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The queer comedy festival’s 15th and final edition opens with a concert by Broadway legend Betty Buckley. 8 pm. $200-$250. Buddies in Bad Times. 416-975-8555. +lynn CrOSBIe Author launches her new book, Life Is About Losing Everything, at the Mascot. 7 pm. Free. houseofanansi.com.

punks play their final show, at the Garrison. 9 pm. $10. RT, SS.

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Edward Sharpe invade Kool Haus, May 13

Battleship sets sail, May 18

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Cowboy Junkies fete Leonard Cohen alongside Adam Cohen, John Prine, Basia Bulat, Serena Ryder and others. Massey Hall.

8:30 pm. $35-$150. RTH. JeFF ruBIn The economist talks about his new book, The End Of Growth, about peak oil and the great change ahead. 7 pm.

Free. Reference Library. 416395-5577.

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

RT, SS, TW. +PanaMerICan rOuTeS The international fest of theatre for human rights opens with Loco7’s Urban Odyssey tonight and runs to May 27. 8 pm. $15$30. Theatre Passe Muraille.

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Spectacular show, making its only Canadian stop, continues at the Art Gallery of Ontario to Aug 26. $16.25-$25. ago.net/ picasso.

STOCKhOlM Bryony Lavery’s psychologically dark twohander continues at the Tarragon Extra Space to Jun 3.

2:30 pm. $15-$30. 416-5311827.

hind the Jam, the Style Council and a successful solo career hits Sound Academy. Doors 7:30 pm, all ages. $59.50$79.50. RT, SS, TM. lOST In yOnKerS Happy Days’ Marion Ross stars in this production of Neil Simon’s drama about freedom and family secrets. 8 pm. To June 10. Jane Mallett. $42.50-$79.50. 416366-7723.

tion probing revolutionaries living in the jungle shows at Gallery TPW to May 26. 416645-1066.

SOVereIgn aCTS Exceptional multimedia group show of aboriginal artists is at Justina M. Barnicke Gallery to May 27.

Free. 416-978-8398.

Kerry TrIBe L.A. artist’s films probe memory and narrative, at the Power Plant, to Jun 3.

Free. 416-973-4949.

artist explores loneliness in If I Were A Monument at Toronto Free Gallery, part of Mayworks, to Jun 2. 416-913-0461.

High stars Kathleen Turner, May 13

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maker Alex Ebert brings his band to Kool Haus. Doors 8 pm, all ages. $29.50. RT, SS, TM. hIgh Last chance to see this drama with Kathleen Turner as a tough nun who sponsors a 19-year-old addict, at the Royal Alex. 2 and 7 pm. $50-$150.

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FrOM The hOuSe OF MIrTh A mix of dance, opera and text in an adaptation of the Edith Wharton novel, closes today at the Citadel. 4 pm. Pwyc-$50.

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OlD Man lueDeCKe If it’s banjo you want, it’s banjo you’ll get when Chris Luedecke hits Hugh’s Room. 8:30 pm. $22$25. HR. renT Sheridan College brings 2011’s sold-out production of the groundbreaking musical to the Panasonic, through Jun 3.

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to co-op, social and all affordable housing with Tom Clement, Mercedeh Madani and Keith Ward. 6 pm. Free. Northern District Library. coophousing.com

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Pen BeneFIT Calvin Trillin, Seán Cullen and Charles Foran pay tribute to the comic legacy of Modecai Richler at the ROM. $40. 7 pm. pencanada.ca.

MeShuggah The Swedish band brings extreme metal to Sound Academy, with Baroness and Decapitated in tow.

Doors 7 pm, all ages. $26.50.

RT, SS, TM. lynn COaDy Last year’s Giller shortlister reads from The Antagonist at Barbara Frum Library. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

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7 pm. $15. Bloor Hot Docs Cinema. nowtoronto.com/ nowtalks.

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JOel PlaSKeTT The Dartmouth rocker brings his hastily written and recorded new album, Scrappy Happiness, to Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Doors 7 pm. $29.50. TM. And May 19.

BaTTleShIP Will Peter Berg’s blockbuster film starring hotties Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgård and Rihanna sink or swim at the box office? Find out opening weekend.

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Foundation, Ydessa Hendeles puts together art, film, objects – including Joan Crawford’s jewellery – to probe violencerelated issues. Saturdays only.

Free. 416-413-9400.

+eDWIn BOyD: CITIzen gangSTer Scott Speedman

stars in this TIFF award winner about the notorious Canadian bank robber. Opening weekend.

The ShIPMenT Young Jean Lee’s play about being black in the U.S. closes at the Enwave. 8 pm. $15-$45. 416-973-4000.

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The InSIDe OuT FIlM anD VIDeO FeSTIVal The fest of

queer-themed film and video continues at TIFF Bell Lightbox. $6-$28. insideout.ca.

The MeaTMen You read right – the Touch and Go punk band is back. Hard Luck Bar, doors 9 pm. $13.50. RT, SS.

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JOhn IrVIng The literary star discusses his gender-bending new book, In One Person, at the Toronto Reference Library. torontopubliclibrary.com.

BruCe PenInSula The eclectic band’s new record is the 14-minute song cycle Of Songs. Hear it at the Great Hall. 8 pm. $12-$15. RT, SS.

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email letters@now toronto.com Wonderful Jan Wong a wonderful story about jan Wong (NOW, May 3-9). I lived in Toronto for 30 years and just loved her reporting. I am an expert in whistleblowing. I hate to say how many cases there are like Wong’s, where people are treated so poorly. Part of the problem is that there are no whistleblower laws in Canada’s corporate world. In fact, Canada is the worst in the Western world in the area of transparency in the public and private sectors. Our democracy is hardly as strong as most believe it to be.

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Dickhead on Greens my response to michael hollett’s snotty-nosed, dickhead remarks about the Green party (NOW, April 26May 2) are a bit delayed. I will keep it short.

To say that the NDP is the only party with a vision for electoral reform is completely untrue. I would remind Hollett that there was a time, back in the David Lewis days and even more recently, when the NDP was considered a “vote-splitting vanity enterprise,” but it’s now the official opposition.

These things take time.

The Greens are on your side. To say

that there is little difference between the Green party and the NDP (thus rendering the Greens redundant) is false. The Green party has a bolder and more exciting vision for environmental policy.

Don’t hate on the Greens. Maybe the NDP needs to do a better job of persuading people.

Chris Michael Burns Toronto

regarding pie-in- the- sky polls (NOW, May 3-9). If you really want to look at polling, I’d worry less about the math and more about the way polls are structured.

The real math question might be whether the polls are actually represented by a normal distribution. If they aren’t, then there’s no way to say you have an answer with any degree of confidence.

You have to have true random samples. You can get a poll to tell you anything you want it to tell you by the way the question is phrased and the way the interviewer interviews.

This is true whether right or left is polling.

Rob Harkness Toronto

Ford mugging on rob ford versus daniel dale (NOW Daily, May 3). Joshua Errett is full of it. The incident between the

mayor and Toronto Star reporter Dale didn’t take place on private property.

What Ford did was commit assault.

Generally, an assault occurs when a person directly or indirectly applies force intentionally to another person.

But it can also occur when a person attempts to apply such force or threatens to do so.

Charging at Dale with a cocked fist and “cornering him” (the mayor’s words) on public land qualifies as assault. If he did so while demanding that Dale drop his camera and recording device, and if those items ended up in his possession, Ford is also a mugger.

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Call 9-1-1 on the mayor perhaps we need to call 9-1-1 on Mayor Rob Ford.

Help, 9-1-1. The mayor has been attacking our libraries. He is trying to destroy our beloved Riverdale Farm and all the other city farms.

Help. He tried to bring in the big

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box store monsters to devour our waterfront.

Help. He’s still trying to kill Transit City.

Barbara Sauve Toronto

Speed limit sense i know now is anti-rob ford, but he’s right, a 30 km/h speed limit in residential neighbourhoods (NOW, May 3-9) is stupid.

Common sense tells us people get hit on busy roads away from neighbourhoods, especially at intersections, which are exponentially more dangerous.

Thousands of people cross intersections daily all over the city, and all I see are cars running reds and accelerating through yellows.

None of this happens on quiet neighbourhood streets, because they have so many damn stop signs, no speeding occurs.

What I see is police setting up speed traps where they can make easy money, not where the most dangerous spots are.

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He also thinks the good doctor should keep his nose out. Ignoring this immature slight, the councillor’s comments about drivers – if they are to be believed – ought to lead to the striking down of all speed limits.

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MUSIC Métis Fiddler Quartet May 10 Join the quartet for a free live musical performance as they celebrate the release of their debut album, North West Voyage. Part of Planet IndigenUS. DANCE Kaha:wi Dance Theatre May 10–13 Don’t miss the thrilling world premiere of TransMigration, inspired by the paintings and life of iconic Ojibwe shamanartist, Norval Morrisseau. Created by choreographer Santee Smith. Co-produced with the Planet IndigenUS Festival (Aug. 10–19).

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LECTURE Sunday Scene May 13 Dr. Nathan Rose, whose research focuses on different types of memory and how memory changes as a function of normal aging, speaks about The Power Plant’s current exhibitions.

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white and 75° for black).

It doesn’t make engineering sense not to include green roofs in new buildings.

Kees Govers From nowtoronto.com

Subtitle to Yank slag susan g. cole calling american audiences xenophobic is an absurdly hateful claim (NOW, April 26-May 2).

Given that it’s a nation of immigrants, it’s probably less xenophobic than the majority of nations.

Also, America is larger than Europe and incredibly diverse in character, climate and landscape, so they can’t really be faulted for not travelling. It is also cheaper to travel within Europe, and easier (and cheaper) for Europeans to go to Asia or Africa.

To attack Americans for not liking subtitles is also absurd, because most

people (including Hitchcock and Pasolini) dislike them because they’re a distraction from the film.

Using [Cole’s own] dislike of remakes to launch an illogical attack on America only serves to delegitimize valid criticisms.

Ryan Faulds Toronto

Chickery impressions regarding steven davey’s review of Chickery Dickery Dock (NOW, May 3-9).

I’m not impressed with my $14.69 Mediterranean sandwich with side of potato salad. I understand they just opened, but get organized. Same thing with What A Bagel last week.

Horrible service.

Pier Julien Dupont From nowtoronto.com NOW welcomes reader mail. Address letters to: NOW, Letters to the Editor, 189 Church, Toronto, ON M5B 1Y7. Send e-mail to letters@nowtoronto.com and faxes to 416-364-1166. All correspondence must include your name, address and daytime phone number. Letters may be edited for length.

[Frontlines] Ellie Kirzner in the House of Olives

Seeking a little glam with my Mideast politics, I chose a seat under the stunning Depression glass chandelier Friday night, May 4, at Beit Zatoun (“house of olives”) on Markham.

It isn’t the only pleasure in the airy venue, home to Project Hope, an educational org for Palestine’s children, and Zatoun, which sells fair trade Palestinian olive oil and peace awareness.

There are also the squares of bread on the refreshment table for dipping into olive oil and spices, and congenial Jerusalem-born Zatoun founder Robert Massoud, who serenely circles the room like the host at a major reception.

Tonight’s speaker is Saudi poet Nimah Nawwab, born and raised in Mecca and an expert on Islam and Saudi customs, crafts, cuisine and calligraphy. But most of us are here because she is a leading light for Saudi female empowerment, though “feminism’’ is not a happy word for her.

It’s obvious that language-tweaking is not the only adjustment Nawwab, who has astonishing grey eyes, has

The Saudi poet survives because of things unsaid. made in a politically difficult landscape where most organizing ends in a petition to the king.

The poet, who readjusts her white headscarf as she speaks, was raised in a scholarly Sufi family. Her father read her Shakespeare as bedtime stories, and her mother refused to cover her face. When Nawwab married, she discarded the Saudi custom of separate entrances and living rooms for male and female visitors. When a woman in a niqab shows up, “I take her to my study,’’ she says, but she won’t compromise her home or principles to accommodate gender segregation.

Her target is male control (she would say “guardianship”) of women, and forced divorce, child marriage and other “man-made thou-shall-nots.”

She and others have recently won the right to run and vote in local elections.

I’m noticing that she’s not denouncing royal rule, even obliquely or symbolically. The omission is smoking up the room. What happens when activists go too far and trigger a state reaction? someone asks. She pauses for a slight second. “They are called in,” she says in undisturbed tones. What does that mean? the audience insists. “I don’t know,’’ she responds. “I have never been called in.”

Staring up into Beit Zatoun’s lofty ceiling, I make a mental adjustment.

Of course. Nawwab has survived on deftness and discipline – and things left unsaid.

Perhaps some revolutions at some moments are fought exactly this way. ellie@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/nowtorontonews

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CitySCape Doors Open, the annual tour of architectural wonders, has released its program for 2012. the theme this year: toronto’s history of communities. our recommendation for the may 26-27 event: weston, where among the stops is this masonic temple.

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Who Eugene (Gene) E. Jones Jr., new president and Ceo of toronto Community housing Claims to fame led “transformational changes” at several “troubled” U.S. public housing agencies, according to tCh presser on his appointment; worked on new orleans’s recovery after hurricane Katrina; current executive director of the detroit Social housing Commission Takes over June 18.

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What Protest Barrick action When outside the mining giant’s annual shareholders meeting at the Convention Centre on may 2.

Why Years of alleged environmental and human rights abuses at the Canadian company’s operations in Papua new guinea, tanzania and Chile.

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Barometer YONGE STREET SPIRIT

Still can’t believe he’s our mayor.

The DownTown Yonge Business Improvement Area pitches street festival plans for the city’s most notorious stretch for the last month of summer: restrict cars to a single lane in each direction between Gerrard and Richmond. We like it.

Ford acted inappropriately.

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The Star totally overstepped here.

Both the Star and Ford have embarrassed Toronto.

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from the archives

City Hall and the school board negotiate a landmark agreement to fund all 33 of the board’s cityfunded pools for the next five years.

JARVIS BIKE LANES A review by Transportation Services shows the collision rate between bikers and motorists on Jarvis has decreased 29 per cent since the installation of bike lanes.

Read Jarvis Passes Crash Test at nowtoronto.com/daily.

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ON THE COVER Beastie Boys Adam Yauch, aka MCA, passed away last week, inspiring us to search our archives for our cover story on the groundbreaking rap crew. When NOW sat down drummer Mike D, aka Michael Diamond, the group wasn’t so much fighting for the right to party as it was dealing with its massive success.

But on the heels of the release of their fourth album, Ill Communication, the Beasties were still taking major musical risks and were more politically proactive than ever. Yauch himself went on to cofound the Milarepa Fund, which sponsored, among other things, the Tibetan Freedom Concerts and the New Yorkers Against Violence benefit.

R.I.P. (Page 29 of the issue.)

Travel back in time with NOW’s online archives. View online at nowtoronto. com/archives

UNION-ISMS

The Toronto Cyclists Union drops the “union” in its name (it’s Toronto Cycling now) in a rebranding exercise that prompts founder Dave Meslin to ask somewhat cheekily, “When people go to Union Station, do they think of labour strikes and militant advocacy?”

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The Canadian NGO that’s been campaigning to abolish nuclear weapons for 32 years is losing its charitable tax status.

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One predicts the provincial Libs will win the Kitchener-Waterloo by-election that’s still six month away; another asks if Torontonians support casinos if “millions” of jobs are created.

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Find out what’s written in the stars, page 33.

Rob Brezsny’s Free Will

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The Mayor’s silenT TreaTMenT

MAYOR’S THREAT TO BOYCOTT MEDIA OVER DUST-UP WITH STAR REPORTER IS ALL TOO CONVENIENT NOW THAT HE’S HIT THE CRUISE BUTTON ON THAT NON-EXISTENT AGENDA

By ENZO DiMATTEO

rob ford came. he weighed in. he left without taking any questions from the press assembled outside his office Tuesday morning, May 8, there to test that threat he made last week not to talk the media as long as To­ ronto Star reporters are present.

The mayor is blaming his highly publicized altercation with Star re­ porter Daniel Dale for the silent treatment he’s now giving the whole City Hall press corps.

To recap: Dale went to the mayor’s Etobicoke home to check out a piece of adjacent parkland Ford wants to buy from the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, he says for security reasons – or to give his kids more room to play. Both are offered as reasons in Ford’s letter to the TRCA. The mayor says he called 9­1­1 after he “caught” Dale “spying” on him from the woods behind his backyard fence.

Let’s put aside the nitty­grit­ ty of that “he said, he said” for now.

Seems an ill­advised com­ munications strategy for a mayor already occupying the political margins to be asking the press gallery to eat one of its own, or else.

Besides Tuesday’s presser, there was also the beeline the mayor made for the elevator on Monday after an appearance to mark, of all things, World Press Freedom Day. But the Ford ultimatum seems to have divided the men and women stationed at City Hall who cover him every day, laying bare the individual sympathies of reporters at various news outlets.

Rather than hardening the line be­ tween the mayor and reporters, the Dale incident has had the opposite effect: galvanizing opinion for and against Ford among the fifth estate.

The Star’s urban affairs bureau chief, David Rider, describes the feel­ ing as “a little raw right now among some people.”

Rider says the Star team was aston­ ished by some of the criticism lev­ elled at Dale and the way the story was reported by media colleagues.

“Some of us were surprised by the way the story was reported, especial­ ly originally, and by the weight given to some of the comments from the mayor’s team, given what we’ve dealt with [when] checking claims from them in the past. It’s a strange situa­ tion.”

Rider continues: “Most of us who know Daniel and the mayor – and looking at the track record of both – would decide to give more weight to one than the other.”

The press gallery will meet “some time soon,” Rider says, to figure out

Rather than hardening the line between the mayor and City Hall reporters, the Dale inci­ dent has had the oppo­ site effect, galvanizing opinion for and against Ford among journalists. how to react to the mayor’s boycott of the press if he decides to persist.

To hear Rider tell it, there’s a possi­ bility some city reporters may decide to accommodate the mayor and not participate in future scrums involv­ ing Star reporters. That would be a sad turn.

“There’s always a chance that people will think better of it and not do it, and I certainly hope that’s the case,” says Rider. But “that’s kind of an unknown at the moment.”

Press gallery president Dave Nickle is diplomatic about the tensions in the press gallery.

“I think we were all really shocked by the intensity of the confrontation.

And it’s fair to say Daniel is some­ body we’ve all worked with and is generally quite well­liked. So there’s a lot of empathy. I would be uneasy speaking on behalf of everybody, but he’s a colleague. He’s stepped into this giant mess of a situation, and there’s a lot of sympathy there.”

Not that I expected journos at Tuesday’s weigh­in to be wearing All For Daniel Dale Ts. But it’s not hard to side with Dale on this one. Ford has made a career of grandstanding. He did that as councillor. He’s followed that well­worn path as mayor.

“Aw, shucks” is Ford’s default posi­ tion every time he fucks up. He tries to weasel his way out of every pre­ dicament he finds himself in. His deny­and­deflect act is familiar.

“The mayor seems to have an in­ ner need to be a victim in every­ thing,” says Councillor Adam Vaughan.

Criticism, implicit and explicit, of the Star’s coverage came not only from Ford friendlies in the Sun con­ tingent but also from the Post and Globe, both of which bought the mayor’s narrative despite some ob­ vious inconsistencies that, to be fair, continued on page 21 œ

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leave new neighbourhoods packed with residents but without services or green space.

And for a city that was supposed to be a leader in environmental initiatives, there was only limited talk about whether council should support the future Rouge River Valley national park, which would come at almost no cost to the city.

Surely even the right wing of council has some topics it feels are important. But outside of cost-cutting measures (not really policy) and contracting-out debates, we’ve seen little innovative conservative thinking.

One area fit for conservative thought is the economy, but here, too, not much has been said except for the odd comment on the mayor’s radio show about making Toronto competitive and attractive to investors. Certainly our “businessman” mayor would want to focus on such questions.

The mainstream media are also part of the problem, more inclined to cover antics rather than substance, which has caused a lot of people to tune out. Who wants a silly sitcom?

Likewise, it’s easier to do reactive journalism, more or less covering a story from both sides, rather than proactive journalism, where an unaddressed issue is closely analyzed.

Municipal government’s advantage is that it’s accessible and allows for an inclusive and wide-ranging conversation between elected reps and resi-

dents. This is usually done by councillors initiating consultations at one of the eight standing committees.

The best evidence of a freeze in research and debate is the ongoing absence of substantial items on committee agendas. Committees are where councillors traditionally introduce requests for reports, which in normal times then provide information for a dialogue between councillors, experts, staff and the public.

Today, most of the committees have thin agendas. Gone are presentations by experts, and most reports are info updates or transactional (say, getting permission to purchase a certain product).

For example, the Economic Development Committee recently presented only four items. Similarly, Public Works and Infrastructure had only a few: two one-page updates and two requests for information. No discussion about garbage/recycling, water or transport issues.

A few years ago, these committees regularly dealt with 20 to 35 items, and rather than meeting for one to two hours, they convened all day and heard from many residents.

Even at the TTC, which has been a recent focus of attention, little has been going on. The last three regular meetings addressed an average of eight items, and most were procurement-related or updates on already approved projects. Contrast that to

2008 or 09, when the commission heard three to four in-depth presentations per meeting and dealt with 25 to 35 issues, at least half about new policies or ideas.

Municipal government is not like the federal and provincial, where the majority of policy development is handled behind closed doors by civil servants under the direction of the

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If the mayor refuses to facilitate more robust city-building, council needs to do more. This month’s councillor-initiated discussions about the pedestrianization of Yonge and new rules for food carts were a good start, but we need to go further.

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oronto politics certainly isn’t boring these days. It has weird personal drama, outlandish characters, conflict, great quotes and overthe-top headlines.

One thing it does not have, however, is tangible ideas for addressing the city’s challenges. This is typically an area where the mayor takes the lead, but City Hall is now described by many as a toxic work environment and rudderless.

Mayor Ford’s office refuses or is unable to engage in matters outside a narrow field, and all the attention focuses on personalities.

While it’s true that city staff continue to provide day-to-day services, they lack the authority, which must come from council, to tackle the big questions and prepare Toronto for the future.

Council met this week and found enough items to fill the time. There was talk of creating a City-Hall-produced TV show (not joking!) and of having councillors exempted from jury duty.

But there were only a few major discussions and the only real planning issue dealt with (besides local files) was the ongoing debacle of the Woodbine Race Track development.

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City could ease cash crisis if it put revenues in a bank of its own By PAUL WEINBERG those who participated in occupy Toronto last fall have fond memories of economist Jim Stanford at the pro­ test mic in front of the bank towers on King.

The high point of his speech was all about a public, democratic, ac­ countable banking system that serves the economy, not private wealth accumulation.

Now, Councillor Kristyn Wong­ Tam has a plan to get Toronto out of its financial logjam with just such an effort, inspired by the 93­year­old public­owned Bank of North Dakota.

Wong­Tam returned recently from a conference in Philadelphia (BTW, she paid her own way) organized by the U.S.­based Public Banking Insti­ tute. And though she knows the pri­ vate banks will pounce, she’s kick­ starting a campaign to win backing for a people’s bank.

Imagine, she says, if instead of de­ positing its revenues from taxes and fees in Bay Street banks, the city used the cash to develop its own financial institution. The profit maximization would then benefit all of us; we could use it to build infrastructure and fund services.

“We pay for our roads and infra­ structure 20 times over the actual cost,” she says, pointing out that pri­ vate banks charge interest – as much as $250 million in 2011 – on the hun­ dreds of millions of dollars in loans Toronto borrows for necessary ser­ vices.

A Toronto city bank could gener­ ate its own credit and new capital, and set more reasonable terms for loans to itself, she says. If retailers like Walmart Canada are able to ob­ tain a licence to create a bank and issue credit, why can’t Toronto?

Wong­Tam says North Dakota’s odd prescription – deficit­free fiscal conservatism and a state bank – is now being considered by 18 other states.

Following the 2008 financial melt­ down and the rise of Occupy, alterna­ tive banking models are top of mind, says Marc Armstrong, exec director of the Public Banking Institute.

“We are saying, ‘Look, let’s use the bank for the people’s benefit,’” he says, explaining that when money is put into private banks it’s often in­ vested elsewhere – manufacturing in China, bonds in Brazil or risky secur­ ities – rather than in local economic development.

Formed during a populist revolt in 1919 similar to Occupy, the Bank of North Dakota is now helping to fund the state’s manufactur­ ing and commercial base, says Arm­ strong.

Currently, BND, which partners with private banks to access their ex­ pertise, has $5.4 billion in financial assets and has issued $3 billion in loans.

“It has much more oversight, transparency and accountability [than private institutions],” Arm­ strong says. And it doesn’t pay out millions in executive compensation.

According to Ed Sather, former senior VP of treasury services for BND, top execs at BND earn no more than $250,000 annually. Moreover, meetings of the governing industrial commission, its board of directors composed of the state governor, at­ torney general, commissioner of agriculture and more, are open to the public and media. “It’s not like the

private sector, where you do what you do in the boardroom,” he says.

But retired bank economist Doug Peters, an associate with the Cana­ dian Centre for Policy Alternatives, remains unconvinced. “We have more banks in Toronto than any other city in the country. To say we need another bank is like saying Lake Ontario needs more water.

“Everyone thinks they know how to run a bank, but it’s not easy. There have been very serious bank failures in this country if you look at the 70s and 80s.”

His CCPA colleague Jim Stanford, meanwhile, thinks Wong­Tam’s on the right path. “She correctly identi­ fies that private banks will actively resist any intrusion into the terrain

If retailers like Walmart Canada are able to obtain a licence to create a bank and issue credit, why can’t Toronto? they currently dominate,” he says, “and she is also right to identify pub­ lic education as a crucial prerequisite to making progress on this issue.”

Like any other financial institu­ tion, Stanford says, a public bank would time the inflows and outflows of revenue and spending so there would be a “financial cushion for in­ cremental lending by the bank.”

Providing credit or creating money out of thin air, which is what licensed banks do, doesn’t require “propri­ etary technology” that only private companies own, Stanford says. “It doesn’t require magic. It just requires the institutional and legal power to do it.”

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were reported later.

Dale was described in those early accounts as a “peeping Tom,” his ac­ tions equated by Ford mouthpiece Giorgio Mammoliti with those of a “pedophile.”

On talk radio, the attacks on Dale and the Star verged on apoplectic even among those who had found no fault a few weeks back when the pa­ per reported that the mayor had dropped in at a KFC while on his Cut The Waist diet challenge.

Even if he refuses to speak to most of the press, Ford still has plenty of apologists he can leak word to when needed. There’s a pecking order in the press corps where the mayor is concerned, and his staff have used it not only to deliver the administra­ tion’s message but also to get ahead of stories that may prove damaging.

When it looked like Ford’s fist­wav­ ing confrontation with Dale might result in an unflattering picture of our man of the people acquiring parkland to monster­size his home – to say nothing of possible criminal charges against the mayor for mena­ cing Dale – he called the cops, and soon the media were on the scene to record his version for the 11 o’clock news. Worked like a charm.

But by his own account, Ford wit­ nessed no alleged shutterbugging by Dale. His next­door neighbour ran over with that report.

Does anybody believe Dale was stalking the mayor, or that Ford real­ ly feared for the safety of his daugh­ ter? Where have we heard that one before?

Oh yeah, when he called 9­1­1 over an “ambush” by CBC comedian Mary Walsh in his front drive. We found out later there was more to that story than he was letting on: an F­bomb ti­ rade to 9­1­1 operators.

This time, too, there’s a record of the confrontation with Dale – video reportedly from security cameras at Ford’s place – in police possession.

That would put a lot of questions to rest, but Ford’s not authorizing its re­ lease. Déjà vu all over again.

Another curious tidbit: somehow the Sun got hold of the fact that ear­ lier in the day of the confrontation a phone call was made by Dale to the executive assistant of Councillor Ma­ ria Augimeri, vice­chair of the TRCA board. Did that info come from the phone Dale was ordered to drop by Ford during their encounter?

That the mayor has adopted the U.S.­style approach of blaming the so­called “left­wing” and “liberal me­ dia” for everything under the sun, including his own travails, is not sur­ prising. His Ottawa fishing buddy, the PM, has frozen out Parliament Hill’s press gallery to great effect.

Ford won the mayoralty with little more than a slogan: “Stop the gravy train.” And his brand has now been exposed as nothing but a handful of

similar mantras: “Subways, subways, subways” and “Nuts, nuts, nuts.” But next time, if there is a next time, he’ll have to run on his record. And two and half years away from the next election, this administration has no more mojo.

Committee agendas have never been so thin. And never has a may­ or’s office been so devoid of initia­ tive. Rofo has hit the cruise but­ ton. Taxpayers should be asking for a refund.

When the mayor’s got nothing more important to do than “take aim” at potholes, as if that were something to get excited about, you know the cupboard where

the Ford camp keeps its big ideas is bare.

One question that hasn’t been asked about the Ford­vs­Dale dust­ up: what the hell was the hardest­ working mayor in the history of the world (brother Doug says so) doing home for dinner on a week­ night, lounging in a T­shirt?

I’m half­joking, but check the Ford file. This

week’s council order paper included not one key item of the mayor’s.

The only interesting ideas coming out of 100 Queen West are from council members. The most active part of recent council meetings has been the mem­ bers’ motions.

Clearly, the councillors have moved beyond Ford, meeting formally and otherwise to discuss ini­ tiatives, coa­ lescing in

a remarkable show of cooperation across political lines to set a course for the city sans the mayor.

Unfortunately, there may be no curbing the media’s enthusiasm for Ford’s antics. He’s the gift that keeps on giving, his unpredictability mak­ ing him irresistible. He sells papers and attracts eyeballs to websites, in­ spiring a weird sympathy, like the kid everybody picked on in school.

But at what point do we tire of the shit show? Suanne Kelman, Ryerson’s associate chair of the School of Jour­ nalism, says it’s time to turn down the volume on Ford.

“Let’s not kid ourselves. His per­ sonality is consuming way more at­ tention than it should in proportion to the other things.”

Ford desperately needs to recap­ ture that shrink­government agenda of his that’s been blown to smither­ eens. While his handlers figure that out, distractions will have to do. 3 enzom@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/enzodimatteo

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The austere social housing at 1555 Queen E. (left) contrasts with the friendly feel of the Riverdale Housing Co-op (right).

East-end stroll explores the purposeful ugliness of old social housing and outlines a plan to de-stigmatize subsidized digs By BEN SPURR there’s a sign outside the apartment buildings at 1555 Queen East that identifies them as social housing, but it’s hardly necessary. You’re not likely to mistake them for anything else.

Plain, squat and unattractive, the brown-and-white buildings have all

the hallmarks of the dark ages of Toronto community housing.

Fortunately, society’s thinking on affordable housing has evolved since the 1950s, when developments like these two Queen East towers were built. But as veteran housing advocate Joy Connelly explains on her

50 participants.

Because of the failure of those stigmatized neighbourhoods (think the original Regent Park), Connelly says many people continue to see social housing as a problem to be solved rather than a public good, even though there’s a dire need for affordable housing and plenty of evidence that such projects can be successful.

A few short blocks from the Queen East site, Connelly leads the group west to the Riverdale Housing Co-op. It’s a little slice of urban bliss. A row of quaint townhouses face onto a small, well-kept courtyard where on Sunday children are playing in the spring sunshine.

Created just eight years after 1555 Queen East was built, the co-op is evidence of a seismic shift in philosophy from “housing of last resort,” to “housing as community.”

Jane’s Walk through the east end on Sunday, May 6, popular perceptions about low-income housing continue to be influenced by the prejudices built into these aging developments.

Standing in the patch of green space between the two buildings, Connelly describes the philosophy behind mid-century social housing projects as “Make sure it’s not too nice, or people will want to stay.”

In order to avoid competition with the private market, the buildings were designed to be functional but undesirable. Small bedrooms, unstylish furnishings and ugly exteriors were the order of the day. Stigma and marginalization were drafted right into the blueprints.

“Think how hard it is to overcome that marginal feeling once it’s been built in,” Connelly tells the roughly

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Tenants collectively own the co-op, manage and maintain the development and, by keeping their costs down, pay $200 to $300 less than market rent.

Crucially, the co-op is mixedincome, making it an antidote to the ghettoization that plagued earlier projects. Roughly half the residents receive a subsidy from the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation, while the others pay their own way, attracted by the low rents and the knowledge that their money is helping their less fortunate neighbours.

Successful as it is, Riverdale Co-op is unfortunately as much of an anachronism as the drab towers on Queen East. As first the federal government and then the province downloaded housing responsibilities to municipalities, co-op building was abandoned, and according to Connelly, only one has been built in Toronto in the past 10 years.

As the group heads north into the residential streets near Greenwood and Dundas, Connelly asks us to try to spot which houses are being used for social housing. Although there are several along the route (20 per cent of rental units in Toronto are social housing owned either by Toronto’s housing agency or non-profit organizations),they’reindistinguishable from their neighbours.

This blending of incomes is vital to reducing the stigma that still surrounds community housing, but the city is considering abandoning the strategy of embedding subsidized renters in regular neighbourhoods.

The Toronto Community Housing board has recommended selling more than 600 of its scattered properties. Although a working group has been appointed to look into alternatives, it may not prevent the sale.

Connelly says the houses have been mismanaged, and the agency is right to sell them. But instead of auctioning them off to the highest bidder, she wants them transferred to an agency that could maintain them as affordable housing.

“TCH says it cannot manage the houses. I think that’s right,” Connelly says. “But just because TCH can’t manage the houses doesn’t mean nobody can.”

She thinks the city could learn from Innstead, a co-op group made up of 53 scattered properties in the east end.

Unlike TCH’s units, Innstead’s properties have produced reserve funds instead of repair backlogs. They’re energy-efficient and well-maintained, and many provide housing for people receiving rent subsidies. The rent for one 5-bedroom Innstead house is a paltry $1,800 a month.

A new city-run agency set up on the Innstead model could take the scattered units off TCH’s hands without displacing vulnerable tenants, Connelly believes.

“I would strongly recommend that they set up a new non-profit housing corporation that would take responsibility for this portfolio, learn from the experience of the people who can do it,” she says, “and create something I think could be quite wonderful.” 3 news@nowtoronto.com | twitter.com/nowtorontonews

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technology

No friction, no fun

How to stop using Facebook’s auto-broadcasting apps By nowtoronto.com editor joSHUa erreTT When I share a link on Facebook, I’m sharing a part of myself.

That sounds disgusting, I realize.

But the idea is that I don’t just vomit out content on social media. I carefully curate what, when and how I share media. I take pride in it.

It’s a “My name is Joshua Errett and I approve this content”-type thing.

Frictionless sharing is the opposite.

It takes the heavy lifting – if you can call it that – out of sharing. There are no links to cut-and-paste, no Like buttons to click. You shared the article without sharing the article.

News organizations like the Huffington Post created these apps, called “social readers.” Read one of their articles via Facebook and that article gets posted to your wall automatically.

Somehow, these readers were a hit.

But in mid-April, the use of frictionless sharing plummeted. On April 11, the Guardian, Washington Post, Yahoo, Mashable and most other news websites with auto-sharing apps on Facebook took a nosedive – some losing almost 50 per cent of traffic from social readers. The decline continues.

Spectacular. Good news all around.

Finally. It took almost a year – frictionless sharing was introduced in 2011 at Facebook’s F8 conference – but it seemed that this bit of social media engineering was finally getting the reaction it deserved.

Alas, a mass revolt it was not.

Turned out Facebook had made changes to its news feed that affected the numbers significantly, dropping daily usage of some readers by

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hundreds of thousands of clicks. (A reminder that Facebook is very much in control of sharing.)

Though a majority of readers agree with me – only 28 per cent of HuffPo readers have accepted the conditions of its app – frictionless sharing lives on.

So if you hate this sort of intrusive broadcasting of your reading habits simply because you clicked on a story but still need to read it, take one of the following actions:

Deny it. When the app asks for permission, click Cancel. It may let you proceed to the story. If not, accept, read your precious story, then go to Account Settings > Apps and delete the social reader app immediately.

Browse arounD it. Firefox and Chrome both have browser addons that magically go around the Facebook apps, so you don’t agree to autosharing but you can still read the articles.

share with yourseLf. Change the privacy settings of the app. Instead of sharing each and every article you read with your friends, change the privacy to “Only Me.”

GooGLe it. Take the headline of the story and throw it into Google.

Clicking on a Like or Recommend button had never truly been a source of “friction,” so there’s really no need for frictionless sharing.

Removing the active, creative parts from the sharing process is a bald corporate marketing ploy. It takes the fun out of sharing and, by extension, out of Facebook.

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What chemicals do Brita-type filters remove from water?

When I was growing up in Montreal, where the tap water tasted like a swimming pool thanks to all the added chlorine, my family always fil­ tered our H20.

For a while we had one of those polycarbonate plastic water coolers – the ones hardened with estrogenic bisphenol A, now banned from baby bottles. By the time we moved to To­ ronto, my parents had installed a below­sink carbon filter but for some reason still ran our water through a Brita pitcher, for “extra protection.”

So how do Brita and friends per­ form? Do pitchers get the job done?

Pitcher filters tend to use activated carbon technology, which basically means they’re running your water through loose carbon granules. What does that do? Well, it depends on the quality and type of charcoal filter, but basically a positive charge at­ tracts and traps impurities.

Brita’s website says it reduces chlo­ rine taste, lead and other heavy met­ als like mercury and cadmium (some zeolite in the filter system supposed­

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ly attracts lead like a magnet). But does it?

For the longest time, pitcher filters were certified as removing lead. But after getting a handful of Brita­relat­ ed questions in one week, including yours, reader friend, I decided to look at that certification. Turns out many pitcher filters – the ones with loose carbon granules like Brita’s – no longer meet certification standards for reducing lead. They reduce it a little, but not enough to get certified by the National Sanitation Founda­ tion, which tightened its standards.

If you can get your hands on a pit­ cher filter that uses a block carbon filter instead, you’ll be in much bet­ ter hands. Tests show that Clear20 pitchers reduce 53 contaminants, and Consumer Reports says they’re

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excellent at lead removal. Too bad they’re tough to find in Canada.

Next in the CR rankings was the ZeroWater pitcher, which is classi­ fied as “very good” at lead removal (available in Can­ ada from bedbath­ andbeyond.ca).

ZeroWater is one of the few activated carbon models NSF certified as reducing lead as well as mer­ cury, chromium and chlorine, pur­ portedly because of its “five­stage filter.”

Mavea says its water filter car­ tridges reduce chlor­ ine taste, organic impurities like ben­ zene and tetrachloro­ ethylene and pesticides like simazine and atrazine but makes no claims for lead.

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blocks tend to do much better. The top three tested by Consumer Re­ ports were Culligan, Pur and Brita.

Brita’s faucet filtration filters about 30 substances including asbestos, cloudy soil runoff (aka turbidity), benzene and trihalo­ methanes (THMs, the carcinogenic by­ products of water

Not all the claims of pitcher makers hold water. Opt for a block carbon filter. disinfection), 2,4­D, carbofuran, sty­ rene, toluene, VOCs and, yes, lead.

Plumbed­in countertop and under­ sink carbon filters will cost you more and, depending on the model, may remove a little more than the faucet type. Check your brand for its score on consumerreports.org, and cross­ check to see what it’s certified to re­ move at nsf.org.

What about the trace pharmaceu­ ticals we pee out that sometimes end up back in our taps (and in bottled water, too)? Government testing has found that basic activated­carbon fil­ ters are quite good at removing most drugs, so is a simple activated­carbon pitcher or sink­mounted filter a de­ cent choice? As I note in my newest book, Ecoholic Body, Brita’s own in­ ternal tests show a 96.5 per cent re­ duction in five key drugs including pain relievers, hormones and seizure meds, though at this point no formal third­party certification has con­ firmed this claim.

Reverse osmosis systems are fa­ mous for filtering out the most pol­ lutants, but these are often super­ expensive and can be incredibly wasteful, dumping many litres of water for every litre purified. Watts Zero­Waste Reverse Osmosis Sys­ tem claims to be the first 100 per cent efficient system on the market (at Costco last time I checked, wattspremier.com). You can also find bottle refilling stations at health stores like Whole Foods and the Big Carrot. (FYI, Big Carrot charges $2.60 to refill an 18­litre jug.)

Now, if you’re freaked out about fluoride in the water, reverse osmo­ sis and distilled water are your only options. You’ll have to bug your councillor about having fluoride to­ tally taken out of our municipal water supply if you want to get to the root of the problem.

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Benefits

BBicycle dreams (Tour for Kids) Fundraising

screening of the Race Across America documentary. 7 pm. $30. Royal Cinema, 608 College. teamendurance.ca/events. an evening oF hoPe (Fertile Futures) Art and music, with live painting by artist Beckie DiLeo. 7:30 pm. $100. Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle. 416-944-9957, fertilefuture.ca.

For the love oF loBster (St Felix Centre) Gala lobster dinner, live East Coast music and a silent auction. 6:30 pm. $150. St Patrick’s Church Hall, 141 McCaul. stfelixcentre.ca. toP ten event (Stephen Lewis Fdn) Ten renowned Canadians 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 Chinese music

and dance, plus poetry by Priscilla Uppal. 6:30 pm. Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

Birding 101 Workshop with naturalist Zak Smith. 7 pm. $35, yth $15. High Park Nature Centre, 440 Parkside. 416-392-1748 ext 2. contemPorary art in PuBlic Places Discussion with Toronto Public Art co-ordinator Jane Perdue, Nuit Blanche curator Shirley Madill and others. 7 pm. $30. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. Pre-register rom.on.ca.

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festivals • expos • sports etc.

Festivals this week

Bootleg Film Festival Undergound and

indie films. Pwyc at the door. Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. bootlegfilmfestival.com.

May 10 to 12

rForest oF reading Festival oF trees

Children’s literary festival with readings, workshops, author signings and other activities including ALOUD: A Celebration For Young Readers. $14. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, readings.org.

May 15 and 16

Panamerican routes/rutas Panamericanas Aluna Theatre presents a festival of

theatre for human rights, with international and local artists including Violeta Luna and Carmen Aguirre plus a conference. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. alunatheatre.ca.

