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Collision course City has to cease giving cycling the gears Bike Plan flop We were slated to have 495 km of paths; yikes, we only have 113!

Bixi ambivalence I love bike-sharing, but what’s with the crap bells?

Ten ways How to redeem the city by pumping up pedalling priorities Memo to drivers Decent bike lanes would free you from worries about killing us Radical ride The mayor brands us as lefties – stop politicizing my transportation

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1. Joanne Kates gone Toronto’s longest-serving restaurant critic has left the Globe and Mail. What do the city’s chefs think about that?

2. RIP Second City performer Paul O’Sullivan dies at 47 in a collision near Peterborough.

3. QuAIA quagmire Here we go again: in a replay of last year’s crisis, councillors move to defund Pride unless Queers Against Israeli Apartheid stays away.

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GOGOl BORdellO The Gypsy punks play a high-octane set at Sound Academy. 7:30 pm. $28.50. RT, SS, TM.

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discusses his gender-bending novel, In One Person. Toronto Reference Library. 7 pm. $40. torontopubliclibrary.com.

BRuce peNINSula The eclectic band’s new record is the 14-minute song cycle Of Songs. Hear it at the Great Hall. 8 pm. $12-$15. RT, SS. paNaMeRIcaN ROuTeS The international fest of theatre for human rights continues to May 27 at Theatre Passe Muraille. See schedule at alunatheatre.ca. $15-$30.

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GaRBaGe The 90s alt-rockers are back with a new album, playing the Phoenix. 8 pm. $28.50. RT, SS, TM.

NOW TalKS: Ted ReadeR The chef talks about his life and work with NOW Drinks columnist Graham Duncan.

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Free. 416-973-4949.

THe daNdy WaRHOlS The 90s Seattle drug-rockers keep on truckin’ with eighth album This Machine. Phoenix. 7 pm. $30.

RT, SS, TM. +OdySSeO This spectacle features humans, horses and special effects. To Jun 10 at the White Big Top. 2 pm. $29.50$119.50. 1-866-999-8111.

Met’s production of the Verdi opera, starring Natalie Dessay and Dmitry Hvorostovsky, screens tonight at various Cineplex theatres. 6:30 pm. cineplex.com.

The chef talks about his life and work with NOW Drinks columnist Graham Duncan.

6:30 pm. $15. St Lawrence Market Kitchen. nowtoronto. com/nowtalks.

Earth Day gala at the Drake w/ top-tier musical talent. $150, VIP $250, incl dinner. 6:30 pm. earthday.ca/gala.

mental R&B singer Tom Krell comes to the Drake. Doors 8 pm. $15. RT, SS. dOM paRe The sardonic standup comic continues to headline at Yuk Yuk’s Downtown through the weekend. 8 pm. $12-$20. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

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ScRIpT-TeaSe pROJecT The National Theatre of the World improvises a complete play based on two pages by Anusree Roy. NOW’s Glenn Sumi interviews all the artists after the 8 pm show at Theatre Passe Muraille. $15-$20. 416-504-7529.

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Bloor experiment on Yonge

One way or two on streets? i can shoot so many holes in Adam Giambrone’s argument against one-way streets (NOW, May 17-23), it’ll end up looking like the Bismarck!

I wonder if he’s ever been to the corners of John, Richmond, Peter and Adelaide on a weekend night. You can’t even walk on the sidewalk, it’s so crowded.

He holds up New York and Montreal as shining examples. Both are cities with extensive networks of one-way streets.

I could also come up with lists of two-way streets that are either dead

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or flourishing, but that really has nothing to do with which way the traffic flows.

Giambrone says that U.S. cities are considering changing one-way streets to two-way streets but doesn’t mention any other reason why they have experienced decline, such as disappearing industries, etc.

I don’t recall hearing Jane Jacobs’s argument against one-way streets.

She didn’t seem bothered by them.

When I’m stuck in traffic in a car or can’t get through on my bike, I ain’t window-shopping.

Casey Irwin Toronto

Fault lines of mental health thanks to wayne roberts for his critical take on the Mental Health Commission’s Changing Directions, Changing Lives strategy (NOW, May 17-23).

Let’s face it, there’s more than one screw loose in the medical model and our mental health system. As a

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Why argue against turning Yonge into a one-way street? Jane Jacobs didn’t seem bothered by them.

adam giambrone poses some interesting ideas about transportation on Yonge Street and city car traffic in general.

Reducing four lanes to two on Yonge may not be the best solution.

It’s the businesses on Yonge, particularly south of Bloor, that need revitalization more than the street itself.

The Bloor revitalization project developed a cleaner and more upscale look for Bloor Street businesses.

Yonge could benefit from a similar approach.

Andrew Diaczok Toronto

(frustrated) front-line mental health worker, I feel like screaming, I work with the most marginal-

ized: the poor, mentally ill folks involved in the criminal justice system. I want to know how this

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strategy is going to benefit them, if at all.

From my experience, these nicely packaged reports are too discon­ nected from the reality on the ground. When the government talks about funding, it’s always the same – we never see it. Things are actually getting worse, and more programs and ser vices are being cut right under our feet, hurting the clients, their families and the workers who are burning out.

Instead of wasting valuable money on these reports, for crying out loud, put it into practical things mental health clients can actually use, like food, day programs and TTC tokens to help them get there.

Tell Stephen Harper to spend a day at the ODSP office or a homeless shelter downtown. Maybe he’ll get the point.

Ilaneet Goren Toronto

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regarding the mayor’s silent Treatment (NOW, May 10­16). Enzo DiMatteo is exactly right: our coun­ cillors have demonstrated “a remark­ able show of cooperation across pol­ itical lines to set a course for the city sans the mayor.”

I’m always heartened when I see the left and centre putting aside dif­ ferences to address the real threats.

This collaboration has done mar­ vellous things, including winning concessions on the budget and bring­ ing back much of Transit City.

These are major victories and must not be taken for granted. If we had been able to unite progressives at the federal level, we wouldn’t have lost Kyoto, gun control and environmen­ tal assessment.

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Since he’s done the minimum he could do to avoid the appearance of homophobia, it may be that this is just a calculated political move rath­ er than a sincere expression of sup­ port for gay rights. If we’re feeling generous, we could give him the benefit of the doubt.

David Palter Toronto regarding benjamin boles asks if It’s Time To Call Rob Ford A Homo­ phobe (NOW, May 17­23).

Everyone has the right to live the way they choose, but don’t try to ob­ trude your lifestyle or beliefs on others. Just because the mayor does not want to attend the Pride parade doesn’t give anyone licence to attack him.

This is tantamount to Muslim ex­ tremists who try to force their values on others. They attack those who do not go along.

The term “homophobe” is always overused out of context.

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of Ford one of the most hopeful developments in years.

Gideon Forman Toronto

Paul Godfrey’s friends what’s the rush to build a casino resort in Toronto (NOW, May 1723)?

What private interests will be the beneficiaries of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation’s proposal to modernize gaming?

Will there be enough waterskiing instructors for the next mistake by the lake?

Does Paul Godfrey’s relationship with [MLSE chairman] Larry Tanenbaum, who expressed his interest in a spot at the trough, disqualify him from overseeing the process?

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Casino headaches i cannot [but] wonder what good will come of a referendum on casinos.

The only referendum ever held on this issue gave a resounding no to gambling in downtown Toronto.

If you add a casino to the mix of traffic already heading into the downtown for events at the ACC and Rogers Centre, you are into a major headache on a good day.

With the history of scandals of the current Liberal government at Queen’s Park, why should we believe them now?

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

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dozen exploration agreements with companies. Still, Jason Batise, economic development adviser for the Wabun Tribal Council, feels strongly that aboriginal groups must have the right to participate on their own terms, an issue that hearkens back to treaties signed a century ago.

“KI says it’s their land and that it doesn’t belong to the province. The province says it’s Ontario’s land and Canada’s,” Batise says. “That dispute is at the heart of the matter and has never been resolved, at least not in the

Deficit-obsessed Libs rev mining sector with a new act that’s full of major loopholes.

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to pay $3.5 mil to the company to abandon its claims.

It’s not the first time money’s changed hands to make up for flaws in the governance process. In 2008, six members of KI, including Morris, were jailed trying to stop Platinex from prospecting on traditional KI land. The province backed down and paid $5 mil to buy out the firm’s claims and leases.

That $8.5 million grand total is the cost of a botched consultation process that doesn’t appear to be remedied in the act’s new draft.

At MiningWatch Canada, Ramsey Hart says his group has been lobbying the province to adopt the standards set by the UN Declaration On The Rights Of Indigenous People, which insists that actual consent be required. “We’re still very much in the realm of consultation, which is quite ambiguous,” Hart says.

KI isn’t the only community wrestling with a mining onslaught. In January, Wahgoshig First Nation east of Timmins won a court injunction to temporarily stop Solid Gold Resources from prospecting.

In 2010, decrying a lack of consultation by companies, members of Webequie and Marten Falls First Nations blocked airstrips at Koper Lake and McFaulds Lake over Ring of Fire activity.

Things are different at the Wabun First Nation, a string of communities south of the Ring of Fire. There, members have negotiated more than a

First Nations’ minds.”

According to Adrian Kupesic, a rep for Minister Rick Bartolucci at the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines, the Mining Act’s new draft is meant to balance interests, clarify roles and responsibilities and ensure aboriginal concerns are “taken into account in the decision-making process.”

But the NDP takes issue with the draft’s omissions. Sarah Campbell, MPP for Kenora-Rainy River and the party’s aboriginal affairs critic, says the province needs to consult directly with First Nations as equal partners. If municipalities have the right to set zoning bylaws, she asks, why can’t aboriginal communities?

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Alas, the province released its draft amendments earlier this year, and the fine print reveals major loopholes. Exploration firms would still be able to stake and sample claims without notifying First Nations; consultations would only be required for high-level prospecting.

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Police chief was either a willing accomplice in G20 power-tripping or a dupe By ENZO DiMATTEO we’ve heard it all before from toronto police Chief Bill Blair.

That he takes “full responsibility” for his police force’s mishandling of the G20, although he makes no apology.

That mistakes were made, but in the face of trying circumstances. And, over and over, that he’ll do better. Lessons were learned, etc.

Blair said it all again the Friday before the long weekend, May 18, in a prepared statement read to his civilian overseers on the Police Services Board.

And later to the cameras parked out­ side that meeting at City Hall, where the latest twist unfolded in the biggest civil liberties failure and mass arrest of inno­ cent protesters in Canadian history.

It turns out charges may now be laid against more than two dozen officers, including as many as four senior offi­ cers, in the aftermath of revelations in the Office of the Independent Police Re­ view Director’s (OIPRD) G20 systemic re­ view report released last week.

But because the six­month limitation on those charges has expired under the Police Services Act, which cases will pro­ ceed and which won’t has still to be de­ termined.

Better late than never, perhaps. The chief has been quick to defend the con­ duct of his rank and file during those memorable three days in June 2010. On several occasions, in fact, he has misled

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Bill Blair contends he was directly responsible for only one operational order throughout the entire G20 weekend – to release boxed-in protesters at Queen and Spadina.

the public. Whether that’s been deliber­ ate depends on whom you talk to.

Blair’s defenders, among them former members of the Police Services Board at the time of the G20, Adam Vaughan and board vice­chair Pam McConnell, don’t want the chief’s head on a platter just yet even if they think an apology is warranted.

In their estimation, Blair deserves the benefit of the doubt – at least until Jus­ tice John Morden, the man commis­ sioned by the Police Services Board to determine if the policies of the board were carried out during the G20, comes back with his report in four to six weeks’ time. Morden’s findings may shed more light on who ordered what and when.

But Blair’s “I take full responsibility” spiel is hollow, and his characterization of the brutality of his officers as mere “short­ comings” is unacceptable given OIPRD director Gerry McNeilly’s findings.

That document lays out some glaring holes in the G20 command­and­control structure. Suffice it to say, there was a critical communications collapse.

Blair was either a willing accomplice in the “take back the streets” power­trip­ ping of out­of­control supervisers under his direct command or a dupe who dele­ gated responsibility to underlings and has been left holding the bag of doggie poop.

In some ways OIPRD’s report confuses the picture, raising more questions than

it answers about police actions.

The name “Julian Fantino,” for exam­ ple, the OPP’s top dick at the time, shows up nowhere in OIPRD’s 300­page docu­ ment.

Stunning, since it was OPP officers who were involved in the infamous ket­ tling incident at Queen and Spadina.

And the scuttlebutt post­ G20 was that a conflict between Blair and Fantino led to the OPP commish’s supposed reluctance to send reinforcements from Huntsville when hell was breaking loose on Yonge Street.

Blair’s name comes up 57 times in OIPRD’s report. But the chief contends he was directly responsible for only one “operational order” throughout the en­ tire G20 weekend – the one to release those boxed in for hours in the pouring rain by riot cops at Queen and Spadina.

The events that led Blair to that call, however, do not paint a picture of a chief totally engaged in the decision­making process.

According to the report, Blair became aware of the standoff at Queen and Spa­ dina while at the Intercontinental Hotel, where he flicked on a TV to find out what was happening on the street shortly af­ ter a meeting of dignitaries with the U.S. president.

Blair says summit leaders were leav­ ing and he saw no reason to hold the pro­ testers, so he got on the phone and gave

the order to his deputy, Tony Warr, to re­ lease them.

But Warr was slow on the uptake. The protesters were still being held when Blair got back to police headquarters and turned on the news again. He said he thought he was watching taped footage.

Another call was made to Warr.

The chief said he caught the same scene as he left police headquarters 20 minutes later still, on the TV set at the duty desk. That’s when he says he went up to the Major Incident Command Cen­ tre at headquarters. Blair said he pulled Superintendent Mark Fenton and Staff Superintendent Jeff McGuire out of a meeting and told them he wanted the protesters released immediately. They were.

But while Blair contends the kettling incident was the only one he issued a di­ rect order on, he did little, OIRPD’s re­ port suggests, to stop the collective pun­ ishment cops were about to mete out after Saturday’s tumultuous events.

OIPRD’s report notes Blair’s atten­ dance at a pivotal meeting that evening at which Warr instructed other senior officers and others in attendance to “take back the streets.”

From that point on, the command structure became “dysfunctional” and “autocratic,” the chief’s commanders ac­ cepting little or no input from police supervisors on the street, McNeilly’s re­ port says.

People’s personalities were trans­ formed during the G20, Blair’s included.

There’s something predictable about that, and about his toeing of the thin blue line.

A leader is only as good as the infor­ mation he’s given, and Blair was clearly out of the loop on a number of decisions during the G20, which doesn’t absolve him of responsibility for his officers’ ac­ tions. Neither does it speak well of his management ability.

He was uninformed about far too many incidents of the summit weekend, including the mess at Novotel and, ear­ lier on, the use of rubber bullets by cops.

For all the questions left unanswered by the OIPRD report, what can’t be over­ looked is what it tells us about Blair’s ac­ tions during the G20, among them his office’s quest for special powers to arrest protesters and the now infamous press conference at which weapons that he said were seized from G20 protesters turned out to be no such thing.

Post­G20, during public protests, the massive police presence outside head­ quarters was the kind of defensive pos­ ture one would expect of Fantino.

It wasn’t supposed to be like this for Blair. His appointment as chief was her­ alded as a coup for progressives.

It’s curious to note that Mayor Rob Ford is suddenly watching Blair’s back, part of the residual cascading machismo flowing from the event, perhaps.

It’s worth remembering that Blair’s selection wasn’t wholly embraced by some in senior ranks who believed that after Fantino, Blair’s predecessor, a change in the culture was necessary, and the best candidate to fill the void would come from outside the organization.

That’s something to think about next time.

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Quebec takes liberties Crackdown on civil rights makes students symbols of global anti-1-per-cent movement By JESSE ROSENFELD

montreal – north america’s long­est-running­ student­ strike­ marked­ its­ 100th­ day­ this­ week­ amidst­ a­ legislated­ crackdown,­ putting­ Cana­da­ on­ the­ map­ as­ a­ global­ anti-austerity­hot­spot.­With­the­likes­ of­ Michael­ Moore,­ Arcade­ Fire­ and­

director­Xavier­Dolan­on­board,­and­ red­squares­turning­up­as­the­insignia­of­revolt­from­New­York­to­Paris,­ Quebec­ students­ are­ the­ new­ symbols­of­anti-1-per-cent­resistance.

Across­ the­ city,­ balconies­ on­ the­ iconic­downtown­triplex­apartments­

are­draped­in­red­cloth­as­Quebec­society­ reacts­ to­ the­ National­ Assembly’s­passage­of­Bill­78­and­students­ win­new­backers.­ You­ could­ see­ the­ realignment­ Tues­day­ afternoon,­ May­ 22,­ when­ 200,000­ people­ poured­ into­ the­

streets­for­what­some­have­called­the­ largest­ act­ of­ civil­ disobedience­ in­ Ca­na­dian­history.­ The­new­legislation­imposes­heavy­ fines­ on­ stu­dents,­ unions­ and­ their­ leaders­for­picketing­or­demonstrating­ within­ 50­ metres­ of­ campus­

buildings,­and­requires­protest­organizers­ to­ submit­ demo­ routes­ for­ any­ gathering­ over­ 50,­ eight­ hours­ in­ advance,­ef­fectively­ruling­out­spontaneous­­action.

The­ shock­ of­ this­ one-year­ emergency­ legislation­ has­ changed­ the­ fault­ lines­ for­ the­ Jean­ Charest­ govern­ment,­galvanizing­support­for­the­ students­ from­ international­ solidarity­protests,­major­labour­associations­ inside­and­outside­Quebec,­civil­libertarians,­Quebec’s­bar­association­and­ massive­numbers­of­the­formerly­uninvolved.

While­some­organizers­of­Tuesday’s­ action­ provided­ police­ with­ march­ routes,­ CLASSE,­ an­ association­ representing­ half­ of­ the­ 160,000­ strik­ing­ students,­ chose­ to­ defy­ the­ law,­ and­ thousands­ went­ off­ route,­ roaming­ the­downtown.

The­mood­of­defiance­gave­heart­to­ Ontario­ Federation­ of­ Labour­ president­ Sid­ Ryan,­ who­ travelled­ from­ Toronto­ to­ meet­ with­ students­ and­ labour­leaders­and­join­the­protest.­“If­ we­could­get­this­kind­of­activism­in­ other­provinces,­we­would­be­well­on­ our­ way­ to­ a­ Cana­dian­ Spring,”­ he­ says.­ “People­ see­ that­ what­ the­ students­are­fighting­for­–­while­centred­ on­tuition­–­is­all­about­inequality­and­ accessibility.”­ Protesters,­ feeling­ a­ mix­ of­ newly­ minted­ anger­ and­ fatigue,­ chanted,­ “We­don’t­give­a­damn­about­the­special­law”­throughout­the­muggy­afternoon.­ That­ evening,­ the­ now­ nightly­ smaller­marches­began,­but­astonishingly,­ people­ across­ the­ city­ took­ to­ their­front­steps­to­bang­pots­and­pans­ to­protest­the­law­–­a­nod­to­the­movement­ against­ Argentina’s­ economic­ collapse.­ Something­ is­ shifting­ here,­ and­ without­ a­ dialogue­ between­ the­ government­ and­ ­ the­ social­ movements,­peace­will­not­be­possi­ble.

The­ question­ is,­ are­ the­ Liberals,­ who­are­trying­to­figure­out­when­to­ trigger­an­election­and­steeling­themselves­ for­ corruption­ hearings,­ capable­of­finessing­a­truce?

“We­are­beginning­to­see­the­other­ face­of­disillusionment,”­says­CLASSE­ spokesperson­Gabriel­Nadeau-­Dubois.­ “It­ is­ not­ cynical,­ but­ a­ dis­illusionment­ that­ has­ become­ effec­tive­ and­ demands­social­change.”

But­he­says­many­students­are­having­ trouble­ seeing­ a­ solution­ in­ electoral­terms,­given­the­provincial­political­landscape.­“People­are­not­call­ing­ for­an­election,­because­they­don’t­see­ a­political­party­that­could­really­realize­ the­ society­ they­ are­ hop­ing­ for,”­ says­Nadeau-Dubois.

Meanwhile,­ the­ movement­ in­ the­ streets­ faces­ new­ tactical­ challenges.­ The­emergency­law­shuts­down­striking­ campuses­ until­ August,­ in­ the­ hope­ that­ protest­ will­ dissipate­ by­ then.­ Nadeau-Dubois­ likens­ the­ closure­to­a­labour­lockout.

“The­ next­ weeks­ are­ going­ to­ be­ very­ important­ –­ we­ will­ see­ if­ our­ movement­ can­ survive­ the­ suspension­of­the­semester.­We­will­need­to­ find­new­places­to­organize­ourselves.” ­ 3 news@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/nowtorontonews

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Gardiner teardown In the path of new condos, it should come down bit by bit By ADAM GIAMBRONE the city has stopped planning for the future, and if you want proof, check last week’s news that Water­ front Toronto has put a halt to any possibility of taking down part of the Gardiner Expressway.

This fact surfaced in discussions of the cost of repairs to the expressway, when it was revealed that the agency had quietly put off the Environmen­ tal Assessment process authorized by council and the province in 2008.

There is now zero work being done to further a project supported by Royal Commissions, task forces and most prominent urban thinkers, in­ cluding Jane Jacobs – presumably due to edicts from our chief magis­ trate.

Right from its creation in the 50s, the highway cut Parkdale off from the lake and destroyed vibrant neigh­ bourhoods, while it mostly ran through industrial lands to the east.

That’s no longer true: a solid row of condos now lines the central part of elevated highway, and massive waterfront development is in pro­ gress.

Arguments for the expressway’s takedown gained traction in the 80s, when expensive repairs were start­ ing to become urgent. Then, in the 90s, demolition was presented as a serious option: the Crombie Com­ mission and the Lake Shore­ Gardiner Task Force both suggested it, as did the Royal Commission on the Future of the Toronto Waterfront.

And now, considering that the cost of maintaining the highway is esti­ mated to be at least $15 million annu­ ally for the next 10 years, or over $150 million, restarting the stalled Envi­

Waterfront T.0. proposed removing a section of the Gardiner and widening Lake Shore à la University Avenue. ronmental Assessment seems the most fiscally prudent thing to do.

After all, EAs examine all the options, including doing nothing.

The Toronto Waterfront Revitaliza­ tion Task Force estimated in 2006 that it would cost just under $1.5 bil­ lion to bury the expressway. With construction costs going up 4 to 5 per cent a year, the tally today would likely be between $2 and $2.5 billion.

In a city with a long infrastructure wish list, this may not be a good use of limited transportation funds.

Relatively few (80,000 to 100,000) cars use the Gardiner daily compared to the 450,000 that use the 401 or the 480,000 people who travel through the TTC’s Bloor/Yonge station.

Tunnelling would be technically difficult, too, leading to higher un­ expected costs. The expressway goes mostly through lake fill, so it would be like building a tunnel in open water. Other potential challenges in­ clude a storm sewer just west of Fort

York and another under Portland.

Similarly, a high­voltage electrical line under Strachan and a filtered water intake pipe for the John pump­ ing station would need to be worked around or moved. And we shouldn’t forget the underground streetcar line running under lower Bay, among other obstacles.

All this suggests a more incremen­ tal approach may make more sense.

In May 2008, Waterfront Toronto proposed the removal of a segment of the Gardiner from Jarvis to the Don, and the construction of a wid­ ened Lake Shore in a form similar to that of University. They suggested it would cost a much more reasonable $200 to $300 million (around $260 to $380 million today).

The cost of going one step further and removing the expressway east of Spadina was estimated in 2000 at $758 million, likely closer to $1.2 bil­ lion today, which is why this expand­ ed vision might also need to wait for another day.

The Jarvis­to­Don removal offers the most benefits relative to cost, be­ cause the eastern waterfront is now being developed in the regions of East Bayfront and Lower Don Lands.

This section of the Gardiner also has the fewest users – around 20,000 cars (each way). These can easily be accommodated on a wide road that, properly designed, would improve access and save us millions in main­ tenance costs a year.

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By nowtoronto.com editor joSHUa erreTT Facebook was built in a week.

A week later it had 900 users. Eight years and a bit after that it had 900 million-plus users and is now a publicly traded company.

It accomplished all this as Mark Zuckerberg’s start-up – a responsive, quick-moving company that innovated at breakneck speed. Sometimes the innovations worked (Like buttons, Messenger) and sometimes they didn’t (Beacon, Timeline), but as the numbers show, it was all for the betterment of his product.

The same week investors spent $30-some a share on Facebook stock, author Eric Ries came to Toronto’s MaRS on May 15 to preach about efficient, responsive companies.

His book, The Lean Startup, is a manual for entrepreneurs to build successful businesses right out of the gate by gathering lots of feedback and responding to it in short order.

Ries’s methodology is a lot like Zuckerberg’s. Except what Ries calls the Lean Startup, Zuckerberg called the Hacker Way. “Astronomical amounts of attention are going to be paid to Facebook’s incredible business results,” predicted Ries when Facebook first announced its initial public offering in February. “I hope at least some of that attention will be paid to the culture and process that made those results possible.”

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In the run-up to going public, Facebook made a few good moves. It launched a very useful new app to manage pages (simply titled Pages), a dynamic list of topics called Interests, its amazing Messenger service for Windows, and, of course, it acquired Instagram.

The details of the billion-buck Instagram buy are most telling. Zuckerberg, at his own house, hammered out the deal with the photo-sharing app’s founder, Kevin Systrom, over steaks and ice cream. All the lawyers typically present for such a deal were in another room watching Game Of Thrones.

With all the investor scrutiny, Zuckerberg and Facebook can’t operate that way any more. How can it?

I predict Facebook will slow down on inventing cool features, if not halt altogether. With other people’s money on board, the strategy becomes one thing and one thing only: growth.

Facebook has left the fast-paced field of start-ups and entered the slow, frustrating, corporate muck.

“Here’s to the Zuck I admire, the one [who] had the courage to launch a simple, useful app in a week, celebrate his first 900 customers, and – for eight straight years – insist on iterating, executing and building for the long term,” wrote Ries.

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Forget snakes in the grass. A fresh report from the California-based Ecology Centre says we’re definitely getting more toxins than we bargained for from our gardening equipment. They tested nearly 200 hoses, gloves and tools for the presence of lead, cadmium, bromine (in brominated flame retardants), bisphenol A and more.

What’d they find? Well, 70 per cent of these things had high levels of one or more of the above. About a third contained over 100 parts per million of lead, which would violate standards for children’s products.

This nearly a decade after Consumer Reports outed popular hoses for containing lead and the Center for Environmental Health sued three hose makers for failing to warn consumers about toxic content.

These latest lab tests found PVC hoses don’t just leach lead; they can also leach hormone-disrupting phthalates and BPA. Those BPA levels were 20 times higher than standards set for safe drinking water by the NSF. The phthalate DEHP, banned from kids’ toys, was found at levels four times higher than drinking water standards. Cadmium and brominated flame retardants were rarer but still present.

Next time you’re at the garden centre, check your labels for options marked “lead free,” “drinking-water safe,” “PVC-free” and “natural rubber.” Polyurethane hoses turned out

to be safer than PVC, too, as did hoses free of brass fittings. Brass fittings tended to have higher lead levels.

Stainless steel, nickel and aluminum are more often lead-free.

Check the labels on your garden items.

Healthystuff.org has a printable shoppers’ guide with tips: don’t drink from mysterious, unlabelled hoses; make sure you flush water out of your hoses before you spray your cauliflower, carrots, etc; and store your garden products out of the sun since heat increases leaching.

You might also think about getting your soil tested for heavy metals, especially if you fancy yourself a bit of an urban farmer. It’s something I’ve been meaning to do myself. For what it’s worth, soil testing in Halifax found elevated levels of lead and arsenic in 40 per cent of community and private

gardens (levels higher than those accepted on agricultural land). The closer you live to former industrial sites, the higher the levels will usually be.

First line of defence: wash your hands well after handling soil or gardening supplies/tools, and wash your produce in diluted vinegar to help reduce potential lead exposure.

Adding compost and bagged soil to your garden every year the way most gardeners do has been shown to reduce the concentration and bioavailability of soil contaminants over the years, according to reports by both Toronto and Halifax. Ditto for turning over your soil at least twice a year year. Seems aerating soil and exposing it to sunlight helps degrade contaminants.

If your soil is high in contaminants like lead, building raised beds and carting in outside soil or opting for container gardening is the safest approach.

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Until the results are in or your beds are built, stick to growing ediblefruit-producing plants like tomatoes, cukes and peppers over root veggies or even lettuces.

If you want to be extra-cautious, keep rain-barrel water collected via downspout from asphalt shingle roofs away from veggies, too. Could be tainted with lead and polyaromatic hydrocarbons, though data on this isn’t as bountiful as your garden – fingers crossed – will be this summer.

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ow did the Big Smoke, a trailblazer in cycling little more than a decade ago, become so unfriendly to the two-wheeled mode of transport? The blame can’t all be laid at the feet of the current administration at City Hall.

Hate to burst your bubble, fellow riders, but the mayor’s amped-up anti-bike rhetoric is an expression of a more widespread feeling, and not just among those who inhabit the burbs who've grown weary of longer daily commutes.

When Rob Ford says the streets were built for cars, he’s right, but not for the reasons he thinks.

In the North American context, at least, it’s true that cities weren’t conceived and planned with bikes, or even public transit, in mind. They still aren’t.

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bikes, too – is where the smart planning is headed.

Streets aren’t just streets any more, but “cultural corridors.” They’re assets, not just a means to bring vitality and tourism to our neighbourhoods, but themselves our new urban parks.

The benefits of incorporating human health when evaluating the merits of developments are crystal clear.

Those who live in more walkable neighbourhoods tend to walk and ride more, have a lower body mass index and show fewer effects from harmful pollution. They also have a lower incidence of diabetes.

Building more public transit is of course a crucial component of dealing with gridlock. But for too long the value of bikes in the solution equation has been ignored.

The view that these simple, perfect machines are recreational vehicles as opposed to a desirable and viable mode of transportation is outdated.

Tens of thousands of Torontonians ride their bikes year-round, thousands more throughout the spring, summer and fall.

Many trips Torontonians take every day are short enough to be accomplished on a bike. Bikes take up less space than cars. Roadway improvements to accommodate more bikes enhance everyone's safety.

Backpedalling on cycling infrastructure is only putting Toronto further behind. It’s time for council to get creative and make a shift where bikes are concerned instead of giving cycling the gears.

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Bike Month Special

Here’s a guide to recent cycling high points and the just-plain downers.

Hits Bixi

The bike-sharing program had a successful first year in Toronto, logging 556,000 trips and signing up over 5,000 members. No firm plans to expand the system yet, but bike czar

is it all downhill for cycling in toronto?

the Bike plan waS SuppoSed to deliver 495 kMS of laneS By now, But we’re Stuck at 113. here’S the dirt on how the Mayor Switched up the cycling agenda.

By BEN SPURR when it comes to cycling safety, Toronto is riding in circles.

The statistics aren’t good. Collision rates between cars and bikes remain steady, hovering unchanged at 1,100 a year for more than a decade. Two or three cyclists are killed every year in accidents, and Toronto has more bike collisions per capita than any other city in Canada.

It’s tempting to blame this lack of progress on our current mayor, but Toronto was already on track to miss important safety targets before Rob Ford took office promising to end the “war on the car.”

According to the Bike Plan council approved in 2001, we should have 495 kilometres of bike lanes by now.

Instead, we have 113. That’s not all Ford’s fault.

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bike rhetoric, since he was elected Toronto has taken important strides toward becoming a modern cycling city.

Last year, we joined the ranks of Montreal and London, UK, by bringing the Bixi bike-share system to the downtown core. By the end of 2012, Toronto should hit another milestone: its first-ever physically separated bike lane, on Sherbourne.

Bikers’ main grievance with the Ford administration, then, isn’t so much that no progress has been made as that improvements aren’t happening where they’d make the most difference.

The philosophy of current cycling policy, as laid out in the mayor’s 2011 Bike Plan update, is to build bikeways only “where the community supports them and where they do not

impede traffic flow.” This means the city will readily tear out lanes that are perceived to cause traffic problems (see Jarvis, Birchmount, and Pharmacy) but is also prepared to make significant investments in cycling infrastructure as long as motorists face minimal impact.

Over the next five years, $45 million has been earmarked for capital bike projects. That’s no small amount, but very little is going to new, onstreet bikeways. All but one of the proposed separated lanes would be upgrades to existing painted routes, and two-thirds of the money is going to recreational trails in parks and hydro corridors, far removed from the busy roads where hundreds of riders are injured every year.

As long as the priority is limiting motorists’ aggravation, efforts to im-

prove cycling safety are doomed to be minimal. “There are few remaining opportunities to accommodate bicycle lanes on Toronto roadways without reducing traffic capacity,” noted a Transportation Services report last year. When bike initiatives clash with driver needs, guess who wins?

While they wait on a new philosophy to take hold at City Hall, cycling advocates are learning to take what they can get under Ford, and hope that last year’s lane removals won’t be repeated.

“Every year we get little dribs and drabs, but eventually it adds up to something,” says activist Dave Meslin. “The main thing is that we’re never moving backwards.”

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misses Bloor bike lane study cancelled The scrapping of the Jarvis lanes got all the attention, but at the same July council meeting last summer an environmental assessment for a BloorDanforth bikeway was also killed. A bike lane along Toronto’s main eastwest route from Royal York to Victoria Park would have been the spine of a healthy bikeway network, and sources say political interference from Ford’s crew was behind staff’s recommendation to cancel it.

Jarvis lanes to be removed

According to city staff, the Jarvis bike lanes have made the route safer for pedestrians, drivers and bikers alike, and have had minimal impact on traffic. But work crews will start stripping off the paint sometime this year unless cycling advocates, who are taking their case all the way to Queen’s Park, win a last-minute reprieve.

no advice is good advice

Cost-cutting was the mayor’s rationale for eliminating the volunteerbased Cycling Committee last year along with a slew of other citizen advisory groups. But the committee had no budget, and the only effect of scrapping it was to silence the cycling

Denzil Minnan-Wong says to expect a big announcement in the fall.

Trails blazed

Few targets set out in the official Bike Plan have been met, but this past year the city surpassed its goal of building 249 kilometres of off-road trails. We now have 286 kms of bike paths in parks and hydro corridors, and another 77 kms are planned over the next 10 years.

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Separate satisfaction

Barring a Ford-fuelled disaster, construction of Toronto’s first physically separated bike lane, a 3-km bikeway on Sherbourne, will begin later this summer. It’s intended to be the start of a connected network of separated lanes downtown that would also include routes on Hoskin, Harbord, Wellesley, St. George, Beverley, and the Richmond-Adelaide corridor.

Bombing down Bay

A new bike lane/sharrow route in the heart of downtown is scheduled for installation this summer. Intended to stretch from Queens Quay to College, the Bay lane was approved under council’s previous term, and such is the mistrust of the current administration, cycling advocates aren’t even speaking openly about it for fear Ford will try to stop its completion.

-3.2 km Construction of on-road bike infrastructure (lanes and sharrows) by year • 2008 34.9 km • 2009 10.4 km • 2010 6.4 km • 2011 -3.2 km

community’s voice at City Hall. Councillor Mike Layton has since picked up the slack, however, and now runs an ad hoc citizens’ cycling group out of his office.

Negative impact

Council’s decision to remove bike lanes on Birchmount and Pharmacy in Scarborough meant that for the first time, Toronto finished the year with fewer kilometres of bike lanes than it started with in 2011 – 3.2 km fewer, to be exact. In the same vote, approval for suburban bike lanes in Etobicoke was also rescinded, and lanes on Dupont were shortened.

Missed targets

Toronto’s Transportation Services has a disappointing record of delays and missteps that stretches back well before Ford took office. Some of the latest: the Wellesley separated bike lane has been delayed a full year to 2013, and another separated path approved for the Bloor Viaduct was never put in after staff realized they couldn’t drill into the bridge’s surface. Of the 495 km of bike lanes called for 11 years ago in the official Bike Plan, only 113 km have been built.

Ideas? No thanks.

A recent public health report made several recommendations on how to make Toronto streets safer for cyclists and pedestrians. Although it was based on sound research and authored by our respected medical officer of health, the report was laughed off the agenda at City Hall because it suggested lowering speed limits, an idea roughly equivalent to a tactical nuclear strike in the imagined “war on the car.” Similarly, key recommendations from a 1998 coroner’s report on cycling deaths, which included ensuring trucks are outfitted with protective side guards, have yet to be implemented.

Cyclist-car collisions per 100,000 population • Toronto 42 • Montreal 38 • Vancouver 32 • Hamilton 28 • Ottawa 30

top five

causes of cyclist-car collisions from January to September 2011 1. Cyclist or car sideswiped the other 2. Motorist turned left across cyclist’s path 3. Door prize 4. Cyclist without right-of-way rode into car’s path 5. Motorist turned right at nonsignalled intersection (no stop light)

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Construction of off-road bike infrastructure (trails) by year • 2008 0 km • 2009 2.1 km • 2010 0 km • 2011 25 km

Actual infrastructure vs targets in the official Bike Plan • Bike lanes 113 km vs 495 km • Bike trails 286 km vs 249 km

two to one

Money allocated to bike infrastructure in next five years: $45 million Ratio of money being spent on offroad trails to on-street lanes and bike parking: 2:1

1,268 Cyclist-car collisions over last five years

2006 Fatal 3 Injured 964 No injury 136 Total 1,103

2007 Fatal 3 Injured 1,029 No injury 142 Total 1,174

2008 Fatal 2 Injured 949 No injury 148 Total 1,099

2009 Fatal 1 Injured 1,003 No Injury 151 Total 1,155

2010 Fatal 2 Injured 1,111 No injury 155 Total 1,268

I ÍbIxI BIke-SharINg rockS, BuT whaT’S wITh ThoSe crap BellS aNd dIzzyINg ruleS?

