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reaction to depression in our next generation of citizens? ”

too bad eldon garnet didn’t photograph or identify the cover- ofnight taggers vandalizing his home (NOW, June 14-20).

Toronto has become a visually oppressive city since I moved here from the U.S., encouraging several of the worst aesthetic blights, including visible trash cans and destroyed street pavement.

Of all the cities I travel to, Toronto has declined to become one of the ugliest.

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Uniformed attendants (yes, poor-paying jobs, but jobs) sweep the streets. Trash cans are tucked away.

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the head at the Eaton Centre and tell them why he opposes a ban on guns?

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(NOW, June 14-20). I used to study whales. Now I track viruses in farmed salmon. These viruses are not good for the environment of the whales of British Columbia. Canada refuses to acknowledge the lab reports, so the only way forward is to let retailers know we don’t want to eat this. Please sign our petition at change.org.

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Violence ruining hip-hop the smashmouth entertainment showcase sounded like a show not to miss before it was cancelled (NOW Daily, June 14).

A side of me wanted to go so bad, but in reality I had no intention of going. Quite frankly, I didn’t want to get caught in some stupid shooting among idiots who continue to ruin the hip-hop game with their cowardly behaviour of shooting one another just because they have a beef.

It’s obvious this is why the popos (Five-O) cancelled the show. They were as terrified as I am. Sad! All I want is to be able to enjoy a show with my kids while teaching them about our music, culture, etc, without any danger.

To the hip-hop community: please continue to send the message of no violence.

Maria Teresa From nowtoronto.com

Flaming Lips as advertised regarding the flaming lips’ nxne show at Yonge-Dundas Square Saturday (NOW Daily, June 17). The advertising was awful. The Ben & Jerry’s awning blocking so many sightlines was really disappointing and frustrating. I now have a long list of businesses I won’t support. Twenty thousand people show up and there’s only a pit for 5,000 in front of the stage, surrounded by a corporate blockade?

That’s negative advertising that doesn’t work for anyone. The Flaming Lips, however, totally transcended the ridiculous set-up with their over whelming awesomeness.

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ces of the international community could have been more effectively allocated to help those who are truly starving.

All of his explanations defy basic common sense.And why is De Schutter now attempting to launch an investigation of the United States?

Human rights should not be exploited by an extreme political agenda that seeks to blame the West for all the world’s ills.

Hillel Neuer UN Watch Geneva, Switzerland

Undercooked casserole

now gave good coverage to the first two Toronto casserole protests on its website, but nada in the print edition, in common with all the traditional mainstream media.

One has to ask, what has to take place to get reported in print in this town? Up to 2,000 folks marching down Bloor Street didn’t work. Shooting up the Eaton Centre certainly did.

As much as some hope the web will make up for what the mainstream media doesn’t carry, the fact is that most folks are still getting much of their info via print and broadcasts.

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“ What has to take place to get reported in print in this town?

Two thousand people marching down Bloor Street didn’t work. ” Chimp etiquette we recently became aware of an ad featuring a chimpanzee dressed in human clothes in an issue of NOW Magazine.

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Chimpanzees used in advertising are separated from their mothers as infants. Individuals who have no chance of growing up in a normal group of chimpanzees not only fail to learn chimp etiquette, but are likely to show abnormal behaviours.

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Wednesday, June 13 Roughly 200 riders take over Jarvis in a rolling protest against the planned removal of bike lanes on the north-south thoroughfare.

The popular rave drug ecstasy is safe for public consumption and should be sold in government-run stores. So says BC’s provincial health officer after 16 deaths out west since last July from a tainted batch.

St. Christopher House The Kensington-based non-profit that began as a settlement house marks 100 years of good works .

CYCLE METRICS The week that was in the world of bikes

Saturday, June 16 More than 150 free-wheelin’ pedallers take part in the Global Protest Against Oil Dependency, aka the World Naked Bike Ride.

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Monday, June 18 A long-awaited coroner’s report on 129 cycling deaths in the province makes 14 recommendations, including mandatory helmets and side guards on trucks.

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On the Waterfront Cityscape 11 Wellesley West A thinly disguised plot to lengthen the runways at the Island Airport to accommodate jets? That’s one of the (conspiracy?) theories being posited by waterfront residents about the Port Authority’s plan by to dump debris from construction of the pedestrian tunnel in the Toronto harbour at the east end of the airport. The TPA says lake-filling “would improve the safe use and operation of the BBTCA (airport) as it would create shallower waters to deter marine vessels from penetrating the obstacle limitation surface of the runway.”

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Toronto Public Health releases the first set of chemical reports on toronto.ca/chemtrac. It’s the first program of its kind in Canada to track harmful emissions from businesses.

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Political brinksmanship The Ontario PCs try to plunge the province into an unnecessary election by voting with the NDP on a host of amendments in a budget they rejected before they read it.

Leader Tim Hudak sends out a presser during squabbling between the NDP and Libs claiming he’s focused on creating jobs. Laughable.

Bad architecture New buildings – as evidenced by this year’s Pug Awards, the People’s Choice of the best and worst in Toronto architecture – continue to disappoint. This year’s worst residential structure: Pearl Condos, a 24-storey precast concrete edifice at Yonge and Sheppard.

Twisted polls Another survey from the Toronto Real Estate Board claims residents support repeal of the land transfer tax. The big hole: it doesn’t ask how they’d feel if losing $300 million in taxes meant losing services.

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CITY HALL

BULLET PROOF It’s delusional and dangerous to argue that our rules governing guns and ammo are tough enough

By ENZO DiMATTEO for the 20 minutes that police Chief Bill Blair spoke on the subject of guns and gun violence at June 15’s Police Services Board meeting, it was easy to see why some progressives still believe he’s the best top cop this city’s ever had.

In his first public pronouncements on the Eaton Centre shooting since the day of (he’s been out of town on police business), Blair dazzled, talking about the socioeconomic factors at the root of gun violence. And pointing out how important employment opportunities are in determining which way kids in disadvantaged communities turn out.

The chief went on to emphasize that it’s important not to stigmatize entire communities. The great majority of those living in the city’s priority neighbourhoods are productive, law-abiding citizens.

Spellbinding stuff coming from the city’s top law enforcer, especially when Blair’s view so sharply conflicts with the mayor’s dangerous thinking on the subject.

Blair couldn’t have picked a more opportune time to let loose: the board is scheduled to hear deputations the same day from Scadding Court Community Centre staff on the importance of keeping in place police-youth initiatives in Regent Park and Alexandra Park – neighbourhoods that have come under media scrutiny in the aftermath of the June 2 Eaton Centre shooting.

But on the issue that’s been clogging the airwaves since, namely Councillor Adam Vaughan’s call for a ban on bullets, the chief would disappoint.

Blair offered that a ban would do little to curtail violent crime.

Back in 2007, he had a different view, supporting a resolution tabled

by Scarborough MPP Brad Duguid, now the minister of economic development, to outright ban the sale of ammo for handguns, except at gun ranges.

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At least the media release issued by Duguid at the time said his resolution had the chief’s support. However, Blair’s spokesperson, Mark Pugash, says it wouldn’t be the first time a politician claimed that an anti-gun measure had the chief’s support. (Duguid is out of town and could not be reached for comment.)

That resolution also proposed making it illegal to buy bullets through the mail or online, and called for ballistics tests on every firearm purchased in Ontario to be recorded in a database so weapons could be traced in the event that they were used in the commission of a crime.

If the sale of ammo outside gun ranges could not be banned, Duguid’s motion said, then detailed record-keeping by retailers of all bullet purchases should be mandatory.

His resolution was passed by the Legislature but remains in limbo. A study of the proposals requested of the Chief Firearms Officer (CFO) was only recently delivered to the Ministry of Community Safety and Corrections.

Presently, gun and ammo retailers are required by the feds to log a buyer’s name and licence number. But not all follow that rule, arguing it’s too onerous and raises privacy issues. In the future, they may not be required to record such info at all; the federal government, fresh from its killing of the long gun registry, has signalled its intention to do away

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with the recording of ammo transactions. Ontario may decide not to abide by the new rules, but other

Where Canada rates among the top 10 exporters of small arms ammunition – just behind Germany, Switzerland and the U.S.

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provinces like Alberta will, opening the door to the possibility of interprovincial movement of ammo.

We’ve heard it a million times: Guns don’t kill people; people kill people. But that argument ignores the fact that there are more than a few holes in our ammo control laws, which have been described by the province’s former deputy CFO as “outdated, contradictory, ambiguous and in some areas completely lacking” – not to mention weakly enforced.

News reports critical of Vaughan’s call for a ban have said that the federal Firearms Act requires buyers of ammunition to have a firearms licence. True, but Ontario’s Ammunition Regulation Act sets out no such restriction. All that’s required under the latter is that the buyer be over 18 and show photo ID, a discrepancy that at the very least creates confusion, if not a legal loophole.

Even more alarming are the lax provisions of Canada’s Explosives Act, which allow anyone to purchase up to 25 kilograms of gunpowder (enough to load 500,000 rounds) and all the casings, caps and primers needed to make bullets without a firearms licence. Police say gangbangers aren’t in the habit of making their own rounds, but a simple Google search will lead you to any number of how-to instructional videos.

Another reality check: it is not an offence in and of itself to possess ammunition in Canada. Indeed, Duguid expressed concern in his resolution about cops having to let gangbangers go who were found in possession of ammunition after they’d dumped their guns.

The Firearms Act is mostly silent on the issue of storage of ammunition, which goes to Vaughan’s and others’ concerns about bullets bleeding into the black

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market. Also fuelling concern is that virtually all types of ammunition are interchangeable between handguns and long guns.

For all the opposition Vaughan’s bullet ban pitch has stirred up, it can be argued that it doesn’t go far enough. A bullet ban in Toronto would only prevent new businesses from selling ammo, not existing ones. Maybe, after Monday’s shooting at a sidewalk café in Little Italy that left one man dead and another in hospital with minor injuries, it’s time to reconsider a handgun ban.

Community Safety Minister Madeleine Meilleur does support a handgun ban. There are few legitimate reasons for anyone outside law enforcement to own guns or ammunition.

It’s delusional and dangerous to argue that our rules governing guns and ammo are strong enough. Obviously they’re not if legal guns are still finding their way into the black market.

The theory that tightening gun control laws is pointless since criminals don’t abide by them ignores research on the subject that suggests otherwise. The trade in guns and ammo must be looked at in the global context. The networks that feed the black market here are transnational.

On that front, Canada’s reputation of cooperation when it comes to controlling the world trade in small arms and so-called light weapons is slipping.

We can never truly combat gun violence without addressing the root causes, of course. All you have to do is take a look at the mapping of shootings in Toronto to know that.

But the more tools given police to fight gun violence, and the stricter the legislative controls, the less likely it is that guns and ammo will end up in the wrong hands. Right now we have a government in Ottawa that’s headed in the opposite direction, protecting the interests of the lucrative guns and ammo business at the expense of public safety.

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profits.

There’s no question that updating housing past its prime and building new spaces will need more cash input from the city, province and feds, likely in the range of $60 million annually for years to come, and that the province should be working with other levels of government to create a national housing strategy as recommended in the Drummond Report. But this on its own won’t solve the problem; Toronto has to borrow the creative ideas pioneered in other cities.

A new report is coming from the Wellesley Institute, and executive director Michael Shapcott says it will look at how Toronto can borrow creative ideas pioneered in other cities.

New York City’s housing authority, for example, with over 415,000 people in 181,500 units, is turning over buildings to non-profit housing providers who have experience managing other low-income housing.

Toronto has lots of successful notfor-profits working in the field, like DACHI (Don Area Co-operative Homes Inc.), a member-controlled organization managing 41 houses in Cabbagetown. This model would allow close attention to be paid to individual units in a way that TCHC can’t manage cost-effectively now. It would also make it easier to attract outside funding.

TCHC, which has 160,000 residents, could also expand its borrowing through a full implementation of the tower renewal program for energy and other environmental upgrades.

The energy savings pay for renovations (and interest on loans) and allow the buildings to be upgraded in other ways that don’t cost TCHC money.

Another successful model is the Regent Park redo. This innovative project took a lot of dedicated work

by TCHC staff as well as its privatesector partner, the Daniels Corporation. It wasn’t about quickly throwing up buildings, but about working with the community to address special needs not present in typical private-sector developments.

The plan is to use 3,000 new mar-

ket condominiums to fund the replacement of 2,083 social housing units and create 700 new ones.

At Don Mount Court, similarly, construction crews are putting the final touches on a new park and road system, and residents have already moved into the 232 new social housing units and 187 market condos.

There are plans for more redevelopments of TCHC properties, including Lawrence Heights and Alexandra Park. These projects are big and complicated, and involve transforming existing communities. In order to get redevelopment right, there needs to be cross-departmental support at the city, a strong team at TCHC, a great private partner and political support to help solve problems as they arise over 10- to 20-year horizons.

Toronto, in many ways, has been a leader in innovative housing solutions. By deepening our successes and doing some creative borrowing from other cities, we’ll start to solve the problems of the tens of thousands of our neighbours who lack proper homes.

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azine yellow and crumble away, especially in the digital age.

We’ve now made every page of the mag available – and searchable – online at broadsidefeminist.com, keeping alive an important part of Canada’s social movement history.

Broadside documents the activism that changed Canada’s political landscape. Want to know why our prime minister won’t dare reopen the abortion issue? Go to the site, search for “abortion” and recall the movement that would not be stopped, even as authorities busted Henry Morgentaler not once but three times.

Some things don’t change fast enough. In the last federal election, not that many more women ran for office than in 1979. We know that because back then Broadside listed every single female candidate – and this was pre- Google, remember.

Canada’s Charter Of

Rights And Freedoms turns 30 this year. The original draft left women out, and legal activists were furious, rallying to make sure equality rights were enshrined in Section 28. Read all about it in Broadside – from the pens of the activists themselves.

Every issue of Broadside contained a full page of women’s events and meetings. You wouldn’t see that today. That doesn’t mean feminists aren’t out there. They’re running the

shelters, rape crisis centres and other institutions we founded during the period Broadside flourished. We’re also influencing trade unions and, yes, the Occupy movement has an energetic anti-patriarchy caucus.

And we’re still living feminism every day of our lives.

The Broadside Digital Project launches Friday (June 22) at the NOW Lounge (see Events, page 22).

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Creative ideas pioneered in other cities can save social housing By ADAM GIAMBRONE for the 80,000 people on the tor­ onto Community Housing Corporation waiting list, last week was not a good one.

Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister Kathleen Wynne, likely with direction from the premier’s office, caved and allowed the city to sell 65 of over 600 houses on residential streets owned by TCHC. Most of these homes are vacant, but if this sell-off is just the start of a larger one, rehousing these tenants will be at the expense of people desperately waiting, sometimes up to 12 years, for an affordable home.

The public housing challenge started with the Conservative government’s downloading of the public housing portfolio in the mid-1990s.

Mike Harris’s regime passed the repair backlogs on to the municipalities, handing over the already tired buildings with no funds for fix-ups.

The feds at the same time got out of the housing business, and soon

Canada was the only OECD country without a national housing program.

Compare this to Sweden, where in many communities, over one-third of people live in mixed-income government housing that includes below-market and high-priced units.

The homes slated to be sold were consciously acquired by the old city of Toronto and other former municipalities in order to diversify its subsidized housing stock. Sprinkled around the city, these houses are often divided into several units that generally have more floor space than traditional tower and townhouse units, the bulk of TCHC’s portfolio.

While the sale of these houses will likely bring in around $300 million (less real estate costs) to be used for repairs, there is no discussion about replacing them. If the 900 units were replaced, the experience of the Regent Park revitalization suggests the costs would likely be in the range of $275 million, eating up most of the

[Frontlines] Susan G. Cole on Broadside, the fem mag unfraid to take shots you don’t realize you’re making history until it’s almost too late. And you don’t realize how easy it is to lose that history – forever – until it almost disappears.

I figured this out recently while working on a project to digitize one of Canada’s most influential feminist magazines of the 80s.

Broadside published monthly from 1978 to 1988, featuring famous Canadian authors like Margaret Atwood and June Callwood and emerging writers. It was Broadside that gave me my voice, and it was in its pages that NOW publishers Alice Klein and Michael Hollett found my byline.

Broadsiders tackled issues and covered artists the mainstream media tended to ignore, and we did it in

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ways conventional journalism mocked. We used the first person, wrote about our own experience, shamelessly touted our activism (each issue contained a calendar of meetings and events where women could get involved) and celebrated our bias.

For various reasons – political and personal changes – we ceased publishing in 1988, and complete sets of the newspapers began languishing in collective members’ basements or in various archives. At a memorial for one of our original members, we realized that we couldn’t let the mag-

Canada is the only OECD country without a national housing program.

You don’t realize how easy it is to lose history until it almost disappears.

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By Ben Spurr

a major review of ontario cycling deaths is recommending signifi­ cant changes to the laws that govern the province’s roads, including mak­ ing it mandatory for all bicyclists to wear helmets and outfitting all Cana­ dian trucks with side guards.

The Ontario coroner’s report, re­ leased Monday, June 18, studied all 129 fatal cycling accidents that oc­ curred in the province between 2006 and 2010, and came up with 14 rec­ ommendations that it says will make riders safer.

While the most controversial is the suggestion that Ontario join four other provinces that already have mandatory helmet laws, the report also recommends mandating side guards on trucks, enacting a “one­ metre” rule for drivers when passing cyclists, ensuring that all new roads in the province are built according to the “complete streets” model, and making cycling safety part of school curricula.

“These recommendations, if they’re implemented, allow cyclists to ride the roads without harm and without fear of injury,” said Patrick Brown, a critical injury lawyer and director of Cycle Toronto, at a press conference announcing the release of the report. “It will open the door so that so many more people can enjoy this great form of transportation.”

The proposal for mandatory hel­ met use stems from data showing that 73 per cent of riders who died during the five­year study period were not wearing protective headgear.

While Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, PEI and British Columbia already re­ quire all bikers to don helmets, On­ tario law currently compels only bi­ cyclists under the age of 18 to do so.

Jared Kolb, director of outreach for Cycle Toronto, one of the groups that contributed to the review, said he sup­ ports all the report’s recommenda­ tions, but stressed that the coroner is calling for the helmet law to be intro­

duced in conjunction with a study on how it would affect cycling activity.

Kolb is concerned about stud­ ies that found cycling rates in other jurisdictions dropped as much as 40 per cent after helmet laws were introduced. He believes the overall benefits of increasing cycling rates may outweigh the positive effect of mandating safety gear.

KEY RECOMMENDATIONS • Amend the Highway Traffic Act to make helmets mandatory for all cyclists.

• Require drivers to give cyclists a 1-metre berth when passing.

• Make side guards mandatory on heavy trucks.

• Ensure that all road design/redesign be guided by a “complete streets” approach including bike lanes and reduced speed limits.

• Prioritize paving the shoulders of provincial highways.

• Mount a public awareness campaign targeting new drivers and truckers.

• Incorporate cycling safety into the public school curriculum.

KEY fINDINgS • 86 per cent (111 of 129) of those killed while cycling were male.

• Over half of cycling fatalities (66 of 129) involved persons 45 and older.

• Cycling fatalities in Ontario declined each year from 2006 (41) to 2009 (14), but rose again (to 25) in 2010.

• The vast majority of cycling deaths occurred in clear weather on dry roads with good visibility.

• Only 27 per cent (35 of 129) of those who died were wearing a helmet.

• 63 per cent of fatal collisions occurred during recreational activities.

“That’s a tough one,” he said of the helmet law suggestion. “There’s a public health issue here that the mandatory helmet law doesn’t neces­ sarily speak to.”

The report was drafted with input from an expert panel that included representatives from cycling groups, the police and the provincial and federal governments. Several of its recommendations are similar to the findings of a 1998 coroner’s review of Toronto cycling deaths, which led to beefed­up collection of cycling collision data. But its most im­ portant suggestions, such as investigating the feasibility of outfitting all Canadian trucks with protective side guards, did not lead to con­ crete changes.

Bike advocates believe side guards, which keep pedestrians and riders from falling beneath trucks, could drastically reduce the incidence of serious accidents like the one that killed Jenna Morrison in Toronto’s downtown west end last November.

Despite inaction on the 1998 re­ port, NDP transportation critic Jonah Schein believes the growing number of cyclists in the province could make the latest review hard for Queen’s Park to ignore.

“Cyclists are active, they’re intelli­ gent, they’re leading the way. I’m ab­ solutely grateful for that, but we need the provincial government to catch up,” he said.

Schein is calling for the Liberal government to enact all 14 of the cor­ oner’s recommendations, although some, like truck side guards, would also require federal law changes.

A statement released Monday by Transportation Minister Bob Chia­ relli says the government supports the coroner’s report “in principle” and will study it as part of an ongoing update of Ontario’s cycling policy. 3

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Budget flip-out

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Libs’ attack on Andrea Horwath obscures privatization plan

By ELLIE KIRZNER

Changing face of Liberalism How the Grits lost their traditional place in the radical middle By WayNE RoBERts what do we make of the fact that both the Conservative finance minister and his Liberal Ontario counterpart have subcontracted the dirty work of privatizing assets and deregulation to anti-democratic omnibus bills that have escaped serious public debate?

Rather than negotiate elements of the 327page package of unrelated assaults on public services and social and enviro regulations, Dalton McGuinty demanded the NDP sign on to 327 pages of change or face an election where he’d hope to win a majority of obedient Liberals.

With as much sadness as anger, it needs to be said that this represents the end of an era in Canada, one of the last strongholds of a “vital centre,” or what former Liberal PM Pierre Trudeau called the “radical middle.”

History has caught up with the “natural governing party of Canada.” The once national party has no presence in the Prairies, the only region experiencing some kind of economic boom, and little clout elsewhere.

At the provincial level, all three governing Liberal parties – in Quebec, Ontario and BC – are becoming parties of the hard-edged right.

Because the Constitution gives provinces control over gambling, and because Ontario has no oil or gas, the main difference between the Ontario Liberal and federal Conservative strategies is the province’s enthusiasm for casinos as job creation.

The death of liberal England happened between 1910 and 1914, and similar terminal illnesses befell liberal parties in Europe and Russia in the same era. Canada’s Liberals, who from the 1940s to the 90s installed many of the fundamentals of what was called a “welfare state,” are on the list of so many other breeds heading for extinction in today’s harsh world.

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sympathetic hearing and reasonable concessions from Liberal governments?

I believe Canadian Liberalism has been sunk by a perfect storm.

First, the drastic weakening of the occupational groupings that formed the voting and activist base favouring generous Liberalism – government workers, teachers, tradespeople and middle managers in secure jobs with major corporations. Most of these people enjoyed the benefits of health and social programs while resisting identification with downright radicals. Many of the large corporations employing them were tolerant of governmentfunded programs that fostered good living conditions and a buoyant consumer economy.

Then there was the collapse of the Soviet Union. This removed a pressure point in favour of social liberalism – capitalism up until then had to compete with communism to show it was a superior way to advance the world’s dispossessed. Such competition by differing economic systems was displaced by a global monopoly promoting the “Washington consensus” driving privatization, deregulation, corporate tax cuts and union-busting.

The swerve to the right by the tag team of Jean Chretien and Paul Martin federally and the election of Dalton McGuinty testify to this trend since the 90s. Meanwhile, social democrats moved to the centre of the spectrum, occupying the same pivot point the Liberals had once controlled. Both Thomas Mulcair and Andrea Horwath have made the most of this opportunity.

To these factors we have to add the toxic remake of the business class in Canada and throughout the G20. Once dominated by manufacturers and others committed to a stable workforce, the business class is now dominated by money traders, speculators and resource extractors who take value from the

real economy, giving back little in return.

Such antisocial elements defined the various internet and housing bubbles of the last 20 years. In Canada they’re exemplified by tar sands promoters, and in Ontario by those poised to exploit the Far North. In Europe they’re the financial industry; traders can move billions out of local economies on a whim, threatening governments with the collapse of their currency.

Liberal governments that only 30 years ago could legislate in areas such as Ontario knowing that Stelco, Dofasco, Royal Bank of Canada, General Motors and Kraft had no choice but to stay and no better place to set up, now live in constant fear of financial exodus.

In the absence of the kind of home-based economy that a fully developed food sector might foster, there is no counterweight to the promoters, financiers and speculators – and thus no place for an old-style Liberal government.

The strange death of Canadian Liberalism will be mourned by some enviro groups that have thrived in the Beltway near Queen’s Park, sometimes serving as senior staff for or receiving major grants from Liberal governments when not leading major non-profits.

When David Suzuki publicly lambasted the Ontario budget on June 12 for its assaults on enviro measures and endangered species, members of these groups quickly filled the email ether with statements disassociating themselves from his brutal equation of the Liberal and Conser vative omnibus bills.

But, alas, Suzuki spoke the truth, and it is a truth that will fundamentally change the landscape of Canadian politics. Things fall apart, the poet Yeats said of times like these, the centre cannot hold.

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with the ontario budget safely tucked into bed, I guess we’re all supposed to forget the histrionics of the last week and how the Liberals lathered themselves into a self-righteous fury over Andrea Horwath’s supposed treachery.

Betrayal is such a seductive narrative. Some commentators, given the challenge of reporting on a budget Bill 55 too technical to make tasty, were content to swallow the Liberal reality. Call this a case of convenient amnesia, because back in April Horwath clearly said following her deal with the premier that amendments were in the offing. What part of amendments did the Libs not get?

For four days in all-party Finance Committee meetings, the NDP tried to mitigate the bill’s damage. And the fact that the deluded Conservatives, aching for an electoral rematch, voted in zany and unpredictable ways can’t be laid at the NDP’s feet.

It seems the Lib orchestration of crisis – election threats, the premier’s cancelled business trip, ominous scenarios about economic ruin – was all about rushing through the covert parts of the plan. Revolutions these days can be quiet, secret things.

You have to ask why, for example, the Liberals, until Monday, June 18, were so insistent that changes like Schedule 15 and 19 – alterations to the enviro protection regime – were tantamount to ripping up their entire economic plan. I mean, were they? If so, this is interesting.

Schedule 15 would have granted the minister more discretion over exemptions to the Crown Forest Sustainability Act, and 19 would do the same for the Endangered Species Act, as well as delaying strategies for species recovery.

Last month, over 50 enviro orgs signed a letter protesting the complex changes to existing regulations. On Thursday, June 14, the NDP, with the Conservatives strangely in tow, voted down 15, and on Monday the Libs yanked 19 from the omnibus bill, allowing it to be debated later. So much for Finance Minister Dwight Duncan’s claim that any changes to Bill 55 would topple the fiscal edifice.

The saga of Schedule 28 was similar. A flood of groups expressed fears about the reach of this section purportedly meant to privatize Service Ontario. Were they paranoid? In May, public interest lawyer Steven Shrybman provided a legal opinion that 28 would allow the government to privatize every public service in the province without legislative approval. The Libs have lawyers, too; is this what 28 was meant to accomplish?

On Monday, the NDP won limits on the scope of that section. It’s a victory as things go, but barely. That seems to be the stupid but temporary moment we’re stuck in.

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NDP leader Andrea Horwath’s supposed budget treachery proved a convenient diversion for the Libs.

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technology Daily deal danger

Who’s responsible when online coupons go sideways By nowtoronto.com editor JOSHUA ERRETT There are currently more than 650 daily deal sites in operation, each sending out at least one newsletter a day with several coupons inside.

Conservatively, there are some 30,000 deals a month for local businesses. Inevitably, some of these will turn out to be nightmares.

Lisa Wegner happened to get one of those nightmare deals – though it might’ve gone a lot worse.

In October 2011, the site DealFind. com offered a photography session downtown: $59 for a 90-minute professional in-studio photo shoot.

Wegner bought it, and almost immediately the thing went sideways.

For starters, she couldn’t book an appointment for the shoot. She contacted the guy a total of nine times, to no avail.

Little did she know this particular photographer had been arrested on two counts of sexual assault in May. She continued to contact him, unaware of his problems with the law.

Three more

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charges of sexual assault and one charge of sexual exploitation were added in June. This time Wegner read about it in the newspaper. Police say women went to the studio expecting a professional instudio photo shoot and were assaulted there.

This, even more than the normal shady deal, raises all sorts of questions about who’s responsible when

bum products and vouchers are sold through deal sites.

Of course it’s impossible for any deal site to anticipate which merchants will be charged with sexual assault or other serious crimes.

Still, Wegner believes DealFind.com should have notified her that the business she bought a voucher for was under police investigation and should have refunded her $59.

According to the site’s terms of service, “If there is anything unusual about a deal (odd timing, odd location, odd condition) we make sure you know about it. Anything less would just be… odd.”

Marina Glogovac, chief marketing officer at the site, assured me that every deal undergoes a screening process.

“We ran with this merchant before, and there was no public record of any known issues. Once we become aware

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of an issue or an allegation, we blacklist the merchant immediately.”

But when Wegner was first unable to book her photo shoot, she contacted the site. She was told then that if she wanted a refund, it was between her and the studio.

Later, when she learned the photographer had been arrested, she again asked for a refund and got no answer.

After I contacted DealFind.com, the company agreed that a refund was in order (though there’s no word of payment as of press time).

Wegner says she’s not just angry over that. She’s pressing the issue so everyone knows the extent of what can go wrong when shopping on daily deal sites.

The lesson: these sites may have changed online commerce in the past year, but buyer still beware. joshuae@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/joshuaerrett

By ADRIA VASIL

Are e-cigarettes better for the environment?

Sitting on a patio in Kensington Market over the weekend as smokers on either side of me lit up, it felt like someone had flipped the time machine switch and transported us all back a decade. Where were the smoke police? The bylaw enforcers? Oh, right, smoking is mostly legal on patios in this town. Shame.

Ontario may have refused to bring in a patio ban, but some jurisdictions are cracking the whip on any public smoking. Ottawa and Vancouver have outlawed smoking on city-owned beaches and in parks as well as restaurant patios.

Whether they’re trying to get around a ban or not, more and more people are turning to smokeless ecigs. These are electronic devices that mimic the experience of smoking tobacco, though the user is really inhaling a vapour that includes nicotine.

My partner came home from a recent poker night thrilled that the room wasn’t filled with the blurry smoke of guys sneaking cigarettes away from their families but instead

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was full of e-smokers. Were they accidental environmentalists, too? Are ecigs actually a greener choice for nicotine-heads?

Well, to begin with, while electronic cigarettes aren’t technically permitted for sale (or rather, Health Canada hasn’t approved any for sale), they’re easy to score online as well as in some variety stores.

Pit e-cigs against traditional smokes and what I can tell you is that the traditional kind account for a hell of a lot more air pollution. They send out a puff of up to 4,000 chemicals with every drag, including carcinogenic formaldehyde, carbon monoxide, benzene and hydrogen cyanide.

E-cigarettes are essentially smokeless and don’t emit the same air-polluting volatile organic compounds that traditional cigarettes do – even the organic kind. However, with eciggies you’re generally vapourizing a mix of liquid nicotine and propylene glycol, a petrochemical that can cause an allergic reaction.

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Electronic ciggies don’t emit the same VOCs as the real stuff. vegetable glycerin base; these could be considered the greener of the two, since VG is essentially a by-product (aka waste product) of biodiesel manufacturing.

Testing by the U.S. FDA found that e-cigarettes do release trace tobaccorelated carcinogenic nitrosamines.

But critics say the FDA has failed to do similar testing on other governmentapproved nicotine products, including patches and gum; Swedish research has found that nicotine gum contains the same nitrosamines.

Though Health Canada says esmokes pose health risks and haven’t been properly evaluated for safety, the American Association of Public Health Employees and Britain’s Royal College of Physicians both consider e-cigarettes a safer nicotine-delivery system than conventional cigarettes. Not that I’m advising you on the health effects of these vaporizers by any means.

E-cigs, patches and nicotine gum all get their nicotine from tobacco,

and wherever you get your nicotine, the problems associated with growing tobacco are the same. Think child labour on tobacco farms in developing countries, pesticide pollution – including over 25 million pounds of pesticides every year on American tobacco alone. I’ve yet to see any certified organic e-cigs, or nicotine gum for that matter.

Probably the biggest enviro advantage to electronic cigarettes is the end of butts. In 2002, over 38 billion cigarettes were sold in Canada, according to Health Canada, and that means over 38 billion trashed butts in one year.

Billions of these ended up washing off streets, down drains, into rivers, lakes and streams where the cellulose acetate filters (from wood pulp) end up leaching the 4,000 chemicals pulled into them with each breath.

Even in the right conditions, those filters don’t biodegrade back into nature but photodegrade into smaller and smaller bits after a decade or so.

Naturally, you have to factor in the full environmental footprint of making this electronic gadget (including its batteries). Depending on the maker, batteries are either rechargeable or disposable, so if you’re shopping around, look for the rechargeable kind, but keep in mind that once they stop holding a charge, you’ll need to make sure you’re recycling them safely (see call2recycle.ca for drop boxes near you).

Possibly the stupidest things I’ve come across are disposable e-cigarettes designed to be recharged maybe three times and then tossed. Who’s the schmuck who thought of that?

As long as you stay away from these, pick vegetable-glycerine-based options and try your very best to use the device as a tool to quit smoking for good (the most important factor), I’d say yes, e-cigs are the lesser evil.

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seaFooD For thought (Toronto Zoo) Seafood and wine tastings, entertainment and more. 6:30 pm. $85. Toronto Zoo, Meadowvale N of 401. 416-392-5929. rsummer solstice in the paDDock (Riverdale Farm) Family picnic with games, entertainment and food. 5:30 pm. $20, fam $50.

Riverdale Farm, Carlton and Sumach. riverdalefarm.ca.

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active hope – with Joanna macy Summer

Solstice celebration with the eco-philosopher.

7:30 pm. $25, adv $20. OISE Auditorium, 252 Bloor W. activehope.info. is aFForDaBle housing a right? Panel discussion with Habitat for Humanity CEO Neil Hetherington and others. 6:40 pm. Free. ING Café, 221 Yonge. 416-644-5929. rnight oF the sacreD sun Summer Solstice concert and peace flag ceremony, with guitarist Mark Battenburg and others. 6 pm. Free.

Children’s Peace Theatre, 305 Dawes. 416752-1550, karen@childrenspeacetheatre.org.

massive changes to the immigration system Rights of Non-Status Women Network

forum on the upcoming changes to the refugee and immigration system instituted by Bill C-31. 1 pm. Free. Friends House, 60 Lowther. rightsofnonstatuswomen@gmail.com. organic magic with worms Learn about worms and vermicomposting. 7 pm. Free. Big Carrot, rm 212, 348 Danforth. 416-466-2129. the page anD persuasion Book summit with writers, publishing professionals, editors, booksellers and others. 8:30 am-5 pm. $166, stu $92. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. booksummit.ca. to make a Farm Screening of the documentary by Steve Suderman and a panel discussion. 6:50 pm. $12. Royal Cinema, 608 College. eventbrite.ca/event/3449231745. toronto anarchist Book Fair Workshops, speakers, discussions, book launches and more. Today 7 pm; tomorrow 10 am-5 pm. torontoanarchistbookfair.wordpress.com.

2 revolucion Film screening and Q&A on neoliberalism and Mexico, with the director and film participants. 7 pm. Free. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. 647-878-1760.

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boat races and live entertainment, try international food and more. Free. Centre Island. torontodragonboat.com.

Jun 23 and 24 rFranco-Fete Francophone music, arts and culture festival with live bands, batik painting, artists and more. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com.

Jun 22 to 24

italian contemporary Film Festival

Documentaries, shorts, political dramas and comedies celebrating Italian culture. $12, stu $10; opening and closing nights $50-$60. TIFF Bell Lightbox (350 King W), Vaughan AMC (30 Interchange Way). icff. ca.

Jun 26 to Jul 1 parkDale Film + viDeo showcase Short films, video and media installations that contemplate global issues from the streets of Parkdale. Free or pwyc. Various venues. parkdaleshowcase.ca.

Jun 22 to 24 priDe toronto The Pride festival features entertainment on outdoor stages, the Pride parade, Dyke March, parties, family activities and much more. pridetoronto. com.

Jun 22 to Jul 1 open rooF Festival International films, documentaries, indie music acts and more every Thu on the patio. $15. Amsterdam Brewing, 21 Bathurst. 416-921-9797.

Jun 21 to Aug 23

reelheart international Film Festival

Showcase of emerging and established independent filmmakers. Pwyc-$12. Projection Booth (1035 Gerrard E), Palmerston Library (560 Palmerston). reelheart. org.

Jun 27 to 30 toronto Jazz Festival Performances by Ali Berkok, Lara Solnicki Trio, Mark Kieswetter, Ted Quinlan, Jim Vivian and many others. Various prices. torontojazz.com.

Jun 22 to Jul 2 toronto korean Film Festival Films of all genres by Korean filmmakers. $12-$20;

passes $35-$65. Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex. tkff.ca.

Jun 22 to Jul 1 rwaterFront Festival East Coast entertainment, culinary demonstrations and competitions, sand sculptures and more. Free.

Queens Quay from Spadina to Jarvis. towaterfrontfest.com.

Jun 21 to 24

continuing rcooking Fire theatre Festival Original plays, puppetry, choral singing, clown, street theatre, wood-fired cooking and more. Pwyc.

Dufferin Grove Park, Dufferin S of Bloor. dufferinpark.ca/cookingfire.

To Jun 24 Female eye Film Festival Provocative and controversial shorts, documentaries and

easy cycling distance. Free. East York Community Centre, 1081 1/2 Pape. 29bikes.ca. zooshare Biogas co-operative Info session on a community-owned biogas plant on the grounds of the zoo. 7 pm. Free. Metro Hall, 55 John, rm 302. Pre-register eventbrite.com/ event/3604445995.

