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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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chef talks about his life and work with NOW Drinks columnist Graham Duncan. 6:30 pm. $15. St. Lawrence Market Kitchen. nowtoronto.com/ nowtalks. paTriCk WaTSOn The Polaris Music Prize-winning indie folk band plays the Music Hall. 7 pm. $24.50-$29.50. RT, SS, TM.
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FuTure OF hOuSing aFFOrDabiLiTY Forum on new threats 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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your article on ps i love you (NOW, May 10-16) noted the comment by the drummer:“Basically, if I can hear my drums too well, there’s something wrong.” My initial reaction was “Hey, maybe here’s a band worth going to hear” – that is, until I finished reading. I took the drummer’s comment to mean that they were really interested in showcasing each other’s musical talents. Not a chance. All they want to do is produce mind-numbing noise, which I can listen to any day of the week for free by standing on the corner at a
“ How could City Hall reporters abandon one of their own because of a threat by a bully mayor?”
Press takes bully’s side
regarding enzo dimatteo’s column on the mayor’s encounter with Toronto Star reporter Daniel Dale (NOW, May 10-16), I have to comment how sad it is that the press was so easily divided by this issue,
including NOW, which published an article by Joshua Errett online critical of Dale (NOW Daily, May 3). I expected so much more from NOW. I am exceedingly disappointed and dismayed. Freedom of the press is absolutely at the forefront of our democracy. It should remain intact and undisturbed. I’d also fight for the rights of Sun reporters, although I would never read their writings. How could reporters even consider abandoning one of their own because of a threat by a bully? Where is their integrity? Marion Newrick Toronto
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Two cents on Bank of T.O.
there are some serious problems with the proposal for a Bank of Toronto (NOW, May 10-16). If the city pays for “roads and infrastructure 20 times over the actual cost,” as Councillor Kristyn WongTam asserts, it’s not primarily due to private banks’ interest charges, but rather to the city’s refusal to pursue the “deficit-free fiscal conservatism” of North Dakota. Banks generate profit on the spread between interest paid and interest generated by lending activities. Would Wong-Tam be prepared to have the city engage in activities many “progressives” deem exploitative in order to generate profits? Or should the bank purposely pursue a sub-optimal banking strategy in the name of social justice? If so, would it not risk becoming a drain on municipal coffers? The most effective solution would seem to be the pursuit of moderate fiscal conservatism with the goal of weaning ourselves off credit altogether, but we don’t seem to have the maturity for that as a city. Just my two cents. Thanks for writing interesting articles. Rob Leckie Toronto
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i hope i’m not the only one objecting to the cover of your Drink Local issue (NOW, April 19-25). Even though “no teeth were harmed in the making of this cover,” as you proudly proclaim, have you thought of the message conveyed by the image of a woman opening a beer with her teeth? My husband practises family dentistry, my son is a periodontist, and I’m a dental assistant. Have you any idea of the number of young, stupid and impulsive patients we’ve seen for doing just that?
I hope this is your last attempt at being funny where health is concerned. I do read your magazine and look forward to each new issue. This issue was a great surprise. Stella Fleming Toronto
Jan Wong alienated many
why jan wong couldn’t get anyone to publish her recent book (NOW, May 3- 9) I have no idea, but she certainly does have a talent – to alienate. Her article in Toronto Life about the LCBO, for example, was very offensive. The reason is not so much that I disagreed with every word of it, which I did, but that Wong had the temerity to say she was speaking for all Torontonians! If she wants to write inflammatory articles, that’s one thing, but she should speak only for herself and not for the rest of us, thank you very much. Lin Joyce Toronto
NDP spotlight naive
michael hollett’s spotlight on NDP Difference (NOW, April 26-May 2) was naive and out of touch. It’s clear that Hollett has little regard for the Liberals and a seething disdain for the Conservatives. However, these are the two parties that have dominated Canadian politics. In what nation would he rather reside? I suggest maybe he put together a list of better countries that have already found the “real progressive change” he’s so badly seeking. If by some chance you come up with even one country, I implore you to give up your citizenship. A perfect nation? No. The best nation? Yes. David Banyasz Toronto
Petal power of fair trade
re are certified flowers legit? (NOW, May 3-9). The idea of boycotting flowers from places like South America, where floral exports represent a wide swath of employment and the economy, for eco reasons simply doesn’t work. A vital component of sustainable, responsible business is inviting developing countries to participate in the global economy in a meaningful and fair manner. Ergo, trading. Local is great, but there is something to be said for that “green going global” view, and especially in countries and industries where it is needed the most. These standards raise the bar for communities where people may otherwise not have access to work in clean and safe environments and might have trouble finding employment offering so many social benefits. I applaud Fair Trade, Florverde and Veriflora labels for offering up a fantastic way of resolving the issue. Louise Gadoury 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] Benjamin Boles asks if it’s time to call Rob Ford a homophobe
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Pride is coming up soon, and once again progressives are debating whe ther to openly call Mayor Rob Ford homophobic or continue to pretend otherwise and keep inviting him to events. Why not do both? It requires far too much creativity to keep explaining why his snubbing of the gay commun ity shouldn’t be read as homophobia. Even his allies on rightwing talk radio have been reduced to saying things like “I don’t want to believe Rob’s a homo phobe, but....” The Ford zealots who troll the nowtoronto.com website have been left feebly trying to argue that his dislike of gays doesn’t give us the right to throw the H word at him.
We are all homophobes, and we all have room to grow.
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the wing-tips are a surefire giveaway, the preferred footwear of City Hall lobbyists. I have no evidence to back that up, but there were enough on the feet of influence-peddlers at Monday’s, May 14, exec committee meeting discussing Adam Vaughan’s call for a referendum on casinos. Councillor Shelley Carroll was moved by the overwhelming presence of PR hacks (my word, not hers) to remark that in her eight years on council she’d never seen so many lobbyists in a room at one time. “Here we are, the first time we’re dealing with this at committee, and there are three or four people from each firm. I thought, ‘Gentlemen, come on.’” She’s not the only one taken aback by the preponderance of blue-suited salesmen lining up at City Hall these days to pitch casinos – sorry, “superior integrated entertainment products,” as Canadian Gaming Association prez Bill Rutsey calls them. Even deputy mayor and staunch conservativo Councillor Doug Holyday is calling for a ban on casino lobbying. He’s asked staff to investigate the matter, as well as the idea of putting a fairness commissioner in charge to oversee the behind-the-scenes stroking. Is he suggesting inducements may be offered? Damn right. “There’s millions of dollars at stake, and people with millions of dollars wanting a casino to happen.” That about sums it up.
The behind-the-scenes arm-twisting – sorry, lobbying – on this gambling business has only gotten more urgent since recent musings by Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation chair Paul Godfrey that if Toronto doesn’t want a casino on its waterfront, some other place will. The BS detector in me smells a hint of desperation in Godfrey’s ultimatum. Those public opinion polls on the question of casinos haven’t exactly been a slam dunk. Certainly, the executive is divided, punting the matter to staff until October for further study, and more than a few among the mayor’s men have expressed strong reservations about the benefits to be derived from a gambling facility – even one cast as a “destination resort” with a hotel and retail shops. But about those pesky lobbyists.... They usually keep a low profile, maybe showing up during a vote of council. That’s part of the game. But they were out in force Monday – everyone from the heavy hitters to smaller “government affairs” outfits staffed by familiar faces like former city councillors and chiefs of staffs of former mayors. So cozy. But casino pushers have a PR problem. Their over-representation at the meeting may reflect another fact – that there’s little public support for a casino. If it’s such a good idea with real community benefits, we wouldn’t need so many lobbyists to sell it. Carroll says it’ll never fly. “No one is going to take this in their neighbourhood, because we all know what happens around a casino around the world wherever you go: three blocks of boarded-up properties.” If the numbers around problem gambling suggested by several deputants at Monday’s meeting are to be believed (Rob Simpson, founding CEO of the Ontario Problem Gambling Research Centre says 35 per cent of all revenue comes from those with moderate to severe gambling problems), it’s safe to say that more than a few councillors are experiencing that fallout now. “Gambling is already a problem in my ward,” says Carroll. “Near where I live, in the malls north and south of the 401, any night of the week you can get on a bus that’ll drive you to Casino Rama. The people getting off those buses look pretty darn ghostly. Why would we want a casino closer? I’m not going to build conditions into continued on page 14 œ
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[residents’] lives that create those problems. Neither will most council lors.” Even the mayor seemed strangely monotone (even for him) in his pre pared address to the executive urg ing a staff report – and he used to live
right across the street from Wood bine racetrack. He doesn’t seem to be feeling the excitement. But where ongoing talk of a casino is concerned, the big roulette wheel in the sky keeps on turning up sur prises. Exhibit A: the Sussex Strategy Group. Just what is a PR firm with big Liberal party ties doing leading the charge on a project that, politically, is a big loser for the provincial Grits in T.O.? The web of those connections
leads mostly back to Godfrey (see sidebar). It’s like 1997 all over again, when a guy named Mel Lastman was mayor and Godfrey ran this town from his kitchen table. Sure, he can still get meetings with editorial boards to push his causes, but this casino thing is beginning to smell like a dead fish in more ways than one. There hasn’t been a decision where to (hypothetically) put the thing, yet
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high rollers from MGM Resorts Inter national in Las Vegas sent pitchmen to hand out leatherbound press kits at Monday’s meeting. The kicker? They want the city to give them the land to build their swanky gambling resort. Talk about audacity. Not entirely surprising, though, given the way the gambling industry is used to throwing its weight around. Buyer beware: MGM’s financial situ ation isn’t all that sweet these days. Seems its venture in China is taking more money out of the kitty than it’s bringing in. That CityCentre megacomplex MGM reps proudly showed off to committee members as the crown jewel of its many holdings on the Las Vegas strip is also the subject of a ma jor lawsuit – a nearly halfbilliondol lar doozy brought by the builder al leging failure to pay for extra work
completed on the project whose cost spiralled from $3.5 billion to $6.8 bil lion. Some negative publicity has also followed MGM over its recent big money deal with controversial fig ures in the online poker biz (current ly illegal in the U.S.) who’ve been the subject of a $105 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice over illegal gambling charges. The casino biz in general is on the slide. Those record profits aren’t coming in any more for a whole host of reasons, the recession chief among them. Even Vegas resorts are seeing un precedented room vacancies despite modest profits. So it’s not difficult to see why gaming’s biggest players are lining up for the next big thing. A captive audience of 3 million people is a tempting market.
FOLLOW THE MOOLAH The web of connections behind T.O.’s big gambling push leads back to OLG head Paul Godfrey
THE LOBBYISTS JamiE BEsnER, VP of municipal affairs, sussex strategy Group Sussex’s point man at City Hall is one of four company lobbyists on the casino file for MGM. No major issue has been debated at City Hall in the last seven years that the former Mel Lastman exec assistant and campaign director hasn’t had a lobbying hand in. The lobbyist registry indicates that Besner has held 27 face-to-face meetings with 14 different councillors or their staff in the last month. He’s also met once with the mayor and six times with the mayor’s senior staffers.
THE PUSHER MAN •Paul Godfrey, chair of the Board of Directors, Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation. The guy pushing a casino on Toronto’s waterfront has a history of gambling on the next big thing and leaving taxpayers to foot the bill. See SkyDome. The patron saint of controversial causes, you might call him, is also chair of the board of trustees for RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust, the biggest land wheeler dealer in the country. Godfrey didn’t look too far when searching for a new CEO at OLG, his board appointing his bud from Mel Lastman daze, Rod Phillips, the former mayor’s chief of staff. Also on Godfrey’s board at OLG is Lastman’s son Dale. THE SIDEKICK • Rod Phillips, OLG president and CEO Godfrey’s right-hand man in his gambling adventures made a name for himself in the private sector after leaving politics. Among the business connections forged along the way: Toronto-based Clairvest, a private equity investment firm with financial interests in casinos and racetracks in Chile, New Brunswick, Alberta, Illinois and New Jersey.
aLan sLOBODsky, development consultant, slobodsky associates Another backroom boy from amalgamation days of wheeling and dealing at City Hall under Mel Lastman, Slobodsky has been hired by the Canadian Gaming Association. Hate to bring up more dirty laundry, but it was under Slobodsky’s watch that the Lastman regime almost handed over the keys to Union Station to Mel’s friends. Both Godfrey and the aforementioned Dale Lastman figured behind the scenes in that near-catastrophe. WiLLiam RutsEy, president and CEO, Canadian Gaming association Authored the blueprint for Ontario’s casino gaming industry when he was a consultant with Coopers & Lybrand in the 90s, and recently registered as an in-house lobbyist at City Hall. Has been involved in the business side of gambling for years, as CEO of a number of private companies involved in the planning, development and managment of gaming businesses in Ontario, Las Vegas and internationally. Rutsey urged executive committee members to “get the facts.” Thinks government is already doing enough when it comes to helping those with gambling addictions. 3
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Planning T.O.’s famous main drag can’t be just about cars, because they’re the minority By ADAM GIAMBRONE you might have the impression that the only transportation debates worth having are subways vs LRT or bikes vs cars. But last week we were reminded that there are others. The first was introduced by Councillor Krystyn Wong-Tam: a pilot project cutting traffic on Yonge from four to two lanes to make space for patios and more dynamic urban space. (For many, this will conjure the summertime pedestrianizing of Yonge in the early 70s.) Her proposal is in the spirit of the Downtown Transportation Operations Study set up in August of 2011
to find ways of improving movement in the core. Significantly, that study wasn’t just about car congestion, but about moving people on bikes, foot and public transit, as well as meeting delivery needs. That research effort produced the recent John Street Corridor Improvements document, which aims to reorganize the street to make it more pedestrian-friendly. It discusses making Richmond and Adelaide two-way streets again, as well as the need for bike lanes, a more pedestrian- and bike-friendly Queens Quay and Lake Shore, pedes-
trianizing Yonge, better traffic lights, the problem of delivery trucks and a host of related topics. The overarching issue is that the downtown road network is often at capacity despite the fact that the number of cars entering the core has not increased since the 1970s. This astonishing reality is a consequence of better transit (the University line and improved GO service), reduced availability (and affordability) of parking, and constrained road space. The old city is further challenged by the narrow rights-of-way of the late 18th century, which have only
occasionally been widened. This problem is compounded by the fact that unlike the large U.S. cities we’re often compared to, T.O. has never lost its downtown residents. And now, with the addition of tens of thousands of new condo units, Toronto is undergoing a major transformation. These vertical residences are changing the core: more people downtown means pressure for more restaurants and stores and the deliveries that service them. There are other kinds of solutions to the people-moving problem. Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong,
chair of Public Works, has urged that Yonge and Bay become paired oneway streets to speed up traffic. But this idea runs counter to the original study’s intent and to most North American urban planning. There’s tons of evidence that twodirectional streets are not only safer, but better for local businesses and neighbourhoods. The best example of a twinned one-way network is Richmond and Adelaide, both of which have little commercial activity, acting as funnels for traffic. Compare them to College, Dundas, King or Queen and you can easily see the difference. Over 50 cities in the U.S. are currently considering changing one-way streets to two-ways. One-ways are good for one thing, increasing traffic speed – nice on highways but not on urban streets. Speed is a critical determinant of whether those on foot or bikes – or in cars, for that matter – survive accidents. Speed is also presumably one reason why one-ways aren’t good for local commerce: drivers barely notice stores as they whip by. There are other ways to keep car traffic moving: we could restrict lefthand turns and increase the number of smart traffic signals that sense vehicle volumes. These signals are interconnected, moving traffic based on computer analysis of current conditions, historical patterns and weather. Similarly, new parking policies that encourage turnover could help motorists using special apps find parking spots. This would reduce volume by 10 to 20 per cent – it’s estimated that drivers looking for parking contribute up to one-fifth of all traffic. Turning a vibrant street like Yonge into a high-speed highway helps only a small segment of road users. There are way more non-automobile users of that key street, and they would be poorly served by Minnan-Wong’s scheme. This brings us back to the streetnarrowing proposal. We can certainly learn from other cities. In Montreal, for example, parking spots or parts of curbside lanes have been converted to expanded sidewalks, often used for patios. This is especialcontinued on page 20 œ
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xpert panels are on the endangered species list, a rare form of deliberative democracy not yet crushed by Harper’s Conservatives. So, crazy as it sounds, the Mental Health Commission of Canada has been allowed to table the country’s first-ever psychological health strategy. And stranger still, it has received respectful attention from the Conser vatives despite its $4 billion prescriptions. Of course, we don’t know what it will amount to in the end, but Changing Directions, Changing Lives, set up in 2007 by the Tories, calls for sweeping changes. And, in the tradition of such commissions, it could spark informed civic dialogue preparatory to smart legislation. Relish the breakthroughs. The report normalizes what’s standard for all other diseases: a focus on prevention, treatment and recovery, not isolation, marginalization and shaming. No one says “Get over your cancer” or “Let’s not waste money trying to find a cure or prevention,” and the same should hold for mental disorders. Prevention has a hard time getting attention in general, as heart disease shows, but the vascular organ’s got it easy compared to the brain and mind. Only one in four children with mental health problems seeks treatment, the report says. And when people hospitalized for depression leave, there is less than a one-third chance of follow-up by trained physicians. There’s a screw loose in the medical model. Politicians responsible for austerity budgets, please take note. The report stresses the connection between mental well-being, physical health, economic prosperity and school performance, and argues that “mental health can be promoted in policies and practices in all areas of social and economic life.” The commissioners identify investments to reduce child poverty and homelessness as “protective measures” that reduce the damaging effects of well-known “risk factors.” They also classify anti-gay, anti-woman and racist behaviour as “underlying risk factors” for mental health problems. When it comes to safeguarding the mind and brain, settling for mere health is setting the bar too low, the report says. We should strive for health, well-being and thriving, the last a term we use for newborns but forget about quickly as
the focus shifts to preparing the child for life in the cruel world. The report presents a priority-changing paradigm but forgets itself when it comes to recommendations. It doesn’t propose, for example, to end the monopoly of tax-supported treatment by medical professionals. That’s the mental health equivalent of putting chiropractors, naturopaths, osteopaths, physiotherapists and massage therapists beyond the pale of a publicly supported system. No social workers, case workers, psychologists or psychotherapists, let alone nutrition therapists, need apply. How does that square with wellness and thriving? The other obvious area of neglect is nutrition. The writers apparently haven’t heard of research on the crucial role omega-3 “healthy
Politicians pushing austerity, take careful note: you can’t create well-being without sinking money into services. fats” and vitamin D can play in resisting depression and other mental problems. Catherine Mah – head of the newly created food policy research initiative at U of T and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health – thinks there’s a policy blind spot when it comes to food. Since food and food security are such low priorities for the medical professions, there are no standard screening questions, such as “Did you ever go without food as a child?” or even “What have you eaten today?” Don’t ask, don’t tell is no way to run a diagnostic system. As well, the commissioners make no mention of the healthful impact of urban green space or natural environments – a disastrous omission at a time of super-tall buildings, over-the-top density and potential agoraphobia epidemics. The report estimates that mental problems and illnesses cost Canada over $50 billion a year, in large part due to lost productivity. Almost half of disability claims and absenteeism are attributable to mental problems. If austerity is more than a mythology designed to create a false sense of scarcity and is actually about saving governments money, the 2 per cent increase in both medical and social spending proposed by this report is really a way to save on spending, as well as enrich lives. 3 news@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/nowtorontonews
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ly important as the downtown becomes a neighbourhood for its many residents and not just a 9-to-5 business district. In New York City, the closing of sections of streets or lanes to make new public space has been a huge success. The best example is Times Square, where parts of six-lane Broadway are actually closed. Bordeaux and other cities across Europe have moved most of their parking underground and reclaimed streets and squares. (Keep in mind that in countries like France and Italy, car ownership is at Toronto levels.) All these modifications are in keeping with the “complete streets” model, which takes into consideration all those who use the road, and not just their mode of transport. Still, there’s an art to pedestrianizing streets, and many such projects have failed. The right mix of cafés, restaurants, boutiques and stores must serve neighbourhood needs. This is critical because it allows the street to remain vibrant throughout the day and week. In a northern climate, keeping the streets lively all winter also has to be
considered. Perhaps it’s for this reason that Montreal recently chose summer-only closures (on Ste-Catherine in the gay village). One pedestrianized failure is Sparks Street in Ottawa, likely due to the scarcity of local residents and harsh winters. Car Free Sundays in Kensington and the pedestrianization of Gould have been great successes. They’re a reminder that any reconsideration of downtown mobility should be finegrained and specific, not an attempt to impose one big model on the whole downtown. The next project, for example, could be the summer expansion of sidewalks on Queen. The other area that needs study is goods delivery. Cities like New York prohibit daytime deliveries; others take an aggressive stand on vehicles blocking traffic by quickly towing and imposing fines up to $500. If we started towing FedEx trucks and illegally parked taxis, they’d think twice about effectively cutting road capacity in half. Solving Toronto’s downtown congestion may be impossible. In an economically dynamic city like ours, traffic will expand to fill capacity as people make more discretionary trips. But we can make things move a lot better through smart planning – and respecting everyone on our streets.
There’s an art to pedestrianizing streets – they can fail without the right mix of cafés, restaurants and stores to serve locals.
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Thursday, May 17
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funny strAnGe: sAtIre After mOrDeCAI rIChLer (PEN Canada) New York writer Calvin Trillin discusses the legacy of Richler with comic Seán Cullen. 7 pm. $40. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. pencanada.ca.
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COntAIner GArDenInG Basics workshop. 6 pm. $30. Eglinton Park Community Garden, 200 Eglinton W. garden@torontogreen.ca. the fIrst CAsuALty In the AGe Of hIGhteCh WArfAre Canadian Journalism Fdn panel dis-
cussion 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.
the frenCh eLeCtIOns, AusterIty AnD the eurOpeAn Left Discussion with political economy professor Greg Albo. 6:30 pm. Free. Centre for Social Justice, 720 Bathurst. facebook. com/events/292889667464105.
the hIstOry AnD future Of BOuLeVArD trees
LEAF talk on why we need trees in our cities and what we need to be able to plant them properly. 7 pm. Free. North York Civic Centre Council Chambers, 5100 Yonge. yourleaf.org. the InDIAn nAtIOnAL I.D. prOjeCt Lecture by Indian legal expert Usha Ramanathan. 4 pm. Free. U of T Faculty of Information, 140 St George. ipsi.utoronto.ca. InsIDe Out OpenInG GALA 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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discussion with former Ontario government food safety veterinarian Tom Baker. 7 pm. $4. OISE, rm 2-212, 252 Bloor W. 416-535-8779, socialistaction-canada.blogspot.com. rOm frIDAy nIGht LIVe Sneak peek at the Inside Out Film Festival, cocktails and a cabaret. 6 pm. $9. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. rom.on.ca.
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Art Of the DAnfOrth Multidisciplinary art displays, workshops, walking tours, and live music and dance in public spaces. Free. Various venues and public spaces on Danforth between Greenwood and Woodbine. artofthedanforth.com. May 20 to Jun 10
Saturday, May 19
Benefits
InsIDe Out LGBt fILm AnD VIDeO festIVAL
WOmen’s Arm WrestLInG (Because I Am a
Celebrating queer culture on film with screenings, panels, performances, parties and more. $8-$22, 8-ticket pass $91. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. insideout.ca. May 17 to 27
Girl) Come wrestle for prizes, or just watch. Doors 8 pm. $5 to watch. 751 Queen W. brownpapertickets.com/event/246811.
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rtOrOntO InternAtIOnAL CIrCus festIVAL
Acrobatics, comedy, daredevil stunts, stilt walkers, balloon sculptors and more with Zero Gravity Circus. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com. May 19 to 21
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COntACt Exhibitions, public 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 performances, installations and a conference. NAISA Space, Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. naisa.ca. To May 31
pAnAmerICAn rOutes/rutAs pAn Oyster Boy’s Adam Colquhoun. 6:30 pm. Free. Patagonia Toronto, 500 King W. Pre-register 416-861-1102.
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Lecture. 7 pm. Free. Big Carrot, 348 Danforth. 416-466-2129.
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Film screening and talk by filmmaker/author Gerald Caplan. 7 pm. $5. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org. OsAp InfO sessIOn Info on the Ontario Student Assistance Program. 4 pm. Free. Lillian H Smith Library, 239 College. culturelink.ca.
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LIBrAry Workshops on the challenges the service industry faces in Canada. 9 am-1 pm. $50. Design Exchange, 234 Bay. Pre-register Lionel Tiger. 7 pm. Free. Koffler House, 569 416-216-2126, dx.org/workshops. Spadina. equalitycanada.com. retrIeVInG CArAVAGGIO Lecture KRO 118 Mag May17 Ad_FNL 15/05/12 2:41 PM Page 1 by theology mOLLusks fOrNow the mAsses Learn about the professor Marius Zerafa. 6:30 pm. Free. Italian history and business of raising oysters with
mALe OrIGInAL sIn: hOW DID men Get tO Be DefeCtIVe? Talk by anthropology professor
AmerICAnAs Aluna Theatre festival of plays for human rights with international and local artists, plus a conference. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. alunatheatre.ca. To May 27 Cultural Institute, 496 Huron. 416-921-3802. rhInO rAmA! Parkdalian variety show and competition. 8 pm. $7. Rhino, 1249 Queen W. dancetodansefestival@hotmail.com.
Friday, May 18
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DesIGn On DunDAs High school students go
head-to-head in engineering and design competitions. 10 am-4 pm. Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. designondundas.ca. the future Of A WALk Goethe-Instit future charrette and walk led by German-Canadian designer Ruth Spitzer followed by a workshop. 2 pm. Free. CSI Annex, 720 Bathurst. Pre-register ruth@dorkenwald-spitzer.com. phOtO + DesIGn Panel discussion with photographers Michael Awad, Peter MacCallum, Marc Cramer and Nic Lehoux. 6:30 pm. $10. Design Exchange, 234 Bay. 416-363-6121.
AmBAssADOrs Of COInCIDenCe Goethe-Institut participatory city walk game with Berlin super 8 filmmaker Dagie Brundert. 10 am-5 pm. Free. Various locations across the city. Pre-register registration@lift.on.ca. ArtIsAns At the DIstILLery Art, pottery, textiles, clothing, wood, gourmet food and more. To May 21, 11 am-6 pm. Free. Distillery District, 55 Mill. thedistillerydistrict.com. rfAst n’ furry pet CArnIVAL Games and activities for all ages and breeds, plus canine sports demos. To May 21, 11 am-5 pm. Free. PawsWay, 245 Queens Quay W. pawsway.ca. GtA rOLLerGIrLs: It CAme frOm the Deep
GTAR Gstars take on Buffalo’s the Lake Effect. 7 pm. $15, adv $12. Ted Reeve Arena, 175 Main. gtarollergirls.com.
hOW I kILLeD pLutO AnD Why It hAD It COm InG Talk by planetary astronomer Mike Brown.
8 pm. Free. Medical Sciences Bldg, 1 King’s College. uoft.me/mikebrown. kensInGtOn fOODIes rOOts WALk Walk to celebrate food connected with the immigrant waves in the Market. 9:30 am. $45, stu/srs $40, child $30. Red Pole with Black Cat, 350 Spadina. Pre-register 416-923-6813. rkIDs’ WOrLD Of enerGy festIVAL Hands-on activities focused on energy and the environment include making a solar oven and building a wind turbine. 9 am-2 pm. Free. Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview. 416-583-2233, kidsworldofenergy.org. the next stAr Open casting call for the YTV reality series for kids 15 and under. Registration 7 am today and tomorrow. Free. Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front W, North Bldg. thenextstar.ytv.com.
prOtest AGAInst the nAtO summIt In ChIGACO Demand to get Canada out of Af-
ghanistan and NATO out of everywhere. 1 pm. Free. U.S. Consulate, 360 University. facebook. com/events/306144049465637.
rumI At the rustIC OWL Sufi stories from storyteller Ariel Balevi. 8 pm. Free. Rustic Owl Cafe, 993 Bloor W. rusticowl@tumblr.com. tOrOntO sALsA prACtICe No lesson, beginners to pros, no partner required. 3:30-5:30 or 5:30-8 pm. $5. Trinity-St. Paul’s Church, 427 Bloor W. torontosalsapractice.com. rtOrOntO stOp the Cuts OneyeAr AnnI VersAry: A CeLeBrAtIOn tO smAsh Auster Ity All-ages event, with a movie screening,
dance music, kids’ games and more. 5 pm. Pwyc ($5 sugg). CUPE 4400, 1482 Bathurst. torontostopthecuts.com.
the uLtImAte ArtIst netWOrkInG eVent
Meet other artists. 10 pm. $10. La Perla, 783 Queen W. mnemonictheatre.com/events. rVICtOrIA DAy CeLeBrAtIOn Family scavenger hunt and Victorian treats. Today and tomorrow noon-5 pm. Free w/ admission. Colborne Lodge, High Park. 416-392-6916.
Sunday, May 20
Benefits
LAuGh fOr AfrICA (Shakespeare Link Canada’s
Africa Project) Stand-up and improv comedy with Arthur Simeon, Matt Baram and others. 7:30 pm. $15. Annex Live, 296 Brunswick. shakespearelinkcanada.ca. shAmeLess fOr A CAuse (Buddies in Bad Times youth programs/Youth Project in Halifax) Performances by Sharron Matthews, the national tour of West Side Story, cast of Rent and more. 8 pm. Pwyc. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555.
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rChILDren’s stOry jAm Workshop for kids two to eight. 2:30 pm. $5, adults free. Academy of the Impossible, 231 Wallace. Pre-register smallprinttoronto.org. hIGh pArk GArLIC mustArD puLL Help keep invasive species from damaging our forests. 10:30 am. Free. Grenadier Cafe, High Park. highparknature.org. rmArkhAm InternAtIOnAL seDAn ChAIr ChALLenGe Sedan chair races for charity, fire-
works, traditional Chinese folk performances and more. Today noon-midnight; tomorrow noon-5 pm. Free. Markham Civic Centre, 101 Town Centre Blvd. tccsa.on.ca/sedan. meDIeVAL mAsquerADe Magic by Zoltan, a fashion show, readings by Suzanne Karima, live music and more. $35, adv $30. Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas W. 416-588-0307. the 99 mArket Local produce, baked goods, art, crafts, fashion, food sampling and more. Free. Glass Factory, 99 Sudbury. 99sudbury. ca/99mrkt-2.
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Censorship-fighting PEN Canada, the friend of writers in prison, aims to make the world safe for free expression. In many countries, scribes find themselves in conflict with state authority even for satire – a mode of expression favoured by Canadian novelist, essayist and provocateur Mordecai Richler, who died in 2001. PEN hosts a funder, Funny Strange: Satire After Mordecai Richler, tonight (Thursday, May 17) featuring New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin and comedian and actor Seán Cullen. The event is moderated by PEN Canada prez Charles Foran, author of Mordecai: The Life & Times. 7 pm. $40. ROM, 100 Queen’s Park. Pencanada.ca.
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What we’ve learned from the heritage walk. 2 pm. Free. Keele and St Clair. 416-593-2656. Rosedale II Guided ROM walk. 2 pm. Free. Park Rd and Bloor. 416-586-8000, rom.on.ca. TRans PRIde day A special blessing, morning service and a film screening. 9 & 11 am, 7 pm. Free. Metropolitan Community Church, 115 Simpson. trans@mcctoronto.com.
Monday, May 21
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The BReweR’s BackyaRd Craft beer-tasting
event. Noon-4 pm. Free. Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview. evergreen.ca. Inn-To The GaRden Gardening workshop. 2 pm. Pwyc. Montgomery’s Inn, 4709 Dundas W. 416-394-8113. oPen dRawInG sessIon Life drawing from the model. 6:30 pm. $9. Ralph Thornton Centre, 765 Queen E.
LEAF discusses T.O.’s need for big-time tree-ification May 17.
Afghan war, the F-35 debacle, the feds’ position on the Mideast and a mess of other foreign affairs matters is that Canada needs to develop global policy in its own interests, not those of the U.S. and its key instrument, NATO. That body holds a summit in Chicago this weekend, and the Canadian Peace Alliance, the Canadian Arab Federation, the Toronto Coalition to Stop the War and others rally at the U.S. Consulate, Saturday (May 19) at 1 pm. Free. 360 University. nowar.ca.
canceR, ha! (Alli’s Journey) Evening of comedy. 8 pm. $30. Yuk Yuk’s Downtown, 224 Richmond W. rebecca@allisjourney.ca.
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Brcan-BIke 2012 Courses for adults and
kids on learning to ride, riding on bike paths and residential streets, advanced cycling and more happen at rec centres across the city throughout the summer. Various prices. Preregister 416-338-4386, toronto.ca/cycling. coPInG wITh chanGe and loss Workshop for people caring for an elderly relative or friend. 4 pm. Free. Family Service Toronto, 355 Church. Pre-register 416-595-9618. medITaTIon Introductory class. Free. Eastminster United Church, 310 Danforth. 416-5390234, meditationtoronto.com.
rIdRF Fun FaIR/mela eVenT (International
Development and Relief Fdn) Cricket games, ultimate frisbee, a barbecue and more. 2 pm. Free. Taylor Creek Park, Picnic Area #5, 260 Dawes. idrf.ca.
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sessions on drug reactions, dementia, elder abuse, financial literacy, end-of-life issues and more. 8 am-7 pm. $50-$125. Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle. Pre-register niceke.ca. onTaRIo’s aRTIsan Food Talk and food sampling with Good Food Revolution founder Malcolm Jolley. 6:30 pm. Free. Patagonia Toronto, 500 King W. Pre-register 416-861-1102. PoRT lands PuBlIc meeTInG Presentation and discussions on development in the Port Lands. 6:30 pm. Free. Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front W. portlandsconsultation.ca. PRoFessIonal deVeloPmenT woRkshoP Communication skills workshop by the Association of Administrative Assistants. 8 am-4 pm. $165. Novotel, 45 the Esplanade. nashl@sympatico.ca. The TwelVe yeaR TouR Talk by secret trial detaineee Mohammad Mahjoub. 7 pm. Pwyc. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org.
Marxism managing editor Fred Weston. 6:30 pm. Free. OISE, rm 4422, 252 Bloor W. marxist.ca.
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boulevards past and present and all the reasons why Toronto needs massive tree-ification. Tonight (Thursday, May 17), 7 pm. Free. North York Civic Centre, 5100 Yonge. yourleaf.org. Free (donation). Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org.
Tuesday, May 22
glyphic texts in translation in this four-week course. 7 pm. $35/lecture, series $125. U of T, 4 Bancroft, rm 214. 647-520-4339, toronto@ thessea.org.
FundRaIsInG coFFeehouse (Marcha Patriótica in Columbia) Performances and more. 6 pm.
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donriverdwgsessions@hotmail.com. rsummeR sInTInGs A summer celebration of Jamaica’s 50th year of independence kicks off with music, dance and more (more events on June 5, 12 and 19 at various locations in the GTA). Noon-5 pm. Free. Christie Pitts Park, Bloor and Christie. jamaica50.ca. rVIcToRIa day Tours, a kids’ drill and historic baking. 10 am-5 pm. Free w/ admission. Historic Fort York, 100 Garrison. 416-392-6907. VIcToRIa day canoe TouR Tour around the Toronto Islands in a historical Voyageur canoe. Noon. $30. Harbourfront Canoe and Kayak Centre, 283A Queens Quay W. info@ canoetoronto.com.
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Sure, Bloor merchants planted trees on the street, but – no surprise – they’re spindly and dying. Its a common problem arising from the lack of serious commitment to our canopy by the city, residents and business sector. Join LEAF and architect and urban forest specialist Peter Simon on a tour of
Occupy First Unitarian Congregation workshop. 7 pm. Free. First Unitarian Congregation, 175 St Clair W. firstunitariantoronto.org. ToRonTo BaBel Practice languages and meet people from around the globe. 7:30 pm. Free. Rivoli, 332 Queen W, upstairs. meetup.com/ torontobabel. B2012 TouR de duFFleT Bike to Dufflet locations and enjoy baked goods through Jun 30. Free. Details at tourdedufflet.blogspot.com. The woRld as holoGRam Talk by prof Donald Lynden-Bell. 7:30 pm. Free. Koffler Institute, rm 108, 569 Spadina. cita.utoronto.ca.
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The BenFITs oF a Blue and GReen neIGhBouRhood Project Neutral workshop on how naturalized landscapes and the urban forest can reduce your home’s energy demand and improve air quality. 6 pm. Free. Annette Library, 144 Annette. projectneutral.org. BeRenIce aBBoTT: PhoToGRaPhs Curator Gaëlle Morel talks with professor Blake Fitzpatrick about Abbott’s work and launches an exhibition catalogue. 5 pm. Free. Stephen Bulger Gallery, 1026 Queen W. tinars.ca.