May 15 to 27 tiFF next Wave Film Festival Thought-provoking films for youth 14 to 18 with films Fat Kid Rules The World, 17 Girls and others, an indie band battle and more. $8-$12,

Forest​Of​ Reading​​ Festival​Of​ Trees​kicks​ off​May​15. passes avail. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. 416-599-8433, tiff.net/nextwave.

May 10 to 12

continuing contact Photography festival featuring ex-

hibitions, installations, workshops, portfolio 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

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practice and teaching of BKS Iyengar. To May 13. $40-$615. Allstream Centre, 105 Princes’ Blvd, pre-register iyengaryogacanada.com.

Discussion on the Judaism of tomorrow, with author Dan Mendelsohn Aviv, editor/analyst Lisa Goldmanand others. 7 pm. Free. Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina. 416-924-6211.

BPeddle For a greener city Learn how to make your 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 Lecture by Stephen Lewis. 7 pm.

Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. 416-3955577, torontopubliclibrary.ca.

a saudi Women’s PersPective: a Journey into the heartland oF araBia A talk, readings and interactive discussion on Saudi Arabia. 7 pm. $5. Noor Cultural Centre, 123 Wynford. noorculturalcentre.ca.

Friday, May 11

Lecture on dirty electricity and cell phone frequencies. 7 pm. Free. Big Carrot, 348 Danforth. 416-466-2129. ceol kids concert (Regent Park School of Future Food salon ii Jakub Dzamba talk on Music) Musicians perform songs from an aucthird millennium farming.

6:30 pm.

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PM Page 1 pm. $15-$20. ReAnnex, 720 Bathurst. socialinnovation.ca. vival, 783 College. ceolkids.com.

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Championships/ASL Club Toronto) Performance by Elizabeth Morris. 6 pm. $10. Annex Wreck Room, 794 Bathurst. 416-536-0346.

canadian creative Writers and Writing Programs conFerence Lectures, panels and

keynote speakers, with authors Will Ferguson, Priscila Uppal and others. Today and tomorrow 8 pm. $25, stu $20. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. ccwwp.ca/conference.

Frankie FloWers The gardening guy shares tips on container gardening. 12:30 pm. Free.

Indigo Eaton Centre, 221 Yonge. indigo.ca.

Friday night live @ rom CONTACT exhibition tour, creating your own photo art and a DJ dance party. 6 pm. $9. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. rom.on.ca/fridays. haiti aFter the quake Rebel Films screening and discussion with Ajamu Nangwaya and BC Holmes. 7 pm. $4. OISE, rm 2-212, 252 Bloor W. 416-535-8779. noW talks: occuPy the mic Discussion on the roots of the Occupy movement with singer/MP Andrew Cash, comic Arthur Simeon, Occupy activist Sakura Saunders, NOW publisher Michael Hollett and MC David Miller. 7 pm. $15. Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor W. nowtoronto.com/nowtalks.

performances, installations and a conference. NAISA Space, Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. naisa.ca.

To May 31 Festival oF ideas & creation Canadian Stage’s festival of workshops and readings to support the development of new works.

Free. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley.

416-368-3110.

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

To May 13 rock.PaPer.sistahz Festival Showcase of work by women artists, poets and performers of colour, plus talks, parties and more.

Various prices and venues. bcurrent.ca.

To May 11 toronto JeWish Film Festival Feature films, documentaries and shorts with something for everyone. $13, stu/srs $9; weekday matinees $8, some free screenings. Various cinemas. 416-324-9212, tjff. com.

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salute to leonard cohen Street tributes at various locations including Yorkville Parkette, Nathan Phillips Square, CBC Building. Today and tomorrow 10 am to 10 pm. Free. glenngould.ca/street-tribute-leonard-cohen. tamil studies conFerence Presentations on Tamil language, politics, ancient history, art, gender and religion. Today 1-8:30 pm; tomorrow 8:30 am-8:30 pm. Free. U of T New College, 45 Willcocks. tamilstudiesconference.ca.

PhotograPhy in the Junction Photography, art, music, audience choice awards and more.

6 pm. 3030 Dundas W. thejunctionbia.com. treehouse talks Short talks on three topics by biologist Darryl Gwynne, Bullfrog Power’s Tom Heintzman and storyteller Mariella Bertelli. 6:30 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. 416-395-5577.

Will Ferguson Keynote address of the 2012 Canadian Creative Writers and Writing Programs Conference. 8 pm. $25, stu $20.

Harbourfront Centre, Brigantine Room, 235 Queens Quay W. readings.org.

ville, Jape and others. 9 pm. $20. O’Gradys, 171 College. 416-596-0327, brainsgiving.com. an evening For Bazou (school in Cameroon) Performances by Kome Manu, Sahara Sloan and others. 8:30 pm. $20 sliding scale. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.

ForBidden Fruit (Chimera Project) Excerpts from The Calm Before..., a dance battle and more support the dance troupe. 8 pm. $50.

National Ballet School, 400 Jarvis. chimeraproject.org. meagan’s Walk (pediatric brain cancer research at SickKids) Join families to raise funds and awareness. 10 am. Pledges. Begins at Ontario Place, walk to SickKids Hospital. Preregister 416-239-7843, meaganswalk.com.

Peace oF minds Walk For schizoPhrenia

(Schizophrenia Soc of Ontario) Walk to raise funds. 11:30 am. Pledges. David Pecaut Square, 55 John. schizophrenia.on.ca.

Bride For the rouge (Rouge Valley Fdn) 25-, 50- or 75K bike challenge through the Rouge River watershed and along city streets and bike paths. 9 am-3 pm. $20-$40. Rouge Valley Conservation Centre, 1749 Meadowvale. 416-282-8265, rvcc.ca.

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cluding the ROM’s Gayle Gibson. 10 am-1:30 pm. $10. U of T Earth Sciences Bldg, 5 Bancroft. thessea.org.

Mthe art, science and sPirit oF decolonization Workshop with Zainab Amadahy. 1 pm.

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Free. Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil. Pre-register registration@mayworks.ca.

Beach Ball Party celebrating the release of Worn Fashion Journal’s 14th issue. 9 pm. $12, adv $10. Dovercourt House, 805 Dovercourt. wornjournal.com.

BBikes and Books Bike maintenance tips, safety guidelines, cycling maps and books on bike repair. 11 am-1 pm. Free. Beaches Library, 2161 Queen E. torontopubliclibrary.ca. docents gone Wild! Performance art tour of the Gladstone. 1 pm. $15. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.

Flock ‘n Walk Bird identification and walk to the tip of the Spit. 7 am. Free. Tommy Thompson Park, foot of Leslie. Pre-register ontariowalks.com.

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NOW Talks goes Occupy Where did the Occupy movement come from? And how are the 99 per cent going to take back the agenda?

Find out at NOW Talks’ Occupy The Mic, With David Miller. Along with the former mayor, the format-busting evening – a blend of music, comedy, conversation and saving the world – features NOW editor/publisher Michael Hollett, singer/songwriter and NDP MP

Andrew Cash, comedian Arthur Simeon and Occupy activist Sakura Saunders. Friday (May 11), 7 pm. $15. Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor W. nowtorontocom/nowtalks.

Boost Brainsgiving Host David Miller launches NOW Talks’ Occupy The Mic on May 11.

Brain injuries can affect a person’s abilities in dramatic ways. That’s why Toronto Rehab’s Neuro Rehabilitation Program, which helps adults whose lives have been changed by such catastrophic events, is

so important. On Saturday (May 12) at 9 pm, stand-up and sketch comics including Ryan Belleville, Sara Hennessey lead the Brainsgiving fundraiser, and at just $20, tickets for this great cause are a bargain. O’Grady’s, 171 College. brainsgiving.com.

Why restraint feeds recession

The feds and the province are pushing austerity, but are tax cuts, program cuts and wage-slashing the cure for the recession? Not. Get the word at Back To The Future, a forum mapping out an alternative set of policies to ensure prosperity and protect citizens from counterproductive restraint. The panel features progressive economist Jim Stanford, former mayor and founder of EconomicInequality.ca John Sewell, and the Ontario Health Coalition’s Natalie Mehra. Monday (May 14), 1 pm. Free. City Hall, 100 Queen West. socialjustice.org.

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Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. Pre-register 416973-4093, harbourfrontcentre.com. rINTERNATIONAL MIGRATORY BIRD DAY Activities around helping preserve birds. 9:30 am-6:30 pm. Free w/ admission. Toronto Zoo, Meadowvale N of 401. 416-392-5929.

MLEAVE A MARK! SASSY SCREENPRINTING 101

Hands-on workshop to learn basic techniques. 1 pm. $10. The People Project Space, 377 Dundas W. Pre-register registration@ mayworks.ca.

MEGA MAGIC Evening of magic and mentalism with magician Mike D’Urzo. 9 pm. $35.

Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles W. 1-888222-6608, megamagic.ca.

PARKDALE PLANT FAIR Annuals, perennials, seeds, tips and more. 10:30 am-1:30 pm. Free (cash only). Parkdale Public School, 75 Lansdowne. parkdaletorontohort.com.

PEOPLE’S ASSEMBLY ON CLIMATE JUSTICE Plenary, workshops and breakouts on connecting with affected communities. 10 am-4 pm.

Free. S Walter Stewart Library, 170 Memorial Park. peoplesassembly.toronto@gmail.com.

SAILING CLUB OPEN HOUSE Westwood Sailing Club offers tours and info on learning how to sail. 1-3 pm. Free. 12 Regatta (just E of Cherry Beach). membership@westwoodsailing.ca. rSCIENCE RENDEZVOUS Mini lectures and demos on DNA extraction, the transit of Venus and how new cancer drugs are developed. Noon-4 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. 416-393-7131.

SOCIAL MEDIA FOR THE INTERNET GENERATION

Workshop for teenagers on safety and more.

1-4 pm. $60. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. Pre-register 416-973-4093.

TORONTO PARK SUMMIT Park lovers gather to share ideas for improving Toronto’s parks.

1-5:30 pm. Pwyc. Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview. parkpeople.ca.

TORONTO ROLLER DERBY D-VAS vs Kingston and Chicks Ahoy! vs Smoke City Betties. 6 pm. $18, adv $12. Bunker, Downsview Park, 40 Carl Hall. torontorollerderby.com.

WALKING OUR WALK: ART ON THE ISLAND

Learn about the Toronto Islands artist community and create a work of art. 10 am-4 pm. $75. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. Pre-register 416-973-4093.

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AN EVENING WITH MICHAEL MORPURGO (First

Book) The author of War Horse reads from his novel and answers questions, plus live music

by Melanie Doane. 7 pm. $15. Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King W. 416-872-1212.

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AGINCOURT VILLAGE Heritage Toronto walk.

1:30 pm. Free. Agincourt Jr Public School Parking Lot, 29 Lockie. 416-338-3886.

BIRDING 101 Guided hike with naturalist Zak Smith. 7 am. $35, yth $15. High Park Nature Centre, 440 Parkside. 416-392-1748 ext 2.

GEAR BOX STEAMPUNK BURLESQUE Performances by Mina LaFleur, Obsykura, Red Herring and others. 9 pm. $20-$40. Revival, 783 College. aprofessionaldistraction.com.

GRUMPY ELDERS TAKING PART IN DEMOCRACY: THE KNUCKLE-UNDER INDEX Talk by systems

analyst/writer David Foster. 2 pm. Free. Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil. ulyssean.on.ca.

rHIGH STYLE: A FASHIONABLE HISTORY OF TEA

Illlustrated lecture and tea. 10 am. $45. Bata Shoe Museum, 327 Bloor W. 416-979-7799.

MICHAEL ENRIGHT Talking about whether the media are to blame for everything. 10:10 am.

Free. St Clement’s Church Parish Hall, St Clements and Duplex. 416-483-6664.

MREMEMBERING OUR PUBLIC SERVICES: A CREATIVE WORKSHOP Join the Department Of

Public Memory in an investigation of its research about our public services. 1 pm. Free.

Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil. mayworks.ca.

ROSEDALE I Guided ROM walk. 2 pm. Free. Bloor & Castle Frank. 416-586-8000, rom.on.ca.

SUNDAY SCENE Tour of the exhibitions led by memory/brain researcher Nathan Rose. 2 pm.

Free. Power Plant, 231 Queens Quay W. 416973-4949.

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HEART & VISION (United Church Camps) Music

by Broadway performers, opera greats and Grammy/Juno nominees. 7 pm. $95. Metropolitan United Church, Queen and Church.

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HOME FOR LIFE (Eva’s Initiatives) Homethemed auction experience. 6 pm. $75. Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview. 416-9774497.

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BACK TO THE FUTURE Forum on real alternatives to the new austerity agenda, with economist Jim Stanford and former mayor John Sewell. 1 pm. Free. City Hall, Queen and Bay. oldercanadiansnetwork@bellnet.ca.

THE END OF GROWTH: JEFF RUBIN The economist talks about the end of cheap oil with CBC business columnist Michael Hlinka. 7 pm. Free.

Reference Library, 789 Yonge. 416-395-5577.

IN NAYMAN’S TERMS: THE FILMS OF STANLEY KUBRICK Screening of clips from 2001: A

Space Odyssey and lecture by film critic Adam Nayman. 7 pm. $12, stu $6. Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Bloor W. 416-924-6211 ext 606.

JAMIE LEE CURTIS Unique Lives & Experiences lecture by the actor. 7:30 pm. $36. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe. uniquelives.com.

MEDITATION Introductory class. 7:15 pm. Free.

College/Shaw Library, 766 College, 416-5390234, meditationtoronto.com.

WHAT’S CONTAGIOUS NOW: AUGMENTED CONTENT Nick Parish talks about how technology is changing traditional content channels. 5 pm. $35. The Hoxton, 69 Bathurst. Pre-register nickparish2012.eventbrite.com.

WHY THE STATE OF THE ECONOMY WILL NOT BE THE DEFINING ISSUE IN OUR COMING PUBLIC POLICY DEBATES Talk by National Post columnist/writer Andrew Coyne. 7 pm. Free. Gardiner Museum 111 Queen’s Park. Pre-register rsvp@reviewcanada.ca.

Tuesday, May 15

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GENDER 101 Workshop on the world, language and stories of the gender-gifted. 6 pm. Free.

Metropolitan Community Church, 115 Simpson. trans@mcctoronto.com.

HEALTHY FOOD, HEALTHY LIVING: STRENGTHENING LOCAL FOOD CONNECTIONS IN HEALTHCARE Food Forward panel discussion. 6:30 pm.

Free. City Hall committee rm 2, Queen and Bay. 416-459-9975.

THE SOCIAL MEDIA REVOLUTION: THE ARAB SPRING AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF JOURNALISM Lecture by professor Alfred Hermida.

6 pm. Free. Samara, 33 Prince Arthur. 416494-1440 ext 225.

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MAKER SHAKER (Ontario Crafts Council) Mar-

tini-themed silent auction fundraiser. 7:30 pm. $45, adv $35, stu adv $10. Neubacher Shor Contemporary Gallery, 5 Brock. 416-9254222 ext 222.

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ETOBICOKE AND 1812 Bicentennial talk by Etobicoke Historical Society president Denise Harris. Free. Mimico Public Library, 47 Station, torontopubliclibrary.ca.

HISTORIC TORONTO Guided ROM walk. 6 pm.

Free. In front of Post Office, Adelaide E of George. 416-586-8000, rom.on.ca.

PARLER FORT: IT’S ALL ABOUT KINDNESS Celebration of June Callwood with a performance by singer Molly Johnson and talk on the design for the new Callwood Park. 7:30 pm. $8.85. Fort York, 100 Garrison. 416-392-6907.

THEATRE GRANT WRITING WORKSHOP Workshop for playwrights on how to write a grant proposal. 5 pm. Free. Playwrights Guild of Canada, 210-215 Spadina. Pre-register michael@torontoartscouncil.org.

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FUNNY STRANGE: SATIRE AFTER MORDECAI RICHLER (PEN Canada) New York writer Calvin

Trillin discusses satire and the legacy of Richler with comedian Seán Cullen. 7 pm. $40.

Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. pencanada.ca.

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THE FIRST CASUALTY IN THE AGE OF HIGH-TECH

WARFARE Canadian Journalism Fdn panel discussion with psychiatrist Anthony Feinstein, defence reporter Murray Brewster and others.

7 pm. $15, stu free. TMX Broadcast Centre, Exchange Tower, 130 King W. Pre-register cjffirstcasualty.eventbrite.com.

INSIDE OUT OPENING GALA PARTY The LGBT film festival kicks off with a party, featuring performances by Yura and DJ Shane Percy. 10 pm. $10. OCAD Great Hall, 100 McCaul. insideout.ca.

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To Agincourt and Gourmet Malaysia (4466 Sheppard East, at Brimley, 647-764-1188, ggmsc.com, rating: NNN), a sprawling strip-mall banquet hall that someone on the internet claims is the best Singaporean resto in town. Better than Hawker Bar anyway.

To test the theory, we duplicate our downtown dinner, starting with lamb satay (#4, $8.20), four skewers of somewhat gristly halal lamb in chunky peanut sauce.

Since they don’t do vegan, Gourmet’s soupy laksa (#213, $7.80) comes thick with chicken, shrimp and fish cake in a chili-fired broth that builds to a slow burn. But unless you’re a fan of skin and bones, pass on Hainanese Chicken (#131, $13.99 half), a whole lotta bother for little meaty reward. And shouldn’t there be rice?

Gourmet’s fried crispy whole fish in sambal (#68, $18.99) might not be as fancy-pants as Hawker Bar’s, with tilapia standing in for bream, but it still packs a spicetacular punch from little more than a combination of ketchup and chili flakes. Veering away from comparison dining, we try Penang Char Kwei Teow (#191), a fabulous tangle of wide rice noodles in dark Gourmet Malaysia’s Hainanese Chicken is beautiful to look at but not very meaty.

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Foxley, 647-343-4698, hawkerbar. ca) Complete dinners for $30 per person, including tax, tip and a mocktail. Average main $12. Open Tuesday to Thursday 11:45 am to 3 pm and 5 to 11 pm, Friday 11:45 am to 3 pm and 5 pm to midnight, Saturday 11:45 am to midnight, Sunday 11:45 am to 11 pm. Closed Monday, some holidays. No reservations. Unlicensed.

Access: three steps at door, washrooms in basement. Rating: NNNNN

other than susur lee’s signature slaw and the occasional dish at Matahari on Baldwin and Jean’s on the Danforth, Singaporean food doesn’t show up on many Toronto menus.

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duction of Hawker Bar, a casual westside snackateria dedicated to the late-night street food of that cosmopolitan city state. To most, the Bar’s short cardboard carte will be uncharted waters. Perhaps that’s why a starter known as son-in-law eggs comes with instructions.

“Chef suggests you plop them straight into your mouth so you get all the flavours at once,” says a helpful server.

In my enthusiasm, I bite into the soft-boiled egg’s runny yellow centre, and the yolk’s on me, literally, albeit one kicked with sticky-sweet chili jam, snippets of Thai basil and fishy prik nam pla.

In contrast, pillowy cubes of deepfried tofu come gently kissed with chili salt; the peanut sauce that ac-

companies skewers of lean pork satay (all $6) would prove more effective if it stuck to the pig instead of the plate.

We opt for the vegan version of chef Alec Martin’s take on curry laksa soup ($9 small/$12 large) because we’re from NOW and have an agenda to follow, and find little fault with its intoxicating mix of spicy coconut broth, slippery rice noodles and crunchy Asian veg.

Martin – who spent four years at Melbourne’s Wallpaper-approved Gingerboy before ending up an Aussie on Oz – is clearly no stranger to Pacific Rim fusion. See it in his update on classic Hainanese chicken ($12), here skin-on slices of poached boneless breast over jasmine rice and barely pickled cucumber splashed

with house-made soy, ginger and Sriracha-like hot sauces.

His deep-fried sea bream – an entire crispy fins ’n’ all fish in a pool of potent sweet ’n’ sour sauce studded with toasted garlic ($24) – is a culinary tour de force, especially when sided with cabbage slaw in a lime vinaigrette every bit as signature as Mr. Lee’s, topped with dice cleverly fashioned from dragonfruit.

And the only way to follow banana fritters in green pandan batter paired with pickled rhubarb and a scoop of red-bean ice cream ($4) is with a minty mock Mojito spritzer ($3), alas booze-free until the liquor licence kicks in later this month.

Not everyone’s a fan. Some say Hawker Bar is a faux hawker bar.

“I’m not in Singapore, so I can’t really be authentic,” says Martin.

“But it’s authentic to me.”

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Chef Alec Martin flaunts his fabulous crispy sea bream at Hawker Bar, where Son-In-Law Eggs, a cucumber mojito and the easy vibe impress.

soy sauce tossed with unidentified seafood, while a surprisingly tasty pad thai (#205, both $7.80) turns out to be Thai in name alone.

After finishing with rudimentary battery bananas topped with a scoop of store-bought ice cream (#273, $3.99), we hit the Gourmet’s gift shop for a jar of house-pickled chilies ($3.80), something that will no doubt come in handy the next time we whip up a batch of multiSD culti Kraft Dinner.

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All-day café Easy opens another spot on College.

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Peter Morrison’s no stranger to breakfast. In fact, his Easy all-day café at the western end of Queen West goes through more than 2,000 eggs a week.

That number looks to significantly increase now that he’s just launched a second Easy (713 College, at Montrose, 416-535-2222, easyrestaurant.ca) in downtown’s original Little Italy.

“Easy took off quickly years ago,” says the easy-going Morrison. “But I wanted to wait until the time was right to give it another push.”

The menu looks virtually the same.

“Except for the rotisserie chicken,” laughs Morrison. “But you can get that two doors down at the Portuguese place.”

Open house The crew behind Kitch (229 Geary, at Dufferin, 647-350-4555, kitchbar.com) might not know how to spell, but they certainly know that ironic hipster decor and tacos are right on trend. Over in Leslieville, the Eastender (1214 Queen East, at Leslie, 647-346-3278, theeastender.ca) has taken over the former Tomi-kro storefront. Expect the likes of chocolate-braised short ribs and steamed pork belly bao, with all mains under $20.

about it Tuesdays from 5 to 7 pm when the Gladstone (1214 Queen West, at Dufferin, 416-531-4635, gladstonehotel.com) hosts Crappy Hour in the Melody Bar. Knock back a couple of cheap drinks and some half-price appetizers before taking the open mic to complain at length about everything.

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Up for the prize were Diego Fuchs and Helder Aguiar’s label [blak]-i, Genevieve Pearson and Stanley Capobianco’s collection Jameson Kane, Sid Neigum and Patrick L’Arrivee.

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The rest of this Style Notes is all about your mama and the goodies you can give her on Sunday (May 13).

At Shopgirls (1342 Queen West, 416-534-7467, shopgirls.ca), go local with made-in-Canada accessories including feather earrings by Le Printemps, Colab’s Carissa Crossbody bag or Brave Leather’s bow belts.

Dalish Cosmetics’ (dalishcosmetics. com) Mother’s Day bath, body and beauty picks include the Ultra Luxe Day/Night face cream, Ultra Reparative serum, Ultra Defense eye cream and a lineup of multi-product gift packs.

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RICHARD WYMAN RESIN EARRINGS $60, Made You Look, 1273 Queen West 416-463-2136, madeyoulook.ca

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For eco-conscious moms, check out Grassroots’ (408 Bloor West, 416-944-1993; 372 Danforth, 416466-2841, grassrootsstore.com) gift guide. There are salvaged-wood serving platters, solar tea light lanterns and Ecojot recycled paper agendas.

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Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 In one of your

past lives, I think you must have periodically done something like stick your tongue out or thumb your nose at pretentious tyrants – and gotten away with it. At least that’s one explanation for how confident you often are about speaking up when everyone else seems unwilling to point out that the emperor is in fact wearing no clothes. This quality should come in handy during the coming week. It may be totally up to you to reveal the truth about an obvious secret or collective delusion. Can you figure out a way to be relatively tactful as you say what supposedly can’t or shouldn’t be said?

TAurus Apr 20 | May 20 Taurus actor

Daniel Day Lewis will star as American president Abraham Lincoln in a film to be released later this year. Hollywood insiders report that Lewis basically became Lincoln months before the film was shot and throughout the entire process. Physically, he was a dead ringer for the man he was pretending to be. Even when the cameras weren’t rolling, he spoke in the cadences and accent of his character rather than his own natural voice. It might be fun for you to try a similar experiment in the coming weeks, Taurus.

Fantasize in detail about the person you would ultimately like to become, and then imitate that future version of you.

GeMini May 21 | Jun 20 The idea of a housewarming party comes from an old British tradition. People who were moving would carry embers from the fire-

place of the home they were leaving to the fireplace of the new home. I recommend that you borrow this idea and apply it to the transition you’re making.

As you migrate toward the future, bring along a symbolic spark of the vitality that has animated the situation you’re transitioning out of.

CAnCer Jun 21 | Jul 22 My friend Irene

has a complicated system for handling her cats’ food needs. The calico, Cleopatra, demands chicken for breakfast and beef stew at night, and all of it absolutely must be served in a pink bowl on the dining room table. Caligula insists on fish stew early and tuna later.

He wants it on a black plate placed behind the love seat. Nefertiti refuses everything but gourmet turkey upon waking and beef liver for the evening repast. If it’s not on the basement stairs, she won’t touch it. I’m bringing your attention to this, Cancerian, because I think you could draw inspiration from it.

It’s in your interests, at least temporarily, to keep your loved ones and allies happy with a coordinated exactitude that rivals Irene’s.

Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 The moon’s pale

glow shimmers on your face as you run your fingers through your hair. In your imagination, 90 violins play with sublime fury, rising toward a climax, while the bittersweet yearning in your heart sends warm chills down your spine. You part your lips and open your eyes wide, searching for the words that could change everything. And then suddenly

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you remember you have to contact the plumber tomorrow, and find the right little white lie to appease you-knowwho, and run out to the store to get that gadget you saw advertised. Cut! Cut! Let’s do this scene again. Take five.

It’s possible, my dear, that your tendency to overdramatize is causing you to lose focus. Let’s trim the 90 violins down to 10 and see if maybe that helps.

VirGo Aug 23 | sep 22 “We all need a

little more courage now and then,” said poet Marvin Bell. “That’s what I need. If you have some to share, I want to know you.” I advise you to adopt his approach in the coming days, Virgo. Proceed on the assumption that what you need most right now is to be braver and bolder. And consider the possibility that a good way to accomplish this goal is by hanging around people who are so intrepid and adventurous that their spirit will rub off on you.

LibrA sep 23 | oct 22 In the Byrds’ 1968 song Fifth Dimension, the singer makes a curious statement. He says that during a particularly lucid state, when he was simply relaxed and paying attention, he saw the great blunder his teachers had made. I encourage you to follow that lead, Libra. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, now would be an excellent time for you to thoroughly question the lessons you’ve absorbed from your important teachers – even the ones who taught you the best and helped you the most. You will earn a healthy jolt as you decide what

to keep and what to discard from the gifts that beloved authorities have given you.

sCorpio oct 23 | nov 21 What are the most beautiful and evocative songs you know? What are the songs that activate your dormant wisdom and unleash waves of insight about your purpose here on earth and awaken surges of gratitude for the labyrinthine path you have travelled to become the person you are today? Whatever those tunes are, I urge you to gather them all into one playlist, and listen to them with full attention while at rest in a comfortable place where you feel perfectly safe. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you need a concentrated dose of the deepest, richest, most healing emotions you can tap into. sAGiTTArius nov 22 | Dec 21 Tourists

rarely go to the South American nation of Guyana. That’s mostly because much of it is virgin rainforest and there are few amenities for travellers. In part it’s also due to the reputation-scarring event that occurred there in 1978, when cult leader the Reverend Jim Jones led the mass suicide of his devotees. Last year, after travel writer Jeff Greenwald announced his trip to Guyana, his friends responded with a predictable joke: “Don’t drink the Kool-Aid!” – a reference to the beverage Jones spiked with cyanide before telling his followers to drink up. But Greenwald was glad he went. The lush, tangled magnificence of Guyana was tough to navigate but a blessing to the senses and a first-class adventure. Be like him, Sagittarius. Consider engaging with a situation that offers challenging gifts. Overcome your biases about a potentially rewarding experience.

CApriCorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 “You have

more freedom than you are using,” says

artist Dan Attoe. Allow that taunt to get under your skin and rile you up in the coming days, Capricorn. Let it motivate you to lay claim to all the potential spaciousness and independence and leeway that are just lying around going to waste. According to my understanding of the astrological omens, you have a sacred duty to cultivate more slack as if your dreams depended on it. (They do!)

AquArius Jan 20 | Feb 18 If you’ve

been tuning in to my horoscopes during the past months, you’re aware that I have been encouraging you to refine and deepen the meaning of home. You know that I have been urging you to get really serious about identifying what kind of environment you need in order to thrive; I’ve been asking you to integrate yourself into a community that brings out the best in you; I’ve been nudging you to create a foundation that will make you strong and sturdy for a long time. Now it’s time to finish up your intensive work on these projects. You’ve got about four more weeks before a new phase of your life’s work will begin.

pisCes Feb 19 | Mar 20 Is your BS-detec-

tor in good condition? I hope so, because it’s about to get a workout. Rumours will be swirling and gossip will be flourishing, and you will need to be on high alert in order to distinguish the laughable delusions that have no redeeming value from the entertaining stories that have more than a few grains of truth. If you pass those tests, Pisces, your reward will be handsome: you’ll become a magnet for inside information, valuable secrets and unusual but useful clues that come from unexpected sources.

Homework: What were the circumstances in which you were most amazingly, outrageously alive? Testify at FreeWillAstrology.com.

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Something didn’t quite come together at Eleanor Friedberger’s headlining show at the Garrison. The Fiery Furnaces singer and her three-piece band sounded solid enough, and her stage presence was as confident and charismatic as ever. But the set was loaded with unfamiliar new songs, many of them repetitive and still unshaped, that failed to connect with the half-full room. Others did, though, including Stare At The Sun, One-Month Marathon and My Mistake.

Also weird was her bassist, who was either incredibly Zen, stoned or overtired, expending as little energy as humanly possible. By the end, Friedberger seemed frustrated, grumbling about feeling “road rage” during the solo songs she played for the encore. Ironically, the quiet intimacy of those songs – just her lightly plucked guitar, formidable alto and reams of lyrics – made them really stand out.

Openers Hospitality, on the other hand, were exuberant. The Brooklyn band specializes in clean, gleeful indie pop that verges on saccharine but never falls into it, thanks to Amber Papini’s nearpetulant delivery, guitarist Nathan Michel’s busy Televisionesque CARLA GILLIS leads and Brian Betancourt’s melodic bass playing.

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to make his music accessible and approachable to any fan… even toddlers.

San has always stretched the limits of the genre, and on his latest project he also stretches the limits of his live show. His Space Cadet graphic novel and its soundtrack can be heartbreaking when experienced together, but since that doesn’t make for the best dance party, his Space Cadet Headphone Experience sees the audience reclining on inflatable “space pods” (essentially plush cushions) and taking in San’s performance through individual pairs of headphones.

Rather than strictly delivering the soundtrack, he performed a career-spanning set that checked off many of his facets: composer, scratcher, artist, storyteller. He cracked as many jokes as samples.

That diminished the immersive effect of the headphone experience, but it was impossible not to leave with a grin. RICHARD TRAPUNSKI

SPIRITUALIZED at the Phoenix, Saturday, May 5.

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Rating: NNNN Spiritualized are a consistently satisfying live band, no matter which configuration they’re exploring. Whether they’re performing with acoustic guitars, choirs and string sections or with a stageful of synths, Marshall amps and lasers, the impact is surprisingly similar but effective.

Without moving or talking much, bandleader and only constant member Jason Pierce (aka J. Spaceman) conducts the hypnotic, pulsing walls of sound that fans come out for. At the Phoenix, he achieved that not with effects pedals and electronics but with the arrangements themselves, making great use of the female backing

vocalists. Stripped of some lushness, this less ethereal version still had the power to put us into altered states of consciousness.

There’s a subsection of bands that define themselves early on by narrow parameters and then spend the rest of their careers experimenting within them. Just like we wouldn’t want Motörhead to suddenly reinvent themselves, there’s no reason for Spiritualized to BENJAMIN BOLES dramatically change things up.

PRINCE INNOCENCE with ELL V GORE and MAUSOLEUM at the Silver Dollar, Saturday, May 5. Rating: NNN

In its quest to promote young Toronto bands of all genres and styles, last year’s inaugural Thaw Festival presented lineups that were cohesive despite their eclecticism. The final night of this year’s festival, rechristened No Thaw, indicated that the organizers have largely abandoned that paint-at-the-walls approach but have retained a focus on fresh, underappreciated local sounds.

At the Silver Dollar, the bands all drew from the same well: 70s/80s British underground. Mausoleum’s wiry post-punk resembled the Cure at their rockiest, but they were a little rough around the edges. Ell V Gore, despite a noisy style that flirts with No Wave, were a tight, well-oiled unit that seems to improve with every performance.

The late-night draw was Prince Innocence, the new duo of Josh McIntyre of Little Girls and his girlfriend, Talvi Faustmann. McIntyre covered keys and drums, while Faustmann added spectral, airy vocals. Their dark take on 80s synth-pop was impressively atmospheric and hooky, though Faustmann’s occasionally stilted stage RT presence reminded us that this was their first performance.

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Don’t tell Santi White that Disparate Youth, the dubby call-to-arms anthem from her recently released sophomore album, Master Of My Make-Believe (Atlantic), sounds like rap-rock band 311. Or Drake’s Headlines.

“As far as modern musical references,” says the Brooklyn-based musician better known as Santigold, “I don’t know. People are weird with that type of thing. No matter what you put out in the world, they’ll say it sounds like this and that.”

Instead, Make-Believe, much like 2008’s acclaimed and well-loved Santogold, takes heavy cues from the heyday of artists like Peter Gabriel, and David Byrne and the Talking Heads – “from when there was a lot of world music influence in pop,” says White on the commute back to Brooklyn from Manhattan.

For this approach, White brought back Santogold producers Diplo and Switch, global beat excavators and, more recently, pop music influencers.

(See Beyoncé’s 2011 single Girls, essentially a Major Lazer refix.) To further refine that template she also recruited top genre innovators Ricky Blaze (Gyptian, Hold Yuh), TV on the Radio’s Dave Sitek, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Nick Zinner

and pop producer – and one-time Byrne protege – Greg Kurstin.

Like her choice of collaborators, Make-Believe, whose rhythms reference warmer climes and past times, is an elegant, indirect indictment of modern-day pop. But there’s also a deeper wisdom, which White, 35, who spent years on the business side of music in A&R and as a songwriter, attributes to her life-long love of journalling and to having the time to develop a personality outside the spotlight.

There are also many allusions to power, both societal and personal, though White dances around calling Make-Believe political.

“I think ‘socially conscious’ is exactly what it is,” she says, reciting lyrics to The Keepers before explaining how the song is about taking responsibility for your life. “It’s a commentary on the world we live in and the state of things around us – from the dead birds that fall from the sky [to] the fact that we have 20 different versions of Housewives TV shows.

“Since I was little, I always liked to write, but I felt like if you wanted to say something it should be worth hearing,” she says, pointing to the lack of message in mainstream music.

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Kingston’s loudest duo perfect the art of rocKing out for sensitive souls

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A lot of my fAvourite bAnds plAy so loud thAt it becomes more thAn just An Audio experience. you feel it in your body.

g Basically, if i can hear my drums too well, there’s something wrong.

ood thing ps i love you never moved to Toronto: they wouldn’t be the same band. Their sound is intrinsically linked to the experience of living in a place like Kingston, and not just because of guitarist/singer Paul Saulnier’s penchant for referencing local landmarks.

In smaller Canadian cities, there are fewer secretly insecure cool kids who roll their eyes if you add some hair-metal-era shredding to your earnest indie rock. Conversely, you can be as earnest as you want without fear of being laughed at.

And then there’s the geography.

“I get pretty nervous and paranoid in big cities like Toronto, especially if I’m on my own,” drummer Ben Nelson admits. “On tour I don’t PS I Love You usually go anywhere by myself, beat the Garrison (1197 cause I get lost really easily. I like Dundas West), Tuesthat everything in Kingston is day (May 15). $10.50. pretty much in walking distance.”

RT, SS, TW. Sitting in the office of their record label, Paper Bag, both Saulnier and Nelson tend to stare at the wall in front of them when they talk, although you’d never mistake that lack of eye contact for rudeness.

As we speak, they’re recovering from their CMW gig the night before. Saulnier is sick (“I’m struggling to stay conscious,” he admits), but you don’t get the sense they’d be any more extroverted were they well rested and in perfect health.

You’d think they might be cheerier and more confident. They get tons of love from taste-making publications like Pitchfork, and Spin magazine just listed Saulnier as the 99th-best guitarist of all time. They made a huge impact with their debut, and their sophomore effort, Death Dreams, is bigger, better and already getting the kind of buzz other bands would kill for.

“I like landmarks. That’s the really fun part on tour,” Nelson says as he contemplates P.S. I Love You’s upcoming tour. “Stonehenge, the Eiffel Tower – all these places you never thought you’d see in your life.”

There’s something charming about Nelson’s excitement over touristy sightseeing, but it’s not that surprising that the taciturn percussionist gets off on geography and monuments. PS I Love You’s critically acclaimed debut album, Meet Me At The Muster Station, was named after a ferry dock in Kingston, and the song Princess Towers off their new disc is another Kingston reference.

“It’s a crazy building in Kingston,” Saulnier explains.

“It’s hideous,” Nelson interjects.

“It’s a really strange-looking building, probably the tallest in the city,” Saulnier continues. “When you’re riding the ferry and looking at Kingston, the city looks like an old, pretty place, and then there’s this giant monolithic concrete thing. It’s weird-looking, but I’ve always loved it, and it has charm.

“The song isn’t supposed to be about ‘Hey, look at this shitty building,’” Saulnier continues. “It’s a formula I use with lyrics. I pick a place that’s important to where we live, and then assign to it my own personal feelings about who I am. That song is about feeling really out of place and like you don’t belong somewhere, but if you weren’t where you are it wouldn’t be right.”

So it’s about being at peace with your own awkwardness?

“No, there’s no acceptance,” Saulnier answers, laughing.

The bearded frontman has a surprisingly highpitched speaking voice, and while that gives him an air of timidity, his answers convey the sense that he’s spent some time working through his ideas on his own.

The new album is named after intense dreams Saulnier had, but it’s less about fearing death than about the fear of life itself.

“A lot of the new songs are more about trying to not continued on page 44 œ

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cared and believed, while the latter grew up resenting their own lack of faith and hope in idealistic solutions.

From that standpoint, the idea of “no future” feels like relief.

“It reminds me of one of my favourite books – the Plague, by Albert Camus,” Saulnier says. “There’s a small French town, and a medieval plague sets in, so they wall it up and close it off from the world to quarantine it. People deal with it in various ways, but there’s this one guy who’s super-happy about all of it.”

Punk rock isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when you hear PS I Love You, despite their love of guitar noise, affection for lo-fi home recording textures, and Saulnier’s squeaky yelp of a singing voice. Though they claim that Death Dreams is heavily influenced by 70s punk, their sound is more characterized by their willingness to mix alt-rock references with the classic rock that bands like Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr. were supposed to be an argument against.

That tension between under-

think about the future,” Saulnier explains. “There’s something comforting about that, because then it means that all your shitty problems don’t matter.”

“I’m not sad, especially now, but I think we’re both naturally low-key and somewhat apathetic about things,” Nelson says in what seems an attempt to dispel the idea that they’re a couple of depressed dudes.

“We care, and we’re not lazy, but... I don’t know, it’s hard to explain. We don’t have issues happening in our life right now that are bringing us down. Maybe it’s just normal life?”

“If you’re apathetic for long enough, you get really angry,” interjects Saulnier. “That’s kind of what punk rock is.”

That throwaway statement is actually a very concise way of distilling the difference between hippy anger and the far more cynical simmering fury of the post-boomer generations.

The former protested because they

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Death Dreams (Paper Bag) Rating: NNNN The first thing that stands out about PS I Love You’s sophomore album is how big it sounds. Like their acclaimed debut, Death Dreams was mostly recorded in their Kingston practice studio, yet there’s constant movement between the sense of a punishingly loud, claustrophobic space and the feeling of driving down an empty highway with the windows open and the stereo cranked. The arrangements are also less tightly wound, although they certainly haven’t reached prog rock territory.

As always, the main appeal lies in how honest and real it all feels. When some guitarists lay into ripping solos and lightning-fast finger-tapping, it seems like theatrics. When Paul Saulnier indulges, you get the sense it’s simply the most direct way for him to express the feelings in his heart. That might sound over-earnest, but that’s the point: PS I Love You make hard rock for sensitive souls and aren’t ashamed of it.

Much has been made of the influence of 90s alt-rock on their sound, but that’s to ignore all the other eras of guitar music also referenced. Yes, Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine and Dinosaur Jr loom large in Death Dreams, but so do Cheap Trick, which is exactly why PS I Love You are far more sincere than the average hipster rock band.

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ground cool and uncool is reflected in Saulnier’s new onstage toy, a ridiculous double-necked guitar straight out of a teenager’s stadium rock fantasies.

“Audiences laugh when they see it at first. And then after a couple of songs it’s not a joke any more. I like that.”

That 18-string monster of an instrument is definitely maximalist, but though they’ve recently drafted a third member (multi-instrumentalist Tim Bruton, borrowed from the D’Urbervilles), their stage show is still quite minimalist, reflecting the group’s origins as a one-man-band.

Like the double-necked guitar, Saulnier’s unorthodox routine of playing the bass lines with organ pedals (while simultaneously shredding and screaming) can come across like a gimmick at first but is no laughing matter once they get going. Whether they’re a duo or a trio, PS I Love You have no problem unleashing a sometimes terrifying wall of sound.

“A lot of my favourite bands play so loud that it becomes more than just an audio experience. You feel it in your body,” Saulnier says, attempting to justify his unreasonable stage volume.

“Basically, if I can hear my drums too well, there’s something wrong,” Nelson continues.

As the conversation moves on to the upcoming season of touring, you glimpse the ambition and excitement the pair seem reluctant to acknowledge. Nelson admits he’s eager to play sets full of the new material even though he used to be annoyed when bands he loved would favour their newest album instead of playing the hits.