4 cellos For alexanDra park (at-risk kids &

Friday, June 22

Events

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artists For autism (Ausitm Spectrum Disorder) Performances by gNat, Saucy Miso, DJ Hangedman and others. 7 pm-midnight. $25, adv $20. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.

Down with patriarchy, up with miniskirts (That’s Women’s Work Art Network) Performances by Carrie West, Virpi Kettu and others. 8 pm. $20, adv $15. Monarch Tavern, 12 Clinton.

416-531-5833.

youth in Alexandra Park) Benefit concert. 7:30 pm. Donation. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. ancftoronto.org. relay For liFe (Canadian Cancer Soc) All-night fundraising walk. 7 pm. Pledges. Esther Shiner Stadium (5720 Bathurst), Birchmount Stadium (75 Birchmount). relayforlife.ca.

feature films by women directors. $10, stu/srs $5. Carlton Cinema, 20 Carlton. femaleeyefilmfestival.com.

To Jun 24 Japanese Film Festival Best of Japanese contemporary cinema. $10, child $5.

Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, 6 Garamond. 416-441-2345, torontojff.com.

To Jun 21 Queer priDe 2012 Queer comedy with Bitch Salad, hip-hop showcase, burlesque, a performance by Carole Pope and more. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander.

416-975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com.

To Jul 1 toronto wine & spirit Festival Tastings, seminars, vendors and more. $30, adv $25.

Sugar Beach, foot of Jarvis. 416-751-5555, wineandspiritfestival.ca.

To Jul 16 exhibit, music by iDrum, party with DJ Jay Sea and more. 6 pm. $9, stu $8. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. rom.on.ca/fridays. the gtwa at 3! Greater Toronto Workers’ Assembly celebrates its third anniversary with debate and discussion. 7 pm. Free.

OISE, rm 5250, 252 Bloor. W facebook. com/events/301744029916157.

BroaDsiDe lives Launch for the feminist

newspaper’s Broadside Digital Project. 5 pm. Free. NOW Lounge, 189 Church.

416-364-1301, facebook.com/broadsidefeminist.

exhiBition place anD the Battle oF york, 1813 Heritage Toronto walk. 7 pm.

Free. Dufferin Gate at Exhibition Place.

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masQueraDe soliDarite: ontario stuDents uniteD against tuition Fees! Ontario Students Mobilisation Coalition street party, with

masks, costumes and more. 7 pm. Free. Bloor and St George streets. osmc.ca.

Saturday, June 23

Benefits

rBrazilian June Festival (Centre for Sup-

port & Social Intergration Brazil-Canada) Entertainment by Cibele Iglesias, Forro Ze Fua and more. 3 pm. $10, children free. Ukrainian Cultural Centre, 83 Christie. 416-760-2663, facebook.com/caisbrasil.org.

Breakthroughs Film Festival (Summer Film Workshops Program for young women) Short films by young women filmmakers from across the country. 7:30 pm. $15. Projection Booth, 1035 Gerrard E. 416-554-3639, breakthroughsfestival@octaviafilms.com. can’t stop the serenity (Equality Now) A screening of the Joss Whedon film Serenity supports women’s rights. Noon. $15, adv $12.

Toronto Underground Cinema, 186 Spadina. torontobrowncoats.com. rceleBrity BasketBall classic (Muzik Community Courts) DJ Future the Prince, cast members from Degrassi and others, plus games and prizes. Noon-4 pm. Free. Centennial Square at Exhibition Place. rsvp@ muzikclubs.com, muzikcelebrityclassic.com.

Bcycle For sight (Foundation Fighting Blindness) 70K or 140K rides through the countryside to Collingwood. $75. York U Keele Campus (enter from Founders), 4700 Keele. cycleforsight.ca. riDrF Fun Fair/mela event (International Development and Relief Fdn) Cricket games, ultimate frisbee, a barbecue and more. 2 pm.

Free. Taylor Creek Park, Picnic Area #5, 260 Dawes. idrf.ca. music heals! (United Way) Pianist Ricker Choi performs Liszt, Tchaikovsky and more. 7:30 pm. $20, stu $10. Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front W. 416-889-9461, rickerchoi.com.

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art & perFormance tour Toronto Soc of Architects walking tour of contemporary buildings related to art. 10 am. $20, stu/srs $15. torontoarchitecturetours.com.

BeautiFul trouBle: a toolBox For revolution Book launch and discussion about cre-

ative activism with editor Dave Oswald Mitchell and contributors. 7 pm. Free. Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. beautifultrouble.org. capture the Flag Urban game, similar to tag or hide-and-seek. 8:30 pm. Free. King and Sackville. manhunttoronto.wordpress.com.

rceleBrating cricket – the mayor’s trophy Cricket matches. 9 am-6 pm. Free. Sunnybrook Park, 1132 Leslie. cimacanada.org.

culture & campus tour Toronto Soc of

Architects walking tour of musuems and cultural centres. 1:30 PM. $20, stu/srs $15. torontoarchitecturetours.com.

Dance in the garDen with mm2 Outdoor performance by members of MM2 Modern Dance Co and a conversation with the artistic director. 7 pm. $10, stu $7. Toronto Botanical Garden, 777 Lawrence E. 416-397-1340. george noory live! The Coast To Coast AM radio personality appears live, with guests physicist/UFO expert Stanton T Friedman and archaeologist Michael Cremo. 7 pm.

Tickets only available at Conspiracy Culture (1696 Queen W). Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Exhibition Place. conspiracyculture.com.

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rJunction Summer SolStice FeStival

Cirque, buskers, a skateboarding show, family games, film and more. 10 am-midnight. Free.

Dundas West btwn Indian Grove and Quebec, and Keele N of Dundas. thejunctionbia.ca/ the-junction-summer-solstice. learning to orgaSm Non-orgasmic womenonly workshop. Noon-5 pm. $45. Good for Her, 175 Harbord. Pre-register 416-588-0900.

Bmec BikeFeSt Workshops, activities and all things biking for cyclists of all skill levels. 11 am-6 pm. Free. Distillery District, 55 Mill. 416340-2667, blog.mec.ca/events. rnational aBoriginal Day Interactive presentation on drumming and dancing with the Smoke Trail Singers. 9:30 am-6:30 pm.

Free w/ admission. Toronto Zoo, Meadowvale N of 401. 416-392-5929. rnature JournalS Family walk to record observations. 1 pm. $2. High Park Nature Centre, 440 Parkside. highparknaturecentre.com. rPeoPle From the Sky Evening of aboriginal storytelling and music for adults and kids 10 and up, with Theodore Tsaousidis and others.

7 pm. $10. LucSculpture, 663 Greenwood.

416-466-5773.

Bring my Bell Opening of an exhibit featuring a mashup of bike culture, art and fashion, including on-site sewing of wearable art.

From 3 pm. Free. Method LAB, 148 Augusta. nightshadesbikecrew.blogspot.ca. roller DerBy Debs vs Border City Brawlers and G-Stars vs TCRG’s Plan B. 6 pm. $15, adv $12, children free. Ted Reeve Arena, 175 Main. gtarollergirls.com.

SeSSion 99 craFt Beer FeStival Beer sampling, BBQ nibbles and entertainment. 1-4 pm or 6-9 pm. $50, adv $40. 99 Sudbury. sessiontoronto.ca.

Steam on Queen Steampunk street fair featuring local vendors and artisans, performances by Dragonfly Bellydance, Nero’s Fiddle and more. 11 am-5 pm. Free. Campbell House, 160 Queen W. steamonqueen.ca. torex coin Show Coins, paper money, gold, silver, militaria and more. Today 10 am-5 pm; tomorrow 10 am-3 pm. $6, under 16 free. Hilton Airport Hotel, 5875 Airport Rd. torex.net.

town to Park: avenue roaD to roSehill reServoir Heritage Toronto walk. 1:30 pm.

Free. Glenn Gould Parkette, NW corner of Avenue Rd and St Clair. 416-338-3886.

Sunday, June 24

Benefits

let’S Beach (Camp Oochigeas) Music by the

Doubts, a barbecue and more. 1-6 pm. $15.

Balmy Beach Club, foot of Beech. beachesliving.ca/letsbeach.

BZareinu moveathon For kiDS (kids with special needs) 50-, 100- and 162K cycling challenges plus a 25K women’s ride. Pledges.

Thornhill. moveathon.com.

Events

artBuS tour Bus trip to view exhibitions at

MOCCA, the Art Gallery of Hamilton and the Oakville Galleries. Noon-5 pm. $10. MOCCA, 952 Queen W. Pre-register artbus@ oakvillegalleries.com.

Battle oF the SexeS Conversation on gender roles, sexuality and relationships with Lincoln Anthony Blades, Telisha Ng and Stacey Marie Robinson. 7 pm. $20, adv $15. Peridot, 81 Bloor E. battleofthesexesshow.com.

Between the BriDge anD the Brewery: trinity BellwooDS neighBourhooD Herit-

age Toronto walk. 1:30 pm. Free. Trinity Bellwoods Park, NW corner of Queen and Gore Vale. 416-338-3886, heritagetoronto.org. chuck Fager The director of North Carolina’s Quaker House talks about more than a decade of peace work in the shadow of the U.S. war machine. 1 pm. Free. Friends House, 60 Lowther. 416-731-6605.

Dance, Play, learn & live Local performers, workshops, hip-hop, music, theatre and dance. 1 pm. Free. Ralph Thornton Centre, 765 Queen E. 416-392-6810, ralphthornton.org.

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Pride is a designed for celebration, of course, but it’s also the time to reflect on the sober reality of autoimmune deficiency syndrome. Each year, the AIDS Candlelight Vigil recalls Torontonians who have died of AIDS – the 2,500 names on the memorial are read aloud alongside the names of those who died last year – and honours those now living with the disease, estimated to number about 19,000. A night to remember, in more ways than one. Tonight (Thursday, June 21), 9 pm. Cawthra Park Square, 519 Church. the519.org.

conStructing Social JuStice Getting to a fairer, more equitable society requires not one big change

but a mega-package of small ones. Towards A More Equal Society: Getting The Details Right features short, snappy summaries from a list of experts on their fave policies. Speakers include Laurel Rothman of the Family Service Association, Jennifer Laidley from the Income Security Action Centre, Michael Shapcott from the Wellesley Institute, Avvy Go of the Colour of Poverty Campaign, and more. Tuesday (June 26), 7 pm. Free. Council Chambers, City Hall, 100 Queen West. economicinequality.ca.

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Inspired by their Quebec brothers and sisters’ push for fee-free higher education, T.O. students are holding a Masquerade Solidarité – an evening of

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music, dance and demonstration.

The Ontario Student Mobilization Coalition calls on supporters to grab masks and costumes, pots, pans and drums and come to this mixture of charivari and street party. Friday (June 22), 7 pm. Free. St. George subway station, Bedford and Bloor. osmc.ca.

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The TV star/mentalist performs. 7:30 pm. $40. George Ignatieff Theatre, 15 Devonshire. reallifementalist.com/TorontoLiveShow. high Park StewarDS SeSSion Help weed and plant in the High Park greenhouse nursery.

10:30 am-1 pm. Free. Grenadier Cafe, High Park. highparknature.org. hiStorical BreakFaSt Dance Georgian breakfast, English country dance workshop and dancing. 10 am. $15-$45. Motgomery’s Inn, 4709 Dundas W. janeaustendancing.ca. the ineQuality criSiS anD tax FairneSS Canadians for Tax Fairness talk on the connection

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Albert Campbell Library, 496 Birchmount. gracey.gardhouse@sympatico.ca.

Kitchen herbs For Food And heAling Tour and talk by herbalist Danette Steele. 10 am. $45, adv $35, stu $25. Ben Nobleman Park (across from Eglinton West subway). Preregister communityorchard.ca. rleslieville tree FestivAl Live music and dance performances, educational displays by environmental groups, kids’ activities and more. Noon-4 pm. Free. Leslie Grove Park, Queen and Jones. yourleaf.org.

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2 pm. Free. Eastern cemetery entrance off Mt Pleasant. 416-586-8000, rom.on.ca. nAtions United An evening of music, culture and celebration honours humanitarians and

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cooK For the cUre PinKnic (Canadian Breast Cancer Fdn) Flash dinner at a surprise location. 7 pm. Min $20. cookforthecure.ca. gildA’s AWArds (Gilda’s Club) Evening cele-

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costUMed liFe drAWing Life drawing session w/ Serenity Hart. 7 pm. $10. Rhino, 1249 Queen W. acidanimation.com/toonsontap. in nAyMAn’s terMs: the FilMs oF stAnley KUbricK Screening of clips from Eyes Wide

Shut and lecture by film critic Adam Nayman.

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What I Bought A creative approach to condo shopping and design Ava i lable at

Many condo critics lament the abundance of concrete used in new buildings, but its raw, brutalist look helped seal the deal when ad agency creative director Joseph Bonnici and his partner, Bryden McDonald, stepped into their unit in Harhay Construction’s East Lofts at King and Sherbourne. The minimalist duo outfitted it sparingly with design classics like a Hans Weg-

ner lounger, Gae Aulenti coffee table and Eero Aamio bubble chair that hangs in the bedroom overlooking King Street.

Wish list Lots of outdoor space for barbecuing, two bedrooms, light and bright with great views, and a unit they could see themselves living in for the next decade.

Number of properties checked out

“we looked at hundreds on MLS and went to many open houses,” says Bonnici. “i knew the minute i stepped into our place that this would be home.”

What they got a 2,000-square-foot penthouse-level two-bedroom suite with uninterrupted glass walls on three sides and an additional 500 square feet of outdoor space. continued on page 26

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What they say about their place “Neighbourhood was a huge factor in our decision,” says Bonnici. “I love being close to the St. Lawrence Market and the furniture shops on King East. The Distillery is five minutes away and we’re able to walk or bike almost everywhere. We also wanted a quieter neighbourhood, and after 7 pm, King East is just that.”

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Should a young first-time condo buyer prioritize building extras or neighbourhood amenities? Real estate agent Julie Kinnear (juliekinnear.com) weighs in. the list is access to shopping, restaurants, theatres, etc.

If young people want amenities like a yoga studio or spinning class, they usually prefer the gym or studio they always go to, so that expense is unnecessary in the actual building.

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You see the fashionably weathered wood at Stockyards on St. Clair, where recycled planks have cleverly replaced the room’s drop ceiling.

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forth for $29.95, where they use it to stomp out the roughly ground tripleA beef that finds it way into the house’s signature whoppers.

Stomper’s burgers are best when kept simple, but be warned that they put ketchup on just about everything unless you tell them otherwise. The basic Classic Stomp ($5.75) piled with regulation tomato, onion and lettuce becomes a Better Than The Other Guy ($8.25) (Burger’s Priest, perhaps?) with the addition of bacon, cheddar and pickle, both on nicely grilled eggy buns. The less said about the rubbery Veggie Burger ($6.75) the better.

As per trend, stunt burgers are the Stomper’s draw, such monstrosities as the Cheese Please ($8.50) – a Classic with mustard smothered in more than half a pound of shredded cheddar – and the exceptionally messy two-patty Double Whammy ($11.50) with whole pickled peppers and barbecue sauce.

The French Kiss ($7.50) comes dressed with french fries, gravy and mozzarell’ (that’s right, poutine inside the bun), and the Secret Stomp ($11.50) may be a salute to the joint’s greasy spoon roots, topped as it is with a Vesta Lunch-worth of chopped onion,

Press compressed The Burger Press (167 Bathurst, at Queen West, 416-862-7737, NN) doesn’t own a Burger Stomper, but it is in possession of a fancy-pants Sirman burger machine. That’s how the three-week-old hole-in-the-wall produces its uniform burgers, all

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And an omelette.

Regular fries ($3.50) are fresh-cut and pre-salted, the overly crunchy sweet potato version ($4) seems prefab, and onion rings ($4.25) come in a “secret batter” spiked with Sprite, more ring than onion. And even though the shakes (all $4 small/$5.50 medium/$7.75 large) are made with 2 per cent milk, they’re still incredibly rich, especially the combo of chocolate, peanut butter and Nutella. They almost make you forget the barnboard.

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spread with watered-down tahini ($5.99) would be far tastier and moister if it were deep-fried instead of griddled. And the baked potato wedges that come with everything are way too salty.

Too bad the shallow takeout containers they serve the burgers in squish the contents. I don’t think this is the kind of burger press the owners SD had in mind.

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WHAT: Mitolo Jester Shiraz 2009 (red) Rating: NNN WHERE: McLaren Vale, Australia WHY: Ripe fruit and resultant high levels of alcohol can make Aussie reds either persuasive or overwhelming dining companions. With dark, jam-like smells and flavours cut by sharp acidity and warmed by 15 per cent alcohol, this Shiraz is big but not pushy. Jesters, after all, are very good at dealing with power. Pair with venison burgers if you’ve got ’em, or spicy, saucy Indian beef dishes.

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When Delica Kitchen’s Devin Connell came up with the concept for a low-key café that served only donuts and fried chicken, she never imagined anyone would want to eat the two together.

But that’s exactly what’s likely to happen at Paulette’s (913 Queen East, at Logan, 647-7481177, paulettesoriginal.com) when the Leslieville takeaway opens Monday (June 25). Who could resist piling the likes of salted peanut butter donuts with barely battered pieces of naturally raised deep-fried chicken?

“We’re trying to push the envelope,” says Connell. “We won’t be doing a bacon donut, but we’ll definitely be doing one with extra-crispy chicken skin!”

Last supper at Senior’s

After a 51-year run, Senior’s (1397 Yonge, at Pleasant, 416924-8366) will be shuttered for good on Saturday (June 23). The beloved two-storey steak house is set to become yet another Hero Burger.

“We’ll be closing just as we opened,” says Mary Marlet, who’s worked at her parents’ resto her entire life. “Very quiet, no party or anything. Just a regular working day. And then that’s it.”

Don’t feel bad for the Marlets: they still own the building.

Dee’s, please

To celebrate its 25th birthday, Sneaky Dee’s (431 College, at Bathurst, 416-603-3090, sneakydees.com) offers its legendary King’s Crown nachos for free on Monday (June 25). You just need to bring a non-perishable food item that can be donated to a local food bank. We recommend a large jar of peanut butter. This steal of a meal deal is in effect from 2 to 5 pm.

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’Licious redux

Reservations are now being accepted for the 10th annual Summerlicious, the food fest that this year runs July 6 to 22.

And though prices have slowly slipped higher (dinner at either Colborne Lane or Canoe goes for $45 a pop), there are still bargains to be had, most notably the $15 three-course lunches at Banu, La Bruschetta and the Chef’s House. See the full lineup at toronto.ca/special_events/ SD summerlicious/2012.

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spinoff of the Black Hoof puts the focus on seafood, particularly if it’s cured or smoked.

Though most of chef Jonathan Pong’s fishy carte is sustainable, sustenance it’s not, instead crafted as snacks to go along with an after-work glass of wine or three. And in typical Hoof fashion, service ranges from friendly and informed to snooty and aloof – all in the same server. Best: chef’s cured fish board, a charcuterie-like spread consisting of the likes of olive-brined branzino, miso-rubbed black cod, albacore tuna gravlax, sweet, meaty mackerel and scallops in smoked paprika; Fish Snacks – salty deepfried spot prawns, panko-battered smelts and tiny bait fish in tempura; to finish, rhubarb “thingy”. Complete dinners for $35 per person, including tax, tip and a glass of wine. Average main $13. Open for dinner 5:30 pm to midnight Tuesday to Saturday.

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After a four-year hiatus, the event benefiting the AIDS Committee of Toronto returns, this time to the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts (1 Front East) on September 9, during TIFF’s busiest party weekend. The evening includes a performance by Elton John and a catwalk show featuring runway looks from the event’s past 25 years.

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Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 Swans, geese and

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Picture it whenever you need a boost as you work to connect previously unlinked elements in your life. It may help inspire you to master the gritty details that’ll lead to your own monumental accomplishment.

GeMini May 21 | Jun 20 An apple starts growing on its tree in the spring. By early summer, it may be full size and as red as it will ever be. To the naked eye, it appears ready to eat. But it’s not. If you pluck it and bite into it, the taste probably won’t appeal to you. If you pluck it and hope it will be more delicious in a few weeks, you’ll be disappointed. So here’s the moral of the story, Gemini: for an apple to achieve its potential, it has to stay on the tree until nature has finished ripening it. Keep that lesson in mind as you deal with the urge to harvest something before it has reached its prime.

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one of your recent horoscopes, you implied that I should consider the possibility of asking for more than I’ve ever asked for before. You didn’t actually use those words, but I’m pretty sure that’s what you meant. Anyway, I want to thank you! It helped me start working up the courage to burst out of my protective and imprisoning little shell. Today I gave myself permission to learn the unknowable, figure out the inscrutable, and dream the inconceivable. – Crazy Crab.” Dear Crazy: You’re leading the way for your fellow Cancerians. The process you just described is exactly what I advise them to try in the coming weeks.

Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 Picture yourself

moving toward a building you haven’t seen before. Trust the initial image that leaps into your imagination. What type of path are you on? Concrete or dirt or brick or wood? Is it a long, winding way

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or short and direct? Once you arrive at the front door, locate the key. Is it under a mat or in your pocket or somewhere else? What does the key look like? Next, open the door and go inside to explore.

Where have you arrived? See everything in detail. This is a test that has no right or wrong answers, Leo – similar to what your life is actually bringing you right now. The building you’ve envisioned represents the next phase of your destiny. The path symbolizes how you get here. The key is the capacity or knowledge you will need.

VirGo Aug 23 | sep 22 My first poetry

teacher suggested that it was my job as a poet to learn the names of things in the natural world. She said I should be able to identify at least 25 species of trees, 25 flowers, 25 herbs, 25 birds and eight clouds. I have unfortunately fallen short in living up to that very modest goal, and I’ve always felt guilty about it.

But it’s never too late to begin, right? In the coming weeks, I vow to correct for my dereliction of duty. I urge you to follow my lead, Virgo. Is there any soul work that you have been neglecting? Is there any part of your life’s mission that you have skipped over? Now would be an excellent time to catch up.

LibrA sep 23 | oct 22 Here’s my nomination for one of the 10 Biggest Problems in the World: our refusal to control the pictures and thoughts that pop into our minds. For example, I can personally testify that when a fearful image worms its way into the space behind my eyes, I sometimes let it stimulate a surge of negative emotions rather than just banish it or question whether it’s true. I’m calling this to your attention, Libra, because in the weeks ahead you’ll have more power than usual to modulate your stream of consciousness. Have you ever seen the bumper sticker that says, “Don’t believe everything you think”? Make that your mantra. sCorpio oct 23 | nov 21 In the hands of a skilled practitioner, astrology can help you determine the most favourable days to start a new project or heat up your romantic possibilities or get a tattoo of a ninja mermaid. Success is of course still quite feasible at other times, but you might find most grace and ease if you align yourself with the cosmic flow. Let’s consider, for example, the issue of your taking a vacation. According to my understanding, if you do it between now and July 23, the experiences you have will free your ass, and – hallelujah! – your mind will then gratefully follow. If you schedule your getaway for another time, you could still free your ass, but may have to toil more intensely to get your mind to join the fun. sAGiTTArius nov 22 | Dec 21 What is

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sion, Sagittarius? The compulsion that sometimes sabotages you and sometimes inspires you? The longing that can either fool you or make you smarter?

Whatever it is, I suspect it’s beginning a transformation. Is there anything you can do to ensure that the changes it undergoes will lead you away from the hateable consequences and closer to the loveable stuff? I think there’s a lot you can do. For starters: Do a ritual – yes, an actual ceremony – in which you affirm your intention that your obsession will forever after serve your highest good and brightest integrity.

CApriCorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 As some-

one who thrives on simple organic food and doesn’t enjoy shopping, I would not normally have lunch at a hot dog stand in a suburban mall. But that’s what I did today. Nor do I customarily read books by writers whose philosophy repels me, and yet recently I have found myself skimming through Ayn Rand’s The Virtue Of Selfishness. I’ve been enjoying these acts of rebellion. They’re not directed at the targets I usually revolt against, but rather at my own habits and comforts. I suggest you enjoy similar insurrections in the coming week, Capricorn. Rise up and overthrow your attachment to boring familiarity.

AquArius Jan 20 | Feb 18 The ancient

Chinese book of divination known as the I Ching speaks of “catching things before they exit the gate of change.”

That’s what happens when a martial artist anticipates an assailant’s movement before it happens, or when a healer corrects an imbalance in someone’s body before it becomes a full-blown symptom or illness. I see this as an important principle for you right now, Aquarius. It’s a favourable time to catch potential disturbances prior to the time they exit the gate of change. If you’re alert for pre-beginnings, you should be able to neutralize or transform brewing problems so they never become problems.

pisCes Feb 19 | Mar 20 Neurophysiolo-

gists say that singing really loudly can flush away metabolic waste from your cerebrum. I say that singing really loudly can help purge your soul of any tendency it might have to ignore its deepest promptings. I bring these ideas to your attention, Pisces, because I believe the current astrological omens are suggesting that you do some really loud singing. Washing the dirt and debris out of your brain will do wonders for your mental hygiene. And your soul could use a boost as it ramps up its wild power to pursue its most important dreams.

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Unlike many home-recording laptop dream-poppers, Mauro Remiddi isn’t a rookie. On the scene for years in both New York and his native Italy, the singer/songwriter knows the secret to translating intimate, solitary recordings to a live setting: hire a drummer. Playing as a duo for their NXNE kickoff set, Porcelain Raft added some welcome rock muscle to their voice-and-samples driftery, combining synthetic elements with a human touch. If only they had the songs to match. Instead, they blended into one

Thursday, June 14 TROUBLE ANDREW at Yonge-Dundas Square, 5 pm.

Rating: NNN On a bill stacked with greying punk rockers, Trouble Andrew’s hip-hop-influenced electrorock had no trouble standing out. Just having synths and laptops onstage alongside all the guitar amps and drums made him seem hyper-modern compared to Slaves on Dope and Bad Religion. While acknowledging that he was very tired, he still put on a

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Rating: NNNN A few hours before the Flaming Lips took the stage for their headlining set at NXNE, a stage collapsed at Downsview Park, cancelling the competing Radiohead concert and killing a drum tech. That tragic subtext was felt at Yonge-Dundas Square, but if any band can raise the spirits of a giant crowd of Torontonians, it’s the Flaming Lips. Their technicolour grandeur was spectacular as always, but the cosmic explosion of lights, colours, balloons, glitter, lasers and a dusted-off cover of Radiohead’s Knives Out also re-avowed their MO: to affirm life in the face of inevitable mortality. RICHARD TRAPUNSKI

MARINE DREAMS at the Great Hall Lower Theatre, 11 pm. Rating: NNN

Attack in Black may no longer be a band, but on the bright side, we now have Daniel Romano’s solo career, Spencer Burton’s Grey Kingdom and Ian Kehoe’s Marine Dreams. Usually bands sound rawer live than on record, but it’s the opposite with Marine Dreams: at the Great Hall Lower Theatre, they sounded crisper, cleaner and tighter, likely an indication of the direction in which they’re moving. Imagine a sound between Neil Young garage country and Talking Heads new wave.

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PURITY RING at Wrongbar, 1 am.

Rating: NNN Purity Ring’s Corin Roddick and Megan James are a straitlaced-looking pair whose rising-star status ensured an uncomfortably crowded Wrongbar.

Stationed behind a lighting rig of musical touch-activated lanterns, Roddick triggered murky, menacing hiphop-inspired beats with head-down intensity as James sang sweetly nearby. What they lack in charisma they make up for with an effortful visual show. Gimmicky as it sounds, the lantern-synth thingy was fun to watch, especially since its homespun spottiness added a little tension to the proKEVIN RITCHIE ceedings.

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EIGHT AND A HALF at YongeDundas Square, 7:30 pm. Rating: NN

A large crowd and pleasant evening greeted synth-rock band Eight and a Half at Yonge-Dundas Square, but curiously, singer Dave Hamelin noted that the

nice breeze was “making it bearable.”

Bearable is a good way to sum up his band’s listless set. A former member of the Stills, Hamelin crooned delicately and emotively above Justin Peroff’s thundering beats and Liam O’Neil’s dreamy synths. Eight and a Half have a nice aesthetic, but their songs made little impression. It didn’t help that they looked and sounded bored, deKR spite the nice breeze.

2:54 at Lee’s Palace, 9 pm. Rating: NNN There was no shortage of shoegazerinfluenced bands playing NXNE this year, but compared to most of them, 2:54 rely less on reverb-drenched walls of sound and more on tightly arranged, concise songs. On the other hand, they’re a little conservative in that regard: after only a few songs, you start wishing they’d take more chances with both the songwriting and the sonics. A less wooden rhythm section would also make them a lot more fun BB to watch.

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ñLounge, 10 pm.

Rating: NNNNN To call Geneva-based trio Mama Rosin Cajun-punk would be an oversimplification. In just 40 minutes, they managed to evoke garage rock heroes the Modern Lovers and Chuck Berry’s early rock and roll through songs inspired by such far-flung locales as Martinique and China. Despite – or maybe because of – the language barrier, the Frenchsinging band conveys pure joy. Over the course of the set, the audience crept closer and then began to dance uncontrollably, begging for more after Mama Rosin delivered a banjo/triangle breakdown and sang an insanely longSG held note.

FRIENDS at Lee’s Palace, 11 pm. Rating: NNN Ragtag five-piece Friends channelled the energy of the B-52s, the elastic, funky bass lines of 80s no wave and the screamy falsetto of the Slits’ Ari Up but

sounded nowhere near as inventive or tight as any of their obvious influences.

However, singer Samantha Urbani was intent on bringing the party to a room lulled into a daze by fellow Brooklynites DIIV. She danced and yelped wildly through songs off Friends’ recent Manifest! album and a fun cover of Ghost Town DJ’s ever-popular bass jam KR My Boo.

UTIDUR at the Gladstone, 11 pm.

Rating: NNN It couldn’t have been easy or inexpensive for eight of Útidúr’s 10 members to travel all the way from Iceland to Toronto for NXNE (they’re also on a Canadian tour with Brasstronaut), but just as impressive was their ambitious take on chamber-pop. With electric violin, trumpet and stunningly high soprano vocals cutting through the Gladstone hubbub, the young-looking band’s cheery symphonics – frequently offset by more dissonant and dramatic Old World folk – made an impression.

PHEDRE at Sneaky Dee’s, midnight.

Rating: NNN Since their debut hometown blowout at the Great Hall a few months back, Phèdre have picked up steam – they’ll soon tour as the opening act for Ariel Pink. At Sneaky Dee’s, they did a good job of building their hedonistic, glammed-out vibe on a smaller scale.

Playing without Airick Woodhead (curious, since he was at NXNE with Doldrums), Dan Lee and April Aliermo delivered their woozy, psychedelic dance-pop aided by feathers, masks, piñatas, gold hoods, costumes, megaphones and full-time backup dancers. They often sounded off-key and unpolished, but made up for that with charisma and RT spectacle.

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Sandra Kodsi “I love the music and discovering new bands. I love Portugal. The Man, but I’m really sad cuz we couldn’t see Radiohead. I don’t want to talk about that.”

Anna Milewska “We just saw Of Montreal and now we’re waiting for the Flaming Lips. We missed Radiohead, so we just came here.”

“I love that it’s a festival that’s devoted to bringing new music into Toronto. I love having an excellent time and really loving music in this city. Art vs. Science were amazing, Of Montreal were absolutely off-the-wall amazing – something I definitely did not expect to see at Yonge-Dundas Square today.”

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THE SADIES at the Horseñ shoe, midnight.

Rating: NNNNN Andre Williams has had his share of problems, but none were evident during his rollicking NXNE performance.

Resplendent in a purple suit and red satin shirt, Williams put the Sadies, with whom he recently released the Night & Day album, through their paces. During favourites like Shake A Tail Feather and Jail Bait, the energy radiating from the stage was palpable: the Good brothers grinned ear to ear, Williams punched the air. Impeccable musicianship, great songs and a master class in showmanship made the gig a festival highlight.

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BRASSTRONAUT at the Gladstone, midnight. Rating: NNNN

If Vancouver’s Brasstronaut were bummed about their divine Mean Sun album getting overlooked for the Polaris Prize, they showed no sign of that at the Gladstone. The six-piece delivered a sonically massive (like, Spiritualized proportions) set of brasstinged space-rock

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built on bass grooves, syncopated drumming and cascading layers of trumpet, synths and EWI. Keyboardist Edo Van Breemen’s breathy vocals had a newfound coarseness from weeks on the road, and some of the best moments came during the clarinet solos, which is not something I thought I’d CG ever write.

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ñthe Horseshoe, 1 am.

Rating: NNNN You’d be hard pressed to find a better songwriter than garage punk legend Greg Cartwright, frontman for Asheville, North Carolina’s Reigning Sound (and former member of Toronto’s own Deadly Snakes). He keeps things short, sweet and packed with a hot-wired rock ’n’ roll punch. Add in his supremely righteous singing voice (kind of a soulful rasp), Dave Amels’s Mummiesish organ lines and doo-woppy backups by guitarist Mike Catanese and bassist Benny Trokan and, well, it was impossible for the tightly packed Horseshoe crowd not to smile and dance. Go buy their recCG ords.

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ñTITAN at Sneaky Dee’s, 2 am.

Rating: NNNNN There were rumours that the 2 am “special guest” slot at Sneaky Dee’s would be Radiohead, just hours after a tragic stage collapse cancelled their NXNE-rivalling Downsview Park concert. Instead, Yamantaka//Sonic Titan played a set worthy of the long queue outside. It would be all too easy for the Montreal/Toronto “noh wave” sixpiece to rely on theatrics and spectacle, but their visceral, distorted stoner rock riffs impressed just as much as their face paint, set dressings, dragon props RT and deadpan operatics.

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Rating: NNNN The irony wasn’t lost on the crowd as they chanted along to Archers of Loaf’s Nostalgia, a song that targets people’s yearning for the 60s and claims that singer Eric Bachmann had “a pair of brass knuckles” back in 1995 when it was written. At the Phoenix, men pushing 50 moshed with crowd-surfing 20-somethings as the indie rock legends plowed through hits like Web In Front and Wrong. With minimal chatter, zero reminiscing and only a couple of slow songs, Archers of Loaf infused the show JH with pure rock ’n’ roll energy. continued on page 42 œ

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Shannon Jager “I love all the free shows. Parlovr was really cool, and I just saw a few friends playing in their houses.”

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CEREMONY at Wrongbar, 11 pm. Rating: NNNN

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Even though Ceremony’s brand of hardcore isn’t all that inventive – two guitarists playing the same power chords in unison most of the time, a singer whose monotone garble barely cuts through the din – the Matador California punks definitely inspire insanity in their fans. Violent moshing started instantly, sending bodies and beer bottles flying, and rarely let up till the end. Crazy-eyed and hilarious singer Ross Farrar spent much of the set with his T-shirt over his head, while guitarist Anthony Anzaldo, barechested and in guyliner, injected some glam into the proceedings. Boredom CG was not an option.

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Rating: NNNN On Saturday night at the Silver Dollar, the last of their four NXNE gigs, California beach punks Bleached showed no signs of exhaustion. Their brand of major-key, surf-influenced jangly punk pop isn’t rare these days, but it’s not fair to discount them as just another Dum Dum Girls/Best Coast clone either. The Clavin-sisters-fronted band

ThE NIlS at the Great Hall, 1 am.

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Rating: NN “No one should ever have to follow Teenage Head,” said Nils frontman Carlos Soria just before the reunited Montreal punk legends launched into a tight but brief set to an emptied-out Great Hall. The lack of bodies preoccupied Soria, causing a pervasive sense of insecurity to mar an otherwise enjoyable set. When he brought things to a close just 20 or so minutes in, we all wondered what the hell. “No one should ever have to follow Teenage Head,” he said again, upon returning CG for a two-song encore.

auTOMElOd I at the Silver

ñDollar, 2 am.

Rating: NNNN There’s something refreshing about seeing a hip Montreal act as indisputably French as Automelodi. Not only does Xavier Paradis sing in French, but his keyboard-pop influences are more along the lines of “La Vague Froid” than UK new wave. While his recorded work is often moody, his live show was

full of energy. You could argue that some of the melodies and melodrama are on the cheesy side, but music that gets goths and hipsters dancing awkBB wardly side by side gets our okay.

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Rating: NNNN Action Bronson – all girthy swagger, weed-wilted blue eyes, flame-red beard encircling a Cheshire cat grin – knows how to woo women who wanna feed him flavoured rice and put the chronic in his lungs, while impressing discerning heads in the process. His charisma was on full display for his second NXNE showcase, and the crowd’s positive reaction to his raps (about sex, food, weed and New York) and self-deprecating zingers (“Gimme a minute, I weigh 320 lbs!”) indicates that Toronto might become a stronghold of Bronson fans. aNUPa miSTrY

Rating: NNNN Kontravoid finds Cam Findlay, known for his stints in Crystal Castles, Trust and Parallels, flying solo. Lit only by a snare-triggered strobe, he kept the focus on his vocals and a stack of analog synths. The distorted, industrialinfluenced tracks hit the same sweet spots as his catchiest Parallels songs, but swap sweetness for gruff aggression thanks to KIllER MIKE his shouty, at Yonge-Dundas reverberating Square, 8 pm. Rating: vocals. The NNNN harsh, arpegTalk to an encyclopedic giated energy of rap fan and he or she Native State and will tell you the current Silent Visions praise for Killer Mike is made for an unlong overdue. But in the forgettable lateAction Bronson midst of sociopolitical night dance party. unease and what

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Marie villabroza “It just feels different because normally I’m more self-conscious about how I look, but not today.”