In TheIR own woRds: ancIenT eGyPTIan culTuRe Christina Geisen presents hiero-
aRms TRade Amnesty International presents a film screening and discussion on the need for an arms trade treaty. with prof David Mutimer 7 pm. Pwyc ($5 sugg). Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex. 416-363-9933 ext 333. FIddlehead & wIld leek FeRmenTaTIon
woRkshoP Learn to preserve this wild food. 6-9 pm. $55. FoodShare, 90 Croatia. Pre-register westendfood.coop. Jens hoFFmann Curator lecture on biennials and curatorial ambivalence. 7 pm. $12. Power Plant, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. Release youR FeaRs, oPen youR heaRT Healing circle and meditation. 7 pm. $30. WonderWorks, 79A Harbord. healingoftheheart.com. ThaT’s so 90s Weekly all-90s trivia night. Free. W.A.Y.L.A. Bar, 996 Queen E. 416-901-5570. whIskey, whaRF & wIndmIll Guided ROM walk. 6 pm. Free. King and Trinity. rom.on.ca. yoRk TownshIP and 1812 Bicentennial talk by genealogist/author Janice Nickerson. 7 pm. Free. North York Library, 5120 Yonge. 416395-5535, torontopubliclibrary.ca.
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111 Queen E, at Mutual, 416-8636006, georgeonqueen.com. Chef Lorenzo Lesoto has made leaps and bounds since starting out as sous-chef at Susur Lee’s Lotus all those years ago. But the master’s attention to detail persists – witness summery plates like tuna tartare and berry pavlova that manage to be both light and complex. That he serves it all in a gorgeous atrium far from the downtown din is pure icing on the cake. Closed Sunday, holidays.
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Ronnie’s LocaL 069
69 Nassau, at Augusta, 416-3401110. Yes, other Kensington Market patios have attracted an equally eclectic mix of musicians, artists and local layabouts (anyone else vaguely remember the Tropical Paradise or the Lisbon Plate?), but only this unabashedly divey bar stays true to the nabe’s boho roots. Of course, it helps that Delirium Tremens is on tap. As it should be. Feeling peckish? Management doesn’t mind if you grab something to go nearby – tostadas from Agave y Aguacate, tacos from Rebozos, empanadas from Jumbo – to help you soak up the suds and sun. Little
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25 Dockside, at Queens Quay E, 647-344-1562, atgurbantavern. ca. Patios by the lake are as rare as rice crackers in Rob Ford’s fridge. Problem is, everyone and his smarter brother heads there on the same sunny day as you. This corporate resto-lounge next to Sugar Beach right on the harbour is bigger than most – 150 seats – but you’ll still need a reservation to snag a table any time other than 3 pm on a cloudy Tuesday. And even then you’ll likely wait. But, then, it’s so nice to be at the seaside.
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FiFth gRiLL
225 Richmond W, at Duncan, 416979-3005, thefifthgrill.com. Now that the mega-clubs that used to surround this urban oasis on the roof of a downtown warehouse have either morphed into condos or moved west, the Fifth is again an island of calm. You still ride a rickety freight elevator to the terrace, where the champagne flows, the breeze wafts from the lake and the CN Tower romantically blinks in the distance. Pricey, yes. But way cheaper than
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a day trip to the south of France. Closed Sunday to Wednesday.
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BLack BuLL
298 Queen W, at Soho, 416-5932766. You can’t keep a good pub down. When fire ripped through this venerable 160-year-old watering hole last April, its 200-seat patio was open for business the very next day. Now that the weekend biker-friendly bar has been returned to its previous beer-stained glory, the sidewalk scene is in full swing, never more so than when the temperature soars into double digits and the sun pokes out from behind the clouds. Warning: perpetual lineups.
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RectoRy
102 Lakeshore, Ward’s Island, 416-203-2152, rectorycafe.com. Located in an old stone rectory on the south boardwalk close to the ferry docks, this all-weather café comes into bloom once the summer hits. On a pretty garden terrace surrounded by whispering pines, while away the afternoon over $14 bison burgers and a glass of local plonk from an all-VQA cellar. Makes the perfect pit stop on a bike trip!
IDEAL PEOPLE-WATCHING PATIO
more downtown adega
33 Elm, at Yonge, 416-977-4338, adegarestaurante.ca. Portuguese grilled fish and vinho verde à la Chiado on a pair of curbside terraces on touristy resto row. Closed Sunday, holidays.
amadeu’s
184 Augusta, at Denison Square, 416591-1245, amadeusdining.com. This treasured awning-covered Kensington haven pairs pitchers of sangria with grilled Portuguese-style sardines and lupini beans. Great Market optics.
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Lee Lounge
601 King W, at Portland, 416-5047867, susur.com. Susur Lee has had such a staggering influence on the downtown dining scene that we tend to take him for granted. If he’s not gallivanting off to his successful outposts in Washington, DC, or Singapore, he’s popping up on some American food TV show. And while some may think his latest Lounge dumbs down the family brand, the food coming out of its kitchen has never been more inventive. Or affordable. We’ll gladly take his signature $19 Singapore slaw and a Singapore sling over a $400 tasting menu (even if it is served backwards) and a bottle of Veuve Cliquot any day of the week. Closed Sunday, holidays.
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276 Augusta, at College, 416-9617373, toritorestaurant.com. Now that Kensington has turned into something of a hipster shopping mall complete with jugglers and mimes, snagging a table on this exceptionally popular tapas bar’s 35-seat tented backyard patio is more difficult than ever. But it’s certainly worth the bother, if only to share the likes of clams à la Barcelona and Andalusian stew over bottomless pitchers of sangriaww. BYOB: zero corkage Sundays and Tuesdays! Closed Monday, some holidays.
BaR VoLo
587 Yonge, at Gloucester, 416-9280008, barvolo.com. Beer cognoscenti flock here for the well-priced selection of regional craft microbrews. Special tasting events, too.
BeLLeVue
61A Bellevue, at Nassau, 647-3408224, thebellevue.ca. A change of direction for the quirky Kensington café moves the focus to locally sourced comfort food with an international twist. Closed Monday.
Biagio
155 King E, at Jarvis, 416-366-4040, biagioristorante.com. Expense-account Italian trat on sculpture-lined terrace behind historic St. Lawrence Hall. Closed Sunday, holidays.
BieR maRkt
55 Mill, at Trinity, 416-207-1709, balzacscoffee.com. Distillery District coffee house noted for its fair trade roasts and eye-popping 19th-century warehouse digs. Unlicensed.
600 King W, at Portland, 416-862-1175, thebiermarkt.com. Populist Belgian brasserie downstairs from the Spoke Club in the old Amsterdam brew pub. Other patio location: 58 The Esplanade, at Church, 416-862-7575; 7 O’Neill, at Don Mills, 416-862-7075.
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401 Bay, at Queen W, 416-861-6996, bannockrestaurant.ca. Tiny sidewalk café directly across from both new and Old City Halls. Great view, not so great acoustics.
30 Baldwin, at Henry, 416-977-1287, bodegarestaurant.com. Long-running French bistro in Baldwin Village with vine-wrapped terrace and both lunch and dinner prix fixes.
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As owner of Yorkville’s busy Trattoria Nervosa – and now Gusto 101 (101 Portland, at Adelaide West, 416-5049669, gusto101.com) – Janet Zuccarini knows the value of primo peoplewatching real estate. Those patio smarts drove her to a dilapidated chopshop on Portland. “When I walked up on that roof for the first time, I knew it would make a great patio,” says Zuccarini. “I had a pretty clear vision right away.” That dream became Gusto, a stylish Italian resto with a 100-seat aerie on top. Designers Munge Leung cleverly wrapped the deck in glass to block the wind but allow spectacular optics. Come next winter, they’re installing a retractable glass roof so the space can be used year-round. “I love the old cinder blocks with chipped paint, the rusted steel beams and skylights,” she says. “It’s a good fit for the neighbourhood.” The mostly no-reservations resto has been an instant hit with the local glitterati since it opened in February. Try waltzing in on a Friday night at around 8 and you’ll end up at the back of the queue with Ben Mulroney and Ed the Sock. With so much media frenzy, surely Zuccarini’s already planning Gusto 102? SD “Never say never.”
scale tuna tacos and linguini with clams on the Grand Hotel’s not surprisingly elegant terrace.
NEW! cuBe
314 Queen W, at Peter, 416-263-0330, cubetoronto.com. Charles Khabouth transforms Ultra into a 60s- and 70sinspired lounge with regular sets by bigname DJs and Tuesday fashion nights on the roof of the old Bamboo.
NEW! DeQ @ tHe ritz carlton
181 Wellington W, at Simcoe, 416-5852500, ritzcarlton.com/en/properties/ toronto/dining/deq_lounge/default. htm. Casual if pricy cocktail lounge off the swanky hotel’s lobby with regular barbecues and looming CN Tower sightlines.
DoMinion
500 Queen E, at Sumach, 416-368-6893, dominiononqueen.com. Corktown local features live jazz and blues most nights as well as ukulele jams Wednesdays and rockabilly brunches Sundays.
NEW! elle M’a Dit
35 Baldwin, at Henry, 416-546-3448, ellemadit.com. Relatively inexpensive Alsatian bistro in the heart of leafy Baldwin Village known for its summer-friendly carte of grilled pizza-like tartes flambées. Closed Sunday, Monday, holidays.
NEW! F’aMelia
12 Amelia, at Parliament, 416-323-0666, famelia.com. Upmarket pizza ’n’ pasta joint with covered curbside garden in Cabbagetown’s old Provence. Closed Monday, some holidays.
NEW! gusto 101
101 Portland, at Adelaide W, 416-5049669, gusto101.com. See feature, this page.
guu
398 Church, at McGill, 416-977-0999, guu-izakaya.com. Insanely popular – and loud! – Japanese izakaya with a small 20seat deck around the corner from Rye High.
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Boiler House
55 Mill, at Trinity, 416-203-2121, boilerhouse.ca. Distillery District resto famed for its live jazz-accompanied all-you-caneat $24.95 Sunday brunches. Closed Monday.
BQM Diner
354 Queen W, at Spadina, 416-7927792, burgershoppe.com. Gourmet burgers in the old Stem diner in between the Horseshoe and the Rivoli.
Brassaii
461 King W, at Spadina, 416-598-4730, brassaii.com. Located in the same bricklined courtyard as Crush Wine Bar, this sequestered terrace offers an al fresco alternative to noisier neighbouring clubs. Except weekends, of course.
NEW! Buca
604 King W, at Portland, 416-8651600, buca.ca. Busy Italian trat popular with the Bay Street crowd hidden down an obscure alleyway across from Susur’s. Closed some holidays.
ByMark
this Miami-style spa-inspired bar from the Liberty Group comes with cabanas and wading pool. Closed Sunday, Tuesday to Thursday.
279 Yonge, at Yonge-Dundas Sq, 416362-3636, hardrock.com/toronto. Positioned on futuristic Yonge-Dundas Square, this rockin’ patio offers excellent sightlines for Flaming Lips’ upcoming June 16 free NXNE concert.
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408 Queen W, at Cameron, 416-7030811, thecameron.com. Toronto’s most in-yer-face patio, this six-seater on the sidewalk meets the Queen West scene headon. Day prices till 8:30 pm every night.
66 Wellington W, at York, 416-7771144, bymark.ca. Surrounded by the four towers of the Toronto Dominion Centre, this elegant Yabu Pushelburgappointed patio is home to owner and Top Chef judge Mark MacEwan’s legendary $35 Bymark burger, the priciest Big Mac in town. Closed Sunday.
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456 Wellington W, at Spadina, 416260-9393, libertygroup.com. Advertising itself as “the next generation of chic,”
275 Cherry, at Polson, 416-461-5111, cherryst.ca. All-day breakfasts and barbecue in a historic former bank with harbour views.
225 Jarvis, at Dundas E, 416-8639000, grandhoteltoronto.com. Up-
67 Richmond E, at Church, 416-3681920, harlemrestaurant.com. This funky sister to Queen West’s Harlem Underground dishes up Caribbean takes on Southern soul food in a graffiti-tagged alleyway.
HorsesHoe
368 Queen W, at Spadina, 416-598-4753, horseshoetavern.com. Stompin’ Tom’s former stomping grounds takes it to the street on wild Queen West.
Hot Box caFe
191A Baldwin, at Augusta, 416-203-
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6990, hotboxcafe.ca. Away from prying eyes in a private backyard behind a head shop, this hippy-dippy café In Kensington Market was the first patio in town to allow its customers to smoke marijuana in the open. Legally! Unlicensed.
Hot House caFe
35 Church, at Wellington, 416-3667800, hothousecafe.com. Expect lengthy lineups for Sunday’s all-you-caneat $19.95 brunch.
i Deal coFFee
84 Nassau, at Denison, 416-364-7700, idealcoffees.com. Both fair trade wholesaler and coffeehouse, this laid-back Market java joint is so popular, they’ve had to post rules of conduct. Our favourite: “Don’t bongo, strum or shake. Nobody wants to hear your music.” Unlicensed.
Jack astor’s
10 Dundas E, at Yonge, 416-263-9800, jackastors.com. Rootin’, tootin’ roadhouse at the top of the AMC overlooking Yonge-Dundas Square. Other patio locations: 144 Front W, at University, 416-5852121; 133 John St, at Nelson, 416-5959100.
JoHn’s italian caFFe
27 Baldwin, at McCaul, 416-596-8848, johnsitaliancaffe.com. This atmospheric terrace in Baldwin Village certainly looks the part. Shame its pricy pizzas rarely rise above perfunctory. Best bet: stick to a glass of wine.
JuMBo eMpanaDas
245 Augusta, at Baldwin, 416-9770056. A Chilean take-away in Kensington Market specializing in Latin turnovers, with one of Toronto’s few smoke-free patios. Closed holidays.
keating cHannel puB
2 Villiers, at Cherry, 416-572-0030, keatingchannelpub.com. Surprisingly pretty patio with classic skyscraper skyline view next to the Cherry Street lift bridge.
kos
61 Bellevue, at Nassau, 416-597-6912. Inexpensive all-day breakfasts sided with all-day sun in the Market’s former Bellevue Diner.
la MaQuette
111 King E, at Church, 416-366-8191, lamaquette.com. A favourite with wedding parties, this elegantly appointed space faces not just the Sculpture Garden but St. James Cathedral as well Closed Sunday.
last teMptation
12 Kensington, at Dundas W, 416-5992551. Budget-minded Asian Caribbean food and drink on Kensington Market’s vintage fashion row. Trivia: once home to the legendary Tiger’s.
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350 King W, at John, 647-288-4715, oliverbonacini.com. Large wooden deck
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magiC oven
360 Queen E, at Parliament, 416-7033555, magicoven.com. Eco-conscious pizza and gluten-free beer on an enclosed rear patio.
marben
488 Wellington W, at Portland, 416979-1990, marbenrestaurant.com. Monthly pig roasts from 5:30 pm on the last Sunday of every month on the Muskoka deck out front. Make sure to score a reservation. Closed Monday, holidays.
matahari
39 Baldwin, at Henry, 416-596-2832, mataharigrill.com. Modish upmarket Malaysian with a few Singaporean options in leafy Baldwin Village. Closed Sunday, holidays.
mill Street brew pub
55 Mill, at Trinity, 416-681-0338, millstreetbrewpub.ca. Ontario’s pre-eminent organic microbrewery, this Distillery District gastro-pub features a sampling bar, a retail outlet and a cobblestone patio.
moonbean Cafe
30 St Andrew, at Kensington, 416-5950327, moonbeancoffee.com. This friendly Kensington Market coffeehouse has one of the broadest lineups of certified organic fair beans around. Unlicensed.
o&b Cafe grill
33 Yonge, at Front, 647-260-2070, oliverbonacini.com/ourrestaurants/ obcafegrill.aspx. Corporate card in the former Shopsy’s across from the O’Keefe Centre or whatever they’re calling it these days – oh yeah, Sony Centre.
333 King W, at Peter, 416-599-6585, paeseristorante.com. Uptown Italian trat with late-night menu with an outpost on touristy restaurant row.
club cum pool hall plates up creditable pan-Asian grub on a patio made for people-watching.
538 Queen W, at Bathurst, 416-2036623, shanghaicowgirl.com. Rock-’n’roll-themed diner jumps Fridays and Saturdays till 4 am.
peter pan
373 Queen W, at Peter, 416-593-0917, peterpanbistro.co. Art deco diner renowned for its budget-friendly $8.95 lunch/$13.95 dinner pasta specials. Trivia: superstar chef Susur Lee started out here flipping burgers back in the early 80s.
Skybar @ the guvernment
132 Queens Quay E, at Jarvis, 416-8690045, theguvernment.com. Huge dance club by the lake with rooftop terrace and dramatic skyline views. Closed Monday to Thursday.
polSon pier
11 Polson, at Cherry, 416-461-3625, polsonpier.com. Massive 10,000-seat (!) patio overlooking the harbour adjacent to the popular concert complex. Swimming pool, miniature golf course and drive-in movie theatre, too. From early June.
Queen & beaver publiC houSe
35 Elm, at Yonge, 647-347-2712, queenandbeaverpub.ca. Soccer-mad UK-style gastropub – love the fish ’n’ chips! - with two patios, one street-side, the other upstairs.
Queen mother
208 Queen W, at Duncan, 416-5984719, queenmothercafe.ca. With its overgrown trellis overhead and brickwork underfoot, it’s little wonder this sheltered backyard terrace has been one of downtown’s definitive outdoor dining destinations for more than 30 years. New this season: a water feature!
rex
194 Queen W, at St. Patrick, 416-5982475, therex.ca. Jazz seven nights – and days! – a week just down from the Four Seasons opera house.
rivoli
332 Queen W, at Spadina, 416-5961908, rivoli.ca. Long-running music
offers a solid franco card on a classy terrace up front and second private garden deck out back
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ROOF BAR @ THE THOMPSON HOTEL
NEW! roof bar @ the thompSon hotel
550 Wellington W, at Bathurst, 416640-7778, thompsonhotels.com. Though entrance is restricted to guests of the hotel and condo residents, if you haven’t yet figured out a way to wrangle an invite to a Fashion Week event, product launch or TIFF party on its spectacular rooftop deck, you aren’t trying hard enough.
NEW! SCarpetta
550 Wellington W, at Portland, 416601-3590, scottconant.com/restaurants/scarpetta/toronto. Linger over superstar chef Scott Conant’s signature $24 spaghetti starter at one long white communal table in a super-chic gazebo with a postcard-perfect view of the Space Needle. Mind, you’ll pay substantially for the privilege.
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South of temperanCe
20 Adelaide W, at Yonge, 647-4771444, southoftemperance.com. This huge swanky patio at the foot of the Bay and Adelaide Centre is a zoo after 5 pm. Show up early or stand in line with the suits.
SpiCe route
499 King W, at Brant, 416-849-1808, spiceroute.ca. Once a Toyota dealership, this ginormous space has been transformed into what’s best described as Ali Baba Goes to Vegas. Think velour, waterfalls and a 150-seat deck with koi pond
Supermarket
268 Augusta, at College, 416-8400501, supermarkettoronto.com. Laidback Market dance ’n’ DJ club with notto-be-missed $18 four-course pan-Asian prix fixe every night but Saturday.
NEW! t & t
432 Wellington W, at Spadina, 416596-6405, leselect.ca. This relocated Parisian bistro just off the King West strip
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431 College, at Bathurst, 416-6033090, sneaky-dees.com. King Crown nachos on two all-night streetcar lines Fridays and Saturdays till 4:30 am.
222 Cherry, at Polson, 416-463-8113, tnt-supermarket.com. Cheap Chinese food court in a supermarket with picnic
tables right on the water. Unlicensed.
terroni
57 Adelaide E, at Toronto, 416-2033093, terroni.ca. They won’t put cheese on your seafood spaghetti and they won’t cut your pizza, though they’ll give you a knife and fork. But the shady garden terrace in a sculpture court behind the old Courthouse – the scene of Hogtown’s last hanging – makes the contrariness seem almost charming. Closed Sunday.
NEW! thirSty anD miSerable
197 Baldwin, at Augusta, 647-6070134, thirstyandmiserable.ca. Reborn Market watering hole with a tiny sidewalk deck in the former home of Planet Kensington (aka the Greeks).
tortilla flatS
458 Queen W, at Augusta, 416-2030088, tortillaflats.ca. Sometimes it doesn’t pay to be sober. This Tex-Mex double-decker offers $4 tallboys Mondays, $3.49 margaritas Thursdays and $3 tequila shots every day.
urban herbivore
64 Oxford, at Augusta, 416-927-1231, fressenrestaurant.com. Sunrise to sunset vegan café with outdoor seating in north Kensington Market. Closed some holidays. Unlicensed.
watermark
207 Queens Quay W, at York, 416-2142772, watermarkirishpub.ca. Sprawling Irish pub on the lake next to Harbourfront.
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99 Blue Jays Way, at Mercer, 416-3480099, gretzkys.com. Hockey’s Great One takes it to the roof for suds, sun and barbecue close to the Rogers Centre. We recommend Grandma Gretzky’s pierogis.
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NEW! Grand ElEctric
1330 Queen W, at Elm Grove, 416627-3459, grandelectricbar.com. Nobody likes queues, especially local foodies bent on being in on the next big thing before everyone else. So you can imagine Black Hoof vets Colin Tooke and Ian McGrenaghan’s surprise when their casual 29-seat bar and low-key taqueria became an overnight sensation amongst the Twitterati just last winter. Why, some willingly lined up for hours. Relief has arrived with the introduction of Electric’s brand spanking new 40-seat partially covered backyard gazebo. GE’s still a mob scene, but now that it’s more than doubled in size, scoring a table should be twice as easy, even more so when they start doing weekend lunch any day now.
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696 Queen W, at Euclid, 416-2038882. For nearly a decade this coach house hidden away behind a pan-Asian patisserie has been one of downtown’s most exclusive al fresco dining destinations, made even more so by a no-reservations policy and the fact that the pretty shabby-chic terrace seats maybe eight at best. Romantics can gaze into each others’ eyes while nibbling on sweet potato noodles tossed with grilled steak and house-pickled kimchee washed down with a shot of cholesterol-
Black Hoof
928 Dundas W, at Gore Vale, 416551-8854, theblackhoof.com. Though the feeding frenzy that greeted the arrival of Jennifer Agg’s groundbreaking all-charcuterie cantina has subsided, tables are still hard to come by, most noticeably on peak Friday and Saturday nights. But score a no-reserve two-top on its quiet backyard deck and be very lucky indeed, if only for the chance to chow down on Nutellasmeared banana bread pudding topped with seared foie gras. Closed Tuesday, Wednesday, some holidays.
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202 Dovercourt, at Argyle, 416532-7397, juliescuban.com. They don’t have DJs and they don’t do bottle service. But what the ever-affable Sylvia Llewellyn and Jesus Baute have in spades is hospitality, the old-fashioned kind that values customer comfort over cash flow. Not that you’ll need the big bucks to enjoy plates of Cuban papa rellenas and pork picadillo under a quiet starry night sky, but you will need reservations. Closed Monday.
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924 Queen W, at Shaw, 416-5368963, ursa-restaurant.com. Downtown’s hottest table just became that much more accessible now that innovative chef Jacob Sharkey Pearce and crew have launched a 30-seat backyard deck. Fancy the likes of raw BC spot prawns followed by seared water buffalo with asparagus à la Béarnaise in an elegant backyard setting? Needless to say, reservations are still mandatory. Coming soon: weekday lunch and Sunday lupper. Closed Monday.
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1288 Dundas W, at Coolmine, 416534-1200, sociale.ca. Ex-Black Hoof big-time chef Grant van Gameren’s presence in the kitchen of this Libretto-related trat hasn’t suddenly resulted in the appearance of pig-snout tetrazzini on Sociale’s southern Italian carte, as some had feared. Instead, he sticks mostly to classics – rabbit stew for two, fettuccine with grilled chicken livers – with only the occasional unexpected left hook. Sea bream crudo with fresh fennel pollen, anyone? But like nearby Libretto, the shady sidewalk patio is walk-in only – i.e., no reservations.
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1184 Queen W, at Northcote, 416-5380059, addisababa.ca. Imported Ethiopian beers with a front-row view of the Bohemian Embassy. Closed Monday, some holidays.
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alternative groUnds
333 Roncesvalles, at Grenadier, 416-5345543, alternativegrounds.com. Mismatched cups, freshly roasted beans and a small backyard hideaway make this alterna coffee house a neighbourhood fave. Closed holidays. Unlicensed.
andy Poolhall
489 College, at Markham, 416-9235300, andypoolhall.com. Part mod-mad lounge, part Warhol-themed billiard parlour, AP attracts an eclectic crowd eager for booty-shaking and cocktails.
axis gallery & grill
3048 Dundas W, 416-604-3333, axisgalleryandgrill.com. Pints and pub grub on the Junction’s main drag. Think Black Bull minus the motorcycles.
BaBy hUey
70 Ossington, at Humbert, 416-9925462, babyhueys.wordpress.com. Former Vietnamese karaoke dive gets reborn as a hipster lounge with a small smoking enclave out back.
Bairrada
1000 College, at Havelock, 416-5398239, bairrada.ca. A noisy Portuguese churrasqueira with a humongous backyard garden lined with rows of family-style picnic tables next to a fountain grotto. Suckling pig every Wednesday night. Closed Monday.
Banjara
796 Bloor W, at Crawford, 416-963-9360, torontobanjara.com. Make sure you insist that you really do like it spicy; otherwise, most everything that comes out of talented ex-Jamie Kennedy chef Raj Veerella’s north Indian kitchen – tasty as it is – will barely break a sweat. Free parking and delivery.
NEW! Bar neon
1226 Bloor W, at Brock, 647-748-6366. Oysters and cocktails in what was once Calico’s secluded backyard hideaway.
NEW! Bar vesPa
167 East Liberty, at Lynn Williams, 416533-8377, barvespa.ca. Passable Italian pizza ‘n’ pasta in a historic Liberty Village boiler house. Great space, shame about the grub.
NEW! BarqUe
299 Roncesvalles, at Geoffrey, 416-5327700, barque.ca. Forget Carolina-style! This family-friendly spot offers Torontocentric barbecue served up with sides of Cuban corn and gnocchi. Mint juleps and local microbrew, too.
NEW! Bellwoods Brewery
124 Ossington, at Argyle, 416-535-4586, bellwoodsbrewery.com. Local microbrewery slings house-made suds alongside ex-Brockton General chef Guy Rawling’s shareable snack card in a one-time chop shop. Closed Tuesday, some holidays.
NEW! Black hoof cocktail Bar
923 Dundas W, at Gore Vale, 416-7927511, theblackhoof.com. Stylish holding pen for the Hoof across the street features smart martinis and nibbles like their cele-
brated duck wings. Whatever you do, don’t order vodka – owner/mixologist Jennifer Agg refuses to stock the stuff. Closed Tuesday, Wednesday.
NEW! Black Skirt
974 College, at Rusholme, 416-5327424, blackskirtrestaurant.com. Oldschool Italian trat in Little Italy – of all places! – with a sidewalk communal table out front that holds 10. Closed Sunday, Monday, some holidays.
NEW! county General
936 Queen W, at Shaw, 416-531-4447, thecountygeneral.ca. Splendido’s country-bumpkin cousin goes the trendy comfort food route with shareable mains, retro cocktails and a period Motown soundtrack. Closed some holidays.
a dark horSe
2401 Bloor W, at Jane, 416-769-4696. Not too fancy family-friendly beer garden in Bloor West Village.
day and Tuesday evenings, $20 pitchers of sangria every day from 5 to 7 pm and live music Thursday nights.
NEW! fBi pizza
2336 Lakeshore W, at Burlington, 416251-0101, fbipizza.com. Queen Margherita Pizza moves into the lucrative Mimico condo market under an alias. Delivery, too! Unlicensed.
banh mi – in a cloistered back garden right next door to the Dip. Closed Tuesday, some holidays.
Gem
1159 Davenport, at Ossington, 416654-1182. Out-of-the-way retro rock ’n’ roll diner with one of the best-curated jukeboxes in town. Was a bar ever more aptly named?
Golden turtle
125 Ossington, at Argyle, 416-531-1601. Cheap Vietnamese pho, spring rolls and stir-frys on downtown’s hippest strip. Closed Tuesday.
NEW! Boehmer
93 Ossington, at Argyle, 416-531-3800, boehmer.ca. Fancy-pants French bistro with curbside deck right in the middle of the Oz action. Closed Sunday, Monday, some holidays.
patio Guide to a soul food card but keeps the island vibe.
hoopS
735 Queen W, at Tecumseth, 416-8622400, hoopssportsbarandgrill.com. Yonge Street sports bar takes over the former Future Bakery/Habitat/Vdara space. Who says Queen West is dead?
hurricane’S
963 Bloor W, at Dovercourt, 416-5317818, hurricanestoronto.com. Bloordale watering hole with specially priced pitchers most days, weekend brunch and a patio out back.
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Brazen head
720 College, at Crawford, 416-5363132. Firmly ensconced in slightly upmarket digs, this treasured Italian sports bar sticks close to its working-class roots.
Brockton General
546 College, at Euclid, 416-9234138, kalendar.com. According to the permanently stopped station clock on the always crowded patio, time literally stands still at this student-friendly café. We make it 18 years and counting.
165 East Liberty, at Hanna, 416-5358787, brazenhead.ca. Oirish pub in Liberty Village with large two-level deck spotlights a serious selection of single malts and $19.25 prime rib suppers Sunday from 5 pm.
kalendar
1321 Dundas W, at Rusholme, 647-3426104, brocktongeneral.com. Eccentric west-side watering hole with Portuguese sports bar vibe, ever-evolving card and terrific weekend brunch. Closed Monday, Tuesday.
la hacienda
640 Queen W, at Palmerston, 416-7033377, lahacienda.ca. One of the last of the Queen West originals, this low-key cowpunk cantina rocks a Tex-Mex card to a soundtrack of vintage punk.
cadillac lounGe
1296 Queen W, at Grove, 416-536-7717, cadillaclounge.com. Parkdale’s largest patio prides itself on its veggie-friendly carte and classic rockabilly aesthetic.
lakevieW
1132 Dundas W, at Ossington, 416-8508886, thelakeviewrestaurant.ca. Beautifully restored art deco diner with round-the-clock breakfasts and latenight poutine lineup. Open 24-7/365.
cafe diplomatico
594 College, at Clinton, 416-534-4637, diplomatico.ca. A fixture in Little Italy for 45 years and one of Toronto’s very first al fresco restaurants, this sunny west-facing terrace is packed from early morning till late into the night.
NEW! little doG
566 College, at Manning, 416-9602455. Steamed Nathan’s-style hot dogs topped with ballpark mustard and sauerkraut on the curb next to the Big Chill. Unlicensed. Cash only.
cafe 668
885 Dundas W, at Claremont, 416-7030668, cafe668.com. A favourite of even those who eat meat, this unusually stylish bistro pairs its award-winning allvegetarian pan-Asian menu with organic beer and wine.
madraS maSala
796 Bloor W, at Crawford, 647-3424359, madrasmasalatoronto.com. Veggie-friendly South Indian dosa on a porch overlooking Christie Pits. Bonus: free parking!
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NEW! midfield Wine Bar and tavern
200 Bathurst, at Queen W, 416-7036969, cherrycolas.com. Viper Roomstyle music bar in the former Rok Lounge.
1434 Dundas W, at Dufferin, 647-3757005. Low-key oenophile haunt with limited menu on the – it says here – hip DuWest strip. Closed Sunday, Monday. Cash only.
NEW! church apertivo Bar
1090 Queen W, at Dovercourt, 416537-1090, churchaperitivobar.com. King West-style cocktail lounge catches the Drake’s overflow with free antipasti and stuzzichini with beverage purchase from 5 to 6:30 pm nightly. Closed Sunday, Monday.
mitzi’S
100 Sorauren, at Pearson, 416-5881234, mitzis.ca. Kid-friendly luncheonette on a tree-lined side street in deepest Parkdale. Warning: lineups for Saturday and Sunday brunch. Closed some holidays. Cash only.
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1212 Dundas W, at Lakeview, 416-5884900. No longer If Lounge, this leafy terrace across from the Beer Store aims for that old West Queen West vibe. You know, like six years ago.
NEW! churraSqueira do Sardinna
707 College, at Beatrice, 416-531-1120, churrasqueiradosardinha.com. Complete Portuguese rotisserie chicken dinners for two for under $20. Mind you, these birds ain’t free-range or naturally raised, but they sure be tasty.
ciro’S houSe of imported Bier
1316 Bloor W, at Lansdowne, 416-5334914. Home to more than 100 different imported suds and a heated deck out back.
clinton’S
693 Bloor W, at Clinton, 416-535-9541, clintons.ca. This log-lined multi-storey tavern features all-day brunch and live indie bands or DJs most nights.
colliSion
573 College, at Clinton, 416-530-7569. The anti-College Street bar: cheap pool, cool tunes and scenester-free backyard shade.
722 College, at Crawford, 416-5884663, themodclub.com. 60s-themed concert club with curbside action.
NEW! muGShot tavern
1729 Bloor W, at Keele, 416-901-7468. Neighbourhood pub close to High Park and Keele station comes decked out with mug shots of Sex Pistol Sid Vicious.
done riGht inn
861 Queen W, at Manning, 416-7030405. If this backyard boîte were any more laid-back it’d be horizontal. A grungy grotto wreck-room, all ratty couches, vintage arcade video games and outsider art.
NEW! eaSy
713 College, at Montrose, 416-5352222, easyrestaurant.ca. Sister to the all-day Parkdale breakfast spot of the same name takes on a new nabe.
fiSh Store
657 College, at Grace, 416-533-2822, fishsandwich.ca. Grilled always-fresh fish sandwiches, burrito wraps and salads just down from the Dip. Closed Sunday, some holidays. Unlicensed.
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58 Marine Parade, at Lakeshore W, 416-255-5588, edentrattoria.com. Corso Italia trat relocates to new digs right on the lake.
207 Ossington, at Dundas W, 416-5348520. Another no-reso resto, Tom Thai’s (ex-Tempo) eclectic tapas spot doubles in size with the launch of its new 40-seat backyard patio. There, follow Thai’s legendary grilled/braised/grilled again short ribs in sweet sticky sauce with his spice-twisted take on chicken wings. Closed Sunday, holidays.
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eden trattoria
331 Roncesvalles, at Westminster, 416535-4064, fatcat.ca. Gorgeous backyard garden features $25 lobsters Mon-
53 Clinton, at College, 416-846-4217, thefuelhouse.ca. Nouvelle fast food – deep-fried pickles, fish tacos, pork belly
Grace
503 College, at Palmerston, 416-9448884, gracerestaurant.ca. The onetime Xacutti brings Yorkville chic to Little Italy in a fabulously exclusive inner courtyard.
NEW! ]haBitS GaStropuB
928 College, at Dovercourt, 416-5337272, habitsgastropub.com. Happyhour drink specials weekdays from 4 to 7 pm and $3 shots all night Thursdays in the former Piri-Piri churrasqueira.
harlem underGround
745 Queen W, at Tecumseth, 416-3664743, harlemrestaurant.com/underground. No longer Irie Food Joint, Carl Cassell’s heir to the Bamboo shifts gears
NEW! no one WriteS to the colonel
460 College, at Markham, 416-9286777. Informal café alternative kittykorner to Sneaky Dee’s.
noce
875 Queen W, at Walnut, 416-5043463. Upscale Italian trat hidden under a vine-covered trellis across from Trinity Bellwoods park.
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1601 Lake Shore W, at Roncesvalles, 416-533-3553, palaisroyale.ca. Booked solid all summer for corporate events and lucrative weddings, this historic Sunnyside dance hall (dig that suspended dance floor, daddy-o!) offers a $40 prix fixe dinner followed by dancing to a live continued on page 36 ➽
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jazz combo every Wednesday night. Since they don’t take reservations, show up early or miss out on the fancy footwork.
NEW! Pho Nho
2060 Dundas W, at Morrow, 416-5312282. Partially covered deck with extensive Vietnamese card close to the Roncesvalles resto row.
NEW! Piola
1165 Queen West, at Northcote, 416477-4652, piola.it. Italian-based pizza franchise on the first floor of the oh-soBohemian Embassy. Happy-hour snacks with drink purchases 4 to 7 pm Monday to Friday.
Pizza Roma
1090 Bloor W, at Gladstone, 416-5314000. Thin-crusted pies, upscale pastas and large-screen TVs in burgeoning Bloordale.
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QueeN’s owN Rifles
1395 Lake Shore Blvd W, at Dowling, 416-532-8892, qor.com/community/legion.html. Bargain-priced booze and a sunny patio right on the lake hidden behind the Legion. Everyone’s welcome, but we’ll keep that our secret, right?
1554 Queen W, at Fuller, 416-532-2570, thesister.ca. A slight change of management keeps this venerable Parkdale saloon on track. Same musician-friendly vibe, similar veggie-friendly pub grub, all on a quiet backyard deck.