“I like playing the hits,” Saulnier counters. “And I like thinking of songs of ours as hits – it makes me feel good. There were even a few people screaming out the titles of songs last night.”

“Yeah, and we didn’t play them,” Nelson shoots back.

Saulnier smiles for a second.

“I felt like a real rock star.”

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The 460 (460 Spadina), Friday (May 11) See preview, page 54.

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EDWARD SHARPE & THE MAGNETIC ZEROS, FOOL’S GOLD

Kool Haus (132 Queens Quay East), Sunday (May 13) Theatrical indie folk.

FATHER JOHN MISTY, HAR MAR SUPERSTAR

Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Monday (May 14) Ex-Fleet Foxes drummer does folk-pop.

THE GLENN GOULD PRIZE GALA IN HONOUR OF LEONARD COHEN

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Massey Hall (178 Victoria), Monday (May 14) Star-studded tribute to a Canadian music icon.

JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE, TRISTEN

The Garrison (1197 Dundas West), Tuesday (May 15) See cover story, page 42.

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FRIDAY MAY 25 THE OPERA HOUSE

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Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Saturday (May 12) Rowdy psychedelic garage-punk.

Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), Saturday (May 12) Emotionally intense artsy synth-pop.

Opera House (735 Queen East), Saturday (May 12) Talented alt-country singer, son of Steve.

SOUL CLAP, JEFF BUTTON

Footwork (425 Adelaide), Saturday (May 12) See preview, page 50.

BRY WEBB, DEL BEL, LISA BOZIKOVIC 918 Bathurst Centre for Cul-

ture & the Arts 8 pm, all ages, $15, adv $12. wavelengthtoronto.com. June 1.

DANGER The Great Hall doors 11 pm, $15$20. PDR, RT, SS, TW. June 8.

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NEW KINGSTON, HOUSE OF DAVID GANG, LUCKY DRAGON HI POWER, DJ CHRIS El Mocambo 9 pm, $12-$15. NF,

THURSDAY JULY 5 THE OPERA HOUSE

SCIENTISTS OF SOUND, NINJA FUNK ORCHESTRA El Mocambo 10 pm,

TW. nufunk.ca. June 8.

OMAR SOULEYMAN Wrongbar PDR, RT,

SS, TW. June 9.

LISA HANNIGAN & JOE HENRY Phoe-

nix Concert Theatre 8 pm, $25. RT, SS, TM. June 10.

CEDRIC GERVAIS Maison Mercer 10 pm, $20. WT. thisisprovoke.com. June 15.

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val Tour Kool Haus. July 14.

LOWER DENS Lee’s Palace doors 8 pm,

$12. HS, RT, SS, TM. July 17.

ENRIQUE IGLESIAS, JENNIFER LOPEZ, WISIN Y YANDEL Air Canada

Centre $tba. TM. July 17.

MURDER BY DEATH, CORY CHISEL, WANDERING SONS Horseshoe doors 9

pm, $15. HS, RT, SS, TM. July 20.

GOMEZ The Quinceañera Show Virgin Mobile Mod Club 8 pm, $25.50. RT, SS, TM. July 23.

LYLE LOVETT AND HIS ACOUSTIC GROUP Roy Thomson Hall 8 pm, $55-$75.

RTH. July 26.

THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN Phoe-

Amphitheatre 8 pm, $49.50, all ages. RT, SS, TM. August 15.

BLUE RODEO, GREAT LAKE SWIM-

MERS Molson Amphitheatre doors 7 pm, $20-$79. TM. August 18.

GRAND THEFT BUS Rivoli 9 pm, $15. NF.

nufunk.ca. August 31.

JOHN FOGERTY The Albums Of Creedence Clearwater Revival Sony Centre for the Performing Arts doors 6:30 pm, $20$99.50. SC, TM. September 14.

HOT SNAKES Horseshoe doors 9 pm, $20.

HS, RT, SS, TM. September 21.

FIRST AID KIT The Music Hall 9 pm, $25$30. TM. September 26.

ART OF TIME ENSEMBLE War Of The

Worlds Enwave Theatre $25-$59. HF. And Oct 31 to Nov 4. October 30.

ART OF TIME ENSEMBLE The Big Band Show Enwave Theatre $25-$59. HF. November 30 and December 1.

THE AGGROLITES Lee’s Palace doors 8 pm, $16.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. August 5.

ART OF TIME ENSEMBLE, DJ GABRIEL PROKOFIEV En-

OSAKA MONAURAIL, THE SOULJAZZ ORCHESTRA, DJ GENERAL ECLECTIC The Great Hall doors 9:30 pm.

July 6.

!!! (CHK CHK CHK) Lee’s Palace doors 9 pm, $16.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. July 7.

LONEY DEAR Horseshoe doors 8 pm, $15.

HS, RT, SS, TM. July 8.

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HALESTORM Virgin Mobile Mod Club doors 8:30 pm, $12.50. RT, SS. July 5.

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LEONARD COHEN Air Canada Centre 8 pm, $27-$250. TM. December 4.

$tba. IE, RT. July 4.

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ALLEYCATZ Ascencion (R&B/soul/ funk) 9 pm.

ANNEX WRECKROOM Sabaton, SkullFist, Battlesoul, Legions doors 7 pm.

THE BALLROOM Indie Rock Showcase 10 pm.

nix Concert Theatre doors 8:30 pm, $59.50.

RT, SS, TM. August 3.

YOUNG MAGIC, QUILT The Garrison

Music listings appear by day, then by genre, then alphabetically by venue. Event names are in italics. See Venue Index, page 54, for addresses and phone numbers.

AIR CANADA CENTRE Rise Against, A Day to Remember, ñ Title Fight doors 6 pm, all ages.

BIG FREEDIA, BRENMAR Bounce Drake Hotel doors 10 pm, $10. June 28.

How to find a listing

Thursday, May 10

Just announced RON POPE Horseshoe doors 8:30 pm, $13.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. May 28.

this week

POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL

After nine years of skronk, Montreal noise rockers AIDS Wolf are calling it quits, and this is their last Toronto show. Lead screamer Chloe Lum has explained their reasons in detail on their blog, but essentially they come down to how expensive a hobby being in a band actually is (and that doesn’t just apply to avant-garde acts).

AW aren’t for everyone, but their disorienting deconstructions of rock may be more genuinely transgressive than 95 per cent of the punk bands on the planet.

At the Garrison (1197 Dundas West), Friday (May 11), doors 9 pm. $10. HS, SS.

THE DRAKE HOTEL

‘LITE’ W/ RETOX

Kool Haus (132 Queens Quay East), Tuesday (May 15) See preview, page 40.

AIDS WOLF

$12. NF. nufunk.ca. June 2.

MELVINS

SANTIGOLD

NOISE ROCK

YOUTH FRIDAY JUNE 29

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clubs&concerts

THE DUKES OF SEPTEMBER (DONALD FAGEN, MICHAEL MCDONALD, BOZ SCAGGS) Rhythm Revue Molson Amphitheatre 8 pm, $24.50-$99.50. TM. August 12.

STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES (AND DUCHESSES) W/ ALLISON MOORER Massey Hall 8 pm, $49.50. RTH, TM. August 14.

MY MORNING JACKET, BAND OF HORSES Echo Beach at Molson Canadian

wave Theatre $25-$59. HF. February 22 and 23, 2013.

ART OF TIME ENSEMBLE, CAROLE POPE, MARTIN TIELLI, JOHN SOUTHWORTH, DANNY MICHEL, ANDY MAIZE Franz Schubert: Source And Inspiration Enwave Theatre $25-$59. HF. April 5 and 6, 2013.

Harm, Into Entropy, Asleep Behind the Flame, Frail Fragment, DJ Misty.

THE CENTRAL Beachy Head Brews Willis (surfer trash) 10 pm.

DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Pearl & the Beard, Paula Perri (pop) doors 7 pm.

DRAKE HOTEL LOUNGE Weekend Startup Boot Knives (rock) doors 11 pm.

EL MOCAMBO The C’mons, Morning Thieves, Winter City, Shark Week.

Gladstone Hotel Melody Bar EP release party Loopsy Dazy, Drunk Bison, Candelabras, Oscar Mindreau 9 pm.

Holy oak Cafe Jenna Berry & Burrows (pop/ rock) 10 pm.

HorsesHoe Great Bloomers, Young Rival, Nils Edinloff.

Inter steer Ronnie Hayward Trio (rockabilly) 8 to 11 pm. lee’s PalaCe Funk the Alarm, Rebel Rebel 9 pm. lInsMore tavern Desmond Nathan (power pop piano) 10 pm. lou dawG’s ryerson Jeff Eager (acoustic soul/funk/Motown) 10 pm. tHe MusIC Hall Big Wreck, Rikers doors 8 pm. oPera House Fly Union, Raz Fresco, UMSC, DJ TK. rIvolI Toronto Indie Showcase The Tricky Ones, the Honeyrunners, Time Giant 8:30 pm. roCkPIle Greasefest The Good Rats Radio, the Soundsmiths, Blind Senses, Employees Only, Redd Monkey, On Everest doors 8 pm. sazeraC Gastro lounGe The Capitol Beat (funk/soul/R&B) 10 pm. sIlver dollar The Stony Lonesome, Erika Werry, Ride Em Cowboy, Toki Oto doors 8 pm. tHe sIster The Diction. sMIlInG BuddHa Fine Canadian Forces, Wood Butcher. soutHsIde JoHnny’s Skip Tracer 10 pm. sunrIse reCords In-store performance & signing Colin Hay 6 pm.

Xs nIGHtCluB D-Block (hip-hop) doors 7 pm, all ages.

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Folk/Blues/Country/World

asPetta Caffe Open Mic Jam 8 pm.

CaMeron House Fedora Upside Down 10 pm, Corin Raymond 6 pm.

Castro’s lounGe Jerry Leger & the Situation (country/folk/rock) 9 pm.

Cloak & daGGer PuB Jon Travis 10 pm. dakota tavern CD release Scarlett Jane (An-

drea Ramolo, Cindy Doire) Paul Reddick, the Weber Brothers 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. free tIMes Cafe Ian White.

General Motors Centre Johnny Reid, Carolyn Dawn Johnson doors 6:30 pm, all ages.

GraffItI’s The After Work Market Soiree Tim Bradford & Bright Blue Motels (country) 5 to 7 pm. tHe Great Hall Ane Brun doors 7 pm, all ages.

GrossMan’s Rock’n Robin Harp 10 pm.

HuGH’s rooM Dave Gunning, Ron Nigrini (folk/Americana) 8:30 pm. tHe loCal Brian MacMillan. lola Brian Cober (double slide guitar) 9 pm. lou dawG’s Mike C (acoustic blues/rock/ funk/reggae) 10 pm. lula lounGe We Can Dance: Parkinson’s Fundraiser Cache (salsa) 7:30 pm. nawlIns Jazz Bar Nothin’ but the Blues 8 pm.

Press CluB EP release party Animalia 10 pm. tranzaC soutHern Cross Bluegrass Thursdays Houndstooth 7:30 pm.

Jazz/ClassiCal/experimental

CHerry street restaurant Allison Au Quar-

tet (modern jazz) 7:30 pm.

tHe flyInG Beaver PuBaret Tabby Johnson,

Rosemary Galloway, Neil Brathwaite (soulful jazz) 7:30 pm.

four seasons Centre for tHe PerforMInG arts rICHard BradsHaw aMPHItHeatre

French Salon Music For Winds Artists Of The COC Orchestra noon to 1 pm.

Gate 403 Sabor Latin Jazz Band 9 pm, Allison Au Jazz Band 5 pm.

HarleM underGround Carl Bray Jazz Trio 8:30 pm. now lounGe Word Jazz Gia Ionesco, Great Bob Scott (word jazz poets backed up by pianist) doors 7 pm. old MIll Inn HoMe sMItH Bar Thursday Night Jazz Party Dave Restivo, Sophia Perlman, Alex Samaras 7:30 pm. rePosado The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz). reX CD release Sean Hutchinson Trio 9:45 pm, Kevin Quain 6:30 pm. roy tHoMson Hall Holst: The Planets Toron-

to Symphony Orchestra, Joaquin Valdepeñas (clarinet) 8 pm. soMewHere tHere studIo Mark Segger 8 pm. trane studIo Live Art & Music Bruce Cassidy Ensemble.

danCe musiC/dJ/lounge

CHeval Brand’d DJ PG-13 (house/hip-hop/ club anthems). danCe Cave Transvision DJ Shannon (alt indie/ electro/retro).

GoodHandy’s Ladyplus Parties DJ Todd Klinck doors 8 pm.5 InsoMnIa DJ Ron Jon (funk/soul/house). tHe PIston Metal Health (hard rock/metal) 10 pm. rIvolI Pool lounGe DJ Plan B (reggae/funk/ electroretro). waylaBar Reality Bytes East Forrest (90s dance party) 10 pm. wInCHester kItCHen & Bar Homebody Dance Fundraiser. wronGBar Music For Your Mind Lori J Ward (Hifi Princess), T.Orlando & Alan Smithson (underground deep tech music) 9 pm.

Friday, May 11 pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul

alleyCatz Ascencion (R&B/soul/funk) 9 pm. anneX wreCkrooM ASL Club Toronto & ASLife

Mayfest Afterparty Elizabeth Morris 6 pm. asPetta Caffe Quintin Bradford (hip-hop) 8 pm. tHe BallrooM Chicken and Waffles (R&B pop covers) 9 pm.

Bar ItalIa Shugga (funk) 9:30 pm.

BovIne seX CluB CD release The Reed Effect w/ Charming Ruins, Exitseekers, Bella Clava, DJ Vania.

Castro’s lounGe Ronnie Hayward (rockabilly) 5 to 7 pm. tHe Cave Vesication, Symbionic, Dimensions, Sewer (death metal/grindcore) doors 9 pm. dC MusIC tHeatre Indie Night doors 7:30 pm, all ages. doMInIon on Queen Brad Lyons Ocean Ship 9 pm. tHe duke lIve.CoM Desire (U2 tribute). el MoCaMBo CD release Wordburglar, Dream Jefferson, Ghettosocks, Chokules, More or Les, Timbuktu 9 pm. eton House Dick & the Emotions (rock) 9 pm. tHe flyInG Beaver PuBaret Lucas Silveira 9:30 pm. tHe 460 Mares of Thrace, the Isosceles Project, the Bulletproof Tiger doors 9 pm. See preview, page 54. tHe GarrIson AIDS Wolf (final show), Child Abuse, Gordon Monahan, Not the Wind Not the Flag 9 pm.

GraffItI’s Paul Martin (classic covers) 5-7 pm. tHe Great Hall Radio Radio, DJ Denise Benson.

Hard roCk Cafe The Clearing doors 8 pm.

HarleM Unbuttoned (Casey Q) (pop/soul/ R&B) 7:30pm.

HorsesHoe Wildlife, Topanga, Pkew Pkew, Reversing Falls doors 9 pm. lee’s PalaCe Real Life Situation, Crowe, Hard Honey, the Bloody Five 9:30 pm. tHe loaded doG CeCe Pastor & Word of Mouth (rock/dance) 8:30 pm. lola Take with Audio 8 pm. lou dawG’s Jeff Eager (acoustic soul/funk/ Motown) 10 pm. lou dawG’s ryerson Don Campbell (acoustic blues/rock) 10 pm. lula lounGe Lulaworld Boogat, Yeti Ajasin (Lady Son), Articulo Viente (salsa/hip-hop/ reggae) 10 pm.

MaGPIe Cafe taProoM Toga Party Oldies 990 (oldies rock) 9:30 pm. tHe MusIC Hall Big Wreck, Rikers doors 8 pm. oPera House Before the Council (metal).

Parts & laBour Roomrunner, Tight Nuns, the Bats Pajamas, Stack and Large, Paper Fortunes (punk) 10 pm. revIval Charity Fundraiser for Regent Park School Of Music doors 9 pm. rIvolI KillingHollywood, Stolenowners, Diaz, Ellis Dea, Eric Banwell, Adam Martin and others 9 pm.

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saturday june 16 @ the phoenix 24.50 advance • 19+ • First toronto show in over 15 years!

$

saturday may 12 opera house • only 30 tix leFt!

archers of loaf

justin townes earle

sunday june 17 @ sound academy

sat june 9 @ phoenix

with

mETz

all-ages • $25.50 advance ga • $35.50 advance 19+ vip

big d & the kids table

ska!

Nashville Bloodshot records alt couNtry

w/

Friday may 18 & saturday may 19 queen elizabeth theatre • $29.50 adv + FF (reserved seating) • all-ages

TRISTEN

zeus arts & craFts • $15.00 advance

scrappy happiness tour only 100

leFt @8pm tickets For each show

two hours traffic + the elwins

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

fishbone thurs july 19 @ sound academy all-ages / licensed • $ 35.00 advance ga $ 50.00 advance vip (19+)

beirut w/ little

ex Jam & style council

saturday$ july 7 lee’s palace • 16.50 advance

scream

saturday july 21 phoenix •

los aNgeles sKa soul PuNK legeNds

$ 18.50

advance

thursday july 12 @ opera house

best coast youth 15.50 advance • Fat possum

$

w/ those

darlins

tuesday july 31 @ the phoenix

$ 18.50 advance • JagJaguar Fat possum indie Folk pop

sharon

lagoon

wednesday july 25 opera house • $ 17.50 adv

loNdoN uK • rare toroNto Play • oNly 3 North americaN dates!

monday may 21 sound academy

monday june 18 thursday june 28

mogwai hot chip the jesus &

van etten

blind

$59.50

the phoenix • $ 29.50 adv

@ sound academy $ 32.50 advance ga (all-ages) $ 42.50 advance vip (19+)

tennis pilot @ the phoenix

sunday july 15

sound academy • $ 25.00 adv • all-ages

mary chain fi rst toronto show in 15 years!

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wednesday august 1

phoenix • $ 20.00 advance

mozart’s sister

lee’s palace • $ 22.50 adv

deer Rhode Island • dIne alone • alt countRy Rock & Roll

turbo fruits + the novaks

$ 59.50 advance • glasgow, scotland

alternative rock legends

monday june 11

tick

portland Folk rock

Friday august 3

advaNce all-ages/ 19+

monday july 30 & tuesday july 31

Friday june 29 mod club • $ 19.00 advance

rocket

twin summer shadow

lee’s palace • $ 20.00 advance

scene asthetic + states

advance ticketS @ ticketmaster.ca or 1-855-985-5000 • HorSeSHoe Front Bar • SoundScapeS • rotate tHiS Saturday may 12

thurSday may 17 @ mod club • all-ageS

tyler hilton beckett virgin mobile mod club

7pm doors • all-ages • $14.50 advance

thurSday may 10 $ 8.00

• nevado recordS previeW

GReat bloomers YounG Rival nils edinloff

Sat may 12 • solD out!

friday may 11 $ 10.50 adv • indie rock & roll

Wild life Topanga + pkeW pkeW + reversing falls

william

of “The academy is...” with

of “one tree hill”

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

ron sexsmith joe cara salimando

WedneSday june 13 lee’S palace • $ 17.50 advance

with kyp harness

father purdy

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

Wed may 16 @ rivoli - sold out!

monday may 28 @ horSeShoe tavern

ty john ron pope segall misty alexi murdoch parlotones

garage punk Spectacular

$ 13.50

advance • neW york Singer-SongWriter

the giving tree band

Saturday june 30 great hall • $ 15.00 advance

With

the strangeboys White Fence teenanGeR

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

har mar superstar WedneSday may 16 chicago • barSuk recordS

Sunday july 8 horSeShoe • $ 15.00 advance

loney maps & jimmy riggers Dear $ 11.50

Hosted by bookie (18th Year)

advance

tueSday may 15

Minneapoli Monster truck Meets sheepdogs

the 4onthefloor angela saini Dismaj thurSday may 17 • $8.00

huddle rival boys low animal tusks Saturday may 19 • $10.00

still life still

Brazyn the paint movement teen tits wild wives

atlases

Zechs marquise + chang a lang friday may 18 • $10.00 adv cameron houSe recordS cd releaSe party

tarantuela Devin cuDDy the silver hearts WedneSday may 23 • $11.50 adv

jOe

mcmahon billy The kid + mikey erg

Saturday july 21

joe pug $ 11.50

advance

thurSday june 21 @ the horSeShoe

kim churchill $ 12.50

advance • 8:30pm doorS • 19+

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

$ 11.50

funk the alarm real life rebel rebel • talk situation Saturday may 12

xiu xiu $ 13.50

advance

Father murphy ben@collectiveconcerts.com monday

@ lee’S palace

advance • LoS anGeLeS • uBiQuitY recordS • 60s Funk

may 14 • $15.00 advance

The hood inTerneT + chrissy murderboT tueSday may 15 Wed may 16 • $8.00 @ door pSych rock double header $ 15.00

advance

horSeShoe • $14.50 advance

out out out out cheap girls

WedneSday july 18 @ lee’S palace $ 17.50 advance • bloodShot recordS • garage Soul

Detroit cobras with chains Of lOve

sat may 19 @ hard luck • $13.50 advance

tues may 29 @ hard luck • $10 • all-ages

thurs may 24 @ rivoli • $10.50 advance

thurSday june 7

with mockingbird, Wish me luck

sat may 19 @ the drake • $15.50 advance

drake hotel • $15.00 advance

mon june 18 @ horseshoe • $9.00 adv

crowe hard honey Bloody five

With diRtY collective concerts beaches 416-598-0720

Saturday july 21

shout

friday may 11

local rock • $ 7.00 door

japandroids sTar slinger tueSday june 26

the meatmen daylight langhorne slim Rocky Votolato jinja safari how to may 24 - eamon mcgrath june 2 - jon langford & dan sartain these dress well his sadies skull orchard Sunday may 27 • $11.50 adv

thurSday may 10 • $ 6.00

liars orgone active lee’S palace • $ 15.00 advance

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

Saturday may 26

josiah leming + Zach berkman

friday june 22

the garriSon • $10.50 advance

child

spinDrift

stRangeRs family band w/ b-17s

Ostrich tuning

thurSday may 17 • $ 6.00

take with auDio wentworth W/ balam acab ancient orDer superhumanoids ravens coDe friday may 18

local rock • $ 10.00 door

Saturday may 19 $ 15.00

advance

Daft

flamingo Bay slow motion victory manics Beach mrs johnston tribute

punk

june 11 - deer tick june 13 - joe purdy june 20 - mishka friday may

Sun may 27 • $ 10.00 @ door

chris murray of king apparatuS

the funDamentals

25 • $9.00 advance • punk rock

united Sunday august 19 the independents young magic states teenage rehaB for quitters + von drats + howling Bullets bottle horseshoetavern.com 370 Queen Street WeSt / Spadina leespalace.com 416-598-4226 1947 2012 nothington saint motel dan vapid rocket chicago alt country

w/

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

thurs july 5 @ garrison • 12.50 adv $

horSeShoe • $11.50 advance

with

quilt

mon july 23 @ the drake • $10.50 adv

•

to

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

sat july 28 @ horseshoe • $10.00 adv

and the cheats

W/

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(house/breaks).

The local DJs Kingdon & Christina. maiSon mercer Northend 10 pm. la perla HER: F-HER-tility Edition DJs Cozmic

Silver Dollar Record release Racoon Wedding, Lava & Ash, Different Skelñ etons, Oh Cretins 9 pm.

Cat, Max Mohenu, OMGBLOG.COM doors 10:30 pm. 5 The piSTon Soulskank (ska/reggae) 10 pm. royal onTario muSeum Friday Night Live DJs Jay Sea & Düzi 6 to 11 pm.

Sneaky Dee’S Rob Dyer & Friends (dance party) doors 10 pm.

SounD acaDemy RAW: Redemption All-White Dancehall Edition DJs Starting From Scratch, Mr Presto & D’Bandit (reggae all-white-dress dance party) doors 10 pm.

SupermarkeT Course Of Time DJ Mr Charlton. virgin moBile moD cluB Come Out & Play DJ Matt Medley 10:30 pm.

WaTerFallS DJ Isaac (R&B/salsa) 10 pm.

WaylaBar B-East Dale C, Chris Munro 10 pm.5 WeTBar Penthouse Fridays DJs R2, KidZero & Peter Kash (house/top 40/anthems) 10 pm.

The SiSTer Calla, Andrew Aitchison.

Sneaky Dee’S Your Demise, Counterparts, Hundredth, Gideon doors 5 pm, all ages.

SouThSiDe Johnny’S Freedom Train (rock/

top 40) 10 pm.

Folk/Blues/Country/World

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rock.paper.sistahz festival: Closing Night Party Supa’Jon, DJ LiLee (East African hip-hop trio) 10 pm. cameron houSe The Roncey Boys 10 pm, Patrick Brealey 8 pm, David Celia 6 pm.

Dave’S... on ST clair The Allnighters (blues/ rock) 9:30 pm.

Drake hoTel unDergrounD Ben Wilkins, Dance Movie (folk) doors 8 pm.

Free TimeS caFe Dave Rutt. gaTe 403 Fraser Melvin Blues Band 9 pm. glaDSTone hoTel meloDy Bar soozimusic (folk) 9 pm. groSSman’S Laura Hubert 10 pm. highWay 61 SouThern BarBeque The Little Naturals 8 pm. hugh’S room Colin Hay (from Men at Work) 8:30 pm. loWer oSSingTon TheaTre Green Door Cabaret Cathy Elliott (aboriginal roots) 8 pm. preSS cluB Chris Gostling & the Tempo (roots rock) 10 pm. repoSaDo The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz).

Tranzac SouThern croSS The Foolish Things w/ Hugh Oliver (jazz) 5 pm. virgin moBile moD cluB Allen Stone, Sugar & the Hi-Lows, ZZ Ward doors 6:30 pm.

WincheSTer kiTchen & Bar The Al Wood Blues Duo 10 pm.

WrongBar Daedelus doors 9 pm. ñ The yoga SancTuary Yin: Yoga In The Night-

club CD launch Parvati 8 pm, all ages.

Saturday, May 12 pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul

alleycaTz Ascencion (R&B/soul/funk) 9 pm. aSpeTTa caFFe Ice, Bryce Jardine, Eden Culture, Ages of Men 4 to 10 pm.

Bar iTalia Al Webster (funk/soul/R&B) 10:30 pm.

Bovine Sex cluB The Blood Ballet Cabaret, DJ Sir Ian Blurton.

Dominion on queen Ronnie Hayward Trio (rockabilly) 4 to 7:30 pm.

el mocamBo Samantha Martin, Little Foot

Jazz/ClassiCal/experimental

Dave’S... on ST clair Happy Hour Jazz The Jordan Saull Quartette 5 to 8 pm.

gaTe 403 Christopher Simmons Jazz Trio 5 to

8 pm.

glenn goulD STuDio Beethoven Sinfonia Toronto, Anya Alexeyev 8 pm.

harlem unDergrounD Carl Bray Jazz Trio 8:30 pm.

lula lounge Lulaworld: CD Launch Café Con Pan, La Marisol 8 pm.

meTropoliTan uniTeD church Organix 12 Ni-

gel Potts, Jeremy Filsell (organ, piano) 7:30 pm. naWlinS Jazz Bar The N’awlins All Star Band w/ Brooke Blackburn (jazz/blues) 9:30 pm. olD mill inn home SmiTh Bar Fridays To Sing About Carol McCartney, Brian Dickinson, Kieran Overs, Chris Robinson 7:30 pm. quoTeS Fridays At Five Bruce Cassidy & the Canadian Jazz Quartet 5 to 8 pm. rex CD release Sean Hutchinson Trio 9:45 pm, Triodes 6:30 pm, Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm. rocco’S plum TomaTo Andy De Campos 6 to 9 pm. roy ThomSon hall Alyssa Wright (acoustic) 7:30 pm, all ages.

SomeWhere There STuDio Bob Vespaziani, Arthur Bull, David Lee, Satoshi Ridd Saito, Kwn Kawaishima 8 pm.

Trane STuDio Waleed Abdulhamid & the Kush Ensemble 8 pm.

danCe musiC/dJ/lounge

annex Wreckroom 90s Party Fawn BC, CAFF (alt rock/pop/hip-hop).

Beaver Cub Camp Sammy Jo (Scissor Sisters

tour DJ). 5 cake Bar FourPlay Fridays (top 40/mashups). caSTro’S lounge DJ I Hate You Rob (soul/ funk/R&B/punk rock/rockabilly) 10 pm. c’eST WhaT McManager 10 pm. clinTon’S Fuck It Bangs & Blush (guilty pleasures from 89s, 90s, 00s) 10 pm. coBra lounge The Fix Fridays No Big Deal DJs. Dance cave Bif Bang Pow DJ Trevor (60s mod Britpop) 10 pm.

DovercourT houSe 805 Salsa Underground Fridays DJ Fabz 9:30 pm.

Drake hoTel unDergrounD Your Boy Brian doors 11 pm.

Drake hoTel lounge Membersonly DJs doors 10 pm. emmeT ray Bar DJ Funky Flavours (funk/soul) 10 pm.

Fly Grapefruit DJ Shane Percy, DJ Aural 10 pm.5 FooTWork Luv This City 10 pm.

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Soul Clap DANCE MUSIC

Boston dance duo’s love letter to Janet Jackson By KEVIN RITCHIE

Soul clap with JeFF BuTTon at Footwork (425 Adelaide West), Saturday (May 12), 10 pm. 416-913-3488.

Just a few seconds into my interview with Charles Levine and Eli Goldstein of Soul Clap, Levine (aka Cynce) offers an off-putting metaphor for the relationship between today’s dance-hit DJs and their live audiences.

“There’s this thing going on where the crowd is like mice in a lab experiment,” he says. “The DJ feeds them pellets, and they react. In this case, the pellets are big buildups and drops in your run-of-the-mill tech house sets.

“It’s sad that people freak out and cheer and then go back to what they were doing, which is usually texting, taking photographs or tweeting about the feeling they just had.”

The Boston DJ duo, on the other hand, take a funky, horizontally inclined approach to their craft, an orientation summed up in the title of their debut album, EFUNK (Phonica), or Everybody’s Freaky Under Nature’s Kingdom.

“It’s the way that we like to dance and encourage others to dance,” says Goldstein of the title. “It’s about liberation from dance-floor wackiness and robotic tendencies.”

Levine and Goldstein are DJs in a performative sense, mixing sound effects, a cappella and weird intros and outros into sets of raw soul, funk, disco, 90s hip-hop, R&B, house and breakbeats. They’ve released several 12-inches, a mix for the DJ Kicks series and a mixtape that chronicles their influences, but EFUNK was their first stab at pop songwriting.

Conceived as an “ideal listening experience,” its 13 tracks fit on a single vinyl record, the varied electrofunk tempos recalling Egyptian Lover and vintage Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. The vocals are by breathy Janet Jacksonesque singer Franceska and All Saints’ Mel Blatt.

“It was cool to have a voice from a 90s pop group as well as someone who sounds like one of our favourite female vocalists,” says Goldstein, noting that Jackson strikes a balance they love. “[Her music] has a pop edge that’s great for listening to, but with an underground clubby element to it.

“Because this was our first album, we wanted to look back at our history and what’s made us who we are, and then add our own voice to that history.”

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Long Foot, Thinly Veiled Double Entendres, the Barettas 9 pm. eTon houSe Area 52 (top 40/rock) 9 pm.

The 460 NYHFB Fundraiser Night of the Ghouls, Chachi on Acid, the Revenge of Johnny Skyline, Unhiemlich Manoeuvre, Lesion (punk rock/heavy metal) doors 8:30 pm. graFFiTi’S Russel Leons SSW Night evening. harD luck Bar West of Hell, Lethal Voltage, Crimson Shadows, Redeemer, Phantom 7:30 pm. harlem Gibbran & Tamsynn-Lee (soul/jazz/ R&B) 7:30 pm.

The harp puB The Heart Attacks 8 pm. horSeShoe Ty Segall, White Fence, the Strange Boys & William Tyler, Teenanger doors 9 pm. lee’S palace Xiu Xiu, Dirty Beaches, Father Murphy doors 9 pm.

The loaDeD Dog Straight Shooter (rock/top 40) 8:30 pm. lola The Awakening w/ Trevor Jones 8 pm. lou DaWg’S Don Campbell (acoustic blues/ rock) 10 pm. lou DaWg’S ryerSon Southern Brunch Irene Torres Duo (soul) noon to 3 pm. lula lounge Lulaworld Ralph Irizarry, Luisito Orbegoso’s Moda Eterna 10:30 pm. opera houSe Justin Townes Earle w/ Tristen (folk rock/alt country) doors 8:30 pm. rex Danny Marks (pop) noon.

751 Heavy Petting Kill Machine 11 pm.

Sichuan SecreT reSToBar Crash Bang Wallop – A Night Of Indie Music Victory Bells, Juliana’s Daughter, Battrie & Deep Field 8 pm.

Silver Dollar Record release The Sweet Mack, Brave Little Toaster, the Dirty Nil, the City Streets doors 9 pm.

The SiSTer Arrabon Stop The Crazy Fundraiser Your New Neighbours.

SounD acaDemy Night After Night World Tour UK (Eddie Jobson, John Wetton & Terry Bozzio).

SouThSiDe Johnny’S Taxi (rock/R&B/dance) 10 pm, The Bear Band (rock/blues) 4 to 8 pm.

SporTSTer’S Nicola Vaughan 10 pm.

TimoThy’S puB Open Jam The Meteors 4 to 8 pm. virgin moBile moD cluB William Beckett doors 7 pm, all ages.

WaTerFallS CaliFoRniCaTiOn 3 The Muso Project, DJ RyFi, DJ Billion (hip-hop/house/funk/ newjack) doors 10 pm.

WincheSTer kiTchen & Bar All Funk Saturdays The Soul Motivators, Planet Earth 10 pm.

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Whitney Rose 8 pm, Jadea Kelly 6 pm.

caSTro’S lounge Big Rude Jake (blues shout-

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Gate 403 Dennis Gaumond Blues Duo 9 pm,

Bill Heffernan, Brian & Aslan 5 to 8 pm..

GlaDstOne HOtel BallrOOm An Evening For Bazou Fundraiser Kome Manu, Colin Doroschuk, Sahara Sloan, Afroteque 8:30 pm, Bazou, Cameroon School Fundraiser – Afternoon Family Fun Njack Backo, Charlie Kert, Soli & Rob w/ Alistair Ant (African tales/

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GraFFiti’s John Borra Band (alt country) 4 to 7 pm.

GrOssman’s Chloe Watkinson & the Crossroads 10 pm.

HaBits GastrOpuB Bunmi Adeoye, Jeanette Lee, Lily Cheung 8 pm.

HiGHway 61 sOutHern BarBeque The 24th Street Wailers 8 pm.

Hirut Fine etHiOpian Cuisine Country Jam Murray Powell (eclectic) 2 to 6 pm.

HOly Oak CaFe Holy Oak Bluegrass & Old Time Night 7:30 pm.

HuGH’s rOOm Tom Chapin 8:30 pm. inter steer Abbey’s Meltdown 4 to 7 pm. tHe lisH New Music Night Jessica Mondello (singer-songwriter) 9:30 pm. tHe lOCal Miss Quincy & the Showdown 10 pm, Arthur Renwick (blues) 5 pm. lOu DawG’s Southern Brunch Mark Bird Duo (traditional blues) noon to 3 pm. lOu DawG’s ryersOn Mike C, Matt Morgan 10 pm. nOw lOunGe Toast & Twang Brunch Big Tobacco & the Pickers noon. press CluB Ron Leary (folk rock) 10 pm. reBas CaFé & Gallery Open Mic Saturdays The Just Us Band 1 to 4 pm.

rOyal COnservatOry OF musiC COnservatOry tHeatre Bluebird North:Where Song-

writers Sing And Tell 8 pm.

st niCHOlas anGliCan CHurCH Acoustic Harvest Tannis Slimmon, Lewis Melville (singersongwriter) 8 pm. tranzaC Scott B Sympathy (folk) 6:30 pm.

Jazz/ClassiCal/ExpErimEntal

SATURDAY May 12 /12

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music) 3 to 5 pm, all ages.

MAY Spring Madness

Allen Shore William Beckett Go Big Or Go Home Party Mark Lanegan band Tyler Hilton Crooked Hill Alan Doyle

CHalkers puB Nancy Walker Quintet 6 to 9 pm.

De sOtOs Rita’s Parlour Rita di Ghent (sexy jazz/blues) 9 pm.

Drake HOtel unDerGrOunD Heather Hill,

Micah Barnes (jazz) doors 7 pm. eDwarD levesque’s kitCHen Doug Harrison 7 pm.

Gallery 345 An Evening Of Russian Opera Luiza Zhuleva, Anna Belikova, Stas Vitort, Serkiy Danko, Solomon Tencer, Zenhya Yesmanovich 8 pm.

GrOssman’s The Happy Pals (trad jazz) 4:30 to 8 pm.

Harlem unDerGrOunD Carl Bray Jazz Trio 8:30 pm. livinG arts Centre rBC tHeatre The Ambiance Singers, Don Thompson 7:30 pm. mOntGOmery’s inn Neapolitan Connection Musical Matinees DeVah String Quartet 3 pm. nawlins Jazz Bar The N’awlins All Star Band w/ Brooke and Duane Blackburn (jazz/blues) 8:30 pm. nOw lOunGe Ken Skinner, Owen Tennyson, Lee Saba Hutchinson, Grant Lyle (jazz/blues/ soul) 8:30 pm.

OlD mill inn HOme smitH Bar Jazz Masters The Heillig Manoeuvre (Henry Heillig, Stacie McGregor, Alison Young, Charlie Cooley) 7:30 pm. queensway CatHeDral Festival Of Tenors Celebrity Symphony Orchestra, Grazyna Brodzinska, Andrzej Lampert, Christopher Dallo, Andrzej

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Stec, Michael Ciufo, Milton Choristers 7 pm. rex CD release Jamie Reynolds Trio 9:45 pm, Justin Bacchus 7 pm, Jazz Navigators (swing) 3:30 pm. rOy tHOmsOn Hall Young People’s Concert: The Hockey Sweater Toronto Symphony Orchestra 1:30 & 3:30 pm. rOyal Cinema A Night With Bill King: Celebrating 50 Years Of Music Bill King, Jay Douglas, Jackie Richardson, Stacey Bulmer 8:30 pm. sOmewHere tHere stuDiO The Swyves 8 pm. tOrOntO Centre FOr tHe arts Bach Children’s Chorus 7:30 pm. trane stuDiO Azar Lawrence & Shane Harvey 8 pm. trinity COlleGe Romancero Gitano Drew Henderson, Cantabile Chamber Singers (classical guitar and choir) 7:30 pm.

DanCE musiC/DJ/loungE

anDy pOOlHall Jay Force Vs Jonathan Rosa

10 pm.

annex wreCkrOOm DJ Rick Toxic 8 pm.

Cake Bar Dessert Saturdays (top 40/mashups).

C’est wHat DJ MALXP 10 pm.

ClintOn’s Shake, Rattle & Roll 60s Dance Party

Bangs & Blush (pop/soul/R&R) doors 10 pm.

DanCe Cave Full On DJ Mr Pete (alternative).

Drake HOtel unDerGrOunD Bang The Party Andy Capp & Pooyan doors 11 pm.

Drake HOtel lOunGe DJ Jr Flo doors 10 pm. emmet ray Bar DJ Chris Cruz (ol’ skool/soul/ hip-hop) 10 pm.

Fly Prism Festival Kickoff Hector Fonesca, DJ Shawn Riker doors 10 pm.5 FOOtwOrk The Modern Love Affair Soul Clap, Jeff Button doors 10 pm. See preview, page 50. tHe HOxtOn Baio (DJ set by Vampire Weekend member) 10 pm. insOmnia Sense Saturdays DJ Charles (deep house). mOnarCH tavern Musicology 101 DJ Gio, DJ Shine, Gerald Belanger, Angil Bravo, Jesse Hudson, Mike McAra (minimal house/tech house) 10 pm. parts & laBOur Bitch Craft DJs Blonde & Redhead (all girl DJs play loud rap) 10 pm. periDOt lOunGe Good Saturdays DJs Glew & R2 (hip-hop/R&B/old school) 10:30 pm. tHe pistOn Shoplifters Will Be Prostituted Digital Needle DJs 10 pm. rivOli upstairs Bump N’ Hustle DJs Paul E Lopes & Mike Tull (soul/funk/house/ disco/Latin/hip-hop/boogie) doors 10 pm. rivOli pOOl lOunGe DJ Osum (disco/electro/ funk). rivOli Unicorn Chaser Trans Pride Warm-up Party DJ Nik Red, DJ L Rock doors 9 pm.5 supermarket Do Right Saturdays! DJ John Kong, MC Abs. sutra tiki Bar The Bridge DJ Triplet (old skool hip-hop). velvet unDerGrOunD S.O.S. Saturdays DJ D’eezNuts, DJ SpecsOne (hard rock/alt/90s/ punk/dub/retro) doors 11 pm. virGin mOBile mOD CluB UK Underground MRK, Tigerblood (indie/electro/dubstep/rock). waterFalls DJ Chris (hip-hop/R&B/pop) 10 pm. waylaBar Tequila Nights Video Dance Party DJ Truewind (salsa/merengue/reggaeton/top 40).

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Sunday, May 13 pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul

aspetta CaFFe Shaalone, Tiny Montgomery

(hip-hop/acoustic) 4 to 6 pm.

DOminiOn On queen Rockabilly Brunch 11 am to 3 pm.

Drake HOtel lOunGe Mother’s Day Brunch Melissa Bel (soul) doors 10 am. tHe GarrisOn Crosswires Love Explosion Orchestra, Les Expulses, Hollowphonic 9 pm.

GraFFiti’s Michael Brennan.

HOly Oak CaFe New Civilization (reggae) 9:30 pm. kOOl Haus Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Fool’s Gold doors 8 pm, all ages. maGpie CaFe Heavy Generator (ska/dub/reggae) 9 pm. rivOli Holly Mutha Mother’s Day Presentation Dane Hartsell (soul) 8:30 pm. sOutHsiDe JOHnny’s Open Jam Rebecca Matiesen & Phoenix 9:30 pm.

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Folk/BluEs/Country/WorlD

CamerOn HOuse Kevin Quain 9 pm, Joanne

Mackell (folk) 6 pm.

CastrO’s lOunGe John Showman (roots/ bluegrass) 4 pm.