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“The fact that the city opens up to the summer. I think that’s the pulse of summer – live music – and it’s so much fun.”

“Getting to see bands that I haven’t heard of at smaller venues. I saw Hooded Fang, Mac DeMarco was really good, Bleached….”

Gus & Scout Gus Wenner, “Playing live.”

Scout Willis: “Yeah, playing in a venue where the Rolling Stones recorded a live album!”

Trends, triumphs and tribulations

We survived seven days of sunburns, hangovers, ringing ears and amazing music, and now it’s time to review what we’ll be taking away from this year’s North By Northeast festival.

Trends It seemed like there were a billion new bands mixing elements of shoegaze, synth-pop and garage rock into a woozy sound. On the one hand, that’s a sign of what’s hip at the moment, but it also highlights how indie-focused the fest is. Why not fill all those empty post-2 am time slots with great DJs or more hip-hop, metal and jazz?

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• The door situation at club gigs was the smoothest it’s ever been, even at the higher-profile events.

• The increase in official and unofficial day parties was great for the fest, and NXNE doesn’t appear to be cracking down too hard on the latter.

• It seemed like the budget went into new bands on the verge of breaking rather than reformed 90s nostalgia acts. That’s exactly where a fest like this should put its money.

Tribulations Raekwon and Ghostface Killah rocked the worlds of 25,000 rap fans Sunday at Yonge-Dundas Square.

• Far too much space in Yonge-Dundas Square is taken up by sponsorship booths, leaving half the crowd on busy nights unable to see the Jumbotron, let alone the stage. Since the fest closes down the street anyway, either put the tents on Yonge or find a bigger outdoor venue.

• NXNE overlaps with Luminato, Taste Of Little Italy and the MMVAs, and the resulting chaos has a negative impact on all of them. It’s about time for at least one to change weekends.

seems like jiggy-era redux, there’s no better time for him. Populist rage simmered on his first five full-lengths and came to a righteous boil on the latest, R.A.P. Music. Less than 24 hours after a rowdy set at Wrongbar, Mike presided over thousands at Yonge-Dundas Square. Proselytizing but never preachy, funny, not dumb, hardcore yet human, Mike lived up to a maxim from 2010’s Ready Set Go: “This is real homie. No fake, no filler.”

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While TV cameras were trained on a shiny, sterile awards show just blocks away, 25,000 rap fans filled YongeDundas Square for two of rap’s elder statesmen, Raekwon and Ghostface Killah. During the laid-back, thorough set, the comrades traded verses while running through Wu-Tang Clan-branded classics Ice Cream, Fish, Liquid Swords and Triumph. Taking it beyond

were the homegrown flourishes: a beaming Skratch Bastid on decks, a cameo by native son and Raekwon protege JD Era, and Mindbender’s leap onstage to provide vocal support durAM ing Protect Ya Neck.

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clubs&concerts this week

Japandroids, CadenCe Weapon Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), Saturday (June 23) See preview, page 46. roger Waters Rogers Centre (1 Blue Jays Way), Saturday (June 23) Pink Floyd survivor.

Jeff the Brotherhood, UnCle Bad toUCh, hand Cream Wrongbar (1279 Queen West), Saturday (June 23) Garage/psych sibling duo. osUnlade, the hipnosis CreW, ali BlaCk, riviera, le freak C’est keek, paUl revered, riChard Brooks, felix & gani Sunnyside Pavilion (1755 Lake Shore West), Saturday (June 23) Deep house in a beautiful garden. the hives, fidlar, flesh lights Sound Academy (11 Polson), Tuesday (June 26) Swedish garage rock superstars.

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Wavelength 545: the sUmmer solstiCe triptyCh w/ Terrie Ex, Brodie West, Fresh Snow, Chris Corsano, Bill Nace and many more Double Double Land (209 Augusta), Thursday and Friday (June 21 and 22) Punk jazz, space folk, experimental mini-fest. Three shows over two days. iva Bittova, mike milligan The Rivoli (332 Queen West), tonight (Thursday, June 21) Avant-garde Czech violinist/vocalist. eleCtro sWing ClUB w/ Medicineman, Foxtrot Holmes, Combo Royale Gladstone Hotel Ballroom (1214 Queen West), tonight (Thursday, June 21) Remixed and reworked swing music. ariane moffatt Harbourfront Centre (235 Queens Quay West), Friday (June 22) Talented Quebecois singer/songwriter soUndz of the yoUth: the end of yoUth Kapisanan Philippine Centre (167 Augusta), Friday (June 22) See preview, page 48.

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Just announced steel panther Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 8 pm, $25. RT, SS, TM. August 9. maylee todd, dan WerB Summerworks Performance Festival: The Magic Theatre Centre 10:30 pm, $15. summerworks.ca.

August 10. haWksley Workman Summerworks Performance Festival: The God That Comes Theatre Centre 10:30 pm, $20. summerworks. ca. August 11.

BUCk 65, ame henderson Summerworks Performance Festival Theatre Centre 10:30 pm, $20. summerworks.ca. August 15. sandro perri & aline morales

Summerworks Performance Festival Theatre Centre 10:30 pm, $15. summerworks.ca. August 16. fiver Summerworks Performance Festival: Evening Hymns Theatre Centre 10:30 pm, $15. summerworks.ca. August 17.

Bry WeBB & doUg paisley Summerworks Performance Festival Theatre Centre 10:30 pm, $15. summerworks.ca. August 18. rUssian CirCles Lee’s Palace doors 8 pm, $14.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. August 21.

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desCendents, nofx, fUCked Up, hot Water mUsiC, less than Jake, andreW Wk, the laWrenCe arms, moCkingBird, Wish me lUCk, the organ thieves, JUnior Battles Riot Fest Fort York Garrison Commons gates at noon, $39.50. RT, SS, TM. riotfest.org. September 9. david Byrne & st vinCent Queen Elizabeth Theatre $tba. September 20.

lagWagon, flatliners, dead to me, Useless id Phoenix Concert

Theatre doors 7:30 pm, all ages, $24. RT, SS, TM. October 13. dr dog Opera House doors 8:30 pm, $20.

RT, SS, TM. October 13. menomena Horseshoe doors 8:30 pm, $15. HS, RT, SS, TM. October 17. kimBra, the stepkids The Danforth Music Hall doors 8 pm, $20-$25, all ages. RT, SS, TM. October 27.

Chris isaak Massey Hall doors 7 pm, $69.50. RTH, TM. October 29. dan deaCon Lee’s Palace doors 9 pm, $13.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. November 9.

jazz/soul/funk

ToronTo Jazz FesTival NXNE and Luminato just wrapped up, and now the 25th annual Toronto Jazz Festival fires up for 10 days of music at venues across the city. As has become the norm in recent years, many of the big-ticket shows are only tangentially related to jazz, but there are hundreds of free shows with a more direct relationship to the genre. This week’s highlights include hip-hop jazz visionary RoBERT GlaSpER, Enwave, Monday (June 25); soul legend Bettye laVette, Nathan Phillips Square, Saturday (June 23); eccentric R&B futurist Janelle Monáe, Nathan Phillips Square, Friday (June 22); soft rock experimentalists Destroyer, Opera House, Saturday (June 23); and fusion supergroup Spectrum Road, Sound Academy, Wednesday (June 27).

At various venues from Friday (June 22) to July 1.

clubs&concerts

this week How to find a listing

Music listings appear by day, then by genre, then alphabetically by venue. Event names are in italics. See Venue Index, page 52, for addresses and phone numbers. = Critics’ pick (highly recommended) ñ 5= Queer night

P = Pride event

How to place a listing

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

Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm. Weekly events must confirm their listing once a month.

Thursday, June 21 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

AlleycAtz 911 Night: Firefighters Rock For PMH Cancer Research Firesound 9 pm.

AmsterdAm Brewery Open Roof Festival: Outdoor Film And Music Series Friendlyness & the Human Rights 7:30 pm.

Bovine sex cluB Burning the Day, Odium, Modified, Outlaw Renegades, DJ Cactus. the centrAl Music Parlor 10 pm, Jenna Warriner 8 pm. clinton’s Double Album Release Party Big City Nights, Flying Museum Band, Hollis & the Widows doors 9 pm.

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fri june 29

thurs june 28 @ sound academy

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sunday july 15 @ sound academy $ 25.00 advance • all-ages

rye rye

thurs july 19 @ sound academy

beirut all-ages / licensed • $ 35.00 advance Ga

w/ little

mon july 30 & tues july 31

twin shadoW

scream

wed august 1 $ phoenix • 20.00 advance

lee’s palace • $ 20.00 advance

fri june 22 @ garriSon • $10.50 adv

hot chip with

the maGic

tues august 21 @ sound academy

friday july 27 @ opera house $ 23.00 advance • all-ages

friday july 13 @ lee’s palace •

adv

king khan

and bbq

60’s garage punk

wed july 18 @ lee’s palace • $17.50 advance

detroit cobras chains of love

TuesdAy july 31

such gold + handguns

mon sept 24 - wed sept 26 @ lee’s palace • $34.50 advance lee’s 27th anniversary concert special

with the

saturday june 30 great hall • $ 15.00 advance

thurS july 5 @ garriSon • $12.50 adv

youngquilt Magic

besnard lakes

friday july 13 horseshoe • $ 9.00 advance

@ the phoenix

saturday july 14 horseshoe • $10.50 advance belfast ireland

25.50 - $35.00 adv • all-ages

van etten

tennis

korean

film feSt

sunday june 24

music city toronto warner showcase thursday june 28

with

mon july 23 @ the drake • $10.50 adv

jc brooks & the uptown sound 60s soul

tuesday september 11 @ lee’s palace • $22.50 adv

ruSted root

saturday july 14 $ dakota tavern • 13.50 adv

dave hause

june 23 sold out!

tuesday

june 26 $ 11.50 advance

of

w/ Zechs

fri july 27 @ hard luck • $10.50 adv

tuesday august 21

friday

lee’s palace • $ 14.50 advance

hard luck • $ 11.50 advance

love monkey / the rocker

saturday

liars jj grey & mofro lee’s palace • $ 15.00 advance

lee’s palace • $17.50 advance • florida blues rock

by law DYs - Dag nastY’s Dave smalleY epitaph moD punk reggae

sun august 19 @ horseshoe • $11.50 adv

teenage Bottlerocket

with

nothington

local cd release party • 8.00

alternative rock dance club

my friendS big headS atom & the volumeS dave borinS band light Sweet crude

original live muSic @ 8:30pm weekdayS & 9:00pm weekendS front bar 12:00pm - 2:00am

2nd floor of lee’s palace 10:00pm - 2:30am

friday july 6 $ 9.00

ramones punk

friday june 29 $

thursday june 21 • $ 12.50 advance • 8:30pm doors

kim churchill

advance

dwayne

gretzky the elwins

wiTH

benjalu

tuesday june 26

riot club years empires the Lighthouse & the WhaLer

saturday june 30 $ 20.00 advance • td Jazz fest

nellie Mckay

friday june 22

saturday june 23

saturday

buress

$ 16.50

w/

mark jameS heath

fallen heirS witch ever tin Star orphanS inlet Sound

the rothburns neW ghost • small World silence on europa

sunday june 24

monday june 25

thursday june 28 $ 12.00 @ door • toronto roots indie

the sWeet mack danger bees • alright alright last of the bandits friday july 6 $

2 seTs @9:00 + 10:30pm

2 seTs @9:30 + 11:00pm

the heartBroken + souls

bombing neverland time Giant my cousin karma

outbound flight transistor • the wax dead tenors

horseshoe • $ 15.00 advance

hannibal

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(snl & 30 rock)

advance

japanDroiDs orgone fishbone

wiTH

cadence weapon

l.A. ’60s Funk uBiquiTy records

soul proprietors

wiTH

pay $7.00 cover b4 11:30pm & receive tWo free drinks or

saturday july 14 $ 15.00

advance

july 13 • king khan & BBQ july 17 • lower Dens july 21 • liars

leespAlAce.com

l.A. skA-Funk

wiTH

$ 25.00 advance • td Jazz fest

local alt rock • $ 7.00 @ door

td Jazz fest • sold out!

wednesday june 27 • $4.00

becca stevens band

thursday july 5 • $7.00

7.00 • cd release party

BloWn los aMigos sunparlour life invisiBles players open futurebirds loney dear

mike stern shadowy men band no cover b4 11:30 or w/ Student i.d.

529 bloor Street WeSt / bathurSt artist bookings: 416-598-0720 or ben@leespalace.com

$ 21.50 advance

corey chisel + WanDering sons

marquise

mon

lee’s palace • $13.50 advance

Spookey ruben

june 30

horseshoe • $ 15.00 advance

mod club • $ 13.50 adv • all-ages

lee’s palace • $ 12.00 advance

on a shadowy planet

saturday

friday july 20

saturday july 21 @ horseshoe • $14.50 advance

Wed july 25 @ the drake • $12.50 adv

afterparty july 7 with dj jaybe saturday

of frames & sWell season

MurDer and so i By Death saint moteL watch you loved ones friday july 27 tuesday july 17 from afar Shout out out out out bear hands teddy loWer august 20 august 10 geiger dens deals gone bad joyce russian july 21 wednesday august 15 doWn manor circles

8:00pm (Sun-wed) 8:30pm (thurSday) 9:00pm (friday & Sat) Glo oxford town soho ghetto friday june 22

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father john misty

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$ 18.50 advance • JagJaguar fat possum indie folk pop

Whigs dinosaur jr.

these death by united Stereo alexi MurDoch states $ 15.00

summer Lagoon wed july 25 @ opera house • $17.50 adv • portland

playing Suburban teenage waSteland + twiSted by deSign

afghan

american hell + adelleda + ivS

@ opera house

15.50 advance • fat possum

yeasayer strung out sharon gLen hansard the phoenix • $35.00 advance

tuesday $june 26

advance • 8:00pm doors

scene asthetic + states

$ 22.50 adv ga • $ 32.50 adv vip • all-ages/vip 19+

wed october 3

moZart’s sister

$

citizen cope blind pilot $ 30.50

with

hard luck • 13.50 advance

with

thursday july 26 @ the phoenix

THursdAy july 12

rocket youth

mod club • $ 19.00 advance

$ 32.50 advance Ga • all-aGes / 19+

wednesday july 4 • $9.00 adv • r.e.m. meets drive by truckers

sunday july 8 • $ 15.00 advance • sweden

with White violet + evelyn

horseshoetavern.com

370 queen St. WeSt / Spadina artist bookings: 416-598-0720 or craig@horseshoetavern.com

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El MocaMbo Civil, Retro Ad Astra 9 pm.

EMbassy bar CD release Emmanuelle De

Héricourt.

GladstonE HotEl MElody bar Attack Of The B-Movies Exhibition The Calrizians (psychobilly/soul/surf) 9 pm.

GrossMan’s Rock’n Robin Harp 10 pm.

IntEr stEEr Ronnie Hayward Trio 8 to 11 pm. lEE’s PalacE GLO, Oxford Town, Soho Ghetto 9:30 pm. tHE local Danny Brooks. lou dawG’s ryErson Jeff Eager (acoustic soul/funk/Motown) 10 pm.

Maja PrEntIcE tHEatrE Singfest Vocal Competition Semi-Final Round 6 pm. not My doG The Donefors, Spookey Ruben. oPEra HousE Corrosion of Conformity, Black Cobra, Torche, Gaza doors 7 pm, all ages. rIvolI Iva Bittová, Mike Milligan (violin & voice) 9 pm. sazErac Gastro lounGE The Capitol Beat (funk/soul/R&B) 10 pm.

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Conduct, Pale Fire Union doors 8 pm. tHE sIstEr Kiz & Legin, Derbert Plaza, the Boston Molasses Explosion of 1919. sound acadEMy Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti Disc One Michael White & the White. soutHsIdE joHnny’s Skip Tracer 10 pm. suGar bEacH Waterfront Festival: Sweet Smokin’ Suga’ Beach Jam 5 to 9 pm.

3030 dundas wEst The Key Frames. tranzac soutHErn cross Electro-Introspectus Ronley Teper, Barzin, Morgan Doctor (indie pop) 9:30 pm. vIrGIn MobIlE Mod club Jacob Moon, David Barrett Trio 9 pm. tHE wIlson 96 The Poor Darlin’s (rockabilly/ rock) 9 pm.

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dakota tavErn Petunia 7 pm. ñ Eton HousE Keith Jolie (blues/roots) 7 pm.

FrEE tIMEs caFE Songs In The Key Of Poutine

Guy Smagghe, Heather Chappel, Vince Peets & Phillip LaFaury.

GraFFItI’s After Work Market Soiree Tim Bradford & Bright Blue Motels (country) 5 to 7 pm.

GraFFItI’s Ollie Vee Rockabilly Band 8 pm.

Hard luck bar Big Tobacco & the Pickers 9 pm.

HorsEsHoE Kim Churchill, Banjalu (folk rock) doors 8:30 pm.

HuGH’s rooM Tribute To Buddy Guy & Junior Wells Danny Marks, David Rotundo, Dylan Wickens & Douglas Watson 8:30 pm. kEnsInGton MarkEt Fête de la musique Metropolitan Parc Band, local musicians and subway virtuosos 2 to 11 pm. kInGsway consErvatory oF MusIc Children’s Cushion Concert Markus 10 am. lola Brian Cober Double Slide 9 pm. lou dawG’s Mike C (acoustic blues/rock/ funk/reggae) 10 pm. nawlIns jazz bar Nothin’ but the Blues 8 pm. tHE PaIntEd lady Andrew Austin (folk/rock/ soul) 10 pm.

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Right in the middle of NXNE madness last week, the long list for the 2012 Polaris Music Prize was announced. And once again Edmonton-raised, Montreal-based rapper Cadence Weapon (aka Rollie Pemberton) appears on it.

The quirky performer’s new album, Hope In Dirt City (Upper Class), combines hip-hop traditionalism with everything from new wave to disco and jazz, which may help it transcend any jury genre bias and win Pemberton the grand prize for the first time.

If he does get lucky, his plans for the $30,000 are simple.

“I’d pay off my student loans and start a studio space/ multi-purpose arts and performance venue in Montreal,” he says.

He imagines a way to decide the best Canadian album of the year that might be a lot more entertaining than the behind-the-scenes debates between music critics that currently help determine the winner.

“Something like The Running Man or Battle Royale: put a novelty cheque in the middle and have everybody battle to the death. My money would be on Pink Eyes [aka Fucked Up vocalist Damian Abraham].”

As much as we’d like to see a bunch of sensitive Canadian musicians wrestling, that’s probably not going to happen any

time soon.

But if Polaris were to invite Pemberton to vote, what would his top-five list look like? As it turns out, his picks – a handful of weirdo experimental popmakers from Montreal and the most famous Canadian rapper ever – reflect his eclectic sound.

“I’d vote for Drake’s Take Care, Miracle Fortress’s Was I The Wave? [editor’s note: its release date falls outside the eligibility period], Paula’s Relaxed Fit, Sean Nicholas Savage’s Flamingo and Mac DeMarco’s Rock And Roll Night Club.”

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PRESS CLUB Orit Shimoni (country) 10 pm.

THE RUSTY NAIL Open Jam Steph Armstrong,

Tommy Flanagan & Brian Law 10 pm.

TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Bluegrass Thursday Houndstooth (bluegrass/old-time) 7:30 pm.

WATERFALLS Fête de la musique Metropolitan Parc, the Benefit of a Free Man, Fred Spek’s Camp Combo 8 to 11 pm.

JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL

EDO Tony Quarrington, Neil Swainson, Joel Hartt 7 to 10 pm.

EDWARD JOHNSON BUILDING WALTER HALL

Canadian Music Competition National Finals see website for schedule.

EMMET RAY BAR Vokurka’s Vicarious Virtuoso Violin (Gypsy swing) 9 pm.

LOWER OSSINGTON THEATRE Salute To The Toronto Jazz Festival: Songs From Porgy & Bess Ali Garrison & Mark Rainey.

MÉLANGE Normal Marshall Villeneuve, Al Henderson 7 pm.

OLD MILL INN HOME SMITH BAR Jazz Party Genevieve Marentette, Mark Kieswetter, George Koller 7:30 pm.

REPOSADO The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz).

REX Rich Brown’s Rinse the Algorithm 11 pm, Joel Miller & Geoff Keezer 8 pm, Eric St Laurent 5 pm.

SOMEWHERE THERE STUDIO Avesta Nakhaei (jazz/improv) 8 pm.

ST JAMES CATHEDRAL PARK GAZEBO Music In St James Park Alicia Reschny & the ARQ (chamber music) 7 to 9 pm.

TRANE STUDIO The Singers’ Den Al St Louis 8 pm.

DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE

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

CLOAK & DAGGER PUB Cocked & Loaded DJ Deafmute (rock/post-punk/new wave/ UK punk/pop) 10 pm.

COBRA LOUNGE Cube Guys, Manzone & Strong, Anthony D’Amico, Joee Cons.

DANCE CAVE Transvision DJ Shannon (alt indie/electro/ retro).

HOTEL BALLROOM ñGLADSTONE

Electro Swing Club DJs medicineman, Foxtrot Holmes, Combo Royale 9 pm.

GOODHANDY’S

Ladyplus Parties DJ Todd Klinck doors 8 pm.5

HOLY OAK CAFE

Reggae Pardy 10 pm.

INSOMNIA DJ Ron Jon (funk/soul/ house).

PEOPLE’S CHICKEN

Happy Hour DJ Michael Williams (Motown classics/ smooth jazz/ northern soul/Canrock) 6 pm.

TOTA LOUNGE

Radio Circus Vol 2 Elextra, Breezno (hypnotic mindscapes).

UNIT BAR Death By Jazz! No 38.

WAYLABAR Outlet (electronica) 10 pm.

Friday, June 22 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL

ALLEYCATZ Lady Kane.

ANNEX WRECKROOM Elektrik Symfony, Tax-

man, Original Sin 10 pm.

ASPETTA CAFFE Shaalone, Social Buttterfly 7 to 11 pm.

THE BALLROOM Mixed Nuts 10 pm.

BAR ITALIA UPSTAIRS Shugga (funk) 9:30 pm.

BOVINE SEX CLUB The Return Of Slayer Party!

Dentata, the Leslie Spits, DJ Vania.

CAMERON HOUSE BACK ROOM Two Green Cats, Mushy Callahan, Jessica Speziale 9 pm.

THE CENTRAL Get Blown 9:30 pm.

CROWN & TIGER Gold Soundz Jo Landau, Bulldog Skin, Neighbourhood Watch, DJ Bulldog Skin (indie pop/shoegaze) doors 9 pm.

DOUBLE DOUBLE LAND Wavelength 545: The Summer Solstice Triptych Part C Chris Corsano, Bill Nace, Steve Bazkowski, Not the Wind Not the Flag, Coca-Cola 11 pm, Wavelength 545: The Summer Solstice Triptych Part B Han Bennink, Terrie Ex, Detention, Brodie West 7 pm.

THE DUKE LIVE.COM Summer of 69 (Bryan Adams tribute).

EL MOCAMBO The Flawless Victory Show The Mighty Rhino, More or Les, the Egyptian Prescription, Tre Leji 9 pm.

THE GARRISON These United States, Gdansk, Rob Moir doors 9 pm.

GLADSTONE HOTEL BALLROOM Artists For Autism Spectrum Disorder gNat, Saucy Miso & DJ Hangedman, the Flying Museum Band, Jumple 7 pm.

GRAFFITI’S CD release party The High Tides, Christian D & the Hangovers 8 pm, Rockin’ For Sick Kids Hospital Paul Martin (covers) 5-7 pm.

GROSSMAN’S Frankie Foo and the Yoyo Smugglers (ska) 10 pm.

HARBOURFRONT CENTRE Franco-Fête Ariane Moffatt (pop) 9 pm.

KAPISANAN PHILIPPINE CENTRE Soundz Of The Youth: The End Of Youth Lesbian Bondage Fiasco, Ghost Daze, Shipley Hollow, Look Out Below, Sweet Junk, I’ll Tell You When You’re Older (punk/funk) doors 6 pm, all ages. See preview, page 48.

KOOL HAUS Reggae Cafe Stonelove, Bass Odyssey, Renegade Squad, Whitebwoy, Jungle Junkee, DJ Zee doors 10 pm.

THE LOADED DOG Seasick Sailors (Celtic rock) 8:30 pm.

LOU DAWG’S Jeff Eager (acoustic soul/funk/Motown) 10 pm.

LOU DAWG’S RYERSON Don Campbell (acoustic blues/rock) 10 pm.

LOWER OSSINGTON THEATRE EP Release Wide-Eyed Tour Guide, Edgewater Hotel, Hot to the Touch, Christian Bridges (indie pop) doors 9:30 pm.

MOLSON AMPHITHEATRE Sarah McLachlan, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra doors 6:30 pm.

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MAINSTAGE MARQUEE Toronto Jazz Festival Janelle Monae, Roman GianArthur 8 pm.

NOT MY DOG Jeff Ousoren Band, Little Birdy 9:30 pm.

OPERA HOUSE Streets Of Sesame Fitness, the Muckabouts, Spectre

Hearts, Still Authors, Jaffa Charles, Zones doors 9 pm.

PRESS CLUB Refined Beast Art Opening The Rough Notes (Beatles covers/R&R) 10 pm.

RIVER GAMBLER Gambler On The Rocks Slave to the Squarewave, Camel Tones, Tin Star Orphans 7 pm.

SILVER DOLLAR Howll, Fuss, From East to Exit, Bats & Rabbits doors 9 pm.

THE SISTER The Autumn Portrait.

SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY’S Bad to the Bone (George Thorogood tribute) 10 pm.

SUGAR BEACH Waterfront Festival: Sweet Smokin’ Suga’ Beach Jam 5 to 9 pm.

SUPERMARKET Soop! It’s Good For You DJs the Soul Proprietor, Nightbox DJs 10 pm.

3030 DUNDAS WEST Ontario Craft Beer Week Celebration Mnemonics, Audio.

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FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD

BLUE GOOSE TAVERN Big Tobacco & the Pickers (country) 9 pm.

CAMERON HOUSE Patrick Brealey (folk rock/ roots) 9 pm.

FREE TIMES CAFE Tempting Murphy, Piper Hayes.

GLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR David Celia

(folk/rock) 9 pm.

HABITS GASTROPUB Kevin Myles Wilson, Austin & Caz (alt/folk/pop) 9 pm.

HARBOURFRONT CENTRE Franco-Fête Amélie

et les Singes Bleus 6 pm.

HIGHWAY 61 SOUTHERN BARBEQUE The Little Naturals 8 pm.

HUGH’S ROOM In Cash We Trust: Johnny Cash Tribute The Good Brothers, Danny ñ Brooks, Lynne Hanson, Kristen Jones, Saman-

tha Martin, Massey Harris and others 8:30 pm.

LULA LOUNGE Cafe Cubano, DJ Suave (salsa) 10:30 pm.

REPOSADO The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz).

REX The Jivebombers (jump-blues) 6:30 pm.

ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM Friday Night Live iDrum, Diggy the DJ, DJ Jay Sea 6 to 11 pm.

TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Emilie Mover (folk) 10 pm, The Ugly Bug Band 7:30 pm, The Foolish Things, Hugh Oliver (folk) 5 pm.

ZOBEL Gary 17’s Open Stage Jam 8 pm.

JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL

BENARES HISTORIC HOUSE On The Verandah

Concert Quantum Brass 7:30 pm.

THE CENTRAL Sabine Ndalamba 6 pm.

CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY Toronto Jazz Festival Kurt Rosenwinkel 7 pm.

DAVE’S... ON ST CLAIR Happy Hour Jazz The Jordan Saull Quartette 5 to 8 pm.

DISTILLERY DISTRICT TRINITY STAGE Toronto Jazz Festival Nichol Robertson Quartet 6 pm.

DOMINION ON QUEEN Toronto Jazz Festival Hidalgo.

Havana to Toronto w/ Joaquin Nunez Hidalgo GATE 403 Toronto Jazz Festival Ali Berkok, Kurt Nielsen (keyboard, bass) 5 pm.

LOWER OSSINGTON THEATRE Salute To The Toronto Jazz Festival Countermeasure (a cappella group).

LULA LOUNGE Toronto Jazz Festival: Latin Jazz & Salsa Series Alithea Cameron, Café Cubano (salsa) 8 pm.

NATHAN PHILLIPS SQUARE OUTDOOR STAGE

Toronto Jazz Festival: Salute The Duke Brian Barlow Big Band 5 pm.

NAWLINS JAZZ BAR The N’awlins All Star Band w/ Brooke Blackburn (jazz/blues) 9:30 pm.

OLD MILL INN HOME SMITH BAR Jazz Festival Within The Jazz Festival Jackie Richardson, Russ Little Trio, Kim Richardson 7:30 pm.

PURE SPIRITS PATIO Toronto Jazz Festival Jesse Barksdale Trio 6 pm.

QUOTES Toronto Jazz Festival: Fridays At Five Byron Stripling & the Canadian Jazz Quartet 5 to 8 pm.

REX Jeremy Pelt 11 pm, Nadje Noordhuis 8 pm, Sara Dell (vox/solo piano) 3 pm.

THE BUSHMILLS WORD AND ASSOCIATED LOGOS ARE TRADE MARKS. © THE OLD BUSHMILLS DISTILLERY LIMITED 2012.

SHOPS AT DON MILLS FESTIVAL SQUARE Toronto Jazz Festival Shuffle Demons 8 ñ pm.

SOMEWHERE THERE STUDIO Ken Aldcroft 8 pm.

TRANE STUDIO Toronto Jazz Festival Mozik

Brazilian Quintet (Brazilian jazz) 8:30 pm.

DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE

BRASSAII Love Me Till I’m Me Again DJ Anna-

lyze 10 pm.

CLINTON’S Fuck It Bangs & Blush (Motown/ Britpop) doors 10 pm.

COBRA LOUNGE The Fix Fridays No Big Deal DJs. DANCE CAVE Bif Bang Pow DJ Trevor (60s mod Britpop) 10 pm.

PFLY Dance Camp: Pride Edition DJ Mark Falco.5 GOODHANDY’S Beaver Damn DJs Rolls Royce, Elixir, Used, Blair and Beans doors 10 pm.5 GUVERNMENT Canada’s Next Top DJ 9 pm.

INSOMNIA Funkn’ Fresh Fridays JJ Preston (house/breaks).5 LEE’S PALACE Korean Film Fest Afterparty.

THE LOCAL DJ Hott Pants (funk/soul).

THE PAINTED LADY Toronto Jazz Festival: Phantastic (drummers & sax players play fusion alongside DJ) 10 pm.

PARTS & LABOUR White Girl DJs Patrick McGuire, Josh McIntyre, Ghetto Gold Matt (rap from 1993-2012) 10 pm.

THE PISTON DJ G-Spot (breakbeat jams) 10 pm.

THE QUEEN’S LEGS Trash DJ Madame Hair (rock) 10 pm.

SAVIARI TEA + COCKTAIL LOUNGE re:Freshed DJs Sessions, Spinner, Lilee doors 9 pm.

SMILING BUDDHA Seven Inch Samurai DJs Natto Rocker, Ginger Sting, Tako, King Magic Sparky, Way of the Curl, Sumo Kai Sumo, Doctor Gojira (7 DJs, 7 songs each, all on 7 inches) doors 9:30 pm.

SOUND ACADEMY Porter Robinson, Mat Zo & the M Machine doors 10 pm.

WAYLABAR Mista T Dot (top 40/club classics) 10 pm.

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

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ALLEYCATZ Lady Kane.

BAR ITALIA UPSTAIRS Al Webster (funk/soul/ R&B) 10:30 pm.

THE CENTRAL Diesel Dog 10 pm, Busker Bros 6

pm.

DOMINION ON QUEEN Toronto Jazz Festival

Que-Isso, Kyle McGyle (Brazilian jazz) 9 pm, Toronto Jazz Festival York Jazz Ensemble 5 pm.

EL MOCAMBO Black Pistol Fire 9 pm.

GRAFFITI’S Hicks n’ Dawe 8 pm, Ron Leary Sextet 4 to 7 pm.

GROSSMAN’S City Soul 10 pm.

HABITS GASTROPUB Jeffery Straker, Sara Kamin, Amy Campbell (alternative/melodramatic pop) 8 pm.

HARBOURFRONT CENTRE Franco-Fête-Positively Astounding Godlalune (hip-hop/rap) 7:15 pm, Franco-Fête Z et Un (rock/alternative) 5 pm.

HORSESHOE Fallen Heirs, Witch Ever, Tin Star Orphans, Inlet Sound 9:30 pm.

LEE’S PALACE Japandroids, Cadence Weapon doors 9 pm. See preview, page 46.

THE LOADED DOG Blister Cats (rock) 8:30 pm.

THE LOCAL Daniel Sky Band 10 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.

NATHAN PHILLIPS SQUARE Toronto Jazz Festival Bettye LaVette, the Big Sound.

ROGERS CENTRE Roger Waters doors 6:30 pm.

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SILVER DOLLAR Buddy Black, Bare Minimum, Wood Butcher doors 10 pm.

THE SISTER The Reply, the Primordials, Start.

SOUND ACADEMY Spirit of the West doors 8

pm.

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After Soundz Of The Youth has its final all-ages show on Friday (June 22) at the Kapisanan Philippine Centre (167 Augusta, doors 6 pm, $10), Toronto’s young music fans and musicians will once again find themselves with few live music options. Over the past year, the monthly all-ages music series has provided a place for underage indie rock, funk, jazz-fusion and punk bands to perform, with each show carefully curated by young local promoter Marc Z. Gold to ensure a stylistic fit.

The finale features Lesbian Bondage Fiasco, Ghost Daze, Shipley Hollow, Look Out Below and I’ll Tell You When You’re Older. NOW spoke to Gold about the current state of Toronto’s all-ages scene ahead of his departure for the Israel Defense Forces.

What prompted you to start Soundz Of The Youth?

It was partially because of your article about the few opportunities for underage bands to play. I remembered having difficulty finding shows for my band, the Fancy Claps (RIP). I started setting up all-ages shows at Third Floor Reillys (RIP) with a friend, and those were always great and successful.

What challenges have you faced?

At first, the biggest was finding bands, but now we always have more than enough because the series has grown through word of mouth. Low attendance has never been a problem. Bands pay $100 to cover costs and then keep all ticket sales. With tickets priced at $10, everyone usually walks home with a solid bit of cash. Underage drinking was a problem, and we’ve become increasingly harsh because of an incident where a kid got out of control.

But since then we haven’t had any

problems. Most kids understand that that’s exactly the kind of thing that ruins the fun for everyone.

Is there a thirst for these types of events in Toronto?

Absolutely. I see the same kids come back over and over and bring their friends and tell their friends’ bands to play. They’ve built a whole community around the shows, connecting kids from Rosedale, Etobicoke School of the Arts and Lawrence Park especially. It’s a beautiful thing.

How do you feel about the series ending?

Really sad. It’s ridiculous that nobody has stepped up and said, “I’ll continue it!” I’ve asked a few friends, but also Kapisanan Philippine Centre’s not even sure it wants to keep doing shows – all-ages or otherwise – so that’s very unfortunate. Everybody email them and tell them to keep allowing all-ages Carla Gillis shows!

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album reviews wound bass and drum rhythms. The structures often resemble electronic music more than rock, though none of the instrumentation is digital.

Groove takes centre stage, while Jesse Laderoute’s vocal hooks, recalling English punk in delivery, add a more conventional element. Things get raucous at times, but the careful arrangements ensure that the songs never fall apart.

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OCDC (Naim Jazz) Rating: Get the Blessing, a Bristol jazz band featuring the rhythm section of Portishead, sound very much like what that suggests: lots of laid-back grooves influenced by Afrobeat, hip-hop, dub reggae, post-rock and contemporary left-field dance music, with a vaguely punk grit to the mood. It’s essentially a type of funky jazz, but stripped of all the tacky fusion clichés. You won’t hear much slap bass.

Instead, you get cascades of echoes and wobbly tremolo guitar lines.

As much as the band is anchored by the drums and bass, the musicians initially bonded over their love of Ornette

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Coleman, and the boundary-pushing saxophone legend’s influence is obvious in the mournful horn arrangements and overall willingness to allow for dissonance and experimentation within soulful, emotional music.

The jazz establishment probably finds their chord progressions too harmonically simple and their tones too close to rock music for comfort. Regardless, crossover acts like this are vitally important if the genre is to continue to grow and be seen as more than a historic relic.

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point and harmony. Their high and pretty voices tie the songs together in a way their previous releases lack, though they would do well to let up on the layered effect from time to time.

The songs jangle and push forward with enthusiasm. Halfway through comes A Light In The Static, a from-out-of-nowhere classical guitar instrumental, and the end brings a hesitant piano ditty, Response To Photographs. Both songs hint at where the ever-evolving musicians might go next.