NEW! RavisouPs
NEW! smokeless Joe’s
2535 Dundas W, at Jerome, 416-7697284, ravisoups.com. Ex-Mildred Pierce chef Ravi Kanagarajah brings superb multi-culti soup to a lovely garden setting on the edge of the Junction.
488 College, at Palmerston, 416-9665050. The one-time John Street shrine to all things beer moves north into much larger digs and a walled-in backyard garden.
RePosado
595 College, at Clinton, 416-536-4564. Fifteen years ago you couldn’t fight your way into this Yabu Pushelburg-designed gem of a wine bar, such was the crush of media and fashion types bent on being seen. Now that they’ve moved on, the pace is somewhat less frantic.
136 Ossington, at Argyle, 416-532-6474, reposadobar.com. Toronto’s largest tequila bar expands onto a walled-in cloister come summer. Cheese plates ’n’ tapas, too.
RhiNo
1249 Queen W, at Gwynne, 416-5358089, therhino.ca. Long before the nabe was a hotbed of locavore restos and wine bars, this artsy hang was a particular fave, especially when pints of the pub’s own microbrew go for all of $4.50.
807A Queen W, at Manning, 416-7030574. A shrine to 90s grunge, this laidback watering hole takes it outside on a private shabby-chic backyard deck.
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sutRa
379 Harbord, at Roxton, 416-535-8181, theroxton.com. Funky neighbourhood spot with a menu focused on charcuterie and grilled flatbreads.
school
70 Fraser, at Liberty, 416-588-0005, schooltoronto.com. Brad Moore’s extremely slammed Liberty Village café doubles in size when weather permits with a 140-seat wraparound patio. Where else can you do brunch seven days a week? Closed some holidays.
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850 Dundas W, at Euclid, 416-364577 College, at Clinton, 416-536-7000, 7183, thepressclub.ca. Journalistically sidecarrestaurant.ca. Quiet tree-shaded 6374MS - CHS Banner(print)2.pdf 1 5/1/2012 3:42:59 PM themed watering hole with a hidden courtyard famous for its Sunday to Wedbackyard grotto and half-price nachos nesday-night $25 three-course prix fixe. Mondays. $25 bottles of wine, too.
sQuiRly’s
612 College, at Clinton, 416-537-8755, souzdal.com/sutra. Since Souz Dal closed down the block, the owners have incorporated their two bars into one: a tiki-tastic lounge with a sand-filled lanai out back lit by flaming torches.
swaN & fiRkiN
2205 Bloor W, at Runnymede, 416-7679222, firkinpubs.com. Formerly Bert and Ernie’s, this Swansea pub features a busy sidewalk patio out front and a larger outdoor deck overlooking the street upstairs.
sweaty Betty’s
13 Ossington, at Queen W, 416-5356861. Tiny rock ’n’ roll cocktail lounge doubles its capacity with a clandestine walled-in courtyard. After-school special:
all pints and highballs discounted a buck till 7 pm.
teatRo
505 College, at Palmerston, 416-9721475. Swanky wine bar popular with downtown’s fashion set spills out onto a spacious street-side wooden enclosure.
teRRoNi
720 Queen W, at Claremont, 416-5040320 and others, terroni.ca. Against a backyard backdrop of faux Roman ruins and surrounded by apple trees, this garden grotto makes a great setting for whiling away the evening under the stars over house-made pasta and pizza.
thRee sPeed
1163 Bloor W, at Pauline, 647-4303834. If Bloordale is the new Ossington, this laid-back resto-bar from the Communist’s Daughter crew proves it: funky bar up front, daily specials and weekend brunch by ex-Swan chef Jane Ferriss, and a 50-seat pergola-covered cedar deck out back.
tRattoRia GiaNcaRlo
41 Clinton, at College, 416-533-9619, giancarlotrattoria.com. This quiet treeshrouded eatery attracts celebs like Sophia Loren and Gina Lollobrigida for Italian-style classics like garlicky tiger shrimp and romantic risotto for two. Closed Sunday, holidays.
utoPia
586 College, at Clinton, 416-534-7751, utopiacafe.ca. Budget- and vegetarianfriendly burgers and burritos on an always busy garden deck.
vicky’s fish & chiPs/sue’s thai food
414 Roncesvalles, at Howard Park, 416-531-8822. No other resto in town has such a disparate card at war with itself – so-so fish ‘n’ chips versus terrific Southeast Asian eats on a sunny backyard deck.
vivoli
665 College, at Beatrice, 416-5367575, vivoli.ca. Busy Italian trat with rooftop deck that’s a favourite of rapper Drake.
wheat sheaf
667 King W, at Bathurst, 416-5049912. Opened in 1849, the Sheaf is not only Toronto’s oldest bar, but one of Hogtown’s longest-running patios, too.
NEW! williams laNdiNG
120 Lynn Williams, at Hannah, 647340-8008, williamslanding.ca. Expansive Libery Village meat market with second-storey deck from the folks behind the similar South of Temperance.
NEW! woodlot
293 Palmerston, at College, 647-3426307, woodlotrestaurant.com. David Haman and crew take it to a just-installed wooden deck out front with two parallel menus – one for hard-core carnivores, the other aimed at the Birkenstock set. Closed Monday, some holidays.
NEW! woody’s BuRGeRs
3795 Lake Shore W, at Brown’s Line, 416-546-2093, woodysburgers.com. Extravagant Priest-style burgers ’n’ fries in the wilds of Rob Ford’s Etobicoke from the former Freshwood Grill folks.
NEW! zocalo
1426 Bloor W, at Sterling, 647-3421567, zocalobistro.com. Looking for a cheap first-date alternative to Kalendar? This laid-back café in the Junction Triangle offers innovative veggiefriendly mains paired with locally brewed suds at prices that would get you a salad on College. Closed Tuesday, some holidays.
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131 Bloor W, at Avenue Rd, 416-5519929, lasociete.ca. Sitting next to Eurotrash – and their bratty children – who sport shoes that cost more than the rent on most apartments could put some off their supper no matter how lovely the surroundings. Luckily, servers dressed in crisp whites know to treat us plebes the same as the big-time spenders. Don’t be put off by the sticker shock of $149 seafood towers (for two, granted) and $34 glasses of champagne. Stick to the $17 burgers and terrific $20 moules frites and live la vie en rose. Who’d have guessed Charles Khabouth would bring cachet back to the Colonnade?
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tati BiStro
124 Harbord, at Major, 416-9628284, tatibistro.com. Back when Laurent Brion’s secluded rooftop aerie was known as Kensington Kitchen, it regularly won NOW’s Readers Poll for best patio. And second-best tree. Both are still there – though significantly spiffier – but the student falafel platters of old have been replaced by date-friendly plates of classic steak frites and duck confit. Sometimes new is better. And you’ve got to love a bistro whose logo is Monsieur Hulot riding a bicycle.
180 Panorama
55 Bloor W, at Bay, 416-9670000, eatertainment.com. Located high above Mink Mile on the 51st floor of the ManuLife Centre, this striking resto-lounge’s two rooftop decks, one facing south to the skyline and harbour beyond, the other looking north over Rosedale and Forest Hill, make a great place to impress a date, unless they’re terrified of heights. But once the view, the booze and the altitude kick in – not to mention the skyhigh prices – who’s going to notice?
WiSh
3 Charles E, at Yonge, 416-9350240, wishintoronto.com. Sister to 7 West down the block, Renda Abdo’s sweetly chic sidewalk oasis might look like a typical Yorkville haunt – all white linen sofas and whitewashed brick walls – but is anything but. Not only are the prices more in line with funky Dundas West, but the kitchen also bravely breaks away from the tony nabe’s regulation Cal-Ital playbook. And any lounge that has Roxy Music in a continuous loop on the CD player is all right in our books.
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116 Yorkville, at Hazelton, 416961-9600, onehazelton.com. Hang around long enough at this wraparound curbside terrace at the swanky Hazelton Hotel and you’re bound to spot a celebrity. No wonder the paparazzi are parked here permanently come TIFF. But rubbing shoulders with Hollywood A-listers will cost you: TV chef Mark McEwan’s prime USDA Whoppers go for a whopping 29 bucks! continued on page 38 ➽
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boulevArd cAfe
161 Harbord, at Borden, 416-961-7676. A perennial favourite on the south Annex’s restaurant row, this candlelit Peruvian patio makes the perfect backdrop for a night of canoodling under the stars.
bouTIque bAr
506 Church, at Maitland, 647-7050006, boutiquebar.ca. Tuesday is airline industry night. Take flight with $4.75 mixed drinks, $6 martinis and complimentary bar snacks. HARBORD ROOM
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89 Harbord, at Spadina, 416-9628989, theharbordroom.com. Since it opened five summers back, Cory Vitiello and Dave Mitton’s jewel-box of a spot has consistently proved one of downtown’s top kitchens, never more so than in summer, when the 32-seat room nearly doubles its capacity with a super backyard garden. Who else would deepfry soft-shell crab and serve it in a po’ boy dressed with pickled cabbage slaw and sided them with house-made barbecue potato chips?
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Sugo
582 Church, at Dundonald, 416929-9108, sugotrattoria.ca. Better known as that bar in the village where it’s always ladies’ night, this rambling Victorian not only sports two large patios – one on the curb, the other out back – but a more than creditable southern Italian card from owner/chef Lia Buggemi as well. We’d gladly switch teams for a plate of her deep-fried sausage meatballs stuffed with olives.
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Il PoSTo
148 Yorkville, at Avenue Rd, 416968-0469, ilposto.ca. A favourite of the expense-account set and local politicians – same thing, really – this fancy-pants Italian trat in a beautiful Yorkville courtyard is definitely a trip back in time. Under sun-dappled umbrellas, the well-heeled nosh on the retro likes of Provimi calf’s liver and vitello tonnato served by an army of formally dressed pros who likely make twice what you do. Triple. Lane, this recently redecorated whiteon-white celebu-boîte caters to the champagne cocktail crowd. Dress code? You had to ask?
blAck eAgle
457 Church, at Maitland, 416-413-1219, blackeagletoronto.com. Toronto’s only leather bar boasts bondage workshops, an outdoor play area obscured by camouflage netting, and Sunday-afternoon barbecues from 3 pm.
blAke HouSe
449 Jarvis, at Maitland, 416-975-1867,
byzAnTIum
499 Church, at Wellesley, 416-9223859, byz.ca. The Village’s classiest cocktail lounge, this much-loved restobar is home to more than 50 types of martini and a tented backyard hideaway.
cAPlAnSky’S
356 College, at Brunswick, 416-5003852, caplansky.com. Old-school smoked meat sandwiches, all-day bagel ’n’ lox breakfasts and Ontario microwbrews close to Kensington Market.
cArenS
158 Cumberland, at Avenue Rd, 416962-5158, carenswineandcheese.com. Yorkville wine bar with romantic backyard grotto and weekend brunch.
cenTrAl
603 Markham, at Bloor W, 416-9134586, thecentralbar.ca. Mirvish Village bar formerly known as Bordello, True Grits and Red Guitar, with double decks overlooking Honest Ed’s.
cIAo
133 Yorkville, at Hazelton, 416-9252143, ciaowinebar.com. Multi-storey wine bar on Old Yorke Lane.
creme
162 Cumberland, at Avenue Rd, 416962-7363, cremebrasserie.com. Secluded French bistro tucked away behind the Four Seasons hotel in the defunct Zola/Michelle’s Brasserie space.
new! crewS/TAngo
508 Church, at Maitland, 416-9721662, crewsandtangos.com. Nightly DJs and drag shows in a huge backyard playground in the heart of the village.
crown & drAgon
890 Yonge, at Dupont, 416-927-7976, crownanddragon.com. Thirty types of
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Andrew Carter makes one helluva hamburger. The one he created for the Queen and Beaver regularly tops polls. But the $19 6-ouncer he’s come up with for its spinoff is a beast of a different nature. “It’s a burger at its purest,” says Carter. “We start with some of the best Canadian dry-aged rib-eye on the market, but grind it instead of chopping it by hand like we do at the Queen. A little salt and pepper, throw it on the grill and you’re done.” Pub grub, no matter how upscale, seems out of place among the orange tan and Botox crowd. Since the new gastro-pub’s directly across the street from the chi-chi Hazelton Hotel, have they purposefully positioned the Oxley (121 Yorkville, at Hazelton, 647-348-1300, theoxley.com) as the anti-One? “Absolutely not,” laughs Carter. “McEwan’s doing some wonderful things over there. We’re quite complementary in a way, playing off each other’s strengths. There’s no reason you can’t like both.” SD
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this local’s curbside patio for its acclaimed $16 prime rib Sunday dinners. Though the meal deal starts at 5, it’s often sold out by 7 pm.
Dynasty
Joso’s
202 Davenport, at Northview, 416-925-1903, josos.com. Upscale Dalmatian fish resto with naughty sculptures. Closed Sunday.
22 Cumberland, at Yonge, 416923-5716, thepilot.ca. Yorkville hasn’t always been synonymous with bottled tans and Botox, and this nearly 70 year-old’s Flight Deck proves it. Think pub grub, suds and endless sunshine under a retractable roof.
69 Yorkville, at Belair, 416-9233323. Formerly located in the Colonnade, this pricey Yorkville dim sum dining room has moved two blocks due north into what used to be Ivory and True.
Ethiopian housE
4 Irwin, at Yonge, 416-923-5438, ethiopianhouse.com. Kenyan beer and fiery East African platters make a great cheap date near U of T.
Fabarnak
519 Church, at Dundonald, 416355-6781, fabarnak.com. Inexpensive café in the 519 with a mostly organic and locally sourced lineup. Don’t miss the Square Peg, a four-course sampling of the day’s specials. Closed Sunday, some holidays. Unlicensed.
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488 Parliament, at Carlton, 647347-6567, pubaret.com. Billing itself as a pubaret – part pub, part cabaret – Heather MacKenzie and Maggie Cassella’s Cabbagetown cantina features nightly music and comedy shows alongside a walletfriendly comfort food card. Closed Monday to Wednesday, holidays.
FrEE timEs CaFE
320 College, at Robert, 416-9671078, freetimescafe.com. Venerable café close to U of T with renowned $19.95 all-you-can-eat – and eat and eat – Jewish brunch buffet.
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321 Bloor W, at St George, 416585-2233, barmercurio.com. Student-friendly Italian café on the ground floor of U of T’s Woodsworth College, with super optics of the passing parade.
1068 Yonge, at Roxborough, 416927-0704, rebelhouse.ca. This rough ’n’ tumble pub pulls Ontario microbrews alongside a Canuckthemed menu of burgers ’n’ meat loaf on a sunny upper deck.
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264 Dupont, at Spadina, 416-5152002, livefoodbar.com. One of T.O.’s best vegetarian restaurants salutes summer with a mostly raw vegan card, gluten-free beer and egg-free weekend brunches in a tree-shrouded backyard. Closed some holidays.
4 Avenue Rd, at Bloor W, 416924-5471, parktoronto.hyatt. com. Back in the day – 1965 – the 18th-floor rooftop deck of the former Park Plaza was the Drake Hotel of its time. And although the space is considerably smaller than it was then, the Rat Pack vibe persists.
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loirE
119 Harbord, at Brunswick, 416850-8330, loirerestaurant.ca. This charming French bistro dishes up some of the most competently composed plates in town on a pretty street-side terrace. Closed Sunday, Monday, holidays.
lola’s kitChEn
634 Church, at Hayden, 416-9663991, lolaskitchen.ca. Although the original owners have moved on, little else about this rambling Victorian at the top of the Village has changed, including its famous cheesecake-stuffed French toast.
544 Church, at Wellesley, 416966-2981, secondcup.com. For anyone whose misspent youth was passed permanently parked on this coffee chain’s infamous steps, this local caffeine franchise’s outpost in the old Zelda’s next door is a godsend. No wonder its cruisy curbside patio is packed round the clock. Unlicensed.
silvEr Dollar room
486 Spadina, at College, 416-9750909, silverdollarroom.com. This retro boozer is the ideal place to weep into your dirt-cheap beer.
NEW! smith
maDison
483 Bloor W, at Brunswick, 416922-5875. No longer Future Bakery, this budget-minded Annex patio is home away from home for cash-strapped U of T students.
14 Madison, at Bloor, 416-9271722, madisonavenuepub.com. Taking up two three-storey mansions close to U of T, this studentfriendly pub is a maze of red velvet rooms that lead to five separate decks, four of them heated.
553 Church, at Dundonald, 416926-2501, 553church.com. Cozy stand-up bar on the sidewalk out front and ultra-exclusive two-seat terrace on the second floor. Coming soon: backyard grotto!
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o’graDy’s
518 Church, at Maitland, 416-3232822, ogradyschurch.ca. Multilevel patio with late-night kitchen and karaoke nights. Other patio location: 171 College, at Henry, 416596-0327.
84 Yorkville, at Bellair, 416-9261010, sorrelrestaurant.ca. Subterranean Cal-Ital resto from the folks behind the similar and nowdefunct Prego della Piazza with a $20 two-course weekday lunch prix fixe.
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425 Church, at Wood, 416-9642708, hairofthedogpub.ca. Multilevel watering hole with gorgeous garden and roof deck. Water fountains and weekend brunch, too.
hEmingways
142 Cumberland, at Avenue Rd, 416-968-2828, hemingways.to. Huge New Zealander sports bar with heated rooftop deck celebrates its 32nd birthday Saturday (May 26).
housE on parliamEnt
454 Parliament, at Wellesley E, 416-925-4074, houseonparliament.com. Show up early – lunch, say – if you expect to get a seat on
121 Yorkville, at Hazelton, 647348-1300, theoxley.com. See page 39.
paupErs
539 Bloor W, at Albany, 416-5301331, pauperspub.com. Cousin to the Madison, this student-friendly deck on the roof of a former Annex bank offers food and drink specials from noon.
sorrEl
595 Markham, at Bloor, 416-5363211, southernaccent.com. New Orleans-style eatery in Mirvish Village with heated all-weather patio out front. Closed Monday, holidays.
spirits
642 Church, at Hayden, 416-9670001, spiritsbarandgrill.com. Rambunctious sports bar with open-mic comedy nights Wednes-
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Village Victorian
The Robert Simpson mansion at the north end of the village’s main drag has been home to many a beanery, half-remembered names like Robert’s, Diablo and the Mango. Its last — and most opulent — occupant was Fuzion, a resto-lounge and terrace geared to a more upmarket crowd than the one that shows up for Dirty Bingo at Zelda’s. Why, they even had Oprah’s expersonal chef and future Top Chef contestant Patrick Wiese in the kitchen when they launched. But after a not unsuccessful five-year run, owner Jimmy Georgoulis has had a change of heart. “I got tired of fine dining and high food costs,” says Georgoulis. “I’m a pub guy.” And so the Vic Pub (580 Church, at Dundonald, 416-944-9888), a roadhouse that’s open from lunch till late seven days a week. The stately Victorian looks much the same, though with significantly less froufrou. Gone are supreme of free-range chicken with beet spaetzle, replaced with fish tacos and pulled pork poutine. But what of the zoning notice posted out front a few months back announcing a proposed condo tower that would render the historic building history? SD “The developer withdrew his proposal. No condos for now.”
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days, more than a dozen beers on tap and three sunny patios. Bonus: $3 corkage Sunday to Tuesday.
Statler’S
487 Church, at Maitland, 647-3510957, statlersonchurch.ca. No longer BLU – or LUB, for that matter – this twostorey show bar presents nightly cabaret acts and an upstairs deck with cruisey sightlines.
Stout IrISh Pub
221 Carlton, at Parliament, 647-3447676, stoutirishpub.ca. Cabbagetown local with brand new backyard deck.
trattorIa NervoSa
75 Yorkville, at Bellair, 416-961-4642, eatnervosa.com. Sister to downtown hot spot du jour Gusto 101, this moderately priced trat (well, for Yorkville) offers the usual pizza, pasta and panini on two wraparound decks with primo patio optics.
le trou NormaNd
90 Yorkville, at Bellair, 416-967-5956, letrounormand.ca. Ancient Yorkville bistro is a feast for the eyes but not so much for the tongue. Closed Sunday, some holidays.
NEW! vIc Pub
580 Church, at Dundonald, 416-9449888. See pg 41.
vIctory café
581 Markham, at Lennox, 416-5165787, victorycafe.ca. Cask-conditioned ales, microbrews and the Hot Jazz String Quartet every Wednesday night in Mirvish Village.
Zelda’S lIvINg Well
692 Yonge, at St Mary, 416-922-2526, zeldas.ca. The liquored-up trailer trash queen returns to her original digs with a virtually identical lineup of drag queens, cheap drinks and dirty bingo.
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NEW! cafe beloNg
550 Bayview, at Pottery Rd, 416901-8234, cafebelong.ca. Open seven days a week from dawn till dusk, Brad Long’s eco-minded eatery at the Brick Works celebrates the local harvest. See it in such dishes as sustainable white bass with barley risotto and pastry chef Andrea Mut’s superb Monforte Dairy cheesecake. Monday to Friday from 4 to 6 pm, Long now offers a happy-hour lineup featuring $3.50 bottles of Steam Whistle and nibbly things he calls “pigs in a parka” and “schnitzel du jour.” But unless you plan on camping out overnight, scoring a table on the 60-seat noreserve terrace during Saturday’s farmers’ market is nigh on impossible.
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le PaPIlloN oN the ParK
1001 Eastern, at Woodfield, 416649-1001, lepapillonpark.com. Though this long-running French bistro on the edge of the Beach still offers a fairly traditional carte, its 90-seat second-storey deck features an extensive grilled lineup now that management has installed an impressive 6-foot barbecue. Dishes like escargots and tourtière rub shoulders with triple-A rib-eyes and the house sausage trio. Bonus: Sundays, the Leslieville farmers’ market sets up in the parkette across the street. Closed Monday, Tuesday, holidays.
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124 Danforth, at Broadview, 416-466-2000, thinkglobaleatlocal.ca. Ed Ho hates wasps. Not straitlaced Presbyterians, but the nasty flying insects that nest near his ever-busy bistro’s Miami-style rooftop deck. To drive away the pests, the savvy restaurateur has installed not one, but two beehives. Should make the daily half-price appetizers from 4 to 6 pm go down that much easier.
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479 Broadview, at Riverdale, 416-995-1530, roostercoffeehouse.com. They say that if someone dropped a bomb on this always crowded Riverdale java joint, the Globe and Mail and CBC Radio would lose a considerable chunk of their workforce. And isn’t that Martha and the Muffins’ Martha Johnson and Mark Gane taking in the iconic skyline view over fair trade lattes in a pair of Muskoka chairs out front? Unlicensed.
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143 Danforth, at Broadview, 416-463-3086, allens.to. Urban myth has it that this New York-style saloon’s “secret” hamburger is only available to those who know to ask for it, yet there it is in plain sight on the menu, right below the Kuala Lumpur shrimp and the blackened Cajun potato salad. Look closer and you’ll also note there’s an all-VQA wine cellar and more than 200 brands of single malt Scotch. continued on page 44 ➽
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lil’ BaCi
892 Queen E, at Logan, 416-4654888, lilbaci.com. Gourmet pizza with regionally sourced toppings washed down with pints of local craft beer in a leafy Leslieville back garden.
lion on the BeaCh
1958 Queen E, at Kenilworth, 416690-1984. Ignore the bad pun: pub grub and pints on a sunny patio wrapped around a converted bank.
Melanie’s
1870 Danforth, at Albright, 416-4221870, melaniesbistro.ca. Don’t miss the bistro’s Newfie weekend brunch – poached eggs in dilled hollandaise over pan-fried cod cakes, home fries and fruit salad.
NEW! Morgan’s on the Danforth
1282 Danforth, at Linsmore Cr, 416461-3020, morgansonthedanforth. com. New computer-friendly eatery with connections to the Hot House Café.
MurPhy’s law
1702 Queen East, at Kingston, 416690-5516, murphyslaw.ca. This breezy fourth-floor Irish-themed retreat in a converted bank overlooks Ashbridges Bay Park to Lake Ontario beyond.
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500A Danforth, at Logan, 416-7780500, ouzeri.com. Loud 90s-style Greek resto with fake trees indoors and real ones on the patio out front.
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lahore tikka house
1365 Gerrard E, at Highfield, 416406-1668, lahoretikkahouse.com. Though the renovation of this rambling Taj Mahal still isn’t complete (will it ever be?), the fleet of 18-wheelers that provided temporary housing is long gone, replaced by a 400-seat patio tented with billowing sari fabric. Regulars know to pair tandoor-fired Pakistanistyle kebabs and whole boneless red snapper with sizeable platters of rice biryani before finishing with housemade pistachio kulfi ice cream washed
morE East sidE astoria
390 Danforth, at Chester, 416-4632838, astoriashishkebobhouse.com. Though this Greek resto’s decor may be stuck in 1986 – stucco and faux finishes, ahoy – its typical card of Mediterranean salads and kebabs rises above the competition. The secret? An all-Sri Lankan kitchen crew!
avli
401 Danforth, at Chester, 416-4619577, avlirestaurant.com. Sedate by Danforth standards, this stuccoed Greek cantina’s front terrace makes a still-noisy backdrop for better-than-expected mezes and mains.
BeaCher Cafe
2162 Queen E, at Glen Manor, 416-6993874, thebeachercafe.com. Long-running jazzy resto-lounge in the east Beach with large curbside deck.
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Batifole
744 Gerrard E, at Howland, 416462-9965, batifole.ca. Former Sassafraz toque Jean-Jacques Texier jokingly refers to his romantic Riverdale bistro as the best French restaurant in Chinatown (east division). He’s far too modest. We’d say one of the three best in the city, no small feat when most mains are priced at a budget-minded $18, sides $8 and desserts just $6. Voulez-vous
manger avec moi ce soir? Closed Monday, Tuesday, holidays.
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NEW! Pizzeria liBretto on the Danforth
550 Danforth, at Carlaw, 416-4660400, pizzerialibretto.com. Though the original Libretto on Ossington famously doesn’t take reservations, the east-side outpost of Toronto’s favourt pizzeria more than gladly does. And you’ll need them to guarantee a two-top on its small curbside terrace. Same amazing pastas ‘n’ thin-crusted pies, substantially shorter wait.
1106 Danforth, at Caithness, 416-4629555, railsandales.ca. Relocated Irish pub in the old Hargrave next to a mechanic’s garage. Have a pint of Guinness while you get your shocks done.
sauvignon
1862 Queen E, at Rainsford, 416-6861998, sauvignonbistro.com. An unpretentious French bistro on the edge of the Beach, a neighbourhood – with a few exceptions – not known for its cuisine.
seven nuMBers
307 Danforth, at Bowden, 416-4695183, sevennumbers.com. Rustic southern Italian served tapas-style in a postmodern trat done intentionally on the cheap. Dress code: burlap! Closed Monday.
tango PalaCe Big Carrot organiC JuiCe Bar
348 Danforth, at Hampton, 416-4662129, thebigcarrot.ca. Health-conscious elixirs next to the organic grocer. Unlicensed.
NEW! Bluffer’s
7 Brimley South, 416-264-2337, bluffersrestaurant.com. Large resto complex in the park with two large decks right on the water in the middle of a marina.
Ceili Cottage
1301 Queen E, at Alton, 416-406-1301, ceilicottage.com. Starfish oyster shucker Patrick McMurray converts a Leslieville garage into a Celtic pub with stepdancers, fiddlers and all-day weekend Irish breakfasts. Sunday roast dinners and matchmaking services, too.
Christina’s
492 Danforth, at Logan, 416-463-4418, christinas.ca. Greektown taverna with a year-round heated, three-course lunch and dinner prix fixe, and belly dancing Friday and Saturday nights, joining in optional.
DolCe gelato on the Danforth
414 Danforth, at Arundel, 416-5462148, dolcegelato.net. Little Italy gelato joint brings its quality product to the east side. Other patio location: 697 College, at Montrose, 416-915-0756.
faCtory girl
193 Danforth, at Ellerbeck, 647-3522799, factorygirlrestaurant.com. In what was once the Willow’s backyard, an all-day pasta and pizza menu from a pub named for a Rolling Stones track.
ginger in the BeaCh
1985 Queen E, at Waverley, 416-6943278, vietfooddelivery.com. Inexpensive health-conscious Vietnamese franchise with a multi-level deck expands into a virtual culinary wasteland.
hanoi 3 seasons on Queen e
1135 Queen E, at Larchmount, 416469-3010, hanoi3seasons.com. Toronto’s only North Vietnamese resto moves outdoors onto a chic backyard deck for that one important season. Best: grilled grouper with dill and chilies over vermicelli. Closed Monday.
Joy Bistro
1156 Queen E, at Jones, 416-4658085. Secluded backyard getaway backing on Leslie Grove Park. Unlicensed.
te aro
983 Queen E, at Pape, 416-465-2006. Kiwi coffeehouse in Leslieville known for its small-batch air-roasted beans. Unlicensed.
NEW! touCan taCo Bar
686 Queen E, at Broadview, 416-4619663. Le Rossignol moves from French bistro to quick taco ’n’ burrito pit stop. Closed Sunday, Monday, some holidays.
NEW! winChester arMs
1090 Kingston Rd, at Blantyre, 416690-4070. For the reader who complains every year that we never include any patios east of Victoria Park – name three – here’s a no-frills working-class watering hole with plastic furniture and hanging plants next to a parking lot.
NEW! works
884 Queen E, at Booth, 416-465-8855, joybistro.com. Insanely popular brunch spot with two completely different patios – one overlooking tennis courts, the other a faux Miami lounge complete with fire pit.
888 Danforth, at Dewhurst, 647-7484455, worksburger.com. Ottawabased gourmet burger chain launches in Greektown. Is the east side ready for $14 hamburgers?
leslie Jones
980 Danforth, at Donlands, 416-4651989, zeitounturkishcuisine.com. Turkish shish kebab, kofte platters and pide pizzas on a sunny curbside patio. Unlicensed.
1182 Queen E, at Rushbrooke, 416-4635663. Summery salads and first-rate pizza in a tree-shrouded backyard hideaway, the only sounds the wind in the
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auBerge Du PoMMier
4150 Yonge, at York Mills, 416-2222220, oliverbonacini.com. Sandwiched between two 19th-century stone cottages, this way-atmospheric French resto is the closest Hogtown will ever get to the south of France. As the compulsory burbling fountain masks the noise from the nearby busy street, privileged diners tuck into lobster vol au vents and rabbit saddle next to a wall of fruit trees whose issue eventually finds its way into chef Marc St. Jacques’s seasonal sorbet. Closed Sunday, holidays.
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rushton
740 St Clair W, at Rushton, 416-6587874, therushton.com. You’d think St Clair would be awash in terrific sidewalk cafés, but such is not the case. This rare exception from the folks responsible for Ferro breaks the rule. With its awning-covered candlelit terrace decked out with lowslung sofas, the Rush comes closer to the downtown vibe of the Drake than to the strip’s mom ’n’ pop trats.
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garDen Cafe
777 Lawrence E, at Leslie, 416-3926190, torontobotanicalgarden.ca. You don’t have to be a member of the Toronto Botanical Society to enjoy a bite to eat in this delightful stone lodge on the parklike grounds. Just a hop, skip and a jump from Connie and Babs’s pile on the Bridle Path, this May-to-October café features an all-day lineup supplied by celebrated caterers A La Carte. Guests should remember to please not pick the flowers, though smelling and photos are fine. Unlicensed.
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1228 St Clair W, at St Clair Gardens, 416-654-9900. Just about anybody can make gelato. Put the pre-bought mix in the machine, turn it on, and 30 minutes later you’ve got an “authentic” Italian ice. This fashionable gelateria goes the extra distance by making almost all of its frozen desserts from scratch, whether classic zuppa Inglese or dairy-free limoncello. Shame about the Italian muzak the local BIA pumps from tinny speakers all along the sidewalk.
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fox & fiDDle
1535 Yonge, at Glen Elm, 416-9673400, foxandfiddle.com. Though the mainstream menu’s all over the map (hello, bangers ’n’ mash, Thai curry and butter chicken), the Fiddle’s focus is strictly on fun – three sunny decks and 250 seats kind of fun, including the usual cheap suds, drink specials and huge TVs tuned to the game.
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NEW! fAbbrICA
49 Karl Fraser, at Bayview, 416-3910307, fabbrica.mcewangroup.ca. TV chef Mark McEwan introduces pricey wood-burning pizza to the Bridle Path.
frIdA
999 Eglinton W, at Glen Cedar, 416-7872221, fridarestaurant.ca. Inspired by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, this modish regional Mexican cantina eschews all Tex-Mex clichés on a quiet backyard deck. Closed Monday, holidays.
grAnITe breWery
245 Eglinton E, at Mt Pleasant, 416-3220723, granitebrewery.ca. A sprawling theme park of a pub, this busy boozer brews nine brands of suds, including Hopping Mad and Peculiar.
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623 Mount Pleasant, at Manor, 416-5449035. Fancy-pants French bistro riding on its past reputation. Lovely terrace, mind. Closed Monday.
CoquIne
2075 Yonge, at Manor, 416-322-6767, coquinerestaurant.com. Anodyne French bistro with pretty south- and east-facing patios.
desoTos
1079 St Clair W, at Lauder, 416-651-2109, desotos.ca. Neighbourhood watering hole with Thursday open mic night and live jazz Sunday brunch.
duff’s fAmous WIngs
1604 Bayview, at Millwood, 416-5440100, duffsfamouswings.ca. Buffalo-style chicken wings ranging in heat from nonexistent to nuclear. Other patio location: 558 College, at Manning, 416-963-4446.
1620 Bayview, at Manor, 416-489-7427, highway61.ca. Barnboard-lined roadhouse with a soundtrack of retro rock, vintage concert posters and Southern U.S.-style barbecue.
mAd ITAlIAn
1581 Bayview, at Belsize, 416-901-4556, maditalian.ca. Late-night café with an extensive lineup of artisanal gelato and “zazzu hot cones” – aka ice cream cones stuffed with pizza! Other patio location: 589 College, at Clinton, 647-352-6234.
NEW! PATIsserIe lA CIgogne
1626 Bayview, at Manor, 416-487-1234, patisserielacigogne.com. Très charming bakery known for its weekend-only Alsatian tartes flambées. Think breakfast pizza, only thinner, French and a little bit German. Unlicensed.
TAbule
2009 Yonge, at Glebe, 416-483-3747, tabule.ca. Affordable prices, friendly servers and well-executed Israeli-style Middle Eastern grub mean inevitable lineups at peak feeding times.
NEW! unCle beTTy’s dIner
2590 Yonge, at Albertus, 416 4832590, unclebettys.com. Way-upmarket greasy spoon famous for its $14 grilled cheese sandwich stuffed with both macaroni ‘n’ cheese and meat loaf as well as eggs Benny built on house-made doughnuts. Apparently, it helps to be hung over.
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1560 Yonge, at Heath, 416-9799918, cavarestaurant.ca. At 32 bucks a pop and a minimum of two people, Chris McDonald’s paella is a serious culinary commitment. And worth every penny for safron-scented bomba rice thick with crispy-skinned chicken, spicy house-made chorizo, calamari and Manila clams. Chef recommends necking it with an $85 white rioja “for its texture and cleansing acidity” before following with his $10 pistachio and lemon bombe paired with sweet sherry-steeped prunes.
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950 Eglinton W, at Rostrevor, 416-787-7423, stonebowl.ca. Vegetarians have a hard enough time deciding where to eat, let alone finding a veggie-friendly resto with a sunny patio. Vegans have it even worse. But even though their cheerful,modish Seoul food resto serves meat (hey, they’re Korean!), owners Sam Lee and Janet Yun bend over backwards to accommodate hardcore herbivores. Look no further than stone bowls of roasted brown rice topped with all manner of meaty mushrooms and assorted seeds. Who knew healthy tasted this good? Closed Monday, some holidays.
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golden sTAr
7123 Yonge, at Doncaster, 905889-6891. The Burger’s Priest may inspire religious epiphanies, but this old-school Thornhill drive-in has had a cult following since the 60s. The faithful come for the All-Star Burger Deluxe, 6 extremely juicy ounces of never-frozen medium-grind Nortown steak loaded with processed cheddar, beefy bacon and house-made barbecue sauce, the lot “run through the garden.” 3
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WHO: Ryan Michael Cheung WHERE: Winnifred Avenue WEARING: Ben Sherman Gingham Factory shirt ($148), EC1 chinos ($128), Mayfair canvas and suede shoes ($138) and Plectrum belt ($108, 734 Queen West, 416-6037437, bensherman.com)
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stylenotes The week’s news, views and sales SHOPPING PICK
The StyleNorth garage sale is back. On Saturday (May 19), some of the city’s top vintage furniture and housewares collectors set up shop at Wychwood Gallery (601 Christie) to sell off tables, chairs, cabinets, rugs, mirrors, art, lamps, vases, cushions and decorative items, starting at 9 am. For more info, check out StyleNorth.ca.