CHurCH OF tHe HOly trinity Beautiful City Echo Women’s Choir, Suba Sankaran 3 pm.

ClintOn’s Clintons Unplugged Jess Janz &

Tucker Green 9 pm.

ClOak & DaGGer puB Fraser Melvin Blues Band 9 pm.

DakOta tavern Bluegrass Brunch 11 am to 3 pm. tHe FlyinG Beaver puBaret Mother’s Day

Show Duff MacDonald 7 pm.

GlaDstOne HOtel melODy Bar Sunday

Acoustic Family Brunch 9 am to 4 pm.

GlaDstOne HOtel BallrOOm Mayworks: To Live In The Age Of Melting Evalyn Parry 4 pm.

GrOssman’s Blues Jam Brian Cober Band 10 pm.

Hirut Fine etHiOpian Cuisine Open Stage With Gary 17 3 to 6 pm. laByrintH lOunGe Open Mic Joy Thompson 5 to 9 pm. tHe lisH Stir It Up Sundays Open Mic 10:30 pm. tHe lOCal Colonel Tom & the American Pour 10 pm, Chris Coole (banjo) 5 pm. lula lOunGe Mother’s Day Brunch Cuban Son Group 11 am & 1:30 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 The Belle Regards (folk) 10 pm. reBas CaFé & Gallery Motherless Mother’s Day Concert Brian Blain 1 to 4 pm. rex Dr Nick & the Rollercoasters 3:30 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 pm. tranzaC Folkal Point 7 pm. winCHester kitCHen & Bar Open Mic Porter 9 pm.

BOvine sex CluB Flash Lightnin’.

CastrO’s lOunGe Rockabilly Mondays 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. tHe GarrisOn We Are Serenades, Christien Summers, Whale Tooth doors 9 pm.

GrOssman’s Open Jam Mondays No Band Required 10 pm.

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

HOrsesHOe Father John Misty, Har Mar Superstar (folk rock) doors 8:30 pm. lee’s palaCe Star Slinger, the Hood Internet, Chrissy Murderbot doors 8 pm. massey Hall The Glenn Gould Prize Gala In Honour Of Leonard Cohen Cowboy Junkies, Adam Cohen, Serena Ryder, Basia Bulat, John Prine, James McMurtry, and others 8:30 pm. sneaky Dee’s Blacklist Royals, the Victim Party, Careers in Science, Body Doubles doors 7:30 pm. tranzaC Sandro Perri, Spring Boners, Steve Kado 8 pm.

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Folk/BluEs/Country/WorlD

CamerOn HOuse Jeff Giles 10 pm, Duncan Davies 8 pm, The Rucksack Willies 6 pm.

C’est wHat Bruce Bell.

ClOak & DaGGer puB Blair Harvey (folk/pop) 9 pm.

Dave’s... On st Clair Open Jam Pete Eastmure

7:30 pm.

DOra keOGH Julian Taylor (folk rock) 9 pm.

Free times CaFe Open Stage Jeff Kahl (pop/folk).

GraFFiti’s Gut Bucket Lounge Kevin Quain

Jazz/ClassiCal/ExpErimEntal

5:30 to 7:30 pm.

Campbell (piano) noon.

CHalkers puB Carter Brodkorb Trio 2 to 5 pm.

tHe lOCal Hamstrung Stringband (bluegrass)

Blu ristOrante & lOunGe Mother’s Day John eDwarD JOHnsOn BuilDinG walter Hall

The Felix Galimir Chamber Music Award Concert Arkadas Quartet 3 pm. tHe FlyinG Beaver puBaret Mother’s Day Jazz Brunch Rosemary Galloway Trio 1 pm.

Gallery 345 Array Music Fundraiser Stephen Clarke, Eve Egoyan, Christopher Butterfield (the music of Eric Satie) 4 pm.

Gate 403 Wendy Irvine Jazz Quartet 9 pm, Dan Mock & Alan Zemaitis 5 to 8 pm..

Glenn GOulD stuDiO Out Of The Depths: An Exploration Of Sacred Music Canadian Men’s Chorus 4 pm.

GrOssman’s New Orlean Connection Allstars 4:30 to 8 pm. ilHas De Bruma restaurant Bill McBirnie & the Fernando Tavares Trio 12:30 pm. mOntGOmery’s inn Neapolitan Connection Musical Matinees Joelle Mauris (cello) 3 pm. nawlins Jazz Bar Brooke Blackburn (guitar) 7 to 10 pm. rex Fern Lindzon & George Koller 9:30 pm, Tom Reynolds Trio 7 pm, Excelsior Dixieland Jazz noon.

rOyal COnservatOry OF musiC kOerner Hall Emanuel Ax (piano) 3 pm. sOmewHere tHere stuDiO Jason Steidman,

Michael Kaler 5 pm.

sOmewHere tHere stuDiO NOW Series 8 pm. trane stuDiO Jim Heineman’s Dream Band

RH Positive w/ Stacie McGreggor & Brandi Disterheft 8 pm. tranzaC The Lina Allemano Four (jazz) 10 pm, Camp Combo w/ Fred Spek (alt jazz) 5 pm, The Toronto Improvisers Orchestra 1 pm.

DanCE musiC/DJ/loungE

BOvine sex CluB B.Y.O. DJ. CastrO’s lOunGe Watch This Sound (rare/ vintage ska/reggae/dub on vinyl) 9 pm.

GlOBal villaGe BaCkpaCkers patiO

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Metronautix #2 Jeff Button, Jeremy Sean, Book, Trowin Shapes, Shan Dub (soul/disco sleaze/drum machine funk/techno) 1 to 8 pm. insOmnia Retro Lounge Night DJ Doctor G. 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. parts & laBOur La Sera, Planet Creature, S.M. (indie pop) 9 pm. tOika Code:D Sundays doors 9 pm. virGin mOBile mOD CluB Go Big Or Go Home Party 10 pm.

Monday, May 14 pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul

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

HiGHway 61 sOutHern BarBeque Chris Chambers (blues) 7 pm.

9:30 pm.

lOu DawG’s ryersOn Open Mic Night Don Campbell 7 pm.

OlD niCk M Factor Mondays Kim Jarrett & Mike Costantino, Melissa Bel, Anna Sudac, Elana Harte 7 pm. press CluB Domestic Bliss Mondays Terra Lightfoot (folk rock) 10 pm. trane stuDiO NuBlue Mondays Son Roberts Band 8 pm.

Jazz/ClassiCal/ExpErimEntal

CHurCH OF tHe HOly trinity Organix 12 Renée Anne Louprette (organ) 12:15 to 1:15 pm.

emmet ray Bar Ryan Butler, Felicity Wil-

liams, Dan Fortin & Mark Sagger (performing songs of Ben Monder) 9 pm.

Gate 403 Richard Whiteman & Laura Hubert Jazz Band 9 pm, Denis Schingh (piano) 5 pm.

Harlem unDerGrOunD Cary Shields (pop/ rock/folk/soul) 8:30 pm. rex John Cheesman Jazz Orchestra 9:30 pm, Peter Hill Quintet 6:30 pm. sOmewHere tHere stuDiO Hybrid Frequency, the Knot, Roman Pilates 8 pm.

DanCE musiC/DJ/loungE

DanCe Cave Manic Mondays DJ Shannon (retro 70s/80s) 10 pm. insOmnia DJs Topher & Oranj (rock). tHe pistOn Junk Shop DJs Jorge & Jeeks, Allosaurus & Emorie (pre to post punk/new wave/garage/indie) 10 pm. waterFalls Lion’s Den (reggae) 10 pm.

Tuesday, May 15 pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul

BOvine sex CluB The Living Deads, Burning Ethyl.

CastrO’s lOunGe The Tom Waits Appreciation Congregation 8:30 pm.

C’est wHat Lumberjunk (blues rock) 9 pm.

Drake HOtel unDerGrOunD CD release Lori

Nuic (pop) doors 8 pm. tHe GarrisOn PS I Love You doors 9 pm.

See cover story, page 42.

GraFFiti’s Tumultuous SSW Tuesdays Marcus Walker (pop/rock/acoustic) 8 pm. tHe Great Hall James McCartney doors 8 pm.

HarBOurFrOnt Centre Forest Of Reading Festival Of Trees Children’s Literary Festival Done with Dolls 9:30 am to 2 pm.

HOly Oak CaFe Culture Reject 9 pm. kOOl Haus Santigold, Theophilus London doors 8 pm, all ages. See preview, page 40. lee’s palaCe Active Child, Superhumanoids, Balam Acab doors 8 pm. tHe musiC Hall The Avett Brothers doors 7 pm, all ages.

OrBit rOOm CD release Monkey House 9 pm.

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Rancho Relaxo The Stogies.

Rex Ikebe Shakedown (funk/soul) 9:30 pm.

TRanzac Sandro Perri, Tradition, Nifty 8 pm.

ViRgin Mobile Mod club Mark Lanegan

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Band, Sean Wheeler, Zander Schloss doors 8 pm.

Folk/Blues/Country/World

annex WReckRooM Drummers In Exile (drum

and dance circle) 8:30 pm. caMeRon house Fred Speck’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/folk) 10 pm. dRake hoTel lounge Memphis Tuesdays Grand Canyon (country) doors 9 pm.

FRee TiMes caFe Adam Grossman, Loel LaTorilla, Daniel More. gaTe 403 Blues Night Julian Fauth 9 pm. glenn gould sTudio Amelia Curran 8 pm. gRaFFiTi’s Jeff Oussoren 5 to 7 pm. gRossMan’s Tall Grass, the Murdering of Crows 10 pm. hoRseshoe 4onthefloor (blues) 10 pm.

The local Michael Laderoute & Rob Fenton. lola The Sheryl Show Sheryl Lindsay (acoustic pop/rock) 8 pm. lula lounge Lulaworld: CD release Daniela Nardi, Gabriele Mirabassi (Italian music) 8 pm. old nick Jennifer Brewer 9:30 pm.

PRess club Toast N’ Jam Open Mic 10 pm.

The RusTy nail Open Stage Jam Chad Campbell 9 pm.

TRanzac Mike Gennaro & Brandon Valdivia 10 pm.

THE DAKOTA TAVERN ON 500 QUEEN EAST

SUN. 13

“TO’s Only” Rockabilly

Brunch

TUE. 15 Hot Club of Corktown 8:30pm WED. 16 Corktown Uke Jam 8:30pm

(Django jam) 8:30 pm.

FouR seasons cenTRe FoR The PeRFoRMing aRTs RichaRd bRadshaW aMPhiTheaTRe

German Romanticism: Fairy Tales And Fantasy Artists Of The COC Orchestra noon to 1 pm. gaTe 403 Chris Gale Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. gladsTone hoTel Project Trio w/ Greg Patillo (high-energy chamber music ensemble) 7:30 pm, all ages. haRleM undeRgRound John Campbell (jazz/ pop/soul/R&B) 8:30 pm. hugh’s RooM Cadence (vocal jazz quartet) 8:30 pm.

Music galleRy Jazz Avant Series The Miles Perkin Trio 8 pm. naWlins Jazz baR Stacie McGregor (piano) 6:30 to 9:30 pm.

Rex Myriad Trio 6:30 pm. soMeWheRe TheRe sTudio John Russon Quintet, Red, Blue Green 8 pm.

Ten ResTauRanT & Wine baR Don Breithaupt, Chris Smith 9 pm.

TRane sTudio Chris Lesso’s Modus Factor (jazz/groove) 8 pm.

TRanzac The Uphill Farmers, Alexa Woloshyn (jazz/folk) 7:30 pm.

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Klinck doors 8 pm.5 insoMnia Soulful Tuesdays D-Jay. The PisTon Thrillwave DJ Shemca (indie mix) 10 pm.

RePosado Alien Radio DJ Gord C.

Wednesday, May 16 pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul

The annex liVe The Waxbills, Trevor James,

Delta 9 pm.

asPeTTa caFFe Jacqueline Lovely 7 to 10 pm. boaT 65 Years Of David The Holy Gasp, Young

Doctors in Love, All This Talk, Corby Gillis & Sarah Keshen. boVine sex club After the Fall, Brutal Youth, Tightrope, Adelleda. cloak & daggeR Pub Gord Light (pop/folk) 10 pm. eMMeT Ray baR Alistair Christl (rockabilly) 9 pm. haRd luck baR Hard Charger, Endprogram, Kyfe, Corgasm (crust ‘n’ roll) 9 pm. hoRseshoe Maps & Atlases, Zechs Marquise, Chang A Lang (math rock) doors 8:30 pm. inTeR sTeeR Fraser Daley (R&B) 8 pm. lee’s Palace Spindrift, Stranger’s Family Band, B-13s. lola Jammin’ Johnny Bootz 8 pm.

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THE MUSIC HALL The Avett Brothers doors 7 pm, all ages. ñ PARTS & LABOUR R Stevie Moore, Bobby Conn, the Canadian Romantic (outside pop) 9 pm.

THE PISTON The Odessa Steps Sequence, Wilmott Redd 10 pm.

RIVOLI Tyler Hilton doors 8:30 pm.

TRANZAC Make It! (hip-hop/Latin) 10 pm.

UNICORN PUB Dat Dam Jam Band 9:30 pm.

WHITE SWAN Soul Instigators 8 pm.

WINCHESTER KITCHEN & BAR Kevin Myles (indie folk rock) 9:30 pm.

FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD

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

CAMERON HOUSE Mike Mangione & the Union, Dave Borins (folk rock) 6 pm.

ETON HOUSE Danforth Jam 8 pm.

FREE TIMES CAFE Bryson Waind, Lily, Matt Gerber, Stephanie Didunyk.

GATE 403 Brian Cober & Aslan Gotov (blues) 5 pm.

GLADAMAN’S DEN Open Mic Night James Quigley.5

GLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR The Mills

Brothers, Ghostbox, Spirits and Stones (acoustic) 9 pm.

GRAFFITI’S The Marshals 7 to 10 pm.

GROSSMAN’S Bruce Domoney 10 pm.

HIGHWAY 61 SOUTHERN BARBEQUE Sean Pinchin 7 pm.

HIRUT FINE ETHIOPIAN CUISINE Gary 17’s Acoustic Open Stage Lynette Fairweather, David Hines 7:30 pm.

HOLY OAK CAFE Sandy Pockets 10 pm.

HUGH’S ROOM Old Man Luedecke, Del Barber 8:30 pm.

THE LOCAL Chris Staig & the Marquee Players.

LOU DAWG’S RYERSON Wycik Wednesdays Matt Morgan (acoustic blues/rock) 10 pm.

MEZZETTA Maureen Kennedy, Reg Schwager (vocals/guitar) 9 pm.

SILVER DOLLAR High Lonesome Wednesdays Crazy Strings (bluegrass) 9 pm.

TRANE STUDIO Liberty Wednesdays Noah Zacharin (folk) 8 pm.

TRANZAC Christopher Lowry (folk) 7:30 pm.

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JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL

CASTRO’S LOUNGE The Mediterranean Stars

(fusion jazz) 9 pm.

CHALKERS PUB Girls Night Out Jazz Jam Lisa Particelli, Peter Hill, Ross MacIntyre, Norman Marshall Villeneuve 8 pm.

DOMINION ON QUEEN Corktown Ukulele Jam 8 pm.

GATE 403 Lara Solnicki Jazz Band (piano, bass) 9 pm.

LULA LOUNGE Lulaworld – The Spirit Of Lula: Time Flies Gryphon Trio, Hilario Duran Trio doors 7 pm.

NAWLINS JAZZ BAR Jim Heineman Trio (jazz) 7 pm.

REX Pram Trio 9:30 pm, Victor Bateman Trio 6:30 pm.

ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC Christian Gerhaher w/ András Schiff (piano/vocal) 8 pm.

SOMEWHERE THERE STUDIO Octopus 8 pm.

DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE

REPOSADO Sol Wednesdays Spy vs Sly vs Spy.

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VENUE INDEX

AIR CANADA CENTRE 40 Bay. 416-815-5500.

ALLEYCATZ 2409 Yonge. 416-481-6865.

ANDY POOLHALL 489 College. 416-923-5300.

THE ANNEX LIVE 296 Brunswick. 416-929-3999.

ANNEX WRECKROOM 794 Bathurst. 416-536-0346.

ARTSCAPE WYCHWOOD BARNS 601 Christie. 416-392-7834.

ASCARI ENOTECA 1111 Queen E. 416-792-4157.

ASPETTA CAFFE 207 Augusta. 416-725-0693.

THE BALLROOM 145 John. 416-597-2695.

THE 460 460 Spadina Ave. BAR ITALIA 582 College. 416-535-3621.

BEAVER 1192 Queen W. 416-537-2768.

BLOKE & 4TH 401 King W. 416-477-1490.

BLU RISTORANTE & LOUNGE 17 Yorkville. 416-921-1471.

BOAT 158 Augusta. 416-593-9218.

BOVINE SEX CLUB 542 Queen W. 416-504-4239.

CAKE BAR 214 Adelaide W. 416-599-2253.

CAMERON HOUSE 408 Queen W. 416-703-0811.

CASTRO’S LOUNGE 2116 Queen E. 416-699-8272.

THE CAVE 860 College.

THE CENTRAL 603 Markham. 416-913-4586.

C’EST WHAT 67 Front E. 416-867-9499.

CHALKERS PUB 247 Marlee. 416-789-2531.

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MARES OF THRACE Calgary two-piece refuses to colour within the lines By RICHARD TRAPUNSKI

MARES OF THRACE with THE ISOSCELES PROJECT and BULLETPROOF TIGER at the 460 (460 Spadina), Friday (May 11). $8.

Mares of Thrace are building buzz at a rapid rate, and not for the reasons you might think.

Sure, they’re women playing heavy, evil-sounding music, and, yes, they’re a two-piece making music that sounds enormous. But to chalk up their appeal to novelty would be misguided and insulting.

“I have to hand it to the critics. Probably 90 per cent of them didn’t even mention our gender in reviews of the record,” says Thérèse Lanz over the phone from Calgary, hours before their hometown record release show. “That’s what I like to see: people not giving a shit [about it].”

Not that they’re ashamed of being females in a

CHERRY STREET RESTAURANT 275 Cherry. 416-461-5111.

CHEVAL 606 King W. 416-363-4933.

CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY 10 Trinity Square. 416-598-4521.

CLINTON’S 693 Bloor W. 416-535-9541.

CLOAK & DAGGER PUB 394 College. 647-436-0228.

COBRA LOUNGE 510 King W. 416-361-9004.

DAKOTA TAVERN 249 Ossington. 416-850-4579.

DANCE CAVE 529 Bloor W, 2nd floor. 416-532-1598.

DAVE’S... ON ST CLAIR 730 St Clair W. 416-657-3283.

DC MUSIC THEATRE 360 Munster. 416-234-0222.

DE SOTOS 1079 St Clair W. 416-651-2109.

DOMINION ON QUEEN 500 Queen E. 416-368-6893.

DORA KEOGH 141 Danforth. 416-778-1804.

DOVERCOURT HOUSE 805 Dovercourt. 416-535-3847.

DRAKE HOTEL 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042.

THE DUKE LIVE.COM 1225 Queen E. 416-463-5302.

EDWARD JOHNSON BUILDING 80 Queen’s Park. 416-978-3744.

EDWARD LEVESQUE’S KITCHEN 1290 Queen E. 416-465-3600.

EL MOCAMBO 464 Spadina. 416-777-1777.

EMMET RAY BAR 924 College. 416-792-4497.

ETON HOUSE 710 Danforth. 416-466-6161.

FLY 8 Gloucester. 416-410-5426.

THE FLYING BEAVER PUBARET 488 Parliament. 647-347-6567.

FOOTWORK 425 Adelaide W. 416-913-3488.

FOUR SEASONS CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231.

FREE TIMES CAFE 320 College. 416-967-1078.

GALLERY 345 345 Sorauren. 416-822-9781.

THE GARRISON 1197 Dundas W. 416-519-9439.

GATE 403 403 Roncesvalles. 416-588-2930.

GENERAL MOTORS CENTRE 99 Athol E (Oshawa). 1-877-436-8811.

GLADAMAN’S DEN 502A Yonge. 416-961-5808.

GLADSTONE HOTEL 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.

GLENN GOULD STUDIO 250 Front W. GLOBAL VILLAGE BACKPACKERS 460 King W. 416-703-8540.

GOODHANDY’S 120 Church. 416-760-6514.

GRAFFITI’S 170 Baldwin. 416-506-6699.

THE GREAT HALL 1087 Queen W. 416-826-3330.

GROSSMAN’S 379 Spadina. 416-977-7000.

HABITS GASTROPUB 928 College. 416-533-7272.

HARBOURFRONT CENTRE 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000.

HARD LUCK BAR 772a Dundas W. 416-833-0302.

HARD ROCK CAFE 279 Yonge. 416-362-3636.

HARLEM 67 Richmond E. 416-368-1920.

HARLEM UNDERGROUND 745 Queen W. 416-366-4743.

THE HARP PUB 55 Lakeshore E (Mississauga). 905-274-3277.

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.

THE HOXTON 69 Bathurst. 416-456-7321.

HUGH’S ROOM 2261 Dundas W. 416-531-6604.

ILHAS DE BRUMA RESTAURANT 1136 College. 416-538-2015.

INSOMNIA 563 Bloor W. 416-588-3907.

INTER STEER 357 Roncesvalles. 416-588-8054.

KOOL HAUS 132 Queens Quay E. 416-869-0045.

LABYRINTH LOUNGE 298 Brunswick. 416-925-7775.

male-dominated genre, but in the case of their acclaimed sophomore album, The Pilgrimage (Sonic Unyon Metal), their gender is irrelevant. Sludgy, plodding and piercing in a primal, satisfying way, the dynamic, riff-laden music is closer to demonic than to male or female.

Lanz and drummer Stef MacKichan’s willingness to include influences from beyond the metal genre has given them crossover appeal. But it’s also offended the occasional genre purist, including one Dutch reviewer who called it, in Lanz’s words, “an abomination to everything true metal stands for.”

“That whole cross-pollination paranoia, where you call metal that has a little bit of a psych flavour to it or a punk or hardcore flavour not true enough?

That’s boring,” she says. “Colouring within the lines is boring.”

That thinking extends to their bassless instru-

LEE’S PALACE 529 Bloor W. 416-532-1598.

LINSMORE TAVERN 1928 Danforth.

THE LISH 2152 Danforth. 416-425-4664.

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.

LOWER OSSINGTON THEATRE 100A Ossington. 416-915-6747.

LULA LOUNGE 1585 Dundas W. 416-588-0307.

MAGPIE CAFE 831 Dundas W. 416-916-6499.

MAISON MERCER 15 Mercer. 416-341-8777.

MASSEY HALL 178 Victoria. 416-872-4255.

MCGRADIES TAP AND GRILL 2167 Victoria Park. 416-449-1212.

METROPOLITAN UNITED CHURCH 56 Queen E. 416-363-0331.

MEZZETTA 681 St Clair W. 416-658-5687.

MONARCH TAVERN 12 Clinton. 416-531-5833.

MONTGOMERY’S INN 4709 Dundas W. 416-394-8113.

MUSIC GALLERY 197 John. 416-204-1080.

THE MUSIC HALL 147 Danforth. 416-778-8163.

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

NOW LOUNGE 189 Church. 416-364-1301.

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

OLD NICK 123 Danforth. 416-461-5546.

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

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

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

mentation, though Lanz says that decision was more a logistical than a creative one. Having played in bands together for the last decade, Lanz says she and MacKichan were too set in their ways to audition new members after Lanz’s bassist sister left their previous band, Kilbourne.

Besides, with her custom baritone guitar, Lanz is able to cover both the guitar and bass frequencies in concert, leaving little disparity between the live and recorded experience. Her special guitar, in fact, has given her at least one experience that’s even better than the glowing album reviews.

“My buddy who works at Long & McQuade said a guy came in and asked if they could put a bass pickup in his guitar so he could be like ‘that chick,’” she recalls. “That’s one of the few times I’ve ever felt like a big deal.”

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PERIDOT LOUNGE 81 Bloor E. 416-515-7560.

LA PERLA 783 Queen W. 416-366-2855.

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

POGUE MAHONE 777 Bay. 416-598-3339.

PRESS CLUB 850 Dundas W. 416-364-7183.

QUEENSWAY CATHEDRAL 1536 the Queensway. 416-255-0141.

QUOTES 220 King W. 416-979-7717.

RANCHO RELAXO 300 College. 416-920-0366.

REBAS CAFÉ & GALLERY 3289 Dundas W. 416-626-7372.

REPOSADO 136 Ossington. 416-532-6474.

REVIVAL 783 College. 416-535-7888.

REX 194 Queen W. 416-598-2475.

RIVOLI 332 Queen W. 416-596-1908.

ROCCO’S PLUM TOMATO 156 The Queensway. 416-255-5081.

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 CINEMA 608 College. 416-536-5252.

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

ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000.

THE RUSTY NAIL 2202 Danforth. 647-729-7254.

SARAH’S CAFE 1426 Danforth. 416-406-3121.

SAZERAC GASTRO LOUNGE 782 King W. 647-342-8866.

751 751 Queen W. 647-436-6681.

SICHUAN SECRET RESTOBAR 585 Bloor W. 416-539-9009.

SILVER DOLLAR 486 Spadina. 416-975-0909.

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

SMILING BUDDHA 961 College. 416-516-2531.

SNEAKY DEE’S 431 College. 416-603-3090.

SOMEWHERE THERE STUDIO 227 Sterling, unit 112.

SOUND ACADEMY 11 Polson. 416-461-3625.

SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY’S 3653 Lake Shore W. 416-521-6302.

SPORTSTER’S 1430 Danforth. 416-778-0258.

ST NICHOLAS ANGLICAN CHURCH 1512 Kingston Rd. 416-691-0449.

SUNRISE RECORDS 336 Yonge. 416-595-5848.

SUPERMARKET 268 Augusta. 416-840-0501.

SUTRA TIKI BAR 612 College. 416-537-8755.

TEN RESTAURANT & WINE BAR 139 Lakeshore E (Mississauga). 905-271-0016.

THIRSTY FOX PUB 1028 Eglinton W. 647-347-7474.

TIMOTHY’S PUB 344 Brown’s Line. 416-201-9515.

TOIKA 471 Richmond W. 416-868-6452.

TORONTO CENTRE FOR THE ARTS 5040 Yonge. 416-733-9388.

TRANE STUDIO 964 Bathurst. 416-913-8197.

TRANZAC 292 Brunswick. 416-923-8137.

TRINITY COLLEGE 6 Hoskin.

UNICORN PUB 175 Eglinton E. 416-482-0115.

VELVET UNDERGROUND 510 Queen W. 416-504-6688.

VIRGIN MOBILE MOD CLUB 722 College. 416-588-4663.

WATERFALLS 303 Augusta. 416-927-9666.

WAYLABAR 996 Queen E. 416-901-5570.

WETBAR 106 Peter. 416-599-2224.

WHITE SWAN 836 Danforth. 416-463-8089.

WINCHESTER KITCHEN & BAR 51A Winchester. 416-323-0051.

WRONGBAR 1279 Queen W. 416-516-8677.

XS NIGHTCLUB 261 Richmond W. THE YOGA SANCTUARY 2 College, suite 306.

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The Only Place (Mexican Summer) Rating: NNNN The story of the hip lo-fi garage/surf band ditching the fuzz for cleaner sounds has officially become a huge cliché, but we won’t hold it against Best Coast. Bethany Cosentino is growing up, and this album is largely about that process. It might not endear her to some punker-than-thou blogs, but c’mon – she couldn’t keep writing noisy songs about her cat forever.

Granted, writing about internet haters instead doesn’t seem like a great idea on paper, but the results are

Pop/Rock

BEACH HOUSE Bloom (Sub Pop) Rating:

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There’s absolutely nothing wrong with Beach House’s newest dream pop album.

Unfortunately, nothing stands out as particularly right about it either. To be clear: it sounds lovely and lush and does most of the things Beach House are great at.

Maybe expectations were too high, but that’s hard to avoid when a band shows so much early promise. Bloom is good, but Beach House are capable of more.

The production does sound bigger and more detailed than previous efforts, and that suits the sleepy lullabies nicely. In

surprisingly engrossing.

Lifting that trademark haze of reverb and distortion wouldn’t work if she weren’t also growing as a songwriter and vocalist, and she is. It’s still just simple major-key 60s bubblegum pop roughed up a bit, but it’s done with an increasingly refined touch. At first listen it seems disposable, but a few days later you haven’t stopped playing it or discovering new layers. A great example of why originality isn’t always essential for greatness.

Top track: Why I Cry Best Coast play the Phoenix July 21.

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fact, Bloom sounded pretty good to me until I accidentally played their previous release, Teen Dream, instead, and heard how much stronger its hooks and arrangements are.

Bloom is consistent in quality, and there isn’t a single bad song. It just feels like they spent too much time worrying about production and not enough time songwriting. Part of what made Beach House stand out initially was that they didn’t rely on excessive use of effects and studio trickery to conjure up interstellar soundscapes. They need to get back into that mindset.

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Hair (Drag City) Rating: Ty Segall sounded more restrained on his last record, the mellow (for him) Goodbye Bread. On his latest, he’s taken another departure by hooking up with like-minded psychedelic soul spirit White Fence (aka sometimes Darker My Love/Strange Boys guitarist Tim Presley), and the result is an uninhibited slice of Nuggets-style garage pop that’s an absolute blast.

People sometimes over-focus on Segall’s crunch and fuzz to the point of overlooking his concise, melodic songcraft, but there’s a looseness to Hair that sacrifices some of his economical punk mode in favour of White Fence’s more hippified arrangements. (Dig the way Scissor People unexpectedly morphs into a tempo-shifting noise jam toward the end.)

Much of Hair sounds like it was made in a single acid-fuelled jam session, albeit by two prolific, zoned-in whiz kids at the top of their game. It’s not particularly deep, but it’s energetic, buoyant, fun and more than a little infectious.

Top track: I Am Not A Game Ty Segall & White Fence play Wrongbar on May 12.

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Mean Sun (Unfamiliar) Rating: NNNN There’s something calm and confident about Brasstronaut’s second album, 10 tracks of atmospheric, spacious soundscapes pushed along and given shape by Edo Van Breeman’s intimate vocals, gentle melodies and space-themed lyrics.

The Vancouver jazz-influenced indie rock band uses an uncommon mix of instruments. Clarinet and trumpet share equal room with piano and synths, bass and slide guitar, noise and drums. But even the brass tones suggested by their moniker have a soft, muted quality. For Brasstronaut, texture is everything.

But so is inventive songwriting. Opener Bounce establishes the peaceful tone, The Grove’s surprising polyrhythmic loops seem to collapse into each other, Falklands brings in touches of Field Musicesque popprog alongside a transcendent chorus, Moonwalker’s lovingly plaintive, and Revelstoke Dam is a little bit baroque.

Gorgeously inventive.

Top track: Moonwalker Brasstronaut play NXNE on June 15 at a tba venue.

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Fear Fun (Sub Pop) Rating: For his subversively entertaining debut album as Father John Misty, singer/songwriter and former Fleet Foxes drummer Josh Tillman switched to a new moniker (he used to record solo albums as J. Tillman) and moved to Sub Pop. Fear Fun is pretentious and sarcastic, but Tillman pulls it off by emulating vari-

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ous folk and indie styles – CCR soul rock, choral folk, rockabilly – really well. There’s a warm 70s vibe on Nancy From Now On, while grungy Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings is an oddly catchy standout.

Tillman’s voice sounds sublime delivering lyrics about sexy graveyard encounters, ex-girlfriends and the dark side of California living. They’re insidiously funny more than laugh-out-loud, and he doesn’t even spare himself: one song outlines the environmental and socio-economic hazards of making a record.

Top track: Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings Father John Misty plays the Horseshoe Tavern May 14.

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wintery, introspective and melancholic (though not without a sense of humour).

Six more Chesnutt covers made it into the bonus material.

Top track: Idle Tales Cowboy Junkies play Massey Hall May 14.

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Koïma (Thrill Jockey) Rating: American indie label Thrill Jockey went considerably outside its comfort (and geographic) zone to sign Malian songwriter Sidi Touré. The label evidently considers the singer/guitarist’s blend of regional Songhai folk and Western blues a sound that could appeal to North American audiences, and the gamble is paying off.

Touré’s quietly skillful acoustic guitar-picking and warm, hypnotic style are simultaneously alien and familiar.

Touré’s first album for Thrill Jockey, Sahel Folk, was a series of duets recorded in one take at his sister’s home in Gao, but this follow-up fleshes out his compositions in a professional studio, replacing the earlier sparseness with female backup vocals, percussion and traditional violin and calabash accompaniment. That fuller aesthetic doesn’t diminish the casual intimacy and adds remarkable new dimensions.

Top track: Koïma (The Pink Dune Of Koïma) Sidi Touré plays Harbourfront July 27 as part of Masters Of Mali.

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I Missed Us (E1) Rating: NNNN It was 1997 when pivotal R&B girl group SWV last released a record, and although the genre’s being ascribed resurgent status – if the critical pants-shitting over the R&Bish Weeknd and Frank Ocean is any barometer – not much has changed.

Beyond the hype, chameleons (Usher) and underrated newbies (Miguel) is a healthy nostalgia circuit where 90s staples like Ginuwine, Tank and Blackstreet regularly tour. In this context, SWV’s fourth album is perfectly timed: aimed at devotees but appropriate for both dilettantes and disciples.

Despite the contemporary slang (see cringingly titled Co-Sign), modern mix and necessary absence of their definitive New Jack Swing influence, I Missed Us is a natural next step in the canon. It’s matured, quintessential SWV: swooping, complex melodies, earnest ballads and sensual harmonies.

And there’s none of the directionless, radio-vying gimmickry that too often plagues comeback records.

Top track: The Best Years SWV play the Fresh Music Festival at the Air Canada Centre on June 9. ANUPA MISTRY

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The Nomad Series (Latent) Rating: NNNN This five-disc box set marks the completion of a project that Canadian alt-country veterans the Cowboy Junkies embarked on in 2009: to release four connected albums in just 18 months. (They also threw in a CD of bonus material.) The band used a cycle of five paintings by cover artist Enrique Martínez Celaya for inspiration.

The quick succession of writing and recording lends the project cohesiveness despite the distinctness of each album.

Renmin Park, for example, blends Eastern and Western instrumentation and weaves in found sounds from China; Demons is a tribute to the band’s late friend and collaborator Vic Chesnutt; Sing In My Meadow shows off the group’s loose and loud “acid blues” side, while The Wilderness is

Death And Desire (independent) Rating: NNNN Back in October, Alt Altman (aka Digits) left Toronto for London with little more than his laptop, MIDI controller and a dream of taking the European electronic scene by storm. This introductory digital mixtape (available as a free download on his website) is a solid catch-me-up for those just encountering his dark, downtrodden retro-synth-pop vibe.

It features nine Digits songs, three tracks by Bad Passion (his quirky, slow-jam side project) and a chilled-out remix by Nite Jewel. Fan favourites Lost Dream and Rachel Marie will be well known to Digits aficionados, while newer up-tempo songs Because It’s Wrong and So Cold are sure to impress those out for thumping indie dance-floor fare.

With UK blogs and critics starting to take note and a string of summer festival dates booked all over Europe, Altman’s dream seems about to be realized.

Top track: So Cold JORDAN BIMM

= Critics’ Pick NNNNN = Stratospheric NNNN = Sizzling NNN = Swell NN = Slack N = Sucks

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more online nowtoronto.com/stage Audio clips from interview with BEATRIZ PIZANO AND TREVOR SCHWELLNUS • feature on THE SHIPMENT • Scenes on THE TENNESSEE PROJECT, THE HAROLD AWARDS and more Fully searchable listings with venue maps nowtoronto.com/stage/listings Peter Mooney and Janet Porter get Gruesome.

A century ago, Upton Sinclair changed the meat-packing industry with an eye-opening work of fiction.

This show is nothing short of The Jungle for the dot-com generation. The reflexive frame added by Cushman and Ferry is a stroke of genius that both rehabilitates and widens the scope of this JORDAN BIMM important work.

Energetic cast manages to Bring It On.

Game On BRING IT ON: THE MUSICAL by Jeff

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Whitty, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Tom Kitt and Amanda Green (Mirvish). At the Ed Mirvish (189 Victoria). To June 3. $25$130. 416-872-1212. See Continuing, page 58. Rating: NNNN

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Spring awakenings There’s something for everyone in this week’s roundup of must-see shows

GRUESOME PLAYGROUND INJURIES

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by Rajiv Joseph, directed by Stefan Dzeparoski (BirdLand). Theatre Centre (1087 Queen West). Runs to May 13. $20-$30. 416-538-0988. See Continuing, page 59. Rating: NNNN

Sticks and stones – and worse – may break the bones of Kayleen and Doug, the two characters in Rajiv Joseph’s Gruesome Playground Injuries, but wounds never seem to stop them. The pair make a fearsome team, whether fighting each other or the world at large.

Director Stefan Dzeparoski’s production captures the often willful hearts of these characters, even if the writing doesn’t tell us quite enough about them.

We follow Kayleen (Janet Porter) and Doug (Peter Mooney) from ages eight to 38, the play’s eight scenes jumping around in time (forward 15 years, back 10) to provide fragmented portraits.

They first meet in the school nurse’s office: Doug’s ridden his bike off the school roof, Kayleen’s been throwing up… again. Their bond starts here, forged out of curiosity, anger and an inexpressible need for each other. Castigation and caring, nastiness and nurturing combine in their relationship; they seem best and most at peace when they’re together.

Mooney and Porter adeptly capture the push-pull quality of this relationship, giving the darkly comic moments proper weight.

If we don’t know as much about Kayleen and Doug as we’d like to, it’s a problem with the writing and not the excellent actors. Both bring lots of un-

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spoken emotion to their characters’ encounters, baggage that’s been building during the years between their meetings.

The scene changes function as more than opportunities to put on new costumes; they’re resonant episodes in which the actors assist each other, applying fake scars and dressing injuries.

Joseph Pagnan’s inventive design, using both levels of the Theatre Centre, includes chained torsos constructed of bubble wrap, as well as the detritus of the characters’ lives. Gareth Crew magically lights this world, and Christopher Stanton’s sound design and Jordan Tannahill’s video give the producJON KAPLAN tion additional eeriness.

Ecstatic play THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY OF

ñSTEVE JOBS (AND THE REPUDIATION AND REDEMPTION OF MIKE DAISEY) by Mike Daisey, curated by Mitchell Cushman and David Ferry, at various secret locations. To May 13. $20-$25. 416504-7529. See Continuing, page 58. Rating: NNNN

Turning crisis into opportunity, up-and-coming director Mitchell Cushman and veteran actor/director David Ferry have transformed Mike Daisey’s contentious monologue about deplorable working conditions in high-tech manufacturing into a candid reassessment of standards in theatre, art and journalism.

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Dynamic duo

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Back in March, Daisey was subjected to a public shaming by journalists who uncovered a few factual inaccuracies (he fudged some facts that don’t affect the substance of his argument) in the show.

The original monologue (delivered here by Ferry) pairs a dramatic retelling of Steve Jobs’s rise from scofflaw computer pirate to corporate design guru with Daisey’s account of his visit to Apple contractor Foxconn’s massive manufacturing plant in China, which has been criticized for inhumane working conditions.

To incorporate the media hubbub over Daisey’s embellishments into the show, Ferry pops out of the monologue at certain points where inaccuracies were found, and reads comments drawn from the U.S. media, members of the Toronto theatre scene and Daisey himself.

Embellishments aside, this comingto-consciousness narrative about learning where our gadgets come from is instantly riveting and continually thought-provoking. Ferry’s delivery is a pleasure to listen to; he nails the hilarious, over-the-top moments in Daisey’s colourful prose (and does an awesome Steve Jobs impression), but also conveys sincere outrage at the deeply disturbing revelations about workers who are treated like disposable automatons.

Just to be clear: this isn’t really a musical adaptation of the 2000 Kirsten Dunst movie. Sure, there’s a climactic cheerleading competition between rival squads, but the plot’s radically different and references to Skype, Facebook and biatches give it a contemporary snap. And seeing cheerleaders do their thing live provides added kicks.

Campbell (Taylor Louderman, a dead ringer for Clueless’s Alicia Silverstone) is the perky squad captain of a preppy suburban high school team who’s suddenly transferred to an inner city school where she’s low on the popularity totem pole. But through persistence and loneliness, she befriends her new school’s alpha female, the hip-hop dancer Danielle (Adrienne Warren), and soon they’re competing against Campbell’s former team, now helmed by the seemingly nice Eva (Elle McElmore).

There’s a bit too much story in Jeff Whitty’s book, which sends up everything from cheesy white-girl-in-thehood movies to All About Eve. But the central character is more complex than she is in the movie, and there’s a refreshing approach to gender, bullying and sexual orientation.

Lin-Manuel Miranda and Tom Kitt’s songs are always tied to character, whether they’re pop, hip-hop or even

folk. But the real star of the show is director Andy Blankenbuehler’s choreography, which gets the versatile cast to flip, twirl, balance on shoulders and land – all without wires or nets – in one jaw-dropping number after anGLENN SUMI other.

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If an artist adapts a family tale to relate unspoken events, is the result more “real” than what relatives remember?

And is it fair to tell a different version?

Those are the questions that beset Claude, the budding young playwright in Michel Tremblay’s nuanced The Real World? The Tarragon’s strong production explores all the possibilities in this story within a story.

Claude (Matthew Edison) has written his own family history involving his father Alex (Tony Nappo), mother Madeleine (Jane Spidell) and sister Mariette (Sophie Goulet). His mother is shocked when she reads the script, which we see played out, often simultaneously with the action of the family, by another set of “family” (father Cliff Saunders, mother Meg Tilly and sister Cara Gee).

The result is a fascinating look at the subjectivity of truth, with director Richard Rose giving power to the realities’ brittle interaction.

The performances are generally engaging, the fictional trio intentionally broader in performance.