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YOUNG MOTHER Future Classics GRASS WIDOW Internal Logic (HLR) (Telephone Explosion) Rating: NNNN Rating: NNN Young Mother began as a fairly frustrating Raven Mahon’s unique style of guitar band, a noisy, improvisational free jazz playing adds huge interest to Grass Widcollective with just enough structure to ow’s third album. Her chords have a punky hint at the tantalizing post-punk grooves straightforwardness (as does Lillian Marhiding beneath the cacophony. ing’s drumming and Hannah Lew’s bass On their long-in-the-works full-length playing), but her busy, proggy lead lines LP, the young locals have tightened their often move in surprising atonal directions. sound into an insistent machine of ominThis helps offset the sweetness of the ous textures and barely resolved tension. vocals. All three members of the San FranNodding to space and Krautrock bands like cisco DIY-embracing indie pop band sing, Ad_Now_1-5 150612.ai 1 6/15/12 4:01 they PM weave nimble guitar Can and Neu!, often in dreamy doubled layers, counterlicks and saxophone bleats with tightly

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Chestnutt, Jon Langford, Robyn Hitchcock, Andrew Bird and the Magnetic Fields, among others. Her backing band, meanwhile, features R&B legends Booker T. Jones and James Gadson, NRBQ’s Scott Ligon and Gabriel Roth of the Dap Kings.

Besides having friends in high places, Hogan, who fronted several Atlanta and Chicago bands and has been in Neko Case’s since 1998, has a versatile voice that moves easily between the polished album’s classic pop, country, soul and jazz numbers. That diversity leaves it without a consistent mood or conceptual throughline, however, and while Hogan’s singing voice is, like the album, pleasant enough, it’s not especially distinct or memorable.

The songwriting is – no surprise – strong, with one of the standout’s being Hogan’s own Golden, a heartfelt country tune written for and about Case.

Top track: Golden CG

IVY MAIRI No Talker (Latent) Rating: NNN

album of the week NNNN ñGET THE BLESSING

sional modern production touches that actually come closest to working – they’re far more interesting than the shameless quoting of classic rock riffs that most of the album is based on.

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USHER Looking 4 Myself (RCA/Sony)

JUSTIN BIEBER Believe (Universal) Rating: NNN Justin Bieber’s sophomore album, a considered mix of on-trend dance pop and relaxed mid-tempo beats and ballads, nudges the 18-year-old oh so carefully closer to an inevitable period of full-blown crotch-grabbing.

A melismatic R&B singer trapped in the body of a teenypopper, Bieber sounds most convincing when his fluttery timbre is given room to breathe. Highlights include the pensive One Love, the yodelling falsetto chorus in Thought Of You, the vaguely menacing come-on Boyfriend and the MJ-sampling summer jam Die In Your Arms.

The more aggressive bangers are effective, though Bieber gets eclipsed by everything else going on in the tracks. The Max Martin- and Zedd-produced Beauty And A Beat is mainly memorable for its squelchy synth solo outro and guest rap

by Nicki Minaj, who rhymes “Bieber” with “ether,” “weiner” and “Selenerrr.”

Top track: Die In Your Arms KEVIN RITCHIE THE HIVES Lex Hives (Disques Hives) Rating: NN For a band so clearly laser-focused on good times, Swedish garage rock superstars the Hives don’t seem to be having a ton of fun on their fifth album. They might pride themselves on being the type of band that doesn’t have to evolve, but they just sound bored. Diehard fans will say we’re insane, but they’ll also admit that all their albums pale next to the overthe-top spectacle of the live show. Doing goofy stuff like adding a surge of canned cheering to the first song, Come On!, just highlights how sterile the album feels by comparison.

We get that it’s supposed to be cartoon rock, but this feels more like parody than an honest celebration of rock ’n’ roll ridiculousness. Are we supposed to be laughing?

Because you can’t take it seriously. But it’s not funny either. Strangely, it’s the occa-

Rating: NNN When Usher released the sparse, Diploproduced breakup ballad Climax earlier this year, it was the pop heartthrob’s first curveball in a long time. You couldn’t help but wonder if the spacey sounds of upstart R&B acts like the Weeknd and Miguel – who value emotional atmospherics over singalong hooks – were having a trickle-up effect.

Not all of Looking 4 Myself is as adventurous as Climax’s balls-in falsetto, nor is it the revolution its creator has been touting in the press. But refreshingly, it’s more about sound quality and songwriting than the calculated brand-building of his recent releases. It also marks a break from his goto collaborators Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis in favour of Diplo, Toronto’s Noah “40” Shebib and Empire of the Sun’s Luke Steele.

Aside from Climax, standouts to prioritize on your Usher playlist include club makeout jam Lemme See featuring Rick Ross, Biggie-sampling slow burner What Happened To U, feel-good summer banger Show Me and noirish Sins Of My Father.

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KELLY HOGAN I Like To Keep Myself In

Pain (Anti-) Rating: NNN Most of the 13 songs on Kelly Hogan’s new album, her first in over a decade, were written for her by famous songwriters who also happen to be her friends. The jaw-dropping list includes M. Ward, Vic

It’s been seven years since Ward’s Islandborn songwriter Ivy Mairi – then 17 – met the Cowboy Junkies’ Michael Timmins and started working with him on her debut album, Well You. But on her sophomore disc, No Talker, the roller-coaster ride of adolescent romance is still a fresh memory, one she hashes out in confessional, sometimes diary-style songs.

This personal approach works for Mairi, whose unaffected voice carries the album through the soaring melodies of orchestral opener Kenyatta, the gentle folk-rock yearning of Something Of Love, the hepped-up pissed-off country ditty Scar and beyond. She has a gift for slow ballads, including R&B burner I Can See You and slow and moody Bruise. By the end, she’s releasing the words in a sigh.

Top track: Kenyatta Ivy Mairi plays a CD release tonight (Thursday, June 21) at the Cameron House.

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PETER APPLEYARD Sophisticated Ladies

(True North) Rating: NNN Canadian vibraphonist Peter Appleyard is 83, but his musicianship remains fluid and vibrant. His new album of jazz standards was recorded at CBC Studio 211 and features a cast of popular female jazz and blues singers as well as Appleyard’s quintet of excellent players.

There’s a battle of focus between the vocalists and the vibe solos, which works when the instrumental comes as a sudden surprise and changes the course of the tune, as on opener After You’ve Gone (featuring Emilie-Claire Barlow), or when the vocal sits naturally with what the band is doing, as on earthy Georgia On My Mind (featuring Jackie Richardson). But often the vocal parts, though good, leave us anticipating Appleyard’s next solo. It’s a vocal jazz record where the vocals take a back seat.

Top track: Georgia On My Mind Peter Appleyard & the Sophisticated Ladies play Koerner Hall Tuesday (June 26) as part of the Toronto Jazz Festival. SG3

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CLASSY LADY by Sandra Battaglini (Battaglini). At the Alumnae Theatre (70 Berkeley). To June 24. $25. 416-591-1417, brownpapertickets.com. See Continuing, page 59. Rating: NNN

In Classy Lady, Sandra Battaglini commands attention from the moment she appears onstage belting the title song, and holds it throughout her two-hour solo show. She doesn’t just reach out to the audience; she dropkicks the fourth wall using cheekiness, charm and wry observations – in killer high heels, no less.

The show weaves together stories, jokes and video to explore and deconstruct societal perceptions of women.

Sandra Battaglini is a winning performer, though her writing could be sharper.

Shawn Hitchins sinks his claws into hits from the 90s in his final cabaret show.

Shawn of the red head Proud ginger says goodbye to cabaret with Fire(Crotch) Sale By GLENN SUMI FIRE(CROTCH) SALE with SHAWN HITCHINS and guests SUE NEWBERRY, ANDRYA DUFF, JONATHAN C.G. BRIGHT, MATTHEW JAMES HINES and CHRIS TSUJIUCHI. Presented by Run Ginger Run at Buddies in Bad Times (12 Alexander). Tonight (Thursday, June 21) at 8 pm. $20. 416-975-8555.

not many theatre artists have led 700 people to sing about greased lightning, their favourite things and the wind beneath their wings.

But Shawn Hitchins isn’t just any performer. You’ve seen the energetic actor, comic and cabaret performer if you’ve attended one of the popular singalong screenings of Grease or The Sound Of Music at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, or one of his 12-hour Nuit Blanche Lightbox marathons. Last year’s allnight blowout was devoted to movies from the 80s and got the whole crowd crooning Bette Midler’s Beaches anthem.

“There was one point when I told somebody to start flapping their arms, and then suddenly everyone started doing it,” he says about the experience. “It looked like a flock of seagulls coming at me. It was ridiculous – one of those moments when you think, ‘Oh my god, what a life.’”

Hitchins has had quite a few of them, actually. When he was a member of the drag musical comedy group the B-Girlz, they were invited to Kitchener’s Pridetoberfest – a gay event

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“They hired us to come out and sing two numbers and then ride an oversized sausage – a mechanical bull converted into a giant wiener. It was the most fun I’ve ever had.”

Hitchins, with his easy grin and likeable demeanour, is a natural host – good with a snappy comeback, ready to draw shy people out. He’s also a fine cabaret artist, which he’s proven in shows like Single White Douche and Survival Of The Fiercest.

Tonight’s Fire(Crotch) Sale marks his final cabaret show before he embarks on a new career focusing more on comedy and personal stories, with a bit of music acting as a bridge.

“It’s all the best material I have, a mishmash of things from previous shows,” he says, sipping an energy drink in the mezzanine of the Maple Leaf Gardens Loblaws, one of his favourite places in the city.

“It’s mostly songs from the 90s,” he explains. “We [music director Mim Adams and I] have re-harmonized versions of Alanis Morissette, we’ve just built a beautiful Our Lady Peace song, and there’s a mashup of Neil Young and Madonna.”

His favourite item, however, is something he calls a “seven-minute new wave megamix about climate change,” a medley that includes bits from songs like Here Comes The Rain Again, Some Like It Hot and Here In My Car.

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And then there’s the condensed version of the movie Steel Magnolias, which he, Chris Tsujiuchi and Matthew James Hines are performing.

“It’s six minutes and goes from beginning to end with credits, using all Dolly Parton music,” he says. “It’s very gay.”

And expect a story or two about being a proud ginger.

“I think South Park’s to blame,” he says about anti-ginger sentiment and the subsequent backlash in the media.

“Eventually I want to form a ginger pride parade, in Edinburgh. It might just be me and a sign, and people throwing Scotch eggs at me.”

In Fire(Crotch) Sale, he’ll probably also tell a recent story about his dermatologist.

“I go for six-month mole checks, where the dermatologist has half-nude photos of me that he compares – really sexy,” he laughs. “He checks everything. And recently he was writing on my chart, took his pen, lifted up my left testicle, looked underneath, lifted the other one, and then he….”

Hitchins illustrates what happened next by chewing the tip of his own pen, deep in thought.

“I’m staring down the whole time, thinking, ‘I just teabagged my doctor!’”

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It’s shaped by personal accounts of Battaglini’s family roots in Italy, her Catholic upbringing in Sudbury and life in Woodbridge. The videos, made collaboratively with director Phil Luzi, contain the strongest character-driven material, including a mock perfume ad co-starring Luzi. Another is based on real-life interviews with female employees from the Inco nickel mines during WWII. Battaglini confronts sensitive topics audaciously. Her anecdotes about dating and sex are full of original observations on this well-worn subject.

She jokes about her empty uterus and posits ideas about Jesus that certainly aren’t taught in any Sunday school.

Fellow fallen Catholics and those not easily offended will find her irreverence heavenly.

Luzi keeps the pace brisk even when moving between video and live segments. The dresses and costume changes are amusingly diva-esque.

And Hanna Puley’s retro rec-room set includes a padded cocktail bar that allows Battaglini to take a drink whenever she needs one, while leaving enough space for physical comedy.

The show stumbles in the writing, though. Despite her great delivery, the live sections sometimes feel superficial. Battaglini’s funny personal stories would be enhanced by deeper reflection. Segments on American politics, with prolonged riffs on Michelle Obama and Mitt Romney, belong more to the stand-up stage. And the ending comes too abruptly.

Still, though some sound and video glitches (which no doubt will be fixed) marred opening night, Battaglini rolled with it all, improvising her way through and remaining unruffled.

Now, that’s class. DEBBIE FEIN-GOLDBACH

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AVENUE Q by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx

(Lower Ossington Theatre). A college grad moves to New York City and works through the transition to adulthood in this puppet show musical. Opens Jun 22 and runs to Jul 23, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm, Sun 4 pm. $45-$60. 100A Ossington. 416-915-6747, lowerossingtontheatre.com.

BIG BAND LEGENDS by Alex Mustakas (Drayton Entertainment). This musical tribute features the classics by Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Bobby Darin and others. Opens Jun 27 and runs to Jul 14, Tue-Sat (see website for times). $40, stu $20. Huron Country Playhouse, 70689 B Line, Grand Bend. 1-888-372-9866, draytonentertainment.com.

DEAR JOHNNY DEERE by Ken Cameron (Blyth Festival). A couple struggle to keep their farm afloat while the bills pile up. Previews to Jun 21. Opens Jun 22 and runs to Jul 7, see website for schedule. $30-$34, previews $22-$26, stu $15. Blyth Memorial Hall, 431 Queen, Blyth. 1-877-862-5984, blythfestival.com.

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features music, dance, art, kids’ activities and more. Jun 22-24, see website for schedule. Free. 235 Queens Quay W. 416-9734000, harbourfrontcentre.com.

PThe GLAM! Pride GAMe Show revue

(GLAM Cabaret). This benefit for queer youth program SOY features comedian Andrew Johnston, Boylesque’s Mickey D Licious and others. Jun 26-27 at 9 pm. $10. The Flying Beaver Pubaret, 488 Parliament. glamcabaret.blogspot.com.

The Green door CAbAreT SerieS (Lower Ossington Theatre). This series features jazzthemed cabaret performances by various artists. Opens Jun 21 and runs to Jun 30, Thu-Sat and Tue 8 pm, Sun 3 pm. $20-$30. 100A Ossington. lowerossingtontheatre.com/cabaret. hArvey by Mary Chase (Drayton Entertainment). A man with an imaginary friend vexes his society-conscious sister in this comedy.

Opens Jun 26 and runs to Jul 14, Wed-Sat (see website for times). $40, previews $32, stu $20.

Playhouse II, 70689 B Line, Grand Bend.

1-888-372-9866, draytonentertainment.com. heLLo (Huge Picture Productions). The leader of a vigilante group wrestles with existential questions during an alien invasion in this multimedia musical. Opens Jun 21 and runs to Aug 31, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $25. Electric Theatre, 299 Augusta. 416-317-8715, hugepictureproductions.com.

A MidSuMMer niGhT’S dreAM by William Shakespeare (Canadian Stage Shakespeare in High Park). Lovers and actors meet and mingle in an enchanted forest in this classic comedy performed outdoors. Opens Jun 26 and runs to Sep 2, Tue-Fri and Sun 8 pm. Pwyc ($20 suggested), 14 and under free. High Park Amphitheatre, Bloor W and Parkside. canadianstage.com.

Murder AT Fern reSorT by Ron Clark and Sam Bobrick (Drayton Entertainment). A woman, her husband and their dentist get caught up in a love triangle in this suspense-comedy.

Opens Jun 27 and runs to Jul 14, Tue-Sat (see website for times). $40, stu $20. King’s Wharf Theatre, 97 Jury, Penetanguishene. 1-888-3729866, draytonentertainment.com.

The MySTeriouS Mr. Love by Karoline Leach (Globus Theatre). A con man with a heart of gold finds love. Opens Jun 27 and runs to Jul 7, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Jun 30 & Jul 5 at 2 pm. $27.50, stu $20. Lakeview Arts Barn, 2300 Pigeon Lake, Bobcaygeon. 1-800-304-7897, globustheatre.com.

PPAM Ann – Around The worLd (Mirvish).

The celebrity air hostess comic performs her new solo show about the conundrums of air travel. Jun 21-23, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $35-$55.

Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com.

PerFeCT weddinG by Robin Hawdon (Drayton Entertainment). A groom wakes up next to a woman he doesn’t know in this bedroom farce. Opens Jun 27 and runs to Jul 14, Tue-Sat (see website for times). $40, stu $20. Drayton

Festival Theatre, 33 Wellington S, Drayton.

1-888-372-9866, draytonentertainment.com.

Shine: SuMMer SoLSTiCe (Movement Centre).

Multidisciplinary performances in dance, monologue, music, spoken word and more with host Miko Sobreira. Jun 22-24, Fri-Sun 8 pm. $10. 2480 Dundas W, studio 104. movementcentre.com.

SoMe GirL(S) by Neil LaBute (Empty Suitcase Theatre). A man decides to re-connect with a handful of ex-girlfriends before he gets married. Opens Jun 27 and runs to Jun 30, WedSat 8 pm, mat Sat 2:30 pm. $25, stu $20.

Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman. 416-5311827, emptysuitcasetheatre.com.

SoMewhere beyond The SeA by Douglas Bowie (Thousand Islands Playhouse). A retired librarian finds her world upended while touring Europe in this comedy. Opens Jun 22 and runs to Jul 21, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun and Wed 2:30 pm. $27-$32, stu/preview $16.

Springer Theatre, 690 Charles S, Gananoque.

1-866-382-7020, 1000islandsplayhouse.com.

STAGinG A rebeLLion (Docket Theatre). Contemporary plays Performing Occupy by Rosamund Small and A Farewell Party by Evan O’Donnell are featured in this double bill. Jun 21-24, Thu 7 pm, Fri-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2 pm. $20, stu $15. Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse, 79A St George. dockettheatre.com. wATerFronT FeSTivAL ToronTo (Redpath).

This celebration of culture and history features live music, a theatrical presentation, art, kids’ activities and more. Jun 21-24, ThuSat 10 am to 9 pm, Sun 10 am to 5 pm. Free.

Queens Quay, from Jarvis to Spadina. towaterfrontfest.com.

Previewing

The beST broTherS by Daniel MacIvor (Strat-

ford Festival). Two very different brothers learn about each other and their mother after her death. Previews Jun 26-Jul 11. Opens Jul 12 and runs in rep to Sep 16. $30-$70. Studio Theatre, 34 George E, Stratford. 1-800-5671600, stratfordfestival.ca. henry v by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). England’s new king invades France in this epic drama. Previews Jun 24-Jul 12.

Opens Jul 13 and runs in rep to Sep 29. $49$95, srs $35-$55, stu $15-$25. Festival Theatre, 55 Queen, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca.

Tim Walker milks drama in The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia? at the Tarragon.

hirSCh by Alon Nashman and Paul Thompson

(Stratford Festival). This drama looks at the life of theatre director John Hirsch, who came to Canada as a Hungarian refugee orphaned by the Holocaust. Previews to Jul 11. Opens Jul 12 and runs in rep to Sep 14. $30-$70. Studio Theatre, 34 George E, Stratford. 1-800567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca.

TroubLe in TAhiTi by Leonard Bernstein (Shaw Festival). This one-act opera looks at the 1950s American dream through the eyes of a seemingly perfect couple. Previews to Jul 6. Opens Jul 7 and runs in rep to Oct 7. $32.

Court House Theatre, 26 Queen, Niagara-onthe-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com.

The wAr oF 1812: The hiSTory oF The viLLAGe oF The SMALL huTS, 1812-1815 ñ

by Michael Hollingsworth (Stratford Festival/ VideoCabaret). This history play looks at the war and its effects on a native confederation that fought in defence of Canada. Previews Jun 26-30. Runs in rep to Aug 12. $50, child $25. Studio Theatre, 34 George E, Stratford.

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

One-nighters

Aer TiMe (Femmes du Feu/Zero Gravity Cir-

cus). This workshop performance series features new works by aerial artists. Jun 23 at 2

pm. $10. Centre of Gravity West, 213 Sterling, suite 100, south entrance. hollytreddenick@ gmail.com.

PAirShiP (Queer Pride 2012/Femmes du Feu). This sexy steampunk circus features aerial dance, music and acrobatics. Jun 23 at 8:30 pm. $15-$20. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. buddiesinbadtimes.com. broAdwAy ShowSToPPerS (The Velvet Curtain). A vocal ensemble performs hits from Rent, Chicago, Evita, Mamma Mia and more.

Jun 23 at 8 pm. $25. Metropolitan United Church, 56 Queen E. thevelvetcurtain.ca. doo woP wiTh A TwiST (The Annual Oldies Tour). This musical revue features hits from the 50s and 60s. Jun 21 at 8 pm. $40. Hershey Centre, 5500 Rose Cherry Place, Mississauga. imarktickets.com. dorA MAvor Moore AwArdS (Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts). Thom Allison hosts the annual theatre, dance and opera awards show. Jun 25 at 8 pm. $65, VIP $165. Bluma Appel Theatre, 27 Front E. 416366-7723, tapa.ca.

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(Eventual Ashes/Aslan Arts Freedom School/ Queer Pride 2012). This glamorous musical celebrates all that is outcast, awkward, unusual and beautiful. Jun 27 at 8 pm. Pwyc.

Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander.

416-975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com.

JennA wArriner PreSenTS An eveninG oF ChorTLeS, GiGGLeS And SonG (Jenna War-

riner). Warriner performs a musical cabaret.

Jun 21 at 8:30 pm. Pwyc. The Central, 603 Markham. thecentralbar.ca.

MenAGe A TroiS (Volcano Theatre/Classical Music Consort). This funder for an upcoming opera productions features a talk by Deepa Mehta, live music, an auction and more. Jun 24 at 4 pm. $75. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W, Ballroom. menageatrois.eventbrite.com.

The new CoMedy or The CoFFee (houSe) by Leandro Fernandez de Moratin (21 Festival of Images and Words). Oscar Ortiz performs a mime recreation of the Spanish satirical comedy, plus music, a raffle and more. Jun 22 at 6:30 pm. $10. York U Glendon Campus, 2275 Bayview. festivalofimagesandwords.ca. oPeninG niGhT by Norm Foster (Medina Theatre Ensemble). Foster’s comedy about a couple’s anniversary night out gets a staged reading. Jun 27 at 7:30 pm. $7. Temple Sinai Congregation, 210 Wilson. 416-638-2716.

hiTChinS: Fire(CroTCh) SALe! (Queer Pride 2012/Run Ginger Run Enñ tertainment). Hitchins gives a farewell cabaPShAwn

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ret performance featuring older material from his solo shows, new laughs and special guests (see story, page 54). Jun 21 at 8 pm. $20. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes. com.

Sound iT ouT (Thesp). Readings of works by young playwrights, including Susan Stover, Christopher Douglas, Mariel Marshall, Claire Burns, Sarah Illiatovitch-Goldman and others plus live music. Jun 24, 4 to 10 pm. Pwyc.

Victory Café, 581 Markham. thesp.ca. voiCeS oF SuMMer (Toronto Operetta Theatre). This gala celebrating the Golden Age of Operetta features the music of Johann Strauss, Jacques Offenbach, Gilbert & Sullivan, Franz Lehar and others. Jun 23 at 3 pm. $35. 27 Front E. 416-366-7723, torontooperetta.com. voyAGe To your Mind (Haim Goldenberg).

TV star/mentalist Haim Goldenberg performs mind tricks and games. Jun 24 at 7:30 pm. $40. George Ignatieff Theatre, 15 Devonshire. reallifementalist.com/TorontoLiveShow.

GiFTed And bLACk: (re)TeLLinG STorieS oF SurvivAL And ThrivAL ñ For younG bLACk Men (Black CAP/Project: PyounG,

Humanity/Ontario HIV Treatment Network). A new play about the experiences of black gay and bisexual youth gets a reading. Jun 27 at 8 pm. Pwyc. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. buddiesinbadtimes.com.

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Dinner Theatre). This dinner-theatre whodunit features corporate back-stabbing and boardroom intrigue. Runs to Sep 15, Fri-Sat and some Thu; dinner from 6:30 pm, show 8 pm. $66-$71. 2026 Yonge. 416-486-7469, mysteriouslyyours.com. brAve inTervenTionS (YYZ). Artists perform 20-minute sets every 20 minutes as part of Libby Hague’s installation Be Brave!. Zoja Smutny (Jun 23); Maev Beaty (Jun 30). Runs to Jun 30, Sat 1-3 pm. Free. 401 Richmond W, ste 140. 416-598-4546, libbyhague.com.

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Two-timers

duo attempt improv without a net By JORDAN BIMM

Jan Caruana and Rob Baker make up a one-hour show each night with only two characters.

THAT MOMENT WHEN by Jan Caruana and Rob Baker, directed by Matt Baram.

At Unit 102 (376 Dufferin). From tonight to Saturday (Thursday, June 21, to June 23) at 8 pm. $10, stu $7. thatmomentwhen@gmail.com.

the challenge is simple yet daunting: improvise a one-hour-long scene with only two characters. No breaks, no jumps in time or place and no swapping out dud characters. It’s improv without a net, and for veteran comedians Jan Caruana and Rob Baker it’s a chance to put their rapidfire creative abilities to the test.

“We’ve stripped away all the tricks improvisers have invented to keep scenes going,” laughs Baker.

“We’re breaking rules, too,” adds Caruana. “You’re always supposed to play people who know each other.

But we’ve found it funnier to play strangers.”

The simple idea that awkward everyday run-ins are packed with comedic and dramatic potential will serve as the barest of structures for each of their three shows.

The rest will depend on what Caruana and Baker decide to do with that moment – in the moment. Along with director Matt Baram, they’ve been experimenting with this marathon improv format in rehearsals and at shows for over a year, gradually spinning longer and better narrative arcs off the tops of their heads.

“We’ve learned that you can’t just be stupid and tell fart jokes for an hour with these same two characters in the same scene,” says Baker, a former Second City Mainstage member.

“We have to tell a story, and make it relatable so the audience wants go on

this journey with us.”

“We end up in very human places,” adds Caruana, a multiple Canadian Comedy Award winner. “Some scenes work not because something overtly funny is happening, but because the situation is familiar. Things can even get a little sad, too. We’re free to go to places that regular improv can’t.”

Another lesson Baker says they’ve learned by having Baram watch rehearsals is to start fast.

“Just because we have an hour doesn’t mean we can ease into it. We have to attack it just like we would a one-minute scene. If Jan starts with ‘I’m glad you came to see the apartment,’ three sentences later we’re knee deep in story. We’re gone.”

So much is up in the air – and on the line – but the palpable trust between the two performers is a constant.

“If I fall, Rob catches me every time,” says Caruana. “He’s very smart, but sometimes his brain can’t keep up with his mouth, and that’s when he gets into really funny territory.”

“Jan is simply the best improviser there is,” says Baker. “Usually in improv, performers are either smart and quick or real and relatable. Jan is both.”

The pair, who collaborated on the record-breaking Fringe hit About An Hour, admit that the prospect of plucking three one-hour stories out of thin air is a tad nerve-racking, but that’s just the way they like it.

“Jan works best under pressure.

The more afraid she is, the better she gets. Most people crumble under pressure, but not her. Fear drives her to be fearless.”

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Thursday, June 21 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Brendan McKei-

gan, Brian Hope and host Ron Sparks. To Jun 24, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:45 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10-$15. 2335 Yonge. 416-4867700, absolutecomedy.ca.

AMATEUR NIGHT AT THE BEAVER The Flying Beaver Pubaret presents up-and-coming comics and hosts Shannon McDonough and Michael McLean. 7:30 pm. Free. 488 Parliament.

647-347-6567, pubaret.com.

CLASSY LADY Sandra Battaglini performs her new solo show (see review, page XX). To Jun 24, Thu-Sun 8 pm. $25. Alumnae Theatre, 70 Berkeley. 416-591-1417, sandrabattaglini. com. NNN (Debbie Fein-Goldbach) COMEDY THURSDAYS The Starving Artist presents a weekly showcase w/ host Natasha Henderson. 9 pm. Free. 584 Lansdowne. 647342-5058, starvingartistbar.com.

GUILTY OF BEING FUNNY presents 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.

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JAPE PRESENTS... EDGAR ALLAN POE’S: THAT’S SO RAVEN! Comedy Bar presents an evening

of sketch w/ Debs & Errol and Jape. 8 pm. $7.

945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

LAUGH SABBATH presents Adam Christie, Bob Kerr, Will Weldon, Alex Nussbaum, Sara Hennessey and Matt Watts. 9:30 pm. $5.

Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

LAUNCHPAD COMEDY presents a weekly show.

8:30 pm. Free. White Swan, 836 Danforth.

416-463-8089.

LIVE WRONG AND PROSPER Second City SC presents its latest revue of sketch and improv, written and performed by a fine sextet and directed with note-perfect precision by Chris Earle. Standout sketches take on the economic crisis in Europe, political attack ads (and how they affect a family vacation), bad reality TV and social media. There’s a sinister edge to one improvised bit about a pair of cops who brag about internet surveillance, but overall there’s lots of physical comedy – including one sketch about a woman 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. WedSat 8 pm, plus Sat 10:30 pm, Sun 7 pm. $24$29, stu $15. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com. NNNN (GS) LOL COMEDY NIGHT Saviari Tea + Cocktail Lounge presents Mark DeBonis, Monty Scott, Matt Shury, Jordan Foisy, Danielle Meierhenry, Danny Polishchuk and host Chris Allin. Doors 7 pm. $5. 926 King W. 647-382-7072.

THE PRIMO SHOW Supermarket presents a monthly sketch show w/ Primo and others. 9 pm. $10. 268 Augusta. 416-840-0501.

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.

THAT MOMENT WHEN Jan Caruana and Rob Baker present a new full-length

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improv show about two characters on the cusp of something big (see story, page 57). To Jun 23, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $10, stu $7. Unit 102 Theatre, 376 Dufferin. thatmomentwhen@ gmail.com.

THE VEST SHOW IN TOWN Comedy Bar presents a variety show w/ Vest of Friends. 10 pm. Pwyc. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

YUk YUk’S DOWNTOWN presents Tracey MacDonald. To Jun 23, Thu-Sat 8 pm (plus Fri-Sat 10:30 pm). $12-$20. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

YUk YUk’S VAUGHAN presents Pete Zedlacher. To Jun 23, Thu 8 pm, Fri-Sat 9 pm. $12-$20. 70 Interchange Way. yukyuks.com.

YUk YUk’S WEST presents Double The Fun w/ Rebecca Kohler and Tim Rabnett.

To Jun 23, Thu 8 pm, Fri-Sat 9 pm. $12-$20.

5165 Dixie, Mississauga. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

forth. blackswancomedy.com.

LIVE WRONG AND PROSPER See Thu 21.

MOMICS Comedy Bar presents Zabrina Chevannes, Victoria Stewart, Shelley Kidwell, Fiona Carver, Man Momic Ali Hassan and host Rose Giles. 8 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. facebook.com/events/390386217671503.

SMASH HIT Opening Night Theatre presents a weekly improvised musical. 7:30 pm. Pwyc.

Augusta House, 152 Augusta. openingnighttheatre.com.

THAT MOMENT WHEN See Thu 21.

THEATRESPORTS Bad Dog Theatre presents unscripted comedy battles. Undercard warm-up event at 7 pm, main event at 8 pm. $12, stu $10 (for one or both shows). Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-491-3115, baddogtheatre.com.

YUk YUk’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 21.

YUk YUk’S VAUGHAN See Thu 21.

YUk YUk’S WEST See Thu 21.

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Sunday, June 24

ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 21.

BEACH BLAST COMEDY Chalkers Pub pre-

ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 21.

CHICkA BOOM Laura Bailey and Jess Beaulieu

ñsents improv w/ Carmine Lucarelli, Amy Zuch, Lisa Merchant and Gary Chan. 8 pm.

$10. 247 Marlee. superluckyimprov.com.

THE BEST OF THE SECOND CITY presents classic and original sketch and trademark improvisation. 11 pm. $24, stu $15. Second City, 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com.

CATCH23 Comedy Bar presents weekly competitive improv. 8 pm. $8. 945 Bloor W. 416551-6540, comedybar.ca.

CLASSY LADY See Thu 21.

COMEDY ON THE DANFORTH Timothy’s World News Café presents improv with Dan’s Mix ‘95 (Dan Hershfield and others). 9 pm. Pwyc.

320 Danforth. comedyonthedanforth.com.

TOMLINSON: MEMOIRS FROM CRACkTOWN The Flying Beaver Pubaret ñ presents the comedy writer/performer in an PDAVID

autobiographical solo show. 7:30 pm. $15-$20.

488 Parliament. 647-347-6567, pubaret.com.

HANNIBAL BURESS Horseshoe presents the SNL and 30 Rock comedian. Doors 9 pm. $15.

370 Queen W. ticketmaster.ca.

LIVE WRONG AND PROSPER See Thu 21.

MOCkERY NIGHT 1-YEAR ANNIVERSARY SHOW

Shoxs presents stand-up, sketch, improv and more. Doors 8:30 pm. $5. 2827 Dundas W. mockerynight.com.

NAkED FRIDAYS John Candy Box Theatre presents improv, sketch and stand-up. 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.

Stand-up​Tracey​ MacDonald​ headlines​at​Yuk​ Yuk’s​Downtown​ until​June​23.

PREMIUM COMEDY Comedy Lounge presents a weekly showcase of hip and hot comics w/ Jon Schabl, Tim Golden, host Kris Bonaparte and others. 8 pm. $10. Grotto Lounge, 647 College. comedylounge.ca.

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september 21 at 8:00 PM

Hassan. 8 pm. $25. Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles W. intellicomstudios.com/sacs.

THAT MOMENT WHEN See Thu 21.

YUk YUk’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 21.

YUk YUk’S VAUGHAN See Thu 21.

YUk YUk’S WEST See Thu 21.

Saturday, June 23 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 21.

CLASSY LADY See Thu 21.

FANFICTION Black Swan Comedy presents

sketch and improv teams reading and performing original fan fiction scripts, w/ Falcon Powder, Vest of Friends, host Jamie O’Connor and others. 8 pm. $5. Black Swan, 154 Dan-

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steampunk circus and aerial dance show as part of Queer Pride 2012. Jun 23 at 8:30 pm. $15-$20. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, femmesdufeu.com.

BROADWAY RHYTHMS Doreen Hayes School of Dancing presents its year-end review show.

Jun 23 at 7:30 pm. $25. Ryerson Theatre, 43 Gerrard E. 416-767-3062, doreenhayes.com.

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NUBIAN DISCIPLES ALL BLACk COMEDY THE SOUTH ASIAN COMEDY SHOWCASE REVUE Yuk Yuk’s Downtown presents ñ presents headliner Ben Mathai, Suneet ñ the monthly show w/ host Kenny Robinson Luthra, Paul Varghese, Aastha Lal and host Ali

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Massey Hall

host an all-female comedy variety night w/ No Jack, Sarah Donaldson, Martha O’Neill and more. 8 pm. Pwyc. Free Times Café, 320 College. 416-967-1078.

CLASSY LADY See Thu 21.

COMEDY ABOVE THE PUB – LIVE! Comedy Bar presents a live recording of the podcast show w/ Bob Kerr, Pete Zedlacher and host Todd Van Allen. 8 pm. Pwyc. 945 Bloor W. heyitstva.com.

HAPPY HOUR @ EIN-STEIN presents Marc Hallworth, Vardar Kardar, Michael Flamank, Tony Cianchino, host Dave Kemp and others. 8 pm.

Free. Ein-Stein, 229 College. ein-stein.ca.

LIVE WRONG AND PROSPER See Thu 21.

presents dance improvisers performing with AIM Toronto musicians. Jun 23 at 8 pm. $10.

Majlis Multidisciplinary Arts, 163 Walnut, Art Garden. coexisdance.wordpress.com.

THE EROS CABARET Eros, Thanatos & the AvantGarde Cabaret Series present music, dance and other performances by Winston Spear, Sarah Mills, Larissa Loomes, Victoria Seguin and more. Jun 27 at 9 pm. $12-$15. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. rivoli.ca.

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and others. 8:30 pm. $20. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

PIECE OF GARBAGE SEX DUNGEON: A NIGHT OF SOPHISTICATED COMEDY Revel Theatre Collect-

ive presents its last show before summer hiatus w/ 2-Man-No-Show, Part-Time Demi Gods, RN + Cawls and the Collective. 8 pm. $5. Unit 102 Theatre, 376 Dufferin. reveltheatre.com.

SUNDAY NIGHT LIVE The Sketchersons present weekly sketch w/ guest hosts and musical acts. 9:30 pm. $8. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. thesketchersons.com.

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Monday, June 25 ALTDOT COMEDY LOUNGE Rivoli presents DiGiovanni, Eddie Della Siepe, Jeff ñDebra dance showcase. Jun 23 at 8 pm. $15. Robert Gill Theatre, 214 College. 416-978-7986, arteflamenco.com.

SHEREHE 2012: LEGEND OF THE PITCH LAkE

Collective of Black Artists presents members of its Children’s Dance and Drum program performing a celebration recital. Jun 23 at 6:30 pm. $20, stu/srs $15. Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles W. sherehe2012.eventbrite.ca.

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PushPULL Dance presents non-professional dancers portraying heroes, villains and the relationships between them. Runs to Jun 23, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $20-$25.

Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester. pushpulldance.com.

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Leeson, Rebecca Kohler, Jillian Thomas, Matt Carter, Erik Bamberg, Todd Van Allen, MC John Hastings and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com.

BEST. MONDAY. EVER. Second City presents weekly sketch, songs and improvisation. 8 pm. $14. 51 Mercer. 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 Russell Roy and guests. 9 pm. Free.

39 Colborne. 416-815-7562.

THE COMEDY CABARET Chris MacLean & Robin Crossman present the pro/am stand-up night w/ Andre Arruda, Kris Bonaparte, Michael Delamont and others plus cartoonist Crossman’s book launch. 8 pm. Pwyc. Charlotte Room, 19 Charlotte. thecomedycabaret.com.

SHOELESS AT THE JOKEBOX Impulsive Entertainment presents Shoeless w/ host Darryl Orr and others. 8 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. impulsiveent.com.