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Style Garage (938 Queen West, 416-534-4343, stylegarage.com) has launched its new furniture lineup. In the couch department there’s the Adelaide sofa ($2,150), a mid-century-mod-inspired piece with square cushions and tapered wooden legs. The classic Truss chair ($950) is now available in cobalt blue felt upholstery in addition to bright green or cream tones. And there’s the Root coffee table ($450), with its white-lacquered faux-wood-grain top.
FLUEVOGS FOR SALE
Do you have some old or forgotten Fluevog shoes hiding in the back of your closet? Now you can sell them on the Fluemarket (fluevog.com/ fluemarket), the BC-based footwear outfit’s new online resale store. The just-launched buy, sell and swap site already features over 100 pairs that shoppers can search for based on gender or size.
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KORHANI OUTDOOR RUG Every Toronto Fashion Week, Canadian rug company Korhani stages an overthe-top show where its carpets are cut into runway looks, including Alice in Wonderland-inspired costumes and 80s-themed party dresses. The rest of the year, Korhani focuses on translating trends under foot like the bright hues that make up its selection of striped outdoor rugs. Pick one up for your patio (or to stitch into a dress if you’re feeling carpet-couture-crafty yourself). $20, Walmart, 2525 St. Clair West, 416-763-7325, korhani.com. 3
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Torontonians love to fill their interiors with antiques and salvaged finds, but weathered pieces can work equally well outdoors. Take spring picks like found porch columns, extra-tall screen doors and a folk art boat at Parkdale spot Hideaway Antiques, for example. They would all add a cozy timeworn look to patios and backyards begging for personality. Hideaway owner Bill Jarman is an antiques industry institution, but his warehouse-size shop has gone through some changes lately. The Victorian, Mission and Arts and Crafts furniture he was known for has been lightened up with more industrial pieces and curiosities like tables fashioned from reclaimed boat propellers and a wall of found circus pennants. Jarman recently discovered a lot of 20 vintage Vespas from the late 60s through 1979. There are 12 tuned-up models left for $2,300 each. Hideaway Antiques picks: Dome-shaped ceiling fixtures with ridged glass shades are $325 each; a rattan porch chair is a handsome outdoor buy, $825; for new shop owners and aspiring café keepers, Hideaway always has an amazing stock of showcases like a Parker pen display stand, $6,500. Look for: A new stash of salvaged accessories and other smaller buys arriving this week directly from the legendary Brimfield Antique Show in Massachusetts. Hours: Tuesday to Friday 10 am to 5 pm, Saturday and Sunday noon Hideaway manager Janet Myers and Bill Jarman. to 5 pm 3
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by Rob Brezsny
Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 Is there a differ-
ence in sound quality between relatively inexpensive modern violins and the multi-million-dollar violins created by master craftsmen in the 1700s? In research done at the Eighth International Violin Competition, most violinists couldn’t tell them apart. (Read more here: tinyurl.com/ViolinResearch.) In accordance with the astrological omens, Aries, I urge you to do comparable tests in your own sphere. There’s no need to overpay for anything, either with your money, your emotions, your energy or your time. Go with what works, not with what costs the most or has highest status.
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TAurus Apr 20 | May 20 If we thought
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of your life as a book, the title of the next chapter could very well be In Quest Of The Primal. I encourage you to meditate on what that means to you, and then act accordingly. Here are a few possibilities: tapping into the mother lode; connecting to the source; communing with the core; returning to beginnings; seeking out the original; being in tune with the pulse of nature. Does any of that sound like fun? According to my reading of the astrological omens, you have a mandate to be as raw as the law allows – to be the smartest animal you can be.
GeMini May 21 | Jun 20 A Russian woman named Marija Usova decided to go skydiving even though she was eight months pregnant. “I wanted my baby to have the beautiful feeling of flying through the air and free-falling before it was born,” she said. Soon after she jumped out of the plane and opened her parachute, she went into labor. Luckily, her daughter waited until she landed to be born. What does this have to do with you? I don’t recommend you do anything even remotely like what Usova did in the next few weeks. But do be alert for healthier, saner approaches to the basic theme, which is to be adventurous and wild and free as you birth a new possibility. CAnCer Jun 21 | Jul 22 You spend nearly one-third of your life sleeping. For onefifth of that time, you’re dreaming. So pretty much every night, you watch and respond to as much as 90 minutes’ worth of movies created by and starring you. Much of this footage is obscure and confusing and not exactly Oscar-worthy, which is one reason you may not recall many of the details when you wake up. But according to my astrological analysis, the immediate future could be different.
Your dreams should be full of riveting entertainment that reveals important information about the mysteries of your destiny. Please consider keeping a pen and notebook near your bed, or a small recording device.
Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 It’s Oxymoron Season for you. That means you’re likely to encounter more than your usual share of sweet and sour paradoxes. The logic-loving areas of your brain will almost certainly have to seek assistance from your non-rational wisdom. I’ll give you a heads-up on some of the lucid riddles you should be ready to embrace: 1. a humbling triumph; 2. a tender rivalry; 3. a selfish blessing; 4. an opportunity to commune with risky comfort; 5. an invitation to explore a relaxing challenge; 6. a chance to get up-close and personal with a long-distance connection. For best results, Leo, memorize these lines from Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass and recite them periodically: “Do I contradict myself? / Very well then I contradict myself. / (I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
VirGo Aug 23 | sep 22 There’s at least a
50 per cent chance that the coming days will be over-the-top, out- of-the-blue and off-the-record. I’m half- expecting florid, luscious and kaleidoscopic events, possibly even rococo, swashbuckling and splendiferous adventures. Are you ready for all this? Of course not. That’s the point life will be trying to make: nudging you to learn more about the fine art of spontaneity as you improvise your way through unpredictable lessons that will lead you toward the resources you’ll need to succeed.
LibrA sep 23 | oct 22 Obsessions. Enchantments. Crushes. Manias. Fetishes. Some astrologers think you Libras are mostly immune from these indelicate but sometimes delightful modes of human expression. They seem to believe that you love harmony and balance too much to fall under the spell of a bewitching passion that rivets your focus. I disagree with that view. It may be true that you’re better able than the other signs to be objective about your fixations. But that doesn’t necessarily dilute the intensity you feel when they rise up and captivate your imagination with the force of a thousand love songs. My advice? Have fun and stay amused. sCorpio oct 23 | nov 21 “The chains that bind us most closely are the ones we have broken,” said Scorpio poet An-
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tonio Porchia. In other words, the oppression from which we have freed ourselves may continue to influence us long after we’ve escaped. The imprint it left on our sensitive psyches might keep distorting our decisions and twisting our emotions. But I’m here to tell you, Scorpio, that you’re entering a time when you have an enhanced power to dissolve the lingering taint your broken chains still impose. You finally have the resources and wisdom to complete the liberation process.
sAGiTTArius nov 22 | Dec 21 In the
coming weeks, you will have an excellent chance to develop more skill in the art of high gossip. High gossip has almost nothing in common with the mindless prattle that erodes reputations and fosters cynicism. It’s not driven by envy, pettiness or schadenfreude. When you engage in high gossip, you spread uplifting whispers and inspirational hearsay; you speculate about people’s talents and call attention to their successes; you conspire to awaken generosity of spirit and practical idealism. High gossip is a righteous approach to chatting about the human zoo. It might not flow as easily as the cheap and shabby kind – at least at first – but it lasts a whole lot longer and creates connections that help keep your mental hygiene sparkling clean.
CApriCorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 Sometimes
I have a dream that seems cryptic or meaningless when I first wake up, but a few days later I realize it was a brilliant insight into what I most needed to transform about my life. If you don’t recall many of your dreams, that might not be a familiar experience for you. But you’ve probably had waking-life experiences with a similar arc. I predict you will be given at least one of those in the coming week. It may confound you while you’re in the midst of it, but will eventually reveal choice clues that have the power to change your life for the better.
AquArius Jan 20 | Feb 18 You may not
have heard about the “forbidden colours.” And you certainly haven’t seen them, even though they exist. They’re reddish green and yellowish blue, which the cells of your retina are not built to register. However, scientists have figured out a trick by which these hues can be made visible. A few lucky people have actually caught a glimpse of them. I bring this to your attention, Aquarius, because I suspect you are close to experiencing a metaphorical version of this breakthrough – seeing something that is supposedly impossible to see. (If you’d like to read more about the forbidden colors, go here: tinyurl.com/ForbiddenColors.)
pisCes Feb 19 | Mar 20 “There’s no such thing as a wrong note,” said jazz pianist Art Tatum. “It all depends on how you resolve it.” Jazz trumpeter Miles Davis had a similar philosophy. “It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note,” he said. “It’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.” I think that’s an excellent understanding for you to keep in mind during the coming weeks, Pisces. Be wary of coming to premature conclusions about alleged mistakes. Wait to hear the entire song and see the bigger picture. Homework: In what circumstances do you tend to be smartest? When do you tend to be dumbest? Testify at Freewillastrology.com.
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Small goals rule Stop procrastinating – use the power of tiny wins to kick-start forward motion By elizaBeth Bromstein so i owe the government, like, $200 or something ridiculous like that (well, I owe more, but this is just from last year). I tried to mail the cheque once a few weeks ago but couldn’t find a stamp and, uh, well, here we are. Why can’t I just send the damn cheque? I also need to get a driver’s licence (let’s just say I’ve been legally qualified to have one for a long time) and start an RRSP. These are among my main procras-
tination points. We’ve all got them. Some people want to change careers, lose weight, stop smoking, start a business, write a novel, release an album.... We’ve all got something or several things we’ve been meaning to do for an embarrassing length of time. Why can’t we do these things? How can we galvanize ourselves to seize the motherfarking day and get everything we want out of life? Before it’s too late!
What the experts say “Procrastination is a self-regulation failure. In the old days we’d have called it weakness of will. We want to feel good now, so we don’t feel like doing the task. We have to be strategic. Willpower is like a muscle; we can wear it out. Sometimes it’s a matter of sleeping and eating better. Being physically well improves our self-control. Also, make specific implementation intentions. A vague intention might be ‘I’m going to eat less’; an implementation intention is ‘When I set the table, I’m going to put a smaller plate out for myself.’ It puts a cue for action in the environment. Quit making vague goal intentions.” TIM PYCHYL, professor, Carleton University, department of psychology, founder of the Procrastination Research Group, Ottawa “Our research found that people are more creative and productive when they’re feeling positive emotions and have more positive impressions of their work environment. This applies to everyday life as well. What’s important is making progress on meaningful work. Even if the progress is a small win, something that looks incremental, almost trivial, it can provide a tremendous boost to people’s intrinsic motivation and positive emotions. That’s what we call the power of ‘small wins.’ Some small wins people set up for themselves through interim goals. That’s the progress principle, how small wins can help you move forward. There is a feedback loop: creativity and productivity feed on each other.” TERESA AMABILE, professor of business administration, Harvard Business School, co-author of The Progress Principle, Cambridge, Massachusetts “I have a contrarian view of procras-
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EDWARD SHARPE AND THE MAGNETIC ZEROS at Kool Haus, Sunday, May 13. Rating: NNN
In all-white clothes, an unkempt beard and a shirt draped off one shoulder, Alex Ebert of 12-piece L.A. band Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros was a slight and grungy figure with a big voice at Kool Haus. Though Ebert is often characterized as a hippie, his messianic persona seems more god-fearing than free-loving. As the band, which combines 60s rock, country and gospel, kicked into 40 Day Dream, it became apparent that the rhythm section’s two drummers would dominate the show, propelling Ebert’s and co-singer Jade Castrinos’s anthemic vocals heavenward with an Appalachian stomp. The show’s first half was unabashedly uptempo and crowdpleasing. Ebert’s solo cut Truth, a lilting country ballad showcasing his signature whistling, introduced a little subtlety and introspection into the repertoire. But the lack of a set list and consequent long pauses between songs sapped the momentum from the second half. Giddy devotees who remained till the end were rewarded with cathartic hit Home and an invitation to sit on the floor for a roundKEVIN RITCHIE the-campfire-style finale.
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come out of just two people is a bit of a trip, so it was unfortunate that most couldn’t see them on the 460’s barely elevated stage in a sardine-packed room. On a purely auditory level, the Calgary duo did justice to their Pilgrimage record’s enormous sound, but only those who had staked out a spot at the front way ahead of time were able to watch lead guitarist/growler Thérèse Lanz reproduce her crunchy, bone-crushing tone on a custom baritone guitar or Stef MacKichan carry the complex, jazzy rhythms on her five-cymballed drum set. There was slightly more breathing room for the follow-up set by Isosceles Project. The local prog metal trio played long, multi-part instrumental epics that brought enough heavy to satisfy a crowd RICHARD TRAPUNSKI left rapt by the power of Mares of Thrace.
POW WOWS, SAMANTHA MARTIN & THE HAGGARD and BRADLEYBOY MAC ARTHUR at the 3030, Saturday, May 12. Rating: NNN
The opening party for new Junction music venue the 3030 was also a record release for Detroit blues-punk pioneer Andre Williams featuring three local acts covering his songs. (Williams himself hits town for NXNE in June.) As the club filled up, one-man blues band Bradleyboy Mac Arthur kicked off the night with a set of greasy minimalist blues, using an old suitcase in place of a bass drum and keeping a hi-hat going with his other foot. Samantha Martin and the Haggard quickly followed, grabbing
everyone’s attention with her big, rich voice. Usually associated with the roots rock scene, she actually seems as rooted in early R&B as country. Has anyone claimed “soulful-rockabilly” as a genre yet? After her impressive performance, the raw, trashy garage rock of Pow Wows sounded mellow in comparison. All in all, a good beginBENJAMIN BOLES ning for a promising new club.
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Rating: NNNNN Modern garage rock is sometimes maligned as a genre lacking originality, but the bands on display Saturday at the Horseshoe showed off the style’s versatility by approaching it from different angles: snotty 70s punk (Teenanger), southern blues (the Strange Boys), hippy psychedelia (White Fence) and fuzz-pop (Ty Segall). At its heart, though, garage rock is party music, and for better or worse, the audience definitely came to party. From the moment White Fence started, the mosh pit never abated, and the stage quickly became a wonderland of both experienced stage divers and curious rookies. Segall is used to playing to rabble-rousers in Toronto, but at first he seemed annoyed by the rowdy, intoxicated crowd. He tried a few times to calm things but eventually got swept up in the chaos. As he hooked his legs around the ceiling’s pipes and performed hanging upside down, Segall gave his infectious garage punk the RT execution it truly deserves.
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After 14 years of dodging categorization, shape-shifting Toronto electronic-global-soul band Lal are feeling more comfortable than ever in their lonely one-band genre. With each album, they’ve had to explain how they’re not really a triphop band, nor are they T.O. representatives of the South Asian electronic underground or whatever other fashion of the month they have something in common with. They’re still as eclectic and experimental as ever, but that’s no longer an anomaly in popular music. “I still think we’re a difficult pitch; I’m always the one pitching us, not these two,” jokes singer Rosina Kazi, motioning to her two bandmates sitting across the table. “You could just call us electronic music if you wanted to,” interrupts beatsmith Nicholas Murray. “Or you could say ‘pop music.’ These guys [his bandmates] are trying to fight pop music, but I’m cool with it.” “We get asked to play hip-hop festivals, folk festivals, jazz festivals, techno festivals – you name it,” Kazi continues. “That confuses people, but I love that we can go into any territory and change up our sound.” Kazi and Murray contradict each other and bicker playfully like an old married couple, probably because they’re life partners as well as musical ones. That means bassist Ian de Souza is often left to find the common ground between their viewpoints. It’s an odd dynamic, but over the years they’ve gelled into something closer to an actual band than the amorphous collective they used to be. “In the past we tended to have a lot of friends playing on the records,” de Souza says. That’s an understatement, considering that their last album, Deportation, featured 20 guest musicians. Scaling back to just the three of them also sheds light on why their new album is self-titled despite being their fourth. “I feel like we’re finally ready, 14 years later,” Kazi says. “When we started, we just threw ourselves out there and didn’t know what the hell we were doing. Now, especially as a live act, it feels comfortable. I never expected to have a career for this long, or even a career in music in the first place.” 3
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TaranTuela Local band captures the thriving Cameron House scene on record By RICHARD TRAPUNSKI
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When the Cameron House changed management in 2010, the regulars worried that the Queen West landmark would turn its back on the artistic community it had given a home to since the early 80s. But Mike McKeown and Cosmo Ferraro (nephew of original owner Paul Sanella) have done more than uphold the bar’s close-knit music and arts scene – they’re also fostering its next generation. That next gen is on display on the Cameron House’s small front patio when I arrive to interview Tarantuela, who appear frequently on the venue’s back stage and, come tomorrow, be-
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come the third band to release an album on Cameron House Records. Lounging with Ferraro and Tarantuela’s Rob Viscardis and Steve Kerslake, I immediately recognize the bartender as lead singer/songwriter Jay Swinnerton. “I moved to Toronto from Peterborough specifically to get involved with this scene, so it’s great to find a home here,” says Swinnerton. “I work here and live just across the street, so I’ve become pretty immersed in it all.” Tarantuela’s “loose, rootsy, bluesy community vibe” fits the bar like a glove. Their upcoming debut album, Good Luck-Black Cat-Bad Luck, embodies the spontaneous friends-jamming-in-a-basement mentality of Bob Dylan and the Band’s legendary Basement Tapes. (The Band connection isn’t something they’re shying away from; Swinnerton travelled to Woodstock and the Big Pink to help his friend
Jeremy Kelly with an in-progress documentary about late organist Richard Manuel.) Much of Good Luck-Black Cat-Bad Luck was recorded in a professional studio in Havelock (just outside Peterborough), but final track Rita May is proof perfect that the Cameron scene is alive and well. “We recorded that one in the back room of the Cameron at 3 in the morning with 20 other musicians,” recounts Swinnerton. “I’d only been living here for a short time, but I called everyone I knew from the bar, some old and some new, and had them jam on it. We’d recorded a studio version, but it needed that big, drunken party thing to really work. “It really sounds like an outgrowth of the scene here.” 3 music@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/nowtorontomusic
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ground. May 25.
Beppe LodA Invisible City Drake Hotel. June 2. SArAh hArMer, the SAdieS Earth
Day Canada Gala Drake Hotel 9 pm, $150, VIP $250 incl dinner (6:30 pm). earthday.ca/gala. June 6. CAMo & KrooKed Wrongbar doors 10 pm, $15. RT, SS, TW. June 6. how to dreSS weLL Drake Hotel doors 8 pm, $15 adv. RT, SS. June 7.
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Wrongbar doors 9 pm, $12. RT, SS, TW. June 7.
noiSiA, deLtA heAvy, MC ArMAnni reign Projek Guvernment doors 10 pm,
$25 and up. TW. June 8.
Jody wAtLey, Keith SweAt, K-Ci & JoJo, Swv And otherS Fresh Music
Fest Air Canada Centre 7 pm, $55-$145. TM. June 9. NpeAnut Butter woLf NXNE: Galapagos Drake Hotel doors midnight, $10. June 14.
JAne Bunnett, ShAKurA S’AidA, LAurA fernAndez, LuAndA JoneS, LiBerty SiLver Funny Girls &
Dynamic Divas Comedy & Music Cabaret Bluma Appel Theatre 6 pm, $75. stlc.com. June 14.
Counting CrowS, good oLd wAr, foreign fieLdS, fiLLigAr The
Outlaw Roadshow Echo Beach at Molson Canadian Amphitheatre 8 pm, all ages, $47-$75. TM. June 15. KiM ChurChiLL Horseshoe doors 8:30 pm, $12.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. June 21.
porter roBinSon, MAt zo & the M MAChine Sound Academy doors 10 pm, $20. PDR, RT, SS, TM. June 22.
orgone Lee’s Palace doors 8:30 pm, $11.50
adv. HS, RT, SS. June 26.
the roCKet SuMMer, SCene AeSthetiC, StAteS Virgin Mobile Mod Club doors 6 pm, all ages, $19 adv. HS, RT, SS, TM. June 29. ChiLLiwACK Sound Academy doors 8 pm. June 29.
PChuS & CeBALLoS, dJ pAuLo, MiCKy friedMAnn, eriKA JAne
Prism Festival Guvernment/Kool Haus 10 pm. prismtoronto.com. June 30.
PJeSSiCA SuttA, dJ MAnny LehMAn, dJ honey diJon, dJ Aron
Aaqua Sugar Beach 2-10 pm. prismtoronto.com. June 30 PhorSe MeAt diSCo Pride 2012 Drake Hotel doors midnight, $10. June 30
wiLderneSS of MAnitoBA, LeMon BuCKet orKeStrA, oLenKA & the AutuMn LoverS, freeMAn dre & the KitChen pArty, MAyLee todd & grApeS godLy, MAriA BonitA & the BAnd And otherS
New Traditions: Island Music & Art Festival Artscape Gibraltar Point noon to midnight, $20. newtraditions.ca. June 30.
Ppeter rAuhofer, dAve & gerArdo, JAvier MedinA, SofondA Cox Prism Festival: Revival Guvernment
prismtoronto.com. July 1. youth LAgoon Opera House doors 8:30 pm, $15.50 adv. RT, SS, TM. July 12.
SKriLLex, pretty LightS, dipLo, griMeS, KoAn Sound & toKiMonStA Full Flex Express Train Tour Fort York Gar-
rison Common doors 4 pm, $51.50, early bird $41.50. PDR, RT, SS, TW. July 13. george wAtSKy Virgin Mobile Mod Club doors 7 pm, all ages, $15. RT, SS, TW. July 14. LiArS Lee’s Palace doors 9 pm, $15. HS, RT, SS, TM. July 21 Shout out out out out Horseshoe doors 9 pm, $12.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. July 21. SAint MoteL Drake Hotel doors 8:30 pm, $10.50 adv. RT, SS. July 23. ChAd vAngAALen Virgin Mobile Mod Club doors 8 pm, $20. RT, SS, TW. July 26. dAn vApid & the CheAtS Horseshoe doors 9 pm, $10. HS, RT, SS. July 28.
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Music listings appear by day, then by genre, then alphabetically by venue. Event names are in italics. See Venue Index, page 62, for addresses and phone numbers. = Critics’ pick (highly recommended) ñ 5= Queer night
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Thursday, May 17 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul
AlleycAtz Uptown. the BAllroom Indie Rock Showcase 10 pm. BoAt Silent Shout Brusque Twins, No Breakup, Dark Ages, Western Walk doors 9 pm.
Bovine Sex cluB The Penske File, Bombing
Neverland, Great Lake Survival, DJ Cactus. cAmeron houSe Freeman Dre & the Kitchen Party 10 pm. the centrAl Emilio Fuentes 7 pm. clinton’S Greg Preston & the Great Machine, Von Crippon, Dharma Sun, Redanda (indie) doors 9 pm. cloAk & DAgger PuB Will Gillespie (pop/ folk) 10 pm. DrAke hotel lounge Weekend Startup Boot Knives (rock) doors 11 pm. glADStone hotel meloDy BAr Guh 9 pm. holy oAk cAfe Animals & Ryan Driver (pop) 7:30 pm. horSeShoe Rival Boys, Huddle, Tusks, Low Animal. inter Steer Ronnie Hayward Trio (rockabilly) 8 to 11 pm. lee’S PAlAce Take With Audio, Wentworth, Ancient Order, Ravens Code.
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Desmond Nathan (power pop piano) 10 pm.
lou DAwg’S ryerSon Jeff Eager
(acoustic soul/funk/ Motown) 10 pm. the PiSton Clara Engel, Barzin, Tamara Williamson 9 pm.
AeSop roCK, roB SoniC, dJ Big wiz Virgin Mobile Mod Club 7 pm,
Queen elizABeth ñ theAtre Ron Sex-
$20. PDR, RT, SS, TM. July 30.
twin ShAdow Lee’s Palace doors 8 pm, $20. HS, RT, SS, TM. July 30 and 31.
deAndre BrACKenSiCK, hoLLie CAvAnAgh, CoLton dixon, heeJun hAn, SKyLAr LAine, JoShuA Ledet, phiLLip phiLLipS, JeSSiCA SAnChez, eLiSe teStone & eriKA vAn peLt American Idol Live Tour Air Canada Centre $29.50-$68.50. TM. August 16.
teenAge BottLe roCKet, nothington Horseshoe doors 8 pm, $11.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. August 19.
dJ rupture, A triBe CALLed red, venuS x, Sun ArAw, SLowed, doS MundoS The Waves Sunnyside Pavilion all ages, free. August 26.
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Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 7 pm, $69.50. TM. September 22 and 23. ruSh Clockwork Angels Tour Air Canada Centre 8 pm, $55-$139. TM. October 14.
smith (singer/songwriter) doors 7:15 pm, all ages. revivAl CD release Shakura S’Aida (blues) 9 pm. rockPile Anvil, Caym (metal) doors 7:30 pm.
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The Capitol Beat (funk/soul/ R&B) 10 pm. Silver DollAr EP release The Never Evers, NLP, Brend doors 9 pm. the SiSter Hisland. SneAky Dee’S Cheap Girls, Mockingbird, Wish Me Luck, Rob Moir doors 8:30 pm.
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sounD aCaDemy The Ophidian Trek 2012 Meshuggah, Baroness, Decapiñ tated doors 7 pm, all ages. souThsiDe Johnny’s Skip Tracer (rock) 10 pm. suPeRmaRkeT Vibration With Reason Christian
Bridges, Sheldon Holder, Anton’s Chair 9 pm. TRanzaC souTheRn CRoss Electro-Introspectus Magali Meagher, Liz Forsberg, Christine Bougie (indie) 9:30 pm. viRgin mobiLe moD CLub Tyler Hilton doors 6:30 pm, all ages.
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asPeTTa Caffe Open Mic Jam El Faron 8 pm. CasTRo’s Lounge Jerry Leger & the Situation (country/folk/rock) 9 pm.
The CenTRaL Andrew Johnston (folk/rock) 9:45 pm.
The CenTRaL uPsTaiRs Battrie 7 pm. C’esT whaT Jack Walker (singer/songwriter) 9 pm. Dave’s... on sT CLaiR Uncle Herb’s Open Mic (folk/blues/rock/country) 9 pm.
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Drake: A Tribute To Levon Helm The Treasures doors 8 pm. eTon house Keith Jolie (blues/roots) 7 pm. gRaffiTi’s The After Work Market Soiree Tim Bradford & Bright Blue Motels (country) 5 to 7 pm. gRossman’s Rock’n Robin Harp 10 pm. habiTs gasTRoPub Andrea Wappel (alt-country) 8:30 pm. hoLy oak Cafe Alex Lukashevsky (folk) 10 pm. hugh’s Room Fundraising Benefit for Toronto Drug Treatment Court Martha Meredith, Too Many Sisters, D.P.D. Recovery Band 8:30 pm. The LoCaL Edgar Breau, Christopher Roberts. LoLa Brian Cober (double slide guitar) 9 pm. Lou Dawg’s Mike C (acoustic blues/rock/ funk/reggae) 10 pm. nawLins Jazz baR Nothin’ but the Blues 8 pm. RivoLi Pete Murray (Australian singer/songwriter) 6 pm. TRanzaC souTheRn CRoss Bluegrass Thursdays Houndstooth 7:30 pm. waTeRfaLLs Mardigras Style Blues (piano) 8 pm.
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CheRRy sTReeT ResTauRanT The Joel Hartt Quartet (jazz) 7:30 pm.
emmeT Ray baR Vokurka’s Vicarious Virtuoso Violin (Gypsy swing) 9 pm.
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Adieux III Adrian Kramer (baritone) noon to 1 pm. gaTe 403 String Theory Collective 9 pm, Gia & the Unpredictable Update (trio) 5 to 8 pm. heLiConian haLL Interval House Benefit Concert Danny McErlain, Dave Field, Don Vickery (piano, bass, drums) 7:30 pm. LuLa Lounge Lulaworld: Latin Jazz From Cuba To Barcelona, New York And Toronto Ignacio Berroa, Hilario Durán, Roberto Occhipinti, Luiz Deniz 9 pm, Lulaworld: Latin Jazz From Cuba To Barcelona, New York and Toronto Alain Perez, Robi Botos, Mario Allende 8 pm. meTRoPoLiTan uniTeD ChuRCh Organix 12 John Grew (organ) 12:15 to 1:15 pm. oLD miLL inn home smiTh baR Thursday Night Jazz party Joe Sealy, Julie Michels, Russ Little 7:30 pm. RePosaDo The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz). Rex Mike Murley Septet 9:30 pm, Kevin Quain 6:30 pm. Roy Thomson haLL Kissin Plays Grieg Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Evgeny Kissin (piano) 8 pm. somewheRe TheRe sTuDio Mark Segger 8 pm. TRane sTuDioAd_Now_1-5 The Singer’s Den Al St Louis 8 pm. 270412.ai 1 winChesTeR kiTChen & baR Brownman
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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). oCaDu Inside Out LGBT Film Festival Opening Gala Party DJ Shane Percy 10 pm. RivoLi Praxis 4 Alicia Hush, Beton Brut, DJ Adam Duke, DJ Jonathan Coe (live electronic music) 10 pm. RivoLi PooL Lounge DJ Plan B (reggae/funk/ electroretro). ToTa Lounge Radio Circus Sean Roman, Breezno vs. Room 303, the Deep North Crew, the Spoiled Kids (underground house).
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Heirloom Beats. The baLLRoom The Sound Parade (rock) 9 pm. The baLLRoom uPsTaiRs Ear Candy (rock/ covers) 10 pm. baR iTaLia Shugga (funk) 9:30 pm. bovine sex CLub CJ Sleez, Tiger Star, Sluts on 45, DJ Vania. CaDiLLaC Lounge The Millwinders (rockabilly) 10:15 pm. CasTRo’s Lounge Ronnie Hayward (rockabilly) 5 to 7 pm. The CenTRaL Megstravaganza 10 pm, New Company 6:30 pm.
Earth, Kill the Messenger, Thunderhawks. The gaRRison CD release LAL, Mia Skye, Saye Sky, Matthew Maskaant, R3 Collective, DJs Nik Red, Lover Sun. See preview, page 53. gLaDsTone hoTeL meLoDy baR Wheelbarrow (roots/rock/reggae) 9 pm. gLenn gouLD sTuDio Jay Douglas (soul/ R&B) 8 pm. See preview, this page. gRaffiTi’s Paul Martin (covers) 5 to 7 pm. haRLem Chris Rouse 7:30 pm. Lee’s PaLaCe Flamingo Bay, Slow Motion Victory, Manics Beach, Mrs Johnston (rock). The LoaDeD Dog Cross Eyed Mary (classic 60s & 80s rock) 8:30 pm. LoLa The Johnson Report 8 pm. Lou Dawg’s Jeff Eager (acoustic soul/funk/
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Jay Douglas Singer is a treasure trove of Toronto-Jamaican musical history By ANUPA MISTRY
Jay DougLas at Glenn Gould Studio (250 Front West), Friday (May 18), 8 pm. $29.50. RTH.
Spend 10 minutes with Jay Douglas, the Jamaica-born soul singer whose 2011 album, Lovers Paradise (A440), earned him a Juno nomination in the reggae album category, and Toronto starts to look a little different. Sipping green tea on a black leather couch in his management’s Niagara Street office, he reveals another layer beneath the city’s musical history. The teenage Douglas left Montego Bay for Toronto in 1963 to join his domestic worker mother, who had migrated north in the 50s. “It was Thanksgiving weekend and it was cold,” Douglas says, island lilt intact, laughing and clutching the sleeves of his powder-blue jacket. Little things eased the transition: playing soccer near his house at Christie Pits Park, singing – a talent honed since childhood – at Central Technical School functions, hanging out with other West Indian kids. “Back then there was nowhere to go, so they opened the West Indies Federation Club at College and Brunswick,” Douglas explains. That’s where he landed a gig fronting R&B band the Cougars. “It helped my career take off. We played some baaad funk,” he says, grinning. “And we opened the door for a lot of local acts to play Le Coq d’Or, which wasn’t hip at the time.” Situated at 333 Yonge (where an 5/11/12 PM HMV stands today), Le equally4:31 historic
Coq d’Or was “a haven for American acts like Diana Ross and Stevie Wonder” passing through town. The Cougars began opening for and backing Arthur Conley and Solomon Burke before moving on to gigs in and around Val-d’Or, Quebec, where the pay was better and competition was scarce. Eventually, says Douglas, still wideeyed at the thought, they wound up in Montreal opening for Cissy Houston and Fats Domino, an early influence. Since then, Douglas has recorded and performed abroad, though his heart beats fastest for the 416. He was a key collaborator on influential 2006 compilation Jamaica To Toronto, featuring reggae, funk and soul tunes recorded here in the 60s and 70s by Jamaican immigrants. About that recording, Douglas lets another gem slip: for a time, legendary reggae keyboardist and Skatalites cofounder Jackie Mittoo, who lived and recorded here in the early 70s, helmed a record shop near Vaughan and Bathurst. “The store was set up by a gentleman from Studio One called Coxsone Dodd,” Douglas recalls. “He loved Jackie, [but] in order for his music to be distributed in Canada he had to set up the record store.”. music@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/nowtorontomusic
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Lou Dawg’s RyeRson Don Campbell (acoustic blues/rock) 10 pm. on The Rox Bracket, DJ DLimit, DJ Chiggzy, DJ Bravado. PRess CLub Record Breaker (rock/pop) 10 pm. Queen eLizabeTh TheaTRe Scrappy Happiness Tour Joel Plaskett Emergency, Frank Turner doors 7 pm. RevivaL Hip-Hop Karaoke Round 64 Abdominal & More or Les, DJ Numeric, Ted Dancin’ doors 10 pm. RivoLi Next Music From Tokyo: Vol 4 Zazen Boys, Group_inou, Charan-Po-Rantan, Praha Depart doors 8 pm. siLveR DoLLaR The Great Disconnect, Sister Wives, Shbti, Cobra doors 9 pm. The sisTeR Sound One, Little Brian & the Oats Cereals 11 pm. sneaky Dee’s Songs: A Double Feature DJ Brian (Holy Fuck) and Cousin (CD release) doors 9 pm. sounD aCaDemy Led Zeppelin: House Of The Holy Michael White & the White doors 8 pm. souThsiDe Johnny’s Busted Again (rock/top 40) 10 pm. waTeRfaLLs The Cucos (reggae/dancehall/ pop) 10:30 pm.
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The Duke Live.Com The Tone Dogs (blues/rock). The fLying beaveR PubaReT Addicted To TCM
Vincent Wolfe (jazz crooner) 9 pm. gaTe 403 Sweet Derrick Blues Band 9 pm. gRossman’s Blue Nash 10 pm. highway 61 souTheRn baRbeQue The Little Naturals 8 pm. hoRseshoe CD release Tarantuela, Devin Cuddy & the Silver Hearts (bluesy folk rock) 9 pm. See preview, page 54. hugh’s Room Acoustic double CD release Shakura S’Aida, Harrison Kennedy (blues/ R&B) 8:30 pm. The LoCaL Lonesome Ace. LuLa Lounge Lulaworld 2012 Donné Roberts (world music) 8 pm, Lulaworld: The New Brazilian Forró, Tropicalia & MPB Claudio Rebeca, Aline Morales doors 7 pm. The manChesTeR aRms Elana Harte (folk rock) 8 pm. RePosaDo The Reposadists (Gypsybop jazz). TRanzaC souTheRn CRoss Michael Reinhart, Matt Tomlinson (singer/ songwriter) 10 pm, David Woodhead’s Confabulation (alt folk) 7:30 pm
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Canadian Jazz Quartet 5 to 8 pm. Rex Raoul & the ‘Bigger’ Time 9:45 pm, Triodes 6:30 pm, Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm. Rocco’s Plum TomaTo Andy De Campos 6 to 9 pm. somewheRe TheRe sTudio LA Jenkins, Cattle Prod 8 pm. TRane sTudio Trouble w/ Alexander Brown 8 pm.