By GLENN SUMI

i’m in love with bixi. but like all relationships, it ain’t per- fect.

It’s been just over a year since the bike-sharing program came to Toronto, and suddenly I can’t imagine my life without it.

I’ve been a member since August, and according to my account (members can log in at Toronto.bixi.com), I’ve made 567 trips and travelled 875 kilometres.

The site also tells me I’ve saved 61 litres of gas, but as a non-driver, that was never my primary motivation. Convenience and cost were higher on the list: no worrying about theft, flat tires or remembering where I locked the damn thing; and the annual $95 membership fee is about as much as a bike’s annual tune-up.

Still, as much as I like being able to saddle up on any of the 1,000 sturdy black machines scattered across the city core, I have issues.

First, there’s the geographical range. During the winter, Bixi expanded its coverage westward from Spadina to Bathurst (to Euclid up on Bloor) and eastward from Jarvis to Parliament (and to the Distillery a bit further east).

That’s fine, but with the Ossington and Leslieville booms, why not add a few stations around there? And does Bloor really have to be the northernmost cutoff? Why not St. Clair, or at least Dupont?

It’s rumoured there’ll be an expansion announcement in the fall, so I’m crossing my fingers. Bixi, don’t let me down.

I also have some problems with the bikes themselves. The bells are crap. Half don’t work (they’re the first thing I test when I pick out a bike), and believe me, if you’re cycling on a crowded street, that bell could save your life. In winter even the working bells sometimes freeze up, as do many of the adjustable seats. And the bikes don’t have a decent splash guard. Good luck cycling through puddles and keeping your back dry.

I also appreciate the little area in front for carrying items, complete with a set of straps to secure things in place, but you have to be an engineer to use the thing.

And while on the subject of feeling dumb, I pity strangers trying to make sense of instructions for occasional use – 24 or 72 hours. Docking a bike, I’ve had to explain the set-up to dozens of potential users scratching their heads over convoluted rules about extra fees and 30-minute time limits.

Then there’s the problem of Bixi stations that are completely full or completely empty. Try getting a bike after 10 pm in the business district.

They’ve all been cleared out by those white Bixi trucks, ready for the next morning’s commuters to cycle in.

And the thing that worries me most about the system is that few users, myself included, wear helmets. There’s something about the casual, grassroots nature of the system that makes a helmet seem almost… too serious. The bikes only have three gears, so it’s hard to travel that quickly. Of course, that doesn’t matter if you end up in the emergency room.

Maybe for my Bixi anniversary, I’ll buy us a helmet and we’ll become the perfect couple.

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NO 2 NO 1

We could start by getting a chair of Public Works and Infrastructure who doesn’t view cycling as a recreational activity that should be tucked away in parks and ravines. The mayor’s bike guy, Denzil Minnan-Wong, doesn’t get it. But he’s not the only problem when it comes to bike politics. More councillors need to stick up for cyclists. Outside the hardcore, the pols pushing pedal power at 100 Queen West can be counted on one hand. Every Toronto street is a cycling street. Check it. It says so in the Bike Plan.

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Bring back the Toronto Cycling Advisory Committee. The loss of this citizen advisory group, part of the Ford admin’s “streamlining” of the decision-making process at City Hall, has silenced a powerful voice. TCAC provided one-of-a-kind input on the business of bikes – the cumulative experience of everyday riders and, yes, a few squeaky wheels among them. For all their commendable efforts, the Toronto Cyclists Union (now Cycle Toronto) has been too willing to roll over on the bike file.

NO 3

Hurry up and make tracks on complete streets. Toronto’s been slow to get rolling on the vision of planning inspired by more bike-going cities in the U.S. that pumps the importance of encouraging healthy, active communities. We’re not really thinking about cycling when it comes to city planning.

NO 7

Get over the underpass. Drainage problems and lack of lighting make two-wheeled travel under bridges a crapshoot. It happens to every cyclist: the decision to risk life and limb and head with the flow of traffic into a narrow underpass or to take the sidewalk and piss off pedestrians who will forever hold the transgression against you.

NO 8 NO 4

Reduce speed limits, re-stripe streets. Toronto doesn’t have a lot wide boulevards. Most streets in the core are narrow, too tight to accommodate both bike and car traffic comfortably. Elevated speed limits exacerbate the problem. Speeding cars and trucks squeezing by cyclists in curb lanes has become the norm. Parking prohibitions during peak hours give cyclists more space, but re-striping where street widths permit to create a little more space for cyclists isn’t seen as an option, although it’s encouraged in the Bike Plan.

NO 5

Get on with Bloor. Apart from College and maybe Harbord and Davenport, there’s no major east-west arterial. A major bike lane alongside the subway line opens up a number of possibilities, like park-and-ride stations for commuters all along Bloor. But the Ford admin put a flat in the Bloor plan when council voted to kill an environmental assessment. The sharrows there now are helpful (when cars respect them), but Bloor remains a dangerous no-go zone for most people on two wheels.

NO 6

Go with the contra-flow lanes. It doesn’t make sense to restrict bikes to all rules of the road. Now there's a radical thought. But the Bike Plan recommends exempting bikes from certain traffic bylaws, like, for example, restrictions on one-way streets. Putting bike lanes on these to allow bikes to ride counter to the flow of traffic would do two important things: a) provide safer side-street option for cyclists, and b) divert bike traffic from crowded major arterials. Then we could all be happy. We do have blue signs to mark bike routes through residential streets, and these are fine. But side streets would be more used (and safer) if they were striped with space for bike lanes.

Give cyclists the green light. More than half the city’s 1,800 intersections have semi-actuated lights. They turn green when a car or truck rolls up, thanks to sensors embedded in the concrete. Similar light-activating infrastructure for bikes has been installed at a few dozen intersections marked by a line of three white dots on the pavement. But most cyclists don’t know what they’re for, and some don’t work. (Note to city cycling staff: check the one at Lascelles and Eglinton). Some jurisdictions use video to change traffic lights for cyclists. Cyclists would settle for a simple button at crossings.

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URBANE CYCLIST, 180 JOHN ST. Bike Month 2012 is presented by the City of Toronto and the Toronto Cyclists Union. Toronto Bike Month is one of many worldwide celebrations that raise awareness of the benefits of cycling, and to try to encourage people to ride their bikes more.

For more information and event listings go to toronto.ca/cycling/bikemonth/ and bikeunion.to/bikemonth.

Highlighted events: Bike Month Group Commute and Pancake Breakfast May 28th. 7 am - 10 am commuters from around the city meet to ride together from start points and converge at Yonge and Bloor for 7:30 am. City start points are staffed with ride coordinators and a police escort. Riders will receive a free Bike Month t-shirt as well as complimentary breakfast at City Hall (while supplies last).

Group Commute Start Locations: City Start Points: 7 am Bloor and High Park 7 am Yonge and Lawrence 7 am Danforth and Woodbine 7:30 am Bloor and Yonge 8 am Arrive at City Hall Community Start Points: 6:45 am Don Mills and Lawrence Humber River 6:30 am Waterfront trail Thunderbird bridge 7 am Eglinton Park Community Centre 7:30 am Dundas E and Kingston Rd Victoria Park Bicycle Station Opening.

May 31st. 10am. Celebrate the opening of Toronto’s second Bicycle Station. Victoria Park Subway station.

Toronto.ca/cycling/bicycle-station Cycle and Celebrate the West Toronto Rail Path. June 16th. 1-4pm. Bike ride, exhibitors, music, bike rodeo and much more! www. bikeunion.to/partnership. West Toronto Railpath (at Wallace) Bike Month Wrap Party. June 28th. 7pm. Join Bike Month presenters, sponsors and event organizers to celebrate the end of Bike Month 2012! bikeunion.to/bikemonth Location TBA

Bike to York Day. Ride to York University. May 28.

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ROSEDALE UNITED CHURCH Victoria Park Bicycle Station Opening.

Celebrate the opening of Toronto’s second Bicycle Station. May 31st. 10am. Toronto.ca/cycling/ bicycle-station VICTORIA PARK SUBWAY STATION Evergreen’s Annual Bike Month Pancake Breakfast. Free pancake breakfast and bicycle safety check. June 2. 8am-12pm. www.ebw.evergreen.ca EVERGREEN BRICKWORKS Cycle & Sole Community Rally for Safer Ontario Roads. Rally for more bike lanes and complete streets. June 2. 2-4pm. www.facebook. com/events/321814141201643/ VARIOUS LOCATIONS Bells on Danforth. Family-friendly bike ride along the Danforth and Bloor Street to Queen’s Park. June 2. 1:30-3pm. www.bellsondanforth.ca EAST LYNN PARK Bells on Yonge. Group bike ride along the Yonge Street corridor that converges with Bells on Bloor/ Danforth riders at Queen’s Park. June 2. 1-3pm. www.bellsonyonge.ca DUPLEX PARKETTE, YONGE ST. & LAWRENCE AVE Scarborough Southwest Bike Rodeo.

Participate in various bike rodeo activities. June 2.

10am-2pm. to35cycling.blogspot.ca.

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Urbane Cyclist 15th Anniversary. Member appreciation night with specials throughout the store.

June 7. 7-9pm. 416-979-9733.

URBANE CYCLIST, 180 JOHN ST. Central Commerce Collegiate 1 year anniversary of Bike Repair & Maintenance Course. Student assembly with performances, speakers & reception to follow. June 7. 10-11:30am.

416-393-0030.

CENTRAL COMMERCE COLLEGIATE, 570 SHAW ST. Tour de Forts. Bicycling is a unique and exciting way to view Toronto’s history. June 9. 1-2:30pm. 416-3926907ex.233, www.fortyork.ca OLD MILL SUBWAY STATION

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Evergreen/Toronto Cyclists Union - Ride the Ravines Charity Bike Ride. A chance for all cyclists to experience Toronto’s ravines like never before. June 17. 9am-4pm. ebw.evergreen.ca/whats-on/specialevents/ride-the-ravines EVERGREEN BRICK WORKS Cycle for Sight. Fundraiser for the Foundation Fighting Blindness, Canada’s leading vision research charity. June 23. 8am-7pm. www.cycleforsight.ca 416-360-4200 ext 230. DOWNSVIEW TTC PARKING LOT MEC Bikefest 2012. June 23. Workshops, activities & all things biking for cyclists of all skill levels.

11am-6pm. 416-340-2667, blog.mec.ca/events/mecBikefest/mec-bikefest-toronto/ DISTILLERY DISTRICT

BMX Park Opening Ceremony. A fun filled BMX festival for the whole family. June 9. 10am-4pm. 416392-0742.

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South North York Bicycle Ride. Ride North York from Eglinton West Subway Station to Yorkdale Station. June 24. 1-3pm. 416-781-3848.

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Community Bicycle Clinic & Used Bike Sale.

Free bicycle tune-up and fundraiser for the Central Commerce Collegiate cycling program June 9.

10am-2pm. 416-393-0030.

CENTRAL COMMERCE COLLEGIATE, 570 SHAW ST.

Bike Month Wrap Party. Join Bike Month presenters, sponsors and event organizers to celebrate the end of Bike Month 2012! June 28th.

7pm. bikeunion.to/bikemonth LOCATION TBA

2012 Crothers Woods Trail Maintenance Days. Professional trail building staff from IMBA Canada will provide training and equipment. June 9 & Oct. 13.

10am-4pm. www.toronto.ca/trails 27 REDWAY RD (LOBLAWS TRAILHEAD)

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Finch Hydro Trail Corridor Ribbon Cutting and Ride. Come celebrate the Hydro Corridor trails with a ride and ribbon cutting. June 10th. 1pm. www.toronto.ca/cycling/network/multiuse-trails.htm LOCATION TBA Ride for Jarvis. Family friendly ride on Jarvis Street from Allan Gardens to City Hall. June 13. 6-7pm. bikeunion.to 416-644-7188.

ALLAN GARDENS Core Strength for Cyclists. Tips on how to strengthen the ‘core’ including demonstration exercises. June 13. 6-7pm. www.wholeself.ca.

BICYCLES @ ST. CLAIR, 625 ST CLAIR AV W Friday Night Ice Cream Ride. Enjoy some ice cream and taste of Little Italy festival on this bike ride.

June 15, 2012. 6:30pm. 416-691-9415, www.tbn.ca MEET AT BRIDGEPOINT HEALTH. Scarborough Corridor Trail Ride. Come celebrate the Hydro Corridor trails with a ride. June 16th. Time TBA. www.toronto.ca/cycling/network/ multi-use-trails.htm LOCATION TBA Cycle and Celebrate the West Toronto Rail Path. Bike ride, exhibitors, music, bike rodeo and much more! June 16th. 1-4pm. www.bikeunion.to/ partnership WEST TORONTO RAILPATH (AT WALLACE) Eco-Wheels Show.

Check out the latest in eco-friendly Transportation, workshops & more.

416-420-6906, June 16-17. 10am-5pm. www. eco-wheelsshow.com THE HISTORIC DISTILLERY DISTRICT

Becel Heart & Stroke Ride for Heart. Ride the DVP and Gardiner Expy to raise funds for heart and stroke research. June 3. 6am.

(416)486-RIDE, www.rideforheart.ca Hart House Bike Month Breakfast.

Enjoy free pancakes for bicycle commuters at the annual event. First come first served. June 6th.

7:30-9am. www. harthouse.ca 7 HART HOUSE CIRCLE

Day of Delight. Special 10th anniversary celebration of love, courtship and desire.

June 17. clayandpapertheatre.org DUFFERIN GROVE PARK

Bike-In Movie Night. Bikethemed movies at The Pavilions in the Don Valley. June 29.

7-12pm. ebw.evergreen.ca EVERGREEN BRICK WORKS

2012 Neighbours’ Night Out Thorncliffe. An occasion for residents and friends to get together and enjoy a summer day and evening together. July 8. 12-8pm. gkettel@gmail.com OVERLEA BOULEVARD AND THORNCLIFFE PARK DRIVE EAST Great Waterfront Trail Adventure 2012. Annual cycling holiday along the 720 km Waterfront Trail.

July 14-16. www.waterfronttrail.org/gwta_web/ VARIOUS LOCATIONS Discover Ward 37 Ride. A leisurely ride along the quite streets of Scarborough. August 15. 6-8pm. 416288-0293, lucy.perri@hotmail.com THOMPSON PARK Bikes and Books-Bike Repair for the Novice.

Learn about basic bike maintenance, bike safety & security. 416-393-7671.

VARIOUS LIBRARY BRANCHES Toronto Bicycle Network Bike Month Bike Rides 2012. Join the TBN for a series of bike rides throughout the month of June. www.tbn.ca Heritage Rides. Heritage Rides across the city that visit sites of historical interest by bicycle. Various dates. www.velo-city.org/toronto/heritage-rides/ VARIOUS LOCATIONS Urbane Cyclist Evening Workshop on Bike Care. The basics of owning a bicycle will be covered.

Wednesdays in June. 7-9pm. Registration is $10.

416-979-9733.

URBANE CYCLIST, 180 JOHN ST. Thursday Night Rides Hosted by Ward 29 Bikes. A leisurely group bike ride from East York to destinations within easy cycling distance. Every Thursday in June. 6:15-8pm. 29bikes.ca/. info@29bikes.ca.

EAST YORK COMMUNITY CENTRE 32 Spokes at the Farmer’s Market. Simple bike repairs, bike maps and info and advice on all things Bike. First Thursday of each month. 3-7pm. ward32@bikeunion.to EAST LYNN FARMER’S MARKET Critical Mass Ride. Ride through downtown Toronto Streets. Last Friday of every month. 6:30pm.

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The curb lanes travelled by cyclists are the first to go bad, making navigation an ass-busting adventure even if there are no other obstacles to avoid, like road kill, sandwich boards or shards of glass from the latest car accident.

It's obvious to cyclists, but everyone should know that bikes are more affected by broken pavement and poor weather than cars. Potholes easy for autos to roll over become rim-breakers, and the jolts can twist wrists off handlebars and cause riders to lose control. Catch basins wreaking havoc on bike tires have mostly been replaced, but crews don’t always put the new grates back in place properly when they finish a job. The bigger danger, though, are the seams road crews like to fill with a bead of asphalt. Catch your tire in one of those on a hot day and it’s like riding on rails.

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Remember Jenna Morrison. Six months after the pregnant mother was killed by a truck at Dundas West and Sterling, meaningful changes have yet to be made to improve safety at the high-risk intersection.

There’s still no signage directing cyclists spilling into the intersection from the Railpath to the bike lane heading toward the core on the other side of the busy road. Activists painted lines on the pavement after Morrison's death, but those were soon erased, presumably by city staff.

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It’s not really a war If the casualtIes are only on one sIde

there is no “war on the car.” war implies a fair fight. The conflict between bikes and cars is more like a skirmish between a weak civilian militia and a military giant. The giant has heavy artillery, while the militia is armed only with rocks and a whole lot of pent-up anger.

I’ve been an April-to-November cyclist for 10 years. I always ride defensively. I keep a full door-length between parked cars and myself. I wear a helmet. I can’t bring myself to wear that crossing-guard vest thingy at night, but I’ve got back and front lights. I do all this because I am mere flesh on a titanium frame, and a car is steel with a fossil-fuelled engine. If a bike battles a car, the car always wins. Always.

But these battles can be avoided.

Motorists, I ask you: why do some of you oppose improving bike infrastructure? Don’t you want us out of your way? Wouldn’t you prefer that a chunk of concrete separate us? Sure, you’ll lose a lane of traffic, but you won’t have to worry about killing someone.

And if we weren’t riding bikes, we’d be in cars, further clogging your roads. Or we’d be in buses to which you’d have to yield. Or on foot, pounding on the hood of your car, aggressively letting you know, “I’m walkin’ here!”

I freely admit that the two-wheeled are not always perfect. On behalf of all Toronto cyclists, I apologize for the

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terrible things we do. That last-minute left-hand turn from the righthand lane was a bad decision. We should have stopped at that stop sign.

We should not have darted out in front of you, and after you rightfully yelled at us for it, we should have chosen a different finger to give you.

Motorists, we cyclists can be awful people to share your roads with, but I think we subconsciously do some of those terrible things to gain just a little bit of ground on streets where we have so little.

Our own mayor calls us a “pain in the ass,” and bike lanes are nothing more than slivers of road delineated by white paint that morons often used as idling zones. They’re so poorly maintained, riding along one can feel like it’s getting you pregnant.

(I’m lookin’ at you, Sherbourne).

Throwing around the word “war” makes for good rhetoric on both sides, but the sad irony is that people are actually dying, and it’s not a war if the casualties are almost exclusively on one side. You don’t see too many white ghost cars marking the spot where a motorist was slain by a cyclist.

I have many friends who believe in the cyclist cause. They want to join our fight but will only help by supporting bike-friendly candidates and tweeting angry bursts at Mayor Ford because they’re too afraid of injury or death to actually mount a bike and take up some space on the road.

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Biking scares me, too. Car doors open too quickly, and streetcar tracks are like slippery little threads. I hate being honked at simply for being there, and I have visions of flying over my handlebars and knocking all my teeth out every time I swerve through one of Toronto’s many archipelagos of potholes. But for now, the pros greatly outweigh the cons. I love that I’m fit. I love that I can turn down any street on a whim and discover a new Toronto treasure. I love that being on my bike always makes me feel like I’m nine years old.

Yet I won’t bike forever if something doesn’t change. Eventually, I will have children and will need to take them places, and I will not have my children separated from traffic only by the canvas of their chariot and a line of paint.

I very much want my children to live in a city where everybody can cycle safely, but if the infrastructure doesn’t improve, I won’t be willing to take the risks.

This isn’t an eons-old battle over ancestral lands; it’s a tussle over tar.

There will be more lives lost while Toronto’s council insults its citizens by refusing to accept the natural evolution of a modern and viable city.

This isn’t a war that needs mediation; it’s a city that needs separated bike lanes. If we can just make that happen soon, everybody wins.

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there are too few bike lanes in this city, and too much danger in using the ones we have.

You don’t have to be Mike Layton to see that.

It feels like Toronto is using one of those stationary bikes everyone used in the 80s. How do we get the wheels on the ground?

I arrived at an answer the other night when I pulled up to a dinner party on my bicycle. My friends peppered me with insults: Would I like some crunchy granola for dinner? Had I stopped shaving my legs and armpits? Was I a full-fledged Maoist?

It dawned on me then that either my friends are a bunch of scumbags or cycling in Toronto has become too associated with left-wing politics. I think it’s a little bit of both.

If we’re going to get anywhere on two wheels, we need to ditch the politics of bicycles.

These are the politics Mayor Rob Ford and his deputy, Doug Holyday, thrive in. They’ve succeeded in branding riders as unsavoury radicals, the new squeegee kids, anarchists.

Their War on Cars was set up to divide the city and make bikers look like a minority, a protest bloc.

Many cyclists revel in this definition. They pretend they’re the second coming of Nelson Mandela, righteously banging on the hoods of transgressing cars and screaming at pedestrians who step into a bike lane.

This is how Holyday wants them to behave.

I, too, played this role. I went to City Hall wearing my bike helmet to protest the castration of the Jarvis lanes. I hollered at cabs and

bike lane obstacles. I wrote to the mayor. I tried my best to engage in the political process.

But why am I wasting my time? Instead of trying to change politics, where everyone’s staked their ground, I’m going to focus instead on more fertile soil – attracting more cyclists to the roads for generations to come.

Rather than write to Holyday, I’m writing to Skrillex, the dubstep DJ young people idolize, to ask him to add a bicycle to his live show.

Then I’m going to tweet to the makers of The Hunger Games, the book/movie series tweens are incessantly reading/watching, to request a bike sequence in the next instalment.

After that I’ll donate my old bike to a charity.

Teach all the neighbourhood children to ride.

Write poems and rap songs about biking. Get a neck tattoo of a bike chain. Change my middle name to Bicycle.

Whatever I can to promote inclusion, to get people riding bikes.

Making cycling a political choice deters riders, but with bike thieves, potholes, streetcar tracks and non-existent lanes, Toronto has enough reasons not to ride a bike.

If we remove the politics and the right-left antagonism over cycling, it becomes a more welcoming endeavour. And the best way to get better bike lanes is to make pedalling to work or school every day the norm.

When the entire city is riding bikes, the only left and right are the turns.

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By ANDREW SARDONE

WANNA BUY A BIKE? Should you buy used or new? Road bike, commuter or cruiser? Splurge or save? We’ve done some of the legwork for you by sourcing cycles at every price point and asking local pedal pushers what to look for at your neighbourhood bike shop.

THE STYLISH BIKE

Keeping yourself and your cycle safe on the mean streets of Toronto requires a heightened sense of awareness and the occasional bout of aggression, but there’s something to be said for the dandy bike rider pedalling elegantly through town in a perfectly pressed suit. For him and his female counterpart, Mikey Alun Bennington at Curbside Cycle has selected Bobbin’s Vintage Deluxe bike ($999, 412 Bloor West, 416-920-4933, curbside.on.ca).

“You should be able to wear whatever you want when you’re riding,” he says.

This style of bicycle also forces you to ride in an upright position, which can help with cycling-related neck and back pain.

THE BIG-BOX STORE BIKE

While we love our indie bicycle retailers, Canadian Tire does big business thanks to affordable options like this CCM Excelsior 700C Hybrid bike ($279.99, 65 Dundas West, 416-979-9056, and others, canadiantire.ca). Even inexpensive bikes need to be properly maintained, and Can Tire’s Janna Millious has some tips for keeping your cycle in tip-top shape.

“Always keep tires inflated according to the recommended pressure indicated on the side wall, and ensure that nuts, bolts and screws are tightened properly,” she says. “Also check for cracks or breaks in the frame, and visit an authorized bike tech each season to conduct a thorough service.”

THE COMMUTER BIKE

“Customers looking for a daily commuter bike should be willing to spend $600 to $700,” says Urbane Cyclist’s Kathleen Banville.

She picked Opus’s Classico ($552, 180 John, 416-979-9733, ucycle.com) as a good daily ride.

“Fenders are pretty much essential, because they keep you clean and save wear and tear on the bike. A rack offers an easy way to carry your stuff without breaking your back. Lights are also essential, and required by law.”

Lastly, don’t forget a top-quality U-lock from a brand like Kryptonite or Abus.

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Bateman’s Bicycle Company 913 Bathurst, 416-538-2453, batemansbikeco.com

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At TorontoVintageBikes.com, William Babba and Andrew Boey sell restored road bikes, cruisers and mixtes from brands like Bianchi, Miele and Raleigh priced from $100 to $500. Whether you shop from the forum on their website, a used bike shop or a yard sale, Babba recommends prioritizing the condition of the frame above all else. Bring along an Allen key and wrench to test screws and bolts, and watch out for rust.

“Vintage bikes are like antiques,” he says. “They cost more if they’re near-mint, so don’t pay oodles of money for a rusty bike.”

THE SPECIALIZED BIKE

Road bikes don’t get much better (or faster) than Cervelo’s new S5 Team ($3,800 to $6,000, Wheels of Bloor, 2007-B Bloor West, 416-762-9119, wheelsofbloor. com, cervelo.com), developed for Garmin-Barracuda, the pro team the company sponsors.

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Suzanne Carlsen’s Poka collection of bicycle accessories includes hot-air balloon-shaped head badges (to ornament your head tube), laser-cut chain guards and bags that do double duty as bike-mounted carriers and everyday purses. This Medium bag in recycled upholstery fabric with nickel-plated steel hardware and an organic cotton lining easily attaches to either your handlebars or rack. Find it this weekend (May 25 to 27) at the Pop a Wheelie pop-up shop (189 Walnut) along with other stylish cycling buys by Riyoko, Mariclaro, VeloColour and Ynot Cycle.

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THE REFURBISHED VINTAGE BIKE

When the owner of 27-year-old bike shop Bathurst Cycle was ready to retire last fall, he approached Bateman’s Bicycle Company down the street about taking over the business. Robert Bateman wasn’t initially sure he wanted to expand again; he’d just finished converting an 1886 alleyway barn into a new repair shop. But the close proximity of the Bathurst Cycle space eventually sealed the deal.

After another thorough reno, Bateman’s number two opened last December, stocked with a family-friendly selection of KHS and Norco commuters, pack-rat peddler-perfect Axiom baskets and kids’ bikes that can be traded in when junior outgrows his or her pint-sized wheels.

The original location at 29 Barton now focuses on repairs, accessories and refurbished vintage bicycles.

Bateman’s picks: KHS’s Urban Soul is one of the store’s most popular singlespeed commuters, $400; a Norco City Glide bike comes loaded with baskets and fenders, $505 to $870; a Masi cyclocross bike does double duty as a weekday work ride and weekend road bike, $905.

Look for: The official opening bash for Bateman’s Bathurst location on June 2 will feature bike giveaways, a backyard barbecue and more.

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Elizabeth Callaghan puts the personal touch into her Lilly’s Lunch meals and delivery.

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membership on her website and someone in Spandex cycling shorts will show up at your office once a week for the next month with a sandwich, small salad and a snacky dessert. Those outside her west-side delivery zone – Bathurst to University, Bloor to Dundas – pay a small fee.

Bargain or what?

“It’s a screaming deal, is what it is,” laughs Callaghan.

And a tasty one to boot. The Mancini might not look that big – a few slices of spicy salami, soppressata and mozzarella and some arugula on thin Italian bread – but gets an extra unexpected kick from a drizzle of honey infused with basil.

Her eponymous vegetarian wrap comes virtuously stuffed with health-conscious grated beets and carrots as well as roasted almonds in a tahini-inspired dressing. It should also be noted that the Steve – shaved

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lillyslunches.com) complete lunches for $10 per person, including tax within delivery zone. Open Monday to Friday 10 am to noon. closed Saturday, Sunday, holidays. unlicensed. rating: nnnn

elizabeth callaghan wants peo­ ple to think about how the food they eat gets to them.

“You see restaurant supply trucks and cars delivering pizza all the time, but you never see anyone on a bicycle,” says the self-described foodie and bike freak.

Combining her two passions, the 25-year-old budding entrepreneur created Lilly’s Lunches, a subscriber sandwich delivery service on two wheels – a bespoke Pashley cargo bike imported from the UK, to be exact.

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roast beef, sprouts and sugary caramelized onions on marble rye spread with nutty tomato butter – is named for the chef’s main squeeze and not yours truly.

Side salads conform to a similar minimum-volume/maximum flavour philosophy, particularly her cranberry and carrot coleslaw tossed with scallion. Desserts aim for comfort, either a slice of zucchini and banana bread studded with a whack o’ chocolate, or a chunky cranberry oatmeal chocolate chip cookie known as the Amazing Everything. Apt description that.

After only nine weeks in operation, business is booming. She’s up to 20 orders a day.

“I’m working on getting a second bike built, too” sighs Callaghan. “The way things are going, I’m going to need one.”

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Wrap ’n’ roll long before lilly’s and l’eat express came up with the concept of food delivery by bike, musician and community activist Sari Lightman had a similar brainstorm. Only her’s involved burritos. and so the Burrito Bike (416-948-6676, burritobike@ torontomail.com) was born in late 2010, a Friday-night delivery service that brings a vegetarian or vegan burrito to your front door for all of seven bucks. except when lightman’s on the road with local buzz band austra, that is.

“The Burrito Bike is currently on a six-week hiatus until i get back from our european tour,” says lightman on the phone in between gigs at German rock festivals. “But we’ll be back for the summer starting Friday, June 29.” and well worth the wait if you’re in the delivery area – Bloor south to King, roncesvalles east to Spadina. Pre-order by phone or email and someone will show up on a tricked-out 10-speed with a steamed burrito as late as 1 am. does the Burrito Bike ever go out of the zone?

“We’re willing to go further for group orders,” says lightman.

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L’Eat Express owner Tony Loschiavo (centre) has a wheel good time delivering food to your door.

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Lilly’s Lunches isn’t the only way to have a midday meal delivered by bike.

A spinoff of nearby Paese, L’Eat Express (410 Adelaide West, at Spadina, 416-601-9226, leatexpress. com, rating: NNN) has been offering free delivery with a minimum $75 order by specially designed tricycle since February. Maybe a bit

pricey if you only want a $6.50 grilled cheese, but for an office of six in the delivery zone – Queen West to Wellington, Portland to John – on those days when you’re stuck at work, it’s virtually a Value Meal.

A very good curried chicken salad studded with bits of apple comes sandwiched between slices of nutty Ace Bakery raisin

bread, while deli roast beef with caramelized onion and a kick of horseradish arrives on house-baked focaccia (both $7.50). One bite of a veggie pizza slice with a thick whole wheat crust ($3.50) explains why it always sells out.

Though L’Eat’s Cobb salad – roast turkey, crumbled bacon, avocado and hardboiled egg on mesclun laced with radicchio in blue

cheese dressing ($10.50) – sticks to tradition, a daily special of grilled strip loin ($12) could lose its overly aggressive Indo spice rub.

No faulting its sides of wild rice and lemony edamame salads, though. Regulars get them along with spicy rapini and roasted beets in cider vinaigrette as a terrific mix ’n’ match salad for two bucks per 100 grams.

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Join NOW Drinks columnist GRAHAM DUNCAN in conversation with Celebrity Chef

ROB RAINFORD Tuesday, June 5 at 6:30 pm

at St. Lawrence Market Kitchen | Doors at 6 pm 95 Front East, 2nd Floor Born in Jamaica and raised in Toronto, Rob Rainford grew up surrounded by the smells of sizzling grills.

Host of the wildly popular Food Network Show, License to Grill, (which aired in Canada, the USA, Austraila, Africa and Asia) he’s spent the last two years perfecting his signature style, The Rainford Method, unveiled in his new book, Born to Grill.

He’ll also be cooking up one of those recipes and sharing it with the audience!

Tickets are $15 (+HST) and available at NOW, 189 Church online at nowtoronto.com/nowtalks and at the door.

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Daily 7 am to 8 pm. Unlicensed. Access: barrier-free, no washrooms.✺

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3 CamPagnoLo

832 Dundas W, at Euclid, 416-3644785, campagnolotoronto.com.

Though owner/chef Craig Harding’s superhot trat may take its handle from the Italian word for country (that would explain the rustic Tuscan-inspired dishes on the carte), Campagnolo is also the name of a celebrated maker of high-end bicyle components. Coincidence?

“Not at all,” says Harding. “I knew calling it Campagnolo would give us cachet with cyclists. We’re even thinking of having an art installation of vintage Campy parts!”

Dinner Wednesday and Thursday 6 to 11 pm, Friday and Saturday 6 pm to midnight, Sunday 6 to 11 pm. Closed Monday, Tuesday, holidays. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms on same floor.✺

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free Pedestrian Sundays, the first of which takes place Sunday (May 27).

Lunch and brunch daily 11 am to 4 pm, dinner nightly from 4 pm till close.

Licensed. Access: barrier-free, washrooms in basement.✺

492 Queen W, at Portland, 416-9294900, lapalette.ca.

Not only is Shamez Amlani an avid pedalpusher (that’s his rickshaw parked out front of the quirky Queen West bistro), but he’s also one of the instigators of Kensington Market’s wildly successful car-

519 Parliament, at Winchester, 416968-9982, jetfuelcoffee.com.

Don’t show up on a clunker if you expect to impress the cycle- and caffeine-crazed crowd who make this Cabbagetown java joint their unofficial clubhouse. Buy a Jet Fuel jersey and help support Canada’s

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Jet Fuel attracts committed cyclists like the guy on the right.

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1163 Bloor W, at Pauline, 647-4303834.

Located in the original home of Bloor Cycle, this laid-back Bloordale resto-bar from the gang responsible for the Communist’s Daughter features ex-Swan chef Jane Ferriss’s comfort food card and one of the nabe’s best backyard patios.

Brunch Saturday and Sunday from 10 am to 3 pm, dinner nightly from 5 pm. Bar till close. Licensed. Access: barrier-free, washrooms in basement.✺

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60 Cecil, at Spadina, 416-834-8304.

Bike gets a flat on the way to work? If you’ve got an inner tube, this idiosyncratic coffee shack set in a coach house across from Grossman’s will lend you the tools to fix it.

Monday to Friday 8 am to 2am, Saturday and Sunday 10 am to 2 am. Licensed.

Access: barrier-free, short step to small washrooms.✺

6 CoPPi

3363 Yonge, at St Germain, 416-4844464, coppiristorante.com.

Named in honour of famed Italian cycling champ Fausto Coppi, this way-upscale north Toronto resto features bicyclethemed artwork as well as a wall of bike forks.

Lunch Monday to Friday noon to 2 pm, dinner Monday to Saturday 5:30 pm to close.

Closed Sunday, holidays. Licensed. Access: barrier-free, washrooms in basement.

7 CaPLanSky’S

356 College, at Brunswick, 416-5003852, caplansky.com.

Artisanal smoked meat sandwiches, slowcooked brisket dinners and chopped liver on Silverstein’s rye delivered by bike.

Free delivery daily 11 am to 10 pm with a minimum $20 order in the immediate area ($5 further afield).

8 Lahore tikka houSe

1365 Gerrard E, at Highfield, 416406-1668, lahoretikkahouse.com.

Sprawling family-friendly Pakistani restoslas-patio in Little India with a gaudily decorated pedi-cab out front ideal for photo opportunities.

Sunday to Thursday noon to 1 am, Friday and Saturday noon to 2 am. Unlicensed.

Access: barrier-free.✺

9 Corner Cafe @ the drake

1150 Queen W, at Beaconsfield, 416531-5042, thedrakehotel.ca.

Next time you’re having a latte at this casual west-side boîte, make sure to check out Zach Ridgeley’s clever installation piece fashioned from welded-together bike frames hanging from the ceiling.

Sunday to Thursday 8 am to 11 pm, Friday and Saturday 8 am to midnight. Licensed.

Access: barrier-free.✺

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Thursday, May 24

Benefits

edy. 8 pm. $30. Yuk Yuk’s Downtown, 224 Richmond W. rebecca@allisjourney.ca. tHe HuNger (West End Food Co-op) Immersive performance installation with artists Margaret Krawecka and Ulysses Castellanos.

To May 27. $20, adv $15. Pia Bouman School for Dance, 6 Noble. thehunger.me.

ONe NigHt staND: take a staND FOr CHilDreN’s meNtal HealtH (Hincks-Dellcrest Centre) Music by DJ Floh Black, swag bags and more. 7:30 pm. $100. Steam Whistle Brewing, 255 Bremner. hincksdellcrest.org.

revealiNg mOre tHaN viCtOria’s seCret

(sewing co-op for Haitian women in crisis) Underwear comedy performance, music and a silent auction of wearable underwear art.

6:30 pm. Donations of cash and underwear.

Toronto Women’s Bookstore, 73 Harbord. wecarewithunderwear.ca.

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Care OF tHe elDerly kNOWleDge exCHaNge

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.

maHJOuB seekiNg JustiCe: tHe tWelve year tOur Egyptian refugee Mohammad

Mahjoub talks about resisting 12 years of government repression, Guantanamo North and torture in Canada. 6:30 pm. Free. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. bit.ly/mahjoub.

ONtariO’s artisaN FOOD Talk and food sampling with Good Food Revolution founder Malcolm Jolley. 6:30 pm.

Free. Patagonia Toronto, 500 King

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Soc) 10 am-1 pm. Free. Scarborough Village Community Centre, 3600 Kingston. gardenontario.org. semi-FOrmal aND sNeakers gala (Global GROOVE Fdn) Shoe tagging by local graffiti artists, a photo booth, silent auction and more benefit women and children affected by HIV/ AIDS in Kenya. 7 pm. $45-$50. CSI Annex, 720 Bathurst. globalgroovefoundation.com.

WasHiNg tHe Dirty liNeN: WOmeN DOmestiC WOrkers’ uNiONs iN maHrasHtra, iNDia Presentation by professor Shruti Tambe. 5:30 pm. Free. OISE, rm 2-227, 252 Bloor W. cwse@utoronto.ca.