Tuesday, June 26 COMEDY ON KENSINGTON Lola presents its biweekly stand-up comedy night. 8 pm.

Free. 40 Kensington. 416-348-8645.

GAYEST SHOW ON EARTH WITH DARCY MICHAEL Pride at the Gaystone ñ presents the queer comic plus stand-up, PTHE

sketch, improv, music and drag performances w/ guests Trevor Boris, Dawn Whitwell, Linda Ellis, Ian Lynch and others. To Jun 27, Tue-Wed 9 pm. $20-$25. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. gladstonehotel.com.

I HEART JOKES The Central presents weekly comedy w/ host Evan Desmarais. 7 pm. $5.

603 Markham. 416-913-4586.

THE SECOND CITY’S IMPROV ALL-STARS

Second City presents a fast-paced, completely improvised weekly show. 8 pm. $20.

51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com.

SKETCH COMEDY LOUNGE Rivoli presents The Headliner Series w/ Punch in the Box, Two Weird Ladies, Newsdesk with Ron Sparks, MC Laurie Elliott and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. 332 Queen W. sketchcomedylounge.com.

STANDING ON THE DANFORTH Eton House presents Ian Sirota, Kristeen von Hagen, Richard Ryder, Derek Flores, Cal Post, Peter Aterman, Gilson Lubin, Andre Arruda, host Jo-Anna Downey and others. 9 pm.

Free. 710 Danforth. 416-466-6161.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents the Humber School of Comedy at 7:30 pm, and stand-up Amateur Night at 9:30 pm. $4. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

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nae Theatre, 70 Berkeley. 416-591-1417, sandrabattaglini.com. NNN (Debbie Fein-Goldbach) COOKING FIRE THEATRE FESTIVAL (CFTF).

The outdoor celebration of theatre, food and public space returns with works by TheatreRUN, SNAP Productions, Hare Theatre and others. Runs to Jun 24, Thu-Sun 7 pm (dinner from 6 pm). Pwyc ($10 sugg). Dufferin Grove Park, Dufferin south of Bloor.

416-655-4841, cookingfire.ca.

THE GOAT, OR WHO IS SYLVIA? by Edward Albee (ATIC Productions). A married architect falls in love with a goat in this play about societal taboos.

Runs to Jun 24, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $25. Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman, Extra Space. 416-531-1827, aticproductions.com.

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KIM’S CONVENIENCE by Ins ñ Choi (Soulpepper).

Choi’s groundbreaking script looks at a KoreanCanadian-run variety store in a rapidly changing Regent Park. Paul SunHyung Lee dominates the production as the street-smart, stern patriarch who wants his independent daughter (Esther 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 Jul 4, see website for schedule. $22-$68. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-8668666, soulpepper.ca. NNNNN (GS) LAWRENCE AND HOLLOMAN by Morris Panych (Scrim for Rent Productions). A suicidal loser meets a happy-go-lucky salesman in this dark comedy. Runs to Jun 21, Thu-Sat 8:30 pm. $20. Winchester Kitchen & Bar, 51A Winchester. brownpapertickets.com/ event/252450.

THE LOYALISTS (Single Thread Theatre Company). This site-specific ensemble creation allows the audience to experience life

under American occupation, as it was in 1813 Toronto. Runs to Jun 22, Tue-Sun 7 and 9 pm, mat Sat 5 pm. $25. Victoria Memorial Square, Wellington W at Portland, (meet at 520 Wellington). singlethread.ca.

ODYSSEO (Cavalia). This entertaining follow-up to 2003’s equine escapade Cavalia features some Cirque du Soleil glitz, a bit more hunky human flesh and some jaw-dropping production values. The horses are the stars, galloping, clearing fences and performing in unison, sometimes with brave riders jumping over them (and in one eye-popping case, under them). Runs to Jul 1, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 3 pm, Sun 2 pm. $30-$120. White Big Top, 324 Cherry. 1-866-9998111, cavalia.net. NNN (GS) SOCKDOLAGER by Gwynne Phillips and Briana Templeton (The Templeton Philharmonic). This site-specific dark comedy looks at an exciting time in Toronto’s history. Runs to Jun 29, Tue-Sun 7 and 9 pm (no shows Jun 21). $17-$20. Campbell House Museum, 160 Queen W. thetempletonphilharmonic. blogspot.ca.

TOP GUN! THE MUSICAL by Denis ñ McGrath and Scott

White (Lower Ossington Theatre). A director tries to keep his musical adaptation of the film afloat in this revival of the 2002 Fringe Fest hit musical. Runs to Jun 29, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $35.

100A Ossington. 416-9156747, lowerossingtontheatre. com.

WAR HORSE based on a novel by Michael Morpurgo, adapted by Nick Stafford (National Theatre of Great Britain/MirAustralian vish). The story’s actor familiar – boy Caroline gets horse, boy Reid launches loses horse, etc Pam Ann – but the June 21-23. stagecraft on display in War

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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, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 1:30 pm. $35-$130, rush $29. Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King W. 416-8721212, mirvish.com. NNNNN (Susan G Cole) YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU by George S Kaufman and Moss Hart (Soulpepper). The classic American comedy about a fun-loving family that marches to the beat of a different drummer is filled with laughter and heart, though at opening the former still needed fine tuning. Yet the emotions are strong, and with a fine cast that includes Eric Peterson, Nancy Palk, Krystin Pellerin and Gregory Prest, the comedy is sure to grow. Runs to Jun 21, see website for schedule. $51-$68, stu $32; rush $22/stu $5. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca.

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Out of Town CYMBELINE by William Shakespeare (Stratford

Festival). A bogus claim of infidelity leads a king’s daughter to risk everything for love.

Runs in rep to Sep 30. $49-$95, srs $35-$55, stu $15-$25. Tom Patterson Theatre, 111 Lakeside, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca.

42ND STREET by Michael Stewart, Mark Bramble, Harry Warren and Al Dubin (Stratford Festival). A director falls for a chorus girl while trying to keep his musical production afloat.

Runs in rep to Oct 28. $49-$106, srs $41-$66, stu $19-$29. Festival Theatre, 55 Queen, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca.

FRENCH WITHOUT TEARS by Terence Rattigan (Shaw Festival). Young men come to France to improve their language skills but get distracted by women in this comedy. Runs in rep to Sep 15. $35-$90, stu mats $24. Royal George Theatre, 85 Queen, Niagara-on-the-Lake.

1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com.

A MAN AND SOME WOMEN by Githa Sowerby (Shaw Festival). A man seeks a new life but feels obligated to his wife and unmarried sisters. Runs in rep to Sep 22. $35-$90, stu mats

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Wednesday, June 27 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Pro-Am Night w/ Ron Sparks, Dave Healey, Joel Buxton, James Kersley, Scott Dell, Catherine McCormick and host Daniel Tirado. 8:30 pm. $6.

2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

BAD DOG PRESENTS: Bad Dog Theatre presents a showcase of the company’s best performers. 8 pm. $12, stu $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-491-3115, baddogtheatre. com.

CHUCKLE CO. PRESENTS weekly stand-up.

9:30 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. facebook.com/ChuckleCo. THE GAYEST SHOW ON EARTH WITH DARCY MICHAEL See Tue 26.

HUMPDAY HUMOUR Muoi Nene Productions

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present weekly Afrocentric comedy w/ Raïs Muoi and others. 7 pm. Free. Hakuna Matata Sports Bar, 326 Parliament. 416-5191569.

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@ SLACK’S PRIDE EDITION comedy w/ Dawn ñSlack’s presents Whitwell, Martha Chaves, Shelley Marshall, PLAUGHS

Avery Edison, Phil Luzi, Sandra Battaglini, host Marco Bernardi and more. 8 pm. Free.

562 Church. 416-928-2151, slacks.ca.

LIVE WRONG AND PROSPER See Thu 21.

SIREN’S COMEDY Celt’s Pub presents openmic stand-up w/ Duncan Lincs and Kirk Jorgenson. 8:30 pm. Free. 2872 Dundas W. 416767-3339.

PSPIRITS COMEDY PRIDE SHOW presents Scott Thompson, Debra DiGiovanni, Paul Bellini, Martha Chaves, Richard Ryder, Andrew Johnston, Cal Post, host JoAnna Downey and others. 9 pm. Free. Spirits Bar & Grill, 642 Church. 416-967-0001.

TACOMEDY Mark DeBonis presents weekly stand-up. 10 pm. Pwyc. La Revolucion, 2848 Dundas W. iamnotmarkdebonis.com.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Bobby Mair. To Jul 1, Wed-Sun 8 pm (plus Fri-Sat 10:30 pm). $12-$20. 224 Richmond W. yukyuks.com.

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$24. Court House Theatre, 26 Queen, Niagaraon-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com.

THE MATCHMAKER by Thornton Wilder (Stratford Festival). A materialistic merchant hires a matchmaker to find him a wife in this comedy. Runs in rep to Oct 27. $49-$95, srs $35-$55, stu $15-$25. Festival Theatre, 55 Queen, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca.

MISALLIANCE by Bernard Shaw (Shaw Festival).

A bored heiress finds adventure when a plane crashes into her home during a dull party.

Runs in rep to Oct 27. $35-$90, stu mats $24.

Royal George Theatre, 85 Queen, Niagara-onthe-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com.

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). One couple plans to marry while their friends trade insults in the classic romantic comedy. Runs in rep to Oct 27. $49-$95, srs $35-$55, stu $15-$25. Festival Theatre, 55 Queen, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca.

THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE by WS Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan (Stratford Festival). A young pirate apprentice must choose between love and duty in this comic operetta. Runs in rep to Oct 27. $49-$106, srs $41-$66, stu $19-$29.

Avon Theatre, 99 Downie, Stratford. 1-800567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca.

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-onthe-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com.

RAGTIME by Terrence McNally, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (Shaw Festival). Turn-of-the-century America is seen through the eyes of three very different families in this musical. Runs in rep to Oct 14. $35$110, stu/srs mats $24-$45. Festival Theatre, 10 Queen’s Parade, Niagara-on-the-Lake.

1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com.

YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN by Clark Gesner (Stratford Festival/Schulich Children’s Plays). This family musical is based on Charles M Schulz’s comic strip characters.

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. 3

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Natives Coming Out Queer aboriginal artists probe identity with wit and originality By DAVID JAGER EMNOWAANGOSJIG/COMING OUT: THE SHIFTING AND MULTIPLE SELF

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at Toronto Free Gallery (1277 Bloor West) to June 24. 416-913-0461. Rating: NNNN

what is it like to be aboriginal and queer? Race, identity and sexuality are the core themes of this thoughtful and often funny group show about life on the sexual, racial and cultural margins. It addresses passing in mainstream society as both a compromise and a survival strategy, and, with its varied media and subtle conceptual jokes, explores and celebrates the act of coming out.

Works by nine artists, curated by Vanessa Dion Fletcher and Jessie Short, draw from an array of aborigi-

nal cultural traditions and pop culture references. From the faux traditional pictorial histories of Sarah Biscarra-Dilley to the tongue-incheek religious kitsch collages of Adrian Stimson, the works weave new narratives of sexual identity outside hetero-normative boundaries. In doing so, they invent sexual archetypes that are shifting and multiple, never fixed or staying in any one guise or mask for long.

This is a task that requires a light touch and a trickster’s temperament. Thirza Cuthand’s wry sense of humour works very well in her faux sensationalist You Are A Lesbian Vampire, a three-minute soap opera portraying the problems of being an immortal lesbian bloodsucker. Lampooning the aura of

Jul 14. 401 Richmond W #110. 416-9799633.

BAU-XI PHOTO David Leventi, to Jun 23. 324 Dundas W. 416-977-0400.

BIRCH LIBRALATO Sculpture/painting: Charles Goldman and Michael Voss, to Jul 7. 129 Tecumseth. 416-365-3003.

COMMUNICATION ART GALLERY Painting: Annie Terrazzo, to Jul 1. 209 Harbord. 647896-2766.

CORKIN GALLERY Photos: Nigel Scott, Jun 21-Jul 20, reception 5-8 pm Jun 21. 55 Mill.

416-979-1980.

GLADSTONE HOTEL Docents Gone Wild performance tour, Daytona Bitch 1-2 pm Jun 23 ($15 w/ Mimosa). Attack Of The B-Movies: Toronto animation artists, to Jun 24, reception 7 pm-midnight Jun 21. #StufDsgnersMake auction (Toronto Design Offsite), 6-10 pm Jun 27. P That’s So Gay, to Jul 10. P Photos: 10 X 10 group show, to Jul 15. Queen West Walking Art Tour, ongoing (Sat noon-2:30 pm, $25).

1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.

GALLERY 1313 Archival Thoughts: York U photography grads, to Jun 24. WNDW 1: Larry Eisenstein, to Jun 24 (wndw-s.ca).

1313 Queen W. 416-536-6778.

KOFFLER OFFSITE Summer Special group

show, Jun 21-Nov 25, reception/artists’ talk 6-9 pm Jun 21. Honest Ed’s, 581 Bloor W. 416-636-1880.

JESSICA BRADLEY ART + PROJECTS Installation: Jed Lind, to Jun 23. 1450 Dundas W. 416-537-3125.

LONSDALE GALLERY Painting: Julie Oakes, to Jul 15. 410 Spadina Rd. 416-487-8733.

MILK GLASS CO Painting/video: Michael Toke, Jun 21-Jul 15. 1247 Dundas W. 416536-6455.

NICHOLAS METIVIER Painting: Charles Meanwell and John Hartman, Jun 21-Jul 14, reception 6-8 pm Jun 21. 451 King W. 416205-9000.

PAUL PETRO Nell Tenhaaf and Olia Mishchenko, to Jul 14. 980 Queen W. 416-9797874.

SCRAP METAL Video: Ragnar Kjartansson, to Oct 6. Fri-Sat or by appt. 11 Dublin. 416588-2442.

TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX Home On Native Land group show, Jun 21-Aug 19. 350 King W. 416-599-8433.

URBANSPACE Berlin On The Go: Towards A Pedestrian-Friendly City, to Jul 31. 401 Richmond W. 416-595-5900.

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P indicates Pride-related events ART GALLERY OF HAMILTON Anselm Kiefer, to

Sep 9. Valérie Blass, to Sep 23, ARTbus tour noon-5 pm Jun 24 (see Oakville Galleries) .

Emily Carr, to Oct 28. $10, stu/srs $8, free first Fri of month 5-9 pm. 123 King W (Hamilton). 905-527-6610.

ART GALLERY OF MISSISSAUGA Lise Beaudry and Morris Lum, to Jul 8. 300 City Centre (Mississauga). 905-896-5088.

ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO Masterpieces From The Musée National Picasso, to Aug 26 ($25, stu $16.50). Artist-in-residence: Hiraki Sawa, to Jun 30. Katie Bethune-Leamen, to Aug 5 (Young Gallery, free). Iain Baxter&, to Aug 12. P Berenice Abbott, to Aug 19. Zhang Huan, to Aug 19. Max Dean, to Sep 9. Picasso And Man: The 1964 Exhibition, to Sep 30. Painting/sculpture: 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. 416-9796648.

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 Howard Rafuse, to Jun 26. Tony and Sheila Clennell, to Jul 29.

Hannelore Balzer, Jun 27-Jul 31. Marla Panko, to Aug 7, reception 2-4 pm Jun 24. Ann Mortimer, Jun 23-Aug 26, reception 2-4 pm Jun 24. Colleen O’Reilly, to Sep 23. 1333 Lakeshore (Burlington). 905-632-7796.

CAMPBELL HOUSE MUSEUM Steam On Queen steampunk fair, 11 am-5 pm Jun 23 (steamonqueen.ca). 160 Queen W. 416-597-0227.

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grants In The Ward; Susan Dobson, Jun 22May 30, 2013. 255 Spadina Rd. 416-3970778.

DESIGN EXCHANGE Lynne Cohen, to Jun 30, Olga Korper tour 6:30 pm Jun 26. $10, stu/ srs $8. 234 Bay. 416-363-6121.

FORT YORK Thomas + Guinevere (Thom Sokoloski and Jenny-Anne McCowan), to Jun 24 (7:30-11 pm). 100 Garrison. 416-3926907, thomasandguinevere.com.

GARDINER MUSEUM OF CERAMIC ART Rule Britannia! 400 Years Of British Ceramics, to Sep 16, Ken Eastman talk 6:30-8 pm Jun 26.

Connections: British And Canadian Studio Pottery, to Dec 30. $12, stu $6, srs $8; Fri 4-9 pm half-price, 30 and under free. 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080.

JUSTINA M. BARNICKE Douglas Walker, to Aug 18. 7 Hart House. 416-978-8398.

ROBERT McLAUGHLIN GALLERY Arnold Zageris, to Jun 24. William Perehudoff, Jun 23-Sep 9. Pwyc. 72 Queen (Oshawa). 905576-3000.

McMICHAEL CANADIAN ART COLLECTION Rabindranath Tagore, to Jul 15. Fashionality: Dress And Identity In Contemporary Canadian Art, to Sep 3. $15, stu/srs $12. 10365 Islington (Kleinburg). 905-893-1121.

MOCCA trans/FORM; The Shape Of Things, reception 8-10 pm Jun 22, Jun 23-Aug 12, ARTbus tour noon-5 pm Jun 24 (see Oakville Galleries). 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 Freedom Of Assembly,

Jun 23-Sep 2, reception 2:30 pm Centennial, 3 pm Gairloch Jun 24 (ARTbus tour from MOCCA noon-5 pm, $10, reserve). Gairloch Gdns, 1306 Lakeshore E; 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 Dissenting Histories: 25 Years Of The Power Plant, to Aug 26. Tools For Conviviality, Jun 26-Aug 26. 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949.

ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM Larry Towell and Donovan Wylie, to Jul 15. Jorinde Voigt, to Oct 12. Deborah Samuel, to Jul 2.

The Art Of Collecting, ongoing. Ultimate Dinosaurs: Giants From Gondwana, Jun 23Jan 6, 2013. Todd Ainslie, to Feb 24, 2013. $15, stu/srs $13.50; Fri 4:30-8:30 pm $9, stu/ srs $8. 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000.

TEXTILE MUSEUM OF CANADA Perpetual Motion: Material Re-use In The Spirit Of Thrift, Utility And Beauty; Portable Mosques: The Sacred Space Of The Prayer Rug, to Sep 3.

Dreamland: Textiles And The Canadian Landscape, to Sep 30. $15, srs $10, stu $6; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre. 416-599-5321.

U OF T ART CENTRE Public: Collective Identity/Occupied Space; P Robert Giard, to Jun 30. 15 King’s College Circle.

416-978-1838.

VARLEY ART GALLERY (Da bao) (Take-out), to Sep 3. $5, stu/srs $4. 216 Main (Unionville).

905-477-9511.

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danger and romance of her lesbian/ native identity by borrowing from vampire dramas like True Blood, she also speaks to the difficulties of being a perennial outsider.

Cheryl L’Hirondelle dominates the back of the gallery space with her ghostly installation Don’t Freeze Up. A tent contains a small projector that casts the shadow of a woman crossing through the tent’s interior.

Viewers become unwitting witnesses of her preparations for bed or for a visitor. L’Hirondelle here gently touches on the profound role of mystery in the collective sexual imagination. The shadow is as fleetingly dreamlike, alluring and ephemeral as our ideas about identity and intimacy.

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did you know that you are so Beautiful was co-written by Beach Boy drummer Dennis Wilson?

That wouldn’t It Be Nice wasn’t written for Brian Wilson’s then-wife Marilyn, but for her younger sister Diane? (They did indeed have the romance he sings about.)

That Brian’s brother Carl was once married to Dean Martin’s daughter Gina, and Dennis dated Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie for years?

That the Beach Boys were to headline the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival – a career-changing concert for Jimi Hendrix and others – but pulled out at the last minute because they selfconsciously believed they weren’t hip enough?

The Beach Boys are a band whose lives serve up plenty of entertaining anecdotes, and Mark Dillon’s Fifty Sides Of The Beach Boys has a lot of great ones.

A Toronto journalist and Beach Boys scholar, Dillon sets out to tell the story of 50 classic songs through interviews with band members, lyric writers, session musicians and famous Beach Boys admirers.

Most of the interviews are enlightening. Tony Asher, the main lyricist

for Pet Sounds, is a particularly valuable source, cataloguing the trials of songwriting while Brian experimented with hash brownies. Others are unin4tentionally funny, like Mike Love, who offers some delusional opinions on Kokomo.

Then there’s Zooey Deschanel, who brings little to the table beyond her celebrity name.

But given that he’s talked to all surviving original band members – Al Jardine doesn’t give too many interviews – and key Beach Boys figures, Dillon can’t be faulted for one or two flat interviews.

The real richness in this easy-toread book is the song histories. Dillon tells the Boys’ story chronologic-

ally, from Surfin’ USA to Brian’s take on his solo Gershwin material from last year.

It’s a testament to his thorough research that he doesn’t gloss over uncomfortable moments: drug addictions, failed albums and marriages, mental health issues.

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Thursday, June 21 MARK LAVORATO Launching his poetry

collection Wayworn Wooden Floors. 6 pm. Free. Nicholas Hoare, 45 Front E. porcupinesquill.ca.

DAVID NICKLE Launching his novel Rasputin’s Bastards. 7 pm. Free. Rasputin Vodka Lounge Bar, 780 Queen E. chizinepub. com.

EMILY ST JOHN MANDEL Meet the author of The Lola Quartet. 3 pm. Free. Runnymede Library, 2178 Bloor W. 416-3937697.

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BROADSIDE LIVES Launch of the feminist

newspaper’s Broadside Digital Project. 5 pm. Free. NOW Lounge, 189 Church. 416364-1301, facebook.com/broadsidefeminist.

Saturday, June 23 BEAUTIFUL TROUBLE: A TOOLBOX FOR REVOLUTION Book launch and discussion

about creative activism with editor Dave Oswald Mitchell and contributors. 7 pm.

Free. Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. beautifultrouble.org.

LINDA POITEVIN Signing copies her Grigory Legacy books. 1 pm. Free. World’s Biggest Bookstore, 20 Edward. chapters. indigo.ca.

Sunday, June 24 DANILA BOTHA/SAMANTHA BERNSTEIN/ LISA DE NIKOLITS/KATERI LANTIER Reading.

5:30 pm. Free. No One Writes to the Colonel, 460 College. 416-928-6777.

CHRISTIAN CHRISTIAN/MAUREEN HYNES/ LUCIANO IACOBELLI/MARY WALTERS Reading and an open mic. 6 pm. Free. Pauper’s Pub, 539 Bloor W. pauperspub.com.

Monday, June 25 PPOETRIX Poetry and spoken word with Kirk DeMatas, Samira Mohyeddin and others. 7 pm. Free. Glad Day Bookshop, 598A Yonge. 416-961-4161, gladdaybookshop.com.

Tuesday, June 26 AILI & ANDRES MCCONNON Launching their book Road To Valor. 6 pm. Free. La Bicicletta, 1180 Castlefield. labicicletta. com.

PSCENESTERS & STORYTELLERS Dramatic readings by Ryan C Hinds, Teneile Warren and others. 7 pm. Free. Glad Day Bookshop, 598A Yonge. gladdaybookshop.com.

Wednesday, June 27 KELLEY ARMSTRONG Reading. 8 pm. Free.

Augusta House, 152 Augusta. chiseries. webs.com.

TERESA GIUDICE The Real Housewives Of New Jersey star signs copies of her cookbook Fabulicious: Fast & Fit. 7 pm. Free.

Chapters Woodbridge, 3900 Hwy 7 W. chapters.indigo.ca.

MARY HUCKSTEP Reading from her screenplay William, Will You Dance. Noon. $12.

Harbourfront Community Centre, 627 Queens Quay W. reelheart.org.

AILI & ANDRES MCCONNON Dinner with the Road To Valour authors. 6:30 pm. $100. Grano, 2035 Yonge. 416-361-0032.

TOM MCINTIRE/W DANIEL WHIDDEN/JOHN HARRIS Reading from their short screen-

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8 pm. Pwyc. Press Club, 850 Dundas W. pivotreadings.ca.

PTHOM VERNON Reading from his debut novel, The Drifts. 7 pm. Free. Glad Day Bookshop, 598 Yonge. 416-961-4161.

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Steve Carell StarS in a Sweet rom-Com about

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Seeking A Friend For The end oF The World written and directed by Lorene Sca-

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faria, with Steve Carell, Keira Knightley, Adam Brody, Patton Oswalt and Gillian Jacobs. An eOne Entertainment release. 101 minutes. Opens Friday (June 22). For venues and times, see Movies, page 70.

new york city – it’s been a pleasure to watch Steve Carell become a movie star.

Over the years – while still contributing fully committed comic turns in movies like Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy, Get Smart and Dinner For Schmucks – Carell has built a portfolio of intelligent, affecting performances in movies like Little Miss Sunshine, Dan In Real Life and last year’s Crazy, Stupid, Love.

Not bad for a guy who started out doing Produce Pete spots on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart. But those fake-news talking heads segments opposite Stewart and Stephen Colbert, followed by six seasons playing Michael Scott on NBC’s The Office, gave Carell the chance to grow into the genuinely present, reactive actor he’s become.

And now he’s about to eat an asteroid.

“Apocalypses are in!” he laughs. “I remember my wife wanted me to go see Contagion, and I was like, ‘Oh my god, why would I want to see that movie?’ I mean, I’ll just have nightmares and it will freak me out. It turned out that I really enjoyed it; I thought it was very well done.”

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End Of The World, which casts him as Dodge, a depressed insurance agent whose wife bolts upon learning that a massive meteor will collide with the Earth in three weeks’ time.

The uprooted, floundering character is similar to other lost souls Carell has played, but this time there’s a different spin: Dodge’s world may have ended, but everyone else’s is about to, too.

“It seemed like a very human examination of this scenario, as opposed to [focusing on] the president with a hotline to the astronauts,” says Carell over the phone from Los Angeles, where he’s stuck working on next year’s The Incredible Burt Wonderstone. “This is the flip side of that,” he continues. “This is what everyday individuals are feeling and going through, and how everyone is approaching this – their vastly different approaches to this information, this potential disaster. And it stuck with me.”

The plot kicks in once Dodge enlists a neighbour (Keira Knightley) in his quest to find an old girlfriend in hopes of making one final connection. It’s another movie about a withdrawn character redeemed by a manic pixie dream girl, but the whole global-annihilation thing gives the familiar premise an urgency – and a melancholy – that Carell found very meaningful.

“Let’s face it,” he begins, “we’re all eventually going to not be here, and none of us really knows when. It makes you ask how you want to live, how to live without regret, how to embrace [life], how to feel it. Which is incredibly important to me in my own personal life, to

try to live in the moment, enjoy family and friends and career and just embrace what we have. I think in that way it’s a very uplifting movie; it’s extremely dark – the subject matter, and the comedy is dark and absurd – but the message is very uplifting.”

The science of Seeking A Friend appealed to his nerdy side, too.

“What was interesting to me was talking to physicists, people who actually give you the scenario of what would happen if an asteroid the size of New Jersey were to hit the Earth,” he says. “How cataclysmic it is, and how absurd it is that some guy would build a bunker in his basement. I mean, the reality of that scenario is complete destruction. The Earth ends up spinning off its axis and exploding. Everything’s gone. It is a very, very final, very bleak outlook. Having a gas mask and stocking up on Spaghetti-Os in your basement isn’t gonna help much.”

Last summer, before the release of Crazy, Stupid, Love., Carell told me he’d been motivated to move into producing because he wanted to make films that weren’t cynical or unkind; he often used the word “human” to describe the type of movies he wanted to make. And while he didn’t produce Seeking A Friend, director Lorene Scafaria’s screenplay clearly appealed to him for the same reasons.

“It’s really funny, and it’s moving,” he says, “and what was important to me was that it rings true and is human. It’s ultimately a very positive thing.”

Carell had also said he has no master plan for his career; he just goes with the scripts that

speak to him. A year later, he’s slightly refined his statement.

“I think the fact that there is no master plan is the plan,” he says, “the sense that I’m just going to find myself doing varied parts and characters. I think that’s what’s exciting to me. I don’t know what next year holds. I know I’m doing this movie with the guys who wrote The Descendants, called The Way, Way Back; we shoot that this summer. I play a real bastard [of a] character.”

While he’s busy working, we can keep up with Carell on Twitter. He doesn’t tweet often – just 40 posts or so to date – but he’s got the hang of it, using the platform to hint at the Anchorman sequel: “Looks like I am going to eat another big red candle.”

“It’s just something I did on a whim,” he says. “I’ve been working with Steve Martin, and he and I talked about [Twitter] a little bit, and he enjoys it. I think he sees it as an outlet, just something fun to play [with]; if he has a notion, he puts it out there, into the Twitter universe. I saw it the same way; I don’t think it’s anything to be taken too seriously, but it is extremely powerful. People have to be mindful of doing it while they’re drunk,” he laughs, “or in any way in a vulnerable place. You know, you put it out there and it’s out there.”

Speaking of that Anchorman sequel, Carell will indeed be reprising the role of Brick Tamland in Anchorman: The Legend Continues, to the delight of millions of Ron Burgundy cultists.

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That’s exciting.

I don’t know what next year holds.”

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5 ESSENTIAL STEVE CARELL PERFORMANCES Yes, Steve Carell was pretty good in Little Miss Sunshine and Crazy, Stupid, Love., and his voice work in Horton Hears A Who! and Despicable Me was very entertaining. But if you want to see him at his absolute best, you need to see these five performances.

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Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy (2004) After a strong supporting turn as a rival TV personality in Jim Carrey’s Bruce Almighty, Carell took the role of clueless weatherman Brick Tamland and ran with it, becoming the MVP of Will Ferrell’s swinging 70s comedy. In a sea of memorable performances, Brick is a constant comic delight – physically awkward, mentally absent and perpetually out of step with the rest of the Channel 4 News team. You can’t take your eyes off him; he might throw a trident at you.

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The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005) Carell proved ideally suited to Judd Apatow’s trademark blend of discomfort comedy and heartfelt emotion, starring as a withdrawn electronics salesman whose sheepish confession that he’s never had sex leads his buddies to devote themselves to getting his cherry popped. Carell’s scenes opposite love interests Elizabeth Banks and Catherine Keener have genuine warmth, and that chest-waxing scene is genuine in a very different way.

Dan In Real Life (2007) The movie’s not great – it’s a meandering dramedy about a widower (Carell) who unwittingly falls for his brother’s new girlfriend (Juliette Binoche). But there’s one magnificent sequence where Carell’s heartsick hero tries to distract himself by going out with Ruthie Draper, a childhood friend he and his brother used to call “Pigface” behind her back. Except that she’s grown up to be a radiant wild child played by Emily Blunt, and the chemistry is instantaneous; you come away shocked that director Peter Hedges didn’t immediately retool the movie so Dan and Ruthie could end up together.

And Carell looks like a leading man for the first time.

The Office, Season 4, Episode 9: Dinner Party Carell’s quicksilver ability to slip between comedy and pathos is highlighted in one of the very best episodes of The Office, as hapless Dunder Mifflin regional manager Michael Scott and his horrible girlfriend, Jan (Melora Hardin), throw a dinner party that quickly disintegrates into an airing of grievances between the miserable hosts. Perhaps the cringe-iest episode of a series built on cringe humour, it’s also a chance for Carell to show the dented heart of his character, who’s so desperate to be loved and valued that he’s manacled himself to a monster in exchange for the illusion of domestic bliss.

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Dinner For Schmucks (2010) Carell reunites with Anchorman and Virgin co-star Paul Rudd for a remake of Francis Veber’s comedy about businessmen who compete to see who can bring the biggest idiot to a dinner party. Rudd’s rising corporate star finds Carell’s Barry, a well-meaning misfit who enjoys placing dead mice in elaborate dioramas. The movie’s wobbly and way too long, but Carell’s obvious delight at being back in full-on comedic mode comes right through the screen.

Rating: NNNN Three weeks before the Earth is scheduled to collide with an asteroid the size of New Jersey, depressed, newly single Dodge (Steve Carell) and his slightly manic neighbour Penny (Keira Knightley) take a road trip to look up Dodge’s old girlfriend before everything ends.

Making her directorial debut, screenwriter Lorene Scafaria (Nick And Norah’s Infinite Playlist) has constructed an intriguing, effects-free take on the apocalypse genre, shifting nimbly between dark comedy and outright despair.

Scafaria’s great with her actors, too. Carell and Knightley are excellent, and Connie Britton, Patton Oswalt, T.J. Miller and Gillian Jacobs pop up for memorable cameos. And any similarity to Don McKellar’s Last Night, which envisioned a similarly lo-fi apocalypse back in 1999, is NW entirely coincidental.

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“They just turned it in, and apparently we’re going to start shooting in February or March. That’s as much as I know. I can’t wait; that’s gonna be really fun.”

Before that, there’s Burt Wonderstone to wrap up and The Way, Way Back to shoot, and another round of press for the August release of Hope Springs, a relationship comedy that finds Carell sharing scenes with Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones.

“It was one of the most exciting things I’ve ever done,” Carell says.

“I’m a supporting character, it’s not the three of us; the story is about the two of them, and I’m just a therapist they come to see. But we have these long scenes – 10, 12 pages long – that they shot beginning to end, uncut. It was like doing a one-act play with Tommy Lee Jones and Meryl Streep.

It could not have been more fun – and challenging, and daunting and scary.”

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and Brenda Chapman, written by Andrews, Chapman, Steve Purcell and Irene Mecchi, with the voices of Kelly Macdonald, Emma Thompson, Billy Connolly and Julie Walters. A Walt Disney Pictures release. 93 minutes. Opens Friday (June 22). For venues and times, see Movies, page 70.

there are so many myths in the world that creating a new one seems like a lot of effort.

But that’s what director Mark Andrews, producer Katherine Sarafian and a healthy chunk of Pixar staff set out to do with Brave, a story set in a long-ago Scotland, where a princess (voiced by Kelly Macdonald) and her stern mother (Emma Thompson) spend a couple of days trying to save each other – and their kingdom – after a magical misadventure.

“There’s so much out there that we’ve seen,” says Andrews on a Toronto press day at Casa Loma. “How do we get something that’s new and fresh and its own thing? It took a long, long, long time, because we were building it from scratch.”

Six years, specifically, first under the direction of Brenda Chapman (The Prince Of Egypt) and then with Andrews shepherding the film through the last 18 months of production.

“All the assets were built,” says Andrews. “All the sets and characters,

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Sweet ramble KRYPTONITE! (Ivan Cotroneo). 98 minutes.

Subtitled. Screens Tuesday (June 26), 7 pm, at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, part of the Italian Contemporary Film Festival. See Indie & Rep Film, page 77. Rating: NNN

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the art direction, the structure of the story was there. I mean, I did bring a lot of other things. I created new characters that were in the background, and new sets. We had this whole castle set, but we were only seeing so much of it. I was all, ‘Let’s get inside!’”

Andrews says everything depended on the script and the characters.

“The driving force is the story underneath. That’s the engine that makes everything run. And it’s gotta be right, at Pixar.”

It’s encouraging to hear a Pixar director say this after Toy Story 3 and Cars 2, which felt more like brand extensions than projects people cared about. Brave feels like a return, whether conscious or unconscious, to the rich, layered and spectacularly rendered films that made the studio’s name in the first place. At a screening the previous evening, adults and children peppered Andrews and Sarafian with questions about the movie for nearly an hour.

“That’s what we’re after as storytellers,” Andrews says. “If it evokes thought and questions that aren’t just ‘I don’t get it! What happened?’ then we’ve done our job. We’ve captured their imagination, and they’re continuing on with it because they want to know more.”

The richness of Brave’s world is inspiring, both in the characters and the land itself.

“Production design and storytell-

REVIEW BRAVE (Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman) Rating: NNNN After the tonally bizarre Toy Story 3 and the flashy emptiness of Cars 2, Pixar gets its groove back with this lovely, stirring and very funny mythical adventure about Merida (voiced

by Kelly Macdonald), a Scots princess bristling at what she perceives as constant criticism from her mother (Emma Thompson) while her father (Billy Connolly) brokers an uneasy peace.

When Merida refuses to be married off at a gathering of the clans, she not only defies her parents, but brings the kingdom to the brink of civil war – and then something else happens that makes the story even more urgent and personal.

Lifting elements from Disney and Studio Ghibli, directors Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman have constructed an entirely new myth, rooted in Scots mysticism, human pride and a very relatable mother-daughter conflict. And they’ve built a gorgeous movie around it, filled with spectacular visuals, inventive action sequences and a passionate heart.

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ing go hand in hand,” says producer Sarafian. “You can see emotion evolving and changing through a story.

You’re gonna see lights and darks and mists and wind – those are emotional things [in Brave’s Scotland]. That was all very deliberate.”

As for the character of Merida, Andrews admits he sought inspiration in the films of Japanese legend Hayao Miyazaki, whom Pixar head John Lasseter also credits as an inspiration.

“I like Miyazaki’s female protagonists,” Andrews says. “I think they’re all very strong and free-spirited and interesting – and inspiring to guys, too. We don’t have to let the world’s view of who we are determine what we’re supposed to do.”

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Kryptonite!, which opens the inaugural Italian Contemporary Film Festival, doesn’t really go anywhere, but the journey is still sweet.

In his debut feature, screenwriter Ivan Cotroneo (I Am Love) pursues his preoccupation with family dynamics, this time tracking a Neapolitan clan dealing with the cultural upheaval of the early 70s.