Dance Music/DJ/Lounge
annex wReckRoom Yes Yes Y’All The Frandiscos, Holy Eff (hip-hop/dancehall/ ñ R&B jam) doors 10 pm.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.
clinTon’s Girl & Boy 90s Dance Party doors 10 pm. coBRa lounge The Fix Fridays No Big Deal DJs. college sTReeT BaR Special Delivery: Throw-
back Edition DJ Law doors 10 pm. dance cave Bif Bang Pow DJ Trevor (60s mod Britpop) 10 pm. dRake hoTel undeRgRound Edumacation DJ Fase, DJ Mensa 11 pm. dRake hoTel lounge DJ Your Boy Brian doors 10 pm.
emmeT Ray BaR DJ Pie & Mash (indie/funk/
soul/reggae) 10 pm. fly Ax-A-Gogo! DJ Alex, Sofonda, aj libramonte 10 pm.5 gladsTone hoTel BallRoom Electro Swing Club Big Rude Jake, DJs medicineman, Foxtrot Holmes 10 pm. guveRnmenT Victoria Day Summer Sizzler Whitebwoy, Infamous, Spex, John J, Fire Kid Steenie, DJ Tyrone, Renegade, Dr Jay, Jump Up Kings and others. holy oak cafe Transgressions 10 pm.5 insomnia Funkn’ Fresh Fridays Box Yo DJ (house/breaks). maison meRceR Serge Devant. 99 sudBuRy Visions Shlohmo, Ryan Hemsworth, Deebs, Zodiac 10 pm. PaRTs & laBouR Taurians DJ Diego Bros (old school hip-hop/R&B) 10 pm. The PisTon Gin & Phonic (soul/funk) 10 pm. Royal onTaRio museum Friday Night Live DJ Ella D Vs Augustus 6 to 11 pm. 751 Heavy Low Evidence, Polaris, Philth (d&b) 10 pm. suPeRmaRkeT I Love Music Kwame & David ‘DC’ Campbell 10 pm. viRgin moBile mod cluB Come Out & Play DJ Matt Medley 10:30 pm. waylaBaR Toastr Party For Women Who Love Women 10 pm. weTBaR Penthouse Fridays DJs R2, KidZero & Peter Kash (house/top 40/anthems) 10 pm.
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alleycaTz Soular (R&B/soul/funk) 9:30 pm. BaR iTalia Al Webster (funk/soul/R&B) 10:30 pm. cadillac lounge fRonT Room Dave Backus Band 10 pm.
The cenTRal Heavyset Quartet 10 pm, Dan
Rougeau & Noah Sherman 7 pm. dc music TheaTRe Hugs Not Drugs doors 10 pm, all ages. dominion on queen Ronnie Hayward Trio (rockabilly) 4 to 7:30 pm. doveRcouRT house NUANCE Art Rock Exhibition Wilton Said, Vermillion Skye doors 3:30 pm. The duke live.com 7-Year Itch Rockabilly Showcase Butch Haller & His Chesterfield Ramblers, Rick & the Crickets. eTon house The Connie Scriver Band (Fleetwood Mac tribute) 9 pm. gRaffiTi’s Russel Leons SSW Night evening. haRd luck BaR The Meatmen, Take Drugs, Wilson (punk) doors 9 pm. haRlem Quique Escamilla (reggae/rock/Latin jazz) 7:30 pm. hoRseshoe EP release Still Life Still, Bzaryn, the Paint Movement, Teen Tits Wild Wives. The loaded dog Shemp (rock) 8:30 pm. lola Box Full of Cash 8 pm. lou dawg’s Don Campbell (acoustic blues/ rock) 10 pm.
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lou dawg’s RyeRson Southern Brunch Irene Torres Duo (soul) noon to 3 pm.
queen elizaBeTh TheaTRe Scrappy Hap-
piness Tour Joel Plaskett Emergency, ñ Frank Turner doors 7 pm.
Rex Danny Marks (pop) noon. Rivoli Next Music From Tokyo: Vol 4
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Zazen Boys, Group_inou, Charan-PoRantan, Praha Depart doors 8 pm. RockPile Destruction, Vital Remains, Warbringer, Pathology doors 6:30 pm. silveR dollaR The Hounds Below, Moves, the Two Times, Colour TV In Every Room doors 9 pm. The sisTeR TNG. smiling Buddha Cancer Benefit The Family, the Riot doors 8 pm. souThside Johnny’s Midnight Jewel (rock/ dance/R&B) 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. TRanzac souTheRn cRoss Metal Kites (indie) 10 pm.
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FoLk/BLues/country/WorLD
asPeTTa caffe Roger Dorey (singer/songwriter) 6 to 8 pm.
cadillac lounge Mary & Micky (country)
3:30 pm.
casTRo’s lounge Big Rude Jake (blues shout-
er) 4:30 pm.
c’esT whaT El Bandito 8 pm. dave’s... on sT claiR Mark Ripp (acoustic
folk/rock) 4 to 7 pm.
dRake hoTel undeRgRound Rocky Votolato, Jeff Pianki (indie songwriter) doors 8 pm.
gaTe 403 Bill Heffernan, Brian & Aslan 5 to 8 pm. geoRge ignaTieff TheaTRe Small World Asian Music Series Liu Fang 8 pm.
gladsTone hoTel melody BaR Mr Rick & the
Biscuits (country) 9 pm. gRossman’s Damned Neighbour 10 pm, The Happy Pals (trad jazz) 4:30 to 8 pm. haBiTs gasTRoPuB Jordo & Eric (acoustic covers) 8 pm. highway 61 souTheRn BaRBeque Jerry Leger (country/folk/rock) 8 pm. hiRuT fine eThioPian cuisine Country Jam Murray Powell 2 to 6 pm. hugh’s Room The Sparrow Songs: A Country Song-String Aidan Mason, Charles James, Tim Posgate, Neil Gardiner & Tom Bellman 8:30 pm. The lish New Music Night Jillian Bunting (singer/songwriter) 9:30 pm. The local Fred Spek’s Camp Combo (hipster vaudeville) 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.
loweR ossingTon TheaTRe gReen dooR caBaReT Green Door Cabaret Josh White Jr (blues/folk/jazz) 7:30 pm.
lula lounge Colombia Mi Amor, Orquesta Fantasia, DJ Gio doors 7 pm.
mad Bean Roger Dorey (singer/songwriter) 2 to 4 pm.
mavRik wine BaR Camden Blues w/ Ken Mc-
Donald (blues/jazz/experimental/rock) 10 pm.
Phoenix conceRT TheaTRe Lulaworld Pupy Y Los Que Son, Son 10 pm.
PRess cluB Paddy Townsend Band (folk rock) 10 pm.
ReBas café & galleRy Open Mic Saturdays David Crighton 1 to 4 pm.
Jazz/cLassicaL/experiMentaL
aiR canada cenTRe Il Divo & Orchestra, Nikki
Yanofsky.
c’esT whaT Hot Five Jazzmakers (traditional
jazz) 3 pm.
chalkeRs PuB Don Thompson Trio 6 to 9 pm. The flying BeaveR PuBaReT Serafin Lariviere
(jazz/blues/cabaret) 9:30 pm, Ori Dagan (jazz) 7:30 pm. gaTe 403 Patrick Tevlin’s New Orleans Rhythm 9 pm. inTeR sTeeR Sunnyside Jazzers 4 to 7 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 John MacMurchy, Mark Kieswetter, Duncan Hopkins 7:30 pm. Rex Joel Haynes Quartet 9:45 pm, Justin Bac-
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chus 7 pm, Chris Hunt Tentet + 2 3:30 pm. Roy Thomson hall Kissin Plays Grieg Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Evgeny Kissin (piano) 8 pm. somewheRe TheRe sTudio The State Of Guitar Improvisation LA Jenkins, Nilan Perera, Ken Aldcroft, Thom Gill 8 pm.
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annex wReckRoom DJ Rick Toxic 8 pm. Bovine sex cluB Rock Candy 2; Fake Band Night DJs Sir Ian Blurton & Erin Donnelly.
cake BaR Dessert Saturdays (top 40/ mashups).
c’esT whaT DJ MALXP 10:30 pm. clinTon’s Shake, Rattle & Roll 60s Dance
Party doors 10 pm. dance cave Full On DJ Mr Pete (alternative). dRake hoTel undeRgRound Purplelectricity Prince Party – 8th Anniversary Edition DJ Doctor Baggie doors 11 pm. dRake hoTel lounge DJ Dougie Boom doors 10 pm. emmeT Ray BaR DJ Blancon (80s/soul/hip-hop) 10 pm. Fly DJ Ana Paula, DJ Kevin Bailey doors 10 pm.5 FooTwoRk 7-Year Anniversary Weekend Derrick Carter 10 pm. gladsTone hoTel BallRoom Goin’ Steady (50s/60s dance party) 10 pm. goodhandy’s Sodom: Hollywood Gutter & Glam DJ Sumation (pop/house/hip-hop) 10 pm.5 insomnia Sense Saturdays DJ Charles (deep house). lee’s Palace Daft Punk Tribute (eletronic dance) doors 10 pm. maRo The Red Carpet DJ Undercover 10 pm. PaRTs & laBouR No No Pony DJs Suzie Boo & Magnum PI (Ginuwine’s ‘Pony’ every hour/90s hip-hop/Elvis) 9 pm. PeRidoT lounge Good Saturdays DJs Glew & R2 (hip-hop/R&B/old school) 10:30 pm. The PisTon Hot Blooded (old-school disco) 10 pm. Rivoli Pool lounge DJ Osum (disco/electro/ funk). 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 Shai (80s/90s reggae) 10:30 pm. waylaBaR Hard Candy DJ DaVINCI 10 pm. wRongBaR Juan Maclean (DJ set) doors 10 pm.
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annex wReckRoom Brutal Truth, Nasum,
Dropdead, Burning Love, Homolka doors 7 pm.
Bovine sex cluB Joey Cape (Lagwagon), Dave
Hause (The Loved Ones), Jon Sondgrass (Drag The River), Cory Branan doors 9 pm. cadillac lounge Scotty Campbell & the Wardenairs. The cenTRal uPsTaiRs Cullam & Rob 6 pm. cRawFoRd Cesar Comanche, Kool Krys, Fresh Kils, Bix (hip-hop) doors 10 pm. dominion on Queen Rockabilly Brunch 11 am to 3 pm. dRake hoTel undeRgRound Ashleigh Semkiw (pop) doors 9 pm. emmeT Ray BaR Shafton Thomas (funk fusion) 9 pm. The gaRRison Crosswires Childs, HiFi Phantom, Most People 9 pm. lula lounge The Medieval Masquerade Jarboe, Rhea’s Obsession, ThOrN, DJs Uriel & Mistress McCutchan doors 7 pm, all ages. magPie caFe Heavy Generator (ska/dub/reggae) 9 pm. PRess cluB Cubs, Peter the Apostle 10 pm. slack’s Stiletto Flats (Elana Harte, Lucio Agostini, Jen Benton, Robyn McDonald) (70s, 80 & 90s covers) 7 to 10 pm. TRanzac souTheRn cRoss You, Yourself & I: with glassEYElashes (indie rock) 7:30 pm, Bananafish (indie) 3 pm..
FoLk/BLues/countRy/WoRLD
asPeTTa caFFe Oscar Mindreau, Lily Mason, C Mack 3 to 7 pm.
c’esT whaT Wolf Island 7 pm. cloak & daggeR PuB These Boots (folk/pop)
9 pm.
gladsTone hoTel melody BaR Sunday Acoustic Family Brunch 9 am to 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. 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. Rose & ThoRne The Lil’ Steve Band 3:30 to 7:30 pm. saRah’s caFe Open Stage Dan McLean Jr 3 to 6 pm. suPeRmaRkeT Freefall Sundays Open Mic/Jam 8 pm. ThiRsTy Fox PuB Fera (acoustic jam) 6 to 10 pm. TRanzac souTheRn cRoss Québecois Jam noon. winchesTeR kiTchen & BaR Open Mic Porter 9 pm.
Jazz/cLassicaL/exPeRiMentaL
dominion on Queen Jazz Jam Noah Leibel 4 to 7 pm.
galleRy 345 Trio Concertante Nancy Dahn, Tim
Steeves, Simon Fryer (violin, piano, cello) 3 pm.
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T.O. Note NXNE lineup unleashed North By Northeast has just released its next wave of acts for this year’s festival, adding to earlier announcements of the big-name headliners of the free outdoor Yonge-Dundas Square shows. The fest runs June 11 to 17 and features huge acts like the Flaming Lips, Bad Religion and Raekwon performing alongside the hippest up-and-coming musicians of the moment. Buzz band highlights include progmetal group Protest the Hero, Alaskan psych-rockers Portugal. The Man, Brooklyn bedroom rockers DIIV, Zulu Winter, Eternal Summers, Dusted (a promising new project from Holy Fuck’s Brian Borcherdt) and far too many others to list here. To get the full picture and start planning what to see at the fest, the NXNE Schedulizer is now online and active, and you can also see full listings at nowtoronto.com. For ticket info and more details on NXNE Film and NXNE Interactive, visit Benjamin Boles nxne.com. NOW May 17-23 2012
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Neon Knights Geronimo
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MAY Tyler Hilton Crooked Hill Stylus 2012 Opening Party Alan Doyle
Air CAnAdA Centre 40 Bay. 416-815-5500. AlleyCAtz 2409 Yonge. 416-481-6865. the Annex live 296 Brunswick. 416-929-3999. Annex WreCkroom 794 Bathurst. 416-536-0346. AsCAri enoteCA 1111 Queen E. 416-792-4157. AspettA CAffe 207 Augusta. 416-725-0693. the BAllroom 145 John. 416-597-2695. BAr itAliA 582 College. 416-535-3621. Bloke & 4th 401 King W. 416-477-1490. BoAt 158 Augusta. 416-593-9218. Bovine sex CluB 542 Queen W. 416-504-4239. BrAnt house 522 King W. 416-703-2800. BrAssAii 461 King W. 416-598-4730. CAdillAC lounge 1296 Queen W. 416-536-7717. 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 CentrAl 603 Markham. 416-913-4586. C’est WhAt 67 Front E. 416-867-9499. ChAlkers puB 247 Marlee. 416-789-2531. Cherry street restAurAnt 275 Cherry. 416-461-5111. ChevAl 606 King W. 416-363-4933. Christie pits pArk 750 Bloor W. Clinton’s 693 Bloor W. 416-535-9541. CloAk & dAgger puB 394 College. 647-436-0228. CoBrA lounge 510 King W. 416-361-9004. College street BAr 574 College. 416-533-2417. CrAWford 718 College. 416-530-1633. 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. 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.
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. gAllery 345 345 Sorauren. 416-822-9781. the gArrison 1197 Dundas W. 416-519-9439. gAte 403 403 Roncesvalles. 416-588-2930. george ignAtieff theAtre 15 Devonshire. 416-978-2651. glAdAmAn’s den 502A Yonge. 416-961-5808. glAdstone hotel 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. glenn gould studio 250 Front W. goodhAndy’s 120 Church. 416-760-6514. grAffiti’s 170 Baldwin. 416-506-6699. grossmAn’s 379 Spadina. 416-977-7000. guvernment 132 Queens Quay E. 416-869-0045. hABits gAstropuB 928 College. 416-533-7272. hArd luCk BAr 772a Dundas W. 416-833-0302. hArlem 67 Richmond E. 416-368-1920. heliConiAn hAll 35 Hazelton. 416-922-3618. henhouse 1532 Dundas W. 416-534-5939. the hideout 484 Queen W. 647-438-7664. highWAy 61 southern BArBeQue 1620 Bayview. 416-489-7427. hirut fine ethiopiAn Cuisine 2050 Danforth. 416-467-4915. holy oAk CAfe 1241 Bloor W. 647-345-2803. horseshoe 370 Queen W. 416-598-4753. the hoxton 69 Bathurst. 416-456-7321. hugh’s room 2261 Dundas W. 416-531-6604. insomniA 563 Bloor W. 416-588-3907. inter steer 357 Roncesvalles. 416-588-8054. lAByrinth lounge 298 Brunswick. 416-925-7775. lee’s pAlACe 529 Bloor W. 416-532-1598. linsmore tAvern 1928 Danforth. the lish 2152 Danforth. 416-425-4664. the loAded dog 1921 Lawrence E. 416-750-9009. the loCAl 396 Roncesvalles. 416-535-6225.
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gAte 403 Robin Banks Jazz Band 9 pm, Cindy Urech Jazz Duo 5 to 8 pm. grossmAn’s New Orlean Connection Allstars 4:30 to 8 pm. nAWlins JAzz BAr Brooke Blackburn (solo guitar) 7 to 10 pm. reBAs CAfé & gAllery The Miller & Macleod Jazz Duo 1 to 4 pm. rex Jake Wilkinson’s Live Vinyl (classic records played note for note) 9:30 pm, Tom Reynolds Trio 7 pm, Laura Hubert Band (jazzy pop) 3:30
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. mAd BeAn 519 Eglinton W. 647-235-2456. mAgpie CAfe 831 Dundas W. 416-916-6499. mAison merCer 15 Mercer. 416-341-8777. the mAnChester Arms 2760 Derry W (Mississauga). 905-858-2124. mAro 135 Liberty. 416-588-2888. mAvrik Wine BAr 676 Queen W. 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. nAWlins JAzz BAr 299 King W. 416-595-1958. 99 sudBury 99 Sudbury. 647-426-5997. noW lounge 189 Church. 416-364-1301. oCAdu 100 McCaul. 416-977-6000. old mill inn 21 Old Mill Rd. 416-236-2641. old niCk 123 Danforth. 416-461-5546. on the rox 1600 Steeles W. 905-597-9491. pArts & lABour 1566 Queen W. 416-588-7750. peridot lounge 81 Bloor E. 416-515-7560. phoenix ConCert theAtre 410 Sherbourne. 416-323-1251. the piston 937 Bloor W. 416-532-3989. pogue mAhone 777 Bay. 416-598-3339. press CluB 850 Dundas W. 416-364-7183. Queen elizABeth theAtre 190 Princes’ Blvd. 416-263-3293. Quotes 220 King W. 416-979-7717. 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. roCkWood 31 Mercer. 416-979-7373.
pm, Excelsior Dixieland Jazz noon. someWhere there studio The Rent (experimental jazz) 8 pm, Jason Steidman, Michael Kaler 5 pm. theAtre direCt Christie studio Viva Arts: Classical For Kids David Amram 3 pm. trAnzAC southern Cross Ryan Driver Quartet (experimental/avant-garde) 10 pm, Monk’s Music (jazz) 5 pm. WyChWood theAtre Classical For Kids David Amram & the Music in the Barns Chamble Ensemble 3 pm.
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BrAnt house Victoria Day Block Party DJ
MKutz.
CAstro’s lounge Watch This Sound (rare/ vintage ska/reggae/dub on vinyl) 9 pm.
Clinton’s Girl & Boy Y2K Party (pop from the
LOUNGE live at the
past decade) doors 10 pm. CoBrA lounge Victoria Day Block Party DJs Mike Jacinto, Joe Ghost. drAke hotel underground A/V Party Grandtheft doors 11 pm. drAke hotel lounge Jukebox (rock & soul dance party) doors 10 pm. guvernment Freedom Carl Cox, Armin Van Burren. henhouse Inside Out LGBT Film Festival: Transplanetarium After Party DJs Nik Red & Kaleb Robertson 10 pm. insomniA Sunday Mass DJ TvT (old school hiphop/disco/funk). lou dAWg’s Dirty South Sundays (soul/funk/ Motown/old school) 10 pm.
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rose & thorne 264 Brown’s Line. 416-233-8827. roy thomson hAll 60 Simcoe. 416-872-4255. royAl ontArio museum 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000. rumours nightCluB 2787 Eglinton East. 416-410-5041. the rusty nAil 2202 Danforth. 647-729-7254. sArAh’s CAfe 1426 Danforth. 416-406-3121. sAzerAC gAstro lounge 782 King W. 647-342-8866. 751 751 Queen W. 647-436-6681. silver dollAr 486 Spadina. 416-975-0909. the sister 1554 Queen W. 416-532-2570. slACk’s 562 Church. 416-928-2151. 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. 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. theAtre direCt Christie studio 601 Christie. 416-537-4191. 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. totA lounge 592 Queen W. 416-866-8878. trAne studio 964 Bathurst. 416-913-8197. trAnzAC 292 Brunswick. 416-923-8137. 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. WyChWood theAtre 601 Christie.
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dorA keogh JT & Friends Jam 9 pm. highWAy 61 southern BArBeQue Chris Chambers (blues) 7 pm.
the loCAl Hamstrung Stringband (bluegrass)
9:30 pm.
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DAnCE MuSiC/DJ/LOunGE
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CAstro’s lounge blueVenus (singer/song-
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album reviews album of the week COLD SPECKS ñ NNNN
spective and moodier. The melodies are largely drawn from early blues and gospel, but the instrumenIt’s sad that some Canadian listeners will tation and arrangements seem just as approach Etobicoke’s Cold Specks (aka Al influenced by atmospheric post-rock and chamber pop, which neatly Spx) with suspicion due to the bypasses the retro trap withimpressive hype she’s already out dressing up her vocals provoked in the UK. Turns out with incongruous modernthat in this case you can beism. When a talent this lieve the hype. I Predict A young and inexperienced Graceful Expulsion is not only comes out of the gate with immediately accessible, but this much buzz, it’s natural to also rich and nuanced enough want to approach with cauto survive repeated listens. tion. But this is the real deal. Spx has the kind of raspy, soulful voice that sends shivers down your Top track: Winter Solstice spine, like Adele at her best, except in this Cold Specks opens up for Great Lake case it’s less obscured by layers of produc- Swimmers June 2 at the Music Hall. BENJAMIN BOLES tion, and the songwriting is more introI Predict A Graceful Expulsion (Arts & Crafts) Rating:
Pop/Rock
THE CRIBS In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull
(Wichita) Rating: NNN With production duties split between two of America’s most interesting producers, Dave Fridmann (Flaming Lips) and Steve Albini (Godspeed You! Black Emperor), the Cribs’ fifth album could’ve taken some disparate, noisy and/or arty directions. But Brazen Bull is a cohesive, if lengthy, album that offers only occasional audio reminders of who was behind the board. The Jarman brothers have grown up since their early days of youthful shouting and exuberant choruses. In other words, they can sing better and their songs are more intricate. Unfortunately, with each album they veer further away from the immediately hummable pop that won them attention in the first place. That said, opener Glitters Like Gold is an obvious single, with a squall of introductory noise leading to one of the record’s strongest choruses. And songs like Jaded Youth and Chi-Town will make for fine summer listening. Top track: Jaded Youth JOANNE HUFFA
GOSSIP A Joyful Noise (Sony) Rating: NN Unlike some fans, we’re not opposed to Gossip’s ongoing shift from punk to pop. Beth Ditto has a huge, expressive voice,
and her bandmates have a great track record for coming up with hooks to complement it. However, hiring one of the guys from UK pop production team Xenomania for A Joyful Noise wasn’t the smartest move; the results turn out to be lifeless instead of uplifting and accessible as they’d hoped. What makes this failed experiment all the more frustrating is that it often comes really close to actually working. Producer Brian Higgins gets decent results when the band goes for an early 80s NYC club sound on tracks like Into The Wild and Melody Emergency, but his attempts to mould them into the kind of act that could fit onto the pop charts in 2012 just don’t sound genuinely modern enough. Punk roots aside, what Gossip really need is a knob-twiddler who understands contemporary club sounds, not someone most famous for helping write Cher’s I Believe and crafting songs for UK reality show winners Girls Aloud. Top track: Into The Wild BB
MAC DEMARCO ñ NNNN
Rock And Roll Night Club (Captured Tracks) Rating:
In his previous guise as Makeout Videotape, Montreal via Edmonton’s Mac DeMarco had a knack for making hooky, reverb-drenched indie pop. His band’s
frustratingly sloppy, tongue-in-cheek live performances, though, demonstrated that the young singer/songwriter wasn’t comfortable playing it straight. His first album released under his own name filters dusted jangle-pop gems through that same goofy, subversive sense of humour, and the result is strangely compelling rather than off-putting. DeMarco goes to a deeper, sleazier register and warps his guitars, creating a surreal sun-drenched sound. It’s woozy, odd, weirdly familiar and distinct enough that the repurposed Makeout Videotape jam Only You (one of their best) sounds out of place. It’s all hard to process at first, but that won’t stop you from returning to it over and over again. Top track: Baby’s Wearin’ Blue Jeans Mac DeMarco plays NXNE on June 16 at the Silver Dollar. RICHARD TRAPUNSKI
OLD TIME MACHINE (File Under: Music)
Rating: NNN Ryan McNally and Kyle Cashen are Old Time Machine, a duo out of Whitehorse that combines vintage electronics with stringed acoustic instruments in an unusual mashup of folk, blues, oldies pop and lo-fi alternative. On their self-titled debut, McNally sings lead and alternates between guitar, banjo and ukulele while Cashen provides reverb-drenched backup vocals, analog drum machines and pedal bass. Innovatively, both are in charge of various parts of the drum kit, which lends the recording a loose, organic groove. Best is when the rhythm is tight and McNally explores his falsetto, like on Doin’ All I Can Do and closer Tearing Me Down, a catchy mix of gothic 60s folk and trip-hop. Unfortunately, vibe takes precedence over songcraft for much of the record, and the Tom Waits influence is too prominent. Top track: Doin’ All I Can Do Old Time Machine play the Supermarket Wednesday (May 23). SARAH GREENE
Roots/Folk
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Of Songs (independent) Rating: NNNN In the 14-minute song cycle that is Bruce Peninsula’s newest release, Neil Haverty and 14 other Toronto-area musicians stitch together a full album’s worth of epic aural grandeur. Split into three parts and, by my interpretation, about a man who finds salvation through song, Of Songs moves gracefully between single voices and angelic choirs, tender piano lines and arresting drum-and-banjo polyrhythms. (Timber Timbre’s Taylor Kirk and Muskox’s Mike Smith are listed in the credits.) Few can arrange, stack and intertwine voices as masterfully as Haverty. In the astonishing second part, his rough, impassioned baritone trades off with equally assertive female voices – Misha Bower, Tamara Lindeman, Ivy Mairi and Daniela Gesundheit make appearances throughout – almost like in a round, with overlapping lyrics and echoes, everything building toward revelation. The end grows soft and gorgeous, and then proggy and odd. The dynamism ensures your interest never wavers. Completely cinematic and hypnotic. Top track: Of Songs Bruce Peninsula play the Great Hall on May 24. CARLA GILLIS
Hip-hop
KILLER MIKE R.A.P. Music (Warner)
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Rating: NNNN Atlanta rapper Killer Mike’s new record (the acronym R.A.P. denotes “Rebellious African People”) is difficult to discuss without mentioning El-P, the weirdo NYC rap titan who produced it. Especially since this is El-P’s first full-length production project since 2011’s underground-famous album The Cold Vein, by Cannibal Ox. The producer does his legacy proud, updating his trademark atonality and distorted synths with intricate percussive tricks (Untitled) and funkier bass lines (Southern Fried) while maintaining the feel of big, belligerent boom bap. Mike, the embodiment of imposing menace, bodychecks the beats without buckling. A targeted anger bubbles below much of R.A.P. and boils over on Reagan, where the
Outkast protege delivers a sermon on oppression over astral synth lines. Killer Mike is the Jäger shot of rap: efficient, acrid and totally devastating. Also, T.I. shows up alongside Bun B on opener Big Beast. Again: that’s T.I. rapping over an El-P beat, guys. Top track: Go! ANUPA MISTRY
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scope) Rating: NNN After several delays, Baltimore party starter and M.I.A. protege Rye Rye finally releases her major-label debut, which finds the club rapper cheerfully spitting her in-your-face flow over a variety of tempos and styles. On opener Drop, she proclaims, “I’m a hood girl doing white girl shit,” a nod to her transformation from underground B’more club MC/dancer to big-time pop threat supported by Akon, RedOne, Pharrell Williams and Robyn. Unlike other rappers who awkwardly grapple with pop ambitions, Rye Rye makes no attempt to rationalize her summer time fun sensibility. She simply goes hard (and fast) with singular focus. At times it feels like she’s stuck in one gear, but her energy refreshingly and irresistibly recalls the un-cynical era of oldschool breakbeat and hip-house. Whether it’s the dark, tribal pulse of Shake Twist Drop, a Vengaboys sample on Boom Boom or vintage electro courtesy of the Egyptian Lover on stellar bonus cut Rock Off Shake Off, she consistently delivers on her action-packed song titles. Top track: Rock Off Shake Off KEVIN RITCHIE
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Rating: NNN Experimental drum ’n’ bass weirdo Squarepusher has been making ridiculous prog-rock electronic music since the mid90s and is somehow still immediately recognizable despite changing up his formula with each album. This time around he’s left his bass guitar in the closet, which means it’s all gurgling synths and no Seinfeld boinkity-boink. He’s also aiming for a darker mood, but as usual that comes out as gleefully silly. While a handful of people might be disappointed that Ufabulum isn’t a big leap forward into the post-dubstep world, most fans will likely be glad that everything they like about Squarepusher remains intact. The absence of hyperactive slap bass doesn’t mean the music is any less spastic (this is a good thing), and his new infatuation with cheesy trance synthesizer washes means there’s still a healthy sprinkling of recontextualized bad taste throughout (also a good thing). Ufabulum won’t blow the mind of anyone familiar with his work, but it’s a decent entry point for new fans and a very satisfying collection of light-hearted left-field dance music. Top track: Unreal Square BB
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No place like Home
Jane Archibald and William Burden add sparkle to Semele.
Michael Hanrahan enjoys his Soulpepper family – offstage and on By JON KAPLAN HOME by David Storey, directed by Albert Schultz, with Oliver Dennis, Michael Hanrahan, Brenda Robins, Andre Sills and Maria Vacratsis. Presented by Soulpepper at the Young Centre (55 Mill). Opens today (Thursday, May 17) and runs in rep to June 20. $51-$68, stu $32, rush $5-$22. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca.
home may not always be where the heart is, but it’s the place to which, in some fashion, we inevitably return. David Storey’s play of the same name looks at five characters whose chit-chat on a sunny terrace at first seems mundane. Over the course of the show, though, their exchanges and occasional comic confrontations reveal secrets and unacknowledged truths. It’s the kind of nuanced play that the Soulpepper acting ensemble revives with skill. Like previous Soulpepper productions – such as Betrayal, Translations and Loot – Home is a former success (from the 70s) that’s rarely performed these days. “I’m having such fun doing this, working with Oliver Dennis,” smiles Michael Hanrahan, one of Soulpepper’s founding members. “Playing Harry to his Jack, I find instant comfort in being onstage with someone I’ve known for decades.” The fastidious, detail-oriented Harry and somewhat flashier Jack are the first two figures we meet. “The two are proper English gents looking for
ference doesn’t stop the four from pairing up in various couples during the play’s action. “It’s the women who are better at communicating and dealing with the really important things, even though they focus on mundane topics like shoes. In contrast, the men talk in circles around the important things. When they approach something of consequence, they mutually decide not to go there.” Storey’s dialogue of non-sequiturs, brief lines and pauses suggests Beckett. Hanrahan also sees the parallel in “that search for meaning in life, a meaning that never shows up. “But unlike Godot, where viewers know from the start they’re in a different world, Home seems set in the most ordinary of places. It’s only partway in that I see some puzzled looks on faces in the audience as they realize they’re watching a left-of-centre kind of play.” Despite the characters’ richness and the narrative’s human comedy, the actor admits that memorizing the non-linear text can be hard. But the ease of working with people he’s known for more than two decades is a great help. Moving to Canada from Chicago, Hanrahan met most of the other Soulpepper founders when they worked together in the 1987 Stratford Young Company. Michael “These days we bring to our Hanrahan shows both our life experiences admits and the time we’ve spent memorizing together developing the craft David of acting. That kind of shared Storey’s non-linear history in a theatre company text can be is rare in North America. difficult. We’re a company where ‘familial’ is a real word, with all that it implies.” 3
a connection with each other,” offers Hanrahan, who performs in five Soulpepper productions this year. “Coming from a similar background, they share many of the same attitudes, whether they’re talking about the previous war, the state of today’s youth or those who aren’t quite their kind. “Like so many others,” he says, switching to an upper-class, slightly condescending British accent, “we’re trying to establish our superiority and don’t want much to do with those who aren’t like us, who aren’t quite the way people should be.” Hanrahan’s talking in part about the women in the story, Kathleen and Marjorie, “who are as archetypal as the men but from another social stratum. You know immediately that you’re in the world of English society, where class can be such a divide between people.” That dif-
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AUTOGEDDON by Heathcote Williams (Pandemic Theatre/Happy Trails Productions). An alien visitor observes the behaviour of humans and their cars. Opens May 17 and runs to May 27, Tue-Sun 8 pm. $15-$25, May 20 pwyc. Dancemakers Centre for Creation, 55 Mill, bldg 58, studio 313. pandemictheatre. eventbrite.ca. DANCE MARATHON (Harbourfront World Stage/bluemouth inc) This interactive, duration-based performance event is inspired by Depression-era dance contests, today’s reality TV and the cult of celebrity (see story, page 71). May 18-19 at 7 pm. $15$35. Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com. DEAR WORLD by Jerry Herman, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E Lee (Civic Light Opera Com-
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OPERA REVIEW
Hot Handel SEMELE by George Frideric Handel
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There’s lots to marvel at and a few puzzling and silly elements in director/ set designer Zhang Huan’s take on Handel’s Semele, a story from classical Western mythology given a pan-Asian staging. Semele (Jane Archibald), one of Jupiter’s (William Burden) many human lovers, is tricked by the god’s jealous wife, Juno (Allyson McHardy) – disguised as Semele’s sister Ino – into requesting immortality and having Jupiter show himself in his divine form. The revelation is too hot for her; she’s turned to cinders when he appears. Zhang puts the story, literally, into the frame of a 450-year-old Ming Dynasty temple that he salvaged and rebuilt. His inspiration for the producpany). An eccentric old lady stands up to a corporation and saves the world in this musical. Opens May 23 and runs to Jun 9, Wed 7 pm, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sun (and Jun 9) 2 pm. $28. Fairview Library Theatre, 35 Fairview Mall. 416-755-1717, musictheatretoronto.com. DIRT (Soulpepper). In this collective creation, the Academy uses urban stories, movement and multimedia to explore dirt in literal and figurative terms. Previews May 18-22. Opens May 23 and runs to May 26, see website for times. $20. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. HOME by David Storey (Soulpepper). The social interaction between five characters reveals their desire to belong and maintain human contact (see story, this page). 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. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca.
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tion is partly the history of a couple who lived in the temple several decades ago, a history that involves lust and vengeance. It’s a striking concept, often beautiful to watch and suited to the opera’s themes. But the staging – including a panto horse and sumo wrestlers – sometimes clashes with Handel’s music and the characters’ feelings. Happily, the second act’s staging, including an inflated figure and a Chinese dragon, resonates with genuine drama. Even in the moments when you roll your eyes at the action, the design – Han Feng’s costumes, both Eastern and Western, and Wolfgang Göbbel’s lighting – is always splendid. The singing is also fine, as is most of the acting. Archibald’s honeyed voice is gorgeously beguiling, and she conveys Semele’s cravings sharply. Equally good are McHardy’s imperious Juno and offended Ino and Katherine Whyte as a comic Iris, Juno’s messenger. Burden’s Jupiter is vocally impressive but dramatically bland. There’s little sense that this god feels passion, and then regret, for the woman JON KAPLAN he desires. 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. Opens May 17 and runs to Jun 2, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 1 pm. $30. Theatre Centre, 1087 Queen W. 416-538-0988, draft89.com. KIM’S CONVENIENCE by Ins Choi (Soulpepper). Choi’s groundbreaking script looks at a Korean-Canadian-run variety store in a rapidly changing Regent Park. Paul SunHyung Lee dominates the production as the street-smart, stern patriarch who wants his independent daughter (Esther Choi) to take over the business. Director Weyni Mengesha, working with Ken MacKenzie’s naturalistic set, brings out all the laughs and drama in a play that deserves to be open for business a long time. Opens May 17 and runs to Jun 9, see website for schedule. $22-$68. Young
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Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416866-8666, soulpepper.ca. NNNNN (GS) Lost IN YoNkers by Neil Simon (Harold Green Jewish Theatre). Marion Ross stars in Simon’s play about two boys who must live with their harsh grandmother. Opens May 17 and runs to Jun 10, Tue-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. PINocchIo DaNs Ma VaLIse by Cie Vox Théâtre (Theatre Direct). The classic tale of fantasy and friendship is told through puppetry and live music. May 19-20 at 11 am & 2 pm (Sat in English, Sun in French). $10-$15. 76 Wychwood. 416-537-4191, theatredirect.ca. PreseNt Laughter by Noël Coward (Shaw Festival). An actor deals with various people vying for his attention in this comedy. Previews to May 22. Opens May 23 and runs in rep to Oct 28. $35-$110, stu/srs mats $24-$45. Festival Theatre, 10 Queen’s Parade, Niagara-on-theLake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com.
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(Zero Gravity Circus/HarbourKIDS). This allages weekend features aerial acrobatics, stunts, cabaret acts, comedy, music and clowns, plus workshops and interactive kids’ programs. May 19-21, 11 am to 5 pm daily. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, tocircusfestival.com.