Claude is the hinge between the two parts of this diptych; in one world he’s the puppet master/creator, in the other the caustic observer. Edison takes full advantage of Claude’s final speech, when the hurt young man stands up to his father and opens his aching heart. That last battle makes for poignant, electrifying theatre. JK3

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ronto Masque Theatre). The company weaves together excerpts from Margaret Cavendish’s drama, plus II Ballo Delle Ingrate by Claudio Monteverdi and Noi Siam Tre Donzellette by Luigi Rossi. May 11-12, Fri-Sat 8 pm. $40, srs $33, under 30 $20. Hart House Theatre, 7 Hart House Circle. torontomasquetheatre.com.

Dive by Nik Beeson and Richard Sanger (Festival of Ideas and Creation/Mermaid Collective).

A mermaid takes the audience deep into her world in this voice salon and sound installation. Opens May 12 and runs to May 20, SatSun 8 pm. $20-$40. 321 Sackville. 416-9271534, dive.mermaidproject@gmail.com. legally BloNDe – The MusiCal by Laurence O’Keefe, Nell Benjamin and Heather Hach (East York Collegiate Institute). A sorority girl makes it to law school in this musical based on the 2001 film. May 10-12, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm. $15. 650 Cosburn. 416-396-2355. life as a PoMegraNaTe (Dawna Wightman).

This solo show follows one woman through 20 years of chasing her biggest goal. May 1113, Fri-Sun 8 pm. $20-$25. Lazy Daisy’s Cafe, 1515 Gerrard E. dawnajoywightman.com. 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. 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. oDysseo (Cavalia). Theatre artists and horses

create a spectacle combining equestrian arts, stage arts and special effects. Opens May 15 and runs to Jun 3, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 3 pm, Sun 2 pm. $29.50-$119.50. White Big Top, 324 Cherry. 1-866-999-8111, cavalia.net.

PaNaMeriCaN rouTes/ruTas PaNaMeriCaNas (Aluna Theatre). See story, ñ page 60. Opens May 15 and runs to May 27,

see website for schedule. $15-$30, festival pass $100. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. 416-504-7529, alunatheatre.ca. reNT by Johnathan Larson (Theatre Sheridan).

New York artists struggle to make ends meet in the shadow of the AIDS epidemic in this musical. Previews May 15. Opens May 16 and runs to Jun 3, Tue-Thu 7:30 pm, Fri-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $40-$60, stu rush $25.

Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. sPeakeasy or else (Centre for Indigenous Theatre). An 18th-century Commedia dell’arte work by Carlo Goldoni is staged in a 1920s reservation in this production by CIT students.

May 10-13, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $10 or pwyc. Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse, 79A St. George. indigenoustheatre.com. sToCkholM by Bryony Lavery (Seventh Stage Theatre Productions/Nightwood Theatre).

Problems arise in a couple’s rosy relationship in this play about the lines between love and lust, aggressor and victim. Previews May 1113. Opens May 15 and runs to Jun 3, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2:30 pm, Wed 1:30 pm. $15$30. Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman, Extra Space. 416-531-1827, seventhstageproductions.com/theatre.

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(Opera Five). Opera is combined with dance, visual art, performance art and more in this double bill. Opens May 15 and runs to May 18, Fri and Tue-Wed 7:30 pm. $20. Arts & Letters Club, 14 Elm. operafive.com. waTChiNg glory Die by Judith Thompson (Performance Spring Festival). Thompson’s drama about three women bound by a tragic death gets a workshop reading. May 11-13, Fri-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. Pwyc. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Studio. 416-504-9971, factorytheatre.ca.

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cial interaction between five characters reveals their desire to belong and maintain human contact. Previews to May 16. Opens May 17 and runs to Jun 20, see website for schedule. $51-$68, stu $32; rush $22/stu $5. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416866-8666, soulpepper.ca. islaNDs by Graham Porter (draft89 theatre collective). In 2512, the survivors of a nuclear cataclysm try to keep civilization going in this play about the clash between utopia and human nature. Previews May 16. Opens May 17 and runs to Jun 2, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 1

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Runs to Jun 10, Mon-Thu and Sat 8 pm, mats Sun and Wed 2 pm (except May 23 at 1 pm). $42.50-$79.50. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-366-7723, hgjewishtheatre.com.

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ChaPPie JohNsoN aND his (alMosT) all ColoreD all sTars by Joe Sealy and Robin Breon (R

Breon). Workshop reading/singing of a new work-in-progress musical about baseball in 1939. May 14 at 8 pm. Free. Hart House Theatre, 7 Hart House Circle. rhbreon3@hotmail.com.

m iNTeNT CiTy: a work-iN-Progress iNTeraCTive Play by Gein Wong (Mayworks Festival

of Working People and the Arts). The audience is invited to a tent city that springs up when the city’s mayor stops communicating with people. May 11 at 7:30 pm. $12. Theatre Direct Christie Studio, 601 Christie. mayworks.ca.

NaTioNal ChiNese aCroBaTs wiTh The kiTCheNer-waTerloo syMPhoNy (Sony Centre for the Performing Arts). The Hunan Acrobatic Troupe perform alongside a live orchestra.

May 12 at 3:30 and 8 pm. $38-$68. 1 Front E. 1-855-872-7669, sonycentre.ca. m To live iN The age of MelTiNg (Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts). Theatre artist Evalyn Parry deconstructs Stan Rogers’s folk song Northwest Passage. May 13 at 4 pm. $15. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W, Ballroom. mayworks.ca.

Continuing The agoNy aND The eCsTasy of sTeve JoBs by Mike Daisey (Outside the ñ March/Theatre Passe Muraille). See review,

page 57. Runs to May 13, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $25, stu $20 (artsboxoffice.ca). Secret Location, revealed with ticket purchase. outsidethemarch.ca. NNNN (Jordan Bimm) 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 in this story inspired by West African legends. Runs to May 17, see website for schedule. $15-$20. Young People’s Theatre, 165 Front E, Studio. 416-862-2222, 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. Runs to May 17, see website for schedule. $15-$20. 165 Front E. 416-862-2222, youngpeoplestheatre.ca.

BriNg iT oN: The MusiCal by Jeff Whitty, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Tom Kitt and Amanda Green (Mirvish). See review, page 57).

Runs to Jun 3, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm (see website for other performances). $35-$130, rush $25. Ed Mirvish Theatre, 244 Victoria. mirvish.com. NNNN (GS) BroThers karaMazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Wordsmyth Theatre). Women play the roles of the brothers in this adaptation of the novel.

Runs to May 20, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $29.

Odyssey Studio, 636 Pape. wordsmyth.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.

Runs to May 13, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 3 pm. $18.50-$26.50. Walmer Centre Theatre, 188 Lowther. theartsengine.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 (see review at nowtoronto. com). 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. NNN (GS) 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. fesTival of iDeas aND CreaTioN (Canadian Stage). This development festival features readings and workshop performances of cross-disciplinary works by Anusree Roy, Gein Wong, Debashis Sinha, Barbara Nichol and others. Runs to May 13, see website for details and schedule. Most events free. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416-368-3110, canadianstage.com/festival. a floreNTiNe TrageDy/giaNNi sChiCChi by Alexander Zemlinsky/Giacomo Puccini (Canadian Opera Company). Director Catherine Malfitano does a mostly fine job with this double bill set in the same Florentine house a

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Runs to May 26, Mon-Sat 8 pm. mats May 19, 21 and 26 at 2 pm (no 8 pm on show May 21). $33. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley.

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THE REAL WORLD? by Michel Tremblay (Tarragon Theatre). See review, page 57. Runs to Jun 3, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats SatSun 2:30 pm. $21-$51. 30 Bridgman. 416531-1827, tarragontheatre.com. NNNN (JK) ROCK.PAPER.SISTAHZ (bcurrent). This arts festival features theatre, dance, comedy, spoken word, visual art and more by Naomi Abiola, Sandra Brewster, Mason Haigh and others.

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 the Greek myth about an ill-fated love affair is fused with ancient Chinese myths and legends in this adaptation. Runs to May 26: May 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 for the Performing Arts, 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 the filter of racial perspective. Runs to May 12, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $15-$45. Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com.

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 is dramatically bland in the lead role. Runs to May 14, Tue 7:30 pm, $12$318. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231, coc.ca.

NNNN (JK) 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.

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Runs to May 13, Mon-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $15, 1:30 pm. $35-$130, rush $29. Princess of stu/srs $10. Unit 102 Theatre, 376 Dufferin.

Wales Theatre, 300 King W. 416-872-1212, 647-770-3837. mirvish.com. NNNNN (Susan G Cole) WAR HORSE based on a novel by Michael WEST SIDE STORY by Arthur Laurents, Leonard Morpurgo, adapted by Nick Stafford (NaBernstein and Stephen Sondheim (Dancap Protional Theatre of Great Britain/Mirvish). The ductions). A man falls in love with a rival gang story’s familiar – boy gets horse, boy loses member’s sister in this musical. Runs to Jun 3, horse, etc – but the stagecraft on display in Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm.

War Horse is like nothing else. Handspring $51-$180. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Puppet Company’s equines come to life with Yonge. 416-644-3665, dancaptickets.com.

Rae Smith’s spectacular design, which uses THE WOOLGATHERER by William Mastrosiprojections to convey the WWI battlefields mone (Dayle McLeod Productions). This play where Albert (an excellent Alex Ferber) seeks about two neurotic people searching for love the horse he loves. We appreciate the anti-war is staged in a Chicago-style storefront theatre message, as well, but it’s the magic theatre space. Runs to May 12, Thu-Sun 8 pm. $17can create that’ll make you weep.

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century apart. Zemlinsky’s tale of adultery could use stronger staging, but the complex music comes across beautifully, while Puccini’s comic gem about a bourgeois family and a will is delightfully performed and directed. Baritone Alan Held performs in both pieces to terrific effect. Runs to May 25: May 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) 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, mat Sat 2 pm. $20-$99. Bluma Appel Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-368-3110, canadianstage.com. NNN (Jordan Bimm) GRUESOME PLAYGROUND INJURIES by Rajiv Joseph (Birdland Theatre). See review, page 57. Runs to May 13, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat-Sun 1:30 pm. $20-$30. Theatre Centre, 1087 Queen W. 416-538-0988, birdlandtheatre.com. NNNN (JK) 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 fallibility.

Runs to May 13, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 7 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2 pm. $50-$150. Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260 King W. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com.

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. Runs to May 13, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $30-$40. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Mainspace. 416-5049971, factorytheatre.ca.

THE INNOCENTS by Daniel Karasik (Innocents Collective/Tango Co). Karasik’s uneven drama follows a young hotshot lawyer who represents an over-privileged twentysomething charged with murder. Uninteresting characters and spotty direction hamper this meditation on ambition, success and quarter-life crises. Runs to May 13, Fri-Sat 8 pm, mat SatSun 2:30 pm. $22, stu/srs $17. Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman, Near Studio. 416-531-1827, tangoco.net. NN (Jordan Bimm) LUBA, SIMPLY LUBA by Diane Flacks, Luba Goy

YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU by George S Kaufman and Moss Hart (Soulpepper). The classic American comedy about a fun-loving family that marches to the beat of a different drummer is filled with laughter and heart, though at opening the former still needed fine tuning. Yet the emotions are strong, and with a fine cast that includes Eric Peterson, Nancy Palk, Krystin Pellerin and Gregory Prest, the comedy is sure to grow. Runs to Jun 21, see website for schedule. $51-$68, stu $32; rush $22/stu $5. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca.

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Ready to act globally New international multi-arts fest explores human rights By JON KAPLAN PANAMERICAN ROUTES/RUTAS PANAMERICANAS, AN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF THEATRE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS

Trevor Schwellnus and Beatriz Pizano say magic happens when artists pool resources.

(Aluna). At Theatre Passe Muraille (16 Ryerson). Opens Tuesday (May 15) and runs to May 27. $15-$30, pass $100. 416504-7529, alunatheatre.ca.

as a latin-canadian company, Aluna Theatre has come to understand the importance of sharing work internationally.

They’ve toured and workshopped their pieces in Latin America and now bring some of the artists they’ve met to Panamerican Routes/Rutas Panamericanas, a new multi-arts festival of performances, workshops, a conference and photo exhibit examining various aspects of human rights.

“It’s hard for small companies, especially culturally diverse troupes, to produce shows,” says artistic director Beatriz Pizano, who runs the company with her partner, scenographer Trevor Schwellnus. “To present Canadian works and mix them with international productions is what we feel helps us all grow as artists.

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and pool their resources. That’s one focus of this event.”

Originally from Colombia, Pizano thought back to her own roots when devising the fest.

“I remembered Simón Bolívar’s idea of the Americas as one big continent; for me, that includes Canada.

Trevor and I see Aluna’s work as being about breaking down divisions and making connections.”

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clude Loco7’s (“from Bogotá via New York”) Urban Odyssey, a puppet/dance show devised by Federico Restrepo and Denise Greber, and Violeta Luna’s (“from Mexico City via San Francisco”) Parting Memory. Both deal with immigrants who look backward and forward in their lives.

The second week involves Canadian artists. Aluna remounts its production of Nohayquiensepa (which has played in Medellín, Colombia, as well as Toronto), performer Mayahuel Tecozautla revives IXOK’ in Spanish (a work by Guatemalans Carmen Samayoa and Edgar Flores performed in English for SummerWorks 2010), and Rosa Laborde stages a reading of her new play, Marine Life.

That second week also features Vancouver writer/actor Carmen Aguirre (The Refugee Hotel) in her new show, Carmen Aguirre’s Blue Box, about her time as a Chilean revolutionary, produced by Nightswimming.

“It’s a post-political piece about Carmen’s personal and public revolutionary ideals and how they’ve changed over time,” says Schwellnus.

“The material is about issues,” adds Pizano, “but it’s neither didactic nor ‘political’ theatre.”

Other visiting artists include Carlos Satizábal, who offers a writing workshop and delivers a conference paper on how actor training can encourage machismo, and Patricia Ariza, whose La Pasarela – “The Catwalk” – will involve 35 local women from immigrant and refugee communities in an empowering fashion show catwalk.

“It’s vital to have these encounters between Canadian and Latin American artists and audiences,” notes Pizano. “Like others in the festival, I’m part of both communities and believe that theatre can help bridge those two worlds.”

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Thursday, May 10 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Steve Burr, Mark DeBonis and host Chet Wild. To ñ May 13, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:45

pm, Sun 8 pm. $10-$15. 2335 Yonge. 416486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

COMEDY LOUNGE presents Azfar Ali, Zabrina Chevannes, Ernie Vicente and host Kris Bonaparte. 9 pm. $10-$15. Jack’s Backyard, 30 Kennedy S, Brampton. comedylounge.ca.

COMEDY THURSDAYS The Starving Artist presents a weekly showcase w/ host Natasha Henderson. 9 pm. Free. 584 Lansdowne. 647342-5058, starvingartistbar.com.

AN EVENING WITH BETTY BUCKLEY We’re Funny That Way presents its opening gala featuring Broadway star Betty Buckley, to benefit the Ten Oaks Project and as part of the 15th and final year of the queer comedy festival (see Q&A with host Maggie Cassella, page 63). 8 pm. $200. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, werefunnythatway.com.

GUILTY OF BEING FUNNY presents 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.

LADYBUSINESS OFFICE PARTY LadyBusiness presents a comedy variety show to raise funds for their trip to Scotland’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival. 8:30 pm. $5. The Annex Live, 296 Brunswick. ladybusinesssketch.com.

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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

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Fri & Sat 10:30 pm, Sun 7 pm. $24-$29, stu $15. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity. com. NNNN (GS)

PRIMO PRESENTS: THE OFFICIAL GRAND OPENING Supermarket presents a new monthly

sketch show w/ Primo (Dan Galea, Kris Siddiqi, Daryn McIntyre and Kayla Lorette), Winston Spear and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. 268 Augusta.

416-840-0501.

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 Kate Davis.

To May 13, Thu-Sun 8 pm (plus Fri-Sat 10:30 pm). $12-$20. 224 Richmond W. 416-9676425, yukyuks.com.

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ALEC MAPA/LEA DELARIA We’re Funny

That Way Comedy Festival presents ñ ‘America’s Gaysian Sweetheart’ Mapa at 7:30

pm, and festival favourite DeLaria at 9:30 pm. $20-$25/show. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander, Chamber. 416-975-8555, werefunnythatway.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 Dan’s Mix ‘95 (Dan Hershfield and others). 9 pm. Pwyc. 320 Danforth. comedyonthedanforth.com.

LIVE WRONG AND PROSPER See Thu 10.

THE MCCOMEDY SHOW We’re Funny That Way Comedy Festival presents the comedic duo of Shannon McDonough and Michael McLean in a blend of stand-up, sketch and short films. 9 pm. $15-$20. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander, Cabaret. 416-975-8555, werefunnythatway.com.

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.

SOMETHING GETS FINGERED The Fingers present sketch troupe Falcon Powder, standup by Mark Little, improv, music and more. 10 pm. $10. The Annex Live, 296 Brunswick. 416929-3999.

GAVIN CRAWFORD/CHRISTOPHER PETERSON We’re Funny That Way Comedy Fesñ tival presents character comic Crawford at 7:30 pm, and diva impersonator Peterson at 9:30 pm. $20-$25/show. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander, Chamber. 416975-8555, werefunnythatway.com.

JULIE GOLDMAN We’re Funny That Way Comedy Festival presents the stand-up and sketch comic in a live show. 9 pm. $20-$25. Buddies

in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander, Cabaret.

416-975-8555, werefunnythatway.com.

LIVE WRONG AND PROSPER See Thu 10.

THE RETURN OF MONKEY TOAST Comedy Bar presents the improvised talk show w/ the Monkey Toast Players and host Ron Tite. 8 pm. $10. 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.

THE SUPERSTARS OF COMEDY Comedy Bar presents Todd Graham, Craig Fay, Pat MacDonald, Matt O’Brien and host Dylan Gott. 9:30 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

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416-469-0537.

THEATRESPORTS Bad Dog Theatre presents unscripted comedy battles. Undercard warm-up event at 7 pm, main event at 8 pm. $12, stu $10 (for one or both shows). Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-491-3115, baddogtheatre.com.

WEST END GIRLS presents all-girl stand-up w/ Sandra Battaglini, Dawn Whitwell, Precious Chong, Marilla Wex and Daniela Saioni. 8:30 pm. $5. Rhino, 1249 Queen W. westendgirls.ca.

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Sunday, May 13 Absolute Comedy See Thu 10.

Comedy At 51 Kyra Williams presents a late-

night comedy cabaret w/ Jeff Elliott, Shelley Kidwell, Al Val, Sammy Farid, Lady Business and Jim Kim. 10 pm. Pwyc. Second City, 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011.

HAPPy HouR @ eIN-steIN presents Joel West, Tony Cianchino, Darren Springer, Rene Payes, Robin Crossman, host Nicholas Rizzi and more. 8 pm. Free. Ein-Stein, 229 College. ein-stein.ca. lIve WRoNg ANd PRosPeR See Thu 10.

PIeCe oF gARbAge seX duNgeoN: A NIgHt oF soPHIstICAted Comedy Revel Theatre Col-

lective presents host Sean Jordan (Wordburglar) and improv by the Candidates, the Panel Show and David Razowsky and his workshop.

8 pm. $5. Unit 102 Theatre, 376 Dufferin. reveltheatre.com. suNdAy NIgHt lIve The Sketchersons present weekly sketch w/ guest hosts and musical acts. 9:30 pm. $8. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. thesketchersons.com. yuk yuk’s doWNtoWN See Thu 10.

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Monday, May 14 Altdot Comedy louNge Rivoli presents Dave Merheje, Rebecca Kohler, Steph ñ Tolev, Mark Little, Christina Walkinshaw, Julia

Bruce, Kate Davis, Allison Dore, Evany Rosen, MC Sara Hennessey and others. 9 pm. Pwyc.

332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com. best. moNdAy. eveR. Second City presents a weekly show featuring sketch, songs and improvisation. 8 pm. $14. 51 Mercer. 416-3430011, secondcity.com. blAIR stReeteR presents weekly open-mic stand-up comedy. 9 pm. Free. Naughty Nadz, 1590 Dundas E, Mississauga. 905-232-5577.

CHeAP lAugHs moNdAy PJ O’Briens Irish Pub presents a show w/ Russell Roy and guests. 9 pm. Free. 39 Colborne. 416-815-7562. lAugHAble At uNlovAble presents DJ Demers, Peter Stevens, Barry Taylor, Joel Buxton, Nick Flanagan, Steph Tolev and host Chris Locke. 9 pm. Pwyc. Unlovable, 1415-B Dundas W. 416-532-6669. stANd-uP At sAZeRAC presents weekly standup. 9 pm. Free. Sazerac Gastro Lounge, 782 King W. 647-342-8866, sazerac.ca.

Tuesday, May 15 FuNNy IN tHe bANk Banknote presents a

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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. sketCHComedylouNge Rivoli presents The Headliner Series w/ Ladystache, Tim Gilbert, Templeton Philharmonic, Newsdesk with Ron Sparks, El Jaguar, MC Debra DiGiovanni and more. 9 pm. Pwyc. 332 Queen W. sketchcomedylounge.com.

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Jamie Lissow, Amanda Day, Dave Code, Marc Hallworth, Paul McCallum, Rene Payes and host Ted Bisaillion. 8:30 pm. $6. 2335 Yonge.

416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

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 10. sIReN’s Comedy Celt’s Pub presents open-mic stand-up w/ Brian Ward and host Jon Schabl.

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. baddogtheatre.com. yuk yuk’s doWNtoWN presents Adam Richmond. To May 20, Wed-Sun 8 pm (plus Fri-Sat 10:30 pm). $12-$20. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

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the $200 ticket cost of the Buckley gala.

It’s always been $200 – $2,000 for a table of 10, or $250 a ticket. So actually the single ticket price dropped by $50.

And I got Betty Buckley! I may try to release tickets at a lower price in the bleachers. But the gala proceeds also go to charity, which this year is the Ten Oaks Project, connecting children and youth from LGBTQ communities.

Times have changed for queer comics, and Maggie Cassella is responsible for a lot of that. Not just because of her own outrageous stand-up, but for her hosting of We’re Funny That Way, the annual fest of queer and queerfriendly comics and musical acts.

This weekend marks its 15th and final edition, and, as usual, Cassella will be MCing the acts, which range from Broadway legend Betty Buckley to fest faves like Lea DeLaria, Christopher Peterson and Gavin Crawford.

See Comedy Listings, page 61.

Why is this the final We’re Funny That Way? Sometimes things run their course.

What is queer comedy any more? Who cares about people’s sexuality? I don’t mean that lightly. There’s still homophobia, but we kind of have our rights here, and look how huge Pride is. Also, I’m also burnt out, fried. I’d hand it off, but there really isn’t anybody who wants to do it.

Queer comedy has come a long way – lots of openly gay comics are headlining mainstream clubs. Do you think the festival had anything to do with that?

We were part of the evolution. It’s like watching Ellen from the beginning, when she came out, to now. Now she doesn’t take any shit and she talks

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about being queer – or gay, because she wouldn’t say “queer.” In the beginning she was all, “This is just a part of me.” And now when people say stuff she takes names and numbers.

What stands out in 15 years?

Margot Kidder hosted a gala one year.

She had a brutal sinus infection but still got on a plane to come, and I’ll never forget her for that. People like Colin Mochrie, Deb McGrath, Ann-Marie MacDonald and all the others who graced the stage of the galas, which were about supporting our causes.

I also remember Gavin Crawford, who showed up at my door one day with a videotape and asked if he could be in the festival. I watched his tape and thought: I can put this guy in my festival and watch him skyrocket and become the next big thing, or I could discourage him a little and tell him he’s not yet ready. I booked him, and he stole the show.

AntiBiotic DeviationDance presents a work inspired by the spirit of the children who participated in a “Healing Through Dance” program in Colombia. Opens May 16 and runs to May 18, Wed-Fri 8 pm. $20, stu/srs $15. Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester. wix.com/deviationdance/home.

DAnce expeDitions Dance Ontario presents dance by Sung-Ah Choi, Ariel Len, Chase Low, Simcoe Contemporary Dancers, Angela Blumberg and others. May 13 at 7 pm. $10. Arts & Letters Club, 14 Elm. danceontario.ca. esmerAlDA enrique spAnish DAnce com-

pAny Living Arts Centre presents a fusion of contemporary music and modern dance forms with traditional flamenco. May 11 at 8 pm. $28-$45. 4141 Living Arts, Mississauga.

905-306-6000, livingartscentre.ca.

ForBiDDen Fruit The Chimera Project presents an evening to raise funds for its creation, production and education activities, including excerpts from The Calm Before..., an encore performance of Fresh Blood and more. May 12 at 8 pm. $50. National Ballet School, 400 Jarvis. 416-889-4881, chimeraproject.org. soooooul trAin! b current presents the closing event for the rock.paper.sistahz festival with dance by Jaivah Nouvel Exposé Dance Troupe, Lopa Sarkar & Divine Heritage Artistry, AfroLatino and others. May 11 at 8 pm. Pwyc. Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. 416-533-1500, bcurrent.ca. swAn lAke Bolshoi Ballet presents the original revival choreography by Marius

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Now you program the entertainment for the Flying Beaver Pubaret on Parliament, with queer and non-queer acts. Why’d you open it?

I’ve never been comfortable performing in the city in any room except Buddies. The Pubaret’s a cabaret room, there’s no bar in the back. I don’t like the talking in the back [of most clubs]; it’s not conducive to comedy or music.

So there’s no talking on cellphones.

Carole Pope did an unplugged show here and was interrupted by someone on the phone. Her response? “I can hear you, you know. And, yes, I do look good Glenn sumi for my age.”

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Petipa, as composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Opens May 15 and runs to May 19, TueThu 7:30 pm, Fri-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $71$255. Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Front E. 1-855-872-7669, sonycentre.ca. trAnsmiGrAtion Kaha:Wi Dance Theatre and Harbourfront Centre Planet IndigenUs present a response to the vision, struggles and art of Ojibwe shaman/artist Norval Morrisseau. May 10-13, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 3 pm. $30-$35, stu/srs $15-$22.50. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com. winGs Ismailova Dance Theatre presents dance to honour the victims of WWII and portray the struggle for post-atomic rebirth.

May 12-13, Sat-Sun 8 pm, mat Sun 3 pm. $15$18. Pia Bouman School, 6 Noble. 647-8294839, ismtheatreofdance.blogspot.ca.

Continuing From the house oF mirth Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie present a dance/ ñ theatre piece inspired by Edith Wharton’s

novel The House Of Mirth, choreographed by James Kudelka. Runs to May 13, Thu-Sun 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. momentum 2012 School of Toronto Dance Theatre presents students performing works

by Sharon B Moore, Christopher House, Jennifer Dallas and others. Runs to May 12, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $19, stu/srs $15; gala $60.

Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester.

416-967-6887, schooloftdt.org.

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Beaudry and Morris Lum, May 10-Jul 8, reception 6-9 pm May 10 (bus from Gladstone, 6 pm) . 300 City Centre (Mississauga). 905896-5088. aRt galleRy of ontaRio Jack Chambers, to May 13. Annie MacDonell; C Selections From Max Dean’s Albums: TDSB students (also at selected schools), to Jun 3. Iain Baxter&, to Aug 12. Zhang Huan, to Aug 19.

Pablo Picasso, to Aug 26 ($25, stu $16.50).

CMax Dean, to Sep 9, artist’s talk 7 pm May 11. $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 uniVeRsity Diane Borsato, to Jun 10. 4700 Keele, Accolade E bldg.

416-736-5169. bata shoe museum The Roaring 20s: Heels, Hemlines And High Spirits, to Jun 30. Beauty, Identity, Pride: Native North American Footwear; Roger Vivier, ongoing. $14, srs $12, stu

Contact Photography Festival Jon Rafman demonstrates the amazing serendipity of Google Street View.

$8. 327 Bloor W. 416-979-7799.

CcamPbell house museum Asif Rehman, to Jun 3. 160 Queen W. 416-597-0227. design eXchange High School Design Competition, to May 22. CLynne Cohen, to Jun 30. $10, stu/srs $8. 234 Bay. 416-363-6121. doRis mccaRthy galleRy Age Of Consent, to May 12. 1265 Military Trail. 416-287-7007.

Justina m. baRnicke Sovereign Acts, to May 27. 7 Hart House. 416-978-8398. mcmichael canadian aRt collection Fashionality: Dress And Identity In Contemporary Canadian Art, to Sep 3. $15, stu/srs $12. 10365 Islington (Kleinburg). 905-893-1121.

Cmocca Public: Collective Identity/Occupied Space; Street View, to Jun 3. Scott McFarland, to Jun 25. 952 Queen W. 416-3950067. oakVille galleRies Keren Cytter, to Jun 10.

Gairloch Gdns, 1306 Lakeshore E, and Centennial Sq, 120 Navy (Oakville). 905-844-4402.

PoWeR Plant Kerry Tribe, to Jun 3. CSabine Bitter and Helmut Weber, to Jun 18. Dissent-

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cha, to May 19, artist’s talk 2-4 pm May 12.

179 Lakeshore E (Oakville). 905-844-4481.

CaRcadia aRt galleRy Photos: Victoria Piersig, to May 27, reception 7-11 pm May 12. 680 Queens Quay W. 416-605-5016.

CaRsenal toRonto Photographie group show, to Jun 9, Isabelle Hayeur talk 7 pm (Roger Communication Centre, Ryerson U) May 10. 45 Ernest. arsenaltoronto.com.

CaRta galleRy Photos: Nicolette Porter, May 14-31, reception 6-9 pm May 16.

CPhotos: Capture group show, May 14-Jun 3, reception 6-9 pm May 16. 55 Mill, bldg 9, #102. 416-364-2782. aRtscaPe libeRty Village Spring Open Studio, 11 am-7 pm May 12. 60 Atlantic. torontoartscape.org.

Cbau-Xi Photo Dan Dubowitz, to May 31.

324 Dundas W. 416-977-0400. beit zatoun Mayworks: Workers: Makers Of History, May 10-13, reception 7-9 pm May 10. 612 Markham. 647-726-9500.

CbeV hisey studio Photos: Matthew Searle, to May 31, reception 4-7 pm May 12.

1066 Dundas W. Cbuddies in bad times theatRe Photos: Drasko Bogdanovic, May 14-27, reception 7-10 pm May 15. 12 Alexander. 416-9758555. canadian lesbian and gay aRchiVes Looking Forward/Looking Back: National Portrait Collection, May 11-Jun 11, reception 7:30 pm May 11. 34 Isabella. 416-777-2755. case goods WaRehouse Painting: Bianka Guna, May 12-20 (Sat-Sun). 55 Mill, bldg 74, #211. 416-520-4607.

CcaVa Photos: Per Kristiansen, to May 31, reception 4-6 pm May 13. 1560 Yonge. 416979-9918.

Ccontact galleRy Photos: Lynne Marsh, to Jun 15, reception 6-9 pm May 10. 80 Spadina #310. 416-539-9595.

CcReatiVe Village studio Photos: Focus In The Community group show, to Jun 1, reception 6-8 pm May 11. 4895 Dundas W. 647-351-4362. daniel faRia galleRy Installation/performance: Derek Liddington, to May 26, performance 2 pm May 12, performance 11 am-6 pm to May 26. 188 St Helens. 416538-1880.

CdistilleRy distRict Photos/video/film: Melanie Manchot, to May 31. Distillery Art Market, to Sep 30 (Sat-Sun except holidays weekends). 55 Mill. torontoartscape.org.

CdRake hotel The Tintype Studio, 1 pm May 12 (photo $60). CPhotos: Oliver Pauk and Zach Slootsky, to May 31. CIn The Corner Of My Eye group show, to Jun 25. 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042. edWaRd day galleRy Painting: Melissa Doherty, to May 26. 952 Queen W. 416-9216540.

CeRic aRthuR galleRy Photos: Peter MacCallum, May 10-Aug 10, reception 6-8 pm May 10. 230 College. 416-978-5038.

Cfmad Photo studio Photos: Frank Michael Hack, May 10-31, reception 8:30-11

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the world is stranger than we imagine, and nothing confirms it more than Jon Rafman’s show, The Nine Eyes Of Google Street View, now at Angell.

Taking screen shots of images

culled from Google’s huge digital compendium of worldwide street scenes, Rafman captures two converging phenomena: the baffling weirdness of the world colliding head on with our rapacious desire to map it.

Rafman’s practised eye frames moments of spectacular incongruity. Some images are from the periphery, what may be a rapidly reced-

ing frontier of the undocumented: a road ending at the edge of the Mojave Desert, a wildfire in the Yucatan, horses galloping past a cemetery in Jurby, on the Isle of Man. There are equally uncanny urban scenes: a man enjoying a stretch on a Manhattan street, a woman in São Paulo setting a new standard for what it means to work a street corner. 3 art@nowtoronto.com

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inaugurating this lofty post-industrial art space, an offshoot of one in Montreal, gallerist René Blouin mounts a show of seven Quebecers who use digital photographic tech but can’t be pigeonholed as photographers.

Science inspires them. Nicolas Baier takes a painterly approach to digitally manipulating photos of nature. He combines many snapshots to depict underground caverns, and an

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ominous cloudscape that looks like the view from a plane above a storm is actually an enhanced version of scientists’ recreation of weather over Montreal 1,000 years ago.

Isabelle Hayeur digitally places garbage-strewn riverbeds below rusting ships or chemical plants to dramatize pollution. In Pascal Grandmaison’s black-and-white series, galaxies that seem to form from cosmic dust are actually Hubble space photos partially burned in the artist’s barbecue.

If you’re lucky, the ebullient Blouin, a one-man force for Canadian artistic unity, will regale you with tales of how these intriguing images were made.

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pm May 10. 1138 Dundas E. 416-809-6937.

CfoRgetus galleRy Photos: Matthew Tam-

maro and Agnes Thor, May 10-27, reception 7 pm-midnight May 10. 163 Sterling, unit 29. galleRy aRctuRus Photos: Simeon Posen, May 12-Jun 23, reception 2-5 pm May 12. 80 Gerrard E. 416-977-1077. galleRy 44 Acts Of Exposure group show, May 16-27. Photos: Samuel Choisy, to May 19.

CGender And Exposure In Contemporary Iranian Photography, to Jun 16. Acts Of Exposure group show, to May 13. Members Gallery, 401 Richmond W, #120. 416-979-3941.

CgalleRy 1313 Photos: Acts Of Exposure group show, May 16-27. CPhotos: Acts Of Exposure group show; Bill Filiou, to May 13.

1313 Queen W. 416-536-6778.

CgalleRy tPW Video (Images Festival): Mark Boulos, to May 26. 56 Ossington.

416-645-1066. gladstone hotel Docents Gone Wild performance tour, 1-2 pm May 12 ($15).

CPhotos: Exposed 2012 group show, to May 27. CPhotos: Laurie Kang and Jamie Campbell, to Jun 2. Queen West Walking Art Tour, ongoing (Sat noon-2:30 pm, $25, $45/two).

1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.

Chang man Photos: Got A Phone Make Contact group show, to May 27, reception 7-10 pm May 10. 756 Queen E. 416-465-0302. haRbouR galleRy Painting: Norman Laliberté, May 12-26, reception 2-6 pm May 12. 1697 Lakeshore W (Mississauga). 905-822-5498.

Ci.m.a galleRy Video: Rehab Nazzal, to May 26, reception 6-9 pm May 10. 80 Spadina, suite 305. 416-703-2235. insPiRations studio Spring Studio Sale (Sistering), May 11-13. 761 Queen W. 416-3672726.

Jessica bRadley aRt + PRoJects Installation: Jed Lind, May 12-Jun 16, reception 4-6 pm May 12. 1450 Dundas W. 416-537-3125. kathaRine mulheRin Painting/drawing: Clint Griffin, May 11-Jun 3, reception 6-9 pm May 11. 1082/1086 Queen W. 416-993-6510.

Ckatzman kamen galleRy Photos: April Hickox, May 10-Jun 2, reception 5-8 pm May 10. 80 Spadina #406. 416-504-9515.

Cle labo Photos: Raymond Gemayel, to May 31, reception 5-7 pm May 11. 55 Mill, Cannery bldg 58, #317. 416-861-1853. lauRieR galleRy Painting: Rose Marie Nicolucci, to May 16, artist’s talk 2-4 pm May 12.

113 Jefferson. 416-232-0217.

ClaWRence PaRk studio Photos: Eugene Nicolcev, May 11-28, reception 6-9 pm May 11. 49 Lawrence E. 416-488-9012. leonaRdo galleRies 5 Photographers group show, May 10-26, reception 6-8 pm May 10. 133 Avenue Rd. 416-924-7296. lucsculPtuRe Sculpture/painting/drawing: Luc Bihan, to May 19, reception 3-9 pm May 12. 663 Greenwood. 416-461-7936.

CmetRo hall Photos: Sport Culture: Movement Identities And Inclusion, May 13-25, reception 12:30-2 pm May 14. 55 John. 416397-9887. mooRe galleRy Jeffrey Spalding and Marianne Fowler, May 10-Jun 2, reception 6-8 pm May 10. 80 Spadina. 416-504-3914. muse galleRy Painting: Alayne Spafford, May 10-31, reception 6-9 pm May 11. 1230

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ing Histories: 25 Years Of The Power Plant, to Sep 3. 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949.

ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM CDeborah Samuel, to Jul 2. CLarry Towell and Donovan Wylie, to Jul 15, Towell talk 7 pm May 11. The Art Of Collecting, ongoing. $15, stu/srs $13.50; Fri 4:30-8:30 pm $9, stu/srs $8. 100 Queen’s Park.

416-586-8000.

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

416-599-5321.

CUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ART CENTRE Public: Collective Identity/Occupied Space; Robert Giard, to Jun 30, panel 5 pm May 15. 15 King’s College Circle. 416-978-1838.

VARLEY ART GALLERY Deconstructed: Works From The Permanent Collection, to May 12. $5, stu/srs $4. 216 Main (Unionville). 905-4779511.

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Shaker (Ontario Crafts Council fundraiser), 7:30 pm, silent auction 8:30 pm May 16 ($45, adv $10-$35). Photos: Harley Valentine, to May 31. 5 Brock. 416-546-3683.

C918 BATHURST CENTRE FOR CULTURE & THE ARTS Magnum Photos screening/wrap party, 7-9 pm May 12. CThe Dark Room

group show, to May 10. 918 Bathurst. 416538-0868.

OCADU Big Talk teaching and learning event, keynote/panel 2:30-5 pm May 16. 100 McCaul. 416-977-6000.

OUT/AUT/THE INK David David (Milovanovic), May 11-15, reception 7:30-10 pm May 11. 823 St Clair W. 416-410-3551.

PAUL PETRO Prints/painting: Ged Quinn and Sadko Hadzihasanovic, May 11-Jun 9, reception 7-10 pm May 11. 980 Queen W. 416979-7874.

CQUEEN GALLERY Photos: Martha Griffith, May 10-23, reception 6:30-9 pm May 10.

382 Queen E. 416-361-6045.

CQUINCE FLOWERS Photos: Kathleen Finlay and Rosemary Little, May 12-Jun 30, reception 2-5 pm May 12. 660 Queen E. 416-5941414.

CREDLINE COFFEE & ESPRESSO BAR Photos: My Brain, My Boyd: Regent Park/Duke of York Public School students; Shawna King, to May 31, My Brain reception 1-3 pm May 12. 354 Queen E. 647-344-3865.

CREGIS COLLEGE, U OF T Photos: In All Things group show, May 10-26, reception 7-9 pm May 10. 100 Wellesley W. 416-9254407.

CRELATIVE SPACE Photos: Juli Zäll, to May 31, reception 6-9 pm May 11. 365 Dupont.

416-961-6891.

CRIVOLI Photos: Jacqueline Bruner, to Jun 29, reception 3-5 pm May 12. CPhotos: Louis Au, to Jun 30. 332 Queen W. 416-5961908.

ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS Installation: Holly Gabel, May 10-Jun 8. 911 Davenport. 416538-3997.

ROBERT KANANAJ GALLERY Painting: Claude Breeze, May 10-Jun 4, reception 4-8 pm May 12. 1267 Bloor W. 416-289-8855.

ROBERTS GALLERY Painting: Renée Durocher and Laurie Campbell, May 12-Jun 2. 641 Yonge. 416-924-8731.

CROYAL BANK PLAZA Photos: Jon Butler, May 13-26. S tower lobby, 200 Bay. RUMI GALLERIES Iron Men group show, May 10-Jun 2. 55 Woodlawn (Mississauga). 905274-3616.

STEELWORKERS HALL Remembering Our Public Services (Mayworks), workshop/forum 1-3 pm May 13 (mayworks.ca). 25 Cecil. 416506-9090.

SUSAN HOBBS Sculpture/video: Kevin Yates, to May 26. 137 Tecumseth. 416-504-3699.

TORONTO FREE GALLERY Painting/installation (Mayworks): Louise Liliefeldt, May 12Jun 2, performance/reception 8 pm May 12.

1277 Bloor W. 416-913-0461.

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Crosbie’s Life LIFE IS ABOUT LOSING EVERYTHING by Lynn Crosbie (Anansi), 348 pages, $24.95 paper. Rating: NNN sometimes being out of control can be a good thing. That’s the feeling you get reading Lynn Crosbie’s memoir. The poet, provocateur and pop culture critic has packed well over 100 flash stories, episodes and observations into a book weighted with paradox.

In detailing her years of trauma, sexual excess and drug use, Crosbie comes across as a model of self-love

and self-loathing, cruelty and kindness, loyalty and treachery.

And she’s obsessed with both beauty and grotesquerie, a preoccupation tailor-made for her poetic sensibilities.

Thing is, it’s hard to get a handle on the through-line, despite the reappearances of certain friends and boyfriends, the repeated references to the body changes Crosbie has undergone and her obvious yearning for a love beyond that of her dog, Frank. And though it’s all skilfully written, there’s no emotional punch.

It’s also way too long – by at least 50 pages. You get the sense Crosbie

stored up 10 years’ worth of material and didn’t do the curating required for this kind of project.

But for dipping, it’s superb. I had a wonderful time experimenting to see where I would land if I randomly opened the book. Ten times I broke the spine to a page, and on every one I found an absolutely beautiful phrase or sentence.

Crosbie is a unique, if undisciSUSAN G. COLE plined, talent.

Lynn Crosbie launches her memoir at the Mascot tonight (Thursday, May 10), with an after-party at the Cadillac Lounge. See Readings, this page.