Dad (Luca Zingaretti) is having an affair, sending his wife (Valeria Golino) into a deep depression, which, in turn, leaves their counterculture-loving young adult kids to tend to their preteen brother, Peppino (a luminous Luigi Catani). Peppino, in the meantime, is seeing dead people, specifically his cousin Gennaro, who had delusions that he was Superman and has just been killed in a car accident.

Though the narrative lacks drive, it has a lot of heart, great performances

by Golino and young Catani, and expertly conveys a world rapidly changing thanks to new drugs (LSD), new ideas (free love) and new politics (specifically feminism).

Art direction geeks will love it, too.

Also on the festival slate, among others, is Emanuele Crialese’s Terraferma, Italy’s 2011 submission for the foreign-language film Oscar; Basilicata Coast To Coast, about an indie band who decide to walk to their music fest gig as a publicity stunt; and What A Beautiful Day (Che Bella Giornata), the crowd-pleasing comedy that’s become the most successful Italian film of all SUSAN G. COLE time.

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Cam conflicts 5 BROKEN CAMERAS (Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi). 90 minutes. Subtitled.

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Throw a rock in the West Bank and you have a good chance of hitting an Israeli soldier – or someone with a camera.

There’s no shortage of docs on the Palestine conflict, yet 5 Broken Cameras stands out because of its unique and deeply personal perspective.

The camera owner here is co-director Emad Burnat, a farmer from Bil’in whose land is being poached by Israeli settlers. Over the course of six years, he records and narrates the resistance put up by his fellow villagers, capturing the escalating violence with cameras that aren’t as resilient as his people.

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In 2009, Lynn Shelton shook up the festival circuit with Humpday, an improvised comedy about male friendships and gay panic starring Mark Duplass and Joshua Leonard. In 2011, Shelton and Duplass launched their new collaboration, Your Sister’s Sister, at the Toronto Film Festival.

A more serious (but still very funny) work about a grieving man (Duplass) spending an awkward weekend with his best friend (Emily Blunt) and her sister (Rosemarie DeWitt), it’s a major step forward for Shelton – and something of a high-wire act for Blunt.

Mark, you’d worked with Lynn before on Humpday and made your own similar films, but Emily, this was the first time you’ve tried anything like this. What was the experience like for you?

Emily Blunt: It was just very different. It wasn’t necessarily an easy adjustment…. I think it does require guts to do a film like this. All of us just had to be kinda gutsy about it. mark Duplass: Emily said something after our first big take together: “Wow, that was like jazz.” It’s kinda corny, but it’s very similar to how our process goes.

We’re playing an old standard song in a key we all know, but the little pieces, the way we interpret it, happen freely, in the moment, because we’ve all done our homework. Literally within two minutes she was right in there. It was awesome.

So here you are with another little character piece... lynn shElton: There are only certain kinds of stories you can tell in this way. You really can’t do your big period piece or a sci-fi movie. Or if you have a kazillion locations, it’s gonna be hard to do that with no money. But if you’ve got a very small [project] that’s really based on human beings interacting with other human beings, you don’t have to wait for somebody else to give you permission to make it.

Blunt: You know those arcade games where you have the soft toys in the bin?

You’re waiting for the claw to come down and summon you, and you’re like, “Is it my turn? [laughs]” Duplass: [waving arms like a Muppet] “I’m here!”

Blunt: You’re just waiting in this oversized crowd. So I think that’s what was exciting about this. We just got up and we went. And it was such a relief.

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The footage is raw and unnerving, more so because Burnat is not a filmmaker by profession; he’s a family man who bought his first camera when his fourth child, Gibreel, was born. He’s making home movies that unfortunately become enmeshed in local politics.

Emad’s also intentionally throwing his own family into the mix, marching into situations where tear gas and rubber bullets (and sometimes live ammunition) are expected with children in tow. As a toddler, Gibreel is pointing out rifle cartridges and contemplating murder because his father insists he must develop thick skin. You might argue that that’s what Gibreel’s teenage years are for.

This all makes for questionable parenting but also for a complex, compelling autobiographical film that we could argue over for as long as the Palestinian conflict continues.

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5 Broken Cameras captures raw footage of villagers protesting Israeli settlements.

Director Lynn Shelton (left) and stars Emily Blunt and Mark Duplass hit the TIFF 11 red carpet.

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Humpday director Lynn Shelton returns with another largely improvised study of 30-somethings at a point of crisis, this one centred on a grieving man (Mark Duplass) who finds himself trapped at a summer cottage with the sister (Rosemarie DeWitt) of his best friend (Emily Blunt) for a very eventful weekend.

Efficiently establishing that each character is keeping at least one secret from the others, Shelton lets the tension and awkward comic fumbling flow freely. All three of her actors adroitly dance on the edge of farce while keeping the drama at believably real levels.

It’s rare to see a movie that throws around this much raw emotion and still gets laughs. NW

Rosemarie DeWitt (left) and Emily Blunt make a great sister act.

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Patang probs PAtANg (Prashant Bhargava). 93 minutes.

Subtitled. Opens Friday (June 22). For venues and times, see Movies, page 70.

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There’s something to be said for the travelogue – a movie that drops us in an exotic new location and lets us goggle at the scenery. It’s an outdated mode of filmmaking, largely because we now have access to films from all over the world; these days, the Bond films are the closest we come to them.

And then there’s Prashant Bhargava’s Patang, which seems to exist largely because the filmmaker – who hails from Chicago – wanted to build a movie around the annual kite festival in Ahmedabad, India. Why not? Kites

are pretty, and you get thousands of extras for free.

The problem with Patang is that Bhargava welds that footage to a fictional narrative about a large family reunion that quickly disintegrates into angry recriminations between the successful Jayesh (Mukkund Shukla) and the people he left behind.

The clan drama isn’t terribly interesting, a fact Bhargava and co-writer James Townsend seem to acknowledge when they shruggingly introduce a love subplot between Jayesh’s daughter Priya (Sugandha Garg) and local Bobby (Aakash Maheriya).

Worse, Bhargava is in love with a visual effect that makes his digital cinematography look like Super 8 film.

It’s like watching the whole movie through an Instagram filter, and it’s NORMAN WILNER utterly unnecessary.

Aakash Maheriya (right) and Ronak Nagrecha go fly a kite.

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Interview with Yorgos Lanthimos, aggeLiki PaPouLia & ariane Labed

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An arch satire about a middle-aged couple who’ve spent two decades raising their children in total ignorance of the outside world, it became a minor sensation, ultimately landing an Oscar nomination for best foreign-language feature.

Two years later, director Yorgos Lanthimos is back at TIFF with his new film, ALPS, about a rather different group of misfits. This time the focus is on an organization of people who impersonate the loved ones of the recently bereaved for the sake of closure – something that’s easier said than done.

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Lanthimos says about his film’s premise, during a press day with stars Aggeliki Papoulia and Ariane Labed.

“But if you think about it, it was obvious from the beginning that this thing could not work. You know, a 30-year-old nurse cannot substitute [for] a 16-year-old girl.

“But you have kind of a hope at the beginning that something could work out. That’s the similar thing with Dogtooth. What the parents are trying to do in Dogtooth obviously cannot work.”

Much like Dogtooth, ALPS tells its story in a flat, uninflected manner,

leaving it up to the viewer to decide whether this is a comedy or a tragedy.

Lanthimos says he wants to make either interpretation equally valid.

“I feel kind of offended when I watch films and everything is explained to me – you know, laying out how I should feel from one scene to the next,” he says. “I don’t enjoy the experience that much. It’s not just the manipulation; it’s a conviction that this is what’s right, and this is how it should be, and this is how you should feel. We’re not assuming that everyone is an idiot; we’re sure there are people who are interested in being more involved in the film than, review you know, the other way.”

ALPS The ambiguity is maintained by (Yorgos Lanthimos) offering very little information Rating: NNNN about the characters’ histories. We Yorgos Lanthimos’s follow-up to his don’t really know who they are when absurd, Oscar-nominated comedy the movie starts. As it turns out, neiDogtooth is another study of bizarre ther did the actors. Aggeliki Papoulia, social dynamics. This one’s about four who co-starred in Dogtooth, says well-intentioned people (among them Lanthimos gave the cast very little in Aggeliki Papoulia and Aris Servetalis) terms of backstory. who offer a strange service to those “It’s only about the now, basically,” who’ve lost a loved one: they’ll imPapoulia says. “Yorgos, he’s not at all personate the departed for a few into method acting. He doesn’t like hours every week, the better to help that, so me neither. We didn’t talk the bereaved achieve closure. about the background of the characOf course, things go wrong almost ters; we don’t talk about what they immediately, thanks to the want or how they feel.” unpredictable nature of Ariane Labed, who acted opposhuman beings and the ite Lanthimos in Attenberg, found queasy-making sexuality herself facing a different sort of of the participants – a preparation to get into the head similar issue in Dogtooth of her ALPS character, an obsesand its sister project, Athina sive gymnast.

Rachel Tsingari’s Atten“The way I prepared my berg, in which Lanthimos character was just doing co-starred with Ariane gymnastics.” Labed says.

Labed, who appears here “For three months.” as well.

“She had to do it There’s a lot about ALPS without trainers and that’s similar to those nutritionists taking films, actually, but that’s care of her,” Lanthinot a criticism; Lanthimos mos says, looking is getting at something proud and slightly very specific about awed. authority and “I think it was useful for repression in both the part,” Labed says, and then films, and it’s they all laugh.

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ly the demolition of his house.

While he’s on the street, Hubert’s bandmates search for him and his demo falls into the hands of the right record label manager. All this is intercut with sequences of Hubert performing in coffee houses and clubs, showcasing his talent and explaining why the film is screening as part of the Toronto Jazz Fest.

Bruno’s Blues fails to strike the comedic chord it’s aiming for and descends into gross-out humour (eating dog meat, yoga flatulence) – doing the music, and Hubert, a disservice.

Blues bothers BRUNO’S BLUES (Michael Simard). 80 minutes. Opens Saturday (June 23) at the Carlton. See Times, page 74. Rating: N

A mockumentary set in the Vancouver jazz scene, Bruno’s Blues opens with this statement: “Being a musician is one thing. Making a living is another story.” I don’t disagree, but the film should have said, “Being a musician is one thing. Being an actor another.” The decision to cast jazz musicians and have Canadian pianist Bru­ no Hubert play himself results in stilted acting, so Bruno’s Blues struggles to hit the right notes.

Inspired by the life of Hubert – once part of the Brad Turner Quartet, he went on to become the leader of his own trio despite not starting to play jazz until his late 30s – Michael Si­ mard’s film picks up the story as his world begins to fall apart: Real-life musician first overdue Bruno Hubert bills, then a court deserves better summons and final-

Carlos Hurtado’s Boss is all tied up.

Lousy job ThE BOSS (Jaime Escallon-Buraglia). 95 minutes. Subtitled. Opens Friday (June 22). For venues and times, see Movies, page 70. Rating: N

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Nothing wears one down quite so much as bad farce. And The Boss, a Colombia-Argentina-Canada co-production written and directed by Jaime Escallon­Buraglia,is pretty bad – a messy, jumbled affair about a Colombian human resources manager (Carlos Hurtado) trying to solve various problems at work while banging the best friend (Katherine Porto) of his longsuffering wife (Marcela Benjumea).

Escallon-Buraglia, who started out as an NFB documentarian, never gets a handle on the comedic tone (or, for that matter, the mechanics of the convoluted plot) and can’t decide whether his weaselly protagonist should be sympathetic or despicable. He does love covering him with shit and vomit, though.

The film’s biggest joke is on Telefilm, whose contribution to The Boss’s budget is likely the only reason it’s opening here at all.

Given that all we get for the agency’s efforts are throwaway mentions of U of T and the University of Montreal, I hope someone kept the receipt.

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bruno’S bLueS (Michael Simard) 80 min.

See review, page 69. n (Kiva Reardon) Opens Jun 23 at Carlton Cinema

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Movie listings are comprehensive and organized alphabetically. Listings include name of film, director’s name in brackets, a review, running time and a rating.

Reviews are by Norman Wilner (NW), Susan G. Cole (SGC), Glenn Sumi (GS), Andrew Dowler (AD) and Radheyan Simonpillai (RS) unless otherwise specified.

to understand. If all you want are war movie clichés and a few aliens, Battleship will satisfy you. It might also leave you with minor hearing damage. Some subtitles. 132 min. nn (NW) Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Scotiabank Theatre

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documentary and half dramatic feature, starring Jack Black as Bernie Tiede, a beloved mortician in Carthage, East Texas, who did something very, very bad. Conceptually, it’s pretty involving for the first half-hour or so, but director Linklater’s talking-heads structure means he’s constantly backing his film up over itself to act out the anecdote that’s just been related to us. 104 min. nn (NW) Carlton Cinema, Mt Pleasant

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(Timur Bekmambetov) 105 min. See review, this page.

(NW) Opens Jun 22 at 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Docks Lakeview Drive-In, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Yorgos Lanthimos) 93 min. See interview and review, page 68. nnnn (NW) Opens Jun 22 at TIFF Bell Lightbox

bAttLeShip (Peter Berg) is a generic thriller

with an alien invasion serving as a catalyst for a maverick hero (Taylor Kitsch) to get his shit together and become a leader. The CG is state-of-the-art, as is expected from a production of this scale, and the action for the most part visually interesting and easy

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Madden) is a middling, manipulative movie that’s saved by a first-rate cast that includes Maggie Smith, Judi Dench and Tom Wilkinson. They play assorted British retirees who get lured to a once glorious, now dilapidated Indian hotel for seniors run by a spirited but scattered manager. 124 min. nnn (GS) Canada Square, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity

the boSS (Jaime Escallon-Buraglia) 95 min.

See review, page 69. n (NW) Opens Jun 22 at Carlton Cinema brAVe (Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman) 93 min. See interview and review, page 66. nnnn (NW) Opens Jun 22 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Humber Cinema, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity

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(Drew Goddard) should be viewed with as little advance knowledge as possible. Let’s just say the script is inspired, the direction is sprightly, and the third act does not falter.

And everything you need to know is in the title. Well, almost everything. 95 min. nnnn (NW) Kingsway Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24

chernobyL diArieS (Brad Parker) is basically a Eurotrip version of The Hills Have Eyes, with unassuming vacationers (including Jesse McCartney, Jonathan Sadowski and Devin Kelley) served up as fodder for whatever lurks in the woods around Pripyat, the Ukraine town evacuated at the start of the Chernobyl disaster in 1987. If you’ve seen a horror movie in the last three or four decades, you know what’s going to happen to these poor kids, but producer/ co-writer Oren Peli and director Parker appropriate the pinwheeling handheld aesthetic we’ve come to associate with foundfootage movies to amp up the suspense by forcing us to share the characters’ panicked perspective. You can’t help but be sucked into the story, even when you pretty much know where it’s going beat for beat. Some subtitles. 85 min. nnn (NW) Coliseum Scarborough, Interchange 30, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24 coSmopoLiS (David Cronenberg) is the telepod fusion of two very chilly visionaries – novelist Don DeLillo and screenwriter/director Cronenberg, who aren’t exactly stylistically simpatico, but Cronenberg might be the only filmmaker who would try to adapt DeLillo’s 2003 tale of a financial wizard’s personal and professional meltdown during an endless limo ride across Manhattan. It offers the same sort of vaguely hallucinatory, suffocating internal journey as Naked Lunch or eXistenZ. Nothing seems entirely real – not the explosive protests outside Robert Pattinson’s cocoon-like limousine, nor his stilted conversations with his wife (Sarah Gadon), his head of security (Kevin Durand) or his theory consultant (Samantha Morton). The film glides along on dreamy inertia, with characters popping up for random conversations before vanishing from the narrative. The result is more interesting as an intellectual experience than as entertainment; you watch it fully aware that it wants to be deconstructed rather than enjoyed. 108 min. nnn (NW) Canada Square, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Scotiabank Theatre, Varsity

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(Timur Bekmambetov).

105 minutes. Opens Friday (June 22). For venues and times, see Movies, this page.

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Is Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter a great bad movie or a bad great movie?

By the time a vampire picks up a horse and throws it at the future president, the question is irrelevant.

It’s its own wild-ass thing, a spectacular mutant beast the likes of which we’ve never seen before.

In case you missed my point, let me reiterate it: this is a movie where a vampire picks up a fucking horse and throws it at Abraham Lincoln, who not only somehow survives the impact but winds up riding the thing through a stampede. And that’s just the first beat of one of two incredible action set pieces in which director Timur Bek­ mambetov – who gave us the Night Watch movies and Wanted – mashes the conceptual gas pedal to the floor

and simply dazzles us with the kinetic imagery he’s pulling out of his pulsing brain.

The bones of the movie are ridiculous, a stiff, clumsy retelling of salient points in the real Lincoln’s career reflected through screenwriter Seth Gra­ hame­Smith’s gonzo notion that Lincoln (Benjamin Walker) balanced his storied life as a shop clerk, lawyer and politician with nightly acts of vampire slaying, coached by one of the good bloodsuckers (Dominic Cooper).

As the Great Impaler, Walker gives a

performance that could best be described as animatronic. He’s good at the physical stuff, but so trapped under makeup that he might as well be a rejected mannequin from Disneyland’s Hall of Presidents.

But you’re not going to this for the acting. You’re going for a movie where Lincoln kills a whole bunch of vampires – who secretly control the Southern states, which was the real reason for the Civil War. You want a movie that’s as batshit crazy as the title promises. normAn WiLner And you get one.

embrace life through his friendship with his worldly-wise ethnic caregiver (Omar Sy).

Yes, it’s based on a true story, but it’s been filtered through a certain crowd-pleasing, triumph-of-the-spirit sensibility that I recognize from every Miramax foreign-language pickup released between about 1994 and 2006. Subtitled. 112 min. NNN (NW) Grande - Yonge, Varsity

Parks And Rec’s Aubrey Plaza stars in hipster rom-com Safety Not Guaranteed.

DARK SHADOWS (Tim Burton) is impeccably designed and textured and features a fun character turn by Johnny Depp as the miserable vampire Barnabas Collins, but it somehow never comes to life. 113 min. NN (NW) Coliseum Mississauga, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Scotiabank Theatre

THE DICTATOR (Larry Charles) reunites Borat and Brüno’s Sacha Baron Cohen and director Charles for this politically incorrect look at a fictional tyrant who, after a botched assassination attempt, goes undercover to reclaim his title. Of the endless stream of jokes, some work while others fall flat. But Cohen’s demented leader is oddly lovable, and everyone around him plays it straight, intensifying the laughs. And a scathing monologue near the end proves silly comedy can be dead serious. 84 min. NNN (GS) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale DOUBLE TROUBLE (David Hsun-Wei Chang) offers Jackie’s son Jaycee Chan a crack at slapstick action stardom, playing a security guard who joins up with a tourist (Xia Yu) to retrieve a 400-year-old painting stolen by a pair of stiletto-healed models. Though it desperately aspires to the exhilarating comedic tone of one of Jackie’s 80s action romps, the film never finds the right balance of laughs and fisticuffs. Jaycee is an entertaining screen presence but not much of a fighter, while director Chang apparently has never seen a pratfall or sex pun he didn’t love. It’s too fast-paced and goofy to be described as boring, yet too insubstantial to register. Subtitled. 89 min. NN (Phil Brown) Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(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 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-and-white 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) Kingsway Theatre, Regent Theatre

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FOREVERLAND (Max McGuire) is a road

movie about Will (Max Thieriot), a young man with cystic fibrosis who confronts his own mortality on a redemptive drive from BC to Mexico. Director and co-writer McGuire also has cystic fibrosis, and it’s admirable that he uses CF as one element of his protagonist’s character rather than defining him entirely by the condition. But Foreverland falls down on so many other levels that I can’t recommend it: McGuire and screenwriter Shawn Riopelle lean heavily on dramatic clichés like Will’s jokey relationship with an empathetic funeral director (Matt Frewer). And Will’s bright-eyed love interest (Laurence Leboeuf) is introduced so clumsily I spent an hour thinking she was the his dead friend’s girlfriend. 93 min. NN (NW) Carlton Cinema

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(Morten Tyldum) is an energetic Norwegian cat-and-mouse thriller about a corporate recruiter who moonlights as an art thief (Aksel Hennie).

When his scheme goes wrong, our hero must go on the run – or at least that’s why he thinks he’s running. Director Tyldum keeps the plot twisting in a manner that feels both surprising and logical, but be warned: this is decidedly not for the squeamish. Subtitled. 101 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square

THE HUNGER GAMES (Gary Ross) adapts

Suzanne 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 Mississauga, Colossus, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Scotiabank Theatre

HYSTERIA (Tanya Wexler) is not as risqué as its premise, the invention of the vibrator, though it’s certainly pleasurable enough.

Hugh Dancy stars as a Victorian doctor who cures women’s mental ailments by using his fingers to... umm... provide a deep tissue massage. Dancy, an ideal romantic lead, has a fine foil in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s character, who embodies the women’s emancipation movement. The charming pair rise above the pandering, lightweight material. 99 min. NNN (RS) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Grande Yonge, Kingsway Theatre

THE INTOUCHABLES (Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano) is a well-acted, charming French buddy picture that feels like it’s been meticulously calibrated to hit the centre of some grand art house Venn diagram.

There’s the unexpected bonding across class and colour lines and unsanitized treatment of physical disability as a wealthy white man (François Cluzet) learns to re-

THE ISLAND PRESIDENT (Jon Shenk) is a fascinating look at an extraordinary personality: Maldives (former) president Mohamed Nasheed, who’s trying to slow global warming and arrest the rising water levels that will soon swallow his country. A former political prisoner who fought his country’s long-standing dictatorship and spent years in exile, Nasheed returned to become the nation’s first democratically elected president. Shenk gains impressive access, and Nasheed’s backroom wheeling and dealing during the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Summit is thrilling. Surprisingly, it takes a tremendous amount of effort to get politicians to agree to save the world. Yet such one-sided collaboration with the subject makes you wonder whether some footage was doctored Michael Moore-style – not that it’s hard to take a side when it comes to the environment. Some subtitles.

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Writer/director Patrick Wang’s drama about a man who’s trying to get custody of his late partner’s son is an American masterpiece. Not an issue film, it aches with understated empathy.

Indie icon Greta Gerwig plays a 29-year-old Manhattanite trying to get over a bad breakup in this hipster answer to the conventional rom-com. Think 500 Days Of Summer meets HBO’s Girls.

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François Cluzet and Omar Sy star in this well-acted, charming buddy picture about a white man living with a disability who learns to re-embrace life thanks to his black caregiver.

A pair of misfit 12-year-olds run away in Wes Anderson’s tender, funny ode to young love and rebellion. The great cast includes Bruce Willis and Frances McDormand.

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

LOLA VERSUS (Daryl Wein) is the hipster

answer to rom-coms and other conventional depictions of young women exploring New York City’s social scene. Call it Sex And The East Village. Indie poster girl Greta Gerwig stars as Lola, a 29-year-old grad student who’s dumped by her fiancé and must navigate rebounds and other awkward late-night fumbles. By turns trite and honest, the film is a pleasurable distraction but remains as thin and flimsy as Lola’s malleable self-respect. Zoe Lister-Jones and cowriter/director Wein engineer their screenplay for the talented and charming Gerwig.

While her sweet-natured, emotionally damaged floozy is likeable, neither she nor the film will be remembered the morning after.

86 min. NNN (RS) Yonge & Dundas 24

MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE’S MOST WANTED (Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath, Conrad

Vernon) is zippy, silly, antic fun with Alex the lion and his team of continent-hopping friends. Making a break for New York City by trekking across Europe, the gang joins a travelling circus that includes a sneering Siberian tiger (Bryan Cranston) and a sleek jaguar (Jessica Chastain, who oozes sex appeal even as a cartoon animal). On their tails is a villainous animal control chief, voiced with malevolent glee by the magnificent Frances McDormand. The humour is often pandering, but there are some cute zingers, particularly in reference to Canadians. The plot makes no attempts at logic – but, hey, it’s a movie about talking animals. They also dance, walk tightropes, swing from trapezes and get fired from canons, all to put on an extravagant neon 3-D show to wow kids and their babysitters.

85 min. NNN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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lier performances, she sat in the museum’s atrium silently staring at the puzzled, bemused or tearful audience members who queued up to sit opposite her. Uncertainty over whether she’ll make it through the arduous months of focusing adds suspense, but at almost two hours, the film itself is a bit of an endurance test. Whether you consider Abramovic’s oeuvre a moving art/theatre hybrid, a shamanic bridge to sacred space or a bunch of S/M stunts re-contextualized as art, you have to admire the inclusive spirit of this performance. 105 min.

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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.

Those who only know a few Marley tunes 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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Marvel’s the aveNgers (Joss Whedon) is, quite simply, an epic win – it’s tremendous fun, sprinting through its gargantuan adventure on a mixture of ad-

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renaline, 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, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity

MeN IN Black 3 (Barry Sonnenfeld) arrives

10 years after the last one, and the jokes have hardly changed: 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 an alien in 1969 – which requires J to leap back into the past to save him. Josh Brolin as the younger K turns out to be the movie’s best effect; he perfectly channels the cranky pragmatism that makes Jones’s performance so much fun. The problem is

that the script never gives him or Smith anything substantial to do, bouncing the pair from one effects scene to the next. The movie whizzes by in a blur of speedy activity and elaborate visual effects – and 3-D, don’t forget the 3-D – but evaporates almost as soon as it reaches your retinas. 105 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Docks Lakeview Drive-In, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

MIrror MIrror (Tarsem Singh) is an allstyle, no-substance remake of Snow White that casts Julia Roberts as 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) Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20

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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) Kingsway Theatre, Regent Theatre

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son) might be Anderson’s purest work yet – a tender tale of longing and melancholy as seen through the eyes of a handful of people on an isolated (fictional) island off the coast of New England. In September

Ethan Hawke looks pensive in the mysterious Woman In The Fifth.

1965, two 12-year-old pen pals (Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward) run off together, launching a search that eventually expands to involves her parents (Bill Murray, Frances McDormand), his scout troop (led by Edward Norton, in the Owen Wilson role) and the island’s police captain (Bruce Willis). It’s Badlands without the murders or Zabriskie Point without the apocalypse. Anderson is working the same themes of messy youthful rebellion, but in an entirely different register – and, arguably, from a more mature perspective. It’s also one of the saddest comedies you’ll ever see, though that’s not

a criticism. 94 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Colossus, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, Varsity

NatIoNal theatre lIve: FraNkeNsteIN eNcore (Danny Boyle) is a high-def broad-

cast from London’s National Theatre of Nick Dear’s stage adaptation of the Mary Shelley novel, directed by Slumdog Millionaire’s Danny Boyle. Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller alternate in the roles of Victor Frankenstein and the Creature, with Miller playing the Creature this week. 150 min.

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Patang (Prashant Bhargava) 93 min. See

review, page 67. nn (NW) Opens Jun 22 at Carlton Cinema, Rainbow Woodbine

Piranha 3DD (John Gulager) is a funny,

energetic and unabashedly sleazy hymn to the three classic B movie virtues: blood, beasts and breasts. The beasts are prehistoric piranhas who’ve made their way to an adult-themed water park where the breasts are at play and on display. The blood comes from the meeting of fish and flesh, and it’s all delivered in well-done 3-D that fully utilizes its prime aesthetic value: to fling those 3 Bs in your face at every opportunity. Christopher Lloyd, Ving Rhames and David Hasselhof do fine comic turns. 83 min. nnn (AD) Interchange 30, Scotiabank Theatre

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(Peter Lord) is as energetic and fearlessly goofy as anything to bear the stamp of England’s Aardman Animation. When an affable Pirate Captain (voiced by Hugh Grant) and his jolly crew (including Martin Freeman, Brendan Gleeson and Anton Yelchin) embark on an adventure with scientists, the ship’s parrot brings our heroes to the attention of both Charles Darwin (David Tennant) and Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton). The story’s cracked alternate history gets funnier as it goes along, and the film sails merrily through a series of inspired set pieces with lusty recitations of very silly dialogue. Shot in 3-D, which allows us notice the sight gags crammed into every corner of the frame. 88 min. nnnn (NW) Kingsway Theatre

ProMetheus (Ridley Scott) follows a team

of corporate explorers to distant celestial body LV-223 in search of the origins of human life. They encounter something very similar to what the crew of Nostromo found in Alien – or will find, since this film takes place a good quarter-century or so before that one. After about 80 minutes establishing its cool, sleek elegance, Prometheus explodes into an incoherent rush of action and monsterism, abandoning both the merciless logic of Alien and the clever world-building of the sequels for an ending that makes no fucking sense at all. Seriously, I’m furious at how badly Scott and screenwriters Jon Spaihts and Damon Lindelof have botched this project. Prometheus doesn’t enhance or complement the original Alien as much as it builds a videogame module onto it, a weightless digital creation that can’t hold a candle to the original’s grimy analog impact. 119 min. nn (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinema, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity

rayMonDa: Bolshoi Ballet live is a live broadcast of the ballet by the legendary Russian company. 185 min.

Jun 24, 1 pm, at Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Grande Yonge, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yonge rock of ages (Adam Shankman) occasionally shows flashes of the funny, frisky and decidedly self-aware jukebox musical put on by a bunch of friends in a Los Angeles theatre back in 2005. But now it’s a great big expensive Hollywood musical, so we’re supposed to take it halfway seriously – which drains out all the fun. Director Shankman, who seemed to know what he was doing with the Hairspray movie, fumbles the project in the first five minutes and never manages to fully right the ship. The gleeful, goofy heart of Chris D’Arienzo’s original book can be glimpsed in the scenes between grizzled club owner Alec Baldwin and helper monkey Russell Brand, and Malin Ackerman gives a spectacular comic performance as a Rolling Stone reporter who succumbs to Tom Cruise’s aging sex

cowboy. But they’re operating independently of the rest of the machine. 122 min. nn (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Docks Lakeview Drive-In, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, 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) Interchange 30

safety not guaranteeD (Colin Trevor­

row) can’t really compete with the headier, more thoughtful lo-fi sci-fi of Another Earth and Sound Of My Voice. But as a hipster rom-com about people trying to shake off their pasts to make present-day connections, it’s a pretty satisfying tale about a trio of journalists (Jake Johnson, Aubrey Plaza, Karan Soni) on the trail of an eccentric physicist (Mark Duplass, of The League and Your Sister’s Sister) who claims he’s building a time machine. Everyone in the movie is chasing something they’ve lost, and Plaza and Duplass find real chemistry in their little hesitations and averted glances.

The gentle growth of their relationship is pushed aside by an ending that overreaches badly, but it’s nice while it lasts. 94 min. nnn (NW) Varsity

salMon fishing in the yeMen (Lasse Hallström) is a light comedy about a stuffy salmon expert (Ewan McGregor) and a troubled administrator (Emily Blunt) drawn to one another while working to stock the river of a wealthy Yemeni sheik (Amr Waked) with Atlantic salmon. No, seriously.

112 min. nn (NW) Kingsway Theatre, Mt Pleasant a frienD for the enD of the WorlD ñseeking

(Lorene Scafaria) 100 min. See cover story and review, page 62, plus Q&A with Keira Knightley at nowtoronto.com/movies. nnnn (NW) Opens Jun 22 at 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga

that’s My Boy (Sean Anders) has Adam Sandler reiterating the same man-child routine he’s been doing since Billy Madison in 1995. Both he and his shtick have gotten old. He plays a 40-year-old washout who was once famous for getting his high school

(Phil Lord, Chris­ topher Miller) reboots the 80s television series, where young undercover cops pose as high school students. Thankfully it never takes its source material too seriously. The meta comedy is all tongue-in-cheek shenanigans that proudly lift a middle finger to the hoary clichés the film recycles.

It’s not brilliant, but it damn sure is a lot of fun. 109 min. nnnn (RS) Interchange 30

We have a PoPe (Nanni Moretti) is the Vatican’s answer to The King’s Speech. A reluctant cardinal who’s elected pope suffers a nervous breakdown before he can deliver his inaugural speech. Moretti’s amiable, undemanding crowd-pleaser pokes light fun at the Catholic Church’s pomp and ceremony during the papal conclave. Slapstick like a cardinal falling flat on his face during a power outage in the Sistine Chapel actually works because it reminds us that clerics are people, too, and the Vatican runs on electricity rather than a higher power.

Moretti paints the clergy as prisoners of their own rituals, particularly the runaway pope (Michel Piccoli), who goes on the lam to seek inspiration among the people. But the film loses its spirit in pandering scenes of priests singing and playing volleyball.

Instead of getting truly critical, Moretti lets his cute premise play out in the least sacrilegious way possible. Subtitled. 105 min. nnn (RS) 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.

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What to exPect When you’re exPect­ ing (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 pop-songmontage treatment, clearly trying to move on to the upbeat stuff as quickly as possible. That’s the biggest problem with What To Expect. For all the wisdom it may impart, the film would rather resort to immature humour for kicks. Many of these gags are so forcibly contrived that the movie seems like it’s going through labour to deliver them.

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388 arletta ave (Randall Cole) takes the

tightening paranoia of Michael Haneke’s Caché and reimagines it as a Saw movie, with a Toronto ad man (Nick Stahl) harassed by an unknown tormentor. Writer/director Cole’s conceit is that the entire story is told through surveillance video, and he has an impressive technical facility, but as in his previous picture, Real Time, he hangs everything on his gimmick. Stahl is appropriately sweaty and tense, but the movie doesn’t really care about his character’s desperate attempts to figure out why he’s being made to suffer; the suffering is all that matters.

86 min. nn (NW) Carlton Cinema

snoW White anD the huntsMan

(Rupert Sanders) adapts the classic fairy tale for Twihards who like their fantasies served with Kristen Stewart and some burning loins. In this admittedly Grimm take, Queen Ravenna (Charlize Theron, mugging passionately) dispatches the titular Huntsman (Chris Hemsworth) to capture an escaped Snow White (Stewart), who’s destined to lead a revolution. Director Sanders (who hails from the land of commercials) delivers eye candy through set design and costumes, particularly in scenes revolving around Theron’s vain queen. Isn’t it fitting that a story about a vicious medieval beauty pageant can only be recommended for its aesthetics? The characters, while dressed to kill, lack substance, particularly Snow White. Stewart’s been hanging around vampires for so long that her performance is lifeless. Like that poison apple, SWATH looks inviting but offers nothing you’d want to chew on. 127 min. nn (RS) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Docks Lakeview Drive-In, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Humber Cinema, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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teacher pregnant. His estranged child (Andy Samberg) has disavowed his father’s existence, until Dad crashes his wedding weekend in need of some cash. Cue the barrage of generic toilet (and jizz) humour, fat jokes and unwarranted cameos (Vanilla Ice?). The movie hits you with so many stupid, juvenile gags that you eventually descend to its level to find mild amusement at mundane sights like Sandler jerking off. This must be a metaphor of some sort since Sandler seems to make movies only to pleasure himself. He’s not bad at what he does; he’s just not doing much else. 116 min. n (RS) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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is a sure-fire crowd-pleaser that makes Mideast politics go down easy – 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. 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 the guys something else to get hard over. The film’s resolutions to animosity certainly seem as farfetched as an accord between 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 around men and their follies. Subtitled. 100 min. nnn (RS) Canada Square

the WoMan in the fifth (Pawel Pawli­

kowski) is an oblique, sensual study of an American writer (Ethan Hawke) who comes to Paris to visit his daughter and ex-wife and winds up penniless, living in a flophouse hotel and working as a security guard. Eventually, he meets a mysterious woman (Kristin Scott Thomas) who takes him into her bed for enigmatic reasons.