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ford Festival). A bogus claim of infidelity leads a king’s daughter to risk everything for love. Previews to May 30. Opens May 31 and runs in rep to Sep 30. $49-$95, srs $35-$55, stu $15-$25. Tom Patterson Theatre, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. 42ND street by Michael Stewart, Mark Bramble, Harry Warren and Al Dubin (Stratford Festival). A director falls for a chorus girl while trying to keep his musical production afloat. Previews to May 28. Opens May 29 and runs in rep to Oct 28. $49-$106, srs $41-$66, stu $19-$29. Festival Theatre, 55 Queen, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. FreNch WIthout tears by Terence Rattigan (Shaw Festival). Young men come to France to improve their language skills but get distracted by women in this comedy. Previews to May 25. Opens May 26 and runs in rep to Sep 15. $35-$90, stu mats $24. Royal George Theatre, 85 Queen, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. a MaN aND soMe WoMeN by Githa Sowerby (Shaw Festival). A man seeks a new life but feels duty-bound to his wife and unmarried sisters. Previews to May 23. Opens May 24 and runs in rep to Sep 22. $35-$90, stu mats $24. Court House Theatre, 26 Queen, Niagara-onthe-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. the MatchMaker by Thornton Wilder (Stratford Festival). A materialistic merchant hires a matchmaker to find him a wife in this comedy. Previews to Jun 1. Opens Jun 2 and runs in rep to Oct 27. $49-$95, srs $35-$55, stu $15-$25. Festival Theatre, 55 Queen, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. MIsaLLIaNce by Bernard Shaw (Shaw Festival). A bored heiress finds adventure when a plane crashes into her home during a dull party. Previews to May 24. Opens May 25 and runs in rep to Oct 27. $35-$90, stu mats $24. Royal George Theatre, 85 Queen, Niagaraon-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. Much aDo about NothINg by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). One couple plans to marry while their friends trade insults in the classic romantic comedy. Previews to May 27. Opens May 28 and runs in rep to Oct 27. $49-$95, srs $35-$55, stu $15$25. Festival Theatre, 55 Queen, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. the PIrates oF PeNzaNce by WS Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan (Stratford Festival). A young pirate apprentice must choose between love and duty in this comic operetta. Previews to May 31. Opens Jun 1 and runs in rep to Oct 27. $49-$106, srs $41-$66, stu $19-$29. Avon Theatre, 99 Downie, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. ragtIMe by Terrence McNally, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (Shaw Festival). Turn-of-the-century America is seen through the eyes of three very different families in this musical. Previews to May 25. Opens May 26 and runs in rep to Oct 14. $35$110, stu/srs mats $24-$45. Festival Theatre, 10 Queen’s Parade, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. You’re a gooD MaN, charLIe broWN by Clark Gesner (Stratford Festival/Schulich Chil-
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dren’s Plays). This family musical is based on Charles M Schulz’s Peanuts comic strip characters. Previews to May 29. Opens May 30 and runs in rep to Oct 28. $49-$106, srs $41-$66, stu $19-$29. Avon Theatre, 99 Downie, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca.
One-Nighters
the eMergeNcY MoNoLogues by Morgan
Jones Phillips (Drinking Well). Phillips performs his solo play about the life of an urban paramedic. May 18 at 8 pm. $15. Cameron House, 408 Queen W. emergencymonologues.com. Les aDIeux III (Free Concert Series in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre). Adrian Kramer, a graduating artist of the COC Ensemble Studio, sings from Schubert’s song cycle Die Schöne Müllerin. Opens May 17 at noon. Free. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. coc.ca. the MeDIeVaL MasqueraDe (Salon Noir). This variety show feature’s Jarboe and includes music, magic, readings and more. May 20 at 8:30 pm. $30-$35. Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas W. morbidoutlook.com/salonnoir.
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(Sion Irwin-Childs). This interactive evening features fun, competition and performance. May 17 at 8 pm. $7. Rhino, 1249 Queen W. DanceTODanseFestival@hotmail.com.
seMeLe: eNseMbLe stuDIo PerForMaNce (Canadian Opera Company). Young ñ talent perform lead roles in the COC’s produc-
tion of the Handel opera. May 23 at 7:30 pm. $22-$55. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231, coc.ca. true storIes, MaDe uP PLaYs (Sage Tyrtle). Improv troupes act out plays based on true stories. May 19 at 10 pm. Free. Black Swan, 154 Danforth. tyrtle.com. WeIghts by Lynn Manning (HH Literary & Library Committee). Manning performs a reading from his autobiographical play. May 22 at 6 pm. Free. Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle, East Common Room. harthouse.ca.
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Moon Children’s Theatre). The classic story of the wooden boy that comes to life is brought to the stage. Runs to May 21, daily at 2 pm. $15, child $10. Unit 102 Theatre, 376 Dufferin, Toronto. 905-510-8210, cowovermoon.ca. aPPreNtIce to MurDer (Mysteriously Yours... Dinner Theatre). This dinner-theatre whodunit features corporate back-stabbing and boardroom intrigue. Runs to Sep 15, Fri-Sat and some Thu; dinner from 6:30 pm, show 8 pm. $66-$71. 2026 Yonge. 416-486-7469, mysteriouslyyours.com. 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). There are a bit too many narratives in this loose adaptation of the 2000 Kirsten Dunst movie about rival cheerleading squads. But it’s still lots of campy fun, and the energetic songs are always tied to character, whether they’re pop, hip-hop or even folk. The real star of the show is the 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 another. 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). Four women play the roles of the brothers in this adaptation of the Russian novel. Runs to May 20, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $29, preview $20. Odyssey Studio, 636 Pape. wordsmyth.ca. DIVe by Nik Beeson and Richard Sanger (Mermaid Collective/Festival of Ideas and Creation). A mermaid takes the audience deep into her world in this voice salon and sound installation. Runs to May 20, Sat-Sun 8 pm. $20-$40. 321 Sackville. 416-927-1534, dive. mermaidproject@gmail.com. a FLoreNtINe trageDY/gIaNNI schIcchI by
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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 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 18 and 25 at 7:30 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 greeN Door cabaret serIes (Lower Ossington Theatre). This series features cabaret performances by various artists. Runs to Jun 10, Fri-Sat see website for schedule and performers. $20-$30. 100A Ossington. lowerossingtontheatre.com/cabaret. LoVe NotWIthstaNDINg by Grant Tilly (A Vancouver Apt. Co-op). Two artists agree to a time-limited relationship, but find their modern ideas at odds with their emotions. Runs to May 20, Wed-Sun 8 pm. $20, stu/srs $15. Red Sandcastle Theatre, 922 Queen E. 416-8459411, redsandcastletheatre.com. Luba, sIMPLY Luba by Diane Flacks, Luba Goy and Andrey Tarasiuk (Pleiades Theatre/ Red Boots Canada). Actor/comic Goy shares her own story of growing up in a Ukrainian immigrant family and finding radio and TV success (see review, page 70). 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. 416368-3110, canadianstage.com. NNN (Debbie Fein-Goldbach) oDYsseo (Cavalia). Theatre artists and horses create a spectacle combining equestrian arts, stage arts and special effects. 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). This festival of ñ theatre for human rights features multidisci-
plinary works by Canadian and Latin American artists, including dance-theatre piece Urban Odyssey by Loco 7, Parting Memories by Violeta Luna, Carmen Aguirre’s Blue Box and more. Runs to May 27, see website for schedule. $15-$30, festival pass $100. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. 416-504-7529, alunatheatre.ca. PINkaLIcIous, the MusIcaL by Elizabeth Kann, Victoria Kann and John Gregor (Vital Theatre). A girl turns pink after eating too many cupcakes in this family show. To May 27, Sun 1 pm. $29.50-$40. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. 416-642-8973, vitaltheatre.ca. the reaL WorLD? by Michel Tremblay (Tarragon Theatre). A playwright’s family deals with his scripted version of them in Tremblay’s nuanced play, which puts both onstage and questions which version is more truthful as well as whether it’s right to tell the truth. Director Richard Rose’s well-performed production captures the tensions and unfulfilled emotional needs in this seemingly average clan. Runs to Jun 3, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $21-$51. 30 Bridgman. 416531-1827, tarragontheatre.com. NNNN (JK) reNt by Johnathan Larson (Theatre Sheridan). New York artists struggle to make ends meet in the shadow of the AIDS epidemic in this musical. Runs to Jun 3, Tue-Thu 7:30 pm, FriSat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $40-$60, stu rush $25. Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge. 416-8721212, mirvish.com. 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 (see review, page 67). Runs to May 26: May 19, 22 and 24 at 7:30 pm, May 26 at 4:30 pm. $12-$318. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231, coc.ca. NNNN (JK) 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. Runs to Jun 3, TueSat 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. Runs to May 18, Fri 7:30 pm. $20. Arts & Letters Club, 14 Elm. operafive.com. War horse based on a novel by Michael Morpurgo, adapted by Nick Stafford (National Theatre of Great Britain/Mirvish). The story’s familiar – boy gets horse, boy loses horse, etc – but the stagecraft on display in War Horse is like nothing else. Handspring
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Uneven Story WEST SIDE STORY by Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim (Dancap). At the Toronto Centre for the Arts (5040 Yonge). Runs to June 3. $51-$180. 416-644-3665. See Continuing, this page. Rating: NNN
West Side Story is one of the best musicals of the 20th century. The current touring production captures some of its magic, improving as it moves toward the story’s tragic end. Arthur Laurents’s book transplants the Romeo and Juliet story to the streets of 50s New York City, where rival gangs the Jets and Sharks go after each other in a rumble. Complicating matters is the relationship between the Jets’ secondin-command, Tony (Ross Lekites), and Maria (Evy Ortiz), sister of Sharks leader Bernardo (German Santiago). You know things won’t end well. The show is filled with some of composer Leonard Bernstein and young lyricist Stephen Sondheim’s best tunes. Even 60 years after its premiere, the Jerome Robbins choreography is thrilling, no matter how many times you might have seen it. The key innovation in this production is the occasional use of Spanish dialogue and lyrics for the Puerto Rican characters.
Things get off to a slow start, though, and it isn’t until Lekites appears that the production begins to blossom; innocent and open, he gives freshness to Something’s Coming and later discovers all sorts of loving wonder as he sings Maria. Ortiz isn’t quite as rich as her partner in the first act, but she warms up in the second to bring the show to an emotionally strong conclusion. Michelle Aravena’s Anita adds additional fire. You can’t go wrong with West Side Story’s great music and choreography, but this version only occasionally takes them to the heights.
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val/WYRD Production). Miller voices characters from TV’s The Simpson’s in this solo comedic adaptation of Macbeth. Runs in rep to May 26. $30-$70. Studio Theatre, 34 George E, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. MINE by James Barrett, Paul Herwig, Martin Moreau and Kevin Sepaul (Globus Theatre). The search for trapped miners following an explosion stirs up questions of blame and explores the reasons for people’s actions. Runs to May 19, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat May 19
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Evy Ortiz and Ross Lekites shine intermittently as West Side Story’s star-crossed lovers. Puppet Company’s equines come to life with Rae Smith’s spectacular design, which uses projections to convey the First World War battlefields where Albert (an excellent Alex Ferber) seeks the horse he loves. We appreciate the anti-war message, as well, but it’s the magic theatre can create that’ll make you weep. Runs to Sep 30, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 1:30 pm. $35-$130, rush $29. Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King W. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. NNNNN (Susan G Cole) WEST SIDE STORY by Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim (Dancap Productions). A man falls in love with a rival gang member’s sister in this musical. Runs to Jun 3, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm. $51-$180. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge. 416-644-3665, dancaptickets.com. NNN (JK) 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. NNN (JK)
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Simply fine LUBA, SIMPLY LUBA by Diane Flacks in collaboration with Luba Goy and Andrey Tarasiuk (Pleiades). At Berkeley Street Theatre Downstairs (26 Berkeley). To May 26. $33. 416-368-3110. See Continuing, page 68. Rating: NNN
Luba Goy says whenever she goes out in public, strangers approach her warmly and invite her places. She conveys this same easygoing rapport with the audience for Luba, Simply Luba. Goy traces her storied family history from Ukraine to a forced labour camp in Germany, to Belgian coal mines postWW2, crossing the ocean and finally settling in Ottawa. Accompanying her behind a curtain, Victor Mishalow plays rich music on the bandura, Ukraine’s national instrument. Fans of her comedy, particularly from her 35 years with the Royal Canadian Air Farce, get rewarded with Goy’s familiar imitations of politicians (nine
prime ministers served during the Air Farce run) and Canadian icons like Margaret Atwood. These revisited impressions entertain, but work best when integrated into the story, like her recollection of struggling not to impersonate the Queen when actually meeting her one day at the CBC. With writer Diane Flacks’s help, funny recollections become in-depth narratives. Together they mine humour from stories about Goy losing her virginity and her first foray into comedy. However, the script could still use editing; it sometimes feels disjointed, and the narrative too frequently skips back and forth in time. Douglas Paraschuk keeps the set simple. A wooden chest doubles as a seat and storage unit and contains props used to strong effect to illustrate the Goy family’s impoverishment in the early days. She may have a tendency to milk some punchlines, but Goy’s superb timing and buoyant physicality are evident in this honest and revealing show. DEBBIE FEIN-GOLDBACH
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Thursday, May 17 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Jamie Lissow, Ernie Vicente, David Andrew Brent and host Ted Bisaillion. To May 20, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:45 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10-$15. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca. AMATEUR NIGHT AT THE BEAVER The Flying Beaver Pubaret presents up-and-coming comics and hosts Shannon McDonough and Michael McLean. 7:30 pm. Free. 488 Parliament. 647-347-6567, pubaret.com. COMEDY THURSDAYS The Starving Artist presents a weekly showcase w/ host Natasha Henderson. 9 pm. Free. 584 Lansdowne. 647342-5058, starvingartistbar.com. GUILTY OF BEING FUNNY presents weekly stand-up w/ hosts Andrew Fox and Jamie O’Connor. 10 pm. Free. Hot Wings, 563 Queen W. 416-359-8860. THE IMPROV SHOW Comedy Bar presents Lauren Ash, Jan Caruana, Kerry Griffin, Kayla Lorette, Carmine Lucarelli, Jerry Schaefer and Leslie Seiler. 8 pm. $5. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. LAUGH SABBATH presents Bob Kerr, Amanda Brooke Perrin, Rhiannon Archer, Helder Brum, Mark Forward and Tim Gilbert. 9:30 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. laughsabbath.com.
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tet and directed with note-perfect precision by Chris Earle. Standout sketches take on the economic crisis in Europe, political attack ads (and how they affect a family vacation), bad reality TV and social media. There’s a sinister edge to one improvised bit about a pair of cops who brag about internet surveillance, but overall there’s lots of physical comedy – including one sketch about a woman (the fabulous Inessa Frantowski) trying to join an orgy and a man (the fearless Jason DeRosse) getting ejected from a kinky sex date. Don’t order any whipped cream. Wed-Sat 8 pm, plus Fri & Sat 10:30 pm, Sun 7 pm. $24-$29, stu $15. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity. com. NNNN (GS) LOL COMEDY NIGHT Saviari Tea + Cocktail Lounge presents DJ Demers, Evan Desmarais, Brian Ward, Mike Rita, Amanda Day, Ryan Horwood and host Chris Allin. doors 7 pm. $5. 926 King W. facebook.com/saviari. 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. TOUCH MY STEREOTYPE Comedy Bar presents Cool Chicken, host Sara Hennessey and the TMS crew. 9:30 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. touchmystereotype.com. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Adam Richmond. To May 20, Thu-Sun 8 pm (plus Fri-Sat 10:30 pm). $12-$20. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.
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competition w/ Sarah Hillier, Kyle Dooley, host Josh Murray and others. 10:30 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. CATCH23 Comedy Bar presents weekly competitive improv. 8 pm. $8. 945 Bloor W. 416551-6540, comedybar.ca. CRAIG GASS Cadillac Lounge presents the comic in a live show. 7 pm. $20. 1296 Queen W. 416-536-7717, cadillaclounge.com. LIVE WRONG AND PROSPER See Thu 17. NAKED FRIDAYS John Candy Box Theatre presents weekly improv, sketch, stand-up and music. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. scnakedfridays@ gmail.com. THE NO NAME COMEDY SHOW The Bar with No Name presents weekly comedy and people talking loudly w/ host Matt Shury. 9:30 pm. Free. 1651 Bloor W. 416-997-6045. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 17.
Saturday, May 19 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 17. GRINDHOUSE COMEDY Grindhouse Burger Bar
presents Matt O’Brien, Christina Walkinshaw, Hunter Collins, Alex Nussbaum, host Julia Hladkowicz and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. 365 King W. 416-977-3010. LIVE WRONG AND PROSPER See Thu 17.
S&P COMEDY – TRIP OUT WITHOUT THE TRAFFIC JAMS! S&P Comedy present Cameron Algie,
Isaac Kessler, Matt Folliott and Kevin Whalen. 10 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. THE SAL & SANDY SHOW Underground Comedy Club presents The Man Show w/ Ted Morris, Boyd Banks, Paul Bellini, Scott Thompson and hosts Sal Feldman & Sandy Frigginelli. 8:30 pm. $15. 670 Queen E. 416732-7761. THE SKETCHIEST SKETCH SHOW Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival presents a fundraiser for the fall festival w/ Approximately 3 Peters, Smells Like the 80s and the Templeton Philharmonic. 8 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. torontosketchfest.com. SMASH HIT Opening Night Theatre presents a weekly improvised musical. 7:30 pm. Pwyc. Augusta House, 152 Augusta. openingnighttheatre.com. THEATRESPORTS Bad Dog Theatre presents unscripted comedy battles. Undercard warm-up event at 7 pm, main event at 8 pm. $12, stu $10 (for one or both shows). Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-491-3115, baddogtheatre.com. YOU LAUGH NOW Peter Inskip & Jason Schlesinger present a monthly comedy variety show and dance party w/ Justin Laite, Josh Infald, Jennifer McAuliffe, Garrett Jamieson, Jake Leland and others. 9 pm. $4. Jun Jun Hotel Restaurant, 374 College. 647-349-9220. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 17.
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Sunday, May 20 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 17. COMEDY AT 51 Kyra Williams presents a late-
night comedy cabaret w/ Rachelle Elie, Chris Scian, Brandon Sobel, El Jaguar, Touch My Stereotype and Jim Kim. 10 pm. Pwyc. Second City, 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011. LAUGH FOR AFRICA Shakespeare Link Canada presents a benefit for its Africa project w/ Naomi Snieckus, Aurora Browne, Darryl Purvis, Arthur Simeon, Fraser Young and others. 7:30 pm. $15. The Annex Live, 296 Brunswick. shakespearelinkcanada.ca. LIVE WRONG AND PROSPER See Thu 17. 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 17.
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ALTDOT COMEDY LOUNGE Rivoli presents Debra DiGiovanni, Mark Forward, Adam Richmond, Aaron Berg, Alex Pavone, Camille Cote, Eddie Della Siepe, Enis Esmer, MC Mark DeBonis and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. 332 Queen
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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 weekly show w/ Russell Roy. 9 pm. Free. 39 Colborne. 416-815-7562. STAND-UP AT SAZERAC presents weekly standup. 9 pm. Free. Sazerac Gastro Lounge, 782 King W. 647-342-8866.
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Tuesday, May 22 FUNNY IN THE BANK Banknote presents weekly comedy. 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 SeánPod, a live podcast w/ Jason Belleville, Bruce Lynn and host Seán Cullen. 9 pm. Pwyc. 332 Queen W. sketchcomedylounge.com. STANDING ON THE DANFORTH Eton House presents Kristeen von Hagen, Pete Zedlacher, Ted Morris, Francois Tousignant, Steve Adams, Ali Hassan, Nick Wilson, DJ Demers, Cal Post and host Jo-Anna Downey. 9 pm. Free. 710 Danforth. 416-466-6161. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents the Humber School of Comedy at 7:30 pm, and stand-up Amateur Night at 9:30 pm. $4. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.
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After premiering at World Stage in 2009, bluemouth inc. took their wildly interactive Dance Marathon – inspired by Depression-era dance contests – on the road, including a hugely successful stint at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Now they’re back, so put on your dance shoes (and your deodorant) and get ready for another go around the floor. See listings, page 67.
Wednesday, May 23 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Pro-Am Night w/
Jim Colliton, Alex Crawford, Chris Allin, Joel West, Natalie Norman, Shawn B and host Mike Dambra. 8:30 pm. $6. 2335 Yonge. 416486-7700, 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.
LAUGH THROUGH THIS: ALL GIRL COMEDY SHOW Black Swan presents Jenna Warriner,
Sage Tyrtle, the Young Geologists, Catherine McCormic, Ann Pornel, Sarah Hillier and hosts Moniquea Marion and Danz Altvater. 7:30 pm. Pwyc. 154 Danforth. 416-469-0537. LIVE WRONG AND PROSPER See Thu 17. SIREN’S COMEDY Celt’s Pub presents open-mic stand-up w/ Josh Infald & host Erik Bamberg. 8:30 pm. Free. 2872 Dundas W. 416-767-3339. SPIRITS COMEDY NIGHT presents Mark Walker, Darren Frost, Ian Sirota, Simon King, Mark Little, Darren Pyle, Gerry Hall, Jesse Owens, Cal Post, host Jo-Anna Downey and others. 9 pm. Free. Spirits Bar & Grill, 642 Church. 416-967-0001. TACOMEDY Mark DeBonis presents weekly stand-up. 10 pm. Pwyc. La Revolucion, 2848 Dundas W. iamnotmarkdebonis.com. 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. 9:30 pm. $10-$12. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, baddogtheatre.com. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Gilson Lubin. To May 26, Wed-Sat 8 pm (plus Fri-Sat 10:30 pm). $12-$20. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com. 3
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How has Dance Marathon changed since its 2009 premiere here? Richard Windeyer: It’s down to a trim fightin’ weight of 3.5 hours, thanks in part to many performances (with a wide variety of audiences) and a superstrong stage manager/technical director duo. Just like humans, the show only reaches full maturity after it’s done some travelling and been in a couple of bar fights and one-night stands. Stephen O’Connell: Some new songs, some new dances, a lot of new dancers and a new MC. More fun and more competition. Bigger prizes. What’s changed about you? Lucy Simic: All that cardio is keeping us spry. Ciara Adams: We’ve become much more interested in immersive work. Our earlier work always had the audience participating in various ways, but Dance Marathon is actually about the audience. They are the protagonist. This really interests me. In an increasingly digital age, it feels appropriate.
dance listings opening COExISDANCE SERIES #45 presents dance im-
provisers performing with AIM Toronto musicians. May 19 at 8 pm. $10. Arraymusic Studio, 60 Atlantic. coexisdance.wordpress.com. DANCE MARATHON Harbourfront World Stage and bluemouth inc present an interactive, duration-based performance event inspired by Depression-era dance contests, today’s reality TV and the cult of celebrity (see story, this page). May 18-19 at 7 pm. $15-$35. Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay
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W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com. THE HEART IN MOTION 2012 Cardinal Carter Academy presents a student performance. May 22-23 at 7:30 pm. $15. 36 Greenfield. 416-393-5556 ext 82221. THE LORD OF DEATH Wu Ming Dance Project presents a multimedia solo dance performance inspired by The Tibetan Book Of The Dead. May 18 at 8 pm. $20, stu/srs $16. George Ignatieff Theatre, 15 Devonshire. 416-978-8849, uofttix.ca.
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O’Connell: I’m now wearing bifocal glasses and working at a new restaurant to support my artistic habit. The use of smartphones and social media has exploded since then. Do you integrate Twitter and Facebook into the proceedings? Windeyer: Look for more of this sort of thing in the next bluemouth project. O’Connell: We @bluemouthinc are happy to be returning to Toronto with #DanceMarathon @HarbourfrontTO @WorldStageTO. You created the piece around the time of the economic downturn, and the show’s inspired by Depression-era dance contests. Things haven’t picked up. When will things get better? Simic: I know! How is an artist supposed to get a grant to develop the next piece if arts funding is being cut? Most memorable dance partners? Simic: The double-jointed guy in London. O’Connell: Lieve, the wonderful and playful Belgian woman in London who played a song on her kazoo. How many pairs of shoes have you used up performing Dance Marathon? Simic: Four black Converse for me alone, 18 pairs for the collective. Adams: I’m on my third pair, and I think they’ll just last me for these two performances. O’Connell: Two pairs of black Converse, one pair of army boots and a couple of pairs of Vans. I bought brand new blue Converse especially for this showing. What’s next? Simic: An overnight island performance, a hybrid of an Irish wake and an Australian walkabout. The rest is a secret. Windeyer: Lunch. Adams: Something immersive, sitespecific, fun and emotional. We’re toying with an overnight piece. Very kinGLENN SUMI esthetic and experiential. ute to Canadian choreographers Peggy Baker, Anna Blewchamp and Danny Grossman. May 18-19, Fri-Sat 8 pm. $22, stu/srs $18. The Citadel, 304 Parliament. eventbrite.com/event/ 3079443699/eorg.
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inspired by children who participated in a ‘Healing Through Dance’ program in Colombia. Runs to May 18, Thu-Fri 8 pm. $20, stu/ srs $15. Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester. wix.com/deviationdance/home. SWAN LAKE Bolshoi Ballet presents the original revival choreography by Marius Petipa as composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Runs to May 19, Thu 7:30 pm, Fri-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $71-$255. Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Front E. 1-855-8727669, sonycentre.ca. 3
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Larry Towell’s photojournalistic eye captures telling and dramatic war scenes.
and-white, turns his camera on people caught up in the war. His experienced photojournalistic eye homes in on telling and dramatic scenes of fear (arrests, wounded soldiers, prisoners), despair (drug addicts), intensity (Taliban fighters) and the persistence of
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it takes subtlety and wit to survive as a contemporary artist in Iran, and those without a talent for layered meaning generally can’t flourish. This show focusing on gender is a celebration of grace under per vasive cultural pressure. Most striking is the exhibit’s utter contemporaneity. Arman Stepanian’s photos employ a rich visual poetry to address the situation of Iranian women. Abbas Kowsari explores the male side, divorcing hyper-masculine images of wrestlers and bodybuilders from their established cultural contexts. Amirali Ghasemi documents a brief flourishing of coffee-house culture in which bohemian idiosyncrasy and relaxed norms for women thrived for a time. Ghasemi deftly refers to subsequent crackdowns by excising women’s faces from every photo. These photographers share a solidarity with all artists who struggle with the limitations and paradoxes of culture, identity and nationality. DAVID JAGER art@nowtoronto.com
and Morris Lum, to Jul 8, Beaudry talk 2 pm May 19. 300 City Centre (Mississauga). 905896-5088. ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO Performance: Aimée Henny Brown, 6:30 pm May 17 (free, overlandstation.ca). Annie MacDonell; C Selections From Max Dean’s Albums: TDSB students, to Jun 3 (also at selected schools). Iain Baxter&, to Aug 12. C Berenice Abbott, May 23-Aug 19, reception 6-8:30 pm May 23. Zhang Huan, to Aug 19. Pablo Picasso, to Aug 26 ($25, stu $16.50). C Max Dean, to Sep 9. $19.50, srs $16, stu $11, free Wed 6-8:30 pm (special exhibits excluded). 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648. ART GALLERY OF YORK 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 $8. 327 Bloor W. 416-979-7799. BURLINGTON ART CENTRE Rosemary Sloot, to Jun 10. 1333 Lakeshore (Burlington). 905-6327796. CCAMPBELL HOUSE MUSEUM Asif Rehman, to Jun 3. 160 Queen W. 416-597-0227. CDESIGN EXCHANGE Photo + Design, panel 6 pm May 18. High School Design Competition, to May 22. C Lynne Cohen, to Jun 30. $10, stu/srs $8. 234 Bay. 416-363-6121. 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.
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May 20. Scott McFarland, to Jun 25. 952 Queen W. 416-395-0067. MUSEUM OF INUIT ART Sculpture/prints/drawing from the collection; Jessie Kenalogak, ongoing. $6, stu/srs $5, weekends free. 207 Queens Quay W. 416-640-7591. OAKVILLE GALLERIES Keren Cytter, to Jun 10. Gairloch Gdns, 1306 Lakeshore E, and Centennial Sq, 120 Navy (Oakville). 905-844-4402. ONTARIO SCIENCE CENTRE The DIY Body Project, to Aug 12. $20, stu/srs $16. 770 Don Mills. 416-696-1000. POWER PLANT Jens Hoffmann, talk 7 pm May 23 ($12). Kerry Tribe, to Jun 3. C Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber, to Jun 18. Dissenting Histories: 25 Years Of The Power Plant, to Sep 3. 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949. CROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM Larry Towell and Donovan Wylie, to Jul 15. Deborah Samuel, to Jul 2. $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. Dreamland: Textiles And The Canadian Landscape, May 23-Sep 30, reception 6:30-8 pm May 23. $15, srs $10, stu $6; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre. 416-599-5321. CU OF T ART CENTRE Public: Collective Identity/Occupied Space; Robert Giard, to Jun 30. 15 King’s College Circle. 416-978-1838. 3
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Giovanni Senisi, May 17-27, reception 7-9:30 pm May 18. 38 Abell. artscapetrianglegallery.ca. CART SQUARE GALLERY Between Fantasy And Reality: Contemporary Photography From Cambodia, to Jun 3. 334 Dundas W. 416-705-4331. CBELLJAR CAFE Photos: Lisa Kannakko, to May 27. 2072 Dundas W. 416535-0777.
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Looking Forward/Looking Back: National Portrait Collection, to Jun 11. 34 Isabella. 416-777-2755. CLINT ROENISCH Collage/sculpture: Jennifer Murphy, May 17-Jun 17, reception 7-9 pm May 17. 944 Queen W. 416-516-8593. CCIRCUIT GALLERY @ GALLERY 345 Photos: Eamon Mac Mahon and Jim Verburg, to May 26 (Sat noon-5 pm or by appt). 345 Sorauren. 647-477-2487. DANIEL FARIA GALLERY Installation/performance: Derek Liddington, to May 26, performance 6 pm May 17, performance 11 am-6 pm May 22-26. 188 St Helens. 416538-1880. CDISTILLERY DISTRICT Photos/video/film: Melanie Manchot, to May 31, artist’s talk 7 pm May 22 (Pikto, 55 Mill) . Distillery Art Market, to Sep 30 (Sat-Sun and holidays). 55 Mill. torontoartscape.org. CDON’T TELL MAMA Photos: Chris Grismer, to May 31. 108 Ossington. 647-207-3285. CDRAKE HOTEL Photos: Oliver Pauk and Zach Slootsky, to May 31. In The Corner Of My Eye group show, to Jun 25. 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042. CGALLERY 44 Gender And Exposure In Contemporary Iranian Photography, to Jun 16. 401 Richmond W. 416-979-3941. CGALLERY TPW Video: Mark Boulos, to May 26. 56 Ossington. 416-645-1066. CGLADSTONE HOTEL Photos: Exposed 2012 group show, to May 27. Photos: Laurie Kang and Jamie Campbell, to Jun 2. Queen West Walking Art Tour, ongoing (Sat noon-2:30 pm, $25-$45). 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. HART HOUSE C Photos: Mandeep Flora, to May 27. Renegade Bodies: Canadian Dance
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60 Painters group show, May 18-Jun 9, reception noon-5 pm May 19 (bus from 401 Richmond, noon). 300 Birmingham. 60painters.com. KING W OF CHURCH Paint With A Tweet mural (benefit for Canadian Art Foundation): Kustaa Saksi, to Jun 1. #molsonm_art. CLAUSBERG CONTEMPORARY Photos: Katharina Mayer, to Jun 3. 326 Dundas W. 416-516-4440. CLOMOGRAPHY GALLERY STORE Photos: Two And A Quarter group show, to May 31. 536 Queen W. 647-352-6700. CMETRO HALL Photos: Sport Culture: Movement Identities And Inclusion, to May 25. 55 John. 416-397-9887. CMONTE CLARK GALLERY Photos: Stephen Waddell, to Jun 3. 55 Mill, bldg 2. 416-7031700. CNICHOLAS METIVIER Photos: Michael Awad, to May 19. 451 King W. 416-2059000. CO’BORN CONTEMPORARY Photos: Jill Greenberg, to Jun 2. 131 Ossington. 416413-9555. COLGA KORPER Photos: Adi Nes, to Jun 2. Koffler offfsite, 17 Morrow. 416538-8220. OPEN STUDIO GALLERY One Hundred Prints fundraising gala, 6:30 pm, Art Draw 7:45 pm May 17 ($50-$375, at Palais Royale). Prints: Mark Franchino, Kurt Pammer and others, to May 19. 401 Richmond W. 416-504-8238.
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Installation: Pascal Grandmaison, to Jul 21. 401 Richmond W. 416-591-0357. CSTEPHEN BULGER Berenice Abbott, catalogue launch 5 pm May 22. C Photos: Sanaz Mazinani, to Jun 9. 1026 Queen W. 416-504-0575. TELEPHONE BOOTH Photos: Heather Benning, to Jun 9. 3148 Dundas W. 647-270-7903. CTORONTO IMAGE WORKS Photos: Robert Leslie, to Jun 4. 80 Spadina. 416-703-1999. CURBANSPACE Photos: Patrick Cummins, to May 31. 401 Richmond W. 416-595-5900. WYNICK/TUCK Painting: Greg Curnoe and Jaclyn Conley, to Jun 2. 401 Richmond W. 416-504-8716.
YDESSA HENDELES ART FOUNDATION Strait-Jacket group show, ongoing. Sat ñ noon-5 pm. 778 King W. 416-413-9400.
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READINGS THIS WEEK Thursday, May 17 LYNN COADY Reading by the author of The Antagonist. 7 pm. Free. Barbara ñ Frum Library, 20 Covington.
analyst Donald Winnicott’s experience with a truant nine-year-old, but matches it with illustrations of a fight she and her mother had when she was a teenager. Parallels emerge. Past and present coexist, as they do in real life. The book is, in fact, partly a biography of Winnicott, whom Bechdel deeply admires. She also addresses the theories of Alice Miller, Adrienne Rich, Sigmund Freud and Virginia Woolf. A dream sequence starts each chapter. Time is spent
meta-musing about the challenges of writing the book. Occasionally she succumbs to dense psychoanalytical jargon, and the midsection is frustratingly overthought (though that might be the intent). With so many threads, it’s a small miracle that the book coalesces into something so powerful, graceful and resolved by the end. That, in a nutshell, is Bechdel’s genius. CARLA GILLIS books@nowtoronto.com
torontopubliclibrary.ca. DAVID GILMOUR Talking about the inspiration for his book The Perfect Order Of Things. 7 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. 416-395-5577. MARNIE MCBEAN The Olympian launches The Power Of More: How Small Steps Can Help You Achieve Big Goals. 5 pm. Free. Ben McNally Books, 366 Bay. 416-361-0032.
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Friday, May 18 ARTHUR NESLEN Launching his book In Your Eyes A Sandstorm: Ways Of Being Palestinian. 7 pm. $5. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org.
Saturday, May 19 ROBERT GRAHAM Reading from the first of his trilogy The Seventh Journey. 2 pm. Free. Indigo Manulife, 55 Bloor W. chapters. indigo.ca.
Tuesday, May 22 NAZANIN AFSHIN-JAM Talking about her
book The Tale Of Two Nazanins. 7 pm. Free. Indigo Manulife, 55 Bloor W. chapters. indigo.ca. JOHN COATES Talk by the author of The Hour Between Dog And Wolf. 5 pm. Rotman School of Management, 105 St George. rotman.utoronto.ca. LYNN MANNING Reading from his autobiographical play, Weights. 6 pm. Free. Hart House E Common Rm, 7 Hart House Circle. harthouse.ca.
Wednesday, May 23 GAIL BOWEN Talking about her book Kaleidoscope. 1 pm. Free. Cedarbrae Library, 545 Markham. torontopubliclibrary.ca. MARJORIE HARRIS Reading and dinner with the gardening author. 6:30 pm. $100. Grano, 2035 Yonge. 416-361-0032. BIANCA LAKOSELJAC Talking about her new book, Bridge In The Rain. 7 pm. Free. Bloor Gladstone Library, 1101 Bloor W. torontopubliclibrary.ca. LITERARY PUB NIGHT PWAC and CAA members read their work. 7 pm. Free. NOW Lounge, 189 Church. tinyurl.com/6r92uhb.
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IN PERSON Funny Strange: Satire After Mordecai Richler honours Canada’s literary hero and raises funds for PEN Canada tonight (Thursday, May 17). Charles Foran, whose memoir of Richler took the 2011 Charles Taylor Prize for non-fiction, moderates a conversation with humourist Calvin Trillin and the always entertaining Seán Cullen at the ROM. A great opportunity to laugh and support writers’ rights at the same time. See Readings, this page. SUSAN G. COLE
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Nova Scotia to get married in order to gain legal standing in each other’s lives. Dotty’s granddaughter, played on the shrill side by Kristin Booth, wants to put her in a nursing home, and Stella has no say in the matter. The couple pick up a hitchhiker (Ryan Doucette, reprising his stage role) along the way, which has led some wags to compare Cloudburst to Thelma & Louise. But that’s an awfully facile comparison. This movie charts its NORMAN WILNER own course.