Write Books at susanc@nowtoronto.com.

Michael Morpurgo is at the Princess of Wales on May 13.

IN PERSON From children’s book to stage sensation to major motion picture, War Horse has had an amazing life. Michael Morpurgo originally published his story of a boy whose horse is seconded by the British army in the First World War in 1982, and it’s now available in paper for only $6.98 (Scholastic).

Hear Morpurgo read and answer questions, with live music by Melanie Doane on Sunday (May 13).

SGC See Readings, this page.

READINGS THIS WEEK Thursday, May 10 THE BEAUTIFUL & THE DAMNED Poetry by Spencer Butt, Gemma Files and others. 6:30 pm.

Pwyc. Zelda’s, 692 Yonge. lizzieviolet13@ gmail.com.

SHELDON COHEN 7 pm. Free. NFB Mediatheque, 150 John. 416-973-3012.

LYNN CROSBIE 7 pm. Free. Mascot, 1267 Queen W. houseofanansi.com.

SHELLEY PETERSON 5:30 pm. Free. Frontier College, 35 Jackes. rsvp@cormorantbooks.com.

RACHEL SIMON 7 pm. Free. Indigo, 2300 Yonge. chapters.indigo.ca.

WORD JAZZ Poets Robert Priest, Bruce Hunter and others perform. Doors 7 pm. No cover.

NOW Lounge, 189 Church. 416-364-1301.

Friday, May 11 DAVID BALZER Launching Contrivances. 8 pm.

Free. White House Studio Project. 277.5 Augusta. contrivances.collection@gmail.com.

ROBERTA RICH Talking about The Midwife Of Venice. 12:30 pm. Free. IndigoSpirit, 1 First Canadian Place. chapters.indigo.ca.

CRISTINA RIZZUTO 8 pm. Free. Proof Vodka Bar, 220 Bloor W. blaurockpress.com.

EVA STACHNIAK Talking about Winter Palace. 7 pm. Free. IndigoSpirit, 1 First Canadian Place. chapters.indigo.ca.

Monday, May 14 ECW SPRING LITERARY PARTY David Balzer, Sky Gilbert, Heather A Clark and others. 7 pm.

Free. The Sister, 1554 Queen W. sarah@ ecwpress.com.

JEFF RUBIN 7 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

Tuesday, May 15 FARZANA DOCTOR/KRISTYN DUNNION/JM

FREY/KARLEEN PENDLETON JIMÉNEZ Reading. 7 pm. Free. Slack’s, 562 Church. 416-928-2151.

ANAKANA SCHOFIELD 7 pm. Free. Dora Keogh, 141 Danforth. 416-778-1804.

Wednesday, May 16 HEATHER BIRRELL Reading and a Q&A. 6 pm.

Free. Type Books, 883 Queen W. typebooks.ca.

Saturday, May 12 VALERIE WINT Reading. 2 pm. Free. Pape/Danforth Library, 701 Pape. 416-393-7727.

Sunday, May 13 CUBA: POETIC GESTURE Peta, Blakka Ellis, Oscar

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Ortiz and others. Noon. Free. Ellington’s Cafe, 805 St Clair W. 416-652-9111.

DRAFT Thom Vernon, Jim Bartley, Elizabeth Ruth and others. 2 pm. Free. Only Café, 966 Danforth. draftreadings@wordpress.com.

CHUCK HUGHES Noon. Free. Chapters Bayview Village, 2901 Bayview. chapters.indigo.ca.

MICHAEL MORPURGO Author speaks at a funder for First Book. 7 pm. $15. Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King W. 416-872-1212.

POETRY SLAM Spoken word slam. 7 pm. $5.

Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042.

ERIC FOLEY/NICOLE MARCOTIC/NATALIE ZINA WALSCHOTS Reading. 8 pm. Pwyc. Press Club, 850 Dundas W. pivotreadings.ca.

DAVID GILMOUR 7 pm. Free. S. Walter Stewart,

170 Memorial Park. 416-396-3975.

HOWARD SHRIER Talking about his mystery novel, Boston Cream. 6 pm. Free. Riverdale Library, 370 Broadview. 416-393-7720.

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YDESSA HENDELES ART FOUNDATION Strait-Jacket group show, ongoing. Sat ñ noon-5 pm. 778 King W. 416-413-9400.

XPACE The Alternative Tentacle: TDSB alternative high school students, reception 6 pm May 11, May 12-26. 58 Ossington. 416849-2864.

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In Dark Shadows, Johnny Depp gets to explore his childhood fascination with monsters By NORMAN WILNER

Whatever Works doesn’t By NORMAN WILNER

DARK SHADOWS directed by Tim Burton, screenplay by Seth Grahame-Smith from a story by John August and GrahameSmith, based on the television series created by Dan Curtis, with Johnny Depp, Eva Green, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jonny Lee Miller, Chloë Grace Moretz and Helena Bonham Carter. A Warner Bros. release. 113 minutes. Opens Friday (May 11).

For venues and times, see Movies, page 70.

los angeles – “a vampire should look like a vampire,” Johnny Depp is explaining to reporters. Specifically, he’s talking about his vampire, Barnabas Collins, the role he plays in Tim Burton’s big-screen upgrade of Dark Shadows.

In his quieter moments, Depp’s Barnabas – an 18thcentury aristocrat cursed with un-death and buried underground for 196 years – is grey-skinned and rigid, with spidery fingers. In fully vamped form he has fangs and pointy ears that make him look like Bat Boy, the Weekly World News mascot. Twilight’s wellcoiffed Cullens would flee in disgust.

“It was our rebellion against vampires that look like underwear models,” Depp says. “There’s a bit of Nosferatu in him.”

Depp genuinely enjoys saying the word “vampire.”

He adds a little Eastern European spin on the first half, then punches the second half home: vaam-PYRE. And he’s throwing the V-word around a lot today.

“As a child, I certainly had a strange fascination with monsters and vampires,” he says, “as did Tim. There’s this darkness, this mystery, this intrigue. And as you get older, you recognize the erotic nature of the vampire and the idea of the undead. It was a real challenge, probably more for Tim than me, to make that guy – that vampire – fit back into this odd society and this dysfunctional family.”

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and the wardrobe – but unlike most of their collaborations, this one originated with Depp, a long-time fan of the series. The actor has a producer’s credit on the film, which he almost immediately tries to shrug off: “It’s almost impossible to consider myself a producer,” he says. “I can barely produce an English muffin in the morning.”

Setting the movie in the same period as the original TV series was important, too.

“Our memory is, like, lime-green leisure suits and macramé owls, you know?” Depp says. “Earth shoes.

Weird things that didn’t make sense then, and still don’t.”

That sense of a character trying to understand a strange new world is something Depp and Burton have explored before, particularly in Edward Scissorhands – and the layer of quizzical bemusement Depp brings to Barnabas feels like a direct reference to that character. But Depp also insisted on respecting the source material – because he didn’t have a choice.

“Even in the early days of trying to explore the possibilities of the character,” he says, “it was apparent to both Tim and me that it had to be rooted in Jonathan Frid’s [conception] of Barnabas, this classic monster.

There was a kind of rigidity to him, that pole-up-theback sort of elegance that was always there.”

The role presented a few practical concerns, particularly in scenes where Barnabas is feeding on panicked human victims.

“You wanted to be a little bit careful that you didn’t actually pierce the jugular,” Depp says, “kind of like my experience shaving Alan Rickman [in Sweeney Todd]. Which, by the way, neither of us wants to do again. Especially him.”

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DARK SHADOWS (Tim Burton) Rating: NN Tim Burton’s big-screen remake of the Gothic soap opera Dark Shadows – which follows the miseries of a supernaturally afflicted family in Collinsport, Maine – is impeccably designed and textured and features a fun character turn by Johnny Depp, but somehow it never comes to life.

Damned to vampirism after rejecting a witch (Eva Green), Depp’s aristocratic Barnabas Collins is buried underground in 1776. He’s unearthed in 1972, where he very awkwardly insinuates himself back into the family manse – and finds himself drawn to a governess (Bella Heathcote) who’s the spitting image of his lost love.

The witch is still around, too, determined to ruin what remains of the Collins fishing empire. There’s also at least one ghost, a vanload of hippies and a party with Alice Cooper.

Fans will accept the episodic, overstuffed narrative as faithful to the original series, which constantly juggled everyone’s allegiances and affections to keep the story going. But movies aren’t TV shows, and Burton can’t keep this many characters in the air without dropping a few. (He’s still terrible at pacing, too.)

As in Burton and Depp’s take on Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, there’s no question that everyone had a ball on the set, but the final product doesn’t merit all NW the effort.

Fredrik Gertten knew his 2009 documentary Bananas! – about Dole’s treatment of its banana farmers – was going to piss off the food giant. But he had no idea the company would harass him mercilessly, attempt to stop screenings at the L.A. Film Fest and subsequent festivals and then take legal action that would not let up.

Eventually, Gertten counter-sued.

Big Boys Gone Bananas!* tracks Dole’s campaign, the craven behaviour of L.A. Film Fest organizers – they actually disavowed the doc while introducing it – and the support Gertten received from all parties in the Swedish parliament. A small but sweet subplot displays the power of a Swedish blogger following the controversy.

Dole is plainly the villain, but the most scandalous revelation in the movie is the way the media, from CNN in the U.S. to CTV here in Canada, got sucked in by Dole’s press releases that claimed Gertten’s film contained false information. In snippets included in the doc, media outlets mock Gertten without ever picking up the phone to question the filmmaker.

Ultimately, this is a movie about the huge impact a documentary can make and the extent to which a corporate behemoth knows it. A winner.

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The Dictator calls the shots In character, Sacha Baron Cohen controls the world’s media at a jokey press conference By GLENN SUMI THE DICTATOR directed by Larry Charles, written by Sacha Baron Cohen, Alec Berg, David Mandel and Jeff Schaffer, with Cohen, Anna Faris, Ben Kingsley and Jason Mantzoukas. A Paramount release. 84 minutes. Opens Wednesday (May 16). For venues and times, see Movies, page 70.

Reviewed in next week’s issue.

new york city – On paper it sounds like a gimmick, but Sacha Baron Cohen’s in-character press conference as the Dictator actually feels like a clever piece of performance art. Think Andy Kaufman but with a deeper knowledge of pop culture and a sharper satiric edge.

Journalists from around the world have crowded into the Empire Ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, where a big shrine to his Excellency Admiral General Aladeen of Wadiya (Cohen), the anti-hero of Larry Charles’s new movie, has been erected.

Flags and gaudy oil portraits of the bearded tyrant line the walls, and a large urn, like the one upended on Ryan Seacrest at the Oscars, has been placed behind a blinged-out podium.

When the General finally arrives, his dark suit festooned with medals, he’s accompanied by groups of placard-holding Aladeen supporters (one sign reads “Give persecution a chance”) and a security

unit of half a dozen machine-guntoting women.

“My female virgin guards protect me at all times,” he says later. “I know they are virgins because I have their virginity checked every night by the head of” – he pauses – “my penis.”

Ever since Borat rode onto a Toronto Film Festival red carpet in a carriage pulled by a group of peasant women, Cohen has perfected the art of the media launch.

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the making of the movie, or what his intentions might have been (for some of that you can see my interview with co-stars Ben Kingsley and Jason Mantzoukas at nowtoronto.com/movies).

But that doesn’t mean there’s not a ton of thought behind his film – or its marketing. You just need to look for it between the dozens of juicy sound bites, photo ops and surprise guest appearances (like on Saturday Night Live, where he kidnapped his Hugo director, Martin Scorsese).

“Welcome, journalists of the Zionist media!” he greets us, in an accent that sounds like Arnold Schwarzenegger as an Iraqi exchange student.

“Today I wish to highlight the plight of an endangered group: dictators. These brave leaders are suffering a daily victimization and brutality from the supposed crime of embezzling money, oppressing their people and doing a tiny little bit of genocide.”

Then he lists the poor dictators who have recently fallen: Saddam, Kim Jong Il, Gaddafi and Oprah Winfrey.

That gets a big laugh.

He’s even gone so far as to get us to submit our questions beforehand so he and his people can vet them. Sinister?

Not really. It’s just in keeping with his character’s shtick. A real dictator would do that, right? And give Cohen credit for staying in character.

He flirts with female journalists – implying he wants to have “sex activities” with a comely E! correspondent – gets choked up when a German writer uses his name and Hitler’s in the same sentence, and asks all the Jews in the crowd to

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raise their hands, whispering to his aides afterwards, “Do we have enough sacks?”

In the movie, Aladeen is a big fan of movie stars, plying them with gifts and money in exchange for sexual favours.

“I have made beautiful love and also sex activity with many of your celebrities,” he tells us. “Britney Spears, Beyoncé and Kim Kardashian.

She is a very nice girl but unbelievably hairy. When I pulled her panties down, I thought I was looking in the mirror.”

When someone defends Kimmy K, Cohen shoots back.

“You think I’m worried about a Persian girl with sisters? I will send them all back to Iran.”

In the movie, Megan Fox and even Edward Norton are featured in brief cameos as paid-off sex toys for the dictator’s pleasure. When someone mentions Fox’s recent pregnancy, Cohen quickly chimes in.

“There are rumours that I am the father,” he says. “This is literally impossible. It would be the first-ever anal conception. And if she’s pregnant, then so is Heidi Klum and also Donald Trump.” Big laugh. “He does anything for money.”

Point taken.

And which candidate would he endorse in the U.S. election?

“Mitchell Romney has the makings of a great dictator,” he says. “He’s incredibly wealthy but pays no taxes.

And it’s not much of a leap to go from firing people to firing squads.”

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the rebranding of sprockets as the TIFF Kids International Film Festival means the programmers had to find somewhere else to put their more grown-up offerings.

In past years, strong but potentially challenging entries like My Suicide, Bitter Sweetheart, Jitters and Through A Glass, Darkly arrived plastered with mature-content warnings and age restrictions. There’s no room for them in the current incarnation of the festival, so TIFF has spun off that portion into “a new festival for young movie lovers” called TIFF Next Wave.

Whatever. Names aren’t important. What is important is that the content of the spinoff live up to the standard set by Sprockets in previous years – and it does.

A highlight: Fat Kid Rules The World, the directorial debut of actor Matthew Lillard, whose intriguing CV includes geeking out in Scream, acting opposite an imaginary dog in Scooby-Doo and cuckolding George Clooney in The Descendants. Adapted from KL Going’s young adult novel, it’s the empathetic and heartfelt story of a miserable high-schooler (Jacob Wysocki) unwillingly befriended by a bipolar classmate (Matt O’Leary).

Lillard and his actors bore into the material. Wysocki and O’Leary are entirely convincing as symbiotic misfits, and Billy Campbell works wonders with the role of a rigid father, investing a potential cliché with glenns@nowtoronto.com depth and complexity. And though twitter.com/glennsumi the material skews dark – this is, after all, a picture that opens with Wymore online socki’s character imagining his own Interview clips at nowtoronto.com very messy suicide – the movie never loses its sense of playful humour.

Another title worth a look is 17 Girls, a French drama spun out of the media frenzy a few years back over a clique of Massachusetts high school students alleged to have formed a pregnancy pact.

That turned out not to be the case, but directors Muriel and Delphine Coulin have made a drama in which it is, with an unexpectedly pregnant French teen (Louise Grinberg, one of the most memorable students in Laurent Cantet’s The Class) exhorting her classmates to get knocked up so they can raise their children together. And if you think that’s a rather short-sighted Jacob Wysocki is entirely convincing prospect, well, you in Fat Kid Rules The World, a highlight and the film are on of TIFF’s Next Wave. the same page.

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BIG BOYS GONE BANANAS!* (PG) Official Selection, Hot Docs, 2012 “A David-and Goliath story that delves into corporate scare tactics...media manipulation, online propagandizing and craven behavior.” – Variety

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BANANAS!* (PG) After seeing Big Boys Gone Bananas!*, come back for Bananas!*, the documentary that inspired its creation.

Opening FRI, May 18

MARLEY (PG) Official Selection, Hot Docs, 2012 “[A] generous, absorbing, family authorized docu on the late, still-reigning king of reggae music.” – Variety

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Scott Speedman (left) and Nathan Morlando hit pay dirt in Edwin Boyd.

Brit Marling wants you to think a little differently about science fiction. Last year she co-wrote and starred in Mike Cahill’s Another Earth, a low-budget drama about a young woman whose life is sent spinning into crisis by the appearance of our planetary doppelgänger. Now she’s back in Sound Of My Voice, which she wrote with director Zal Batmanglij, playing a woman called Maggie who may or may not be an emissary from a frightening post-apocalyptic America.

On her way to a TV appearance in Washington, DC, Marling took a few minutes to discuss time travel, our cultural sense of a coming storm and the value of the ordinary.

When we talked about Another Earth, you said you wanted to mix the spectacle of a blockbuster with the intimacy of an epic. There’s a similar sense here of massive events happening just outside the frame.

I hope that’s true. We take in so much storytelling now, audiences have become really sophisticated. And I know those are the kinds of movies we enjoy: you’re not being spoon-fed a story. The movie trusts your intelligence – your emotional intelligence, your analytical intelligence – to put things together. There’s an element to the plot that’s much more like a traditional Hollywood thriller than an arthouse film. But I do think the ideas, what’s [within] that plot structure, is much more complicated.

Sound Of My Voice feels like a hybrid of two very different movies – Martha Marcy May Marlene, which is about cults and indoctrination, and The Hunger Games, which envisions a world after the collapse of America.

Is there something in the air, do you think?

It’s like we all sense that the way we’re living is unsustainable, and yet we keep living that way. But it does feel like it could all unravel actually pretty quickly… and I think you’re right to say all these films are wrestling with that. Certainly, at Sundance there was a real conversation about what the possibilities of a human future might look like. Maggie’s sense of the future involves wrestling with those ideas as well, if she’s training people how to grow gardens in their

garages, and how to use guns.

How would you describe your collaborations with Cahill and Batmanglij?

The three of us were always interested in the idea of using a science-fiction premise to open up our sense of reality. South American writers do this pretty naturally. If you read Love In The Time Of Cholera, there’s a sense of magic and possibility in the ordinary experience. American writers maybe don’t do that as much; it tends to be more “What you see in the world is what you get.”

The three of us have always felt more like human perception is limited and our understanding of things is limited, and there is an unseen and unknowable that’s fascinating to talk about. Whether you’re using an alternate reality, another world or time travel, these are all just lenses for looking at the world around us a bit differently. We’re trying to open up a sense of possibilities for magic within the mundane maybe.

Well, you can’t get more mundane than the motel bathtub where Maggie first appears.

Well, there’s a bathtub in everyone’s house. I was just in a hotel room the other day and I was, like, looking at the bathtub and thinking, “Maybe I’m just not using the bathtub properly.” That’s the kind of thought that you want people to have.

Breaking Boyd Director explores his childhood obsession with a local robber By PHIL BROWN EDWIN BOYD: CITIZEN GANGSTER

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written and directed by Nathan Morlando, with Scott Speedman, Kelly Reilly, Kevin Durand and Brian Cox. An eOne release. 105 minutes. Opens Friday (May 11). For venues and times, see Movies, page 70.

nathan morlando always knew his first film would be about the forgotten story of 50s Toronto bank robber Edwin Boyd. He just didn’t know how long it would take.

“I started work on the first draft in 1995 and I don’t even want to add up the years in between,” said the filmmaker last fall shortly after taking home the TIFF prize for best first Canadian feature.

Those 16 years (we did the math for him) are only a fraction of the time he spent dreaming about a project that dates back to his childhood fascination with his uncles’ stories about the Boyd gang.

As a film student, Morlando even managed to forge a relationship with the man himself.

“A professor of mine actually NORMAN WILNER knew someone who knew someone who had Eddie’s number, and we had phone conversations for many years,” says the director, who sports the black-rimmed glasses SOUND OF MY VOICE and gangly features of a (Zal Batmanglij) long-time movie geek.

Rating: NNNN “He could still turn on If you could meet someone from the near future, what that charm pretty easily, would you want to know? And would you be willing to and I was kind of in awe,” take that person at her word? he says. “But when I finally That’s the premise of Zal Batmanglij’s Sound Of My Voice, visited him, I saw a deeper side a slippery meditation on faith disguised as science fiction as well. I met [Boyd’s daughabout two hipster journalists (Christopher Denham, Nicole ter] Caroline and [wife] Doreen Vicius) determined to expose the mysterious Maggie (Brit at that point, and their pain Marling, who co-wrote the script with Batmanglij), who posed deeper questions.” claims to have returned from the year 2054 to ready “There was certainly regret a select few for the coming apocalypse. and sadness in his life.

But debunking Maggie grows more difficult Even though he had the more time they spend in her presence: is she turned it around and a master manipulator or a genuine prophet? redeemed himself, (In a remarkable performance, Marling you could sense the manages to suggest both possibilities.) loss he felt. His bank Like last year’s Another Earth, which also robbing had befeatured Marling as star and co-writer, come a kind of adSound Of My Voice is not a movie for people diction he couldn’t who like things spelled out. It’s an elusive escape. And balanshell game; every time we think we’ve cing any addiction glimpsed the truth, it pivots away from with family is imus. And once you adjust to that ambiguity, Writer/actor Brit Marling speaks up about possible.” philosophical Sound Of My Voice. things become a lot more interesting. NW Though Mor-

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lando’s movie is still an entertaining ride, the years of research and struggle gave him a more mature approach to the material that inevitably improved the final product.

“It definitely changed,” admits the director. “I decided to be as compassionate as possible toward each of the characters. They aren’t heroes or monsters; they just made bad choices.

I still wanted to show the thrill of the robberies to explain Eddie’s addiction and the excitement he caused in the public, but it was very important to see the tragic consequences of those choices. When a gun finally goes off, a police officer is killed, and there’s nothing romantic or heroic about that.”

After the critical acclaim for his debut film, setting up the next movie should be a little easier.

“I’m actually casting my next film about the birth of Somali piracy in a few weeks,” says Morlando. “The nice thing about your first film taking so long is that you have plenty of new scripts ready to go.”

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Rating: NNNN Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster gives the notorious Canuck criminal a film worthy of his legacy. Scott Speedman delivers an appropriately charismatic performance as the impoverished family man whose skill at robbing banks made him both a beloved national celebrity and public enemy number one. Nice guy; too bad these sorts of stories don’t have happy endings.

Nathan Morlando’s stylish directorial debut, winner of TIFF’s best Canadian first feature, is a giddy rush of entertainment with melancholic undertones, shot with an evocative newsreel aesthetic. The black-andwhite rear projection used in driving scenes works well.

The film captures the innocent spirit behind Boyd’s crime spree without shying away from the damage his exploits inflicted on his family. Canadian movies are rarely this slick and entertaining. Come to think of it, period crime movies rarely PB play so well.

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Bottle floats A BOTTLE IN THE GAZA SEA (Thierry Binisti). 99 minutes. Subtitled. Opens Friday (May 11). For venues and times, see Movies, page 70. Rating: NNN

Fresh from opening the Toronto Jewish Film Festival, Thierry Binisti’s A Bottle In The Gaza Sea is a well-meaning but rather insistently earnest plea for mutual understanding between Israelis and Palestinians, based on a youngadult novel by French author Valérie Zenatti.

After a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, Israeli teenager Tal (Agathe Bonitzer) wonders what would drive anyone to

Agathe Bonitzer uncorks a fine performance in A Bottle In The Gaza Sea.

strap on an explosives belt. She writes this question as a message in a bottle that her soldier brother throws into the sea.

Young Palestinian Naim (Mahmud Shalaby) finds the bottle and replies to the email address on the letter, 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, and Binisti offers the intriguing possibility that the common ground of the internet will do more to bridge cultural gaps between strangers than anything in the real world. But one gets the sense there should be more to the drama beyond just getting NORMAN WILNER along.

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Out classed CHINA HEAVYWEIGHT (Yung Chang). 89 minutes. Subtitled. Opens Friday (May 11). For venues and times, see Movies, page 70. Rating: NNN

Following the success of his 2007 documentary, Up The Yangtze, Yung Chang returns with another look at the changing culture of modern China. This one follows a few young men in central China who’ve been recruited by a boxing trainer in hopes of becoming champions.

Success would mean escaping their tiny villages and entering the larger world – though the odds are slim at best. But that possibility is enough to keep the recruits committed to their punishing training regimen. It’s like military boot camp, except that boxing rewards individuality rather than punishing it – which is why the sport was banned under Mao. The training sequences are appropriately gritty and gruelling.

But the basic underdog structure and material aren’t well suited to Chang’s moody, sensual aesthetic, which uses long takes and atmospheric music to build a contemplative space around everything he shoots. When China Heavyweight goes all Rocky in a climactic bout, it feels like it’s lurching to life for the Boxer Qi Moxiang packs a punch in first time. NORMAN WILNER

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Aksel Hennie and Nikolaj CosterWaldau are major stars in their native Norway.

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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, 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

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) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview

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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

THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (John Madden) is a middling, manipulative movie that’s saved by a first-rate cast.

Various British retirees get lured to a once glorious, now dilapidated Indian hotel for seniors run by a spirited but scattered manager (Slumdog Millionaire’s Dev Patel). Of course, not long after they check in, their late-in-life epiphanies begin. The fragile widow (Judi Dench) slowly gains self-confidence by working at a call centre, while the racist housekeeper (Maggie Smith) learns to get along with those nasty dark-skinned people. Tom 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 Bill 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 it needs to be.

124 min. NNN (GS) Coliseum Scarborough, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity BIG BOYS GONE BANANAS!* ñ NNNN

(Fredrik Gertten) 88 min. See review, page 66.

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ti) 99 min. See review, page 69. NNN (NW) Opens May 11 at Yonge & Dundas 24

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.

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CHIMPANZEE (Alastair Fothergill, Mark Lin-

field) 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 - Yonge, Interchange 30, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Yung Chang) 89 min. See review, page 69. NNN (NW) Opens May 11 at Varsity

Jason Segel and Emily Blunt get down in The Five-Year Engagement – not your typical rom-com.

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 ComicCon’s all-inclusive vibe. 88 min. nnn (NW) Carlton Cinema

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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 chronicling the interactions of wellspoken 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) Carlton Cinema, Grande - Yonge, Kingsway Theatre, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

dArk sHAdows (Tim Burton) 113 min. See interview and review, page 66. nn (NW) Opens May 11 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 dArling CompAnion (Lawrence Kasdan)

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. 98 min. nnnn (NW) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre

dEtACHmEnt (Tony Kaye) will divide audiences. Some will admire its style and commitment; others will find it hopelessly pre-

tentious Darren Aronofsky-lite. Adrien Brody plays Henry, a substitute teacher who’d rather move from classroom to classroom than make real connections. But women have no problem attaching themselves to him. A colleague (Christina Hendricks) appreciates his teaching gifts, an artistically inclined student falls in love with him, and the teenage street prostitute he shelters (Sami Gayle) literally moves in. His students are angry, and the teachers – including Lucy Liu, Blythe Danner and James Caan – are desperate. Henry could be a game changer, but a childhood trauma has ground down his sense of self. The film has a fiercely independent spirit – off-kilter dialogue, disturbing flashbacks, animated commentaries – and expresses real rage at a deteriorating public school system. I was riveted, even if the story does give out in the end. 97 min. nnn (SGC) Yonge & Dundas 24

tHE diCtAtor (Larry Charles) 84 min. See interview, page 67.

Opens May 16 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity

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(Morten Tyldum) is an energetic Norwegian cat-and-mouse thriller about a corporate recruiter who moonlights as an art thief (Aksel Hennie).

When his scheme goes wrong, our hero must go on the run – or at least that’s why he thinks he’s running. The story carries a streak of black comedy that nicely distinguishes it from those dour Stieg Larsson adaptations. Hennie makes a great antihero and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is charmingly casual as his psychotic pursuer. Director Tyldum keeps the plot twisting in a manner that feels both surprising and logical, but be warned: at least two speedily improvised escapes are decidedly not for the

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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,

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tHE HuntEr (Daniel Nettheim) is an ecofriendly quasi-western that’s constantly on the verge of getting interesting but never quite goes in for the kill. Willem Dafoe’s Martin is a stranger in the Australian wilderness, under contract to a cloak-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 continued on page 72 œ

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dr. sEuss’ tHE lorAx (Chris Renaud, Kyle

Balda) is the latest feature-length Dr. Seuss adaptation that transforms the masterful author’s succinct writing into souped-up CGI spectacle. Lovers of the book will find the added pop culture references and songs distracting, but the breezy comedy should please kids. Seuss won’t roll over in his grave – maybe just shudder slightly. 94 min. nnn (Phil Brown) Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga

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(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 Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Humber Cinema, Interchange 30, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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) Canada Square, 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) Interchange 30

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his cold demeanour. Director Nettheim shows a patient hand in developing Martin’s relationship with nature, and Dafoe, who can pretty much phone in a precise performance while using his hypnotic bone structure, logs many hours in the fogshrouded Tasmanian woods. But the film falls prey to clichés and predictability, following the plot points laid out by so many westerns without covering its tracks. 100 min. NN (RS) Carlton Cinema

sional fanatics and thugs who delight in thwarting her; Michelle Yeoh and David Thewlis carry themselves with great dignity as 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) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Grande Yonge, Varsity

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.

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Jiro dreaMs of sushi (David Gelb) is an

attractive if slightly undercooked documentary about sushi master Jiro Ono, who rose from humble Japanese roots to become the only sushi chef to receive a three-star restaurant rating in the Michelin Guide. 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 sticks out like a rogue grain of rice on an otherwise impeccable plate. 81 min. NNN (GS) TIFF Bell Lightbox

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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,

somber biopic about Nobel Peace Prizewinning 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-dimen-

(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-and-mouse game given additional zing with a nicely selfaware 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 off-thecuff 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) Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Scotiabank Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24

the Lucky oNe (Scott Hicks) is a soft ro-

mance 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) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Grande Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñMarveL’s the aveNgers

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ly due to director and co-writer Whedon, whose ability to render large, distinct casts of characters 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. And he’s the first filmmaker to crack the problem of the Hulk by remembering that Bruce Banner (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 Ruffalo and Robert Downey Jr., who have a 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. Honestly? I didn’t mind that either. Some subtitles. 143 min. NNNN (NW) 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

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high-def broadcast from the Met of the second installment of Robert Lepage’s new production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle, starring Bryn Terfel as Wotan and Deborah Voigt as Brünnhilde. 330 min.

May 12, 10 am, at Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yonge

the MetroPoLitaN oPera: MaNoN eNcore is a repeat broadcast in high def of

the Met’s production of the Massenet opera, starring soprano Anna Netrebko in the tragic title role. 248 min.

May 14, 6:30 pm, at Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga

Mirror Mirror (Tarsem Singh) is an all-

style, 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)

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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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ñMoNsieur Lazhar

(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, Regent Theatre

ñthe Pirates! baNd of Misfits

(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 Mis-

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(Andrés Livov-Macklin) 82 min. See review, page 77.

(NW) Opens May 11 at the Projection Booth. See Indie & Rep Film, page 77.

PLaNet yoga (Carlos Ferrand) offers a

thorough breakdown of the ancient discipline, but with the absence of any perspective, it will bore you into a whole other state of tranquility. Director/narrator Ferrand promises to explore whether yoga is a fad, sect or something more, yet the practice is never questioned. He interviews instructors, swamis and other folks who swear by its profound effect on their mind and body. 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 cannot be wrong.” A typically naive statement. 87 min. N (RS) 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) Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Scotiabank Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24 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 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

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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) Kingsway Theatre

a SeparatioN (Asghar Farhadi) is

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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) Carlton Cinema

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 SouNd of mY Voice ñ NNNN

(Zal Batmanglij) 84 min. See Q&A and review, page 68.

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tHiNk like a maN (Tim Story) is a slick bit

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, Interchange 30, 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

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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SalmoN fiSHiNg iN tHe YemeN (Lasse Hallström) is a light comedy about a stuffy salmon expert (Ewan McGregor) and a troubled administrator (Emily Blunt) drawn to one another while working to stock the river of a wealthy Yemeni sheik (Amr Waked) with Atlantic salmon. No, seriously.

112 min. NN (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Grande Yonge, Interchange 30, Kingsway Theatre tHe Salt of life (Gianni Di Gregorio) stars

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 Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

tHiS americaN life liVe! is a live broad-

cast of the famous NPR radio show featuring stories by Davis Sedaris, David Rakoff and host Ira Glass, comedy by Tig Notaro, a short film by Mike Birbiglia and more. 120 min.

May 10, 8 pm, at Coliseum Mississauga, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre

tHe tHree StoogeS (Peter Farrelly, Bobby

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) Canada Square, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñtiNker tailor Soldier SpY

(Tomas Alfredson) is a sleek, expertly acted adaptation of John le Carré’s thriller about a retired British intelligence operative on the hunt for a Soviet mole within MI-6. The remarkable cast includes Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Tom Hardy and the in-

valuable Benedict Cumberbatch. 127 min.

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ñtitaNic iN 3d

(James Cameron) is now in 3-D, and it still works brilliantly; it’s a grand-scale studio epic with the heart of a romance and the pulse of an action movie. It’s the only American film that rivals Gone With The Wind for both swoonery and production values. Yes, Cameron paints his story in broad strokes, and some of the dialogue is risible. But Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet sell the hell out of it – particularly Winslet, whose fiery, spirited performance is just as strong 15 years on. (The little moment where she almost psychs herself out of disrobing for that portrait remains the best thing she’s ever done.) The 3-D is, at best, unobtrusive; the image rarely blurs or strobes the way it does in certain other conversions with the word “Titan” in the title. But you’re not really going back to count Bernard Hill’s beard hairs, are you now? 195 min. NNNNN (NW) Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24

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ñ21 Jump Street

(Phil Lord, Christopher Miller) reboots the 80s television series, where young undercover cops pose as high school students. Thankfully it never takes its source material too seriously. The meta comedy is all tongue-in-cheek shenanigans that proudly lift a middle finger to the hoary clichés the film recycles. It’s not brilliant, but it damn sure is a lot of fun. 109 min. NNNN (RS) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview

WarriorS of tHe raiNboW: Seediq bale

(Wei Te-Sheng) is the largest production 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 2.5hour 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

WeSt WiNd: tHe ViSioN of tom tHom-

SoN (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, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24 3

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american reunion (14A) thu 4:05, 9:25 Bully (PG) thu 1:45, 3:55, 6:40, 9:05 mon-Wed 1:45, 7:15 The caBin in The Woods (18A) thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 9:30 Fri-mon, Wed 2:00, 4:30, 7:20, 9:30 tue 2:00, 4:30, 9:30 comic-con episode iV: a Fan’s hope (PG) thu 2:00, 7:15 damsels in disTress Fri-Wed 4:20, 9:20 The deep Blue sea (14A) thu 1:35 4:20 7:25 9:35 Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:10, 7:25, 9:40 The FiVe-year engagemenT (14A) thu 1:20 3:50 6:45 9:20 Fri-Wed 1:20, 3:50, 6:45, 9:15 The hunTer (14A) thu 4:10, 9:40 Keyhole (14A) thu 4:15, 9:15 mon-Wed 3:55, 9:35 The lady Fri-Wed 1:25, 6:40 The lucKy one (PG) thu 1:50, 7:10 monsieur lazhar (PG) thu 1:55 4:25 6:55 9:10 Fri-Wed 1:55, 4:25, 7:05, 9:05 The raVen (18A) thu 1:30, 4:00, 6:50, 9:45 Fri-Wed 4:15, 9:45 salmon Fishing in The yemen (PG) Fri-Wed 1:35, 4:05, 6:50, 9:10 a separaTion (14A) Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:00, 6:55, 9:25 21 Jump sTreeT (14A) thu 1:25, 7:05 Fri-Wed 1:40, 7:10

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edWin Boyd (14A) Fri-sun, tue-Wed 1:15, 3:45, 6:15, 9:00 mon 6:15, 9:00 Jiro dreams oF sushi (G) thu 1:30, 3:45, 6:15, 8:15 Fri 4:15, 6:00, 6:30, 8:30 sat 6:30, 7:30, 8:30, 9:30 sun, tueWed 2:00, 4:15, 6:30, 8:30 sound oF my Voice (14A) Fri-sun, tue-Wed 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:45, 9:45 mon 7:45, 9:45 WesT Wind: The Vision oF Tom Thomson thu 12:45, 3:30, 6:00, 8:30 Fri 3:00 sun, tue-Wed 12:45, 3:00

rainBoW market square (i) varsitY (ce) market square, 80 Front st e, 416-494-9371 The caBin in The Woods (18A) thu 1:05, 3:05, 5:05, 7:10 Fri 1:05, 3:05, 5:05, 7:10, 9:10, 11:10 sat-tue 1:05, 3:05, 5:05, 7:10, 9:10 darK shadoWs (14A) thu 10:00 Fri 1:30, 4:05, 6:55, 9:15, 11:20 sat-Wed 1:30, 4:05, 6:55, 9:15 The dicTaTor Wed 1:05, 3:05, 5:05, 7:10, 9:10 The FiVe-year engagemenT (14A) thu 3:30, 6:50, 9:25 Fri-Wed 12:55, 3:30, 6:50, 9:25 marVel’s The aVengers (PG) 12:45, 1:00, 3:45, 4:00, 6:45, 7:00, 9:45, 10:00 The piraTes! Band oF misFiTs (PG) thu 1:15, 3:15, 5:15, 7:15, 9:20 The piraTes! in an adVenTure WiTh scienTisTs (PG) 1:15, 3:15, 5:15, 7:15, 9:20 Fri 11:15 late The raVen (18A) thu 1:30, 4:05, 6:55, 9:15

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

american reunion (14A) thu 1:15, 4:10, 7:00, 9:45 Fri 2:15, 5:00, 8:15, 11:10 sat 11:40, 2:40, 5:30, 8:15, 11:10 sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:15, 10:15 mon 12:50, 3:30, 7:50 tue 12:50, 3:30, 7:20, 10:10 The BesT exoTic marigold hoTel (PG) Fri-sat 12:45, 4:00, 7:00, 10:05 sun 1:10, 4:10, 7:00, 10:00 mon-Wed 1:10, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50

55 Bloor st W, 416-961-6304

The BesT exoTic marigold hoTel (PG) thu 12:20 1:00 3:20 4:00 6:30 7:10 9:30 10:10 Fri-Wed 12:20, 1:00, 3:20, 4:00, 6:30, 7:00, 9:30, 10:10 china heaVyWeighT (G) Fri-sun 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:15 mon-Wed 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 damsels in disTress thu 12:05, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:00 darK shadoWs (14A) Fri-tue 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 Wed 12:50, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 darling companion (PG) thu 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:05 Fri-sun 12:25, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 mon 12:05, 2:40, 10:25 tue 12:05, 2:40, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25 The dicTaTor Wed 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:00 headhunTers thu, mon-Wed 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Fri-sun 12:15, 3:00, 5:30, 7:55, 10:25 The hunger games (14A) thu, tue 12:10, 3:30, 6:50, 10:05 Fri-sun 12:10, 3:30, 6:50, 10:00 mon, Wed 12:10, 3:30, 10:05 The lady thu 12:40, 3:40, 9:50 marVel’s The aVengers 3d (PG) thu, mon-Wed 12:30, 3:50, 7:00, 10:20 Fri-sun 12:30, 3:50, 7:10, 10:30

VIP SCREENINGS

The BesT exoTic marigold hoTel (PG) thu, mon-Wed 12:35, 3:25, 6:15, 9:25 Fri-sun 12:05, 2:35, 5:15, 7:55, 10:25 darK shadoWs (14A) Fri-sun 12:25, 2:55, 5:25, 8:05, 10:35 mon-Wed 12:05, 2:35, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15

darling companion (PG) thu 5:05, 7:25, 9:55 The hunger games (14A) 12:45, 3:55, 7:05, 10:05 marVel’s The aVengers (PG) 12:15, 3:15, 6:25, 9:45

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

a BoTTle in The gaza sea 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:05 sat-sun 12:10 mat Bully (PG) thu 1:30 4:30 7:00 9:35 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:00, 9:35 sat-sun 11:10 mat The caBin in The Woods (18A) thu 1:45, 2:45, 4:30, 5:15, 7:15, 7:45, 9:45, 10:15 Fri, mon-tue 1:45, 2:45, 4:30, 5:15, 7:15, 8:00, 9:45, 10:30 sat-sun 11:15, 12:15, 1:45, 2:45, 4:30, 5:15, 7:15, 8:00, 9:45, 10:30 Wed 1:45, 2:45, 4:30, 7:15, 9:45 chimpanzee (G) 1:55, 4:15, 6:30, 9:15 thu 3:15 mat, 5:30, 7:45, 10:15 sat-sun 11:25 mat damsels in disTress 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 10:00 sat-sun 11:40 mat deTachmenT thu 2:40 5:05 7:30 9:55 Fri-Wed 2:40, 5:05, 7:25, 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, 7:45, 9:00, 9:30, 10:00, 10:30 Fri, monWed 2:00, 3:00, 4:00, 5:00, 6:00, 6:50, 7:50, 9:00, 9:45, 10:30 sat-sun 11:00, 11:45, 12:45, 2:00, 3:00, 4:00, 5:00, 6:00, 6:50, 7:50, 9:00, 9:45, 10:30 helpless 1:40, 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 sat-sun 11:05 mat JannaT 2 (PG) 3:35, 6:50, 10:10 sat-sun 11:40 mat locKouT (14A) 1:35, 4:10, 6:40, 9:10 sat-sun 11:05 mat The lucKy one (PG) thu 2:50, 3:45, 5:30, 6:20, 8:05, 9:05, 10:30 Fri, mon-Wed 2:50, 5:30, 8:05, 10:25 sat-sun 12:05, 2:50, 5:30, 8:05, 10:25 The piraTes! Band oF misFiTs 3d (PG) thu 1:45, 2:30, 4:30, 5:15, 7:15, 8:00, 10:00, 10:25 Fri, mon-Wed 2:30, 5:15, 7:45, 10:05 sat-sun 12:05, 2:30, 5:15, 7:45, 10:05 The piraTes! Band oF misFiTs (PG) thu 3:45 6:30 9:15 Fri-Wed 3:45, 6:30, 8:50 sat-sun 11:00, 1:15 mat planeT yoga thu 2:20, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 The raid: redempTion (18A) 2:35, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 satsun 11:55 mat The raVen (18A) thu 1:45, 2:45, 4:45, 7:10, 9:40 Fri, monWed 1:45, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 sat-sun 11:10, 1:45, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Tezz (PG) thu 2:20, 5:30 ThinK liKe a man (PG) thu 2:45, 4:00, 6:15, 7:15, 8:30, 9:15, 10:15 Fri, mon-Wed 2:45, 4:00, 6:15, 7:15, 9:15, 10:30 sat-sun 11:45, 1:00, 2:45, 4:00, 6:15, 7:15, 9:15, 10:30 The Three sTooges (PG) thu 1:35, 3:50, 6:10 Fri, montue 1:35, 3:50, 6:10, 8:40 sat-sun 11:15, 1:35, 3:50, 6:10, 8:40 Wed 1:35 TiTanic 3d (PG) 4:15, 8:30 sat-sun 12:05 mat TiTanic: an imax 3d experience (PG) thu 5:15 9:30 Fri-Wed 5:15, 9:15 sat-sun 1:00 mat WraTh oF The TiTans 3d (14A) 1:45, 4:35, 7:15, 10:00 sat-sun 11:00 mat

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

american reunion (14A) thu 4:20, 7:00 Fri-sun 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 mon-Wed 4:00, 6:30 dr. seuss’ The lorax (G) thu 4:45 sat-sun 1:55 FooTnoTe (14A) Fri 4:40, 7:30, 9:45 sat-sun 2:10, 4:40, 7:30, 9:45 mon-Wed 4:40, 7:15 The lady 4:00, 6:50 Fri 9:40 sat-sun 1:15 mat, 9:40 The lucKy one (PG) thu 4:40, 7:15 Fri 4:50, 7:10, 9:25 satsun 2:00, 4:50, 7:10, 9:25 mon-Wed 4:50, 7:10 mirror mirror (PG) thu 4:00, 6:30 Fri 4:35, 7:20, 9:45 sat-sun 1:50, 4:35, 7:20, 9:45 mon-Wed 4:35, 7:05 The raVen (18A) thu 4:05, 6:35 salmon Fishing in The yemen (PG) thu 4:30, 7:05 Fri 4:10, 6:40, 9:10 sat-sun 1:30, 4:10, 6:40, 9:10 mon-Wed 4:10, 6:40 ThinK liKe a man (PG) thu 4:10, 6:50 Fri 4:05, 6:45, 9:30 sat-sun 1:20, 4:05, 6:45, 9:30 mon-Wed 4:05, 6:45 The Three sTooges (PG) thu 6:45 21 Jump sTreeT (14A) thu 4:35, 7:10 Fri 4:20, 7:00, 9:20 sat-sun 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:20 mon-Wed 4:20, 7:00

mt Pleasant (i)

675 mt Pleasant rD, 416-489-8484 The arTisT (PG) thu, sun, tue-Wed 7:00 Fri 9:25 sat 9:30 TinKer Tailor soldier spy (14A) Fri-sat 6:50 sun 4:15

Carrie MacLemore and Billy Magnussen get clever laughs in campus comedy Damsels In Distress.