Events

WHere tHe mONey gOes, equity aND tHe muNiCipal BuDget Presentation by city

councillor Shelley Carroll. 6:30 pm. Free. Don Mills United Church, 126 O’Connor. 416425-4950.

Friday, May 25

Benefits

Shepherd Conservation Soc) Film screening and Q&A with director/producer Peter Brown. 6:15 pm. $10-$15. OISE Auditorium, 252 Bloor W. seashepherd.org/toronto. mOre tHaN Just a yarDage sale (Textile Museum) Sale of fine fabrics, beads, buttons, patterns and more. Today 11 am-6 pm; tomorrow 10 am-1 pm. Free. Textile Museum, 55 Centre. textilemuseum.ca.

rOCkiNg girls & tHuNDeriNg WOmeN

(Raging Asian Women Taiko Drummers) Screening of the film Girls Rock and live drumming. 7 pm. $15-$20 sliding scale. Projection Booth, 1035 Gerrard E. ragingasianwomen.ca.

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BODy, sOul & spirit expO Speakers, work-

shops and displays on the healing arts, antiaging, intuitive arts, natural products, ancient wisdom and more. To May 27. $12, pass $25. International Centre, 6900 Airport.

1-877-560-6830, bodysoulspiritexpo.com. rBOllyWOOD iN tHe square Movie screening, food and Bollywood-themed fun. 7 pm.

Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca.

Fair vOte CaNaDa Annual general meeting and convention, with keynote speakers Stephane Dion, Elizabeth May and Wayne Smith. Today 7 pm (Eggspectation, 220 Yonge), tomorrow 8:30 am-6 pm (Ted Rogers School of Management, 55 Dundas W). $20.

Pre-register lanickerson@b2b2c.ca.

14tH WOrlD CONgress ON qigONg & tCm

Educational event with acupuncture, qigong, tai chi, herbalists and more. To May 28. $30-$220. Hyatt Regency Hotel (370 King W), Ryerson Theatre (43 Gerrard E). modernhealer.ca/wcq.

FriDay NigHt live @ rOm Experience local live music acts and mix and mingle, with DJ Jay Sea. 6 pm. $9. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. rom. on.ca/fridays.

Development rehearsal for actors and writers. Free. May Robinson Auditorium, 20

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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.

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ions represent more than 60 countries with music, dance, food and more. $10-$12.

Throughout Mississauga. carrasauga.com.

May 25 to 27 suBtle teCHNOlOgies Festival of art and science with performances, workshops, films, exhibitions and more. Various venues. subtletechnologies.com.

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art OF tHe DaNFOrtH Multidisciplinary art displays, workshops, walking tours, music and dance. Free. Various venues and public spaces on Danforth between Greenwood and Woodbine. artofthedanforth.com.

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West Lodge. friendlyspike@primus.ca. gumBall 3000 rally Showcase of luxury supercars from the London to New York tour.

9 am-9 pm. Free. Cumberland, Bellair and Yorkville streets. gumball3000.com. iNterNatiONal tap DaNCe Day Tap performance and celebration. 6 pm. Free (donations accepted). Trinity Bellwoods Park, Queen and Strachan. internationaldanceday@gmail.com.

marxism 2012: glOBal Crisis, glOBal resistaNCe Three-day conference with more than 30 talks and panels. To May 27.

Starts 7 pm. $50-$100. Ryerson U Student Centre, 55 Gould. Pre-register marxism2012.com.

a multimeDia iNtrODuCtiON tO tHe COmmuNist maNiFestO Rebel Films

screening and discussion with Socialist Action’s Barry Weisleder. 7 pm. $4. OISE, rm 2-212, 252 Bloor W. 416-535-8779. tHe OutlaW stripper’s Ball Skin Tight Outta Sight rebel burlesque with guests Mahogany Storm and others. 9:30 pm. $25, adv $20. Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen W. outlawstrippersball2012.eventbrite.com. slutWalk tOrONtO 2012 Walk to fight for the right to live free of violence, victim blaming and sex shaming. 5 pm. Free. Nathan Phillips Square, Queen and Bay. slutwalktoronto.com.

CONtaCt Photography exhibitions, 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

CaFe sCieNtiFique Discussion on whether the controversy over vaccines is endangering public health. 4 pm. Free. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. cafescientifique.ca. rDesiFest South Asian concerts, artisans, a food market and kids’ activities. Noon. Free.

Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca.

DOOrs OpeN tOrONtO Self-guided architectural tours of more than 150 buildings across the city, many with special photo exhibits and talks. Today and tomorrow. Free.

See website for venues and times. toronto. ca/doorsopen. reast asiaN HOmelaNDs Festival Chinese folk tales, storytelling, taiko drumming, food and more. 11 am-3 pm. Free. Lillian H Smith Library, 239 College. 416-393-7746. emeralD asH BOrer: appetite FOr De-

traNs-x New Adventures in Sound Art symposium on transmittion art. To May 27. $70, stu $40. NAISA Space, Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. Pre-register naisa.ca/eshops/ naisareg.html. treatiNg yOurselF expO Medical marijuana, hemp and alternative medicine expo with lectures, vendors, a vapour lounge and more.

To May 27, Fri-Sat 10 am-8 pm, Sun 10 am-6 pm. $20, 3-day pass $50. Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front W. treatingyourself.com.

struCtiON LEAF tree tour. 11 am. Free.

Guildwood Park entrance, 201 Guildwood. yourleaf.org. riraNiaN Heritage Day Iranian music and dance, Persian art, documentary screenings, kids’ activities and more. 10 am-5 pm. $12, stu/srs $10.50, child $8. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000. it starts WitH tHe DJ Music industry conference, featuring a live interview with WuTang member Raekwon and rapper JD Era plus panels. 1-5 pm. $40. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. stylusgroup.ca. keys tO WONDerFul AutoShare unveils its new street signs with demos by street artists inlcuding Mangopeeler and Deadboy. 11 am-5 pm. Free (create your own sign). NE corner of Queen and Fennings. autoshare.com. musiC rOW NOrtH NSAI Toronto music seminar on songwriting with Lisa Brokop and others. 9:30 am-5 pm. $50. Trebas Instit, 2340 Dundas W. Pre-register nsaitoronto.com. rpHOtO Hike Family nature walk to photograph the signs of spring. 1 pm. $2. High Park Nature Centre, 440 Parkside. highparknaturecentre.com.

Saturday, May 26

queer sisters: BereNiCe aBBOtt aND elsa vON Freytag-lOriNgHOveN Multimedia

iNsiDe Out lgBt Film aND viDeO Festival Celebrating queer culture on film with screenings, panels, performances, parties and more. $8-$22. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 Front W. insideout.ca.

To May 27

paNameriCaN rOutes/rutas paNameriCaNas Aluna Theatre presents plays for

human rights and a conference. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. alunatheatre.ca.

To May 27

Benefits

Cat resCue BOWl-atHON (Toronto Cat Res-

cue) Team bowling games. 12:30 pm. Min donations $60/player. Playtime Bowl, 33 Samor. savecatsfromthegutter.com. rFrieNDs FOr liFe WalkatHON (Ontario SPCA) 3K fundraising walk along Martin Goodman trail, with post-walk music and dog contests. 9 am. Pledges. Coronation Park, Lake Shore at Strachan. ospcawalk.ca. tOrONtO iNtl musiC summit (MusicCounts) Ideas exchange, with Director X, EMI’s Vered Koren and Warner’s Dale Kotyk, followed by concert at the Hard Rock Cafe (5 pm). 10 am-3 pm. $15-$50. Fairmont Royal York, 100 Front W. torontoims.com. rpaWs ON tHe sHOre (Animal Angel Rescue Fdn) Group dog walk. Noon. Donation.

Marie Curtis Park, Lake Shore and Browns Line. pawsontheshore@hotmail.com. plaNt sale (Scarborough Garden & Historical

dance and poetry performance. 5 pm. Free.

Ryerson U MLC Research Centre, 111 Gerrard E. Pre-register admin@mlc.ryerson.ca. sailiNg CluB OpeN HOuse Westwood Sailing Club offers grounds tours and info on learning how to sail albacores, lasers and catamarans. Today and tomorrow 1-4 pm.

Free. 12 Regatta (just E of Cherry Beach). membership@westwoodsailing.ca. spaDiNa’s plaNt sale Sale of plants from the historic gardens. 9 am. Free. Spadina Museum, 285 Spadina Rd. 416-392-6910. rspriNg BirD Festival Live birds and reptiles, bird box-building, photography and more. 8 am-1 pm. Free. Colonel Samuel Smith Park, 3131 Lake Shore Blvd W. greentoronto@toronto.ca. spriNg Fest & OpeN HOuse Games, a barbecue, beer garden and more. 11 am-4 pm.

Free. German International School Toronto, 585 Cranbrooke. 416-922-6413.

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Climax includes performances by Kreesha Turner, Jeffrey Straker, Young Empires and others. Sunday (May 27), 3 pm. $10 min donation.

Berkeley Church, 315 Queen East. lasereagles.com.

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Benefits

Climax (PFLAG/Laser Eagles Art Guild) Rally

to end homophobia, with performances by Kreesha Turner, Young Empires, Jeffery Straker, Miss Conception and others. 3-7 pm. $10 min donation. Berkeley Church, 315 Queen E. info@proudfm.com. rGreat StrideS Walk (Cystic Fibrosis Canada) Fundraising family fun walk. 8 am-2 pm.

Min $25 in pledges. Toronto Zoo, Meadowvale and Sheppard. cysticfibrosis.ca/greatstrides.

HonourinG Wendy BaBCoCk (Eva’s Initiatives) Performances, live painting, a DJ and an auction honour the life of the late sex-worker advocate. 7:30 pm. $10 sliding scale. Goodhandy’s, 120 Church. evasinitiatives.com. leaSHeS By tHe lake (Etobicoke Humane Soc) Dog walk-a-thon by the lake, dog demonstrations, exhibitors and more. Noon. Pledges.

Amos Waites Park, 2445 Lake Shore W. 416249-6100. toronto taSte (Second Harvest) The city’s best culinary talent prepares fare to help feed the hungry. 6:30 pm. $250. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Pk. torontotaste.ca. rWalk For doG GuideS (Lions Fdn of Canada Dog Guides) Help raise funds for working dogs. 11 am. Donation. PawsWay, 245 Queens Quay W. pawsway.ca.

Events

rdoWnSvieW nature ConneCtion Indoor/

outdoor program based on nature-themed topics. 2 pm. Free. Downsview Park, 35 Carl Hall. downsviewpark.ca. ediBle Weed Walk Walk to identify edible weeds and weed-tasting. 10 am. $45, adv $35, stu $25. Ben Nobleman Park (across from Eglinton West subway). Pre-register communityorchard.ca.

Grenadier HeiGHtS: rennie GardenS, PondS and SeedS Lost rivers walk. 6:45 pm.

Free. High Park entrance, Bloor and High Park. 416-593-2656. tHe immortal Body Science and art inspired by cell technologies, medical research and the body, with Austrian filmmaker Robert Styblo, is part of the Subtle Technologies Festival. 11 am-4 pm. $20-$40, half day $10-$20. Ryerson University. Pre-register eepurl.com/bhoap.

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CareerS in GloBal HealtH Networking session with speakers including Yodit Tsegaye of the Stephen Lewis Fdn. 6 pm. Free. Medical Sciences Bldg Cafeteria, 1 King’s College Circle. Pre-register gsaghuoft@gmail.com. a Convenient Hatred Jewish history prof Derek Penslar talks about the impact of Phyllis Goldstein’s book A Convenient Hatred: The History Of Antisemitism. 7:30 pm. Free. Timothy Eaton Church, 230 St Clair W. temc.ca.

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tHe Front PaGe: Women in tHe PolitiCal SPHere Women in Toronto Politics panel disCouncillor Shelley Carroll deconstructs the city budget from the equity point of view.

To what extent do city expenditures help or hurt the attempt to create fairness across our communities? Here’s an evaluation by a pol who’s watched every dollar. Where The Money Goes – Equity And The Municipal Budget features Councillor Shelley Carroll,

budget chief under David Miller.

Carroll demystifies the way city revenues work and describes how individuals can bring about change.

Tonight (Thursday, May 24), 6:30 pm.

Free. Don Mills United Church, 126 O’Connor. 416-425-4950.

The LGBT film festival wraps with a party and awards presentation, with entertainment by DJ Cozmic Cat. 10 pm. $10. Hotel Ocho, 195 Spadina. insideout.ca.

wine tasting and a silent auction. 6:30 pm. $150. Lolita’s Lust, 513 Danforth. rachelschildrentoronto.com.

rPedeStrian Sunday: SPrinG romanCe

art Battle 29 Live competitive painting, audience voting and an auction. 7:30 pm. $15.

Great Hall, 1087 Queen W. artbattleto.com.

ColleCtinG PHotoGraPHy 101 artVentures talk by gallery owner Stephen Bulger. 6:30 pm. $30. Stephen Bulger, 1026 Queen W. Preregister info@artventures.com.

Music and cultural performances, a maypole, art market, love letter-writing, street food and more on pedestrian-only streets in the Market. Noon-7 pm. Free. Kensington Market (College and Augusta). pskensington.ca.

PolitiCal WritinG 101 Workshop with local activist and writer Clare O’Connnor. 10 am or 3 pm. Sugg $20, unwaged $10. U of T St George campus. Register toolsforchange.net.

Sunday SCene: amiSH morrell The C Magazine editor leads a guided tour of the current exhibitions. 2 pm. Free. Power Plant, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949.

We’ve Got a CruSH on you Mixer for people who want to make sex-positive, like-minded friends. 7 pm. $5. The Central, 603 Markham. id-tap-that.com.

Monday, May 28

Events

medina tHeatre enSemBle Audition for a staged reading of Norm Foster’s Opening Night. 7:30 pm. Free (must RSVP). Temple Sinai, 210 Wilson. 416-638-2716. oPen draWinG SeSSion Life drawing from the model. 6:30 pm. $9. Ralph Thornton Centre, 765 Queen E. donriverdwgsessions@ hotmail.com.

PaPer dollS Trans film screening and discussion on the documentary about a group of trans migrant workers from the Phillipines.

6:30 pm. Free. William Doo Auditorium, 45 Willcocks. transfilmseries@gmail.com.

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Human Rights Participatory Growth and Poverty Eradication Program conference. 9 am4:30 pm. $20. York U McLaughlin College, 4700 Keele. hrpgp@yorku.ca. toronto eCo HouSinG Information session on owning a home in a green community. 6 pm. Free. Friends House, 60 Lowther. Preregister torontoecohousingcommunity.ca.

Tuesday, May 29

Events

CuBa – WHat’S GoinG on and WHere iS it GoinG? Talk by professor Dan Ondrack. 1 pm.

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

FaCt, FiCtion and FaitH: a PaleStinian reSPonSe to tHe oCCuPation Nora Carmi talks

about the 60 Minutes segment that examined the plight of Palestinian Christians in the Holy Land. 7 pm. Free. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org.

Home BuyerS inFormation niGHt Learn how to avoid serious home-buying mistakes.

6:30 pm. Free. Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina.

416-924-6211. noW talkS: ted reader The chef talks about his life and work with NOW Drinks columnist Graham Duncan. 6:30 pm. $15, available at NOW Magazine (189 Church), online or at the door. St Lawrence Market Kitchen, 95 Front E. nowtoronto.com/nowtalks.

PlaCe makinG SolutionS in tHe Food SyStem FoodShare director Debbie Field talks

about Brazil’s revolutionary food programs. 7 pm. Free. FoodShare, 90 Croatia. 416-3636441 ext 282.

treaSon and PaSSion: riverdale durinG tHe War oF 1812 Talk by research librarian

Guylaine Petrin. 7 pm. $5. St Matthew’s Clubhouse, Riverdale Park E, just N of Bridgepoint Health. riverdalehistoricalsociety.com.

WHat Will keeP our CommunitieS SaFe?

Town hall on policing, youth programs, safe injection sites and community action, with Anna Willats and others. 7 pm. Free. Ralph Thornton Centre, 765 Queen E. 416-392-6810.

Wednesday, May 30

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HelP Fuel tranSPortation ProGreSS in tHe Gta (Pembina Instit) Fundraising evening.

Winemaker’S dinner (family of murdered

5:30 pm. $37. The Foundery, 376 Bathurst.

California woman Rachel Winkler) Dinner,

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cussion on online/offline discourse and its influence on campaigns, governance and citizens. 6:30 pm. Free. CSI Annex, 720 Bathurst.

Pre-register witopoli.com/register. rom & itS neiGHBourS Guided ROM walk. 6 pm. Free. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park, Bloor doors. 416-586-8000, rom.on.ca.

SCarBorouGH and 1812 Bicentennial talk by Richard Schofield. 7 pm. Free. Bendale Library, 1515 Danforth Rd. torontopubliclibrary.ca. tHat’S So 90S All-90s trivia night. Free.

W.A.Y.L.A. Bar, 996 Queen E. 416-901-5570.

toronto erotiCa WriterS and readerS meetuP Readings, an open mic and conversa-

tion. 7 pm. $5. Tequila Bookworm, 512 Queen W. 416-504-7335. tWo WeddinGS and one oCCuPation Film screening and talk by filmmaker b.h. Yael. 7 pm. $5. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org.

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Thursday, May 31

Benefits

raCe For kidS kiCk-oFF (Boys and Girls Clubs

of Canada) Corporate team challenge national kick-off event. 5 pm. Pledges. Yonge-Dundas Square. raceforkids.ca.

Events

ForeSt ConFliCtS Talk on the history, actors

and power wielded in forest conflicts by Ivey Fdn program director Tim Gray. 4 pm. $10.

Sustainability Network, 215 Spadina. Preregister sustainabilitynetwork.ca. tHe Great Food deBate Talk on the fine balance between local, organic and sustainable food by food advocate Brad Long. 6:30 pm.

Free. Patagonia Toronto, 500 King W. Preregister 416-861-1102.

tHe meetinG PlaCe: trutH and reConCiliation toronto 2012 Conference on the inter-

generational impacts of the Indian residential school systems on First Nation peoples, with speakers including AFN national chief Shawn Atleo. To Jun 2. $25-$50. Sheraton Centre, 123 Queen W. Pre-register councilfire.ca.

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By KEVIN RITCHIE

KATHRYN GAITENS

It may look easy from the outside, but making sure TV and radio shows and online campaigns snag mass followings requires a symphony of talents and abilities — from story editing to camera work, and from designing, programming and researching to hosting and anchoring. If you long to make a living behind the scenes in media — or in the spotlight — check out these three people who have launched careers in communications.

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DEREK ESPOSITO

Editor, Top Chef Canada

I

do post-production, mostly for television. My most recent gig has been as picture editor for Top Chef Canada. I get all the footage and work with a writer and story editor to pick the camera shots that tell the story.

I’ve always had a passion for storytelling. At a young age I made short films and edited them with two VCRs hooked up to a tape deck. I wanted to be a filmmaker, but didn’t get into film school, so I studied broadcasting at Seneca.

School provided me with basic knowledge and showed me how a TV show is produced in a studio. I was 19 when I interned as a producer’s assistant at CBC. Now, as an editor, knowing a bit about what everyone does helps.

The amount of footage generated on any reality show is a challenge. You have to know ahead of time what shots you’re going to use and pre-map everything in your head. There are seven cameras running for 12 hours daily, so at the end of each day there’s a ton of footage to pare down to 10 entertaining minutes.

Editors are loners. You’re left by yourself in a room for up to 10 hours a day, and you may not see anybody for an entire week if you’re on a show that’s really intense. You have to be confident, but also self-motivated, because you’re given a deadline and have to manage your own time.

If you want to succeed, you have to be willing to work on the worst projects ever. I’ve done bar mitzvahs and a nun’s jubilee – anything to get a portfolio going. You need to know Avid and Final Cut Pro; nobody is going to look at you if you don’t.

I used to spend hours at home after school and on weekends editing, researching software and techniques and watching TV shows to see how many frames they used per edit so I could recreate it. It’s one thing to know what you want, but being able to do it is the big part of editing. You have to be willing to pay your dues and have a passion to work on your craft at home.

Shemroy ParkinSon Swing announcer/ producer, KISS 92.5

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’m on air as an announcer from 4 to 8 pm on Saturdays and 6 to 11 pm Sundays; I also fill in during the week when the other announcers are away. And I produce the national countdown radio show Hits Storm, which airs in Toronto, Ottawa and Edmonton.

Originally, I set my sights on a fouryear degree in criminal justice from Ryerson. I’d always loved broadcasting, but didn’t know how to get into the field until I found Humber College’s radio broadcasting program. I graduated last August.

Growing up, I liked to imitate Toronto Raptors announcer Chuck Swirsky doing basketball games, as well as various news people. I wanted to do news or sports, and now I’m doing neither: I do music.

I sang from a young age, at church,

weddings and funerals, and I still sing at parties. In my final year of high school I got a chance to do the public address announcing for the basketball team. That fulfilled a dream.

The Humber teachers and their contacts were really helpful in getting my foot in the door – and it really is all about that in this industry. Humber has its own music radio station, 96.9, so we had onair shifts and operated the board by ourselves. I fell in love with the idea of being a music jock.

As an announcer, you’re on the front line; you’re the first person listeners interact with when they’re upset. I’ve had a few that haven’t been so nice when they didn’t win a prize. I’ve been blasted on Facebook and Twitter. Some pretty mean things have been said – it was all a little weird since I was new to the industry – but you take those things in stride.

Listeners really want to connect with the person behind the microphone, so you need to be approachable and positive. And you need to put aside other stresses in your life and recognize that you’re there to make others’ day a little brighter. It’s my job to entertain and make people feel happy when they turn on the radio.

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Maayan Cohen

Interactive producer, Spring Water Media

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run my own company and produce interactive work that varies from add-ons for documentaries and television shows to design and installations. And I’m working on my masters at OCAD in the digital future program.

I moved to Canada from Israel nine years ago hoping to study communications and did my undergrad at Ryerson in radio and television arts. It was a phenomenal four years, a real thrill, because the program was mind-opening for me and the opportunities were unique.

Being from Israel, I always knew the media have power – they are very focused on journalism there, because of the political situation. The field of communications is interesting if you want to make a difference in the world, and Ryerson opened my mind to ways of incorporating design and creating possibilities for people not only to observe your work, but also to participate in it.

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When I started there, they’d just introduced the digital stream, which is essentially an extension of radio and television. It completely changed my direction and kept me thinking and evolving.

It’s not about learning how to use software programs; it’s about being adaptable to changing technologies.

The introduction to so many things in such a short time and the opportunity to play with them in my own way were what prepared me for my job.

I worked on a project called Love Letters To The Future funded by Greenpeace. To raise awareness around the Copenhagen climate change conference in 2009, we developed a website where people could submit letters from all over the world, and the best ones were put in a time capsule that we buried in Copenhagen. You realize the power of this medium; you start with one plan and end up with something completely different.

Love Letters was developed in a year but produced in four months, so I had no life other than that project, which was amazing – I love the fast pace – but also really hard.

The best thing about my field is that it’s new and evolving, so there aren’t many rules. When you open your project to input from others, you can’t predict where things will go. That’s what I love most about working in interactive.

Where to study Compiled By Joanne Huffa

ALGONQUIN COLLEGE (Perth) Broadcasting – television; broadcasting – radio; interactive multimedia designer: $5,368/term. algonquincollege.ca CENTENNIAL COLLEGE (Toronto) Broadcasting and film; communications and media foundations: $3,544.16/year (including fees). centennialcollege.ca CHANG SCHOOL, RYERSON (Toronto) Introduction to social media: $199/10 hours. ryerson.ca CONESTOGA COLLEGE (Waterloo) Broadcast – radio; broadcast – television: $2,420/year. conestogac.on.ca CONFEDERATION COLLEGE (Thunder Bay) Broadcasting – television; $4,154/year. confederationc.on.ca FANSHAWE COLLEGE (London) Broadcasting – radio; broadcasting – television: $2,751.56/term. fanshawec.ca HUMBER COLLEGE (Toronto) Film and television production: $3,705.48/year (plus additional

costs); film and media production: $6,936.34/ year; radio (broadcasting): $3,665.48/year. humber.ca LOYALIST COLLEGE (Belleville) Broadcast engineering technology: $3,393/year. loyalistcollege.com MOHAWK COLLEGE (Hamilton) Broadcast – radio diploma; television and communications media advanced diploma: $3,476.03/year. mohawkcollege.ca NIAGARA COLLEGE (Welland) Broadcasting – radio, television and film: $4,708.44/year (plus fees). niagaracollege.ca OCAD U (Toronto) Graduate program in digital futures: $4,998.75. ocadu.ca RYERSON UNIVERSITY (Toronto) RTA School of Media: $6,300.09/year; image arts: film studies: $6,335.09. ryerson.ca SENECA COLLEGE/YORK UNIVERSITY (Toronto) Broadcasting – radio: $2,263.17; digital media arts: $2,337.67. senecac.on.ca SHERIDAN COLLEGE (Toronto) Media arts: $1,260/term (plus $2,000-$2,500 in materials); advanced television and film: $1,260/term (plus $2,000-$5,000 in materials). sheridancollege.ca

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by Rob Brezsny

Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 “My soul is a fire

that suffers if it doesn’t burn,” said Jean Prevost, a writer and hero of the French Resistance during World War II. “I need three or four cubic feet of new ideas every day, as a steamboat needs coal.” Your soul may not be quite as blazing as his, Aries, and you may normally be able to get along fine with just a few cubic inches of new ideas per day. But I expect that in the next three to four weeks, you will both need and yearn to generate Prevost-type levels of heat and light. Please make sure you’re getting a steady supply of the necessary fuel.

TAurus Apr 20 | May 20 Here’s a great question to pose on a regular basis during the next three weeks: “What’s the best use of my time right now?” Whenever you ask, be sure to answer with an open mind.

Don’t assume that the correct response is always, “working with white-hot intensity on churning out the masterpiece that will fulfill my dreams and cement my legacy.” On some occasions, the best use of your time may be doing the laundry or sitting quietly and doing nothing more than watching the world go by. Here’s a reminder from philosopher Jonathan Zap: “Meaning and purpose are not merely to be found in the glamorous, dramatic moments of life.”

GeMini May 21 | Jun 20 “Sometimes I

think and other times I am,” said French poet Paul Valéry. Most of us could say the same thing. From what I can tell, Gemini, you are now entering an intensely “I am” phase of your long-term cycle – a time

when it will be more important for you to exclaim “woohoo!” than to mutter “hmmm;” a time to tune in extra-strong to the nonverbal wisdom of your body and to the sudden flashes of your intuition; a time when you’ll generate more good fortune by getting gleefully lost in the curious mystery of the moment than by sitting back and trying to figure out what it all means.

CAnCer Jun 21 | Jul 22 Don’t pretend you

can’t see the darkness. Admit to its presence. Accept its reality. And then, dear Cancerian, walk nonchalantly away from it, refusing to fight it or be afraid of it. In other words, face up to the difficulty without becoming all tangled up in it.

Gaze into the abyss so as to educate yourself about its nature, but don’t get stuck there or become entranced by its supposedly hypnotic power. I think you’ll be amazed at how much safety and security you can generate for yourself simply by being an objective, poised observer free of melodramatic reactions.

Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 It’s okay with me if you

want to keep the lion as your symbolic animal, Leo. But I’d like to tell you why I’m proposing that you switch over to the tiger, at least for now. People who work with big cats say that lions tend to be obnoxious and grouchy, whereas tigers are more affable and easy to get along with.

And I think that in the coming weeks it’ll be important for you to be like the tiger.

During this time, you will have an enhanced power to cultivate friendships and influence people. Networking opportunities will be excellent. Your web of con-

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PETUNIA AND THE VIPERS Watch them play some old jug-music revival jams at the Cameron House. The band is known for genre- and culture-hopping, from Spanish ballads to French chansons.

05 | 24 nections should expand. By the way, even though lions are called kings of the jungle, tigers are generally bigger, more muscular and better fighters.

VirGo Aug 23 | sep 22 In 1977, the first

Apple computers were built in a garage that Steve Jobs’s father provided for his son and Steve Wozniak to work in. (You can see a photo of the holy shrine here: tinyurl.com/AppleGarage.) I suggest you think about setting up your own version of that magic place sometime soon: a basement, kitchen, garage, warehouse or corner of your bedroom that will be the spot where you fine-tune your master plan for the coming years – and maybe even where you begin working in earnest on a labour of love that will change everything for the better.

LibrA sep 23 | oct 22 I have a head’s-up for you, Libra. Do your best to avoid getting enmeshed in any sort of “he said/she said” controversy. (Of course it could be a “he said/he said” or “she said/she said” or “trans said/intersex said” brouhaha, too – you get the idea.) Gossip is not your friend in the week ahead. Trying to serve as a mediator is not your strong suit. Becoming embroiled in personal disputes is not your destiny. In my opinion, you should soar free of all the chatter and clatter. It’s time for you to seek out big pictures and vast perspectives. Where you belong is meditating on a mountaintop, flying in your dreams and charging up your psychic batteries in a sanctuary that’s both soothing and thrilling. sCorpio oct 23 | nov 21 In some Australian Aborigine cultures, a newborn infant gets two names from the tribal elders.

The first is the name everybody knows.

The second is sacred, and is kept secret.

Even the child isn’t told. Only when he or she comes of age and is initiated into adulthood is it revealed. I wish we had a tradition similar to this. It might be quite meaningful for you, because you’re currently navigating your way through a rite of passage that would make you eligible to receive your sacred, secret name. I suggest we begin a new custom: when you’ve completed your transformation, pick a new name for yourself and use it only when you’re conversing with your ancestors, your teachers or yourself.

sAGiTTArius nov 22 | Dec 21 Please raise your hand if you have ever sought out a romantic connection with someone mostly because of the way he or she looked. You shouldn’t feel bad if you have; it’s pretty common. But I hope you won’t

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indulge in this behaviour any time soon.

In the coming weeks, it’s crucial for you to base your decisions on deeper understandings – not just in regard to potential partners and lovers, but for everything. As you evaluate your options, don’t allow physical appearance and superficial attractiveness to be the dominant factors.

CApriCorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 The 21st flight of the 4.5-billion-pound Space Shuttle Discovery was supposed to happen on June 8, 1995. But about a week before its scheduled departure, workers discovered an unforeseen problem.

Northern Flicker woodpeckers had made a mess of the insulation on the outer fuel tank; they’d pecked a couple of hundred holes, some quite deep. To allow for necessary repairs, the launch was postponed for over a month. I’m choosing this scenario to serve as a useful metaphor for you, Capricorn. Regard it as your notice not to ignore a seemingly tiny adversary or trivial obstacle. Take that almost insignificant pest seriously.

AquArius Jan 20 | Feb 18 It’s official:

dancing increases your intelligence. So says a report in the New England Journal of Medicine. Unfortunately, research found that swimming, bicycling and playing golf are not at all effective in rewiring the brain’s neural pathways. Doing crossword puzzles is somewhat helpful, though, and so is reading books. But one of the single best things you can do to enhance your cognitive functioning is to move your body around in creative and coordinated rhythm with music. Lucky you: this is a phase of your astrological cycle when you’re likely to have more impulses and opportunities to dance. Take advantage! Get smarter. (More info: tinyurl.com/DanceSmart.)

pisCes Feb 19 | Mar 20 Your animal totem for the next phase of your astrological cycle is a creature called a Hero Shrew. Of all the mammals in the world, it has the strongest and heaviest spine proportionate to its size. This exceptional attribute makes the tiny animal so robust that a person could stand on it without causing serious harm. You will need to have a backbone like that in the coming weeks, Pisces. Luckily, the universe will be conspiring to help you. I expect to see you stand up to the full weight of the pressures coming to bear on you – and do it with exceptional charisma.

Homework: Write your ultimate personal ad. Address it to your current partner if you’re already paired. Share it with me at Freewillastrology.com.

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Rating: NNNN You could see the security staff momentarily looking panicked when Joel Plaskett’s fans started leaving their seats and crowding up front to dance, but it was quickly clear that Plaskett was in no danger of losing control of his audience. His mastery of the performer/audience dynamic is one of the most impressive aspects of his gigs: he’s an old-school showman and professional entertainer.

Deploying that classic bag of tricks (like inviting a fan onstage to sing backup vocals) is a rapidly disappearing craft in rock music. If you can make self-indulgent choices like inserting five-minute-long stories into the middle of a popular song, and actually get away with it, you deserve some serious respect.

Without that onstage charisma and confidence, we’d be more tempted to complain about how long the solo acoustic section of the show was, or about how jammy and loose the second full-band set was, but he pulls it off easily. The more cynical among you might argue that some of his shtick is hokey, but when you experience it in person it feels completely natural and convincing, not to BENJAMIN BOLES mention effective.

IGGY AZALEA at Wrongbar, Friday, May 18. Rating: NN There were so many high ponytails in the crowd at Iggy Azalea’s club show, you had to wonder if the platinum blond Australian MC was selling them at the merch table. That hairstyle is her signature, and during the show she twirled and yanked at her own while spitting fast, fluid and inane rhymes over stripped-down Southern rap beats.

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Last year, Azalea became a major label concern after her PU$$Y music video went viral and she joined rapper T.I.’s Grand Hustle roster. She’s an energetic performer, but her show has the stage-managed feel of a brand-building exercise. “Does anybody know where the Azaleans live?” she asked, one of many times she invoked the catchphrase for her fan base.

Banter-wise, she sticks to pre-rehearsed anecdotes that précis each song. To intro Beat Down, she recounted the time she opened a can of whoop-ass on “a bitch” who looked at her wrong. Moments later, a woman in the audience lost it and wound up on the wrong side of a headlock, providing a distraction as the twerking KEVIN RITCHIE competition happening onstage dragged on.

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ñRivoli, Saturday, May 19.

Rating: NNNN A Toronto doctor named Steven Tanaka is such a huge fan of Japan’s indie scene, he’s been flying over acts and putting on money-losing Canadian tours just for the love of music. They have, however, been very positively reviewed, and both Toronto shows of this edition were sold out and packed early, so he’s not your average hobbyist promoter.

The Rivoli was already busy at 9 pm when Charan-Po-Rantan took the stage, and they immediately got the audience’s attention with their colourful uniforms, amazing technical chops and unique Japanese twist on Gypsy jazz and klezmer.

The high-energy vibes continued with group-inou, an electronic duo who combine elements of chip tune, synth pop, punk, hip-hop and happy hardcore techno. In comparison, the prog-punk weird-

ness of Zazen Boys was less overtly extroverted but very technically skilled. Occasionally, they’d sound a bit like Fishbone, but then they’d jump into a bizarre time signature for some ridiculously intricate math rock.

After such strong performances by the first three acts, the comparatively straightforward alt-rock of Praha Depart was a bit of a letdown, although on a weaker bill they might have come across as BB much more impressive.

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Backed by a three-piece band of soul surfers in printed tank tops and flat-top caps, Santi opened with the brawny Go!, a cherrybomb start to a set that included 20-plus polyrhythmic, cerebral fight songs, three costume changes (a tropical-floral pantsuit with blue shoulders was the best) and a two-person pony.

The crowd energy was high during old favourites Lights Out and Say Aha, collaborative hits like Major Lazer’s Hold The Line and new anthems Disparate Youth and The Keepers. The set climaxed with Creator, when a throng of kids rushed the stage.

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Jessica Jalbert Edmonton singer/songwriter tries not to try too hard

By CARLA GILLIS

JESSICA JALBERT, DOUG HOYER, COURIERS and DAZE DAZE & THE SIAMESE GAZE at Nocturne (550 Queen West), tonight (Thursday, May 24), 9 pm. $5. 416-5042178.

The first song I ever heard by Edmonton dream-pop musician Jessica Jalbert was the melodic and mellow gem Lack Of A Lake. Climbing, clean guitar lines trade off with Jalbert’s pretty, drawling vocals, the effect like end-of-summer sun on bare skin.

The guitar bits are so arresting – as is the publicity shot of Jalbert crouched down with her Strat, long hair obscuring her face, No Joy-style – that I can’t help but imagine her as a devoted practitioner of the instrument, honing her craft at all hours of the day.

“I’ve been noodling around on guitars for about 10 years but I’m really no good,” Jalbert says, quashing my fantasy. “When I play solo, I feel a bit more confident and can play slightly more intricately. But in full band situations I really just strum. Nothing special.”

Turns out it’s her bandmate Liam Trimble tackling the leads.

Nonetheless, Jalbert used the sixstringer to write and arrange the finely wrought songs on 2011’s Brother Loyola (Old Ugly), the way-under-theradar debut album she’s touring across Canada for the first time (with coheadliner Doug Hoyer, who also plays bass in her band). Its dreamy haziness

comes via her laid-back vocals, which never try too hard.

“Some of my favourite singers sing with very unaffected and unpolished voices,” she says, “so it is a choice [I’ve made to deliver mine that way]. I think music translates best when the musicians are being completely honest. If I started singing in someone else’s style, I don’t know if anybody would believe me. I do what I can with who I am, I guess.”

But while Brother Loyola delivers sunshiny warmth, it also has an underlying melancholy that’s understood better after Jalbert explains what got her here. She started writing songs four years ago during a bout of loneliness and isolation brought on by a move across the country to a town where she didn’t know anybody.

So now that she’s back in the Edmonton music scene, which she describes as very supportive, is she stepping up her career efforts?

“I guess I’ve had musical aspirations for a long time,” Jalbert says. “It’s a scary thing to admit, because it’s a pretty unpredictable career choice. It seems lofty, almost, to admit that I expect it to work out. But long before I started writing my own music, I assumed I’d be a musician in some form or another. Music is just exactly what I like.”