Swede love KISS ME (Alexandra-Therese Keining, Sweden). 105 minutes. Subtitled. May 25, 9:45 pm. Rating: NNN
INSIDE OUT TORONTO LGBT FILM FESTIVAL REVIEWS
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Nanny diaries MARGARITA (Dominique Cardona, Laurie Colbert, Canada). 91 minutes. Saturday (May 19), 7:15 pm. Rating: NNN
This entertaining feature is a major stride forward for the directors of the not very credible Finn’s Girl. Here, nanny Margarita (Nicola Correia Damude) gets fired by her financially challenged employers, Ben and Gail (Patrick McKenna and Claire Lautier), much to the outrage of their teenaged daughter (Maya Ritter). Turns out Margarita’s indispensable – she fixes things and tutors Maya in math, sending her grades soaring – and soon Ben and Gail discover Margarita’s in the country illegally and regret their decision. There’s some silliness here (okay, they need a housekeeper, but Ben and Gail should know how to use at least one appliance), and a subplot with renovator Carlos, who wants to turn Margarita straight, is unnecessary. But the performances, especially by Damude and girlfriend Christine Horne are very good, and there’s lots of gratuitous lesbian sex in the hot tub. SUSAN G. COLE
Robyn Kerr (left) and T’Nia Miller are picture perfect in Stud Life.
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Great performances, an intense indie soundtrack and situations that are completely real make these adventures in London’s underground queer scene resonate with deep emotion. T’Nia Miller plays JJ, a charismatic butch wedding photographer who has a tough time finding love and acceptance. When she falls for Elle (Robyn Kerr), JJ finds out she can be intolerant, too. There’s a lot to love here: JJ’s relationship with her gay boy best friend, Seb (Kyle Treslove), a series of wedding shoots that showcase the glorious diversity of the queer community, and the way writer/director Campbell X deals head-on with the issue of gaybashing. A moving scene following Seb’s sexual encounter with his online sex SGC buddy is killer.
Fair weather CLOUDBURST (Thom Fitzgerald, Canada). 93 minutes. May 25, 7:15 pm. Rating: NNN
You can tell by the opening sex sequence that Mia (Ruth Vega Fernandez) isn’t totally into her fiancé, Tim. Sure enough, when she meets Frida (Liv Mjönes), her stepmother’s daughter, sparks fly and she has to make some difficult decisions. Can’t say there’s anything formatbusting in this drama, in either style or content. Mia has issues with her dad and isn’t ready to come out. Freer spirit Frida gets impatient. But there are excellent moments, especially when Frida leaves her lover in a scene whose dialogue sounds wholly authentic. And the emotions in this movie seem just SGC as real.
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When Vito Russo died from AIDSrelated illness in 1990, he left behind a huge legacy, not only as a pioneering gay and AIDS activist, but also as the author of the seminal book The Celluloid Closet, about the history of gays and lesbians in cinema. Jeffrey Schwarz’s impressive doc touches on all of this, as well as on Russo’s personal life, which included a family that provided unconditional support after he
proudly came out while young, and his lover Jeffrey Sevcik, who was as shy as Vito was outgoing. Archival footage gives us a frontline perspective on early bathhouse raids, homophobic mainstream journalism and how the queer community fractured in the sexually liberated 70s and then banded together when the terrifying and mysterious AIDS epidemic hit urban centres. Besides the ever-articulate and impassioned Russo, the interviews and footage include friends like Larry Kramer, Armistead Maupin, Lily Tomlin (one story about her run-in with Time Magazine is worth the price of admission) and Bette Midler, who once unified an out-of-control rally with GLENN SUMI true style.
Dull Dean JOSHUA TREE, 1951: A PORTRAIT OF JAMES DEAN (Matthew Mishory, U.S.). 93 minutes. May 26, 10 pm. Rating: NN
Matthew Mishory’s moody, self-consciously arty movie imagines the life of iconic actor James Dean right before he caught his break. He’s in L.A. taking the occasional acting class, hanging out at the pool of a sleazy Hollywood type and being mooned over by his roommate. Oh, and when he’s not smoking and reading Hemingway, Saint-Exupéry and Rimbaud, he’s having sex with anything that moves. This might be fun if there were any life onscreen, but the dialogue is banal, the performances wooden and the structure so flimsy, the movie evaporates as you’re watching it. The mostly black-and-white cinematography looks decent, however, and James Preston, a former Abercrombie & Fitch model, has the Dean shrug and smoulder down pat without suggesting any of the man’s mystery or talent. GS 3 movies@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/nowfilm
Vito Russo speaks out at an ACT UP meeting.
Thom Fitzgerald’s first feature since 2005’s 3 Needles, Cloudburst is a considerably more cinematic effort than the East Coast director usually produces – despite being an adaptation of his 2010 stage play. The movie showcases fine performances by Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker as Stella and Dotty, an aging Maine couple who decide to drive to
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You might compare Kevin Macdonald’s comprehensive and authoritative doc about Bob Marley to a massive joint – and not just because there’s an obscene amount of ganja onscreen. Share it with a group while grooving to its tunes and everyone will come away with a different kind of high. Marley aficionados will be astonished by the depth and breadth of the documentary, which portrays the musician known as “Tuff Gong” as both a fallible man and an untouchable legend. Meanwhile, those who only know his most popular tunes, like Jammin and One Love, will walk away enlightened about the music and its roots. Macdonald (The Last King Of Scot-
land) details Marley’s life, from his childhood as the rejected son of a 50-year-old British naval officer to the reggae icon he became, whose lyrics are cited by every flannel-shirt-wearing hippie. In between, we learn about his Rastafarian influences, his lifethreatening bouts with politics and his way with the ladies. (He fathered 11 children with seven women.) Marley makes efficient use of limited footage and fills in the gaps with interviews with those who knew the man intimately. Candid talking heads include Marley’s wife, children, bandmates like Bunny Wailer and even one of his many mistresses, Toronto-born Cindy Breakspeare, whose son Damian “Junior Gong” Marley recently collaborated on the Distant Relatives album with Nas. Despite its epic running time (entirely justified by its subject’s complexity and influence), the film never lags. After all, Marley wasn’t the kind of guy you can take in with just a few tokes. RADHEYAN SIMONPILLAI
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BERNIE directed by Richard Linklater, screenplay by Linklater and Skip Hollandsworth based on the magazine story by Hollandsworth. An Alliance Films release. 104 minutes. Opens Friday (May 18). For venues and times, see Movies, page 79. Rating: NN
richard linklater can’t get experimental often enough, for my money. The projects that most inspire him – Slacker, Waking Life, the decade-spanning double feature of Before Sunrise and Before Sunset – bring out his playful, thoughtful side rather than the perfunctory craft behind The Newton Boys or that Bad News Bears remake. His studio work may fund the indie stuff, but with the exception of his buoyant family comedy School Of Rock, it’s rarely all that enjoyable. Linklater’s latest, Bernie, is an indie and decidedly an experiment, appropriating the format of a true-crime documentary and wrapping it around extensive fictional recreations of the incident being discussed. In interviews, various people from the East Texas town of Carthage tell the story of Bernie Tiede (pronounced “tee-dee”), a beloved local mortician who… well, he did something pretty bad. But then we see Bernie, played by Jack Black as a glad-handing, civic-minded fellow who fusses over the living and the dead with equal care and involves himself in church and community theatre. What could this guy possibly have done that was so terrible? And then, very slowly, we find out, when a talking-head interview with an actual resident is followed by a recreation of the event. The recreation looks and feels like a proper motion picture – and in point of fact I suppose it is – but Linklater’s narrative strategy keeps the dramatic stuff from building any momentum. It’s constantly stopping and starting, backing up over itself to act out the anecdote that’s just been related to us. Conceptually, it’s pretty involving for the first half-
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hour or so, as it traces Bernie’s relationship with wealthy widow Marjorie Nugent, played by Shirley MacLaine as a woman who’s spent so much time alone that her eccentricities have hardened into toxic character flaws. The narrative spikes again once Matthew McConaughey enters the picture as district attorney Danny Buck Davidson, who would eventually prosecute Bernie for the aforementioned unpleasantness. But even there the movie has to stop so Mc Con aughey, in character, can be int e r viewed about his suspicions and how he went about investigating them – and then there’s McConaugheyas-Buck in the re-enactment. It probably sounded great in the pitch room, but as an actual experience it’s on the redundant side. 3 normw@nowtoronto.com
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Jennifer Connelly gives a fine performance, but Virginia is a mess.
You’d rather a first-time director be ambitious than timid, but Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black (Milk) tries to do way too much in his directorial debut. In a small Christian tourist town, Virginia (Jennifer Connelly), the unhinged single mom of Emmett, continues a leather-laden, fetishbased affair for years with Sheriff Tipton (Ed Harris). Tipton has political ambitions, and the affair could get in the way. In the meantime, Emmett is falling in love with Tipton’s daughter, who may be his sister, and, oh yeah, Virginia has lung cancer. Factor in the kids’ troubled hemophiliac friend, Tipton’s jealous wife, a few proselytizing young Mormons and the angry local transvestite and call it Christian Gothic. An energized Connelly finally loses the forbearing piety that bored us in Creation and A Beautiful Mind. The film also looks great, shot in beautiful, supersaturated colour. And Black’s themes – he’s also the screenwriter – are potentially very rich. But it’s hard to care about any of the characters, and you just wish Black could find his focus. The film has a lot going for it, but it’s a mess. SUSAN G. COLE
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Sacha Baron Cohen presses all kinds of politically incorrect buttons as The Dictator.
Good Dictator The dicTaTor (Larry Charles). 84 minutes. Now playing. For venues and times, see Movies, page 79. Rating: NNN
The Dictator’s a good illustration of comedy equalling tragedy plus time. With the recent passing of tyrants Saddam, Kim Jong-Il and Gaddafi, messianic, out-of-touch dictators suddenly seem ripe for spoofing. And who better to take them on than chameleon comic Sacha Baron Cohen and director Larry Charles, who tested the limits of good taste and political incorrectness in Borat and Brüno? Unlike those other two films, this one doesn’t rely on hijacking ordinary people shock-doc fashion. But that’s in keeping with the main character, His Excellency Admiral General Aladeen, an über-controlling villain from the fictional country of Wadiya who murders everyone who disagrees with him.
When he escapes an assassination plot engineered by his right-hand man, Tamir (Ben Kingsley), Aladeen goes undercover in a Brooklyn health food co-op run by radical lefty Zoey (Anna Faris) and hooks up with his regime’s former nuclear engineer (terrific comic discovery Jason Mantzoukas) to get back in power. Meanwhile, Tamir’s hired a dim body double (also Cohen) to take the leader’s place. There’s a lot of plot to get through, and the writers concoct an endless stream of jokes – some of which work while others fall flat. The scenes at the touchy-feely co-op are brilliant, made all the funnier because Faris plays her character entirely straight. And like Borat, there’s a sweetness about Aladeen’s sexual and emotional awakening that makes him likeable despite his insane views. Best of all is his scathing monologue near the end comparing the U.S. to a dictatorship, proving that even silly comedy can be dead serious. GLeNN SUMi
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Don’t expect much from What To Expect When You’re Expecting. The latest guidebook translated to the big screen (after Think Like A Man) offers vignettes illustrating exactly what the title suggests: the bumps you’ll encounter down the road after a woman first notices her baby bump. The mosaic-like film follows five moms-to-be – all looking like they’re ready to grace the cover of Cosmopolitan – and the men they drag along on their nine-month journey to parenthood. Such chopped-up screen time
means they’re less fleshed-out characters than types, making you yearn for something along the lines of Knocked Up. Some aspects ring surprisingly true, particularly Cameron Diaz’s control freak and Elizabeth Banks’s on-point depiction of a pregnancy from hell. There’s also an unexpected miscarriage, but the filmmakers neuter the emotional wreckage here with the standard pop-song montage treatment. Somebody clearly wanted to move on to the upbeat stuff as quickly as possible, and that’s the biggest problem. For all the wisdom it may have to offer, What To Expect would rather resort to immature humour for kicks. Many of these gags are so forcibly contrived, the movie seems to be going through labour to deliver them. raDheYan SimOnPiLLai
Matthew Morrison and Cameron Diaz will give you labour pains.
Turn Me On, Dammit! opens with a novel scene: a teenage girl is wiggling on the floor enjoying phone sex. What’s extraordinary is that the scene feels sweet and free of exploitation. Sex-obsessed 15-year-old Alma (a painfully honest turn by Helene Bergs holm) is constantly drifting off into carnal fantasies involving everyone in her life. Unfortunately, she ends up being gossiped about in her bored Norwegian town after her school crush, Artur, pokes her with his
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“[A] generous, absorbing, family authorized docu on the late, still-reigning king of reggae music.” – Variety
No surprises The SamariTan (David Weaver). 93 min-
After seeing Marley come back for The Last King of Scotland also directed by Kevin Macdonald.
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penis (literally) and denies it. This sounds like classic 80s sex comedy, but director Jannicke Jacobsen never goes for shock laughs, instead crafting a mature and thoughtful little movie whose humour arises from its nostalgia for sex-crazed adolescence. Alma’s obsession is hardly unnatural; she’s a teenager. Giving a feminist twist to teen sex politics is part of Jacobsen’s agenda, yet she never forces that theme. This delicate slice-of-life film captures awkward, realistic moments among a cast of recognizably flawed characters (most memorably Alma’s frazzled mother and her death-row-obsessed friend). Amusing, sweet and surprisingly touching, Turn Me On is an insightful comic gem that appeals to the secret PhiL BrOWn pervert in all of us.
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Jacobsen). 76 minutes. Subtitled. Opens Friday (May 18). For venues and times, see Movies, page 79. Rating: nnn
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THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND (18A)
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TUrn me On, DammiT! (Jannicke Systad
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Malin Bjørhovde (left), Helene Bergsholm and Beate Støfring turn on the natural charm.
Tadanobu Asano (left) and Taylor Kitsch hope Battleship doesn’t sink at the box office.
nn The Samaritan is about a man who’s been out of circulation for a quartercentury, a grifter who’s served time for killing his partner. Now he’s out, returned to a Toronto he doesn’t recognize. Naturally, Foley (Samuel L. Jackson) finds it harder than expected to stay out of trouble, especially once his dead partner’s son (Luke Kirby) looks him up with the offer of a big score. He finds something like contentment in the arms of a junkie (Ruth Negga), but we can tell their happiness will be shortlived by the way the script rushes them into cozy domesticity. And then things get really, really silly, as director David Weaver and cowriter Elan Mastai twist the movie in several different directions before settling for a professional but generic pulp thriller. It’s very nicely shot, and there are moments when Weaver gets the modern noir tone exactly right – like the
also opening Battleship scenes featuring Gil Bellows as a sympathetic bartender, or Tom McCamus as a weary parole officer – but then he drags us back to the larger plot, where things are a lot harder to believe. That Weaver sets The Samaritan plainly and firmly in Toronto – with Canadian money and Ontario licence plates – is commendable. But that’s the only element of the film that feels surprising. nOrman WiLner
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Samuel L. Jackson walks the streets of T.O. in disappointing Samaritan.
(D: Peter Berg, 131 min) Summer’s almost here, so, hey, it’s time to see a movie based on a popular board game! The trailers don’t tell you much, but lots of explosions, political intrigue and possibly an alien invasion seem involved. The cast includes Liam Neeson, Alex ander Skarsgård, Rihanna and Taylor Kitsch, who needs a hit movie to redeem himself after his first starring vehicle, John Carter, tanked at the box office earlier this year. Opens Friday (May 18). Screened after press time – see review May 18 at nowtoronto.com/movies.
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AmericAn reunion (Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg) reassembles the cast of Amer ican Pie for a largely pointless vehicle that finds our heroes facing their Carlsberg years with a mixture of exhaustion and confu sion. Seann William Scott does some amaz ing 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, Colossus, Docks Lakeview Drive-In, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24
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(Michel Hazanavicius) is a stylistic experiment pulled off with panache. A 1920s silent film star (Jean Du jardin) and fan and aspiring star (Bérénice Bejo) meet cute, and soon her career is tak ing off (she’s dubbed the “it girl” of talkies) as his falls into decline. Filming in gorgeous blackandwhite, 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
BArrymore (Érik Canuel) is a highdef broadcast of William Luce’s play about legendary actor John Barrymore, starring Canada’s Christopher Plummer in the lead. 143 min. May 23, 7 pm, at Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, Varsity BATTleship (Peter Berg) 131 min. See Also
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long after they check in, their lateinlife epiphanies begin. The fragile widow (Judi Dench) slowly gains selfconfidence by working at a call centre, while the racist housekeeper (Maggie Smith) learns to get along with those nasty darkskinned people. Tom Wilkinson’s is the most intrigu ing 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 terrific ally understated Bill Nighy (as a henpecked civil servant) taking top honours. Too bad the various subplots – including an undevel oped one about the hotel manager’s over bearing mother and his girlfriend – make it longer than it needs to be. 124 min. nnn (GS) Canada Square, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity
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(Fredrik Gertten) tracks food giant Dole’s cam paign to prevent Gertten from screening his 2009 documentary, Bananas!, about Dole’s treatment of its banana farmers. The com pany attempted to stop screenings and then took legal action against Gertten that would not let up. Eventually, he counter sued. This doc follows the craven behaviour of L.A. Film Fest organizers 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 here is the way the media got sucked in by Dole’s press releases claiming Bananas! contained false information. Snip pets show media outlets mocking Gertten without ever picking up the phone to ask him a question. This is a movie about the huge impact a documentary can make. Some subtitles. 88 min. nnnn (SGC) Bloor Hot Docs Cinema
A BoTTle in The gAzA seA (Thierry Binisti)
is a wellmeaning but rather insistently earnest plea for mutual understanding between Israelis and Palestinians. After a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, a teenage Israeli (Agathe Bonitzer) wonders what would drive anyone to strap on an explo sives belt; she writes this question as a message in a bottle which her soldier broth er throws into the sea. A young Palestinian (Mahmud Shalaby) finds the bottle and replies, starting a conversation that moves beyond initial hostility towards something like empathy – though their respective elders remain rooted in old hatreds. It’s well acted and pleasant enough, though one gets the sense there should be more to the drama beyond just getting along. Subtitled. 99 min. nnn (NW) Yonge & Dundas 24
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Bernie (Richard Linklater) 104 min. See review, page 76. nn (NW) Opens May 18 at Varsity
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Madden) is a middling, manipulative movie that’s saved by a firstrate cast. Various British retirees get lured to a once glorious, now dilapidated Indian hotel for seniors run by a spirited but scattered manager (Slum dog Millionaire’s Dev Patel). Of course, not NOW may 17-23 2012
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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
HEADHUNTERS
This Norwegian cat-and-mouse thriller about a corporate recruiter who’s also an art thief is filled with suspense, violence and black humour. Not for the squeamish.
THE DICTATOR
Sacha Baron Cohen stars as a brutal tyrant who goes into hiding on a visit to NYC and finds love while trying to win his title back. Look for a scathing indictment of the U.S. government near the end.
SOUND OF MY VOICE
Brit Marling plays a woman who claims to have returned from the year 2054 to tell people about the apocalypse. It seems like sci-fi, but it’s really a meditation on faith.
THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS
The studio behind Chicken Run and Wallace & Gromit delivers a gorgeous claymation film full of silly lines, clever voice work and inspired set pieces.
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(Drew Goddard) should be viewed with as little advance knowledge as possible. Let’s just say the script is inspired, the direction is sprightly, and the third act does not falter. And everything you need to know is in the title. Well, almost everything. 95 min. NNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Eglinton Town Centre, Interchange 30, Kingsway Theatre, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24
CHIMPANZEE (Alastair Fothergill, Mark
Linfield) finds veteran nature filmmakers Fothergill (African Cats) and Linfield (Earth) documenting the life of a young chimp living with his troop somewhere in the jungles that run through Uganda and Côte d’Ivoire. 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) Canada Square, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24
CHINA HEAVYWEIGHT (Yung Chang) is another look at modern China’s changing culture by Up The Yangtze director Chang. A boxing trainer in central China recruits a few young men who hope to become champions. It’s your basic underdog structure, and the training sequences are appropriately gritty and gruelling, but the material isn’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 the time comes to go all Rocky in a climactic bout, the film feels like it’s lurching to life for the first time. Subtitled. 89 min. NNN (NW) Canada Square, Varsity THE CORRIDOR (Evan Kelly) 98 min. See
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(Whit Stillman) finds writer/director Stillman (Metropolitan, Barcelona, The Last Days Of Disco) picking up precisely where he left off after a 13-year absence from filmmaking, once again 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, Yonge & Dundas 24
DARK SHADOWS (Tim Burton) is impeccably designed and textured and features a fun character turn by Johnny Depp as the miserable vampire Barnabas Collins – unearthed from two centuries’ burial to awkwardly rejoin his family in 1972 – but somehow it never comes to life. Fans will see the episodic, overstuffed narrative as being faithful to the original series, which constantly juggled everyone’s allegiances and affections to keep the story moving. But movies aren’t TV shows, and Burton can’t keep this many balls in the air without dropping a few. As with Burton and Depp’s take on Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, there’s no question everyone had a ball on the set, but the final product doesn’t really merit all the effort. 113 min. NN (NW)
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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) Carlton Cinema
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(Terence Davies) spans two days in the life of Hester Collyer (Rachel Weisz), who’s abandoned her comfortable marriage to a stuffy judge (Simon Russell Beale) for a younger, more sexually desirable man (Tom Hiddleston). It’s just that living with that decision is much, much harder than she expected. All three actors are terrific; Weisz, who’s in virtually every shot, is mesmerizing. If you only know Hiddleston as the bad guy from Thor, this will give you a sense of his impressive range. Adapting the play by Terence Rattigan, writer-director Davies fixes his actors in period detail so exacting that even the dust on the chintz curtains seems vintage. It’s as if Douglas Sirk had been entrusted with Brief Encounter instead of David Lean, and taken the material in rather a more expressive direction. The result is a deliberate, absorbing melodrama in the best sense of the word. 98 min. NNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre
DETACHMENT (Tony Kaye) will divide
audiences. Some will admire its style and commitment; others will find it hopelessly pretentious 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 review, page 77. NNN (GS) 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 EDWIN BOYD (Nathan Morlando)
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gives the notorious Canuck criminal a film worthy of his legacy. Scott Speedman delivers an appropriately charismatic performance as the impoverished family man who skilfully robbed banks, becoming a
beloved national celebrity and public enemy number one. Nice guy; too bad these sorts of stories don’t have happy endings. Morlando’s stylish directorial debut is a giddy rush of entertainment with melancholic undertones, shot through an evocative newsreel aesthetic. (The black-andwhite rear projection used in driving scenes is a nice touch). The innocent spirit behind Boyd’s crime spree is captured 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 play so well. 105 min. NNNN (Phil Brown) TIFF Bell Lightbox
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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, Docks Lakeview Drive-In, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande -
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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, Yonge & Dundas 24
Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) and Marvel’s The Avengers continue to soar at the box office.
the LuCKy one (Scott Hicks) stars Zac Efron as a soldier who tracks down a woman whose photo he found on a Iraq battlefield. It’s a soft romance that offers weak acting and dialogue and, thanks to some melodrama, unintentional humour. 101 min. n (AD) Canada Square, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Grande - Steeles, Grande Yonge, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24 marLey (Kevin Macdonald) 145 min.
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deregulating policies. The politics are a mess; even Thatcher would be appalled. But Streep’s performance is genius. 105 min. nnn (SGC) Regent Theatre
Footnote (Joseph Cedar) folds an entire
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
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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(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 squeamish. Subtitled. 101 min. nnnn (NW) Varsity
the hunger games (Gary Ross) adapts Suazann Collins’s futuristic novel about a young girl – an excellent Jennifer Lawrence – who must participate in a televised fightto-the-death spectacle. The cast is great and the film looks terrific, but it sanitizes the material in what could have been a devastatingly dystopic film event. A missed opportunity. 142 min. nnn (SGC) 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity 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,
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John Carter (Andrew Stanton) tries a little too hard to turn Edgar Rice Burroughs’s simple adventure story about a Civil War veteran (Taylor Kitsch) transported to Mars into the next massive SF epic. When it’s just the simple story of a broken man reinventing himself as a hero – and falling in love with a Martian princess (Lynn Collins) – it’s pretty entertaining stuff, but whenever it lurches into grandiose space-opera mode it feels rushed and overstuffed. Some subtitles. 132 min. nnn (NW) Docks Lakeview Drive-In
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(Guy Maddin) finds Winnipeg’s most famous auteur playfully retelling Homer’s Odyssey as an unconventional 1950s-style mobster movie. It’s complex, literary and witty, with a commanding performance from Jason Patric in the lead. 105 min. nnnn (Andrew Parker) Carlton Cinema
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-dimensional 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
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(James Mather, Stephen St. Leger) is basically John Carpenter’s Escape From New York in space, with Guy Pearce as a flippant ex-CIA agent sent to an orbiting prison colony to rescue the president’s visiting daughter (Maggie Grace) after 500 defrosted convicts revolt and take
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marveL’s the avengers (Joss Whedon) is, quite simply, an epic win – it’s tremendous fun, sprinting through its gargantuan adventure on a mixture of adrenaline, glee and wise-assery. That’s mostly due to director and co-writer 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, Docks Lakeview Drive-In, 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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of the final opera in Wagner’s Ring Cycle, directed by Canadian Robert Lepage. 385 min. May 19, 10 am, at Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yonge
the metropoLitan opera: siegFried enCore is a high-def broadcast of the third
opera in Wagner’s Ring Cycle, directed by Canada’s Robert Lepage. 360 min. May 17, 6:30 pm, at Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yonge
mirror mirror (Tarsem Singh) is an allstyle, no-substance remake of Snow White that casts Julia Roberts as a bitchy cougar of an Evil Queen who wants her stepdaughter (Lily Collins) killed and the hunky prince (Armie Hammer) all to herself. Structurally, the film’s a mess. Director Singh has no idea whose story to tell, and the laughs are uninspired. Singh is more art director than director, but we’ve seen these costumes and fairy-tale forests in any number of Tim Burton movies. 106 min. n (GS) Canada Square, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga
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(Philippe Falardeau) is a tender and touching drama
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IndIe Game: The movIe World Cinema Documentary Editing Award, Sundance Film Festival Official Selection, South by Southwest Film Festival Official Selection, Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival An underdog story for the gaming age, Indie Game captures the aspirations, pressures and challenges facing today’s independent video game designers as they try to break their way into a multi-billion dollar market. A vivid portrait of four meticulously obsessive artists, Indie Game reveals the painstaking craft, dedication and artistry that have made game design one of the most exciting and constantly evolving art forms of the twenty-first century.
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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
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(Peter Lord) is as energetic and fearlessly goofy as anything to bear the stamp of England’s Aardman Animation. When an affable Pirate Captain (voiced by Hugh Grant) and his jolly crew (including Martin Freeman, Brendan Gleeson and Anton Yelchin) embark on an adventure with scientists, the ship’s parrot brings our heroes to the attention of both Charles Darwin (David Tennant) and Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton). The story’s cracked alternate history gets funnier as it goes along, and the film sails merrily through a series of inspired set pieces with lusty recitations of very silly dialogue. Shot in 3-D, which allows us notice the sight gags crammed into every corner of the frame. 88 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24
project X (Nima Nourizadeh) puts a
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found-footage spin on the teen-comedy genre, dropping us into a high school zero’s birthday party that spirals disastrously – and spectacularly – out of control. It’s not for everybody, but if you ever wondered what Risky Business would have felt like without the glossy cinematography and Tangerine Dream score, you’ll be very pleasantly surprised. 88 min. NNNN (NW) Docks Lakeview Drive-In
the raid: redemptioN (Gareth Huw Evans) is a non-stop action movie in which a Jakarta tactical team’s assault on a crime lord’s apartment building turns 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 film, since there’s literally nothing else to it; by the 15th brutal confrontation, it gets a little monotonous. Subtitled. 101 min. NNN (NW) Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, 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 enjoyable when he’s detecting or romancing. 111 min. NNN (AD) Carlton Cinema, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, SilverCity Fairview, 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
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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, Canada Square, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Yorkdale
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 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 the SamaritaN (David Weaver) 93 min.