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

The iron lady (PG) thu, sun 7:00 Fri-sat 8:55 monsieur lazhar (PG) Fri-sat, Wed 7:00 sun 4:30

silvercitY Yonge (ce) 2300 Yonge st, 416-544-1236

The caBin in The Woods (18A) thu 2:10, 4:40, 7:30, 9:50 Fri-sun 9:40 mon, Wed 9:20 tue 9:45 chimpanzee (G) thu 1:50, 4:00, 6:30 Fri, sun, tue 12:40, 2:50, 5:00 sat 5:00 mon 2:40, 4:45 darK shadoWs (14A) thu 10:00 Fri 12:00, 1:50, 2:40, 4:30, 5:20, 7:20, 8:00, 10:20, 10:50 sat 11:15, 12:00, 2:05, 2:40, 4:30, 5:20, 7:20, 8:00, 10:20, 10:50 sun 12:00, 1:50, 2:40, 4:30, 5:20, 7:20, 8:20, 10:10 mon 1:10, 1:50, 3:50, 4:30, 6:50, 7:20, 9:40, 10:10 tue 1:30, 2:10, 4:10, 4:50, 7:00, 7:40, 9:50, 10:30 Wed 1:50, 3:50, 4:30, 6:50, 7:20, 9:40, 10:10 The dicTaTor Wed 1:05, 3:15, 5:25, 7:40, 10:05 The FiVe-year engagemenT (14A) thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Fri-sat 1:20, 4:20, 7:30, 10:35 sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:30, 10:20 mon, Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 tue 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 The hunger games (14A) thu 3:15, 6:50, 10:05 Fri-sat 12:20, 3:30, 6:50, 10:10 sun 12:20, 3:30, 6:50, 9:55 mon, Wed 3:20, 6:40, 9:50 tue 12:30, 3:35, 6:50, 9:55 marVel’s The aVengers (PG) thu, mon 2:00, 5:30, 9:00

Fri-sun 12:00, 3:10, 6:40, 10:00 tue 3:10, 6:40, 10:00 Wed 4:10, 8:00 marVel’s The aVengers 3d (PG) thu 1:00, 3:30, 4:30, 7:00, 8:00, 10:15 Fri-sat 12:30, 1:00, 3:40, 4:10, 7:10, 7:40, 10:30, 11:00 sun, tue 12:30, 1:10, 3:40, 4:40, 7:10, 8:10, 10:30 mon 1:00, 3:00, 4:10, 7:00, 8:00, 10:15 Wed 2:00, 3:00, 5:30, 7:00, 9:00, 10:15 The meTropoliTan opera: die WalKüre encore sat 10:00 The piraTes! Band oF misFiTs 3d (PG) thu 4:20, 6:40, 9:10 Fri-sun 2:30, 4:45, 7:00 mon, Wed 4:00, 6:30 tue 3:00, 5:15, 7:30 The piraTes! Band oF misFiTs (PG) thu, mon, Wed 1:40 Fri-sun 12:10 tue 12:50 saFe (14A) thu 1:20, 3:45, 7:20, 9:50 Fri-sat 7:50, 10:40 sun-mon 7:40, 10:05 tue 7:50, 10:15

Metro

West end HumBer cinema (i) 2442 Bloor st. West, 416-232-1939

darK shadoWs (14A) Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:00, 7:00, 9:45 The FiVe-year engagemenT (14A) thu 1:30, 4:00, 7:00, 9:45 marVel’s The aVengers (PG) 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30

kingsWaY tHeatre (i) 3030 Bloor st W, 416-232-1939

damsels in disTress thu 8:55 The deep Blue sea (14A) Fri-Wed 3:00 mirror mirror (PG) sat-sun 11:30 monsieur lazhar (PG) 5:00 salmon Fishing in The yemen (PG) thu 1:00 7:00 FriWed 7:00, 8:55 The salT oF liFe thu 3:00 Fri-Wed 1:30

queensWaY (ce)

1025 tHe queensWaY, qeW & islington, 416-503-0424 american reunion (14A) thu 4:05, 7:00, 9:40 Fri-Wed 9:45

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The raven (18A) Thu 7:25, 10:05 saFe (14A) Thu 12:35, 3:00, 5:25, 7:55, 10:25 Fri 4:15, 6:50, 9:15, 11:40 Sat 11:25, 1:50, 4:15, 6:50, 9:15, 11:40 Sun 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:45, 10:15 Mon-Tue 2:40, 5:10, 7:45, 10:15 Wed 1:40, 5:10, 7:45, 10:15 a sTreeTcar naMed desire Wed 7:00 Think like a Man (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Fri 4:40, 7:35, 10:35 Sat 10:50, 1:40, 4:40, 7:35, 10:35 SunWed 1:35, 4:25, 7:15, 10:10 This aMerican liFe live! Thu 8:00 The Three sTooges (PG) Thu 2:30, 5:05 21 JuMp sTreeT (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:00, 9:55 Fri-Sat 5:00, 7:45, 10:25 Sun, Tue 1:20, 4:10, 7:05, 9:50 Mon 1:20, 4:10, 7:05 Wed 4:10, 9:50 WraTh oF The TiTans (14A) Thu 4:30, 9:50

RainboW Woodbine (i)

Woodbine CenTRe, 500 Rexdale blvd, 416-213-1998 dark shadoWs (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri-Wed 1:25, 4:10, 7:00, 9:45 The dicTaTor Wed 1:20, 3:45, 7:05, 9:25 The Five-Year engageMenT (14A) Thu 1:05 3:55 6:50 9:25 Fri-Wed 1:05, 3:55, 6:50, 9:20 Marvel’s The avengers (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:45, 6:40, 9:45 Fri-Wed 12:30, 12:45, 3:30, 3:45, 6:30, 6:45, 9:30, 9:45 The piraTes! Band oF MisFiTs (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00, 9:15 Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:15 The raven (18A) Thu 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) Thu 1:20, 3:45, 7:05 Fri-Tue 1:20, 3:45, 7:05, 9:25

east end beaCh CineMaS (aa) 1651 Queen ST e, 416-699-5971

The BesT exoTic Marigold hoTel (PG) Fri 1:15, 1:55, 4:10, 4:55, 7:05, 7:50, 10:05, 10:50 Sat 10:20, 10:55, 1:15, 1:55, 4:10, 4:55, 7:05, 7:50, 10:05, 10:50 Sun 12:15, 1:05, 3:10, 4:00, 6:20, 7:00, 9:15, 9:55 Mon-Wed 12:30, 1:05, 3:30, 4:00, 6:25, 7:00, 9:25, 9:55 The caBin in The Woods (18A) Thu 2:45, 5:15, 7:50, 10:15 Fri 5:55, 8:30, 11:10 Sat 3:35, 6:00, 8:30, 11:10 Sun, Tue 3:05, 5:35, 8:00, 10:25 Mon 3:05, 10:25 chicken run (PG) Sat 11:00 chiMpanzee (G) Thu 1:20, 3:30, 5:40, 7:45 Fri 3:25 Sat 11:10, 1:20 Sun-Tue 12:55 dark shadoWs (14A) Thu 10:10 Fri 1:50, 2:30, 4:35, 5:10, 7:25, 8:00, 10:15, 10:45 Sat 11:40, 1:45, 2:20, 4:35, 5:10, 7:25, 8:00, 10:15, 10:45 Sun-Tue 1:10, 1:50, 3:55, 4:35, 6:35, 7:20, 9:20, 10:05 Wed 1:10, 1:40, 3:55, 4:20, 6:35, 7:05, 9:20, 10:05 The dicTaTor Wed 1:25, 3:45, 6:00, 8:15, 10:30 dr. seuss’ The lorax (G) Thu 1:45 The Five-Year engageMenT (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:20, 10:15 Fri 2:20, 5:30, 8:25, 11:20 Sat 11:35, 2:30, 5:30, 8:25, 11:20 Sun-Tue 1:25, 4:30, 7:25, 10:20 Wed 4:30, 7:25, 10:20 The hunger gaMes (14A) Thu 12:35, 3:40, 6:45, 10:35 Fri 7:00, 10:10 Sat 12:25, 3:40, 7:00, 10:10 Sun 12:05, 3:15, 6:30, 9:40 Mon 3:15, 6:50, 9:50 Tue-Wed 3:15, 6:30, 9:40 The luckY one (PG) Thu 1:35, 4:10, 6:55, 9:25 Fri 4:45, 7:15, 9:50 Sat 11:45, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:50 Sun-Wed 1:45, 4:15, 6:55, 9:35 Marvel’s The avengers (PG) Thu 1:30, 3:20, 4:50, 6:40, 8:10, 10:00 Fri 12:00, 12:30, 2:50, 3:20, 3:50, 6:10, 6:40, 7:10, 9:30, 10:00, 10:30 Sat 11:30, 12:30, 2:50, 3:50, 6:10, 7:10, 9:30, 10:30 Sun-Tue 1:30, 2:50, 4:50, 6:10, 8:10, 9:30 Wed 1:30, 4:20, 4:50, 7:40, 8:10 Marvel’s The avengers 3d (PG) Thu 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 Fri 1:00, 1:30, 4:20, 4:50, 5:20, 7:40, 8:10, 8:40, 11:00, 11:30, 12:00 Sat 10:15, 10:40, 12:00, 1:00, 1:30, 2:00, 3:20, 4:20, 4:50, 5:20, 6:40, 7:40, 8:10, 8:40, 10:00, 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-Tue 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 Wed 12:30, 2:00, 2:50, 3:20, 3:50, 5:20, 6:10, 6:40, 7:10, 8:40, 9:30, 10:00, 10:25 The MeTropoliTan opera: die Walküre encore Sat 10:00 The MeTropoliTan opera: Manon encore Mon 6:30 Mirror Mirror (PG) Thu 1:55, 7:05 The piraTes! Band oF MisFiTs 3d (PG) Thu 2:40, 4:55, 7:15, 9:35 Fri 5:15, 7:30 Sat-Tue 3:00, 5:15, 7:30 Wed 3:10, 5:15, 7:30 The piraTes! Band oF MisFiTs (PG) Thu 12:30 Fri 3:00 Sat-Wed 12:50

dark shadoWs (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri, Tue 4:10, 7:00, 9:40 Sat-Sun 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:40 Mon, Wed 7:00, 9:40 The dicTaTor Wed 7:30, 9:50 The Five-Year engageMenT (14A) Thu-Fri, Tue 4:00, 7:20, 10:10 Sat-Sun 12:50, 4:00, 7:20, 10:10 Mon, Wed 7:20, 10:10 The hunger gaMes (14A) Thu 3:55, 6:55 Fri, Tue 3:40, 6:50, 9:50 Sat-Sun 12:40, 3:40, 6:50, 9:50 Mon 6:50, 9:50 Marvel’s The avengers (PG) Thu 4:45, 8:00 Fri, Tue 3:30, 6:40, 10:00 Sat-Sun 12:00, 3:30, 6:40, 10:00 Mon 6:40, 10:00 Wed 6:50, 10:00 Marvel’s The avengers 3d (PG) Thu 3:50, 7:00, 10:20 Fri, Tue 3:50, 7:10, 10:30 Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:50, 7:10, 10:30 Mon 7:10, 10:30 Wed 7:10, 10:20 The piraTes! Band oF MisFiTs 3d (PG) Thu 4:30, 6:40, 9:10 Fri, Tue 4:20, 6:30 Sat-Sun 2:20, 4:30, 6:55 Mon 6:30 Wed 6:40 The piraTes! Band oF MisFiTs (PG) Sat-Sun 12:10 saFe (14A) Thu 4:20, 7:10, 9:40 Fri, Mon-Tue 9:20 Sat-Sun 10:20 Wed 9:30

north York eMpiRe TheaTReS aT eMpReSS Walk (eT) 5095 Yonge ST, 416-223-9550

aMerican reunion (14A) 10:20 Thu 4:20, 7:20 The caBin in The Woods (18A) Thu 4:40, 7:45, 10:30 dark shadoWs (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri-Sun 1:15, 2:15, 4:00, 5:15, 6:45, 8:15, 9:45, 11:00 Mon, Wed 4:00, 5:15, 6:45, 8:15, 9:45 Tue 4:00, 5:15, 6:45, 8:15, 9:45, 11:00 dark shadoWs: The iMax experience (14A) Fri-Wed 4:30, 7:15 deTenTion (14A) Thu 10:05 The dicTaTor Wed 5:00, 5:45, 7:45, 8:30, 10:30 The hunger gaMes (14A) Thu 3:40, 6:45, 9:45 Fri-Tue 12:40, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 Marvel’s The avengers (PG) Thu 5:30, 8:45 Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 Mon-Tue 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 Wed 3:45, 7:00 Marvel’s The avengers 3d (PG) Thu 4:15, 4:45, 7:30, 8:00, 10:45, 11:15 Fri-Sun 1:00, 1:30, 2:00, 4:15, 4:45, 5:30, 7:30, 8:00, 8:45, 10:45, 11:15 Mon, Wed 4:15, 4:45, 5:30, 7:30, 8:00, 8:45, 10:45 Tue 4:15, 4:45, 5:30, 7:30, 8:00, 8:45, 10:45, 11:15 Marvel’s The avengers: an iMax 3d experience (PG) Thu 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 Fri-Sun 12:45, 10:00 Mon-Wed 10:00 saFe (14A) Thu 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:20 Mon-Tue 4:20, 7:20 Think like a Man (PG) Thu 4:00, 7:15, 10:00 Fri-Sun 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 21 JuMp sTreeT (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:40

gRande - Yonge (Ce) 4861 Yonge ST, 416-590-9974

The BesT exoTic Marigold hoTel (PG) 3:50, 4:45, 6:50, 7:30, 9:40, 10:15 Sat 12:40, 1:45 mat Sun 12:45, 1:45, 3:55 mat Sun only 12:45 1:45 3:55 4:45 6:50 7:30 9:40 10:15 BullY (PG) 7:05 Sat-Sun 1:20 mat chiMpanzee (G) Thu 4:20 6:50 9:00 Fri-Wed 4:20, 6:55, 9:00 Sat-Sun 2:00 mat daMsels in disTress Thu 4:25, 7:00, 9:45

The Five-Year engageMenT (14A) Thu 4:00 7:15 10:00 Fri-Wed 4:00, 7:20, 10:10 Sat-Sun 1:00 mat FooTnoTe (14A) Thu 4:15, 6:45 Fri, Tue-Wed 4:15, 6:45, 9:20 Sat 1:10, 4:15, 6:45, 9:20 Sun 6:45, 9:20 Mon 3:55, 7:15 The ladY Thu 4:10, 9:55 Fri-Sat, Tue-Wed 4:10, 7:15, 10:15 Sun 7:15, 10:15 Mon 4:10, 10:15 The luckY one (PG) Thu 4:45, 7:25, 9:40 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:25, 7:00, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:50, 4:25, 7:00, 10:00 The MeTropoliTan opera: die Walküre encore Sat 10:00 The MeTropoliTan opera: Manon encore Mon 6:30 The piraTes! Band oF MisFiTs 3d (PG) 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, 9:50 Fri-Wed 4:30, 9:50 salMon Fishing in The YeMen (PG) Fri, Mon-Tue 4:05, 6:40, 9:15 Sat-Sun 1:15, 4:05, 6:40, 9:15 Wed 9:15 This aMerican liFe live! Thu 8:00

SilveRCiTY FaiRvieW (Ce)

FaiRvieW Mall, 1800 SheppaRd ave e, 416-644-7746 aMerican reunion (14A) Thu 10:05 chicken run (PG) Sat 11:00 dark shadoWs (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri-Sat 11:50, 2:30, 5:15, 8:00, 10:40 Sun 1:40, 4:50, 7:35, 10:20 Mon 1:30, 4:50, 7:35, 10:15 Tue 1:30, 4:50, 7:45, 10:30 Wed 1:00, 4:50, 7:35, 10:15 The dicTaTor Wed 12:45, 3:00, 5:25, 7:45, 10:10 The Five-Year engageMenT (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:25 Fri-Sat 1:20, 4:30, 7:30, 10:25 Sun 12:50, 4:10, 7:05, 10:00 Mon-Wed 1:10, 4:20, 7:20, 10:25 The hunger gaMes (14A) Thu 12:40, 3:55, 7:05, 10:20 Fri-Sat 12:50, 4:00, 7:20, 10:35 Sun 12:20, 3:40, 6:55, 10:05 Mon-Wed 12:30, 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 The luckY one (PG) Thu 1:55, 4:40, 7:25 Fri-Sat 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20 Sun 2:10, 4:40, 7:15, 9:45 Mon-Tue 1:50, 4:40, 7:15, 9:45 Marvel’s The avengers (PG) Thu 2:15, 5:30, 9:00 FriSat 12:15, 3:35, 6:55, 10:15 Sun 12:00, 3:20, 6:40, 9:50 Mon, Wed 3:20, 6:40, 9:50 Tue 12:15, 3:25, 6:40, 9:50 Marvel’s The avengers 3d (PG) Thu 12:30, 1:30, 3:50, 4:45, 7:10, 8:00, 10:30 Fri-Sat 12:45, 1:15, 4:05, 4:35, 7:25, 7:55, 10:45, 11:15 Sun 12:30, 1:20, 3:50, 4:30, 7:10, 8:00, 10:30 Mon, Wed 12:40, 1:20, 3:50, 4:30, 7:10, 8:00, 10:20 Tue 12:40, 1:05, 3:50, 4:15, 7:10, 7:30, 10:20, 10:45 The piraTes! Band oF MisFiTs 3d (PG) Thu 4:25, 6:50, 9:10 Fri-Sat 3:00, 5:30, 7:50 Sun 3:00, 5:20, 7:40 MonWed 3:15, 5:30, 7:50 The piraTes! Band oF MisFiTs (PG) Thu 2:00 Fri-Sun 12:40 Mon-Tue 1:00 The raven (18A) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:15 Fri-Sat 10:10 Sun 9:55 Mon-Wed 10:05 a sTreeTcar naMed desire Wed 7:00 21 JuMp sTreeT (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Fri-Sat 12:05, 2:45, 5:25, 8:10, 11:00 Sun 1:45, 4:45, 7:30, 10:10 Mon 1:30, 4:10, 7:05, 9:55 Tue 1:55, 4:45, 7:25, 10:10 Wed 1:30, 4:10, 9:55

Turn Me On Goddammit!

A humorous, bittersweet and tender tale of teen angst and budding sexuality set among the mountains and fjords of Norway. Alma, a teenage girl from a small-town has an active imagination and an over active libido. After a titillating but awkward encounter with school heartthrob Artur turns her into a social outcast, her world is turned upside down. She desperately wants to get out of town and on with her life.

Opens May 18.

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SilveRCiTY YoRkdale (Ce) 3401 duFFeRin ST, 416-787-4432

The caBin in The Woods (18A) Thu 7:30 Fri-Sat 10:45 Sun-Wed 10:30 chicken run (PG) Sat 11:00 chiMpanzee (G) Thu 12:50, 3:10 dark shadoWs (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri 2:20, 5:10, 8:00, 10:50 Sat 11:30, 2:20, 5:10, 8:00, 10:50 Sun-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:25, 10:15 The dicTaTor Wed 12:55, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 The Five-Year engageMenT (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:10, 7:05, 10:10 Fri 2:15, 5:10, 8:05, 11:00 Sat 11:20, 2:15, 5:10, 8:05, 11:00 Sun-Wed 1:00, 4:05, 7:05, 10:10 The hunger gaMes (14A) Thu 12:35, 3:45, 6:50, 10:00 Fri-Sun 12:10, 3:20, 7:00, 10:20 Mon-Tue 3:20, 7:00, 10:20 The luckY one (PG) Thu 2:20, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 Fri-Sat 12:15, 2:50, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40 Sun 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:35, 10:05 Mon-Wed 2:30, 5:00, 7:35, 10:05 Marvel’s The avengers (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 2:45, 6:15, 9:30 Fri-Sun 12:00, 3:20, 6:40, 10:00 Marvel’s The avengers 3d (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 12:30, 1:30, 3:50, 4:45, 7:10, 8:00, 10:30 Fri-Sat 12:30, 1:00, 3:50, 4:20, 7:10, 7:40, 10:30, 11:00 Sun 12:30, 1:15, 3:50, 4:40, 7:10, 8:10, 10:30 The piraTes! Band oF MisFiTs 3d (PG) Thu 2:45, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 Fri-Sat 3:35, 6:00, 8:20 Sun-Wed 3:10, 5:40, 8:10 The piraTes! Band oF MisFiTs (PG) Thu 12:30 Fri-Sat 1:10 Sun-Wed 12:40 saFe (14A) Thu 12:40, 3:05, 5:35, 8:00, 10:25 Fri-Sun 12:10, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:10 Mon-Wed 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:10 Think like a Man (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:15, 7:20, 10:15 Fri 1:50, 4:55, 7:50, 10:55 Sat-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:25 The Three sTooges (PG) Thu 5:15

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8:00, 10:35 Mon, Wed 4:45, 7:30, 10:05 Tue 2:40, 5:15, 8:00, 10:40 THE DICTATOR Wed 3:50, 6:00, 8:05, 10:25 THE FIVE-YEAR ENGAGEMENT (14A) Thu 4:10, 7:00, 9:45 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 Mon, Wed 4:00, 7:00, 10:10 Tue 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 THE HUNGER GAMES (14A) Thu 3:25, 6:55, 9:55 Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:30, 6:55, 9:55 Mon, Wed 3:30, 6:40, 9:45 Tue 3:30, 6:55, 9:55 MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS (PG) Thu 3:35, 5:25, 6:45, 8:40, 10:00 Fri 12:35, 2:50, 3:40, 5:00, 6:20, 7:05, 9:30, 10:20 Sat-Sun 12:20, 2:50, 3:40, 5:00, 6:20, 7:05, 9:30, 10:20 Mon, Wed 3:40, 5:15, 6:50, 8:30, 10:00 Tue 2:50, 3:40, 5:00, 6:20, 7:05, 9:30, 10:20 MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS 3D (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:15, 7:15, 9:30, 10:25 Fri 1:00, 3:15, 4:05, 6:45, 7:25, 10:00, 10:40, 10:55 Sat 12:00, 12:45, 3:15, 4:05, 6:45, 7:25, 10:00, 10:40, 10:55 Sun 12:00, 12:45, 3:15, 4:05, 6:45, 7:25, 10:00, 10:35 Mon 4:10, 6:15, 7:15, 9:20, 10:25 Tue 3:15, 4:05, 6:45, 7:25, 10:00, 10:35, 10:50 Wed 4:10, 6:15, 7:15, 9:20, 10:20 THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS 3D (PG) Thu 4:20, 6:35, 9:00 Fri 4:25, 6:35, 8:45 Sat-Sun 2:15, 4:25, 6:35, 8:45 Mon, Wed 4:20, 6:30, 8:45 Tue 4:25, 6:35, 8:40 THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS (PG) Fri 2:15 Sat-Sun 12:10 THE RAVEN (18A) Thu 10:30 SAFE (14A) Thu 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:20 Fri-Sat 1:15, 3:50, 6:05, 8:25, 10:50 Sun 1:15, 3:50, 6:05, 8:25, 10:40 Mon, Wed 3:30, 5:45, 8:15, 10:30 Tue 3:50, 6:05, 8:25, 10:45 THINK LIKE A MAN (PG) Thu 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Fri-Sat 1:45, 4:45, 7:40, 10:35 Sun 1:45, 4:45, 7:40, 10:30 Mon, Wed 4:30, 7:40, 10:20 Tue 4:45, 7:40, 10:30

COLISEUM SCARBOROUGH (CE) SCARBOROUGH TOWN CENTRE, 416-290-5217

AMERICAN REUNION (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:40, 7:45, 10:30 Fri 2:10, 5:00, 8:00, 10:45 Sat 2:20, 5:00, 8:00, 10:45 Sun-Tue 1:15, 4:15, 7:05, 9:55 THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (PG) 1:00, 1:30, 4:00, 4:30, 7:00, 7:30, 10:00, 10:30 Sat 10:30 mat THE CABIN IN THE WOODS (18A) Thu 12:55, 3:15, 5:40, 8:10, 10:45 Fri 12:55, 3:15, 5:40, 8:15, 10:45 Sat 12:00, 5:40, 8:15, 10:45 Sun-Wed 2:10, 4:50, 7:40, 10:15 CHICKEN RUN (PG) Sat 11:00 CHIMPANZEE (G) Thu 1:00, 3:10, 5:25, 7:50, 10:00 THE DICTATOR Wed 2:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:20 THE FIVE-YEAR ENGAGEMENT (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:45 Fri-Sat 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:35 Sun-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:25 THE HUNGER GAMES (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:55, 7:05, 10:35 Fri 12:50, 3:55, 7:05, 10:25 Sat 12:00, 3:55, 7:05, 10:25 SunWed 1:00, 4:05, 7:15, 10:30 THE LUCKY ONE (PG) Thu 2:15, 5:15, 8:00, 10:25 Fri-Sat 2:15, 5:15, 8:00, 10:35 Sun-Wed 2:05, 4:45, 7:25, 10:05 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: DIE WALKÜRE ENCORE Sat 10:00 THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS 3D (PG) Thu-Fri 3:00, 5:15, 7:40, 9:55 Sat 1:25, 3:45, 6:00, 8:20, 10:30 Sun-Wed 4:00, 7:00, 9:25 THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS (PG) Thu-Fri 12:45 Sat 11:05 Sun-Wed 1:25 SAFE (14A) Thu-Fri 12:50, 3:10, 5:35, 8:10, 10:40 Sat 12:30, 3:10, 5:35, 8:10, 10:40 Sun-Wed 2:45, 5:20, 7:50, 10:25 THINK LIKE A MAN (PG) Thu-Sat 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:40 Sun-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:20 TITANIC 3D (PG) Thu 12:45, 5:00, 9:15 Fri 12:55, 5:10, 9:25 Sat 1:05, 5:10, 9:25 Sun-Wed 1:05, 5:15, 9:20 21 JUMP STREET (14A) Thu 1:55, 4:55, 7:55, 10:35

EGLINTON TOWN CENTRE (CE) 1901 EGLINTON AVE E, 416-752-4494

THE CABIN IN THE WOODS (18A) Thu 5:10, 7:35, 10:00 Fri 7:00, 9:30 Sat 7:05, 9:35 Sun 7:05, 9:30 Mon 9:00 Tue 8:05, 10:30 Wed 10:15 CHICKEN RUN (PG) Sat 11:00 CHIMPANZEE (G) Thu 5:00, 7:15 Fri 12:20, 2:30, 4:45 Sat 12:20, 2:35, 4:50 Sun 12:20, 2:35, 4:55 Mon 4:00 Tue 3:40, 5:50 Wed 4:40 DARK SHADOWS (14A) Thu 10:10 Fri 12:15, 2:30, 3:00, 5:15, 5:50, 8:00, 8:40, 10:45, 11:30 Sat 12:15, 1:50, 3:00, 4:40, 5:50, 7:30, 8:40, 10:15, 11:30 Sun 12:15, 2:00, 3:00, 4:50, 5:45, 7:40, 8:30, 10:30 Mon, Wed 4:50, 5:30, 7:40, 8:15, 10:30 Tue 4:00, 5:10, 6:45, 8:00, 9:30, 10:50 THE DICTATOR Wed 5:50, 8:00, 10:20 THE FIVE-YEAR ENGAGEMENT (14A) Thu 4:20, 7:25, 10:25 Fri-Sat 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:50 Sun 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Mon, Wed 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Tue 4:50, 7:50, 10:50 THE HUNGER GAMES (14A) Thu 3:45, 7:00, 10:05 Fri-Sat 12:50, 4:00, 7:15, 10:30 Sun 12:30, 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 MonTue 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 Wed 3:45, 7:05, 10:20

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MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS (PG) Thu 6:10, 6:40, 9:30, 10:00 Fri, Sun 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 Mon 5:30, 6:10, 8:45, 9:30 Tue 3:30, 6:10, 6:45, 9:30, 10:10 Wed 3:50, 6:10, 7:05, 9:30, 10:10 MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS 3D (PG) Thu 3:40, 4:20, 4:45, 7:10, 7:40, 8:00, 10:30 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, 3:50, 4:50, 5:50, 7:10, 8:10, 9:10, 10:30 Mon, Wed 3:50, 4:45, 6:40, 7:10, 8:00, 10:00, 10:30 Tue 3:50, 4:25, 4:45, 7:10, 7:40, 8:00, 10:30, 11:00 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: MANON ENCORE Mon 6:30 MIRROR MIRROR (PG) Thu 4:40, 7:15 Fri-Sat 12:10, 2:45, 5:20, 7:55 Sun 2:15, 4:55, 7:30 Mon, Wed 5:00, 7:35 Tue 4:55, 7:30 THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS 3D (PG) Thu 4:45, 7:05, 9:30 Fri 2:20, 4:45, 7:10 Sat 2:25, 4:50, 7:15 Sun 2:20, 4:45, 7:15 Mon, Wed 5:00, 7:25 Tue 4:45, 7:15 THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS (PG) Fri, Sun 12:00 Sat 11:10, 12:00 THE RAVEN (18A) Thu 4:40, 7:25 Fri-Sun, Tue 9:40 Mon 9:50 Wed 9:55 SAFE (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:30, 10:05 Fri-Sat 1:00, 3:30, 6:00, 8:30, 11:00 Sun 12:05, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Mon, Wed 5:05, 7:40, 10:05 Tue 5:45, 8:15, 10:45 A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE Wed 7:00 THINK LIKE A MAN (PG) Thu, Mon 4:25, 7:20, 10:15 Fri 2:35, 5:30, 8:25, 11:20 Sat 11:40, 2:35, 5:30, 8:25, 11:20 Sun 1:30, 4:25, 7:20, 10:15 Tue 5:10, 8:05, 11:00 Wed 4:25, 7:20, 10:25 THIS AMERICAN LIFE LIVE! Thu 8:00 THE THREE STOOGES (PG) Thu 4:30 Fri-Sat 12:40, 3:00, 5:20 Sun 12:40, 3:00, 5:25 Mon 4:00 Tue 3:30, 5:50 21 JUMP STREET (14A) Thu 10:30 Fri-Sat 7:40, 10:20 Sun 7:45, 10:25 Mon 6:20 Tue 8:10, 10:55 WRATH OF THE TITANS (14A) Thu 9:55 Fri-Sat 10:35 Sun, Tue-Wed 10:05 Mon 10:10

KENNEDY COMMONS 20 (AMC) KENNEDY RD & 401, 416-335-5323

THE ARTIST (PG) 4:05, 6:35, 9:05 Fri-Sun 11:05, 1:40 mat DARK SHADOWS (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri-Sun 11:45, 12:45, 1:45, 2:45, 3:45, 4:45, 5:45, 6:45, 7:45, 8:45, 9:45, 10:25 Mon-Wed 2:45, 3:45, 4:45, 5:45, 6:45, 7:45, 8:45, 9:45, 10:25 DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX (G) Thu 2:00, 4:25, 6:50, 9:10 FriSun 11:35, 2:00, 4:25 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:25 HOUSEFULL 2 (PG) Thu 3:00, 6:15, 9:35 Fri-Wed 6:40, 9:50 JANNAT 2 (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Fri-Sun 10:30, 1:25, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 LOCKOUT (14A) Thu 3:20, 5:45, 8:05, 10:25 MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS (PG) Thu 2:40, 6:00, 9:00 FriSun 11:45, 1:00, 3:00, 4:00, 6:00, 7:00, 9:00, 10:00 MonWed 3:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:00, 10:00 MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS 3D (PG) Thu 2:20, 3:40, 4:15, 4:45, 5:30, 7:00, 7:40, 8:45, 10:00, 10:30 Fri-Sun 10:30, 11:00, 12:30, 1:30, 2:00, 3:30, 4:30, 5:00, 6:30, 7:30, 8:00, 9:30, 10:30 Mon-Wed 2:00, 3:30, 4:30, 5:00, 6:30, 7:30, 8:00, 9:30, 10:30 MIRROR MIRROR (PG) 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Fri-Sun 11:40 mat THE RAID: REDEMPTION (18A) 2:10, 4:45, 7:45, 10:10 FriSun 11:50 mat THE RAVEN (18A) Thu 3:00, 4:00, 5:30, 6:30, 8:00, 9:00, 10:30 Fri-Sun 11:00, 1:30, 4:10, 6:45, 9:25 Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:45, 9:25 SAFE HOUSE (14A) 4:00, 7:00, 9:45 Fri-Sun 10:40, 1:20 mat A SIMPLE LIFE (14A) 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25 Fri-Sun 11:30 mat TEZZ (PG) Thu 3:40, 6:50, 10:15 Fri-Sun 10:35, 1:35, 4:35, 7:35, 10:30 Mon-Wed 4:35, 7:35, 10:30 THE THREE STOOGES (PG) 2:15, 4:30, 7:05, 9:20 Fri-Sun 11:50 mat 21 JUMP STREET (14A) 3:50, 6:25, 9:15 Fri-Sun 10:45, 1:15 mat VICKY DONOR (PG) Thu 2:05, 5:25, 9:15 Fri-Sun 12:15, 3:40, 7:05, 10:15 Mon-Wed 3:40, 7:05, 10:15 WRATH OF THE TITANS (14A) Thu 3:45, 6:15

WOODSIDE CINEMAS (I) 1571 SANDHURST CIRCLE, 416-299-3456

GABBAR SINGH Fri 9:30 Sun 4:00, 7:00 HOUSEFULL 2 (PG) Thu 6:45, 9:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:00 Sat 1:30, 7:15 Sun 6:30 TEZZ (PG) Thu 7:00, 9:30 Fri 4:15 Sat 4:15, 9:45 Sun 1:30, 4:15, 9:30 Mon-Wed 7:00 VAZHAKKU ENN 18/9 Thu 7:00, 10:00 Fri-Sat 4:30, 7:15, 10:15 Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:15, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:15, 7:15

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COLISEUM MISSISSAUGA (CE) SQUARE ONE, 309 RATHBURN RD W, 905-275-3456 AMERICAN REUNION (14A) Thu 2:20, 4:45, 7:20

The Dictator

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nowtoronto.com/movies THE CABIN IN THE WOODS (18A) Thu 2:55, 5:20, 8:00 CHICKEN RUN (PG) Sat 11:00 DARK SHADOWS (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri-Sat 11:20, 12:00, 2:00, 2:40, 4:40, 5:20, 7:30, 8:00, 10:15, 10:50 Sun-Tue 12:50, 1:40, 3:30, 4:20, 6:30, 7:00, 9:10, 9:40 Wed 1:40, 3:30, 4:20, 6:30, 7:00, 9:10, 9:40 DARK SHADOWS: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (14A) 5:00, 7:30 Fri 11:00 mat Sat-Sun 11:30 mat THE DICTATOR Wed 1:50, 4:00, 6:10, 8:20, 10:30 DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX 3D (G) Thu 1:40, 4:00 THE HUNGER GAMES (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:45, 7:00, 10:20 Fri-Sat 12:40, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20 Sun 12:40, 4:00, 7:10, 10:15 Mon-Tue 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 10:15 Wed 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20 MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS (PG) Thu 1:45, 2:30, 5:10, 5:50, 8:30, 9:15 Fri 11:45, 1:30, 3:20, 4:50, 6:30, 8:10, 10:00, 11:30 Sat 10:10, 11:45, 1:30, 3:20, 4:50, 6:30, 8:10, 10:00, 11:30 Sun 11:40, 1:30, 2:50, 5:10, 6:10, 8:30, 9:30 Mon-Tue 1:30, 2:50, 5:10, 6:10, 8:30, 9:30 Wed 1:30, 3:00, 5:10, 6:10, 8:30, 9:30 MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS 3D (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:20, 4:20, 6:40, 7:40, 10:00 Fri-Sat 12:30, 1:00, 3:50, 4:20, 7:10, 7:40, 10:30, 11:00 Sun 12:20, 1:00, 3:40, 4:20, 6:50, 7:40, 10:00, 10:50 Mon 1:00, 3:40, 4:30, 6:50, 7:40, 10:00 Tue 1:00, 3:40, 4:20, 6:50, 7:40, 10:00, 10:50 Wed 3:40, 4:20, 6:50, 7:40, 10:00 MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 12:45, 4:00, 7:15, 10:30 Fri-Wed 2:00, 10:15 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: DIE WALKÜRE ENCORE Sat 10:00 SAFE (14A) Thu 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40 Fri 12:50, 3:10, 5:50, 8:20, 10:40 Sat 3:10, 5:50, 8:20, 10:40 Sun-Tue 1:50, 4:15, 6:45, 9:20 A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE Wed 7:00 THINK LIKE A MAN (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Sat 12:10, 2:50, 5:40, 8:30, 11:20 Sun-Wed 1:20, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05 THIS AMERICAN LIFE LIVE! Thu 8:00 TITANIC 3D (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:50, 8:40 Fri-Sat 11:30, 3:30, 7:20 Sun 12:00, 3:50, 8:00 Mon 12:55, 4:50, 9:00 Tue-Wed 12:40, 4:50, 9:00 21 JUMP STREET (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Fri-Sat 1:10, 3:45, 6:15, 8:50, 11:40 Sun-Tue 2:10, 4:40, 7:15, 9:45 Wed 2:10, 4:40, 9:45 WRATH OF THE TITANS 3D (14A) Thu 10:10

COURTNEY PARK 16 (AMC)

110 COURTNEY PARK E AT HURONTARIO, 888-262-4386 AMERICAN REUNION (14A) Thu 7:55, 10:30 Fri-Tue 4:35, 7:55, 10:35 THE CABIN IN THE WOODS (18A) Thu 3:10, 5:35, 8:05, 10:35 CHIMPANZEE (G) Thu 1:10, 2:55, 5:00 DARK SHADOWS (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri-Sat 10:15, 10:45, 11:45, 12:45, 1:15, 2:15, 3:15, 3:45, 5:00, 5:45, 6:15, 7:30, 8:15, 8:45, 10:00, 11:00, 11:30 Sun 10:15, 10:45, 11:45, 12:45, 1:15, 2:15, 3:15, 3:45, 5:00, 5:45, 6:15, 7:30, 8:15, 8:45, 10:00, 11:00 Mon-Wed 1:15, 2:15, 3:15, 3:45, 5:00, 5:45, 6:15, 7:30, 8:15, 8:45, 10:00, 11:00 DARK SHADOWS: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (14A) Fri-Wed 1:45, 10:30 THE DICTATOR Wed 1:40, 2:40, 3:50, 5:05, 6:00, 7:15, 8:30, 9:45, 10:45 THE FIVE-YEAR ENGAGEMENT (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:45, 7:35,

