably shock even women who have a few kinks of their own. But if you present your kink to your girlfriends as just one fun, crazy, weird, hard-to-explain-but-endearingly-quirky aspect of your sexual expression, BSTD, they’re likelier to react to it positively. And if you look for women in the fetish/BDSM scene – where straight men are sometimes known to engage in S/M play with each other – your chances are better of finding an open-minded woman who isn’t threatened by your kinks.

You might find a woman who wants to watch.

Finally, BSTD, another sex researcher urged me to urge you to bank/freeze some of your sperm in case you wind up busting your balls, like, permanently. Your nuts can take only so much abuse – people have ruptured and even lost testicles when ball-busting, sack-tapping or CBT went too far. (It can even kill you: tinyurl.com/bustedballs.) As it doesn’t take a lot of force to make a guy feel like his balls have been “busted,” BSTD, ask your ball-busting buddies to pull those punches, kicks and stomps.

Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage. mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter

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