See review, page 78. NN (NW) Opens May 18 at Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24
ña SeparatioN
(Asghar Farhadi) is one of the strongest films of the year. A middle-class Tehran couple attempt to separate, and in their stubbornness and lack of communication irrevocably affect the lives of those around them. It’s a complex, gripping mystery that’s also a human and moral drama. Winner of the best foreign-language film Oscar. Subtitled. 123 min. NNNNN (GS) Carlton Cinema
SouNd oF mY Voice (Zal Batmanglij)
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is a slippery meditation on faith disguised as science fiction, with two hipsters (Christopher Denham, Nicole Vicius) trying to expose a mysterious woman (Brit Marling, who co-wrote the script with director Batmanglij) who claims to have returned from the year 2054 to ready a select few for the coming apocalypse. As with last year’s Another Earth – which also featured Marling as star and co-writer – Sound Of My Voice is not a movie for people who like things spelled out. It’s an elusive shell game; every time we think we’ve glimpsed the truth, it pivots away from us. And once you adjust to that ambiguity, things become a lot more interesting. 84 min. NNNN (NW) TIFF Bell Lightbox
thiNk like a maN (Tim Story) is a slick bit
of self-promotion from author (and executive producer) Steve Harvey, who uses his tell-all guidebook, Act Like A Lady, Think Like A Man, to kick off the plot and set up the punchlines in this harmless rom-com. A handful of black women heed advice from Harvey’s bible on how to deal with male clichés like the player, the mama’s boy and the guy too comfy to drop some dime on a ring. All they really had to do was refer back to Carrie’s misadventures in Sex And The City, but then Harvey would be without a movie. There’s no point arguing that the characters are stereotypes, since the book makes a point of categorizing people by sex and malfunction. Some strong actors manage to make the most out of thin material. 122 min. NNN (RS)
401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24
the three StoogeS (Peter Farrelly, Bobby
Farrelly) is a tribute to cinema’s comedy violence pioneers, who are clearly revered by the filmmakers and cast of expert impressionists. Larry, Curly and Moe attempt to save an orphanage before stumbling into a deliberately ridiculous murder plot. Yes, the humour is idiotic and infantile, but it’s the Stooges, so anything else would certainly be a mistake. 92 min. NNN (Phil Brown) Colossus, Kennedy Commons 20, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24
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(Tomas Alfredson) is a sleek, expertly acted adaptation of John le Carré’s thriller about a retired British intelligence operative on the hunt for a Soviet mole within MI-6. The remarkable cast includes Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Tom Hardy and the invaluable Benedict Cumberbatch. 127 min. NNNN (NW) Mt Pleasant
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(James Cameron) still works brilliantly. It’s a grand-scale studio epic with the heart of a romance and the pulse of an action movie. 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. The 3-D is, at best, unobtrusive. 195 min. NNNNN (NW) Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24
turN me oN, dammit! (Jannicke Jacobsen) 76 min. See review, page 78. NNN (Phil Brown) Opens May 18 at TIFF Bell Lightbox
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(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, Colossus, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, Yonge & Dundas 24
VirgiNia (Dustin Lance Black) 116 min. See review, page 76. NN (SGC) Opens May 18 at Carlton Cinema
WeSt WiNd: the ViSioN oF tom thom SoN (Michèle Hozer, Peter Raymont) is a
straightforward doc about painter Tom Thomson, whose richly colourful canvases are well known but whose life and death are shrouded in mystery. Thomson’s career is handled in great detail, but there’s less about his personal life, and the man himself never comes into focus. 95 min. NNN (GS) TIFF Bell Lightbox
What to eXpect WheN You’re eXpect iNg (Kirk Jones) 110 min. See review, page
78. NN (RS) Opens May 18 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24
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) Eglinton Town Centre, Interchange 30, Yonge & Dundas 24 3
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Think Like a Man (PG) Thu 1:20 4:20 7:20 10:25 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 WhaT To expecT When You’re expecTing (14A) FriSun 12:00, 2:40, 5:20, 8:05, 10:50 Mon-Wed 1:35, 4:20, 7:05, 9:50
Scarborough 401 & MorningSide (Ce) 785 Milner Ave, SCArborough, 416-281-2226
BaTTLeship (PG) Fri 4:15, 4:50, 7:10, 7:50, 10:05, 10:50 SatSun 1:15, 1:50, 4:15, 4:50, 7:10, 7:50, 10:05, 10:50 Mon 1:15, 1:50, 4:15, 4:50, 7:10, 7:50, 10:05, 10:45 Tue 4:10, 4:50, 7:10, 7:50, 10:05, 10:50 Wed 4:00, 4:50, 7:00, 7:40, 9:50, 10:30 Dark shaDoWs (14A) Thu 4:45, 7:30, 10:05 Fri 2:30, 5:30, 8:10, 10:45 Sat-Mon 12:00, 2:30, 5:30, 8:10, 10:45 Tue 3:00, 5:30, 8:10, 10:45 Wed 4:40, 7:20, 10:05 The DicTaTor (14A) Thu 3:50, 6:00, 8:05, 10:25 Fri 2:15, 4:25, 6:30, 8:35, 10:45 Sat-Sun 12:10, 2:15, 4:25, 6:30, 8:35, 10:45 Mon 12:10, 2:15, 4:25, 6:30, 8:35, 10:40 Tue 4:00, 6:05, 8:30, 10:45 Wed 4:20, 6:25, 8:30, 10:30 The Five-Year engageMenT (14A) Thu 4:00, 7:00, 10:10 The hunger gaMes (14A) Thu 3:30, 6:40, 9:45 MarveL’s The avengers (PG) Thu 3:40, 5:15, 6:50, 8:30, 10:00 Fri 2:50, 3:40, 5:05, 6:15, 7:00, 9:30, 10:15 Sat-Mon 12:35, 2:50, 3:40, 5:05, 6:15, 7:00, 9:30, 10:15 Tue 3:05, 3:50, 5:05, 6:15, 7:00, 9:30, 10:15 Wed 3:45, 5:15, 6:50, 8:30, 10:00 MarveL’s The avengers 3D (PG) Thu 4:10, 6:15, 7:15, 9:20, 10:20 Fri 3:15, 4:05, 6:45, 7:25, 9:50, 10:40 Sat-Mon 12:15, 1:00, 3:15, 4:05, 6:45, 7:25, 9:50, 10:40 Tue 3:30, 4:20, 6:45, 7:25, 9:50, 10:40 Wed 4:10, 6:15, 7:10, 9:20, 10:20 The piraTes! BanD oF MisFiTs 3D (PG) Thu 4:20, 6:30, 8:45 The piraTes! BanD oF MisFiTs (PG) Fri, Tue 3:00 SatMon 12:50, 3:00 Wed 3:50, 6:00 saFe (14A) Thu 3:30, 5:45, 8:15, 10:30 Fri-Sun, Tue 8:20, 10:50 Mon 8:20, 10:35 Wed 8:10, 10:30 Think Like a Man (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:40, 10:20 Fri-Mon 2:00, 4:40, 7:40, 10:25 Tue 4:40, 7:40, 10:25 Wed 4:30, 7:30, 10:10 WhaT To expecT When You’re expecTing (14A) Fri 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:35 Sat-Mon 12:05, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:35 Tue 5:20, 8:00, 10:35 Wed 5:00, 7:50, 10:25
ColiSeuM SCArborough (Ce) SCArborough ToWn CenTre, 416-290-5217
BarrYMore (14A) Wed 7:00 BaTTLeship (PG) Fri, Sun, Tue 1:10, 1:50, 4:10, 4:50, 7:20, 7:50, 10:25, 10:55 Sat 10:50, 1:10, 1:50, 4:10, 4:50, 7:20, 7:50, 10:25, 10:55 Mon, Wed 1:00, 2:50, 4:05, 6:05, 7:10, 9:30, 10:10 The BesT exoTic MarigoLD hoTeL (PG) Thu 1:00, 1:30, 4:00, 4:30, 7:00, 7:30, 10:00, 10:30 Fri, Tue 1:05, 2:05, 4:00, 5:05, 7:00, 10:00 Sat 11:15, 1:05, 2:05, 4:00, 5:05, 7:00, 10:00 Sun 1:05, 1:20, 4:00, 4:15, 7:00, 10:00 Mon 12:50, 1:05, 4:00, 4:25, 7:00, 10:00 Wed 12:50, 1:05, 3:45, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 The caBin in The WooDs (18A) Thu 1:10, 3:40, 10:15 FriSat, Tue 8:15, 10:50 Sun 10:20 Mon 7:25, 10:15 Wed 10:15 The DicTaTor (14A) Thu 2:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:20 Fri, Sun, Tue 12:55, 1:55, 3:15, 4:10, 5:40, 6:30, 8:05, 8:45, 10:30, 11:00 Sat 11:25, 12:55, 1:50, 3:15, 4:10, 5:40, 6:30, 8:05, 8:45, 10:30, 11:00 Mon, Wed 12:55, 2:00, 3:15, 4:20, 5:40, 6:50, 8:05, 9:50, 10:30 The Five-Year engageMenT (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:25 The hunger gaMes (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:05, 7:15, 10:30 Fri, Sun, Tue 12:50, 4:05, 7:15, 10:45 Sat 4:05, 7:15, 10:45 Mon, Wed 12:45, 3:55, 7:05, 10:20 Jonah: a veggieTaLes Movie (G) Sat 11:00 The LuckY one (PG) Thu 2:05, 4:45, 7:25 The MeTropoLiTan opera: goTTerDaMMerung encore Sat 10:00 The MeTropoLiTan opera: siegFrieD encore Thu 6:30 The piraTes! BanD oF MisFiTs 3D (PG) Thu 4:00, 7:00, 9:25 Fri, Tue 3:00, 5:15, 7:40, 9:55 Sat 12:45, 3:00, 5:15, 7:40, 9:55 Sun 3:00, 5:15, 7:40 Mon, Wed 3:40, 6:20, 8:50 The piraTes! BanD oF MisFiTs (PG) Thu 1:25 Fri, Sun, Tue 12:45 Sat 10:30 Mon, Wed 1:10 saFe (14A) Thu 2:45, 5:20, 7:50, 10:25 Fri-Sun, Tue 1:00, 3:20, 5:45, 8:10, 10:35 Mon, Wed 1:20, 4:15, 6:55, 9:35 Think Like a Man (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:20 Fri-Sun, Tue 2:00, 4:50, 7:45, 10:40 Mon, Wed 12:45, 3:50, 7:05, 10:05 TiTanic 3D (PG) Thu 1:05, 5:15, 9:20 Fri-Wed 1:15, 5:20, 9:45 WWe over The LiMiT - 2012 Sun 8:00
eglinTon ToWn CenTre (Ce) 1901 eglinTon Ave e, 416-752-4494
BaTTLeship (PG) Fri, Sun 12:50, 1:30, 4:00, 4:40, 7:10, 7:50, 10:20, 11:00 Sat 11:00, 12:50, 1:30, 4:00, 4:40, 7:15, 7:50, 10:25, 11:00 Mon 12:20, 1:00, 3:30, 4:10, 6:40, 7:20, 9:50, 10:30 Tue-Wed 3:30, 4:10, 6:40, 7:20, 9:50, 10:30 The BesT exoTic MarigoLD hoTeL (PG) Fri-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Mon 12:55, 3:55, 6:55, 9:55 Tue-Wed 3:55, 6:55, 9:55 The caBin in The WooDs (18A) Thu 7:30, 9:55 chiMpanzee (G) Thu 5:20 Dark shaDoWs (14A) Thu 4:50, 5:30, 7:40, 8:15, 10:30 Fri-Sat 1:35, 2:20, 4:20, 5:05, 7:05, 7:50, 9:50, 10:35 Sun 12:05, 1:35, 2:45, 4:20, 5:30, 7:05, 8:15, 9:50, 11:00 Mon 1:35, 2:00, 4:20, 4:45, 7:05, 7:30, 9:50, 10:15 Tue-Wed 4:20, 4:45, 7:05, 7:30, 9:50, 10:15 The DicTaTor (14A) Thu 5:50, 8:00, 10:20 Fri-Sun 1:30, 3:50, 6:10, 8:30, 10:50 Mon 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 Tue-Wed 3:30, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 The Five-Year engageMenT (14A) Thu 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Fri-Wed 10:05 The hunger gaMes (14A) Thu 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 Fri-Sat 12:35, 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 Sun 12:35, 3:45, 6:50 Mon 12:20, 3:35, 6:55, 10:10 Tue-Wed 3:35, 6:55, 10:10 Jonah: a veggieTaLes Movie (G) Sat 11:00 MarveL’s The avengers (PG) Thu 5:30, 6:10, 8:45, 9:30 Fri 2:45, 3:20, 6:00, 6:40, 9:15, 10:00 Sat 11:30, 12:00, 2:45, 3:20, 6:00, 6:40, 9:15, 10:00 Sun 12:00, 2:40, 3:20, 6:00, 7:00, 9:15, 10:15 Mon 12:00, 2:40, 3:20, 6:00, 6:40, 9:15, 10:00 Tue-Wed 3:35, 6:10, 6:45, 9:30, 10:10 MarveL’s The avengers 3D (PG) Thu 3:50, 4:45, 6:40,
7:10, 8:00, 10:00, 10:30 Fri-Sun 12:30, 1:00, 3:50, 4:20, 7:10, 7:40, 10:30, 11:00 Mon 12:30, 1:30, 3:50, 4:50, 7:10, 8:10, 10:30 Tue-Wed 3:50, 4:45, 7:10, 8:00, 10:30 MIRROR MIRROR (PG) Thu 5:00, 7:35 THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS 3D (PG) Thu 5:00, 7:25 Fri-Mon 2:50, 5:15, 7:40 Tue-Wed 5:15, 7:40 THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS (PG) 12:30 Sat 11:10 mat THE RAVEN (18A) Thu 9:50 SAFE (14A) Thu 5:05, 7:40, 10:05 Fri-Sat 12:45, 3:10, 5:35, 8:00, 10:25 Sun 1:50, 4:15, 10:05 Mon 12:35, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:25 Tue-Wed 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 THINK LIKE A MAN (PG) Thu 4:25, 7:20, 10:15 Fri-Sun 2:10, 5:00, 7:55, 10:50 Mon 1:10, 4:05, 7:00, 9:55 Tue-Wed 4:05, 7:00, 9:55 WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING (14A) Fri 2:30, 5:15, 8:00, 10:45 Sat 11:50, 2:30, 5:15, 8:00, 10:45 Sun 12:00, 2:45, 5:20, 8:05, 10:55 Mon 2:10, 4:55, 7:40, 10:25 Tue-Wed 4:55, 7:40, 10:25 WRATH OF THE TITANS (14A) Thu 10:10 WWE OVER THE LIMIT - 2012 Sun 8:00
KENNEDY COMMONS 20 (AMC) KENNEDY RD & 401, 416-335-5323
AMERICAN REUNION (14A) Fri-Mon 10:40, 1:20, 4:05, 6:50, 9:30 Tue-Wed 4:05, 6:50, 9:30 THE ARTIST (PG) Thu 4:05, 6:35, 9:05 DARK SHADOWS (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 2:45, 3:45, 4:45, 5:45, 6:45, 7:45, 8:45, 9:45, 10:25 Fri-Mon 11:45, 12:45, 1:45, 2:45, 3:45, 4:45, 5:45, 6:45, 7:45, 8:45, 9:45, 10:25 DEPARTMENT Fri-Mon 12:30, 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 Tue-Wed 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX (G) Thu, Tue-Wed 2:00, 4:25 FriMon 11:35, 2:00, 4:25 THE FIVE-YEAR ENGAGEMENT (14A) Fri-Mon 10:45, 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Tue-Wed 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 HOUSEFULL 2 (PG) Thu 6:40, 9:50 JANNAT 2 (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Fri-Mon 10:30, 1:25, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 THE LUCKY ONE (PG) Fri-Mon 10:50, 1:20, 3:50, 6:20, 8:50 Tue-Wed 3:50, 6:20, 8:50 MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS (PG) Thu 3:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:00, 10:00 Fri-Mon 11:45, 1:00, 3:00, 4:00, 6:00, 7:00, 9:00, 10:00 Tue-Wed 3:00, 4:00, 6:00, 7:00, 9:00, 10:00 MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS 3D (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 2:00, 3:30, 4:30, 5:00, 6:30, 7:30, 8:00, 9:30, 10:30 Fri-Mon 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 MIRROR MIRROR (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Fri-Mon 11:40, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 THE RAID: REDEMPTION (18A) Thu, Tue-Wed 2:10, 4:45, 7:45, 10:10 Fri-Mon 11:50, 2:10, 4:45, 7:45, 10:10 THE RAVEN (18A) Thu 4:10, 6:45, 9:25 SAFE HOUSE (14A) Thu 4:00, 7:00, 9:45 Fri-Wed 6:50, 9:45 A SIMPLE LIFE (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25 Fri-Mon 11:30, 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25 TEZZ (PG) Thu 4:35, 7:35, 10:30 THE THREE STOOGES (PG) Thu 2:15, 4:30, 7:05, 9:20 21 JUMP STREET (14A) Thu 3:50, 6:25, 9:15 VICKY DONOR (PG) Thu 3:40, 7:05, 10:15 Fri-Mon 12:15, 3:40, 7:05, 10:20 Tue-Wed 3:40, 7:05, 10:20 WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING (14A) FriMon 11:00, 12:15, 1:30, 3:00, 4:00, 5:30, 6:30, 8:00, 9:00, 10:30 Tue-Wed 3:00, 4:00, 5:30, 6:30, 8:00, 9:00, 10:30
WOODSIDE CINEMAS (I) 1571 SANDHURST CIRCLE, 416-299-3456
GABBAR SINGH Fri 6:45, 9:30 Sat-Sun 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 Mon-Wed 7:00 HOUSEFULL 2 (PG) Thu 4:00 Fri 7:00 Sat-Sun 7:15 MonWed 4:15 TEZZ (PG) Thu-Fri 7:00 Sat-Sun 4:15, 9:45 Mon 1:30, 7:15, 7:30 Tue-Wed 7:30 VAZHAKKU ENN 18/9 Thu 4:15, 7:15 Fri 7:15, 10:15 Sat-Sun 4:30, 7:15, 10:15 Mon 1:30, 4:30, 7:15 Tue-Wed 4:30, 7:15
GTA Regions Mississauga
COLISEUM MISSISSAUGA (CE) SQUARE ONE, 309 RATHBURN RD W, 905-275-3456
BARRYMORE (14A) Wed 7:00 BATTLESHIP (PG) Fri-Sun 12:10, 1:00, 1:50, 3:20, 4:00, 4:50, 6:30, 7:10, 8:00, 9:50, 10:40, 11:20 Mon 12:10, 1:00, 1:50, 3:20, 4:00, 4:50, 6:30, 7:10, 8:00, 9:50, 10:40 Tue-Wed 1:30, 2:30, 3:20, 4:40, 5:40, 6:40, 7:40, 9:00, 9:50, 10:40 DARK SHADOWS (14A) Thu 12:50, 1:40, 3:30, 4:20, 6:30, 7:00, 9:10, 9:40 Fri-Sat 12:20, 3:10, 5:50, 8:40, 11:30 Sun 12:20, 3:10, 5:50, 8:35, 11:15 Mon 12:20, 3:10, 5:50, 8:40 Tue 1:10, 3:50, 6:45, 9:20 Wed 3:50, 6:45, 9:20 DARK SHADOWS: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:30 Fri-Wed 2:00, 10:30 THE DICTATOR (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:00, 6:10, 8:20, 10:30 FriSun 11:50, 12:40, 2:10, 3:00, 4:20, 5:10, 6:40, 7:20, 8:50, 9:30, 11:10, 11:50 Mon 11:50, 12:40, 2:10, 3:00, 4:20, 5:10, 6:40, 7:20, 8:50, 9:30, 11:00 Tue-Wed 1:00, 2:10, 3:10, 4:20, 5:15, 6:30, 7:20, 8:40, 9:40, 10:45 THE HUNGER GAMES (14A) Thu 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20 Fri-Sat, Mon 12:30, 3:50, 7:00, 10:20 Sun 12:30, 3:50, 10:50 Tue-Wed 12:50, 3:55, 7:00, 10:00 JONAH: A VEGGIETALES MOVIE (G) Sat 11:00 MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS (PG) Thu 1:30, 3:00, 5:10, 8:30 Fri-Sun 1:50, 5:00, 8:20, 11:40 Mon 1:50, 5:00, 8:20 Tue 1:40, 5:00, 8:30 Wed 1:40, 5:00, 8:30, 10:10 MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS 3D (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:40, 4:20, 6:50, 7:40, 10:00 Fri-Mon 12:00, 12:50, 3:30, 4:10, 6:50, 7:40, 10:10, 11:00 Tue 2:40, 3:30, 6:10, 6:50, 9:30, 10:10 Wed 2:40, 3:30, 6:10, 9:30 MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 2:00, 10:15 Fri-Mon 11:00, 4:30, 7:30 Tue-Wed 4:30, 7:30 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: GOTTERDAMMERUNG EN-
CORE Sat 10:00 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: SIEGFRIED ENCORE Thu 6:30 THINK LIKE A MAN (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05 Fri-Sat, Mon 11:30, 2:30, 5:20, 8:10, 10:50 Sun 11:30, 2:30, 5:20, 8:10 Tue 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:35 Wed 4:50, 7:50, 10:35 TITANIC 3D (PG) Thu 12:55, 4:50, 9:00 21 JUMP STREET (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:40, 7:15, 9:45 WWE OVER THE LIMIT - 2012 Sun 8:00
COURTNEY PARK 16 (AMC)
110 COURTNEY PARK E AT HURONTARIO, 888-262-4386 BATTLESHIP (PG) Thu 12:01 Fri-Mon 10:15, 11:15, 1:05, 2:05, 3:55, 4:55, 6:50, 7:50, 9:50, 10:50 Tue-Wed 1:05, 2:05, 3:55, 4:55, 6:50, 7:50, 9:50, 10:50 THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (PG) Fri-Mon 10:35, 1:15, 4:20, 7:15, 10:05 Tue-Wed 1:15, 4:20, 7:15, 10:05 DARK SHADOWS (14A) Thu 1:15, 2:15, 3:15, 3:45, 5:00, 5:45, 6:15, 7:30, 8:15, 8:45, 10:00 Fri-Sun 10:15, 10:45, 11:45, 12:45, 1:15, 2:15, 3:45, 5:00, 5:45, 6:15, 7:30, 8:45, 10:00, 11:00, 11:30 Mon 10:15, 10:45, 11:45, 12:45, 1:15, 2:15, 3:45, 5:00, 5:45, 6:15, 7:30, 8:45, 10:00, 11:00 Tue-Wed 1:15, 2:15, 3:45, 5:00, 5:45, 6:15, 7:30, 8:45, 10:00, 11:00 DARK SHADOWS: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (14A) Thu 1:45 10:30 Fri-Wed 4:30, 10:30 THE DICTATOR (14A) Thu 1:40, 2:40, 3:50, 5:05, 6:00, 7:15, 8:30, 9:45, 10:45 Fri-Sat, Mon 10:05, 11:05, 12:05, 1:05, 2:05, 3:05, 4:05, 5:05, 6:05, 7:05, 8:05, 9:05, 10:05, 11:00 Sun 10:05, 12:05, 2:05, 3:05, 4:05, 5:05, 6:05, 7:05, 8:05, 9:05, 10:05, 11:00 Tue-Wed 1:05, 2:05, 3:05, 4:05, 5:05, 6:05, 7:05, 8:05, 9:05, 10:05, 11:00 THE FIVE-YEAR ENGAGEMENT (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:35, 10:15 THE HUNGER GAMES (14A) Thu 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 10:25 THE LUCKY ONE (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 7:50, 10:20 Fri-Wed 3:20, 8:15 MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 1:00, 3:30, 4:00, 6:30, 7:00, 9:30, 10:00 Fri-Mon 10:00, 12:30, 1:00, 3:30, 4:00, 6:30, 7:00, 9:30, 10:00 MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS 3D (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 2:00, 2:30, 3:00, 5:00, 5:30, 6:00, 8:00, 8:30, 9:00, 11:00 FriSun 11:00, 11:30, 12:00, 2:00, 2:30, 3:00, 5:00, 5:30, 6:00, 8:00, 8:30, 9:00, 11:00, 11:30 Mon 11:00, 11:30, 12:00, 2:00, 2:30, 3:00, 5:00, 5:30, 6:00, 8:00, 8:30, 9:00, 11:00 MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:30 Fri-Mon 10:30, 1:30, 7:30 Tue-Wed 1:30, 7:30 THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS (PG) Fri-Mon 10:10 SAFE (14A) Thu 1:05, 3:25, 5:55, 8:20, 10:45 THINK LIKE A MAN (PG) Thu 2:05, 4:45, 7:40, 10:25 FriMon 12:15, 2:50, 5:30, 8:10, 10:50 Tue-Wed 2:50, 5:30, 8:10, 10:50 WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING (14A) FriMon 10:25, 12:50, 3:15, 5:40, 8:05, 10:35 Tue-Wed 3:15, 5:40, 8:05, 10:35
SILVERCITY MISSISSAUGA (CE) HWY 5, EAST OF HWY 403, 905-569-3373
THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (PG) Thu 4:00, 4:25, 6:45, 7:10, 9:35, 10:00 Fri-Mon 1:00, 1:35, 3:50, 4:25, 6:45, 7:15, 9:35, 10:05 Tue-Wed 4:00, 4:30, 6:45, 7:15, 9:35, 9:55 CHIMPANZEE (G) Thu 5:10, 7:25, 9:30 Fri 2:05, 4:10, 6:15, 8:20, 10:25 Sat-Mon 12:00, 2:05, 4:10, 6:15, 8:20, 10:25 Tue-Wed 5:00, 7:10, 9:20 THE FIVE-YEAR ENGAGEMENT (14A) Thu 4:15, 7:00, 9:55 Fri-Mon 12:40, 3:25, 7:20, 10:10 Tue-Wed 4:10, 7:05, 9:50 THE LUCKY ONE (PG) Thu 4:40, 7:20, 9:45 Fri-Sun 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Mon 5:30, 7:55, 10:20 Tue-Wed 7:20, 9:45 MIRROR MIRROR (PG) Thu 4:05, 6:40, 9:25 Fri 12:30, 3:00 Sat-Mon 12:20, 2:55 Tue-Wed 4:15 THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS 3D (PG) Thu 4:35, 6:50, 9:15 Fri-Mon 3:05, 5:20, 7:35, 9:50 Tue-Wed 4:45, 6:55, 9:10 THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS (PG) Fri-Mon 12:50 THE SAMARITAN Fri-Sun 1:10, 3:30, 5:50, 8:15, 10:35 Mon 12:55, 3:15, 5:40, 8:10, 10:30 Tue-Wed 5:10, 7:25, 9:40 THINK LIKE A MAN (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:05, 9:50 Fri-Mon 1:45, 4:40, 7:30, 10:25 Tue 4:25, 7:10, 9:55 Wed 7:10, 9:55 THE THREE STOOGES (PG) Thu 5:20, 7:35, 10:00 TITANIC 3D (PG) Thu 5:00, 9:00 WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING (14A) Fri 12:30, 2:35, 3:00, 5:10, 5:35, 7:45, 8:10, 10:20, 10:45 SatSun 12:00, 12:25, 2:35, 3:00, 5:10, 5:35, 7:45, 8:10, 10:20, 10:45 Mon 12:00, 1:45, 2:35, 4:30, 5:10, 7:15, 7:45, 9:50, 10:30 Tue-Wed 4:20, 4:50, 7:00, 7:30, 9:30, 10:00
North COLOSSUS (CE) HWY 400 & 7, 905-851-1001
AMERICAN REUNION (14A) Thu 4:15, 7:05, 10:05 Fri-Mon 11:40, 2:20, 5:10, 7:55, 10:35 Tue-Wed 5:10, 7:55, 10:35 BATTLESHIP (PG) Fri-Sun 12:20, 1:10, 1:50, 3:30, 4:10, 4:50, 6:35, 7:20, 8:00, 9:45, 10:25, 11:10 Mon 12:20, 1:10, 1:50, 3:30, 4:10, 4:50, 6:35, 7:20, 7:55, 9:45, 10:25, 10:55 TueWed 3:40, 4:10, 4:50, 6:35, 7:20, 7:55, 9:45, 10:25, 10:55 DARK SHADOWS (14A) Thu 4:10, 5:40, 7:00, 8:10, 10:10,
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festivals inside Out tOrOntO lGBt film festival
tiff Bell liGhtBOx, 350 KinG W. 416-599-tiff (8433), insideOut.ca/tOrOntOfestival
thu 17-May 27 – Screenings, artist talks, panel
discussions, parties and more to celebrate diversity and promote the stories of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans communities. Screenings at TIFF Bell Lightbox; see website for venues for other events. $10-$13, stu/srs $8, youth under 18 $6; 8-ticket voucher $91. Gala/special events $22-$28, stu/srs $17; Women’s Spotlight: $13-$20. thu 17 – Opening gala: My Brother The Devil (2011) D: Sally El Hosaini. 8 pm. Fri 18 – Hit So Hard (2011) D: David Ebersole. 5 pm. August (2011) D: Eldar Rapaport. 7:15 pm. Cherry (2011) D: Stephen Elliot. 7:30 pm. North Sea, Texas (2011) D: Bavo Defurne. 9:45 pm. The Perfect Family (2011) D: Anne Renton. 10 pm. Sat 19 – Boy Shorts 3: Boys Village (2011) D: Till Kleinert, Manhunt (2010) D: Stéphane Olijnyk, and other short films. 2 pm. The Mystery Of Mazo De La Roche (2012) D: Maya Gallus. 2:15 pm. Sagat (2011) D: Pascal Roche and Jérôme M De Oliveira, and short films A Day In The Country and No Clothes. 4:30 pm. Call Me Kuchu (2012) D: Malika Zouhali-Worrall and Katherine Fairfax Wright. 4:45 pm. Naked As We Came (2011) D: Richard Le May. 7 pm. Margarita (2012) D: Dominique Cardona and Laurie Colbert. 7:15 pm. The Crown Jewels (2011) D: Ella Lemhagen. 9:30 pm. Lady Shorts 2: No Direction (2011) D: Melissa Finell, Lady Pochoir (2010) D: Petra Clever, and other short films. 9:45 pm. SuN 20 – Morgan (2011) D: Michael Akers. 2 pm. Positive Youth (2012) D: Charlie David, and Still Here (2010) D: Alex Camirelli. 2:15 pm. Boy Scandinavia: XY Anatomy Of A Boy (2009) D: Mette Carla Albrechtsen, Pura Vida (2010) D: Anders Hazelius, and other short films. 4:30 pm. She Said Boom!: The Story Of Fifth Column (2012) D: Kevin Hegge. 5 pm. Let My People Go! (2011) D: Mikael Buch. 7:15 pm. Transplanetarium: Black Mask (2011) D: Rene Brasil, Something Blue (2011) D: Rebekah Fortune, and other short films. 7:30 pm. Bullhead (2011) D: Michaël Roskam. 9:30 pm. Mosquita Y Mari (2012) D: Aurora Guerrero. 9:45 pm. MoN 21 – Love Free Or Die: How The Bishop Of New Hampshire Is Changing The World (2012) D: Macky Alston. 2 pm. Madame X (2011) D: Lucky Kuswandi. 2:15 pm. How To Survive A Plague (2011) D: David France. 4:30 pm. Lady Scandinavia: The Time In Between (2009) D: Henrik Martin K Dahlsbakken, The Day Cools (2011) D: Malin Cramer, and other short films. 4:45 pm. Melting Away (2011) D: Doron Eran. 6:45 pm. Our Paradise (2011) D: Gaël Morel. 7 pm. Stud Life (2012) D: Campbell X. 9:15 pm. Boy Shorts 1: Requited (2010) D: Sal Bardo, Prora D: Stéphane Riethauser, and other short films. 9:30 pm. tue 22 – Outland (2011) D: Kevin Carlin (episodes 1 to 3). 5:15 pm. Boy Shorts 2: Couples Therapy – Twitter (2011) D: Mike Rose, Slut: The Musical (2010) D: Tonnette Stanford, and other short films. 7:15 pm. Jamie And Jessie Are Not Together (2011) D: Wendy Jo Carlton. 7:30 pm. Centrepiece Gala: Keep The Lights
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A (Canuck) cabin in the woods THE CORRIDOR (Evan Kelly) Rating: NNN After premiering at the Toronto After Dark festival last fall, this moody Nova Scotia thriller about five friends who encounter inexplicable phenomena at a remote cabin opens at the Projection Booth. The story’s a little tense from the beginning, what with the gang assembling to welcome Tyler (Stephen Chambers) back from a stint in a mental institution after his mother’s death. It’s complicated further when Tyler discovers a mysterious energy corridor in the woods – and more still when contact with the corridor affects Tyler and his friends in strange ways. Director Evan Kelly has said he wasn’t influenced by Stephen King, but it certainly feels like screenwriter Josh MacDonald thumbed through old copies of Dreamcatcher and The Tommyknockers while On (2012) D: Ira Sachs. 9:30 pm. Lady Shorts 4: Quiet (2012) D: Lauren Fash, Tsuyako (2011) D: Mitsuyo Miyazaki, and other short films. 9:45 pm. Wed 23 – Lady Shorts 3: Cross Your Fingers (2011) D: Yun Joo Chang, Out Of Bounds (2011) D: Nicholas Paul Ybarra, and other short films. 5:15 pm. Speechless (2012) D: Simon Chung. 7 pm. Facing Mirrors (2011) D: Negar Azarbayjani. 7:15 pm. Beauty (2011) D: Oliver Hermanus. 9:30 pm. My Best Day (2012) D: Erin Greenwell. 9:45 pm.
cinemas BlOOr hOt dOcs cinema
506 BlOOr W. 416-637-3123. BlOOrcinema.cOm
thu 17 – Big Boys Gone Bananas!* (2011) D: Fredrik Gertten. 6:30 pm. Bananas!* ñ (2009) D: Fredrik Gertten. 9 pm. Fri 18 – Big Boys Gone Bananas!* 3:30 pm. Marley (2012) D: Kevin Macdonald. ñ 6:30 & 9:45 pm. Sat 19 – Earth (2009) D: Alastair Fothergill
and Mark Linfield. 1 pm. Touching The Void (2003) D: Kevin Macdonald. 3:30 pm. Marley. 6:30 & 9:45 pm. SuN 20 – Earth. 1 pm. The Harder They Come (1972) D: Perry Henzel. 3:30 pm. Marley. 6:30 & 9:45 pm. MoN 21 – Earth. 1 pm. The Last King Of Scotland (2006) D: Kevin Macdonald. 3:30 pm. Marley. 6:30 & 9:45 pm. tue 22-Wed 23 – Marley. 6:30 & 9:45 pm.
camera Bar
1028 Queen W. 416-530-0011. cameraBar.ca
Sat 19 – The Battle Of Algiers (1966) D: Gillo Pontecorvo. 3 pm. Free.
cinematheQue tiff Bell liGhtBOx
reitman sQuare, 350 KinG W. 416-599-tiff (8433). tiff.net
thu 17-Wed 23 – Inside Out Film Festival. See listings, this page.
tue 22 – Student Film Showcase, featuring 10
short films by young filmmakers from across Canada. 7 pm. tiff.net/studentfilmshowcase.
Stephen Chambers (left) and James Gilbert encounter lots of weirdness in The Corridor.
revue cinema
400 rOncesvalles. 416-531-9959. revuecinema.ca
thu 17 – Comedy Revue: Mark Breslin presents Comedian (2002) D: Christian Charles. 6:45 pm. The Raid – Redemption (2011) D: Gareth Evans. 9:30 pm. Fri 18 – Jiro Dreams Of Sushi (2012) D: David Gelb. 7 pm. The Hunger Games (2012) D: Gary Ross. 9 pm. Sat 19-MoN 21 – Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax (2012) D: Chris Renaud and Kyle Balda. 2 pm. The Hunger Games. 4 & 9 pm. Jiro Dreams Of Sushi. 7 pm. tue 22 – Book Revue w/ Geoff Pevere: Midnight Cowboy (1969) D: John Schlesinger. 6:45 pm. The Hunger Games. 9:30 pm. Wed 23 – The Hunger Games. 1 & 6:45 pm. Jiro Dreams Of Sushi. 9:30 pm.
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thu 17 – Centennial College screenings. 7 pm.
plotting the film. Or maybe there are only so many ways to handle the whole cabin-in-the-woods thing. At any rate, this variant makes a point of constructing credible psychological motivations for most of its characters before all the weirdness starts. The weirdness itself is
a little disappointing – when the horror stuff kicks in, it feels more like someone’s thrown a switch somewhere than a natural progression of the story – but at least we care about the people involved. Opens Friday (May 18) at the NorMaN WiLNer Projection Booth.
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tue 22-Wed 23 – To The Arctic. 11 am & 2 pm. Rocky Mountain Express. Noon. Under The Sea. 1 pm.
2236 Queen e. 416-691-7330. fOxtheatre.ca
thu 17 – Monsieur Lazhar (2012) D: Philippe Falardeau. 7 pm. Friends With Kids (2012) D: Jennifer Westfeldt. 9:15 pm. Fri 18 – Salmon Fishing In The Yemen (2011) D: Lasse Hallström. 7 pm. The Hunger Games (2012) D: Gary Ross. 9:15 pm. Sat 19-MoN 21 – The Hunger Games. 12:30 & 9:15 pm. Titanic 3-D (1997) D: James Cameron. 3:15 pm. Salmon Fishing In The Yemen. 7 pm. tue 22 – Payback (2012) D: Jennifer Baichwal. 7 pm. Salmon Fishing In The Yemen. 9 pm. Wed 23 – The Hunger Games. 1:30 & 9 pm. Payback. 7 pm.
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thu 17 – Battle Royale (2000) D: Kinji Fukasaku. 1 & 5 pm. Material Success (2012) D: Jesse Mann. 3:30 pm. A Place Called Los Pereyra (2009) D: Andrés Livov-Macklin. Spanish w/ s-t. 7 pm. Once Upon A Time In Anatolia (2011) D: Nuri Bilge Ceylan. 8:30 pm. Fri 18 – Portrait Of Wally (2012) D: Andrew Shea. 12:30 & 7 pm. A Place Called Los Pereyra. 2 pm. Material Success. 3:30 pm. Battle Royale. 5 pm. The Corridor (2010) D: Evan Kelly. 9 pm. Sat 19 – Battle Royale. 5:30 pm. Portrait Of Wally. 7:30 pm. The Corridor. 9 pm. SuN 20 – Portrait Of Wally. 6 & 7:30 pm. The Corridor. 9 pm. MoN 21-tue 22 – Portrait Of Wally. 7 pm. The Corridor. 9 pm. Wed 23 – Portrait Of Wally. 3 pm. The Corridor. 5 pm.
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Jiro Dreams Of Sushi (2012) D: David Gelb. 9:30 pm. Fri 18 – Jiro Dreams Of Sushi. 7 pm. Toronto Serbian Film Festival presents Ginger: More Than A Game (2011) D: Gordan Matic. Serbian w/ s-t. 9:15 pm. $16. dijaspora.ca/events. Sat 19 – Toronto Serbian Film Festival presents Professor Kosta Vujic’s Hat (2012) D: Zdravko Sotra. Serbian w/ s-t. 7 pm. $16. dijaspora.ca/events. Hard Core Logo 2 (2010) D: Bruce MacDonald. 9:15 pm. SuN 20 – Damsels In Distress (2011) D: Whit Stillman. 7 pm. Hard Core Logo 2. 9:15 pm. MoN 21 – Closed for Victoria Day. tue 22-Wed 23 – Hard Core Logo 2. 7 pm. Damsels In Distress. 9:30 pm.
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Cubicle conundrum I work In an offIce tower In down-
town Seattle. From time to time, I go to a bathroom on a mostly deserted floor, go into a stall and rub out a quick one. Usually, no one comes in. Today, just as I was blowing a load into a handful of TP, someone came into the bathroom. This person walked up to the stall and stared through the door crack. This person stood there for a second before walking over to the urinal. He finished and left. I flushed, washed my hands and left. A security guard came around the corner while I was waiting for the elevator. He rode the elevator down with me but said nothing. At the lobby, I got in the elevator that takes me back to my floor. As the door closed, I heard someone say, “See that guy?” I am paranoid that security is going to confront me. But have I done anything illegal? I may have exercised poor judgment and been squicky, but is it illegal to masturbate in a closed bathroom stall on private property? Suddenly Pensive About Noontime Kicks
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It isn’t, SPANK, at least not in Seattle. “There is an expectation of privacy in a bathroom stall,” says Seattle Police Department spokesperson Sergeant Sean Whitcomb. “So obviously, what people do there is their personal business.” If things went down exactly as you described, SPANK, you’re not in any legal danger, as you were doing your own private business in the privacy of a bath-
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room stall. The guy who peered into your stall, however, could be in trouble. “Here’s the irony: The person peeping into the stall is the person we’d be interested in talking to,” says Whitcomb. “You don’t need to be peeping into the stall to see if someone is using it, and looking into a stall long enough to make a determination as to what the person is doing in that stall, exactly, is an indication that you’ve been looking a little longer than you need to.” So, yeah, if anyone is going to jail here, SPANK, it’s the peeper who reported you to the office tower’s crack security team, not you. HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA! Forgive me for laughing, SPANK, but I’m having a hard time keeping a straight face. If someone called the actual cops about a toilet wanker – and not, say, the Seattle Police Department’s polite and reasonable spokesperson – it’s the wanker who’ll wind up in handcuffs, not the caller. Beat cops don’t generally give the benefit of the doubt to guys rubbing ’em out in public toilets. They’ll assume you were cruising the toilet or, worse yet, that you’re the kind of perv who gets off to the sounds and smells of other men taking craps, and they’ll arrest you.
that millions of women all over the world aren’t fantasizing about having themselves canned by kinky billionaires. A person can survive – a person can even enjoy – a good thrashing. But being sealed in an airtight container? Not so much. Full disclosure: I may be the only sex writer on earth who has yet to read Fifty Shades Of Grey. While I plan to avoid reading Grey, just as I’ve avoided watching 2 Girls, 1 Cup (and for similar reasons, i.e., I’m easily nauseated), I think it’s wonderful that this book is inspiring a whole new generation of American women to get their kink on.
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Here’s what you do: Get in a time machine and go warn your younger self not to make the same mistake that so many women make in their 20s. That is, dumping guys with relatively harmless, easily indulged kinks – the foot fetishists, the guys who wear panties, the guys who want their girlfriends to wear superhero costumes while they peg their ass – because kinky guys are “weird,” “not normal,” or “probably gay.” Backing way the hell up for a moment: I’ve been writing about sex and relationships, men and women, kinky sex and vanilla sex for 20 years. It is my informed opinion that men typically become aware of their kinks – they typically become hyper-aware of them – when they’re teenagers. Many women, on the other hand, don’t seem to become aware of their kinks until they’re in their 30s or 40s. Maybe it has something to do with the sexual peak, which men are believed
I’m stumped, dan. In the novel fIfty
Shades Of Grey, which has been the subject of much discussion due to its controversial subject matter (a young woman gets involved in a BDSM relationship), the term “canning” is used numerous times. Despite my best efforts, I cannot find a definition for this practice. Who else can I turn to but you? Confused And Naive, New Era Definition It’s not canning (“a method of preserving food in which the food contents are processed and sealed in an airtight container”), it’s caning (“a form of corporal punishment consisting of a number of hits with a single cane usually made of rattan”). I don’t know if the author of Fifty Shades Of Grey dropped that extra “n” in there, CANNED, or if you did. But here’s hoping
Fifty shades of boring I’m a 43-year-old woman, marrIed
for 19 years, and I need your help! Like most middle-aged moms, I read Fifty Shades Of Grey. I understand that it is fiction. But it has motivated me to spice things up in the bedroom. The problem is that my husband is a dud. He’s not open to trying anything that isn’t missionary or doggy. That’s the extent of it. I feel as if I’ve tried everything. He’s happy with the way things are. Period. What do I do? Woman Has Interesting Perversions
to hit in their teens and women in their 30s (and which many people believe to be bullshit), or maybe it simply takes women longer to overcome the misogynist slut-shaming they’re subjected to as girls and to openly embrace their sexualities and sexual interests. Whatever the cause, I’ve seen it happen again and again: a woman tosses aside a series of decent but somewhat kinky guys until she finds a guy whose sexual interests are “normal,” e.g., missionary, doggy and no-hands-on-the-back-ofthe-head oral. And that’s the guy she marries. Then, 10 or 20 years later, she develops some “weird,” “not normal,” “probably gay” sexual interests of her own. Now she wants to spice things up, but – fuckadoodledoo – 20 years ago she dumped a nice kinkster and married a total sexual dud instead. So here’s what you do: Get in a time machine and go tell your 20-something self not to dump someone because he’s kinky, WHIP, because one day you’re going to come into your own kinks. And when that day comes, you’ll want to be able to say something like this to your husband: “So, hey, you know how I’ve been jerking you off with my feet/letting you wear my panties/dressing up like Aquagirl and fucking your ass for the last 19 years? It’s been a lot of fun, honey, and you know I love you and you know I love your kinks. But it’s payback time. I just finished reading this book, and it really turned me on and now I wanna get canned and you’re going to can me.” If you don’t have access to a time machine, WHIP, tell your husband that while he may be happy with the way things are, you’re not. Which means things have to change.
confIdentIal to the presIdent of the unIted states of amerIca: Thanks, man. Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage. mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter
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