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MINIMALIST ROCK

DUSTED Finding freedom in self-imposed restrictions

By RICHARD TRAPUNSKI

DUSTED with BRUCE PENINSULA and the SKELETONES FOUR at the Great Hall (1087 Queen West), tonight (Thursday, May 24), doors 8 pm. $12-$15. RT, SS.

After five solo albums, Holy Fuck’s Brian Borcherdt finally feels confident with full musical self-expression – and he’s abandoning his given name to do it.

Borcherdt’s new project, Dusted,

finds him teaming up with acclaimed producer Leon Taheny (also a member of Rituals and Bruce Peninsula) to make hazy, psychedelic fuzz-pop. Where his previous albums were “quick, honest offerings” of whatever he was writing at the time, the songs on Total Dust (out July 10 on Polyvinyl/Hand Drawn Dracula) were crafted and sequenced as a proper album.

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Borcherdt made Total Dust in Taheny’s garage studio/“idea tank” during a tour hiatus from Holy Fuck, a period in which everyone in the band but him had a baby.

“That had something to do with [starting Dusted], but I think it was more of a life choice,” says the Toronto-based musician over pints on the Rivoli patio. “It’s a realization that I have to do what I want to do now or I’ll always regret it. I feel like I’m beyond the period of discovery. After all these years I finally know what I want to do, and that’s Dusted.”

The music isn’t a drastic departure from the fragile, falsetto-delivered indie folk of his previous solo work, but where his earlier songs sounded a bit sparse and underwritten, Dusted moves beyond song sketches to employ crunchy guitar feedback, string arrangements, synths and percussion.

“I don’t see myself as a typical solonamed singer/songwriter,” says Borcherdt, munching on a sweet potato fry. “I feel like the name was dictating a genre but that the genre wasn’t accurate.

“But singing through a little blownout practice amp and a reverb pedal, now I feel like there’s an aesthetic behind it. It’s not just a guy in his bedroom with a guitar.”

Dusted will still be a shock to anyone who only knows Borcherdt as the knob-twiddler in experimental electro band Holy Fuck, but there are similarities. Just as HF works within selfimposed limitations (no computers, no looping, no MIDI programming, only live instruments), Dusted’s live show is dictated by however much Borcherdt and Taheny can play as a two-piece.

“When things are too finessed and methodical, too easy and colourful and sweet and accurate and perfect, it leaves a less lasting impression,” he says. “I think compromise is one of the most underrated things in art.”

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PAtrick WAtson The Montreal singer/ songwriter and eponymous band, who won the 2007 Polaris Music Prize, playfully employ unusual objects and experimental techniques in relatively accessible folk rock songs.

On their new album, Adventures In Your Own Backyard, they pull back on some of the instrumental weirdness but still bring a quirky and original sensibility to their songwriting.

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Rock For PMH Cancer Research Firesound 9 pm.

Annex Wreckroom Canadian Ritual Tour Exhumed, the Black Dahlia Murder, Fuck the Facts, A Faster Now doors 7 pm. the BAllroom Indie Rock Showcase 10 pm.

Bovine Sex cluB Of the North, David Hustler & the Trustworthy, the Maladies of Adam Stokes.

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In FlagrantI, MIkey apples, Brandon sek Pop Kult 008 Gladstone Hotel 10 pm, $10. TW. June 8.

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Massey Hall (178 Victoria), Saturday (May 26) Bluesy, country sweetness.

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PdJ Mark FalCo Dance Camp: Pride Edition Fly. June 22.

PdJ danny verde Pre-Pride Party Fly doors 10 pm, $10-$20. June 23. spIrIt oF the West Sound Academy doors 8 pm. June 23.

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death By stereo, aMerICan hell Hard Luck Bar doors 8:30 pm, $13.50.

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Mobile Mod Club doors 6:30 pm, all ages, $22.50. RT, SS, TW. July 9.

kIng khan & BBQ shoW Lee’s Palace doors 9 pm, $15. HS, RT, SS, TM. July 13.

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Ben hoWard Every Kingdom Tour Sound Academy doors 7 pm, all ages, $22.50. RT, SS, TW. September 24.

Boot Knives (rock) doors 11 pm. el mocAmBo What Fools, the Tudors, Red Nightfall 9 pm. el mocAmBo upStAirS CD release Forgetting All I Know, July, Innocent Guns, Team Blackbird 8:30 pm. the greAt hAll Bruce Peninsula, Dusted, the Skeletones Four doors 8 pm.

See preview, page 52. hArd luck BAr Ulcerate, Svart Crown, Burning Caskets, Serene Molestation 7:30 pm. holy oAk cAfe Rendez-vous: Prince Tribute Night Allie Hughes, Drew Smith, Maylee Todd, Daniela Gesundheit, Alex Lukashevsky, Thom Gill, Geordie Gordon and others 10 pm. horSeShoe Eamon McGrath, Dirty Nil, Pow Wows, Simone Schmidt (punk rock/folk) 9 pm. See preview, page 61. inter Steer Ronnie Hayward Trio (rockabilly) 8 to 11 pm. lee’S pAlAce Kether, Castros, Radio Free Universe, Black Ginger 9 pm. linSmore tAvern Desmond Nathan (power-pop piano) 10 pm. lou dAWg’S ryerSon Jeff Eager (acoustic soul/funk/Motown) 10 pm. lulA lounge Rock For Life: benefit for Lawyers International Food Enterprise Tokyo Giants, the One Shot Band, Notorious Road, Mo Vista, Quammie aka Greybeard 7 pm.

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castro’s louNGe Jerry Leger & the Situation

(country/folk/rock) 9 pm. c’est what Tin Pan North Songwriters Festival Caitlin Hanford, David McLachlan, Maureen Prairie, David Lavkulik 9:30 pm, Tin Pan North Songwriters Festival Jory Nash, Mike Butler, Michael Lake, Clive Vanderburgh 7:30 pm.

Dave’s... oN st clair Uncle Herb’s Open Mic (folk/blues/rock/country) 9 pm.

Drake hotel uNDerGrouND Bob Dylan Tribute doors 7 pm. etoN house Keith Jolie (blues/roots) 7 pm. free times cafe Chad Doucette.

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. huGh’s room CD release Jack de Keyzer (blues) 8:30 pm. the local Larry Roland, Rita DiGhent. 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. traNzac southerN cross Bluegrass Thursdays Houndstooth 7:30 pm.

Jazz/ClassiCal/experimental

camera Bar Viva Arts: David Amram Tribute

Party Roberto Occhipinti Trio 9:30 pm. emmet ray Bar Mikko Hilden Trio Manouche (Gypsy swing) 9 pm.

four seasoNs ceNtre for the PerformiNG

arts richarD BraDshaw amPhitheatre

Songs We Know Sophie Perlman, Adrean Farrugia (vocals, piano) noon to 1 pm.

Gallery 345 The Thin Edge Cheryl Duvall, Ilana Waniuk, Elizabeth Eccleston, Olaf Szester (piano, violin, oboe, percussion) 8 pm.

Gate 403 Kevin Laliberté Jazz & Flamenco Trio 9 pm, Vincent Bertucci Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm.

GleNN GoulD stuDio CD release Michel Bérubé 8 pm. metroPolitaN uNiteD church Organix 12 Aaron James (organ) 12:15 to 1:15 pm. olD mill iNN home smith Bar Thursday Night Jazz Party Terra Hazelton, Richard Whiteman, Drew Jurecka 7:30 pm. rePosaDo The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz). rex Reunion Metalwood 9:30 pm, Kevin Quain 6:30 pm. roy thomsoN hall Brahms Symphony 2 Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Alisa Weilerstein (cello) 2 pm. somewhere there stuDio Mark Segger 8 pm. traNe stuDio The John Cheesman Sextet 8 pm.

danCe musiC/dJ/lounge

cheval Brand’d DJ PG-13 (house/hip-hop/ club anthems).

DaNce cave Transvision DJ Shannon (alt indie/ electro/retro).

Drake hotel uNDerGrouND Galapagos Ben Ufo doors 11 pm.

GooDhaNDy’s Ladyplus Parties DJ Todd Klinck doors 8 pm.5 iNsomNia DJ Ron Jon (funk/soul/house).

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rivoli Pool louNGe DJ Plan B (reggae/funk/ electroretro).

Friday, May 25 pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul

alleycatz Ascencion (soul/funk) 9:30 pm. the aNNex live The Chads, the Corporate

Life, Contour 9 pm. the Ballroom Disco Rebels (rock) 9 pm.

Bar italia uPstairs Shugga (funk) 9:30 pm.

BoviNe sex cluB Fantasy Defender, BMD, Church, DJ Vania. caDillac louNGe Christian D & the Hangovers (rock) 10 pm. castro’s louNGe Ronnie Hayward (rockabilly) 5 to 7 pm. the ceNtral uPstairs Out Of Phase Launch Party 8 pm. the ceNtral Get Blown 9:30 pm.

Dakota taverN CD release The Royal Crowns, Prophets and Losses (rockabilly/ R&R/hillbilly jazz/surf/R&B) doors 9 pm.

Dave’s... oN st clair Mitch Lewis & Gary Fenna (acoustic pop) 9:30 pm.

Drake hotel uNDerGrouND Ariane Moffatt (Québécoise pop singer/songwriter) doors 8:30 pm. the Duke live.com Song Remains the Same (Zeppelin tribute). el mocamBo The Mercy Now, Goodnight Sunrise, Papermaps, Rulers of the Moon 9 pm.

Graffiti’s Paul Martin (covers) 5 to 7 pm. harD luck Bar The Governor’s Metal Birthday Flying Fortress, Blinded by Faith, Depths of Hatred, the Deadringers doors 8 pm. harlem Gyles w/ James King Trio 7:30 pm. holy oak cafe Yuka (funk) 10 pm. horseshoe Rock & Roll Pizza Party and 7 inch release Sandman Viper Command, July Talk, Archie Powell & the Exports, Non-Stop Girls 9:30 pm. the hoxtoN How Do You Do World Tour Mayer Hawthorne & the County, the Stepkids doors 7 pm.

JuN JuN hotel CD Release Party Nanochrist, New Love Army, DJ Dreamstate Seven, DJ ARC DYM (industrial) doors 10 pm. kool haus Mavado, Mr Vegas, Whitebwoy, Steenie, Spex (dancehall). lee’s Palace The Independents, Rehab for Quitters, Von Drats, Howling Bullets (punk rock) doors 9 pm. liNsmore taverN H to Oh! 9:30 pm. the loaDeD DoG Playback (all 60s pop rock) 8:30 pm. lola Shitkicker 8 pm. lou DawG’s Jeff Eager (acoustic soul/funk/ Motown) 10 pm. lou DawG’s ryersoN Don Campbell (acoustic blues/rock) 10 pm.

Now louNGe Jane’s Party, Sam Cash (indie-rock). oPera house Jet Life Tour: Direct Flight Curren$y, the Jets, Smoke DZA, Fiend 4 Da Money, Corner Boy P, Trademark, Young Roddy doors 8 pm, all ages.

PJ o’BrieN irish PuB Elevation Band (U2 cover band). rivoli Pop With Brains: CAMH Fundraiser Triple Gangsters, Secrettes, Lexi Tellings, the Futureless, the Jilted Lovers Club, the FranDiscos doors 9 pm. silver Dollar CD release Attagirl, Invasions, Rebel Rebel, Most People doors 9 pm. the sister Red Revue. sNeaky Dee’s Swift Ones 10:30 pm, Volumes, the Contortionist, Your Memorial, the Plot Is You doors 5 pm, all ages. southsiDe JohNNy’s The Lineup (rock/R&B) 10 pm. steelworkers hall Four Corners IV Absolutely Free, Odonis Odonis, Young Mother, Town Ship, No Beat Radio DJs (bands exchange songs from four corners of a room simultaneously) doors 9 pm. suPermarket Soop! It’s Good For you! The Soul Proprietor, Nightbox DJs Jake & James, Eli! Eli! Eli!. traNzac southerN cross Language Arts, Wintermitts, Michael Cram doors 8:30 pm. virGiN moBile moD cluB Crooked Hill. waterfalls Fullasound (reggae) 10 pm.

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asPetta caffe Jonny Debt 8 to 10 pm.

Black swaN Tin Pan North Songwriters Festi-

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The Jeffersons, Joe Hash, Don Quarles, Zac Wrixon 7:30 pm. c’est what Tin Pan North Songwriters Festival Tannis Slimmon, John Cheesman, Tim Kwiatkowski, John Becker 9:30 pm.

Dakota taverN Ana Egge & Band. ñ DomiNioN oN QueeN Havana To Toronto 9 pm.

the flyiNG Beaver PuBaret Jane Ford & David Ramsden (singer/songwriters) 8 pm. free times cafe Eugene Ripper, Kimberly Ann O’Connor (folk rocker/singer-songwriters).

GlaDstoNe hotel The Fraser Melvin Blues Band (blues ) 9 pm.

GrossmaN’s Frankie Foo 10 pm. haBits GastroPuB Kevin Wilson Smith w/ Austin & Caz (folk/pop) 9 pm. hiGhway 61 southerN BarBeQue The Little Naturals 8 pm. huGh’s room CD release Soul Influence 8:30 pm. lula louNGe Son Ache (salsa) 10:30 pm.

ProJectioN Booth Rocking Girls & Thundering Women Fundraising Screening & Performance Raging Asian Women Taiko Drummers 6:30 to 9 pm. rePosaDo The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz).

Jazz/ClassiCal/experimental

alliaNce fraNçaise DowNtowN Voyage Au Fils Des Cordes Caroline Leonardelli & Julie Trudeau 7:30 pm. chalkers PuB Don Braden & Julie Michels Jazz Project (jazz) 7:30 pm.

Dave’s... oN st clair Happy Hour Jazz The Jordan Saull Quartette 5 to 8 pm. eDwarD JohNsoN BuilDiNG macmillaN theatre This Is Bulgaria Bulgare (Bulgarian national folklore ensemble) 8 pm.

Gallery 345 View From The Train Luciane Cardassi, Emilie Cecilia Lebel 8 pm.

Gate 403 Donné Roberts Band 9 pm, Sam

Broverman Jazz Duo 5 to 8 pm. lower ossiNGtoN theatre Green Door Cabaret Andrea Ludwig & John Hess 8 pm. lula louNGe Maria Farinha Trio (jazz/samba/ bossa nova) 8 pm.

NawliNs Jazz Bar The N’awlins All Star Band w/ Brooke Blackburn (jazz/blues) 9:30 pm. olD mill iNN home smith Bar Fridays To Sing About Zoe Chilco, Norman Amadio, John Deehan, Ron Johnston 7:30 pm. orBit room Kingsley Ettienne Trio (jazz/ blues) 3:30 to 7:30 pm.

Quotes Fridays At Five Bill McBirnie & the Canadian Jazz Quartet 5 pm. rex Brad Turner Quintet 9:45 pm, Triodes 6:30 pm, Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm. somewhere there stuDio Leftover Daylight Series 8 pm. traNe stuDio Das Kaff 8 pm.

danCe musiC/dJ/lounge

aNNex wreckroom Lionhearts 3 DJs Rene La Vice, Marcus Visionary, Lush, NC-17 (DNB) 10 pm.

BuDDies iN BaD times theatre Fuck U Fridays DJ Triple-X, DJ Starboy 10:30 pm.5 c louNGe Stylus Spinfest & C Lounge Fridays DJ Clymaxxx doors 10 pm. cake Bar FourPlay Fridays (top 40/mashups). castro’s louNGe DJ I Hate You Rob (soul/ funk/R&B/punk rock/rockabilly) 10 pm. c’est what McManager 10 pm. cliNtoN’s Girl & Boy 90s Dance Party (90s pop) doors 10 pm. coBra louNGe The Fix Fridays No Big Deal DJs. colD tea Mighty Real Jenna Syde, DJ John Caffery, DJ the Robotic Kid (acid/disco/funky house).

DaNce cave Bif Bang Pow DJ Trevor (60s mod Britpop) 10 pm.

Dc music theatre DC Summer Sessions DJ Berto & Scotty, Excelsior doors 10 pm, all ages.

DisGracelaND A Fisful Of Metal DJ Miss Barbrafisch (extreme metal) 10 pm.

Drake hotel uNDerGrouND Itzsoweezee Tom Wrecks, Demiggs doors 11 pm.

Drake hotel louNGe DJ Your Boy Brian doors 10 pm. etoN house Bluu (top 40s/dance) 9 pm. emmet ray Bar DJ Funky Flavours (funk/soul) 10 pm. fly Dance Camp: Glo Party DJ Mark Falco (vocals & house anthems) doors 10 pm.5 fouNDatioN room All Vinyl Everything Mista Jiggz, DJ Mensa, Spence Diamonds (R&B/ funk/soul/house/hip-hop) doors 9 pm.

GlaDstoNe hotel Ballroom The Outlaw Stripper’s Ball DJ Sigourney Beaver (burlesque) doors 9 pm. the Great hall Uproc! DJ Serious, John Kumahara, Kola, Mike K doors 9 pm.

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InsomnIa Funkn’ Fresh Fridays Matty Ryce (house/breaks).

The LocaL DJ Hott Pants (funk/soul).

LofT 161 DownsTaIrs Jacques Greene, Nautiluss, Alex Charlton. See preview, page 62. margreT Massive Gritty (reggae) 10 pm.

ParTs & Labour White Girl DJs Patrick McGuire, Josh & Ghetto Gold Matt (rap from 1993 to 2012) 10 pm.

The PIsTon Shindig! (60s rock/soul/beat) 10 pm.

Press cLub Shag DJs Ironwill, Madame Hair (British delights) 9:30 pm. revIvaL Mayer Hawthorne (DJ set), Skratch Bastid & DJ Ariel. royaL onTarIo museum Friday Night Live DJs Jay Sea & Gray Moonen 6 to 11 pm. savIarI Tea + cockTaIL Lounge re:Freshed DJs Sessions, Spinner, Lilee doors 9 pm. sLack’s Inside Out LGBT Film Festival Push It Party DJs Cozmic Cat & Lucie Tic 10 pm. suITe 106 Stylus Spinfest Kick Off Party Keith Dean, DJ R2 doors 10 pm. vIrgIn mobILe moD cLub Come Out & Play DJ Matt Medley 10:30 pm.

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

wInchesTer kITchen & bar U For Change

Fundraiser–G5 Spotlight. wrongbar Wrongbar Four-Year Anniversary Todd Terje, Smalltown Supersound, Running Back, Oslo, Members Only DJs, DJ Arroganz 10 pm.

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aLLeycaTz Ascencion (R&B/funk) 9:30 pm. asPeTTa caffe No Fixed Address, Luke Vajsar, Pale Fire Union, Quintin Bradford (rock) 3 to 10 pm.

bar ITaLIa uPsTaIrs Al Webster (funk/soul/ R&B) 10:30 pm.

bovIne sex cLub Vic Ruggiero, Cavaliers,

Permanent Bastards, DJ Sir Ian Blurton.

The cenTraL Nail 10 pm, Live on Brighton 7 pm.

DakoTa Tavern CD release The Royal Crowns, Prophets and Losses (rockabilly/ R&R/hillbilly jazz/surf/R&B) doors 9 pm.

DomInIon on Queen Ronnie Hayward Trio (rockabilly) 4 to 7:30 pm.

The Duke LIve.com Shania Twain Tribute Shania Twin. eL mocambo Steve Lewin, the Honeyrunners 9 pm. graffITI’s Russel Leons SSW Night evening. horseshoe Joe Pug, David Wax Museum,

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Lee’s PaLace Five Alarm Funk, the Soul Motivators, After Funk doors 9 pm.

The LoaDeD Dog Tungsten (rock/top 40) 8:30 pm.

The LocaL Al Piggins & the Quitters 10 pm.

LoLa Blood Orange 8 pm.

Lou Dawg’s Don Campbell (acoustic blues/ rock) 10 pm.

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

massey haLL Raitt, Marc Cohn 8 pm. ñBonnie PhoenIx concerT TheaTre Yelawolf, A-Game doors 8 pm, all ages. ñ PJ o’brIen IrIsh Pub Elevation Band (U2 cover band).

Queen eLIzabeTh TheaTre Straight No Chaser (a cappella group) doors 7 pm, all ages.

rex Danny Marks (pop) noon. rockPILe Mad Conductor (hip-hop/ska). sILver DoLLar EP release Grandfather Mantis

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DomInIon on Queen Sonic Blues Bradleyboy MacArthur.

Dora keogh The Swingin’ Blackjacks (blues). eTon house Tin Pan North Songwriters Festi-

val Gala The Jeffersons, Ryan Laird, Marc Alan Barnette, Jamie Warren 7:30 pm, Victoria Banks, Rob Crosby, Charie Major 9:30 pm.

The fLyIng beaver PubareT Jane Ford & David Ramsden (singer/songwriters) 8 pm. gaTe 403 Bill Heffernan, Brian & Aslan 5 to 8 pm. gLaDsTone hoTeL Country Saturdays Joanne Mackell & Tru Grit (country) 9 pm.

The greaT haLL Bruno Capinan, Amanda Paixao, Maracatu Baque De Bamba, Luanda Jones, Maria Bonita & the Band, Tropicalia Band (Brazilian Music) doors 9 pm. habITs gasTroPub Julian Taylor Band (rock singer/songwriter) doors 6 pm. hIghway 61 souThern barbeQue Julian Fauth & Tim Bastemeyer 8 pm. hIruT fIne eThIoPIan cuIsIne Country Jam Murray Powell 2 to 6 pm. hugh’s room Russell deCarle 8:30 pm.

The LIsh New Music Night: Video Release Mary Stewart (singer/songwriter) 9:30 pm.

The LocaL 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.

LuLa Lounge Salsa Saturday Ricky Franco & the P Crew Orchestra (salsa) 10:30 pm. noor cuLTuraL cenTre Noor Spring Concert (classical and fusion Indian music) 7:30 pm. rebas café & gaLLery Open Mic Saturdays The Just Us Band 1 to 4 pm. sT sImon-The-aPosTLe angLIcan church The Canadian Songbook Fundraising Concert Common Thread Community Chorus, Ian Bell & Anne Lederman 1:30 and 7:30 pm.

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aLL saInTs kIngsway angLIcan church Organix 12: Royal Canadian College of Organists Young Organist Competition 12:30 pm. gaLLery 345 Array Music Young Composers Workshop David Schotzko, Lydia Munchinsky, Colleen Cook, Patricia O’Callaghan (percussion, cello, clarinet, soprano) 3 pm.

GATE 403 Denielle Bassels Jazz Band 9 pm.

GROSSMAN’S Caution Jam 10 pm, The Happy

Pals (trad jazz) 4 to 8 pm..

HARLEM Samantha Clayton 7:30 pm.

INTER STEER Laura Hubert 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 Gord Sheard, Will Jarvis, Mark Kelso 7:30 pm.

REBAS CAfé & GALLERY Neighbour Note Classical Guitar Recital 6 to 8 pm.

REx Brad Turner Quintet 9:45 pm, Justin Bacchus 7 pm, Swing Shift Big Band 3:30 pm.

ROY THOMSON HALL Brahms Symphony 2 Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Alisa Weilerstein (cello) 2 pm.

SOMEWHERE THERE STuDIO Ali Berkok Quartet 8 pm.

TRANE STuDIO Eliza Pope.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

ANNEx WRECkROOM DJ Rick Toxic 8 pm.

CAkE BAR Dessert Saturdays (top 40/mashups).

C’EST WHAT DJ MALXP 10 pm.

CLINTON’S Shake, Rattle & Roll Sixties Dance

Concert For Ray Materick Russ Wilson, Shelley Hastings, Barry Mac, Rachel Heart, Pete Otis, Paul O’Toole, Jack Tassé, Sebastian Agnello, Joe Mavety 5:30 pm.

OPERA HOuSE The Early November, the Wonder Years, the Swellers, Young Statues doors 6 pm, all ages.

PARTS & LABOuR Xerxes, Creeper, Black Faxes 8 pm, all ages.

THE PISTON Dead Messenger, Monroe 9 pm.

REvIvAL Benefit for Princess Margaret Hospital Matt Easter and Planet Vertigo (Bono impersonator).

ROCkPILE Sharp Dressed Men (ZZ Top tribute) 7 pm.

SOuND ACADEMY Gogol Bordello, Mariachi El Bronx, Two Gallant doors 7:30 pm.

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DRAkE HOTEL Julian Taylor (folk rock) 4 pm, all ages.

ETON HOuSE Acoustic Party Douglas John

Cameron (bluegrass/roots/country) 4 pm. fREE TIMES CAfE Bella! Did ya eat? Jewish Brunch Buffet Lemon Bucket Orchestra (klezmer).

GLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR Sunday Acoustic Family Brunch 9 am to 4 pm.

GROSSMAN’S Blues Jam Brian Cober Band 10 pm.

THE HIDEOuT Julian Taylor Band (rock singer/ songwriter) 10 pm.

HIRuT fINE ETHIOPIAN CuISINE Open Stage With Gary 17 3 to 6 pm.

HuGH’S ROOM Cris Williamson 8:30 pm.

LABYRINTH LOuNGE Open Mic Joy Thompson 5 to 9 pm.

THE LISH Stir It Up Sundays Open Mic 10:30 pm.

THE LOCAL Colonel Tom & the American Pour 10 pm, Chris Coole (banjo) 5 pm.

LuLA LOuNGE Cuban Son Duo (salsa/son) midnight.

Party (60s pop/soul/R&R) doors 10 pm.

DANCE CAvE Full On DJ Mr Pete (alternative).

DRAkE HOTEL uNDERGROuND Evening Standard Tiger & Woods doors 11 pm.

DRAkE HOTEL LOuNGE DJ DB Cooper doors 10 pm.

EMBASSY BAR Pressure Drop A Man Called Warwick, Guv’nor General, Chuck Boom, Morningside 116 (vintage Jamaican sounds).

EMMET RAY BAR DJ Gerald Belanger (house/ ol’ skool) 10 pm. fLY What Is House DJ Alain Jackinsky, DJ Jamal doors 10 pm.5 fOOTWORk Nina Kraviz, James Teej, Nathan Barato, Gera doors 10 pm.

INSOMNIA Sense Saturdays DJ Charles (deep house).

MCGRADIES TAP AND GRILL Open Jam Dan MARO The Red Carpet DJ Undercover 10 pm.

Walek (R&B) 6 to 10 PARTS & LABOuR True School Hip-Hop DJs Efpm. sharp, Romeo & DTS 10 pm.

PERIDOT LOuNGE Good Saturdays DJs Glew & continued on page 62 œ R2 (hip-hop/R&B/old school) 10:30 pm.

THE PISTON DJ Fatham 10 pm.

PRESS CLuB Soulvation (R&B/Motown) 10 pm.

REvIvAL Stylus Spinfest: Midnight Mix P Plus, J-Class, James Redi, DJ Dopey, Big Philly, the Almighty Chops.

RIvOLI POOL LOuNGE DJ Osum (disco/electro/ funk).

RIvOLI Footprints! Jason Palma, General Eclectic, Stu 10 pm.

SNEAkY DEE’S Shake A Tail (60s pop & soul) 11 pm.

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).

WAYLABAR Pop Machine (top 40/dance anthems) 10 pm.

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Folk Rock

Eamon mcGrath Are all Canadian indie acts essentially punk bands?

By SARAH GREENE

EAMON McGRATH with POW WOWS, DIRTY NIL and SIMONE SCHMIDT at the Horseshoe (370 Queen West), tonight (Thursday, May 24), 9 pm. $7. And at the Horseshoe on June 1, 10 pm. $10. HS.

On the cover of Eamon McGrath’s third album, Young Canadians (White Whale), the 23-year-old folk rocker is surrounded by piles of vinyl and CDs in a gritty shoebox-sized record shop on New York’s Lower East Side.

It’s a comment on the decrepit state of the music industry, but also a nod to McGrath’s kaleidoscopic influences, which include Fugazi, the Replacements, Otis Redding, Neil Young and the Clash.

McGrath, who now lives in Toronto, got his start in Edmonton’s hardcore punk scene. He considers Young Canadians a punk record despite its folk rock sound.

“I think all Canadian independent bands are punk bands, because of the

determination and urgency and passion required [to tour here],” he says.

“It’s not what they sing about so much as their delivery and how much they mean it.

“That’s why SNFU, Eric’s Trip, the Sadies, the Constantines, Gordon Lightfoot, all those Canadian artists are punk rockers to me.”

The album marks a shift in approach. McGrath used the same studio as last time – Vancouver’s JC/DC – but instead of tracking it in just two days, he visited four times and recorded 40 tunes to choose from.

“Peace Maker was an attempt to make a straight-up punk album,” says McGrath about his 2010 album.

“It was one guitar tone and only half an hour long. For this one I decided to take as much time as I needed to.

[The producers] literally threw me in a room with a bunch of pedals and I just fucked around, and that’s how we built it.”

McGrath also started working with a booking agent last October for the first time, something he’s still trying to reconcile with his adolescent DIY punk ideals.

“Trying to wrap my 18-year-old punk rock brain around the idea of raising the price of a ticket is a big step,” he admits. “But by leaving all that [DIY] stuff behind, I don’t think you’re abandoning those ideals.

You’re just sort of growing. You should be growing into something for the kids to resist.” music@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/nowtorontomusic

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BERkELEY CHuRCH Climax: Anti Homophobia Benefit for PFLAG Kreesha Turner, Jeffery Straker, British Teeth, Aces Ensemble-Glee Club, DJ Bingo Bob 3 to 7 pm.

CASTRO’S LOuNGE Pre Season Draft 4 pm.

CLINTON’S Darren Eedens & the Old Salts 9 pm.

DOMINION ON QuEEN Rockabilly Brunch 11 am to 3 pm.

THE GARRISON Crosswires Nicola Ratti, BZARYN, Joey Molinaro 9 pm.

HORSESHOE Langhorne Slim, Ha Ha Tonka doors 8:30 pm.

LEE’S PALACE Chris Murray & the Fundamentals, the Fundamentals, Sound One doors 8 pm.

LOLA Chloe Watkinson & the Crossroads noon to 7 pm.

MAGPIE CAfE Heavy Generator (ska/dub/reggae) 9 pm.

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SPIN TORONTO Pong For Poverty Benefit For Yonge St Mission Arlene Paculan 7 pm.

SUPERMARKET Freefall Sundays Open Mic/Jam 8 pm.

THIRSTY FOX PUB Fera (acoustic jam) 6 to 10 pm.

TRANE STUDIO CD release Bentroots Blues Band 8 pm.

WINCHESTER KITCHEN & BAR Open Mic Porter 9 pm.

Crooked Hill Stylus 2012 Opening Party Alan Doyle

thing Goes 5 to 8 pm.

GROSSMAN’S New Orleans Connection Allstars 4:30 to 8 pm.

ISABEL BADER THEATRE Annual Concert Shevchenko Musical Ensemble (Ukrainian/ Russian/French/Italian folk/world music) 2 pm.

LOWER OSSINGTON THEATRE Green Door Cabaret Susan Cuthbert 3 pm.

NAWLINS JAZZ BAR Brooke Blackburn (guitar) 7 to 10 pm.

PAUPER’S PUB The Ted Quinlan Quartet (jazz) 3 pm.

REBAS CAFÉ & GALLERY Michael Menegon (singer/songwriter) 1 to 4 pm.

REX Brad Turner Trio 9:30 pm, Tom Reynolds Trio 7 pm, Freeway Dixieland 3:30 pm, Excelsior Dixieland Jazz noon.

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TORONTO CENTRE FOR THE ARTS GEORGE WESTON RECITAL HALL The Choral Symphony Or-

chestra Toronto, Rachel Cleland, Erin Lawson, Colin Ainsworth, Orival Bento-Gonçalves, Toronto Choral Society 3 pm.

TRANE STUDIO Anniversary Brunch & ConcertLive From Paris Das Kaff 2 pm.

DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE

BOVINE SEX CLUB B.Y.O. DJ. CASTRO’S LOUNGE Watch This Sound (rare/ vintage ska/reggae/dub on vinyl) 9 pm.

HOTEL OCHO Inside Out LGBT Film Festival

Closing Gala party DJ Cozmic Cat 10 pm.

INSOMNIA Retro Lounge Night DJ Doctor G. LOU DAWG’S Dirty South Sundays (soul/funk/ Motown/old school) 10 pm.

LOU DAWG’S RYERSON Dirty South Sundays DJ Ksmooth (soul/Motown/old school) 10 pm.

RIVER GAMBLER Beats Ahoy! Green Velvet, the Junkies, Manzone & Strong, Addy, Robb G, Jonathan Rosa, Evan G boarding at 11:30 am.

SAVIARI TEA + COCKTAIL LOUNGE Foundation Meets Soul DJs Kevin Laverty, Uncle Funke, General Eclectic (foundation reggae/blue beat/ska/rare groove).

TOIKA Code:D Sundays (drum & bass) doors 9 pm.

VIRGIN MOBILE MOD CLUB Stylus Spinfest: PreAward Show Nominee Party JDRN, M.A.G.N.U.M., Raz Fresco, Rock Da House, Shaun Boothe, Shi Wisdom, Son Real, DJ Ritz doors 9 pm.

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

CASTRO’S LOUNGE Rockabilly Mondays 9 pm.

DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Elvis Monday (indie) doors 9 pm.

DRAKE HOTEL LOUNGE Ride the Tiger (60s & 70s soul/Motown/stax/R&B) doors 11 pm.

GROSSMAN’S Open Jam Mondays No Band Required 10 pm.

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

HORSESHOE Ron Pope, Josaih Leming, Zack Berman doors 8:30 pm.

PARTS & LABOUR OBN IIIs, Ketamines 9 pm. ñ PHOENIX CONCERT THEATRE Garbage doors 8 pm.

PRESS CLUB Domestic Bliss Mondays Ray Whimsey’s Sweet Piece (rock) 10 pm.

YONGE-DUNDAS SQUARE Lunchtime Live Jadea Kelly 12:30 to 1:30 pm.

FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD

DORA KEOGH JT & Friends Jam 9 pm.

FREE TIMES CAFE Open Stage.

GLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR Jenny Berkel,

DANCE MUSIC

NAUTILUSS Ex-Thunderheist producer finds his own groove

By BENJAMIN BOLES

NAUTILUSS with JACQUES GREENE and ALEX CHARLTON at Loft 161 (161 Spadina, downstairs), Friday (May 25), 10 pm. $10 advance, more at door. PDR, RT, SS, TW. themansioninc.com.

Graham Douglas Bertie should be in Glasgow but is instead stuck in an airport in Berlin.

“I missed my flight this morning, so this is a €400 fuck-up on my part,” the Toronto DJ/producer says with embarrassment.

Gigs in Berlin and Glasgow were once routine when he was known as Grahm Zilla, half of booty bass duo Thunderheist. But their overnight success led to premature burnout, and Bertie has spent the past couple of years getting back into the game.

Now, with buzz growing around his releases as Nautiluss, groggy mornings in foreign airports are part of his life again. He even randomly ran into his former Thunderheist musical partner, Isis Salam, the night before in Berlin, where she currently lives.

“It’s a totally different experience this time. Now I’m the one missing flights,” Bertie says, laughing. He was the “responsible one” in Thunderheist.

“The rate at which things happened for Thunderheist was totally

out of whack. We hadn’t even really developed our sound when we got all this hype at the beginning. I didn’t want to repeat that shit again.

“It was eye-opening and a reality check when it all just stopped. I needed to re-evaluate whether I wanted to start over again in the music business. There are other things I could be doing that might be satisfying in other ways, but I felt like I owed it to myself to do it on my own this time around, and on my terms.”

Part of his new strategy is to take his time, and to change up his sound with each release to avoid being pigeonholed. His first official Nautiluss release last September on Hemlock was a lush, atmospheric 12-inch single featuring the vocals of Lord Skywave.

His new Alpha EP (Turbo), however, is stripped-down raw techno built for dirty, dark warehouses and giant towers of bass bins. It’s dark and creepy but oddly sexy. No wonder he’s getting a second shot at the limelight.

“That’s why I’m really glad about the rate things have been going. It’s slow, so the pressure isn’t there, especially if I don’t repeat myself. You have to work to gain people’s trust, and that only happens over time.” benjaminb@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/benjaminboles

Demetra Penner, the Billie Hollies (ambient folk noir) 8 pm.

HigHway 61 SoutHern BarBeque Chris Chambers (blues) 7 pm.

HugH’S room Marc Cohn 8:30 pm. tHe LocaL Hamstrung Stringband (bluegrass) 9:30 pm.

Lou Dawg’S ryerSon Open Mic Night Don Campbell 7 pm. magpie cafe Jerry Leger (country/folk) 9 pm. oLD nick M Factor Mondays Donalyn, Elana Harte, Janet Whiteway 7 pm. trane StuDio NuBlue Mondays Son Roberts Band 8 pm.

Jazz/ClassiCal/ExpErimEntal

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Andre Rakus, Michael Barth (organ, trumpet) 12:15 to 1:15 pm. emmet ray Bar Vaughan Misener Trio (jazz) 9 pm. gate 403 Richard Whiteman & Laura Hubert Jazz Band 9 pm, Noah Sherman Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. muSiDeum Poetry Jazz Cafe Brownman 9 pm. rex John MacLeod’s Rex Hotel Orchestra 9:30 pm, Peter Hill Quintet 6:30 pm.

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Afro-Cuban music with Joaquin Nunez Hidalgo

SAT. 26 Ronnie Hayward Trio 4pm

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HugH’S room Discoveries Tia Brazda, Chris Casserly, Rudy Silvamer, Mary Stewart 8:30 pm. tHe LocaL Ben Sures, Michelle Rumball. oLD nick Jennifer Brewer 9:30 pm. preSS cLuB Toast & Jam Open Mic James Grey 10 pm. tHe ruSty naiL Open Stage Jam Chad Campbell 9 pm.