Working from a novel by Douglas Kennedy, Pawlikowski’s far more interested in mood than plot; The Woman In The Fifth is a tonal study in much the same way as Polanski’s The Tenant and Roeg’s Don’t Look Now, using elliptical editing and abstracted dialogue to evoke a sense that things are drifting further and further beyond the protagonist’s control and comprehension. It can be a little frustrating, but Hawke’s sympathetic performance creates an emotional continuity that seems to make sense of things even when things don’t make sense at all. Some subtitles. 83 min. nnn (NW) Yonge & Dundas 24

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QUEENSWAY (CE)

1025 THE QUEENSWAY, QEW & ISLINGTON, 416-503-0424 ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER (14A) Fri 2:10, 4:45, 7:25, 10:10 Sat 1:15, 4:45, 7:25, 10:10 Sun-Wed 1:30, 4:15, 6:55, 9:35 ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER 3D (14A) Fri 2:50, 5:25, 8:10, 10:50 Sat 12:20, 2:50, 5:25, 8:10, 10:50 Sun 11:55, 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 Mon-Wed 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (PG) Thu 1:05, 3:55, 6:55, 9:50 Fri-Sat 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Sun-Wed 12:55, 3:50, 6:45, 9:45 BRAVE (PG) Fri 2:00, 2:30, 4:30, 5:00, 7:00, 7:30, 10:00 Sat 11:30, 12:00, 2:00, 2:30, 4:30, 5:00, 7:00, 7:30, 10:00 Sun 12:30, 2:00, 3:00, 4:30, 5:30, 7:00, 8:00, 9:30 MonTue 2:00, 2:30, 4:30, 5:00, 7:00, 7:30, 9:30 Wed 2:30, 4:30, 5:00, 7:00, 7:30, 9:30 BRAVE 3D (PG) Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Sun 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 THE DICTATOR (14A) Thu 6:45, 9:10 Fri 1:40, 3:50, 6:10, 8:25, 10:40 Sat 3:50, 6:10, 8:25, 10:40 Sun, Tue 5:25, 7:40, 9:50 Mon 1:00, 3:15, 5:25, 7:40, 9:50 Wed 12:50, 3:15, 5:25, 7:40, 9:50 MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE’S MOST WANTED (G) Thu 1:20, 3:50, 6:30, 8:55 Fri 2:25, 4:50 Sat 12:05, 2:25, 4:50 SunWed 1:15, 3:45 MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE’S MOST WANTED 3D (G) Thu 12:30, 2:20, 2:55, 4:40, 5:15, 7:45, 10:10 Fri-Sat 12:50, 3:15, 5:40, 8:05, 10:35 Sun 11:55, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:40 Mon-Wed 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:40 MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS (PG) Thu 4:15, 10:00 Fri-Sat 4:00 Sun-Wed 3:40 MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS 3D (PG) Thu 12:35, 3:45, 7:10, 10:30 Fri-Sat 12:45, 7:45, 11:00 Sun-Wed 12:30, 6:50, 10:05 MEN IN BLACK 3 (PG) Thu 1:30, 7:25 Fri 1:50, 4:25, 7:10, 9:45 Sat 11:15, 1:50, 4:25, 7:10, 9:45 Sun-Wed 2:20, 5:00, 7:35, 10:20 MEN IN BLACK 3 3D (PG) Thu 2:05, 4:50, 7:40, 10:15 MOONRISE KINGDOM (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:10, 7:15, 9:45 Fri 2:45, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05 Sat 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05 Sun 12:00, 2:25, 4:55, 7:25, 9:55 Mon-Wed 2:25, 4:55, 7:25, 9:55 NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: FRANKENSTEIN ENCORE Thu 6:45 Sat 12:30 PROMETHEUS (14A) Thu 12:45, 3:40, 6:35, 9:30 Fri-Sat 7:15, 10:15 Sun-Wed 6:20, 9:20 PROMETHEUS 3D (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:40, 7:05, 7:35, 10:00, 10:30 Fri 1:55, 4:55, 7:55, 10:55 Sat 11:00, 1:55, 4:55, 7:55, 10:55 Sun-Wed 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:00 RAYMONDA: BOLSHOI BALLET LIVE Sun 1:00 ROCK OF AGES (PG) Thu 12:30, 1:30, 3:45, 4:25, 6:40, 7:20, 9:40, 10:15 Fri-Sat 1:35, 3:55, 4:35, 7:35, 9:50, 10:30 Sun 1:10, 3:15, 4:10, 7:10, 9:25, 10:10 Mon-Wed 1:10, 3:25, 4:10, 7:10, 9:25, 10:10 SEEKING A FRIEND FOR THE END OF THE WORLD (14A)

Fri-Sat 12:40, 3:10, 5:45, 8:15, 10:45 Sun 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Mon-Tue 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Wed 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 snoW White AnD the huntsmAn (PG) Thu 12:45, 1:25, 3:30, 4:30, 7:30, 9:55, 10:25 Fri 2:05, 5:10, 8:05, 11:00 Sat 11:10, 2:05, 5:10, 8:05, 11:00 Sun-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 thAt’s my boy (18A) Thu 1:10, 2:00, 4:00, 4:45, 6:50, 7:35, 9:35, 10:20 Fri 1:05, 2:15, 5:00, 7:05, 7:50, 10:40 Sat 11:20, 1:05, 2:15, 5:00, 7:05, 7:50, 10:40 Sun 12:25, 1:55, 4:50, 6:40, 7:40, 10:25 Mon-Wed 12:35, 1:55, 4:50, 6:40, 7:40, 10:25 We’re bAcK! A DinosAur’s story Sat 11:00 WhAt to expect When you’re expecting (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:25, 10:05 Fri-Sat 9:35 Sun 10:30 Mon-Wed 10:05

rainboW Woodbine (i)

Woodbine CenTre, 500 rexdale blvd, 416-213-1998 AbrAhAm LincoLn: VAmpire hunter (14A) Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:05, 9:50 brAVe (PG) Fri-Wed 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:10, 9:25 the DictAtor (14A) Thu 1:20, 3:45, 7:10, 9:45 mADAgAscAr 3: europe’s most WAnteD 3D (G) 12:40, 2:45, 4:55, 7:00, 9:15 mArVeL’s the AVengers (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 men in bLAcK 3 (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:05, 9:45 pAtAng Fri-Wed 1:20, 3:50, 7:15, 9:45 prometheus (14A) Thu 1:10 4:10 6:50 9:40 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 rocK oF Ages (PG) 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:35 snoW White AnD the huntsmAn (PG) Thu 1:15 4:05 6:55 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:05, 6:55, 9:40 thAt’s my boy (18A) Thu-Tue 1:05, 3:55, 7:00, 9:25 Wed 1:00, 3:55, 7:00, 9:25

Fri, Tue 4:00, 6:50, 9:40 Sat-Sun 12:50, 4:00, 6:50, 9:40 Mon, Wed 6:50, 9:40 thAt’s my boy (18A) Thu 7:00, 9:50 Fri, Tue 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Sat 1:40, 4:40, 7:20, 10:30 Sun 1:40, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Mon, Wed 7:30, 10:15

bAttLeship (PG) Thu 9:55 the DictAtor (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 mArVeL’s AVengers AssembLe (PG) Thu 3:45, 6:45 mArVeL’s the AVengers 3D (PG) Thu 4:10, 7:20, 10:30 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:20, 10:30 men in bLAcK 3 (PG) Thu 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 men in bLAcK 3 3D (PG) Thu 5:10, 8:10 Fri-Wed 2:10, 5:10, 8:10 prometheus (14A) Thu 4:45, 7:45 Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:40 prometheus 3D (14A) Thu 5:15, 8:15 Fri-Wed 2:15, 5:15, 8:15 prometheus: An imAx 3D experience (14A) Thu 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 rocK oF Ages (PG) Thu 4:00, 5:00, 7:00, 8:00, 10:00 Fri-Wed 1:00, 2:00, 4:00, 5:00, 7:00, 8:00, 10:00 seeKing A FrienD For the enD oF the WorLD (14A) Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:45, 7:00, 9:45

7:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 7:00, 9:30 AbrAhAm LincoLn: VAmpire hunter 3D (14A) Fri 5:25, 8:10, 10:40 Sat-Sun 12:20, 2:50, 5:25, 8:10, 10:40 MonWed 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 the best exotic mArigoLD hoteL (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:50, 9:45 Fri-Sat 4:05, 6:50, 9:55 Sun 1:15, 6:50, 9:55 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:05, 10:00 brAVe (PG) Fri 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Sat-Sun 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:40, 9:10 brAVe 3D (PG) Fri 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Sat-Sun 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 cosmopoLis (14A) Thu 4:40, 7:35, 10:10 hysteriA (PG) Thu 9:20 the intouchAbLes (14A) Thu 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 Fri, Sun 5:05, 7:40, 10:20 Sat 2:15, 5:05, 7:40, 10:20 Mon-Wed 4:15, 6:55, 9:35 mADAgAscAr 3: europe’s most WAnteD (G) Thu 4:30, 6:55 Fri 4:10 Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:10 Mon-Wed 4:00 mADAgAscAr 3: europe’s most WAnteD 3D (G) Thu 5:00, 7:25, 9:50 Fri 4:50, 7:20, 9:45 Sat-Sun 2:30, 4:50, 7:20, 9:45 Mon-Wed 4:30, 6:50, 9:20 moonrise KingDom (PG) Thu 5:15, 7:45, 10:05 Fri 5:40, 8:00, 10:30 Sat-Sun 12:50, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:30 MonWed 5:00, 7:25, 9:45 nAtionAL theAtre LiVe: FrAnKenstein encore Thu 6:45 Sat 12:30 rAymonDA: boLshoi bALLet LiVe Sun 1:00 snoW White AnD the huntsmAn (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:30, 9:30, 10:00 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:45, 9:40 Sat-Sun 12:55, 3:50, 6:45, 9:40 thAt’s my boy (18A) Thu 4:15, 7:15, 9:55 Fri 4:25, 7:15, 10:05 Sat-Sun 1:45, 4:25, 7:15, 10:05 Mon-Wed 4:25, 7:15, 9:55 WhAt to expect When you’re expecting (14A) Thu 3:55, 6:45, 9:25

grande - yonge (Ce)

SilverCiTy FairvieW (Ce)

AbrAhAm LincoLn: VAmpire hunter (14A) Fri-Sun

AbrAhAm LincoLn: VAmpire hunter 3D (14A) Fri 2:40,

north york eMpire TheaTreS aT eMpreSS Walk (eT) 5095 yonge ST, 416-223-9550

FairvieW Mall, 1800 Sheppard ave e, 416-644-7746

4861 yonge ST, 416-590-9974

east end

5:25, 8:05, 10:40 Sat 12:00, 2:40, 5:25, 8:05, 10:40 SunWed 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 9:55 brAVe (PG) Fri-Tue 12:30 brAVe 3D (PG) Fri-Tue 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Wed 3:15, 5:40, 8:00, 10:30 the DictAtor (14A) Thu 1:10, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:00 mADAgAscAr 3: europe’s most WAnteD (G) Thu 1:45, 4:10 Fri-Wed 12:40 mADAgAscAr 3: europe’s most WAnteD 3D (G) Thu 2:50, 5:15, 7:35, 9:55 Fri-Wed 3:10, 5:40, 7:55, 10:15 mArVeL’s the AVengers (PG) Thu 1:20, 7:20 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 10:00 mArVeL’s the AVengers 3D (PG) Thu 4:30, 10:15 men in bLAcK 3 (PG) Thu 4:45, 10:30 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:45, 4:40, 7:40, 10:10 Sat 11:10, 1:45, 4:40, 7:40, 10:10 men in bLAcK 3 3D (PG) Thu 1:50, 7:40 prometheus (14A) Thu 6:50, 9:50 prometheus 3D (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:20, 7:25, 10:20 Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:30, 7:35, 10:35 Sun-Wed 1:40, 4:35, 7:30, 10:25 rocK oF Ages (PG) Thu-Sat 1:40, 4:35, 7:30, 10:25 SunTue 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 Wed 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 snoW White AnD the huntsmAn (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:15, 7:10, 10:10 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 thAt’s my boy (18A) Thu 1:30, 4:25, 7:15, 10:05 Fri 2:15, 5:00, 7:50, 10:45 Sat 11:30, 2:15, 5:00, 7:50, 10:45 SunWed 1:30, 4:30, 7:15, 10:05 We’re bAcK! A DinosAur’s story Sat 11:00

brAVe 3D (PG) Fri 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Sat-Sun 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Mon-Wed 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 the DictAtor (14A) 10:05 Thu 1:00, 3:15 mat, 5:30, 7:50 mADAgAscAr 3: europe’s most WAnteD (G) Thu 1:50, 2:30, 4:20, 5:00, 6:50, 7:30, 10:00 Fri 2:30, 4:55, 7:20 SatSun 12:05, 2:30, 4:55, 7:20 Mon-Tue 2:30, 5:00, 7:30 Wed 1:00, 2:30, 3:25, 5:00, 6:50, 7:30, 9:30 mADAgAscAr 3: europe’s most WAnteD 3D (G) FriSun 12:50, 3:15, 5:40, 8:05, 10:30 Mon-Tue 1:00, 3:25, 6:50, 9:30 mArVeL’s the AVengers (PG) Thu 4:55 mArVeL’s the AVengers 3D (PG) Thu 1:30, 8:15 men in bLAcK 3 (PG) Thu 2:05, 4:40, 7:25, 10:00 men in bLAcK 3 3D (PG) Fri 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 Sat-Sun 12:05, 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:35, 7:15, 9:50 prometheus (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 prometheus 3D (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:35, 7:30, 10:25 Fri-Sat 1:45, 4:40, 7:35, 10:35 Sun-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:05 rocK oF Ages (PG) Thu, Sun-Wed 1:25, 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 Fri-Sat 1:55, 4:50, 7:45, 10:40 snoW White AnD the huntsmAn (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:20, 10:00 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:25 Mon-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 thAt’s my boy (18A) Thu 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Fri 2:30, 5:15, 8:00, 10:45 Sat 11:45, 2:30, 5:15, 8:00, 10:45 Sun 1:55, 4:45, 7:35, 10:20 Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:35, 7:25, 10:10 We’re bAcK! A DinosAur’s story Sat 11:00

SilverCiTy yorkdale (Ce)

Scarborough

3401 duFFerin ST, 416-787-4432

AbrAhAm LincoLn: VAmpire hunter (14A) Fri-Sun 10:00 Mon-Wed 9:30 AbrAhAm LincoLn: VAmpire hunter 3D (14A) Fri 2:45, 5:25, 8:05, 10:45 Sat 12:10, 2:45, 5:25, 8:05, 10:45 Sun 12:00, 2:35, 5:15, 7:55, 10:30 Mon-Wed 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 brAVe (PG) Fri, Sun 2:00, 4:30, 7:00 Sat 11:30, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00 Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:05, 6:45

401 & MorningSide (Ce) 785 Milner ave, SCarborough, 416-281-2226

AbrAhAm LincoLn: VAmpire hunter (14A) Fri-Sun, Tue 10:20 Mon, Wed 10:45 continued on page 76 œ

beaCh CineMaS (aa) 1651 Queen ST e, 416-699-5971

brAVe (PG) Sat-Sun 12:30 brAVe 3D (PG) Fri, Tue 4:20, 7:00, 9:30 Sat-Sun 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 Mon, Wed 7:00, 9:30 mADAgAscAr 3: europe’s most WAnteD (G) Sat-Sun 12:40 mADAgAscAr 3: europe’s most WAnteD 3D (G) Thu 6:30, 9:00 Fri, Tue 4:05, 6:40, 9:10 Sat 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:00 Sun 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 9:55 Mon, Wed 6:40, 9:10 men in bLAcK 3 3D (PG) Thu 6:50, 9:40 prometheus 3D (14A) Thu 7:20, 10:10 Fri, Tue 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Sat 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 10:20 Sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 10:15 Mon, Wed 7:20, 10:05 rocK oF Ages (PG) Thu 7:10, 10:00 Fri, Tue 4:10, 7:10, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:10, 7:00, 10:10 Mon, Wed 7:10, 9:55 snoW White AnD the huntsmAn (PG) Thu 6:40, 9:30

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AbrAhAm LincoLn: VAmpire hunter 3D (14A) Fri 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 8:15, 10:45 Sat-Sun 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 8:10, 10:45 Mon, Wed 5:20, 8:10, 10:40 Tue 2:50, 5:20, 8:10, 10:45 brAVe (PG) Fri, Tue 2:30, 5:00, 7:30 Sat-Sun 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30 Mon, Wed 3:30, 6:00, 8:25 brAVe 3D (PG) Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Mon, Wed 3:50, 6:40, 9:40 Tue 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 the DictAtor (14A) Thu 4:05, 6:10, 8:15, 10:30 mADAgAscAr 3: europe’s most WAnteD (G) Thu 4:00, 6:45 Fri-Sun 1:10 mADAgAscAr 3: europe’s most WAnteD 3D (G) Thu 4:50, 7:20, 9:35 Fri 3:30, 5:40, 8:30, 10:50 Sat-Sun, Tue 3:30, 5:50, 8:30, 10:50 Mon, Wed 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:15 mArVeL’s the AVengers (PG) Thu 4:10, 10:00 Fri-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:00, 10:10 mArVeL’s the AVengers 3D (PG) Thu 7:00 men in bLAck 3 (PG) Thu 7:25 Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:40, 6:00, 8:35, 10:50 Mon, Wed 5:00, 7:30, 9:50 Tue 3:40, 6:00, 8:35, 10:50 men in bLAck 3 3D (PG) Thu 4:35, 10:05 prometheus (14A) Thu 4:20, 7:10, 10:10 prometheus 3D (14A) Thu 4:40, 7:40, 10:30 Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:35 Mon, Wed 3:40, 6:50, 10:35 Tue 4:20, 7:20, 10:35 rock of Ages (PG) Thu 4:25, 7:15, 10:15 Fri, Sun 1:30, 4:10, 7:10, 10:00 Sat 11:30, 2:10, 4:55, 8:05, 10:50 Mon, Wed 4:10, 7:10, 10:00 Tue 2:10, 4:55, 8:05, 10:50 seeking A frienD for the enD of the WorLD (14A) Fri 12:40, 3:15, 5:40, 8:20, 10:40 Sat 12:40, 2:00, 3:15, 4:50, 5:40, 7:40, 8:20, 10:25, 10:45 Sun 12:40, 3:15, 5:40, 8:20, 10:45 Mon, Wed 4:50, 7:40, 10:20 Tue 3:15, 5:40, 8:20, 10:45 snoW White AnD the huntsmAn (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:30, 9:00, 10:20 Fri, Sun 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:25 Sat 11:20 Mon, Wed 4:20, 7:20, 10:30 Tue 4:50, 7:40, 10:25 thAt’s my boy (18A) Thu 5:05, 7:45, 10:25 Fri, Tue 2:40, 5:10, 7:50, 10:40 Sat 11:40, 2:20, 5:10, 7:50, 10:40 Sun 2:40, 5:10, 7:50, 10:35 Mon, Wed 5:10, 7:50, 10:40 WhAt to expect When you’re expecting (14A) Thu 5:10, 8:00, 10:30

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

AbrAhAm LincoLn: VAmpire hunter (14A) Fri 2:05, 4:45, 7:30, 10:10 Sat 11:30, 2:05, 4:45, 7:30, 10:10 SunWed 1:40, 4:15, 7:00, 9:40 AbrAhAm LincoLn: VAmpire hunter 3D (14A) Fri-Sat 12:20, 2:50, 5:25, 8:10, 10:50 Sun-Wed 2:15, 4:50, 7:35, 10:15 the best exotic mArigoLD hoteL (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 brAVe (PG) Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 brAVe 3D (PG) 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Fri 12:20 mat Sat 12:00 mat chernobyL DiAries (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:20, 9:55 Fri 12:40, 3:00, 5:15, 7:35, 9:50 Sat 3:00, 5:15, 7:35, 9:50 Sun 5:10, 7:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 2:25, 5:10, 7:30, 10:00 the DictAtor (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:15, 5:30, 7:55, 10:10 FriSat 12:55, 3:20, 5:45, 8:20, 10:30 Sun-Tue 2:05, 4:55, 7:25, 9:45 Wed 2:05, 4:30, 9:45 eVery breAth you tAke Thu 1:35, 4:20, 7:00, 9:45 mADAgAscAr 3: europe’s most WAnteD (G) Thu 2:00, 4:45, 7:20, 9:55 Fri 12:15, 2:30, 5:00 Sat 12:05, 2:30, 5:00 Sun-Wed 1:50, 4:35 mADAgAscAr 3: europe’s most WAnteD 3D (G) Thu 12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:30 Fri 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:20 Sat 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:20 Sun-Wed 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:00 men in bLAck 3 3D (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:50, 7:40, 10:20 FriSat 1:30, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Sun-Wed 1:20, 4:00, 7:05, 9:55 nAtionAL theAtre LiVe: frAnkenstein encore Thu 6:45 Sat 12:30 prometheus (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 Fri-Sat 7:25, 10:20 Sun-Wed 6:55, 9:50 prometheus 3D (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:25, 10:30 Fri-Sat 2:00, 5:00, 8:00, 10:55 Sun-Wed 1:15, 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 rAymonDA: boLshoi bALLet LiVe Sun 1:00 rock of Ages (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Fri 1:55, 4:55, 7:50, 10:40 Sat 12:10, 4:55, 7:50, 10:40 Sun-Tue 1:25, 4:15, 7:10, 10:05 Wed 1:25, 4:15, 7:10, 10:10 thAt’s my boy (18A) Thu 1:00, 1:40, 4:00, 4:40, 6:45, 7:30, 9:40, 10:25 Fri 1:50, 5:05, 8:05, 10:55 Sat 11:45, 2:25, 5:05, 8:05, 10:55 Sun-Tue 1:30, 4:35, 7:20, 10:10 Wed 1:30, 4:35, 7:20, 10:05 We’re bAck! A DinosAur’s story Sat 11:00

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june 21-27 2012 NOW

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

AbrAhAm LincoLn: VAmpire hunter (14A) Fri 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:05 Sat 11:20, 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:05 Sun 1:40, 4:20, 7:05, 9:45 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:05, 9:45 AbrAhAm LincoLn: VAmpire hunter 3D (14A) Fri 2:50, 5:30, 8:15, 11:00 Sat 12:00, 2:45, 5:30, 8:15, 11:00 Sun 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 Mon, Wed 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 Tue 5:15, 8:00, 10:45 the best exotic mArigoLD hoteL (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:55, 9:50 Fri 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Sat 12:50, 3:55, 6:50, 9:50 Sun 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 brAVe (PG) Fri 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Sat 11:10, 1:50, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Sun 1:00, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 brAVe 3D (PG) Fri 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:35 Sat 12:00, 2:45, 5:30, 8:15, 10:55 Sun 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Mon, Wed 4:50, 7:35, 10:20 Tue 5:00, 7:45, 10:30 the DictAtor (14A) Thu 3:50, 6:00, 8:15, 10:25 Fri 7:00, 10:15 Sat, Mon, Wed 7:00, 9:15 Sun 7:10, 9:30 Tue 7:30, 9:45 mADAgAscAr 3: europe’s most WAnteD (G) Thu 4:30, 7:05 Fri 2:00, 4:30 Sat 11:15, 2:00, 4:30 Sun 2:00, 4:35 Mon, Wed 4:30 Tue 5:00 mADAgAscAr 3: europe’s most WAnteD 3D (G) Thu 5:10, 7:40, 10:20 Fri 2:50, 5:25, 8:00, 10:30 Sat 12:15, 2:50, 5:25, 8:00, 10:30 Sun 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:05, 10:30 MonWed 5:30, 8:05, 10:30 mArVeL’s the AVengers (PG) Thu 5:30, 8:40 Fri-Sat 4:15 Sun-Wed 3:50 mArVeL’s the AVengers 3D (PG) Thu 3:45, 7:00, 10:30 Fri-Sat 1:00, 7:30, 10:45 Sun 12:35, 7:05, 10:20 Mon-Wed 7:05, 10:20 men in bLAck 3 (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 Fri 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:35 Sat 11:50, 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:35 Sun 1:50, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 men in bLAck 3 3D (PG) Thu 4:45, 7:25, 10:10 prometheus (14A) Thu 3:45, 6:40, 9:40 prometheus 3D (14A) Thu 4:20, 7:20, 10:25 Fri 1:40, 4:40, 7:45, 10:45 Sat 1:40, 4:40, 7:50, 10:50 Sun 1:15, 4:25, 7:25, 10:25 Mon, Wed 4:25, 7:25, 10:25 Tue 4:40, 7:40, 10:45 rock of Ages (PG) Thu 4:15, 5:15, 7:15, 8:20, 10:20 Fri 1:50, 4:20, 4:50, 8:00, 10:10, 10:55 Sat 11:00, 1:55, 4:20, 4:50, 8:00, 10:10, 10:55 Sun 1:10, 3:40, 4:10, 7:10, 9:30, 10:10 Mon, Wed 3:45, 4:10, 7:10, 9:40, 10:10 Tue 3:45, 4:40, 7:40, 9:40, 10:40 seeking A frienD for the enD of the WorLD (14A) Fri 2:45, 5:30, 8:10, 10:55 Sat 12:05, 2:40, 5:30, 8:10, 10:50 Sun 2:10, 4:55, 7:35, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:55, 7:35, 10:15 snoW White AnD the huntsmAn (PG) Thu 3:50, 7:00, 9:40, 10:05 Fri 1:25, 4:25, 7:30, 10:40 Sat 1:30, 4:35, 7:35, 10:40 Sun 12:40, 3:45, 7:00, 10:05 Mon, Wed 3:45, 7:00, 10:05 Tue 4:25, 7:30, 10:35 thAt’s my boy (18A) Thu 3:55, 4:35, 6:45, 7:25, 9:35, 10:15 Fri 1:30, 2:30, 5:20, 7:20, 8:10, 11:00 Sat 11:40, 1:30, 2:30, 5:20, 7:20, 8:10, 11:00 Sun 12:55, 1:55, 4:40, 6:40, 7:30, 10:20 Mon, Wed 4:55, 6:50, 7:40, 10:25 Tue 5:05, 6:50, 7:50, 10:40 We’re bAck! A DinosAur’s story Sat 11:00 WhAt to expect When you’re expecting (14A) Thu 4:40, 7:20, 10:00

Kennedy CoMMonS 20 (aMC) Kennedy rd & 401, 416-335-5323

bAttLeship (PG) 4:35, 7:30, 10:25 Fri-Sun 10:35, 1:35 mat the best exotic mArigoLD hoteL (PG) 4:40, 7:35, 10:20 Fri-Sun 10:45, 1:40 mat cosmopoLis (14A) 2:10, 4:45, 7:15, 9:50 Fri-Sun 11:20 mat DArk shADoWs (14A) 2:10, 4:50, 7:35, 10:10 Fri-Sun 11:30 mat Desi romeos (PG) Thu 2:45, 6:15, 9:45 DoubLe troubLe Thu 4:25, 7:25, 10:20 ferrAri ki sAWAAri (PG) 3:15, 6:45, 10:05 Fri-Sun 11:40 mat the fiVe-yeAr engAgement (14A) 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 FriSun 10:45, 1:45 mat the hunger gAmes (14A) 2:15, 5:25, 8:45 Fri-Sun 11:00 mat mArVeL’s the AVengers (PG) Thu 3:00, 4:00, 6:00, 7:00, 9:00, 10:00 Fri-Sun 11:45, 3:00, 6:00, 9:00 MonWed 3:00, 6:00, 9:00 mArVeL’s the AVengers 3D (PG) Thu 3:30, 4:30, 6:30, 7:30, 9:30, 10:30 Fri-Sun 10:30, 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 mirror mirror (PG) Thu 2:30, 5:05, 7:30 moonrise kingDom (PG) 2:00, 3:00, 4:25, 5:30, 7:00, 8:00, 9:30, 10:15 Fri-Sun 11:30, 12:30 mat roWDy rAthore (14A) Thu 10:25 Fri-Sun 11:45, 3:45, 7:00, 10:25 Mon-Wed 3:45, 7:00, 10:25 seeking A frienD for the enD of the WorLD (14A) 2:45, 4:15, 5:15, 6:45, 7:45, 9:15, 10:20 Fri-Sun 11:15, 12:15, 1:45 mat shAnghAi (14A) 3:40, 7:05, 9:50 Fri-Sun 11:50 mat snoW White AnD the huntsmAn (PG) 2:00, 4:00, 5:00, 7:15, 8:15, 10:15 Fri-Sun 11:00, 1:00 mat teri meri kAhAAni 2:05, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30 Fri-Sun 11:05 mat

think Like A mAn (PG) 4:15, 7:10, 10:00 Fri-Sun 10:30, 1:25 mat WhAt to expect When you’re expecting (14A) 2:45, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Fri-Sun 11:50 mat

WoodSide CineMaS (i) 1571 SandhurST CirCle, 416-299-3456

ferrAri ki sAWAAri (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:30 mAnAm kothi pArAVAi (PG) Thu 7:00 murAttu kAALAi Thu 4:15, 7:15 Fri 4:45 Sat-Sun 1:45, 4:45 Mon-Wed 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 roWDy rAthore (14A) Thu 4:30 teri meri kAhAAni 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Sat-Sun 1:45 mat

GTA Regions Mississauga

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

brAVe (PG) Fri-Tue 1:00, 3:30, 6:10, 8:40 Wed 3:30, 6:10, 8:40 brAVe 3D (PG) 1:40, 2:20, 4:10, 5:00, 6:50, 7:30, 9:20 Sat 11:10, 11:50 mat DArk shADoWs (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:10, 6:45, 9:45 the DictAtor (14A) Thu 1:35, 3:40, 5:50, 8:00, 10:05 FriWed 1:05, 3:15, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 the hunger gAmes (14A) Thu 1:35, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 mArVeL’s the AVengers (PG) Thu 3:20, 6:30, 9:35 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:50, 6:00, 9:10 Sat 11:40, 2:50, 6:00, 9:10 Sun 6:00, 9:10 mArVeL’s the AVengers 3D (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:25, 7:25, 10:30 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:15, 7:20, 10:25 men in bLAck 3 (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:05, 6:40, 9:20 men in bLAck 3 3D (PG) Thu 2:40 5:10 7:45 10:15 Fri-Wed 2:30, 5:10, 7:45, 10:15 Sat 12:00 mat nAtionAL theAtre LiVe: frAnkenstein encore Thu 6:45 Sat 12:30 prometheus (14A) Thu 3:10, 6:10, 9:00 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:05, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Sat 12:50, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 prometheus 3D (14A) Thu 3:50, 6:50, 9:40 Fri-Wed 10:00 prometheus: An imAx 3D experience (14A) 1:50, 4:40, 7:35, 10:30 Sat 11:00 mat rAymonDA: boLshoi bALLet LiVe Sun 1:00 rock of Ages (PG) Thu 1:30 2:00 4:15 4:45 7:00 7:30 9:50 10:25 Fri-Wed 1:20, 2:00, 4:00, 4:50, 7:00, 7:40, 9:40, 10:20 Sat 11:15 mat seeking A frienD for the enD of the WorLD (14A) Fri-Tue 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 8:05, 10:30 Wed 3:20, 5:40, 8:05, 10:30 think Like A mAn (PG) Thu 3:40, 9:55 We’re bAck! A DinosAur’s story Sat 11:00

CourTney ParK 16 (aMC)

110 CourTney ParK e aT huronTario, 888-262-4386 AbrAhAm LincoLn: VAmpire hunter (14A) Fri-Sun, Wed 11:30, 2:00, 4:30, 7:25, 10:00 Mon-Tue 2:00, 4:30, 7:25, 10:00 AbrAhAm LincoLn: VAmpire hunter 3D (14A) Fri-Sun, Wed 10:30, 1:00, 3:30, 6:00, 8:25, 11:00 Mon-Tue 1:00, 3:30, 6:00, 8:25, 11:00 the best exotic mArigoLD hoteL (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:10 brAVe (PG) Fri-Sat 11:00, 12:30, 1:30, 3:00, 4:00, 5:30, 6:30, 8:00, 9:00, 10:30 Sun, Wed 10:00, 11:00, 12:30, 1:30, 3:00, 4:00, 5:30, 6:30, 8:00, 9:00, 10:30 Mon-Tue 1:30, 3:00, 4:00, 5:30, 6:30, 8:00, 9:00, 10:30 the DictAtor (14A) Thu, Mon-Tue 1:05, 3:05, 5:05, 7:05, 9:05, 11:00 Fri-Sun, Wed 11:05, 1:05, 3:05, 5:05, 7:05, 9:05, 11:00 mADAgAscAr 3: europe’s most WAnteD (G) Thu 2:30, 4:45, 7:15, 9:30 Fri-Sun, Wed 10:00, 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7:00, 9:15 Mon-Tue 2:30, 4:45, 7:00, 9:15 mADAgAscAr 3: europe’s most WAnteD 3D (G) Thu 1:10, 3:25, 5:45, 8:05, 10:20 Fri-Sun, Wed 11:00, 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:15 Mon-Tue 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:15 mArVeL’s the AVengers (PG) Thu 1:55, 5:00, 7:55, 10:55 Fri-Sun, Wed 10:10, 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Mon-Tue 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 mArVeL’s the AVengers 3D (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 men in bLAck 3 (PG) Thu 1:00, 5:55, 11:00 Fri-Sun, Wed 11:45, 2:15, 4:45, 7:10, 9:45 Mon-Tue 2:15, 4:45, 7:10, 9:45 men in bLAck 3 3D (PG) Thu 3:30, 8:30 prometheus (14A) Thu 3:35, 6:30, 9:30 Fri-Sun, Wed 11:15, 5:15, 11:00 Mon-Tue 5:15, 11:00 prometheus 3D (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 FriWed 2:15, 8:15 prometheus: An imAx 3D experience (14A) Thu 2:00,

5:00, 7:45, 10:40 Fri-Sun, Wed 10:30, 1:30, 4:30, 7:45, 10:45 Mon-Tue 1:30, 4:30, 7:45, 10:45 rock of Ages (PG) Thu 2:05, 4:55, 7:50, 10:45 Fri-Sun, Wed 10:20, 1:10, 3:50, 6:45, 9:35 Mon-Tue 1:10, 3:50, 6:45, 9:35 seeking A frienD for the enD of the WorLD (14A) Fri-Sun, Wed 11:30, 1:50, 4:15, 7:15, 9:45 Mon-Tue 1:50, 4:15, 7:15, 9:45 snoW White AnD the huntsmAn (PG) Thu 1:00, 2:15, 3:50, 5:10, 6:50, 8:05, 9:45, 10:50 Fri-Sun, Wed 11:10, 2:10, 5:10, 8:10, 10:55 Mon-Tue 2:10, 5:10, 8:10, 10:55 thAt’s my boy (18A) Thu 2:10, 3:00, 4:45, 5:35, 7:25, 8:15, 10:10, 10:55 Fri-Sun, Wed 10:15, 11:15, 12:45, 1:45, 3:15, 4:15, 5:45, 7:30, 8:15, 10:15, 10:45 Mon-Tue 1:45, 3:15, 4:15, 5:45, 7:30, 8:15, 10:15, 10:45 WhAt to expect When you’re expecting (14A) Thu 3:15, 5:40, 8:10

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

the best exotic mArigoLD hoteL (PG) Thu 4:00, 7:00, 9:55 Fri-Sat 1:20, 4:15, 7:05, 9:55 Sun 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:25 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:50, 9:40 brAVe (PG) Fri 2:10, 4:55, 7:30, 10:00 Sat-Sun 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 brAVe 3D (PG) Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 chernobyL DiAries (14A) Thu 9:25 mADAgAscAr 3: europe’s most WAnteD (G) Thu 3:55, 6:35, 9:00 Fri 2:20, 5:20, 7:45 Sat 12:25, 2:45, 5:20, 7:45 Sun 12:15, 2:35, 4:55, 7:15 Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:15 mADAgAscAr 3: europe’s most WAnteD 3D (G) Thu 4:35, 5:00, 7:05, 7:30, 9:50 Fri-Sat 1:00, 3:25, 5:50, 8:15, 10:35 Sun 1:00, 3:25, 5:45, 8:05, 10:25 Mon-Wed 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 rock of Ages (PG) Thu 3:50, 4:30, 6:45, 7:15, 9:35, 10:05 Fri-Sat 1:45, 4:40, 7:50, 10:05, 10:45 Sun 1:45, 4:35, 7:25, 9:35, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:35, 7:25, 9:45, 10:15 seeking A frienD for the enD of the WorLD (14A) Fri 2:00, 4:50, 7:35, 10:10 Sat 12:05, 2:40, 5:05, 7:35, 10:10 Sun 12:05, 2:40, 5:05, 7:35, 10:05 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:10, 9:55 snoW White AnD the huntsmAn (PG) Thu 3:45, 4:20, 6:50, 7:20, 9:45, 10:15 Fri 1:30, 4:25, 7:20, 10:25 Sat 1:30, 4:25, 7:20, 10:20 Sun 1:35, 4:20, 7:15, 10:20 Mon-Wed 4:05, 6:55, 9:50 thAt’s my boy (18A) Thu 5:10, 7:50 Fri 2:35, 5:10, 7:55, 10:40 Sat 12:00, 2:35, 5:15, 7:55, 10:40 Sun 1:10, 4:00, 6:50, 9:45 Mon-Wed 4:55, 7:35, 10:15 WhAt to expect When you’re expecting (14A) Thu 4:10, 6:40, 9:15 Fri 1:55, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 Sat 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:15 Sun 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 MonWed 4:10, 6:40, 9:20

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

AbrAhAm LincoLn: VAmpire hunter (14A) Fri-Sat 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Sun 1:25, 4:00, 6:55, 9:30 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:55, 9:30 AbrAhAm LincoLn: VAmpire hunter 3D (14A) Fri-Sat 1:00, 3:30, 6:00, 8:30, 10:00, 11:00 Sun 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:00, 10:30 Mon-Wed 5:30, 8:00, 10:00, 10:30 brAVe (PG) Fri 2:15, 5:00, 7:25, 9:50 Sat 11:45, 2:15, 5:00, 7:25, 9:50 Sun 2:20, 5:00, 7:30, 9:50 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:30, 9:50 brAVe 3D (PG) Fri-Sat 12:35, 1:10, 3:05, 4:15, 5:35, 7:00, 8:05, 10:35 Sun 12:30, 1:10, 2:55, 4:15, 5:20, 7:00, 7:50, 10:20 Mon-Wed 4:15, 5:20, 7:00, 7:50, 10:20 the DictAtor (14A) Thu 5:15, 7:25, 9:40 Fri-Sat 1:20, 3:40, 5:50, 8:10, 10:20 Sun 5:55, 8:10, 10:25 Mon-Wed 4:55, 7:25, 9:35 the hunger gAmes (14A) Thu 3:45, 6:50, 10:10 mADAgAscAr 3: europe’s most WAnteD (G) Thu 4:00, 4:30, 6:40, 9:30 Fri 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30 Sat 12:15, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30 Sun 1:15, 3:35, 6:15 Mon-Wed 3:35, 6:15 mADAgAscAr 3: europe’s most WAnteD 3D (G) Thu 5:20, 7:45, 10:05 Fri-Sat 1:05, 3:25, 5:45, 8:15, 10:45 Sun 12:35, 2:50, 5:10, 7:40, 10:00 Mon-Wed 5:10, 7:40, 10:00 mArVeL’s the AVengers (PG) Thu 3:55, 9:40 Fri-Sat 4:00 Sun-Wed 3:55 mArVeL’s the AVengers 3D (PG) Thu 3:50, 7:05, 10:15 Fri-Sat 12:45, 7:20, 10:50 Sun 12:45, 7:05, 10:15 Mon-Wed 7:05, 10:15 men in bLAck 3 (PG) Thu 7:05 men in bLAck 3 3D (PG) Thu 5:35, 8:00, 10:25 Fri 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:20, 10:55 Sat 12:20, 3:10, 5:40, 8:20, 10:55 Sun 1:40, 4:25, 7:15, 9:45 Mon-Wed 4:25, 7:15, 9:45 moonrise kingDom (PG) Thu 5:30, 7:50, 10:15 Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:05, 5:25, 7:45, 10:15 Mon-Wed 5:25, 7:45, 10:10 prometheus (14A) Thu 6:55, 10:00 Fri-Sat 1:00, 3:45, 6:40, 9:30 Sun 1:00, 3:45, 6:40, 9:25 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:30, 9:25 prometheus 3D (14A) Thu 4:10, 6:55, 9:55 prometheus: An imAx 3D experience (14A) 4:40, 7:35,

10:30 Fri, Sun 1:50 mat Sat 11:00, 1:50 mat rAymonDA: boLshoi bALLet LiVe Sun 1:00 rock of Ages (PG) Thu 4:00, 4:45, 7:00, 7:40, 9:50, 10:30 Fri 1:55, 3:50, 4:50, 7:50, 9:55, 10:40 Sat 11:15, 2:05, 3:50, 4:50, 7:50, 9:55, 10:40 Sun 1:05, 3:15, 4:05, 7:20, 9:55, 10:25 Mon-Wed 3:30, 4:05, 7:20, 9:55, 10:20 seeking A frienD for the enD of the WorLD (14A) Fri-Sat 12:55, 3:20, 5:55, 8:25, 10:55 Sun 2:00, 4:35, 7:10, 9:40 Mon-Wed 4:35, 7:10, 9:40 snoW White AnD the huntsmAn (PG) Thu 3:55, 4:20, 6:45, 7:30, 9:35, 10:20 Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:25 Sun 12:55, 3:45, 6:45, 9:50 Mon-Wed 3:45, 6:45, 9:50 thAt’s my boy (18A) Thu 3:40, 4:25, 6:30, 7:10, 9:25, 10:05 Fri 12:50, 2:00, 4:45, 6:50, 7:40, 10:45 Sat 11:30, 12:50, 2:10, 4:55, 6:50, 7:40, 10:45 Sun 12:35, 1:35, 4:20, 6:40, 7:10, 10:05 Mon-Wed 4:20, 6:25, 7:10, 10:05 think Like A mAn (PG) Thu 4:05, 6:50, 9:45 Fri-Sat 10:05 Sun-Wed 9:20 We’re bAck! A DinosAur’s story Sat 11:00 WhAt to expect When you’re expecting (14A) Thu 4:35, 7:00, 9:50

inTerChange 30 (aMC)

30 inTerChange Way, hWy 400 & hWy 7, 416-335-5323 bAttLeship (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:35, 7:35 Fri 6:00, 9:00 Sat 12:05, 3:00, 6:00, 9:00 Sun 1:10, 4:15, 7:20 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 chernobyL DiAries (14A) Thu, Mon-Tue 4:45, 7:00 Fri 4:45, 7:00, 9:15 Sat 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7:00, 9:15 Sun 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7:00 Wed 4:45 chimpAnzee (G) 5:15, 7:15 Fri 9:15 Sat 1:15, 3:15 mat, 9:15 Sun 1:15, 3:15 mat DArk shADoWs (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:50 Fri 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 Sat 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 Sun 2:00, 4:40, 7:20 ferrAri ki sAWAAri (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 7:00 Fri 4:30, 8:00 Sat 12:00, 4:00, 8:00 Sun 3:00, 7:10 the fiVe-yeAr engAgement (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:30 Fri 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 Sat 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 Sun 1:00, 4:50, 7:30 the hunger gAmes (14A) Fri 6:15, 9:20 Sat 12:10, 3:10, 6:15, 9:20 Sun 12:10, 4:00, 7:10 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:35 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 mirror mirror (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:10 pirAnhA 3DD (18A) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:10, 8:00 Fri 5:10, 7:35, 10:00 Sat 12:20, 2:55, 5:10, 7:35, 10:00 Sun 12:20, 2:55, 5:10, 7:35 roWDy rAthore (14A) Thu 6:45 sAfe (14A) 5:30, 7:45 Fri 10:00 Sat 1:00, 3:15 mat, 10:00 Sun 1:00, 3:15 mat teri meri kAhAAni Fri 4:35, 8:10 Sat 12:10, 4:10, 8:10 Sun 3:10, 8:10 Mon-Wed 6:45 21 Jump street (14A) Thu 4:40, 7:25 WhAt to expect When you’re expecting (14A) Fri 4:30, 7:05, 9:45 Sat 1:45, 4:30, 7:05, 9:45 Sun 1:45, 4:30, 7:05 Mon-Wed 4:55, 7:25

rainboW ProMenade (i)

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Repertory cinema listings are comprehensiv and appear alphabetically by venue, then by date.