10:20 Fri-Sun 11:15, 2:00, 4:40, 7:35, 10:15 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:35, 10:15 THE HUNGER GAMES (14A) 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 10:25 Fri-Sun 10:25 mat THE LUCKY ONE (PG) Thu 3:20, 5:40, 7:55, 10:20 Fri-Sun 10:45, 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 7:50, 10:20 Mon-Wed 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 7:50, 10:20 MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS (PG) 1:00, 3:30, 4:00, 6:30, 7:00, 9:30, 10:00 Fri-Sun 10:00, 12:30 mat MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS 3D (PG) 2:00, 2:30, 3:00, 5:00, 5:30, 6:00, 8:00, 8:30, 9:00, 11:00 Fri-Sat 11:00, 11:30, 12:00 mat, 11:30 late Sun 11:00, 11:30, 12:00 mat MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Fri-Sun 10:30, 4:30, 7:30 MonWed 4:30, 7:30 MIRROR MIRROR (PG) Thu 3:00 THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS 3D (PG) Thu 4:30, 8:50, 11:00 THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS (PG) Thu 2:20, 6:40 FriSun 10:00, 12:10, 2:20 Mon-Tue 2:20 THE RAVEN (18A) Thu 5:50, 8:15, 10:45 SAFE (14A) Thu 1:05, 3:30, 5:55, 8:15, 10:45 Fri-Sun 10:30, 1:05, 3:25, 5:55, 8:20, 10:45 Mon-Wed 1:05, 3:25, 5:55, 8:20, 10:45 THINK LIKE A MAN (PG) 2:05, 4:45, 7:40, 10:25 Fri-Sat 11:20 mat 21 JUMP STREET (14A) Thu 1:10, 3:30, 6:00, 8:25, 11:00 Fri-Sun 10:25, 1:10, 3:35, 6:05, 8:25, 11:00 Mon-Tue 1:10, 3:35, 6:05, 8:25, 11:00

SILVERCITY MISSISSAUGA (CE) HWY 5, EAST OF HWY 403, 905-569-3373

THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (PG) Fri-Sat 1:20, 1:50, 4:10, 4:40, 7:00, 7:35, 9:50, 10:25 Sun 1:05, 1:35, 3:55, 4:25, 6:55, 7:25, 9:45, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:00, 4:25, 6:45, 7:10, 9:35, 10:00 CHIMPANZEE (G) Thu 5:00, 7:30, 9:40 Fri-Sat 1:25, 3:25, 5:30, 7:55, 10:00 Sun 1:25, 3:25, 5:30, 7:35, 9:40 Mon 4:55, 7:25, 9:30 Tue-Wed 5:10, 7:25, 9:30 DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX 3D (G) Thu 4:25, 6:35 THE FIVE-YEAR ENGAGEMENT (14A) Thu 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Sat 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:15, 7:00, 9:55 THE LUCKY ONE (PG) Thu 5:10, 7:35, 10:00 Fri-Sat 2:10, 4:45, 7:15, 9:55 Sun 2:10, 4:40, 7:30, 9:55 Mon 4:45, 7:20, 9:45 Tue-Wed 4:40, 7:20, 9:45 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: MANON ENCORE Mon 6:30 MIRROR MIRROR (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 4:05, 6:40, 9:25 Fri-Sat 1:45, 4:20, 7:20, 10:05 Sun 1:20, 4:00, 6:45, 9:35 Mon 4:00, 9:25 THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS 3D (PG) Thu 4:50, 7:05, 9:35 Fri-Sun 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:35, 6:50, 9:15 THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS (PG) Fri-Sun 1:10 THE RAVEN (18A) Thu 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 THINK LIKE A MAN (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 Fri-Sat 1:35, 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 Sun 1:35, 4:20, 7:10, 10:05 Mon 4:10, 7:05, 9:50 Tue-Wed 4:20, 7:05, 9:50 THE THREE STOOGES (PG) Thu 4:35, 6:50, 9:20 Fri-Sat 1:00, 3:15, 5:40, 8:10, 10:30 Sun 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:00 Mon 4:30, 6:55 Tue-Wed 5:20, 7:35, 10:00 TITANIC 3D (PG) Thu 4:00, 8:00 Fri-Sun 1:05, 5:00, 9:00 Mon-Wed 5:00, 9:00 WRATH OF THE TITANS 3D (14A) Thu 9:10

North COLOSSUS (CE) HWY 400 & 7, 905-851-1001

AMERICAN REUNION (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Fri-Sat 11:35, 2:25, 5:20, 8:05, 11:05 Sun 1:15, 4:15, 7:05, 10:05 Mon-Wed 4:15, 7:05, 10:05 THE CABIN IN THE WOODS (18A) Thu 5:20, 7:45, 10:05 Fri-Sun 1:10, 3:30, 5:50, 8:20, 10:45 Mon-Tue 3:30, 5:50, 8:20, 10:45 CHICKEN RUN (PG) Sat 11:00 DARK SHADOWS (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri-Sat 12:05, 1:25, 2:45, 4:10, 5:40, 7:00, 8:30, 10:10, 11:20 Sun 12:15, 1:25, 3:00, 4:10, 5:40, 7:00, 8:10, 10:10, 10:50 Mon-Wed 4:10, 5:40, 7:00, 8:10, 10:10, 10:50 DARK SHADOWS: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (14A) 5:00, 7:30 Fri-Sun 11:30 mat THE DICTATOR Wed 3:40, 4:10, 5:50, 6:20, 8:00, 8:30, 10:20, 10:55 DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX (G) Thu 3:50, 6:10 THE HUNGER GAMES (14A) Thu 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 Fri-Sun 12:40, 4:00, 7:15, 10:40 Mon-Tue 4:00, 7:15, 10:40 Wed 5:45, 9:00 MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS (PG) Thu 5:30, 6:00, 9:00, 9:30 Fri 11:30, 12:00, 2:50, 3:20, 6:10, 6:40, 9:30, 10:00 Sat 11:20, 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 5:20, 6:10, 8:40, 9:30 MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS 3D (PG) Thu 3:30, 4:20, 5:00, 6:40, 7:40, 8:30, 10:00 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 11:30, 12:30,

1:00, 2:50, 3:50, 4:20, 6:10, 7:10, 7:40, 9:30, 10:30, 11:00 Mon-Wed 3:30, 3:50, 4:20, 6:40, 7:10, 7:40, 10:00, 10:30, 11:00 MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 4:00, 7:15, 10:30 Fri-Sun 2:00, 10:15 Mon-Wed 10:15 MIRROR MIRROR (PG) Thu 5:25, 8:00, 10:25 Fri-Sun 11:50, 2:20, 4:45, 7:25, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:25, 9:50 THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS 3D (PG) Thu 3:35, 5:50, 8:05, 10:20 Fri-Sun 2:10, 4:40, 7:00, 9:20 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:00, 9:20 THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS (PG) Fri-Sun 11:45 THE RAVEN (18A) Thu 5:10, 7:50, 10:20 SAFE (14A) Thu 5:15, 7:55, 10:15 Fri-Sat 12:25, 3:00, 5:30, 8:25, 11:10 Sun 12:50, 3:10, 5:35, 8:15, 10:55 Mon-Tue 5:35, 8:15, 10:55 Wed 4:30, 6:50, 9:40 THINK LIKE A MAN (PG) Thu 4:40, 7:35, 10:30 Fri, Sun 11:40, 2:30, 5:15, 8:00, 10:50 Sat 11:15, 2:30, 5:15, 8:00, 10:50 Mon-Tue 5:15, 8:00, 10:50 Wed 5:15, 8:00, 10:45 THE THREE STOOGES (PG) Thu 4:25, 7:05, 9:45 Fri-Sun 1:20, 3:45, 6:15, 8:35, 10:55 Mon-Wed 3:45, 6:15, 8:35, 10:55 TITANIC 3D (PG) Thu 4:45, 8:45 Fri-Sun 1:45, 5:45, 9:45 Mon-Wed 5:45, 9:45 21 JUMP STREET (14A) Thu 4:55, 7:30, 10:05 Fri-Sat 12:55, 3:25, 6:00, 8:40, 11:15 Sun 12:10, 2:45, 5:30, 8:05, 10:35 Mon-Wed 5:30, 8:05, 10:35 WRATH OF THE TITANS 3D (14A) Thu 4:50, 7:10, 9:50 FriSun 12:20, 2:40, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20 Mon-Tue 5:10, 7:45, 10:20

INTERCHANGE 30 (AMC)

30 INTERCHANGE WAY, HWY 400 & HWY 7, 416-335-5323 CHIMPANZEE (G) 5:15, 7:15 Fri 3:15 mat Sat-Sun 1:15, 3:15 mat DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX (G) Fri 2:30, 4:45, 7:10, 9:20 Sat 12:10, 2:30, 4:45, 7:10, 9:20 Sun 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:05 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:05 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 4:30, 7:45 LOCKOUT (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:05, 7:55 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 THE LUCKY ONE (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:45, 5:45, 7:30, 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 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) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:20, 8:10 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 THE RAVEN (18A) Fri-Sat 2:05, 4:35, 7:15, 9:45 Sun 2:05, 4:35, 7:20 Mon-Wed 4:35, 7:20 SAFE HOUSE (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:20 Fri 4:10, 7:10, 9:40 Sat 1:30, 4:10, 7:10, 9:40 Sun 1:30, 4:10, 7:10 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 TEZZ (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:50

RAINBOW PROMENADE (I)

PROMENADE MALL, HWY 7 & BATHURST, 905-764-3247 DARK SHADOWS (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:00, 6:50, 9:35 THE DICTATOR Wed 1:25, 4:10, 6:40, 9:10 THE FIVE-YEAR ENGAGEMENT (14A) Thu 1:20 4:20 7:00 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:00, 9:25 THE LUCKY ONE (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:10, 6:50 Fri-Tue 1:25, 4:10, 6:40, 9:10 MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 12:30, 12:45, 3:30, 3:45, 6:30, 6:45, 9:30 Mon 12:30, 3:30, 3:45, 6:30, 6:45, 9:30 THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS (PG) 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:05, 9:00 THE RAVEN (18A) Thu 1:25, 4:25, 7:10, 9:35

West GRANDE - STEELES (CE) HWY 410 & STEELES, 905-455-1590

THE CABIN IN THE WOODS (18A) Thu 5:00, 7:40, 10:00 Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:00, 5:15, 7:30, 9:50 Mon-Tue 5:15, 7:30, 9:50 DARK SHADOWS (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri-Sat 12:10, 2:45, 5:20, 8:00, 10:50 Sun 12:10, 2:45, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30 Mon-Wed 5:20, 7:55, 10:30 THE DICTATOR Wed 5:00, 7:30, 9:50 THE FIVE-YEAR ENGAGEMENT (14A) Thu 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:25, 7:20, 10:10 Mon-Tue 4:25, 7:20, 10:10 Wed 4:25, 7:20, 10:05 THE HUNGER GAMES (14A) Thu 4:00, 7:05, 10:15 Fri-Sat 12:55, 4:05, 7:25, 10:45 Sun 12:55, 4:05, 7:15, 10:20 Mon, Wed 4:05, 7:15, 10:20 Tue 4:05, 7:15, 10:25 THE LUCKY ONE (PG) Thu 5:10, 7:50, 10:25 Fri-Sat 12:35, 3:15, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40 Sun 12:35, 3:15, 5:40, 8:10, 10:25 Mon, Wed 4:50, 7:10, 9:40 Tue 5:40, 8:00, 10:25 MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS (PG) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:30, 9:00 Fri-Sun 12:00, 3:20, 6:40, 10:00 Tue 3:20, 6:40, 10:00 MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS 3D (PG) Thu, Mon, Wed 3:50, 4:40, 7:00, 8:00, 10:20 Fri-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 Tue 3:50, 4:20, 7:10, 7:40, 10:30 THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS 3D (PG) Thu 4:10, 6:50, 9:10 Fri-Sun 2:30, 4:40, 7:00 Mon, Wed 4:10, 6:40 Tue 4:40, 7:00 THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS (PG) Fri-Sun 12:15 THE RAVEN (18A) Thu 4:30, 7:15 Fri-Wed 9:15 SAFE (14A) Thu 4:50, 7:45, 10:30 Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 7:50, 10:15 Mon-Wed 5:30, 7:50, 10:15 3

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festivals

SAt 12 – The Big Sleep (1946) D: Howard

Hawks. 9 am. This Gun For Hire (1941) D: ñ Frank Tuttle. 11:10 am. Humoresque (1946) D:

Jean Negulesco. 1:15 pm. White Heat (1949) D: Raoul Walsh. 3:35 pm. I Walk Alone (1948) D: Byron Haskin. 7 pm. In A Lonely Place (1950) D: Nicholas Ray. 8:50 pm. Suspicion (1941) D: Alfred Hitchcock. 10:40 pm.

SuN 13 – The Bribe (1949) D: Robert Z Leonard.

9:30 am. Deception (1946) D: Irving Rapper.

11:10 am. Johnny Eager (1941) D: Mervyn LeRoy. 2 pm. Dark Passage (1947) D: Delmer Daves. 4 pm. The Glass Key (1942) D: Stuart Heisler. 6 pm.

Place worth visiting

A Place Called Los Pereyra imparts some subtle lessons.

tiff next wave film festival

tiff Bell lightBox, 350 king w. 416-599-tiff (8433). tiff.net/nextwave

tranzac, 292 Brunswick. Bootlegfilmfestival.com

thu 10-SAt 12 – Short and feature-length films

by indie filmmakers and maverick storytellers.

Pwyc at the door. thu 10 – Afternoon block: Humanzoo D: Mack Fisher, Killing Anna, Luke and others. 4 pm. Evening block: Murgi Kengo Mutant D: Nayeem Mahbub, Roger The Chicken and others. 7 pm. Feature: Darcy Michael: One Skinny Bitch stand-up comedy video. 10 pm.

FRI 11 – Brunch block: Couch Potatoes D: Jessie Goldenberg, Clubbin’ and Bruised. 11 am.

Afternoon block: Francis Of Brooklyn D: Josh Wick, The Bet and others. 2 pm. Evening block: Captain Amazingly Incredible And The Space Vampires From The Evil Planet!!! D: Karl Burnett, Migracija, I Woz Drunk and others. 6 pm. Feature: The Seder (2011) D: Justin Kelly. 9:30 pm.

SAt 12 – Brunch block: Candy Man D: Anthony Tocchio, The Anchor, 38:50 and others 11 am.

Afternoon block: Daddy’s Pride D: Dinko Draganovic, Blind Luck, Echoes and others. 2 pm. Evening block: Incoherent D: Kyle van Tonder, Thrown, Mr. Shultz In Public and others. 6 pm. Feature: The Undrawn D: Jeffrey P Nesker, Friday Night And Saturday Morning and Making Funny Stuff 3. 8:20 pm.

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carlton cinema, 20 carlton. torontofilmsociety.com

FRI 11-SuN 13 – Toronto Film Society presents a

festival of film noir classics. $10 rush tickets; Fri or Sat pass $65, Sun pass $50, full weekend pass $150.

FRI 11 – Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1982) D: Carl Reiner. 9:15 am. Notorious (1946) D: Alfred Hitchcock. 11 am. The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) D: Tay Garnett. 1:25 pm.

Double Indemnity (1944) D: Billy Wilder. 3:35 pm. The Killers (1946) D: Robert Siodmak. 6:50 pm. The Lost Weekend (1945) D: Billy Wilder.

8:50 pm. Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) D: Anatole Litvak. 10:45 pm.

plus panel discussions, a musical showcase and short film competition. $12, stu/srs $9.50, child 13 and under $8.50, school program $8.

Student Saturday day pass $15. thu 10 – This Space Available (2011) D: Gwenaëlle Gobé. 10 am. Short film program: Turning Points, including 4AM D: Janine Fung, Heart Of Rhyme D: Cory Bowles, and others.

10:30 am. Monika (2011) D: Christian Werner.

12:15 pm. Re:Generation Music Project (2012) D: Amir Bar-Lev. 12:45 pm.

FRI 11 – Le Tableau (2011) D: Jean-François Laguionie. 10:15 am. No Look Pass (2011) D: Melissa Johnson. 10:30 am. Themba: A Boy Called Hope (2010) D: Stefanie Sycholt. 11 am.

The Brooklyn Brothers Beat The Best D: Ryan O’Nan. 12:15 pm.

SAt 12 – 17 Girls (2011) D: Delphine and Muriel Coulin. Noon. La Haine (1995) D: Mathieu Kassovitz. 12:30 pm. Cupid’s Balls (2011) D: Kristoffer Metcalfe. 12:45 pm. This Space Available. 2:15 pm. Mosquita Y Mari (2012) D: Aurora Guerrero. 4:45 pm. Re:Generation Music Project. 5:45 pm. Fat Kid Rules The World (2012) D: Matthew Lillard. 8:30 pm.

toronto Jewish film festival

al green theatre, 750 sPaDina (ag); Bloor hot Docs cinema, 506 Bloor w (Bc); innis town hall, 2 sussex (it); shePParD cinemas, 4861 yonge (sc). 416-324-9121, tJff.com

A PLACE CALLED LOS PEREYRA

(Andrés Livov-Macklin) ñ Rating: NNNN

Shot in the stark, uninflected direct cinema mode of Frederick Wiseman and Allan King, A Place Called Los Pereyra takes us to a tiny village in northern Argentina during the one week of the year when the locals welcome visitors from the outside.

How remote is Los Pereyra? It’s in a region of Argentina called El Impenetrable, deep in Chaco province. There’s no telephone service or electricity, and the journey there is arduous enough to discourage most people.

One group that does go is a small platoon of medical students and professors who venture from Buenos Aires every year to give checkups to the children and basic medical care to the adults. Because they’re all women, they’re known as

the Godmothers, and in 2007 director Andrés Livov-Macklin came along to document their visit.

A Place Called Los Pereyra – which returns for a week’s run at the Projection Booth two years after its initial Toronto engagement – straddles the stylistic divide between conventional documentary and ethnographic portrait, so rather than being shown things, we’re led to understand them.

The village is dying; the old ways don’t work as well as they used to.

The deep cultural gap between the children of Los Pereyra and the young medical students makes it feel like they’ve arrived from another dimension. And as the final frames of Livov-Macklin’s simple, resonant documentary suggest, they might as well have.

Opens Friday (May 11) at the NORMAN WILNER Projection Booth.

thu 10-SuN 13 – More than 95 films repre-

senting 15 countries in TJFF’s 20th-anniversary edition. $13, stu/srs $9, weekday matinees $8; closing night $18; some free screenings. thu 10 – Tony Curtis: Driven To Stardom (2011) D: Ian Ayres, and short film Grandpa Looked Like William Powell. 12:30 pm (AG).

Torn (2011) D: Ronit Kertsner. 1 pm (BC).

Portrait Of Wally (2011) D: Andrew Shea. 3 pm (SC). Dressing America: Tales From The Garment Center (2011) D: Stephen Fischler and Joel Sucher, and short film Needle and “Tread”. 3 pm (AG). Deaf Jam (2011) D: Judy Lieff. 3:30 pm (BC). Roth On Roth (2011) D: William Karel and Livia Manera, and Howard Fast: Being Red (2004) D: Richard Hamon. 4 pm (SC). The Flat (2011) D: Arnon Goldfinger.

5:30 pm (SC). Follow Me: The Jonathan Netanyahu Story (2011) D: Jonathan Gruber and

Early Listings Deadline Due to the Victoria Day May 21 holiday we will have an early listing deadline for our May 24 issue.

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

thu 10 – Inside Out Festival presents Out In The City: Happy, Happy (2010) D: Anne Sewitsky. 7 pm. $10. insideout.ca. The Raid: Redemption (2012) D: Gareth Evans. 9:30 pm.

FRI 11 – Monsieur Lazhar (2012) D: Philippe Falardeau. 7 pm. 21 Jump Street (2012) D: Chris Miller and Phil Lord. 9 pm.

SAt 12 – Dr Seuss’ The Lorax 3D (2012) D: Chris Renaud and Kyle Balda. 1 pm. Titanic 3-D (1997) D: James Cameron. 3 pm. Monsieur Lazhar. 7 pm. The Cabin In The Woods (2012) D: Drew Godard. 9 pm.

SuN 13 – Dr Seuss’ The Lorax 3D. 1 pm. Titanic 3-D. 3 pm. Monsieur Lazhar. 7 pm. 21 Jump Street. 9 pm.

MON 14 – Monsieur Lazhar. 7 pm. The Cabin In The Woods. 9 pm. tuE 15 – Monsieur Lazhar. 7 pm. 21 Jump Street. 9 pm.

WEd 16 – 21 Jump Street. 1:30 pm. Friends With Kids (2012) D: Jennifer Westfeldt. 7 pm.

The Cabin In The Woods. 9 pm.

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MON 14 – Goethe-Institut Toronto presents In The Face Of Crime, Dominic Graf’s 10-episode thriller. Part 3: The Opportunity For Revenge (episodes 7-10). 6:30 pm. $10. Books On Film: The Third Man (1949) D: Carol Reed. 7 pm. tuE 15 – Food On Film: Vatel (2000) D: Roland Joffé. 6:30 pm. Hitchcock Masterclass w/ Guillermo Del Toro: Shadow Of A Doubt (1943) D: Alfred Hitchcock. 7 pm.

WEd 16 – Hitchcock Masterclass w/ Guillermo Del Toro: North By Northwest (1959) D: Alfred Hitchcock. 7 pm.

Ari Daniel Pinchot. 6 pm (BC). Miss Judy (2011) D: Eyal Tavor, and Baghdad Twist (2008) D: Joe Balass. 6 pm (AG). Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment (2012) D: Toby Perl Freilich. 6:30 pm (SC). Invisible (2011) D: Michal Aviad, and short film Reality Check. 8 pm (SC). The Prize (2011) D: Paula Markovitch.

8 pm (AG). My First Wedding (2011) D: Ariel Winograd, and short film Not Your Time: The Musical. 8:30 pm (SC). Polish Bar (2010) D: Ben Berkowitz. 9 pm (BC).

FRI 11 – Kaddish For A Friend (2011) D: Leo Khasin. Noon (AG). The Dreamers (2011) D: Efrat Shalom Danon, and Thou Shalt Not Dance (2011) D: Eyal Sela and Yochai Shalom Hadod. 1 pm (BC). Wunderkinder (2011) D: Marcus O Rosenmüller. 2:15 pm (AG). Free Men (2011) D: Ismaël Ferroukhi, and short film Scheherazade And The Kosher Delight.

3:15 pm (BC). American Musical Theatre: Elmer Bernstein (1961) D: Neal Finn, and short films House and Tops. 4:30 pm (AG).

SAt 12 – Sensory-friendly screening for families and children affected by autism. See tjff.com for details. Noon (IT). Film Music Masters: Jerry Goldsmith (1995) D: Fred Karlin. 4 pm (BC). Free. Movies Music Man: A Portrait Of Lalo Schifrin (1993) D: Rodney Greenberg. 7 pm (BC). Free. Cabaret-Berlin, The Wild Scene (2010) D: Fabienne Rousso-Lenoir. 9:30 pm (IT). Let My People Go (2011) D: Mikael Buch.

9:30 pm (BC). My Best Enemy (2010) D: Wolfgang Murnberger. 9:30 pm (AG).

SuN 13 – The New Yiddish Cinema: Renaissance Or Curiosity? Lecture with film clips by Eric Goldman. 11 am (BC). Free. Simon And The Oaks (2011) D: Lisa Ohlin. Noon (AG). The Kissinger Saga (2008) D: Evi Kurz. 1 pm (SC). Roth On Roth and Howard Fast: Being Red. 1:30 pm (BC). My Dad Is Baryshnikov (2011) D: Dmitry Povolotsky. 2 pm (SC). The Flat. 2:45 pm (AG).

Remembrance (2011) D: Anna Justice. 3 pm (SC). The Trial Of Adolf Eichmann (2011) D: Michael Prazan. 4 pm (SC). How To Re-Establish A Vodka Empire (2011) D: Dan Edelstyn, and

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short film Woody Before Allen. 4:30 pm (BC).

Hitler: The Comedy Years (2007) D: Jacques Peretti, and short film You Nazty Spy!. 5 pm (AG). Closing night: A.K.A. Doc Pomus (2012) D: Will Hechter and Peter Miller. 7:30 pm (BC).

cinemas Bloor hot Docs cinema

506 Bloor w. 416-637-3123. Bloorcinema.com

thu 10 – Toronto Jewish Film Festival. See listings, this page.

FRI 11 – Toronto Jewish Film Festival. See listings, this page. Big Boys Gone Bananas!* (2011) D: Fredrik Gertten. 9:45 pm.

SAt 12-SuN 13 – Toronto Jewish Film Festival.

See listings, this page.

MON 14 – Big Boys Gone Bananas!* 6:30 pm. Bananas!* (2009) D: Fredrik Gertten. 9 pm. tuE 15 – Big Boys Gone Bananas!* 9 pm.

WEd 16 – Big Boys Gone Bananas!* 7 & 9:30 pm.

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SAt 12 – The Invisible Present video program curated by Amirali Ghasemi/Parking Projects, Tehran. 3 pm. Free.

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cBc museum, cBc BroaDcast centre, 250 front w, 416-205-5574. cBc.ca

thu 10-WEd 16 – Continuous screenings Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm. Free. thu 10-FRI 11 – Journey To The Disaster Zone.

MON 14-WEd 16 – Titanic: The Canadian Story.

national film BoarD 150 John. 416-973-3012. nfB.ca/meDiatheQue

thu 10-WEd 16 – 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 10 – Meet Sheldon Cohen: The Sweater (1980) and other animated shorts, followed by discussion and signing. 7 pm. Free.

WEd 16 – Free Favourites At Four: Timothy Findley: Anatomy Of A Writer (1992) D: Terence Macartney-Filgate. 4 pm. Free. A World Of Shorts presents Mission Impossible: short films. 6 & 8 pm. $6, stu/srs $4.

ontario science centre

770 Don mills. 416-696-3127. ontariosciencecentre.ca

thu 10-FRI 11 – To The Arctic. 11 am & 2 pm.

Rocky Mountain Express. Noon. Under The Sea. 1 pm.

SAt 12 – To The Arctic. 11 am, 2, 4 & 8 pm.

Rocky Mountain Express. Noon, 3 & 7 pm.

Under The Sea. 1 pm.

SuN 13 – To The Arctic. 11 am, 2 & 4 pm. Rocky Mountain Express. Noon & 3 pm. Under The Sea. 1 pm.

MON 14-WEd 16 – To The Arctic. 11 am & 2 pm. Rocky Mountain Express. Noon. Under The Sea. 1 pm.

the ProJection Booth

1035 gerrarD e. 416-466-3636, ProJectionBooth.ca.

thu 10 – Once Upon A Time In Anatolia (2011) D: Nuri Bilge Ceylan. 12:30 pm Material Success (2012) D: Jesse Mann. 3 pm. Battle Royale (2000) D: Kinji Fukasaku. 4:30 pm FRI 11 – A Place Called Los Pereyra (2009) D: Andrés Livov-Macklin. Spanish w/ s-t. 7 pm.

SAt 12 – A Place Called Los Pereyra. 1 pm.

SuN 13 – A Place Called Los Pereyra. 3 pm.

MON 14 – A Place Called Los Pereyra. 1 pm. tuE 15 – A Place Called Los Pereyra. 3 pm.

WEd 16 – A Place Called Los Pereyra. 7 pm.

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reitman sQuare, 350 king w. 416-599-8433. tiff.net

463 Bathurst. 416-603-6643.

thu 10-SAt 12 – TIFF Next Wave Film Festival.

thu 10 – The Death And Life Of Great American Motion Pictures 4: Bela Lugosi. 7 pm. The Death And Life Of Great American Motion Pictures 5: 3-D Film. 9 pm.

SAt 12 – Metropolis (1927) D: Fritz Lang. 5 pm.

The Sex & Violence Cartoon Festival. 8 pm.

See listings, this page. Goethe-Institut Toronto presents In The Face Of Crime, Dominic Graf’s 10-episode thriller. Part 2: A Web Of Deceit (episodes 4-6). 6:30 pm. $10.

FRI 11-SAt 12 – TIFF Next Wave Film Festival.

See listings, this page.

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SUN 13 – 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 music of Radiohead’s Kid A & OK Computer albums.

9 pm.

MoN 14 – The Death And Life Of Great American Motion Pictures 1: The Big Box Office Films Of The Silent Era. 7 pm.

TUE 15 – The Death And Life Of Great American Motion Pictures 2: The Unbowdlerized History Of American Animated Cartoons. 7 pm.

WED 16 – The Death And Life Of Great American Motion Pictures 3: Greta Garbo. 7 pm.

Salvador Dali Film Fest. 9 pm

revue cinema

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

ThU 10 – Monsieur Lazhar (2012) D: Philippe Falardeau. 6:45 pm. Jiro Dreams Of Sushi (2012) D: David Gelb. 9 pm. fri 11 – Payback (2012) D: Jennifer Baichwal. 7 pm. Jeff Who Lives At Home (2012) D: Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass. 9:30 pm.

SAT 12 – The Secret World Of Arrietty (2012) D: Hiromasa Yonebashi. 2 pm. Payback. 4:15 pm.

Jeff Who Lives At Home. 7 pm. The Cabin In The Woods (2012) D: Drew Godard. 9:15 pm.

SUN 13 – The Secret World Of Arrietty. 2 pm.

Jeff Who Lives At Home. 4:15 pm. Inside Out Festival presents Out In The City: Gun Hill Road (2011) D: Rashaad Ernesto Green. 7 pm. $10. insideout.ca. The Cabin In The Woods. 9:15 pm.

MoN 14 – Payback. 7 pm. Jeff Who Lives At Home. 9:15 pm.

TUE 15 – Jeff Who Lives At Home. 7 pm. Payback. 9 pm.

WED 16 – Jeff Who Lives At Home. 1 & 9:15 pm. A Separation (2011) D: Asghar Farhadi.

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HALF BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE, HALF STILLS: EIGHT AND A HALF Watch the new supergroup play a stripped-down set at Sonic Boom.

NOW TALKS WITH TARAS GRESCOE Watch Enzo DiMatteo in conversation with Taras Grescoe talking about his new book, Straphanger, at our recent NOW Talks.

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ThU 10 – Team Endurance presents a benefit screening of Bicycle Dreams (2009) D: Stephen Auerbach, to raise money for Tour For Kids. 7 pm. $30. teamendurance.ca/events.

Salmon Fishing In The Yemen (2011) D: Lasse Hallström. 9:30 pm. fri 11 – Global Groove Network (2011) D: Courtney James. 7 pm. Salmon Fishing In The Yemen. 9:30 pm.

SUN 13 – Jiro Dreams Of Sushi (2012) D: David Gelb. 4:30 pm. Jeff Who Lives At Home (2012) D: Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass. 7 pm.

MoN 14-TUE 15 – Jiro Dreams Of Sushi. 7 pm.

Jeff Who Lives At Home. 9 pm.

WED 16 – Centennial College Donny Awards. 7 pm. Jiro Dreams Of Sushi. 9:30 pm.

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WELCOME TO HOT DOCS 2012 To kick off the festival, NOW talks to Hot Docs director of programming Charlotte Cook about new festival strand Rise Against, a slew of music docs and some new filmmakers.

BRENDAN CANNING SCOPES OUT TORONTO’S BEST VINYL VENDORS Sonic Boom’s owner, Rob Butcher, talks about the great bands playing at an all-day in-store concert.

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fri 11 – Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008) D: Darren Lynn Bousman. 9:30 pm.

SAT 12 – Toronto Student Film Festival. 7 pm. $10. tsff.ca.

SUN 13-WED 16 – Call/see website for details.

other films ThU 10 –

The Italian Cultural Institute presents the Italian Contemporary Cinema film retrospective, screening A Perfect Day (2008) D: Ferzan Ozpetek. 7:30 pm. Free. Columbus Centre, 901 Lawrence W. 416-921-3802 ext 221. iictoronto.esteri.it.

Toronto Public Library presents a three-part film series as part of Asian Heritage Month.

This week: Riding Alone For Thousands Of Miles (2005) D: Yimou Zhang. Mandarin & Japanese w/ s-t. 2 pm. Free. Reference Library.

789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca. fri 11 – Toronto Socialist Action Rebel Film Series presents Haiti After The Quake (2011) D: Sebastian Walker. Discussion to follow. 7 pm. $4. OISE, 252 Bloor W, rm 2-212. 416-535-8779.

MoN 14 – Miles Nadal JCC presents Media Mondays, a lecture by Adam Nayman on The Films Of Stanley Kubrick with clips from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). 7 pm. $90 series, $12, stu $6. 750 Spadina. 416-924-6211 ext 606, mnjcc.org.

TUE 15 – TorontotheBetter and Ekta Parishad present Janadesh: People’s Verdict (2009) D: Chandra Siddan, about the struggle of India’s poor and landless. 7 pm. Pwyc. OISE, 252 Bloor W, rm 5-150. 416-707-3509, TorontotheBetter.net 3

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Birdsong (eOne, 2012) D: Philip Martin, w/ Eddie Redmayne, Clémence Poésy. Rating: NNN; DVD package: NN There is more nudity, sex, violence and gore here than in the version aired by PBS, but Birdsong has Masterpiece Theatre’s typical respectful tone and pretty pastel visuals. All that softens whatever visceral response the viewer may have to the horrors of World War I trench warfare and signals that this is art for the upwardly middlebrow.

Young lieutenant Stephen Wraysford (Eddy Redmayne) sleepwalks

Underworld Awakening (Sony, 2012) D:

Måns Mårlind, Björn Stein, w/ Kate Beckinsale, Stephen Rea. Rating: NNN; DVD package: NNN

Though certain elements have changed, this fourth instalment of Underworld retains the series’s core artistic value: Kate Beckinsale in latex fetish-wear kicks major butt in the endless werewolf-versus-vampire war.

In fact, she kicks considerably more than usual. We’re 20 minutes in before anything resembling a dialogue scene occurs. Until then, action montages carry us over the necessary exposition – namely, that humans have discovered the monsters in their midst, killed most of them, captured Selene (Beckinsale) and put her on ice for 12 years. She escapes and goes on the hunt for the mysterious Subject 2.

Directors Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein keep the action flowing. They’ve largely ditched Underworld’s traditional Gothic setting in favour of oppressive urban landscapes, which work well. The same can’t be said for the CG werewolves, who look like more like clay than fur.

Mårlind, Stein and a trio of producers provide an amusing, mildly informative commentary marred by a

through the war, even when sent into the claustrophobic nightmare of tunnelling under the German lines. His attention is forever fixed on the longing and regret he feels for his pre-war affair with Isabelle (Clémence Poésy), the young wife of his industrialist boss.

Redmayne and Poésy spark together very well, and both give nuanced performances. The romance drags in the beginning, but the war story moves briskly throughout, largely due to engaging performances by Richard Madden as gentle Captain Weir, Matthew Goode as Captain Grey and Joseph Mawle as the veteran tunneller.

The brief extras focus on the actors’ interpretations of their characters, so

there isn’t much you won’t already have gleaned from the show itself.

EXTRAS Making-of doc, two explaining-of docs. English audio and subtitles.

tendency to rush on to the next point before the current one gets off the ground, so we learn little about the duo’s directing methods.

EXTRAS Commentary. English, French, Spanish Thai audio. English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Thai subtitles.

angles that suggests he’d be perfectly cast as a psycho farm boy.

Along with the usual insights and production stories, director Michael Sucsy spends commentary time discussing McAdams’s wigs as character indicators. I wish he’d spent time on Speedman’s hair. It looks like a porcupine died on his head.

EXTRAS Commentary, gag reel, deleted scenes. English, French, Spanish audio. English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Korean subtitles.

The Vow (Sony, 2012) D: Michael Sucsy, w/ Rachel McAdams, Channing Tatum. Rating: NN; DVD package: NN

Every romance needs a way to keep its lovers apart, and The Vow has a good one: amnesia. Where it falls down is in the getting-them-together part, which is undramatic, more tell than show, and triggered by an out-ofcharacter rejection.

Happily married Paige and Leo (Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum) are involved in an accident that wipes out the last five years of her memory. She doesn’t recognize her husband, and her conservative, overcontrolling parents (Sam Neill and Jessica Lange) like it that way. So does her ex-fiancé (Scott Speedman).

McAdams and Tatum are playful and affectionate together, but there’s something about his face from certain

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The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp (1943) Classic British satire of the military follows the title character through three wars.

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grel, 2012) D and w/ Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim. Rating: NN; Blu-ray package: NNN

Somewhere in their admittedly lacklustre commentary, writer-director-stars Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim point out the moment when we, the audience, are supposed to get on side with Tim and Eric the characters.Then they add that they don’t see how it’s possible, given what the characters are doing at the moment. Later on, one of them mentions that they’re not good actors.

Those two flaws pretty much kill Tim And Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie as a conventional idiots-on-the-loose low comedy, a form that goes back at least as far as Laurel and Hardy and hasn’t changed since. All it requires are likeable idiots, funny gags and a nominal plot.

They’ve got the plot: after the failure of their billion-dollar movie, Tim and Eric flee Hollywood and get work revitalizing a moribund mall.

This leads to lots of dialogue scenes where Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis, John C Reilly and others get to be funnier than the stars, who have two expressions: insincere smiling and blank indifference.

Despite these failings, the movie has a few amusingly odd moments.

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straightness and guyness are recent revelations, and it feels amazing to be able to confidently state this. Here is my trouble: I’ve had gender issues for the past five years. My now ex-girlfriend of three years said she couldn’t be with me any more due to these issues. Our breakup was a result of my apathy in the bedroom, which was tied to my gender issues and her fears of my transitioning into a woman. I can see now that my insecurities about myself caused me to be a selfish partner in many ways, but mainly in the bedroom.

I now realize I was allowing my sexual kinks to get the best of me. I get very turned on by the idea of giving head to a guy, but in reality it is not something I enjoy. I also find lingerie very arousing.

I allowed myself to focus so heavily on those aspects of my sexuality that I became insecure in my masculinity inside and outside of the bedroom. I also ended up ignoring the majority of my sexual desires as a result of my insecurity in my gender identity. I have now stopped repressing my lust for women in general, something I’d been doing that negatively affected my ex.

I am asking you, I suppose, for some advice. I am still in love with my ex. I am prepared now to be the boyfriend she wanted me to be. But how do I prove to her that I am no longer the apathetic, distant and repressed lover she was with for three years? I find myself over-

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whelmed with regret. She saw me as someone who couldn’t do the things she needed, when in reality I was just paralyzed by my insecurities.

Found Myself Lost You’re not asking me for some advice, FML. What you’re doing is handing me a dog with a bloody, torn-up ass and saying, “Hey, Dan, I totally screwed the pooch. Unscrew it for me, wouldya?”

Some days, half the mail is from remorseful pooch-screwers, and I do what I can to unscrew their pooches. That’s part of my job. But not every pooch can be unscrewed, FML, and your pooch looks eternally screwed to me.

It wasn’t your gender issues or kinks or anxieties that screwed that pooch. You don’t have to apologize for your gender issues. You were working through some serious shit. What you can be faulted for, FML, is your thoughtlessness, your inconsideration and your neglect. You were so wrapped up in your own drama that you could barely perceive, to say nothing of meet, your girlfriend’s reasonable sexual and emotional needs.

We don’t have to be perfectly healthy or issue-free before entering into a relationship, of course. If that were the standard, no one would ever be in a relationship. However, we do have to be in relatively good working order, and you were not. Your girlfriend wasn’t looking for an issue-free guy; no such animal exists. But she wanted a guy who could have his issues and still make an effort to meet her needs. And your poor, neglected, taken-for-granted girlfriend stuck it out for three long years, hoping you might turn into that kind of guywith-issues, before finally calling it quits.

And damn her timing, right? Because everything magically fell into place the moment she walked out.

So what can you do now? You can tell your ex that you’ve come to a couple of big realizations: You know yourself to be a straight man now and you can see that you were a terrible boyfriend then.

You were so wrapped up in your own anxieties and kinks and insecurities that you couldn’t meet her needs then, but

you can now. The only way you prove this to her, of course, is if she takes you back. Considering the price she paid when you were struggling – inconsiderate, selfish, thoughtless, neglectful boyfriends are no fun, gender issues or no gender issues – she’s likely to pass. Because life is basically one big issue after another, and she may have concluded that you’re incapable of having an issue and being a decent boyfriend simultaneously.

If she doesn’t take you back – if that pooch can’t be unscrewed – resolve to learn from your mistakes, FML, and refrain from screwing the next pooch that comes your way.

Find third party via ads I am a lesbIan-IdentIfIed bI woman

who has been with my lady friend (also a LIBW) for seven years. She recently brought up her desire to have a threesome. I’ve had a handful of group sex experiences, and I know they can be fun, but they can also go very wrong. I am worried that she isn’t prepared to see me have sex with a man, and I fear that once we are in the moment she won’t be assertive enough to stop something she may have agreed to beforehand but suddenly isn’t comfortable with. What is the best way to test the waters?

Our next concern is who to invite into our bed. We would prefer it to be someone we wouldn’t have to see again, so friends are out. However, I am concerned about just finding a random person on CL or Adult Friend Finder because, being in a lesbian relationship, we definitely have run across men who think we “just need the right penis.”

Basically, I want a man who I know is friendly with the queer community and will respect our relationship and our boundaries. Where do we look for this?

Another Bi Woman Established couples who want safety, respect and a measure of accountability from their very special guest sex stars, ABW, should look first to flirty friends and friendly exes. But you two, like so many threesome-seeking couples, want

the perfect person to materialize immediately before sex and disappear immediately after. That means finding and vetting a stranger. And online personal ads are the best way to accomplish that.

State in your profile that you’re looking for someone who (1) is queer-friendly, (2) respects your relationship, and (3) doesn’t think the “right” penis will turn you both straight.

Some guys will tell you whatever you want to hear, of course, which means you could wind up in bed with a man who doesn’t believe any of those things.

But he’ll know to keep his mouth shut, ABW, and since you’re not going to see him ever again, does it really matter what he thinks?

As for your fear that your girlfriend won’t speak up in the moment: address that with her, address it at length, and consider taking penis-in-either-of-yourvaginas sex off the menu for your first threesome.

A kinkster for everyone I’m a 32-year-old bI gal Into both sub and dom roles with men. I’m GGG and excited by trying out new-to-me stuff. I had never pondered sexless guy/guy ball busting before reading the letter from BSTD in your column last week.

Now I don’t know if I should thank or curse BSTD for giving ME a new kink! I think watching this would be so hot!

Bad Acronym Lass Loves Sex I’m not one to toss that cruel “there’s someone out there for everyone” bullshit around. Fact is, some people do wind up alone. But kinks usually aren’t the reason. Whatever your kink might be, shy lil’ kinksters, there are kinksters out there who either share it or will spark to it.

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