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glADStone hotel meloDy BAr A Music Love Triangle Janine Stoll, Rhonda Stakich, Ben Sures 9 pm. groSSmAn’S Bruce Domoney 10 pm. highwAy 61 Southern BArBeQue Sean Pinchin 7 pm. hirut Fine ethiopiAn cuiSine Gary 17’s Acoustic Open Stage Bryan Van Dusen 7:30 pm. hugh’S room CD release John McDermott 8:30 pm. the locAl Chris Staig & the Marquee Players. lou DAwg’S ryerSon Wycik Wednesdays Matt Morgan (acoustic blues/rock) 10 pm.

Silver DollAr High Lonesome Wednesdays Crazy Strings (bluegrass) 9 pm. trAne StuDio Liberty Wednesdays Noah Zacharin (folk) 8 pm.

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cAStro’S lounge The Mediterranean Stars (fusion jazz) 9 pm. chAlKerS puB Girls Night Out Jazz Jam Lisa Particelli, Peter Hill, Ross MacIntyre, Norman Marshall Villeneuve 8 pm.

Dominion on Queen Corktown Ukulele Jam 8 pm. gAte 403 Jorge Gavidia Jazz & Blues Band 9 pm. mezzettA Gypsy Music With A Twist Of Jazz Robi Botos Trio 9 pm. nAwlinS JAzz BAr Jim Heineman Trio 7 pm. rex Patrick Lehman 9:30 pm, Victor Bateman Trio 6:30 pm. roy thomSon hAll A Vist With Yo-Yo Ma Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Yo-Yo Ma (cello) 7:30 pm.

Somewhere there StuDio Octopus, Allison Cameron 8 pm.

St Anne’S AnglicAn church Post-Industrial Debussy The Junction Trio 7:30 pm.

St pAul’S AnglicAn church Organix 12 Marek Kudlicki (organ) 6:30 pm.

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Kool hAuS 132 Queens Quay E. 416-869-0045. lAByrinth lounge 298 Brunswick. 416925-7775. 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. loFt 161 161 Spadina. lolA 40 Kensington. 416-348-8645. lou DAwg’S 589 King W. 647-347-3294. lou DAwg’S ryerSon 76 Gerrard E. 647349-3294. lower oSSington theAtre 100A Ossington. 416-915-6747. lulA lounge 1585 Dundas W. 416-588-0307. mAgpie cAFe 831 Dundas W. 416-916-6499. mArgret 2952 Dundas W. 416-762-3373. mAro 135 Liberty. 416-588-2888. mASSey hAll 178 Victoria. 416-872-4255. mcgrADieS tAp AnD grill 2167 Victoria Park. 416-449-1212. metropolitAn uniteD church 56 Queen E. 416-363-0331. mezzettA 681 St Clair W. 416-658-5687. molSon AmphitheAtre 909 Lake Shore W. monArchS puB 33 Gerrard W. 416-585-4352. the muSic hAll 147 Danforth. 416-778-8163. muSiDeum 401 Richmond W. 416-599-7323. nAwlinS JAzz BAr 299 King W. 416-595-1958. nocturne 550 Queen W. 416-504-2178. noor culturAl centre 123 Wynford. 416444-7148. now lounge 189 Church. 416-364-1301. olD mill inn 21 Old Mill Rd. 416-236-2641. olD nicK 123 Danforth. 416-461-5546. operA houSe 735 Queen E. 416-466-0313. orBit room 580A College. 416-535-0613. pArtS & lABour 1566 Queen W. 416-588-7750. pAuper’S puB 539 Bloor W. 416-530-1331. periDot lounge 81 Bloor E. 416-515-7560. phoenix concert theAtre 410 Sherbourne. 416-323-1251. the piSton 937 Bloor W. 416-532-3989. pJ o’Brien iriSh puB 39 Colborne. 416-815-7562. pogue mAhone 777 Bay. 416-598-3339. preSS cluB 850 Dundas W. 416-364-7183. proJection Booth 1035 Gerrard E. 416466-3636.

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album reviews on Black’s movie star status and Gass’s less illustrious “indie cred.”

Still, when they don characters, as on the Springsteenian ode to older ladies, 39, and during tepid inter-song skits, it’s hard to ignore the fact that the joke is kind of stale.

Top track: Rize Of The Fenix RT

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Heaven (Fat Possum) Rating: The Walkmen’s seventh album oozes the kind of easy confidence that happens when a band’s been working hard on its craft for a dozen years. This is especially evident in Hamilton Leitheuser’s vocals. He’s downright transcendent on mid-tempo second song Love Is Luck. On the hookfilled Song For Leigh, meanwhile, an appealing Rod Stewart rasp creeps in.

The New York five-piece definitely has a sound – think of a more elegant, ambitious Strokes – but here they fearlessly apply it across a range of

Pop/Rock

JAPANDROIDS Celebration Rock (Polyvinyl) Rating: NNN The sound of crackling fireworks begins and ends Japandroids’ second album, and in between are eight of the most energetic, party-starting rock songs you’re likely to hear all year. The Vancouver duo couldn’t have picked a more apt title.

Celebration Rock captures the raucousness of their live shows and reveals Brian King and David Prowse’s newfound predilection for arena-sized anthems. Add in angsty lyrics (“If they try to slow you down / tell them to all go to hell”) and you have to wonder if they aren’t courting that lucrative Molson Amp-filling teen-rock market.

Each song spills over with a breathless, unhinged vigour that impresses. First single The House That Heaven Built will make many a summer mix tape, while For The Love Of Ivy is a decent slice of straightforward punk.

But taken all together, the band’s refusal ever to let up on volume, bombast, group-shouted vocals, fast-strummed chords or smashing drums makes Celebration Rock an exhausting sonic assault in need of variety.

Top track: The House That Heaven Built Japandroids play Lee’s Palace on June 23.

CG GARBAGE Not Your Kind Of People (Stun-

volume/Universal) Rating: NN A band made up almost entirely of studio wizards (including Nevermind producer Butch Vig), Garbage have always sounded overproduced. Back from a seven-year hiatus and now far removed from the “altrock” zeitgeist of the late 90s, the post-

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styles. Take the Everly Brothersesque lullaby No One Ever Sleeps, with Fleet Foxes’s Robin Pecknold adding a low harmony, or the hummed gospel instrumental Jerry Jr.’s Tune or the spare, doowoppy We Can’t Be Beat.

Masterful and textured production by Phil Ek (Fleet Foxes, Modest Mouse, the Shins) keeps it fitting together like a glove. A couple of lifeless slower numbers bring the album to a crawl midway through, but they ultimately add balance to all the smart, uptempo rockers.

Top track: Love Is Luck The Walkmen play the Molson Amphitheatre on August 2.

CARLA GILLIS

grunge survivors sound even more like a straight-up pop act, albeit one with a retro flavour.

Their “edgy” yet heavily processed bubblegrunge is a relic of 1998. Shirley Manson’s black-clad image and angsty lyrics hit the same “don’t fuck with me” notes, while the arrangements continue to evoke My Bloody Valentine watered down for radio. Unfortunately, in an era when empowered pop stars like Lady Gaga forge their own mainstream image, none of it shocks.

Garbage still have a knack for placing sticky hooks behind walls of guitar sheen, but when they slow down on Beloved Freak and the title track ballad, the results get a bit cringy.

Top track: Felt Garbage play the Phoenix on Monday (May 28).

RICHARD TRAPUNSKI

TENACIOUS D Rize Of The Fenix (Columbia) Rating: NNN Since their TV debut on Mr. Show in the late 90s, Tenacious D have operated on the same basic premise: two schlubby guys with acoustic guitars truly believing they’re rock gods. Jack Black and Kyle Gass got a lot of mileage out of that until Black became a big-ticket actor and the band started selling out arenas; that is, they became legitimate rock stars.

But six years after their film Tenacious D In The Pick Of Destiny bombed critically and financially, the band has regained its underdog status. The best songs on Rize Of The Fenix address that real-life redemption story. The title track builds a classic rock epic out of their quest for a hit that will make fans regret lasering off their D tattoos. The Ballad Of Hollywood Jack And The Rage Kage, meanwhile, plays

(Uno/Oh-Wow) Rating: NNN After putting out a few scattered hip-hop tracks online, rising underground rapper Mykki Blanco makes a U-turn into blistering industrial drag-punk on her debut EP, with backing from producer/drummer DJ Physical Therapy and guitarist Jeffrey Joyal. The lyrics come from Blanco’s poetry book From The Silence Of Duchamp To The Noise Of Boys, which tells the story of a black transvestite punk and her friends dabbling in sex, drugs and the occult in “the Rotten Apple.”

From the first few bars of Head Is A Stone, it’s apparent that this ain’t a hiphop joint. The song’s cascading tribal drums, burbling guitar riffs and distorted, unhinged screaming set us off on a tormented journey that splooges visceral menace all over our ears. Along the way are nods to Hendrix and hardcore, but it’s Blanco’s ability to go absolutely mental that’s most fun. Closing track Join My Militia (Nas Gave Me A Perm) comes closest to rap and has the EP’s most dynamic (though not craziest) vocal performance; it’s gravelly, guttural and nasty.

Top track: Head Is A Stone KEVIN RITCHIE

CRYSTAL FIGHTERS Star Of Love (Warner) Rating: NNN When their debut album, Star Of Love, was released in the UK back in 2010, incredibly eclectic UK/Spanish band Crystal Fighters achieved instant buzz for their improbable combination of metal, dubstep, Basque folk, pop, electro, rap, trance and anything else that crossed their minds. Their over-the-top live shows and intriguing (but probably fictional) backstory also gave music journalists lots to talk about, but waiting two years to put it out in North America hasn’t worked out so well. Some ideas just don’t age that well.

If they’d calmed down just a little bit and let the songs and ideas breathe more, they’d have fared much better. Instead, the album constantly verges on gimmicky.

They’re like that hyperactive guy at the party who makes everyone laugh at first and gets the dance floor started, but who starts looking depressingly desperate for attention the third time he climbs on a table and yells at everyone to get naked.

Still, if you don’t take it too seriously or expect too much, Star Of Love is a genuinely fun, undeniably unique collection of weirdo dance pop.

Top track: Champion Sound Crystal Fighters play Wrongbar Saturday (May 26).

BENJAMIN BOLES

Helm’s studio in upstate New York.

Egge’s Americana recalls Lucinda Williams and Gillian Welch, but with a harder edge and a delivery that’s her own.

Though the guitar work can be overly pretty (Egge built her main instrument herself) and many songs have an upbeat folk-pop feel, lurking just under the surface are multiple references to the title’s bad blood.

Opener Driving With No Hands conveys the distress and confusion of mental illness through distorted guitar and topsyturvy string lines, and a weary urgency runs through the chorus of the gentler Hole In Your Halo. The title track, about crimes committed by a family, kicks off like a frantic heartbeat, while Silver Heels tells of prostitutes who lost their lives during the 1918 flu epidemic.

Top track: Hole In Your Halo Ana Egge plays the Dakota Friday and Saturday (May 25 and 26).

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quarter-life-crisis condition.

Pemberton is often criticized for his dry, monotone delivery, but here he moves between a strained croon, rapidfire spit and sensitive whisper. It’s a lot to process but well worth the effort.

Top track: Hype Man Cadence Weapon plays on June 23 at Lee’s Palace.

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Hope In Dirt City (Upper Class) Rating: NNNN In the four years since his last nonmixtape LP, Cadence Weapon (aka Rollie Pemberton) served a term as Edmonton’s poet laureate, relocated to Montreal and abandoned plans for a “rock” album called Roquentin. All of that informs Hope In Dirt City, his dense and eclectic third album.

Splitting production between himself and a talented team of young buzzy upand-comers like Doldrums, Flow Child and the Breezes, Pemberton dabbles in club rap, soul, post-punk, psychedelia and Brazilian funk. That could’ve led to a disjointed sound, but Hope is brought together by Pemberton’s distinct vocal style and lyrics, which perfectly capture the disaffected, post-millennial, iPod-DJ, over-tweeted,

Unpatterns (Wichita) Rating: When Simian Mobile Disco emerged out of the ashes of Simian, their former indie pop incarnation, in 2005, they seemed the epitome of the hipster dance/rock crossover act. For a while it looked like they were trying to move to the more pop end of that spectrum, with lots of high-profile guest vocalists and big, radio-friendly melodies. However, the songs were never quite there, and the duo appear to have come up with a better compromise in the meantime. They get their pop music fix by producing for artists like Beth Ditto (whose solo EP with them sounded like what Gossip’s new album should have been), while concentrating on proper dance music for their own albums.

This means fans looking for another big summer anthem to sing along to are out of luck with Unpatterns, but once you get over the lack of choruses, you’ll find a very solid, satisfying melodic techno album.

There’s a certain classic quality to the pacing and attitude, but it’s definitely not a retro dance album. It’s more like they took a long listen to the last 30 years of underground dance music and tried to distill all of that into a potent formula that sounds both maddeningly familiar and yet appropriately futuristic.

Top track: Interference Simian Mobile Disco play the Hoxton July 12.

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Bad Blood (Ammal) Rating: Saskatchewan-born, Brooklyn-based songwriter Ana Egge delves into dark subject matter on her Steve Earle-produced seventh album, recorded at the late Levon

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Contact Photography Festival April Hickox makes a splash in her Vantage series, which includes Porthole 1, 2011.

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Photos: Jon Rafman, to Jun 2. Andrew Myers, to Jun 2. 12 Ossingñ ton. 416-530-0444.

CArsENAl ToroNTo Photographie group show, to Jun 9. 45 Ernest. ñ arsenaltoronto.com.

ArT of THE dANforTH Site-specific installations, to Jun 10. Danforth btwn Greenwood and Woodbine. artofthedanforth. com.

CATTi gAllEry Photos: Beverly Owens, to May 31. 2152 Yonge. 416-484-6266.

BEiT ZATouN Photos: Ali Mustafa, May 24Jun 3, reception 7 pm May 26. 612 Markham. 647-726-9500.

BErENsoN fiNE ArT Painting: Marco Sassone, to Jun 7. 212 Avenue Rd. 416-9253222.

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

BircH liBrAlATo Painting: Howard Sim­ kins and Michelle Gay, to May 26. 129 Tecumseth. 416-365-3003. cANAdiAN lEsBiAN ANd gAy ArcHivEs

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Gallery (80 Spadina), to June 2. 416504-9515. Rating: NNNN

living on the toronto islands has given April Hickox an affinity for the water. The photos in Vantage were shot aboard a freighter sailing the St. Lawrence to Montreal. One series looks through portholes at passing scenery that often includes derelict industrial structures. For the Rain project, she goes on deck to capture wet weather.

The portholes’ thick glass, against a dark background that recalls her

photographs of found objects, func­ tions as a kind of camera lens. Rain­ drops hitting her lens above­deck echo the porthole shape, giving a cir­ cular­patterned texture to the misty maritime scenes.

Unlike Benjamin Lowy’s ominous photos of Bagdad shot through the windows of armoured vehicles (part of Public at the U of T Art Centre), a sense of quiet melancholy and nostal­ gia pervades Hickox’s images.

If all photos are windows, theirs are doubly so, dramatizing the reason and situation behind the picture and highlighting the vantage point of the person behind the lens.

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Gladstone gems

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the Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen West), to May 29. 416-531-4635. Rating:

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Restraint and formalism mark the best work. Tom Ridout’s Blandscapes find the pleasing symmetry in urban banality.

Through his lens, shopping carts and parking lots acquire the austere formalism of early Bauhaus.

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Akas Tarmaji’s understated photos of feet under drawn hospital curtains have a quiet power under­ scored by the vulnerability of their unseen subjects.

Zoë Bridgman’s portraits of chil­ dren pare them down to their psy­ chological cores, posing them with a restraint so cool that every detail fairly pops.

There’s room in the exhibit for a bit of glam as well. Chris Ironside’s young men with glittery appliquéd skull faces are smooth, vicious icons of death and sex that are also utterly contemporary.

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Looking Forward/Looking Back: National Portrait Collection, to Jun 11. 34 Isabella.

416-777-2755. cANAdiAN sculpTurE cENTrE Off The Wall group show, to May 31. 500 Church. 647435-5858.

CcommuNicATioN ArT gAllEry Photos: Erin Brubacher and John Haney, to May 31.

209 Harbord. 416-588-2011. crEATivE spiriT ArT cENTrE Straight From The Heart, to May 26, live/silent auction 1-3 pm May 26. 20: 999 Dovercourt. 416588-8801. doors opEN ToroNTo 135+ buildings throughout Toronto, May 26-27. Various venues. toronto.ca/doorsopen.

CEric ArTHur gAllEry Photos: Peter MacCallum, to Aug 10. 230 College. 416978-5038.

CEsp/EriN sTump projEcTs Photos: Ko­ tama Bouabane, to May 31. 1086 1/2 Queen W. 416-834-0005.

CgAllEry 44 Gender And Exposure In Contemporary Iranian Photography, to Jun 16. 401 Richmond W. 416979-3941.

CgAllEry Tpw Video: Mark Boulos, to May 26. 56 Ossington. 416-6451066.

CgAllErywEsT Photos: Susan Bozic and Evan Tyler, to May 30. 1172 Queen W. 416913-7116. juliE m. gAllEry Sculpture: Itamar Jobani, May 24-Jul 1, reception 6-9 pm May 24, artist’s talk 2 pm May 26. 15 Mill, bldg 37.

416-603-2626.

KATHAriNE mulHEriN Painting: Kris Knight and Clint Griffin, to Jun 3. 1082/1086 Queen W. 416-993-6510.

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Find Jim Goldberg’s Eropa Senegal on a billboard at Spadina and Front.

CoZ sTudios Photos: Sandy Baron, to May

27. 134 Ossington. 416-792-5511.

CpAri NAdimi Video/photos: Matilda Asliza­ deh, to May 26. 254 Niagara. 416-591-6464. pArKiNg loT Street art: Keys To Wonderful, 11 am-5 pm May 26. Queen and Fennings. autoshare.com. pAul pETro Prints/painting: Ged Quinn and Sadko Hadzihasanovic, to Jun 9. 980 Queen W. 416-979-7874.

CpiKTo Photos: Aaron Vincent Elkaim, to May 31. 55 Mill, bldg 59. 416-203-3443. propEllEr Photos/video: Thomas Hlavacek, reception 7-10 pm May 26. 984 Queen W. 416-504-7142. rEd HEAd gAllEry Subtle Technologies

CKENsiNgToN mArKET AcTioN commiTTEE Photos: Kensington, Kensington, to

May 31, reception noon-5 pm May 27 (various locations throughout the Market, kensingtonmarket.org). 160 Baldwin. 416593-9604. loop gAllEry Lorène Bourgeois and Ingrid Mida, May 26-Jun 17, reception 2-5 May 26.

1273 Dundas W. 416-516-2581.

CmilEs NAdAl jcc Photos: Shoot With This Collective, to May 29. 750 Spadina.

416-924-6211. mKg127 Kristiina Lahde, May 26-Jun 23.

127 Ossington. 647-435-7682.

NicHolAs mETiviEr Painting/prints: Ric Evans and David Shapiro, May 24-Jun 16, reception 6-9 pm May 24. 451 King W. 416205-9000.

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Photos: Harley Valentine, to May 31. 5 Brock. 416-546-3683.

ColgA KorpEr Photos: Adi Nes, to Jun 2. Koffler offfsite, 17 Morrow.

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festival launch, 7:30-10 pm May 24. Installation: Elaine Whittaker, to Jun 16.

401 Richmond W #115. 416-504-5654. scoTiABANK sTudio THEATrE Performance/installation (benefit for West End Food Co-op): The Hunger, May 24-27 (ThuFri 8:30 pm, Sat 7 and 8:30 pm, Sun 2 and 7 pm, $15-$20). 6 Noble. thehunger.me. sidE spAcE Photos: Vincenzo Pietropaolo and Armando Lulu, to Jul 1. 1080 St Clair W. sidespacegallery.com.

CsTEAm wHisTlE BrEwiNg Photos: Building Storeys: Transportation In Toronto, to May 31. 255 Bremner. 416-3622337. suBTlE TEcHNologiEs fEsTivAl Exhibits, workshops, performances, May 24-27.

Pwyc-$40, pass $50-$120. subtletechnologies.com.

ToroNTo frEE gAllEry Painting/installation (Mayworks): Louise Liliefeldt, to Jun 2. 1277 Bloor W. 416-913-0461.

ToroNTo sculpTurE gArdEN Jed Lind, to Sep 30. 115 King E. 416-515-9658.

TrAsH pAlAcE Burning Birch X3: Worldwide Film Festival Of Short Art Films By Artists, 9:30 pm May 26 ($5, 253469. blogspot.ca/p/burning-birch-x3.html).

89B Niagara.

CTTc suBwAy sTATioN scrEENs Contacting Toronto: We’re In This Together, to May 31. scotiabankcontactphoto.com.

CurBANspAcE Photos: Patrick Cummins, to May 31. 401 Richmond W. 416-595-5900. wHippErsNAppEr gAllEry Mixed media: Kelly Andres, to Jun 9. 594B Dundas W. 647-856-2445. yyZ Installation/sculpture: Libby Hague and Jaime Angelopoulos, to Jul 21. 401 Richmond W. 416-598-4546.

Peter MacCallum’s Toronto (and Paris) streetscapes hang at Eric Arthur Gallery.

ydEssA HENdElEs ArT fouNdATioN Strait-Jacket group show, ongoing. ñ Sat noon-5 pm. 778 King W. 416-4139400.

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THIS WEEK IN THE MUSEUMS ART GALLERY OF HAMILTON Size Matters, to Jun

17. Anselm Kiefer, to Sep 9. Emily Carr, to Oct 28. $10, stu/srs $8, first Fri of month 5-9 pm free. 123 King W (Hamilton). 905-527-6610.

CART GALLERY OF MISSISSAUGA Lise Beaudry and Morris Lum, to Jul 8. 300 City Centre (Mississauga). 905-896-5088.

ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO Annie MacDonell, to Jun 3. C Selections From Max Dean’s Albums: TDSB students, to Jun 3 (also at selected schools). Artist-in-residence: Hiraki Sawa, to Jun 30. Iain Baxter&, to Aug 12. C Berenice Abbott; Zhang Huan, to Aug 19. Masterpieces From The Musée National Picasso, to Aug 26 ($25, stu $16.50). C Max Dean, to Sep 9. Picasso And Man: The 1964 Exhibition, to Sep 30. A Tribute To Ayala Zacks, to Feb 28, 2013. $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 Blog launch/video/performance: Chonicles Of The Outspoken, 6-8 pm May 25. Diane Borsato, to Jun 10. 4700 Keele, Accolade E bldg. 416-7365169.

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, artist’s talk 1:30 pm May 27. 1333 Lakeshore (Burlington). 905-632-7796.

CCAMPBELL HOUSE MUSEUM Asif Rehman, to Jun 3. 160 Queen W. 416-597-0227.

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

CDESIGN EXCHANGE 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.

CMOCCA Public: Collective Identity/ Occupied Space; Street View, to Jun 3.

Courtyard installation: 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 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.

ROBERT MCLAUGHLIN GALLERY Community Collects, to Jun 3. Adrian Norvid, to Jun 10.

Arnold Zageris, to Jun 24. Pwyc. 72 Queen (Oshawa). 905-576-3000.

ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM C Larry Towell and Donovan Wylie, to Jul 15.

C Deborah Samuel, to Jul 2. The Art Of Collecting, ongoing. $15, stu/srs $13.50; Fri 4:308:30 pm $9, stu/srs $8. 100 Queen’s Park. 416586-8000.

TEXTILE MUSEUM OF CANADA More Than Just A Yardage Sale, May 25-26 (free). 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, to Sep 30. $15, srs $10, stu $6; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre. 416-599-5321.

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Nervy Irving IN ONE PERSON by John Irving

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i’ve never figured out how john Irving does it. His breakthrough novel, The World According To Garp, gives more insight into feminism than the writings of most active female radicals. Almost 35 years later, with In One Person, the presumably straight author digs deep into the complexities of gender identity from the 50s through the age of AIDS. Most of the action takes place in a New England private school in the 50s and 60s, where student Billy gets crushed out on all the wrong people,

including mercurial nearbully Kittredge and mysterious librarian Miss Frost.

Turns out Billy’s a true pansexual, attracted to all kinds of people. His most important friendship, however, is with Elaine – a terrific, strong teenaged female character – and in describing it Irving gracefully shows how a nonsexual connection between teens can be transformative.

The stage plays a key role as well.

Billy’s dad is the artistic director of the town’s community theatre troupe, with which the students often perform. Irving uses his characters to expound on the virtues of the great plays in the canon while insinuating all kinds of gender issues into the works of Shakespeare.

He actually revisits many of Garp’s

themes, including wrestling, transvestism (Billy’s grandfather is a happygo-lucky cross-dresser) and the challenges of keeping even the best relationships together.

And like Garp, In One Person has both hilarious and tragic components. During its time frame, from the 50s through the 80s, sexual themes keep changing dramatically: repression in the 50s, liberation in the 60s, gay liberation in the 70s, the devastation of AIDS in the 80s. Irving makes these transitions skilfully in SUSAN G. COLE his tender tale.

Irving launches In One Person tonight (Thursday, May 24) at the Toronto Reference Library. See Readings, this page.

Write Books at susanc@nowtoronto.com.

A new novel from the great American Nobelist Toni Morrison is a major event. No one writes about race and trauma the way she does, deeply probing the mindset of perpetrators and victims in poetically pristine language. In Home ($25.95, Knopf), battle-scarred Frank Money returns from the Korean War to reconnect with his sister, only to discover she’s more damaged than he is. As always, when Morrison’s characters face the truth, spectacular things occur. SGC

READINGS THIS WEEK Thursday, May 24 GAIL BOWEN Talking about her Joanne Kilbourn mystery series. 7 pm. Free. Runnymede Library, 2178 Bloor W. 416-393-7697.

JAMES FITZGERALD Talking about his book What Disturbs Our Blood. 6:30 pm. Free. Deer Park Library, 40 St Clair W. 416-393-7657.

JOHN IRVING Discussing his new book, In One Person. 7 pm. $40. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. 416-395-5577, ticketweb.ca.

JOCELYN SHIPLEY Launching her YA novel, How To Tend A Grave. 6 pm. Free. Ben McNally Books, 366 Bay. 416-361-0032.

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Monday, May 28 MARK DILLON The Fifty Sides Of The Beach Boys author speaks with Liz Worth. 7:30 pm. $5. Gladstone, 1214 Queen W. ecwpress.com.

JUSTIN HALPERN Talking about his new book, I Suck At Girls. 7 pm. Free. Chapters, John and Richmond. chapters.indigo.ca.

ANDREW MOTION Dinner with the author of Silver: Return To Treasure Island. 6:30 pm. $100. Grano, 2035 Yonge. 416-361-0032.

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Tuesday, May 29

ANYTHING GOES SLAM Poetry competition.

7:30 pm. $5. Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. 416312-3865.

ROBERT PRIEST Launching his poetry CD with a performance. 8 pm. $20-$30. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. 416915-6747.

BRIAN DEDORA/ELANA WOLFF Reading. 7 pm.

Free. St Clair/Silverthorn Library, 1748 St Clair W. 416-393-7709.

ALI KAZIMI Launching Undesirables, White Canada And The Komagata Maru in conversation with Audrey Macklin. 7:30 pm. $5. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. tinars.ca.

OMAR KHADR, OH, CANADA Launch of an anthology featuring George Elliott Clarke, Shadia Drury, Kim Echlin and others. 6 pm. Free. Ben McNally Books, 366 Bay. 416361-0032.

Sunday, May 27

Wednesday, May 30

Saturday, May 26

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Authors’ brunch. 10 am. $45. King Edward Hotel, 37 King E. 416-361-0032.

SUE CHENETTE/LESLEY SHIMATAKAHARA/ROD WEATHERBIE/SUSAN GLICKMAN Reading and

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BLOODY WORDS AND BONY BLITHE Readings by the Bloody Words Mystery Award shortlisted authors. 7 pm. Reference Library, 789 Yonge.

416-395-5577.

MADISON SHADWELL/STEDMOND PARDY/ AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Reading from BRANDON PITTS/NIK BEAT Reading. 7 pm.

This Is How. 7:30 pm. $10, stu free.

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CUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ART CENTRE

Photos: Public: Collective Identity/Occupied Space; Robert Giard, to Jun 30. 15 King’s College Circle. 416-978-1838.

VARLEY ART GALLERY (Da bao) (Take-out) , May 24-Sep 3, reception 7 pm May 24, artists’ talk 1-4 pm May 27 ($10, bus from OCADU, noon, $15). $5, stu/srs $4. 216 Main (Unionville).

905-477-9511.

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Melissa-Jane Shaw and Jonathon Young dance around their characters’ difficulties in Stockholm.

Odysseo sure doesn’t rein in the spectacle.

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ODYSSEO directed by Wayne Fowkes, choreographed by Benjamin Aillaud (Cavalia). At the White Big Top (324 Cherry). To June 10. $29.50-$119.50. 1866-999-8111. See Continuing, page 70.

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Fight to get a ticket Swede love STOCKHOLM by Bryony Lavery (Seventh Stage/Nightwood). At Tarragon Extra Space (30 Bridgman). To June 3. $15-$30.

416-531-1827. See Continuing, page 71.

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When love looks too good to be true, it probably is. Feminist playwright Bryony Lavery zeroes in on those ooeygooey couples who finish each other’s sentences and think and act as one. As this slow-burning psychological drama unfolds, its clear she isn’t buying the act.

Stockholm introduces Todd (Jonathon Young) and Kali (Melissa-Jane Shaw), one of these “perfect” couples

Home run HOME by David Storey (Soulpepper). At the Young Centre (55 Mill). Runs in rep to June 20. $51-$68, stu $32, rush $5-$22. 416-866-8666. See Continuing, page 70. Rating: NNNN

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When British playwright David Storey talks about going Home, he doesn’t simply mean returning to a place of comfortable familiarity.

Instead, he draws five characters whose everyday chit-chat hides secrets beneath the surface. His play poses a gentle mystery: who are these people, and where is their world?

Home has the conciseness of a classical play, set in one location over the course of a blithe spring day. But the dialogue is filled with nuances whose suggestiveness the expert Soulpepper

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with a spacious new home and a romantic trip to Stockholm just days away. There are big problems in paradise, however: deep insecurities, mutual mistrust and a dark, Sisyphean power struggle.

The couple’s apparent symbiosis is nicely demonstrated through fascinating bits of household choreography by Susie Burpee; mundane chores like putting away the groceries are rendered as synchronized acrobatic affairs with impressive jumps, flips and spins all over Lindsay C. Walker’s modern kitchen set.

But after a few glimpses of their sickeningly saccharine routine, fissures of suspicion appear. Kali secretly worries that Todd has been unfaithful, but despite her best cyber-sleuthing, proof

stays torturously just out of reach.

As Todd, Young is best at selling Lavery’s punny and intentionally cringe-inducing prose, while Shaw struggles at times to find the sweetspot for Kali’s building paranoia.

Director Kelly Straughan keeps the transitions between dialogue and choreography smooth and snappy, and some of the dance snippets are so watchable, they could easily be extended without pushing the play’s already trim 60-minute run time.

Apart from a confusing coda set in the basement that needs more explanation to really resonate, Stockholm ably complicates the modern mythos that monogamy is always the perfect union some couples JORDAN BIMM suggest.

ensemble, under director Albert Schultz, plays with just the right tone.

Jack (Oliver Dennis) and Harry (Michael Hanrahan) are nattily dressed men of the world; they’ve been through the war, ogle attractive women, wonder what’s happening to today’s youth and share memories of their respective families.

Their sometime companions, Kathleen (Brenda Robins) and Marjorie (Maria Vacratsis), are of a lower social class, less elegant and inclined to enjoy sexual innuendoes. They’re also more in touch with their feelings, confronting emotions and urges directly.

The fifth character, Alfred (Andre Sills), isn’t quite in their realm; he gets his pleasure from lifting chairs and tables above his head.

As we gather hints about these five, we move beyond the platitudes of their conversation and glimpse the depth of their

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Back in 2003, Cirque du Soleil cofounder Norman Latourelle put horses in the spotlight in his equine opus Cavalia, which has since hoofed it around the globe. Now he’s back with the grand-sounding Odysseo, and he’s added some Cirque glitz to the proceedings, resulting in a sharper show with jaw-dropping production values.

Gone are the cheesy poetic quotes projected onto a screen that made Cavalia so pretentious; instead, he and director Wayne Fowkes employ state- of-the-art film of a variety of settings: jagged mountains, vast deserts and peaceful bucolic meadows, where his four-legged friends might internal lives. There’s humour in their Beckett-like non sequiturs, but also a sense of sadness.

Interactions between the actors are finely tuned. Listen to the way the two men

Vacratsis (left), Hanrahan, Dennis and Robins are right at Home.

NNNN = Sustained applause

NNN = Recommended, memorable scenes

gallop and trot in real life.

The show also features more humans, and not just ones made up to look like knights and ladies moonlighting from Medieval Times (although many of the men sport Fabiolike manes of hair).

Acrobats from Guinea tumble and jump with fearless abandon, while a sensual aerial act performs on what looks like a gigantic merry-go-round that descends from the ceiling of the White Big Top. But the real scene-stealers, of course, are the horses of various colours, sizes and temperaments that gallop (creating a natural wind machine for those in the front row), clear fences and perform in unison, sometimes with brave riders jumping over them (and in one eye-popping case, under them).

Horses being horses, they’re also prone to doing something else. On opening night, one dropped a load onstage just before a scene with barefoot acrobats. Talk about drama.

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let their conversations die softly into silence, the talk resuming when one finds a comfortable, safe topic.

Vacratsis’s Marjorie makes a commanding figure, whether chastising the men or trying to keep Kathleen modest by telling her to pull her skirt down, while Robins goes into delightful giggling paroxysms whenever someone says anything with even a slight double entendre. They, rather than the men, are immediately likeable.

But the women’s comfort with each other also brings out something in Jack and Harry, even if the men can’t talk about their feelings. The unbidden male tears speak to unnamed loss, giving richness to this seemingly ordinary day in JON KAPLAN the life.

NN = Seriously flawed

N = Get out the hook

High energy RENT by Jonathan Larson (Theatre Sheridan). At the Panasonic Theatre (651 Yonge). To June 3. $40-$60, same day stu rush $25. 416-872-1212. See Continuing, page 71.

Theatre Sheridan’s Rent pays off.

Over the years, Theatre Sheridan has produced many fine musical theatre performers, but the school has raised its profile with the exciting Canadian Music Theatre Project initiative earlier this spring and now with the transfer of their production of Jonathan Larson’s Rent to the Panasonic Theatre.

The latter’s being marketed as a chance to see “the stars of tomorrow” perform in a classic rock musical, and it certainly is that, although the cast can’t entirely make up for some of the weaknesses of Larson’s show about a group of 20-something East Village artist types dealing with AIDS, love and housing issues.

Still, how refreshing to see perform-

ers similar in age to the characters they’re portraying, especially at a time of increased grassroots activism around economic inequality.

Looking somewhat cramped on the Panasonic’s small stage, this not-veryethnically-diverse Rent, directed by Lezlie Wade, is full of youthful energy and enthusiasm. That’s especially

helpful in the ensemble scenes, like act-one closer La Vie Bohème, a raucous celebration of bohemia.

A week into the seven-performance-per-week run, some actors are showing the vocal strain, and not everyone is connecting to the material in an honest way. But there are a few standouts.

Joel Gomez captures the restless, hungry ambition of videographer Mark, the genial narrator who’s documenting his friends’ lives (an ingenious way to get information across). Mark’s tango with his ex-girlfriend’s current lover, JoAnna (a fine Jaclyn Serre), is one of the show’s most confident scenes.

Also excellent is Jacob MacInnis, whose Tom Collins is rich and soulful, deeply in love with his drag queen partner, Angel (a solid Andres Sierra).

Since this is a student production, I’m not handing it a rating, but I definitely expect to see some of these artists on more mainstages in the near GLENN SUMI future.

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(Against the Grain Theatre). The opera based on Henry James’s story is presented. Opens May 24 and runs to May 27, Thu-Sun 7:30 pm. $40-$60. Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse, 79A St George. againstthegraintheatre.com. you’re a good Man, charlie BroWn by Clark Gesner (Stratford Festival/Schulich Children’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.

out who murdered a man in this adaptation of the French film, performed in French. May 24-27, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 2 pm. $15, stu $10. Ecole Gabrielle-Roy, 14 Pembroke, Auditorium. lesindisciplinesdetoronto.ca.

The hunger (Uncanny House). This multidisciplinary performance installation is based on the fairy tale Hansel And Gretel and explores themes of escapism and consumption. Opens May 24 and runs to May 27, Thu-Fri 8:30 pm, Sat 7 and 8:30 pm, Sun 2 and 7 pm. $15-$20 Thu & Sun mat pwyc. Pia Bouman School for aer TiMe (Femmes du Feu/Zero Gravity Circus).

Ballet, 6 Noble, Studio Theatre. thehunger.me.

This workshop performance series features The hypochondriac by Molière (East Side new works by aerial artists including Jen Roy, Players). A man is obsessed with his imaginary Mark Segal and others. May 26 at 2 pm. $10. ailments in this classic farce. Opens May 24 Centre of Gravity West, 213 Sterling, unit 100, and runs to Jun 9, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. south door. hollytreddenick@gmail.com. $20, stu $15. Papermill Theatre, 67 Pottery. alcina by GF Handel (Essential Opera). A pair 416-425-0917, eastsideplayers.ca. of sister sorceresses must make tough choices a Man and SoMe WoMen by Githa Sowerby for love in this Italian opera. May 25 at 7:30 (Shaw Festival). A man seeks a new life but pm. $18. Trinity St. Paul’s Church, 427 Bloor feels duty-bound to his wife and unmarried W. essentialopera.com. sisters. Opens May 24 and runs in rep to Sep an evening oF MuSic and laughTer (The 22. $35-$90, stu mats $24. Court House TheCompany Theatre). This funder for an upcomatre, 26 Queen, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800ing production features Allan Hawco, Mark 511-7429, shawfest.com.