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festivals female eye film festival carlton cinema, 20 carlton. femaleeyefilmfestival.com

thU 21-SUN 24 – International women dir-

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ectors film fest. $10, stu/srs $5, panel & script reading series free, all access pass $100. thU 21 – Aboriginal Filmmaker Series Part Two: From Our Strength: Two Births And Indigenous Politics In Cañar, Ecuador (2012) D: Suzanne Morrissey, and short films Long Way From Home and Niso Kakastesinowin/Two Reflections. 11:30 am. Canadian Short And North American Documentaries: A Wild Idea (2011) D: Veronica Moscoso, Marion Stoddart: The Work Of 1000 (2010) D: Susan Edwards, and short films Run Dry, and Terminations.

1:30 pm. Foreign Filmmaker Program: Dit Is Ek/This Is Me (2011) D: Lori Young, A Safe Place For The Wild (2011) D: Hanna Högstedt, and short films Underground, I’am Juana/Soy Juana, and Deuxieme Bureau. 3:30 pm. Bir Avuç Deniz/A Handful Of Sea (2011) D: Leyla Yilmaz. 6 pm. The House (2011) D: Desiree Lim, and short film Hostage. 9 pm. fri 22 – Foreign Documentary Program: I Met A Man From Burma (2011) D: Tara Browne, Fambul Tok (2011) D: Sara Terry, and shorts Walking Between Each Other And It Self and Man Is Always On The Stairs Between The Pleats Of Matter And The Field Of The Soul. 11 am. Toronto/Foreign Filmmaker Program: Glossy (2011) D: Julia Bourke, Just Us Chickens (2011) D: Erin Randall, Memories Of Love (2011) D: Eva Daoud, and others. Q&A w/ filmmakers to follow. 1:30 pm. Toronto/Foreign Short Documentary Program: Inside The Taliban (2011) D: Ilana Dayan, Fanuzzi’s Gold (2011) D: Georgia Gruzen, Reflex (2012) D: Andra Chiriac, and others. 4 pm. Beat Down (2011) D: Deanne Foley, Lady Bare Knuckles (2011) D: Madison Cawker, and shorts Queen Of Clubs and Bill Please. 6:30 pm. The Good Son/Hyvä Poika (2011) D: Zaida Bergroth, and shorts Mother’s Colours and Craving. 9 pm.

SAt 23 – North American Filmmaker Series: Treasures From The Rubble (2011) D: Alexandra Branyon, and short film Paper Cuts. 11 am.

North American & International Shorts: Madamme Ida (2012) D: Lisa Forrell, The Umpire (2011) D: Libby Wells, Birdbath (2011) D: Rebecca Gruihn, and others. 1:30 pm. Canadian Shorts And Canadian & Foreign Feature Documentaries: I Was The Child Of Holocaust Survivors (2011) D: Ann Marie Fleming, The Patient (2011) D: Elizabeth Lazebnik, A Child (2010) D: Pernille Rübner-Petersen, and Conceiving Family (2011) D: Amy Bohigian. 4 pm.

Toronto Filmmaker Series: Mystico Fantástico (2011) D: Anita Doron, L’Etre et le Néant/ Nothingness (2011) D: Lucie Page, and others.

6:30 pm. Beirut Hotel (2011) D: Danielle Arbid, and shorts Suspended Animation; An Essay Film and II. 9 pm. Late Night Thriller: Patient 17 (2011) D: Tuyet Le, and short film Like Sugar On The Tip Of My Lips. 11:30 pm.

SUN 24 – International Filmmakers: The Fountain (2011) D: Callie Shanafelt, Gabi (2011) D: Zoe Salicrup-Junco, and others. 11 am. First Nations & Indigenous Filmmaker Series: Esas Voces Que Caran/Voices That Heal D: Heather Greer and Delia Ackerman, Nutshimit/On The Land (2010) D: Sarah Sandring, Language Of The Unheard (2011) D: Jacqueline Reyno, and short Caught Between Two Worlds. 1:30 pm.

The Inheritance (2011) D: Vanessa Revard

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Pride Week LGBT Short Film Showcase.

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available at digital viewing stations. Tue-Wed noon-7 pm, Thu-Sat noon-10 pm, Sun noon-5 pm. Free. wEd 27 – Free Favourites At Four: War Of 1812 (Parts 3 & 4), the second half of a four-part documentary series. 4 pm. Free.

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All listings are free. Send to: movies@nowtoronto.com, fax to 416-364-1166 or mail to Rep Cinemas, NOW Magazine, 189 Church, Toronto M5B 1Y7. Include film title, year of release, names of director(s), language and subtitle info, venue, address, time, cost and advance ticket sales if any, phone number for reservations/info or website address. Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm.

Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope (2011) D: Morgan Spurlock. 9:15 pm. wEd 27 – Toronto After Dark Summer Screening Nights: Horror, Sci-Fi, Action 6:45 pm & 9:45 pm. $14. torontoafterdark.com.

1028 queen W. 416-530-0011. camerabar.ca

SAt 23 – Double Feature National Geographic Society films: China’s Lost Girls (2004), and China’s Secret Mummies (2007). 3 pm. Free.

cinematheque tiff bell lightbox

Find it at Female Eye UNION SQUARE (Nancy Savoca) Rating: NNN Union Square plays clever tricks with narrative, which is a good thing, because after the first 15 minutes you’ll wonder whether you can sit through a feature with such an unlikeable main character.

As the film opens, Lucy (Mira Sorvino) arrives at Union Square subway station and gets on her cell, trying to convince her married boyfriend to meet her. He’s obviously not that into her. To say high-strung Lucy overreacts to these unsatisfying phone calls – shrieking profanities, then needily whimpering – is an understatement.

When she turns up unexpectedly at Jenny’s (Tammy Blanchard) apartment and aggressively settles Roman and Sandra Olmsted, and A Lot Like You (2011) D: Eliaichi Kimaro. 3:30 pm. Closing film: Union Square (2011) D: Nancy Savoca, and short film Along The Road. 5:30 pm.

italian contemporary film festival

tiff bell lightbox, 350 king W (tiff), vaughan amc, 30 interchange Way, vaughan (amc). icff.ca

tUE 26-JUL 1 – All films with subtitles. $12, stu $10; opening/closing night $50-$60.

tUE 26 – Opening night: Piazza Petawawa D:

Rino Noto. 6 pm. La Kriptonite Nella Borsa/ Kryptonite! (2011) D: Ivan Cotroneo. 7 pm.

Both at TIFF. wEd 27 – Terraferma (2011) D: Emanuele Crialese. 6 pm (TIFF). Che Bella Giornata (2011) D: Gennaro Nunziante. 8:30 pm (TIFF). La Giusta Distanza (2007) D: Carlo Mazzacurati. 8 pm (AMC).

parkdale film & video shoWcase

gladstone hotel gallery, 1214 queen W (gh); fuller avenue parkette (fp). parkdaleshoWcase.ca

fri 22-SUN 24– Films and video shorts highlighting Parkdale-based artists. Free/pwyc. fri 22 – REvisit: Showcasing Parkdale film and video shorts. 7 pm (GH).

SAt 23 – Parkdale Peeps live video collage event. 4 to7 pm. Screening Under The Stars: short films and videos. 9 to 10 pm (FP).

SUN 24 – REact: Solidarity Sunday, works and discussion on how the nature of our neighbourhoods is changing with the Ford regime and calls for austerity. 1 to 3 pm (FP).

t.o. japanese film festival

japanese canadian cultural centre, 6 garamond court. 416-441-2345 ext 222, torontojff.com

thU 21 – Best of Japanese contemporary

cinema. $10, three-film pass $27.

in for the day (and probably the night), endlessly mocking Jenny’s wholesome lifestyle, she’s become insufferable.

But Savoca knows how to tell a story. Soon you discover the nature of Lucy’s connection to Jenny and start to relax. As information steadily leaks out – most of it surprising – the film becomes wholly absorbing.

It’s still shambolic and lacks texture, lurching from one emotional moment to another.

Sorvino is at times too shrill as the troubled Lucy, but a beautifully restrained Blanchard gives the film some balance. Look for Patti LuPone in a gem of a small role.

Screens Sunday (June 24), 5:30 pm, as part of the Female Eye Film Festival. (See this page.) SUSAN G. COLE thU 21 – Closing night: Friends After 3.11

(2011) D: Shunji Iwai. 7 pm.

t.o. korean film festival innis toWn hall, 2 sussex. tkff.ca

fri 22-JUL 1 – Films of all genres by Korean filmmakers. $12, four-pack $35, full pack $65, opening film & party $20, closing film $15. fri 22 – Opening night: Secret Sunshine (2007) D: Chang-dong Lee. 7 pm.

SAt 23 – Epitaph (2007) D: Beom-sik Jeong and Jeong Sik. 6 pm. A Tale Of Two Sisters (2003) D: Jee-woon Jim. 9 pm.

SUN 24 – Invasion Of Alien Bikini (2011) D: Young-doo Oh. 6 pm. Save The Green Planet (2003) D: Joon-Hwan Jang. 9 pm. tUE 26 – Korean-Canadian shorts. 7 pm. wEd 27 – Korean Indie shorts. 7 pm.

cinemas bloor hot docs cinema

506 bloor W. 416-637-3123. bloorcinema.com

thU 21 – Senna (2010) D: Asif Kapadia.

6:45 pm. The Island President (2011) D: ñ Jon Shenk. 9:15 pm. fri 22 – 5 Broken Cameras (2011) D: Guy Davidi and Emad Burnat. 3:30 & 6:45 ñ pm. The Island President. 9 pm. Rock Docs:

Pink Floyd The Wall (1982) D: Allan Parker.

11:30 pm.

SAt 23 – Darwin’s Nightmare (2004) D: Hubert Sauper. 3:30 pm. The Island President. 6:30 pm. 5 Broken Cameras. 9:30 pm.

SUN 24 – 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) D: Stanley Kubrick. 3:15 pm. The Island President. 6:30 pm. 5 Broken Cameras. 9 pm.

MON 25 – 5 Broken Cameras. 6:45 pm.

The Island President. 9:15 pm. tUE 26 – The Island President. 6:45 pm. Comic-

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reitman square, 350 king W. 416-599-8433. tiff.net

thU 21 – First People’s Cinema: Nanook

Of The North (1922) D: Robert J Flaherty. ñ 7 pm.

fri 22 – First People’s Cinema: Reel Injun (2009) D: Neil Diamond, Catherine Bainbridge and Jeremiah Hayes. 2 pm. Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001) D: Zacharias Kunuk. 5:15 pm. The Journals Of Knud Rasmussen (2006) D: Zacharias Kunuk and Norman Cohn. 9:15 pm.

SAt 23 – First People’s Cinema X 4: Mana Waka (1937/1990) D: Merata Mita. 1 pm. Before Tomorrow (2008) D: Marie-Helene Cousineau and Madeline Piujuq Ivalu. 3:30 pm.

Samson And Delilah (2009) D: Warwick Thornton. 6 pm. Patu! (1983) D: Merat Mita.

9:15 pm.

SUN 24 – The Girl Can’t Help It (1956) D: Frank Tashlin. 1 pm. First People’s Cinema: Incident At Restigouche (1984) D: Alansi Obomsawin, and Bastion Point Day 507 (1980) D: Merata Mita, Leon Narbey and Gerd Pohlmann. 3:15 pm. Kanehsatake: 270 Years Of Resistance (1993) D: Alanis Obomsawin. 5:30 pm. Smoke Signals (1998) D: Chris Eyre. 8:30 pm.

MON 25 – First People’s Cinema: Clearcut (1991) D: Ryszard Bugajski. 9 pm. tUE 26 – Food On Film: Screening Mid-August Lunch (2008) D: Gianni Di Gregorio, and discussion with Food Network Canada chef David Rocco. 6:30 pm. $35. First People’s Cinema: Billy Jack (1971) D: Tom Laughlin 8:45 pm. wEd 27 – Science On Film: Screening of Near Dark (1987) D: Kathryn Bigelow, followed by discussion with special effects artist Gordon Smith. 7 pm. $35. Trouble In Paradise (1932) D: Ernst Lubitsch. 9:15 pm.

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fox theatre

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

thU 21 – Headhunters (2011) D: Morten

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Tyldum. 7 pm. The Dictator (2012) D: Larry Charles. 9 pm. fri 22 – Repertory Revival: Alfred Hitchcock x 2: Rear Window (1954). 7 pm.

North By Northwest (1959). 9:15 pm.

SAt 23 – Repertory Revival: The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) D: FrankOz. 1:30 pm. The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957) D: David Lean. 3:30 pm. Back To The Future (1985) D: Robert Zemeckis. 7 pm. Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981) D: Steven Spielberg. 9:15 pm.

SUN 24 – Repertory Revival: Back To The Future. 2 pm. Raiders Of The Lost Ark. 4:15 pm. The Sting (1973) D: George Roy Hill.

6:45 pm. Chinatown (1974) D: Roman Polanski. 9:15 pm.

MON 25 – Repertory Revival: Breakfast At Tiffany’s (1961) D: Blake Edwards. 7 pm. A Clockwork Orange (1971) D: Stanley Kubrick. 9:15 pm. tUE 26 – Repertory Revival: To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) D: Robert Mulligan. 6:45 pm. Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan (1982) D: Nicholas Meyer. 9:15 pm. wEd 27 – Repertory Revival: Back To The Future. 1:30 pm. An American In Paris (1951) D: Vincente Minnelli. 7 pm. Harold And Maude (1971) D: Hal Ashby. 9:15 pm.

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graham spry theatre

cbc museum, cbc broadcast centre, 250 front W, 416-205-5574. cbc.ca

thU 21-wEd 27 – Continuous screenings Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm. Free.

thU 21-fri 22 – The End Of Men. pMON 25-wEd 27 – Canadian Media Guild’s

national film board 150 john. 416-973-3012. nfb.ca/mediatheque

thU 21-wEd 27 – More than 5,000 NFB films

ontario science centre

770 don mills. 416-696-3127. ontariosciencecentre.ca

thU 21-fri 22 – To The Arctic. 11 am & 2 pm.

Rocky Mountain Express. Noon. Under The Sea. 1 pm.

SAt 23 – To The Arctic. 11 am, 2, 4 & 8 pm.

Rocky Mountain Express. Noon, 3 & 7 pm.

Under The Sea. 1 pm.

SUN 24 – To The Arctic. 11 am, 2 & 4 pm.

Rocky Mountain Express. Noon & 3 pm.

Under The Sea. 1 pm.

MON 25-wEd 27 – 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 21 – Portrait Of Wally (2012) D: Andrew Shea. 5:30 pm. A Place Called Los Pereyra (2009) D: Andrés Livov-Macklin. 7 pm. Battle Royale (2000) D: Kinji Fukasaku. 8:30 pm. fri 22 – Patang (2011) D: Prashant Bhargara. 2 & 9 pm. A Place Called Los Pereyra. 4 pm. Battle Royale. 5:30 pm. Portrait Of Wally. 7:30 pm.

SAt 23 – Patang. 3 pm. Portrait Of Wally. 5 pm.

Octavia Films presents Breakthroughs Film Festival: short films by young women filmmakers from Canada. 7:30 pm. $15. Proceeds go towards funding a filmmaking workshop for girls ages 14-18. 416-544-3639, breakthroughsfestival@octaviafilms.com.

SUN 24 – Patang. 12:30, 3:30 & 7 pm. A Place Called Los Pereyra. 2 pm. Portrait Of Wally.

5:30 pm.

MON 25-26 – Check website for schedule. wEd 27 – Portrait Of Wally. 2:30 pm. Patang. 2 & 5:30 pm. A Place Called Los Pereyra. 4 pm.

reg hartt’s cineforum 463 bathurst. 416-603-6643.

thU 21 – The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari (1919) D: Robert Weine. Noon. Salem’s Lot (1979) D: Tobe Hooper. 1 pm. The Curse Of Frankenstein (1957) D: Terence Fisher. 4 pm. The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) D: Robert Fuest. 5:30 pm. Frankenstein (1931) D: James Whale. 7 pm. The Phantom Of The Opera (1925) D: Rupert Julian. 9 pm.

SAt 23 – Best Of The Sex & Violence Cartoon Festival. 7 pm.

SUN 24 – Best Of The Sex & Violence Cartoon Festival. 9 pm.

MON 25 – Monsieur Verdoux (1947) D: Charles Chaplin. Noon. The Blood Of A Poet (1930) D: Jean Cocteau. 2:15 pm. Blow Job (1963) D: Andy Warhol. 3:10 pm. Katzlemacher (1969) D: Rainer Werner Fassbinder. 4 pm. Ken Park (2002) D: Larry Clark. 5:30 pm.

Michael Jackson’s This Is It! (2009) D: Kenny Ortega. 7 pm. tUE 26 – The Woman In The Moon (1926) D: Fritz Lang. Noon. Forbidden Planet (1956) D: Fred M Wilcox. 3 pm. The Mole People (1956) D: Virgil W Vogel. 4:30 pm. Superman And The Mole Men (1951) D: Lee Sholem. 6 pm. Superman (1978) D: Richard Donner. 7 pm. Metropolis (1926) D: Fritz Lang. 9:30 pm. wEd 27 – The Bed (1967) D: James Broughton. Noon. Pull My Daisy (1959) D: Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie. 12:30 pm. William S Burroughs: A Man Within (2010) D: Yony Leyser. 1 pm. She Done Him Wrong (1933) D: Lowell Sherman. 3 pm. Flicker (2008) D: Nik Sheean. 4:15 pm. The Blood Of Beasts (1949) D: Georges Franju. 6 pm. Oh Dem Watermelons (1965) D: Robert Nelson. 6:30 pm. Diary Of A Chambermaid (1964) D: Luis Buñuel. 7 pm. The Salvador Dali Film Festival. 9 pm.

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revue cinema

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

thu 21 – Joan Rivers: A Piece Of Work (2010) D: Riki Stern and Anne Sundñ berg. 7 pm. Repertory Revival: Pee Wee’s Big

Adventure (1985) D: Tim Burton. 9:15 pm. fRi 22 – Damsels In Distress (2012) D: White Stillman. 7 pm. The Dictator (2012) D: Larry Charles. 9 pm.

SAt 23 – The Pirates! Band Of Misfits (2012) D: Jeff Newitt and Peter Lord. 2 pm. The Dictator.

4 & 9 pm. Damsels In Distress. 7 pm. Shock And Awe – The All-Night B-Movie Experience: six cult horror films: Sleepaway Camp (1983), The Groove Tube, What Waits Below, Horror Hospital, Rappin’ and a mystery film. 11:30 pm. $20-$25.

SuN 24 – The Pirates! Band Of Misfits. 2 pm.

Silent Sundays: The Cameraman (1928) D: Buster Keaton and Edward Sedgwick. 4 pm.

Damsels In Distress. 7 pm. The Dictator. 9 pm. mON 25-tue 26 – Damsels In Distress. 7 pm.

The Dictator. 9 pm.

WeD 27 – The Dictator. 1 pm. Bully (2012) D: Lee Hirsch. 7 pm. Damsels In Distress. 9 pm.

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disc of the week Jason Segel (left) does a fine job as the title character in uneven Jeff, Who Lives At Home.

the royal 608 college. 416-534-5252. theroyal.to

thu 21 – To Make A Farm (2011) D: Steven Suderman. 7 pm. I Am A Good Person/I Am A Bad Person (2011) D: Ingrid Veninger. 9:30 pm. fRi 22 – Between The Cracks (2011) D: Matt Seger and Chase Eaione. 7 pm. I Am A Good Person/I Am A Bad Person. 9:30 pm. The Room (2003) D: Tommy Wiseau. 11:30 pm.

SAt 23 – I Am A Good Person/I Am A Bad Person. 9:30 pm.

SuN 24 – I Am A Good Person/I Am A Bad Person. 7 & 9:30 pm.

Ptue 26 – In The Family (2011) D: Patrick Wang. 7 pm.

PWeD 27 – One Good Reason (2012) D: Scott Sawyer. 7 pm. In The Family. 9:15 pm.

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toronto underground cinema 186 spadina ave, basement. 647-992-4335, torontoundergroundcinema.com

thu 21 – The Gate (1986) D: Tibor Takacs. 9:30

pm.

SAt 23 – Can’t Stop The Serenity charity

screening: Serenity (2005) D: Josh Whedon. 1 pm. $15, adv $12. torontobrowncoats.com.

SuN 24-WeD 27 – Call/see website for details.

other films thu 21 –

Open Roof Festival Outdoor Film And Music Series presents Marley (2012) D: Kevin Macdonald. 7:30 pm. $15. Amsterdam Brewery, 21 Bathurst. openrooffestival.com. fRi 22 – Etobicoke Motors, Harshal Dave and Esquire Viva Entertainment present Teri Meri Kahaani (2012) D: Kunal Kohli. 7 pm (red carpet check-in 6 pm). $50. Winter Garden Theatre, 189 Yonge. ticketmaster.ca. mON 25 – Miles Nadal JCC presents Media Mondays, a lecture by Adam Nayman on The Films Of Stanley Kubrick, with clips from Eyes Wide Shut (1999). 7 pm. $12, stu $6. 750 Spadina. 416-924-6211 ext 606, mnjcc.org.

P Trans Film Screening Series presents Chocolate Babies (1997) D: Stephen Winter. 6 pm.

Free. U of T Health Sciences Building, 155 College, rm 610. transfilmseries@gmail.com.

History Television, YAP Films and the Royal Ontario Museum present Curse Of The Axe D: Robin Bicknell. 7 pm. Free. Q&A w/ director and archeologist Ron Williamson to follow.

Artifacts uncovered on the dig will be on display. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. RSVP at rom.on.ca/programs/lectures/ index.php?ref=showinfo&program_id=7862.

Ptue 26 – City Cinema: Cult Classics presents an outdoor screening of The Adventures Of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert (1994) D: Stephan Elliott. 9 pm. Free.

Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca.

The Ossington presents Sword In The Dirt Volume One, screening If You Meet Sartana Pray For Your Death (1968) D: Gianfranco Parolini, and Django (1966) D: Sergio Corbucci. 8 pm. Free. 61 Ossington. 416-850-0161.

WeD 27 – Toronto Entertainment District BIA and TIFF presents TIFF In The Park, an outdoor movie series opening with Trouble In Paradise (1932) D: Ernst Lubitsch.

9:15 pm. Free. David Pecaut Square, 55 John. torontoed.com.

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Jeff, WhO LiveS At hOme (Paramount, 2011) D: Jay and Mark Duplass, w/ Jason Segel, Ed Helms. Rating: NNN; Blu-ray package: none

If someone had reversed one particular moment in the climax, Jeff, Who Lives At Home might have been a more memorable movie. It could have brought home a few sharp insights on destiny and spirituality, two of the film’s central concerns, and we’d definitely have been spared some ickworthy hugging and bonding.

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2011) D: John Geddes, w/ Mark Gibson, Dee Wallace. Rating: NNN; Blu-ray package: NNNN

(Anchor Bay,

I’ve been saying this for years: the zombie movie is the new western, a sturdy, flexible form into which you can pour any content you want.

Writer/director John Geddes fills his walking dead epic with an actual western and uses it to explore questions of hope and despair.

Traumatized Civil War vet Edward Young (Mark Gibson) loses his wife and son to the zombies, then reluctantly gets involved in a stranger’s quest to rescue a young woman (Jordan Hayes) from the villainous General Williams (Bill Moseley), who’s building an army to establish law and order.

This leads our heroes to Eve (Dee Wallace), a hermit with secret knowledge about the zombie apocalypse.

Strong performances and story outweigh Exit Humanity’s few lowbudget flaws – notably unconvincing zombies and weak action. Some lively animation sequences and the won-

Until that moment, JWLAH is a likeable character comedy that yokes the titular 30-year-old, an unemployed cellar-dwelling stoner (Jason Segel) perpetually preoccupied with signs pointing to his destiny, to his always scornful straight-citizen brother, Pat (Ed Helms). One chaotic day, Pat tries to catch his wife cheating while Jeff keeps getting distracted by the name Kevin.

Neither brother is who he seems to be. Segel does a fine job of merging a space case and a mature, thoughtful guy, while Helms yo-yos between empty self-assurance and childlike helplessness. Together, they’re fascinating. Susan Sarandon adds to the proceedings as their mother, who detests them both.

I doubt that extras would have added much to what’s apparent in the movie.

EXTRAS English, French, Spanish, Portuguese audio and subtitles.

derful voice of Brian Cox reading Edward’s journal enhance the proceedings and the film’s fairy tale flavour.

You can hear the bitterness in the voices of Geddes and producers Jesse Cook and Matt Wiele when they wade into the despair and physical and emotional pain attendant on their microbudget project.

Their commentary should be required listening for aspiring filmmakers.

EXTRAS Director and cast commentary, director and producer commentary, making-of doc. English audio.

French subtitles.

Wanderlust

(Universal, 2012) D: David Wain, w/ Paul Rudd, Jennifer Aniston. Rating: NN; Blu-ray package: NNNN In the making-of doc, director David Wain mentions his fascination with humour that isn’t funny. There’s a lot of that in Wanderlust, so skip the movie and watch the bizarro cut instead, stitched together from outtakes and alternates. It’s

faster, funnier and 18 minutes shorter.

Manhattan couple George and Linda end up on a hippie commune in rural Georgia when their life falls apart. There’s nudism and free love, no privacy, no meat-eating. One of them likes it, the other doesn’t.

Paul Rudd drops one-liners and Jennifer Anniston does reactions, both performing like the veterans they are. Ditto Alan Alda, Justin Theroux, Malin Akerman, Kathryn Hahn and many more.

The prosthetic penis so prominent in Wanderlust gets its own short, by far the funniest thing on the disc.

Elsewhere, the generous, joke-laden extras package demonstrates the mechanics of head replacement, the Texas switch and the penis.

EXTRAS Commentary, making-of doc, three comic shorts, more.

English, French, Spanish audio and subtitles.

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(Mongrel, 2011) D: Padraig Reynolds, w/ Anessa Ramsey, AJ Bowen. Rating: N; DVD package: none.

A Texas Chainsaw Massacre knockoff with a dash of Halloween, Rites Of Spring lacks the innovation and creativity that made those movies enduring classics.

Writer/director Padraig Reynolds tries to turn his thin story into a crime thriller: three amateur crooks led by a vicious pro snatch a rich guy’s kid. This provides some action in the first hour, which is otherwise taken up with a rural guy abducting a couple of girls after last call and stringing them up in the barn to await feeding to some unspecified monster.

Action, gore and acting are substandard, even on the slasher flick’s undemanding terms.

There are no extras. A blessing.

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By Dan Savage

Tit man musn’t be a dick Is It normal for my man to be so

attracted to boobs that even though mine are beautiful and perfect, my boyfriend still wants to look at every other woman with a set of big boobs that he can? Aren’t mine enough?

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You sound like a new reader, BOOB, so before we get to the advice, I wanna welcome you to the Savage Love family. With that out of the way…

Nope, yours aren’t enough.

Yep, it’s normal for a straight man to look at women’s boobs – boobs on the woman he’s with, boobs on women he’s not with, boobs on women who don’t technically exist and can’t be gotten with, e.g., Veronica Lodge, Lara Croft, Nicki Minaj.

Did you think checking out boobs was a symptom of leukemia or something?

And while your set may be perfect in every possible way – which would make you the Mary Poppins of boobs – your man is still gonna check out other women’s sets.

But your man shouldn’t be a dick about it. While it’s perfectly normal for a partnered straight guy to check out other women – just as it’s perfectly normal for a partnered straight woman to check out other men (see you at Magic Mike this weekend, ladies) – your man should be discreet.

He can train himself to look without

looking like he’s looking; he can learn to check out other women without ogling them. It’s not about hiding the fact that he’s looking, it’s about caring enough to take your feelings into consideration, BOOB, to say nothing of the feelings of the other women he’s checking out.

And if he can look without being an inconsiderate dick about it, BOOB, you should let him look without being an insecure bitch about it – don’t blow up or melt down if you catch him taking a quick, subtle look at another woman’s boobs. Because if he’s considerate enough to be discreet, BOOB, you can be considerate enough to turn a blind eye.

Vibrator vexes boyfriend I’ve been wIth my boyfrIend sInce I

was 15. I’m 20 now. In all the time we’ve been together, I’ve never had an orgasm. For a long time, I wanted to get a vibrator, but my boyfriend hated that idea and never wanted me to get one because he says he already feels like crap that he can’t get me off. Recently, I thought, “What the hell – I want to see what happens!” So I bought one on my own. The very first time I used it, I got off in two minutes. Now I feel stupid for not buying one sooner. My question is…

How do I tell him? Should I tell him? He always wanted to be the first person to give me an orgasm, and as far as he knows I still haven’t had one.

Couldn’t Wait Forever Tell your boyfriend you bought a vibrator, CWF. If the boyfriend has a sad about your purchase – and your ability to climax (congrats!) – tell him that some women require the kind of intense, focused stimulation that only a vibrator can provide in order to get off, and, as it turns out, you’re one of those women. And he can still be the first person to give you an orgasm: he can give you one with a vibrator in his hand. And if he acts like an insecure bitch about it, CWF, if he blows up or melts down, well…

New vibrator, newly orgasmic – maybe it’s time for a new boyfriend, too?

Dump the wanker I am a woman who has been wIth my

male partner for one year. We live together and get along well. Our relationship is “monogamish,” and we’re both totally GGG. The thing is, our sex has dwindled rapidly. I have a high sex drive and would prefer to be having sex more often. It really sucks being turned down all the time. When I bring it up, he gets mad and says I’m making him feel bad. But honestly, all I’m doing is letting him know that I’m hot for him. I am not trying to make him feel bad or put pressure on him. I now ignore my sexual urges unless he initiates something. But I feel hurt when he tells me how much he masturbates. He masturbates when I’m at work and when I’m asleep. He’s always masturbating. As much as I enjoy self-pleasuring and know it’s good for a person to do, it seems he would rather masturbate than have sex with me. What’s a gal to do?

Sadly Pensive And Neglected Kinkster A gal is to DTMFA, SPANK. Couples counsellors and sex advice professionals have a term for people who rebuff their partners’ sexual advances and then go out of their way to inform their partners that they’re masturbating while their partners are at work, asleep beside them, etc.: we call people like that assholes. Because someone who wounds his sex partner through active neglect, salts those wounds by making it clear that he’s jerking it in her absence and then makes his partner feel like she’s the bad guy isn’t guilty of thoughtless cruelty. He’s guilty of intentional, malicious cruelty. Can’t you see what your boyfriend has already done to you?

He’s trained you to “ignore [your] own sexual urges” – he’s trained you not to initiate, not to make any demands on him at all – and now you’re only sexual when he wants you to be sexual. It doesn’t sound like your boyfriend wants a girlfriend, SPANK, it sounds like he wants a Fleshlight that pays half the rent.

DTMFA.

Confidential To People Who Wear T-Shirts: Aydian Dowling was one of the three LGBT youths whose stories were featured in the It Gets Better special on MTV and LOGO earlier this year. Like many young trans men, Aydian needs “top surgery” – chest surgery that will bring his body into line with his gender identity – and this expensive surgery isn’t covered by health insurance plans.

“Health insurance in the USA doesn’t cover transgender surgeries at all,” he says.

“They’re covered in the UK, Canada and Australia. The waiting lists are long, but at least it’s covered.”

Aydian has a job – he’s a baker – but he doesn’t have health insurance through his workplace. Which means Aydian not only has to pay for his top surgery out of his own pocket; he also has to pay for all the preliminary blood work and tests and any postoperative care he might need.

“A lot of trans people ask for donations on sites like ChipIn.com to help cover the cost of their surgeries,” says Aydian. “But raising the $6,000 that top surgery costs through donations alone is pretty hard.

And I wanted to give something back to people who donated.”

To give something back, Aydian designed a line of T-shirts. His T-shirts – which are high-quality, trans-themed and really fuckin’ cool – cost Aydian $10 to produce, and he’s selling them for $20. Between the money Aydian and his wife, Jenilee, were given as wedding gifts and the money he’s raised selling his T-shirts, Aydian is just $300 from his $6,000 goal.

Aydian had originally planned to stop selling his T-shirts once he hit his goal. But the shirts have been such a hit, he’s decided to keep selling them to help pay for other trans men’s top surgeries.

You can check out Aydian’s shirts at point5cctshirtcompany.com. They’re trans-themed – T-Rex! – but anyone can buy and wear them. Check ’em out! fInd the savage lovecast (my weekly podcast) every tuesday at thestranger.com/savage. mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter

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