Critch and more. May 30 at 7 pm. $75. Dora MiSalliance by Bernard Shaw (Shaw Festival).

Keogh, 141 Danforth. companytheatre.ca.

A bored heiress finds adventure when a plane FreSh ideaS in puppeTry evening caBareT crashes into her home during a dull party. Pre(Puppetmongers Studio). This show features views to May 24. Opens May 25 and runs in performances by Becky O’Neil, CLUNK Puppet rep to Oct 27. $35-$90, stu mats $24. Royal Lab, Andrew Young and others. May 27 at 8 George Theatre, 85 Queen, Niagara-on-thepm. $25. Robert Gill Theatre, 214 College.

Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. freshideas2012.eventbrite.ca. neW arT nighT (Living Room Productions).

The Miracle Man FundraiSer (Renaissance Various local theatre companies present short Theatre). This funder for the company features original creations. May 28-30, Mon-Wed 8 celebrity karaoke with Matthew MacFadzean, pm. Pwyc. Unit 102 Theatre, 376 Dufferin.

Sarena Parmar, Fab Filippo and others. May 27 livingroomtheatreto@gmail.com. at 6:30 pm. $40 (2 for $60). Gladstone Hotel, paul & Marie by Roberto Angelini (Two 1214 Queen W. renaissancecanada.webs.com.

Snakes Productions). A couple risk their secure The ouTlaW STripper’S Ball (Skin Tight Outta life to pursue fulfilling careers in the arts.

Sight). The audience chooses the acts to be Opens May 24 and runs to Jun 2, Thu-Sat 8 performed in this burlesque revue. May 25 at pm. $25. George Ignatieff Theatre, 15 Devon9 pm. $20-$25. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen shire. twosnakesproductions.com.

W. outlawstrippersball2012.eventbrite.com. pieceS by Sarah Illiatovitch-Goldman (Cue6 Queer SiSTerS: Berenice aBBoTT and elSa Productions). The show’s script sequence is von FreyTag-loringhoven (Ryerson Modern randomly drawn before each performance in Literature and Culture Research Centre). This this play about sex and betrayal (see story, salon performance features multimedia dance page 71). Opens May 24 and runs to Jun 9, and poetry. May 26 at 5 pm. Free. 111 Gerrard Thu-Fri 8 pm (and Jun 6), Sat 6:30 and 10 pm E, Rm GER 354. 416-979-5000 ext 7668. (except Jun 8: one show only, at 8 pm). $20redheaded STepchild by Johnnie Walk$30. Unit 102 Theatre, 376 Dufferin. cue6.ca. er (Nobody’s Business Theatre). Fundpride and prejudice by Helen Jerome (Lakeraising performance of the play about a boy shore Drama Club). Students perform this dealing with his his new stepmother and a adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel. Opens May school bully. May 27 at 8 pm. $20-$25.

30 and runs to Jun 1, Wed-Fri 7 pm. $10, stu/ Thursday June 14, srs $7. Lakeshore Collegiate Institute, 350 2012 Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. nobodysbusiness.ca.

Kipling. lakeshorecollegiate.ca.

Reception: 6:00 pm Show: 7:30 pm 360 ScreeningS (360 Screenings). This cinema ragTiMe by Terrence McNally, Lynn St. Lawrence for the Ahrens and Stephen Centre Flaherty (Shaw Fes- Artsexperience combines film with elements of theatre. May 25 at 7 pm. $60. Secret Location, tival). Turn-of-the-century America is seen Bluma Appel Theatre see website for details. 360screenings.com. through the eyes of three very different fam27ilies Front St E., (416)366-7723 www.stlc.com 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, apprenTice To Murder (Mysteriously Yours...

HostParade, Niagara-on-the-Lake.

Musical Artists 10 Queen’s Dinner Theatre). This dinner-theatre whodunit 1-800-511-7429, Elvira Kurt shawfest.com.

Liberty Silver features corporate back-stabbing. Runs to Sep rehearSal hall (Fresh HerbsJane at Tarragon).

15, Fri-Sat dinner from 6:30 pm, show 8 pm.

Bunnett and Friends ThisComedians mini-festival of creations by member of $66-$71. 2026 Yonge. mysteriouslyyours.com.

• Shakura S’Aida the Sandra Young Players Unit and other youth-oriauTogeddon by Heathcote Williams (PanShamas • Laura Fernandez ented programs features 10-minute plays, a demic Theatre/Happy Trails Productions). An Elvira Kurtand a public panel. staged reading May 25-27, • Luanda Jones alien visitor observes the behaviour of huFri 8 pm, Sat 6 and 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. Pwyc. mans and their cars. Runs to May 27, Tue-Sun Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman, Near Studio.

8 pm. $15-$25. Dancemakers Centre for Cre416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com. ation, 55 Mill, building 58, studio 313. renT by Jonathan Larsonwww.sistering.org (Toronto Youth Thepandemictheatre.eventbrite.ca. atre). Artists of NYC struggle to make ends Bring iT on: The MuSical by Jeff Whitty, meet in the shadow of the AIDS epidemic.

Lin-Manuel Miranda, Amanda Green and Opens May 24 and runs to Jun 16, Wed-Sat 8 Tom Kitt (Mirvish). There are a bit too many pm, mat Sat 2 pm, Sun 4 pm. $45-$60. Lower narratives in this loose adaptation of the 2000 Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. 416Kirsten Dunst movie about rival cheerleading 915-6747, lowerossingtontheatre.com. squads. But it’s still lots of campy fun, and the The ScripT-TeaSe projecT (National Theenergetic songs are always tied to character, atre of the World). Improvised plays are whether they’re pop, hip-hop or even folk. The created and performed based on two pages real star of the show is the choreography, written by playwrights Maja Ardal, Michael which gets the versatile cast to flip, twirl, balHealey, Sky Gilbert, Scott Thompson, Ins Choi ance on shoulders and land – all without wires and more. Opens May 28 and runs to Jun 3, or nets – in one jaw-dropping number after Sun-Thu 8 pm, Fri 7:30 and 9 pm, Sat 8 and 10 another. Runs to Jun 3, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Satpm, mat Sun 2 pm. $20, stu $15. Theatre Sun & Wed 2 pm (see website for other times).

Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. 416-504-7529, $35-$130, rush $25. Ed Mirvish Theatre, 244 thenationaltheatreoftheworld.com.

Victoria. mirvish.com. nnnn (GS) SiSTer Mary’S a dyke?! by Flerida Peña (Carlos dear World by Jerry Herman, Jerome LawBulosan Theatre). A teen learns the truth rence and Robert E Lee (Civic Light Opera about her all-girl Catholic boarding school in Company). An eccentric old lady stands up to this workshop presentation. May 25-27, Fri 8 a corporation and saves the world in this pm, Sun 2 pm. Pwyc. Fringe Creation Lab, 720 musical. Runs to Jun 9, Wed 7 pm, Thu-Sat 8 Bathurst, #403. carlosbulosan.wordpress.com. pm, mat Sun (and Jun 9) 2 pm. $28. Fairview Library Theatre, 35 Fairview Mall. 416-755Take FreSh BlooMS (Herb Jung). This per1717, musictheatretoronto.com. formance features scenes from Trevi Fountain

by Dave Carley, inspired by Jung’s paintings. dirT (Soulpepper). In this collective creation, May 25-26, Fri 7:30 pm, Sat 2, 4 and 7:30 pm. the Academy uses urban stories, movement Free. Women’s Art Association, 23 Prince Arand multimedia to explores dirt in literal and thur. herbjungstudio.com. figurative terms. Runs to May 26, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $20. Young Centre for the The Turn oF The ScreW by Benjamin Britten

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Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. a FlorenTine Tragedy/gianni Schicchi by Alexander Zemlinsky/Giacomo Puccini (Canadian Opera Company). Director Catherine Malfitano does a mostly fine job with this double bill set in the same Florentine house a century apart. Zemlinsky’s tale of adultery could use stronger staging, but the complex music comes across beautifully. 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, Fri 7:30 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. Runs to Jun 10, Fri-Sat see website for schedule and performers. $20$30. 100A Ossington. lowerossingtontheatre. com/cabaret. hoMe by David Storey (Soulpepper). The social interaction between five characters reveals their desire to belong and maintain human contact (see review, page 68).

Runs to Jun 20, see website for schedule. $51$68, stu $32; rush $22/stu $5. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-8668666, soulpepper.ca. nnnn (JK) 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. 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 Sun-Hyung Lee dominates the production as the streetsmart, stern patriarch who wants his independent daughter (Esther Jun) 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. Runs to Jun 9, see website for schedule. $22-$68. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-866-8666, 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. Runs to Jun 10, Tue-Thu and Sat 8 pm, mats Sun and Wed 2 pm. $42.50-$79.50. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-366-7723, hgjewishtheatre.com. luBa, SiMply luBa by Diane Flacks, Luba Goy and Andrey Tarasiuk (Pleiades Theatre/Red Boots Canada). Renowned for her 35-year run with CBC’s Royal Canadian Air Farce, Goy pays homage to that show, while mostly delving into her life outside of it. The script is full of funny recollections and in-depth narratives about the challenges of growing up in a poor, immigrant Ukrainian family. A few stories become too drawn out, but Goy’s comic timing and honesty make her an engaging performer.

Runs to May 26, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $33. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley.

416-368-3110, canadianstage.com. nnn (Debbie Fein-Goldbach) odySSeo (Cavalia). Theatre artists and horses create a spectacle combining equestrian arts, stage arts and special effects (see review, page 68). Runs to Jun 10, 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. nnn (GS)

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ericanaS (Aluna Theatre). This festival of theatre for human rights features multidisciplinary 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. 416-5047529, 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. $30-$39.50. 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)

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RENT by Johnathan Larson (Theatre Sheridan).

New York artists struggle to make ends meet in the shadow of the AIDS epidemic in this musical (see review, page 69). Runs to Jun 3, Tue-Thu 7:30 pm, Fri-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $40-$60, stu rush $25. Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com.

SEMELE by GF Handel (Canadian Opera Company). Director/designer Zhang Huan blends East and West in his production of the opera about a mortal woman who literally meets a fiery end in her affair with the god Jupiter. The staging is occasionally silly – we don’t need a panto horse or sumo wrestlers – but always visually striking, and the singers, led by honey-voiced Jane Archibald in the title role, are first rate. Runs to May 26, Thu 7:30 pm, Sat 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 (see review, page 68). Runs to Jun 3, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2:30 pm, Wed 1:30 pm. $15-$30. Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman, Extra Space. 416-5311827, seventhstageproductions.com/theatre.

NNN (Jordan Bimm) WAR HORSE based on a novel by Michael Morpurgo, adapted by Nick Stafford (National Theatre of Great Britain/Mirvish). The story’s familiar – boy gets horse, boy loses horse, etc – but the stagecraft on display in War Horse is like nothing else.

Handspring Puppet Company’s equines come to life with Rae Smith’s spectacular design, which uses projections to convey the First World War battlefields where Albert (an excellent Alex Ferber) seeks the horse he loves. We appreciate the anti-war message, as well, but it’s the magic theatre can create that’ll make you weep. Runs to Sep 30, TueSat 7:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 1:30 pm. $35-$130, 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). This touring version of the classic American musical – one of the best – adds some Spanish dialogue and lyrics for the Puerto Rican characters. The highlights of the production are Jerome Robbins’s original choreography and Ross Lekites as the innocent Tony, whose love for Maria (Evy Ortiz) is passionate and palpable. Runs to Jun 3, TueSat 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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MACHOMER by Rick Miller (Stratford Festival/ 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.

NUNSENSE II by Dan Goggin (Thousand Islands Playhouse). Success brings trouble for a group of singing nuns in this musical comedy. Runs to Jun 16, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun and Wed 2:30 pm. $27-$32, stu/preview $16. Springer Theatre, 690 Charles S, Gananoque. 1-866382-7020, 1000islandsplayhouse.com.

PRESENT LAUGHTER by Noël Coward (Shaw Festival). An actor deals with various people vying for his attention in this comedy. Runs in rep to Oct 28. $35-$110, stu/srs mats $24$45. Festival Theatre, 10 Queen’s Parade, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com.

THE SOUND OF MUSIC by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse (Drayton Entertainment). An aspiring nun leaves the convent to govern a naval officer’s children in this musical. Runs to Jun 9, Tue-Sat (see website for times). $40, stu $20.

Drayton Festival Theatre, 33 Wellington S, Drayton. draytonentertainment.com.

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Chance plays a role in order of scenes By JON KAPLAN PIECES by Sarah Illiatovitch-Goldman, directed by Jill Harper, with Jim Downing, Rosemary Dunsmore and Allison Price.

Presented by Cue6 at Unit 102 Theatre (376 Dufferin). Opens tonight (Thursday, May 24) and runs to June 9, Thursday-Saturday and June 6, various times (see cue6. ca). $20 advance, $30 door, $5 return visit. secureaseat.com.

you could be in the audience at Sarah Illiatovitch-Goldman’s Pieces dozens of times and never see the same play twice.

The story of a husband and wife, Jim and Susan, who receive an unexpected visit from Jodi, Jim’s former lover, is told in an unconventional fashion. Flashbacks to the characters’ pasts are interspersed with the five contemporary episodes of Jodi’s visit.

Where those recent scenes fall is determined just before every performance.

“It’s not a gimmick, though,” says the playwright, “and in fact the structure came as an afterthought to the narrative I wrote, which focuses on relationships, marriage, family and what it means to be happy.”

As she was developing the play, Illiatovitch-Goldman wondered what might happen if Susan rather than Jim opens the front door. When do they all have a conversation about who Jodi is, and who starts it? Or do they avoid it?

“I realized that how you hear a story affects who you side with and what you think happened. So I started to work with a structure that mirrored that idea: how the presentation of information can lead to different conclusions about the characters.”

Director Jill Harper – Illiatovitch-

Goldman’s partner in Cue6 Productions – suggested that she write various key scenes involving the trio, including a dinner, a fight and various confrontations.

Surrounding those scenes are past histories, all set in the bedroom.

“It’s clear that the relationships are loving ones – these are all potentially sympathetic people, both flawed and good – and I thought that placing Jim alternately in bed with each woman was the perfect intimate moment. In different scenarios, you side with different people.”

One of the key artists in Pieces’ recent history is Rosemary Dunsmore, who plays Susan.

“I was beyond elated when she agreed to be part of the production,” says the playwright, a Ryerson theatre grad whose recent work includes playing a liberated maid in Pains Of Youth and a randy satyr in Euripides’ Cyclops.

“Rosemary’s been the person who, when others question the way I’ve structured the play, has always gone to bat for me.”

Each evening a random draw decides which order the five scenes will be played. You can return to see the production – later visits get you discounted entry – and be guaranteed a different theatrical experience.

“It’s funny how we had to fight every time a new actor came on board to read in a workshop, convincing them that the shifting structure would work. We kept saying ‘Just try it, listen to it and see.’

“They all came around.”

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Thursday, May 24 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Jim Colliton, Matt Watson, Aaron Power and host Mike Dambra. To May 27, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:45 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10-$15. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

COMEDY THURSDAYS The Starving Artist presents a weekly showcase w/ host Natasha Henderson. 9 pm. Free. 584 Lansdowne.

647-342-5058, starvingartistbar.com.

EAST SIDE REPRESEnTS Red Sandcastle Theatre presents a monthly comedy revue w/ Sandra Battaglini, Jeanie Calleja, Fiona Carver, Sarah Carver, Precious Chong, Tim Burton, Andrea Murray and others. 8 pm. $10. 922 Queen E. 416-845-9411, redsandcastletheatre.com.

THE GOD-AWFUL COMEDY SHOW JP Hodgkinson and CFI present the monthly atheistfriendly comedy show. 8 pm. $7, stu $5.

Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. cficanada.ca/ontario.

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 Tom Henry, Kathleen Phillips, Aaron Eves and Mikey Kolberg. 9:30 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. laughsabbath.com.

LAUnCHPAD COMEDY presents a weekly show. 8:30 pm. Free. White Swan, 836 Danforth. 416-463-8089.

LIVE WROnG AnD PROSPER Second City presents its latest revue of sketch and improv, written and performed by a fine sextet and directed with note-perfect precision by Chris Earle. Standout sketches take on the economic crisis in Europe, political attack ads (and how they affect a family vacation), bad reality TV and social media.

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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) +1 DAGGER Comedy Bar presents Darren Frost, Ron Sparks and sketch by +1 dagger. 8 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

STOnER COMEDY Hot Box Cafe presents a weekly show w/ host Jillian Thomas. 7 pm. $5. 191A Baldwin. hotboxcafe.ca.

THE TASTY SHOW presents weekly stand-up w/ host Jeffrey Danson. 10 pm. Free. La Revolucion, 2848 Dundas W. 416-766-0746.

YUK YUK’S DOWnTOWn presents Gilson Lubin. To May 26, Thu-Sat 8 pm (plus Fri-Sat 10:30 pm). $12-$20. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

YUK YUK’S WEST presents Kristeen Von Hagen, Paul Haywood and Mike Harrison. To May 26, Thu 8 pm, Fri-Sat 9 pm. $12-$20. 5165 Dixie, Mississauga. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

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Friday, May 25 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 24.

CATCH23 Comedy Bar presents weekly com-

petitive improv. 8 pm. $8. 945 Bloor W. 416551-6540, comedybar.ca.

COMEDY @ CAM’S Cam’s Place presents a stand-up showcase w/ host Matt Holmes. 9 pm. Free. 2655 Yonge.

416-488-3976.

COMEDY On THE DAnFORTH Timothy’s World News Café presents improv with Common Glitterati. 9 pm. Pwyc. 320 Danforth. 416-4612668, comedyonthedanforth.com.

LIVE WROnG AnD PROSPER See Thu 24.

MOCKERY nIGHT In THE JUnCTIOn Shoxs presents stand-up, sketch, improv and more. 8:30 pm. $5. 2827 Dundas W. mockerynight.com.

THE PAnEL SHOW MegaShark Productions presents a comedy quiz show w/ ñ Ron Sparks, Mike Kiss, Chris Leveille and

others. 8 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

PASSIOn COMEDY Passion Lounge presents a monthly comedy show. 9 pm. $5 or pwyc.

1220 Danforth. 416-999-0654.

YUK YUK’S DOWnTOWn See Thu 24.

YUK YUK’S WEST See Thu 24.

Saturday, May 26 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 24.

THE ‘C’ BOMB VARIETY HOUR Moniquea Marion

presents a comedic variety show. 8 pm. $5.

Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

COMEDY LOUnGE Lambadina presents Jean Paul, Jill Knight, Paul Thompson, host Kris Bonaparte and others. 8:30 pm. $10-$15. 875 Bloor W. comedylounge.ca.

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I’M nOT CRYInG In THE BATHROOM, I’M CRYInG In THE SUPPLY CLOSET LadyBusiness pre-

sents a full-length sketch show with Deborah Ring, Alexandra Hurley and Laura Bonang. To May 27, Sat-Sun 9 pm. $10. John Candy Box Theatre, 70 Peter. ladybusinesssketch.com.

LIVE WROnG AnD PROSPER See Thu 24.

SH’LOnG 6: KEEP CALM AnD CARRY SH’LOnG

Black Swan presents short- and long-form improv w/ Dan Hershfield, Andie Leathley, Gord Oxley, Carolyn Williamson and others.

10 pm. Pwyc. 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. 416469-0537, blackswancomedy.com.

SIMOn KInG – UnFAMOUS FOR OnE nIGHT OnLY Empire Comedy Live preñ sents the Vancouver comic in a live show. 10

pm. $15. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-5516540, empirecomedylive.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, followed by the main event at 8 pm. $12, stu $10 (for one or both shows).

Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-4913115, baddogtheatre.com.

YUK YUK’S DOWnTOWn See Thu 24.

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DAYS John Candy Box Theatre presents weekly improv, sketch, stand-up and music.

9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. scnakedfridays@gmail.com.

THE nO nAME COMEDY SHOW The Bar

with No Name presents weekly comedy and people talking loudly w/ host Matt Shury. 9:30 pm. Free.

1651 Bloor W. 416-997-6045.

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Sunday, May 27 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 24.

CHICKA BOOM Laura Bailey and Jess Beaulieu

host an all-female comedy variety night w/ Amanda Day, Evany Rosen, She Said What, Morgonn Ewen and more. 8 pm. Pwyc. Free Times Café, 320 College. 416-967-1078.

COMEDY ABOVE THE PUB – LIVE! Comedy Bar presents a live recording of the podcast show w/ Lauren Ash, Leslie Seiler and host Todd Van Allen. 8 pm. Pwyc. 945 Bloor W. heyitstva.com.

COMEDY AT 51 Kyra Williams presents a latenight comedy cabaret w/ Christi Olson, Chris Allin, Craig Fay, Jon Mick, Deadpan Powerpoint and Jim Kim. 10 pm. Pwyc. Second City, 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011.

HAPPY HOUR @ EIn-STEIn presents Jake Leland, Kenny Molotov, Sean Quinlan, Lauren SanCartier, Akshay Sharma, Matt Shury, host Ian Peet and others. 8 pm. Free. Ein-Stein, 229 College. ein-stein.ca.

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I’M nOT CRYInG In THE BATHROOM, I’M CRYInG In THE SUPPLY CLOSET See Sat 26.

LIVE WROnG AnD PROSPER See Thu 24. nUBIAn DISCIPLES ALL BLACK COMEDY REVUE Yuk Yuk’s Downtown presents

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the monthly show w/ host Kenny Robinson and others. 8:30 pm. $20. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

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Collective presents Anacomically Incorrect, Chad Mallet, Lashings of Apologies, Jan Caruana & Rob Baker, Dylan Goes Electric and host Dave Barclay. 8 pm. $5. Unit 102 Theatre, 376 Dufferin. reveltheatre.com.

SUnDAY nIGHT LIVE The Sketchersons present weekly sketch w/ guest hosts and musical acts. 9:30 pm. $8. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. thesketchersons.com.

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Comedy Bar presents Dave Paterson, Jason Schlessinger, Jennifer McAuliffe, Michael Jagdeo, Darren Pyle, Blair Streeter and host Rene A Payes. 7 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

Monday, May 28 COMEDY LOUnGE Rivoli presents Debra DiGiovanni, John Hastings, Lars ñALTDOT Classington, Bryan Hatt, Dave

Mesiano, Bob Kerr, Sandra Battaglini, Leny Corrado, MC Mark Little and others. 9 pm.

Pwyc. 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com.

BEST. MOnDAY. EVER. Second City presents a weekly show featuring sketch, songs and improvisation. 8 pm. $14. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com.

BLAIR STREETER presents weekly open-mic stand-up comedy. 9 pm. Free. Naughty Nadz, 1590 Dundas E, Mississauga. 905-232-5577.

CHEAP LAUGHS MOnDAY PJ O’Briens Irish Pub presents a show w/ Russell Roy and guests. 9 pm. Free. 39 Colborne. 416-815-7562.

THE COMEDY CABARET Chris MacLean and

Robin Crossman present the pro/am Mayhem In May stand-up show w/ Michael Harrison, Geoff Hendry, Jeff Leeson, Hannah Hogan and others. 8 pm. Pwyc. Charlotte Room, 19 Charlotte. thecomedycabaret.com.

SHOELESS AT THE JOKEBOX Impulsive Entertainment presents Shoeless w/ Darryl Orr, Plum Thunder, host Xerxes Cortez and others. 8 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. impulsiveent.com.

STAnD-UP AT SAZERAC presents a weekly stand-up show. 9 pm. Free. Sazerac Gastro Lounge, 782 King W. sazerac.ca.

THE VEST SHOW In TOWn Comedy Bar presents a variety show w/ Vest of Friends. 10 pm. Pwyc. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

Tuesday, May 29 COMEDY On KEnSInGTOn Lola presents its

biweekly stand-up comedy night. 8 pm.

Free. 40 Kensington. 416-348-8645.

I HEART JOKES The Central presents weekly comedy w/ host Evan Desmarais. 7 pm. $5.

603 Markham. 416-913-4586.

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Second City presents a fast-paced, completely improvised weekly show. 8 pm. $20.

51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com.

SKETCHCOMEDYLOUnGE Rivoli presents The Twitter Gong Show! featuring audience participation, w/ host Mark DeBonis. 9 pm. Pwyc.

332 Queen W. sketchcomedylounge.com.

YUK YUK’S DOWnTOWn presents the Humber School of Comedy at 7:30 pm, and stand-up Amateur Night at 9:30 pm. $4. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

Wednesday, May 30 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Pro-Am Night w/ Mike Dambra, Amber Harper-Young, Rick Jones, Suneet Luthra, Chris Roberts, Tom Hills, JP Hodgkinson and host Matt Billon.

8:30 pm. $6. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

CHUCKLE CO. PRESEnTS Joel Buxton, Adrian Sawyer and DJ Demers present weekly stand-up. 9 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, comedybar.ca.

HUMPDAY HUMOUR Muoi Nene Productions present weekly Afrocentric comedy w/ Raïs Muoi and others. 7 pm. Free. Hakuna Matata Sports Bar, 326 Parliament. 416-519-1569.

LIVE WROnG AnD PROSPER See Thu 24.

SIREn’S COMEDY Celt’s Pub presents openmic stand-up w/ Linda Ellis and host Sarah Donaldson. 8:30 pm. Free. 2872 Dundas W. 416-767-3339.

SWITCH OFF Touch My Stereotype presents a sketch competition w/ the Whisky Dicks, the Ladies of the Sketchersons and Vest of Friends. 9 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. touchmystereotype.com.

TACOMEDY Mark DeBonis presents weekly stand-up. 10 pm. Pwyc. La Revolucion, 2848 Dundas W. iamnotmarkdebonis.com.

YUK YUK’S DOWnTOWn presents Pete Johansson. To Jun 3, Wed-Sun 8 pm (plus FriSat 10:30 pm). $12-$20. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

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Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre present six contemporary dance works including works by Colin Connor, Sylvie Bouchard, Carol Anderson and Deborah Lundmark. May 25-26, Fri-Sat 8 pm. $25-$38, stu/ srs $22.50-$35. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, ccdt.org.

DAMARU|MUDRA Harbourfront NextSteps presents choreography by Bageshree Vaze and Andrea Nann exploring the masculine vs feminine in Indian culture. May 25-26, Fri-Sat 8 pm. $15-$28. Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com.

DAnCE THROUGH TIME Opera Atelier presents the School of Atelier Ballet performing Renaissance, baroque and 19th-century dances as part of Doors Open Toronto. May 27 at 2 pm. Free. St Lawrence Hall, 157 King E. operaatelier.com.

DOORS OPEn: nATIOnAL BALLET TOUR The National Ballet of Canada presents tours of the facility where its sets are made. May 2627, Sat 2 to 5 pm, Sun 10 am to 5 pm. Free.

Gretchen Ross Production Centre, 155 Nantucket Blvd. national.ballet.ca.

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COLLIDE LINK Dance Foundation, DanceWorks and the Subtle Technologies Festival present a collaboration between ecologists and dancers to probe connections between science and art. May 25-26 at 8 pm. $25, stu $15.

Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester. subtletechnologies.com.

GHOSTS OF VIOLEnCE Atlantic Ballet Theatre of Canada presents a full-length ballet by choreographer Igor Dobrovolskiy about domestic homicide and its victims. May 26 at 7:30 pm. $29-$99. Bluma Appel Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-366-7723, atlanticballet.ca. nOOR SPRInG COnCERT Noor Cultural Centre presents dance and music from the Indian subcontinent. May 26 at 7:30 pm. $25, child $10. 123 Wynford. 416-444-7148.

SPRInG SHOWCASE 2012 Canada’s National Ballet School presents students performing classical and contemporary works. May 2426, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $50, stu/ srs $25. Betty Oliphant Theatre, 404 Jarvis.

416-964-5148, nbs-enb.ca.

THIS IS BULGARIA BALKANTO Entertainment presents the Bulgarian National Folklore Ensemble performing ethnic songs and dance. May 25 at 8 pm. $40, stu/srs $30, child $20. Edward Johnson Building, 80 Queen’s Park, MacMillan Theatre. 416-8259336, balkanto.ca.

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Hugh Dancy gooses his upright film persona with a smart and sexy turn in Hysteria By RADHEYAN SIMONPILLAI

HYSTERIA directed by Tanya Wexler, written by Stephen Dyer and Jonah Lisa Dyer, with Hugh Dancy, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jonathan Pryce, Felicity Jones and Rupert Everett. An eOne Films release. 99 minutes. Opens Friday (May 25). For venues and times, see Movies, page 78.

hugh dancy is as clean-cut as they come.

I’ve spoken to the British star and Oxford graduate on a few occasions and what always strikes me is his polished manners, posh accent and utter professionalism. He consistently shrugs off questions about how women go gaga over him – that’s all beside the point.

So the sight of Dancy bringing middle-aged Victorian-era women to orgasm in Hysteria is a hoot, especially since the man committing the deed is Dr. Mortimer Granville, whose hands-on method for curing female hysteria eventually led him to patent the first electric vibrator.

On the phone from New York City, where he’s starring in the Tony Award-nominated Venus In Fur, yet another raunchy comedy, the versatile actor acknowledges that he’s been doing a lot of naughty material lately. Yet despite its subject matter, he admires the way Hysteria steers

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away from “cheap thrills, titillation or bawdy sex-comedy,” describing its tone as sweet and innocent instead.

I’d agree – the film is a rom-com at heart.

Dancy and his co-star Maggie Gyllenhaal engage in verbal tête-à-têtes reminiscent of the snappy exchanges in Howard Hawks movies like Bringing Up Baby and His Girl Friday, classics that the actor admits served as major inspirations.

“In modern romantic comedies, it always comes down to blatant rudeness or radical misunderstandings,” he says of the contrived plot mechanisms that steer the genre today. “In the older romantic comedies, it’s more this constant slight rudeness and patronizing quality without any sense of real malice beneath it.”

Dancy goes on to connect the “high-stakes banter” in old-school rom-coms with a shifting world view.

His Girl Friday dealt with women in the workforce. Hysteria tackles the male-driven Victorian medical establishment’s refusal to acknowledge the existence of the female orgasm.

Unsatisfied women were simply considered hysterical.

“I think there always has been and always will be a kind of reactionary fear of female sexuality among certain types of men,” says Dancy, who

agrees that similar sexual hypocrisies exist today. “Just listen to Rush Limbaugh’s radio program for a few hours.”

Hysteria is just the latest in Dancy’s recent string of indie films, after Adam and Martha Marcy May Marlene. The actor who was once a regular in studio movies like Black Hawk Down and Confessions Of A Shopaholic seems to have settled into a Sundance-ready groove.

“I think in the last couple of years the gap between independent and studio films has widened,” says Dancy.

“Finding the $20 to $30 million films seems harder and harder. It’s either be in a comic book movie or take a punt on a much smaller budget.”

While Dancy assures me that he didn’t turn down The Avengers, he also makes it clear that he’s not going out of his way to become the leading man on the IFC channel.

“There’s no glory in just being in a bunch of indie films for the sake of your cred,” Dancy says, taking on a stern tone. “That doesn’t interest me in the slightest.”

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Despite being loosely based on the invention of the vibrator, Hysteria isn’t very risqué, though it’s pleasurable enough. Hugh Dancy stars as Mortimer Granville, a Victorian-era doctor who cures women’s mental ailments by using his fingers to... umm... provide a deep tissue massage.

He’s the rom-com answer to Michael Fassbender’s Carl Jung in A Dangerous Method; both men treat women’s hysteria with orgasms. But when Granville’s clinical hand jobs give him severe cramps, he stumbles upon a mechanical contraption that would eventually become a woman’s best friend.

Though historical accuracy isn’t what director Tanya Wexler is shooting for, her film finds an aloof, playful way to criticize male hypocrisy in Victorian times, when the female orgasm wasn’t medically recognized.

Dancy is an ideal romantic lead, and he has a fine foil in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Charlotte, who embodies the women’s emancipation movement. The charming pair rise above the pandering, RS lightweight material.

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Life’s a beach in breezy Where Do We Go Now?

political comedy

Easy answers WHERE DO WE GO NOW? (Nadine Labaki).

Subtitled. 100 minutes. Opens Friday (May 25). For venues and times, see Movies, page 78. Rating: NNN When Nadine Labaki’s Where Do We Go Now? won the People’s Choice Award at last year’s TIFF, it shouldn’t have been that surprising. Despite dealing with a hot-button issue – the strife between Christians and Muslims in the

Middle East – it’s a surefire crowdpleaser that makes politics go down easy. Labaki could concoct a Molotov cocktail that tastes like a Bellini.

The Christian and Muslim inhabitants of a Lebanese village have learned to coexist peacefully, but random acts of vandalism threaten to break their ceasefire. Before anybody can reach for a rifle, the mischievous women find ways to distract their men from fighting, whether by faking communication with the Virgin Mary or importing Ukrainian strippers to give

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For venues and times, see Movies, page 78. Rating: NNNN

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In addition to reminding us all that bottled water is the most obscene example of corporate appropriation of a public resource – since its marketing subtly suggests that free tap water is somehow less safe or pure, when the opposite is almost always true – Yu’s enviro doc explores the developed world’s coming freshwater crisis,

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which is expected to hit harder than the end of oil. (Not everyone drives, but everyone gets thirsty.)

Using Alex Prud’homme’s book The Ripple Effect as a jumping-off point, Yu

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Ho-hum Henry JESUS HENRY CHRIST (Dennis Lee). 95 minutes. Opens Friday (May 25). For venues and times, see Movies, page 78. Rating: N Quirkiness in movies should be style, not substance, but in Jesus Henry Christ it’s the entire raison d’être.

Writer/director Dennis Lee’s sophomore feature (after the reviled Fireflies In The Garden) is supposedly a comingof-age comedy about a boy genius (Jason Spevack). However, the movie has the attention span of a child with ADHD, getting so caught up in whatever oddities it conjures that it can’t focus on telling a simple story.

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the guys something else to get hard over. The solutions they come up with seem as far-fetched as an accord between the two religions, but that may be the point.

Labaki doesn’t always have an easy time mixing laughs with tears, but it’s difficult not to be charmed by her characters and purpose. Although the politics are half-cooked, this absurd comedy is a delightful tribute to the women who have to find ways to get around men and their follies.

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(In The Realms Of The Unreal) starts with a macro look at America’s heedless water consumption over the decades, which led to the urbanization of unsuitable environments (like, say, Las Vegas) and a generally cavalier attitude to conservation and environmental protection.

The doc puts a human face on its issues through the work of citizen activists like Erin Brockovich, who’s still fighting David-and-Goliath battles against toxic dumping and water contamination.

Yu isn’t out to depress us with a message of doom, and includes a fun sequence in which Jack Black is enlisted as a celebrity spokesman for recycled water to help people over the “yuck factor.” He’s laughing on the edge of the abyss – but of course, we NORMAN WILNER all are. miserable daughter Audrey (Samantha Weinstein), both of whom have enough issues to make their own movie, preferably directed by Wes Anderson. Think The Kids Are All Right by way of Rushmore.

Lee constantly interrupts the plot with visual gimmicks and asides about Henry’s left-wing, über-feminista mom’s (Toni Collette) family history of stooopid fatalities, or sperm donor Dr. O’Hara’s peculiar bout with testicular cancer. These tidbits detract from the relationship between Henry and Audrey, which, despite the fine child actors, remains undercooked.

All the while, the movie crassly deals with issues of race and sexual orientation, not in a way that’s convincingly progressive. Apparently throwing in a black kid adopted by a white family and a young girl raised to be queer are easy (read manipulative) ways to make your film idiosyncratic. RADHEYAN SIMONPILLAI

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Olivia Taylor Dudley and Dimitri Diatchenko take in the bleak view in Chernobyl Diaries.

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pulsive “extreme tourism” jaunt turns into a constricting nightmare. But it works pretty well just the same.

It’s basically a Eurotrip version of Chernobyl Diaries (Brad Parker). 85 The Hills Have Eyes, with unassuming minutes. Some subtitles. Opens Friday city folk (including Jesse McCartney, (May 25). For venues and times, see Jonathan Sadowski and Devin Kelley) Movies, page 78. Rating: nnn served up as fodder for whatever lurks in the woods around Pripyat, the Chernobyl Diaries isn’t a found-footUkraine town evacuated at the start of age movie – not technically, anyway. the Chernobyl disaster in 1987 and But producer/co-writer Oren Peli (who supposedly uninhabited ever since. gave us the original Paranormal If you’ve seen a horror movActivity) and director Brad ie in the last three or four Parker appropriate the decades, you know pinwheeling handheld what’s going to happen aesthetic we’ve come to these poor kids. The to associate with the characters themselves genre to give their horaren’t nearly as interror creeper a jittery with writer esting as the convinenergy, amping up the cingly desolate Hungarsuspense by forcing us ian and Serbian to share the characters’ locations. panicked perspective.

But you can’t help but be There are no surprises, plotsucked into the story, even when wise. Chernobyl Diaries is a straightyou pretty much know, beat for beat, forward horror movie about a group of norman Wilner where it’s going. attractive 20-somethings whose im-

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Men In Black 3 arrives 10 years after the last one, and the jokes haven’t changed much: Will Smith’s Agent J is still getting himself knocked around by giant CG aliens and goggling at the wonders of the universe, and Tommy Lee Jones’s Agent K is still a taciturn buzz-kill.

Except that one day, Agent J wakes up to learn that Agent K isn’t anything at all, having been killed by a timejumping alien (Jemaine Clement) dec-

ades earlier – which requires J to leap back to 1969 and restore their history (and save the Earth, of course) by rescuing the younger K. The genius of MIB3 is that the younger K is played by Josh Brolin, who turns out to be the movie’s best gag, perfectly channelling the cranky pragmatism that makes Jones’s performance so much fun. But the script never gives him – or Smith – anything substantial to do, bouncing the pair from one effects scene to the next.

Propelled by Danny Elfman’s urgent score and Smith’s genial enthusiasm, the movie whizzes by in a blur of speedy activity and elaborate visual eye candy – and 3-D, don’t forget the 3-D – but it evaporates almost as soon as it reaches your retinas. norman Wilner

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AmericAn reunion (Jon Hurwitz, Hayden

Schlossberg) reassembles the cast of American Pie for a largely pointless vehicle that finds our heroes facing their Carlsberg years with a mixture of exhaustion and confusion. Seann William Scott does some amazing things with his face, and it’s nice to see the awkward chemistry between Jason Biggs and Eugene Levy remains intact. But those are fleeting moments of pleasure in a very long, empty movie. 113 min. nn (NW) Colossus, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24

BArrymore (Érik Canuel) is a high-def broadcast of William Luce’s play about the legendary actor John Barrymore, starring Canada’s Christopher Plummer in the lead.

143 min.

Grande - Yonge BAttleship (Peter Berg) is as generic as

they come, with an alien invasion serving as a catalyst for a maverick hero (Taylor Kitsch) to get his shit together and become a leader, just like the young James T. Kirk in the Star Trek movie. The CG is state-of-the-art, as expected from a production of this scale, and the action for the most part visually interesting and easy to understand. (Director Berg’s set pieces in The Kingdom and Hancock had a tendency to slip into incoherence.) And the film should be commended for casting actual military veteran Gregory D. Gadson in the role of a surly double amputee who becomes an essential part of the game plan, though his character is ultimately just one more war movie cliché in a movie that’s filled to bursting with them. If you’re just looking for war movie clichés (and a few aliens), Battleship will give you everything you want, but it might also leave you with minor hearing damage.

This is one of the loudest and most aurally assaultive films I’ve ever seen. Some subtitles. 132 min. nn (NW)

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Sacha Baron Cohen commands you to see his comedy The Dictator.

Bernie (Richard Linklater) is half true-crime

documentary and half dramatic feature, recreating the story of Bernie Tiede (pronounced “tee-dee”), a beloved mortician in Carthage, East Texas, who did something very, very bad. Conceptually, it’s involving for the first half-hour or so, with Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine and Matthew McConaughey as fictional versions of the characters, but director Linklater’s structure means he’s constantly stopping and starting, backing his film up over itself to act out the anecdote that’s just been related to us.

It probably sounded great in the pitch room, but as a movie, it’s on the redundant side.

104 min. nn (NW) Varsity

the Best exotic mArigold hotel (John

Madden) is a middling, manipulative movie that’s saved by a first-rate cast. Various British retirees get lured to a once glorious, now dilapidated Indian hotel for seniors run by a spirited but scattered manager (Slumdog Millionaire’s Dev Patel). Of course, not long after they check in, their late-in-life epiphanies begin. The fragile widow (Judi Dench) slowly gains self-confidence by working at a call centre, while the racist housekeeper (Maggie Smith) learns to get along with those nasty dark-skinned people. Tom Wilkinson’s is the most intriguing character, a man haunted by a traumatic experience when he lived in India as a young man. It all amounts to a master class in screen acting, with Dench and a terrifically understated Bill Nighy (as a hen-pecked civil servant) taking top honours. Too bad the various subplots – including an undeveloped one about the hotel manager’s overbearing mother and his girlfriend – make it longer than it needs to be. 124 min. nnn (GS) Canada Square, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity

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(Lee Hirsch) focuses on five families and their middle-school children in a relatively conventional inside look at kids being mercilessly bullied by their peers. Committed filmmaking at its best – and guaranteed to make a difference. 108 min. nnnn (SGC) Kingsway Theatre, Mt Pleasant, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñthe cABin in the Woods

(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)

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chernoByl diAries (Brad Parker) 85 min. See review, page 76, and Q&A with writer Oren Peli at nowtoronto.com/movies. nnn (NW) Opens May 25 at 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24 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, 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

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) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande Steeles, Humber Cinema, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity dArling compAnion (Lawrence Kasdan) sends an empty-nester (Diane Keaton), her distracted husband (Kevin Kline) and their extended family racing all over a small Colorado town in search of a lost dog. Like Kasdan’s The Big Chill and Grand Canyon, this is about well-off people whose problems turn out to be the catalyst for selfdiscovery and happiness, but this one just feels ridiculously out of touch. 103 min. n (NW) Carlton Cinema

ñthe deep Blue seA

(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

THE DICTATOR (Larry Charles) reunites com-

ic chameleon Sacha Baron Cohen and director Charles, who tested the limits of good taste and political incorrectness with Borat and Brüno. Cohen’s Admiral General Aladeen is a shaggy-bearded tyrant from the fictional country of Wadiya who escapes an assassination attempt, then tries to reclaim his title. There’s a lot of plot to wade through, and the writers concoct an endless stream of jokes – some of which work while others fall flat. The scenes at a touchy-feely co-op where Aladeen hides out are brilliant, made funnier because Anna Faris plays the co-op boss/love interest entirely straight.

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 comparing the U.S. to a dictatorship, proving that even silly comedy can be dead serious. 84 min. 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

DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX (Chris Renaud, Kyle Balda) is the latest feature-length Dr. Seuss adaptation that transforms the masterful author’s succinct writing into souped-up CGI spectacle. Lovers of the book will find the added pop culture references and songs distracting, but the breezy comedy should please kids. Seuss won’t roll over in his grave – maybe just shudder slightly. 94 min.

NNN (Phil Brown) Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20 EDWIN BOYD (Nathan Morlando) 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

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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

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to the more demanding realities of living as adults. 123 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande Yonge, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

footNote (Joseph Cedar) folds an entire

universe of conflict into the tale of two Talmudic scholars: a meticulous father (Shlomo Bar-Aba) who toils angrily in obscurity and his populist, media-savvy son (Lior Ashkenazi). Writer/director Cedar satirizes academic politics, personal integrity and generational resentment, but his stylistic choices undermine the points and punchlines. Subtitled. 105 min. NNN (NW) Grande - Yonge

ñHeadHuNters

(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) Canada Square, 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) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum

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Hysteria (Tanya Wexler) 99 min. See interview and review, page 73. NNN (RS) Opens May 25 at Varsity

ñiNdie Game: tHe movie

(Lisanne Pajot, James Swirsky) is an intelligent, thoroughly absorbing doc that’s a delight for both the avid gamer and those not so up to speed with Nintendo-speak. A handful of independent video game designers and programmers bring us into the hermit caves where games are conceived and walk us through the mounting anxieties and gruelling anticipation that come with delivering product. All the while, the filmmakers and their subjects mount a legitimate case for video games as a new art form, with certain developers taking on the airs of the next generation’s Jean-Luc Godard. If video games are our New Wave, this doc is its Cahiers du Cinéma. Subtitled. 96 min. NNNN (RS) Opens May 25 at TIFF Bell Lightbox

Jeff, WHo Lives at Home (Jay Duplass,

Mark Duplass) finds the directors of The Puffy Chair, Baghead and Cyrus going fully Hollywood with a tale of a 30-year-old layabout (Jason Segel) convinced that the universe is sending him signals. The result is a film trapped irresolvably between the idiosyncrasies it loves and the desire to draw a mass audience. 83 min. NN (NW) Mt Pleasant

Jesus HeNry CHrist (Dennis Lee) 95 min.

See review, page 74. N (RS) Opens May 25 at Carlton Cinema

Jiro dreams of susHi (David Gelb) is an

attractive if slightly undercooked documentary about sushi master Jiro Ono, who rose from humble Japanese roots to become the only sushi chef to receive a three-star restaurant rating in the Michelin Guide. Gelb patiently takes us through each step of the sushi-making process, but there are some oddities; the omission of any mention of Ono’s wife sticks out like a rogue grain of rice on an otherwise impeccable plate. 81 min. NNN (GS) TIFF Bell Lightbox

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(James Mather, Stephen St. Leger) is basically John Carpenter’s Escape From New York in space, with Guy Pearce as a flippant ex-CIA agent sent to an orbiting prison colony to rescue the president’s visiting daughter (Maggie Grace) after 500 defrosted convicts revolt and take her hostage. The latest production from Luc Besson’s Digital Factory (The Transporter, Taken), it’s a clever cat-and-mouse game given additional zing with a nicely selfaware script (co-written by Besson and the directors) and a terrific leading performance from Pearce, who nods to Kurt Russell’s Snake Plissken in his physical carriage but gives his wiseass dialogue an off-thecuff looseness. It sounds like he’s making his lines up as he goes – which nicely matches the improvisational nature of his mission. 95 min. NNNN (NW) Interchange 30, Yonge & Dundas 24

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, Courtney Park 16, Grande Yonge, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Kevin Macdonald) can be compared 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.

Hardcore Bob Marley fans will be astonished by the documentary’s depth and breadth, capturing the musician as both a fallible man and an untouchable legend.

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will walk away enlightened about his music and its roots. Macdonald details Marley’s life from childhood as the rejected son of a British naval officer to reggae icon whose lyrics are cited by every flannel-shirt wearing hippie. The film never lags despite its epic running time, entirely justified by its subject’s complexity and influence. After all, Marley’s not the kind of guy you can take in with just a few tokes. 145 min.

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(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

meN iN BLaCk 3 (Barry

Sonnenfeld) 105 min. See review, page 76. NN (NW) Opens May 25 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Docks Lakeview Drive-In, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinema, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Philippe Falardeau) is a tender and touching drama that captures the pulse of both primary school politics and Canadian immigration.

Algerian refugee Bachir Lahzar (Fellag) becomes a substitute teacher to students struggling with grief after their former teacher’s suicide. Falardeau proves once again why he’s one of Canada’s premier talents in this focused and intelligent drama that never allows allegorical touches to overwhelm the very personal story at its centre. Subtitled. 94 min. NNNNN (RS) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre, Regent Theatre

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(James Bobin) recaptures the unpredictable energy and genuine magic of Jim Henson’s beloved felt creations and releases that energy back into the wild. No, the new songs don’t have the scale or impact of The Rainbow Connection; what could? But when Camilla the chicken covers Cee Lo, all is right with the world. 98 min. NNNN (NW) Coliseum Mississauga

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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, Canada Square, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

tHe raid: redemptioN (Gareth Huw

Evans) is a non-stop action movie in which a Jakarta

tHe metropoLitaN opera: La traviata eNCore is a high-def

broadcast from the Met of Willy Decker’s minimalist production of the Verdi opera, starring soprano Natalie Dessay in the title role.

187 min.

May 26, 12:55 pm, at Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yonge

mirror mirror (Tarsem Singh) is an all-style, no-substance remake of Snow White that casts Julia Roberts as a bitchy cougar of an Evil Queen who wants her stepdaughter (Lily Collins) killed and the hunky prince (Armie Hammer) all to herself. Structurally, the film’s a mess. Director Singh has no idea whose story to tell, and the laughs are uninspired. Singh is more art director than director, but we’ve seen these costumes and fairy-tale forests in any number of Tim Burton movies. 106 min. N (GS) Colossus, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga

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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 Edgar Allan Poe (John Cusack) as a sleuth when somebody uses his stories as the pattern for their grisly killings in 1849 Baltimore. The case is preposterous, but provides some atmospheric, suspenseful fun. 111 min. NNN (AD) Interchange 30, Yonge & Dundas 24 Safe (Boaz Yakin) is a Jason Statham movie, which is always a safe bet for dumbeddown, non-stop action. He plays a prizefighter who protects a young Chinese girl from the Triads, the Russian Mob and corrupt cops. The dialogue is as brutal and inyour-face as Statham’s feet, but even when Safe is bad, it’s good. 95 min. NNN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine

Safe houSe (Daniel Espinosa) is an okay

Bourne Trilogy knock-off. A novice CIA agent and a captured rogue agent go on the run when a Johannesburg safe house gets raided. Its car chases and punch-ups lack the Bourne series’ manic invention, but it still delivers solid thrills, good acting and a fast-paced if predictable spy story. 115 min.

NNN (AD) Kennedy Commons 20

Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Grande Yonge, Interchange 30, Kingsway Theatre

The SamaRiTaN (David Weaver) stars

Samuel L. Jackson as Foley, a grifter just out of prison after a 25-year stretch. Naturally, he finds it harder than expected to stay out of trouble, especially once his dead partner’s son (Luke Kirby) looks him up with an offer of a big score. Foley finds something like contentment in the arms of a junkie (Ruth Negga), but we can tell their happiness will be short-lived by the way the script rushes them into cozy domesticity.

And then... well, things get really, really silly, as director Weaver and co-writer Elan Mastai twist The Samaritan in several different directions before settling for a professional but generic pulp thriller. It’s nicely shot, and there are moments when Weaver gets the modern noir tone exactly right – like the scenes with 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 seem a lot harder to believe. 93 min. NN (NW) 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

a Simple life (Ann Hui) follows an elderly servant (Deanie Ip) who suffers a stroke, forcing her lifelong movie producer client (Andy Lau) to find a nursing home and care for the woman during her dying days. DirecSalmoN fiShiNg iN The YemeN (Lasse Halltor Hui humanistic touch and gentle huström) is a light comedy about a stuffy salmour enliven the weepy material, along mon expert (Ewan McGregor) andBUDDIES a troubled IN with BADthe TIMES THEATRElead PRESENTS two heartbreaking performadministrator (Emily Blunt) ances. Subtitled. 117 min. drawn to one another while NNN (Phil Brown) working to stock the river Kennedy Commons 20 of a wealthy Yemeni sheik (Amr Waked) SouNd of with Atlantic salmY voice mon. No, ser(Zal Batmanglij) iously. 112 is a slippery min. NN (NW) meditation on faith disguised as BUDDIESINBADTIMES.COMscience fiction, with two hipsters (Christopher Denham, Nicole Vicius) trying to expose a mysterious woman (Brit Marling, who cowrote 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 Marling also starred in and co-wrote –

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, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

viRgiNia (Dustin Lance Black) is the ambi-

tious but disappointing feature debut of Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black (Milk). In a small Christian tourist town, unhinged single mom Virginia (Jennifer Connelly) continues a fetish-based affair for years with Sheriff Tipton (Ed Harris). Tipton has political ambitions, and the affair could get in the way. In the meantime, her son’s falling in love with Tipton’s daughter, who may be his sister, and, oh yeah, Virginia has lung cancer. The acting is fine, the film looks decent, and Black’s themes – he’s also the screenwriter – are potentially very rich. But it’s hard to care about any of the characters. The film’s a mess. 116 min. NN (SGC) Carlton Cinema

WhaT To expecT WheN You’Re expecTiNg (Kirk Jones) offers vignettes about the bumps on the road that a woman with a baby bump might encounter. The five couples’ nine-month journeys to parenthood are so chopped up that the people become less fleshed-out characters than types. Still, some stories ring surprisingly true, particularly Cameron Diaz’s controlfreak and Elizabeth Banks’s on-point depiction of a pregnancy from hell. The filmmakers neuter the emotional wreckage of a miscarriage with the standard popsong-montage treatment, clearly trying to move on to the upbeat stuff as quickly as

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WheRe do We go NoW? (Nadine Labaki)

100 min. See review, page 74. NNN (RS) Opens May 25 at Grande - Yonge, Varsity

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) Interchange 30, Yonge & Dundas 24 3

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, Interchange 30

TiNkeR TailoR SoldieR SpY (Tomas Alfredson) is a sleek, expertly acted adaptation of John le Carré’s thriller about a retired British intelligence operative on the hunt for a Soviet mole within MI-6. The remarkable cast includes Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Tom Hardy and the invaluable Benedict Cumberbatch. 127 min.

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midtown canaDa square (ce) 2200 yonge st, 416-646-0444

the Best exOtiC MarigOLd hOteL (PG) thu 4:10, 6:50 Fri 4:10, 7:00, 9:40 sat-sun 1:15, 4:10, 7:00, 9:40 monWed 4:10, 7:00 ChiMpanzee (G) thu 4:30, 6:30 Fri, mon-Wed 4:45, 7:05 sat-sun 2:15, 4:45, 7:05 China heavyWeight (G) thu 4:40, 6:55 dark shadOWs (14A) mon 4:35, 7:15 tue-Wed 4:25, 7:15 the Five-year engageMent (14A) 4:05, 6:55 Fri 9:35 sat-sun 1:20 mat, 9:35 headhunters 4:15, 6:40 Fri 9:00 sat-sun 1:55 mat, 9:00 the hunger gaMes (14A) 4:00, 6:50 Fri 9:45 sat-sun 1:10 mat, 9:45 the LuCky One (PG) thu 4:50, 7:10 the pirates! Band OF MisFits (PG) 4:30, 7:30 Fri 9:30 sat-sun 2:10 mat, 9:30 saFe (14A) thu 4:35, 7:05 saLMOn Fishing in the yeMen (PG) thu 4:00, 6:40 Fri 4:10, 6:45, 9:15 sat-sun 1:35, 4:10, 6:45, 9:15 mon-Wed 4:10, 6:45 think Like a Man (PG) thu 4:05, 6:45 Fri-sun 9:10 21 JuMp street (14A) thu 4:20, 7:00 Fri 4:25, 7:15, 9:45 sat-sun 1:40, 4:25, 7:15, 9:45

mt Pleasant (i)

675 mt Pleasant rD, 416-489-8484 BuLLy (PG) Fri-sat, Wed 7:00 sun 4:30

JeFF, WhO Lives at hOMe (14A) Fri-sat 9:15 sun, tue 7:00 tinker taiLOr sOLdier spy (14A) thu 7:00

regent tHeatre (i) 551 mt Pleasant rD, 416-480-9884

MOnsieur Lazhar (PG) thu, tue 7:00 Fri-sat 7:00, 8:55 sun 4:30, 7:00

silvercity yonge (ce) 2300 yonge st, 416-544-1236

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Metro

West end HumBer cinema (i) 2442 Bloor st. West, 416-232-1939

dark shadOWs (14A) thu 1:30, 4:00, 7:00, 9:45 MarveL’s the avengers (PG) 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Men in BLaCk 3 (PG) thu 12:01 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:00, 7:00, 9:45

kingsWay tHeatre (i) 3030 Bloor st W, 416-232-1939

BuLLy (PG) Fri-Wed 1:15 the CaBin in the WOOds (18A) thu 8:55 Fri-Wed 9:15 the Five-year engageMent (14A) Fri-Wed 7:00 the LuCky One (PG) thu 3:00 MirrOr MirrOr (PG) sat-sun 11:30 MOnsieur Lazhar (PG) thu 1:15 Fri-Wed 3:00 saLMOn Fishing in the yeMen (PG) 5:00 21 JuMp street (14A) thu 7:00

queensWay (ce)

1025 tHe queensWay, qeW & islington, 416-503-0424 BattLeship (PG) thu 12:35, 1:05, 2:20, 3:40, 4:10, 5:30, 6:45, 7:15, 8:30, 9:50, 10:20 Fri-sat 12:35, 1:30, 3:45, 4:45, 6:50, 7:25, 7:55, 9:55, 10:30, 10:55 sun-Wed 12:50, 1:40, 3:55, 5:00, 6:20, 7:00, 8:20, 9:30, 10:10

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WooDBine centre, 500 rexDale BlvD, 416-213-1998 BattLeship (PG) thu 12:45 3:45 6:45 9:45 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:40 ChernOByL diaries (14A) thu 10:00 Fri-Wed 1:15, 3:50, 7:15, 9:45 dark shadOWs (14A) thu 1:25 4:10 7:00 9:45 Fri-Wed 1:25, 4:10, 6:50, 9:15 the diCtatOr (14A) 1:20, 3:45, 7:05, 9:25 MarveL’s the avengers (PG) 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Men in BLaCk 3 (PG) Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:45 the pirates! Band OF MisFits (PG) thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:15 saFe (14A) thu 1:15, 3:50, 7:15 think Like a Man (PG) 1:10, 4:05, 6:55, 9:35 What tO expeCt When yOu’re expeCting (14A) 1:05, 3:55, 6:50, 9:20

east end BeacH cinemas (aa) 1651 queen st e, 416-699-5971

BattLeship (PG) thu 7:00, 10:00 Fri, tue 4:45, 7:40, 10:30 sat-sun 1:50, 4:45, 7:40, 10:30 mon, Wed 7:40, 10:30 dark shadOWs (14A) thu 6:50, 9:30 the diCtatOr (14A) thu 7:30, 9:40 Fri, tue 4:30, 6:50, 9:15 sat-sun 2:00, 4:30, 6:50, 9:15 mon, Wed 6:50, 9:15 MarveL’s the avengers (PG) thu 6:40, 9:50 Fri, tue 3:30, 6:40, 9:45 sat 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20 sun 12:20, 3:30, 6:40, 9:45 mon, Wed 6:40, 9:45 MarveL’s the avengers 3d (PG) thu, mon, Wed 7:10, 10:20 Fri, tue 4:00, 7:10, 10:20 sat 12:20, 3:30, 6:40, 9:45 sun 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20 Men in BLaCk 3 3d (PG) Fri, tue 4:10, 7:20, 10:00 sat-sun 1:30, 4:10, 7:20, 10:00 mon, Wed 7:20, 10:00 the MetrOpOLitan Opera: La traviata enCOre sat 12:55 What tO expeCt When yOu’re expeCting (14A) thu 7:20, 10:10 Fri-sat, tue 4:20, 7:00, 10:10 sun 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 10:10 mon, Wed 7:00, 10:10

north york emPire tHeatres at emPress Walk (et) 5095 yonge st, 416-223-9550

BattLeship (PG) thu 4:10, 5:00, 7:10, 8:00, 10:30 Fri, mon-Wed 3:50, 5:30, 6:45, 8:30, 9:45 sat-sun 12:45, 1:50,

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10:30, 11:00 Sun-Tue 12:30, 1:15, 3:50, 4:40, 7:10, 8:10, 10:30 Wed 12:30, 3:20, 3:50, 7:10, 10:00, 10:30 Men In black 3 (PG) Fri 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 Sat 11:30, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Sun 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 MonWed 1:25, 4:05, 6:45, 9:25 Men In black 3 3D (PG) Fri 12:30, 3:05, 5:40, 8:15, 10:55 Sat 12:10, 2:50, 5:30, 8:10, 10:50 Sun 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 Mon-Wed 2:25, 5:05, 7:45, 10:25 The MuppeTS Take ManhaTTan (G) Sat 11:00 The pIraTeS! banD oF MISFITS (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:15 ThInk lIke a Man (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 whaT To eXpecT when you’re eXpecTIng (14A) Thu 1:35, 4:20, 7:05, 9:50 Fri 2:40, 5:20, 8:05, 10:50 Sat 12:00, 2:40, 5:20, 8:05, 10:50 Sun-Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:15, 10:10

Scarborough 401 & MorninGSide (Ce) 785 Milner ave, SCarborouGh, 416-281-2226

Battleship’s Rihanna wonders if she should stick to singing.

3:50, 5:30, 6:45, 8:30, 9:45 Dark ShaDowS (14A) Thu 3:30, 4:45, 6:45, 7:45, 9:45 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:50, 9:50 Sat-Sun 1:10, 4:10, 6:50, 9:50 Dark ShaDowS: The IMaX eXperIence (14A) Thu 10:20 The DIcTaTor (14A) Thu 4:30, 5:30, 7:20, 8:15, 10:10 Fri, Tue 4:20, 5:20, 7:20, 8:15, 10:10, 10:45 Sat 1:20, 2:15, 4:20, 5:20, 7:20, 8:15, 10:10, 10:45 Sun 1:20, 2:15, 4:20, 5:20, 7:20, 8:15, 10:10 Mon, Wed 4:20, 5:20, 7:20, 8:15, 10:10 Marvel’S avengerS aSSeMble (PG) Thu 3:15, 6:30, 10:00 Fri, Mon-Wed 5:10, 8:45 Sat-Sun 1:40, 5:10, 8:45 Marvel’S avengerS aSSeMble 3D (PG) Thu 4:20, 5:15, 7:30, 8:30, 10:45 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:45, 7:10, 10:30 Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:45, 7:10, 10:30 Marvel’S avengerS aSSeMble: an IMaX 3D eXperIence (PG) Thu 3:45, 7:00 Men In black 3 (PG) 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 Sat-Sun 1:30 mat Men In black 3 3D (PG) Fri, Tue 5:00, 8:00, 11:00 Sat 2:00, 5:00, 8:00, 11:00 Sun 2:00, 5:00, 8:00 Mon, Wed 5:00, 8:00 Men In black 3: an IMaX 3D eXperIence (PG) 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:00 mat

Grande - YonGe (Ce) 4861 YonGe ST, 416-590-9974

barryMore (14A) 3:30, 6:45, 10:00 Sat-Sun 12:30 mat The beST eXoTIc MarIgolD hoTel (PG) Thu 4:00, 4:35, 6:50, 7:20, 9:40, 10:05 Fri 3:50, 4:45, 6:50, 7:40, 9:40, 10:30 Sat 12:40, 1:45, 4:00, 4:45, 6:50, 7:40, 9:40, 10:30 Sun 12:40, 1:45, 3:55, 4:45, 6:50, 7:40, 9:40, 10:20 MonWed 3:50, 4:30, 6:50, 7:25, 9:35, 10:05 chernobyl DIarIeS (14A) Fri 4:10, 6:25, 8:40, 10:50 Sat 1:55, 4:10, 6:25, 8:40, 10:50 Sun 1:55, 4:10, 6:10, 8:20, 10:25 Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:10, 8:10, 10:10 chIMpanzee (G) 5:05, 7:15, 9:25 Sat-Sun 12:15, 2:45 mat The FIve-year engageMenT (14A) Thu 4:25, 7:25, 10:15 Fri 4:55, 7:50, 10:45 Sat 5:05, 7:50, 10:45 Sun 1:30, 4:25, 7:20, 10:05 Mon-Wed 4:25, 7:20, 10:05 FooTnoTe (14A) Thu 9:30 The lucky one (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:00, 10:00 The MeTropolITan opera: la TravIaTa encore Sat 12:55 The pIraTeS! banD oF MISFITS 3D (PG) 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 Fri 3:15 mat Sat-Sun 3:00 mat The pIraTeS! banD oF MISFITS (PG) Sat-Sun 12:45 SalMon FIShIng In The yeMen (PG) Thu 4:15, 7:10, 9:55 The SaMarITan (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:35, 9:50 Fri-Sat 3:45, 6:05, 8:25, 10:55 Sun 1:25, 3:45, 6:30, 9:55 Mon-Wed 3:45, 6:30, 9:50 whaT To eXpecT when you’re eXpecTIng (14A) Thu 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 Fri 5:20, 8:00, 10:40 Sat 12:00, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40 Sun 12:00, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:30 MonWed 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 where Do we go now? (14A) Fri 3:20, 7:00, 10:10 Sat 1:00, 3:20, 7:00, 10:10 Sun 1:00, 3:20, 7:00, 9:50 MonWed 3:20, 7:00, 9:45 yellow SubMarIne Thu 7:00

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a STreeTcar naMeD DeSIre Sun 1:00 whaT To eXpecT when you’re eXpecTIng (14A) Thu 1:10, 3:50, 7:00, 10:00 Fri-Sat 2:00, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 SunTue 1:50, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05 Wed 4:30, 7:20, 10:05

SilverCiTY Yorkdale (Ce) 3401 duFFerin ST, 416-787-4432

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

baTTleShIp (PG) Thu 1:00, 2:00, 4:05, 5:10, 7:10, 8:30, 10:10 Fri 1:20, 1:50, 4:20, 4:50, 7:20, 7:50, 10:20, 10:50 Sat 1:00, 1:50, 4:20, 4:50, 7:20, 7:50, 10:20, 10:50 Sun-Wed 12:50, 1:20, 3:50, 4:20, 6:50, 7:20, 9:50, 10:20 The beST eXoTIc MarIgolD hoTel (PG) Thu 12:50, 1:05, 4:00, 4:25, 7:00, 10:00 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:05, 9:55 The cabIn In The wooDS (18A) Thu 7:25, 10:15 chernobyl DIarIeS (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri-Sat 1:55, 4:10, 6:25, 8:40, 10:55 Sun-Wed 2:45, 5:30, 8:00, 10:25 The DIcTaTor (14A) Thu 12:55, 2:00, 3:15, 4:20, 5:40, 6:50, 8:05, 9:50, 10:30 Fri-Sat 1:10, 1:40, 3:30, 4:00, 5:40, 6:10, 8:00, 8:30, 10:20, 10:50 Sun-Wed 1:40, 2:10, 4:15, 4:45, 7:15, 7:45, 9:45, 10:15 The hunger gaMeS (14A) Thu 12:30, 3:35, 6:40 Fri 12:40, 4:05, 7:15, 10:30 Sat 4:05, 7:15, 10:30 Sun-Wed 12:45, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Men In black 3 (PG) Fri 1:45, 4:20, 7:00, 9:35 Sat 11:10, 1:45, 4:20, 7:00, 9:35 Sun-Wed 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 Men In black 3 3D (PG) Thu 12:01 Fri 12:30, 2:25, 3:05, 5:00, 5:40, 7:35, 8:15, 10:10, 11:00 Sat 11:50, 12:30, 2:25, 3:05, 5:00, 5:40, 7:35, 8:15, 10:10, 11:00 Sun-Wed 2:00, 2:30, 4:40, 5:10, 7:20, 7:50, 10:00, 10:30 The MeTropolITan opera: la TravIaTa encore Sat 12:55 The MuppeTS Take ManhaTTan (G) Sat 11:00 The pIraTeS! banD oF MISFITS 3D (PG) Thu 3:40, 6:20, 8:50 The pIraTeS! banD oF MISFITS (PG) Thu 1:10 Fri, SunWed 12:55, 3:20 Sat 12:00, 2:15, 4:30 SaFe (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:15, 6:55, 9:35 ThInk lIke a Man (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:50, 7:05, 10:05 FriSat 2:00, 4:50, 7:55, 10:45 Sun-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:05 TITanIc 3D (PG) Thu 1:15, 5:20, 9:45

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baTTleShIp (PG) Thu 3:30, 4:10, 6:40, 7:20, 9:50, 10:30 Fri-Sat 12:45, 1:20, 3:45, 4:30, 6:50, 7:40, 10:00, 10:50 Sun 12:15, 12:50, 3:20, 4:00, 6:25, 7:10, 9:30, 10:20 Mon-Wed 3:30, 4:00, 6:30, 7:10, 9:30, 10:20 The beST eXoTIc MarIgolD hoTel (PG) Thu 3:55, 6:55, 9:55 Fri-Sun 12:50, 4:00, 7:00, 10:05 Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:00, 10:05 chernobyl DIarIeS (14A) Fri-Sat 1:00, 3:25, 5:50, 8:15, 10:40 Sun 12:20, 2:40, 5:00, 7:30, 9:50 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:30, 9:50 Dark ShaDowS (14A) Thu 4:20, 4:45, 7:05, 7:30, 9:50, 10:15 Fri, Sun 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30 Sat 11:30, 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:45, 10:30 The DIcTaTor (14A) Thu 3:30, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 Fri-Sat 1:30, 3:50, 6:10, 8:30, 10:50 Sun 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:00 Mon-Wed 5:20, 7:40, 10:00 The FIve-year engageMenT (14A) Thu 10:05 The hunger gaMeS (14A) Thu 3:35, 6:55, 10:10 Fri-Sat

12:30, 3:40, 7:00, 10:15 Sun-Wed 3:40, 7:00, 10:15 Marvel’S The avengerS (PG) Thu 3:35, 6:10, 9:30, 10:10 Fri 3:20, 6:40, 10:00 Sat 12:00, 3:20, 6:40, 10:00 Sun 12:00, 3:40, 7:05, 10:25 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:50, 10:10 Marvel’S The avengerS 3D (PG) Thu 3:50, 4:45, 7:10, 8:00, 10:30 Fri-Sat 12:30, 1:00, 3:50, 4:20, 7:10, 7:40, 10:30, 11:00 Sun 12:30, 1:30, 3:50, 4:50, 7:10, 8:10, 10:30 Mon-Wed 3:50, 4:50, 7:10, 8:10, 10:30 Men In black 3 (PG) Fri-Sat 1:20, 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 Sun 12:10, 2:50, 5:30, 8:10 Mon-Wed 5:30, 8:10 Men In black 3 3D (PG) Fri 2:00, 2:45, 4:45, 5:30, 7:30, 8:15, 10:15, 11:00 Sat 12:00, 2:00, 2:45, 4:45, 5:30, 7:30, 8:15, 10:15, 11:00 Sun 1:00, 2:00, 3:45, 4:45, 6:30, 7:30, 9:15, 10:15 Mon-Wed 3:45, 4:45, 6:30, 7:30, 9:15, 10:15 The MuppeTS Take ManhaTTan (G) Sat 11:00 The pIraTeS! banD oF MISFITS 3D (PG) Thu 5:15, 7:40 The pIraTeS! banD oF MISFITS (PG) Fri-Sun 12:35, 2:50, 5:05, 7:20 Mon-Wed 5:10, 7:25 SaFe (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Fri-Wed 9:40 a STreeTcar naMeD DeSIre Sun 1:00 ThInk lIke a Man (PG) Thu 4:05, 7:00, 9:55 Fri-Sat 2:20, 5:10, 8:00, 10:55 Sun 1:30, 4:20, 7:15, 10:05 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:15, 10:05 whaT To eXpecT when you’re eXpecTIng (14A) Thu 4:55, 7:40, 10:25 Fri 2:25, 5:10, 7:55, 10:40 Sat 11:45, 2:25, 5:10, 7:55, 10:40 Sun 2:05, 4:50, 7:35, 10:20 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:35, 10:20 yellow SubMarIne Thu 7:00

kennedY CoMMonS 20 (aMC) kennedY rd & 401, 416-335-5323

aMerIcan reunIon (14A) 4:05, 6:50, 9:30 Fri-Sun 10:40, 1:20 mat The cabIn In The wooDS (18A) 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25 Fri-Sun 11:30 mat Dark ShaDowS (14A) Thu 2:45, 3:45, 4:45, 5:45, 6:45, 7:45, 8:45, 9:45, 10:25 Fri-Sun 11:45, 1:45, 2:45, 4:45, 5:45, 7:45, 8:45, 10:25 Mon-Wed 2:45, 4:45, 5:45, 7:45, 8:45, 10:25 DeparTMenT (14A) 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 Fri-Sun 12:30 mat Dr. SeuSS’ The loraX (G) 2:00, 4:25 Fri-Sun 11:35 mat The FIve-year engageMenT (14A) 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 FriSun 10:45, 1:45 mat JannaT 2 (PG) 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Fri-Sun 10:30, 1:25 mat The lucky one (PG) 3:50, 6:20, 8:50 Fri-Sun 10:50, 1:20 mat Marvel’S The avengerS (PG) 3:00, 4:00, 6:00, 7:00, 9:00, 10:00 Fri-Sun 11:45, 1:00 mat Marvel’S The avengerS 3D (PG) 2:00, 3:30, 4:30, 5:00, 6:30, 7:30, 8:00, 9:30, 10:30 Fri-Sun 10:30, 11:00, 12:30, 1:30 mat MIrror MIrror (PG) 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Fri-Sun 11:40 mat The raID: reDeMpTIon (18A) 2:10, 4:45, 7:45, 10:10 FriSun 11:50 mat SaFe (14A) 3:30, 5:40, 8:05, 10:20 Fri-Sun 10:45, 1:10 mat SaFe houSe (14A) 6:50, 9:45 continued on page 84 œ

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110 courTney Park e aT huronTarIo, 888-262-4386 baTTLeShip (PG) 1:05, 2:05, 3:55, 4:55, 6:50, 7:50, 9:50, 10:50 Fri-Sun 10:15, 11:15 mat The beST exoTic MarigoLd hoTeL (PG) 1:15, 4:20, 7:15, 10:05 Fri-Sun 10:35 mat chernobYL diarieS (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri-Sun 11:20, 1:25, 3:35, 5:45, 7:45, 10:15 Mon-Wed 1:25, 3:35, 5:45, 7:45, 10:15 dark ShadoWS (14A) Thu 1:15, 2:15, 3:45, 5:00, 5:45, 6:15, 7:30, 8:45, 10:00, 11:00 Fri-Sun 11:45, 2:15, 5:00, 7:35, 10:10 Mon-Wed 2:15, 5:00, 7:35, 10:10 dark ShadoWS: The iMax experience (14A) Thu 4:30, 10:30 The dicTaTor (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 1:05, 2:05, 3:05, 4:05, 5:05, 6:05, 7:05, 8:05, 9:05, 10:05, 11:00 Fri-Sat 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 The LuckY one (PG) Thu 3:20, 8:15 MarveL’S The avengerS (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:30, 4:00, 6:30, 7:00, 9:30, 10:00 Fri-Sun 10:00, 11:00, 1:00, 2:00, 4:00, 5:00, 7:00, 8:00, 10:00, 11:00 Mon-Wed 1:00, 2:00, 4:00, 5:00, 7:00, 8:00, 10:00, 11:00 MarveL’S The avengerS 3d (PG) Thu 2:00, 2:30, 3:00, 5:00, 5:30, 6:00, 8:00, 8:30, 9:00, 11:00 Fri-Sat 10:30, 11:30, 1:30, 2:30, 4:30, 5:30, 7:30, 8:30, 10:30, 11:30 Sun

10:30, 11:30, 1:30, 2:30, 4:30, 5:30, 7:30, 8:30, 10:30 MonWed 1:30, 2:30, 4:30, 5:30, 7:30, 8:30, 10:30 MarveL’S The avengerS: an iMax 3d experience (PG) Thu 1:30, 7:30 Men in bLack 3 (PG) 1:00, 1:30, 3:30, 4:00, 6:00, 6:30, 8:30, 9:00, 11:00 Fri-Sat 10:30, 11:00 mat, 11:30 late Sun 10:30, 11:00 mat Men in bLack 3 3d (PG) Thu 12:01 Fri-Sun 11:30, 2:00, 4:30, 7:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:30, 7:30, 10:00 Men in bLack 3: an iMax 3d experience (PG) Thu 12:01 Fri-Sun 10:00, 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Mon-Wed 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Think Like a Man (PG) Thu 2:50, 5:30, 8:10, 10:50 WhaT To expecT When You’re expecTing (14A) 3:15, 5:40, 8:05, 10:35 Fri-Sun 10:25, 12:50 mat

SIlvercITy MISSISSauga (ce) hWy 5, eaST oF hWy 403, 905-569-3373

The beST exoTic MarigoLd hoTeL (PG) Thu 4:00, 4:30, 6:45, 7:15, 9:35, 9:55 Fri-Sun 1:00, 1:35, 3:50, 4:25, 6:45, 7:15, 9:35, 10:05 Mon-Wed 4:00, 4:25, 6:45, 7:10, 9:35, 9:55 chernobYL diarieS (14A) Fri 1:50, 4:05, 6:20, 8:30, 10:40 Sat-Sun 12:00, 2:05, 4:15, 6:25, 8:35, 10:45 Mon-Wed 5:30, 7:45, 10:00 chiMpanzee (G) Thu 5:00, 7:10, 9:20 Fri 2:05, 4:10, 6:15, 8:20, 10:25 Sat-Sun 12:05, 2:05, 4:15, 6:20, 8:25, 10:30 Mon-Wed 5:05, 7:10, 9:20 The Five-Year engageMenT (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:10, 7:05, 9:50 Fri-Sun 1:25, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 The LuckY one (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 7:20, 9:45 Fri-Sun 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Mirror Mirror (PG) Thu 4:15 Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:00 MonWed 4:50 The piraTeS! band oF MiSFiTS 3d (PG) Thu 4:45, 6:55, 9:10 Fri-Sun 2:55, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 Mon-Wed 4:40, 6:55, 9:10 The piraTeS! band oF MiSFiTS (PG) Fri-Sun 12:45 The SaMariTan (14A) Thu 5:10, 7:25, 9:40 Fri-Sun 1:10, 3:30, 5:50, 8:15, 10:35 Mon-Wed 5:15, 7:30, 9:50 Think Like a Man (PG) Thu 4:25, 7:10, 9:55 WhaT To expecT When You’re expecTing (14A) Thu 4:20, 4:50, 7:00, 7:30, 9:30, 10:00 Fri 12:35, 2:35, 3:05, 5:10, 5:35, 7:45, 8:10, 10:20, 10:45 Sat-Sun 12:00, 12:25, 2:35, 2:55, 5:10, 5:30, 7:45, 8:05, 10:20, 10:40 Mon-Wed 4:30, 4:55, 7:00, 7:25, 9:30, 10:00

north coloSSuS (ce) hWy 400 & 7, 905-851-1001

aMerican reunion (14A) Thu 5:10, 7:55, 10:35 baTTLeShip (PG) Thu 3:40, 4:10, 4:50, 6:35, 7:20, 7:55, 9:45, 10:25, 10:55 Fri-Sun 1:10, 1:40, 3:40, 4:10, 4:40, 7:15, 7:50, 9:40, 10:10, 10:55 Mon, Wed 3:40, 4:10, 6:45, 7:15, 9:10, 9:40, 10:10 Tue 3:40, 4:10, 4:40, 7:15, 7:50, 9:40, 10:10, 10:55 dark ShadoWS (14A) Thu 5:40, 8:20, 10:05, 10:50 Fri, Sun 12:05, 2:45, 5:25, 8:05, 9:45, 10:45 Sat 11:55, 2:45, 5:25, 8:05, 9:45, 10:45 Mon, Wed 3:40, 6:20, 9:05, 9:45 Tue 5:25, 8:05, 9:45, 10:45 dark ShadoWS: The iMax experience (14A) Thu 4:00, 6:30 The dicTaTor (14A) Thu 4:15, 5:30, 6:30, 7:50, 8:45, 10:20, 11:00 Fri, Sun 12:55, 1:30, 3:05, 3:55, 5:20, 6:05, 7:35, 8:20, 9:55, 10:40 Sat 11:25, 12:55, 1:30, 3:05, 3:55, 5:20, 6:05, 7:35, 8:20, 9:55, 10:40 Mon, Wed 3:55, 5:20, 6:05, 7:35, 8:20, 9:55, 10:30 Tue 3:55, 5:20, 6:05, 7:35, 8:20, 9:55, 10:40 goLdFinger Mon 7:00 The hunger gaMeS (14A) Thu 3:35, 7:00, 10:40 Fri-Sun 12:15, 3:35, 6:55, 10:05 Mon 3:35, 6:10, 10:05 Tue-Wed 3:35, 6:55, 10:05 MarveL’S The avengerS (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:10, 9:30, 10:00 Fri, Sun 12:10, 2:40, 3:20, 6:10, 6:30, 9:20, 9:50 Sat 11:40, 12:10, 2:50, 3:20, 6:10, 6:30, 9:20, 9:50 Mon 5:40, 8:50, 9:20 Tue 6:10, 6:30, 9:20, 9:50 Wed 5:40, 6:10, 8:50, 9:20 MarveL’S The avengerS 3d (PG) Thu 4:00, 4:30, 7:10, 7:40, 10:30, 11:00 Fri-Sun 12:50, 1:20, 4:00, 4:30, 7:10, 7:40, 10:20, 10:50 Mon, Wed 3:30, 4:00, 6:40, 7:10, 9:50, 10:20 Tue 4:00, 4:30, 7:10, 7:40, 10:20, 10:50 MarveL’S The avengerS: an iMax 3d experience (PG) Thu 9:00 Men in bLack 3 (PG) Fri, Sun 12:30, 1:45, 3:00, 4:15, 5:30, 7:00, 8:00, 9:30, 10:30 Sat 11:15, 12:30, 1:45, 3:00, 4:15, 5:30, 7:00, 8:00, 9:30, 10:30 Mon, Wed 3:45, 4:15, 6:30, 7:00, 9:00, 9:30 Tue 4:15, 5:30, 7:00, 8:00, 9:30, 10:30 Men in bLack 3 3d (PG) Fri-Sun 1:00, 3:30, 6:00, 8:30, 11:00 Mon, Wed 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Tue 3:30, 6:00, 8:30, 11:00 Men in bLack 3: an iMax 3d experience (PG) Thu 12:01 Fri-Sun 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Mirror Mirror (PG) Thu 4:40, 7:15 Fri-Sun 12:40, 6:45 Mon, Wed 6:50 Tue 6:45 The MuppeTS Take ManhaTTan (G) Sat 11:00 The piraTeS! band oF MiSFiTS 3d (PG) Thu 5:15, 7:35 Fri-Sun 2:50, 5:10, 7:25 Mon-Wed 5:10, 7:25 The piraTeS! band oF MiSFiTS (PG) Fri-Sun 12:20 SaFe (14A) Thu 4:35, 7:05, 10:10 Fri-Sun 1:05, 3:25, 5:45, 8:10, 10:35 Mon, Wed 4:30, 7:05, 9:35 Tue 3:30, 5:45, 8:10, 10:35

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30 InTerchange Way, hWy 400 & hWy 7, 416-335-5323 aMerican reunion (14A) 4:30, 7:10 Fri 9:50 Sat 1:45 mat, 9:50 Sun 1:45 mat The beST exoTic MarigoLd hoTeL (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:30 Fri 4:00, 6:50, 9:40 Sat 12:40, 3:45, 6:50, 9:40 Sun 12:40, 3:45, 7:00 The cabin in The WoodS (18A) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:10, 7:50 Fri 5:10, 7:30, 9:55 Sat 12:25, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:55 Sun 12:25, 2:50, 5:10, 7:50 chernobYL diarieS (14A) 4:45, 5:30, 7:00, 7:45 Fri 9:15, 10:00 Sat 12:15, 1:00, 2:30, 3:15 mat, 9:15, 10:00 Sun 12:15, 1:00, 2:30, 3:15 mat chiMpanzee (G) 5:15, 7:15 Fri 9:15 Sat 1:15, 3:15 mat, 9:15 Sun 1:15, 3:15 mat dr. SeuSS’ The Lorax (G) Thu 4:50, 7:05 Fri 4:45 Sat 12:10, 2:30, 4:45 Sun 12:10, 2:30, 4:50 Mon-Wed 4:50 The Five-Year engageMenT (14A) Thu 4:30, 5:00, 7:30, 8:00 Fri 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Sat 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Sun 1:00, 5:00, 8:00 Mon-Wed 5:00, 8:00 LockouT (14A) Thu 5:05, 7:55 Fri-Sat 7:35, 9:55 Sun 7:50 Mon-Wed 7:55 The LuckY one (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:30, 8:00 Fri 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Sat 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Sun 2:00, 4:45, 7:30 The raid: redeMpTion (18A) Thu 5:20, 7:55 The raven (18A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:35, 7:20 Fri 4:35, 7:15, 9:45 Sat 2:05, 4:35, 7:15, 9:45 Sun 2:05, 4:35, 7:20 SaLMon FiShing in The YeMen (PG) Thu 4:35, 7:35 The SaMariTan (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:45 Fri 5:00, 7:15, 9:30 Sat 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:15, 9:30 Sun 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:45 The Three SToogeS (PG) Fri 4:35, 7:05, 9:35 Sat 12:00, 4:35, 7:05, 9:35 Sun 12:00, 4:35, 7:05 Mon-Wed 4:55, 7:40 21 JuMp STreeT (14A) Fri 4:25, 7:05, 9:45 Sat 1:40, 4:25, 7:05, 9:45 Sun 1:40, 4:25, 7:05 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:25 WraTh oF The TiTanS (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:25

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ProMenade Mall, hWy 7 & baThurST, 905-764-3247 baTTLeShip (PG) Thu 1:00 4:00 7:00 9:35 Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 6:55, 9:35 chernobYL diarieS (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:15, 9:25 dark ShadoWS (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:10, 9:40 The dicTaTor (14A) Thu 1:25 4:20 7:15 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:25, 4:05, 7:10, 9:10 The Five-Year engageMenT (14A) Thu 6:55 MarveL’S The avengerS (PG) 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:30 Men in bLack 3 (PG) Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:00, 9:20 The piraTeS! band oF MiSFiTS (PG) Thu 1:05, 3:00, 5:00 WhaT To expecT When You’re expecTing (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 6:50, 9:20 Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 6:50, 9:15 Mon 4:10, 6:50, 9:15

West grande - STeeleS (ce) hWy 410 & STeeleS, 905-455-1590

baTTLeShip (PG) Thu 4:00, 4:30, 7:00, 7:30, 10:00, 10:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:20, 6:40, 7:20, 9:40, 10:30 Sat-Sun 1:20, 4:20, 6:40, 7:20, 9:40, 10:30 chernobYL diarieS (14A) 3:30, 5:40, 7:50, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:10 mat dark ShadoWS (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:50, 10:25 Fri, MonWed 4:50, 7:30, 10:15 Sat-Sun 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:15 The dicTaTor (14A) Thu 3:30, 5:40, 8:00, 10:15 Fri, MonWed 3:50, 6:00, 8:15, 10:25 Sat-Sun 1:40, 3:50, 6:00, 8:15, 10:25 The Five-Year engageMenT (14A) Thu 4:10, 7:20, 10:10 MarveL’S The avengerS (PG) Thu 5:30, 9:00 Fri, MonWed 3:20, 6:30, 9:45 Sat-Sun 12:10, 3:20, 6:30, 9:45 MarveL’S The avengerS 3d (PG) Thu 3:50, 4:40, 7:10, 8:15, 10:20 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:40, 7:10, 10:30 Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:40, 7:10, 10:30 Men in bLack 3 (PG) 4:10, 6:45, 9:20 Sat-Sun 1:30 mat Men in bLack 3 3d (PG) 5:10, 7:45, 10:20 Sat-Sun 12:00, 2:35 mat The piraTeS! band oF MiSFiTS 3d (PG) Thu 4:20, 6:50 The piraTeS! band oF MiSFiTS (PG) Fri, Mon-Wed 4:30 Sat-Sun 12:50, 3:10 SaFe (14A) Thu 9:30 WhaT To expecT When You’re expecTing (14A) Thu 4:50, 7:35, 10:05 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:25, 10:10 Sat-Sun 2:00, 4:40, 7:25, 10:10 3

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Think Like a Man (PG) Thu 4:45, 7:45, 10:45 Fri-Sun 1:15, 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 The Three SToogeS (PG) Thu 3:45, 6:15, 8:30, 10:55 21 JuMp STreeT (14A) Thu 10:10 WhaT To expecT When You’re expecTing (14A) Thu 5:20, 8:05, 10:45 Fri, Sun 2:00, 4:45, 7:45, 10:25 Sat 11:10, 2:00, 4:45, 7:45, 10:25 Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:45, 10:25 YeLLoW SubMarine Thu 7:00

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

Repertory cinema listings are comprehensive and appear alphabetically by venue, then by date. Other films are listed by date.

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How to place a listing

All listings are free. Send to: movies@nowtoronto.com, fax to 416-3641166 or mail to Rep Cinemas, NOW Magazine, 189 Church, Toronto M5B 1Y7. Include film title, year of release, names of director(s), language and subtitle info, venue, address, time, cost and advance ticket sales if any, phone number for reservations/info or website address. Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm.

festivals inside Out tOrOntO lGBt film festival

tiff Bell liGhtBOx, 350 KinG W. 416-599-tiff (8433), insideOut.ca/tOrOntOfestival

cinemas BlOOr hOt dOcs cinema

506 BlOOr W. 416-637-3123. BlOOrcinema.cOm

thu 24 – Marley (2012) D: Kevin Mac6:30 & 9:45 pm. ñdonald.

Fri 25 – Last Call At The Oasis (2011) D: Jessica Yu. 3:30 & 6:30 pm. Marley. 9 ñ pm.

Sat 26 – Doors Open Toronto. 10 am-2:45

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463 Bathurst. 416-603-6643.

thu 24 – The Death And Life Of Great Amer-

ican Motion Pictures 4: Bela Lugosi. 7 pm.

The Death And Life Of Great American Motion Pictures 5: 3-D Film. 9 pm.

Sat 26 – Metropolis (1927) D: Fritz Lang. 5 pm. The Sex & Violence Cartoon Festival. 8 pm.

SuN 27 – Godzilla Fest. 4 pm. Jane Jacobs: Urban Wisdom (2003) D: Don Alexander. 6 pm. Keanu Reeves Film Fest. 7 pm. Kid Dracula: Nosferatu (1922) D: FW Murnau, set to the music of Radiohead’s Kid A and OK Computer albums. 9 pm.

MoN 28 – The Death And Life Of Great American Motion Pictures 1: The Big Box Office Films Of The Silent Era. 7 pm. tue 29 – The Death And Life Of Great American Motion Pictures 2: The Unbowdlerized History Of American Animated Cartoons. 7 pm.

Wed 30 – The Death And Life Of Great American Motion Pictures 3: Greta Garbo. 7 pm.

Salvador Dali Film Fest. 9 pm.

revue cinema

thu 25-SuN 27 – Screenings, artist talks, panel discussions, parties and ñ 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 24 – Boy Shorts 4: Cappuccino (2010) D: Tamer Ruggli, Teens Like Phil (2011) D: Dominic Haxton, and other short films. 5:15 pm.

Local Heroes: The Seder (2011) D: Justin Kelly, Bunny (2011) D: Nickolaos Stagias, and other short films. 7 pm. The Mountain (2011) D: Ole Giæver. 7:30 pm. Beloved (2011) D: Christophe Honoré. 9:15 pm. She Monkeys (2011) D: Lisa Aschan. 9:30 pm.

Fri 25 – Youth Matinee: No Look Pass (2011) D: Melissa Johnson, and short films Bully This and It Matters. 1 pm. United In Anger: A History Of ACT UP (2012) D: Jim Hubbard.

5:15 pm. Cloudburst (2011) D: Thom Fitzgerald. 7:15 pm. Lost In Paradise (2011) D: Ngoc Dang Vu. 7:45 pm. Kiss Me (2011) D: Alexandra-Therese Keining. 9:45 pm. I Want Your Love (2012) D: Travis Mathews. 10 pm.

Sat 26 – You Are Not Alone (1978) D: Lasse Neilsen and Ernst Johansen. 2:15 pm. Queer Video Mentorship Project: Let’s Talk About HIV (2012) D: Dejano Duncan, Progress (2012) D: Jeff Tanaka, and other short films.

2:30 pm. Jobriath A.D. (2011) D: Kieran Turner. 4:30 pm. Lady Shorts 1: The Kiss (2010) D: Ashlee Page, Deep Down Ballet (2011) D: Isabell Suba, and other short films. 5:15 pm.

Vito (2011) D: Jeffrey Schwarz. 7 pm. Wish Me Away (2011) D: Bobbie Birleffi and Beverly Kopf. 7:15 pm. Woman’s Lake (2012) D: Zoltan Paul. 9:45 pm. Joshua Tree, 1951: A Portrait Of James Dean (2011) D: Matthew Mishory. 10 pm.

SuN 27 – Immediate Boarding (2003) D: Ella Lemhagen. Free family screening. 2 pm.

Mixed Shorts: The Man That Got Away (2012) D: Trevor Anderson, Fresh Air Therapy 2 (2011) D: Christoph Scheermann, and other short films. 2:15 pm. I Am A Woman Now (2011) D: Michiel van Erp. 4:15 pm.

Dirty Poole: A Documentary About Wakefield Poole. Work-in-progress screening and discussion with director Jim Tushinski. 4:30 pm. Closing Gala: Bye Bye Blondie (2012) D: Virginie Despentes. 7:30 pm.

reG hartt’s cinefOrum

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

Fascinating Jobriath A.D. screens during Inside Out’s closing weekend.

JOBRIATH A.D. (Kieran Turner) Rating: NNN The rapid rise and fall of the first openly gay rock star is a fascinating story, but unfortunately it’s clumsily told in Keiran Turner’s doc. The film is packed with great interviews and archival footage but held back by badly integrated animated interludes and heavy-handed narration.

Nevertheless, it’s a heartbreaking study of fame, hype and homophobia.

Jobriath was a talented pianist pm. Free. The Cove (2009) D: Louie Psihoyos.

3:30 pm. Marley. 5:30 pm. Last Call At The Oasis. 8:30 pm.

SuN 27 – Doors Open Toronto. 10 am2:45 pm. Free. Last Call At The Oasis.

3:30 & 6:30 pm. Marley. 9 pm.

MoN 28 – Last Call At The Oasis. 6:30 pm.

Marley. 9 pm. tue 29 – Peace One Day presents a fundraising gala screening of The Day After Peace (2008) D: Jeremy Gilley. Doors 6:15 pm. $21.

Last Call At The Oasis. 9:30 pm.

Wed 30 – Last Call At The Oasis. 6:30 pm.

Marley. 9 pm.

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1028 Queen W. 416-530-0011. cameraBar.ca

Sat 26 – The Fog Of War (2003) D: Errol

ñMorris. 3 pm. Free.

and singer/songwriter who jumped from his role in Broadway’s Hair to a major label record deal in 1970s Manhattan. His ambitious huckster of a manager, Jerry Brandt, badly overestimating how receptive America would be to a proudly out queer glam rocker, put so much hype behind the performer that a massive backlash was inevitable.

You can’t help but think of internetfuelled buzz acts like Lana Del Rey, but in this case massive billboard and bus ads drove the hype cycle. Even though Jobriath’s career ended before

it began, he did manage to influence contemporary queer artists like the Scissor Sisters (whose singer Jake Shears appears in the film).

The bigger problem, of course, was that people like David Bowie and the New York Dolls could get away with playing gay in the 70s, but only as a performance. The world just wasn’t ready for a strange creature billed as the “true fairy of rock ’n’ roll.”

Screens Saturday (May 26) at the TIFF Bell Lightbox as part of the BeNjaMiN BoleS Inside Out Festival.

thu 24 – The Hunger Games (2012) D: Gary

Wed 30 – Free Favourites At Four: Royal Journey (1951) D: David Bairstow, Roger Blais and Gudrun Parker. 4 pm. Free.

Ross. 6:45 pm. Payback (2012) D: Jennifer Baichwal. 9:15 pm.

Fri 25 – The Deep Blue Sea (2011) D: Terence Davies. 7 pm. Jiro Dreams Of Sushi (2012) D: David Gelb. 9 pm.

Sat 26-SuN 27 – The Secret World Of Arrietty (2010) D: Hiromasa Yonebayashi. 2 pm. Jiro Dreams Of Sushi. 4 & 9 pm. The Deep Blue Sea. 7 pm.

MoN 28 – Jiro Dreams Of Sushi. 7 pm.

The Deep Blue Sea. 9 pm. tue 29 – Jiro Dreams Of Sushi. 7 pm.

Bully (2012) D: Lee Hirsch. 9 pm.

Wed 30 – Bully. 1:30 & 7 pm. Jiro Dreams Of Sushi. 9 pm.

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Graham sPrY theatre

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

cinematheQue tiff Bell liGhtBOx

thu 24-Wed 30 – Continuous screenings

thu 25-SuN 27 – Inside Out Film Festival. See

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Wed 30 – The Free Screen presents Bruce

150 JOhn. 416-973-3012. nfB.ca/mediatheQue

reitman sQuare, 350 KinG W. 416-599-tiff (8433). tiff.net

listings, this page.

Baillie’s Quixote, featuring Quixote (196467), All My Life (1966) and short films by Joshua Romphf and Arthur Lipsett. 7 pm.

Free.

fOx theatre

2236 Queen e. 416-691-7330. fOxtheatre.ca

Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm. Free. thu 24-Fri 25 – Broken Tail’s Last Journey.

MoN 28-Wed 30 – Save My Lake.

thu 24-Wed 30 – More than 5,000 NFB films available at digital viewing stations. TueWed noon-7 pm, Thu-Sat noon-10 pm, Sun noon-5 pm. Free.

Sat 26 – WILDsound Short Film Festival. 7 pm.

For more info or to RSVP for a free ticket, see wildsound.ca/torontofilmfestivals.html.

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OntariO science centre

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

thu 24-Fri 25 – To The Arctic. 11 am & 2 pm.

Rocky Mountain Express. Noon. Under The Sea. 1 pm.

Sat 26 – To The Arctic. 11 am, 2, 4 & 8 pm.

Rocky Mountain Express. Noon, 3 & 7 pm.

Under The Sea. 1 pm.

SuN 27 – To The Arctic. 11 am, 2 & 4 pm.

Rocky Mountain Express. Noon & 3 pm.

Under The Sea. 1 pm.

MoN 28-Wed 30 – To The Arctic. 11 am & 2 pm. Rocky Mountain Express. Noon. Under The Sea. 1 pm.

the PrOJectiOn BOOth

1035 Gerrard e. 416-466-3636, PrOJectiOnBOOth.ca.

thu 24 – Portrait Of Wally (2012) D: Andrew Shea. 2 & 7 pm. Battle Royale (2000) D: Kinji Fukasaku. 3:30 pm. A Place Called Los Pereyra (2009) D: Andrés Livov-Macklin.

Spanish w/ s-t. 5:30 pm. The Corridor (2010) D: Evan Kelly. 8:30 pm.

Fri 25 – Raging Asian Women Taiko Drummers present a fundraiser for the Toronto Taiko Festival including a live performance and a screening of Girls Rock! The Movie.

6:30 pm. $10-$20. ragingasianwomen.ca.

Sat 26-Wed 30 – call or check website for schedule.

thu 24 – Epicure’s Revue: The Importance Of Being Earnest (1952) D: Michael Asquith.

6:30 pm. The Hunger Games (2012) D: Gary Ross. 9:30 pm.

Fri 25 – The Deep Blue Sea (2011) D: Terence Davies. 7 pm. Salmon Fishing In The Yemen (2011) D: Lasse Hallström. 9 pm.

Sat 26-SuN 27 – Doors Open Toronto. 10 am.

Salmon Fishing In The Yemen. 4:30 & 9 pm.

The Deep Blue Sea. 7 pm.

MoN 28-tue 29 – Salmon Fishing In The Yemen. 7 pm. The Deep Blue Sea. 9:15 pm.

Wed 30 – Salmon Fishing In The Yemen. 1 & 7 pm. Footnote (2012) D: Joseph Cedar. 9:15 pm.

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Fri 25 – The Deep Blue Sea (2011) D: Terence Davies. 7 pm. Coriolanus (2011) D: Ralph Fiennes. 9:30 pm.

Sat 26 – The Deep Blue Sea. 7 pm. 21 Jump Street (2012) D: Phil Lord and Chris Miller. 9:15 pm.

SuN 27 – 21 Jump Street. 7 pm. The Deep Blue Sea. 9:15 pm.

MoN 28 – The Deep Blue Sea. 7 pm. 21 Jump Street. 9:30 pm. tue 29 – The Images Festival presents The Nine Muses (2011) D: John Akomfrah. 7 pm. $10, stu/srs $5. imagesfestival.com/store.

21 Jump Street. 9:30 pm.

Wed 30 – Jim Munroe presents Ghosts With Shit Jobs (2012) D: Chris McCawley, Jim Morrison, Jim Munroe and Tate Young. 7 pm. $10. ghostswithshitjobs.com/toronto. The Cabin In The Woods (2011) D: Drew Goddard. 9:30 pm.

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tock. 8 pm. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) D: Jim Sharman. Screening with live shadowcast performance by Excited Mental State. 11:45 pm.

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­ ellatt­Newsreel (2006) D: Barbra Cooper, a P film and permanent exhibit on the history of Casa Loma and Henry Pellatt. Daily screenings 10 am-4:30 pm. Included w/ admission. 1 Austin Terrace. 416-923-1171, casaloma.org. thU 24 – Toronto Public Library presents a three-part film series as part of Asian Heri tage Month. This week: Yi­Yi (2000) D: Edward Yang. Mandarin w/ s-t. 2 pm. Free. Reference Library. 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca. fRi 25 – Toronto Socialist Action Rebel Film Series presents A­Multimedia­Introduction­ To­The­Communist­Manifesto (2011) D: Carl Davidson and Zachary Robinson. Discussion w/ Socialist Action’s Barry Weisleder to follow. 7 pm. $4 donation. OISE, 252 Bloor W, room 2-212. 416-535-8779.

Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival presents a free screening as part of Asian Heritage Month: Overheard­2 (2011) D: Felix Chong and Alan Mak. Cantonese w/ s-t. 7 pm. Free. Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles W. reelasian.com.

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society presents the Canadian premiere of Confessions­Of­An­ Eco-Terrorist (2011) D: Peter Brown. Director in attendance. 7 pm. $10-$15 (proceeds support SSCS). OISE Auditorium, 252 Bloor W. seashepherd.org/toronto.

Art Gallery of York University presents Chronicles Of The Outspoken: A Multimedia Art Event, featuring a video screening and more by participants of the Success Beyond Limits youth program. 6 to 8 pm. Free. York U Accolade East Bldg, Tribute Communities Recital Hall, 4700 Keele. theagyuisoutthere. org/chronicles.

The Network for Pan-Afrikan Solidarity presents the documentary The­Scramble­For­ Africa, followed by a discussion on African economics. 8 pm. Free (donations welcome).

OISE, 252 Bloor W, room 5-170. facebook. com/events/238838092887225.

SAt 26 – Toronto Korean Film Festival presents a screening of the PBS food program Kimchi­Chronicles D: Charles Pinsky. 7:30 pm. Free. Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex. tkff.ca.

253469 Artist Project presents Burning Birch X3: The Worldwide Film Festival Of Short Art Films, 15 experimental films by 13 artists, selected by Wesley Rickert. 9:30 pm. $5. Trash Palace, 89B Niagara. 253469.blogspot.ca.

Toronto Animal Rights & Vegan Expo presents film and video screenings as part of the Vegan Spring Expo, including The­World­ Peace­Diet,­An­Interview­With­Dr.­Will­Tuttle and Bold­Native (2010) D: Dennis Hennelly. 10 am-10 pm. Free. Windward Co-op, 34 Little Norway Crescent. tarve.ca.

MON 28 – Trans Film Screening Series presents Paper­Dolls (2006) D: Tomer Heymann.

6:30 pm. Free. William Doo Auditorium, 45 Willcocks. transfilmseries@gmail.com. tUE 29 – The Japan Foundation and the Consulate General of Finland present a screening of the documentary Ito:­Diary­Of­ An­Urban­Priest (2009) D: Pirjo Honkasalo.

6:30 pm. Free. 131 Bloor W, 2nd floor. RSVP to 416-966-1600 ext 103. jftor.org.

WED 30 – The Japan Foundation presents a screening of the performance film Yo-Yo­Ma­ Inspired­By­Bach:­Struggle­For­Hope (1995) D: Niv Fichman. 6:30 pm. Free (must RSVP).

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When Kizuki inexplicably commits suicide at 16, his best friend, Toru, moves away to go to university. A year or so later, Kizuki’s long-time girlfriend, Naoko, shows up, still disturbed about Kizuki and sexually dysfunctional. Toru is torn between her and outgoing Midori.

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At­first­glance­it­looks­like­a­ prime­entry­in­le­cinema­du­ WTF,­those­fine­motion­pictures­like­House­and­Branded­ To­Kill­that­fire­off­a­thousand­ heartfelt­weirdities­that­tantalize­yet­ refuse­to­resolve­into­any­coherent­ meaning.­But­notice­that­Maxine,­ BJM’s­villain,­is­also­the­movie’s­moral­ centre­and­suddenly­the­flick­snaps­ into­focus­as­a­cheerfully­cruel­and­ very­funny­jab­at­human­weakness­ and­celebrity­obsession.

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An airplane carrying oil rig workers crashes high in the Rockies.

Heavy snowfall, 80-below temperatures and 100kph winds give them little chance of survival. The wolf pack closing in takes away even that chance.

Liam Neeson plays the company’s wolf killer, whose cool head and useful knowledge help lead the others across the snow field toward what they hope will be the greater safety of the forest.

The action is played for grim realism.

It’s easy to believe that any of these people could die at any second, and many of them do. Between times, they work out interpersonal conflicts and get philosophical about life and death.

This is handled without dropping into sentimentalism or macho posturing, but it does get a bit heavy-handed. Still, it sets up some of the movie’s finest moments of visual storytelling later on.

Much of The Grey was made in the editing room. Director Joe Carnahan and editors Roger Barton and Jason Hellmann keep pointing this out on their shared commentary. Prominent in the rest of the extras are people telling us how the location was too cold for anyone to remember their lines, let alone act.

EXTRAS Commentary, cast and crew interviews, making-of promotional clips, deleted scenes. English, French audio. English subtitles.

Unforgivable (Mongrel,­2011)­D:­­André­ Téchiné,­w/­Carole­ Bouquet,­André­Dussollier.­Rating:­NNN;­ DVD­package:­none In some ways, Unforgivable plays like one of those Claude Chabrol thrillers where little bits of tension hint at something wrong, but you don’t know what or with whom. In fact, it’s a movie about love, and what’s wrong is a general lack of trust.

Successful 60ish writer Francis (André Dussollier) proposes to Judith (Carole Bouquet) almost as soon as he meets her. Eighteen months later, his divorced daughter, Alice, disappears. He sets Judith’s ex-lover, private eye Anna Maria, on Alice’s trail. Then he becomes jealous of Judith and gets the detective’s estranged son to follow her.

Bouquet has a wonderful face for mistrust. Judith seems happy with Francis, but her narrowed, alert eyes and slit mouth suggest that she’s guarded at every moment.

The action takes place in the ordinary streets and neighbourhoods of Venice. They’re as lovely as the famous bits.

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“The students I have hired from Humber are the most knowledgeable I’ve come across,” said

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Humber programs are attractive to students interested in finding work immediately upon graduation. For graduates, they are grateful for their hands-on teaching, education focused on current industry standards, and quality instructors.

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Savage Love

By Dan Savage

Sexual No-no I’m a 17-year-old gIrl, and In most

as pects I’m confident with mys elf, my identity and my body. Earlier this year I met a girl. She had s ome s erious drama at home and needed to get out of her hous e, s o I let her s tay at mine. Things went a LOT further than I was ready for.

I had jus t had my firs t kis s the month before and didn’t feel like our relations hip was ready for s ex, but I went along with it becaus e s he never gave me a chance to s low things down or s ay no.

My feelings for her are gone; s he is attractive, but we don’t connect. But s he has feelings for me. How can I get her to unders tand, or at leas t res pect, how I feel if s he does n’t unders tand why this was a big deal for me?

Growing Older Youth There’s a movement in sex-ed circles to replace the old opt-out consent mantra, “No means no,” with a new, improved opt-in consent mantra, “Yes means yes.”

YMY says it’s not good enough to wait for the other person to stop the action with a “no,” which many people – particularly young people, particularly young girl people – have a hard time doing. You have to get a “yes.”

But the kind of person who doesn’t give you a chance to say “no,” GOY, is unlikely to solicit a “yes.” Which is why we all need to advocate for ourselves in the moment.

And you failed to do that, GOY – you failed to advocate for yourself in the moment.

I don’t say that to make you feel bad or to shift the blame onto your shoulders, GOY. I say it because we’ve all been there. Most confident, sexually active adults can point to an early experience that went too far too fast, a sexual encounter that left us feeling the way you did after you had sex with this girl. And it’s possible to walk away from an experience like that – one that left you feeling shitty and powerless – feeling empowered to advocate for yourself in uncomfortable sexual situations in the future, GOY, provided you learn the right lesson.

Here’s the wrong lesson: “I’m a total fuckup who can’t speak up for myself when I’m having sex, so I’d better not have sex again. Ever.” That’s bullshit, GOY, and what’s worse, that kind of thinking can make a person more vulnerable the next time she winds up in bed with an insensitive jerk. Here’s the right lesson: “I don’t have to wait for someone to give me a ‘chance’ to say no. I can and will say no whenever I want to. I’m not going to let this happen to me again, because I never want to feel this way again. Ever.”

As for the girl, GOY, tell her straight up that you don’t have feelings for her. And tell her why: Things went too far too fast, and the sex ruined it for you. Don’t sugarcoat things to avoid hurting her feelings, GOY, because she’s got a lesson to learn, too. Hers goes like this: “I didn’t ask the person I was with – someone I really liked – if she was cool with what we were doing, and I totally fucked myself out of what could’ve been a really great relationship. I’m not going to do that to anyone again. Ever.”

Bi partisan I’m a 16-year-old bIsexual guy. I have been in a long-dis tance relations hip s ince September. My girlfriend – let’s call her “Selena” – and I have a good relations hip, but, both of us being bis exual, we have dis cus s ed the pos s ibility of having relations hips with s amegender partners on the s ide. I recently attended my city’s LGBTQ prom. There, I met a 17-year-old guy whom I found

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s omewhat attractive. I gave him my number, and he’s been texting me often, which makes me feel both uncomfortable and enthralled.

Some of the texts that “Dave” has s ent me were s exual in nature. He lives very clos e to where I do. I am a virgin – both genders cons idered – and the idea of s ex right now makes me uneas y. But I am interes ted. Still, s ex s cares me at this point, and I don’t think I’m ready.

As s uch, this afternoon I told Dave I felt we were moving too fas t. He agreed.

I s uppos e I have two ques tions : 1. I am worried about the outcome s hould I tell Selena about my “crus h.” I feel inhibited. How do I bring it up?

2. How can I have a good relations hip with Dave in a nons exual way? I like him a lot, but is friends hip too much to as k s ince he is s exually active and I am not?

Not Agreeable Intervals P.S. My apologies if this problem is a bit juvenile.

1. Openly, honestly, directly and without hesitation.

It might help if you remind yourself – again and again – that while the stakes may feel high right now, NAI, they’re actually quite low. It sounds like your relationship with Selena has allowed you to explore the emotional and social aspects of dating without any sexual pressures or expectations. And that’s been good for you, NAI, and you’ll be bummed when your relationship with Selena ends.

But you shouldn’t be too bummed: There just aren’t a lot of adults out there who are still dating – or who are married to – the folks they were dating in high school. (There are some, of course, just as there are some 90-yearold pack-a-day smokers.) So your relationship with Selena is most likely destined to end at some point. And if a conversation about Dave prompts Selena to end things, well, your relationship with Selena was destined to end at some point, right?

Tell her this: “I met this boy, and he’s been texting me. I don’t want to date him – I’m only somewhat attracted to

him – but I’m enjoying the attention.

But we should talk about that samegender-partners-on-the-side arrangement. Not because I’m going to jump into bed with this guy. I’m not ready for sex. But we should talk about this stuff before I meet a boy I do want to have sex with.”

If Selena flips and dumps you, then she wasn’t open to your exploring your same-sex attractions. Which means your relationship with her wasn’t just destined to end, NAI, it needed to end.

2. Don’t assume that Dave couldn’t possibly be interested in a friendship because he’s sexually active. Lots of sexually active people have friends, and most of us are capable of forming new friendships. If a friendship is “too much to ask” of Dave – if he’s only interested in your dick – he’ll let you know by disappearing on you or by accepting your friendship under false pretenses. If he disappears on you, well, he wasn’t a very nice guy and you didn’t lose much.

If he accepts your friendship only so he can continue pressuring you for sex, well, then he’s not a very nice guy and you won’t lose much when you disappear on him.

But he might be up for a friendship. Lots of sexually active people are. So ask.

CONFIDENTIAL TO CANADIAN HERITAGE MINISTER JAMES MOORE AND CONSERVATIVE MP DEAN DEL MASTRO: Please shut down that sex-ed exhibit (Sex: A Tell-All Exhibition) at the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa! I don’t want Canadian kids to get “reliable answers to their [sex] questions” from museums. I want Canadian kids to get drunkenly dashed-off answers to their sex questions from gay sex-advice columnists. And so, it seems, do you two. I sure do appreciate your support, guys. Now go shut that fucker down. Thanks!

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